WORK AMONG MAORIS
URGENT CHURCH TASK P.A. . AUCKLAND, This Day. The most urgent matter for the Church at the present time was work among the Maori people, declared Bishop Simkin in onening the Auckland Diocesan Synod~today. He added that it was unthinkable that the present position could be continued, as it was a process of drift. He expressed his strong belief that the Maori .clergy should be enabled to minister to hoth pakeha and Maori, and that disservice had been done to the Maoris by limiting the ministry of the Maori clergy to their own people. It was producing in the Native race a narrow conception of the catholicity of,the Church. ■. ,■ ; v : ■ Bishop Simkin also asked the . Synod to consider whether it was not essential to send pakeha clergy again among the Maori people. He thought that the withdrawal of pakeha missionaries years ago was premature.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1943, Page 6
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146WORK AMONG MAORIS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1943, Page 6
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