Evangelical Union

"In this will I be confident;" the message of Psalm xxvii. has been a source of inspiration to the Evangelical Union in the past year.

The membership has been maintained, although several of the members have enlisted for overseas military service. Particularly have we felt the loss of Mr. R. N. Green, who for some years has been of able assistance to our Fellowship.

The Friday evening lectures were based on the message of "Christ and Freedom"—the theme of the Fifth International Inter-'Varsity Fellowship Conference which was held in Cambridge in 1939. These lectures were presented interestingly and peacefully, and we are grateful to the gentlemen who devoted time and effort to them.

Two House Parties were held during the year; the first at Shelly Bay, Seatoun, and second at Akatarawa during the week-end of August 8th to 12th. At this latter House Party, Dr. J. M. Laird gave us four absorbing addresses from the 13th chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, on the subject of the Kingdom of Heaven. The twenty-two students who attended this House Party were deeply impressed by the Doctor's masterly presentations of the subject matter.

The members of the Evangelical Union were hospitably entertained to Sunday Tea by the Karori and Island Bay Baptist Churches, and on both occasions the following evening services were addressed by students.

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The annual Inter-'Varsity Conference of Evangelical Unions was held this year in Wellington, and took place in the Te Aro School. Some eighty students attended the Conference which was addressed by a number of able speakers, including Dr. Pettitt, Mr. H. R. Minn, Rev. W. A. Orange, Mr. F. B. Stephens, Mr. J. S. Burt and Mr. E. Gordon Anderson.

The Evangelical Union goes into 1941 with the abiding confidence that: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee."