Wellington Diocesan Synod.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5092, 30 September 1891, Page 2

Wellington Diocesan Synod.

(BY TELEGRAPH.) Wellington, September 05 The Wellington Diocesan Synodopemj to-day. In his address the Priirniti; stij that he learnt with regret- that Bishop Selwyn had been obliged to return ti England. A doubt existed whether i would ever be able to resume work in 4 Melanesiaii mission. He also with fei regret learnt that Bishop Sclvryn'j j health still afforded anxiety to kj s friends. Referring to the Vioctv., i e said that during fclie last two yors there had been a very large inc® of population in the out-lying distil and he hoped that some efforts tdfl be made towards raising nioro \l for the purpose of Hupi)lying those IM with resident clergy. Ho hud written! his Commissary in England to send un| or two clergymen suitable for rough com try work, but he had failed to Bud mi able persons. Coming to I,lie absence i religious training in the Governmei schools, his Lordship said tV.at the vor fact that the majority of tlio electors s.ll no evil in a system which excludes all re ferenee to that which in all ages lws licci recognised as the strongest support t order, and the most potent restrain to the commission of crime, was ;\ seriou and a most alarming fact, and tin this contributed the main difficulty i any efforts to reform the system. Butli monstrous injustice of taxing the A! community for the support of a sjsle from the benefit of which many on con scientious grounds were excluded, n utterly indefensible. The inference to I drawn from this state of affairs was It the clergy ought to encourage Stub, School teachers to qualify themselves It the important work of teaching in SIJI Schools, as the clergy could rarely do hi thing except in the direction of orgiai tion. In conclusion, the Primate rete to the various pantheistic, matcriils and agnostic theories which hadrf years been so widely promulgated,a warned the younger clergy agnis< attempt to adapt the intcrprctatn Holy Scripture to every ephemeral fi of scientific opinion, or to accomniiif the doctrines of Christianity to ti«® varying dogmas of philosophic sped tion. The Synod adjourned until to*® night.