Rest of the news THE AUSTRALIAN THE AUSTRALIAN A letter to the editor of Melbourne's "Age" says CHURCH that "it is very hard for people to understand what their churches are up to." The writer is a Roman Catholic Rev Allen W. Quee, General berra-Goulburn in St Saviours Secretary for CMS in South Cathedral, Goulburn, on Mon- who is identifying with the problems that members of RECORD CHURCH RECORD Australia since 1965, has been day, January 1. other denoMinations are experiencing. appointed rector of St Bedes Be- Mr Wilfred L. J. Hutchison, The national paper for THE NATIONAL CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEWSPAPER — NINETY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION verly Hills (Sydney). She writes: Secretary of the diocese of Syd- funerals. The committee included Church of England people Registered for ridging as Rev Charles J. Lefts, curate of ney, resumed duties on February "I, too, cannot understand the ministers, a funeral director, a — Catholic, Apostolic, Prot- No. 1507—February 24, 1972 a newspaper — Category A. Sons dLt db.!i 'or handwFa'yi,rTyd n'eyd, Price 15 cents St Lukes Liverpool (Sydney) 1 after illness. gap between the Gospel as barrister and a solicitor. It sug- estant and Reformed. since 1970, has resigned. Rev Clive A. Way, rector of preached by the church and the gested that costs could be cut by sad reality of the life of the using station waggons instead of Subscription $4 per year, Right Rev Cecil A. Warren Holy Trinity Erskineville (Syd- posted. Editorial and Busi- church. hearses, eliminating the use of was installed as Bishop of Can- ney) since 1968, has been ness: 511 Kent Street, Sydney, matching expensive ears and a appointed full-time chaplain to We Catholics are currently in 2000. Phone: 61 2975. Office the Home of Peace. the process of spending a few possibility that coffins used in the case of cremations could be re- hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bishop Dain meets with million dollars on the construc- Rev Graham Mitchell, Meth- used. Issued fortnightly, on alter- odist minister at Narrabeen, tion of a new super building of nate Thursdays. NSW, has been appointed princi- church offices, etc., and on a Eu- Following cyclone damage in charistic Congress. North Queensland, the diocese pal of the Bethshan Holiness reports that speedy help came Mission, Wyee, NSW, from It is to me a most glaring from many country parishes in- January 29. example of social injustice, of a Graham team in USA cluding Mackay and Cairns in Rev Victor Goldney, aged 81, cold heart, of pomp and trium- the diocese, $1000 from the N.S.W. phalism belonging — if any- tif Hawthorn, South Australia, Archbishop of Sydney, $500 one of the State's best known where at all — to the darkest of ages. It is an old story of putting from the Archbishop of Perth Methodist ministers and widely and other amounts from as far Congresses have helped increase known in interdenominational appearances before ideals, of away as Rabaul and Carpentaria. Christian work, died in January. bricks and mortar before people. The diocesan authorities were C.C.E.S. He was a founding member of It destroys my faith in church world impact of gospel of Christ leadership. able to make money available to the council of the Adelaide Bible the local Red Cross to alleviate Institute and its chairman for ten According to reports in Can- personal suffering, years and was also chairman of berra, Adelaide and Melbourne Preaching recently in St Paul's gelimn in Japan, Hong Kong. trip to discuss whether in fact it the SA Keswick Convention. newspapers, Rev Andrew Patter- appoints Bishop A. Jack Hain, an Cathedral, Melbourne, Dean son, chaplain at Adelaide's assistant bishop of Sydney, Ceylon, India, Pakistan and might be God's time. Mr David Claydon, formerly Thomas said that "People spend Thailand all happened as a direct NSW General Secretary of the Flinders University for Metho- left on 19th November for a Dr Graham had gathered dists, Presbyterians and Con- too much limo seeking material result. together a representative group Scripture Union, took up office as status symbols. Christianity has trip which took him round The second and even more air Gary Althorn, NSW Youth Federal Secretary of the Scrip- gregationalists, sees nothing of people not officially related to its status symbols too, but they officer the world. He returned to remarkable result in some this work but just people who are Organiser for the Bible Society, Lure Union on February 1. wrong in using four-letter words lack Hain seated at his desk after the interview. in the university and in his home are very different. They are the degree, has been the fact that in in the life of the church. Doss, the Basin, and the Towel Sydney on 17th January and Singapore every second day, the "to effect stress and emphasis." The NSW Council for All I think 1 could and should and Tears. The only advertise- in an interview for the after loon was left clear so that He says that neither his wife nor Chris Tian Education in say is that whereas two years ago ment for Christianity is a people working in similar fields the students object. Church Record early in Feb- we were deeply concerned that Christian — he can fill others Schools has appointed Rev could meet together. News in brief First full-time chaplain The Methodist Church in- with a desire to share his status Bernarr H. Stevens as full- ruary, he spoke of the time we should not stop what was a Tasmania has had a committee The theologians met together movement of the Spirit that was An American Indian has been legalised all sexual :onduct before God, and have his same time Liaison and Research he spent in the USA. and all the folk engaged in liter- to investigate the cost of joy of living. already going on in wider circles, elected a bishop in the Episcopal between consenting adults. Officer to formulate propo- ature met together. Out of those I think that now we all felt that Church, reportedly for the first for Home of Peace The reason for my visit to the consultations have come some cals in religious eduction in US was two-fold. Every two the time may well be ripe in two time. Suffragan of the South Da- There are 242,000 Anglican very significant developments. children of school age in the For the first time in its He brings with him a warm schools. years there is a meeting of the or three years. kota diocese is the Reverend A big conference on literature Harold S. Jones, 61, of Good diocese according to Sydney's history the Home of Peace concern for the needs of patients chairmen of the respective com- Because listening to people who at this time in their lives re- BEAUTY IN STONE Until he took up the appoint- mittees which look after such in Singapore 18 months ago has from all round the world, one of Shepherd Mission, Fort Defiance, Board of Education. 950 lay Hospital in Sydney appoin- quire spiritual strength and ment, he was a minister of the work as is maintained around the led to a great deal of co-ordi- the tragedies that seemed to Arizona. teachers plus clergy, deaconesses ted a full-time chaplain to comfort, and to many of whom Methodist Church and a second- world such as the distribution of nated evangelical strategy in the come through was the fact that and parish sisters are attempting field of Christian literature. But I give spiritual advice and only the important matters ary school teacher at Wattle 'Decision' magazine, the Hour at the present time there is an Fearing that its passage would to provide religious instruction count. Park in Victoria. of Decision radio programs and think of even greater significance appalling vacuum in spiritual turn California into a Sodom and for this number but the board comfort at Eversleigh, Nerin- This appointment is for 12 has been the area of theological Gomorrah, the state's assembly wants to train at least 700 more The hospital board feels that the spiritual ministry that flows leadership. gah and Greenwich Hos- months and has been made development. rejected a bill that would have lay teachers . the ministry to which Mr Way from them, and such things as (Continued page 2) pitals. He will also attend possible by special financial sup- schools for writers, occasional First of all, what we call TAP has been commissioned, is so port received from among the (Theological Assistance Program) patients at Braeside Hos- urgently needed, that the hospi- music team visits and work of council's membership, which in- this kind. and then TAFTE (The Associa- pital. tal's own funds must be chan- tion for Theological Extension). cludes the major Protestant There is a small structure Rev Clive Way, previously nelled to meet the considerable denominations and all Anglican This latter is the program additional financial involvement, maintained which seeks to keep part-time chaplain to Eversleigh dioceses in the State. through which theological col- Declining strength of in the background. The chairmen Hospital and rector of the parish Mr Way will be available to Mr Stevens' academic quali- leges can reach out and by their meet with the Graham team in staff going out one night a week of Holy Trinity, Erskineville, has outline the work and needs of fications are a BA degree (Syd), the US for fellowship and con- into big cities within a 20-50 undertaken this interesting and the Home of Peace Hospital on during which he undertook a sultation, major sequence in education, and mile radius, they are quadrupling challenging responsibility.