MAORIS TO HAVE BISHOP

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 340, 28 April 1928, Page 8

MAORIS TO HAVE BISHOP

DR. SEDGWICK EXAUS SENTIMENT FERVID APPEAL APPIAMB (From Our Resident ' WELLINGTON, Frtd^.' "Why should ws debar a man from being ordained by a biabop of his own race?” asked W. Sedgwick, Bishop of Waiapu* at the General Synod. The principle of the appointment ef a Maori assistant bishop to exarebt episcopal supervision of the work at the Church of England among tt* native people, as recommended by * special committee, was approved today by General Synod after di«cs>* sion lasting the whole of the morning. “We are told not to be moved tr sentiment,” said Bishop Sedgwick. “Well, I am moved by sentiment. (Applause.) Sentiment is the greater thing in the world, and it has inspinfl all the greatest deeds in the histon of the Empire. lam moved by sentiment. What is an Anzac Day celebration but the outcome of sentiment' What was the motive power last Met men to the front but sentiment? I am out for sentiment, and so are tlw Maoris. Ido not mean sentimentality.

It was sentiment that gathered iw* Nelson when he hoisted his iajn signal at Trafalgar. It was senum that caused us to gather round Cross of Christ. Why should waj*" bar a man from being ordained bishop of his own race? T1 ‘ e /“L asked to be ordained by his own DisjWjP —that is sentiment. We may but it is going to be a splendid nu* ure. I hope to see a great movement with a Maori bishop,_ " only for the Maoris, but for •_ f Maoris and white people.” (APPj* u An amendment that, !n order prepare the way for the of a Maori bishop in the near future on© or more Mapri archdeacons * bo appointed to co-ordinate and ' the Maori mission work in the do ion, was lost in committee, an<l Bishop of Walapu's motion was ca A bill to give effect to th® re^T„_.- a j will now be introduced in t»e Synod.