SHORTAGE OF CLERGY
EFFECT OF LACK OF FUNDS
DUNEDIN LOSES CANDIDATES,
(By Telegraph.) (Speel*l to the "Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Bay.
In tho course of his sermon at St. Paul's Cathedral, Bishop Richards referred to the shortage of clergy, and mado an eloquent appeal for help. "At present," ho said, "through no fault of theirs, many of our people are in a state of spiritual destitution, and we do pray earnestly that we may be enabled to fulfil our ministry so that the children of tho Church may be brought up in a knowledge of the love of God, and that grown-up people with their families who are in remote and scattered districts may have means of grace within their reach, that the message of the Gospel may be so brought home to the nation that our social and political life may be ennobled and purified, and for this we need more clergy and the means to support them.
"Bear with me while I say a word about the training of candidates for ordination. From a worldly matorial point of view, it is difficult to imagine why there should be any candidates at all, but there are other and higher considerations than this. There are young men of promise who would be likely to do well in almost any business or profession, who have heard the call of the Master, and are offering themselves fov the ministry of the Church, but in this diocese we have not sufficient means to train them. We have some means for one or two candidates, but not for more. Our Diocesan College, excellent as it is as an institution, is starving. Already a young man, a university student of promise, has left Duncdin for Auckland, lost both to the University and the Church here, simply because we had not the means to keep him. And now others are offering, and are we to lose them too? Or would it be possible for this Cathedral congregation to start an Ordination Candidates Fund to meet our present requirements? It would be a noble service to the Church, and where better could an example be set than here?"
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 155, 29 December 1925, Page 6
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361SHORTAGE OF CLERGY Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 155, 29 December 1925, Page 6
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