AUCKLAND CHURCHES
APPEAL TO PROTESTANTS
(Special to “Star.”)
AUCKLAND, August 13.
The doctrines of the Protestant Church and their difference from those of the Church of Rome, were dealt with in an address “Romanism versus Protestanism” by Rev.' A. MacDonald Aspland in Knox Presbyterian Church, Parnell, last evening. There was a large congregation, including 280 members of the Loyal Orange institution.
“Whatever Anglo-Catholics may say to the contrary, the Church of England is still,a Protestant Church,’’ continued the preached. “I rejoice to know there is still a strong army of avowed Protestants in the churchmen and women, who if jieed be will follow Cranmer Ridley and Latimer, rather than sell their birthright or for--1 ■ the blessing of the Reformation. At the same time, one could not close one’s eyes to the sad fact that there were strong forces at work in. the Church of England to-day at Home and in colonies, seeking secretly or openly to biot out the Reformation and to destroy Protestanism, and establish in their place the ideas and practices of the Roman Catholic Church.”
In this' connection the preacher referred to such societies as the English Church Union, Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, Society of Holy Cross, Order of Corporate Reunion, and the Kelburn Sisters, all working within the church, to undermine the Protestant foundation. Mr Aspland appealed to members of the Orange Lodge and Protestants in .General to [ftoteest against false doctrines.
FATHER MARTINDALE’S SERMON
(Special to "Star.”)
AUCKLAND, August 13
Standing in the pulpit of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a black skull cap concealing bandaged wounds sustained in the motor accident in which Bishop Cleary was also injured, Father Cyril Martindale, a prominent churchman and scholar of London, created a striking impression among the packed congregation last evening, A precise speaker, he impressed chiefly as a lucid thinker, mixing bis devotional tenets with jovial tolerance and sharp wit, which are distinguishing traits of the English orator.
’ His personality was magnetic. During the course of his sermon, in which he claimed for the Roman Catholic faith, the foundation of “rigorous reason,” Father Martindale derided the disbeliefs of rationalism and the gloomy outlook of materialism. Without any doubt, the increased courtesy shown to Catholics in England was due to the increase of respect for Catholics, their faith and works, into which it issued. ■ Where once men thought of Catholics as possessing a .‘•c me what remote and exotic creed and worship of their own, the now took it for granted that “Catholicism” implied universal philosophy of life, and that Catholics, priests and laymen, must be expected to have a view based
on some principle of everything that cropped up. from the new sort of art to Rugby football. “The denominations lament (and statistics concerning baptism corroborate them) that they cannot fill their churches, whether it be that nationally most unrepresentative body, the Established 1 Church, or the various -Non-Conform-ists,” continued Father Martindale. “Meanwhile. Catholics know only too well that they cannot possibly build churches fast enough. When reporters ask me, ‘Why are the churches empty?’ 1 reply, •‘Ours are not. They are most inconveniently full-’ “You may look, I think, for no sudden conversion of England to the faith, but for a strong set towards it, among very’ many, and the drift of the rest into vague Theism, coupled with reverence for the name of Christ, and at the back of this a group more noisome than its numbers warrant, an uneducated group, materialist no doubt, but also Bolshevik.”
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