UNION OF CHURCHES
CLOSER CONTACT NEEDED BISHOP SPROTT'S ADVOCACY The need for a closer union oi the Christian Churches to combat the spread of secularisation of the life of the people is affirmed by the retiring Bishop of Wellington, Dr. T. H. Sprott, in a letter to the Wellington Presbytery. His letter was written in reply to a felicitous communication from the presbytery. ""1 have lorig cherished a desire for a closer union of the Christian Churches," Dr. Sprott wrote. "1 think that hitherto one great weakness has been the lack of any keen interest on the part of the great mass of Christian people. At the moment the most hopeful signs are in the mission field. Faced not only by the immemorial native religions, but even more by the menace of rapidly spreading secularisation of all human life in non-Christian lands, the missionaries are f?eling the need of clcmer unity and larger co-opera-tion. "I think that at no distant time Christian people everywhere will be forced to realise that a divided Church is poorly fitted to combat the same menace of secularisation."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22192, 20 August 1935, Page 13
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183UNION OF CHURCHES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22192, 20 August 1935, Page 13
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