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THE AUSTRALIAN THE AUSTRALIAN CHURCH We regret to record the death of Rev. R. S. Snell, curate of St Paul's. RECORD Mrs Isabel Kerte of Roseville, N.S.W., Ipswich (Brisbane), has been ap ointed on January 10. She was a life-long rector of St Peter's, Millmerran. The paper for Church of CHURCH RECORD parishioner of St. Paul's Chatswood and Rev. J. E. Meakin, rector f Port England people — Catholic, the mother of Bishop R. C. Kerle of Lincoln (Willochra), has been ap ointed THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEWSPAPER — EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION Armidale. rector of St Paul's, Port Pin from Apostolic, Protestant and April 30. Registered at the G.P.O., Sydney, for transmission by post Rev. Ralph W. I. Fraser, rector of Reformed No. 1407—February 22, 1968 Printed by John Fairfax and Moss Vale (Sydney), has been appointed The Rev. William Henry He demon, Subscription $2.50 per year. as a newspaper. Sons Ltd., Broadway, Sydney. Price 10 cents full-time chaplain to St. Vincent's 0.B.E., formerly Senior ctsoil m 1,, Hospital. Darlinghurst, N.S.W. the FLAN., passed away in Me bourne Editorial and Business: 511 on January 4. Kent St., Sydney. Phone: Rev. A. W. Cheesman, who has been in charge of the district of Keith Watchman Nee, author of some well- 61.2975. Office hours: 10 (Adelaide) since 1964, has been appoint- known devotional books, has now com- a.m. to 4 p.m. Issued fort- ed Precentor of St. Peter's Cathedral. pleted his 15-year prison sentence in Adelaide from February 25 and chap- China, but has not yet been released. nightly, on alternate Thurs- He is said to be in reasonably good CAMBRIDGE VICAR lain of the Flinders University. days. Copy deadline Thurs- health. day preceding date of issue, Rev. C. G. Aiken, curate of St. Mr Henry Fisher, 49-year-old eldest John's, Gordon (Sydney), has been ap- son of Lord Fisher of Lambeth, is to • Sister Kathleen Collett, of C.M.S., Malaya, who was but earlier receipt preferable. pointed curate of St, Barnabas', East be appointed a High Court Judge. He transferred to the Leprosy Mission in Hong Kong in Orange (Bathurst). will be assigned to the Queen's Bench Division and will fill the vacancy which January. TO A.B.I Rev. Hugh R. G. Oakes, rector of will be caused by the retirement of Mr Berridale (Canberra-Goulburn), has been Justice Glyn-Jones early in the New appointed Registrar of the diocese of Year. Mr Fisher was called to the Bar FTER a period of some two years seeking Gippsland from April 30. In 1947 and took silk in 1960. He A Rev. F. Wandmaker, curate of Sale has been Recorder of Canterbury since the man of God's choice, the Council of (Gippsland), has been appointed curate 1962. of Traralgon. The Right Rev. Laurence Woolmer, the Adelaide Bible Institute, Victor Harbour, for over 18 years Bishop of Lahore, in Rev. Charles Perry, curate of Callide S.A., has announced the appointment of a :AL FE the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma STEPS IN BELIEVING Valley (Rockhampton). has been appoin- and Ceylon, resigned his see and sailed ted vicar of St. Matthew's, South from Karachi for England on February College, London. gifted young man as the first Vice-Principal Gladstone. 4. It is understood that in June he is to —by the Rev. A. M. Stibbs, of Oak Hill Rev. J. F. Blades, rector of Riverton be appointed an assistant Bishop in the of the College. He is the Rev. Dr Bryan ` diocese of Portsmouth. (Willochra), has entered the House of the trustworthiness and the FERENCE P00 the Epiphany,Stanmore, N.S.W., to Rev. Milton McGregor, Warden of St. John 4. 46-54 liveth"; that is, return home; and Hardman, at present Vicar of the Church of train for missionary service with the St. Mark's College and Warden of the be assured that your son is power of Jesus. A.B.M. This incident is one of the St. Andrew-the-Less, Cambridge, England. Brotherhood of St. Barnabas and the going to live and not die. So the third question for me Rev. J. B. Green, curate of Holy Rev. Gordon Guy, rector of Holy signs of this Gospel. The evan- Trinity, Mackay, have been appointed The man immediately accept- to ask myself is: Am I in this Trinity, Fortitude Valley (Brisbane), has Honorary Canons of St. James' Cathed- gelist tells us at the end of his class? Or is it not time that I Dr Hardman was for a In 1951 led to his conversion been appointed rector of St. John's, through the Salvation Army. Hendra. ral, Townsville (North Queensland). record that these signs have ed the assurance. He took Jesus acted on Christ's word in the period editor of "The English The Bishop of Central Tanganyika, been selected for a special pur- at His word. He took the word obedience of faith, and let the Churchman," before going to Later he was accepted for train- Rev. C. R. Collins, curate of St. the Right Rev, Alfred Stanway, has ap- ing in Moore Theological Col- Barnabas', East Orange (Bathurst), has pointed the Rev. Peter Newell, rector pose — in order to bring the of Jesus as personally meant for Saviour confirm both His word St. Andrews. has been appointed rector of Cobar as of Glenunga, as his Commissary in South reader to faith in Christ, and lege, Sydney, during the p.inci- from February 4. him—as a promise on which he and my faith by working for me? Australia. Mr Newell replaces the Rev. into the enjoyment of the bene- He was educated in England, palships of Archdeacon T. C. Rev. J. D. Hughes, vicar of All S. A. Mainstone who has served for and was later employed in bank- many years as Commissary of the Dio- fit which such faith procures. could rest and rely, and expect 4. BECOMING A Hammond and Principal Marcus Saints', Texas (Brisbane), has been ap- ing, insurance and income tax pointed rector of St. Mary's, Kilcor. cese. (See John 20.30, 31). fulfilment. So he decided at once COMMITTED BELIEVER Loane. After ordination he ser- work. Emigration to Australia If, therefore, I am to gain full to go home and see, expecting Verse 53 also records that this ved in curacies at Summer Hill, profit from this study, it may to find things different. experience led to a final decisive and Hurstville, Sydney. help first to ask myself how far The second question, there- step. The man became a com- In 1957 Mr Hardman returned OPEN TABLE to England for further studies, I have got in believing. fore, for me to ask myself is: mitted and confessed believer in • Jesus. This is what all true flow for three years at the Lon- The Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Reverend M. L. Loane, returned to Do I really believe who Jesus Have I taken this second step of faith? HaVe I ever taken a Christians are. don Bible College from which Sydney on Sunday, February 4. He was away four weeks. The Archbishop AND LAMBETH is? Do I believe that what He N.O. 90th he graduated in 1960 with his visited Bahrain, Dualta, Abu Dhabi, Muscat and Sharja on the south-eastern tip came to do—to save sinners—is promise of God's word as meant This is why this Gospel was A plea to the Lambeth Conference to allow non- personally for me? Have I acted written, and this incident in- London University B.D. with of Arabia. While in Muscat he paid a short visit to the Arabian Mission. In a benefit which I need? Have I First Class Honours. Anglicans to communicate at Anglican communion tables committed myself to Him? Am in the light of it, expecting it to cluded in it—in order to estab- India the Archbishop passed through Bombay, Poona, Calcutta, Ranchi, was made on Tuesday, January 9, by the Vicar of Isling- I enjoying through Him new be fulfilled? For this step of lish us in this kind of faith; first, ANNIVERSARY This was followed by three Nagpur, Bhopal and New Delhi. He spoke at the Annual Meeting of the God-given 'life? faith involves and demands to bring us to acknowledge who years at Selwyn College, Cam- Evangelical Fellowship of India held at Poona and shared in two clergy retreats ton (the Rev. Peter Johnston). active personal obedience. Jesus is, as one come from God; bridge, where he secured his at Ranchi and Nagpur. One great value of this inci- second, to persuade us to believe This year marks the 90th Doctorate of Philosophy in 1963. Mr Johnston was delivering 'loom large in the discussions at 3. CONFIRMED FAITH Lambeth this year, Mr John- dent which we are to study is that His God-given mission, the Anniversary of the foundation his presidential address to the that it shows plainly how pro- Verses 51 to 53 tell us how reason why He came into the of the diocese of North Islington Clerical Conference, ston said that a number of Teacher and schemes had proved abortive in gress in believing is made. Let the man received the news which world, is to bring salvation and Queensland. at Church House, Westminster, us see what these steps are. assured him that the desired public speaker recent years because Anglicans life to men; third, to lead us to The first bishop, Dr G.