THE OUTLOOK FOR CHRISTIANITY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 19, 17 October 1919, Page 7

THE OUTLOOK FOR CHRISTIANITY

AS VIEWED BY THE LEICESTER • CHURCH CONGRESS'.

(Rec. October 16, 8.4.5 p.m.) London, October 15. The newspapers are giving prominence to tho Church Congress at Leicester. Bishop Gore read a paper in which lie pessimistically reviewed the outlook for Christianity, as judged by the growing demand for divorce, the acquiescence in fornication, and race suicide.,' Dean In(je, in ail address, dwelt upon the passing belief in a localised Heaven and Hell, and said that ho did not pretend that the bnliof as lo the Resurrection of the l»dy stood where it did. He uttered a warning against the revival of necromancy, in which many desolate hearts were seeking a spurious satisfaction.—Renter. IS SPIRITUALISM A FRAUD? (Rec. October IG, 11.20 p.m. . London, October IG. Dean Inge at the Church Congress said that Spiritualism was a pitiable' necromancy. Bishop Welldon said that it was impossible to dismiss Spiritualism, as a nauseous fraud, because fraud could not explain all the phenomena which had won the attention of trained investigators.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. which in its dictionary meaning refers vnrously to the practice of tho "Black' Art," wizardry, and communion with departed spirits, probably refers, in Dean Imre's mind, to the recent interest in Spiritualism in England as connected with articles in the newspapers discussing the exneriences of such wellknown people eg Sir Arthur Conan Dovle at Spiritualistic seances. Both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge, (he distinguished scientist, have lent, the authority of their names, if. as their critics say, they have not stultified their wisdom, to the probability of spiritcommunion. The effect of these articles tended, it was ( argued, to encourage in the minds of 'war-bereaved people the belief that under certain conditions communion with tho dead was possible and real. Dean Ttige achieved considerable notoriety during the war as a. pessimistic prophet of the future of humanity, and was described by certain newspapers as the "Gloomy Dean."]

AMERTOVS MORAL AND PATRIOTIC DECAY. . (Eec. October IG, 5.5 p.m.) Baltimore, October IS. Mr, W. H. Taft, speakim? at the Unitarian Conference, 'said the American moral tone ajid the patriotic'spirit of the peonle had decayed since the war ended. Ideals no loivrer appealed as they did n year aso, mid the country was politically rik! industrially in tho dol-drums—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.