PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2223, 20 June 1908, Page 3

PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS.

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DISCUSSION ON SWEATING, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DEBATED. United Press Association. Copyright LONDON, Juno 18. Tho social section of tho PanAnglican Conference at Albert Hall discussed tho question of sweating. Senator Robson urged the need of regulation of machinery. Dealing with the unemployed, ho recommended labor bureaux, also n penal co.ony for unwilling workers, and a labor colony for the physically inefficient, but a better colony for honest men who were unable to find an honest day’s work. There ought to bo some arbitration authority to settle the wages question. He added: ‘T\o must task the left of the Labor party with materialisation. There was no spiritual force behind it.” The Rev. G. J-. Doro, New Zealand, explained the reasons of the absence of sweating in New Zealand. The Christian truth section at Kensington Town Hall discussed Christian' science. The majority of the speak a s favored tho rejection of its errors and retention of tho vital principles by the Church reverting to tho healing office exercised in apostolic days, ‘Mention was made of a unique clinical institution at Boston, who e the physician, theologian, and lychologist successfully co-operate in the alleviation' of nervous disorders. The Baptist Union sent tho Congress an affectionate greeting.

THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION. THE CHURCH’S WATERLOO. United Press Association. Copyright (Received June 19, 11.35 p.m.) LONDON, Juno 19 The Congress discussed the temperance question, and the speakers included the Rev. Harold Anson, formerly of Auckland. •Bishop Nelig in. presiding over the section for the discussion' on the preparation of the young for personal service to tho church, asked, remembering this was the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, what would win the church’s Waterloo. The answer. he said, was the whole-hearted devotion of the clergy and laity.