ORGANISED RELIGION

Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1930, Page 10

ORGANISED RELIGION

YOUNG NOT INTERESTED.- • j 7 ■ ; ' * In presenting the financial, report to the Church Assembly at Westminster, Earl Grey made some frank criticisms, says the London Daily Telegraph. Lord Grey said that he hoped there would be some criticism, and. he offeted one himself. “I do not think that the sort of report which we are issuing to the Assembly is best calculated to.,', further the interests of the Church of England at the present moment,” he., ; said. “It is not a document which would be interesting reading to somebody who ■ knows very little about what the Assembly is doing. . . '. “We are living in a time when . young men and young women not only of our own country, but of other count tries, are having a natural reaction against whatever was done by the generation they look to as being responsible for the war, and part of that reaction.is perhaps that their.religious interests are more of a personal character than their interest in organised religion. Therefore, I think it is a pity that there should be no document that I know of which a person can take up and find out what is being done generally to face the problems of the Church.” The Bishop of Durham said he desired to emphasise most strongly the primary necessity of the Church, addressing itself to the fatal deficiency oi candidates for ordination. The shortage was compelling the abolition of tlmse staffs of clergy which formed the only schools of training for the men to bo ordained. “We are sending men into the ministry of the Church without an adequate apprenticeship to the great work to which they are being called. “Men have .barely emerged from the conventional two years of their preliminary service before patrons from all parts of the country are offering tlicm important pastoral charges, and the man concerning whom the Bishop was in grave doubt yesterday as to whether he should be admitted to the diaconate is to-day, perhaps, required by the same Bishop to be instituted to the pastoral charge, it may be, of thousands of people.”