ANGLICAN SYNOD

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1934, Page 5

ANGLICAN SYNOD

SOCIAL SYSTEM REFORM. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] HASTINGS, April 17. The General Anglican Synod continued its deliberations at Napier today. A motion, moved by Canon Neild, was carried, to the effect that Archdeacon Young and Canon Neild be appointed a commission to arrange for publication of one or more volumes of sermons for lay readers on the lines of those previously published, and that the Synod set aside £5O to assist this purpose.

It was decided that the next meeting of the General Synod be held at Hamilton in 1937, on a date to be arranged.

Defects in the social order of New Zealand, to-day, were severely criticised by Archdeacon W. E. McLean, when he advocated that the Church must use every effort to transform the social order, so as to bring it nearer the mind of Christ. He expressed the view that New Zealanders were too much inclined to sit back and do nothing. His critics followed a motio'n by him, and subsequently carried: “That this Synod, while recognising the duties of Christians to assist those in distress cannot rest content with the performance of the work of mercy within the framework of un-Christian environment, but is convinced the Church must use every effort to transform our social order, so as to bring it nearer the mind of Christ.” “We should be wary of any attempt merely to build, as we have built before,” Archdeacon Taylor said. “Hero, we are at the parting of the ways, and we have to choose which way we take. Let it be a point of honour, that We will not let conditions remain aS thdjr are ,to-day."