"TOO MUCH FUSS."

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19153, 9 November 1927, Page 12

"TOO MUCH FUSS."

THE INCIDENT AT ST. PAUL'S. [THE PRESS Special Berries.] AUCKLAND, November 8. A clergyman with a territory of lialt a million square miles to supervise, Archdeacon Simpson, of North West Australia, is returning by the Niagara from England and from British Columbia, where he formerly worked for ten years. The Archdeacon does not attach a great amount of importance to the stir created in England recently by the charge made publicly against the teachings of Bishop Barnes, except insofar as the modernist movement, for which the Bishop stands, iB making people think. "It is due to Bishop Barnes," he said, "that the movement lias started to present the Catholic faith in the way in which it will appeal to thinking people. The Modernist movement is having the effect of making people think along the lines of reconciling science and religion." Archdeacon Simpson knows well the Rev. Mr Bullock-Webster, who created the sensation*in St. _ Paul's Cathedral by publicly protesting against the preaching of Bishop Barnes. He says ne is regarded as a good churchman and a sincere upholder of the beliefs of tho Catholic Party in the Church of England. "In my opinion," added the visitor, "far too much fuss is being made of the incident. It is. however, making people think more than ever."