BELITTLING HIS PARISH

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2707, 11 October 1930, Page 8

BELITTLING HIS PARISH

TO RAISE DONATIONS The Bishop of Waikato recently spent the greater part of Sunday at St. Barnabas’ at Ealing, Middlesex, England, where he preached at mass and evensong. j In his morning sermon Bishop Cherringtoh, as reported in the Middlesex County Times, said that in New Zealand they had not the beautiful aids to worship which people had in England. “We have one banner .n my diocese, and only three organs ! Music is played either on a wheezy harmonium or on a. cracked piano ; or else the congregation sings the hymns that the priest knows and can set the tune to.” The Bishop described his cathedral as looking like “a gaol outside and a sepulchre inside.” ITo said that” the lack of churches and the insufifi- ( ciency of priests to cover the mileswide parishes left people without re- ( ligious teaching. Many children were growing up quite ignorant of God. | In the' evening the Bishop said 1 that the Maoris of New Zealand were j terrified of their gods and would not. , do ordinary little things because ( these wefe taboo.