AMERICAN CHURCH CONGRESS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 185, 1 May 1924, Page 8

AMERICAN CHURCH CONGRESS

CATHOLIC-PROTESTANT MOVEMENT MODERNIST DOCTRINES ATTACKED Br Telegraph—Pbbss Association. Copyright. (Rec. April 30, 9.45 p.m.) New York, April 29. A Philadelphian telegram says that, emulating the Anglo-Catnoho Congreases hitherto held only in Europe, 700 Episcopal ministers and bishops from the Eastern States convened a congress for the first time in America, and reported the progress of the Catholic movement within the Irotestant Episcopal ChurCh. The convention , instead of discussing tbe means of effecting the union or the Anglican nith the Roman Church, devoted the initial session to what it considered a more serious question for the moment, namely, the grave excesses of modernists whose doctrines are deemed to be more extremely heretical than any broad church interpretation. Bishop Webb, of. AVilwaukee, in a keynote sermon, spiritedly berated the modernists, reasserting the unity of the Cathoho faith in the belief of the Deity of Christ, the virgin birth, the resurrection, and the authenticity of the miracles. Bishop Garland, of Pennsylvania, likewise denounced the ultra-hberahsts, saying the substance of faith must be kept entire. This Church has no desire to depart in any essential from the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Church of England. Other speakers declared that the modernists' animous wa's not egainst a single doctrine, but against all that is divine in the Person of our Lord. Moreover, the objection to the resurrection merely because it was a miracle convinces only those who hold a purely naturalistic view of the universe.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.