“> realise that the time may yet come when some of us will be called upon to serve our country or feel that wo ought to offer our services in some capacity other than the comparatively limited ranks of the army chaplains,” said the Bishop of Waiapu (the Rt Rev G. V. Gerard’, addressing Synod in Napier. “I do not consider that such an occasion has yet arisen, but .should it come I would not hold back men of military age desirous of enlisting. provided that we were able to fulfil our primary duty of ministering the Word and the Sacraments in the parish churches and caring for the souls of those at home.” Bishop Gerard added that as far as; possible the life of the church must be allowed to progress normally for the sake especially of her children and adolescents, who would bo the churchmen and women of tomorrow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1939, Page 6
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