CHURCH INDICTED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1239, 22 September 1911, Page 5

CHURCH INDICTED.

A PESSIMISTIC BISHOP. By Teleeraph—l'ress Association—Copyright London, September 20. Dr. Diggle, Bishop of Carlisle, addressing the Diocesan Conference, declared that there was no incorporate relation between Christianity aud the. world to-day, ami tho result was the deadness, if not the approaching death, of Christianity. Theological colleges sent forth men steeped in caste, feeling, who were unable to speak and preach with conviction. The empty churches were partly due to stereotyped anachronistic theology and idolatrous money worship, with a decreasing sense of the dignity* of labour, producing industrial unrest, even despair, amongst tho lower classes. Dr. is well known as a preacher to men, and is a strong advocate of closer relations between Anglicans and Nonconformists, no did good work in Lancashire before- going to Birmingham as rector and archdeacon. He was made Bishop of Carlisle in 1904. He holds that the Church is becoming "denationalised," and recently declared that "one of the reasons why religion had so little hold on people was. that they had dramatised it too much and got away from the simplicities of the Gospel." Ho has taken a very prominent part in the educational controversy