SPIRIT OF DARING NEEDED
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Humdrum Christianity Not Suificient METHODIST'S ADVICE
(By Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, This Day. The statement that the Church did not sufficiently appreciate the value of country work was made to the New Zealand Methodist Conference to-day by Mr R. Hampton in his ex-viee-pre.si-dential address. He said there was much pioneering work still to tie aone. There was a tendency to place young ministers and home missionaries in rural areas without experience of circuit building and leaving them in isolation. Chaii'men of districts were much over-loaded. "We should cultivate more of the spirit of daring in our Christian living," said Mr Hampton. "It has been with some truth that we cannot preserve the living faith With safety first as a slogan. A leader in one of our Christian ic(hurohe« is oredited with saying, 'I sometimeB wonder whether all the harm that is done by scandals in Church by Church members who really go wrpng has anything like the same disillusioning effect on men's minds as the humdrum respectabiilty' of the ordinary Christian apd Churf h member.' "
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 34, 24 February 1937, Page 5
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179SPIRIT OF DARING NEEDED Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 34, 24 February 1937, Page 5
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