SYNOD CRITICISM
SOCIAL ORDER'S DEFECTS. Per Press Association. NAPIER, April 17. Defects in the social order of New Zealand to-day were severely criticised by Archdeacon W. E. Mac Lean at the general Anglican Synod in Napier today, 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 criticisms followed a motion moved by himself and subsequently carried, “That this Synod, while recognising the duties of Christians to assist those in distress, cannot rest content with the performance of works of mercy within a framework of unchirstian environment, but is convinced that 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. “Here 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 they are to-day.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 118, 18 April 1934, Page 4
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199SYNOD CRITICISM Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 118, 18 April 1934, Page 4
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