ECADENCE OF CHURCH LIFE
Sydney, November 2G. The annual report of the Church of England Association deplores the decadence of church attendance, the love of pleasure, and the permeation of schools and colleges with the so-called "New Theology." Churches, the report stated, had been transformed into ecclesiastical music halls, and organ recitals, solo singing, and tricky__ advertisements were the order of the day. Simple, plain evangelical services were put in the background. Ritualism, too, had become a very real and great danger in England. The number of ritualistic institutions, in the shape of eonvents and sisterhoods, was so great as to incline one to think of England as a Roman Catholic country. South Afriei. was strongly permeated with the ritualistic craze, and New Zealand was said to be following the same lines. It had its stronghold in the Commonwealth. Clerical autocracy was dragging the Church of England down.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 27 November 1907, Page 3
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148ECADENCE OF CHURCH LIFE Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 27 November 1907, Page 3
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