MINISTERS AND POLITICS.
A NEWCOMER'S VI KW
.. '.(Special" vi il era hi.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The Rcav Jolm Patersori, M.A., the neAV Minister of St; Paul's Presbyterian Church, arrived iii .Christchurch yesterday' from Sydney. At a public welcome tehdered to him" last: niybtMr Paterson, ih replying to points made by the speakers, slid - that ; clergymen ' over here seemed all" political ; propagandists, and tvtlked hotliiiig ;'bu'fc politics. Personally lie had come to tlie", conclusion that a minister didyhis best Svorkl m his own pulpit a"nd among his own .people. Wh?h lie started goinsj rbnrid to advise business men : Height so happen that he "put his' fpotrTn ; things." A minister should be/ a spiritual power, v. sending men -and women .info public life) better equipped to -'Ideal- with their problems. "I .dbn't '-think: that you will see nife A-ery rriucii^. -pit Ahe. public platform," tinued 'the speaker, '-at least for some time. , My first duty is to get to know youV and. to build up ' St. Paul's so that it'becbmW a vital force m this commuuity. .That avUI take up all of my timo for tho present at least. "
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13428, 10 July 1914, Page 6
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