UNION OF CHURCHES
PLEA BY A BISHOP. LACK OF KEEN INTEREST. WELLINGTON, Tuesday The need for a closer union of the Christian Churches to combat the spread of secularisation of the life- of the people is affirmed -by the retiring Bishop of Wellington, Dr. T. 11. Sprott, in a letter to the Wellington Presbytery. His letter was written in reply to a felicitous communication from the presbytery. “I have long cherished a desire for a closer union of the Christian Churches,” Dr Sprott wrote. I think that hitherto one great weakness •has been the lack of any keen inteiest on the part of the great mass of Christian people. At the moment the most hopeful signs are in the mission field. Faced not only by the Immem-. orial native religions, but even more by the menace of rapidly spreading secularisation of all human life in nonChristian lands, the missionaries are feeling the need of closer unity and larger co-operation. “I think that at no distant time Christian people everywhere will be forced to realise that a divided Church is poorly fitted to combat the same menace of secularisation.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19659, 20 August 1935, Page 2
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