WORLD MISSIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1939, Page 5

WORLD MISSIONS

RECENT CONFERENCE IN INDIA. NEW ZEALAND BISHOP’S IMPRESSIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 20. The Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt. Rev F. A. Bennett returned today from the World Missions Conference at Tambaram. near Madras, India. The conference is held about once every ten years. There were nearly five hundred delegates, he said, from seventy different nationalities and universality of the English language was shown by the fact that they all understood it and were able to conduct the entire conference without the assistance of interpreters. Other New Zealand delegates were Mr and Mrs McDiarmid, church representatives, and Mr G. Falloon, representing University students. “It struck me that this conference might lead to a solution of a great many of the difficulties that arise today between various nationalities,” said Bishop Bennett. “If the idea of a spiritual Geneva could be establishes on the principles of Christian faith it would help to solve those problems. All representatives of the seventy nations at the conference met in perfect friendship." Ho had been very interested to see the harmonious relations that existed between the Chinese and Japanese delegates. Bishop Bennett visited New Zealanders doing missionary work in India. All were doing splendid work, particularly in the educational field.