DEAHTR OF CLERGY.
_ ,—^ . — — DUTY OP THE LAITY. . • • [by telegraph.—press, association.] , L •......■■■. • / ' , Wellington, Tuesday. Speaking, at the opening of the 18th Synod of the Wellington Anglican diocese, this afternoon, the Ven. Archdeacon Fancourt (commissary of the. Bishop of Wellington), who presided,'drew attention to the dearth of clergy in the diocese. Several parochial districts were now, and had been for some time past,; without clergy, and several clergymen, were in need of assistant It wm almost hopeless to look for the latter from England. "We must train our own' clergy if we are to • have assistant curates, and -"if the ranks of our? clergy are not to he hopelessly depleted," he "continued.' 'He ! hoped to see, as an outcome of trie Hadfield Memorial Hostel, a fair proportion' Of 'young men"who would:come to be prepared for the- ministry of the Church There were men willing and anxious to enter the ministry of the Church, but they had not the means wherewith. to support themselves during their course of preparation without assistance. '.'■ It was the bounden duty of the Church to eee that sumh men, were not lost to the ministry/ which meant that the laity must bear the cost of the training and ; educating" of its clergr. "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13796, 8 July 1908, Page 9
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DEAHTR OF CLERGY.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13796, 8 July 1908, Page 9
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