CONGREGATIONALISM.
GREAT FORWARD STRIDES, NEW SPIRIT REVEALED. AUCKLAND, March 12. “Progress has been so marked that it has been little less than a revelation in New Zealand Congregationalism,” remarked the Hev. H. Johnson, Moderator of the Assembly of the Congregational Union, to-day. Three years ago it was spoken of as the sick child o the denominations, but two years ago a new spirit' came to Auckland, and the result had been revitalised Congregationalism all through the Dominion. They were now 100 per cent, better in efficiency and tone. Eighteen settlements of pastorates had been effected, and new men had been brought into the ministry—three in Otago, three in Canterbury, five in Wellington, and six in Auckland province. The college scheme had been launched with groat hopes, and the first three students enrolled.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3757, 16 March 1926, Page 57
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