LETTER FROM ARCHBISHOP AVERILL
“WE MUST CONTINUE TO WORK AND PRAY” Archbishop Averill, ex-Primate of New Zealand, in a letter to the Rev. R. W. W. Alexander (who resides at Mapua), says. “Please accept from us both to you both every good wish and blessing for the New Year,” and congratulates him on his good voluntary work for the Church during the past four and a-half years. The Archbishop concludes with these words, “I wish we could see some likelihood of this terrible war coming to an end, but I am afraid it will continue for some time. There is no remedy, but one. and that is enshrined in the Christmas message ‘Glory to God in the Highest and on earth peace to men of goodwill,’ but there can be no goodwill apart from Christ, apart from brotherhood in Him and in the acknowledgment of the Fatherhood of God. Well, we must continue to work and pray each in his own little corner and surely the efforts and prayers of each individual faithful soul is contributing something to that unseen but very real power for good in the world making for righteousness.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19440108.2.67
Bibliographic details
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 8 January 1944, Page 4
Word Count
192LETTER FROM ARCHBISHOP AVERILL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 8 January 1944, Page 4
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Nelson Evening Mail. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.