PAN ANGLICAN CONGRESS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9120, 20 June 1908, Page 5

PAN ANGLICAN CONGRESS.

LABOUR PROBLEMS DISCUSSED. Received June 19, 8.2 a.m. LONDON, June 18. The social section of the PanAnglican Congress, sitting at Albert Hall, discussed the question o± sweating. Senator Rohson urged the need of regulation of the machinery dealing with the unemployed. He recommended the establishment cf labour bureaux; also the founding of a penal colony for unwilling workers, and a labour colony for the physically inefficient, but a better colony for honest men who were unable to find an honest day's work. There-'ought, he declared, to be some arbitration authority to settle the wages question. The speaker added: "We must tax the Left of the Labour materialism. There was no spiritual force behind it." The Rev. J. L. Dore, «f New Zealand, exolained the reasons for the absence of sweating in New Zealand. The Christian Truth section, at Kensington Town Hall, discussed Christian Science. The majority of the speakers favoured rejection of its errors and retention of its vital principle by the Church reverting to the healing office exercised in apostolic days. It was stated that there was, a unique clinic in Boston, where the physician and the theologic psychologist successfully cooperate in the alleviation of nervous disorders. The Baptist Union sent the congress an affectionate greeting.

MEETING IN ALBERT HALL,

DISCUSSION ON RELIGION IN SCHOOLS.

LONDON, June 18. _ In en cation with the Pan-Augli-oan Congress, another large meeting was hell hi thu Albert Ha!! yesterday. / Archbishop Claive, of Meibou-ne, urged the organisation of church finance. The Bishop of Ntw Guinea, Dr. Stone-Wigg, addressed the Industrial Missions section, and the Bishop of Perth, Dr. Riley, the section relating to the Church's missions throughout Christendom. Dr. Riley declared that none more than the rough Australian appreciated the influence of a real lady imparting religion. The Rev. A. C. Hoggins, of New Zealand, addressing the education section, referred t'» the gradual change of feeling in New Zealand in favour of religious instruction by trained teachers as part of the daily education. The Bishop of North Queensland, Dr. Frodsham, declared thit a race of white pagans was f*r.>wii!g up in some parts of Queensland.

"1 he object of the Pan-Anglican Congress." says the Christian World, "is to give expression to the thoughts an 1 desires and hope-i of Churchmen regarding the spread r<f the Gospel throughout the world; to take counsel as to the cooperation and co-ordination of missions; ihe building up of independent Churches; the unity of Christendom, and particularly of the Anglican ••hurches; their relations. to othet Christian communions; the promotion of a true Christian spirit in the dealings ot man with man, and race with race; the supply, training, and maintenance of clergy of all races; the ordering of lay ministrations; the duty of the Church with regard to national sino and evils; the social, industrial, scientific, educational, ecclesiastical, domest.c.and linguistic problems of all kinds which the Church has to face; in fact, any and all subjects affecting the well-being of Christer.doni and of mankind, so far as the Anglican communion can touch them. The congress presents n unique opportunity for capturing the imagination and heart of m ny by the greatness of the conception and of the occasion—an opportunity to enable many who have not yet i l- ., to see now a vision of the Church of Christ, and of the extension of the Kingdom of God throughout the world —an opportunity to win men to a new enthusiasm for the whole cause of Christ."