CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15902, 13 April 1912, Page 12

CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

MEN’S SOCIETY CONFERENCE.. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April 12. At the Church of England Men’s Society conference tho appointment of a dominion executive, with the Primate as president, w r as agreed to without discussion. The committee, appointed on the previous day to consider the advisableness of engaging a travelling organising secretary reported that the expense, which was estimated at £3oo.per annum, wmuld be too heavy at the present time. A suggestion was offered that the various diocesan authorities slioukPbe asked to visit the branches, and that a central fund should bo established to meet such expenses as would ho entailed. Tho report was adopted. It was resolved that next year’s conference should bo held in Dunedin., A united churchmen’s gathering was held last • evening in the Town Hall. A procession headed by thirty banner hearers marched to the hall singing hymns. The chair was taken by Bishop Crossley, Bishop Julius also being present. Bishop Crossley said that he would regard that significant gathering of churchmen ns something of a failure if it did not produce some fresh humility, some larger zeal and greater courage. Bishop Julius said that they heard sometimes a great deal about the Church and sometimes they failed to realise that the Church was not an end but a means to an end, and that end was the manifestation of the Churches’ Lord and Master. . That was what churchmen had to aim at.