TO AID THE CHURCH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 244, 14 October 1937, Page 8

TO AID THE CHURCH

PHOTOGRAPHS OF ATHLETES HAWERA MAN’S SUGGESTION. [ Per Press Association. ] CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 13. A suggestion that religious messages should be spread among tne public by the issue of cards on whicn were printed photographs of prominent men and women who had testified to the value of Christianity, such as D. H. Craven, vice-captain of the Springbok team, “in his lootball togs,’' was made by Mr F. W. Horne, Hawera, in his presidential address at the annual assembly of the Baptist Union of New Zealand this evening. "We have all observed the influence of statements in the Press by Craven, the Springbok half, by Dorothy Round, the tennis player, and by many other great athletes and outstanding leaders in all walks of life,” he said. “The late King George’s habit of daily Bible reading and the testimony of men like Dr. Wilson, of the Antarctic, and others, testily to the influence and power of the Scriptures. How greatly would apicture of Craven, in his football togs, be prized by every schoolboy in New Zealand to-day, and would not a message thereon from him inviting them to serve his Master make a great appeal? When we read attractive advertisements of various cures of the body, do we remember that the church, too, has a cure for care, anxiety, sorrow and suffering. She has the wisdom to solve every human problem, but how rarely she makes it known to the world at large in attractive, practical form.”