GLOOMY RELIGIONS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 149, 7 September 1928, Page 3

GLOOMY RELIGIONS.

WANDERING IN DOUBT.

(Australian and N Z. Press Assn.) SYDNEY, September 6.

“Our world to-day is full of gloomy religions. They are erecting a barrici between men and God,” declared Falk i Lockington, the head of Riverview College, Sydney, when speaking at a .rcut gathering in the City Town Hall .t the Eucharistic Congress festi-

Falher Lockington added: “As a result of these gloomy religions million- of ordinary people are wandering in doubt or in the valley of despair and going down in a inorass of matciialism. Most people look upon religion as a depressing thing and a pen i ter of human life, and upon ministers as killjoys. This conception nt' religion is very prevalent and from the point of view of the man in the street, is quite right. The position. therefore, must lie faced. _ Men died in millions some time ago in the ran - e of liberty, yet you have less of it to-ilav than ever.”