DISTANT FIELDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 250, 21 October 1924, Page 4

DISTANT FIELDS.

«... APPEAL OP ADVENT-TOE. AMONG THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS. (By Telegraph.-Special to "Star.'') DUNEDIN, this day. Referring to what he described as the serious position in which the Church is being placed through lack of a sufficient number of clergy, Bishop Richards at the Synod to-day said: "It is significant that when at the beginning of. the year a' scholarship of £80 a year was offered for a theological student at Selwyn College there was no one to apply for it. It" may be suggested that in the circumstances it might be well to make the conditions easy by lowering the educational standard required for ordination,- but to my mind this would not be desirable. To send forth into the service of the Church a number of badly equipped, uneducated men would be a source of weakness for many years, and I cannot think that the remedy lies in this direction. At the present time there are men at the University going through a long and expensive course of I training to go forth as medical mis: j sionaries. There is something of glory in adventure of this kind which appeals I to them, but it is less glorious to give | a surrendered life to building up the Kingdom of God in our own country."