MISSIONS IN RUSSIA
VISIT OF REV. A. L. LEEDER The Rev. A. L. Leeder, secretary of the Russian Missionary Society, who is now visiting Auckland, addressed several meetings during the week-end
in the interest of work amon; u Russian people. Mr. Leeder lias be * in close touch with Russian for about 20 years. On Satujd a ! evening Mr. Leeder gave a n . lecture in the Grafton Library Haji and yesterday he spoke at the Or an .’ Hall, the Y.M.C.A. and the Bam?/ Church, Grange Road. yus - In his addresses he referred to th foundation of the society, which interdenominational. It was given? 5 present constitution in America vf Pastor Fetler. who was an exile tho* in 1917. The first party of 23 mu' sionaries returned to Russia in is*,' and to-day there were over 100 on t>‘ staff, with several Russian students* training at the headquarters * Latvia.
Russia presented a great opportur ity for evangelistic work to-day, vT Leeder stated. Millions of Russia/ who for centuries had been membe/ of the Greek Orthodox Church their temporal head by the dethrone' ment of the Tsar. The Church wasr/ longer ruled by the State and milliorlooked for some new’ faith to taJ' the place of the old.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 649, 29 April 1929, Page 10
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