Te Kopara 70
[3] Te Kopara, Number 70, Gisborne, 31 October, 1919.
‘Iti te Kopara, kai takirikiri ana i runga i te Kahikatea.’
Although the Bellbird is small, he plucks at the Kahikatea. [cf Nga Pepeha 908]
DIOCESE OF WAIAPU
The Bishop’s Address to the Synod held at Napier of 10 October, 1919.
The Bishop greeted the soldiers who had returned from the war and paid tribute to those who died on the battlefield, and he expressed his love for the families of the soldiers who returned. ‘It cannot be the sword that brings life to the world. The way of the sword brings death, casting down and overthrowing. The world will know life if we seek the authority with power to save, to raise up, to establish. We, the Church, have that authority. The law is unable to save. The law has no power to help. The power that brings salvation to all the people of the world is in the cross of Christ.’
