ANGLICAN SYNOD

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1921, Page 7

ANGLICAN SYNOD

BISHOP AVEBILL'S ADDRESS.

(BY TELEGRAPH —PKEBB ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 14. Bishop Averill, in his address at the opening of the Diocesan Synod, referring to the Lambeth Conference appeal for the reunion of Christendom, urged the clergy and laity to seize every opportunity of discussing with any other" Christian creed sympathetically and prayerfully the question of reunion in accordance with the Lambeth appeal.. He also urged the clergy to study the report of the conference on the question of Christian faith in relation to spiritualism, Christian science and theosophy, : particularly Christian science. No man could serve two masters, and the ,Christ of these "isms" was not the Christ of the Bible or the Christian creed. With regard to,the general principle of women instructing and exhorting congregations, the Bishop said he was not yet convinced of its general advisability or expediency, but he had no objection whatever to women, with the approval-of the Bishop, speaking in consecrated buildings at other than regular services. ( The Synod passed a resolution de:«clearing "it was conrinced that there [ were sufficient grounds for such a departure from the custom of the church of the province of New Zealand as is involved in the proposed attachment of the primary to any individual see, and the Synod is convinced that the Synod is the proper body to elect the Tirimate, and if the primaryvis attached rto any,particular see the General Synod should retain its rights in the election 'Of the primate." |