THE DEARTH OF CLERGY. “One commonly hears economic causes assigned for the failure or decline in quality of candidates for ordination. I cannot believe this to bo the truth, or any considerable part of it. Men of genuinely religious temperament have never recoiled from a life of poverty in pursuit of their mission, and the young men of these times have certainly as much of tho missionary spirit as those of the pro(vious generation. But they cannot interpret the creeds and dogmas in the, mediaeval sense which the traditional'Churches require, and they shrink from the modernist casuistry which would interpret them as allegories and parables. These men will only bo brought back if the ground is cleared of creeds and dogmas which cannot be believed in a natural sense.” —Mr ,T. A. Spender, in his new hook, “Journalism, Politics, and Lite.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1927, Page 3
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