CHURCH WORK.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 228, 16 June 1877, Page 2

CHURCH WORK.

The Bishop of Manchester, speaking at Bradford recently, observed that if the Church of England fell through intestine divisions, no heavier blow could be struck at rational and sober Christianity, Men were talking of recatholicisings the Church of England. By it they meant going back to certain dark ages when superstition overlay faith, and picking up certain mediaeval customs and importing- them into the ritual and ceremony of the Church. But if no could only bring our hearts and minds back to something like ancient simplicity of faith, and ancient earnestness and purity of life, that would be rccatholicisiug the China hj of England. In cinclusion, his lordship urged upon his hearers the desirability of carrying out the principle of solidarity in the work of the Church. By this term he meant that they ought not to regard their own individual parish, or individual interests, as having an exclusive claim upon their time, efforts and money. The strength of the Church of England always had been in the past—he believed would be even more so in the future—in the hold which, through God’s grace, it had been enabled to get upon the hearts and affections of the poor.

Strangers and country settlors coming to Carlyle, are very oftenat a loss to know which is the best and cheapest General Drapery and Clothing Establishment in the district. It. A. Adams’ Cardigan House, offers special advantages that can be met with nowhere else in the district. He keeps the largest and best assorted stock of every description of drapery goods, imported direct—and from the best colonial bouses ; which, tiding bought on the most advantageous Kjrms, and having thorough knowledge of the business, enables him to offer goods of sterling quality at pi ices that cannot be improved on by any other house in New Zealand. Every article is marked in plain figures, from which there is no deviation ; so that inexperienced people are as well served as the best judges, the terms being net cash, without rebate or abatement of any kind. . Note the address—K. A. Adams ; Cardigan House, nearly opposite Town Hall, Carlyle.— advt.