OUR SOCIAL ORDER.
New Zealanders “ Sit Back and do Nothing.” ARCHDEACON'S CRITICISM. Per Press Association. NAPIER, April 17. Defects in the social order in New Zealand to-day were severely criticised by Archdeacon W. E. Maclean at the General Anglican Synod in Napier today when he advocated that the Church must use every effort to transform social order so as to bring it nearer to the mind of Christ. Archdeacon Maclean expressed the view that New Zealanders were too much inclined to sit back and do nothing. His criticisms followed a motion moved by him and subsequently carried:—“That this Synod, while recognising the duties of Christians to assist those in distress, canndl rest content with the performance of works of mercy within the framework of our un-Christian environment, and is convinced that the Church must use every effort to transform our social order so as to bring it nearer to the mind of Christ.” “We should be wary of any attempt merely to build as we have built before,” said Archdeacon Tavlor. “Here we are at the parting of the ways and we have to choose which way we take. Let it be a point of honour that we will not let conditions remain as they are to-day.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 5
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