LAMBETH CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1930, Page 5

LAMBETH CONFERENCE

PULPIT REFERENCES

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(Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 17. There were many pulpit references to the Lambeth Conference. Canon Donaldson at Westminister Alibey described the report as one of the highest delivered since the Reformation. The Bishops bad issued a noble statement which will enhance their moral spiritual and social influence throughout the world and constitute a splendid text book for Christian teachers, who are looking to Lambeth for vision and counsel. The Bishops had bravely faced the burning question of birth control and given a limited approval, while condemning our horrible neglect of sex education for children, in order to lift sex from the mire in which it has been laid for generations. On tlie contrary, a rector of one city church publicity delivered a message to his congregation expressing his abhorrence and entire repudiation of the lamentable sanction of the deadly sin of contraception. Fntlief* Woomlock of Farm Street, Roman Catholic Church, vigorously protested against Lambeth’s birth control resolution. Roman Catholics recognised only self control us lawful for the limitation.

A SEVERE CRITIC,

LONDON, August 17

The “Sunday Express’ features an article b.v James Douglas attacking the Lambeth conference. He says it is strange that the conference while rigidly mediaeval on the subject of divorce should be loose and lax on the far more dangerous problem of birth control. It lias delivered a fatal blow to marriage, motherhood, and fatherhood and paved' the way to race suicide.