SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1929.
OUR WEEKLY
SERMON
Christian Interpretation Of History
MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS
[By the Very Rey. W. R. Inge, C.V.O., D.D., F.B.A., Dean
of St. Paul's]
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About 450 school children saw Travers is completed with "Bed-TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that i the picture, which proved to be room Scene," couple who try to commencing on TUESDAY, both instructive and interesting. pass themselves off as husband 28th instant, the principal mains { Many phases of life in the Briand wife, "Suspicious handlady" on the island of Hong Kong will tish Navy were depicted in the and all the usual paraphernalia be closed daily except during the film, which also forcibly brought of plays of this kind; which kept following periods: home to the audience Britain's the audience in roars of laughter 6 a.m.-10 am and 3 p.m.--6 p.m. an historical Incarnation belongs to sincerity in the reduction of both from start to finish. It is only a this view of history, which in gen- ships and personnel of her Navy pity that the last act had to bel
¡Continued from May 18)
This brings me to the second part,
which of my subject the vlewa have been actually held in the Christian Church about the mean ing and value of history. I think we may classify them under three
called, the catastrophic view, the The third is second the meliorist. much more difficult to name. If I call it the Johannine view, it is not because this name is at all ob- viously descriptive.
The catastrophic, miraculous view of history is wholly alien from modern ways of thinking. But it cannot be denied that the doctrine of
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an easy problem to fit our traditional lead to the other Powers. belief in a divine-human Redeemer, inaugurating a new dispensation modern for humanity, into our scheme of
an world-history as
Special music was played and proved very acceptable.
Diocesan Boys' School At the Diocesan Boys' School But, it seems organic whole, obeying uniform day boys, assembled in the Hall, and Orphanage the boarders and
to me that in the Fourth Gospel we have, almost for the first time, a clear view of history as educational, combined with a firm faith in an eternal background, without which Menporal happenings would have no meaning or value.
Catastrophie View
P
First, then, we will consider the catastrophic view, to which I have already referred briefly. It has often been said that the Hebrews assigned to the course of history a meaning which the Greeks did not find
us a
lawe.
ism.
and at school prayers Mr. E. I. The problem has been met in
Wynne gave an address on the by Liberal Pro- ways different testantism and by Catholic Modern Spirit of Empire, which he said The school of Ritschl and the desire for expansion and free- was not conquest and force, but Harnack seems to take an anti-dom under law and order. In all evolutionary view of Church his Empires and great countries this tory. For them, the revelation was had demanded, and demanded to- final and perfect in the Gospel of day, responsibility, duty. syn-
Christ. Jesus
re- Subsequent
pathy, self-sacrifice and service. ligious history has been mainly a story of reversion, corruption, and
"DIAMOND" FILM the Re- apostasy, against which formation of the sixteenth century
ELEANOR BOARDMAN IN Was a courageous but not very
THRILLING DRAMA By their re- effectual protest. jection of mysticism, this school is
STORY OF AFRICA committed a very
backward look. to a Christ is for them the perfect
Grim shadows of the under-. example, the supreme law-giver,
world-the toiling labourers of rather than a lifegiving Spirit.' If
the African mines-tinselled so- this statement does injustice-to
ciety with its hidden scandals Harnack, let us say and it does. these are some of the elements the reason is that his estimate of that flash in kaleidoscopic review the historical Christ is not
So through the sequences of "Dia rigidly historical as it pretenda tomond Handcuffs," Cosmopolitan's be. Harnack has his ideal of
vivid underworld drama which pare religion, and he selects those will be shown on Tuesday and aspects of the Gospel which sanc Wednesday at the Queen's tion and support that ideal, gnor-Theatre.
the original as published in book-form was much more con- vincing
Bardy Russell carried off the chief honours of the evening as "Peter." Annie Chippendale ex- the faithful and much-tried
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in it, But the Hebrew philosophy of history, if one may speak of such a thing in unphilosophic people, began with the more desire to exonerate a tribal God from responsibility for the suf- ferings of a much-tormented little nation, set down in the cockpit where the great Powers of the day. their quar- sometimes fought out
very simple It Jels. philosophy. Jehovah rewarded his people for faithfulness, and punish- ed them if they went after other gods. The question, 'Shall not the judge of all the earth do righting other zopects. He professes It is three plays in one:
to derive his inspiration from the drama of Africa, of society, and Gospel record only, but in reality of gangster life. The connecting his portrait of Christ is coloured link is a great diamond, which, by his hopes of a new Protestant found in the mines, is stolen for. Reformation on very modern lines. a woman's love, and from then on It would be brutal, but not wholly spreads its sinister web in all untrue, to say that many modern walks of life. Intrigue, theft, writers galvanize the historical love, and deceit circle around cells in character-studies such as Christ by dressing Him up as a the glittering stone in a type of the landlady of the "Cow and nineteenth or twentieth century story startlingly new to the Litter" sorry, I mean the Englishman, German. of Frenchman. screen!. There are many stirring Stag and Hunt!"
could only be answered in the affirmative, and yet how much there was to explain! We know how under the guidance of the prophets the Hebrews arrived at last at a very noble faith; but except for an in- domitable hopefulness we can hard- ly speak of a reasoned theory of the value of history.
The Greeks were strangely in- different both to their past and their future, when we consider the alertness and curiosity of their minds.. They had comparatively few historical traditions; they did not cherish the monuments of
most. their past. Their
favour
that ed historical theory time revolves in vast cycles, which bring back, perhaps even in detail, the events. of the corresponding period of the last cycle. Progress and retrogression alternate. Even the arts, Aristotle thought, had been many times dis- covered and then lost.
was
Theory of Cycles
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In the little book, "The Man Whom scenes of dramatic power depict-mest amusing and true to type as Nobody Knows," He is draped as a ing the loves, hates and jealousies "Mrs. Stoker."
This is a of gangsters, as well as other very typical Yankee. esther violent expedient for forcing sequences portraying society life an and life in a diamond mine in a catastrophic Figure
Africa. evolutionary scheme.
Eleanor Boardman is the lead- Roman Catholic Philosophy The philosophy of history of the ing player, and is supported by Roman Catholic Church is super-Conrad Nagel and Lawrence Gray. naturalistic dualism, and therefore anti-evolutionary. It has
some SHOP OWNER SLAIN affinity with apocalyptism, but none with nineteenth century Liberalism.{SEARCH FOR A MYSTERIOUS When Pius IX in 1564 flung in the face of the modern world his Syllabus Errorum, and concluded his list of eighty errors by con- demaning the thesis that 'the The body of a Chinese shop- Roman Pontiff can and ought to keeper who was murdered some reconcile himself with progress, days ago, as already reported in Reginald Tippett was, of course, Liberalism, and modern civilzation," the "China Mail," was later dis- far too good for the small part of he was proclaiming with character-covered in the bathroom of the "Soley Jones;" but then so was istic courage
the irreconcilable vacant ground floor of No. 456, Kathleen Vaughan, who success- antagonism between the mediaveal Nathan-road, Kowloon. The man fully doubled the parts of "Raw- and the modern view of history. had been stabbed in the cheat and lings" and "Gladys." These are Catholic Modernism wishes head, and near the body was only two examples of the splendid jettison the theory of miraculous found a three-cornered file dagger, team-work done by the entire years; that of the Stoics was 6,570,-interventions, and to place Catholic-a penknife, a hammer and a ruler.company throughout their season
But the Church, tied ism with
A woman is believed to have been here! Whether the parts allotted SHADOWS BEFORE. to the chronology of Genesis, allow work. The Church, from this point concerned in the affair, and it is were great or small the players
of view, is a living and progressive also stated that the dead man was put their whole hearts into them, COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED ed only 4,000 years between creation and the birth of Christ. organism, which has adapted itself the owner of a furniture shop at and as a result all performances
to its environment, and changed as
The
The Church succeeded to these two traditions.
Christians rejected entirely the theory of cycles. History was unique, and never to be repeated. But the au- thority of the Church was exerted in cutting Gown the span of history in a deplorable manner. Plato's Great Year, probably a Babylonian astrological period, 36,000
000 years.
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The wife of the victim is report-ard of excellence. all living organisms must change.ed to have said that on May 7 the "The Banvards" have given an The Jesus of history was merely the shop was visited by a young immense amount of pleasure to
To-day - Queen's Theatre; nucleus round whom the society woman who bought some furnt audiences in Hong Kong and "When A Man Loves."
The Christ of the ture, and it appears that she Kowloon, and the many floral tri- To-day World Theatre; Church's worship has no essential made the acquaintance of the man butes handed over the footlights "The Student Prince." resemblance to the Galilean Pro then. Eleven days later she is said last night testified to their popu- Today Star Theatre; phet; the continuity is merely his-to have visited the shop for the larity,
"Lone Wolf Returns." torical; we must acknowledge second time and hinted that she They may be cerain of a very To-day Majestic Theatre: 'comme deux Christs,' Thus the intended to rent a flat in Nathan- warm welcome when they visit us Homestruck." catastrophic view of history is road, and the same afternoon again.
Land Sales abandoned, and worship is trens (May 18) the deceased left the ferred from an historical Person to shop, and was not seen alive after. the hypostatized genius of a cor- poration. The historical Jesus is
w
Two occupants of a stolen motor lost for the Church, He remains, car which knocked down a man in along with many mythical figures, High-street, Southend-on-Sea, said as an object of emotional piety. they were going to find a policeman, Devotion to the Church, as a pure but did not return. ly historical and political society,
The future was even more restrict- ed. No one looked forward to a long, period of gradual progress, The course of history would be satisfactory and complete if the grouped itself. end of the world came at once, as it was half expected to do. It is not easy for us to put ourselves into the mental condition of men who expected no earthly future. Our own hopes and fears especially our hopes-have a long range, and we frequently console ourselves for the many disappoint ments of experience by dwelling in thought on the much happier conditions which our posterity may enjoy. But how little incentive there was for trying to improve social and material conditions, when the only result of our efforts would be to increase the expensiveness of the final crash! No doubt there quas still some idea of a 'millenniunt on earth, but this lingering belief, which has broken out again andness. It is plain, I think that again in Europe as the result of mental unrest and as the cause of social disturbance, was not in the main current of mediaeval thought. Supernatural Interventions. The notion of gradual develop- ment towards a higher state Was almost wholly absent. It Wes believed that human nature, if left to itself, would drift downwards to- wards the City of Destruction. Part of humanity was rescued from this doom by supernatural inter ventions. The dualism of natural and supernatural made divine inter position necessarily catastrophic, and forbade any trust in nature working by normal methods.
is merely a form of rather fanatical patriotism. The official Church soon recognized the revolutionary character of Modernist apologetic, and repudiated it with great stern-
neither Harnack ner Loisy has solved the problem of finding room for the Incarnation in history as we understand it.
[To be Continued.]
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