CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16359, 2 November 1918, Page 10

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.

(press association TKLEGKAM.) AUCKLAND, November f John. Avandah Arnold was to-dty-committed for trial on a charge tempting to murder his wife at Alfres* • ton, on October 6th.. v''s Jt?

An address of an. iconoclastic najraro | 3 was delivered by the Rev. A. H. TeeCe, .p M.C., at the theological session of 4ho i Congregational' Union,,in Adelaide - last Ifjlfj week (says tlio South Australian ."Be- > Mr Teece teaid the mail' in J the street was not a theologian and must have Christian beliefs submitted. to him simply. They must, therefore, strip their language of its theblo- j gical terminology and give in plain, | everyday speech definitions of ;• divinity of Christ, and the' doctrine' of -*> ♦.he Trinity. . Theological jargonwaa y. not necessary to define those elements % in Christian faith. • There was a great deal in the Bible .which to the ordinary « man was. dull and uninteresting, and- J he said they, should take the best'rnor-t. ■ tions of the Scripture and bind them ':'i together, so that they conld be placed s in the hands of a mere tyro and bo y interesting and ; thrilling to.him. They .y would give him a desire to go deeper ? into the Scripture. When, mpn read the dry, historical, and chronological 1 sections of the Bible they frequently ; became bored and threw the wliolo Book aside, but the stories, the elegies, * and the poems of the Bible, if , pub j together, would be a wonderfully popu- ? lar. book. He submitted that the > vit-fl truths of Christianity could be tested bv experience, and though men .? rejected some things which they conld % not test by experience they could still * lav claim to be Christians. It was £ difficult to define a Chris tun. ' 1