TEACHINGS OF RELIGION
A TOUCH OF MODERNISM. METHODIST MINISTER’S PLEA. r«s» A.ft*oei*iioD —By T-»tegtapb—Copyright SYDNEY, February 27. In his official address at the opening of the Methodist Conference the president the Rev Mr Potts, said the condition of the world to-day. two thousand years after Calvary. was sufficient to give the Church a heavy heart and a corrugated brow. Ho thought another Reformation was dawning. Men were dissatisfied with the theological thought of past ages. The living intellect of to-day refused to be bound by the views and conceptions of a glorious but antiquated past. Though he admitted that a halo encircled the ancient faith and creed, as expressed in archaic language, t'-ore was no reason why modern faith should not be expressed in modern speech. He. thought a new spirit of fraternity was making for church union, but the gulf of centimes could not be bridged in a day. The Rev. J. C. Hill has been elected president of the confeence.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19108, 29 February 1924, Page 5
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