C.E.M.S.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1079, 18 March 1911, Page 9

C.E.M.S.

STIRRING, ADDRESS BY ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. "Wo want our Church of England to {alio off its frockcoat and go into the world in its shirtsleeves,'driven along by the (ire and enthusiasm of the lovo of Jesus Christ to men," said the Arclibislnp of York to members of the C.E.M.S. at Firvale, Slioffickl. The fact that they were established and endowed was 110 kind of reason why they should be less sclf-sacrificing in their support of the Church than their Nonconformist friends. On the contrary, establishment and endowment were of valuo only in so far as they opened out to theni wider opportunities of serving the national life. And then the Church had suffered fcr many years from a certain chronic stiffening of respectability. "\Ye are so desperately respectable, but wo want something better than that —;;eal and fire, and some sense of what is really waiting for our Church to do in this English life of ours." Another •quality'which the ClntrcU must get rid of was its isolation. The members stood too far apart from ono another, and it 'wou'd be incorrect to descrifco one of their congregations as a warm-hearted, brotherly society of men niltl women. It was all very well to talk about knowing one another in heaven ; the question was, did they know one another on earth?