. Australia's greatest need : with an introductory note by the Archbishop of Brisbane. f retreat from the hurry of theworld, and to witness to the life of prayers are rising to God that Hewill point the way. The Church cannotfound an Order. That has always beendone by individuals. But many are pray-ing that God, if He sees fit, may call theman. The Community of St. Barnabasdoes not claim to represent the developedform of community life, but its name setsthe hearts of many beating with high the hope is that when the time comesfor the birth of a community, it will not bea
. Australia's greatest need : with an introductory note by the Archbishop of Brisbane. f retreat from the hurry of theworld, and to witness to the life of prayers are rising to God that Hewill point the way. The Church cannotfound an Order. That has always beendone by individuals. But many are pray-ing that God, if He sees fit, may call theman. The Community of St. Barnabasdoes not claim to represent the developedform of community life, but its name setsthe hearts of many beating with high the hope is that when the time comesfor the birth of a community, it will not bean offshoot from an English foundation,but the natural output of Australian de-votion. The offer of the Society of theSacred Mission at Kelham to affiliate theCommunity of St. Barnabas in its presentform was declined through fear of prejudic-ing the future of Australian Communitylife.(iv) Life and j^ jg ^q^ ^jj^g iq return from this dis- work of Brother- cussion to the life and work of the BushBrotherhoods themselves. These can be kJ ■j*r-^ A CHURCH IN THE BUSH, NE\R DUBBO, A TYPICAL SCENE IN A WET SEASON The waggon, loaded with wheat, has been bogged in the heavy black soil. It was finallyextricated by a team of thirtj horses The response of the Church 123 considered under two aspects. The firstaspect is life in the brotherhood house,especially at the quarterly or more frequentreunions, when they ■ behave like a bigfamily of boys with their fun, jokes,experiences, and games, and above alltheir silences and family prayers . Wewouldnt miss them for anything, writesone of the Brothers, and they mean morethan you know in keeping up the level ofour spiritual life and so enabling us tohelp others. The second aspect is thework among the settlers. In order toillustrate these two sides we quote herethree extracts from the Bunbury Oc-casional Paper . The first describes a day in a Brother-hood House :— Good-bye, old man. Got somechaft? We shall remember you daily. Good-bye
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