The Two Great Needs.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 5, 1 November 1922, Page 421

The Two Great Needs.

AN APT PARALLEL. The Bishop of St. Albans, writing to his diocese, says: — "Some little time ago I was driving- ]>ast what is now, I believe, called The Slough Trading 1 Company. This Company took over from the Government a huge 'dump" of every sort of motor car and motor lorry, with thousands of ftpare parts and all sorts of odds and ends. It struck me as being not altogether unlike the Church of England! There you had some of the finest machinery m the world; some of it was perhaps a bit out-of-date and needed to be scrapped; a good

deal of it had hot been 'assembled' and was lying about m a disjointed mass; it needed being brought together, that was all. No! it needed one thing more — the driving power to. make it go. So it is with the Church of England; it contains some of the finest machinery m the world; its got all sorts of glorious 'spare parts,' but they .need to be 'mobilised' and 'assembled.' Some of the machinery no doubt is out-of-date and needs 'scrapping,' steps are being taken to that end; but one big thing it seems •to lack, and that is the driving power to make the machinery go. Power and cohesion: those are the two great needs before us to-day, m parish, diocese and country, and the glorious thing is that neither is out of our reach; we can, if we wish, get them both. Let's make the effort, then, to get them; and start doing so together this Lent."