BISHOP BARNES
AN OPEN LETTER. EFFECT OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE TRADITIONAL FORMULAS WITHERED. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, October 19. (Received Oct. 20, at 9 p.m.) In an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Barnes says that he found that modern knowledge had withered traditional formulas, replacing them with wistful agnosticism. He long ago began to expound why man’s evolution from apelike stock did not upset the Christian position. The growth of erroneous sacramental doctrines alienated educated people from the church. Mediaeval theories that rejected the Reformation were still taught in the Anglican churches. A new era opened when a bishop could be publicly attacked for upholding a traditioal sacramental doctrine. Bishop Barnes reaffirms that there is no truth i n transubstantiation, and says that nobody can discriminate between the consecrated and the unconsecrated “ No man shall drive me to Tennessee or to .Rome,” he said. “ Officers of the national church must not fear but welcome new knowledge and maintain all that is sound in ancient doctrine.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20235, 21 October 1927, Page 9
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