Would YOU Give
10s A Week
For Your
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29,
Up
Religion?
THIS last summer has seen two notable religious conferences. At Lam- beth, Anglican bishops from all over the world met together in a blaze of publicity for their 10-yearly conference. Twenty-two miles away, at Watford, the British Union Conference of the Seventh Day. Adventists, which meets every four years, took place almost unobserved.
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One factor sets a limit to all the hopes and schemes of Lambeth Fathers! Lack
money.
Will the Adventists' plus be similarly hampered by luck of furca? That is highly unlikely.
For while the average Angli- cen dips reluctantly
Inlo
HUGH CLELAND
deacons lers or leachers at fees of £170 a year, and can take an Ameri- can BA degree.
army of lay-readers, his and local elders who are not porket and felches out a shilling pad at all. for the collection plate when and if he goes to church, the Adventist gives a tenth of hia income to his church automat cally, and nearly half as much again in collections and special efforts,
Lasi year, Britain's 8,525 Adventists paid, on average, 105. a week for their religion.
Wifo are the Seventh Day Adventists?
Bui Holf of, all the Seventh Day Adventists in the British Isles live in the south of England. At
"In Britain," said Pastor Mac- their head is a lean, 57-year-okl
Ulsteiman, Pastor ("it's
freer: the millan, they came mostly same us your bishop") Mac- the upper middle-oh no, that millas.
is tt serious mistake. They tome mostly frem the upper Pastor Macmilan has his working class. headquarters in a prim, double- Trentod Victorian villa in Wal- Ad- ford.
What is Seventh Day ventism, that it can draw this kind of support?
It is one of those which, ke Christian Mormonism and Witnesses, kas Europe not fron the United States.
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Like all Adventists. Pastor Macmillan neither smokes nur religions drinks, Like most, he is a vege- Selence tarlan and abstains from drink-
ng tea and coffee.
Jehovah's
to come Irom the East, but West from the
sleely
Emphasis
Said he: "Too many religiony austere.
frent the think only of the invisible part religion that sprang caused by of tean, which they call the soul. "We take the mind, body and spirit as three functions of one
chaos and turned
the prophecies of an American fu.mer. William Miller, who after long Bible study, declared
Middle-aged
they
"People who are well off and who have everything want, desire less religion don't care two hoots about the future.
men.
and
1958.
"I'll bot his wouldn't fotch half a dollar, let alone £220,000."
The King wanted Halifax
THE theory of the
"Our converts tend to middle aged in the 30's, 10′0, British monarchy is 50's, and there tend to be morá women than
That is simple: too simple by probably because of the half. difficulty men ind in observing Saturday as the Sabbath,
It runs like this: The monarch is merely the ceremonial head of the State except on those rare,
in 1231 that the work would end body, and to us the body is just of a man now 38 years old, wimportant occasions when it la
with Christ's second coming, in 1844.
No pay
as important as the soul.
50
WC
We
Seventh
Th
sot quite clear who should be 10, next occupant of Downing Street.
Then the monarch swings whom into nelion and decides Day democracy would like.
"We have a case right now
emphasise the care of the body works in a bank. He asked the a wife and two children, who
have
(113) many
bank to let him off on Saturday's hospitals and clinics.""
bat they didn't feel they could, There is one hospital in Britain so be's had to give up.' -open to people of all denomi-
"Ecing A look after the souls of nations. I is set in a 60-acre
Adventist?" their members, the British estate. Stanborough Park, just
Seventh Union of
Day outside Watford, sharing Adventists has 140 rainisters handeme grounds with a fee- the paying co-educational secondary whose pay scale is in
(less chool, a printing works, and o £400-£900 bracket
of course). Their chief vegetarian fend factory, lithe.
Worsley la Pastor
W. Ann- owned by the Adventists.
an born strong, who WOE Adventist-in Walford.
Its
all
-not Winston
battle. Reluctantly accepting this, they then ret about the tack of dissuading Chuchill from going to bombard Nor- mandy in the cruiser Belfast.
It was not ensy, The risk of a violent death was, said, the Prime Minister, not 100 to one,
against this Joy ride"
'George VI, it is clear, had the same propensity The King sent a final appeal
to interfere in polities for which his venerated
father was sometimes criticised'
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
suave
of the monarch and on the per- sonality of the late King. He emerges from Wheeler-Bennett's
Real reason
How it is done, who exactly "Oh, of course, no. Being In is consulted, remains a little the banks."
clancy. Some process of divins- But it is evident from J. W. Lord Halifax had been given narrative and his own diary tion may take place, like that Wheeler-Bennett's
but the privilege of walking through as an opinionated, positive and The spread of the movement
that the the gardens of Buckingham even trenchont character. in Britain is not spectacular. All which tells the Prime Minister revealing blography
Service Palure on his way from his on whom the Apostolle Succes- tradition of the Silent over the world the Adventists
not niways observed by house in Eaton Square to the <claim to
their son to the See of Canterbury was have doubled
should descend.
George VI. He held strung Foreign Office. Besides the echool - only a membership In the last 20 years.
political opinions, and had no third of the 321 pupils are Bul in Britain the net gain lost
Between those rare bursts of shyness about giving voice to Supporting the ministers are Adventists-the movement has year was 171. In Scotland there activity the monarch states no them.
at Brac. ell, where was a net drop of two, • 30 women Bible Instructors, paid a collego
opinions, has no views and takes £300 to £600 year, and an students are trained
as minis-
(London Express Service).
In 1940, as the Chamberlain no part in political life.
government was crumbling, the Such is the theory. The facts King wanted to prolong its life ure somewhat different.
by pressing Attlee to join it. He was dissuaded from the attempt.
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'Unprepared'
making
When Mr Chamberlain's re-
Ice melted
"Please consider my own posi- tion. I am a younger man than you. I am a saflor and a King. I am head of the three Services. There is nothing I would like better than to go to sea but I have agreed to stay at home; is it fair that you should then do exactly what I should have liked to do myself?"
He threatened to go to Ports- mouth to ensure personally that the Prime Minister should not onbark, Churchill then grumpily" surrendered.
Dramatic
John Wheeler-Bennett has written a first-class biography. It is fascinating on account of its disclosures and the sharp light it throws on a monarch who took over unwillingly from his
brother.
"I cannot yet think of Winston He was "royally displeased" ns P.M." wrote the King in his when, in 1938, news of the crisis
the whieh dlary. "I met Halifax in
ended in Mr Anthony garden and I told him I wad Eden's resignation from Cham- sorry not to have him as F.M." berlain's government reached
him first from the newspapers, "If it had not been for the ue curate Information supplied by With time, the grandeur and Lords Beaverbrook and Rother
mere," his accretary, Sir King George VI was a signation was at last tendered, charm of Churchill melted the
al Alexander Hardinge, complain- monarch who seemed to fit in the King said: "I of course sug ice at Buckingham Palace,
os the obvious though two years later, in a time ed, "there was no reason why exceptionally well with the ne- gested Halifax
King the King should have cepted myth. He had an ogree. man" (as successor). Chamber of political tension, the able, if apparently colourless, lain pointed out the dimeulties noted that Churchill "likes get anything about it until Eden had which George VI left the personality.
of a Prime Minister in the Lords; ting his own way and nobody already resigned"
stand for that sort of the King thought "his peerage will
At the same time the King could be placed in abeyance for treatment in this country." was complaining that his source When Attlee assumed office was the "unreliable Press," But after the General Election in the real reason for the unpopu 1945, King George had a new larity of the newspapers in occasion to interfere in polities. Buckingham Palace was their
freedom' to criticise.
He had not received any polt- tical education. Indeed he com-
plained bliterly of this on taking
over the throne. "Dickie," he cried to Lord Mountbatten, "this
"ཐ་ is_absolutely_terrible. I'm quite unprepared for it. I'm only a
naval officer."
the time being" an extraordin- ary proposal which would have needed legislation.
known
"I asked Attlee," records the King, "whom he would make On the eve of D-Day a high- Foreign Secretory, and he sug- level comedy was played out.
No incident in the book is more dramatic than the recount
Royal archives of the dinner at Fort Belvedere on the eve of the Abdication.
Impressed by Edward VIII' grasp of the unemployment Wales, the situation in South future King turned to Sir Walter Monckton: "And this is the man we are going to lose?"
new
At length, and reluctantly, "I
knew that there was only one person whom I could send for...
But, once in the saddle, faceta and that was Winston." But a gested Dr Hugh Dalton. I dis- Both the King and his Prime of the character of the agreed with him and said that Minister wished to attend the monarch, which had been
became important, dau later the King was still un- foreign affairs was the most im- invasion of Normandy. Each was noticed,
portant subject at the moment appalled at the other's resolu- Among them, it is clear, was the reconciled to the new Premier and I hoped he would make Mr tion.
Bevin take it. He said he would."
"Dickie" offered consolation: ship. The new King's father had said Almost the same to Dickie's
had father, who
answered, "There is no more fitting pre- paration for a king than to have trained in the Navy."
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*KING GEORGE VI; His Life and Reign. By John W. Wheeler. 891 Bennett, Macmillan. 60s.
pages.
He did
Incidenta ko these throw a stariling light both on the role
Their rospective advisers were horrifield.
Churchill said he could not advise the Cabinet to approve of King George's presence at tho
JAK GOES RIDING
un-
zonte propensily to interfere in politics for which his venerated father was sometimes crltielsed.
It is a disclosure which will Wheeler-Ben- startle many of nelt's readers.
** YOU CAN GET DOWN NOW, WYATT KARP THE POSSE'S BACK.”
-(London Express Service).