ANGLICAN CLERGY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1147, 22 October 1924, Page 10

ANGLICAN CLERGY.

SHORTAGE OF CANDIDATES. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Oct. 21. Referring to what he described as the serious position in which the Church is being placed through lack of a sufficient number of clergy, Bishop Richards, at the Synod said: “It" is significant that when at the beginning of the year a scholarship of ,tBO a year was offered for a theological student at Selwvri College, there was no one to apply for it. It may be suggested that in the circumstances it might be well to make the conditions easy by lowering the educational standard" required for ordination, but to my mind this would not bo desirable. To send forth into the service of the Church a number of badly-equipped, uneducated men would be a source, of weakness for many years, and I cannot think that the remedy lies in this direction. At the present, time there are men at the university going through a long and expensive course of training to go forth as medical missionaries. There is something of glory in an adventure of this kind which appeals to them, but it is less glorious than to give a surrendered life to build up the kingdom of God in our own country.”