PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS. GAMBLING DISCUSSED

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2223, 22 June 1908, Page 3

PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS.

GAMBLING DISCUSSED

A FREE CHUR OH AYELCOME

United Press Association. Copyright

LONDON, Juno 19. •At the Pan-Anglican Conference Bishop Bunbury, discussing gambling, denounced every form of National Council.

The'Flee Chinches telegraphed to the Pan-Anglican Conference their heirties* welcome, adding: "We are one in faijli and service.”

CAPITAL AND LABOR,

AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION

United Press Association. Copyright (Received Juno 21, 4.13 p.m.) LONDON, June 20. The Congress discussed the question of capital and labor. Tho speakers included- Air. C. F. -Mas term an, M.P., Professor Burrows, Canon Scott (Holland). All emphasised tho responsibilities of capital towards labor. The Rev. Ch Matthews (Australia) defended the Australian Labor Party.

Air. J. S. Grimiwade (Melbourne:) condemned socialism, with which Australian labor was identified, as destructive of the home.

Air. G. H. Jenkins (Australia) said tint the capitalists were being squeezed in Australia t 0 make room for labor capitalists. . Canon Stephen (Australia) declared there, was no country in the world where there was a nearer approach to social justico than in Australia where labor moulded and directed legislation. He admitted that no means of dealing with old and slow workers had yet been discovered, and also that men might repudiate an unpopular decision by the Wages Boirds. Canon Williams (Queensland) also 6poko. • Sir Geo. Liversey declared that he would put no trust in a Parliamentary ignoramus whose acts produced results exactly opposite to what was expected. Conciliation ami arbitration were equally useless, and the only remedy was to make capital and labor partners.

The Congress also discussed the organisation- and development of the ministry of men of religion. It was suggested that the Bishop of STepncv should make a tour of the whole of the Anglic in Communion of the-Em-pire on behalf of the mens’ mission. Mr. A. 'Deeper (Warden, Trinity College, Melbourne) urged tho formation of a world-wide Anglican ‘Men’s Society, and the federation of Anglican laymen, uniting all ranks in the bonds of Chirstian brotherhood, and which would constitute an epoch in the church’s history. He hoped to see a conference of lay-churchmen throughout the world organised. Canon Pugh (Brisbane) described the work of th© boys’ organisations in Queensland.