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Almost inevitably such severance will cause it to develop unwhole- some affinities with the mystery- religion type of faith.
Much Restiveness.
In a
volume just published,
In my teaching of recent years "Should Such 蟲 Falth Offend?"
I have emphasised the truth of the (Hodder and, Stoughton, 75. Gd.), biological doctrine of evolution the Bishop of Birmingham has largely for the sake of our younger educated men and women. At gathered together "certain sermons Cambridge, and in conferences at and addresses typical of my tench-Swanwick and elsewhere, I came to Ing during the last seven years," realise that a Church apparently "Fundamentalism" his aim being that the "most char- committed to
could no longer hold the respect of acteristic and most criticised ele- win the confidence of educated ments" of his teaching should be youth. fully represented. The address, on False and "Sacramental Truth hood," which has aroused so much controversy, is included in the volume. In the course of the pre- face to the book Dr. Barnes writes as follows (the italics are his own) :-
LIBERAL SCHEME.
FAIR PRICES FOR THE FARMER.
"The Farmer and his Market" (Ernest Benn, 18.), is the report by the Land and Nation League on the marketing, of home-grown food, a report on the whole problem of how home-grown agricultural produce can be marketed so as to secure a reasonable profit to the producer without raising the price of food to the consumer. The report treats the problem from first to last as a matter of business organisation, Its authors insist that agricultar-
I found equally that there was ista must solve their own.problems, much restiveness with regard to but they also recognise that the certain developments of sacramen-State must create the conditions in tal doctrine. But it was only when which self-help can be effective. I became a Bishop that I fully real- The book begins by examing the ised how vaat departure from the actual disadvantages suffered by traditional Anglican position had the home producer, and makes a taken place in the teaching of those contrast between the standardised, among us who desire to assimilate trade-marked proprietary arti- car sacramental beliefs to doc- cles put on the market by manu- Some of my friends and among trines of the Roman communion. facturers and importers, and the All the serious administrative difi home-grown foodstuffs marketed in them men for whose work I have a culties of Anglican Bishops to-day diverse and variable quality, with- warm regard, maintain that are due to newly introduced prac-out effective organisation between Bishop should neither criticise nor tices which have no sense or mean producers themselves or effective condemn beliefs which may be law-ing unless some erroneous doctrine control, or even co-ordination, of akin to transubstantiation is held. the intermediate stages of dis- fully held within the English
It is quite certain that we cannot tribution. There follows an ex- Church. A Bishop, they any, ought get in the Church either harmony amination of the causes which have to be an impartial administrator, or unity based on # common hitherto prevented effective com- spiritual understanding, while opbination among producers, and of not a partisan.
posing sacramental beliefa are, as the special type of business organ- at present, struggling for mastery.isation made necessary by the pecu- Only by argument, patient, clear, liar character of food production. and cogent, can error be banished After this purely practical analysis and truth affirmed. In the interests of the nature of the problem, the of law and order within the Church Report comes to the machinery which it is propised that the State should set up to enable farmers to market at a profit. The proposals tolerate much error if it is the sort
Though my sermons and ad- are, in short, that there should be of error which the Church does not condemn. For instance, the formu-dresses in the present volume serve a Central Marketing Board which laries of the Church of England with some completeness to elucidate should deal with the selling of agri- have not been effectively revised my sacramental position, I may here cultural produce commodity by since the rise of Copernican as-summarise its main feature. It is commodity, developing in each area essentially the doctrine 'which was the distributive machinery best tronomy. If, then, clergyman
Д cared to affirm constantly that the finally established in the Church adapted to that area's needs. Co- at the Reformation. operation is not in any way regard- earth is the fixed centre of the uni- of England verse, and to criticise his Bishop Central within it is the belief that ed' as a panacea, though full room for holding a different view, that in a sacrament a material object for its development is provided. Bishop could take no disciplinary can be a vehicle of divine grace. The Central Marketing Board would action against him. But to argue The bread and wine used in Holy be a small body of business men ap- that therefore his Bishop must not Communion can be such vehicles, pointed by the State and acting for contradict, this teaching seems to and for that reason we may asso- the community. It would be in a ciate with them symbolical values. position to represent producers as me an impossible contention..
But as a result of consecration noa whole in adjusting railway rates spiritual presence is attached to or and in developing rural, transport inheres in the elements.. The root generally. The whole question of principle of idolatry is belief in a transport is dealt with at some
I would first of all distinguish between the administrative and the teaching functions of a Bishop. In administering his diocese a Bishop cannot exnet or expect uniformity of opinion. He must seek to main-of England it is the duty of its tain law and order; but he must Bishops to define its sacramental
position.
Intolerable Proposition.
teacher in the Church; and this
the whole service of
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THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1928.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert
but our readers are warned to look out for occasional
phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)
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STHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
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compass
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Start out by filling in the words of which you fool entsonably work. These will give you a clam to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. À letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the umabered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(Tre solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue, along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
TEMPERAMENT.
It is surely an intolerable pro- position that a Bishop should be silent on all questions whereon Deity localised in material objects length, and the financial questions through the invocation of a priest. involved are faced. The proposal differences of opinion may exist more or less legitimately within the In opposition to any such type of is that the preliminary expenses in belief it must be affirmed that a setting up the Central Marketing Church. To impose such con- straint upon him would often be sacrament is a paychological pro-Board should be met out of the sum to hinder him from speaking oness, in the course of which the of £1,000,000 already earmarked for worshipper makes contact with the Empire Marketing propaganda. vital issues, and would make him a mere register of well-established God or the spiritual world. Thus There is one chapter in which the Holy Com- application of the general proposal opinions. No Bishop under auch munion is the sacrament: the term to two particular commodities, milk is a strange and purposeful woman. Mir. Robert Hitchens' new heroine conditions could be an effective
sacrament" is wrongly applied to and meat, is set out in detail, and She has it in her to become a great would apply especially at just those the elements which are but a part this is followed by a chapter on a actress, and at the end she throws vitally important part of the pro- over fame for another form of de- blem, namely, the wholesale and votion. It is the story of a wo- retail markets in the towns. The man's struggle upon the London authors insist that if producers are stage. She wins fame and ahan- to, organise, their end of the dia- dons it, she wins love, and aban- tributive process the present chaos dons it. The paychology of the of wholesale and retail markets in lady is not entirely convincing, but the towns must be reduced to rea- the people, or most of them, are real sonable order. The line taken on enough to make the book a little! stabilisation is briefly that stabil above the average. isation, whether it is practical or to the celebration of the not, can be of no definite value to Lord's Supper, inasmuch as the producer until a sound market- for most Christians the sense ing system is established.
epochs of change when wise teach- ing is especially necessary.
Much in the present volume ex- presses my conviction that the main fabric of Christian belief is un- harmed hy acceptance of the bio- logical doctrine of man's descent from an ape-like stock. Bellef in evolution is becoming as much a commonplace in this country as be- lief in Copernican natronomy; and almost all now recognise that Chris- (opposite Queen's Theatre)tian theology among us must be
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adapted to meet the changed stand- point. Hence the whole theologi- cal scheme reared by Augustine on the basis of the Fall must be re- jected. It is a matter for surprise and regret that the necessity for such, rejection has been so seldom admitted.
of
the whole.
Restatement of Position. I restate my position in already made public
I
words
(a) The real presence of Christ can be with His followers in public worship. He is pre- Hent wherever two or three are gathered in His name. (b) A special solemnity attaches
of Christ's presence is then strengthened. For such it!
What the State Can Do. Chapter 10 deals in detail with
is a sacrament, the "fellow-the part of the State. "We have ship meal," the communion suggested," says the Report, "that "with each other and the by organisation of a national scale Lord."
producers collectively can strength- (c) There is no objective real en their position 80 that they
presence of Christ attached to the bread and wine used in Holy Communion.
In such teaching we are safe from those morbid overgrowths of sacra- 'mentalism which end in veneered paganism.
The controversies of recent years have, however, done good by forcing Christian theologians and preach- ers to admit that they can no long- er claim as historical the stories of Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, and the Fall. Already in conse- quenco there are signs of a violent Inevitably the present stress in reaction from belief in the infal- the Church of England raises anew libility of the Old Testament. I the question of toleration. To the fear that, as usual, the pendulum political creed which I learned from will swing too far and that there | Acton I am still loyal. As a will be a tendency to disparage Liberal I abhor persecution, and the spiritual " excellence of the am prepared to trust, and desire to Hebrew scriptures. We need to get others to trust, not in force, emphasise that Christianity cannot but in the slow efficiency or argu- be severed from Its Judaic. back-ment, the persuasive power ground without being harmed. reason,
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