WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1928.
WHAT IS TRUE?
AN ANDRESS BY BISHOP
BARNES."
THINGS HARD TO BELIEVE.
Such n belief belongs to the realm of primitive magic,
Power of Appeal.
The priest-maglelan from time Immemorial has been supposed to possess the skill to persuade his
DOCTOR'S SUIT.
DEAD PATIENT'S ACTION AGAINST SONS.
THE CHINA MAIL,
"PAWA" IN LONDON.
WHITE ELEPHANT'S ADVENTURES.
FROM DOCKS TO ZOO.
Burma's sacred white elephant,
STREET LAW,
COURTSHIP BEGUN BY "ACCOSTING."
SCENE AT PLAY.
PANDEMONIUM AT THE END,
IVOR NOVELLO BOOED.
The most extraordinary stene
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LICENCE TO TEACH.
MERITS OF CERTIFICATION IN BRITAIN.
EX-INSPECTOR'S VIEWS.
In continuation of the course of
of the Parish Church of Birming- power of appeal of primitive reli-County Court before Judge Mc-] Pawa, accompanied by his faithful jeet of Scottiah law with regard to which has taken place in a London ten public lectures which is being
varieties
Specific Cnuses.
I rejoice that repeated by men and women from this pulpit have advocated specific causes worthy of Christian support; int here at all events the necessity for greater. social righteousness has not been quietly ignored.. But I bellère that this palpit is not adequately used unless from it here comes sound religious teaching, enquiries into the fundamental principles of our faith. The Parish Church of Bir- mingham ought to be a centre for religious teaching no less than a focus of social enthusiasm. There are some who will at once urge that religious teaching may easily be controversial. Of course. It will be controversial if it deals, as I ought, with questions on which er- roneous opinions are held.
Division General Jose Gonzale Escobar, highest officer to the Mor ⚫ican-Army, who successfully van. quished the rebels in the inst ro rolt.
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For the defence It that if any Hability ever existed it was in the nature of an oral guar- antee, which was not enforceable. It was also stated that all the money which had been paid to the doctor had been drawn from the mother's savings.
In giving judgment for the defen dants with costs the Judge said he disregarded evidence by one of the defendants that no question of res ponsibility ever arose, and added: "It is not for me to make any com- ment whatever on the defence which is raised. The law provides that an oral guarantee is not en- forceable, and I find that the guar- antee in this case was oral"
Christ can be with men in the ser- vice of Holy Communion. But the whole service is the sacrament.
Through the whole act of wor ahip, with its solemn memories of our Saviour's passion, we get the grace of His Presence provided- and this proviso is important
the right provided we spirit. Christ gives Himself to His faithful servants: to those who worship Him in spirit and in sucramental truth. Such is true doctrine. But let the fancy take root that a piece of bread can be magically suffused by His Presence
come
in
Shrill Sercams.
the
mittee on street offences.
no trial
Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy inter- jected: "There has been a tremend- oua diminution in the Scotsman's national beverage, and beer is now drunk much more."
Mr.
East End Love-Making. The London magistrate, Cairns, testified that courtship in the East End begins in the streets -in nothing less than "accosting." The police in the East End, how- over, lived in neghbourly contact. with the people, and were not so ready in reading suspicions into things as the police in the West End.
Her four attendants alone re- mained in the vicinity, and, after a great deal of persuasion, succeeded in getting her back into the hold, but not until she had managed to overturn every movable object in Mr. Cairns explained the posi her path, punctuating her wild tion in the West End, where "men progress with shrill screams in- of reputation embark on adven- dicative of her extreme displeasura.tures and women of reputation ab- Eventually she was deposited on solve themselves from the formal- ity of introduction. The difficulty the dock and, seeing a number of for the policeman is to segregate dock workers moving bales about the vicious from the adventurous." decided to make up for her recent He suggested that the West End defections by giving them a help-should be policed by selected and ing hand. With, the ease born of experienced officers, and transfer long practice with timber, she lift- to this section should be regarded ed the balea two or three at a time, as promotion, while it should be but was not too particular where emphasised that the police were
civil force. she replaced them. The dock work- ers left her to it and hoped for the best.
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"We are at present in danger of militarising the police," he said.
Daly's one night last month.
Dr. C. G. Abbott, Assistant Secre tary of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. He has recently in- vented a machine so delicate that it will measure the beat of the spectra of stars.
BIBLICAL APPLICATION. God to show his presence or his "ORAL GUARANTEE" DEFENCE. power in. some unusual fashion.
Interesting evidence on the sub- Pretensions to such magical skill
Yet the In an action at the Bradford Following is an address delivered are, of course, baseless.
Cleary, Dr. A. H. B. Fletcher, of but somewhat turbulent consort solicitation and social customs "in
and the Nation," Mr. Herbert ham on October 6 last by the Right glous fancies is strong within us: Drighlington, sued Levi Marlow, Moya-ung, has come back to London the East End of London was given theatre since "The Rakubow" pro- given at King's College, Strand, on
sugar boiler, and Harry Marlow, Rev. E. W. Barnes, D.D., Sc.D., and there are always men ready to
During the last act the gallery ing colleges for the Board of Educa Ward, late chief Inspector of train- The chairman, the Right Hon. F.R.S., Lord Bishop of Birming-devise dexterous formulae to jus-two brothers, for sido in respect for a short stay before returning before the Home Secretary's comvided the finish of "Sirocco at the general subject of "The Schooin
tify superstitions of which wa medical. atendance on their mother. again to the land where his true bam:-
It was stated on behalf of the sacredness is really appreciated, Hugh Macmillan, said the Scottish roared with laughter every time tion, on Nov. 30 spoke on "The had and which has decided that nothing law on this matter was based on Ivor Novello came on wearing light Training College." Viscount Burn- These dinner-hour services at ought to be ashamed. Take idola- which men and women speak who try. The belief that a bronze' idol plaintiff that the brothers
from Deuteronomy laying down that
Mr. Herbert Ward, after observ. are representative of almost all should be worshipped is to us con- promised that if the doctor would will ever go right again until he the Scriptures, and quoted the verse blue pyjamas. When he carried a ham presided.
The elephants have been to two or three witnesses were neces-spaniel puppy and went out to buy of Christian opinion, temptiblo. But to many an edu-attend to their mother they would returna.
see to it that he was paid. The
re- thore cynical. It was supposed to neither to the primary, secondary, make the Farish Church a sort of eated Hindu auch worship mako a plaintiff is evidence said he had at- America, where "rubber necka" to sary to establish a sin, which in-one milk the laughter grew evening that training colleges beleng
Moreover, ho
of street be drama. Really, it was roared at nor university organisations, said quiring corroboration public forum for the City of Bir irresistible appeal.
she was becoming have paid to see them, and they are offences.
like a farce.
they had affinities with all three, and finding mingham. Those who speak hare has his argument ready. The idol, tended Mrs. Marlow for many years, the number of some 18,000 a day spired the Scottish provision
The chairman 'added 'that à de- The first two acts had been dull, but they were not entirely associat- ed with any one of them. Nobody naturally feel a greater freedom he avers, is nothing until it has worse, he suggested, that she
Then taken to the workhouse infirmary. It staying at the London Zoo for a than if they were preaching at a been blessed by the priest.
Those the God deigns to dwell therein: he was then that the sons promised to week or two until arrangements, fendant in Scotland only appeared hut when, at the end, there came seemed to have suggested that
tried once. There was regular Sunday Service.
ten, and utterly uninspired, and of technological institution, though who come to listen expect that the gives to the image the honour of see that he was paid. Several aub- can be made to restore them to before one court, and could only be scenes of weak drama, crudely writ-training colleges might be a species Their arrival was not without in- beforehand by the newspapers, as with Ivor Novello, the darling of the idea was not wholly absurd. problems of religion and social life his real presence. If you ask for stantial amounts were paid by Lev! their own people.
in England.
The Assistant Secretary of the the films, in light blue pyjamas, it They were anomalies, pernicious to will be discussed with candour no a proof of this assertion, an educat-Marlow, and Mrs. Marlow herself
the minds of those who would be ed Ilindu points to the ecstatic en-paid 55. a week. After her death cident. The lady, who had pro- an account was sent to the execu tested about the Trans-Atlantic less than with sincerity.
and When the curtain fell the play content with nothing short of a But like other I welcome the fact that on auch thusiasm aroused among worship-tors, and he received a reply from
tion as to why, between 1897
anomalies in English education, atmosphere of quiet seriousness. chological reality, he contends, is 12s. 1d. was the balance of the avall (it is stated on good authori- 1926, the number of persons tried was booed, Ivor Novello was bored, logical system. occasions as this we meet in an pers of the wretcher idol: such psy-one of the brothers stating that Journey in the first place without Scottish Office, replying to a ques-was too much even for his fans.
number of New York for prostitution had dropped from
they were not on that account-hap-- estate of Mrs. Marlow, a cheque for ty that a
In dock workers have not stopped 2,827 to 544, declared that there
hazard, nor did they rise inciden- I am glad also that the inhibitions
that amount being enclosed,
tally or by inadvertence, They ⚫f conventional ecclesiasticism are
1924, when Mrs. Marlow began to running yet) determined after the was a marked decline in all forms
came into being in response to a absent. Smooth unctious platitudes
require daily and nightly attend- manner of her sex, to have the last of crime in Scotland.
need, and their development was ance, the plaintiff had to forgo word. Directly the chain of may have a smoothing effect. but
intimately bound up with the deve they do nothing either to free men
avery form of pleasure. He could hoist was fastened round her at
lopment of education, elementary, never go anywhere on account of the King George V. Dock in the from the lyranny of mistaken be-
Recondary, and university alike, liefs or to create Christian enthu-
was stated morning she snapped it as if it
For the thirty years from 1860 to 1890 the training college was an siasm for righteousness and peace.
were a piece of thread, and pro-
Uni- exceedingly tidy system. ceeded to run about the ship and
formily was its characteristic.. but give her individuality full play.
when they looked back upon it the training seemed very illiberal and inadequate, as it had often been. declared by those who passed through it. Interested observers from outside were apt to shudder at it, and to pray heaven that they might never become certificated teachers. But there was another side to the picture. The thirty years during which training col- leges were stabilised were those in which elementary education really took shape, and became compulsory for those who were receiving no other form of instruction, and when it was remembered that that gigantic evolution was effected quietly, efficiently, and without breakdown, they could have nothing but admiration for the men and women who were the chief instru- ments in the change. As a mater of sober fact, teaching in elemen- tary education became during that period a new career, and the re- salt was that a large number of vigorous men and women became The elementary school teachers. narrowness of the training did not a curious coincidence we
quench the energy of those virile have just been given two modern
people, or turn them into mechani- That generation cal pedagogues, instances which suggest that "the"
the author, WAS had now nearly all passed out of age of sensibility" may have re- Noel Coward,
derisive the schools, but as one who had Many a Londoner had a nasty turned, says the "Manchester booed, and there were
Guardian." Tears of sensibility noises made at Basil Dean, the been closely associated with the he was bound to testify his high sufficient proof. There are among-the very conception is magical-shock and a searching of ourselves to-day men and women and men will naturally and logically science as the White Elephant and poured very easily from the eyes producer. For nearly ten minutes older elementary school teachers, appreciation of the work they had the his lady lumbered out of the gloom of the eminent of a century or so wild scenes went on. ents that whoever
accomplished. whose sacramental beliefs. are not
Since 1902 there had been many those of the cultured bread receives Christ. Friends, it which hitherto had only valled be- back. Goderich was reported to Mercover, unless such unity is far from
wild excitement ed a time when the elementary based on truth the Church will end Hindu idolator. They pretend that is the solemn truth that the Lord lievable omnibuses and taxicabs. have cried himself out of office,
semi-
a priest, using the right words and cannot be gained by such mechan- Policemen gave them the right of Wellington shed tears as he rode pushed forward by the author, how-changes, and they had now reach-
way everywhere, the only trouble over the stricken field of "Water-ever, there was
school teacher meant one who was by purveying non-moral,
There magical beliefs which
aaets, can change a piece of bread ism.
"Bravo, Bunny!" they shouted, trained and certificated. so that within it there is the real We must lift up our hearts if we being in the Holloway Road, where 100, Fox blubbered on the least from upstairs. travesty of Christianity.
The idea of a sacrament is presence of Christ. The idea is ab- would have God come and dwell Dr. Saw Po-min decided that his pretext, Pitt shed tears at least | simple: It is the outward sign of surd, and can be disproved by ex-with us. Moreover, it is a harmful sucred charge showed signs of once in the House of Commons, "You're wonderful. Bunny! Bunny1 were 168,000 teachers in the ele superstition that a Church in which fatigue and called a halt by the Macaulay wept copiously, Palmer Bunny" Then, although they had mentary schools, and of these some ston shed tears at the wedding of asked for a speech from Miss Doble, 120,000 were certificated. In fact, The crowd grew SO God's presence. At its highest to periment.
to it, but the certificate was rapidly becom King Edward, Melbourne was not they would not listen
ing a licence teach, and the line If there were a physical change consecrated bread is kept is for that roadside. Know of God's presence is to feel
dense in a few minutes that a
immune. But there followed a shouted "Rubbish!"
of advance appeared now to be that the comfort of His care to be as in the bread, chemical analysis reason the more holy. Such
only be upheld by the policeman, with a wealth of gesture,
Finally, Mr. Dean shouted for the Board of Education should re- sured of His loving power.. Life would enable us to detect it. All belief can
the near up the habit. It is not very easy silence, and then Miss Doble said it quire such a licence from teachers defends idolatry. is full of sacraments, great and are agreed that this type of change valueless arguments by which the intimated to the mahouts that a period in which public men gave
The fallure to move on
to think of Gladstone in tears in small. Personally, I feel God near does not take place. Yet if there Hindu
the House of Commons or of Dis-was the happiest night of her life in secondary schools, and ultimately when the sunshine ripples over a be a spiritual change, it must sure Divine Spirit of Christ is every-future might be attended by
raeli bedewing the Box. If Lord This was greeted with laughter, from teachers in all schools, not in sorn field, or when the wind blows by be possible for man to recognise where; It cannot be located in pleasant consequences.
material things. Wherever the It was past six in the evening Ealfour has ever wept he has because of the pitiful tragedy of the form of the present certificate, over a grass-green upland. Music it by his spiritual, perception.
spirit of man gives to enthus- when the imposing cavalcade reach taken care that the public shanid the rest of it. Over fifty actors but in the form of a wider licence. of appearances, was becoming more brings Him to others: it stirs them
Now I assert and who will gain-inem for goodness and truth, ed the Zoo, where it was received not see him unmanned, and the and actresses, mostly in fancy The teaching profession, in spite the Gar- same was true of most of the dress, who all stood by in rows, and more one profession, and the so that they know the world to have unseen rhythms of beauty which say me? that there is no man liy Christ's Spirit is present. Christ by the Superintendent
it should be entrusted with the are the expression of God'a perfec- ing who, if a piece of bread were dwells not among things that are dens and guided through the dark public men of the second half of knew that it meant a short run and time was rapidly approaching when
The dull first act, which
was duty of settling the details of con- tion. Others find in poetry the presented to him, could say whe cold and inert, but with the dyingness to the White Elephant house, the Victorian era. But, on the then a search for new work. thrill that makes the world expand ther or not it had been consecrat- Christian struggling, seeking, wait- which was erected for Pawa's ac-same day, we have had two
"sensibility" anecdotes Lord about how an English husband left ditions of admission. The Tea- on the chers' Registration Council was the' till it embraces God and enuses ed. Personally, I find it hard to ing upori God. We understand commodation last year.
in its fullness A great stove was alight for the Curzon weeping at a rebuke from his English wife alone
any obvious agent for that task, co- Him to show Himself in common attach any meaning to a spiritual sacramental grace
change in dead matter: but if it and power, not by foolishly speak-reception of the travellers, who Lawrence and Lord Carson admit- Riviera, was unillumined by things,
were God took no notice of anybody until ting that he wept when he laid sparkle of wit. The second act, operating with the board and the was becoming increasingly con- To a mother her children are exists there must surely be some ing of bread as if it
chiefly a lot of polee in Italian, at acious of the value of its schools, true sacraments, sings of God's living person who can perceive its Himself; but when the heavens they had each disposed of a bundle aside his forensic wig for the last which took place in a bar, was employing authorities. The nation the end of which a young artist and convinced that the teachers in erentive power; and love has always existence. If there be no such per-open for us just for a moment we or two of hay."
persuaded the wife to go away them must be adequately equipped. been a sacrament, a symbol of that son, belief in such a change is an see the whole of creation as the
with him.
Any proposal for relaxation in the which is supreme in the external idle superstition. Let me reiter-expression of God's purpose and
The Argentine government has
Every time Ivor Novello, as the standard of requirements, of which paid its contribution to the League
the for the elementary school the realm of spirit. All of us have our ate to make my point clear. If a He Himself in wisdom, might and sacraments-trivial little things, physical change exists it can be love the goal to Whom our striving lends and the end where man's
of Nations for 1927, amounting to artist, kissed Miss Doble, 125,000 dollars.
gallery shrieked out with merri-symbol was the certificate, would some times that we do not speak physically perceived.
be viewed with grave concern by ment. If a spiritual change exists it can restless spirit has peace. of because others might muck or
Then, in the last ocene, a week the large public which sent its be spiritually
children to them. perceived. We fail to understand.
later, they were both tired of it. Broken Away.
should not accept the word of a man
The
the existence of a Christian Churches have who affirmed their sacraments-all except the physical change which no physicist Quakers and the Salvation Army, could detect. Similarly, if a man These communions have broken affirms the existence of a spiritual away from the general tradition of change which no man can recognise Christian warship: and we must all by any form of spiritual percep admit that, none the less, many of tion, we deem his statement false. their members have shown theI am quite prepared to believe in Spirit of Christ in their lives. transubstantiation when I can find Our own Church emphasises, two a person who will come to the sacraments, Baptism and the Holy chapel of my house and tell me Communion. Baptism is the out-correctly whether a piece of bread ward sign of the grace which, as which I present to him has under- we bellave, God gives to all who, gone the change for which be as members of the Church, geek to lievers in transubstantiation he loyal servants of Christ.
Only through patient argument rench truth and spread can we truth: and those who find that such argument cuts at the roots, of be-1 liefs which they hold dear will na-
preserve the at-l turally desire to mosphere of silence in which their be quietly propagated. errors can To-day, then, I propose to be con-1
I intend to discuss troversial. sacramental truth and falsehood. I make no apology for my action because the English Church will break in pieces unless unity as to sacramental doctrines can be reach
ed.
are
The Holy Communion is the ser vice by which we reproduce for
General Escobar, who was chosen to put down the rebels by President Calles, bogan his trium. phant military career by defeating Pancho Villa with the aid of two U. S. regimente in 1916.
tend.
Hard To Find.
Sacramental Magic.
COX-
It la well-nigh incredible that at memory and faith the tragic sup- the present day, when experimental per which preceded Christ's death, paychology has become a science, and it is the sign of unity in there should be a recrudescence of sacramentalmagic Christ through self-sacrifice for the sort of righteousness' sake, the symbol, of which by that science can be de the Divine help which a good man monstrably discredited. Let us gives to others when he is absolute- keep to a simple, wholesome, and ly loyal togoodness and truth true understanding of what So conceived the two great sacra- Bacraments really are. Not seldom ments are valuable, worthy of their I have come away from a small place in the Christian tradition gathering of Christmas--it happen- But it is fatally easy to pass from ed especially during the War the ides that sacramenta sorve to with the Certainty that, when two reveal God to a belief that through or three are gathered together in them we can mechanically bring Christ's name, He is in the midst God to men or cause Him to locate of them. I should be the last to Himself in some object or place: doubt that the Real Presence of
assume
by the Secr
я
Shortly after noon the two ele- phants set out on their long march to the Zoo. First an English pilot, then Moya-ung, then the sacred white elephant himself, and, lastly, a motor-car containing Dr. Saw Fo-min, their proud owner...
Policeman's Hint.
con-
un-
The white elephant is not quite so white (or at least plak) as he
charcoal to used to be, as Dr. Saw painted him with glycerine and keep the cold out on the journey, and he looks distinctly patchy.
A RETURN TO TEARS.
By
time.
Ambassador to Mexico, from the United States, with his party insp
tacan: Mexico. Ambassador Morrow was invited to ese the 3,000 ation, Dracae Manuel Pulz
-Excitement.
Whenever Frances Doble
STAL
DIGNITY IN DANGER.
Few lawyers can have discharged their legal duties more impressive-
The husband came back, and in stilted words reproved his wife. She said she was sorry! Then, when he had gone, she upbraided her lover, who lost his temper.
Ivor Novello started chasing Miss Doble round the table.
"Free. love is hateful and sordid and cheap," she sobbed. "I canly than Lords Lindley and Alver stone, two of the learned judges never get back!".
whose lives are included in the new "I go to my mother," said the supplementary volume of the Dic- lover. That made the whole house tionary of National Biography, says
the "Manchester Guardian.
Yet scream again.
This amateurish play is full of they were not always treated with aneers at the English and jokes like the respect proper to them in a calling a dog "Mrs. Robinson. It court of law. On asking a pri soner whether He had anything to is baby talk..
say before sentence was passod, Ivor Novello acted the last scene Lord Alverstone, a sprinter in his almost like an amateur, but Miss
younger days, received the un- Doble nearly held it up with her expected reply: "I knowe yer; and unexpected cleverness. She could many the time I've given yer a not save it, though; it waE too hand when ye've been stepping it allly
round the track, like a greyhound." Surely, In future, when there is Even worse was the predicament of s.failure, managers will ring down Lord Lindley, while yet at the Bar, the curtain and let the company go when the tall Belgian actress who played "Frou-Frou in the play of homas
that name, and for whom Lindley The scene was disgraceful. In appeared professionally, throw her fact, it was cruelty to Miss Doble arms around him and exclaimed
Mon, saveur! mopsaveurl" great
ly to the grave advocate'a cmbar..
A report from Odessa says that rasement. With law, as Dr. John the police has discovered a wide-son's friend, Edwards of Pembroke, spread lot of Monarchists and has found with philosophy, cheerful- arreated numerous plotters.kness is always breaking-in