MARRIAGE PROBLEMS,

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1870, 2 October 1913, Page 7

MARRIAGE PROBLEMS,

9 AND THE CHURCH.

NEED FOR STRENUOUS ACTION

By Telegraph—Press Amooiation—Oopyrlffit London, September 30. Tho Bishop of Winchester, in opening the Church Congress, emphasised tho need for unflinching application of Christian principles to social injustices and economic problems. There was, 3io said, a clamorour need for strenuous action regarding marriage; it was essential to> rally the moral forces to deal with problems connected with the avoidance or the abuse of marriage, the revolt against its duties, and the pressure of tlio economio system upon the unmarried,

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. " NAKED INTERNATIONAL SELFISHNESS." (Rcc. October 1, 11.40 p.m.) London, October 1. At the opening of tlio Church Congress, as the Bishop of Winchester.(Dr. Talbot) took his seat, a well-dressed woman rose and protested against his presiding, and added: " God colnmands you, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to uphold mo against this man, Edmund. Talbot." Tlio woman was quietly removed, and tho Bishop of Winchester then delivered his presidential address on " The Kingdom of God." In the world to-day, lie said, it was first a Kingdom of Patience abovo force, of service abovo power, of giving abovo receiving; though the application of tlioaa principles in tho political and social, world was extraordinarily difficult, tho necessity of somo application was inexorable. This age of armaments, with its colossal intolerance and burdens, and its naked international selfishness, could not last long. It must by a thunderous, unimaginablo catastrophe, or by some letter moral transformation.

The Letter of Chat's sayings. Tho Rev. C. W. Emmott made the romarkablo _ admission that many customs, practices, and observances of the Church wore based on Christ's sayings, which scholarship shown to bo unauthentic. So much was this tho case that it was hopeless to attempt'to rely to tho, letter on tho words spoken by Jesus.

The Bishop of London (Dr. Ingram) dealt with the question of the invocation of saints, and pleaded for the restoration of this aspect of the doctrino of the Communion of Saints. Ho safeguarded himself by saying that practice was ono thing and doctrine another. He contended that they pledged themsolves to tho doctrine every timo tliey recited the Apostles' Creed.

STERN FIGHT APPREHENDED AT THE CONGRESS. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Spccial Cables. London, September 30. A stem fight is promised at tho Church Congress «|ver the question of woman's rights between Suffragists and anti-Suffragists engaged in activo educational propaganda outside the congross. Regrettable incidents are threatened.

Oil Sunday tho Archbishop of York was descending from tho . Communion Table at the conclusion of tho consecration of bishops when an elderly lady rushed forward, prostrated liersolf on tho ground, and seized tho Archbiifliop's robes. Officials of tho church removed her. It was at first believed sho was a Suffragette, but later it was learnt th>vt she was a lady deeply religious and highly, emotional.