SKY PILOT IN FIRST LINE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7141, 31 May 1910, Page 1

SKY PILOT IN FIRST LINE

TO KEEP CHURCH FOREMOST IN THE COLONIES. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Received May 30, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 30. The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, sitting at Edinburgh, welcomed representatives from Australia and New Zealand. • The latter -were Messrs John Mackenzie, of Christchurch, and Thompson, of Masterton. The colonial deputies delivered brief addresses, urging that Australian and New Zealand ministers were doing their best to, overtake, the constantlyincreasing demands. It was not money that -was wanted, but men in the overseas dominions. They appealed to the Church of Scotland to send out good men.

The General Assembly of the United Free Church also discussed the problems of colonial Presbyterianism, including the placing of colonial students at Scottish universities and theological halls. The E«v. Dr John Kelman, minister of St. George's, Edinbnrgh. and formerly at Melbourne, said if they were going to send religion to Australia tho sky pilot must go along -with the surveyor, the merchant, and the : pioneer, otherwise the firs,t claim would be jumped. .