TOWARDS TOLERANCE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 26, 31 January 1923, Page 9

TOWARDS TOLERANCE

A conference of representatives of the Churoh of England'; Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Roman Catholic churches held recently in Melbourne aims at greater tolerance among the younger members of the various churches.

They decided that a more tolerant spirit would be fostered by bringing the .young people together on a field of sport, and as^a result of the.conference it was unanimously decided to form an organisation, to be called the "Associated Churches' Tennis Council." The council will arrange and manage an annual competition of inter-church tennis matches for a shield, which has been offered, to be presented to the champion, team winning the final match, to be held on an appropriate date—when sectarian bitterness is at its'height—th# seventeenth of March. Referring to the matter in a, letter to the delegates' meeting, Archbishop Lees expressed himself very much in favour of the movement. It was claimed at .the conference that as the Da-vie Oup had served as an instrument of goodwill promoting amity among nations so would the Church Gtnp promote a better understanding among the members of the churches, and tend to do away with the narrow bigotry that made for sectarian intolerance and its attendant danger to national development.