THE ALLIED CAUSE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25213, 30 April 1943, Page 2

THE ALLIED CAUSE

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER JOINT CHURCH INVITATION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Apl. 29. The following joint statement has been issued by church leaders: — “On Sunday, May 2, the churches in New Zealand are being invited to join in prayer for the cause to which the Allied Nations are committed. It is clear that great actions, decisive of the issue of the war, in which all the Allied nations will be involved, will take place during the coming months. “It is therefore hoped that on Sunday all the nations engaged in the momentous struggle will be remembered—Great Britain and her dominions, the United States of America, Russia, China, and among the smaller nations especially the suffering people of Poland, who on Monday, May 3, will be celebrating the 152nd anniversary of the constitution of their country.

“ Signed: The Most Rev. Campbell West-Watson, Archbishop of New Zealand: his Grace Archbishop O’Shea; the Rev. J. G. Laughton, moderator of the Presbyterian Church; the Rev. C. H. Olds, president of the Methodist Church Conference; the Rev. F. A. Parry, president of the Baptist Union of New Zealand; J. Evan Smith, Commissioner of the Salvation the Rev. Godfrey Fretwell, president of the Associated Churches of Christ; the Rev. F. de Lisle, chairman of the Congregational Union of New Zealand.”