THE WORK OF THE CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 901, 22 August 1910, Page 9

THE WORK OF THE CHURCH.

' Sir,—Your correspondent Henry Bodley. in your Saturday's, issue gives some gratuitous . advice. ,to. tho Church. • At; the same time lie charges the' Church j with failure,.being."behind tho times, "resting on its oars , and not - working."- And by contrast ho' sets off the success of 111'. Hugh AVurd iu raising such a largo sum for' the Children s Hospital, it may not have occurred to Mr. Bodley, but it certainly 'lias to very many others, that when the story - of the Children's Hospital is told fifteen or twenty years hence, Dr. Gibb arid lie'v. J. : J. North will get tiro, crodit" due to.thorn : for-tho part they played••in it. Such-i things,':hav'6; happened bc-J fore.' | Perhaps Mr; Bodley - is not • aware that the Christian Church, and that which the Church stands for, has always been charged with failure. So, ho is stating nothing new in remaking the charge. It is needless to give instances. But one who was a keen thinker has expressed the fact in these words: j Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for' ever on tho throne, - Yet that scaffold sways-the future. The.- Church, doe's' not', attain her-' success in a "fortnight,". nor in two years. Mr. Bodley's method. of succeeding is to put an ear to, the ground to find out what the people want. May 'I express tho hope that the Church will never cease from putting her ear to the Cross and giving peoplo what they need, and slio will continue to succeed. —I am, ° tC '' JAMES M'CAW.