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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 61, 12 March 1915, Page 3

(To the Editor) Sir, —Many thanks for your illuminating article of last Saturday on the subject of church attendance. Many thanks also for Arthur Hunter's instructive contribution to the discussion. The fact is the churches are fast becoming the last place to wh."ch one looks for any expression of essential Christian principles. They simply preach and solicit support for a theological system and for institutions which have very little (if any) relation to the life and conduct of their Great Example. I speak as a life-long churchgoer, and not as a mere carping critic of professiing Christians who fall short of the ideal. Xo good is done either by blaming the ministers or the masses, but the fact remains that the common people who "heard Christ gladly" are now conspicuous b3 r their absence from organised, religious services,' for which there isra solid reason. The Church has deteriorated into a class institution, and acquiesces in all kinds of social injustice (even profits by it), and if church members are genuinely interested in tho oolution of this problem there is amp'.e scope for investigation. The question is whether the Church is game to face an inquiry?—l am, etc., ETHICAL.