RELIGIOUS WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 206, 28 August 1920, Page 18

RELIGIOUS WORLD.

CHTJKCH NEWS AND NOTES, \ nirniorial to ove,- 1000 men belongin..; i,i tJie Unitarian Ohu oh who fell in the . Ireal War is t" he erected in I'7-ex

The [lev. S 1". Colior will act as the official reprcsenlalive v' Uie British Wis bruin Methodist Conference tv fir Method's! Church of Australia.

"There are tv v things des.is Clir.st n'ver spoke of. one is the Lnipire and 1 lie nthei is the i.iurch. 'lie spoke oi the Kingdom of .oi" 3lev. V. \\". N'.r-wn.-.d. preaching at Ihe City Temple fur the Colonial Missionary Society.

Dr. 11,'iir.ov llen«oii. the newly appointed Bis bun <•:' Durham, 'has seen very rapid prnir. ition. Within the last tenyears he has been successively Cr.non <o* Wotmini-lor. Dean of 'lurlam, and Bishop of Durham.

The Rev. . . . iibcrteon Orr. who hud Cue misfortune whiic ill to nave his church destroyed by fire. in which he lost a. number of valuable books, is to •have the vul'inios replaced hy his '*•'" gregatioii. staff-Captain Annie i.irk. of Cue Salvation Aimy, hat; been promoted to Major. , and' appointed tv (he charge < ; '" the Women"* Work in New Zealand under the charge of ('oimn;. sioner Jlodder. The Rev. .! Mo'aw, min'-ter of the Presbvleriaii i i.ur.-'.i nt L/owcr Hutt. i'Xpeets'to return about Christmas. Mr. .Urn- with iii- wife is re-visiting Scotland after an absence of 40 years from his native country. lie V.intemplatc* visiting the cemeteries in the war /one before his return. Dean Inge, preaching nt St. ranis. London, said: "If decorous English Church people could have drupped in at one of St. Paul's services ut Corinth, especially when the Apostle himself was not there. I think we should have been scandalised. It would have been rather like a. Welsh revival service._ when the excitement was at its height.

"Do you believe a man ought to pray to got tn "Heave.!"' asked a man at (Hyde Tark when the Rev. F. C. Spurr was answering questions from his openair pulpit. The reply was prompt: ';Nd! I never bother about Heaven myseif. no more than about n.xt year. Ii I live :nv live fi.-llv. and as it ougnt t> be lived, why should I worry about de_- i. No healthy man ought to."

The Padres Fellowship in Great Britain, now numbering over GOO exchaplains. is determined in some way to help forward tlie cause of unity amongst the churches, by maintaining the friendly intercourse with one another, which they so enjoyed when on active service. Opinion is, however, divided opon the qcestion of full inter-communion within the Fellowship, that issue being postponed until after Lambeth Conference.

Tlie Rev- Mark Guy Pearsc, preaching at Kingsway Hall, London, announced the collection in the following terms: "Here is the eighth wonder of the world. How small a thing n threepenny bit is on Saturday—won't even pay for the cinema— yet how large it is on Sunday! A tip for the waitress on Saturday, a gift for God on 'Sunday. And it is worth three' ha'pence, and everything has gone up except collections.*'

The Rev. R. Nicol Cross, of Leeds, preaching at the Ui.itarlan Service. Rosslyn Hill, Hampsteail, said: "Never was time more opportune for the appearance of a Christ to the agonised world, and for tlie proclamation of a redemptive saving gospel. No moribund philosophies, such as were plentiful, would suffice for human needs at this time, no worship of humanity. Only the power of God. the great I Am, over all worlds and all lives, would suffice."

Dr. J. H. Jowett, M.A., preaching at City Temple, urged the need of sending the best men to foreign mission fields. He repeated to bis hearers the message of Japanese Christians sent by Henry Drummond 25 years ago. "Tell them to send us one six thousand dollar missionary rather than ten two thousand dollar ones." "That meant," said Dr. Jowett, "send us your best students, and your most gifted scholars and most excellent saints. - '

Speaking at the Friends yearly meeting in England Maurice Rountree, in introducing the question of "Domination in Industry" as a religous rather than an economic question, said: "However kindly and generous the capitalist may be, liis attitude does not affect the fundamental antagonism under our present system between employer and employees. There can be no solution until we get. a moral background. "Men ui\i-t he put In-fore goods, and the dominating note in industry throug'nou: must be

The Dean oT Westminster is appealing to the English-speaking people of the -.vorld to find, and find quickly, £250,000 to save Westminster Abbey from becoming "a venerable ruin" and nothing more. The first, response hits come from the King, whose cheque for a thousand pounds heads tho list of contributors to the Dean's fund. Possibly it i,s quite unnecessary to endorse the Doan's appeal (writes onr London correspondent!. Indeed, if tin-re is any danger it is that some wealthy war millionaire will seek to salve his conscience by sending the Dean Irs cheque fur a quarter of a million out of hand, and so shrive himself, and at the same tvme individualise a work that should be undertaken by Britishers at large all tho world over, and render superfluous an appeal which should go direct to hearts and pockets of nil right-thinking subjects of His Majesty. For whatever one's religion, the Abbey stands to us as the shrine of some of our noblest, traditions, "the." monument of the Empire's history, and the last resting-place on earth of many of 'ho greatest men intimately associated with the making of our Empire. And at the same time £50,000 is required to put St. raid's Cathedral in a sound structural condition. Both buildings arc. in a sense, held in trust by (Jreat Britain for the Empire, and it is really to Kngland's disgrace that the Dean of Westminster should feel compelled to make his appeal world-wide. But at the same tune "The Abbey" is one of the "lies that bind.'' and few will cavil at tlie scope of Dean Ryle's net spread so openly before us. Tlie appeal is ba.-ed on three grounds—the religious, Ihe artistic, and the histor'oal —but there i„ a fourth which defies definition, but is all the name fully defined for all.British men and women in the words "The Abbey."