World Council of Churches A New Spiritual Focus
(Conthbuted) TWO New, Zealand ministers who wOre present at the World Council Qf Churches at Amsterdam are in Levin and will spiak ,at. tfi§ St-. Johri's Methodist CSurch this exfenihg. . They are Rev.. Dr. Dudley of the Methodist Church and Rev. J. Bair'd of the Presbyterian Churcn,* The conference at Amsterdairi Was the first assembly of the World Couftcil of Churches and was comiposdd of all the churches of the wbrld with the exception pf the RiisSian Orthodbx Ind thei,/Roman i Catnolic. RepreseritativeS -from 150 I churche'S, arid ' 42 .nations gathered I there. At thq qpening service J.n the Nieuwe Kerk, there was iiridoubtedly the most amazing procession of the century; in it wgfe the 450 principal dblegateS Whcr had gathered from the erids of - the earth. One of its Ibadirig Spedkers dbclared, "They set up that which Protestantism has alweays lacked, a I medlum for jdint, world actiori." At the end they declareS sirribly, 1ve intend to stay tb'gether." . ! , It mearis that from now on tiirough the World 4 Cbunbil ,of ; Churches a new spiritual focirs foi" the race has come ilifo being.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 February 1949, Page 4
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