CHURCH CONGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 27, 2 October 1913, Page 5

CHURCH CONGRESS.

INTERESTING ADDRESSES.

INTERNATIONAL SELFISHNESS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyrightj [United Press Association.J

London, October 1

At the Church Congress, as the Bishop of Winchester took his seat, a well dressed woman rose and protested at Dr. Talbot presiding. She added: “God commands- you, as Archbishop of Canterbury, to uphold me against this man Edmund Talbot.” The woman was quietly removed. The Bishop of Winchester, in his presidential address on the Kingdom of God in the world to-day, said that Kingdom put patience above force, service above power, giving above receiving, and though the application of those principles in the political and social world was extraordinarily difficult, there was a necessity for some application in an inexorable age of armaments with the colossal intolerance of its burdens. Its naked international selfishness could not last long, and must change by some thunderous, unimaginable, catastrophe or by some better moral. transformation.

The Rev. C. W. Emmett made the remarkable admission that many customs, practices and observances of the Church wero-based on Christ’s sayings, which scholarship had shown to be unauthentic. So much was this the ease that it was hopeless to attempt to rely on the letter of the words spoken by Jesus. THE INVOCATION OF SAINTS. London, October 1. Bishop Ingram, at the Church Congress, dealt with the invocation of saints. He pleaded for the restoration of this aspect of the doctrine ofsaints, but safeguarded himself by saying that practice was one thing and doctrine another. He contended that they pledged themselves to doctrine every time they recited the Apostles’ Creed. •

WOMEN S RIGHTS. (Received 9.10 a.m.) London, October 1. At the Church Congress Dean Welldon contended that history disproved the belief that women’s interests were safe in men’s hands, and he pointed out legislative inequalities in politics and morals. The Bishop of Stepney’s wife declared that women’s newly-awakened responsibility was one of the greatest moral forces ever placed at the service of the church. Mrs Wentworth Stanley, of Australia, opposed women’s suffrage.