The Secretary-General of the Internation Congregational Council, Dr. Sidney M. Berry, M.A., D.D., will visit Canberra this week and address a public meeting at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church on Thursday night.
As Minister and Secretary of the International Congregational Council, he has already visited the United. States of America, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
In January last, he left England on an international pastoral visit which will take him for a nine months tour of Congregational Churches within the British Commonwealth.
He has already visited India and will spend 14 weeks in visiting the main states of the Dominion, including Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania.
In South Australia Dr. Berry will officiate at the centenary celebration of the Congregational Churches of that State, and deliver the inaugural lecture at Parkin Theological College as well as a series of four public lectures - the Bevan Memorial lectures on "Preaching in the Modern World."
After leaving Australia, Dr. Berry will spend a week each at the four main New Zealand centres of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. He will then visit for-six weeks the Union of South Africa, travelling up the coast from Capetown to Oudtshoorn, Port Elizabeth and Durban and then inland to Johannesburg.
The Bishop of Goulburn. (Dr. E. H. Burgmann), who is Pre-sident of the Canberra Committee of the World Council of Churches, will preside at the meeting, and St. Andrew's choir will render vocal items.