SUBTLE DANGERS
GREATEST- CONCENTRATION NOW BIBLE GIVEN AS ANSWER ■■ We are the successors of those who at Antioch were first called Christians,” said Mr M. Leadbetter, rector of the Southland Boys’ High School, in an address to the annual meeting of the Bible Society of Otago and Southland. Since Antioch there were more subtle dangers than those of Nero and Domitian—the perils of false values. Marxism, materialism and happy' paganism and ignorance. Today the world faced the greatest concentration of major problems it had ever faced. The Bible was the only answer. "We are not owners, but stewards, Mr Leadbetter said. A steward was entrusted with the administration of his master’s possessions and was required to be faithful. , . . . The retiring members of the board, the Very Rev. H. H. Barton, who occupied the chair, and Messrs J. Farquharson, R. H. Gardner and A. W. Paterson, were re-elected. The Revs. D. H. Stewart (Oamaru), I. Powell (Invercargill), and Messrs A. Kerr (Gore), J. McFaul, Barham, E. Vickery and J. G. Butler were elected to the board. „ Mr Gardner proposed a vote of tnanKS to the speaker. It was reported that the year was the, fourteenth consecutive year of record income. Collectors had raised £4666 7s 7d, and the total income from all sources was £BOB4 Is 4d.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27266, 17 December 1949, Page 5
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