UNION OF THE CHURCHES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18680, 9 April 1924, Page 12

UNION OF THE CHURCHES.

PRACTICAL EFFORTS NEEDED. COUNCIL OF CHURCHES' VIEW. Church reunion was the subject of long Hiscussion at the meeting of. the Council of Christian Congregations on Monday evening. The Rev. G. Gordon Bell, who opened the discussion and spoke from the Anglican Church view-point, said he considered New Zoaland nad lagged behind in this matter. The Council of Christian Congregations had not, in bis opinion, risen to the occasion. Had the people in the Dominion been more active in the matter they could have so impressed the people in Britain that they would have had •<• great influence on the church authorities there. Reference to the overlapping 1 vines arising from want of union v-as made by the Rev. Percy Knight, who .aid the efforts of the churches had not "r'.„ the effect the would havo if they ; .i. he with a united voice. : he necessity for working and do ;„ Kor.u-th.ng practicable, if anything were to r ~<.«, inched, v-as urged by the Rev. *" •'. rocker. ,II {d *»«« with & Anglican Church was hopeless until the , lnusc iwisHns on re-ordination of memhers outside that church v.-as deleted. After other ministers had ken, Mr. : Gordon Bell, in reply, urged churchmen to forget their differences and enter a ri vf cyclo of thought. He emphasised that any reunion would have to take into consideration tho Roman Catholic Church which, despite the fact that many * of its .forms of worship, did not appeal to many of thenij had kept i&itb, %