RELIGIOUS LEADERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 370, 2 June 1928, Page 11

RELIGIOUS LEADERS

DR. POOLE AND SIR E. SHARP ARRIVING ON MONDAY Two world leaders in religio'us work among the young will arrive in Auckland by the Aorangi on Monday. They will be given a civic reception on Tuesday at noon. They are the Rev. William C, C.. Ppole, . Ph.D., P.D., and Sir Edward Sharp, Bt. As president of they World’s Sunday School Association, Dr. Poole is the nominal head on an organisation . with a membership of 32,500,000. The association has officers in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Ceylon, China, Czecho-Slovakia. France, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Syria, Norway,' Philippines, Poland, Rumania and Palestine, and its work is to foster Christian education among young people in every country ill the w orid. - Dr. Poole was born in Tasmania, re T ceived his education for the ministry at Boston University, gaining there high degrees. For some years ■ lte was. a distinguished minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America, but when the war broke, out lie .was appointed • religious work director for, the American Y.M.C.A. and went t 6 Europe,. In 1921 he was called to succeed Dr. F. B. Meyer as minister -of Christ Church, Westminster,- a church famous for its world-renowned ministors—Rowland Ilill and Newman Hall, and later F. Meyer. , . Sir Edward Sharp, Bt., who is accompanying Dr. Poole, has had a lifelong connection with the Sunday sc.llool movement in England. He is an ' expresident of thfe ” National Sunday School Union and chairman of the-Bri-tish committee of the World's Sunday School Association.