MODERN CHURCH.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18194, 3 October 1924, Page 9

MODERN CHURCH.

UNDERGRADUATES' INDICTMENT. "THREE PHARISAICAL VIRTUES." r. (** cjlslx—p*Sß3 association—eoyr*ia*S) iSibkit "Sew" S®mcx.) (Received October 2nd, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON. October 1. Young undergraduates of both saxes, attending the C hurch Congress, roundly criticised modern Church tendencies. ji -eakers drehired that there was no pitce lor youth. In t.h« majority o! nations young people* were completely indifferent to religion. They wanted reality, and they harboured a suspicion that parsons were paid to preach doctrines they had long ceasad to beliove in. Most congregations, it was asserted, ivcro hotbeds of intrigue, jealousy, and back-biting. Churchwardens' wives were hypocritically friendly at committee meetings—and "cut" one another in the street. Young people wore not favourably impressed when they saw professing Christians gambling on the Stock Exchange, under-paying their employees, and drawing revenues from slum properties. Tlit:,' Church had adopted throa Pharisaical virtues—comfort, popularity, and success. Students threatened to start a campaign to set hymns in a lower tone, as young man to-day found Church music pitched over-high.