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Doctors and clergy meet

Scenes at the Clergy-Doctor Conference, Brisbane. L to R: (1) Archdeacon Bryan 'Ward and the Primate. (2) Hon. David Nicholson, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Dr Roger Treadgold, Gordon Urquhart, Archdeacon John Sharpe of Papua. (3) The entrance to St. John's College. (4) Hon. Fred Campbell, Minister for Industrial Development.

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Services, Rev, B. J. McMullen and Archdeacon Bryan Ward. Many distinguished guests were present, including the president of the Queensland Council of Churches and the primate.

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Rev. Christopher F. Evans, professor of New Testament at King's College, London. has been appointed Visiting Fellow at St. Mark's Library, Canberra, for six months from January, 1970.

Rev. Noel J. Donne. vicar of St. Philip's, CoRingwood (Melbourne) from 1939 to 1960, died in Melbourne on July 28.

Rev. Trevor A. Cuthbertson, of St Matthew's, Merrylands West (Sydney) since 1966, has been appointed to the charge of The Oaks.

Rev. Warwick T. Latchford, curate of Gligandra (Bathurst), has been appointed curate of St. James', King Street (Sydney) from September I.

Mr Hugh Whitworth, an under-secretary in the Scottish Home and Health Department, has been appointed Lay Assailant to the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is 55 and a graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Comntissloner Erik Wiekberg, aged 65, has been appointed General of the Salvation Army. Born in Sweden and brought up in Germany and Switzerland, he is the first non-British general in the Army's 104-year history.

Archdeacon Eric A. PM has resigned from the secretaryship of the priory of St. John of Jerusalem, Canberra, and will continue to live at Robertson as archdeacon of Camden (Sydney).

Mr Richard Hurford was ordained deacon in Christ Church Cathedral. Grafton. on July 27, and has been appointed precentor and organist of the cathedral from that date.

Right Rev. john C. Vockler, a for-mer bishop of Polynesia and assistant bishop of Adelaide, joined an English Franciscan order on August 15 under the name of Brother John Charles.

The Bishop of Blackburn and Mrs Claxton are at present visiting their daughter at Narrogin, W A.

Lleut,Colonel R. I. Rye, has been appointed general manager of the St. Laurerico's Homes for the Aged at Grange and West Flindmarsh (Adelaide).

Rev. Thomas V. Jones, rector of St. Paul's, Naracoorte (Adelaide) since 1966. has been appointed rector of St. George's Magill from October 3

Rev. Adrian Scott of Siota, Melanes-ia, since 1966. has been appointed chap-lain to the University of Newcastle.

Rm.,. Campbell W. Brown, rector of Cardiff (Newcastle), has been appointed rector of Aberdeen-Gandy.

Rev, Charles 3. Taylor has been ap-pointed to the charge of Paterson (Newcastle).

Rev, Barrie D. Close, curate of Christ Church, Gosford (Newcastle), has been appointed to the charge Beresfield.

Rev. Hugh Kay, vicar of Newport, I i nes., England, has been appointed rec-, of Gnowongerup (Bunbury).

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Res. Donald F. Blackford, curate of Moulsham, Chelmsford, England. has been appointed to the charge of Wil-liams (Bunburry).

Rev. Michael Hardy has joined the Bush Brotherhood at Collinsville (North Queensland).

Most Rev. George 0. Simms (59), Archbishop of Dublin, has been elec-ted Archbishop of Armagh and primate of All Ireland.

Rev. Humphrey Taylor, chaplain at Tokanui Psychiatric Hospital (Waikato, N.Z is spending five months in Aus-tralia visiting psychiatric hospitals in Sydney and Melbourne and doing a clinical pastoral course at the Melbourne Diocesan Centre.

Rev. Edward J, Cooper, formerly vicar of All Saints', Preston (Melbourne), died on July 20 in Melbourne.

Rev. Canon Charles H. Partridge, rector of Broadford (Wangratta) since 1966 died suddenly in July.

Rev. H. K. Fraser, rector of Chiltern (Wangaratta) has resigned from August 10 for health reasons.

Rev. I. E. Ruskin, rector of Cobram (Wangratta) since 1963, resigned from August 17 to take up parish of Gordon-vale (N.Q.).

Rev. L. H. Allott, rector of Yackan-dandah (Wangaratta) since 1965, has accepted the parish of Cobram from October next.

Rev. G. H. Bennett, resigned from the parish of Murchison-Rushworth (Wangar-atta) from Angst 3 and has returned to the West Indies.

Rev. Warren C. Graco, rector of Quambatook (St. Arnaud) since 1963, has accepted the parish of Murchison-Rushworth rWougaratta from October next

Maurice Wood at A.C.L. PREBENDARY Maurice A.

P. Wood, principal of Oak Hill Theological College, Eng-land's largest evangelical college, was guest at a dinner in Sydney given by the council of the Anglican Church League on August 5.

In a warm after-dinner speech, he spoke of the many signs of increasing evangelical influence in England, especially through the two Graham Crusades, and the witness of the C.P.A.S., the Church Society and the diocesan evangelical followships which have now taken many laymen into their ranks. He congratu-lated the A.C.L. for having always had the support of large numbers of evangelical laymen.

He spoke in question time about the reluctance of the estab-lishment in England to appoint any evangelical to anything higher than a suffragan bishopric. He hoped that one day this would change for there are evangelicals of the highest cali-bre. He said that he was glad that evangelicals were not pre-cluded from the highest posts in Australia.

When asked about patterns of ministry and church structures, he said that we must recognise that the pattern of one man, one congregation is not sacro-sanct or even scriptural. In his letter to the Philippians, Paul addressed himself to "the bishops and deacons" in that Church.

The growth of the evangelical team ministry is one that we most be prepared for. Prebendary Wood said. Evangelical clergy must get out of their sub-conscious mind the idea that they will be in sole charge. Being a member of a team can be a very happy situation and one in which very close fellow--hin can be experienced.

After a month in Sydney -11ocese Prebendary Wood goes to Mellynorne, where he will --eak at Ridley/ College and the Melbourne Bible Institute, ,mong other engagements.

The self - sufficient do not pray, the self - satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. (Leonard Raven Hill).

IN THE AUGUST-September vacation, dozens of clergy have shed "the cloth" for gaiters, khaki and jungle greens. They have been polishing brass in pre-paration for thousands of school cadets marching in to combined schools annual camp.

The Queensland camps com-menced 29 July, By 17 August almost 1,000 cadets had passed through the Senior Cadet Camp at Crow's Nest on the Too-woomba ranges as well as over 3,500 which passed through the Junior Camp at Greenbank near the South Queensland coast.

In Northern Command (Queensland), "progressive train-ing" has been introduced. This places increasing difficulty for cadets' achievement which, by fourth year can incorporate a 52 mile compass cross country hike which can count toward a Duke of Edinburgh Award. This style of progressive adventure training has now been copied by cadet brigades in almost all States.

The spiritual welfare of all cadets is in the hands of those clergy who are members of the Citizens Military Forces Chap-laincy Department. These part-time army chaplains conduct services in the main camps and field services at bivouacs. Some of the dawn and dusk services have been held under the light of pressure and hurricane lamps. Early this month the Rev. Tom Treherne, youth officer for the province of Queensland, cele-brated Holy Communion with the help of truck lights.

tures today often make men feel no longer free. A refreshing breeze from India. Seek tells of a meeting of the Episcopal Sy-nod, a private meeting of the bishops of the Church of the Province of South Africa. Hav-ing said that it only meets for consultation outside the church constitution, it then says that the meeting appointed a dean of the province and accepted certain principles for current Bible translation. So Australia is not the only place where an infor-mal meeting of bishops makes decisions which affect the life of the church.

In a letter to Sydney's South-ern Cross, the N.S.W. Chief Secretary, Mr Eric Willis, de-fends the play "Hair" by saying that he did not find the nude scene offensive. Nudity is not in itself offensive. Selling nudity in a public performance is cash-ing in on the vicarious gratifica-tions that some people in our sick society need. The South Australian Methodists asks on its front page — "What is wrong with Methodism?" Rev. Dr Ian Parsons has returned to S.A.

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Chaplains are always avail-able for consultation by the boys. During the march to and from bivouacs, the chaplains accompany the boys, and espe-cially on the return trip, wel-come the incoming "troops."

't seems tired, defeated, excep for a few pockets of vitality. He feels that in the desperate attempt to be relevant, the essen-tial nature of the gospel may have been eroded.

Grafton • music

school 1THE DIOCESAN Centre at 1 Grafton was used August

1-3 fora residential school for church musicians of all deno-minations. It was organised by the Bishop of Grafton's Com-mittee on Church Music and the diocesan branch of the R.S.C.M.

Participants came from as far as Gympie, ()Id., for the week-end. Lecturers were Rev. A. Grimshaw of Holy Trinity, For-titude Valley, ()Id., formerly pre-centor of St. George's Cathedral, Perth; Rev. Richard Hurford, organist at Grafton since January last and now also pre-centor: Mr Ross Holland, of Lis-more, and Mr Charles Clark, of Brisbane.

Lectures, demonstrations and tutorials were conducted, cover-ing many facets of choral and instrumental music and members of the school formed a choir for choral Evensong and Com-munion in Christ Church Cathe-dral.

OVER 150 DOCTORS and clergy met at St. John's

College, University of Queens-land, 14-17 August for the third National Clergy-Doctor Confer-ence. They came from every State in Australia and from New Guinea and included wide repre-sentation of social workers, psy-chologists, university and theo-logical teachers and theological students. They lived in St. John's Anglican College at Aus-tralia's second largest university, occupying every vacant bed-room. All conference sessions were held in the college's confer-ence room.

Medicine was represented by a wide range of disciplines in-cluding a professor of social medicine, a professor of clinical science, many psychiatrists and general practitioners.

The clergy-doctor movement in Australia has flourished since 1960 and it now holds a national conference in a capital city every three years. The theme of this conference was "Man's search for wholeness." Each day's pro-gram covered a part of this

Canadian evangelicals

800 CLERGY AND LAITY from all parts of Canada met earlier this year at Knox Church, Toronto, for the annual conference of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada.

The Fellowship is only four years old and its earlier conven-tions had been small affairs. But this year, vigorous leadership from evangelicals in the main denominations and the chair-manship of Dr William Fitch, made it a significant break-through for evangelicals.

The two-day convention took as its theme" Reality and Rele-vancy." On an interdenomina-tional basis, evangelicals dealt with contemporary society, counselling, evangelism, youth and communications. Half the delegates were laymen and youth under 25 had 'significant repre-sentation.

The success this year was attributed to the awareness of the need for a united evangelical voice. There are an estimated one million evangelicals in 18 denominations in Canada.

theme—"Man the helper," "Man at work," "Man's ultimate con-cern" and "God's search for man."

Dr Roger Treadgold, physician in charge of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Univer-sity College Hospital, London, who is also a prominent Angli-can layman, was brought out to Australia to help the confer-ence in its study of this theme. Both before and after the con-ference, he had the opportunity to speak to clergy-doctor groups in mainland cities from Perth to Sydney. He also gave a public address at the University of Queensland.

All churches All major denominations, in-

cluding the Roman Catholic, were well represented. Anglican numbers were strong and in-cluded Rev, Peter Lomas from Perth, Canon Charles Brammal from Hobart, Archdeacon John Sharpe of Papua and Arch-deacon Bryan Ward, chairman of the Brisbane clergy-doctor group, Anglican doctors in-cluded Dr Murray Lloyd, Dr Noel Cummings and Dr Joan Cameron of Sydney, Dr Noel Stephenson of Melbourne, Dr Charles Elliott of Brisbane and Dr W. L. Carrington of Mel-bourne.

The conference program filled the day from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and even the little free time that was planned had to be taken over to complete program items. All members were invited to take Holy Communion at the daily 7 a.m. service in the college chapel. Officially, the morning session began with a Bible read-ing and prayer.

Thursday's sessions were chair-ed by Dr W. L. Carrington, well-known Melbourne psychia-trist, author and a founding member of the clergy-doctor movement. Hon. Fred A. Camp-bell, Queensland's Minister for Industrial Development, gave up the whole of Friday until 10 p.m. to chair its sessions. Hon. David E. Nicholson, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, was chairman on Saturday morning. Proceedings were prominently re-ported in the Brisbane Press.

Sessions consisted of talks, papers, panels, a debate and a two-hour production involving the arts demonstrating man's search for meaning. Much time was given for large and small group discussion and opinions were strongly divided on many important issues.

Dr Charles Elliott was general chairman of the conference and Rev. Norman Kerkin was sec- retary. All arrangements pro- ceeded very smoothly.

Perhaps the strongest dis-agreements that emerged con-cerned the role of the minister in modern society and also on how the minister could best con-tribute to man's wholeness. This was hardly unexpected in view of the wide divergence of tradi-tions andtheological viewpoints that were represented. Dr Car-rington and Dr Treadgold both intervened near the end of con-troversial discussion periods to bring some order out of confu-sion.

On the Saturday night, the public inauguration of the Queensland Institute of Clinical Pastoral Education was held in the conference room. The first president is Professor Douglas Gordon, professor of Social and Preventative Medicine, Univer-sity of Queensland. The vice-presidents are Dr Gordon Urquhart, Director of Psychiatric

Goulbie rig exempt ion motion lost

A motion drawing attention to the statements on conscien-tious objection of the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches, the Lambeth Con-ference and the Australian Council of Churches was put to the recent Canberra-Goul-burn synod and defeated.

The synod was asked, in the light of those statements "to re-quest the Government to amend the National Service Act in order to make clear provision for the exemption from National Service of persons who conscien_ tiously object to participating in a particular war, declared or undeclared."

The motion thus differed in one important respect from that approved by a majority of the bishops in their meeting earlier this year. The bishops sought exemption from military service for those "who are found by the Courts to have a conscientious objection to participation in a particular war."

Ecumenical • resistance

in W.A. HOMAN IS i S, and Baptists

have helped financially the objectors to a union church being built by tax money at Jerramungup in the diocese of Bunbury, WA., according to a letter in a recent issue of "Aus-tralian Presbyterian Life."

The letter was written by Rev. Hector Harrison, senior Presby-terian minister in the National Capital. It reads:

Sir: The Anglican, Roman Catholic, Methodist, Presby-terian and Lutheran churches of Jerramungup, strong in their ecumenical might, persuaded the Shire Council to take a poll of ratepayers as to the advisability of striking a rate on all ratepay-ers to pay for a church to be used by them and any other re-ligious organisation short of a place of worship. A majority of ratepayers voted in favour of the proposal so that, for the first time in Australian history, we have an instance of non-churchmen, or churchmen who do not believe in the State-Church relationship being com-pelled to pay rates for the erec-tion of a church they will never need. Twenty-three objectors took their case to the Supreme Court and then to the High Court and lost.

Eleven have said that they will refuse to pay the rate, as did so many Free Churchmen in England over the past one hun-dred years. They have been asked to pay $2,047 court costs or suffer the distraint of their property. Were I living there I would be with them all the way, even to going to gaol for the sake of principle.

The humanists have given $500 to help the objectors, and the Baptists, who refuse to use the church, have also offered help. Are there any Presbyter-ians in the United Free Church or English Free Church tradition who will help, too? If so, will they write to me"

Theologian. visits Adelaide

REV. BRUCE SMITH. senior lecturer at Moore College, New-town, N.S.W., visited Adelaide for speaking and preaching en-gagements August 23-24. He went on the invitation of the Research Scientists' Christian Fellowship to present a paper on "Biblical Eschatology."

St. Matthew's, Marryatville observed Sunday, August 24 as Reformation Sunday and Mr Smith was the preacher at all morning services. At night he

CATHOLIC WEEKLY says that the R.C. archdiocese of Sydney has only twelve men to be ordained priests this year and Bishop Ed Kelly has been given special responsibility to set up an organisation to encourage young men to train for the ministry. Canadian Churchman reports that six ofCanada's 28 dioceses have opposed reciprocal acts of intercommurrion with the United Church, with which the Anglican church is working on unity proposals.

Church & People (N.Z.) re-ports that Auckland synod is considering a proposal to hold two synods a year. Tigers for punishment. Wellington synod has asked the N.Z. Rugby Union to cancel the 1970 All Blacks' tour of South Africa and Rhodesia as a protest against apartheid.

The South India Churchman has an articlt. on "Principles of Church Government." Two of the principles laid down are; Church Government must be a sign of the faithfulness of Christ and Church Government must set men free in Christ. It com-ment, Ih It ecclesiastical sitiiC

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MR B. H. TRAVERS, head-master of Sydney Church of England Grammar School, has been sent overseas for five months by the school council.

He will visit parts of Asia, England, the Continent and the U.S.A. to assess educational trends and to meet with leading educationists. He left with Mrs Travers on September 1 and he returns on January 25 next. Before becoming headmaster of Shore 10 years ago, Mr Travers was headmaster of Launceston Grammar School.

While he is away, the Senior Master, Mr K. D. Anderson will be acting headmaster. Mr James K. Morell has been appointed master of the Lower School from preached at Holy Trinity, North 1970. Terrace.

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1)AUL TOURNIER was wise enough to say "The Person I Reborn" that a certain type of person needs the help of the psychiatrist. But another type should be "taking stock of himself and repenting, then he must be brought into the presence of Jesus Christ, the source of all spiritual growth." Oif course, it takes a skilful pastor to know the difference when 'he is counselling people who came to him.

Australia's third National Clergy-Doctor Conference held recently in Brisbane (see report and pictures--p.1) and the attendance of sa many ministers and doctors from all over this land, reflects two things.

First, there is the growing awareness of the medical pro-fession that man's physical and emotional ills cannot be treated in isolation. Doctors are finding that when they treat physical ailments, they cannot afford to ignore the mental, emotional and spiritual sides of the person. Waiting-rooms are besieged by people who suffer and yet have no physical ailment. Some need the specialist psychiatrist but more need the Christian counsellor.

Then the clergy are beginning to realise that there are ills which do not respond to the glibly quoted Bible passage or the quick prayer. As a survey of Melbourne clergy showed (see page 1—last issue of A.C.R.), some clergy respond to this awareness by "calling in the expert." This is certainly the counsel of despair. We suggest that there is a better way.

Clergy-doctor co-operation shows clearly that these two callings need each other very badly. This was freely admitted at the Brisbane Conference, yet it is far from being admitted by large numbers at the grass-roots level. A letter on page five of this issue reflects a singularly uninformed attitude to one medical specialty which is far (from being uncommon. Some doctors may have a poor attitude to religion. But national clergy-doctor co-operation has shown that at all levels, from universities to general practitioners, understanding and sharing is being sought.

All over Australia, universities, State health departments, hospitals, medical and para-medical professions have gladly co-operated, often at considerable expense, to help clergy and students with clinical pastoral training. Most participants have wished that they had done courses much earlier in their ministry.

So there are increasing opportunities for ministers to sharpen their pastoral insights and skills, so that they can help many more people and minister a greater depth to all their people. But they should not think that it is a matter of learning a technique—the Rogerian grunt or the "What do you think?" reply to all questions.

Clinical pastoral theology, if it is truly Christian and truly pastoral, finds its basis in the Bible and particularly in our Lord's own ministry. Our Lord was a master in hand- ling all kinds of troubled people, in understanding unexpressed needs, in recognising the signs of deeper problems. He wasn't afraid of relating warmly and closely to people. He did not condemn nor judge. He pointed men to the One who would be lifted up. Exactly What we must do today.

Christian ministers can learn a lot from medical men and the behavioural scientists. But they should avoid the temptation to feel inferior to them or to copy them or to take over techniques and use them without discrimination. The minister is called to the ministry of the Word. He is under authority and in the servant role, 'he simply cannot function with God's blessing outside it.

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to minister, he may experiment boldly, do new things, acquire new skills, sharpen old ones—yes, and even make mistakes sometimes—that he might be a good pastor to the flock which Christ has committed to his charge.

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EDITORIAL EVANGELICAL VIEWPOINTS

Salvation The generation gap Through the rectory door

THESE DAYS there seems to be far too much despondency among Christians. On the con-trary, the Christian faith is a joyous thing and I want to give just three examples from the Gospels where Jesus gives real cheer to people.

CHRIST'S PARDON FOR PAST SINS. In Matt. 9. 2-8 we have the record of the healing of a paralysed man. The Lord's response to the faith of the sick man's friends was to heal and to cheer him up. The man became a new person. "Thy sins be for-given thee, be of good cheer!" Read the story of Mark's account in Chapter 2. Do you know the assurance of God's forgiveness?

CHRIST'S PRESENCE FOR PRESENT NEEDS. Turning to Matt. 14. After the account of the feeding of the five thousand we have the incident of the Lord walking on the water and calm-ing the storm. He said to the disciples, v. 27, "Be of good cheer, it is I, be not afraid." This same Jesus who calmed their feelings as well as the storm, and who lifted up Peter

FEW topics of disagreement in our society generate so

much heat and so little light as the "generation gap." The rift between the older and the younger in our community has been well and truly publicised, but only superficially investi-gated in the mass media. As a part of this general turmoil, the "teenager" has become a mid-twentieth century pheno-menon (were there any such things 30 years ago?) and "to-day's youth" has suddenly be-come public property.

It is now something of a cliche that the attention they re-ceive is usually unfavourable. The press, with their usual irres-ponsibility and carelessness of

Dr. Packer to Tyndale REV. DR JIM PACKER, who

is at present visiting Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Ceylon, has been appointed prin-cipal of Tyndale Hall, one of England's largest evangelical theological colleges.

He was on the staff at Tyndale Hall, 1955-61, and is at present warden of Latimer House, Ox-ford, a centre for evangelical scholarship and research. He will take up his appointment in January, 1970.

Dr Packer has also been appointed to a working party on college policy and structures. Other members are the present full-time staff, the college coun-cil and representatives of the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society. The principal-designate arrives back in England on Sep-tember 21.

English church govt. changes THE ROYAL assent has been

given to the Synodical Govern-ment Measure which sets up a new system of church govern-ment in England from November 1970.

There will be a general synod of bishops, other clergy and laity which is to have wider powers than the existing Church Assembly. The Convocations of York and Canterbury will remain but the new general synod will exercise some of their former functions.

Diocesan synods will replace diocesan conferences and dean-ery synods will replace ruri-decanal conferences. The synods will have wider powers than the present conferences. Parish coun-cils are also given wider powers under the new measure.

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support us till next year's model comes out. They will not sus-tain us in pursuit of hopes that have not been fulfilled in the whole panorama of human striv-ing, as far back in recorded his-tory as we care to go. We are still haunted by longings for an Eden, for the Elysian fields, for the halls of Valhalla — and we have not attained them. We are not deceived by polythene and chromium plate.

Jesus said: "He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake shall keep it." For all our organised religion our Establish-ed Church and our self-sustain-ing and imperishable institution, we have denied this basic fact of Christian experience. We all of us, no matter on which side of the generation gap, have res-olutely refused to die to our-selves so that we might live eternally for Christ and with Him. That is the trouble —really serving Him means for-getting ourselves, and that we have not been prepared to do. Yet it is still true. His death and resurrection are the guar-antee that "they who trust in Him shall not be confounded" and that because He lives we shall live also. There is a pro-found difference between the Kingdom of Heaven of which Christians are citizens and build-ing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. We must remember our heritage and duties as the for-mer, and not waste our time on I he latter.

The Gospel is still the power of God to salvation — as our youth are still finding. You may hear their testimony to it in the following pages. The promise of the Gospel is the only one that can sustain us, alienated from God, lost and unforgiven in the technological wilderness of our own creating. Christ came that we might have life, and have it abundantly. It is still there to be found in Him.

South Pacific ministry study

SUVA, Fiji (EPS).— CHURCHES in the South Pacific have been asked to examine traditional patterns of ministry and ways in which they should be changed to meet new situations. The request was made at the first assembly of the South Pacific Association of Theological Schools held here recently.

A paper entitled "Shapes of the Ministry in the Pacific in 1975" had been prepared by the Rev. Bernard Thorogood of the Cook Islands at the request of the association. Acting on the findings of Mr Thorogood, the association put several questions to the churches.

They have been asked to con-sider the possibility of new forms of ministry, e.g. the mini-stry of women, part-time mini-stries, etc., as well as the economic situation of ministers.

Attending the Suva meeting was the principal of each of the 12 theological schools of the South Pacific Islands with the chairman of the theological education committee in each island church. Dr George A. F. Knight, principal of Pacific Theological College, is president of the association.

I CANNOT BEAR those smug and self-complacent people

who are continually saying, "I em saved!" Such is a common reaction to the use of this great word of the Scriptures.

It is a surprising reaction! "I am saved" is far from being a claim to self-righteousness and self-confidence. It is a statement of the utmost humility.

This came home to me with some clarity in the days in which I belonged to a surf-lifesaving club in the central coast of N.S.W. A lifesaver prides him-self in his competence to save others—I had the privilege of be-ing rescued! I was both deeply grateful for my rescue and deep-ly humbled by it. The man who claim's God's salvation is humbled by the knowledge that he could not save himself, even when he felt secure in his own ability to meet his own needs. To say "I am saved" is both an expression of joy and a confes-sion of failure. God's Initiative.

Salvation springs entirely from the initiative of God. It is the outcome of his character of righteousness and mercy. It is not in any way the consequence of influence brought to bear by man or God, nor does it repre-sent any change of the attitude of God to man.

The qualifying word for salva-tion is "eternal," for salvation has been God's activity from the beginning of time (2 Thess. 2:13). Salvation is seen to be the pur-pose and meaning of Christ's mission into the world (John 3:17, 1 Tim. 1:15).

God's action towards man in

salvation is not a response to man's religious or moral efforts to obtain His favour and accept-ance; it is not provoked by cere-monial piety or world-denying asceticism; it is His movement towards man motivated only by His grace.

by Rev. Jeff Roper Rector of St Matthew's,

Marryatville, S.A. •••

Salvation and Judgment. Salvation and judgment are

both issues that arise directly out of the nature of God's activity in the gospel of His Son. Paul indicates this in his thesis to the Romans. The gospel which is the rawer of God to save man, is a declaration of God's justi-fying activity and His wrath.

The gospel exposes man to the justice and judgment of God that he might know the mercy and salvation of God. These twins are inseparable, for with-out God's wrath upon human failure and sin being recognised, salvation becomes a mere pious platitude.

Salvation is not only God's ac-tivity—it is God's activity to-wards man in his sinful state, an activity that has no meaning for the man who in ignorance imagine he is righteous. It is only the man who can accept God's verdict declaring him guilty who can apprecite and lay claim to the salvation of God which leads to free forgiveness. -Salvation and the Cross

God's saving activity is

centred in the crucifixion of Christ. "The word of the cross is folly to those who are perish-ing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." It is by the death of Jesus Christ that salvation is effected for man, for it is through that death that the way is opened for man to return to God.

!ter. Jen. Koper,

It will be noted that Paul here speaks of slavation as a process. This is not to suggest that there is something lacking in the quality of God's activity in saving man, nor does it imply an inadequate faith on the part of man. It is by the doctrine of the cross—what the cross means that the Christian is continually being rescued from the power of a hostile world and from the effect of his own frailty. It is the cross which speaks of his perfect acceptance with God which will be fulfilled in the perfection of our natures as the son of God (Romans 8: 18-25),

The death and the resurrec-tion of Christ are central in the declaration of God's salvation in the Acts. In the healing of the man lame from birth and the controversy surrounding it (Acts 3 and 4) Peter declares the miracle a testimony to the fact that the name of Jesu Christ, crucified and risen, is the exclu-sive means of man's salvation. Saving Others

The Christian believer is in-volved by his relationship with Christ, with the saving activity of God. Paul is anxious to save some of the Jews (Romans 11:14). He becomes all things to all men in order to save some (1 Cor 9.2 2). He exhorts the believing partner to a marriage not to leave the unbelieving one for perhaps he may save the unbeliever (1 Cor 7:16). The man who converts a sinner saves a soul from death (James 5:20).

To return to our friend with whom we commenced this article . . . who said with the confi-dence of faith in Christ "I am saved." Salvation should not lead a man merely to reflect on his own spiritual security. Such con-fidence, true as it is to the nature of the gospel, should lead a man out in concern for the salvation of others. Bishop John Chrysostom (fourth century) wrote: "Nothing is more useless than the Christian who does not try to save others . . . I cannot believe in the salvation of any-one who does not work for his neighbours' salvation."

Joy is not jolliness; joy is not gush. Joy is perfect acquies-cence in God's will because the soul delights itself in God him-self. (Prebendary H. W. Webb-Peploe.)

SHE WAS NOWHERE to be seen. I hurried along the desert-ed front steps of the G.P.O. looking in and out of every section, behind every pillar for the lady in the white hat and pink-flowered frock who had rung me just a few minutes be-fore. Nowhere. Was it all a hoax?

But no, a tall gentleman ran after me asking "Are you look-ing for a little lady who rang you up'?" and advised me that the telephonist, worried about

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her agitated condition, had taken her inside to rest. A few moments later I met her, short, dark, rotund, and broken-heart-ed, with the white hat and pink-flowered frock as described to help me identify her.

My brief association with Mrs Jones had begun a few minutes earlier when the phone broke the stillness of that warm Sun-day afternoon, and a soft tear-ful voice begged, "Can you help me?" She was all alone in the city; her husband had died in hospital the day before, She knew nothing of what to do, and finally with the assistance of the telephonist, had rung our num-ber to ask for help. Obviously she needed more than a tele-phone conversation, so I had arranged to go in and collect her to see what could be done.

At home, sitting in the kit-chen, she was persuaded to drink some tea and eat a little, but mostly she just poured out her sorrow. She had dearly loved her husband, and was con-vinced that he had been mal-treated and neglected by every-one in the hospital, and left to die. It was hopeless to try con-vincing her otherwise, so we tried instead to progress to the next step, what must be done about the funeral. She had no idea at all of how or where to begin.

At last we were able to ascer-tain that she did, in fact, have a son by a former marriage, but on no account did she want to let him know of her loss, lest he think she was looking for financial help. In any case she

had no idea of his whereabouts, as he worked with contracting firms in the country, But it seemed this was her only con-nection, and finally she agreed for my husband to ring the Rec-tor of the town where the son's home was, and he was happy to visit them to try and locate him.

The next step was the under-taker's. I had never arranged a funeral before, least of all for someone I had never even met.

The undertaker was a kindly man, and between us we arrang-ed for something which Mrs Jones would be able to pay off over a long period from her tiny income, and to find out all the necessary details from her. Every point she had to recall for the records brought reminiscences and tears—the date of their wed-ding, the names of her husband's parents, his place of birth, all reminded her of days gone by, happy times. But she battled on through the tears and did her best to supply all the informa-tion she must,

Later I took her home. It was a single room in the back of a draughty old yellow building in the heart of the city, condemned and for demolition. But to her it was their home, and she hated to think that one day soon she must leave.

My husband took the funeral service, and I felt compelled to go and give some support. To our delight, her son was there! He had come home after many months away, just as the local minister called to tell of his mother's bereavement, and had come straight down to the city. His concern was all the world to her. They sat there together in the mourning coach, he almost a full-blooded Aboriginal, darker by far than his mother, and both of them neat, soft-spoken and content to be to-gether.

We may never see Mrs Jones again. Having upheld her during the service, her son took her home to the country to be with his wife and family. But I often think of her, and wonder just how many others there are like her, alone and helpless in a time of crisis. How shallow "the affluent society" must seem to them as they wander the cold streets, knowing not where to turn in their desolation.

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consequences, publicise the de-praved, the eccentric, the vicious and the revolutionary. It has reached the stage where the sane and sensible, the thoughtful and the industrious have come to be regarded as freaks, and therefore worthy of attention by the

media, In the midst of this dis-tortion and imbalance, is it pos-sible to say anything realistic about youth?

One thing necessary to realise is the reality of the generation gap. Today's way of looking at

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SUNDAY, 7th SEPTEMBER, 1969, 7 p.m.

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Rev. Don Meadows life and the world in general, moulded as it has been by the tremendous technological changes of the last 20 or 30 years, is quite different from the view of life held by those who came to maturity before TV, the jet engine, nationalism, the computer and the permissive soc-iety. Those involved in educa-tion today measure the changes in school populations (and soc-iety generally) by periods of 12 months or even less.

Allied with the idealism nat-ural to youth is now a profound distrust of authorities of any kind, whether civic, ecclesiasti-cal or (especially) political. A deeply-ingrained cynicism about the values of our consumer soc-iety and the possibility of effect-ing any change in the system is sapping the idealism and the longing that life should be worthwhile, something it is pat-ently not if material values are the only forces shaping our soc-iety. Perhaps the voice which best represents this mood in youth today is that of Malcolm Muggeridge, old arch enemy of the establishment and by divine appointment gadfly to the afflu-ent society. It is not strange that he should find Christ more at-tractive than anything offered by the world in which he has had such a fair measure of "suc-cess."

This is the only possibility that offers any realistic hope for the future. If we have trusted in technology to deliver us from this world's ills, then at base we still possess a — "heathen heart that puts its trust in reeking tube and iron shard."

The evanescent products of the consumer society can barely

and saved him is available to the believer today. Do you realise his presence and act upon it?

CHRIST'S POWER FOR FUTURE CONFLICT. Turn now to John, Chapter 16. The scene is after the last supper and the Lord is encouraging his chosen few. So he says to them "In the world you have tribula-tion but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." This was a critical time and in fact the Lord was anticipating his passion and victory. If we are true Christians we ought to be of good cheer for he has con-quered, and will conquer. This is a guilty age, an age of anx-iety and an age of fear. By con-trast what a wonderful oppor-tunity we Christians have. Let us remember that the Lord has risen indeed. He still gives par-don for past sins, he promises his presence for present needs and he assures us of his power for all future difficulties. It is up to us who believe on His name to realise His presence and be of good cheer!

— Geoffrey Hayles.

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are a short and fitting hymn to Christ as the Lamb of God -yet their use at the place where they appeared in the service was interpreted by some as being addressed to Christ, now thought to be locally present in the elements by virtue of the con-secration.

Bishop Ridley in May, 1550 referred to some who were "counterfeiting the Popish Mass in saying the Agnus before the Communion," and Thomas Becon, Cranmer's chaplain, refers to the practice as "intoler-able blasphemy." Thus it was removed from the Prayer Book in 1552 and since.

The point to grasp is that both these matters imply that Christ is locally and more truly present after the consecration, but this view has no support in the Prayer Book or the teaching of the Reformers.

(Rev.) T. C. Milton, Currie, King Island,

Tasmania.

Counselling out I agree with the clergy of

Melbourne diocese that except in superficial cases it is not possible to counsel people.

It is of course true that with training and further insight it it possible to pick out those who need further assistance. However I do not think that psychiatry is the answer to man's problems. When in our newspapers within the past month there have been two articles dealing with mental illness it seems that either psy-chiatrists want more custom or people are trotting off to the local G.P. and turned to the psy-chiatrist when the pills failed

Psychiatry does not in the main furnish a positive re-crea-tion. All it does is take the organism and tell it that it is reacting against its environment wrongly and needs to rethink it-self along another tack and all will he well. The psychiatrist

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DISSIDENT ANGLICANS I hose who subsci the to the

idea that bishops are essential to the church have serious objec-tions to the many schemes for organic unity. In Canada and England they have already said that they would be obliged to remain outside the union as "continuing Anglicans." When forced to do this, as in lIndia, there will always be the danger of secession to Rome.

There are obvious limits be-yond which the Protestant and reformed doctrines of the Church of England cannot be stretched, despite its much-vaunted "com-prehensiveness." A lot of diver-gent views shelter under the Anglican umbrella, but if min-orities are pushed hard enough, they will seek desperate reme-dies.

The Roman "Catholic Herald," England, reports that 2,500 Anglicans and five clergy in the diocese of Nandyal, India, have seceded to the Roman Catholic Church. The Anglican bishop has not yet substantiated the report.

The diocese is strongly Anglo-Catholic and those who have been reported as seceding were unwilling to join the Church of South India or the coming United Church of North India. One theological issue which is said to have troubled them was the "apostolic succession," a doc-trine which finds no place in the theology of the reformed churches.

KRUSCHEV CONVERTED! From "Europe's Millions," a

journal of Pastor Richard Wurmbrand's European Chris-tian Missions, comes the story of the conversion of Nikita Kru-schev, former Russian leader. He is alleged to have been deposed from his high offices by the Soviet hierarchy in 1964 because he confessed faith in Christ.

It reports that at a Black Sea summer resort a congregation was witnessing for the gospel

Letters to the Editor

BRISBANE SYNOD has adopted a report on gamb-

ling methods in church fund-raising which deprecates the use of lotteries, art unions, raffles and games of chance for church purposes.

For many years, the province of Queensland honoured a pro-vincial synod resolution of 1906, moved by the Archdeacon of North Queensland, which de-plored the use of such methods. A similar resolution of 1935 ex-pressed satisfaction that the Queensland attorney - general would not give such permission to any churches of the Church of England in Queensland.

However, this long tradition was upset in provincial synod in 1964 by a motion moved by the Bishop of North Queensland.

In his motion, Bishop Shevill sought to permit dioceses to use gambling methods if they so de-sired. Brisbane synod in November, 1964, then reaffirm-ed their rejection of such methods. A similar motion was passed at the 1965 synod.

At the 1968 Brisbane synod, a committee was called for to examine the whole question and the advisability of rescinding the 1965 resolution. The Diocesan Council in April, 1969 adopted a lengthy report, which advised against any change.

Synod also accepted a report advising against any extension in the State of Sunday hotel trad-ing.

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The newspapers are asking us to swallow the "Big Lie," namely, "that it has never been proved that what you read and see can affect your life and standards." This said frequently in articles against censorship. Yet, our edu-cation system, our advertising industry, our world of commercial television and radio are based upon the fact that a person is influenced greatly by what they see and hear. Adver-tising by continual effort causes us to look upon a product with acceptance. Pornography by print and vision is by nature of the same category. We cannot allow the safeguards to be taken off so that our children are sub-ject to such influence.

CHECKING CHARITY In Hi ulu' this year, the

Charity Commissioners have begun to analyse some of the facts regarding the 71,000 chari-ties registered in that country. It is the age of professional ad-vertising campaigns and many people have queried the amount of aid leaving the country after national executives and cam-paign directors have taken out their percentages. The report is due later this year. The charities of Australia might well come under a similar scrutiny.

STATE CHURCHES The W.A. State Governor

opened what is probably the first church built in Australia for a century which was paid for out of public funds. It is at Jerre-mungup in the diocese of Bun-bury and it is for the use of Anglicans, Methodists, Presby- terians, Lutherans and Roman Catholics. The Shire Council held a poll among ratepayers and the use of shire rates for the purpose was endorsed by 182 votes to 86. It was taken by some who saw it as an un-fortunate precedent to the Supreme Court of W.A. and then to the High Court. They lost.

The recent Kalgoorlie synod had a motion before it opposing the use of public funds for church building purposes. It too was lost. But it was good to see that some Kalgoorlie churchmen did not see this development as an occasion for Christians to re-joice. Neither do we.

Many will share our sense of disquiet. It is not our intention to dim the pleasure which Jerramungup folk are experienc-ing because of this gift. We do not believe they saw all its implications. Christians have a basic need to join together in prayer, fellowship and in sacri-fice to do anything worthwhile to spread the gospel. The deter-mination to seek God's provision and to make personal sacrifices is enfeebled when the State takes the initiative.

We see the duty of the State in this land as allowing Christians to promote the cause of Christ without hindrance but in the way they choose to do it, which will be in agreement with the known will of God.

A case can be made out for State funds supporting church schools or church hospitals and other social welfare institutions. We do not think that even this case is strong. But when the State provides money for a building used for religious wor-ship, the door is opened wide to all sorts of claims on the State. Worse, Christians are placed in the role of dependents. Even-tually, it will attempt to treat us as such. In more ways than one, Jerramungup Christians have already lost some of their Christian freedom.

EXCLUSIVE TOO he Hible makes it clear that

the Christian faith offers full and free salvation to all men, irrespective of deserving, race, religion, moral behaviour or social position. "Whosoever will may come." "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." John 3:16 - "God so loved the world . . ." alone establishes the fact that all mankind is within the working of God's love to us in Christ.

But if a man comes to Christ for salvation, pardon and life, he comes on God's terms. He can come to God only by com-ing to Christ. John 3:16 says, "whosoever believeth in him ..." John also says: "He that hath not the son of God hath not life." Peter speaks just as strong-ly when he says: "There is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved."

So while the Bible makes Christianity the most inclusive religion, it also makes it ex-clusive. It may seem unloving to say so but do we lack love be-cause we warn men of their danger?

The way that leads to life is open to all but none set foot on it except through Jesus Christ.

and Kruschev came down the THE BIG LIE aisle to the microphone. "From the platform he witnessed to his faith in Jesus Christ, and he said he desired to turn Russians to follow in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus Christ."

Whetheror not, the gospel is still the power of God unto sal-vation for everyone that be-lieves and we know that there are untold millions in Soviet Russia who are hungry for the gospel of Christ. Stalin's daughter confessed a faith in God when she fled to the U.S.A. Many more would profess faith or seek it. Continuing prayer must be offered for the genuine Christian witness in all Commu-nist lands where only atheism is encouraged.

Prayer is also needed for the Orthodox Churches of Europe and the East, including that in Russia, that gale-force winds of the Holy Spirit might bring them to life. At present, there are more signs that the Holy Spirit is working in the Church of Rome than in the Orthodox Churches.

The Reformation made no im-pact on the Orthodox. It divided Rome and it has always been exerting pressure on it. It is bearing direct fruits in that body today. But we cannot say the same about the Orthodox. We owe them the gospel.

Rev. Ken. Child plays the organ, recently dedicated a Deaconess House, Sydney.

Additions to H.C. I would like to comment on

the matters raised by A. L. Clark (A.C.R., Aug. 7) on the subject of innovations at Holy Com-munion.

The "short verse in a foreign language" sung by the choir 1 am unable to identify with any precision - but the practice of saying or singing anything in a foreign language during divine service is quite contrary to the Prayer Book. The Reformers condemned the use of Latin for congregations "heard with then ears only and heart, mind, and spirit were not edified thereby," and the principle still holds that if God is to be glorified, the congregation must also be edi-fled by what they hear.

The other matters are of con-siderable doctrinal import.

"Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord" appeared in the 1549 Prayer Book after the Ter Sanctus ("Therefore with angels . . . ") and the two are connected in most ancient litur-gies. The words themselves are quite inoffensive - a verse of scripture really - but they come just before the consecration and were understood by some to refer to Christ's "coming" at the consecration.

Bishop Barry (in his "Teacher's Prayer Book") suggests that these words were omitted in 1552 and ever since because they were not really part of the words of the angels - but there is more evidence that they were omitted because understood by some (e.g. Bishop Gardiner) in a Roman sense as referring to the conse-cration,

The same circle of ideas is involved in the use of the Agnus Dei ("0 Lamb of God . . . ") which was used in the 1549 Prayer Book. Again the wnr,ls

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does not get after the other tack which has made the stressful situation. Nor does he alter or seek to alter situations where bureaucracy's attack on the organism of man causes the trouble. He would say it is not his place.

There is a way to think of stress and it is as a break-through. As one psychologist puts it, it is the way the stresses fall and how the neurotic traits are broken and it will surely cause pain if it is not a smooth transition. If the depression or other factor is taken as God calling us to a higher level arid we accept that level in faith it is no breakdown, and it can bring great blessings to the "sufferer."

In Sargent's "The Battle of the Mind" he deals with Wesley and his work. Truly we need preachers preaching "for a ver-dict" and not afraid to use the tactics he has written about. Surely we in the church ought to be besieging heaven to give us the wisdom to call men to repentance that they might find salvation. Then we will hear less about the psychiatrist and his couch.

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Barth's theology I was somewhat disappointed

some months back in glancing through the A.C.R., to notice act article praising Karl Barth.

With this in mind, I thought that I should send you a copy of a booklet which examines Barth's attitude to the Holy Trinity,

Perhaps I could also bring the following booklets to your atten-tion: (I) Karl Barth and Evan-gelicalism (2) Barth's Christology (3) Barth's Soteriology by Robert L. Reymond. The first two are by Cornelius Van Til. All are published by the Presby-terian and Reformed Publishing Co., Philadelphia, U.S.A.

Dr Van Til. after showing the

defects in Barth's theology in comparison with scriptural truth, declares; "A philosophy of egrest and regress that covers itself with the name of Calvin, such is the theollogy of Karl Barth." (Barth's Christology--p.291.

JAI] Forestville, N.S.W.

South Africa In your August 7 issue Rev.

G. S. Clarke does not deny that much criticism of South Africa and Rhodesia is ill-informed and biased. He defends its selec-tive concentration on their af-fairs, to be exclusion of more serious matters elsewhere, on the ground of certain Old Testament indications that God, having "a selective attitude to nations" Himself, judged Israel more severely than her "often worse" pagan neighbours, because of her greater spiritual opportunities."

Accepting Mr Clarke's author-ity, the Bible, note that it says that all humanity started with equal spiritual and other opportunities and attributes, that most so misused them as to qualify for mass drowning - and that on later occasion, instead of judging Israel more severely than her neighbours, God chose to order her to wipe some of them off the face of the earth. No wonder "the .Bible says very little" about their sins, as Mr Clarke tells us; that wholesale death sentence says almost enough in itself; but for some hints of the depravity and con-sequent disease which apparently made it a sanitary necessity, see Joshua 6 and 7.

In face of this evidence it would have been strange if, in-stead of the choice He is reported to have made, God had ordered Joshua and his Israelite "settlers" to submit themselves, on "major-ity rule," "prior occupation" or other such grounds, to be ruled by people who had already got themselves into so deplorable a state. Yet it is on arch erounds

that "righteous" critics expect the civilised South Africans and Rhodesians to submit them-selves (and their black fellow-countrymen) to the little less de-plorable conditions which Bantu self-rule hasproduced in Africa.

South African and Rhodesian racial policies are designed to prevent any st:ch degeneration and at the same time, as obvious self - interest and civilised de-cency dictate, to try to help the Bantu. They may or may not succeed, though I venture to be-lieve that in God's judgment, which is unbiased and fully in-formed, they will fare at least as well as their critics.

But could any of us face God's justice? Don't we all pray, rather, for His mercy?

F. H. Sibson, Doubleview, W.A.

South Africa Rev. G. S. Clarke is undoubt-

edly right when in reply to F. H. Sibson he says that God "judges people more severely because of their greater spiritual opportuni-ties."

But is Mr Clarke right to pre-sume that in the case of South Africa God's judgment will be on the "high proportion of prac-tising Christians among the white master race" for its adop-tion of the policy of apartheid?

I have never ceased to wonder at the smugness and hypocrisy of those other "Christian nations" who through silence and assent, or overt criticism of the South-ern African nations deny their share of responsibility in the carnage the world has witnessed in other parts of Africa. Carn-age which could not take place while the "master race" accepted its responsibility as it does in South Africa.

What will the judgment of our Creator - who in his wisdom made us all different - be to-wards those nations who walked out on their responsibilities, and so condemned hundreds of thousands of their black African brothers to a ghastly and grizzly fate, which no amount of rationalisation can defend?

Edward Rock, Greensboro ugh, Vic.

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THE LOG COLLEGE by Archibald Alexander. Banner of Truth Trust, 1968. pp. 251. 21s. (U.K.). Another great classic at a ridiculously low price by the Trust. First published in 1851, it is part of the story of the Great Awakening of the 1740s in the U.S.A., a revival which changed the course of American history. All who pray and long for revival must read this book. Are we ready to be used by the Holy Spirit as these ,men were used? "Log College" is the contemptuous Caine for William Tennant's unpretentious theological school. Tennant was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and was ordained in the Church of Ireland.

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personal testimony to his faith in Jesus Christ, and indeed his appeal to others to join him in that life-transforming faith. It does not strive to uphold the reasonableness of faith in this "scientif:c age." It argues rather, for example, for "the reality of the unseen," "the necessity of faith" and "the power of prayer" by analogies from the world of science. Such argument is based on the conviction that "the spiri-tual" is "mirrored in the mate-Hal" (p. 5), because the same Hand is behind them both.

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I write as one who used to know Muriel and Doris Lester and who grew up with their great friend Sydney Russell, who still treasures the days when Mahatma Gandhi.was in London for those Round Table con-ferences of nearly forty years ago, and who has recently been invited by Lord Louis Mount-batten to be a member of the United Kingdom Committee for the Gandhi Centenary being celebrated in England this year.

Later I came to live in your country and worked as Business Manager and Pharmacist of a large hospital, during which time I shared the joy of August, 1947. Whether the speech I made in halting Bengali at a large open air meeting to celebrate swaraj was intelligible may be open to question, but I was greeted with warm-hearted enthusiasm and perhaps it did not matter whether I was understood or not, for we all knew what was in our hearts and words hardly seemed to matter.

Now T am one of the secre-taries of the Australian Council of Churches and have shared in raising money with which we have been able to give some assistance to India. Of course, I resent those accounts which de-pict India and other emergent nations as if they were peopled by none but starving beggars and I try to give a more balanced picture. I have also in recent years read something of the writ-ings of Indian historians and come to know more of the Bri-tish spoliation and exploitation of India through the centuries and I never cease to tell my fellow-countrymen of the extent to which their affluence has been built on that exploitation, and of the immense, as yet unrepaid, debt we owe. Our main aim in

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IS IT ... OR ISN'T IT! by E. M. and D. A. Blaiklock, Zondervan Press, 1968, pp. 83. $1.95 (U.S.).

The professor of classic, from Auckland University and his son, David Andrew Blaiklock, have joined forces to produce a very readable and relatively brief essay in apologetics. The writers believe that the bridge from un-belief to belief is supported by the three piers of natural theo-logy, dogmatic or historical theo-logy and mystical theology and they have proceeded to state the cosmological, ontological and teleological proofs for the exist-ence of God and via a chapter on, morals and Christianity they conclude their argument with two chapters on Jesus Christ and the resurrection. The book is never difficult to read and is well fur-nished with interesting quota-tions and despite the fact that the reviewer does not share the authors enthusiasm for rational proofs of God's existence he wishes the book a useful and fruitful future.

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AGNOSTICS ANONYMOUS by Ken• neth Palmer. Neville Spearman Ltd., 1969. pp. 160. $3.95.

Faith for many people means "believing what you know isn't true." For others, it is a step beyond the utmost limit of rational thought, accepting a hypothesis which is not con-trary to reason, and staking one's life on it. All too many inquir-ing minds are fobbed off with the demand "You've just got to believe," or "you must pray for simple faith," and recoil from what they believe to be obscura-tism or just plain dishonesty, to an agnosticism which as often as not coasts along on a morality which belonged to earlier days of faith.

This author seems to have been one such casualty, who has passed through active religiosity, the problem of suffering and agnosticism, with occasional dips into atheism, back to a faith which he believes to be relevant to life in today's world via spiritualism, the planchette, and eventually luminous revelations direct from God into his mind. One has known similar claims-the prophets-the Oxford Group "Quiet Times," the Quran given to Mohammed, and the Book of Mormon.

One would not deny for a moment that many of the ideas set forth in this book are lumi-nous, true, and of sound ethical value; but the method of their promulgation demands a greater credulity than that of adherents of the Bible-for they have at least the testimony of centuries of the Church's experience to commend it to them. Frankly, this reviewer prefers St. P:1;11.

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A SCIENTIST AND HIS FAITH, by Gordon L. Glegg. Zondervan, 1969. PP. 59.

This hook, written in non- technical terms, is a scientist's

THE POWER OF their Pagan gods still helps to keep In-

dians starving. Rev. B. L. Lang-ford, Queensland State Secretary of the Australian Council of Churches recently wrote to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi about a proposal to burn 9,000 tons of food worth over $12-million as a religious sacrifice. Mr Langford's timely letter and Mrs Gandhi's reply are printed here in full.

the Australian Council of Churches is to help people to help themselves and, except when drought or other disaster strikes as in 1966 and later in Bihar, our projects are geared to that end and we seek to avoid any-thing that looks like condescend-ing charity. Nevertheless I be. lieve you would agree that India needs our help.

It is, therefore, very distressing to read in our papers that it is said that Lakshman Chairanya Brahmachari plans to burn 9,000 tons of food in a maha yagna said to be worth in our money $12,220,000. Surely the true sac-riEce has been shown us by Gandhiji and Jesus, who gave themselves for others and Laksh-manji's plan is a grave mistake. It certainly will make it infinite-ly more difficult for one like my-self to enlist sympathy and a sense of concern for India, whose welfare so many of us have at heart. Can you not do something o stop this wanton waste?

New Delhi, July 18, 1969.

Dear Mr Langford, Thank you for your letter.

I was out of India and could not reply to it earlier.

I am glad to know about your association with Mahatma Gandhi and with India. As you know we welcome all help to our people which comes out of a true sense of sharing and friendship.

As regards the "Maha Yajna" in Gujarat I am as shocked as you are. It is criminal folly to burn food when there are people who need it. I have already ask-ed the Government of Gujarat to dissuade the sponsors from such waste. I find that there has also been widespread public pro-test. I hope good sense will pre-vail. We are trying hard to edu-cate our people in these matters but the superstitions of ages can not be wiped out all of a sudden.

Yours sincerely, (sgd) Indira Gandhi.

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Re,. iiciir3 Rupert Orme. a hospital chaplain in Brisbane since 195 , died on August It. His funeral service was held in St. John's Cathedral on August IS. Rev. Hugh S. MacGlashan. rector of Koroit (Ballarat since 1963, has been appointed rector of Climes and Creswick. Rev. Hugh W. McCartney, vicar of All Saints', Ballarat and Holy Trinity Sebal-topol since 1964, has been appointed rector of Koroit.

Mr Wal. Boyce was ordained deacon in All Saints'. Muree (Armidale) on luly 16 and was licensed as curate of the parish.

Rev. G. R. Harding Wood who for very many years wrote scripture Union notes, died in England early in August it the age of 91.

Muggeridge in form

ALCOLM \ I UGGER- 1,1 1DGE, journalist and tele-vision personality who must have one of the widest English-speak-ing audiences in the world, was the guest of the General Board of Religious Education at a re-cent Melbourne luncheon.

He began by asking the ques-tion: "Is the New Testament a record of historical fact or just myth?" In his unique way, he showed that much modern fact and circumstance was pure fantasy. He showed that power and wealth were the purest fan-tasies of this age.

The Gospel is the true reality, he said, which produces answers to the facts. Only the life of Christer off any reality in his experience of 50 years as a jour-nalist and buffoon.

Report on social witness

THE 1969 REPOR f of the N.S.W. Council of Churches is now available.

The Archbishop of Sydney in commending the report, says that the Council serves the whole Christian Community in a vigo-rous and valuable manner through its vigilant attention to matters which concern.the moral and spiritual welfare of the people of N.S.W.

Some of the matters dealt with by the secretary of the Council, the Rev. Bernard G. Judd who wrote the Report are: "The Mad-dison Liquor Proposals," statis-tics of the present gambling situation, football pools, censor-ship, up-to-date statistics con-cerning the breathalyser. The Council's call for Christian in-volvement in the 1968 local government elections receives special attention and the Coun-cil's service to its seven member churches through Station 2CH is dealt with. The 1969 Report exemplifies the words of Com-missioner H. R. Scotney in com-mending it to his people—"True evangelical faith should always express itself in bold social wit-ness."

At the Council's recent annual meeting the Rev. W. D. O'Reilly was re-elected President while Mr E. H. Gifford and the Rev. Geoffrey Parish were elected Treasurer and Assistant Secre-tary respectively.

16 MILLION The remarkable demand for

Today's English Version New Testament continues unabated, 16 million copies have been sold in three years and a similar demand for the New Testament in "Today's Language" is grow-ing in Africa, Asia and South America where the rush for modern Spanish sold over a million copies in a few months.

The Old Testament will be available in 1972.

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A recent picture of Bishop and Mrs Kerle at Bishopscourt,

A Service of HOLY COMMUNION for AUSTRALIA, 1969

"Australia '69," the new draft Communion service in a 16-page two-colour booklet.

New Life has been running correspondence on the mini-skirt. A male called on conven-tion speakers and preachers to denounce it as sinful. A woman came back suggesting since every form of women's dress for the past 100 years has called down similar denunciations, the sin must be in the eye of the beholder.

The Australian Baptist carries a report of a speech by Charles Davis, ex-R.C. theologian in Pittsburgh, headed: "Former priest predicts disaster ahead for Roman Catholic Church."

The Catholic Weekly column-ist. Frank Sheed, doesn't forecast disaster. But the same issue publishes very disturbing figures about the falling off of candi-dates for their ministry.

In Tasmania's Church News the Bishop speaks of a revised service now being used for the institution and induction of an incumbent. Arnold Harris also writes about the antiquated form of the service which has lone been used and in the St. Mark's Review hegives a most interesting history of services of induction. It is certainly high time we got rid of much of the one still in general use.

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Draft Commanion Serrice

Some, .strong objections expected

Page 8 Australian Church Record, September 4, 1969

illiain U. of Looma (Canberra-Cioulburn), has been appointed rector of Bribbaree.

Rev. Nell R. Matheson, curate of St. Jude's, Dural (Sydney) since 1967, has been appointed rector of Littleton from 26th September.

Rev, Bruce W. Wilson, curate of St. Mark's, Darling Point (Sydney) since 1968, has haul appointed chaplain to the University of New South Wales from 1st February, 1970. He is a graduate of Moore College and the Univearsity of London.

Rev. Donald K. Moffatt, formerly of Ballarat and for the past 3)/a years an A.B.M. missionary in Kuching. has been appointed curate of Christ Church St. Laurence. Sydney.

Rev. Raymond D. Bowden, vicar of Warialda (Armidale) since 1963, has been appointed vicar of Savona Rochester, New York) from September I. Rev, David H. W. Shand, vicar of ('heist Church, South Yarra (Melbourne) since 1966. has been appointed vicar of St. Andrew's, Brighton from December 4 next. Rev. John G. Hamilton, curate of St. John's, Croydon (Mehourne) since 1968 has been appointed an army chaplain from September 30. Rev. Charles E. A. Sligo. master of the lunior school at Brighton Grammar School (Melbourne) since 1963, has been appointed headmaster of GiPpsland Grammar School from January I. 1970 Rev. A. Robert A. Freeman, rector of St. Mark's. South Hurstville (Sydney) since 1960 has resigned for health rea-sons.

Valuable property given to Brisbane

SOUTHPORT property of .C1 considerable value has been given to the diocese of Brisbane by Mrs E. G. Bere to establish a new home for the aged. It is at the corner of Bauer and Heath Streets.

The property consists ,of near-ly two acres of land in an ex-cellent position. It has been known as "Abri" (French for haven or shelter). It was so named (because of the many fine trees on the property) by the late Miss Yvonne Salt-marshe, whose home it was from 1938 to 1961. The dwelling will be removed to make way for the erection of the proposed home, but it is hoped to preserve most of the trees on the property to provide a suitable setting for the new home.

Miss Saltrnarshe's sister, Mrs Bere, is the widow of the late Mr C. M. C. Bere of "Curio," 23 Bauer Street, Southport, and is a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Harold Saltmargie, who came to live at Southport in 1912. Mrs Bere is giving the property to perpetuate the mem-ory of her parents and her sister and to benefit the aged members of the community.

Though no definite plans have yet been made for the erection of the home, it is expected that work on the project will com-mence within a period of two to three years. It will probably Provide accommodation for at least 50 aeed persons, and the cost of the home will most likely be in excess of $300.000.

The commencement of the project will be subject to the necessary approval from the Commonwealth Department of Social Services for the purpose of subsidy under the provisions of the Aged Persons Homes Act, as well as the approvals required by the Gold Coast City Council.

bourne) and the Church of Ire-land Gazette. See asks that we be spared a political auction over State aid. It thinks Australia‘ will be poorer if a change of prin-ciple in the basis of Australian education is made by political auction. The republic of Eire has complete State support of Roman Catholic schools and partial sup-port of Protestant schools. An August editorial is headed "Pro-testant Post-Primary Education." (Irish Anglicans like those in the U.S.A., are not ambivalent about being known as Protestants). The editorial is dubious about the value of segregated systems. Because of the political auction. Australia is encouraging segrega-tion. So we are half a world apart,

11 111111 ‘„,(frOWS 'INTERVIEWED recently in

Armidale, Bishop Clive Kerle said that the Diocesan Centen-ary Appeal is making excellent progress.

Armidale diocese celebrates its centenary this year and has made its major effort a Million

David Pope to Riverina

A CLERGYMAN who stated to the Press last year that "a concept of God is meaningless," has been appointed rector of St. John's, Wentworth, N.S.W., in the diocese of Riverina.

He is Rev. David J. Pope, who when he made his statement to the Melbourne "Herald" in April, 1968, was vicar of St. Matthias', North Richmond. At the time, Bishop Sambell said that "if he held the views expressed by Mr Pope about God and the Church, 'lie would resign."

Mr Pope is to be inducted on September 4.

£1,000 BOOK AWARD THE FAMOUS publishing house of Collins is celebrating its 150th anniversary by in-augurating a biannual award of f1,000 to writers.

It will be awarded to the hook which has made the most distinguished contribution to the relevance of Christianity in the modern world in one of the fields of science, ethics, sociol-ogy, philosophy, psychology and other religions.

The first award will be to a book published between Janu-ary 1, 1967 and July 1, 1969. Judges will be the Archbishop of York (chairman), Professors William Barclay, Henry Chad-wick, David Knowles and Don-ald MacKinnon.

PERMISSIVE use of prayers for the dead will certainly lead to the rejection of "Australia '69," the latest draft service of Holy Communion which has just been published by the Standing Liturgical Committee of General Synod. This was the reaction of many who saw the draft for the first time this month.

Its publication marks the second stage in the revision of the Communion service, The first stage began in 1966 when "A Modern Liturgy," a revised ser-vice of Holy Communion and the English series II Communion ser-vice, were authorised by various bishops to be used experimentally for three years. Other new liturgies such as "A Liturgy for Africa" were also used by some churches in Australia.

The Commission hopes that parishes will, with episcopal per-mission, use the new contempor-ary Communion service and the generally used 1662 service side by side for about another three years.

"Australia '69" has been pub-lished by the Liturgical Commis-sion on instructions by General Synod when it last met in 1966 to publish further draft revisions. The use of this draft is solely de-pendent on application by parishes and the consent of the Bishop of the diocese concerned. It in no way depends on any agreement by General Synod. But the new draft is featured in a report which the Liturgical Commission has made to General Synod which is sitting

Theol. hall to close AFTER over 60 years, St.

Columb's Hall, theological training centre for the diocese iat Wangaratta, Victoria, is to close at the end of this year.

Announcing this at the annual diocesan synod, the new Bishop of Wangaratta, Dr Keith Rayner, paid tribute to the principalship of Rev. Charles Helms over the last four years and to the devot-ed help of part-time staff He pointed out that such a small; college with few students and limited staff and library re-sources, could not meet today's training needs.

St. Columb's is a large cottage in Wangaratta with a small library and a small lecture hall and living facilities for a small number of students. The warden is usually rector of Milawa and the students spend part of their time taking services and school classes in neighbouring districts.

The hall had six students at the beginning of this year, four for Wangaratta and two for Car-pentaria.

this week in Sydney. Bishop Gordon Arthur, of

Grafton, chairman of the Corn-

COMMISSION MEMBERS

Bishop of Grafton, chairman; Dean J. N. Falkingham, Newcastle, secretary; the Bishop of Riverina, Bishop Felix Arnott of Melbourne, Archdeacon John Bleby of Adelaide; Archdeacon Alfred Holland of Perth; Canon Donald Robinson of Syney; Dr. Robin Shar-wood of Melbourne; Pro-fessor Edwin Judge. of Sydney and Rev. Thomas Grundy of Canberra. Rev. Dr. Barry Marshall of Melbourne is permanent consultant. Rev. Dr. H. Leatherland (Congrega-tionalist) and Archishop Guildford Young (Roman Catholic) of Hobart, at-tended the final meeting as observers.

mission, says in a foreword to the booklet that it has been through six drafts and the Com-mission realises it is still far from Perfect. But it believes the time has come for theory to give way to practice, and hopes that the widespread use of this provisional service over the next few years will help the church to find the right way to renewal in worship.

The Constitution of the Church of England in Australia makes it possible for any parish after a meeting to determine the matter, to seek permission from the bishop of the diocese to use deviations from the Book of Common Prayer, and the bishop may give his approval if he be-lieves the proposed deviation does not contravene the prin-ciples of the Prayer Book.

The service is in contempor-ary English, is composed along very simple lines and consists of five sections: Introduction, Minis-try of God's Word. Intercession, Lord's Supper and Dismissal.

It is designed , to be flexible enough for a variety of situa-tions, yet without offering so many alternatives as to be con-fusing. It requires a good deal

of congregational participation. It also makes the first official

use of the new translations of the Gloria, Nicene Creed and Lord's Prayer recently produced by the International Consultation on English Texts. This body, which includes scholars of many denominations, aims at produc-ing versions in contemporary English of common forms which may be used by all denomina-tions wherever the English lan- guage is used. The present texts are not final, but do represent its most recent work.

The Ten Commandments may be omitted from the service and their shortened form is not given at all. The preaching of the Word is also optional. The in-teression which takes the place of the Prayer for the Church militant here on earth, has an optional prayer for the dead — "and in faith and trust we leave in your keeping N." This change was insisted on by the strongly represented Anglo-Catholic members of the Com-mission. This is the first revi-sion in which such a prayer has been finally printed.

A brief assessment of the positive and negative features of the draft service is given in the editorial on page two of this is-sue.

evangelicals meet at Penrith

General synod 1969 GENERAL SYNOD of the

Church of England in Aus-tralia opened on Tuesday, Sep-tember 16, in Sydney. The Archbishop of Melbourne (Dr. Frank Woods) preached at the opening communion service. The first session began at 2.30 p.m. on that day, when the Primate (Dr. Philip Strong) gave the presidential address. It will be his last general synod before his retirement next year.

Delegates, consisting of clergy and laity from all over Austra-lia and New Guinea, were accommodated at Moore College and in private homes as guests of Sydney people. It is expected that synod will last for at least ten days. It meets in the Cathe-dral's Chapter House and visi-tors have been watching proceed-ings with interest from the visi-tors' gallery.

Nine canons and many motions are to come before the synod. Among the oanons are those proposing to set up synods in the dioceses of Papua and New Guinea and the Northern Territory. The Bishop of Gipps-land is bringing forward a canon to give national recognition to the order of deaconess in the church. Mr Roland St. John is moving a canon to confer the title of archbishop on any bishop who is not already an archbishop but who may be elected primate of Australia.

The Council of the Anglican Church League has arranged a dinner for General Synod mem-bers at which Professor Edwin A. Judge will speak on "The church as a pressure group."

Bp. Sambell against division "I DO NOT believe the answer

I. to metropolitan dioceses is geographical division," said Bishop Geoffrey Sambell, arch-bishop-elect of Perth, recently.

He added that a team can do so much more. For that reason, among others, he is glad that he is coming to Perth because it has two assistant bishops to make up the team. The two are Bishops Brian Macdonald and Brace Rosier.

Bishop Sambell also said that he is excited about Perth, and frightened about it. He doesn't like to think of it as having problems but rather as having potential. He added that there

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Community withdraws

THE SISTERS of the Com-munity of the Holy Name, based in Melbourne, have had to close down some of their work be-cause of a shortage of women offering for service with the Community.

The Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn announced at the rec-ent synod that they would with-draw from St. Saviour's Child-ren's Home, Goulburn, by December 31.

They have run it since 1933. The diocese intends to reduce the size of the Home to about 20 children and the work may be dispersed by means of cot-tage homes in strategic areas of the diocese. Cottage parents will be needed for these homes.

The Community is also with-drawing from New Zealand after 11 years running a girls' hostel in Remuera, Auckland. The work in New Guinea will be maintained but some Melbourne activities will he restricted.

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A PUBLIC MEETING on September 26 in the heart

of the proposed new diocese of Parramatta and the west will dis-cuss the inauguration of a new Evangelical voluntary society to promote Evangelical interests.

The meeting has been called by an interim committee compris-ing the Rev, Lloyd Bennett. the Rev. Victor Cole, the Rev. Barry Marsh, Mr Ernest Newman, the Rev. Alan Nichols and Mr Keith Price.

It will be held in St. Stephen's Hall, Penrith, starting at 8 p.m. Co-chairmen will be the Rev. Peter Watson, Rural Dean of Prospect, and Mr Roy Grieve, alderman of Holroyd Council and member of St. Paul's, Went-worthville.

It will be proposed at the meeting that a group called the "Evangelical Society" be formed with the following aims: • To unite Evangelical mem-bers of the Church of England in a helpful fellowship. • To uphold the Bible as the absolute authority for faith and life. • To maintain the principles of our Church as based on the Bible, Prayer Book and Articles; and to support lawful authority within the Church. • To inform men on the prin-ciples and practice of church government at parish, diocesan and synod levels. • To encourage the study of the Bible, theology and church his-tory. • To further the work of the Gospel in ways consistent with was no diocese he would rather the aims. have been offered,