CHURCH CONGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 26, 1 October 1913, Page 5

CHURCH CONGRESS.

B';/" - -u' " ‘ ] “FROM THE BEATEN TRACK.” 1 ~ • )ji .1 t : ii"?hoi • [BT EIECTEIO TELEGRAPH —COPYEIGHT] [United Press Association.! London, September. 30. At the Church Congress at Southampton', Bishop Winchester will preside. There will be 2300 delegates at the Congress, which f will depart from the beaten track and, ihstea.d of discussing ecclesiastical politics oii chial ritualism,*a programme has been arranged under various heads centring on the idea of the "Kingdom of •God‘in its relation to the complex problems of life. Leading Xonconfor mists will address, the Congress or Friday, IT WOMAN’S RIGHTS. Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables (Received 8.0 aim.) London, September 30. The Church Congress opened a 1 Southampton on Wednesday. £ stern fight is promised over woman’! Suffragists and anti-suffra gists are engaged in an active educa tional propaganda outside the Con gross, and regrettable incidents art threatened. THE SOCIAL PROBLEM. (Received 12.20 p.m.) London, September 30. The Bishop of Wifichester, in open ing the Congress, emphasised the neec of an unflinching application of Christian principles to social injustices and economic • problems. - There was v clamorous need for strenuous action regarding marriage. It was essential that they should rally their moral forces to the problems connected with the avoidance of the abuse of mar riage, revolt against its duties, and . ; pressure* of the economic system upon the unmarried.