THE MODERN CHURCH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18, 23 January 1911, Page 7

THE MODERN CHURCH.

ITS GREAT DANGER. FINE BUILDINGS AND SPLENDID RUBRICS. OF THE JEWISH RACE. Bj Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, (Received January 23, 8.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Rev. Dr. L. D. Bevan, the wellknown Nonconformist minister, m a sermon in the Pitt-street Church, said the Church's great danger was its formulas, fine buildings, splendid rubrics, and grand organs. It had become dogmatic, official, and institutional, and had ceased to be the kingdom that Christ declared to be "within you." Most of the Eocial conditions to-day were those of force and property. Referring to the continuance of the Jewish people, Dr. Bevan declared : " You won't go to war till the Jew tells you you may. You are dominated by a nationless, homeless, despised people — the scattered children of Israel." PANAMA CANAL. A VOTE FOR FORTIFICATION. BACKED BY PRESIDENT TAFT. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received January 23, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, 22nd January. President Taft, speaking at New York, said he hoped that Congress would promptly vote £1,000.000 for fortifications at "the Panama Canal. The President said tha-t he would bring all his influence to bear on both Houses to secure this result. AN ELABORATE SCHEME. The Hay-Panncefote Treaty of 1901 gives the United States the right to "maintain such military police along the canal as may be necessary to maintain it against lawlessness and dis order. "' Mr. Foster, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the American House of Representatives, rfrcently said of the treaty : "'lf these provisions mean anything, they mean that, so far as Great Britain is concerned, we are bound by solemn treaty obligations to see to it that the canal shall be and remain, forever open to British ships, in time ox war as well as in time of peace. And while it is probably true that no other nation could claim any advanta-ge by virtue of this treaty, it is also true that we have thereby placed ourselves under moral obligation to maintain an open canal for the ships of all nations at all times, in war as well as in peace." Fortifications costing £1,400,000 ard to be built to defend the Panama Canal, the most powerful and elaborate batterieß being planted to repel attacks from the Pacific Ocean. Lying off the mouth of the canal are fifteen islands, and thres of tLeso which have been selected for fortifications .are between ten and fifteen miles off the shore. They are Flamenco, Culebra, and Naoas Island. On the coast-line of each side of the canal mouth will bo, batteries situated at Ancon and San Juan. Six miles up the canal from the Pacific Ocean there is to be a secondary battery. This -will command the principal lock at Pedro Miguel. At Culebra, about the middle of the canal, a military post will be constructed. TOn the Atlantic side the arrangement will be much more simple. A range of hills runs down to the sea, cemmanding the entrance to the canal. Upon thorn, at El Boco Point, modern batteries will be constructed at a cost of £500.000. It is proposed to mount in these fortifications more than sixty of the highe-st power disappearing guns. None of these will be of less than 13in calibre, and they will run as high as 16in in the main batteries.