ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 274, 12 August 1908, Page 7

ANGLICAN CHURCH.

MORE CLERGY. A CONTINGENT FOR NEW ZEALAND. RESULT OF THE CONGRESS. (BY TELEGBArH—MESS ASSOCIATION— COFIItlCIlT.) (Rec. August 11, 8.50 p.m.) London, August 11. As a result of tho appeal made at the re-cont'Pan-Anglican Congress a numl)pr of Anglican clergymen are leaving to wprk in Now Zoaland. Tho first batch sailed in tho. Turakiiia. THE THANK-OFFERING. METHOD OF ALLOTMENT. (Ree. August 11, 11,10 p.m.) London, August 11. The Archbishop of Canterbury states that £125,000 of the £345,000 constituting the Pan-Anglican thanksgiving offering has already been allottod to specifio objoots by tho donors. In distributing the balance for clerical and educational needs North-West Canada, and parts of Australasia, and the South Seas, will be borne in naind. "TOO YOUNG FOR AN INPIGENOU9 ■' MINISTRY. '

Tho names of a number of clergymen who nre coining put to work in the country districts of tho diaceae of Auckland have already beon announced in The Dominion. ' Speaking at the Pirn-Anglican Congress, tho Bishop of Auckland statpd that the' Church at Homo was still responsible for helping' them jn New Zealand, They were yet'too young'as a nation to bo ablo ,to fill tho ranks of tho ministry with the native born. No Church could bo thoroughly vigorous until jtp ministry was of an indigenous' character. Hut in a country of only Bopie sixty years of age, help, in the forjn of personal service, from tho: mother Church, was still. wanted. The soi pallecl short service was wholly'to ]je cojiij jheiided. It was good for those'to whom Hie jnen went,, good for the'meji themselves, arifl good for' the Church at IJotpe when the men came ""' '' ■'

Ihe Archbishop of Brisbane stated that, whereas America and Canada |md' gqpo definitely against the short service system," Australia apil South Africa bad given oyjdeftw.'jjj favour of it. He deMred to add his testimony to the latter view, jle noted. however, thai there had' hot been a'singlq diskeiitieht r«co all day. with regard to tho responsibility qf tho mother Church towards 'dloiie'ses jii/tho colonies, in sore need of olerical and ftnpiioial assistance. But ho hoped tlip time' :i woiild como when a native -ministry would bo strong enough not to need help from tho mother Church, '