WORK AMONG MAORIS
“MOST URGENT MATTER FOR CHURCHES” (P.A.) AUCKLAND, September 14. The most urgent matter for the church at the present time was work among the Maori people declared Bishop Simkin, opening the Auckland Diocesan Synod to-day. He added that it was unthinkable that the present position could be continued as it was. Bishop Simkin expressed a strong belief that Maori clergy should be enabled to minister to both pakeha and Maori and that a disservice had been done to the Maoris by limiting the ministry of Maori clergy to their own people. It was producing in the native race a narrow conception of the catholicity of the church. The Bishop also asked Synod to consider whether it was not essential to send pakeha clergy again among the Maori people. He thought the withdrawal of pakeha missionaries years ago premature.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24053, 15 September 1943, Page 3
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