BIRTH CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 194, 18 August 1930, Page 7

BIRTH CONTROL.

RELIGIOUS VIEWS.

Lambeth Findings Criticised

In Pulpit.

R.C. CONDEMNATION.

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(Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, August 17. There were many pulpit references to the Lambeth Conference. Canon Donaldson, at Westminster Abbey, described the report as one of the highest delivered since the Reformation. The bishops, be said, had issued a noble statement which will enhance their moral, spiritual and social influence throughout the world and constitute a splendid test book for Christian teachers who are looking to Lambeth for vision and counsel.

The bishops had bravely faced the burning question of birth control and had given limited approval while condemning our horrible neglect of sex education for children in order to lift sex from the mire in which it had been laid for generations.

On the contrary, the rector of one city Church publicly delivered a message to his congregation expressing abhorrence and entire repudiation of the lamentable sanction of the deadly sin of contraception. ,

Father Woomlock, of Farm Street Roman Catholic Church, vigorously protested against the Lambeth Conference birth control resolution. Roman Catholics, he said, recognised only self-control and continence as lawful for the limitation of families.

"A FATAL BLOW."

Lambeth "Paves the Way to

Race Suicide."

PRESS CRITICISM,

LONDON, August 17

The "Sunday Express" publishes an article by the'editor, Mr. James Douglas, attacking the Lambeth Conference. He says: — "It is strange that while the conference was rigidly medieval on. the subject of divorce it should have been loose and las on the far more dangerous problem of birth-control. It has delivered a fatal blow to marriage, motherhood .and fatherhood and has paved the way to race suicide."

The primary subject before- the conference, it is explained in the official communique, was the urgent need in the face of many erroneous conceptions for a. fresh presentation of the Christian doctrine of God. The view was taken that much of the philosophical and scientific thinking of the present day provides an atmosphere more favourable to faith than has existed for generations.