CHURCH UNION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13938, 21 December 1908, Page 3

CHURCH UNION.

; Sir,—The report of the clerical conference , rc unity, etc., was very interesting to a > number of your readers. But, very old- ■ fashioned Christians like myself consider that there is so little Biblical Christianity practised in the Churches that it is not a question of union but- of dissolution. In the end of Judges wo read there was no king in Israel and every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Ruin and gross apostacy followed, and Israel became God-for-saken. No one can fail to see, with very little study, that it is impossible to associate the present-day Church in action with anything set up or suggested by the Foundor of Christianity or His followers. Men like myself who can look back 60 years ago to services in Auld Reekie cannot attend a 1 service now and dare open our Bible. For months polities and questions social have been blared from 'the pulpits, and where is there the slightest, juniority from Scripture for it? Bands, orchestras, organs, and ■ other things take the place of Scripture, and I may say God. Meetings of a thanksgiving sort arc held not on acount of sinners being saved, but hotels closed. The fact is the 1 Church has got clean away from the Word and is about to suffer a leanness and shame , such as the old-time Church or assembly of Israel suffered when God and His ways were given up. Up here we are sick of so-called Christianity. A large hall is in sight as an object lesson. Quite a number of us subscribed to the building, and others gave a guarantee to the bank for an overdraft. It was opened and a good work, started. But for some reason the owners " as far as paying is concerned " were turned out, and for 12 months the people arc obliged to meet in the street or a shed for service, while the hall they subscribed to is vacant. A mile or two from here a bailiff was put into a Christian worker's house by the so-called Christian Auckland Presbytery for law. costs. Hikurangi. H. G. Macbae.