METHODIST SYNOD
(Bv Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, November 19. Addressing the Wellington Methodist Synod, which opened to-day, Ilev. E. D. Patchett, District Chairman, spoke on church union, and said it was encouraging to record that certain definite practical steps had been taken. He supported the resolutions by the Auckland Presbytery because they suggested that Anglicans might he also approached. The Methodists looked to the Anglican Church as the rock from which they were hewn, and there was much in common between tjiem. For Methodists, a re-union would he incomplete without the Anglicans, but if that were impracticable, yet a step towards it would be the coming together of Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Methodists. Speaking of the concordat between the Catholics and the Bible-in-Schools League, Mr Patchett said that this meant a removal of an irritant from the religious life of the Dominion, for which all lovers of peace and good will must he thankful.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1930, Page 1
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152METHODIST SYNOD Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1930, Page 1
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