BAPTIST UNION
RESOLUTION OF LOYALTY. [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION"] DUNEDIX, Friday The Baptist Union conference was continued to-day, the Rev. R. L. Fursdon presiding. In the annual report attention was drawn to the record self-denial offering of €4600, an increase of £'4oo on last year. The college reports mentioned that 12 students had been in trailing during the year and that three w&ild enter the ministry at the end of t£e term. , % Dr. J. J. North was congratulated (% having reached his 2oth year as editor"' of the Xew Zealand Baptist. - A resolution of loyalty to the Empire was passed as follows: "At this moment of world crisis the delegates to the oStli Assembly oi the Baptist Union of Xen" Zealand desire once more to place on record their loyalty to the Throne. The delegates give *God thanks for the noble example and leadership of the in faith, prayer and courage in this time of national and world crisis. We pray for our King and his advisers Divine guidance that our Empire may be used of God to lay the foundations of a neff world order where liberty, justice and peace will be .the heritage of all people. The assembly respectfully requests His the Governor-General to convey this resolution to His Majesty,"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23791, 19 October 1940, Page 12
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