- THE AUSTRALIAN CHURCH RECORD THE NATIONAL CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEWSPAPER — NINETY-FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION Registered for posting as Prinfed by John Fairfax and No. 1479 January 14, 1971 a newspaper — Category A. Sons Ltd., Broadway, Sydney. Price 10 cents Ged. Muston to Melbourne Abp Woods to WCC Dr Woods announces new coadutor bishop Rev Gerald Bruce Muston, Federal Secretary of the Bush Church Aid Society since 1969 and Secretary of the National Home Mission Fund, has in Ethiopia been appointed a coadjutor bishop of the diocese of Melbourne. (Melbourne) and rural dean of National Home Mission Fund on Essendon, 1964-67. its feet and has seen RCA work While in Melbourne he led the expand into new dioceses and diocesan committee which taking on work in rapidly ex- launched the new diocesan panding areas of Western monthly, "See." He edited it until Australia. he went to Darwin where he was Both Mr Muston and his wife rector of Christ Church Cathed- Laurel are former parishioners ci ral and Archdeacon of 'the Northern Territory,I967-69. St Paul's, Chatswood, one of In the short time he has been Australia's outstanding mis- w ith ttCA he has helped get the sionary and evangelical parishes TWO CATHEDRAL SCHOOLS PLANNED FOR 1972 The die'ese of BwtburV, %%A, has approved the Rev. G. It. Muston purchase of 72 acres of land at Gelorup near the city and schools for boys and girls are to be built ready for Dr Woods, Archbishop of Melbourne, made the announce- opening in 1972. ment on December 22. The dio- The two schools will provide The schools will be open to all cese has been divided into regions primary and secondary education denominations and the primary and with the appointment of the for both day and boarding pupils objectives will be to give a third coadjutor, each region will and will mark the fulfilment of Christian background to the edu- be under the pastoral care of a plans which have been coming to cation of the children. bishop who will also have certain fruition for four years. administrative functions in his Applications for enrolment are area. The other bishops are Right Revs Robert Dann and already coming in from parents James Grant. and a principal is to be appoint- ALL-CHURCH The bishop-elect is 43 years of ed well before the schools open age. He will be consecrated in St so that he will be able to choose Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, on his headmistress and teaching EVANGELISM February 25 and he will begin A street scene in a more modern part of Addis Ababa, capital staff from the best teachers avail- New York (EPS). — The duties in the diocese on May 1. of the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia. able. Commission on Evangelism of He graduated from Moore the Lutheran Church in America College in 1951 after a career in A nicely elevated site will set Dr Frank Woods, Archbishop of Melbourne, left off to advantage the building has voted to invite Roman journalism. After a short curacy Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Australia on December 30 to attend a meeting of the at Waterlog, he was rector of St complex which initially is designed to take pupils from Churches to participate in the co- World Council of Churches' Central Committee in Addis John's, Wallerawang 1951-53, operative evangelistic campaign Grade 6 to university entrance. Ababa, Ethiopia. and editorial secretary of CMS, being arranged for 1973. • Later developments will include 1953-58. He was rector of Tweed Some 50 denominations and Heads (Grafton 1958-61) and a preparatory school which will Dr Woods told the Church after the meeting he will spend a religious groups, most of them vicar of St Thomas', Essendon be attached to the main complex. Record that he was looking for- week with Bishop Alf. Stanway evangelical, will seek to make "a ward tremendously to the meet- in his diocese of Central Tan- united Christian impact on the ing. Before it he will spend a ganyika. North American continent." week in Nairobi, Kenya and In Ethiopia. the WCC will be much concerned with the NSW dioceses share church's task of evangelism: how do we evangelise in this age? What is the relationship between WCC GRANTS AID TO evangelism and service? Ought the church to be using the mass $100,000 estate media of communication to bet- US DRAFT-DODGERS ter effect? An estate valued at about $100,000 has been divided fhc 11orld Council of Churches has appealed to Ethiopia is set in the midst of up among 22 Anglican charities, just under half of which member churches for $187,500 to help 50,000 to many new African nations and are outside the diocese of Sydney. the meeting may well reflect the 100,000 %merle:ins who have fled to Canada to avoid tensions of rich and poor, black Proceeds of the estate of the of Newcastle, one in Bathurst, conscription or who have deserted from the Army. and white, tribalism and nation- three in Canberra-Goulburn, one late Mr W. Percy Faithful be- According to a statement by alism, socialism and capitalism. came available for distribution in Armidale, one in Grafton, and At first, most of those who Rev Alan Brash in Geneva on 29 went to Canada, did so to avoid The WCC meeting is from twelve in Sydney. after a judgment by Mr Justice December, the WCC has decided the draft but their ranks are now January 9 to January 71 and Dr Hardy in the Equity Court. It The Sydney groups to benefit to make a large part of this sum being swollen by deserter; from Woods hopes to be hack in Mel- was to be distributed as the are: Home Mission Society Girls' available immediately. Rev Rex the services. Money is needed to bourne before the end of Synod of the diocese of Sydney Hostel project, H.M.S. Coun- Davis, an Australian Anglican help them find employment and January. directed among charities for the selling Service, H.M.S. Chesalon working with the WCC in Gen- to adjust to living away from relief of "any form of ne..essity, Parish Nursing Service, H.M.S. eve has said that "concern for their families. destitution or helplessness which Charlton Home, H.M.S. Carra- such people in the situations in Jesuit loins excites the compassion or sympa- amar Hostel, Church of England Another 500 are in Sweden. which they find themselves has a thy of men and so appeals to Children's Homes, Burwood and many of them deserters from US good biblical precedent." their benevolence for relief, in- Paltister Girls' Home ($5,500 military units in West Germany. Protestant Church cluding spiritual destitution or each), Council of the Deaconesser. The immediate grant is to be The announcement of this A iminer Jesuit priest-educa- need." institution ($5,000), Church of given from WCC funds to help grant has brought considerable tor, Rev Joseph Doty, has been Applications from eligible England Retirement Villages and refugees and so approval of the adverse reaction in the USA, the received into the ministry of the Anglican charities were invited Lisgar House, Arncliffe ($3,000 UK and other countries, even Protestant Episcopal Church of and as a result of investigation, each). Church of England Homes Central Committee which meets stronger in some places than that the United States by the Right 22 societies will benefit from the ($2,000), The Missions to Sea- in Ethiopia this month is not re- aroused by the WCC anti-racist Rev William F. Creighton, Bish- distribution: four in the diocese men N.S.W. ($1,000). quired. grants last year. op of Washington. NEAC 1971 CHALLENGES OUR READERS Just a year ago it was an- N I A(' 1971 will give This leaves $5,000 still to he the longest distances, will come responsible for Congress ex- nounced that a National many of us the opportunity found and the Board of the from regions where evangelical penses, gifts should be sent to Australian Church Record warm- support is weakest and should be the Hon. Secretary, Rev George Evangelical Anglican Con- to meet together, to demon- ly commend this appeal to our helped where necessary. Students A. Pearson, I Docker St., Rich- gress would be held at the strate our unity in Christ readers all over Australia and too will need subsidies, mond, Victoria, 3121. Those who Monash University, Mel- and our willingness to go beyond. The charge for delegates has prefer to send gifts through their bourne, 23-28 Augnst. forward in a new obedience The $5,000 is needed for the been kept at a low $38, covering own State representatives are at expenses of running the Congress single room accommodation, all liberty to do so. Evangelicals founded and to Christ's commands. and amounts over and above this meals and all conference papers. The ministry of NEAC 1971 pioneered the Church in The Executive Committee of will be used to subsidise the trav- It was thought unwise to add to will he felt far and wide in the Australia and now 183 years NEAC has established a budget el costs of those coming from this charge in order to subsidise • Australian Church. Evangelicals, later, we make up a major- of $7,000 to cover the, costs of considerable distances. Many distance travel, so help is needed the Congress. $2,000 of this has parishes will be sending delegates from all Australian evangelicals. always to the fore in missionary ity of Anglichs in the Na- already been guaranteed or at their expense and will need no Since the Executive Committee causes, are challenged to give tional Church.