ANGLICAN TRIBUTE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 12

ANGLICAN TRIBUTE

"A CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN"

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. The following tribute to tho memory of Bishop Cleary was paid by the Primate, Archbishop Averill:—

"In this great hour of sadness our hearts go out to our brethren of Bishop Cleary's Church in their great loss. With him has passed a zealous missionary who devoted every one of his many talents to the dissemination of the Gospel and to strengthening the Church in the fields wherein he laboured. We have seen him creating new parishes and giving the lead in courage and fortitude and charity to the people and priests of his large and scattered diocese. We know that distant backblocks settlement was as much to him as the more easy paths of the city. We have seen him also giving fully of his energy and time in establishing schools for the education of boys and girls of his flock. The poor and orphans have been his especial care, and we know that he spent no more happy hours than those when he was with the children. In addition, he engaged himself in bringing the point of view of his Church before the people. "In questions of public interest Bishop Cleary's life was a full one and a very useful one, and because of that I think we may say it was a happy one.

"For tho past 15 years I have naturally been brought into close contact with Bishop Cleary, and although we could not, of course, see eye to eye with each other in many matters, yet I have always found him to be extremely courteous and I shall always remember him as a Christian gentleman as well as a Bishop of God's Church."