BISHOP RETIRES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 10

BISHOP RETIRES

SYNOD SAYS FAREWELL

WORK OF DR. SADLIER

(Special to the "Evening Post.") NELSON, December 15. After a special session of the Nelson Diocesan Synod opportunity was taken to farewell Bishop Sadlier and Mrs. Sadlier. Thero was a large gathering of the clergy and laity. The Vicar-General, the Yen. Archdeacon Kimberley, presided, and with him on the platform was the Archbishop's Commissary, the Bey. E. M. Cowie, M.A. Archdeacon Dart, as the oldest member of the synod, referred iv glowing terms to the splendid service rendered to the diocese by the Bishop over his twenty-two years as chief pastor. The Archdeacon of Mawhera (the Yen. J. A. Jeiinyn) voiced the feelings of the West Coast church people. Bishop Sadlier had endeared himself to the people of the West Coast, and they would miss his spiritual leadership and warmhearted personal interest in them. Tho Yen. Archdeacon Smith spoke for the Waimea Archdeaconry and referred to his own personal association with the Bishop over all the years of his episcopate. The Rev. E. M. Cowie, as president of the special synod, read to the Bishop a resolution which had been moved by the Vicar-General, conveying to the Bishop the deepest appreciation of the whole diocese for.all his unselfish, faithful, and splendid work for the Church. Special mention was made of the building up of the various diocesan funds, the compilation of diocesan particulars (a work of twelve years' patient search and entry), the building of the first part of the magnificent Cathedra], yet withal the ever spiritual leadership of the people of tho diocese. The Vicar-General'also referred to Bishop Sadlier's worthy contribution of service—especially through the New Zealand Board of Missions and the Church Missionary Society—to the wider life of the Church of the Province of New Zealand. The chancellor of the diocese, Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M., spoke- on behalf of the laity. . Tn replying, the Bis top, said he had tried at all times, to be fair an^ just in his dealings With the clergy and laity. He had endeavoured to build up a strong centre. He regretted, because of physical infirmity, that the time had come for him soon to lay down his task as Bishop of Nelson, but he believed that under the providence and guiding of God a younger Bishop with new ideas and a fresh vision would be able to carry on where he left off. He urged all to give the new Bishop the same love and trust and loyalty that they had given to him.