RELIGIOUS WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1922, Page 18

RELIGIOUS WORLD.

UHUHCH NEWS ANT 3 NOTES. i apiain and Mis. iJolfin have beei irnnrferreil fmiu the Salvation Arm; -ififT :<• Invercargill t.i Auckland. Kc.'en; :,v a Protestant chapel wa ■ ippiv'd in the i ity St. l.con. Spain. Tin .i.-al authorities at first prohibited ill. pri-K-ccdings altogether. Appeal t< Madrid rc.-ulted in the canvellation o :i-,e prohibition, but only on conditioi thai The chapel mu>t. not show an; i \tcriiiil indications of being a place o ■>> or.-iiip and that no attempts at pro pagatiug l'lotcstaiiusm must be niadi iroai ii- pulpit. Knglt.-h Mctlnulisln iiave rct'ommis s:«'iipil the "go.-pel cars" which in pro-wai il'iy« they u«ed in itinerant missions. .■' \lr. K. llpsirlP. a voteran local preacher 'as retired from liitsineiss to devote hi. imo and means to thin work. Ho ha: "iiiL'ht il motor car, and had a detach iible gospel van made to order. 11. drives the i-ar. preaches, and pays hi ii" li expense*. He is assisted by i i lilFc ( ollege F.vangelist. supported l>; til,- .ollege. and the Rev. s. Clmdwiei -a.iv he nil] find more evangelists, i Metho lists will find the cars. A recent traveller in Holland report(m having found one of the old Stat -■•liools divided into two, each half bcin; in charge of a Protestant sect. Evei ■'.-.p playground had been divided by ; harb"d wire fence. The ludicrous par nf the affair was that tlie only dilfer iMlop Set ween the sects was whether K\p li al psalms alone, or hymns also. shoul< properly be sung in public worship. Thi looks like sectarianism run mad. For merly, under the old Dutch system, th* schools were undenominational. Subsc t|uently this was superseded by Stat subsidies t" sectarian schools. The Bishop of St. Alban's recent 1; stated the time had come when 'bishop should cease to live in large house entailing heavy expenses. '"Has not th lime conic," he asked, '-when a bisho] should be provided with quite a personal stipend, and be given suitabl' allowances for all his official expenses Why lump it. altogether, thereby crcat ing an entirely false impression a? ti his "fatal opulence"? From what I knov of myself and of my brother bishops ii Kngland, I am quite sure that all of v would be enormously relieved to dc ri< of some of these particular forms o episcopal trappings." On account nf the lamented death o the Rev. S. F. Collier, of the Miuicheste: Methodist Mission, last year, friend felt that the mission might suffc; ceverely. But the thirty-fifth anniver snry. just held, was a wonderful testi niouy to its continued vitality. Dr Temple, Bishop of Manchester, Dr. ,T. II ■ lowett, of London, Sir. Thos. Row botham. and the president of the Wes leyan Conference, Rev. J. A. Sharp, tool part in a magnificent seVies of meetings T'ne chief niissioner, Rev. H. Cooper -aid that the property of the missioi was valued at £750,000, and there wa not, a penny of debt on any part of it They wanted £3000 to meet curren expenses, and before the anniversar; was over the sum of £3752 was raised. The Chief Rabbi and Mr. Albert J , Woolf, C.8.E., were received in audienc by His .Majesty the King at Buckinghar I'lihice after their return to England o the termination of their visit to th ■Jewish communities in the Dominions The Chief Rabbi was engaged upon i pastoral tour of the Jewish congrega lions throughout the Dominions, in thi course of which he strongly urged npoi his flot-k the claims of the Jewish Wa; Memorial of the British Empire, nliosi object is to raise £1,000,000 for the en ilowment of religious education and the improvement of the status of the Jewisl ministry. Associated with him was Mr .\lbcrt .Aγ. Woolf, one of the leaders o! the Jewish community in the United Kingdom, who is devoting himself witr great energy to the raising of the Wat .Memorial Fund. ''We clergy are not cheap jacks paid to sell certain wares whatever we may think about the value of them," said Dean Inge in an address on, "What is a Liberal Churchman?" delivered at St I'aul'a Covent Garden. He added. "We ;i re hired advocates whose business it i--1 o :V>eak to our brief -whether we believe in the righteousness of our cause oi noi." He pointed out that if free thought had been crushed out of the church. the_% would now be committed to the beliei that the sun goes round the earth, thai heaven is over head, that hell is under toot, that volcanic eruptions were causec by over-crowding in the infernal regions nnd that the world was created 000( years ago. He argued that the time wa ; ripe for a new Christian philosophy something that would take up the specu lations of mediaeval school men, am '.■ring them up to date, taking into fill account all recent discoveries. Only ii that direction could he see hope tha the church would reconcile the great in telleotual difficulties which confronted it Dean Inge made it clear that in hi: opinion a man who did not believe in tin divinity of Christ, or the morality H' taught, and the standard of values whicl He came to reveal, had no right to b a clergyman.