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THE AUSTRALIAN BOOKS THE AUSTRALIAN 1"Eleanor" School Inaugural Dinner • Continued from page 7 CHURCH STUDIES IN 2 KINGS, Grace Sate and I. L. Jensen. Moody Press, 1968. RECORD 112 pp. his booklet which continues a The paper for Church of precious study on I Kings is de- England people — Catholic, signed mainly for individual stu- Apostolic, Protestant and CHURCH RECORD dents, but contains some direc- Reformed. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEWSPAPER —EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION tions for group leaders. Its com- Subscription $3 per, year, mentary, study assignments and posted. Editorial and Busi- No. 1431. February 6, 1969 Registered at the G.P.O., Sydney, for transmission by post Printed by John Fairfax and charts mostly deal with the his- ness: 511 Kent St., Sydney, as a newspaper. Sons Ltd., Broadway, Sydney. Price 10 cents tory of the various kings and 2000. Phone: 61-2975. Office prophets and the 'student is en- hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. couraged to relate experiences of Issued fortnightly, on alter- God to his own life today. Use- nate Thursdays. Copy dead- ful for Bible students. line Thursday preceding date Ken McIntyre of issue, hut earlier receipt preferable. RETURN TO SINGAPORE AND MALAYA SUSANNA. Mother of the Wesleys, by Rebecca Lamar Harmon. Hodder OUR Editor expected that his four-day visit to Malaya and Singapore in January would be a nostalgic pilgrimage to places that he had ALL LOVES EXCELLING, by R. Pierce and Stoughton, London. 1968. Y known so well, having lived and worked there for three months in 1958. Instead, it was to find both nations hod developed beyond his pp. Beaver, Wm. B. Erdmans, Grand 166. $3.95. imaginings. Rapids, Michigan, 1968. U.S. price This is a light-hearted story, The P. and 0.'s Chusan called people in Malaya. You must not rect for once. I slew!, hands heavy traffic along the old Batu $2.95. first at Penang which is truly city which now spreads out for revealing the home life of the Ep- proselytise among Moslems in warmly with the former head- Road! The trip along St. George's miles. They pointed out a Welt- worth Rectory and its inmates — In the light of the current the pearl of the orient. Arch- Malaya and few Moslems have master of St. Gabriel's. Terrace in Perth a week later deacon Peter Peattield met me rise apartment complex which mother, father and nineteen interest in the ministry of dared to become Christians. It A private dinner with nine of was to seem like a country jaunt accommodated 80,000 people. children. aboard and then drove me would probably be true to say the old 1958 team at Robinson's FIFTY-FIVE ladies aged To enthusiastic applause, Mrs that lay behind the accepted women, it is useful to have an by comparison. Then another which sprawled Perhaps because there is so authentic account of the part around this extraordinary island that in Malaya, more Euro- in Mountbatten Road, a little I from thirteen to Saunders thanked all those who rules of etiquette, then the Chris- with its unique mixture of east- endlessly and held 250,000 little material from which to played by American Protestant peans have become Moslems shopping, back to P.J. Then SINGAPORE people. had come to this inaugural tian woman could be herself in ern cultures and religions. That than vice-versa. Much prayer is seventy-four, with their dinner. It marked the beginning draw information — incredibly women in the world-wide task Ruth again at breakneck speed At Bishopsbourne we relaxed any circle of society she chose. must wait for another time. needed for the witness to Christ Singapore was always big and relatives and friends, gat- of a dream she had had for some modest were these Wesleys — of missions. along the expressway and back bustling and even ten years ago over iced drinks, The Bishop is Mrs Saunders hopes for fur- one's appetite is barely whetted. A night's steaming south-east in this land. to the air-conditioned comfort of hered at the Methodist time — to provide an oppor- ther opportunities to conduct From the "Cent Society" of signs of growth were impressive. obviously pleased that Wendy Susanna glows with the steady 1802 to the present day, when towards the Malacca Straits and P.J. is now a city in its own dear old "Chusan." What a day! Centre recently for the first tunity for Christian women of all classes for Church groups at we were at Port Swettenham, But everything is much worse has been able to settle perma- light of a quiet, determined trust the separate organisation of right, thickly populated, consid- nently in the home. I renewed ing of the place of personality, their Church hall. looking just as forlorn as I had VAST CAPITAL (term used advisedly) now. I had Graduation Dinner of the charm, appearance and manners — but chapters are given to so women for missionary work has erably industrialised and with old acquaintance with Sam Wel- For some time Mrs Saunders. seen it 10 years ago from the high-rise buildings everywhere. been up early to get on the "Eleanor" School of Per- in the Christian's witness in to- many other things that she some- been almost completely swal- Kuala Lumpur too is unrecog- bridge to see us steam into ler, overseas manager for has been conducting classes time sinks into the background. lowed up in mixed socie- air. An Indian Christian from An entirely new place to me and nisable, except for the city sonal Development. ages to come to an understand- St. Barnabas', Klung met me on Singapore Harbour. Before, I S.P.C.K. bookshops. Then I met day's world. among the women prisoners at Maybe this is where her strength ties where men do most of the somewhat frightening when you centre. Multi-storeyed buildings Mr T. S. R. Evans, sent over Long Bay Gaol, and is soon to the ship and drove me to Klung. had flown in each time. It is one The chairman, Rev. Ross lay — she was content to trust administration and make most think of our Lord's command everywhere. The pretentiously of for three years by A.B.M. as The three basic concepts of begin among the girls at the Here I was passed over to an the world's largest ports and Saunders, introduced his wife the Eleanor School were warmth, and to do battle in a thousand of the policy decisions, while and realise how thinly Christian impressive National Memorial, looks it. diocesan secretary. He had done Parramatta Training Centre. unremembered things so that her women form the majority of the Indian school headmistress who resources are spread here. the really beautiful houses of Merle Saunders, founder and sincerity, consideration. When drove with unerring skill bat at It was heart-warming to meet the same job previously for the director of the Eleanor School. Those who may be interested sons, if not her daughters, could work force, Professor Beaver Arnold Lee said: "Come and parliament in King's Gardens, diocese of Carpentaria. He has these personal qualities were be great. breakneck speed to Pealing old friends in Bishop Chiu Ban Mr Saunders said how proud he combined with a good dress are invited to write to Mrs gives a scholarly history of see the church you built," refer- many palatial hotels and multi- It and Mrs Wendy Chiu at my been there for a year now and Lois Meyer women's work for evangelism, in Jaya and St. Paul's Vicarage. ring to St. Paul's, P.J. It was not tudes of high-rise apartment enjoys his work. was of his wife's achievement, sense, an understanding of the Merle Saunders at 14 Richards Reverend Arnold Lee and cabin. The drive to Bishops- and that for once he was happy principles of beauty-care, and an its broadest sense. To do this he there in 1958, services being buildings. And the unbelievably bourne took us right across the Avenue, Drummoyne, 2047, or WINDOWS ON THE MASTER, by Catherine Lee, about to return held in the Vicarage. Before we Continued page four to take a back seat. awareness of the common-sense to ring her at 81-1192. has the qualifications of the Charles C. Wise jun. Abington Chair of Missions, University of finally to the U.K. after 20 left, four of us knelt and thanked Press, New York, pp. 140. Chicago Divinity School, and years' missionary service, made God for what had happened in This is a series of meditations, the General Editorship of the me feel at home again. But the intervening years and for written in prose-verse, which sets Christian World Mission Books P.J.! It was unrecognisable. the work of Peter Young. SEVEN MILLION BUDGET out to analyse the person and series. In 1958, Mating Jaya was an The expressway from Klung Bible display ministry of Christ as seen by C. E. W. Bellingham outlying suburb of Kuala Lum- continued on from P.J. to Kuala six of his contemporaries, all to pur, the national capital, and it Lumpur. I was trying to sort out FOR BIBLES A translation of the Four be met with in the New Testa- GREAT IS MY BOLDNESS, by Michael was much like any recently our entry to K.L. but was con- Gospels into Anglo-Saxon pub- ment. The trouble is that they Peck. Darton, Longman & Todd, Lon- established new housing -area. I fused by a new overhead cross- lished in 1571, a Spanish Bible had gone out to the University over.