A GREAT CATENARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3031, 17 April 1912, Page 9

A GREAT CATENARY.

- ■ AUCKLAND, April 11. In the m~nth of February, 1915, New Zealand will have the opportunity of celebrating what Bishop Crossley referred to at the Church of England's Men's Society Conference as the most remarkable anniversary that the Dominion- will have experienced—namely, the centenary of the introduction of the Cross of Jesus Christ, with its message, its hope, and its healing. In celebration of this great event, his Lordship said, the Bishop and the Diocese of Auckland had been requested to arrange for the holding of the first great and united church congress for New Zealand. " The name of Marsden," continued the president, " Is to be enrolled on the list of heroes in the battle line of God, and we would be unworthy inheritors of the sacrifice and daring of himself and his comrade missionaries if we did not make a great move to witness to the world that on the hundredth anniversary of the landing of Marsden we were desirous of commemorating the event by some great and common action. —(ApSlause.) The speaker said he had little oubt that they would be able to obtain visits by bishops, not only from Australia, but from Canada, the United States, the Church of England, the Church of Ireland, and the Episcopal Church of Scotland, and probably from South Africa. He desired to ask the Church of England Men's Society thus earlv to join in making the Marsden centenary an occasion, not of a flourish of trumpets, but of a penitential resolve to be up and doing, as was Marsden when he preached the Gospel beside the Bay of Island. —(Applause.)