Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-11 | Page 1 | Declares Church Has Lost Its Position

Declares Church Has I L Lost Last st Its is Position II I I LONDON April 11 The n.-The The Church of England has nas railed to keep its Hs hold on the Intellectual life Ute of the country through its refusal to adopt Itself modern to ideas as they concern con- con corn cern industrial and social life lIte In the opinion of ot a n large largo section of the church headed by the tho bishop of Gloucester This group unsuccessfully unsuccessfully fully tully sought the formation of an in industrial Industrial In and social reform committee commit commIt- tee during the recent church assem assem- bly s A statement to tills this effect was made by the of Gloucester not long ago and has caused a considerable considerable con con- stir among many sections of the church The proposal to form the committee committe was fought bythe bythe by bythe the high church advocates during the assembly and they succeeded In iii having the matt matter r postponed This has the effect of killing It The bishop said he believed thiM condition was the fault not only of the parish clergymen but of all nIl ranks and classes of tho church The bishops he declared did not seem able to speak with real intellectual intellectual intel Intel- authority and the great mals mass of Intellectual thought went wenton on Its way without regarding them The human mind has been re remarkably remarkably re- re I fertile during recent I years the bishop continued b but t the church has hits not cared enough for tho the things of the Intellect and therefore therefore there there- fore foro ha has not been able utile to persuade per the Intellect If the chur church h he said wants to regain It Its position it must persuade the Intellectuals that Its message Is true It fl Is the duty o of the clergy to do this