13Th November 1978
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7 6 NOV Niti Barrows at MAIN Lirr NEW CARLINGFORD CHURCH DEDICATED Businessmen's 4pj WORLD VISION t The Australian FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1880 wil opLE Dinner T • ummin Two Associates of Billy Graham will be the guest speakers at a pre Sydney SYDNEY Crusade Men's Dinner v$1 t Rev D. P. Robinson will organised by the Business resign from Rector of and Professional Men's 4 Chester Hill, West Sefton on Committee of the Sydney Bit- 4.4.1,0 November 22 to take up an ly Graham Crusade 1979. Resist...if tor positives a rwiwspsper — Category a No 1671 November 13, 1978 REWORDPRICE 25 CENTS appointment as Chaplain They are Cliff Barrows, with the RAN. Director of Music and Walter Rev J. R. Greenwood is to Smyth, Vice President, Inter- resign from Rector at Rand- national Ministries, of the wick on December 31 to go to Billy Graham Evangelistic Queensland. Association. The Dinner, open to all Rev R. R. Gibson, Rector men, will be held at of Bexley resigned on Oc- the tober 19. Round House, University of ANATHEMA ON HONOUR New South Wales, on Thurs- Rev M. Myers will resign day, November 23, at 6.30 as Rector of Summer Hill on pm. Ticket cost is $6.00 per "The significance of the Archbishop of Canterbury's November 27 to take up an person. decision to attend the enthronement of the new Pope appointment as Rector of The evening will major on THE PROBLEM THAT must be carefully weighed by members of the Church of Robertson, on December 2. stimulating the interest of WCC SACKS FOUR England," said David N. Samuel, Secretary, Protestant Rev R. E. Andrews of the Christian men in the 1979 CMS is to become the Rector Crusade and will provide in- WON'T GO AWAY Reformation Society. SENIOR OFFICIALS of Regents Park from formation relating to pre- It will undoubtedly be sacred primacy of the Roman November 10. Crusade activities for men regarded as a sign of the es- Pontiff, this sacred Synod Disagreement among senior officials of the World with encouragement to per- Rev R. C. Weir formerly teem and honour in which the again proposes to be firmly Council of Churches over their policy. towards Southern of Bowral died on October 2. sonal involvement in Crusade Papacy is now supposed to be outreach, believed by all the faithful." African liberation movements is probably the reason for key J. R. Bunyan, Curate, held by Protestants. The Committee believes The rock of the Papal the sacking of four senior members of the St James, King Street is to the evening will motivate men It will also be interpreted claim to jurisdiction and become the Rector of Chester organisation's staff in Geneva. to prayer and participation in as a step towards the goal sovereignty, which split the Hill with Sefton. sketched out by the Agreed the pre-Crusade activities and ark of the visible Church into The four, who include a OTHERS The new address for wide interest is already being Statement on Authority in East and West, Roman and black South African woman, Paddington Rectory is: St shown by men from all the Church, viz, that in any Protestant, is now covered by have been told that a meeting DISMISSED George's Rectory, The denominations. future union of Churches, a rising tide of euphoria of the World Council's The other three officials Fiveways, Glenmore Road, the Papacy should be accord- Executive in Helsinki last Tickets are available from The Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Rev Sir Marcus I,oane, dedicating the new Anglican church and parish centre al generated by ecumenism and who have been dismissed are Paddington, 2021. ed a primacy of honour. month decided that their the Crusade Office or the Carlingford on Sunday, October I, 1978. Those present included the the mass media — but it is Dr Lukas Vischer, a well- Federal MP for the district, Mr Philip Ruddock, the Stale three-year contracts should The new address for John Secretary, Business and Pro- MP, Mr James Cameron, many shire and municipal representatives and representatives from neighbourhood churches. The still there, and is none the less known theologian, Mr & Moya Woodhouse is: 2 fessional Men's Committee, real because some do not see not be renewed. whole project, including the acquisition of land and the building of the rectory, had cost $362,000. JURISDICTION Jurgen Hilke, the Gatley Road, Cheadle, PO Box A70, Sydney South, it and others choose to ignore organisation's Director. of Cheshire, SK8 IPY, United 2000. NOT HONOUR it. Communications, and Mr C. Kingdom. Local address for The Billy Graham Crusade SPECULATION Yet is must not be forgot- The present, therefore, is 1. lily, an Indian. further correspondence is: is set down for April 29-May Islamic Press FieRIPTURE UNION MOVES ten that the claim of the not the time for the leader- OVER WCC GRANT CNW C/- Mrs M. Shaw, 5 Myrtle 20, 1979, and will be held at ship of the Church of Place, St Ives, NSW, 2075. Randwick Racecourse. on Indo Church Papacy is not merely to a The reason for the sackings After 6 years as Chairman Also retiring from the SU primacy of honour but of England to ignore these has not been officially of the MELBOURNE SU Council, Dr Keith Council is Dr Bill Anderson, jurisdiction over all Chris- unpleasant facts, but rather disclosed, but there has been Rev M. Lee, has accepted The new Minister of Watson has retired. His term who has served on the NSW tians. to face them. widespread speculation that Religion (in Indonesia) has was 5 years, but he stayed on appointment as Associate and Federal Councils for The decree of Vatican Nor is it the time for the they are linked with the recently bowed to strong for a further year to see the &OTHER Minister at St James' Old over 30 years. He is taking op declared that the primacy of Church of England to be controversy surrounding an Muslim pressure and pro • new General Secretary, Mr Cathedral, West Melbourne. a new and responsible role in the Roman Pontiff is not a departing from precedent $85,000 grant to the p EC mulgated Iwo laws which Tom Treseder "settled in". the Asian arm of SU's mis- "primacy of honour only" when there is no indication of Rhodesian Patriotic Front would seem to be aimed at Dr Watson has been part of sionary work, as Chairman (let him who says so be the Church of Rome doing two months ago. severely restricting Christian SU for over 40 years — of the ANZEA /SU anathema), but of "true and the same. Ms Brigalia Barn, South ARCHBISHOP witness in Indonesia. reading the Bible reading (Australia, New Zealand, proper jurisdiction." The National Council of notes since childhood, atten- East Asia SU) Pacific Area African head of the Council's Brethren decline .... 3 The claim to jurisdiction is section dealing with Women RESIGNS Churches and the Bishops of ding camps and beach mis- F:xecutive. CHANGE THE Casino — Batists ... 2 the Roman Catholic Church sions, and later, serving on distinctly a Papal claim, and in Church and Society, is said Gay Blessing 7 The Archbishop of Tan- have jointly appealed directly committees and SU Council. the cosmetic reforms of PAPAL CLAIM to have believed that the zania, the Most Rev John Cliff Barrows to President Suharto to res- It is with gratitude that SU Vatican II did nothing .to It is surely the duty of organisation was becoming Hume not Coggan 4 alter it. too closely tied to Southern Sepeku resigned due to age cind these laws which are farewells him as Chairman — those who are entrusted with Legal USSR Bibles 4 African liberation from September I, hut that 111111111111111111111111111 regarded as being in conflict and welcomes him in his role Mr Ridley Smith The decree on the the safety and integrity of the movements and was ignoring Letters, Books 6 he would continue as Bishop THE AUSTRALIAN CHURCH RECORD: with constitutional as member of the SU plann- Dogmatic Constitution of the Church of England to insist of Dar-es-Salaam. Editorial and business, square Level, St guarantees of religious liber- ing committee. Church, which takes over that there can be no moderates and churches. Schaeffer ill 8 Andrew's House Sydney Square, ty. Archbishop Sepeku presid- Sydney, 2000. Phone 2334561. The Taking the chair of the where Vatican I left off, af- acknowledgement of the Ms Barn worked with the 2 USSR families 4 As well as imposing new ed at the opening service of National paper for Church of England Council is Mr Ridley Smith, firms: "... all this teaching Papacy's claim to a primacy Student Christian people — Catholic, Apostlic. limitations on foreign mis- 2 CBA — FM —103 8 the Lambeth Conference in who has been part of Scrip- A Laotian refugee in Thailand is part of a difficult problem (of Vatican I) about the in- of honour until there is a Association of South Africa Canterbury Cathedral. Protestant and Reformed is issued sionary personnel the new the western world cannot ignore. See page 5 — "Bonner's UK — Woman fortnightly on alternate Mondays. ture Union for many years. II stitution, the perpetuity, the change in the Papal claim to and the Natal YWCA before laws go so far as to explicitly He was ordained in 1938 in Subscription Is $6.50 per year, posted. was through the ministry' of Tour", force and reason for the a primacy of jurisdiction. joining the WCC in 1967.