SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1929.
OUR WEEKLY SERMON
Christian Interpretation Of History
MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS
[By the Very Rev, W. R. Inge, CV.0., D.D., FRÃ..., Dean
of St. Paul's]
(Continued from May 25).
Before passing t the meliorist view of history, we may consider
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crease of warts and of the means he was at present in the cells! HAROLD T. CREASY, view contains any elements of te gratify them; If it means greater waiting to be sent away.
Water Authority.. truth, Some very modern thinkers control over nature, and more The first accused stood a little Public Works Department, find a metaphysical significance in power to utilize. its forces; if it distance away from the cripple
Hong Kong, 1st June, 1929. and and No. 2, but when he saw the the "Quantum' theory, which makes
means a reduced deathrate better health; if it means more and Police approaching he ran, picked the movements of electrons dis-
sounder education, there can be no the cripple on his back and went continuous, much as we see the
doubt that we live in an age of off with him. minute-hand of station clock
progress. But as Christians, while jumping from minute to minute.
we welcome most of these things as The second accused had a leg instead of moving evenly. I are ver belonging to what the Stoics called "doctored" with a mixture of wax scoptical about tthe philosophica: preferables, things which we should and red paint, giving the appear- importance of either Einstein's choose to have ratlier than to go ance of a running sore. He sat corrections of Newton, or of the without, they are not absolute on the street alongside the crip- Quantum theory.. Nor am I pre- goods. Before we can talk about ple yelling loudly and, occasional-IT pared to admit that the appearance progress, we have to get our minds ly, rolling the
other. When of life, or of consciousness, on the clear as to what are our ultimate searched at the station, No. 2 had June, the supply will be turned on earth was nosessarily an abrupt values. What the Christian values $2.15, whilst No. 1 had no ráoney, during the following periods only, break with the past, a sudden emerg- are we all know from the New Second accused, admitted that as follows:- ence of an entirely new type. It is Testament and the best Christian he was begging, but No. 1 strenu partly a matter of temperament, but men and women. The question for ously denied the charge. I should be slow to give up the old us. here is whether we are justified maxim that Natura nihil facit perin taking a meliorist view of history
Moderu revolutionary as Christians. Are the conditions Acting Sub-Inspector Saunders, movements seem to me more like for leading a Christlike life more who arrested the men, corroborat à refutation of apocalyptiam than a favourable now than they were in ed Sub-Inspector Field's state- confirmation of it. For surely our Lord's time, in the Middle ment. When the witness shout- what revolutions do is to make com- Ages, or before the industrial re-ed for two chairs with the view. paratively sma!! changes at a volution ? We are not bound to to removing the second accused wholly disproportionate cost. You discuss whether it is better to be and the cripple to the station, first may stop a clock by causing the
a man than an ape, or a civilized accused came up to the cripple and pendulum to oscillate violently; but
Let the latter climbed on his back. rather than a savage. when it starts again, if you can these be granted; but it still re. As soon as this was done, No. 1 make it start again, it will swing mains questionable whether the con- started to run away with the much as before. The only value ditions for leading the highest life other on his back. Witness re- that I can see in the castrophic are more favourable under a highly captured them, and then made view of history is that it recognises developed industrial civilization than No. 1 carry the cripple to the sta- the reality of spiritual forces, the in societies where life is simpler tion. When searched at the sta formidable power, for good and evil, fand less hurried.
tion, No. 1 had in his possession of collective enthusiasms, and the
two mittens which were appar error of regarding history as the
ently for use to cover the cripple's stumps. mere mechanical unpacking of what Was there all the time.. Super- - naturalism has its rights, 29 1
protest against naturalism.
valium.
But
if we believe in an organie relation between the world, man and God, we cannot accept a regime ol miracle and sporadic interference as ultimately credible.
A Design in Life
man
God's Plan For Humanity Now I am quite unable to answer this question. I do not know whe- ther it is better to be a shepherd tradesman lawyer, nor whether it was
or 筵 miner or а
ür A
Evidence was accordingly call- ed against this man.
First accused stated, in answer to the Magistrate, that he was engaged by No. 2 to carry the easier or harder to be a Christian Fines of $5 each, or one week's
cripple. under Justinian,
Charleroague, or jail, were imposed. Queen Anne than it is under King Gearge Y
I am not prepared to justify or condemn a theory of| A portrait of the late Mr. historical meliorism. It may be Narain Dialdas will be unveiled in that God has a plan for the pro- the Sind Hindu Merchants' Club greasive development of humanity Hall to-day at 4.30 p.m.
The meliorist view is that the Creator has a design in the life of humanity as a whole, in which ac- cordingly we ought to be able to trace gradual progress, not so much in the external paraphernalia point of view it makes no essential
the
in goodness, wisdom and love of the beautiful, or it may be that He has no such plan. From the Christian
to
difference God whether of civilizations us in the moral and
His creatures advance towards per- spiritual possibilities of human
fection or not. beins, The ideal end, for
His own life is not involved in our fortunes. Christian mediorist, is a Christo-
I therefore think it is a matter any in redeemed humanity it-
of taste whether we adopt the self. This is the Christian forni of that doctrine of progress, even
meliorist view of history or not. of perfectibility, which we have is no part of Christian theology. found to be the characteristic gospel though people often suppose that it
of
The advance of civilization
are
is a worthy object to strive for, and we may believe that in doing our little best to further we pleasing God by doing our duty in More than this I our generation.
Our pre- am not prepared to say. sent civilization is not in all re- spects an admirable thing, though I have no sympathy with those who abuse it. We are perhaps careful and troubled about too many things. We have perhaps complicated life! too much. Perhaps it would not
the anti-religious French is. philosophes, and the lay religion of Western Europe in the nineteenth
It was century.
impossible an opinion within the cramped frame work of mediaeval cosmology. But it may have much more justification when we think no longer in years but in millennia. Although, as has been already said, the ultimate doom of our planet is certain, it is highly probable that we have hundreds of thousands. even perhaps millions. of years in which to work put our salvation as a species. The notion be a good thing to be able to gratify that civilised man is very new ex- all our standardized wants by periment of nature has hardly yet pressing sack in our mindy. Throw back legitimate subjects for discussion; the beginnings of civilization as far but they do not touch the question as you will; data the wall-paintings whether the course of time has of the old Stone Age forty or even brought to light any new absolute filiy thousand
those which have years ago, and civilised man is still only an infant. long been recognised as such more As far as the time-limit goes, we might almost as well be freeholders;
there
buttons.. These
values, or made
are
accessible. The notion that the race-spirit has a life of its own,
is no difference, I believe, and is being slowly educated by God, between the present value of a 999 is a tenable motion, but it is not years' lease and the fee simple. It is part of the Christian revelation. also a new thing to be able to trace
we
our pedigree back to those whom are accustomed to call the lower animals. 'Homo sapiens does not deserve his title; but at least he is more intelligent than a chimpanzee, and a million years hence he may really be a noble creature.
Rational Selection"
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Yu- General," Feng wretched human beings is hard to soon as the State funeral of Dr. hsiang, which will be started as reconcile with the idea of history Sun Yat-sen is completed. British as an education of humanity. (But Naval Wireless. while we admit that the problem of
the
Before leaving this section of a perfect society has so far eluded my subject, I should like to con- us, we cannot, as Christians, as- sider the chapter of Microcosmus' sume that even severe poverty is in which Lotze criticizes the
me necessarily unfavourable to Horistic view of history. In this growth of a spiritual life.) A great book few subjects are handled more acute criticism is that the way without some light being shed in which the culture of past times upon them.
is for the most part handed down
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Canton, Yesterday. In addition to the "Ching Po" | In answer to the optimism of the leads directly to the exact opposite and the "Shi Po," two Hong Kong progressists, he reminde us that of that at which historical develop vernacular evening papers, the On the other hand, if the non-
even when the new life of a society ment should aim; it leads, that is, Canton Authorities have also gre transmissibility of acquired charac-
is better than the old, it nearly to an instinct of culture, which con- fased admission to the "Kung teristics is established,
progress everywhere risee out of the ruins tinually takes up more and more of Sheung Yat Po" or "Industrial must be exceedingly slow, and de- of the old at the cost of painful the elements of civilization, thus and Commercial Dally Prass" of pendent either on the accident of a saorifices. The well-meant com- making them a lifeless possession, Hong Kong. favourable environment. or on parison with the different stages of and withdrawing them from the rational selection. For mere RC- human life brings no explanation sphere of conscious activity. cumulations of experience, which of this apparently wasteful method. kerating freshness and joyousness and comment.
Nor is the common phrase that that distinguish an age of Invention As to the "Shi Po lusory signs of progress, and give history is the education of humanity and discovery are not transmitted to caught selling it will be dealt no security against reversion to free from difficulty. Humanity is the ages which are its helrsaw, according to an order of the with drastically under martial barbarismalt is quite possible, on an abstract notion. Men and wo-Scientific truths, hard-won pri Police. Nan Chung Kuc News. merely biological grounds, that the men can enjoy and suffer and learn ciples of social morality, revelations
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On little Cissy's first visit to
advance of our species may be an wisdom by experience; but how can of religious enthusiasm and artistic Service. unusual and temporary phenomenon, we speak of the education of a dis intuition are all subject to this to be followed by an indefinitely connected series of dives, in which devitalization. Men commonly enchurch she was much interested long period of stagnation and un- the proper business of education, joy the fruits of inventions with a in everything she saw. She seem conscious habit, such as we see in which is to bring one mind or certain coarse unthankfulness, with ed particularly to admire the sur- the advanced but soulless and un- character to perfection, cannot be put a gleam of interest or curiosity pliced choir. When she got home changing civilizations of the bees, carried out? (To this we might in the mental labour that produced her father asked, "Well, Cissy, ants and termites. The new answer that a less individualistic them. It is strange to reflect and what did you see?" knowledge gives us the possibility view of humanity is quite possible, among how very few minds all that Ooh, daddy," she said, "it of further progress, and even the and, many wit think, more Chris we call modern knowledge is die was beautiful! There was a lot of probability of it; it cannot guar- tian.) He proceeds, that the tributed. antee it as a certainty.
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