CHRISTIAN YOUTH HOPES FOR WORLD PEACE
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. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 3. "Jesus Christ, 2000 years ago, challehged the people to go into all the world pfeaching the Gospel. Oslo was concrete evidence that this has been and is being done," said Rev. J. K. Watson at the Presbyterian youth raily ih Christchurch yesferday. ivir. V/auson spoke _ about the Christian youth conference, which met 'in Oslo in July of this" year. There were at the conference representatives of Christian youth organisations from almost every country in te world. In a world, where the fruits of war, hatred, strife and mistrust were plentiful, the hopes of the Christian youth of all nations were directed at Oslo toa world whose peace was not merely a matter of political expediency, but the fesult of an inner recon- „ ciliation built on the- pattern of Christ* The main lectures were given by scholars of world repute, -'among them Pastor Niemoeller, leader of the Christian resistance movement iii Germany, and Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, one of America's leading theologians.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 November 1947, Page 4
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