CHURCH AND SOCIALISM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 149, 24 June 1908, Page 5

CHURCH AND SOCIALISM.

■ ' is — CHRISTIANITrs FAILURE. _- 'CHAMPION THE OPPRESSES AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSION. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. j - • - (Received 8.10 a.m.) | . LONDON, June 23. j. The Pan-Anglican Congress to-day dis . cussed Christianity and Socialism." • Dr. Chas. Gore, Bishop of Birmingham • sent a paper claiming that the Churcl . ought to make a tremendous act of peni i -ence for so long failing to behave as th. ■ champion of the oppressed and weak. | Major Everitt, a E Australian delegate I declared that- Socialistic legislation had ..benefited Australia. I Lord William Cecil pu t the case against Socialism in the interests of the poor. As the poor man's friend, he pleaded that the neck of the poor should not be put under the iron hee] of the Government. Senator Dobson, 0 f Tasmania, admitted that it was a delusive hope that the State was able to immediately take over all means of production and distribution, but an advance could be made. Dr. Riley, Bishop of Perth, condemned the sale of advowsons. He advocated the election of bishops upon the plan followed in the case of the Bishop of Bunburv West Australia, u_."_ry, Mr. Arthur Balfour delivered an address on the conflict between science and religion, declaring that it was impossible to conceive human society permanently deprived of its religious element. But, personally, lie added, h e looked to science more than anything else for the great ..melioration of the human lot. Be did not believe that those two great powers would be in immutable and perpetual antagonism. Dr. .Stretch, Bishop of Newcastle (N.S.W.), described the work of the Church in Australia. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, June 23. Bishop Stone-Wigg, 0 f New Guinea, who is in London in connection with the Congress, has been ordered a complete rest owing, to pulmonary troubles. Advowsons, referred to in the above i-able, are the rights of presentation to a -•iiurch or ecclesiastical benefices. They ire regarded a s real estate, and may be Unpaged of us freely as other property-. Clergymen are forbidden to buy next presentations for themselves, but it has >een held that this does not apply to the i mrchase of a life estate in the advowson. i rhe traffic in livings is conducted as a •egulai- branch of agency business. (