Anglican General Synod

Hastings Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 4150, 9 February 1904, Page 4

Anglican General Synod

(By '1 eitfcraiJii j

Auckland, February 8

At the Anglican General Synod to-day. a cuscussion arose out oi a uioUion by Ur Hudson on the Bible in schools question. This proposal container a request to the Government. tor a reiei'eiidum.

Canon ii«ie.UuiTay moved aa amendment- noting with approval the formation of the Society for the Promotion of in Stale schools under the auspices of the recess committee appointed by tne General Synod of laui, am? asking that this recess commit tee be reappointed and requested to lake such steps for the furiberance ol tins society as need requires. The Primate deplored the fact that so little had been -done after 30 years' exertions by the Church. Mr Speight (Auckland) that the Church should recognise once for all the fulility of ever expecting the State (o give denominational teach, ing im schools. '1 hey were asliing the Covernment to do something they ought to do tiiems< j ive-. The Bishop of Wellington in urgiiig the need of united action v by Protestant bodies, remarked Hut the light in future would be not, between Church awl Dissent, but. between Christianity and Paganism. Tha amendment was carried 1 by a very large majority. A resolution expressing satisfaction at the decision to hold an Anglican Congress to deal with missionary and other finest ions was carried. It was alsod decided that the time has come when the various provinces of the Anglican, communion" within the Empire 01" missionary dioceses of the Church of England should federate, and a federal council be formed.