DUNEDIN SYNOD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 338, 27 October 1908, Page 6

DUNEDIN SYNOD.

TEU PRIMATE'S ADDRESS. [BT 7£I*£GUAPH—PUESS ASSOCIATION,) !> , Dunedin, October 26. The- Aiiyiean Diocesan Synod opened this aftornoon:'! The Priniat-o Nevill), iu the course of his' address, reviewed the events of tlie, diocese during the past , year. By far the greater number of the reports of vestries andVchurch committees disclosed an improvem'enicin financial aspects as compared with the year. Ho laid renewed emphasis on lirs remarks last year that the price of the of life was rapidly increasing white* stipends remained the sanio as before, % aiid V>ho hoped vestrymen would seriously consider whether they could not render more (generous support' to the clergy. He was strongly; of opinion that the Synod made a serious .mistake somo y«ars ago when it< lowered ths-standard of stipend required |to constitute a/, district into a parish. The Primate paidi;lhitributo to tho memory of the late CanoiJoDbud, and went oil to refer to change's iii/i-pastorates during the year. He said very littleVprogress made with the Catlwdf.al'- building fund of late, a ; nd lie hoped the-Synod would take steps to promote it withiii]pr6 vigour. ■; CHRISTIAN%IAND THEOSOPHY. . Dunedin, October 26. At tlio this afternoon, tho Rev. H. L.Snow-fliov&l" That this Svnod views with of theosopliical doctrines among Ch\\rcli people, and that the bisliop of the diocese .Jje' urged to issue a pastoral to tho clearly defining the attitude of towards the pantheistic tlconception-'ioft Sod, the doctrine ofreincarnation-, andiothet- theosopliical teachings, 'which are at Tdfciaiiijo with the creeds of the Church and the 1 Articles of the Churcluof England.'" The mover said he was recdiltly strurfkc'bj ; the fact that tho; warden of - St. Johfi.s G&llege,' Auckland, ' had made a v remark&bjo. move, iif connection with Spiritualism, inquiring about that he learned of an pjifmir.g outbreak of Spiritualism in>Xow Plvmiftth.. This he bo-, lioved had din>etoconncq(iion with the state- 1 nient made by tile;-wahlen of' St. John's College (the Rev. & W. Tlie archdeacon of Oapiaru had,-b<iou remarking on the serious attendance at the Sunday ManvU-oung people in his own .congregitibn haqibben greatly attracted towards tliso'sophibalVteachings. Some had fallen into tl)C'liands\of the metaphysicians belonging schools, and mixed up Christian, tfoctjijieivirt an extraordi- , nary manner with > teachings. Mothfcrs came to him'.rfpoatpdiy with appeals on behalf of their which snowed that Theosophists wertfyhaltitij* a deliberate attempt to get Hhfr'-iyoitng people. Tho motion was liy'.Mr'j Fleming. Archdeacon Neild' (iforttfligtoij). opposed tho motion. The to 1 J>y .Mr. Snow did not exist'in- life'-part! of tile town. Mr. Burnett supported,t!ie 4 motiibn.' The discussion was adjourned'|iii'-tpVmorro'ty;'