CHURCH’S NEW ERA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19444, 2 November 1925, Page 10

CHURCH’S NEW ERA

RE-UNION MOVEMENT. A WESLEY NEEDED. LONDON, Oct. 10. The Bishop of Chichester (the Kt. Rev. W. O. Burrows), and many members of the Church Congress, attended the thanksgiving service that marked the conclusion of the congress. The Rev. R. J. Campbell. Incumbent of Holy Trinity, Brighton, who preached, declared that the re-union movement had caused a marvellous change of spirit. Tho two great English Christian communities appreciated each other as never before, and it was all the more regrettable that dissensions were growing within the Anglican Church. He recalled that Wesley’s preaching created such a spiritual fervor as to prevent internecine strife, when the unhappy toilers were contemplating copying the methods of revolutionary France. “The same spirit could save England to-day, ’ ’ 'he declared. ‘* I believe that we are entering a new ora. Those alive may sec an overwhelming return to Christ, resulting in tho greatest spiritual advance since Christianity began.”