ANGLICAN CHURCH

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 370, 17 June 1911, Page 5

ANGLICAN CHURCH

ORDINATION OF THE REY. W. J. PIGGOT. On Sunday last Trinity Sunday, at St. John's College, Auckland, the Bishop of Auckland ordained to the diaconate Mr Walter James Piggot. The chapel is so small that only some of the clergy, the students of the College, and a few others could be admitted. The Ven Archdeacon Calder presented the candidate, and the Rev. P. T. Williams preached the sermon; but the chapel itself, and its hallowed surroundings spoke to the hearts of those present with greater force and more uplifting power than even the impressive words of the preacher —it is doubtful if there is any spot in New Zealand, not excepting even the piace where the Rev. Samuel Marsden preached of the love of Jesu3 Christ to the Maoris, for the first time, which is so full of holy memories as that chapel. The windows of this hallowed building recall Bishop Selwyn the founder, Bishop Patterson the martyr, and many another who strove nobly for the Faith. The whole edifice redounds in memories of when the Maori and the Melanesian learned of Christ and then went forth to labour, and, like Patterson, to die -of Atkin, the first New Zealander, and Stephen the first Melanesian to drink the very dregs of the cup of suffering and to die in aogny like their Lord. And outside the sacred walls lie in the same graveyard the. European, the Maori, and the Melanesian, waiting together for their last 'call. It recall the work of the early Church in Britain, where Roman and Pict and Scot learned side by side of the love of Christ, and was surely a fitting beginning of work for daughter Church in New Zealand. And now a long list of English, Maori and Melanesian clergy, teachers and people lie buried, who each according to his own ability has been used by Christ in His work. Their graves lie scattered from one end of the Dominion to the other, and by land and sea among the Melaneisan Islands. And amid these great memories that speak as fully of the power of Christ to make disciples of all nations as of all classes, after the example of the Holy Apostles, after prayer, the Bishop laid his hands on the candidate's head,, saying: "Take thee authority to execute the office of a deacon in the Church of God, committed unto thee, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost." The Rev. W. J. Piggot has returned to work in this parish.