CHURCH IN THE FURNACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16823, 13 April 1918, Page 1 (Supplement)

CHURCH IN THE FURNACE.

Preaching at St. Paul's Church, Hounslow tho Bishop of London said that after sixty years of life, in starting upon the last lap of his earthly career, ho desired to found his ministry again on some important note of inspiration. Nearly thirty of these sixty years ho had been at work in London, and ho found the note of inspiration ho needed in Christ's words, " All these are My own." What, ho asked, had wo discovered in -this great war? He believed that every Tommy from tho front admitted that the Church was in the furnaco. Ho believed that was the spirit taken by hundreds, who had discovered their manhood in this war. Tommy was not irreligious he was nonreligious, if they liked. There was hardly a man of them who had riot religiou in his soul. Ho did Christ-like things, but ho did not know he was following Christ. At the same time, the men were crying out for a new Church, and it was for the Church to see that tho men when they returned would have a new world, a new Church, and a new England. Tn achieve that end they at home must begin to see that they themselves provided tho product asked fer.