Scrapbook of Rev. Sidney Malcolm and Helen Alice Berry née Logan

Rev. Dr Sidney M. Berry, National leader of English Congregationalism from 1923 to 1948. Moderator of the National Free Church Council (1934–7). Chairman of the Congregational Union (1947),  Minister and Secretary of the International Congregational Council.
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Age (Melbourne, Vic. 1854 - 1954), Wednesday 3 May 1950, page 2

"How I love it when I hear Australians say they are going to 'take a trip home,' when they are going to England. You don't hear that expression in any other country in the world.”

Dr Sidney M. Berry said this, yesterday on his arrival in Melbourne to attend the annual assembly of the Congregational Union of Victoria. Dr Berry, who last year was appointed minister and secretary of the International Congregational Council, is on a world tour, representing, he said, the "world-wide family of Congregationalists that is gradually being built up." He has been in Australia for the past few weeks, visiting the churches in other States, and he is impressed with the warmth of feeling towards Great Britain, which, to him, was summed up in the reference to "home." A startling impression he received was the contrast between the spirit and mood of the European nations and those of the people of this country, "12,000 miles away in the sunshine."

"There is so much uncertainty about the future over there," he said. "Not that they go about with hang-dog looks, but here you notice the difference, and the problem of the world does not weigh as heavily on peoples."

Rev. Dr SYDNEY M. BERRY, secretary of the International Congregational Council, arrived in Melbourne yesterday from England. He will attend the Congregational Union conference.

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