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XXII.-FAITH OR CERTAINTY
[By the Rev. Dr. John A. Hatlón]
seeing
supposed to be vacant, but which was exercising this influence; and as they gazed and gazed, Neptune hove in, sight!
Christ Risen
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As I see Saul become Paul, as I see Simon Peter-who had run away from a housemaid-stand up and say “A man must obey God rather than man;" As I see the With Emil Jannings, the All through history there has grief that kept her from been a demand for absolute plain-His dear form clearly and at unce; disciples, desperate, sad, bitter, famous
German actor, in the for faith and all but that when He said story inclining for one dark moment to leading role, the picture relates
The Register of Members of the ness in matters
give way to cynicism and laughter; in vivid manner Goethe's immor through history that demand has she knew that it was her Master.
A Man's Faith
them all coming back, tal drama of the triumph of Good Company will be closed from 11th I sometimes say that a men's 45 I see certainty, and all through history faith is his vote. So indeed it is coming home, coming in; and then over Evil. Faust, however, in the March, 1929, to 22nd March, 1929, In this aspect, that a man's vote each with a rapt countenance set-film, is not so much the scientist both days inclusive, during which ought to have behind it a man's ting out to Scythia, to India, to and charlatan as represented in period no Transfer of Shares can
Athens, to Rome and the Islands the drama of Goethe. Rather is be registered. By putting There are things in this life down a cross opposite the thing or of the Sea, and everyone laying he a friend to humanity, always which are perfectly plain, 18, for example, that two and two make the name we vote for, we mean to down his life--why, I am driven | seeking a new way in which to four; but there is an inner signifi-say, not necessarily that that is to the conclusion that something|bring happiness to his fellow, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
right. What we do mean to say is: had happened to these men.
that is what I am in for; that
been refused. All through history there has been a hungering after that hunger has not been satisfied.
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can see with the naked
is not certainty.
whole personality.
But if
And beings.
since they alone tell what had happened, I ask and dominate the earth. Faust
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Enter Mephisto. who are competent to seeks to conquer the soul of Faust cance of things which is not plain as, for example, that there is God is what I am prepared to die for.
"We have falls under the spell of Evil and That is my faith." If I am in for them, and they say: and that we have souls.
PUBLIC AUCTION. from the goes on a pleasure trip. Mephisto the Christ risen Been There are things which anyone money, it means that that ja my
And that opens the King- shows him all the wonderful eye, but
things that may be his if he willHE Undersigned have received 'money, It means that that is my dead." there are other things which are faith. If I am in for social dis- dom of Heaven to all believers.
To the various Benedictions. in only bow to the Davil. The instructions from Lt. Col. L. J, scen only by faith. Faith, there-tinction, that is my faith. fore, however it is to be described,1 am in for goodness, if I am in the "Sermon on the Mount," Our tragedy of Gretchen follows, and Comyn, C.M.G.. D.S.O., to sell by
His here the story deviates from Public Auction, Lord added another: it was Certainty is for love, for tenderness, for sight-a kind of sight of the soul Christ's way of taking up this last: "Blessed are they that have. Goethe's drama. But in the end, -and we live by faith, not by whole business of life and of deal-not ecen, and yet have believed." just as Mephisto believes he has eight.
ing with it, once again that is my There is light enough among the conquered the soul of Faust and faith. For what I am in for, that mysteries of faith for those who 80 the world, Cherubin advances are resolved on going on: and and disillusionises him in a start-
a picture with So it is everywhere in the New there is darkness enough to seeming manner. Testament. The two disciples on to justify those who are not ready
as an entertainment, crowded the way to Emmaus were joined, to set out. So wrote in effect an moral, and, in view of its nature
Father of the Church and It old
houses should be the rule during We are told, by a figure. was only afterwards, and upon Apologist.
And another, Ignatius, sald this its run at the Queen's Theatre, reflection, that they came to the! great hazard as to Who that figure deep thing which touches every was. He accompanied them so true believer's sense
According to Christ Himself this hunger for certainty is never a good sign. "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it the prophet but the sign of
The men of Nineveh Jonas..... shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, be cause they repented at the preaching of Jonas, and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here."
in the New Testament this cautionary note is struck so fre quently, and illustrations are re corded so pointedly, that from the first, it would appear, the danger was perceived.
one.
I believe.
of honour:
to our
far, and spoke to them in a won. Those who have heard the voice denful way; and at length they of God can bear His silence.
Which takes
us back entered the house together and had supper at which He broke bread. Lord's sharp and final ruling: "If were they hear not Moses and the Thereupon they suddenly reminded of something,. of a day prophets neither will they be per- rose from in suaded though a man and of other circumstances which Christ had broken bread; the dead.” and just as they were about to say. "Master" He was gone! If yosi like you can say "they were tired." But if you like you can agreė, as the Church believes, that it was Christ risen from the dead!
Saul of Tarsus
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THE SAMOANS
OPENING SEASON TO- MORROW AT STAR
"THE "SIVA. SIVA"
Uncontaminated by contact with civilisation, dances which have been the real expression of a people for hundreds of years will be seen when the Samoan dancing troupe gives its opening performance to-morrow night at 9,20 in the Star Theatre,
A Low Certainty Mary, who firat saw her Lord risen from the dead. wanted to iling herself at His feet, but he rebuked her saying, "Touch Me
The dances will be given in cos- able property in the Settlements not." is as though. He had said,
would long since have passed, as it tumes of "tapa." The symphony You must not be certain in that way. The certainty of touch is a Saul of Tarsus set out on the has done in every other city in of browns, occurring in the design low certainty and has the quality of way to Damascus, snorting blood. China, from the hands of the elvit in this native material, in har- self-indulgence. The stato of en-He was forilled with lettera from population to those of the military mony with the splendid bronze bodies of the dancers, and with trenty is, in the region of the un- the High Friest that if he found free-booters,
When one stops to reflect how the green of "leis" about the neck seen, the one state of certitude and any who were Christians he might
be the con and bright flowers worn over the of power.
bring them bound into Jerusalem, far-reaching must same thing every- And on the way to Damascus sequences throughout all Asia of ears of the men, gives a picture You see the where. There are things about something happened. Nobody encouraging Young China militant which those who have seen it de Jesus which are obvious to every could deny that.. We read that to believe that their country's clare unsurpassed..
The feature of the performance We have more historical afterwards this wild man was led obligations may be violated with authority for the life of Jesus than like a child. Now, if you like you impunity and the foreigner treated is the "Siva Siva" dance which is we have for almost anything. We can say it was epilepsy; that, like with indignity. It is difficult to ac-a collective dance given seated on The certainly know more about Jesus, Julius
an count for the public apathy in these long lines of woven mats. Caesar, St. Paul was than we know about Shakespeare, epileptic. But if it was nothing matters. It is no doubt partly due war knives of the Samoans have a for example. It is a fact that we
more than epilepsy may we all to the post-war spirit, to which Mr. long hook on the end of the blade, know more about Jesus than His become epileptics to the glory of T. P. O'Connor has referred, and formerly used to catch up the During frst disciples 'know. People who God!
in part to the average citizen's head of the victims. mental detachment from the pro-"The Knife Dance," these knives were there at the time knew that Jesus lived. They heard Him speak. This cry for certainty is always blems of the future of the Empire. are hooked into each other and coming back; and always in bad in commercial circles, it may rea-whirled about the head at an times.. They are never the best serably be ascribed to the great alarming speed. people who want proofs of God diminution which has taken place beyond the earnest of the Spirit.
in our China trade, the result of We cannot say whether our American and Japanese competition, Lord had this very tendency in during the past twenty-five years. view and rebuked it at the outset, Statesmanship at Fault when, in the circumstances I have quoted. He repelled Mary when in the fact that, despite its un-. she wanted to touch Him. It is broken record of had faith, sordid
They saw Him do things, heal people, feed people, rebuke people, comfort people. All these things everybody who wanted to see, could sce; and everybody who wanted to know, could know. There was no secrecy. No spiritual training was required, no discipline or beating of the breast, to see Jesus as He lived and moved and walked about.
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Altogether, a most unusual form of entertainment is promis- ed, and to-morrow night should see a crowded house at the Star. There will be a short picture pro But its chief cause lies, I think,gramme before the dances.
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Al- first play. 2 public place. Even people who material assurance of actual touch. this country and in America. were passing by wagging their There are people who say that it though it cannot claim credit for heads could seè that some One makes them sure of the other any single achievement of construc- was dying and they could learn world to hear noises and rappings tive reform, although it is notorious- Who It was. The life and death of and curious words, as though our ly true that in the five provinces Jesus were publle property. But beloved ones had lost the power to nominally under its control the afterwards everything is different. speak clearly and sensibly after people are oppressed by every kind To the world as such He never dying. 1 supposo we are all of illegal exaction and continually appeared again! The world as differently built. For myself I plundered by lawless soldiery and such never saw. Christ risen from should begin to wonder whether bandits; although the last remnants the dead, and the world as auch God had absolute control of this of civic government and financial never will.
When at length He world or whether some evil spirits stability are speedily, being de- appeared risen and alive. It was had not broken loose. The stroyed by hordes of hungry place- never to a mass and it was never Christian way is harder, but it le men, whose only object is to acquire casually, but always with a certain finer, and in the long run safer for wealth before the inevitable debacle, deliberateness, with
"By faith we nevertheless public opinion in this country persists in the belief that all may yet be well.
A
certain the human race. selection of the person and the understand."
place; always within an atmo- sphere, always in response to some. thing that had gone before.
It is very wonderful, but so it is.
H.
A Leap in The Light There are some things we can- not have until we believe them.!
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Truth Must Be Faced
Sooner or later the truth must, be There are certain things we do not faced that, in encouraging the ele know until they are revealed in us.ments of irresponsible misrule, the And so to-day people who are I might spend hours discussing civilised Powers have incurred a not sure about things and who say with you the amazing thing it is certain moral responsibility. Their they are not sure are not saying to have found another human intentions were excellent, no doubt. anything that is new in the history heart to love you; but there is Being pledged at Washington to a of religious thought. We are a sense in which you will never policy of conciliatory good will, never absolutely sure of anything i know that until it comes to you. they were obliged, like the ladies in concerning which we say "we This is true, of all the big things Florodora, to love someone, so why belleve," Recall the recorded in life, end faith is the biggest of not the Kuomintang 7 But when appearances of our Lord and you them all. We have to take a leap the history of these evil days comes will see the point confirmed. The in the light. Bishop Butler says, to be written with the necessary evidence is never overwhelming, "Faith is a high degree of proba- detachment, it will, I think, be never merely physical or coercive. bility." That is to say, when you admitted that our statesmanship. It is always such evidence that if accept it and act upon it, the thing was at fault and that it would have you like-and- what à delicate works.
bean far better, for China and the region of the soul that is!--[if The stories about the Resurrec-world at large, had our sympathy. you like)
it need not have itation are all different, but they con- and good will been manifested on faith-value for you. If you like verge to a point. That point we behalf of the unfortunate, inarti you can always put another inter- hold to be the fact of the matter.sulate Chinese people, or Indeed on pretation upon it. When Mary If twelve people came in and told behalf of our merchants and mis- saw Jesus she thought it was the us in various ways that some- sionaries trading and lving In gardner. Now if you like you thing had happened down the China In accordance with Treaty can eay It was the gardener, Or street, we should conclude from rather than for the benest of tails short of that you, can say that hers the different reports that some or that group of political adven- was one of those warm, tempera-thing had at least happened.turers. ments; that she was excited and It is an old story, that, there was
not fit to judge who it was who a time when astronomers saw, the Lt. Colonel C. Di Harvey, of had spoken to her
planets behaving in a certain way. Polsted Manor Guildford, was They behaved, quite normally, until recently found unconscious in his they came to a certain region and overturned motor-caz on the London- then chosed to bomoab Portsmouth road near Woking,
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