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THE VIEWS OF MR. GEORGE · LANSBURY.
Mr. George Lansbury, formerly Men ber of Parliament and member of the Fondon City Council, the Well-known Socialist, has written the following pamphlet on the subject of tho National Mission of Repentance and Hope:-
1-THE CALL TO REPENTANCE, THE PRESENT DIVORCE DETWEEN BUSINESS AND RELIGION.
THE NATIONAL MISSION OF men is so different a place to live in difficulties with which we are or shall bo from that which, in our youthful enthu-surrounded Everything depends on the siasm, we pictured it would be
rondiness of those who profess and call There is a startling contrast between themselves His disciples to take His the advice of Bishops at Confirmation teaching, seriously and believe that Ho time and the advice we all receive when intended us to accept it is the rule of entering into industrial or business life. our life,
Think of the
the difference it Bishops tell us to and our highest joy would make if we church people set our in serving God and in striving to do selves to a united effort to understand His will, Our friends tell us that our what is required of us by our duty to our firat first duty is to succeed. Men speak neighbour as our Lord Himself his dean- in all seriousness of " the religion of ed it. It cannot be impossiblo to dis- success." I believe that to many people cover a method of living by which we can failure in any department of human each proves by our daily life that in very affairs is the sin against the Holy Ghost. deed we are trying to love our neighbour
Now we know that this is nothing less as ourselves.. than making nu idu' of success. It comes WE HAVE TRIED TO SERVE GOD AND MABHON. from looking only at the outside of Whis National Mission, which is call. things. History contains many a story ing us all to repentance, and bidding us of heroic deed and high codeavour which realise the joy and pease that come to has apparently ended in failure. When Faith and Hope from the sacrifice of our the Scott Expedition failed, and Scott Lord, will be quite futile unless we cach and his companions started on their bit set ourselves to discover our own short-ter journey home, the story of how one comings, not seeking to escape from the of their number just walked out to die world in which our lot is cast, but alone, in order by the earlier sacrifi understanding
spiritual of his own life to give his companions development must take place in front of a chance of living without him, will for our fellows, without any interruption of ever redeem the expedition from any the ordinary course of our everyday life. stigma of real failure. For whatever dis For it is given only to a very few to coveries they made of benefit to science, be able to go spart oven for a time they proved conclusively that human in and Isarn in solitude of God and Histure, inspired by, the example of our wisdom.
Lord, is, even in this sordid, miserable time of competition and greed, capabla of rising to the most sublime height of sacrifice and love in the service of others; that, in very dood, men do find their highest good in the service of others.
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I often wonder if those with lolsure understand how impossible it is for busi ness men and work people to participate in the daily services of our Church, and how out of place a church bell sounds calling men and women to worship at a time when all their sweat and labour has to be spent in working for the bread that perisheth. The vast mass of us are chained to the daily round through which we earn our living by the labour oither of brain of hand. For ភេទ character must ho developed in the stream of things."
We can, however, if we will, all make time to think. And if in answer to the challenge of the Mission we do that, we cannot fail to realise how very little our religion dominates and controla our life. We are giving God lip service only, Men are not being drawn by any good works that they seo in us to glorify our Father in Heaven.
If we probe deeper, we shall find that there has grown up an almost complete divorce between business and religion, Not For one moment would I be thought to imply that all poor men are saints and rich men sinners. One of the tritest dis Eciples of Christ. I have ever met was a
Jew-my friend the late Joseph Fels, very rich man who went about doing good. But he was ashamed of his riches, because of the misery which," as he so often said, accompanied his riches into the world. And the words" business is business" are in themselves a proof that religion and business are not supposed to go together.
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THE HORRORS OF PEACE UNDER PRESENT CONDITIONS..
Sometimes, when pressed by quite good people to explain the good of Chris tianity and to account for its apparent failure, I have said that it is because we have forgotten God. It would be truer to say that it is because we have tried to serve God and Mamman.
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Where are two great sayings of the Master which seem to me to contain all that is needed to show, ze how to live:
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength. id thy this do and neighbour us thyself.. thou shalt live."
The other is very much the snINE'; * Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things. shall be added unto you."
No one will deny that if the nations professing Christianity ordered their na tional and international relationships on these lines there could be no war. AB nations are made up of individuals it comes down to this: What our nation will be depends on our personal obedienco
to this law.
prolific in all that man needa for his happiness and service, never stood in such need of hope as it does to-day. We realise--I can certainly speak for myself
our belplessness in the face of our shortcomings. I at least am among those who honestly and sincerely join in the ery We have all sinned and como short of the glory of God."
But if this be so, why should not this same characteristic of human nature find free scope in industry and commerce? Why should our search for bread and material things be marred by strikes and lock-outs, by preventable accidents, by sweating, and all the other social evils of
THE CALL TO REPENTANCE A DOOR OF HOPE our time) Why should industry and commerce be organised on the lines of a Here comes in the necessity that this social war, which pits friend against National Mission should be first of all a friend and often brother against bro Mission of Repentance, It is meet and ther? Men and women in industry run right that we should all honestly and risks of accident and death as real as truly repent of our sins of omission and those of soldiers on campaign. Peace commission: of our failure to sorve Glod hus its horrors no less than war. Dur in our daily lives of our partnership ing the great dispute in the British coal in the mad struggle for riches, and of our felds a Welsh Labour M.P., now a men. utter failure to realise that in actual fact. her of His Majesty's Government, pub-we are our brother's keeper. For unless licly thanked God" that because of the wo realise our responsibility and our strike over thirty lives would be saved failure, and with God's help determine each week, and many thousands of aceito do better, there can be no hope. And dents prevented. That, year in and this dear old world, so beautiful and year out, is the weekly Roll of Honour" when the mines are in full working order. Our babies, to the num ber of 200,000 a year, perish before our eyes from preventable causes. Mothers are expected to work in a kind of drud gery which simply crashes out of them every vestige of hope, either for the pre sent or the future. ··For recreation we have allowed the public-house and all its garish attractions to become the one cen tre of apparent hope and cheerfulness in the midst of squalor and dirt and the money interests involved prevent us at this moment from dealing effectively with what is one of the most sordid of our social exils Where 1 live, surrounded by people for whom life has very Low gifts, I often see a girl freak from the country or J nice bright home start housekeeping full of the joy of living, sad in a year or two, when children have come, find the same girl a prematurely aged woman, because trouble and difi culty in the shape of sickness and un- employment have fallen on the family, But if the futility of material things and driven her to drink and despair is being proved, there is something else Prostitution, with its attendant moral also which we are all able to recognise. No and physical degeneracy, is largely the one hates and detests war more than 1 outcome of bad social conditions, and is do, yet out of it there often coms great, | quite unnatural. noble deeds which thrill each one of us with admiration and love. The "bro- therhood of the trenches" is something we are able to understand. It shows us what grand deeds of heroism_poor) frail humanity is capable of even in moments of supreme danger, when it would appear to be the highest duty of each to take
THE BANKRUPTCY OF MATERIALISM. There is, however, reason to hope that a change in this respect is at hand, Since August, 1914, we have lived through terrible days, which have brought home to us all the futility of the mad scramble for material riches.
But in the midst of the turmo of this war to whom shall we turn for help and Suidance? It is clear, as we have already seen, that following after material riches for ourselves will lead us nowhere. We have tried and found wanting the gospel contained in the words
selfishness." We cash in our own bearts know that the pursuit of personal happiness merely moans Dead Sea fruit as the result of all our labour.. What, then, must, we do to be saved!
Success Of what
use are large estates and huge fortunes if those who are to inherit thein are obliged, for honour's sake, to go out and give all, even life itself, in such struggle as, that we are witnessing in Europe!
TEK SPIRIT OF UROTHERHOOD LEARNT BY SUFFERING,
care of himself.
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CAN WE JUSTIFY THE EXISTING CONDITION OF THINGS?
TRUE GODLINESS HAS PROMISE OF THE LIFE THAT NOW 18.
It seems to me that we must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, not only in the mariner in which we have believed in Him in the past, but sa the guide and inspirer of a new life here and now. We pray dailyThy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done in earth as it is in Heaven. These prayers rémain unanswered, be this life, but to some distant future. I câuse to most of us they apply not to
believe that the Gospel of Christ bas the promise and fulfilment of the life that now is," as well as "of the life that is to come,' and we church people must use the days which lie just ahead of us in preparing for and in preaching this Na- tional Mission, to bear witness to fellow men and women that this is our faith.
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Do we all realise that we are failing in our duty to God and our fellows while any of these evils exist and flourish? Will anyone deny that, as a nation, we have allowed a condition of affairs to grow up which has brought material The trenches call out this spirit of prosperity to a few and poverty and brotherhood and comradeship just be degradation to very many?" cause each is striving to do his best for prosperity does not necessarily mean It is, of course, quite true that material the good of all. Common danger and common suffering are binding forces good living. But it does mean, for all
We are approaching a crisis in tho Bervice in the trenches is not service at who have a sufficiency for themselves and world's history. Humanity will either so much an hour. It is service is the carking-care which is the lot of any those dependent on them, freedom from
go forward or backward. In the long response to the highest call of duty.
past that is behind us civilisations ap- who are reduced to a hare subsistence Times of difficulty at home call out the same spirit. In days of peace a railway standard of living in the daily search parently an deeply rooted and fixed se our own have been destroyed because men or mining disaster always elicits deeds
Can it be seriously contended that this and women forget their social interde- of brotherly devotion and love which pat
pendence und just lived or tried to live to shame all our miserable doubts as to competition for bread is necessary to
for themselves alone. A new order must what God intended our natures to be bring out the best that is in us, or get and will be hewn out of our present trials the best results in workmanship out of The generosity of poor51 capable of.
Did the ancient churches of our and difficulties. How and what kind of people in the relief of poverty or sickness
for bread.
is quite extraordinary, and proves the land or the Continent, the cathe-order this will be will depend entirely truth of that saying of Paul Sabatier, drals, let us say, of Ely or Durham, on how far religion is able to influence
Suffering together is the cement need this system for their production 7.
uf hurnan friendship."
Can a system in which Trades Unions are
The spirit of brotherhood, indeed, has pitted against Associations of Employers not yet east out the spirit of competition really compare with the guild system from "business" or from trade and ineither in total output or in workman- dustry. But our eyes are being opened ship?
to this fact that we are brothers. And. the Church has a chance, 08 Bover hefare, to bolp man to bring the straggle: for bread into harmony with the teach- ings of our Lord end with the profes sions of faith we all make when accepting service in His Church.
THE GOSPEL OF SACRIFICE AND THE GOSPEL
OF SUCCESS.
IL-GROUNDS OF HOPE.
THE GOSIEL OF OUR LORD CAN REDEEM
BAT, THE WORLD,
mankind:
IF WE WILL FACE THE COST OF PREACHING
* THIS GOSPEL MEN WILL HEAR.
Therefore the Church--which, after all, is all of us, bishops, clergy and laity- must speak out, and proclaim the Gospel in the same language and with the same enthusiasm as the first disciples of our Lord. We must hasten the coming of Christ and His Kingdom. We must be the heralds of the New Day. We must not hang back for fear of what faith- fulness to our principles may cost. We who went away sorrowful because he had must keep in mind the rich young man
many possessions.
I have no doubt of the response if we preach our religion as ore which offers nothing but service to its followers. For am certain that, in spito of all appear- good at the expense of one's fellows is aces, selfishness and seeking one's own
not the true expression of our nature,
I have written all this not to force the consideration of a particular solution, though those who object to solutions put all that is required of them when they forward by men like me have not done have pointed out fallacies in our argu- At present we somehow seem to start ments. It is up to them to show us some wrong from the moment that we get out more excellent way. My one desire is to into the world. We go to Sunday School urge that in this great effort to bear wit- and to Church. We are confirmed, and ness to our faith that the Gospel of our commence our adult religious life with Lord can redeem the world we are bound our first Easter Communion, in most to find some way by which we can bring cases the one great outstanding event in the practice of His teaching into in- our lives as ChristianS. In all the dustry and business. teaching we receive in preparation for Multitudes of men and women are look-least of all at a time when men have Confirmation and the Sacrament
Weing forward to a new and better time been touched by the fire and enthusiaan realise, clearer than anything else, that after the war, because of the spirit of of Christ's Gospel to the world.
Therefore let us all go to God for we are taking on ourselves the duty of devotion and sacrifice which has been carrying out the vows made for us at our manifested, though with some notable ex-strength and inspiration to carry His message of Fatherhood and Brotherhood. Baptism, at the time of our acceptance ceptions, by all classes. Many, however, into the Church, or, as some people put are not so hopeful. Where is a well. I should like our private motto for the it, into the society of God's people hero grounded dread as to what will happen
We are bidden to strive to
tion works are disbanded, and sent forth overcome personal sin, and to rely on the when the millions in the army and muni- living presence of our Lord to help, to seek fresh work. The problem will sustain, and cheer us in our daily walk certainly tax the goodwill of all severely, through life
Few of us, to whom Con and the problem of what is to be done firmation and First Communion were with the multitude of women now in in- real spiritual experiences, ever quite for dustry will be even more difficult of solu- get the resolutions and the prayers which tion. sout us out as young Christians to fight the devil and all his works, and few of us but net sorrowfully admit how miserably we have failed, not so much from want of will, or even want of faith, but almost entirely because the world of
on earth.
WE HAVE NEVER YET TRIED TO LOVE QUE
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I do not myself despair, becanes 1 believe that our Lord gives us the key to the solution of these and all the other
Mission to be Mazzini's "God and the People No rights without duties *** God grant that the whole Church E England, rich and poor, old and young, barriers that divide us may be broken be drawn together so that the class down, and we may proclaim to the world that we accept to the very fullest extent the whole teaching of our Lord as inter préted for us, on the one hand, by the great saying of, St. Paul, Be not over- come of evil, but overcome evil by good, and, on the other, by the great command- rent of St. John: love one another."
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