BAPTIST UNION

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 6

BAPTIST UNION

Missionary Meetings

Famine conditions in India were referred to in reports and decisions of the missionary meetings of the Baptist union and Missionary Society in Wellington yesterday. In the light ot information received from India, concern and sympathy for the sufferings of the Indian people were expressed, and it was resolved that the New Zealand Government should be urged to send any relief that might be possible. It was further decided to send at once a substantial amount from the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society. . The society has 1G European and about 70 native workers in East Bengal and the native State of Tripura. For their support £9OOO had been contributed during the year, being an n/erage ot nearly £1 per capita of N.Z. Baptist Church membership. “Orphaned Missions” bad also been given liberal support In spite of war conditions missionary work had progressed courageously, and decisions had been made to extend the work into new areas. „ "We arc engaged in a g-obal « a L said the Rev. F. 11. Lloyd, preacher of the annual missionary address. Latjot ns remember that the first global book is the Bible. Christian missions arc a "lobal campaign. The chief task of the Church is outside herself. He alone can make a new nation who can make, a new m Tn’the evening Dr. Nola Ivory and the Rev. P. F. Lanyon. both with per.-onal experience in Indian mission work, addressed a missionary rally, their subject being “On Great Waters.