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TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1924.

THE DIOCESAN CONFERENCE.

Where is the Church Failing?

YESTERDAY'S INTERESTING DISCUSSION.

The outstanding feature of yes- | through sixty verses, not only our terday's meeting of the Church piety and our attention but even tot England Diocesan Conterence, four legs are put to a severe test. held in .SK John's Cathedr-The prayers seem to be for the al Hail under the presidency | most part for the King, the Royal of the Bishop of Vieira, was Family, and Parliament, or things |

interesting » discussion on equally remote. It would be un- "Where is the Cauren Failing ?

Copies of the proposed wonstitu- tion and standing orders of the Victoria Diocesan body were gireulat ed. The constitution was explained by the Ber. Copley Moyle, who pro pais, il adoption." The resolution was mes arded by Dr. Earle.

The meeting considered the con stint in detail, and adopted it with some slight amendments.

kind to eriticise the sermon, but it is not as a rule anything particul larly enlightening. So when our worshipper gets home he says he does not see the point in going to church. He feels like somebody said he felt after one of Disraeli's dinners that everything had been served cold except the ices. In- deed. if people do not come Church to receive the Sarm ments, and if they are brought into an atmosphere where they can pray, and if there is little in the whole service to quicken

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The constitution provides that the conference shall consist of the Bishop of the Diocese, who shall be President, all elergy of the Church the mind to the thought of God. of England resident in the Diocese and holding the Bishop's license to oficiates and lay representatives, of Fortunately, a either sex, in the proportion of two what I have said is not true. It But it is a sari- for every congregation of 100 or less caricaturé

cature ach ne remember than 100 mmunicants and. pre

the original.

į additional representative for every additional Sfty communicants, to be Lelected annually.

it is questionable whether there is any point in going to Church. good deal of

Make The People Feel at Home.

What I want to emphasise is not' whether this is or is not ty Standing Committee.

pical of the Church of England. On the proposition of Dr. Sanders, but rather how utterly unlike the following were appointed the this the Church of England ought Staneling Committee, with power to to be. The ideal of the Church ladd six to their namler: Mr. M. of England is to give her pro- Catholic faith, EF Aires, Mr. A. Dyer Ball, Dr.ple the whole Earle, Mr. W. L. Pattenden. Hon.with something of that

Mr. L. Furster. Mrs. Pullock, Lady Sever. Rev. J. B. Lew and Rev. 11. 1. Popley Mogle.

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The result of presenting Chris-about attendance at Communion, the Evangelicals have There are in England to-day atianity in this way, in a way that Bible reading, intercessory pray- considerable number of

clergy true net oni to the Church, er ani most certainly a rule about especially in London and the but to the heart of England. has reading set books advised by the society. Where is the Church Failing? larger provin, al towns, who are resalted not only in crowded priest controlling the

presenting Aristianity in the Churches, but in

many places But an one point we must insist. The Rev. R. J. Northcott, Chap- lain to the Force, opened a dis. Churches according to the very there has been positively a reli-Rules alone are quite aseless, xious revival, perhaps at the mo- Nobody keeps them. If you are cussion on "Where is the Church best ideals of the England. Trey are Failing?" He said, in part:

pement, especially among the better suing to have rules you must have who

succeeding educated. So much

a quarterly, if not a monthly re- Before we can discover where.

the extreme Anglo-Catal clergyman who has recently come port on whether the rules are be the Church is failing we must see exactly where she ought to be They have no party name and no out from England said to me theing kept. Is this way you

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Another day. "Why on earth are you build up a body of people who are standing. According to her tra- party ambition. They are ditions the Church of England bothering about parties at

all going to talk about the Church really living and enjoying the ought to be standing in the mean: The first thing they have tried failing when she's never had so Christian life, and can moreover between the two extremes. The to do has been to make the peo-mach life in her for the last fifty give a reason for the hope that is

in them. the years?" two extremes or opposite ways of ple feel at home again

Only those who have tried it presenting Caristianity are usa Church. They have not done this known as the Catholic and the by stunt services or stunt preach-

A question of first rate impor-know how difficult it is to lead a

Per part they

disciplined spiritual life. tance which we have no time to Evangelical In the Evangelical ing. For the most

em. Thave not gone in for bizarre ingo into now is the question haps the clergy know better than "INVIGORATING Presentation of Christianity

phasis is laid chiefly on the word novations. The chief thing they Funday Schools. We are begin anybody else how essential it is.,

The clergy do realise th have added to the Church service of God in the Bible.

to realise that teaching sense. They have Church of is common The ideal of the

young people is not an easy thing.hing they do whether it is visit arranging England has been to take the mid-compared the service they

And those who knowing, or preaching, or

and fussing around social fanc dle coarse The mean between providing with the people they are cothing about it gan more

for. They have the two extremes." The middle providing it

har than good. or course ions is worse than useless unless course is always the best course, taken care that when a man comes everyone is in favour of really it has as a background a really

strong spiritual life. But it is the one most criticised. to Church it will not be the fault good Sunday Schools, but it would

We all want inspiration. The the most dangerous, and the most of the series if he can see

be interesting to know how many difficult to keep. We may in the gued in it They either

of the utterly mistaken ideas people expect to find it in the mean be inluding all that is good singing worth listening to, or else about what Christianity really say, and the younger clergy ex- and true on both sides: on the something everybody can

are not due to well-meaning but peet to find it in the older clergy, other hand we may be leaving out The lessons read from the Bible incompetent teaching in Sunday one of us find as much of it as By inspiration we should like. all that has

The pry Schools. either side.

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Too Many "Odds and Ends." Rev, G. R. Lindsay spoke of th creat need there was for clergyme

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seing allowed more time for stud and thought. Whilst be agreed wit Mr. Waldegrave's remarks abo going out and appealing to all

The study circle method which we do not mean what Mr. Guadella d be close not merelt on Sm for the prayers kneel about half the Bishop of Victoria has

would call "The ponderous enunar and special days. but daily an way down the aisle amongst the succesfully here, or perhaps

Iciation of the obvious." We mean houring So many mien have said to me people and conduct, if not exactly similar discussions on

we expect to find some result from they do not go to Church because a prayer meeting, prayers for what larger scale might do a great with Divine Truth. We look

the contact of human personality they do not see any point in it. tempore neede

Moreover, they deal. Why don't they see any point have grasped the fact that no man to be told quite plainly that the those who have been long in the (in it?

Let us go with our wercon preach as einstantly as a wider range of the modern mind service of the Master for those shipper into a quite typical ser- clergymen have to preach with means that becoming less sure judgments, that spiritual vice. He is a man, let as 87 but constantly talking rubbish and ant more easy for God to be perception, and quiet conndence

in God, which comes who loves his Bible, there are So the clergy do not do all the kept in a corner of it. Religion whose eyes have beheld even the passages in it which make a rate preaching. They find that lay must either be the dynamic force appeal to all that is best in him. men and sometimes laywomen of the whole personality or else

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Splendid towards which for ever "appointed for the day" are quite extent which is often denied the

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In the Highways and Hedges.

Rev. G. T. Waldegraze, said the inference to be drawn from the address was that the marriage feast not have attached to every Church some society for men and had been prepared the house way women which aims at a pretty decorated and fall arrangements high standard of Christian disi- made. but nothing had been said pline, with rules, for instance, about going to the highways and

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