TRUE AT HEART.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 9

TRUE AT HEART.

ENGLAND’S DEPTH OF RELIGION. THE SLUM PROBLEM. Despite modern life, there is a great depth of religious feeling in England, according to Archdeacon W. A. Charlton, who returned to Sydney the other day. “I was greatly impressed with the part played by laymen, from the aristocracy down, in religious and philanthropic work,” said the archdeacon. He remarked that he was afraid, however, that houses erected for workmen to relieve slum congestion were not sufficiently substantial, and he doubted if they really relieved the pressure. The houses were too far out, and necessitated travelling expenses—and people brought up in the slums could not appreciate fresh air. He favoured the sweeping down of the present slums, and a re-building programme on sanitary lilies. Clothing reform day, while he was in London, had been a failure. The top hat, however, was now only an ornament for garden parties and State occasions. Dean Inge had estimated that an archdeacon spending three minutes a day in buttoning his gaiters in 20 years lost 15 days of his life. Archdeacon Charlton said that he had not been buttoning his gaiters as long as that, but ho was not worried unduly about the lost time.