SIGNING OF THE TREATY
REFERENCE BY BISHOP SPROTT.
Reference to the signing of the Peace Treaty was nipde by Bishop Sprott at the opening ■ of l the Wellington Diocesan Synod yesterday afternoon. Dr. Sprott said ho thought the synod should' express its thankfulness to Almighty God that the world war had come to an end. It was i true that the world was .unhappily etill far from peace in the trlie Christian sense of the word, wul it was' true that the signing of the Treaty meant little more than a. definite cessation of hostilities. Notwithstanding, that was an unspeakable mercy. "We cannot but be thankful to Almighty God," His Lordship went on, "that the great sacrifice of precious lives has ceased." They could not but be thankful that in the cause which the general conscience of tnankihd had confessed to' be just and right, and of. which they had been champions, they had come forth victorious.
As a tokyi of thanksgiving the members of the synod rose and sang the Doxology.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 238, 2 July 1919, Page 6
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172SIGNING OF THE TREATY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 238, 2 July 1919, Page 6
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