As to the Errors of Doctrine.

The following are the present alterations suggested by leading clerics or committees of churches, so that it is very wrong now to continue their teaching in our Sunday Schools :—

Anglicans—(1) A revision of the Lectionary. (2) The optional use of Eucharistic Vestments. (3) The optional use of the Athanasian Creed. (4) The optional use of the words "in remembrance that Christ died for thee" in the Communion Service. (5) Immersion to be optional in the Baptismal Service. (9) A new Alternative Burial Service of great beauty and simplicity.

The above alterations contain a direct abandonment of Trinitarianism and blood sacrifice. It is pleasant to realise that at last there is to be an abandondmeut of some of the Paganism and Heathenism (human blood sacrifice) upon which Christianity rests. Space does not allow me to fully explain what these alterations mean. Present theological training is for the special purpose of continuing these errors and debasing the human intellect. Let there be no more theological colleges in New Zealand. I am pleased to think that the Committee of the Convocation of Canterbury is trying in a quiet way to bring in some of the Reforms I aimed at in 1886.

Presbyterian.—Dr. Denny, the eminent Presbyterian cleric, now frankly admits that : (l) The Virgin Birth; (2) the Consubstantiality of the Father with the Son; and (3) the personality of the Holy Spirit are non-essential for church page 14 membership. Ex-Moderator Gibson Smith, of Wellington, New Zealand, very rightly takes strong exception to the past views of the Doctrine of the Atonement.

Congregationalism—Mr R. J. Campbell, of London, totally disagrees with the Doctrine of "The Fall"; stoutly and properly maintaining that man has always advanced or ascended from a savage state, which we all know to be the natural process of evolution. No greater insult was ever offered to God, than the claim, that His chief product, man, is base at heart and merits damnation.

Wesleyans.—Dr Adam Clarke was strongly opposed to Athanasius and Trinitarianism, and Wesley himself would not allow a cross upon any of his chapels, and there are none to-day. Unfortunately, Methodist preachers of to-day vie with the Roman Catholic clergy in grovelling in Trinitarian worship and, with the Presbyterian and Anglican clergy, rather despise the God of the Bible. Strange to say the Roman priesthood do not despise God; but, whilst reverencing God, they still insist upon harmful Trinitarianism worship for purely priestly domination. It would be easy for any of these churches to conform to modern enlightenment and drop Trinitarianism. Wesley, as I say, would not have the cross upon any of his chapels, neither is there any Church Service Prayer Book in his or the Presbyterian Church. The spirit of true democracy breathes in Presbyterian Church government. The pity is that their preachers are like the Anglicans, hurrying to Rome as fast as they can go. Not a cleric dare do otherwise, or the Presbytery or Bishop would quickly have him by the heels.

To effect any great reform, the Cross must be removed from the New Zealand flag, as the flag of humanity must float above it. (India and our oversea dominions are all asking for distinct flags.) The Lion can be fittingly substituted in its place. The mode in which Russia carried the Cross against Japan was a disgrace to civilisation. I would ask our soldiers and sailors not to fight again under that standard, but to allow the Lion of England to be the Flag of Humanity; the distinctive emblem of each dependency to be quartered upon it. The Lion is one of the Royal Standards, and an excellent flag to fight under, so long as men wish to slay each other, and be pawns, in the papal game of divide to rule. The number of Christians, Moslems, Mahommedans, Brahmins, and the like in our good King's Indian Army is endless, but the thoughts of the men in the moment of battle and death usually turn to God. The Queen's chief nurse also tells us that the poor of London, of all denominations, usually die with God's name upon their lips, not Christ's. Following my reverence for God, my parents, and ancestors, sincerely and heartily do I reverence the Union Jack, and what it has done and stands for. It. has been a glorious flag, the battle flag of human freedom. But just as we say "One Flag, One Fleet, One Throne," for the Empire, equally should we now say "One People, One Church, and One God." A greater Union is required now than the Union Jack implies, viz., "The Union of the Empire and its Common Humanity." Let the single or triple lions of page 15 England be the one Imperial Flag. But in the name of our Common Humanity, the time has come for the Cross to be removed from the flaps of all the nations. There is a growing and terrible danger in dividing British children in the oversea dominions into Roman and Protestant. Let us throw down Trinitarianism, and make these children truly brothers and sisters. The Cross is the canker worm of God, and should not be upon any flag. It must be replaced with a religion of morality, love, and humanity, not of division and enmity. Every child's mind is pure and straight, until distorted by fossilized dogmatic teaching, which has failed to adapt itself to our greater knowledge. The Church of God of the British Empire could become the one Church upon this earth. Modernism has no time for a thousand churches, dividing the people of this one earth under the plea that all roads lead to heaven. Heaven and God are here, and there is no "way" to them, as God is ever at each of our elbows. For Christ to have said that he was the way, the truth, and the life was the most nonsensical egotism any man ever uttered. There is but the one Universe, and the one God, who has given us a beautiful home if we but cease our religious differences, and consequent social enmity.