CIVIC LIFE
MORAL LEADERSHIP APPEAL TO METHODISTS SOUTH AUCKLAND SYNOD (Special to Times) TE AROHA, Thursday Approximately 70 ministerial and lay representatives of Methodist churches in the South Auckland District were present in the Te Aroha Methodist Church on Wednesday morning for the opening of the annual Synod of the district. The Rev. i R. B. Tinsley, of Hamilton, chairman of the district, presided, with the Rev. !J. L. Mitchell, Morrinsville, as seciretary. | At a ministerial session of the j Synod on Tuesday a number of ministerial and home missionary probationers were orally examined in their studies and advanced a year in their courses. It was unanimously resolved that Mr Warren Green, home missionary, Ngatea, be recommended to the conference in Wellington as a candidate for the ministry. A social gathering to welcome Synod representatives was held on Tuesday evening in the church, the Rev. Tinsley presiding. A civic welcome was given by the Mayor, Mr L. C. Mackie. The Rev. F. J. Handy, of Thames, addressed the gathering on “The Office of the Preacher.” Church and Public Life The responsibility of Christian people in relation to public life and civic and public service was mentioned at a session on Wednesday. Synod affirmed the desirability of Methodist people with the necessary qualification seeking avenues of service in civic and community leadership, the opinion being expressed that too few of the responsible positions in this young nation were held by devoted Christian men and women. Such positions, it was pointed out, presented many and great difficulties, but they also made possible the detention of moral leadership of the community in the hands of Christian people, and the avoidance of the disastrous position which in some nations had followed the divorce of political from religious life. I The Rev. H. Spencer, Te Awa- ; mutu, said that to people who complained that the tone of political and civic administrative circles was not such as to encourage aspirants to public positions, his answer was that people of deep religious conviction and high moral idealism were the very people who were needed to enter public life and elevate its tone and standards.
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Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21583, 20 November 1941, Page 6
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