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AUGUST 29, 1945
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to work with the high school
boys and girls. In the universities
too, much could be done if we
had the workers, but I have re-
ferred to the high schools be-
cause I believe the students there
are much more impressionable
than college students.
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schools and churches, we also
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Traced From Beginning Until Present Reveals Problems
that, but succeeded only in crip-
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the churches, and stifling any pro-
gress that might have been made.
The barrier having been broken
by the introduction of conferences. I think it will be more profitable
other innovations followed, until
today practically every congrega-
tion uses Instrumental music in
the worship.
The voice of protest became
lower and lower until tcUay it
is almost inaudible. If one dares
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Study Reveals Conditions and Prospects In Australia For
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system in Australia Is similar
that here. No religious body
present using the radio to
extent.
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The opportunity is there, but
the work is not going to be easy
or rapid. With forty years of di-
gressive teaching, error la firmly
entrenched. The Australian peo-
ple are conservative, and largely
indifferent to Tellgkous matters.
An estimate made in 1939 show-
ed that only about 7 per cent of
the people attended religious cer-
vices. We will have to start with
the rising generation and educate
them spiritually. Naturally, results
will not be seen immediately.
Here in the United States a
a large body of
teachers ' who
be
in the
preacher has
Christian school
have been educated in the Chris-
tian colleges and in the churches.
They can influence the boys and
girls in the schools. In Australia
most teachers are religiously noth-
ing, and are a hinderance, rather
than a help to our cause. Ultima-
tely we may be able to establish
some religious colleges in that
country, but for the present per-
haps we had better aim at hav-
ing some young men attend our
colleges in America. Probably we
should arrange to have some one
come here from Australia and
major in music, so that he can re-
turn to Australia and help with
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standard of church attendance in
normal times, religion has but
little bold on the people, and the
state educational system combin-
ed with the matrialistic outlook
of the people seems likely to end
in the growth of an almost pa-
gan race.” Of sun-worshippers?
An economist lists as Australian
characteristics, “Sun-worship and
preoccupation with sport.”
all, Australia io a sunny
and putdoor sports can bo played
the year round.
The Austro 11 an continent itself
is one of the major problems
confronting the Australians. Aus-
tralia is a land of limited >■ re-
sources Lack of rainfall Is the
outstanding handicap. There is
similarity between much of Aus-
tralia and California arid Ari-
sons. Perhaps western Texas
should be added to the list. The
difficulties often found do not con-
front the missionary to Australia.
The climate is moderate. Austra-
lia and New Zealand claim to be
the nknt healthful countries in
the world. Sydney is very similar
to California. Practical!// the
whole of Austraia is in the tem-
perate sone. The cost of living in
Australia is comparable to that in
the United states. ’
Each Australian state now main-
tains Its own university. The Uni-
versity of Tasmania is the small-
est while the University of Syd-
ney is the largest. All the univer-
sities, excepting those in Tas-
mania and Western Australia, rely
heavily on lecture and examina-
tion fees for Income. The required
balance is made up of government
grants and Income from private
foundation*, or what we would call
endowments, the former being
uniformly the larger sum. Sydney
has the largest student body, but
Melbourne is close behind.
Many Net in Any Chnreh
In, the 1933 census . one-eighth
of the people failed to state any
religious affiliation. Of the re-
Nmainder, 99 per cent professed the
Christian faith. The largest sin-
gle 4**flffT** Is the Church of Eng-
land. with two and a half million
adherents, followed by the Roman
Catholic church, with about a
million and a quarter. If to the
Anglicans we add the adherents
to other Protestant churches, it
is clear that Australia is predom-
inantly a Protestant countrv A-
mong the Protestant churches
which have one hundred thousand
adherents or more are the Pres-
byterian. seven hundred thirteen
thousand: Methodist, six hundred
eighCy-four thousand; and Bap-
tist, one hundred five thousand.. |
The Roman Catholics are about tion
one-fifth of the population.
Nearly a century ago the move-
ment to restore primitive Christ-
ianity sprang up in Australia.
• Stephen Cheek was the man who
began the work. Early in the his-
tory visitors from this countrv
went to Australia and began grad-
ually and cunningly to lead away
the flock of God. Admittedly the
infant church in the far away
land should have been watching,
but it thought that this country
was the center of present civiliza-
tion; H thought that American
people were so much like Austra-
lian people, that anything coming
from the restoration movement in
this country would be beneficial
In Australia.
Pint the young church, before
it was old enough to form prop-
erly its own ideas, was fold, that
effective evangelistic, educational
and social work could be done on-
ly when the churches were acting
as a unit. Under the trifluence of
visiting teachers, the small church-
es were led .to believe that united
efforts could be made only through
conferences and the committees
and societies that result from con-
ferences. As a result of that idea
a system of district and state
conferences grew rapidly, and us-1 necessary in the schools of
torationist” was published month-1 and children interested in the
ly, but the publisher had to drop | preacher, some of them would read
it. Whether or not be tan
will re-domnfenoe publication,
do not know. Be may have
ready. Whether or not he
we can use large quanlties
literature from the churches
America. However, literature pub-
lished there would possess advan-
tages that are obvious. Supple-
mented with tracts and periodi-
cals from here, mimeographed
matter could also be used to good
advantage. Perhaps too, we could
do something with .a library of
good doctrinal books to circulate
amongst the churches.
Thus you can see, there are
three great open doors of oppor-
tunity at Sydney. Every school
door is open invitingly. Work done
In the schools would bear fruit
in later years. Further, one speak-
ing to the students In the high
school would become known, by
name at least, to the parents and
friends of the boys and girls
Boys and girls there are the seme
as boys and girls here, and would
talk to their mothers and dads
about the preacher whose coming
brought welcome respite from the
monotony of regular lessons. That
is casting no reflection upon the
school teachers, but may be as-
suming that the preacher has
something to say, and can say it
in an interesting manner. Thus
we can build up a potential radio
audience. Then with the parents
novations he la silenced with the
argument that in this country the
non-progresslves are rapldlv dying
out, while the progressive or lib-
eral element of the restoration
movement is growing by leaps and
i bounds. Brother John Allen Hud-
i eon visited Australia about
year 1997. This trip served
stimulate thinking and confirmed
some in the belief that
things as conferences were
duced without Scriptural
itv. Today, many in
though not separated
digressive element are
to realize that
something of i „
the restoration plea, which of ] about nine years ago “Th e Res-
couree means a departure from,
the New Testament as an all-suf-1
ficlent guide able to completely
furnish us for very good woxk
There are few if any in Austra-
lia who would endorse all the
practices of the First Christian
Church in this country. All are
much more conservative than that,
and believe that they are working
towards the restoration of Christ-
ianity as thought and practiced tn
the first century by the apostles.
Inside congregations that have in-
troduced unscriptural innovations
there are numbers who are oppos? ■
ed to those things. Because re- ,
llglous prejudice is not so marked 1
in that country as it is here, we •
have an opportunit” to reach those '
people
Sydney Logical Starting Point
There are some groups that have
remained loyal, or as they say in
Australia, “in the old paths.” In
these groups there would not be a
total of more than 100 disciples.
Most of them are in the vicinity
of Sydney, a city of almost a
million and a half people. Some of
these small churches are meeting
in homes; some of them have
their own church houses; none
of them have ever used instru-
mental music in the worship, nor
have they been connected with
conference organizations. Syndney, j
then, becomes our logical center i
from which to work. There we
would have access to the pulpits
cf the more liberal churches, and
for at least a few years there
thousand, would be no clear line of demarka- •
btween the “Old Paths"
churches and the digressive |
churches The division would most j
likely come along later when the
“Old Paths" section gained streng-
th and became worthy of atten-
tion. -However, considering thift the
Australian people fear division
more than they fear an innova-
tion. I do not think there would
ever be the prejudice and bitter-
ness that unfortunately exists in
this country.
Besides the opportunity that ex-
ists for teaching inside the liberal
churches, there are remarkable op-
portunities in other fields.
State educational regulations
give recoghlzed religious teachers
tl* right to enter all the schools
for the purpose of giving reli-
gious instruction. Naturally there
are some requirements that have <
to be met lest children receive in- |
struction from Incompetent teach-
ers. or against the will of their
parents. But the people are so
indifferent to religion that prac-
tically every child in tjie public
elementary and high school could
be reached once a week, if we had
sufficient workers. The education-1
al system presents an open door
that is being neglected by every
religious group in Australia. Re-
ligious Instruction is particularly I
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urped the responsibility that God trails because of the absence of
had placed on the local congrega- religious colleges. Some day we
tion. At least they aimed at doing may be able to remedy that lack
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Hicks, Olan L. Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 29, 1945, newspaper, August 29, 1945; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1305873/m1/6/: accessed May 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.