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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 234, 3 October 1928, Page 10

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WAIKATO CHURCH TROUBLE.

BISHOP ATTACKS PRESS.

"COMPLETE AGREEMENT

REACHED."

IBy Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. "The truth of the Waikato church trouble," according to the Right Rev. Dr. Cherrington, Bishop of Waikato, was given by him to the parishioners at St. Michael's Church, at their annua: social last evening. Dr. Cherrington made an attack upon the newspapers, stating that much of what had appeared in print regarding the matter was "so much froth and bubble, with a few facts behind it/' "As to the church in Hamilton and all its terrible practices, it dowrn't differ much from -the services in your own cathedral," declared the Bishop. He proceeded to relate how different meetings had been held, and said that at a meeting of parishioners recently, after the resignation of the Cathedral Chapter, there had been a very friendly discussion, and complete agreement was reached. The bishop concluded: "One of the wisest sayings regarding" the Prayer Book was that of Bishop Sprott, of Wellington, in his charge: 1 don't think the House of Commons had any right to reject the 19*27 and 1928 Praver Books. The people who rejected them were Irish, Scotch and Welsh, and it was only poor old England that was not allowed, to do as it wanted with the Book of Common Prayer.' "I hope," said the bishop, "that during the next twelve months the newspapers will have only good things to say about us, and not wrong good church people." The Rev. Charles Parry said that what was going on was but a leavening of the Church of England. It was a revival. St. Peter's, Hamilton, and St. Michael's, Christchurch, were interested in the movement, and there were many others in the Anglican community who bad much to learn.

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