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LIFE AND LIBERTY. -+-
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LIFE AND LIBERTY. -+- MESSAGE TO THE FELLOWSHIP. AT the Council meeting held on Thurs-, day, December 4, it was resolved that the following message from the Council be published to all members of the Life and ( Liberty Fellowship. The Council of the Life and Liberty Movement is of opinion that the division on the Second Reading of the Enabling BilL, in the House of Commons should be looked upon as no- jthing less than a vote of confidence in the Church, passed by the nation's repre- sentatives in Parliament. The Act will almost certainly be on the Statute Book within a very short time; and we wish to place on record our conviction that the primary duty of the Church is to afford iproof, without delay, that this confidence is not misplaced, and that the Church is worthy of the trust thus imposed upon jit." We' believe that, in this task, our i Movement has a part to play and it is our strong hope that throughout the country the Church may be quickened with the spirit of Life, and Liberty so that the councils^—parochial, diocesan ■and central—shall be truly effective in ;the life of Church and nation. f Active Co-operation. ,Altho,ugh wise reform can be directed j by the leaders of the Church, it can only ^b^effected by the active endeavour and ^cooperation of every member. The chief icefttres of our general propaganda must [therefore be the Parochial Church Coun- cils. The Life and Liberty Council ac- tcordingly wislie& (i.) To be ready to help those incum- bents and members of P,aroehial. Church Councils who may desire to consult us on the powers of the Coun- cils, on methods and details of organi- sation, administration and policy. We hope to be in a, position to do this— (a) By the circulation of litera- ture, explanatory and descriptive. (b) By providing speakers and lec- turers, to address Parochial Church Councils and Ruridecanal Confer- ences. (ii.) To urge upon the members of our Fellowship that they shall imme- diately enrol themselves as parochial electors, and thereafter do all that is possible to make the Church Councils in their own parishes true centres of fellowship and life. (iii.) To plead that this spirit of fellowship iand life be manifested on the part of Parochial Church Councils, not only by effective participation in II: and administration of the affairs of the .Church in the parish and diocese, but also by a practical, vigilant and con- tinued injterest in all departments of life which affect the social, ethical and spiritual welfare of the parish and of the community and by losing no ctp- portunity of co-operation, wherever it may be possible, with other Christian communions, and with all organisa- tions which are working for the same ends. Urgent Church Reforms. We must not,' however, forget that there are also certain specific Church re- forms which have been pressed by many within the Church for years past. We believe that the time has come when un- necessary delay in carrying them out would be intolerable; inasmuch as the fellowship of the Church is broken and its true life is thwarted, wherever and in so far as the Church, in the ordering of its own affairs, is not true to the Spirit of Christ. We shall therefore em- phasize, and plead that as soon as the National Assembly of the Church is set up it shall pay immediate attention to, the urgent need of such reforms, so that the Church may be able to give more honest and effective witness to the mes- sage of our Master and the teaching of His Spirit. We consider such questions as the following to be of urgent import- ance— (i.) A more equitable distribution of our resources, both in men and money. (ii.) The abolition of the sale of advowsons, and of the ecclesiastical freehold". (iii.) The reform of Church patron- age. (iv.) The immediate subdivision of large dioceses. It was decided at the Council meeting that as many members as possible of the Council shall go into Retreat and Con- ference in January, 1920, in order to consider and to recommend for the ac- ceptance of the full Council a detailed policy on these last matters, which will be published as early as possible in the New Year. With gratitude to Almighty God for anything which we have been allowed to .achieve in the past, and to members of our Fellowship for their loyalty and their work, we ask for the contmued prayers of the Fellowship; that we may have a right judgment, a true faith and a living hope in what- ever future service we may be called to perform, for our Church and nation.
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THE IREV, L. W. LLOYD, vicar of Ticknall, Derbyshire, is resigning the office of chaplain to the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Union, which he has held for 28 years. THE BISHOP OF HULL, acting as commissary for the Archbishop of York, has instituted the Rev. A. C. Evans to the vicarage- of Welton, Brough, near Hull, vacant by the resignation of the Hev. G, E. Blackwall.
MELANESIAN MISSION.
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MELANESIAN MISSION. POSSIBLE NEW DIOCESE IN the absence through illness of the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Derby presided at the annual meeting of the Melanesian Mission, held in the Church House. His Lordship prefaced his speech with the announcement that the annual meeting next yearr would be held in June, instead of at the close of the year, a statement which was received with applause. He supposed, he said, that everyone present was tawaire that the war, which had done so much to increase the responsibilities and diffi- culties of life in the nation and the Church, had not left Church life in the Pacific untouched. He was (referring to very large and intricate, matters, but he believed that he would not be wrong in saying that there was lan overwhelming consensus o.f opinion among those who knew most about the working of the mission, and wetre best qualified to judge, in the direction iof the formation of a new diocese, especially in connection with the Bismarck Archipelago, where, as far as he knew, no Christian work had been carried on hitherto, iand which wias in close geographical connection with their own sphere of work. The need oons-bittited a claim upon the home Church to "do it now." There was great danger in delay, and the call was for bold and courageous action. Recruits Asked For. The chairman also read a letter from the Bishop of Melanesia, which had arrived the previous day, asking for recruits for his diocese, especially priests, doctOlrs and nurses, at a very critical time in the history of our mission," and pointing out (as has been emphasised before in connection with Canada.) that the Pacific Ocean bids fair to become more and more an imporlamt centre in the world's political future, which means that additional and new problems will have to be faced by the Melanesian Mission, land among them a great increase in the number of European settlers. Extremely interesting and graphic accounts of native life as affected by the Christian religion were given by the Rev. H. Langley Hart, missionary in the New Hebrides, and Miss Florence E. Coombe, who has just retired from the mission after serving in it since 1905. The Rev. W. C. O'Ferrall, Rector iof Brightling, who was formerly Missionary at Santa Cruz and Vuireas, and now with his wife, is about to return to Melanesia, ialso spoke.
HARMONY IN INDUSTRY. 1
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HARMONY IN INDUSTRY. A HOPEFUL MOVEMENT. ON a foggy day the City of London is not an ideal place, and in the ordinary way it would be expected that not many would venture so far as the Mansion House for a meeting, yet on Tuesday afternoon there was a capital meeting there which was well attended, in spite of the prevailing fog outside..Inside there was much to enhearten the visitor, some capital speeches ftere delivered, and although there wa,s plenty of food for thought a spirit of optimism was not absent. The meeting was called by the National Alliance of Employers and Em- ployed, and its object was to consider the best means of promoting whole- hearted co-operation among all classes to secure prosperity in industry and satis- factory conditions of life for the workers." The speakers were Sir Vincent Caillard, the Bishop of Peter- borough, Father Charles Plater, who represented Cardinal Bourne, the Rev. George Hooper, Mr. W. A. Appleton, and the Right Hon. F. H. Jackson. It will be seen therefore that the meeting was quite representative. Industry's Motive Force. Sir Vincent Caillard moved a resolu- tion That whole-hearted co-operation among all classes to secure prosperity in industry and satisfactory conditions of life for workers is essential in the national life." He said he spoke as one employing a great many thousand work- men and workwomen and one of the earlist founders of the Alliance." After asking what was the motive force of in- dustry, supposing all the other things necessary such as organisation and efficiency were there, he answered by saying that it is the determination in the hearts of men that justice should be meted out to one and all. It is a deter- mination that to do unto others as you would that they should do unto you should be the guiding interest of life." It might be said tha;t the ideal was Utopian, but he pointed out that that might be said of heaven, vet "do we not every one of us try to shape our lives so that we may make some progress in that direction? When the war came" the son of the employer, the squire and the labourer, ran to join the Colours. They forgot everything except that everyone was a man and had to fight for the common cause." There was still need to fight for the triumph of right over wrong. If the Alliance was to reach the end for which it was striving it wanted all the spiritual and moral forces of the oountry behind it. He referred to the responsibilities that rested upon em- ployers and employed. He did not think the workmen had realised the amount of mischief that had been done by irrespon- sible action. All should have a fair share of the profits. He advise! workmen to remember the old Laiin proverb £ Festina lente." He was not the least afraid of a Labour Government, which might not be very far off. Faith, hope, and charity," and the greatest of these was charity. We could not go far wrong if we based our relations on charity." Monotony of Industry. The Bishop of Peterborough, who seconded, said, "Yon cannot separate economics from human life." He pointed out that in the nineteenth century things such as economics and morals had been too much locked up in watertight compartments. "We want to avoid that in the twentieth century. We want to make up our minds that in- dustry was made for man, not man for industry." Industry should be judged by moral factors. He said that often in- dustry meant in these days a life of terrible monotony. If we are to avoid chaos it will take all the thought and all the goodwill of this country. Men of goodwill do not grow on every tree. The Churches' business is to manufacture goodwill." It is not their business to prescribe the precise lines upon which industry should he run. Our work is to see that industry recognises the worth of every man and woman." Every human life had an infinite value. He spoke of the soul-destroying competition of the nineteenth century. They wanted a new relationship of partners and fellow workers. What we can do is to guide that movement in the right way so that it shall not wreck itself and so that we v shall build up a new industrial fabric in this Britain of ours and all go forward together." That meeting might be a new starting point. This crusade for the better organisation of industry i3 really international. We are all members one of another. I believe that Britain i3 really a testing ground for these experi- ments." We wanted nothing less tiipi-k- the British spirit of sport, that was the spirit we wanted. The resolution was carried unani- mously, as was another requesting the x Lord Mayor to summon a conference of representatives of those bodies which are endeavouring to improve the moral and social conditions of industrial life to con- sider the best means of carrying the pre- vious resolution into effect. The Lord Mayor stated that he would summon tho conference at the earliest date.
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