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DR. OLIVER’SMISSIONTO NEWZEALAND coming of Dr. French E. rer to New Zealand m arks epoch in th e history of ngelism. We have had
you when all men speak well of you.’’. A five weeks’ campaign has ju st closed in Auckland, the larg est city of th e Dominion. The meetings were held in th e Town Hall which seats th ree thousand people and although th e sea son was th e ho ttest in th e year the meetings were splendidly attended. Dr. Oliver’s leotures to men and to women were a unique featu re of the campaign. The m asterly and yet deli cate way in which he handled th e sex question was simply amazing. No med ical man could have done it better. While all of his lectures were b ril lian t from every point of view, th eir main objective was th e salvation of souls. To hear th e emphasis laid on the blood of Christ as the only ground of the sinner’s hope and peace was to call fo rth th e thanksgiving of every child of God. In these days of infidel preaching, it is refreshing "to h ear a man like Dr. Oliver ring out th e grand old tru th of redemption through the blood. The results of th e campaigns have been gratifying. Hundreds have been converted in Auckland and Hamilton. The Christian people have had th eir faith in th e Bible strengthened. Their eyes have been opened to the deadly preaching of th e modern pulpit, and they no longer intend to support any m inister who is un faith fu l to th e Word. One of th e results of Dr. Oliver’s Auckland campaign has been the: for m ation of th e New Zealand Evangeli zation Society. The Society is founded on the historic faith of th e church and will aim at aggressive evangelism. It is intended to bind together all who stand foursquare on th e Word of God for a more determ ined defense of the faith. This Society will invite from tim e to tim e outstanding Bible teach ers and evangelists to conduct cam paigns th roughou t th e land. The day has come when no M inisters’ Associa tion h ere will invite evangelists and teachers who stand for th e en tire Bible, hence the need of th is society. Dr. Oliver is now tou ring the Domin ion and will be called to the cities of Australia. (Signed) Rev. Alexander A. Murray, M. A., United Evangelical Church, Auckland, New Zealand. F eb ruary 27, 1923.
many evangelists and teachers from abroad bu t Dr. Oliver is quite unique. He is a Christian lectu rer and delivers well-prepared lectures on almost ev ery doctrine of the Bible. The preach ing is of a very high order and shows him to be a man of wide reading, of studious habits and accurate scholar ship. It is w ith th e greatest ease th a t Dr. Oliver refers to th e original lan guages of the Scriptures and gives al tern ativ e renderings. As a m aster of th e Bible and as a preacher of the g reat verities of the faith, we have not heard his equal. Everybody knows exactly where he stands doctrinally, and one has to hear him bu t once to know th a t he is a champion for th e verbal inspiration of th e original Scriptures. Dr. Oliver is quiet and dignified in his manner of preaching and keeps himself under con trol. Yet he rises to g reat heights of earnestness, power and eloquence. No voice in th is land has ever been raised more au tho ritatively and strongly against modern infidelity in th e pul pits th a n Dr. Oliver’s. He is unsparing in his trea tm e n t of those who are deny ing “ the faith once for all de livered to th e sain ts.” F o r the past tw enty years the de nom inational pulpits of New Zealand have been honeycombed w ith German theology and th e official papers of these denom inations are comm itted to th e same propaganda. The tim e has come to expose these traito rs and Dr. Oliver is th e man who is doing it. There is still in New Zealand a godly rem nant who believe th e Bible from lid to lid and who praise God w ith one voice for th e courage and manly u tterances of Dr. Oliver. Dr. Oliver is th e friend and helper of every faith fu l m inister, bu t th e un faith fu l sceptical m inister has a bad tim e of it. L ittle wonder then if many of them oppose. It is impossible in these apostate days to be faith fu l to God’s Word and a t th e same tim e gain th e praise and co-operation of all the m inisters. It is certain Dr. Oliver won’t come under th e condemnation of those of whom it is said, “Woe unto
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