CHRISTIAN MESSAGES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 18, 14 October 1937, Page 7

CHRISTIAN MESSAGES

-Press Association.)

Craven "in His Football Togs"

(By Telegraph -

I CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night, A suggestion that religious messages shpuld be spread among the public by Ihe issue of cards on which were print•ed photographs of pTominent men and women who had testified tq the value of Chnstianity, such as D. !H. Craven, vice-captain of the Springbok team "in his football togs," was made by Mr ; P, W. Horner, o£ Hawera, in the pre^idential ^ddress at the annual Assembly of the Baptist Union of New Zealand this evening. "We have all observed the 'influence of statenients in the press by Mr Craven, the Springbok half, by Miss Dorothy Round, the tennis player, and by many other great athletes and outstanding leaders in all walks of life," he said. "The late King George's habit pf daily Bible-rcading and the tcstimony of men like Dr Wilson, of the Antarctic, and others testify to the influence and power of the Scriptures. How greaily would a picture of Craven in his football togs be prized by every schoolboy in New Zealand to-day and would not a message thefeon from hira invitiug them to servife his Master make a grc*l tppeal? When we read attractive advcrbisements of various cures of tho body, do we remember that the Church, too, has a cure for care, anxiety, sorrow and suffering? 3he has wisdom to solve every human problem, but how Tarely she makes it ltnown to the world at large in attractive practical form."