CATHEDRAL APPEAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 15, 18 July 1939, Page 11

CATHEDRAL APPEAL

"GO STRAIGHT AT JOB"

NO WEAK EXCUSES

REV. W. BULLOCK'S

ADVICE

Looking back over :.the' past year, and considering the various difficulties that had been encountered, he thought they should regard the results of the Church's Centenary Appeal with gratitude to Almigh'y God and congratulations to those \yho had done so much to further it, the Vicar-general, the Yen. Archdeacon W. Bullock, stated in his presidential address at the opening of the Wellington Anglican Diocesan Synod this afternoon. The result of the year's work in cash and promises, he said, was over £69,000.

This result, he thought they would admit, was very good, and augured well for the final success of the whole scheme. The various committees had been most active, the parishes on the whole had responded remarkably well, the Citizens' Committee had made a good start, and Canon D. B. Malcolm should be congratulated for his very efficient organising work. He did not forget also that the results would hardly have been possible had the Bishop not given himself almost entirely to the work.

"The task before us is still a big one," Archdeacon Bullock continued, "and if we could only double our efforts of last year within the next twelve or twenty-four months, then the Cathedral in a completed state would be a comparatively near possibility. And of course it ■ would be a: thousand pities if we had to build! piecemeal, as some people have feared. Let us put our minds to the task so that the next ten years will witness-a completed structure. I say ten years, because even when the building is commenced it will take some years to complete. IMPORTANCE TO CHURCH. "The importance of this work for the whole diocese, and its bearing upon the future of the whole Anglican Church in this country, will, I feel sure, weigh with all these who so far, either as parishes er individuals, have not taken up this work quite so heartily as have so many others. "I do not wish to preach a sermon on this matter. I almost did that last year. But I wish to urge with all my heart that we cast aside, in this matter also, all fear and pessimism, if we encounter it, and go straight at the job. without an undue amount of 'its' and Tauts' or weak excuses. I should be glad to know that even before our Bishop returns we had accomplished something to hearten him for the rest of the task that he.will have to face when he returns."