A BISHOP’S SUGGESTION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 841, 19 May 1910, Page 2

A BISHOP’S SUGGESTION.

Bishop’s Neuoan wrote to the Mayor of Auckland Mr L. J. Baguall, upon the latter’s election to the Mayoral chair of the Queen City, suggesting that the Mayor should follow the custom universally adopted in the Old Country, viz., of officially attending public worship on an early Sunday after election. In reply the Mayor wrote thanking the Bishop for the suggestion and stated he would be pleased to establish such a precedent by officially attending his own place of worship—St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church — next Sunday morning. The Bishop, in acknowledging the Mayor’s letter wrote: “I am really very grateful to you for so kindly receiving my suggestion, and I am more thankful than I can say that you propose to act upon it. The principle is as you say, the official attendance of the Mayor and councillors at public worship, and I agree with you that it is seemly that it ought to he at a church belonging to the particular communion of which the Mayor for the time being is a member. I very sincerly trust that you will be able to inaugurate this very laudable practice, and that the result will be for the welfare of our civic life.” Mr Baguall has invited as many ot the city councillors as desire to accompany him to St.

Andrew’s Church next Sunday morning when the Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly of New Zealand (the Rev. I. Jolly, M.A.) will conduct the service.