RELIGION FOR THE YOUNG.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19962, 2 June 1928, Page 10

RELIGION FOR THE YOUNG.

WORLD LEADERS ARRIVING. DR. POOLE AND SIR E. SHARP. x The Bev. Dr. W. C. Poole, who will arrive from Vancouver by the Aorangi on Monday, is president of the World's Sunday School Association, a world-wide interdenominational organisation having a membership of 32,500,000. At the last convention held in Glasgow in 1924 no fewer than 2693 delegates were present, representing 54 nations. New Zealand was represented by 42 delegates. The object of the association is to foster Christian education among young people. Sir Edward Sharp, who is ex-president of the National Sunday School Union and chairman of the British committee of the World's Sunday School Association, is accompanying Dr. Poole. The visitors will be tendered a civic reception at the Town Hall at noon on Tuesday. Born in Tasmania, Dr. Pools received his education for the. ministry at Boston University, gaining high degrees. For some year's he was a distinguished minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America, and during the war went to Europe as religious work director for the American Y.M.CA. In 1921 he was called upon to succeed Dr. F. B. Meyer as minister of Christ Church, Westminster, a church famous for its world-re-nowned ministers, such as Rowland Hill and Newman Hall. The visitors will make a tour of the Dominion, leaving Wellington in June for San Francisco in order that Dr. Poole may preside at the tenth world convention in Los Angeles in July.