CHANGE IN RELIGIOUS HABITS
HAS NEWSPAPER DISPLACED THE BIBLE? WHAT ARCHBISHOP JULIUS THINKS. I Christchurch. December 5. “We are much more inclined today to speak of the story of Adam and Eve as a bit of folk-lore rather than a piece of history, and were inclined to scoff at people who think otherwise.” Archbishop Julius made this statement in the course of a sermond at St. Mary’s Church, Merivale. yesterday, when he declared that people had turned from the Bible to the newspapers for then reading. “Do men use and love the Bible as their fathers and mothers did?” asked the Archbishop. “I use the word Bible simply because it is convenient. It would be difficult to give an answer to that question. There is no particular foundation for an answer, and yet one cannot help seeing how. first of all. our religious habits have changed. We are not so steady-going and regular in our religious habits. We are easy-going with regard to the Lord's Dav. very often indifferent with regard to worshiip, neglect prayers in the house, and also. I think, the reading of the Holy Scriptures. Habits have changed. “Our legislators—and I suppose the country is behind them —refuse to admit even the leading of a few verses of the Holy Scripture in the schools, so that our children in country places at least, know very little about them. I cannot help thinking that if men really did know something about the Scriptures they would want their children to know something about them. “A great deal has come down. Our parents believed that every word was inspired and absolutely infallible. That has come tumbling down, and as it came tumbling down we turned away from the Holy Scriptures. They are no longer reliable, we say, and so we shall turn to the newspapers.” Archbishop Julius concluded: “You say that you are not religious. 1 am not sure that vou are not sitting on that religious faculty of yours, that you are not crushing it. It is there all right. But you do not realise it.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 8 December 1927, Page 8
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347CHANGE IN RELIGIOUS HABITS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 8 December 1927, Page 8
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