FAREWELL TO MINISTER

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1007, 25 June 1930, Page 12

FAREWELL TO MINISTER

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR MEETING At a meeting of the Christian Endeavour Societies of Auckland, held at the Beresford Street Congregational j Church last evening to bid farewell to ’ the Rev. Lionel B. Fletcher, tributes were paid to Air. Fletcher’s work for t the Church and the Christian Endear- | our Movement “When he came to New Zealand he took up an enterprise that showed ! signs of dwindling, and he threw him- ; self might and main into the work,’’ j said the Rev. A. S. Wilson, who pre- j sided, “All over New Zealand today j we have traces of Air. Fletcher’s en- i thusiasm.” The Rev. Knowles Kempton, presi- j dent of the Auckland Union, said he ; had never known a man so whole- j hearted in his devotion to Endeavour work as Air. Fletcher was. Replying, the Rev. Lionel B. Fletcher | traced the history of the Christian En- j deavour movement. Air. Fletcher will leave shortly for America and England. He will hold J meetings in various parts of the United States, later attending the i Christian Endeavour jubilee in the Albert Hall, London. He will conduct ' a Youth campaign while in England-