DUTY TO CHURCH

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1933, Page 8

DUTY TO CHURCH

PEOPLE WHO STAY AWAY

FIRST AT BIG WEDDING

SYDNEY, November 20

Emphasising the need for a new sense of values, Archdeacon Weston, of Forbes, in an-address at All Saints’ Gathedray, Bathurst, on Sunday night, said there were many people who said they could not go to church because it was too far, but they were first to walk into the seats at a big wedding. People could spend 6d a week trying to guess the double at a football match on Sunday, said the archdeacon, but refused ;to pay 6d a week for then* insurance at the hospital. He was satisfied their education had failed to give them a sense of values. There were -'people who said they could not sit still and therefore eould not spend three hours sitting in a picture show.

“There are many parishes where people won’t go to. church because the parson does not wear the right coloured socks or part his hair in the right manner,” said Archdeacon Weston. “Because these things are so big in the affairs, of life they could not possibly .go to church. The Australian has very highly developed two senses, which are not God. The first is in his pocket and the second is in his pinny. 1 pray for the time to arrive when the . Church will refuse to bap'tise, marry or even burv those who in life: have scorned the Church.” Archdeacon Weston said that lay officers of the church at Forbes had carried a vote of confidence and of approval in him for the stand he had taken on this question.