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PROBLEMS FACING THE CHURCH BISHOP BARNES ON MODERNISM NEW BACKGROUND FOR THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Australian Press Association. (Rec. September 30, 9.15 p.m.) London, September 30. Bishop Barnes, preaching at Birmingham Cathedral on Modernism, said they were faced with the twofold task of defending and consolidating the religious gains of the Reformation against a revival of the old system, and meeting evangelical fundamentalism by absorbing into its faith a new knowledge of the era. “Those who misunderstand us say we are slipping into a ditch of unbelief,” said Bishop Barnes, “but we remember where the Lord is there is freedom, and the sense of religious freedom is an exhilarating thing in Modernism. We must set the Christian message against a new background. Fear paralyses too many religious teachers to-day.” The Bishop added: “The Modernist churchman will not put a mascot on his motor-car or have his car blessed by a priest in some fanciful pseudoreligious service.”
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 5, 1 October 1929, Page 11
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