Distinguished Clergy To Speak At Mission

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31116, 20 July 1966, Page 18

Distinguished Clergy To Speak At Mission

An Indian Bishop and the Queen’s chaplain will be the two principal speakers at the Anglican Church Missionary Society’s school in Christchurch from August 29 to September 2.

The Rt. Rev. C. R. Ray, Bishop of the diocese of Karachi, and the Rev. J. R. W.

Stott, vicar of All Souls, Langham Place, London, will share the evening addresses of the conference which well be based on the theme “The Christian Commission in the World of Today.” Mr Stott, who has been chaplain to the Queen since 1959, and is recognised as one of England’s most able Bible expositors, will also present a series of three studies on the Epistle of St. Paul to Titus. Bishop Ray, who was appointed to the then newly formed missionary diocese of Karachi in 1963, is well known to the Church Missionary Society. Previously he had served as general secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society in West Pakistan from 1949 to 1954, when the translation and publication of the Bible in several Eastern languages—Sindi, Punjabi, Persian and Germukhi—was completed under his leadership. He played an im-

portant role in the translation and publication of a Tibetan language Bible. Mr Stott has given Bible studies at the 1964 Intervarsities Seventh Mission convention at the University of Illinois, attended by more than 7000 delegates from the United States and Canada. He has presented similar studies to the Church Missionary Society summer schools in New South Wales and Victoria. “We-are most fortunate in having two such outstanding personalities as our guest speakers,” said the general secretary of the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand, (the Rev. H. F. Thomson). Both overseas speakers will preach at several churches in Christchurch. On Sunday, August 28, Mr Stott will preach at St. John’s church, Woolston, at 8 a.m., the church of St. Barnabas, Fendalton at 11 a.m., and the Cathedral at 7 p.m. Bishop Ray will address the C.M.S. League of Youth at St. John’s hall, Latimer square on Saturday, August 3, and preach at St. Aiden’s Bryndwr, at 8 a.m., St. Augustine’s, Cashmere, at 11 a.m., and the Cathedral in the evening. Other speakers at the conference will be missionaries at present on furlough in New Zealand. They include Miss J. B. G. Dingwall, a Scripture Union staff worker of Tanzania; Mr W. G. L. Hart, of the Hombolo leprosy centre, Tanzania; the Rev. J. G. Meadowcroft of the Gujranwala Theological Seminary, West Pakistan; Miss A. M. Neureuter, from the Sukkur Hospital, West Pakistan; together with the Rev. L. E. Pfankuch who has worked in India. The school in Christchurch will cater for people from the South Island. A North Island school will be held from August 22 to 26.