AUCKLAND ANGLICAN SYNOD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 15124, 13 October 1909, Page 8

AUCKLAND ANGLICAN SYNOD.

[Per Prkss Association.]

AUCKLAND, October 12.

The Anglican Synod discussed at length a recommendation authorising the committee to receive guarantees or arrange for a bank overdraft to provide for a deficiency of £7OO to finance a. general mission to New Zealand in 1910.

Mr W. J. Speight spoke strongly in opposition, and caused some excitement by stating that an impression was abroad that the mission of help to South Africa had forwarded ecolesiasti"cism, not Christian godliness, and added that the appeal for funds had not been freely responded to because in the hearts of the people there was a suspicion as to the real aims of the mission.

Tho Rev J. Colvillo, a member of the mission of help to South Africa, assured the Synod that the mission did not go there to spread any kind of sacerdotalism or ritualism.

Eventually the committee withdrew the request for permission to raise tho deficiency by bank overdraft, and with this amendment the recommendations were adopted. .

The Synod received a resolution from the Wellington Synod advocating that the General Synod should the right to complete the government of the Church. It was resolved that the Synod had no sympathy with any proposal to change the provisions of the constitution called fundamentals. Archdeacon Willis moved to the effect " that tho Synod approves of Biblical instruction being given in State schools." He favoured the system as adopted in New South AValos. Canon M'Murray said that though he approved of Biblical instruction being given-in schools, he did not think the time had arrived for passing such a resolution, and, until the public became educated to the advantages of the system, he felt that by adopting the resolution they would be merely " beating the air."

Mr W. J. Speight opposed the motion. The clergy, he said, wanted schools for themselves, but they would not get them. There was no possibility in this country of a return to uenominational schools. The motion was carried.