THE CHURCH CONGRESS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 October 1908, Page 2

THE CHURCH CONGRESS.

INAUGURAL PROCEEDINGS. PERPLEXITIES OF SOCIAL CONOPTIONS. [PER |>RESS ASSOCIATION. —COPTRiGHr.I 'X!, | London, Oct The jCfTarch Congress opened at Manchester .with a long procession, includijig'fn'e Mayor of the City, JTustices, 1 ,'qleriy,’ bishops and Archbishop of York,' "who 1 marched to the Cathetral where., the Bishop of Perth preached another inaugural sermon, declaring 1 that'despite all the wonderful achievements of the past century there remained a burdened sense of social * (maladjustment which created the social question barrier. Why should! not our age witness another great religious revival ? The j Bishop. of Manchester, in an inaugural address at the Free Trade Hall, Touched on the commercial depression and unemployment. He urged tho Congress to discuss social problems, alluding to the visionary schemes of social reconstruction. The ' Bishop remarked that sin was the mountain 'barring -the path to the Laiid of !< Promise. He said the TSrhftf- 1 dies distinctive contribution to the solution ''of the worlds perplexities 'must lie in her ability to inspire the living with A hbpd for’the--removal •6f ! t!ii 5/ ,,i ! b'nu.'ii-., inn: noiingel naidi i-.-.I , rt ,• ime loiam •til to ynd* Jd