WEAK-KNEED CHRISTIANS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17037, 10 May 1923, Page 1

WEAK-KNEED CHRISTIANS

QUESTION OF VISITING. Lack of interest in church affairs was the keynote of the discussion at a ►meeting of St Peter’s parshioners at Hamilton, on Monday night (states the " INew Zealand Herald ”) Mr W. C. Hewitt, the vestry clerk, saici. Archdeacon Cowie had preached a sermon on the previous night in which lie hail dwelt upon the number of weak-kneed Christians there were about. The» speaker thought perhaps people were being saddled with some of the blame which belonged to the clergy. Various parishioners attributed slackness in church life to the fact that there was so little visiting done in the parish, other members defended the Archdeacon, whom they described as an exceedingly hard-worked man. The Aichdeacon had mentioned in the .sermon that Roman Catholics could fill their churches at half-past six in the morning, while it was difficult to get a full church at St Peter’s any time of the day yet Roman Catholic priests, so far as they knew, did not go in lor house to house visiting so that this was apparently not the weakness. No finality was reached on the point but the new vestry was asked to go fully into the question of apathy towards the Church.