PARENTS AS PRIESTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 252, 23 September 1929, Page 2

PARENTS AS PRIESTS.

PRAYERS IN THE HOME. : CANON HEAD’S BOOK. “The family is a God-given institution. Therefore, it is wrong to weaken ’it. There is a need to teach parents tliat they are really the priests of their families, and that family prayers at least once a day are worth more than some special services.” _ - This statement is made m a book entitled “Six Great Anglicans,” published' in London by the Student Christian Movement for Canon Head, of Liverpool, Archbishop-elect of Melbourne. - ..!•■ •’ •' Discussing “The Church and the Home,” Canon Head points out that the tendency recently has been to multiply the services of the Church. Young people were urged to attend club meetings night ’after night. Friendships and loyalties .were begun, but with a weakening of domestic ties.”

There should be at least one night a week, continued Canon Head, when all should stay at home. - Then the clergy, freed from outside duties, would visit the homes, and lead the family worship. This would go far towards a solution of the eexual problem. “Boys and girls grew up in ignorance of temptation,” he said, “because parents often lack the religious responsibility in bringing up their children, who look, outside the home for answers to their questions and desires. Surely it is the duty of parents to teach their children the facts <of life.” Canon Head believes that reunion will come by uniting on what is the common British Christianity, the Anglican Church being the central body to unite other British Christiana,