WELLIGTON DIOCEAN SYNOD.
(press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, July 6. The Wellington Diocesan Synod opened its sittings to-day. Bishop Wallis referred in his opening aduress to the Lambeth Conference and PanAnglican Congress, which he attended (last year, and to - the coming Mission of Clergymen to New Zealand. He also referred to th© decline in the number of candidates for the ministry (as reported in another column). Tho Rev. G. Woodward, vicar of Foxton, proposed a scheme for the organisation of a religious brotherhood for the purpose of coping with the three greatest needs of the day:—(l) Religious education of the young, (2) street missions, and (3) religious work among bodies of labouring men.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13468, 7 July 1909, Page 8
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