CHURCHMEN’S CONFERENCE
\ United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 12.25. p.m." : v ' •' LONDON, Aug. 19. . Outspokenness Was' the keynote of the modern Churchmen’s Conference at Oxford where Dean Inge yesterday declared he,j believed in the fight of murderers to.*' commit kuicide'f' Doctor O.' F: ftuissell 'said''tHe church to-day’iidmitis' that' playing games on Sfrinday’arb ndt ,( necessarily displeasing to' God arid should have said that twenty-ftVe yriafs ago, Iri thirty years the ohrirch : wiU be quite ready to demonstrate that birth control is a desirable Christian practice, but who will listen'to fhenif The tragic thing , about the Church of England is np .blessing Ao ; iany ,- Change of outlbok-unUi'it' is too Trite to be of any value .
Rev. C. J. Hardwick asked what part will the church piny in the creative epoch ahead. Bishops have been talking, but* what have they said. They have skid more than many expected, but alas the leadership and initiative has passed from them, They are fighting a rearguard action. ■ Dean Inge is the centre of considerable criticisin' regarding his murder viewpoint, but Mr Bernard Shaw; who is in "’•fuil agreement said, “1 always feel' deeply Obliged a to the murderer #Ro'"commits suicide; He saves a* great''deal of ’trouble arid ex-* flxense. Every ' aOndeirined 'person' should have a •colleetidri 1 -of 1 poisons and chemicals put in his way, and if lie refuses to use them -derer should he told he will be hanged on a find * if-not-dead, after every possible. n}eiWis„of Auicide. is provided, then hang him.’*
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1930, Page 5
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