GOLF OR RELIGION.
“CLERGY’S OWN FAULT.’"' ARCHBISHOP'S CALL., ' LONDON, Out 7. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Randall Davidson, in opening the Church Congress at Eastbourne made a . stirring wake-up, cell to the clergy. 1 He explained why the. .golf courses were full and the churches, emptv. He dec’ared that, modern life and thought outstripped the churches in leadership, while to-day's wider knowledge called peremptorily f° r something better than hackneyed sermons. . , Bicycles, motor ears, charabancs, golf and Sunday newspapers all accounted for the sparser congregations, but personally Jie believed this was chiefly because sermons bad not kept pace with educ&Conal advance • or the" average person's .interest rn nll sortsofhuimn-knowledge.andworia "affairs. ‘ ' He urged' the. clergy to burn more midnight oil in: th6i>pjreparatwn ot serm'orisf ' ahd asked ; Where ; Ju*e: we . who have been accredited with the duty of guiding and suggesting sturdy thought* which is now deegatr qd E> r tho newspapers bud /popular
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10141, 29 October 1925, Page 5
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152GOLF OR RELIGION. Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10141, 29 October 1925, Page 5
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