MEN AND THE CHURCH.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVI, Issue 49, 30 November 1909, Page 1

MEN AND THE CHURCH.

TVio attendance, or non-? (tendance, of mon at church was touch* d upon at <hp Ohristehurch Anglican Synod Viv Bishop Julius, who said: "It W a dnnßOTOns thine, for the Church, -in these (lavs, to live in a fool's pn radise. I am not a poßsimirt, and limvo novor thought, mvself called upon to preach n gospel of lamentation, mourning and woo. Rut I trv to rocmrniso 'nets, and among thorn these: That mo do not ••each the maw of the people and that in particular wo fail to roach the mon. In mv confirmations thnv are conspicuous by their absence. They b *ar a very small proportion to tho total numW of candidates for confirmation, nnd onr Sunday schools are certainly not well manned. On vestricn, where happily, r.s I think, onlv mon "an si hve, thoy do excollent work ; and I rooo| niao with do«p thankfulness the onoru •ous help they ronder to the Church oj onr diocesan hoards and committees, But for all that, the fact remains tIM; w© do not i?ot, hold of the mon, Wl eth«r because thov ore less spiritual or moro intellectual than tho vomer, I shall not pretend to say. Ono sufficient cause is this; W« .don't trf to get th«m,