New Bishop in Jerusalem at Annual Meeting of Church Missions to Jews: Says He Has Received from Zion

The Rev. G. F. Graham Brown (Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and Bishop-Designate in Jerusalem) spoke this week at the 124th. annual meeting of the Church Missions to Jews. He had himself seen something of the work that was being done in Palestine, he said, and some of their men from Wycliffe Hall had gone out to labour with those who were working under the auspices of the Church Missions to Jews in that Land. He had received from the Zionist Organisation, and from two professors at the Hebrew University there the warmest letters on going out again to Jerusalem. One of them said he prayed that their coming might mean a spiritual regeneration. He hoped that as a Society they would be able to “go forward unitedly to seek the redemption of humanity and the establishment upon earth of the Kingdom of God”.

The Rev. C. ### Gill, Secretary of the Society, spoke of the serious financial position in which the Society found itself. The Society’s deficit had been increased by £5,100 to £12,682, which was a very serious amount when compared with an average income of roughly £50,000. The chief cause had been the deficiency drop of over £2,500 in the amount received from legacies. A special sub-committee had been appointed to consider how the cause of missions to Jews could be more efficiently brought before the country.