A CALL FROM NEW ZEALAND

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 117, 25 August 1910, Page 6

A CALL FROM NEW ZEALAND

THE COMING ANGLICAN .MISSION, i '■' • "• a THE MEN AND THE WORK. a The Wellington Dominion haa received the following communication from the Key. Harold Anson, of Birch Rectory, Rusholme, Manchester, and formerly e Warden of St. John's College, Auckland, g in referenci to the yisit of.sixteen Angli' j can clergyman, who are now on their >f way from England to conduct a general { mission in. New Zealand:— ; -t , I am asked to write a few lines to , v enable New Zealanders to form an idea j of the aim which has animated the minds of the committee in England ] which, a,t the express wish and request A of the General Synod of the. Anglican \ Churcti in New"''Zealand, has. chosen mis- s sioners to visit the Dominion this year, and has endeavored to carry, out the j arrangements in regard to the visit. j We wish it to be clearly understood , that we have never regarded this mis- , sion as- beyig an effort on the part of| a pious England to, convert wicked and i pagan, colonials. Those of us who know | England and know New Zealand are en-1 tirely conscious that England has no cause to thank God that she is more righteous than other parts of the Em-! pire, hut we have here, what you have not in equal measure in New Zqaland, an abundance of clergy, endowed with the particular gift and experience of evangelistic work—men who; !a.re con-1 engaged 'in holding such mis-j siojis in England as you have asked for in New Zealand, and we could not refuse to do our best to do what you have .'asked us to do, in sending out the' best .men we could, find to help our j ' over-worked, brethren in New Zealand. I do not believe that many of these ', sixteen .men would; or could, have gone out unless they had felt it a positive , duty to show their love for New Zea- ' land,by giving up extremely important home work in answer to the New Zea- ' land Church's call. '- . ' AkGREAT MISSIONER.

The leader of the mission, Canon E. A. Stuart, is a, leader well known in Church circles. A great mission*? »n<ka fearless speaker,.who has already 1 m'ade.a reputation in South Africa and, in' the Pan-Anglican Congress,, and-,.'.who,,J.in spite of his, pro : nounceft svangelieal views, is heartily and beloved by "High" Churchinen as well as by "Low" Churchmen. ' He will be conducting special" services in Wellington Town Hall. ' \

. Hjs brother, Canon H. V. Stuart, rector of the very important manufacturing town of Stoke-upon-Trent, where he has six curates under him, gained a reputation from his having himself spent a week as a collier in a coal mine, in order to gain experience of his parishioners' trials and difficulties. He'is frequently asked to conduct missions in England. , THE FISHERMEN'S PARSON. Canon Tupperp Carey, the popular "fishermen's 1 - parson," who for many years has worked among the fisher-folk of the North Sea at Lowestoft, following them sometimes in their boats to their fishing grounds, has just been appointed by the Archbishop of York a Canon of' York Minister to. organise the mission work of that diocese. There are few, more popular clergymen in England. Canon Lillingstbn is vicar of the .important parish church of Hull, and one of the best.known younger men of the] Evangelical school of thought. He took part in 'the mission in South I Africa.

Mr. Horan has been a naval officer, and, if I,am not mistaken, was in his infancy i}n New Zealand, where his father was fighting in the Maori war. Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Eees. who belong to the Community of Mission Preachers at Mirfield, are both men who have given up their lives to the particular work of mission-preaching, where tHfeir services are in constant request. "''We are exceedingly grateful to the "community for sparing them both for «0 long ■from [England, when, they are 30 touch heeded here. Mr. Fitzgerald is, I believe, a great author-' ity upon', matters theosophdcal, which! in some gaxte of the Dominion have attracted' so much interest of late years. hear, is'the special "favorite of children." LIKE mW ZBA'T.A'NDEBS. I Canon Ivens, a well-known evangelical preacher, has a wide experience of the hard-headed and democratic working people of the West Riding of Yorkshire,

who are like New Zealandere in their views and ideals. He has been for many years vicar of Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax.

Mr. Cyril Hepher is vicar of St. John's, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and the author of a book of devotional addresses, and a popular missioner in the North of England. Mr. de Carteret, vicar of Christ Church, Greenwich, is prominent among supporters of the Church Missionary Society, to which New Zealand owed so touch in early years, and still supports so seriously. Mr. Kinloch, who is private chaplain to the Duke of Westminster and rector of the parish adjoining} the Duke's house at Eaton Hall, is a well-known preacher in Cheshire, who has experience with all conditions of men.

Mr, Parrer, vicar of Bridport, has lived in (New Zealand, and is familiar with its ways of thought. I believe he i 9 a friend of the Bishop of Wellington.

Mr. Evans has been curate to Canon Tupper Carey, and has been especially successful in working among young men. Mr. Darby has been c'hosen by the Bishop of Worcester as his diocesan missioner, by whom hia services have been most kindly lent to the New .Zealand Church.

A TEMPERANCE LECTURER. Mr. Bell is lecturer for the Church of England Temperance Society in Oxford diocese, and will no doubt be especially interested in that work in iNew Zealand, though I suspect he will be too prudent to express his views during his short stay on that muchcontroverted question of New Zealand politics. He comes, on 'this occasion, not as a temperance preacher, but as a missioner.

Mr. Jones has experience of work in a small county parish near Malvern, as well as of mission work in more populous centres. ALL SHADES OF THOUGHT. • The committee has tried most sincerely to send men who represent all shades of thought within the Church of England, with no thought whatever of 'forwarding any narrow or sectional interest. It need scarcely be said that there is no desire to interfere with the work of any other denomination. We feel ourselves most deep gratitude to the men who are going out. We ask Nevv Zealanders to Temember that it will be very difficult for them to adjust themselves to the new moral and mental atmosphere during their short stay in the Dominion, to remember also that there are few kinds of work so exhausting as mission work, and above all to remember that the missioners not only come as invited guests, but as men whose supreme ambition it is to give I help wherever and to whom ever they can. We know that we cannot be wrong in commending them to . the prayers and the warm, co-operation of .New Zealand church-people.