BIBLE CONTROVERSY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16320, 2 January 1924, Page 7

BIBLE CONTROVERSY.

AFFECTS ALL DENOMINATIONS

THE TRUCE OVER

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With the Christmas truce over, the controversy between the Fundamentalist? and Liberals has, spread to every relig ious denomination, even Catholics and Jews participating. Archbishop Hayes preached upon 'Obedience," declaring that the great fundamental truths. Of Christianity remain such, whether believed or not.

Prominent Jewish Rabbis declared that the Bible was not the Word of God, and controversies among Christians must continue so long its they consider man a fallen being. The heads of the Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant clergy have issued a joint New Year appeal to tbe American people, asking them not to deny their children the priceless heritage of religious, teachings. Prominent Episcopalian laymen have begun a series of conferences between bishops and recalcitrant ministers, at which an endeavor is being made to reconcile differences. Mennwhile Sunday's sermons covered a wide range, some Episcopalian ministers asking for the foundation of a separate M»dernist Church; others declare that Christianity without Paganism is abortive and still others declaring that the Bible taken literally would make Christianity impossible.