STRIKING SERMON: CHURCHES' GRAVE CHOICE.
' LONDON, Septt 1.-e"6hristian 4hink- ' ere now abandon the doctrine of the fall, and the arguments deduced from it," said Canon - Barnes, a - noted Westminster f preacher.;- His sermon 'is 1 attracting much , notice. " . { Ogpon 7 Barnea .said "-'• that' the' Church j must accept- a- wider scheme of evolution. From some fundamental stuff in' the uiii- t verse . felectrons "arose, and ffoiiv theh'i j canie matter, life, mind; 1 and gradually ] spiritual consciousness. .'•'. Z ','/.' j CanohN ßarnes said that' a faith 1 that ] feared progress of knowleage anticipated , its own dissolution'. ■ j The Times, in a leading article, says t that his courageous sermon- 'would have led' Canon"' Barries to the ' etakcr. U few generations ago, v and may yet bring him < into conflict .-with the average opinion\of ] the Church,. but tho majority of thinking . people will share- his belief. ,
"The ohurchesf 'have; a ; grave says the article. ' "They must re-state their creeds and formalities, eo that these shall not present gross obstacles to educated opinion, oit-be^-cohtent to minister only to those wnoa're' reached by emotion and ritual. -The 'Choico wil| arise in an immediate form when tlie movement for union passes to the stage of definition. If they prefer the easy "way of conoealing flisaprecmcijt ■ under generalised- phraseology, they may.- unites the .churches, '-but at iUe cost,' of isolating the. united church from the intelligence of the people,"
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15316, 11 September 1920, Page 9
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