THE CHURCH OF THE FUTURE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1901, 8 November 1913, Page 9

THE CHURCH OF THE FUTURE.

ATTITUDE TOWARD PLEASURE.

"The old Adam likes fioaiiiig with the> tide,", declared the Rev. R. B. Reynolds:, to his presidential address at tipannual mooting of tho Congregational Union of New South Wains recently."I believe there will bo a changed atti* tude on tlio part of tho Churcu of tho future towards pleasuro and. amusement," Mr. Reynolds _ added. "A! writer in an English journal st few months ago said wo needed, a Puritan revival, In some respects thai may bo true, but God forbid that Christians should over regard tiro world as a joyless place, of innocent joy as something foreign to'tho Christian spirit. Sweeps iiiij deivtmeifftions of amusement may do much harm and little or nn good. _ Tho Church of tho future will not busy it'Se!? ftiuch along that lino. It will tell men their positive duties about the great issues of life, and will -instill sueh ai spirit into men that their own judgment in the matter of pleasuro can bo tel-ied l upon. I -recognise that this is going to life a large problem. AVben I look arm'rtd and see the evidences of selfish indulgence in. pleasure, and the common disregard of religious,, and -sometimesmoral, duty for pleasure's S'ak<a,_ I woft« desr what fruit this hind of seed is coi.nft to produce in the next generation."..