PRESBYTERIAN CLERGYMAN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 9

PRESBYTERIAN CLERGYMAN.

: APPEAL GRANTED. THE CHURCH'S RECORD. i i The Rev. I. Jolly, representing the - Auckland Presbytery, yesterday applied , for the exemption of James Patrick Boyle, who ia a fully ordained clergyman - -of the Church. Exemption, with the : written consent of the Minister of De- - -fe-nce. to whom the appeal had 'been re- , ferre.l, was granted. r The Rev. Jolly, in stressing the short- * age of ministers and home missionaries, r eaid tins was the first appeal of its kind i made in this district, and he was sorry 7 to h-ave to Jiiake it, because be, with the - Preubytery. felt that loyalty at such a 1 time was a firet consideration, and the i Church wns doing ail it could to help the 1 iState. He went on to detail the shortl ages in the various districts, and men- - tioned that the Church had 1(5 military - chaplains at the front, one of whom, - Chaplain Major CJrant, of Gisborne, had t been killed. Three had returned, two of 1 'vwhom through ill-health. Four chaplains i had joined the ranks, and one chaplain, IA. R. Madill, was posted missing. f>f ten , home missionaries, two went as V.M.C.A. » agents and other* in the ambulance ? Also 13 students haj gone. Nineteen i students from the University had gone. , The shortage had become now so acute 5 that the Church felt bound to intercede 3 I because the spiritual needs of the people r could not remain unattended. The kingr Jom of God required attention in such a . tieue as this. Many stations were now > without supply. t