OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 October 1908, Page 7

OBITUARY.

FATHER IGNATIUS. (81 TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) London, October 16. The death is announced of Father Ignatius, agod eighty years. ' ,

A RESOLUTE ANTI-MODERNIST. Father Ignatius'(the Eev. Josoph L. Lvno) was in many respects a remarkable personality. He was an earnest mission preacher, the founder and director of an Anglican monastery, .and an uncompromising opponent of what is known as modernism in religious thought. Tho modernist movement in the Church of England he regarded as sheer rationalism, and had no sympathy with' that influential school of thought which believes;that the Christian faith has to bo'related.-flfcl-'feinterproted from time to time .to meet the moral and intellectual needs of each new age. The recent Lambeth Conference; referring to the "great inrush of new knowledge," declares ; that the ' Churoh's duty is not rejection, but "interpretation and recognition." Father Ignatius, however, greatly disapproved of the intellectual attitude of the bishops, and set his face like a flint against tho progressive movement in theology. When Dr. Gore (now Bishop of Birmingham, then principal of Pusey House), and a number of other leading Oxford scholars, produced "Lux Mundi," which created a great stir and ran through numerous editions, Father Ignatius was horrified. Dr. Gore's essay was the most striking of the collection,, and his views on the Incarnation and the inspiration of Scripture caused much controversy. Father Ignatius passionately protested and referred to the principal of Pusey House as "Infidel Gore." From time to time he appeared at the Church Congress in order to lift up his voice against modernism in all its forms. Father Ignatius was born in 1837, and was educated at St. Paul's School and Trinity College (Glenalmond). He was curate of St. Peter' 6, Plymouth, and lator of St. George's Mission, leaving the latter to go to Claydon, Suffolk, to begin his first monastery. Thence he went to Norwich, afterwards to Laloham, and 1 in 1870 founded Llanthony Abbey.

REV. JOHN KINROSS.

(Rec. October 19, 1.11 a.m.) Sydney, October 18. The death is announced of the Rev. John Kinross, Professor of English Language and Literature (in relation to religion) and of Apologetics and > Christian Ethics in St. Andrew's ■ College, University of Sydney, aged 75 year^.

The Eev. John Kinross was born at Ardoch (Scotland) on Septomber 11, 1833, and arrived in Australia in 1858. From 1875 to 1900 he was Principal of St. Andrew's College, and was an ex-Moderator of the Presbyterian Church. He was the author of "Dogma in Eoligion."