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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 299, 21 January 1911, Page 9

WHETHER IT WAS TRUE THAT I WORE VESTMENTS, had altar lights and incense and compelled people at Sowerby Bridge to come to me for confession ? I told him that I did none of those things, and that, indeed, it would he impossible for me to compel anvone in Sowerby Bridge to do what he or'she had a mind to do. He then asked me for mv views on ritual. I told him that T had come to preach the Gospel, and would readily fall in with the ritual of any church to'which I was sent. The truth' is that T have heon mixed up with a most excellent man. Canon Ivens, of Birmingham, now, T am sorrv to say, called to his rest, who was, T believe, a somewhat advanced churchman. He was a most devoted man. whatever his views were, and T once had.a happy talk with him. We were met by Mrs. Wallis, wife of the Bishop of Wellington, and Rev. C. TT. Snrott. vicar of St. Paul's Pro-Cath-edral. where I am to preach the mission at the l>o;rinninjr of October. I had a mo 4 kind greeting, and was taken to mv host and hostess in Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. Quick. Mr. Quick is a solicitor and chancellor of the diocese of Wellington. After a staf of twelve days in New Zealand T can say one thing for certain, that nowhere will a stranger be received with more free and frank hospitality. T shall never cease to be grateful for the BOUNDLESS KINDNESS. I was made a member of the Wellington Cluh, taken to a debate of the New Zea-