WELLINGTON CATHEDRAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 367, 5 July 1946, Page 5

WELLINGTON CATHEDRAL

Sir,-The letter of your correspondent (Lorna Rogers) is full of inaccuracies. When did our Lord preach from the synagogues? Where is the record of Jesus referring to the synagogues as "My Father’s House"? The only reference I can find to these words are in John 14, 2: "In my father’s house are many mansions." The poverty of the people of Italy could be very much eased if the wealth in the Vatican was sold and the money used to build homes, feed the poor, and clothe those insufficiently clad; and if the Cardinals, instead of weari robes costing L7,000 to L8,000 w content to be garbed like "The Man of

Sorrows."

CYMRY

(Devonport).

Sir,-I am disgusted by all the excuses upholding building a cathedral when people ‘are dying for want of food, warmth, and the necessary things to enable them to start finding for themselves. We in this country have had none of the really dreadful conditions of this war to contend with, Would it hurt us to wait a year or two longer for our cathedral? Think of how much £30,000 would provide, let alone £300,000, for the little waifs and people who are needed to’ care for them in thé future. Surely the poor and needy are God’s children, to be helped by His churches? I thought our churches would have their working bees as busy as possible making warm things for the needy, their collectors raising as much as they could, all to help the stricken. Let us build after this terrible starvation is fed. We need beautiful things, but let them be built upon respect and love of our fellow-men. The site will still be there. New Zealand is a prosperous country and will still be able to subscribe. Most likely many more would do

SO.

M.

L.

; (Wellington).