“WHEN CHRISTIAN MEN CALL EACH OTHER NAMES”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 183, 24 October 1927, Page 9

“WHEN CHRISTIAN MEN CALL EACH OTHER NAMES”

ARCHBISHOP JULIUS SPEAKS Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. Partisanship in the Church was condemned by Archbishop Julius during the course of a sermon at St. Luke’s Church last evening, when he made reference to the Bishop of Burmingham and his teachings. T have got to speak out what is in me,” said the archbishop. I was shocked by what happened the other day in St. Paul’s Cathedral. On one hand we have the Bishop of Birming- | ham, a very clever man,very contentious and somewhat narrow-minded, and on I the other there is a man whom I don't ! know individually, representing a very large body of Churchmen who find it ! their duty to denounce the bishop. Whether it was the right thing to do in the circumstances I am not quite sure. At all events I am not their judge, thank God! lam going to say that they are probably both wrong, for they are both 1 partial. “The good bishop is intensely moved in spirit by modern scientific discoveries; but where do they come from? They are as much God's gifts as the | Bible is. We misuse them. We are 1 children and we are immature. Whenever Christian men call on’ another names I am convinced that there is nothing but immaturity. There is another side to Dr. Barnes’s teaching and there is another side to the teaching of those who oppose him. too, but I am not going to say what it is