CATHEDRALS NEEDED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1941, Page 8

CATHEDRALS NEEDED

TWO CHIEF CITIES

BISHOP COMMENDS PLAN

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AUCKLAND, This Day.

The project for building a permanent Anglican Cathedral in Auckland was warmly commended by the Bishop of Wellington, the Rt. Rev. H. St. B. Holland, in his sermon at the annual synod service in St. Mary's Cathedral last night.

The Bishop congratulated the diocese upon the near-achievement of a plan which would undoubtedly have been close to the heart.of Bishop Selwyn. After his own arrival in New Zealand five years ago it had seemed to him an, unhappy state of affairs that neither of the Dominion's two largest cities possessed a permanent cathedral as a witness in the community to the changelessness of God.( Both cities had many noble edifices dedicated to commerce and other secular activities, but the worship of Christ, the deepest thing in the life of a nation, was still housed in wood.

In thinking of such a matter, it was well to be reminded that Coventry, whose cathedral had been bombed and destroyed by the Germans, was already raising a great fund to rebuild it. In Colombo, the centre of a missionary diocese, the Christian community had pledged itself to find the money to build a cathedral within five years as a witness to the non-Christian people of Ceylon. Surely, concluded the Bishop, it was possible for the Dioceses of Auckland and Wellington each "to carry through its cathedral project to the greater glory of God, not of man.