APPEAL TO CHRISTIANS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 17 November 1937, Page 11

APPEAL TO CHRISTIANS

PLIGHT OF CHINA I i> Teles rajb-Pretw Association I AUCKLAND, Isth November. “Cannot the Christian people of New Zealand do something to make this sort of barbarity impossible—today in China and to-morrow in New Zealand?” This strong appeal from the Rev. G. H. McNeur, written in Canton, China, on 20th October, was read to the Presbyterian Assembly to-day. “For some weeks now this province has almost daily been invaded by Japanese bombing planes, but the depredations of the enemy in South China have been slight compared with the fearful carnage and destruction in and around Shanghai and North China,” stated Mr McNeur. The report of the Canton Village Mission work was presented by the Rev. D. M. Cattenach, Takapuna. The Rev. Y. S. Chau, Chinese missioner in New Zealand, urged Christian people to pray for the leaders in China, 70 out of 100 of whom were Christians. The Assembly passed a resolution appealing to the Church to subscribe funds to alleviate distress in China, such funds to be sent to the Canton Village Mission. RELIEF OF DISTRESS FURTHERS SUMS ACKNOWLEDGED The following further sums are acknowledged for the relief of distress in the Far East by the local branch of the Red Cross Society:—Mr and Mrs T. E. Maunsell, £1 Is; Miss L. H. Hunter-Brown, £2 2s; C.H.P., £1; Mr W. J. MofTatt, 10s; Mrs J. C., 10s; W. Martin (Wakefield) ss; Anonymous, 2s 6d; J. H„ 2s 6d; Isaac Jolly, £1; C., Church Valley, Wakefield, £l. The following amount has been received (for reference only). St. John’s Methodist Church £l2.