Dr. Sidney M. Berry MA, DD. will be visiting Barmera on Thursday, March 23, and at 8 p.m. will address a public meeting in the Barmera Congregational Church. All are welcome, and after the address, in which Dr. Berry will touch on life in Britain, supper will be provided. Congregationalists from other River towns will attend.
Next Sunday, "Congregational Union Centenary Sunday in SA," Dr. Berry will conduct a broadcast service over National network from Stow Memorial Church, and the service will be heard in other Congregational Churches. This will commence at 11 a.m.
Dr Berry, perhaps the most distinguished personality in world Congregationalism, visited South Australia in connection with the Centenary meetings of the South Australian Congregational Union.
Dr Berry is the son of the late Rev. C. A. Berry, of Wolverhampton, who was one of the famous preachers of the Victorian age and visited Adelaide in 1891. Dr Berry and Principal Kiek were fellow students at Mansfield College more than forty years ago. Dr Berry was invited to succeed Mr J. H. Jowett as minister of the historic Church at Carrs Lane, Birmingham, where Dr R. W. Dale once ministered.
In 1923 Dr Berry became secretary of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, which office he filled with distinction for 25 years. During this period he became Moderator of the Free Church Federation, which embraces nearly all the non-episcopal denominations in England.
He is a prolific author and well known as a radio preacher in Great Britain.
In 1948, at Welseley College, Massachusetts, he was appointed minister and secretary of the International Congregational Council, which links Congregationalists from more than a score of countries. In this capacity Dr. Berry has travelled through USA and visited Holland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Germany.
On January 12th last Dr Berry left England for a world tour which is to include India, Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
