LAMBETH RESOLUTIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 8

LAMBETH RESOLUTIONS

—,— ♦ TOO REVOLUTIONARY ? MANY CLERGY DISTRESSED (Received January 22. 2 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 21. Declaring that the Lambeth Conference birth control and divorce resolutions were revolutionary, Canon C. Long, of Birmingham, urged the Convocation of Canterbury's lower bouse to appoint a committee to examine the resolutions before the general debate was taken, on i hem. He added: "Although many we know and respect arc prepared to support, tho bishops' limited approval of birth control, these resolutions have genuinely distressed and perplexed a very large number of clergy and lay people, who deeply regret that the. bishops have given even limited approval to contracaptives, the use of which as the bishops admit is open to great and terrible abuse." A motion to examine the resolutions was carried by 53 votes to 50. The Bishop of Ely. presenting the committee's report on tlie value of broadcast services, said it showed that religious broadcasts were very valuable. There was no evidence to show that it prevented church-going, and also there was no evidence that the. people leant back in their armefiaii-s smoking and taking the services 100 casually." i