GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(Hj Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

ANGLICAN CHURCH PROPOSAL. LONDON, Oct. 5. Two outspoken addresses marked the opening of the Church at Ipswich. Doctor "Wittingham, in ’ the presidential address on the work of the Church in the modern village, condemned the tendency to regard tho Kingdom of God as something disconnected with daily life. It was not incompatible with tho feeding of pig* and the hoeing of turnips. It was fatal to judge the success of tho Church’s message by the extent of the churchgoing. Moreover, they must get rid of the spirit of competition. “We need not suppose,” lie said “that when we secure a Nonconformist as a Churchman wo have done something in itself meritorious in God’s Kingdom, or that it does Him any injury if a Churchman becomes a Nonconformist.” AC* 1 He continued: “Wo must get rid of the notion that it is wrong to go to chapel. There are differences in ministration, hut the same Lord.” ” "* K "

Ho concluded with an earnest appeal for Christian unity. Canon Raven, of Liverpool Cathedral, advocated the admission of women to full priesthood, with of reaching to the Episcopate if, art'U when, they are qualified. A questioner asked: “Why did not * our Lord ordain a woman Apostle?” Canon Raven replied: “Who am I that I should dare to answer that?”

Another questioner asked whether it would he possible for a woman Tlry represent God, who was masculine Canon Raven replied: “Do you really maintain that God is mnsculine That is so extraordinarily lioretical that I can hardly believe a priest would give utterance to it. Christ said: In me there is neither male nor female. Yours may be good Mohammedanism, but it is bad Christianity.”

ANGLICAN BISHOP’S STATEMENT. LONDON, Oct. 4. “Sex relations in modern literature, society and conversation, show a great revolt against Christian religions. ■ This movement has gained formidably in recent years,” said the Bishop of Durham when preaching at the Church Congress. “Civilisation lias failed to find a substitute for Christ’s religions as the guardian and individual controller of sexual passion, while tho secularisation (of jthe Sabbath, the declining attendance at churches, the disregard of the Christian conception of marriage, and the disappearance of those reticences and discipline formerly regarded as necessary to protect female virtue, are sinister signs, and they may Vbe a reaction against unwarrantable clerical professions and irrational moral conventions; but it—-w must be remembered that tho churches’ failure means that civilisation is parting company with Christianity, and is restoring the pre-civilisation cruelty with its prevalence of suicide, of squalid superstition, and of unbridled sensuality. Russia at the ■ present time is practising Western theories with brutality and a lack of discrimination. The saddest and most menacing feature of the Anglo-Russian relations is the absence on the part of British Labourites of disgust, resentment and alarm at the Bolshevik treatment of religion, of marriage, and of childhood. Even if Russia bo left out of reckoning, the British ievolt against morality has caused ap- J prehension.” , The Bishop added that the real opposition to the new Prayer Book was due to a widely distributed resentment against breach of contract in spiritual office, resulting in a refusal to endorse an apparent concession io law-breaking clergy.

SACCO AND VANZETTI. LONDON, Oct. : 5. Tlie Daily Mail’s Cherbourg .corres- ■; ponclent reports that the police there met Vanzetti’s sister ancj-told her , that she would lie. allowed to land, on condition that the ashes of brother and of Saco were railed direct to Italy. She consented, and she handed over tlie two boxesc containing the ashes, which the French police are <■ veving at a cost of £3O.

CONSCRIPTION OF FRENCH YOUTH. PARIS, Sept. 5. The “Daily Mail” Paris correspondent states: —M. Painleve (War Minister) in discounting the seriousness .of liie Communist outbreaks in the army, says ; —“Youth has begun to think that military service is finished because thevX manoeuvres have been allowed to for eigtit years. Though 140 thousand men were called for training in 1927, only twenty merited severe punishment^

PURITY CRUSADE. PARIS, Oct. 4. The whole town is chuckling over the results of a “purity” crusade. Thus far the gendarmes have rounded up seven thousand men and women in the notorious haunts of the Latin Quarter. Many of them were foreigners whose papers were not in order. These were sentenced to be ‘deported by the police, who having insufficient { funds to ■ pay for the escort of all them to the frontiers, are obliged rely on the deportees’ sense of honour. Usually the deportees take n ticket for the frontier, but then doscend in the suburbs of Paris. On the other hand, if the French gendarmes escort the deportees to the frontiers of Belgium or Spain, the gendarmes of those countries refuse them entry.

TURKEY AND PERSIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 4. There is tension between Turkey and Persia over the recent frontier incidents. It is most acute. Turkey has demanded the immediate liberation oC the Turkish officers captured by the Persion bandits, stating that “ Otherwise the incident will be considered a causes belli.”

LEVINE’S PLANE CRASHES. ROME, Oct. 4. Calling on Signor Mussolini, tl--American airman, Mr Levine expressed the wish that when en route to Bucharest he might fly over Signor Mussolini’s villa, and drop a present for his new bahy. Signor Mussolini was most delighted. He telephoned to , his daughter, and asked her to spread sheets on the housetop so as to render it distinguishable. The attempt proved « disastrous, however. The plane “Miss Columbia” developed engine trouble, and crashed into a vineyard on the outskirts of Rom?. The crash wreck- - ed the landing gear, the propejjpr and the engine. . The occupants, however, including a passenger, Prince Louis Bourbon, had wonderful escapes, being unhurt. It is feared that this will end “ Miss Columbia’s ” romantic career, but Mr Levine has arranged to go to Paris for repairs. Mr Levine said: “ But for Hinchcliffe’s wonderful pilots ing, we would have been dead. We could have landed safely if thero had been any clear ground, but there wasn’t.” Prince Louis Bourbon emerged from the cockpit, and said : “ There already.”