CHURCH SPLIT.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10450, 3 December 1927, Page 9

CHURCH SPLIT.

BISHOP BARNES ANSWERS CRITICS. GOSPEL ACCOM NT OF REINCARNATION SET ASIDE. NO SPIRITUAL PRESENCE- IN EUCHARIST ELEMENT?. (Received December 2. 11.50 p.m-) LONDON j Dec. 2. I’GliiM) Baines has published - a hock l ‘‘Should Such a Faith Offend?’ answering critics lie . dissocmt' himself from the Modernists, of the Left, typified by Reman Catholic*, whom Pius X crushed and whoso idea of Divine immanence was virtually Pantheism. “I need,'. saw Bishop Barnes, “a- God who is our Father. Who rules the world and Who loves, the world with a I atlier s I<n ßi'shop Barnes sets -aside the synoptic gos* - accounts of the In< m nation preferring the opening of. tho Gospel of St. John. . . ■ , Apropos of the Eucharist, he sajs ‘‘ls the result of consecration. no spiritual presence -■ is attache inherent in, the elements. 1 lie root principle of idolatry is the belief that the Deity is localised m material oK jeets through the uumcation «,f the Priest.”—A. and N.Z.C.A. sire it was going to build within its 400,000. tons. That -was why u was impossible to agree. Mr Brid'geinan added thug h| d not- think it possible for have given away on the stronge nrinciplo wlncli?. she held—that iu tire cruisers should be defensive and not offensive weapons., He gaio the, following figures ol the fightin^ tU:et: “' W- 1927_ “No- one can say tliat-Hhis country has not made an effort toward'! tlie reduction of armaments' , no remarked. ■