LABOUR? AND THE CHURCH.
[PRESS ASSOCIATiON'.I AUCKLAND, Bth August. Speaking at a ceremony in connection with the opening of St. Matthew's Parish Hall, the Anglican Bishop of Auckland (Dr. Neligan) said he would like to see friendly conferences between representatives of labour and the church. He would like to see the church meeting la. hour and pointing out to it that one of the biggest social organisations the world had ever seen was the social organisation of the Church of England, and he would like to hear a conference discuss quietly and temperately and calmly the question "Why is. it that labour occasionally views religion askance?" When one remembered that One who bore the sorrows of the world was a working man, 'one longed with increasing aud intense longing to hear in a friendly way why it -was that there seemed to bo in certain directions ' — and' only in certain directions — a. cleavage between religion and labour. (Applause.) He spoke as a working man himself, and he knew that if it were not for his God he could" not work. • He longed to know that the prayer of every man might be in the words of Rosotti, '"Learn me to labour till Thou«bid me rest." _ (Applause.) j
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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 34, 9 August 1905, Page 6
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