PASSIONS LET LOOSE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16476, 21 October 1927, Page 7

PASSIONS LET LOOSE

BRITISH HERESY HUNT BITTER WBANGLING (Australian aud N.Z. Cable Association.,) LONDON, October la. In an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Barnes says he Mum modem knowledge had withered iiaditional formulas, replacing them Willi wistful agnosticism. He toug ago began to expound why man's evolution from the ape-like stock did not upset tiie Christian position. The growth of erroneous sacramental doctrines alienated educated people from the church. Mediaeval theories that were rejected 1 at the Reformation were still taught in the Anglican chua'ches. A new era had opened when a bishop could be publicly attacked for upholding traditional sacramental doctrines.

Bishop Barnes reaffirms that there is no truth in transubstantiation, and says nobody can discriminate between the consecrated and the unconsecrated. He continued: "No man shall drive me to Tennessee or to Rome. Officers of the National Church must not fear, but welcome, the new knowledge, arid maintain all that is sound in the ancient doctrine."

Dean Inge sent the following letter to the Rev. Mr. Bullock-Webster:

" Since you had the impertinence to write in connection with Sunday, I must reply that until you fully apologise for the scandalous and disgraceful brawling, 1 refuse any communication whatever." The Rev. Mr. Bullock-Webster, replying, says: "Before the idea of an apology can be entertained, I am constrained to ask you fully and publicly to express regret for outraging the feelings of devout church people by inviting to the Cathedral one who constantly defames the holy sacraments." The Morning Post says : " The unhappy cleavage arising from the d'oetrino of transubstantiation ranging the Anglo-Catholics on one side and the Eyangelicals on the other, was bound to lead to a definite explosion within the church. Bishop Barnes, however, assumes tremendous responsibility when he forces the t issue and challenges a struggle. It seems impossible that the archbishop can ignore the latter. Meantime, those who feel that„the continued vitality and cohesion of the Church of England is an essential basis for safety, honor and welfare of these dominions, can only pray God to lighten our darkness and appease the passions which seem on the point of being let loose in His name."