CHURCH ARMY

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1933, Page 2

CHURCH ARMY

CAMPAIGN IN X.Z

ARRIVAL OF ORGANISER.

WELLINGTON, May 15

An arrival by the liner' llemuera from London was Captain S- R. Banyard, of the Church Army evangelist!' organisation affiliated to the Chum of England, who has come to New Zealand for the purpose of organising and conducting a campaign fieri Captain Lanyard will be joined t 10 more members of tbe movemem when the Rangit-iki arrives, eigli' men and two women being now o their way to New Zealand. Captain Banyard said in an into: view that they itended to begin tbei. campaign in Christchurch, gradual!;, working through the South Island t Dunedin, then coming to Wcllingto: and working through the North Islam as far as Auckland. The Churcl Army, he said, was established s'! years ago. It was just an organise tion attached to. the Church of England, and was concerned mainly witl evangelistic and social work. At tininvitation of the bishops and clcrg\ the Army was now extending its activities to New Zealand. It adhered to no one church party; high churchmen, low churchmen, and modernists were ail able to take part in its activities. Its motto Was '“Cbnveirslion, consecration, and cliurchmanship,” Captain Banyard. said he thought the Church in England was becoming more evangelistic. Even AngloCatholics were going into the highways and byways in an effort to reach the man in the street. As to modernism, he said he did not think the movement was making much headway, for the reason that it did not reach the man in the street, such as the Anglo-Catholics or evangelical section of the Church did. It was a movement dealing with learned academic questions and because of that did not possess a popular appeal