ANGLICAN SYNOD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 212, 13 October 1909, Page 2

ANGLICAN SYNOD.

PROPOSED GENEEAL -MISSION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Tuesday. The Anglican Synod discussed nt length a recommendation authorising the committee to receive guarantees or to arrange a bank overdraft to provide a deficiency of .£7OO to finance a general mission in New Zealand in 1010.

Mr. W. J. Speight strongly opposed the proposal ami caused some excit.v mciit by stating that hia imprcssi'n about the Mission of Help to South Africa had forwarded ecclesiasticism, not Christian godliness. The appeal foi funds, he said, was not freely responded to because in the hearts of the people was a suspicion about the real ainw of the mission.

The Hev. CJolviLc, a, member of the Mission of Help in Africa, assured the .Synod that tho mission did not go there to spread any kind of sacerdotalism t ritualism.

Eventually the committee withdrew its request for permission to raise the deficiency by bank overdraft. With th s the amended recommendations wee adopted. The Synod received a resolution from the Wellington Synod, advocating that the General Synod should secure the right to complete government of the Church. It was resolved that the Svnod had no sympathy with any proposal t? change the provisions of the constitution called fundamentals.

BIBLICAL INSTRUCTION" IX SCHOOLS Auckland, Last Night. At the Anglican Synod to-night Archdeacon Willis moved to the effect that the Synod approve of Biblical instruction being given in State schools. He favored the system as adopted in New South Wales. Canon McMurray said that though he approved of Biblical instruction being given in the schools be did not think the time had arrived for passing such a resolution, and until th: public became educated to the advantages of the system he felt that by adopting the resolution they would be merely " beating the air." Mr, W. J. Speight opposed the motion. The ciergy i he said, wanted sthools for themselves, but they woul'l not get them. There was no possibility in this country of a return to denominational schools. The motion was carried.