SYDNEY'S ARCHBISHOP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 21 September 1938, Page 10

SYDNEY'S ARCHBISHOP.

I would like to expreee * few opinions regarding the Hem in the "Star" of the 17th inet. relative to the Church diepnte in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. I resided in Sydney for eome time until quite recently, and I "was much impressed with the wonderful respect and admiration with which Archbishop Mowll is held in Sydney by the Anglican laity and by other Church laities. He is a pronounce J Evangelical with a real vision and a genuine tolerance and fair dealing with others holding 'viewe other than his own. Sydney diocese is jan Evangelical diocese, but the Anglo-Catholic ■clergy aTe a particularly active and noiey group, and eome of the Liberal, or Modernist, clergy group are also unsympathetic, but tho vaet 'majority of the laity just take it all with a smile and leave it to their beloved archbishop to effectively deal with it. A recent example will illustrate the archbishop's Evangelical and tolerant sympathies. When Dr. Oswald J. Smith, a world-renowned Presbyterian minister and evangelist who ie now in Auckland, was holding his mission in Scots Church in Sydney, the archbishop presided at the opening service in that church, and the Anglican Church took a leading part in co-operating in the mission. The result wae a most successful united evangelistic effort by the Evangelicals of the Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and Congregational Churches and the Salvation Army. In comparison, TVr. Smith's mission here in Auckland appears to be restricted to a comparatively small critical group of Baptists ana Brethren, to the practical exclusion of Evangelicals in the larger Churches. Dr. Stanley .Tones told us on his recent -risit here that unity can only be accomplished by each Church demonstrating a spirit of unity towards others, whereas the spirit of absorption only engenders opposition. It greatly surprised me to find that such world-renowned Christian preachers as Drs. Jones and Smith were not sriven radio broadcasting facilities wliile in Auckland. AUSSIE.