CHURCH WARS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 83, 9 April 1928, Page 10

CHURCH WARS

EUCHARISTIC PROCESSION AXG LICAX COXSTITUTIOX (From "The Post's" Representative) » SYDXEY. 23rd March. Sydney has been something of a bis ecclesiastical battle-ground the last few weeks. Jt looked at one stage as though jt would be left to the Methodists to ■ tight their own battle over the coming luicharistie procession. The other churches ' held aloof from it until the Presbyter- •* lans of Sydney came to light with a-mo-tion viewing with concern, the'procession' and the elevation of the Host. The r,:o-V lion, however, lias jjone i;o further than "[' the formal submission stare, so tlie ' Motliodints arc still without'ncfivu sinjpo:;f. !i!thoiij.jh there is talk of a big dep'ulation to the Government over the matter. .While the Methodists war was ivikmij.',' the AiiijrJicans were active on another trout with the vexed question of a new ' Constitution. That little war. which-re-vealed two spirited schools of thought, and in which both the elcrsy and the laity--spilt much- ink, through the newsp iper eo.iiniiis, has since been carried to Sjwod.' ■lil re>ii ' n' s far as ca" '10 seen ;lt P^scnt,' •' will full nito line, on broad principle, with the twenty-one other dioceses which havn ■'" already accepted the new constitution, so ' lons,' as tlie old standards of faith ai-H' salcsnnrdcd. Under tliis loiorm. the Church of Ki»«lajvl in Australia will, of r-.om-se. still lie ■ part mid parcel of fly .Mother Ghwch. It is not a cjucstion of "cutting the paint- •-.■.■' What is bcinj ilonf simply amount;'. l.irieHy. to a bijr constitutional advnnce, enablin;: the Aiurlicn') Churcli in the Cooi-i>ion-.vcaltli to tnke il= destiny mnrc f«i!y ' into its own hands. T!i:k i«-what it means, although tiio battle in Synod has been ': fought, out in phraseology which has bc^n something of a cross-word puzzle to th« man in the street rrho has been sufliciently curious or interested to try to find oul what it- wan all about- ...