NEED FOR ACTIVE COORDINATION
CHURCHES OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 20. The opinion that there was a very urgent need for closer and more active co-ordination between the churches of Australia and New Zealand was expressed by the Very Rev. Dr John Mackenzie, former Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and a representative of that church at the centennial assembly of the Presbyterian Church in replying to the moderator’s welcome. In many respects the churches of Australia and New Zealand were complementary to each other and already one had given much to the other, he said. In the present distress Australia and New Zealand were facing common dangers, opportunities and problems. The political and economic relationships of the two countries with each other in the past had been most unsatisfactory. In that sphere a certain childishness had been manifest. The second great war had altered all that. The two nations were realizing once more that they were one people with a common destiny and duty. Recognition of that elementary fact must have consequences, both for the church and the State of the highest significance.
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Southland Times, Issue 24056, 21 February 1940, Page 7
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