SPIRITUAL TORPOR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18543, 2 May 1922, Page 7

SPIRITUAL TORPOR

THE TWO EXTREMES. >fr. _____ ’ (Fbom Ora Own CobbesfotohitJ AUCKLAND, May L Hie extent to which spiritual torpor came a certain, parish of which he oiilMTwitvj charge in England, as the result too much done for it, was Bishop Julius, in addressing a MuatotupMCl meeting yesterday. “This said, “had been so richly endowed! turies ago, that it had never had money for the stipend of the vicar, «r J*3|i any of the ordinary needs of the church, what was the result, exclaimed the Tlftlrft These people got so used to hairing'wp+iti single thing provided for them, that came to finding money for scrubbing out ohuroh and other odd jobe ol that kipdsJl about £l7 a year, I actually bad toipßfcil my hand in my poofcef ahd lork out ~ab«wl £lO myself, and that in a rich parish ■ Wiim! two squires and plenty of weU-to-do Tltcn, on the other hand, a man-AJOuMK here to New Zealand, and be into church and say his prayers minutes without having a dish his nose. That is wrong too. On AU-mSI hand the spiritual life of the peorfe Jura cramped and stifled because They fiad'tojSj much done for them; on the other it-flr hindered for iack of the serves. With a steady flame of life burning strongly in the cofnduu|«| these things would 1* impossible, anddtlij this flame of enthusiasm and faith is the duty of the church to re-kindle, ris Kfii? —-vSi; -.tMm