SIMPLE WORDS WANTED
Methodists Send Back Draft
Proposed general rules for the guidance of members of the Methodist Church were “highfalutin and a lot of words,” Mr H W. Beaumont said at the North Canterbury Methodist Synod yesterday
'We don’t think of ourselves as called to ‘exercise integrity.’ but to be honest.' " he said ’ "Money’ isn’t everything—why not 'property?' We don't ‘keep festival’ on Sundays—that sort of thing went out with Eliza beth I. We don't ‘endeavour to participate’—we ‘try to take part.’ “If we print this draft on the back of our membership cards, anyone not in the Church who happens to see it will think we're a fluffy lot. ‘‘The committee which wrote it should have it sent back to it, and told to put it in plain words." A recommendation that the committee be asked to reconsider the matter was passed unanimously.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30221, 28 August 1963, Page 14
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