"A DANGEROUS GAME."

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 230, 27 September 1915, Page 6

"A DANGEROUS GAME."

CHTTRCH AND THE WAR. AN ANGLICAN PROHIBITION. NO JOINT SERVICES. LONDON, Sop to ml *T 20. The Rev. Uurhlan Maclean Watt, minister of St. Stephen's, Edinburgh, in nn article- in the ".ScotMiinn." save it has hitherto liocn the custom in tlic (Trent : camp in Northern France to hold a united | partule for nerviee of ail creeds, under the j irmdonco of l'rosbyteriuii and Anglican ] chaplain*. Thorp \ias no atU-mpt at pro eelyti»lng. When the Anglican chaplain win removed elvwhero on the front the ; Pti'sbytorian continued tlic acrvioee until j another Anglican came. Bishop (Jwynnc. ( of Khartoum, who was recently appointed to gupenisc the Anglican chaplains, now j intimated that the joint service must cease, and that Anglican soldiers must attend the Anglican wrvices only. Mr. Watt continue.*: "It i» impossible that the gTeat mace of Anglicans approve of this biUerneiw." Elwwnere, nt a hospital .' where a wounded Scotsman was Ivin-r. a i chaplain who ump in to give Communion j to the stricken said, with a light einilo, "You're nut of it, Jock; I cant give it to you." Mr. Watt adds: "How the stricken Christ must hnve felt hi* wounds buret forth apain. Churchmen are playing the most dnnsferouß j.'.uiu' at this moment of supreme wu-rifioc if they persist in putting forward a shibboleth /or reality."