THE CHURCHES AND CREED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19500, 8 June 1925, Page 8

THE CHURCHES AND CREED.

LEASE OF SPARE GROUND. A special meeting of the Taieri Bowling Club was held on Friday night to consider the application of the secretary of the nowly-fonned Croquet Club for a lease ol the- vacant portion of the Bowling Club’s property for the purpose of forming a croquet lawn. About 25 members were present, and after the president (Mr Edward Currie) had road the application, Mr Cameron moved that the section be leased to the Croquet Club at a ■ peppercorn rental. Mr AVilliam Allan, in supporting the proposal, said that he had no hesitation in stating that the Taieri bowlers were catered for by the lady friepds in a manner second to no club in Otago, and he felt that the granting of the use of this section to the ladies was the least they could do by way of appreciation of their labours in the past. Mr Henderson suggested that a condition of the granting of the lease should he that the wives of members of the Bowling Club be admitted to the Croquet Club at. a reduced subscription, but this found little favour among those present, it being felt that the ladies should he allowed a free hand to manage their own affairs. The motion was carried with but one dissenting voice.

TO THE EDIT I' Sin, —No doubt freed has put out and kept out many from the churches. I throw creeds overboard veal's ago and took niy own from the readings of Scripture, but disbelief ir. (ho (-roods is not a good reason for keeping away from the Church, nor are bad sermons. The prime reason is for going to church to worship our Maker, and if we got a good sermon so much the hotter. I have listened to manv sermons with which I quite disagreed, hut I still cling to public worship. The Church, with all its faults, is still the salt of the earth, and to do away with it would bo a calamity. If the writer of the letter in Thursday's Daily Times reads the Rev, J. J. North’s address . reported in vour columns ho will find much of his letter answered. The report on Friday of the Baptist: Conference meetings states that '‘after prayer had been said the conference adjourned,'” etc. In all the > churches more or less, prayers are “said’’ and religion is “said,” but the result is little or no good fruit. When the churches “think’’ prayer. ■ “think” worship, and “think ’ faith (not religion), then crood fruit will come. To bring tin's about those who criticise from the outside should get in and help to living about the refrom.s they say are needed. But when they get in they wilt .find the devil there before, them, ready to oppose them, and consequently reformation is not sc easy ns they imagine.—l am, etc , _ J. B. S, C.