LAMBETH CONFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20646, 19 August 1930, Page 11

LAMBETH CONFERENCE.

PULPIT REFERENCES. BIRTH-CONTROL RESOLUTION. LONDON. August 17. There were many pulpit references today to the Lambeth Conference. Canon F. L. Donaldsop, in Westminster Abbey, described the report of the conference as one of the highest delivered since the Reformation. He said the bishops had issued a noble statement, which would enhance their moral, spiritual and social influence throughout tho world and constitute a splendid text-book for Christian teachers who were looking to the Lambeth Conference for vision and counsel. The bishops had bravely faced the burn; ing question of birth-control and had given it limited approval, at the same time condemning the horrible neglect of. sex education for children in order to lift sex from the mire in which it had been laid for generations. On tho other hand, the. rector of one city church publicly delivered a message to his congregation expressing abhorrence and.entire repudiation of what he called "tho lamentable sanction of tho deadly sin of contraception." Father Woomlock, of the Farm Street Roman Catholic Church, vigorously protested against the birth-control resolution of the conference. He said Roman Catholics recognised only self-control and continence as lawful for the limitation of families.