Forward Movement

Pearse was a popular storyteller, but he did not hesitate to offend those women who were in the throes of an eminently successful suffrage movement.

In July 1891 he declared in Sydney Australia that women were "a waste product whose chief use is to dispense afternoon tea.

Evans had recently married the university graduate and suffragist Kate Edger whose ideas strongly influenced the Movement and drew other progressive thinkers such as Ernest Beaglehole; Lily May Kirk and her future husband Arthur Atkinson; and Maurice Richmond, later professor of law at Victoria University College.

[8] They held their first meeting on 27 August 1893, and began organising public lectures and classes on history, literature, philosophy, civics and economics.

Some examples of the contents were described in an advertisement notice in the (Wellington) Evening Star in February 1896: During a Congregational Union convention in Wellington in early 1896 the ministers revised their Articles of Constitution to give "members working in mission stations or in forward movement missions" the same standing as pastors of regular congregations.

[14] With the rise of Lily May Kirk Atkinson (now married) to the national presidency of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand, the return of Rev.

As a self-sustaining agency of the church, Forward Movement relies on sales and donations to carry out its work.

The 51st General Convention in 1934 charged the newly chartered Forward Movement to “reinvigorate the life of the church and to rehabilitate its general, diocesan and parochial work.” Bishop Henry Hobson of Southern Ohio chaired the Forward Movement Commission, which consisted of five bishops, five priests, and ten laymen.

Although the National Council gave a small subsidy during its first three years, Forward Movement soon became a self-supporting ministry, largely through literature sales.

All this was achieved through mostly volunteer labor, with the Diocese of Southern Ohio providing office space and support staff.

The 1937 General Convention sought to integrate Forward Movement into the larger church by naming the new presiding bishop, Rt.

Forward Movement publishes more than one hundred other titles, mostly pamphlets and booklets, on prayer, discipleship, worship, sacraments, Anglican history and spirituality, and pastoral concerns.