CHURCH'S NEEDS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19146, 1 November 1927, Page 9

CHURCH'S NEEDS.

APPEAL FOR COURAGE. » ADDRESS TO MEN. "I find that these fellows who are always picking on us and criticising us and deriding us and saying we are fooling away our time usually have some creed or erase of their own t<> push,*' said the Key. H. W • Alonaghan, speaking at the Cnthedr-a: 'ast evening. Air Monaghan, who is the Vicar Designate of Timaru, conducted a scivico for men, making an appeal i" them to show courage in their Chru-i----ianity, teaching in the Sunday schooU, and assisting the C.E.M.S. It took courage, he said, for a parson to say nowadays, as he did, that all the social problems of tho day t-oub! t;e settled by the teaching ol JesuChrist. A tradition was handed down amongst many people that tlv Christian faith was something weak and feeble and effeminate, robbing man of bis inheritance. Such a statement had been made by a German, and when the war started the Germans had regarded the British as u nation of shopkeepers They found tlicy h.nl made a mistake, and many people were to-day making the same mistake in regard'to those professing Christianity. Christian men were under an obligation to work for the Church openly and unashamedly. The problems to be faced were colossal, and called tin the best that was in them, if they were to prove their belief in Christ. One great problem, which overshadowed al! others, was the need for religious education. At present, fifty per cent, of the children were growing into adult. life with no conception of Christianity save what they learned in the newspapers. Men wero needed to undertake the religious instruction of these children, and men were required to put fresh life into tho C:E.M.S.