ANGLICAN CHURCH,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1805, 11 July 1906, Page 1

ANGLICAN CHURCH,

(Per Pzess Association.)

Wellington, last night,

At the Angl.can Synod Bishop Weliis said tbero were abunduot tigus of prrgiees of church work in tbis diocese. The st>ff of clergy was iccioasiog considerably, and

if tho rate of iucroase was maiutair c 1 in the next five yoar3 their numbor at the Synod wcu'd bo double what it was eleveD years r-g), Ho referred at length to tho question of trust funds, and drew atten non to tho fact that recently two Royal Commissions had bsen oonslituted to erquire into tho admin ; s'ratiou of their odueational trusts. One dealt with the Otuki, Porirua, and Kaikckirikiri trusts, and the other with tbo To Aute and Wanganui Collegiate fcJot 00l trusts. All theso belougod to their own Church. He cou sidered it unjust aud unreasonable that they should recoivo Btpjrato legislative trestmtni from precisely similar trusts held by other denominations. If such troatmont was seriously proposed it would be necessary for tho Synod to make strong ropreeontations to Parliament. Ho referred to tho decay in Sunday-school work, and thought a stronger icpresenta-

tivc committee should bo established with a viow of extending and developing the WEft 1 ?. 0 ” ° f =_ S . U _ d H-- ?2'o"cular echoic bo suid that the cumber of pupils reco ving such teaching had incro3eod in the last six yeais from 258 to 628. As to the Bible in schools question the Bishop said, “Tbo harmony which has reignod among representatives of the various Chtistian den.- ruinatious with regard to this matter (I am not spo„k ng of ltcman Catholics, who naturally claim a separate treatment for their own ecboob) bar taught me to have no dread of sectarian bitterness, tut even if it were otherwise I would a thousand timos prefer war to poace, aye even such a war as is being fought ia England, though tbo issues aro very different from our owd, to a poeoo euch as prevails urnoog ourselves, if that peace means a sluggish, cowatd'y indifference to tho real welfare of tbo comiDg generation,