CHRISTIAN ORDER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 1, 7 September 1942, Page 6

CHRISTIAN ORDER

DOMINION-WIDE CAMPAIGN

This week will see the opening of a period of unprecedented public activity by the churches of New Zealand, with mass meetings of citizens, simultaneous preaching from pulpits <tlic length and breadth of the 'country, radio broadcasts, and man3 r other forms of publicity. It might well be said that the churches will be taking the offensive in their Campaign for Christian Order. It was on March 22 of .this year that the Campaign Avas announced; then began a period of several months' intensive preparation and planning within the churches themselves. Some, evidence of this lias of course already been seen, but it is on Monday, September 7, with a public meeting at the Christchurch Town Hall, that the active phase of the Campaign will really begin. I hereafter, on each Monday in Sep-, tembcr, there will be a public .meeting at one of the other main centres ■ —in Auckland on September 11, in Dunedin on September 21, and in Wellington on September 28. Except in Wellington, 'where other arrangements will have to be made because of earthquake l damage these meet-

ings will all be held in the town halls of the respective cities. Each meeting /will he broadcast by the

four YA stations on a national linkup, and it is ]ike]j r that tlu; mayors of the cities will preside. At each meeting there will be one principal speaker. Here are the names ol' these four speakers, some brief biographical •details, and the subjects on which they wiii speakc

Chris tchureh: Ven. Archdeacon W. Bullock, A.K.C. of Wellington— 'Let Justice Be done.' Archdeacon 13nllock, who- is well known as a torth right speaker, was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1885, and after being educated at King's College, London, served as a chaplain in France during the. last war. lie came to New Zealand in PM9, was appointed vicar of Masterton in 1922 and of St. Peter's, Wellington, in 1930. In his opinion, religion and politics arc inseparable, and lie gives them as his 'chief interest.' Auckland: Professor F. Sinclaire, M.A.—'Who Wants Freedom?' Professor Sinclaire, who is particularly well known to radio audiences, is an

Aucklander who travelled on .scholarships to Oxford, where he continued "with high distinction an academic career v> inch had opened auspiciously in N.Z. Later lie became lecturer in English at the Universities "of Melbourne an:l Western Australia, and returned to New Zealand in l!):j2.as Professor of English at Canterbury Co'lege. Dunedin: Rev. 11. J. Ryburn. M.A.. B.D.—'Whal About Politics?' Tiie son of a former Moderator of the Presbj'teriau Church in New Zealand, Mr Ryburn was born in Gisborne in 1897, was dux of Invercargill Middle School and of Southland Boys' High School, went overseas with the N.Z.E. F. in the last war, and on his return to Otago University won a Rhodes Scholarship in 1921. He studied theology at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later at Union Theological Cellege, New York. After Home Mission work in Canada, he was ordained, and inducted to the Bay of Islands charge, going three years later to St. Aiv drew's, Dunedin." In 1941 lie took up his present position as Master of Knox College. "Wellington: The Rev. J:. J. North, D.D.—'Chaos or Christian Order.' Ever since lie became minister of the Centra] Baptist Church. Wellington, early in the century. Dr. Narth has been before the New Zealand public ns a preacher, platform speaker, and publicist, particularlywith reference to social evils' (and more especially gambling). He has edited the "N.Z. Baptist" for the past 1!.)- year-, an-1 j ( > 4 tin pa--i. 10 vears |u»< been prinripai of Ihe New Zealand B.tplis' C -! ; .!cge in A tick-! land. The Casnpaigr. ■••v Christian «jrder is sjHiiti'c-f i i . tia. .National Coun- > f New Zealand, till-

participating ;':i bcin * the Church <n J'-ii'-,l; l l>■'"'. uie j the Methodist, the Baptist, ami i. he Congregation;-! l; :( . A:---. - elated Churches of Christ, and tlu Society of Friends. The iiuioan Catholic Church Juts expressed its sympathy' with the movement. In addition to the four main public meetings mentioned above, ether centres are arranging gatherings along similar lines. Following these meetings there will be. in October, n period of simultaneous preaching, when practically evrry jnilpit in the country will echo- the message ol the Campaign thai: ahe Christian gospel lias a solution to the world's problems and is a necessary basis for new social and economic order find for a his-f and dmab'e oea.ee.