CHURCH ARMY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18662, 23 March 1935, Page 9

CHURCH ARMY

GISBORNE MISSION Miaaib'ncrs of theChurch :; A'rin'y-, arrive in Cisborne. this week to open a . mission in* Holy Trinity Church, com-' . mencing on Sunday next; particulars of which are advertised. .Captain Eeek, the leader of the grpupj will be , responsible for, ths evening gatherings, ' ! '':' : Captain';Kee will take care of the chil- ' - dren's part of the Workj and Sister Sudbury that of the women. 'The Mission, will last for a week, and similar, missions are to- be conducted simultaneously at Waipiro Bay,'-Opo-. tiki : and the : Bptorua areas.., The, Church Army was established 53 years" ago by Prebendary Wilson Carlile. He and his ifaithful band of -workers had much to contend'with, yet in,;face of opposition, sheer .determination to win through, they built up in the ■j faith of; the church a society that has ' been the means of helping all sorts and conditions of men through these years. * Here in New Zealand it is not,too /well known for-.tho simple reason that until some nine years ago it had always befln a home mission society, ' working i only in England. In 1933 |r |at the request of the archbishop, bishops and clergy a group of Church Army workers, both men and women, were son'i out to work in this country. Since that time missions have been conducted in every diocese in the . iSouth Island, and in the Wellington •diocese. The group has conducted - ; : already something like 0000 services in nearly 700, different centres. Well ' «rer a quarter of a million people have attended tho services and the interest that has been created and the results ■ achieved i have been beyond expectation. New Zealand has always had a "soft spot" for the Homeland, and that was characterised during' the •Great War period, both in giving of . :h»r men and her substance. The •Church/Army shared in this help, too, :for New, Zealand was the only country '"Outside the Homeland that assisted the '.sdciety with the 2000 huts that it had ■on the difforent war fronts. Some . £BOOO was given in this direction, 1 -Plainly from the sale of the "black" fleeces the farmers had from time to time, and for such help the Church ' Army has always been grateful. Now 3n some small return mere comes a ' group to help in buiding up the church and religious life of the peoples here in-this Dominion.