LACK OF CLERGY
A SERIOUS POSITION.
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> DUNEDIN, This Day. Referring' to what he described as the serious position in which the Church is being placed through lack of a sufficient number of clergy, Bishop Richards, at the Synod yesterday, said: "It is significant that when at the beginning of the year a scholarship of £80-a year was offered for a theological student at Selwyn College, there was no one to apply for it. It may be suggested that in the circumstances it aiight be well to make theqponditions easy by lowering the educational standard required for ordination, butto my mind this would not be desirable. To send.forth into the service of the Church a number of badly-equip-ped, uneducated men would be a source of weakness for many years, and I cannot think that the remedy lies in this direction. At the present time there are men at the university going through a long and expensive course of training to go forth as medical missionaries. There is something of glory in adventure: of this kind, which appeals.to them, but it is less glorious to give a surrendered life to build up the kingdom of God ii> our own country."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 97, 21 October 1924, Page 6
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204LACK OF CLERGY Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 97, 21 October 1924, Page 6
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