BISHOP’S BOOK

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1929, Page 5

BISHOP’S BOOK

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United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

(Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, September 11.

Canon Head, the new Archbishop of Melbourne,- writes: “In four and a half years I have learned to love the life of a parish priest and hope and pray this book will help others to love it,”

This is part of the iforeword of a volume entitled •“ Six Great Anglicans,” in which the Canon manifests virility, broadmindedness, tolerance, modernness and optimism.

Discussing Sunday worship he declares—“A Christian puts self last, and recreation of the body and physical health not of the first importance.” Dealing with social problems, he maintains this is a transitional age when all foundations are threatened and the working man’s positive ideal 'What is "the Church’s answer? We must confess her past failure. The church has been accused that it always been favourable, to the. rich against the poor. We must live down mistakes made during the laissez faire period. The church was. Then slow to see ..social reform was a Christian function. Instead of helping reformers like Lord Shaftesbury 1 and. Mr. Gladstone, the church either resisted or did not aid. We must show, to-day that we worry. He enthusiastically refers to church union. If Christians we hope and pray for Christian re-union. I believe in reunion by uniting the common British Christianity and in that process the Church of England would be the centre body to unite other British Christians. As a student of history I believe it was a mistake not see that the Anglican’s mission was to win back the early nineteenth century Puritanism and Methodism and so become again the Church of the, whole free, expanding Imperial Fnglish people. It criticises the Marxian theory. Marx was not a Christian and regarded Socialism as the solution of the working man’s needs, where Christianity had fallen, and insists Socialism puts the love of a neighbour first and God second.