MONEY FOR CHURCHES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1912, Page 3

MONEY FOR CHURCHES.

"COMFORTABLE CHRISTIANITY." [SI TBLXGKAMJ— SPECIAL TO 'KHZ FOflT.l AUCKLAND, This Day. The opinion that nothing blocks church enterprise more than the con* etsuxt and uninterrupted collection of money was expresbed by Bishop Crossley at the C.E.AI.S. Conference during a discussion on th» question of "the prevailing indifference of men to public worship." His Lordship contended that mission services .should be held in the churches at night when there should be no distinction of seats and no collection taken. If this -were done- he believed that the people of God would rise to the occasion and ensure the financial success of church work, while there would be a | general advance in the number of church attendant*. "Thia ridiculous method of pew renting," was the remark of Mr. C. B. W. Seton (Auckland), in passing judgment upon the present system. There was, he said, too much comfortable Christianity about it. Bishop Neligan had once declared that New Zealanders were in danger of becoming pagans, and although the remark raised a etorm of protest it was absolutely true.