BISHOP'S OFFER

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 83, 3 July 1928, Page 6

BISHOP'S OFFER

WAIKATO DIOCESE.

LEAD IN SACRIFICE.

Press Association —Copyright HAMILTON, This Bay.

This striking offer was. made by Bishop Cherrington to the Waikato Synod at.the opening .to-day: "If the Diocesan finances are not placed on a hopeful and satisfactory basis by the end of this financial year, I will do one of two things,

(A)—take charge qf one. of the small of the diocese, handing over to the Standing Committee my Episcopal incomes and' sell my house for the Benefit of the Diocese. (I can live on £30.0 a year as well aa any of niy brethren of the. clergy), or (B)—-If the Standing Committee considers the Bishop should reside in the house allotted 1 to him, I will hand over half 'my income for the same purpose." The offer followed an appeal for generous giving, and for a minimum stipend! o.f £350 for the clergy. The Bishop said the financial hopes 'of last Synod had not materialised, and action must be taken on the lines of sacrifice in which he should do something to lead! the Way. "I have no private means," he. said, "perhaps a man should have been chosen who has, and who would, like our other famous predecessors in office, have spent fully of his means." It was thus that after the miserable destruction of English Cathedrals under Cromwell's Protestant Puritans that Bishops of the Restoration spent their all in rebuilding the cathedrals." Referring to the Ritufil the Bishop denied' making any change except in regard to the frequency of Communion services, which now- are the principal service every Sunday at the Cathedral.

BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS. We wish all success to *he Bible-in-Schools movement, and hope, the Bill Will pass this year, said Bishop (Sherrington. I suppose there is no one here who does not think it ridiculous that every primary school should not open the'day .with -Prayer (and Scriptural Reading- '■ : ■ ■ . i . We a, Churchmen, do not consider thisi religious education nearly enough.