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Husband-wife team

run boys' home A T asmanian husband and

wife team had been ap-pointed to run the Claren-don Boys' Home at King-ston Beach, the "Mer-cury". Hobart, said on September 11.

It said the appointment of the Rev R. Upton and his wife, Dorothy, as administrator and matron of Clarendon was an-nounced at the Anglican Synod in Hobart by the Bishop of Tasmania (the Rt Rev Dr R. E. Davies).

A bank officer before entering the ministry, Mr Upton completed his theo-logical training at Moore College, Sydney.

He was ordained in Hobart in 1963, and served his curacy at Deloraine.

Mr Upton had five years' overseas experience, including 12 months' studying at St Augustine's College in Canterbury, England.

After study and work in Europe, he was a chaplain in the diocese of Argentina and other parts of Eastern South America.

Since his return to Tas-mania, he had beer rector of the parishes of Derby-Ringarooma, and more recently, George Town.

He was also honorary general secretary of the Church Missionary Society in Tasmania.

Mrs Upton is a double certificate nursing sister.

She trained at Roya! Prince Alfred Hospital and the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.

She has worked in hospi-tals in Australia and over-seas, including work with children.

Mrs Upton has also worked in a Government institution in NSW with adults and children, and an Anglican nursing home in Sydney.

Aust group back from world Christian Endeavour rally

The Rev James Payne

"tea priests are affluent. and the idea of working priests is not a new one" the Brisbane "Courier-Mail" said in an editorial on September 4.

The editorial continued: "Today's inflation, by reducing the real value of clergymen's stipends, is forcing some to think in terms of a second job if they are to balance their budgets.

"In some cases a part-time job could help to bring a minister into greater contact with working men and women. This could benefit both the minister and the worket.

"On the other hand, many clergy would have to neglect important church duties if they took a second job.

"This would apply particularly in large. busy parishes.

"If congregations want a full-time minister the obvious way to keep one is to ensure that the stipends they pay are sufficient on which to live."

BRISBANE The Rev Robert Roy Braun, formerly Assistant Curate of

St Clement's. Stafford. as s o.otant Curate of Christ Church. Bundaberg.

The Rev Alec Maurice Fox, formerly of the Diocese of Carpentaria. as Rector of St Paul's, East'Brisbane.

The Rev Graham Henry Perry. formerly of the Diocese of Rockhampton. as Priest-in-Charge of the Parish of Brisbane Valley.

The Rev Henry Taylor, formerly Vicar of Glen Hines in theDiocese of Armidale. as Rector of St Peter.. Wsimum

Moore College students were again successful with London BD examinations this year.

The seven candidates from Moore College who sat for the London BD edamination last June passed successfully with honours.

Thirteen candidates who sat for the Preliminary were also successful.

The names of the successful candidates are: • Final BD:

Second Class Honours, Upper Division: John Stanley Normand, Peter Michael Tow,

Second Class Honours, Lower Division: Patricia Marian Dahl, Frank Richard Gee. Peter Marshall. Ian Rowland Mears.

Third Class Honours: Kenneth Gilbert Ft-ewer. • Preliminary BD:

Pass: Hugh McKay Begbie, Graham Arthur Cole, Paul Francis Cooper. David William Gilmour,

Rahfly OW People

"Few priests affluent,"

says Editorial

Students succeed at London BD exams

COLLEGE WARDEN

His subsequent acceptance after demobilisation led to his going to St ( atherine Society, Oxford. where he gained a first in theology; and to Wycliffe Hall. He remained in the diocese of Oxford to serve his title at Highfield, and was then Vicar of the country living of Eynsham from 1952 to 1957, when he returned to Wycliffe Hall as Vice-Principal.

In 1960. when the late Bishop Chavasse of Rochester established a the-ological. college for older men in Rochester's old deanery, Dr Blanch became its first Warden, combining the post with a residentiary canonry at the Cathedral. (The college has since closed.)

Bishop Blanch was chosen to succeed Dr Clifford Martin at Liverpool in 1966, and, as the youngest dioce-san in England. made a name for himself as a new-style. no-nonsense bishop.

The Right Rev Stuart Yar-worth Blanch, Bishop of Liver-pool since 1966, was nominated by the Queen on Sept 13, for election as Arch-bishop of York. He will succeed the Most Rev Donald Coggan, who moves to Canter-bury in the New Year.

The Archbishop-designate is fifty-six, and the son of a farmer in the Forest of Dean. Educated at Alleyne's School, Dulwich. he worked for four years in the office of the Law Fire Insurance Society in London before joining the Royal Air Force; there he served as a navi-gator in Transport Com-mand, mainly in the Far East.

Stephen William H inks, Ross Melville Kennedy, Rodney Norman Marsh, Joe Mock, Francis William Mostyn, Coryn O'Nians, Robin Ashley Payne. Paul Frederick Perini, Paul Blake Weaver.

Bishop of Liverpool for York

BIBLE SOCIETY LEADER FOR UBS CONFERENCE IN POLAND

I he Commonwealth Secretary of the Bible Society in Australia, the Rev James Payne, will attend a meeting of the United Bible Societies' Executive Committee, in Poland, this month.

This is the first time the United Bible Societies' Executive Committee has met behind the Iron Curtain.

The meeting will be held in Warsaw.

Mr Payne is vice-chairman of the UBS executive committee.

He said the fact that the World Executive Committee of the UBS was to meet in Poland was clear indication of growing Bible Society involvement in Eastern Europe.

The Bible Society

The Jamaican president of the Christian Endeavour organisation addresses the recent 17th World Convention through a German interpreter. The convention was held

at Essen, Germany.

movement was finding increasing opportunities for its activities in most Eastern European countries, he said.

A former Dean of Perth Mr Payne is the only Angli-can member of the nine-man executive committee, which co-ordinates the activities of 56 national Bible Societies at work in 160 countries and territories.

The committee administers a budget of more than $10 million for translation, production and distribution of the Bible across the world.

The Archbishop of Canter-bury, Dr Michael Ramsay, says he sees a revisal of reli-gion in the West, according to a recent report from A AP-Reuter, London.

The report referred to Dr Ramsay's published review of his primacy in a book called "Canterbury Pil-grims".

Dr Ramsay, who will re-tire on November 15, has surveyed his I3-year "pil-grimage" as leader of the worldwide Anglican Com-munion in the book.

"Amid the pressures and strains of life there is the longing of the self to free itself from the dominance of time and environment," he has written.

"Many cults and same drugs offer the promise of this freedom: But there is a difference between a free-dom which may be no more than the shortest way out of Manchester and a freedom whereby the self finds the vigorous peace of moral energy."

Nothing matters more, he declares, than that the reviv-ing religious awareness

A 37-member Australian ( hristian Endeasour delegation recently returned from a 44-day world tour.

The delegation was led by the honorary national direc-tor the Rev Fred Nile and Mrs Nile.

Mr Nile said on his return that new CE unions had been formed in Africa and that groups had expanded even in the Middle East, with more than 2000 Endeavourers participating in recent rallies in Cairo.

He said the main tour highlight was the 17th World CE Convention with 9000 Endeavourers attending "inspiring rallies", at Essen, Germany.

This was announced last week by the CMS Federal Secretary (the Rev Maurice S. Bette-ridge ).

Mr Betteridge said Mr Dawson was expected to commence duty early in 1975.

"Federal Council decided on the move at last month's meeting," he said,

"It is aimed at streamlin-ing administrative pro-cedure and giving greater flexibility in decision-mak-

in" "We also plan to have an overseas committee to re-place the present one opera-ting on a regional basis."

Mr Dawson has been with CMS in Tanzania since 1959.

- A graduate of Moore Theological College, he was ordained in 1957. He was

The Rev Peter Dawson of Tanzania has been appointed the first overseas secretary of the Church Missionary Society.

CMS APPOINTS ITS FIRST 'OVERSEAS' SECRETARY 'Next century now being determined'

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One example of CMS activities in Africa is this group of Christian indigenes engaged in drama production in Tanzania. The final script of this production will he put into

cassettes by ('MS and distributed throughout parishes in that area.

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World CE Convention are held every four years.

The previous convention were held in Canada, 1970 Belfast, 1966, and Sydney 1962.

The theme of the 17th World Convention was "Jesus Today and For-ever," Mr Nile said.

Delegates travelled to Essen from all around the world, including 450 dele-gates from the USA and 60 from Australia.

Guest speakers included Dr Stanley Mooneyham, the president, World Vision, who said: "Time is running out for our world — it is five minutes to midnight!"

should be met by Chris-tianity.

He sees leadership of world Christianity moving from the West to the churches of the "Third World", who understand their faith through the medium of their concerns --poverty and the struggle for justice.

He declares himself in favour of the Church of Eng-land choosing its own bishops, at present ap-pointed by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister.

New Warden

at Morpeth A new warden has been

appointed to St John's College at Morpeth to imple-ment a program of theologi-cal education from next year.

He is Rev Dr R. S. Foster, a renowned scholar of the Old Testament and former lecturer at the University of Nottingham.

curate at Penrith and At the same time as (MS in-charge of Mascot until he Australia was discussing was posted overseas, latest moves, the English

('MS General Secretary and

'African John Taylor) told the Northern Congress at Brad-

Bishop Designate ICanou

ford that overseas churches church had much to teach the Western world.

growth

"They can teach us how to be a minority church," he said, "but one on the up and

greatest up." He said mission hospitals

g of yesterday were now state in history hospitals within the national health services of new' nations.

Ile is at present director of Msalato Literature and Christian Education Cen-tre, Dodoma, and CMS representative for the dioceses of Central Tanga-nyika and Morogoro.

He is married with a son and two daughters.

Federal Council also dis-cussed the "massive oppor-tunities" presented in Africa.

The regional secretary (the Rev John Turner) said Afri-can church growth was the greatest in history since the miss Pauline Boyle is a Triple turning to Christ of the early Gertficicated Nurse, from European peoples. Wollongong. She has spent

"The great animist world is the last 10 months on leave 'turning over' like an ice- and home service. During her berg," said Mr Turner. last term in Africa Miss Boyle

"It is taking up a new was engaged in the instrue-position which may be a tion of midwifery students at determining factor in Kilamatinde Hospital. world history for the next -- Photo courtesy century." Testimony Communications,

DEAN CONCERNED AT MARRIAGE SANCTITY

Clergymen should stop peeforming marriages as officers of the State if the law fails to uphold ('hristian marriage, Dean John Hazelwood, of Perth, suggested.

Commenting on the Fede- all marriages and a Chris-

ral Government's f amity Law tian service could be held for Bill. Dean Hazelwood said those who wanted it,

that Christians had no real The Family Law Bill

right to expect a secular implied that marriage could government to have the same be terminated, while the view of marriage as the Church believed it was a ('hurch, voluntary, life-long union.

However it there was a "I don't like the Bill, but I divergence between the don't think I have a right to definition of marriage held oppose it when Australia is by the two groups clergymen not a Christian nation.

could stop conducting mar- "But if the Government's

riages as officers of the State. definition of marriage is dif-

The State could perform •To page 8

Inside this issue

• Sydney Synod — early report — page 2. • Christian living series — page 4. • Word and Life —page 6. • College of Preach-ers — page 4. • Festival of Light rally — page 8. • Ordination of women controversy — page 8.

REFORMATION ISSUE:

OCTOBER 31 • Pentecostalism and Justification.

• "Pickpurse" Purga-tory.

• The Scriptures alone.

• Guest Editorial.

II REVIVALOF RELIGION IN WEST," SAYS DR RAMSAY

If it is true that the simple things in life are the best. then it is time that we had a close look at the structures of our denominations.

It would be artificial and, in any case, impossible of achievement, to reproduce the simple forms of Church life of the Apostolic age, but there is a simplicity which characterises that age which we find attractive.

However, we have created a juggernaut — a massive, demanding machine which eats up tens of thousands of man hours a year in Committees, select Committees, Sub-Committees and Panels.

There are rules of association -- a body of legislation which, in its application in the Synodal processes, is so! complex as to exalt the status of the legally-minded in the Councils of the Church.

The complexities of our finances demand an army of honorary accountants, actuaries, solicitors and consul-tants in insurance, real estate and property development, together with growing paid staffs.

EDITORIAL `Simple things in life are best'

Even our internal processes have become so com-mercialised that, recently, a parish in one of the Dio-ceses paid some several hundred dollars to promote an Ordinance to provide for' the distribution of money re-ceived from a specific source.

Men who have been called by God and ordained by our church to the ministry of His word have taken up roles which seem to have a diminishing relationship to the primary ministries of teaching the Word of God, pro-claiming the everlasting Gospel of Grace, and being faithful pastors and friends to the Parish ministers.

We are a people dedicated to the filling in of forms. There are licences for multitudinous things -- faculties and petitions and returns, statistics and analyses.

It is true, of course, that all these things can be rationalised. Seemingly good reasons may be deduced for all of them.

There are ways of negating the Gospel of Christ without opposing it or distorting it, and this is the problem which confronts the Church today. We are blunting its edge, and hedging it about with ecclesia-stical impedimenta. The spontaneous groups — the house churches, the counter-culture Jesus groups — are not long range answers to the problems of Christianity in the world today, but they do exhibit a characteristic which many are finding exceedingly attractive — and that is simplicity. The denominational Churches must heed the prophets who came in the Name of the Lord saying, "Let my people go".

But how? By giving to the local worshipping congregation greater responsibility in matters which affect the life of their fellowship. Unnecessary central control over the life of the congregation should be minimised and congregations should be enabled and encouraged to be responsible for the quality of spiritual life and ministry among themselves.

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The Rex Oliver Ile), ward of Hobart has been appointed Bishop of Bendigo.

New bishop for Bendigo diocese

One of the criticisms that has been levelled at Christianity through the ages is that the Old Testament presents a primitive view of God --or perhaps a view of a primitive God — a cruel, hard God, who seems quite out of character with the God who shows His love so abundantly in the Christian Gospel.

This "cruel God" of the Old detailed instructions as to Testament shows his cruelty how the conquest of Canaan particularly in the way He is to be carried out. commands Israel to carry out God will bring the nations "holy war" — a warfare in inhabiting the land to defeat which not only the enemy sol- at the hands of Israel, and diers are slaughtered, but also Israel for their part must the women, children and old make no truce or alliance of people. as well as all the sheep any kind with them but and cattle. destroy all their images (7: I-

VY bile critics are only too 5) and "save alive nothing

Can a Christian justify the idea of a 'holy war'?

This thought-provoking essay on what the Bible says about justification for a "holy war" has been prepared by Michael Flore, a student at Moore Theological College, Sydney.

Christian opportunity

I asi month's issue of "F duration". the NSW paper for teachers. contained a blast from readers that would make any editor go pale around the gills.

Individual readers, federa-tion members, groups of teachers, all condemned the "smutty" (their quote) article which appeared in the issue of July 24.

With its gutter language, this article had been widely publicised in the media. There seems no doubt that both the federation and the editor were rocked by the reaction.

It goes to show that pro-, test is a valuable weapon And it shows that Christian teachers have a great oppor-tunity to exercise a re-sponsible influence in their profession.

They should resist the temptation to opt out, and through God's grace should fulfil their role as lights in a sinful world and salt which preserves what is worth- while.

* * *

'Ministering' no luxury

We need to be 011 our guard against regarding full-time pastors as a luxury in a society grappling with infla-tion.

"It is impossible." said Martin Luther, "for one man both to labour day and night to get a living, and at the same time to give himself to the study of sacred learn-ing as the preaching office re-quireth."

Of course today there are mans claiming to he

Nearly 100 clergy and wives in Gippsland Diocese fare-welled Bishop David Garnsey and Mrs Garnsey at Maffra last month.

The Primate of Australia (Archbishop Sir Frank Woods) and Mrs Woods were also present.

The gathering was wel-coated by the Registrar of Gippsland (Archdeacon, J. A. Knife) who also intro-duced the speakers.

The Primate said Bishop Garnsey was the first bishop consecrated for the Pro-vince of Victoria soon after

ministers of the Word who do very little in the line of systematic study -- one glance at their bookshelves will confirm this.

The early apostles gave themselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word. The immediate ef-fect was that the Word of God increased and the num-ber of the disciples multi-plied,

Congregations need to ap-preciate the scriptural principle of having a mini-ster of the Word freed from the need to earn his living elsewhere.

And ministers need to guard their time zealously to give themselves whole-heartedly to their calling.

Child-care volunteers

( hild-care centres are much to the fore. One with a difference will be held from December 9 until mid-January.

The Summer Institute of Linguistics (Wycliffe Trans-lators) will be meeting at New College.

Organisers are anxious to have a child-care pro-gramme to enable staff and students to carry out their intensive studies.

Tom Hibberd, the busi-ness manager at Five Dock, Will be happy to hear from volunteers.

* *

College of Preachers

ist til os know what it is to be carried on a wave of enthusiasm at some time or other.

Last week the executive of Sydney's Diocesan College

his own arrival from Eng-land.

The three qualities he most admired in Bishop Garnsey were his leadership in ecumenical affairs, his ability to relate the Chris-tian faith to national and social affairs, and his being a pastor and friend.

Presentations were made to the Bishop and Mrs Garn-sey.

Archdeacon Norman McDonald, of East Gipps-land (and senior priest of the diocese) then made -a presentation on behalf of the

of Preachers learned of enthusiasm that has not waned.

One wan who had at-tended such a school wrote appreciatively some months later:

"My immediate impres-sion was a very good one, but subsequent experiences have shown just how valuable those four days were.

"I have been encouraged to take a whole new attitude to the preaching task; to be more deliberate in the plan-ning of series; to have a high conception of the value of preaching in the work of the kingdom.

"I am convinced that the kind of programme that the school provides is vital in this day when many parish men are confused or doubt-ful about their role,"

Preaching is one ceiling, at least, where one must be continually seeking to im-prove oneself in this way of persuading men.

Opportunities such as the College of Preachers should be avidly seized by young and old alike..

Many do need prayer

Moves to promote har-mony between the nations should always have the prayerful support of be-lievers, who are commanded by COd's Word to pray for kings and those in authority.

At the same time, we should recognise that com-munism has not shed its atheistic ideology.

Last month English Christians met outside the Soviet Embassy in London to pray for a Christian prisoner in Russia, Georgi Vins.

Brother George was ar-rested last March and has since been detained incom-municado.

His mother asked recent Western visitors to Kiev to

clergy. In doing so Archdeacon

McDonald spoke of the bishop's willingness to give the clergy his wisdom and spiritual guidance, his acceptance and encourage-ment of different emphasis throughout the diocese.

He said that the clergy ap-preciated the bishop's natural shyness and humility and strength of character — and his preparedness "to speak out on matters for which he feels a deep Christian con-cern".

The Very Reverend Ray Elliot then made a presenta-tion to Mrs Garnsey and thanked her for her help and encouragement to the clergy, wives and families.

He added that it was some-times felt that the Bishop and Mrs Garnsey understood the rectory children even better than their parents.

Mrs Garnsey said her role had been to help the bishop in every way.

Often this has meant "keep-ing the home fires burning".

She spoke of the welcome she and the bishop had re-ceived in clergy homes and her interest in the children she had watched grow into adulthood.

The Bishop said how deeply honoured he had been in his appointment as Bishop of Gippsland.

He felt that he left behind many incomplete tasks and problems to be solved.

"But that is the essential nature of the Church", he said.

"We are a pilgrim- church always moving on, looking to what we know is better, citizens of two worlds, but always related to what is happening in this world".

pray that something should be done in the West to help her son.

5 * *

Holding to God's word

It's on again! Despite an at-tendance of 71881 at a pro-test meeting in Miranda I Sydneyi arranged by the FOI . the press found the main attraction a speech by the Roman Catholic Arch-bishop, Cardinal Freeman.

And we notice that the of-ficial festival handout refers to him as the Catholic arch-bishop.

The "Record" is Catholic, Apostolic, Protestant and Reformed.

That's the way we've been for 94 years, but our catho-licity is a far-cry from, that proclaimed by those subser-vient to the papacy.

Secular work a

possibility Archbishop Frank Woods

warned Melbourne synod that ordination might not guarantee a lifelong job.

He said they might soon need to have qualifications for "outside work" before being ordained.

Dr Woods said ministers used to be able to assume that, having been ordained, the Church would employ them and so was obliged to keep them for the rest of their working lives.

"Now they can have no such expectation," he said.

"I hope it will happen only very seldom, but it is not impossible that after 10 years in a parish, the priest would be compelled to find secular employment.

"Many of us priests have no qualifications for such employment.

"It may be that before long the bishop of a diocese giving only limited tenure will have to insist that every man he ordains has a qualifica-tion which would fit him for some secular employment."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's book "The Gulag Archi-pelago" has been a best seller and no wonder.

But where does it leave us? It seems bad enough that

we should sit and read the book in comfort, when the millions of whom it tells have suffered and in many cases peiished.

It would be utterly ob-scene if we were to read it merely as a piece of exciting Fiction or else shrug it off with the remark that "we al-ways knew the Russians were like that."

So vast a tragedy demands a deeper response than the making of political capital

The Christian teaching about the corruption of human nature and our almost infinite capacity for self-description — such pro-foundly unfashionable tea-ching, so often explained away ire lying euphemisms — is vindicated and needs strong reaffirmation.

Totalitarian government, of whatever complexion, re-mains what it was in the days when our predecessors in the faith refused to burn incense to Caesar: the most unacceptable form of human arrogance.

And those who weary of democracy (or try to under-mine it from within) because "it doesn't work" should he laying some of the "Gulag' lessons to heart.

The recent diminution of

Aged 48, he is the second Tasmanian to become a bishop.

The first was Bishop Black-wood, of Gippsland, 20 years ago.

Both the Launceston Examiner and Hobart Mer-cury gave generous publi-city to the appointment.

A Rhodes Scholar in 1949, Mr Heyward was educated at Launceston Grammar School, went to the Uni-versity of Tasmania and was ordained in England in 1952.

He returned to Tasmania in 1956, and has been Warden of Christ College for II years.

There were 50 students re-siding, at the college in 1963 and there are 150 today.

During that time, Christ College became the second

The 1973 session of the Sydney Diocesan Synod began on Tuesday, October 8'. The sermon at the Synod service was given by Bishop F. 0. liulme-Moir, who is shortly to retire as senior assistant bishop of the dio-cese.

Archbishop M. L. ,Loane, said in his Synod charge that the Australian govern-ment's rejection of racia-lism in its choice of migrants was commendable.

At the same time, he said. the Australian population should always contain a large proportion of people of British descent in order 'to preserve its British cultural heritage, and should alweys retain close political links with Britain.

The Archbishop con-demned the white Australia policy as the result of insecu-rity and fear.

This session of Synod may be the largest ever to operate;

power at the top in Portugal, in Greece and indeed in the USA seems to me among the more hopeful signs for huma-nity in 1974.

Look out, Britain! — Bishop Patrick Rodger, in

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Asked about today's young, Mr Heyward said:

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"But there was such a lot of phoney religion about then.

"The young people of today are much more honest. you know, and they question more because they have more things to question than we did.

"I do not feel that society is going to fall apart at the seams or anything like that.

"But although the church really has no right to make judgements about society, I believe it must try to act as society's conscience."

for if the proposed Synod Representative Amendment Ordinance is passed it will re-duce the number of lay parish representatives who can sit at one time from two to one. At the time of going to press the fate of this Ordinance has not yet been decided.

On the first day of the ses-sion motions were debated which showed widespread uneasiness at World Council of Churches and Australian Council of Churches support of terrorism and violence, especially in Africa.

One motion, presented by the Rev George Robinson. referred to the resulting loss of confidence in these bodies and commended the work of the Evangelical Alliance Re-lief Fund (TEAR) and the Archbishop's Overseas Re-lief Fund as alternatives.

This motion was passed, but the second, which called for the dissociation of Sydney Diocese from the World Council, the ACC, and Action for World Development, was defeated: instead, 'an amendment calling for a Standing Com-mittee Sub-Committee to investigate the facts and re-port to the next session of Synod was passed.

Another motion passed raised the travelling allow-ances payable to parish clergy by $60 per annum.

The Stipends and Al-lowances Committee recom-mended a consolidated table of stipends for rectors, curates in charge and resi-dent ministers, based on age and length of time in orders. The average recom-

mended increase is 19.5%; a rector, etc, of 35 or over who has been ordained for 13 or more years should receive $5450 per annum as minimum stipend.

Other motions before Synod called for no change in the national anthem or national flag without a referendum, expressed con-cern about the proposed Family Law Bill, and com-mended the report of the Committee on Population and Environment, which calls for the stabilisation of world population and for more responsible and equi-table use of world resources.

happy to use such Biblical material as ammunition against conservatives, we do not often hear convincing replies; frequently the critic's point is virtually conceded

,by a denial of the traditional Christian view of the inspira-tion of Scripture.

If we are to maintain the same conservative attitude

to the Scriptures as Jesus and the apostles, we must he able to show that holy war in the Old Testament is con-sistent with the character and purposes of God as reheated in the rest of Scrip-ture.

To do this we must first find, if we can, the principles underlying holy war.

It is in the Book of Deutero-nomy that God sets out His

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that breathes" (20:16-14 The reason for this drastic

action is given in 7:6-8. Israel enjoys a special and

unique relationship with God (although they can claim no credit for this -- the reason lies not in themselves but in God's purposes).

God has brought them out of slavery in Egypt and is

about io give them the land o Canaan in fulfilment of the promise He made to their fathers.

The principle appears to be that just as the people of Israel are specially God's, so the land in which they are going to live is specially His.

It is His gift to them, and as such it must be pure.

Any impurity in the land --that is, anything which would threaten Israel's relationship to God -- must be removed before the land is suitable to be a gift of God to Ills people.

A Christian beheyes that God has resealed Himself in mighty aces and gracious words.

This deed-word coothin, Lion is to be found in scrip-ture. Therefore, the study of scripture becomes a prio-rity for him.

Initially study progresses on a broad front of languages, history and literature. It may be a student has to cope with areas which for him ark difficult to master. Some-times progress is slow and frus-trating. Hut u broad foundation is important for God's word to be understood as it was by those who' first received it. •

Knowledge of the mind of God should lead the student to obey Him. However, it is perilously easy for the student to become adept at manipulating the great concepts of the faith, without being humbled by them.

Here is the possibility of a dicho-

The Canaanites, with their debased religion would corrupt Israel (as in 7:4) so they represent a serious impurity that must be com- pletely destroyed.

In destroying them, God is in no way being unjust for they deserve this treatment for their wickedness (9:5).

Israel, on the other nand, must be under no illusion that the preferential treatment they are to receive is a reward for any righteousness on their part, for they have repeatedly rebelled and only God's choice of them to be His people has prevented their own destruction.

The object of holy war, then, is to establish God's people in His land.

We may see this also in the way God lays down different rules for warfare against cities lying outside Canaan 20:10-15 -thewomen chil-1

dren and animals can be spared, and the spoil is Israel's. Such wars are not, strictly speaking, holy wars.

We can find two general principles in the way Israel is to carry out holy war.

The first we have already seen, namely the "ban" or total destruction that must be carried out.

Anything under the "ban" is regarded as being God's and only He can give per-mission for it to be saved.

A good example of the ban in operation is in the taking of Jericho, where the whole city was under the ban.

This was violated, how-ever, when Achan kept some of the treasures of the city for himself.

The result was that brought the ban on himself, his family and all his pos-sessions — all were stoned to death, burned and buried under a great heap of stones (Josh 7).

Another example is the way in which Saul is rejected as king by God, because he does not faithfully observe the ban in holy war against the Amalekites, but saves alive the king and the best of the sheep and cattle ( I Sant I5).

tomy in one's experience between the mental world of theological theorising and the practice of con-..istent Christian discipleship.

The challenge to the student is that of bridging the gap between thought and action through maintaining a regular devotional life and exercising a ministry when possible to one's brothers and the outsider.

A little theology goes a long way. For the student and graduate alike more is the danger of becoming the untouchable teacher who sees himself as the mediator of God's word and above contradiction God's gift to the congregation.

Y et. if t he student continu.ill,

The other principle which we can observe in the waging of holy war is that God is the fighter.

It is His war, and He will give victory regardless of the strength of Israel's opponents.

For example, He com-mands Gideon to reduce his army to a token force, so that it will be clear who is the real victor (Jdg 7).

Jonathan is aware that "nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few" before he and his armour-bearer advance alone into the Philistine camp (I Sam 14:1-16).

As God is the fighter, the attitude of the Israelite sol-diers must be faith in Him. They must regard the battle as won before it even begins

— as can be seen in the familiar exhortation "the Lord has given them into your hand".

Although the number of holy wars actually fought decreases considerably with the establishment of the monarchy. the concept remains important.

The period leading up to the exile is one in which the fortunes of the divided king-dom are generally in decline.

The prophets who appear during this period state repeatedly that the nation's difficulties result from their unfaithfulness to God, and that if they will turn back to Him, He will fight for them once again.

On the other hand, if they do not turn back to Him, He will fight against them — in effect, they will bring the ban on themselves.

The prophets who prophesy during the exile, however.

seeks to place himself under the authority of God's word, he should gain not only knowledge of God but knowledge of himself. This should undermine his pride and stimulate him to continually seek the grace of God.

Pursuing the knowledge of Gad takes time. As the student grows in knowledge of the word, his know-ledge of the world may undergo a kind of arrested development. He can become so engrossed in the theological enterprise that he be-comes insensitive to cultural trends.

A steady intake of novels, plays. films and magazines, carefully selected, can provide a healthy cor-rective to this danger. Such a dies may help the student overcome the problem of social isolation.

— By Graham Cole.

proclaim a message of hope -- God will rescue His people from exile.

They describe this event in language drawn from the time of the Exodus.

It will, in fact, be a new Exodus with God once more fighting for His people.

There will be a difference, however -- Israel them-selves will not take up arms, but God will fight alone.

The idea of God as warrior finally passes over into the apocalyptic battle of Armageddon — the last great battle when God will destroy His enemies for all time.

The idea comes up in this form in the New Testament in the book of Revelation.

There is, however, a prior fulfilment of the idea of holy war, which can be seen when we consider the relationship between holy war and the Exodus.

The Exodus plays a most important part in God's revelation of Himself.

It does not merely show His love and mercy —

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although it does that — but it reveals His whole pattern of salvation, a pattern that is fulfilled in the work of Christ.

God brought His people out of bondage to Pharaoh in Egypt, and into the land He had promised to give them.

Similarly, He has brought us out of bondage to sin and death and into His King-dom, through Christ's sacri-fice.

The Exodus points for-ward to this more complete salvation.

Holy war is a central theme in the Exodus story, as it is the means by which God establishes His people in their land.

The New Testament fulfil-ment of holy war would there-fore be the means by which He brings us into His heavenly Kingdom, and that is through Christ's sacrifice on the cross.

Armageddon. as we have

seen, is also related to the holy war theme.

At Armageddon the -enemies of God's Kingdom are finally destroyed vet the Kingdom itself is already established.

Thus Armageddon may be regarded as an outworking of the victory God has already won on Calvary. and that it is Calvary which is the true fulfilment of the holy war theme.

As we look at Calvary we can see the same holy war principles as were outlined earlier.

Firstly, the ban is applied but with a twist. The ban,

as we saw earlier, is some-thing applied to God's enemies — but it is we who were God's enemies.

What God does is to take the ban on Himself, in Christ. What appeared to be His greatest defeat was His greatest victory.

Secondly, just as the Israelite soldiers had to have faith that God would live them the victory, we must have faith that God has won the victory over the powers of darkness on our behalf.

We must also have faith that God will work out the implications of this victory in our lives now, helping us to overcome sin, and faith that we will share in God's victory on the last day.

Two points should be made in conclusion. Firstly, it should be clear that holy war has no bearing on wars today.

If these can be justified it must be on other grounds.

Secondly, holy war should bring home to us something of the seriousness of sin.

God will fight against and destroy everything sinful in His creation -- and Chris-tians will only escape this des-truction because their sin has been dealt with on Calvary..

BOOK REVIEW "Meet Christ"

by John de Vries 7Opp. 25e.

"Meet Christ" (1974) is a six lesson study, question and answer book which would be very useful as follow-up to personal evangelism in order to teach the faith to a new Christian. All these books are recom-mended for use in any church programme devoted to out-reach through distribution of the scriptures and they are but a few of the many other fine, inexpensive publica-tions similarly available. At any rate this reviewer hopes to use them widely.

GEOFFREY HAYLES.

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Letters TO THE EDITOR

Some of the "spots" seem promising, but the longer ses-sions often fall into the fami-liar pattern of "Church Works" (the Unmarried Mothers' Clubs) and "This Gospel is for You" (Repent and ring up this Phone Num-ber).

Sure, we have to know what the church is doing, and we have to be confronted by the Lord Jesus Christ, but is it really acknowledging his Lordship when we don't apply his teaching to music and literature and politics and events of the com-munity; in fact most things outside the church and its works.

Why not have various ses-sions in which the events of the week, and books, music, plays, films can be examined from a Christian world view and the relevance of Christ's word applied.

Idealistic! Sure. Yet the "Christian Science Moni-tor" with its particular view can compete with the "secu-lar" American newspapers, and hold an audience. Why not 2CH?

We Christians have some-thing to say about every area of life for we serve a •Master to whom all authority in hea-ven and earth has been given. Let's get on with it.

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'What our Christian living ought to be'

by the choir of St Peter and St Paul, Port Pirie.

The Bishop of Willochra (Bishop Bruce Rosier) gave the centenary sermon.

The service was attended by members of congrega-tions of nearby parishes, as well as many past members of all Saints.

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — The Anglican ('hurch in South Africa will hare to double its number of priests by the year 2(MM) if it is to keep pace with the population growth, Canon Trevor Verryn of the Ecumenical Research Unit told the annual meeting of the Anglican Board of Mis-sion.

— "Kadin Times".

The two verses, Romans 12, I and 2, provide us with a sig-nificant description of Christian living.

They give us in a few brief phrases a comprehensive pattern, which indicates in essential activity, in neces-sary equipment, and in ulti-mate achievement, what our Christian living ought to be.

Note at once that it is described as a "service" or "worship," which should be "reasonable" or "spiritual": that it involves the use of both body and mind; that it should be determined not by what is fashionable among men, but by what is accep-table to God: and that it should issue in the delight of doing God's will.

In form these words con-front us as Christians with a practical challenge.

For the words of Romans 12, I and 2, are an exhorta-tion addressed to "breth-ren" who have experienced "the mercies of God.

These mercies both pro-vide a constraint and guaran-tee an enablement.

Such an exhortation implies that Christian morality should be the expres-sion not of a man-made re-solve but of a divinely in-spired response.

To quote Professor C. H. Dodd: "It does not begin with a man's ambition to make himself a fine specimen of virtuous humanity, and so, it may be, win the approval of God.

"It begins with the thankful recognition that God, the source of all goodness, has done for him what he could never do for himself."

Its essential character: Divine service or worship —

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Lion to God; and (ii) that the highest form of true worship is not engagement in elabo-rate ceremonies but the prac-tice of daily obedience.

For the Christian, wor-ship is primarily a matter not of ritual performance but of moral behaviour. This is supremely illustrated in the human life of the incar-nate Son of God.

Consequently the pattern of Christian worship is to be found not in the ceremonial law but in the obedience of Jesus in life and death to His Father's will.

Its practical cost: (i) presenting our bodies —

Such obedience involves the use of the whole man.

In particular we must yield our members to God to be used in His service.

Christianity does not teach us to treat the body as evil and as needing to be sup-pressed and cast off. It teaches us rather to regard the body as capable of be-coming the temple and instru-ment of God's indwelling Spirit, where and with which God is to be worshipped.

Also — in contrast to the ritual sacrifices of the old order, which involved put-ting animals to death, be-cause only by blood-shed-ding could sin be remitted — now that Christ has died for our sins, and now that in Him risen we are alive from the dead, we can offer to God the sacrifice of our lives — by living daily to His glory.

Its practical cost: (ii) using our minds —

The worship which we ought now to render to God is also to be "reasonable."

It involves, as ritual perfor-mance does not, the use of the mind and will in a re-sponse of intelligeht and considered choice.

This exercise of the mind is necessary in order to discern in daily living what actions will please God.

It is not possible to our sin-ful nature. It is possible only as our minds are renewed by God's quickening and illuminating Spirit. Its practical cost: (iii)

changing our standards— This new awareness is

necessary, and needs to be exercised, because, as Chris-tians we are called to cease to order our lives according to

the prevailing fashions of this world and to promote their transformation' by choosing day by day to do what is pleasing in God's sight.

Its intended goal: Doing God's will.

The issue of such response should be threefold.

(i) We should discover

spectacular new Chris-tian film is shortly to be re-leased in Australia entitled "A Thief in the Night".

In full colour, this feature-length production is a motion picture about Bible prophecy and shows what

'There will be no place

to hide' might happen when Jesus Christ returns.

The film is produced by Mark IV Pictures, USA.

The film story centres around Patty, an average girl caught up in living for the present with little concern about the future.

What happens when this thinking finally catches up with her provides an action-packed, unforgettable drama.

Filmed on location in Iowa, USA. this picture portrays with devastating reality the

Ile said plans were now being considered for follow-up seminars to give ad-vanced instruction to (hose who had attended.

"This suggestion came from one of the men who was helped by the school," the bishop said.

Bishop Reid is chairman of the Sydney Diocesan College of Preachers which conducts the school each year.

He said the college had made a valuable contribu-tion to preaching since its inception a few years ago.

"Those attending the schools have received instruction and encourage-ment." he said.

"We are looking forward to another good session in June next year."

The secretary of the executive (the Rev George

what God's will for us is in each particular situation of life. For we should learn, by the exercise of our new mind, to discern good from evil and to recognise what pleases God.

(ii) We should delight in its personal acceptance and practice, rejoicing in the realisation that because it is God's will it must be "good," it is to be welcomed as "acceptable" and it will prove to be "perfect."

(iii) Finally, the will of God which we have thus learnt to discern, and which we thus love to delight in, we should spend our days actively doing. "I beseech you therefore." -- so to do.

Biblicalprediction: "There will be no place to hide"!

"A Thief in the Night" has received two of four film awards given by the National Evangelical Film Founda-tion, Pennsylvania.

It gained "The Best Film Of The Year" award and Patty Dunning, who had the lead role in the film, was named "The Outstanding Fe-male Actress Of The Year".

Reports from the first year of showings in the USA re-veal -- 9887 showings; 300 persons per showing (estimated attendance many report from 1000 to 30001; three million esti-mated total attendance.

All Saints Anglican Church at Moonta last month held a service of com-munion to commemorate one hundred years of wor-ship.

Sung eucharist was con-ducted by the rector, the Rev Brian Newman, assisted by Mr Frank Warn.

Merbecke's setting of the Holy Communion was sung

Robinson) said that because of requests for a "repeat school", applications on limited basis would he avail-able to those who had at-tended a school prior to 1974.

There was a possibility next year that preaching ses-sions would be held in the local church at Menangie.

These would he video-taped and each man would be able to study his own style.

"In order to give each man individual attention, we will continue to restrict the number to about 24," he said.

Mr Robinson said the committee was guided each year by the comments which students filled in on a reac-tion sheet.

These asked how they had been helped and what improvements they sug-gested.

When is music Christian? Sir,

John Davies "R ecord" 11/9/74) raises several issues in his letter about Radio Station 2CH and secular music.

Yet what is secular music? or Christian music for that matter?

Is it music written by a Christian? or played by a Christian'? a song using Christian words? or sound-ing like a hym t or Handel's "Messiah'"?

If a Fellowship Rock Group plays in church service is that Christian music?

We would have to answer: "No, not necessarily" to each of the above questions.

Christian music surely must express some aspect of God's Creation-Fall- Redemption pattern through its harmony, compo- sition, instrumentalisation, playing, words - - the lot.

Too often we've blundered along talking of the sacred and the secular, pouring out "gallons of sickly sweet middle-class sentimenta-lity".

We ought to be investiga-ting principles of Christian music so we can appreciate, create and criticise construc-tively.

John Davies castigates 2CH for the soft sell ap- proach slipping in one- minute "spots" between the musk:.

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`Racial trouble' ahead? Sir,

Most of the world's nations maintain immigration laws which, amongst other things, are (primarily ) intended to maintain their ethnic status quo.

Japan's laws on foreigners (for example) are stringent.

Thus the number of aliens from all over the world living there do not reach the level of Japanese residents in Aus-tralia.

In Israel, the sale of land is reserved to Jewish people.

Papua-New Guinea citizen-ship laws promise to be restrictive in the extreme. Without indigenous grand-parents, persons born there

Methodist Church nursing homes in South Australia are losing more than $3000 week.

'Fatal loss for the year could be $195,000.

The church has found Com-monwealth subsidies and fees charged are not enough to keep up with increased wages and rising costs.

In a joint statement in the "Central Times", official journal of the church III South Australia, the leaders of the Adelaide and North Adelaide Central Methodist Missions, Rev Keith Sea-man and Rev Vern Harri-son said the crisis in caring for the aged was "factual, developing and frighten-ing."

Dr Barr, who is a specia- list in revitalising local congregations, told the "West Australian" in Perth that he was delighted at Aus-tralians' participation in the church service.

He was speaking at his First appearance as a guest preacher of the Trinity Congregational Church.

Dr Barr will be in Perth for a month to give talks on how a city church can solve pro-blems of the )970s.

may soon be 1111%dt:0111e Thailand in general re-

stricts foreign residents to a two-months' stay -- no ex-tensions; Fiji, six months, un-less there are very special circumstances; Uganda, all foreigners out.

Only in Manila, recently, did Immigration Commis-sioner Grassby, when Minister, arrange a resi-dence agreement for the benefit of Australians who might want to live in the Philippines -- in return for the right of Filipinos to migrate to Australia.

The same attitude exists throughout the world, a natu-ral one, that of people of eth-nic groups instinctively wanting to procreate and n.aintain their own kind and, as much as their personal make-up allows, to live in harmony.

As it has been from the beginning of time. They were made that way. They are not called

"racists"! In Australia it is dif-

ferent. Our youth is taught, and our leaders espouse, the case of miscegenation.

They, the leaders, press for and implement a policy of race-mixing, a deliberate undoing of the work of the Creator.

The greater the varieties in the mix, the prouder we should be to call ourselves "Australian"!

A South Australian clergy man who held influential pastorates in Sydney and Melbourne has accepted an invitation to become minister of a church in New

ork.

lie is the Rev Gordon Powell, the minister of Scots Presbyterian Church, Mel-bourne, formerly of the Port Adelaide Presbyterian Church.

He has sought leave of ab-sence for five years to take up the position at Christ Church on Quaker Hill in Pawling, New York.

The congregation includes 13 denominations.

Mr Powell, 63, said he was looking forward to the new

Mr Geoffrey Bull, noted missionary and author of "When Iron Gates Yield" is visiting Australia.

After lour years service in the British Forces, he laboured as a missionary in China, Tibet, and Hong Kong during the years 1947-54.

Held as a prisoner by the Communists in China from 1950-53, his release ca-ne, it is believed, in answer to the worldwide prayers of God's people.

The story of his ex-periences is told in his book, "When Iron Gates Yield", and other writings.

Mr Bull has travelled ex-tensively in preaching min-istry.

He visited Australia in 1956 and addressed many largely-attended gatherings.

The itinerary is being ar-ranged by the Brethren Assemblies.

Letters to the editor should not exceed 300 words.

Forget all the rubbish about British forbears and European background; if you don't, you're a (that awful word )"RACIST".

And so Australia has multi-racial immigration, and is planned to become the dream of international and local socialists, naive do-gooders and others, with other motives - an experi-mental human melting-pot.

For the well-blessed who live in areas which have main-tained their established character, the import of radi-cally different non-Euro-pean people will have little effect, at present.

But already other Aus-tralians, required to live in areas where most of their neighbours are alien, and some very, feel like strangers in their own land, and are not happy, and fear for Aus-tralia's future. Does this make them "racists"?

Our restrictive immigra-tion law, which became known as the White Aus-tralia Policy, was never in-tended to offend anyone, but, employed to maintain a Christian European society, has stood us well since Federation.

We have been free of the racial and religious turmoil of countries like Cyprus, Fiji, Malaysia, USA and the UK.

Neither the Liberal Country Party Government nor the present one was

appointment with consider-able excitement.

"It will be a whole new ball game and an enlargement of my ministry at an age when many others are think-ing of retirement," he said.

The invitation had been unexpected and unsought, he said.

Mr Powell visited the church two years ago as a summer preacher.

The move could lead to a considerable enlargement of his ministry, he said, with-out the pressure of the city church.

He had published 11 books but becaused of the pressure at Scots Church he had not been able to have one pub-lished for the past 10 years.

In Pawling he would have more opportunity to write and would be closer to publishers.

given a mandate to relax, or kill and bury, the White Aus-tralia Policy, as evidenced by the overwhelming opinion expressed in the 1971 Gallup Poll.

Australia is at present headed for racial trouble, which so many innocent people think (as they did in England 18 years ago) simply couldn't happen here.

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The Victorian committee on religious education recommended this in a recent report. •

It said that religious studies could become a nor-mal, everyday part of the school syllabus, from first grade to form five.

Teachers already in state schools could be trained to teach the subject.

The present system of volunteer, part-time reli-gion teachers from churches would then be phased out.

If the Government accepts the report, it would entail re-placing Section 23 of the Education Act of 1872.

The section laid down that all teaching in state schools should be secular.

The religious studies course should cover Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as the chief forms of Christianity, the report said.

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He said the ratio of priests to laity had been worsening in the Anglican Church since 1960.

Whereas up to that stage the ratio was one priest to every 2000 laymen in the church, by 1970 the ratio had changed to one priest to every 2900 laymen.

In 1920, 15 per cent of South Africa's population of 4.5 million were Anglicans, and there were 225 priests to serve them.

At that stage 70 per cent of the membership was white, and 30 per cent black.

In 1960, when the total population had risen to 15 million, the percentage of Anglicans had declined to 12 per cent by 1000 priests.

The racial composition of the church had changed to 80 per cent black and only 20 per cent white.

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The WCC Central Committee meeting, held in West Berlin in August this year, decided "with deep re-gret" not to make use of the invitation of the Indonesian Council of Churches to meet in Jakarta in 1975.

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using the new courses says: "There ale many oppor-tunities arising from day to day school activities when a religious idea can be developed."

"INSIDIOUS" Opponents of the scheme

claim that it is illegal and insi-dious.

They have organised pro-test meetings among teachers and parents and plan to put a submission to the Minister for Education Mr Batt when he returns from an overseas tour at the end of next month.

The Solicitor General's Department has been asked by the Education Depart-ment to clear up legal doubts about the new course,

It is always interesting to learn what makes a person lick — to discover the ex-periences that a person values and the objects and ambitions of his life.

We are given a glimpse into the life of the apostle Paul in a passage of auto-biographical writing in the third chapter of his letter to the Philippians.

Here he lists the status symbols of his time on which he used to pride him-self — they were mostly a matter of birth and member-ship of the inner group of his community.

We Australians may have different status symbols, but they are equally unreal.

But St Paul tells his friends at Philippi that he now has a new object in life compared with which the former are absolute dross, and even garbage.

His new object is to know Christ. It is an experience which he describes as "sur-passing excellence".

Pleasure in people

Knowing people is the greatest pleasure in life — I mean, knowing them as friends in fellowship with them.

Personal fellowship, personal communication, personal relationship pro- vide the basic joys of life --but it must be a fellowship in which the person does not think of his own in-terests but rather of those with whom he is in fellow-ship, then it can be a very happy experience indeed.

Sometimes a great under-taking which because of its immensity and impor-tance draws us away from selfishness, creates the joys of fellowship.

The allied invasion of Normandy provided such an occasion and those who took part in it commented afterwards, how sad it was that the spirit of fellow-ship experienced and en-joyed during these months seemed to evaporate as soon as the operation was completed.

The reason was simple. During those months every-one sank their own in-terests and helped one another spontaneously in order to accomplish the Joint objective.

When it was over we all turned to our own objec-tives once again and the fellowship subsided to a normal level.

However, from this we can glimpse what joy and satisfaction true fellow-ship can provide.

Heaven will he wonder-ful, because it wilt be per-fect fellowship

Religion of 'fellowship'

The Christian religion is nothing else than a religion of fellowship.

The one purpose of the Christian Church is to be a fellowship in which we share personal relation-ships one with the other and with our divine Master.

This fellowship is brought into being by the Gospel which tells us that through Christ our sins may be forgiven, and calls on us to repent, ie, change our mind and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord.

The joy of true human fel-lowship is real and we may experience some of its flavour from time to time.

But fellowship with Cod in Christ is deeper and more satisfying and more joyful than even personal fellow-ship between tiP:n and women.

The fellowship with Christ and with one another is God's purpose for us, we may begin to experience it now and death will cer-tainly not terminate it but only usher us into a fuller realisation of deeper joy. It is experiencing the possi-bility of this fellowship that St Paul makes the ob-ject of his life, and for which he gives up every other worldly ambition and pos-session.

In Philippians 3:10 he tells us that his aim is "that I may know Jesus and the power of his resurrection, and may share his suf-ferings .."

It is true, of course, that in this life we only know in part, we see as through a mirror darkly, but the time will come when we will know God as fully as we are known by Him, for then we will see Christ as He is.

We will have fellowship with Him face to face.

In the letter, Paul speaks of our present fellowship with Christ as absence from Christ, compared with the fellowship we will enjoy after death.

Nevertheless, we do enter into personal fellow- ship with God through Christ now, we are able to speak with Him and to ad-dress Him as Father and to know Him as a person.

Let us look for a moment at how this is possible.

To know a person, to hare fellowship with a per- son is always on the basis of intellectual notions. We hare fellowship with our friends by their speaking to us and by our responding.

it is not necessary that we should communicate with words, but at least with gestures and expressions of out eyes.

We only have fellowship when a person begins to speak to us.

Till he speaks, there is no fellowship.

In Matthew 22:31 Jesus asked the religious leaders of his day "Have you never read what was spoken to you by God?"

He was referring to the Book of Genesis written some 1500 years before. Jesus said that this written text is the contemporary word of God spoken to the reader.

"Have you never read what was spoken to you by God?"

In the same way the Epistle to the Hebrews in quoting a psalm from the Old Testament says that these words are the words spoken by the Holy Spirit to the reader.

"The Holy Spirit says", note the present tense, not merely "said" but "says", God speaks to us by the scriptures.

Thus He enters into a per-sonal relationship with us — He speaks to us and we respond to Him.

This has always been the centre of true Religion. Cod spoke to Abraham, to Moses, to the disciples in Galilee; all had personal fellowship with Cod and this still remains our privi-lege.

God enters into fellow-ship with us through His Word and we on our own part respond personally to God through Faith and obedience.

Faith is personal, and obedience is personal.

So that when God speaks to us and we turn to Him with faith and obedience and prayer, we enter into a personal fellowship which is real if still dim, as seeing through a mirror darkly, but full of joy, the first fruit of the joy of the fuller, deeper fellowship of Hea-ven, when we will see God face to face.

Eternal life now

Thus, as Christians, we begin to experience eter- nal life now, for eternal life is nothing else than fellow-ship with God, knowing God, as Jesus said in his prayer of John 17, "this is life eternal, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hest sent."

In the book of Revela-tion 3:20 our Saviour calls on us to open the door as He knocks, and He makes the promise that if we do He will come in and have dinner with us and we with Him.

Now a meal is of course, a basic act of fellowship, so that by this imagery Jesus tells us that if we open our lives to Him in faith and obedience, this will lead to a real relationship of mutual personal fellow-ship, He with us and we with Him.

Christians find that this is true.

gion is the concept of the Word of God, through which we have fellowship with God.

Hearing or reading God's word, as we read the Bible regularly, and as we hear His Word preached faith-fully is the basis of fellow-ship with God.

Fellowship is impossible in the absence of intellec-tual notions exchanged be-tween those who are having fellowship.

God must speak of us if we are to know Him.

Theologians and deno-minations which abandon the idea that the Bible is God's Word (and if God's Word, it must of course, be infallible} make the Chris-tian religion impossible for those who accept their teaching.

In the place of personal fellowship with Cod through His word which is the Christian religion, a Moralism is substituted and Jesus becomes an example outside ourselves whom we may strive to imi-tate — "The man for others" is a modern phrase.

But this is not the Chris-tian religion.

It is true that Jesus is oar example but He is firstly a Saviour and friend because He is our Lord in whom we have faith and whom we obey.

We are in relationship with Him, not merely admiring Him from the out-side.

According to His promise "I will come in and have dinner with him and he with Me", He gives us His Holy Spirit when we hear His word, and through His Spirit He is present in our spirits and we are in fellow-ship with Him.

A real experience and a real joy.

This fellowship does not remain simply indi-vidualistic, between our-selves and Christ, but all who are Christ's have fellowship with one another as we have fellow-ship with Him, and this is the Christian Church.

We reply by prayer

Cod speaks to us through His Spirit by His Word and we in return speak to Him through prayer, prompted and taught by the same Spirit.

St Paul describes this as the "surpassing excel-lence" of the knowledge of Christ.

He made it His one aim to attain to everything else that the world had to offer him things which he once valued, now counted as mere garbage.

How do we stand with re-gard to relationship with God?

Have we responded to the Gospel, received His for-giveness of sins and been brought into His presence, so that, taught by the Holy Spirit, we say to Him "Father!" This is the Chris-tian religion.

Len J. Jones...Founder-Director

SAVINGS The Perth Anglican Dio-

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The cost expected to be about $100,000 a year for the next few years at least -- will be carried by the church's trustees.

— "The West Australian".

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The Australian and New Zealand Society for Theo-logical Studies (ANZSTS) - a body closely associated with :he Australian Council of Churches — has called for Australian Coyernment finance for courses on religion in Australian universities and colleges of advanced education.

In a letter to Professor P. H. Karmel, chairman of the Australian Universities Commission, the Society for Theological Studies has requested that Australian

He was assisted by the Rt Rev Najib Cubian, Diocesan Bishop of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon and also by the

Universities and colleges of advanced education be en-couraged to develop aca-demic programmes of studies in religion through financial assistance from the Australian Government.

At the same time, the society hopes the Universi-ties Commission will "support the further develop-ment of existing studies in the field of religion" and support "any new develop-ments in this field proposed by the institutions con-cerned in the coming trien-nium."

The service was attended by more than 720 people, in-cluding 30 dignitaries and clergy from other Christian denominations and churches in Jerusalem.

Earls decision-making theorists were influenced by the rationalistic approach of the early 211th century And propounded rather mechani-cal ways in which "good" deci-sions were to be made leg get the fads; analyse them; make decision).

These rational models were successfully applied to scientific and technological problems.

However, in the general areas of life, where there are not always "right" answers to problems, but more fre-quently, only optimum answers, these rational models do not have the same applicability.

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This book, although it is based heavily on the rationa-

But it is being tested in at least 13 schools throughout the State on a voluntary basis.

Basically the new course will replace the weekly scrip-ture lessons with a religious emphasis in normal lessons.

A note by the Education Department to teachers

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If we are to enter into per-sonal fellowship with God in Christ, He must speak to us and we to Him in re-sponse: Jesus says God does this, speaking to us through the words of the Bible.

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Bishop arren has announced that the 1975

Synod of the Canberra-Goulburn Diocese will he held in

Goulburn.

In this month's newsletter of words, but that parishes

the bishop said the first regu- and the diocese as a whole

tar session of Synod to be will make every effort to dis-

held in ( anberra had its "en- cover that quality of cor-

cuuraging aspects and its porate life which is distinctly

disappointments". Christian."

-Evensong in the

Grammar School Assembly ON-SITE Hall contrasted unhappily with the same service in the Cathedral", he said.

"Movement in the city of Canberra is more difficult than in Goulburn and motel prices are a good deal higher.

"In addition, the expected larger gallery at synod did not materialise.

"On the other hand, many synodsmen commented favourably upon the taking of meals together, and the phy-sical arrangements of the synod."

In his charge to synod, Bishop Warren said:

"At the root of Chris-tianity is the knowledge that God is supreme and that, through Christ, he has de-clared and begun the redemp-tion of the world.

"Christians are, therefore. hopeful people, bearing wit-ness to this truth, and engen-dering hope in others.

"Ideally this hopefulness should be apparent in the life of the Body, along with the frankness, openness. charity and acceptance to which reference was made earlier.

"With due humility, Chris-tians may remember the words of their Lord, 'You are a light for all the world. A town that stands on a hill cannot be hidden,' (Matt 5:14, NEB)"

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Two Palestinians were recently consecrated Anglican bishops in Jerusalem. They will serve in 11w Diocese of Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.

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Canon R. J. and Mrs Hewett were guests of honour at CMS in Sydney recently to mark the 50th anniversary of Canon Hewett's first appointment to the staff of the society. The couple now live in Kilvington village, Most of the Canon's ministry was spent in service with CMS. Those with them in the photograph are left to right: Mr John ('leaver, the Rev Kevin Engel, the Rev John Turner (NSW General Secretary), the Rev Stanley Giltrap (Aborigines Branch Secretary), Mr Geoff Lucas, the Rev James Taylor (assistant to the general secretary), Miss Alison McCann, Mrs Elvie Simpson, Mr Victor Tow and Miss Ruth Colman. — Testimony Communications.

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The Reforntation meant pa AUSTRALIAN CHURCH RECORD, OCTOBER 31, 1974 — 1

Mr Peter Kell, Wol-longong Synod representa-tive, said Bishop Delbridge's impact on Wollongong as bishop and archdeacon would mean the announcement of his appointment would cause dismay to the area.

Bishop Delbridge was obviously emotionally moved by tributes of synodsmen

"I believe the task given to me was viable, proper and a real one," he said, referring to his work in Wollongong.

"I came into synod as a layman.

"It is hard to realise this is my last synod. • To page 8

Inside this issue

• Notes & Com-ments — pages 2, 4.

• Relics Galore —page 3.

• SSR Survey — page 4.

• Letters — page 7

• Archbishop Reed retires — page 8

MaMO NW People Festival of Light rally attracts 7000

Sydney's Dean Shilton told a recent rally of nearly 7000 that the Festival of I.ight was one of the "most positive organisations" in the community today.

SI Ws. Fa The Rev John Wise, rector

of St Jame,... South Canter-bury, with St Mark's, Clem-ton Park, since 1971, has en-tered the army. He is chap-lain at Bandiana, Victoria

The Rev Bill Holland has been appointed to Robert-son (NSW) to replace the Rev Arthur Horrex who has joined BCA. Mr Holland has been curate-in-charge at Manly Vale since 1971.

A member of the editorial staff of the Reader's Digest has been appointed hono-rary women's secretary by CMS Federal Council. She is Miss Norma Lynas, who was at one time editorial secretary for CMS.

Miss Margaret Rook, well-known to those visiting the Sydney office of General Synod, leaves for Dodoma with CMS on January 31. She will replace Miss Mar-garet McKechnie for 12 months as financial secre-tary to the inter-diocesan missionary council.

MELBOURNE Miss Norma Lynas from

NSW has been appointed honorary women's secretary for the Church Missionary Society.

Mrs Mary Powys from Vic-toria, has been appointed deputy honorary women's secretary with special re-sponsibilities for Victoria. Mrs Powys is at present a member of general committee and the executive committee of the Victorian Branch.

CANBERRA-COULBURN The Rev A. W. Holder,

Vicar of St Andrew's Surbi-ton, Surrey, England, has been appointed rector of the Parish of the Good Shep-herd, Curtin, ACT, with effect from early January. Mr Holder, 51, is married with three children, two of whom will accompany him to Australia.

The parish fell vacant with the removal of The Rey C. A. Osborne to Bega last week. The Rev R. J. Lindlbeck is serving as relieving priest in the parish until Mr Holder's arrival.

The Rev Norman Frost, Rector of Gunning, and The Rev James Tetlow, Rector of Adelong, have retired.

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fereat from my own, I don't particularly want to act as a public servant."

He said most churchmen :ealised that the Church could not be absolved from responsibility towards people involved in broken marriages.

However, the teaching and discipline of the Church could not be pushed aside in

the Rev J. H. A. Gibson, formerly assistant priest at St John's Canberra, and St Matthew's, Albury, and most recently in the Parish of Havant, Hampshire, England, has been appointed Rector of Gunning with effect from early December.

The Rev David Rein is pre-sently relieving in the parish of Koorawatha. The Rector of Koorawatha, The Rev Michael Cockayne, is at pre-sent on leave in Europe, visi-ting Taize and other Com-munities. It is expected that Mr Rien will become assis-tant priest at Cooma when Mr Cockayne returns to-wards the end of November.

The Rev Percy Moore, formerly honorary deacon in the parish of St Luke's, Deakin, ACT, and subse-quently with Mrs Moore as House Parents at "Bongo-rimbil" Boys' Home, has been ordained to the priest-hood by the Archbishop of Melbourne. He will con-tinue to fulfil an honorary ministry at St Mark's Emerald, in Melbourne.

ARMIDALE The new chaplain at the

University of New England will be the Rev Kevin Giles. After training at Moore Col-lege and a curacy at Wollon-gong, Mr Giles was engaged in study overseas. He is re-turning from England to re-place the former chaplain, the Rev Tony Doran. Mr Doran and family are to serve with CMS in Sumatra.

BRISBANE The Rev John Arnold has

been appointed CMS secret' tary for the Queensland-Nor-thern NSW branch. Mr Arnold was appointed rec-tor of Christ Church, Black-town, NSW in 1967 after being Director of CEBS in the Sydney Diocese.

GRAFTON Mr C. S. C. Sheller, was

sworn in by Bishop Donald Sherman at the recent Graf-ton Synod. He succeeds Mr A. B. Kerrigan as chancellor of the diocese.

ENGLAND Canon Michael Green is

dangerously ill in South Africa. He contracted meningitis while conducting a university mission. Mrs Green has flown to he with

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NEW YORK, NY, USA —The RI Res John M. Allin, presiding bishop of the Episco-pal ( hurch, in response to in-quiries which have come to the Episcopal Church Centre, has announced receipt of formal charges against four bishops of the church who

The Rey Dr Alan A. Brash, OBE, Deputy General Secre-tary of the World Council of Churches, will be in Sydney on October 14, 15 and 17 and in Melbourne on October 16.

Dr Brash was born in Wellington, New Zealand.

He took a Master of Arts Degree at Otago Univer-sity, Dunedin, and a Bachelor of Divinity degree at New College, Edinburgh, Scot-land.

He served as a parish minister for 12 years before taking the position of General Secretary of the New Zealand Council of Churches, a position he held for 13 years.

Prior to joining the staff of the World Council, Dr Brash was director of Chris-tian Aid, the relief and development agency of the British Council of Churches.

Upon joining the WCC, he became Director of the Commission on Inter-Church Aid, Refugee and World Service and later was

participated in a service in which 11 women deacons were intended to be ordained to the priesthood in Philadel-phia on July 29.

The House of Bishops, meeting in a special session in Chicago, August 14-15, de-clared "that the necessary

promoted to staff chairman of the WCC Unit on Justice and Service.

Between 1957 and 1965, Alan Brash travelled more than a million miles through-out Asia as Secretary for Mission and Service of the Christian Conference of Asia.

He was awarded an OBE in 1962 in recognition of his liaison work between Asian countries and New Zealand, being commended by New Zealand's Prime Minister for having "changed the image of Asia in New Zea-land".

In 1971 he received an honorary doctorate from Knox College, Toronto, Canada.

While in Sydney, Dr Brash will address a public meet-ing at St Peter's Church of England hall, Mortdale, on Tuesday, October 15. at 8 pm.

The theme of his address is "Evangelism and the Social Gospel"

The Rev l.ance Shilton was addressing a protest meeting at the Miranda Fair Shopping Centre. south of Sydney.

It was the largest e'er at-tendance at the centre except for two meetings during the last election to hear Mr Whitlam and Mr Snedden.

"It is to the advantage of our opponents to make us appear negative, wowserish and old-fashioned," said the dean.

"We are not going to shut up and be exploited, but we are going to wake up and be vigilant, speak up and be heard, and ,land up and he cou riled

conditions for valid ordina-tion to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church were not fulfilled" at the Philadel-phia service.

The charges were filed in four separate papers by Bishop Stanley Atkins of Eau Claire (Wisconsin): Bishop William H. Brady of Fond du Lac (Wisconsin); Bishop Charles T. Gaskell of Milwaukee: and Bishop Al-bert W. Hillestad of Spring-field (Illinois).

Among the violations cited were the failure of the participating bishops to re-ceive "the recommenda-tions of the several Standing Committees and the request and approvals of the Dio-cesans of the Deacons:" the bishops "officiated or assisted without the request of the Bishop of Pennsyl-vania:" and "all of the Den-

Dean Shilton said FOL sup-porters were not imposing their will on others, but on those who "for filthy lucre's sake" were seeking to manipulate the community.

"We are a concerned minority permeating the whole society with Christian truth as salt to preserve and as light shines to dispel dark-ness," he said.

Mrs Frieda Brown, Senate candidate for the Family Ac-tion Movement, spoke of the family as the basic unit of society.

She criticised the Federal Government for appointing women who were un-representative of "ordinary'' women to important posi-tions.

People were asked to in-form the prime minister of their opposition to the Family Law Bill; to object to State authorities about in-decent publications; to maintain contact with TV managers and sponsors.

"Write personal letters praising wholesome family programmes and com-plaining about objection-able material," they were told.

"Form groups to visit news-agents selling pornographic sex papers which you feel should not be freely avail-able for viewing or sale to children.

"Concerted pressure on newsagents to change their attitude on this issue has been successful in other states.

"Newsagents who exclude offensive material should be patronised, praised and pro-moted in your district.

"If you feel children should be prevented from viewing "R" rated films at drive-in theatres, then write to the chief secretary and ob-tain his views on the matter.

"Hard-core pornography is now exhibited in Aus-tralian theatres under the re-spectability of the "R" rating.

cons were women." The charges were filed

against Bishop Daniel Corri-gan, retired former Suffra-gan Bishop of Colorado: Bishop Robert L. DeWitt, re-signed Bishop of Pennsyl-vania: Bishop Edward R. Welles 11, retired Bishop of West Missouri; and Bishop Jose Antonio Ramos, cur-rent Bishop of Costa Rica.

Bishop Allin has ap-pointed as members of the panel of bishops to whom the charges are now referred, Bidhop Christoph Keller, Jr, of Arkansas, chairman: Suffragan Bishop Hal R. Gross of Oregon: and Suffragan Bishop John T. Walker of Washington (DC).

— Diocesan Press Service, New York, USA,

MARRIAGE SANCTITY

8— AUSTRALIAN CHURCH RECORD, OCTOBER 17, 1974

WCC EXECUTIVE TO VISIT SYDNEY

Charges against bishops follow female ordination

EDITORIAL `Preach the Word'

In addition, accumulated trade debts amount to 5312,000.

Archbishop Marcus L. Loane announced these figures in a formal announce-ment to this month's Dio-

Bishop Graham to of

It's here again — Reformation Sunday. Isn't it about time that we let this particular bygone be a bygone? No, it isn't. In fact it never will be, until God decides finally to wind up this age. Until that crisis comes upon us we shall do well not to forget the Reformation. It wasn't perfect. Whoever said it was? But enough truth was unearthed then to blow sky high the ecclesiastical presuppositions of a thousand years and more. The last century and a half has seen a vigorous effort at the re-laying of those sad travesties of the faith. The present gives us little hope that that trend will be halted, let alone reversed. But for the Church of Jesus Christ, and that means for your congregation, the Apostolic word, is THE word which thunders into our ears from the Reformation, PREACH THE WORD.

Latimer's dying words to Ridley, that by God's grace they would light a candle in England that shall never be out out, were no idle comment. A man does not use his final words for empty chatter, and God's grace has honoured the faithfulness of the Reformers. We are not surprised, for we have the promise of the Lord Christ — the very gates of Hades shall not prevail against his church. However, we do well to remember that Lati-mer and Ridley were both notable heralds of the Gos-pel. They were not dumb priests after they had been brought by the sovereign Spirit to the light of the gos-pel. They made known in no uncertain manner the dif-

cesan Synod in Sydney. His statement read: The Council of the Sydney

Church of England Girls' Grammar Schools was constituted by ordinance of synod.

It is an independent and autonomous body.

It is required to submit an annual report and an audited copy of its financial state-ments to synod each year.

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ference between truth and error, between the gospel which saves and the traditions of men which destroy.

We know that the word of Christ is still with us, for he is the everlasting word. However, it is still our re-sponsibility to ensure (so far as is within our power) that the expectation of Latimer is not bypassed in our day. 'Let the earth hear his voice' resounded through the halls of the Palais de Beaulieu at Lausanne, not so many weeks ago. However, we cannot blame the earth for its failure to respond if his voice is not in evidence! We cannot blame the city multitudes for not hearing his voice if we fail to 'preach the word'. They stand guilty before God in any event, but that fact does not exone-rate us.

Reformation Days come and go, and Reformation issues of the Church Record follow as regularly, with re-minders, and exhortations. But are these all mere cries into the wilderness? Are we among the many who say, 'Yes, Lord. Amen to that,' yet do nothing? Many of us must be, for so little is done! And for that we stand under

This guest editorial is by Dr Bryan E. Hardman, Principal of the Bible College of South Australia.

The Rev Howard Green has been appointed Principal of Sydney Missionary and Bible College, Croydon.

The appointment was announced last week by the College board.

Mr Green had been acting-principal following the resig-nation of the Rev Arthur Deane earlier this year.

Prior to that he had been vice-principal for several years.

Bishop Graham Delbridge is to become Diocese of Gippsland.

The appointment was by unanimous decision of the Dioce-san Board of Electors.

News of the announce-ment was made simul-taneously in Victoria and in the Sydney Diocesan Synod,

Prolonged applause greet-ed the announcement in Sydney.

The archbishop spoke of the outstanding service Bishop Delbridge had ren-dered the diocese since his ordination in 1940.

Archbishop Loane said

LATE NEWS BIBLE COLLEGE APPOINTMENT

Delbridge Diocese Gippsland

such a type of announcement was unique in the history of the synod.

Gippsland Anglican Press Service describes the bishop-elect as "a moderate church-man".

He is expected to be en-throned in St Paul's Cathe-dral, Sale, in early February,

Archdeacon Robert Fil-lingham moved the motion of congratulation in Sydney.

He spoke of Bishop Del-bridge's "distinguished ministry of leadership" for almost 30 years.

'He has been wonderfully strengthened and supported by Mrs Delbridge.

"They will both be greatly missed throughout the dio-cese especially in the Wollon-gong region."

Canon Basil Williams of Wollongong spoke of Bishop Delbridge's leader-ship to Wollongong churches and his widespread pastoral concern.

He was respected by civic leaders, industrialists and trade union representatives.

Two lay representatives eulogised the "vital ministry" Bishop Delbridge had exer-cised.

Mr Ron Bailey, a member of the standing committee, said his ministry amongst young people over the years had made an outstanding contribution to the spiritual

a life of the diocese.

the judgement of the Lord of the Word. Ah, yes, we stand in our pulpits week by week, and in many cases preach to diminishing congregations. But what does this word mean — PREACH THE WORD? Surely, if it means anything, it means to proclaim the Gospel of the kingdom where people are, not merely to teach the faithful Sunday by Sunday, where the ungodly are not. It is of interest to recall that much Reformation prea-ching took place, not in parish churches and cathedrals, but in the open air. Surely, not just to copy the Re-formers' practice, but to be faithful to the Biblical principle we must give far more thought to preaching the Kingdom 'in the world'.

Hauck Friedrich, writing in Kittel's Word Book, tells us that kerussein 'preach' does not mean the delivery of a learned and edifying or hortatory discourse in well-chosen words and a pleasant voice. It is the declaration of an event. Its true sense is to proclaim.'

Well then, let this Reformation remembrance take us back to a recollection that they proclaimed the Word, come what may, and whatever the cost. They spoke to the godly and to the ungodly, to the high and to the low, to individuals and to crowds. And if you link that with their resurrected doctrine of the 'kingdom of priests', we shall, both clergy and people unite each Lord's Day for didache, instruction, that we may, as the people of God go out, to PREACH THE WORD.

the sixth bishop of the