C.E.M.S. Vice-President to Visit the Diocese.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 36, Issue 6, 1 September 1945, Page 4

C.E.M.S. Vice-President to Visit the Diocese.

As already intimated, Mr J; Snell, vice-president and honorary Dominion organiser of the Church of England Men's Society, will be m the diocese from September 30th to October 12th for the purpose of awakening interest amongst the men of the Church m current problems, and, particularly m advancing the cause of the Church of England Men's Society. Mr Snell will be solemnly commissioned for the work by the Bishop of the Diocese at 11 a.m. on September 30th at St. John's Cathedral Church, Napier, and m the. evening of the same day he, will preach at the Cathedral on the subject "The Need and Possibility of Revival." He will take part m an after-meeting for men, when there be opportunity for frank and informal discussion on the pointsraised m his address. ..-'.' The following series of visits <to parishes . has also been arranged, when Mr Snell will address gatherings of men on the subjects named:— Tuesday, October 2. — : Rotorua : "The Call to Advance." Wednesday, October 3. — Tauranga: "War and Peace — Retrospect and Prospect." Thursday, October 4. — Whakatane: "Belief and Action." Friday, October s.— Opotiki: "Walking Circumspectly." Sunday,. October 7. — Grisborne : Preach at 7 p.m. on "The Church m the Post-war Age," and hold after-nieeting of men." (A meeting at Wairoa will be arranged if possible.) Mr. Snell desires it to be known that all men will be welcome at the services and meetings which he will address, as his message will not- be confined merely to advocacy of the C.E.M.S. ■•'■.. Synod will be asked to give permission for Mr. Snell to address the members. ■. ' ■