CHURCH OF ENGLAND MEN'S SOCIETY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3031, 17 April 1912, Page 23

CHURCH OF ENGLAND MEN'S SOCIETY.

AUCKLAND, April 11. The dangers of camp life was the sub* ject of discussion at the Unurch ot England Men's Society conlerenoe this morning. A resolution was carried to endeavour to arrange church services at all military camps in New Zealand. A resolution urging upon the members of the society to use their influence to do away with the evils of intemperance waa unanimously carried by the conference today. The mover (Mr Pallot, of Napier) also embodied a provision urging the amendment of the licensing law in the direction of securing the opening of bars only between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., providing that all bare should be exposed to the public view. The conference decided to refer the proposed amendment for the consideration of all the brandies for a report at next conference. A motion with regard to the appointment of a Dominion Executive, with (he Primate as president, was agreed to without discussion. The committee appointed on the previous day to consider the advisableness of engaging a travelling organising secretary reported that the expense, which was estimated at £3OO per annum, would be too heavy at the present time. A suggestion was offered that the various diocesan authorities should be asked to visit the branches, and that a central fund should be established to meet such expenses as would be entailed. The report waa adopted. It was resolved that next year's conference be held in Dunedin. A united churchman's gathering followed this evening in the Town Hall. A procession, headed by 30 banner-bearers, marched to the hall, singing hymns. The ohair was taken by Bishop Crossley, Bishop Julius also being present. Bishop Crossley said he would regard that significant gathering of churchmen as «omething of a failure if it did not produce some fresh humility, some larger zeal, and greater courage. Bishop Julius said they heard sometime* a great deal about church, and they failed to realise that the Church was not an end but a means to an end, and that end was the manifestation of the Church's Lord and Master. That waa what churclimen had to aim at.