NEW ZEALAND'S NEEDS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21714, 22 February 1936, Page 22

NEW ZEALAND'S NEEDS

TO TBI EMTOB OV THI ?&SSB. Sir,—Your - correspondent *A.M.J. W considers that we need less "churchianity." Now if he means • by ' this spurious word less of that attendance at church which' arises from mere habit without the true desire for worship, then I suppose we must agree with him. But he talks of Christ being enclosed within church walls, and gives me ■ the. impression that .he, would close certain churches, if all established churches. How then is he to have "more of the living Christ enshrined in the hearts of qur people?, when he has removed the,organisation appointed by God to doUhis wockChrist established a Church: vr.wjU. build My Church.*.' "A.M.J." wQI pull' down the Church, and yet hopes}'thai Christ will be in the hearts of? the, people. I know of no church .which offers only ritual and dogma. Do away with ritual and what is left?,'; meeting in a hall without; any / ex*, 1 ternal manifestation of the those present. As for those-..who "a*» hungering and thirsting, "AMJ& eti& me the impression that thg\>cK«ftehes are refusing these people ..gDmtunng which they want. That,is n^stf^?, I a church j* to teach wMtW&elkveS--I*>, have been revealed Tj&<gßS&»: must- guard Mcfa- *,,.&&• off]Srtta*f ITi* but natural fdr Jersona folding "the j same views or. believing -the same facts ;to group themselves- together and to define their teachings; \As'far as'l know every church, no matter what tfs ritual or dogma, teaches that we [-»ust be ioltowers oi,.Christ l and his

Commandments, *and ;: tb4s.waa >s&ssaikm Archbishop O'Shea was f^^TW?^| men prefer the golf links, less young men and maddens ,tbßr Su*jg||| day hikes." Strange how thie't|riijH«a| and the unthinking should prefec VmM not^necessarily ■& -vi^s&^i^mSKtggs^gk MudOgpen&j, on' o^hinij^ by -its, teaching :ha^ ;i .mSii|olpiH the. abolition has been. nrhifivfiti-'''^Thß^WHilTMMitßW page - Such statements as pediejicy seem^to^y^ L as the first things,, apfi|iil values in subservient 1p quire some piobf. member lieve them.. "A^.J^':aettg,|^ai^ Roman Catholic X&utiQfin Even supposmg .Ittosf mibf 'llSiillll true, lie-can'in of the Archbishop's tension of the all men; in other wprny'-|bsfe^^^| shrined-in the hea^;^o|*9 l i^;j^™|.^^ffl