CHURCHES IN DOMINION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 7

CHURCHES IN DOMINION.

NOT APPRISED OF PLAN. WELLINGTON, Jan. 24. Church leaders in Wellington to whom the cablegram announcing the church fusion plan was referred last night were unable to throw any further light on the scheme. “It is all new to me,” said Rev. Percy Paris, president-elect of the Methodist Church of New Zealand. There had been nothing about it in Methodist Church pnpers. There had been, of course, a great world conference on faith and order at Edinburgh, and a coming together had been evident. Apparently a plan had been drawn up by a self-appointed committee which thought it "workable and acceptable, and if anything were' to come it would have to start in some such manner. He was glad to hear that even that step had been taken. Methodists were always willing to consider such proposals. Vets Rev. J. H. MacKenzie (exModerator of the Presbyterian General Assembly) declined to comment on the report. The Presbyterian church involved was apparently the Presbyterian Church of England and not the Church of Scotland, lie said. Venerable Archdeacon W. Bullock, to whom the cablegram was referred in the absence of the Bishop of Wel-_ lington in the South Island, declined' to comment. “If that is true it is a very momentous thing,” he said, “It is one of the biggest things I lidve heard of for a long time, hut comment at present would be a little difficult.” He had not known about this particular proposal for Church union.