ANGLICAN CHURCH CONGRESS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 15160, 2 October 1913, Page 7

ANGLICAN CHURCH CONGRESS.

IMPORTANT AGENDA. INCLUDING WOMAN SUFFRAGE. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, Sept. 30. The Church Oongress was opened at Southampton on Wednesday. A stern fight is promised over woman's rights. Suffragists and anti-suffragists are engaged in an active educational propaganda outside the' Congress, and regrettable incidents are threatened. .When the_ Archbishop of- York was descending from the Communion Table at the conclusion of the consecration of bishops,, an elderly lady rushed forward, prostrated herself on the ground, and seized the Archbishop's robes. The officials removed her, believing her to be a suffragette, but learned that the lady is deeply religious and highly emotional.

MARRIAGE.PROBLEMS. Press Association —By Tel. —Copyright. LONDON, Sept. 30. The Bishop of Winchester in opening the Church Congress .emphasised the need of unflinching application of Christian principles to social injustices and economio problems. / There was, his Lordship said, a clamorous need for strenuous action regarding marriage. Tt was essential to rally moral forces to the problems connected with the avoidance and abuse of marriage, revolt against its duties, and pressure of the economio system upon the married. ANOTHER FEMININE INTERRUPTION. Received 11.20 p.m., Oct. Ist. LONDON, Oct. 1. As the Bishop of Winchester took his seat at the Congress a well dressed woman rose and protested against his presiding. She added: "God commands you, Archbishop of Canterbury, to uphold me against this man, Edmund Talbot." The woman was quietly removed. THE KINGDOM OF GOD. NOT YET IN THE WORLD. The Bishop of Winchester, ic a, presidential address on the "Kingdom of -God in the World To-day, ' said the Kingdom put patience abovo force, service above power, giving abo> r o receiving, and though the application those principles in the political and social wc«]d was extraordinarily difficult, the necessity of some application was inexorable. The age of armaments, colos-sal-intolerance, and naked interna„tipnal.;4elnshness could not last long, and must change, by a thunderous unimaginable. catastrophe, or by some better and moral transformation. A RESULT OF RESEARCH. Rev. C. Emmett made a remarkable admission that many of the customs, practices and observances of th -* Church were based on sayings of Christ which scholarship had shown to be unauthentic , So much was this the case that it was hopeless to attempt to rely on the letter for the words - spoken by Jesus. Received 12.15 a.m., Oct 2nd. The Bishop of London dealt with the Invocation of Sainta. Ho pleaded for the restoration or this aspect; of the doctrine of the ■communion of saints, but safeguarded himself by saying thatpractice was one thing and doctrine another. He contended ihat they, pledged themselves to ' the doctrine every time they recited the 'Apostles' Creed. ,