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QUARRELS ABOUT RELIGION.
IS THERE A COMMON CHRISTIANITY?
REASONS WHY PRESENT-DAY CHURCHES SEEM. SO WEAK,
THE ETERNAL CONFLICT OF PAST AND FUTURE,
[BY THE RIGHT REV. 'W. H. INGE, D.D., DEAN OF ST. PAUt's.]
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Plato's Prophecy.
THE PERFECT HOST.
سمی ست
EXPERIENCES IN TEN YEARS' TRAVEL.
[BY. ROSITA FORBES, THE NOVELIST AND EXPLORER.].
The majority of civilised enter. taining is done with a purpose. It may be for charity, to launch a daughter, to celebrate an anniver- cary, to return hospitality, or for the amusement of host and hostres.
The native host entertains solely for the beacht of his guests, whose servant he is as long as they re- main in his house. According to Arab tradition “a man must out up his body to feed his guests,” and it a stranger arrives at his deer he must be fed and housed for three days before any questions are asked.
Religious quarrels always seem ridiculous to the. bystander. Why If Jesus Christ had never existed, should good people get so excited it is practically certain that the about trifling differences, when mantle of the Roman Cesars would ** we are all going the same way "↑ have descended upon some great How often have we heard that the ecclesiastical corporation, very like Catholics and the Arians in the the Catholic Church. Plato, with fourth century wore squabbling "wonderful foresight, laid down the about "one iata" in the creed conditions for such ‘a form of This may claim to be the silliest | Government; he did not even for- remark" ever made; for there is no get the Inquisition. Plato also, in reason why words which are spelled another part of his works, drew a almost alike should closely resemble picture of the perfectly just man, each other in meaning. But some times it is really difficult to under who would end by being crucified; No guest may be criticised, for stand what the quarrel is about but he never thought of bringing in Arab lands it is the recipient who An Englishman 'incautiously re-
the two pictures together. Some honours the giver. The hoet and marked to a Free Kirk Moderator that he could not see any difference kind of theocratic political cor- his sons are responsible for the between the Free and the Establish-poration, deriving its religious safety of a guest and must avenge ed Kirka. The answer waS: **The difference between us is just this that we will be saved and they will be damned,"
Our Scotch friends are now willing to admit that this judgment was too sweeping.
the life of the Founder.
But this only means that, we must separate two different things the revelation of the historical Christ and the institutions which grew up under His name. Nietzsche said
There has been only one Chris
The "revela-
tian, and He died upon the Cross But this is not true.
not expire with ita tion did Founder. All through the history of the last nineteen hundred years it has acted as to leaven-the simile coines from Christ Himself.
any wrong done to him, if neces sary, with their lives.
knock was unanswered, he eat under the monarch's window, croon ing: "Since when, O son of Abdul Kadr, has an Arab begged in vain at your gate? Ibn Saud heard him and came down himself to serve the beggar.
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PREYING ON LAMBS.
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MARLOW, Buckinghamshire,
March 29th. Armed farm workers are keeping a look-out for a large eagle which made its appearance in the Thames Valley at Little Marlow, Bucking hamshire, last Monday and has since killed two lambe.
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ideas from the East, where religions grow wild, its theology from Greece, and its organisation from Mary's perfect host is found Rome, would have appeared any among natives, where hospitality is bow, quite indeper lently of what a cardinal virtues. What great —A Travesty-Of-History- happened in Galilee and Judea, bouse in England can compete with But the bishops of the Church of The Olympian gods would not have Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd, whose England made a great mistake if stood in the way; they died a steyards, from dawn to auret and they supposed that the difference natural death, when their worship-without questions, dispense oil and between Catholics and Protestants pers became extinct. The history bread to all who sek. There is a was to be smoothed down by per- of the Catholic Church, o anatory that one man came in the suading both parties to accept a institution has not much more middle of the night, when the great- com couched in "resolution than an accidental connection with doors were shut, and, because his |
The dominant party has written its own histories, in which the Reformation, which drowned Europe in blood," is repre- sented as an unimportant and re- grettable episode in the annals of The Catholic Church. This travesty of history has had a success which is hardly credible until one has talked with the average Anglo- Catholic, whose whole view of the situation is grotesquely distorted. The Protestant, on his side, is quite determined to stand fast in the liberty which he gained four hundred years ago, and cares less than nothing for the "Catholic which forbids him, for tradition example, to break his fast before
The eagle was seen by farm work- communicating. This may seem n
ere employed by Mr. D. R. Randall, small matter, but it is not; it is
and another religion.
to local and temporary influences,
low, but they were able to frighten and all Goods remaining undelivered His companions waited deftly in it away before it could make a raid after the 9th May, will be subject to Dissensions, said the founder of The wave of asceticism in the early political philosophy, arise on small centuries is, I suppose, to he as-spite of their chains and the gaolers on the flock. It has also been seen Rent. occasions, but not from small counted for by the separate condi- treated everyone with equal delor hovering over Spade Oak Farm, The canacs are always tion into which Graco-Romanence. Over the gate was inecribed Bourne End, but has not yet killed
bar-Those prisoners who are not in great. The causes which split the civilisation fell when the
Mr. Robert Randall said: Western Church in the sixteenth barians were bursting the dykes by 6 p.m. will be locked out for the any of the lambs on that farm,
and overwhelming the home of an- pight," but sunset found us watch- century were certainly grest.
cient culture. Men and women ran ing a ceremonial dance and it was
from a
which not till much. later we discovered Away
world This does not mean that the was hardly worth living in. The that the chief warder, or whatever situation has not changed in four dark ages which followed were the he is called in Tonga, had locked" hundred years. Most Churchmen period of the monk and the knight, up as usual and retired to the other
cloistered are practising pragmatists-they of
mysticism and end of the island with his keys!
I spent the night in prison. My take what suits them, and do not chivalry. Then civilisation awoke trouble about first principles. Some out of sleep, and we find the royal host politely offered me his old controversies are really dead: Church encouragingart and mat, which I shared with several the world has moved away from patronising the scholars of the gigantic cockroaches. them. In every large Church there Renaissance.
The Reformation was a struggle For me, ten years of travel have are representatives of every type of religion; they are Catholics or Fro- for independence against Latin beea punctuated by perfect hosts.
The Original Gospel, The original Gospel has been one among many formative elements in European civilisation. It has been ane element in the contation which we call Christianity, partly over
Banquet In Royal "Prison." When I was in Tonga, & South Sea island, the king's brother, & prince who was in prison for sheep stealing insisted on entertaining me. The situation presented cer- tain difficulties, but the prince who, by the way, went out for a drive every afternoon in the royal carriage-presided over a feast of reast sucking yig. yam, pineapple, and a nauseous drink made from Prison yard.
Those who have seen it declar that it has a wing span of about a feet.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10:45 4.3. and Noor within the Free Storage period."
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the difference between one religion aid by other factors which belone chewed roots called kava, in the of West Thorpe Farm, Little Mar Goods have left the Steamer's Godown,
causes.
Sleeping Dogman,
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The eagle when first seen swoop- ed on to the flock of sheep. By the time that we could summon help and frighten the Bird away two lamba bad been killed and torn to pieces,
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Since then our workers have carried guns and have been told to shoot whenever the bird comes within range. It is a huge crea- ture and is a terrifying sight when on the wing.
We believe locally that it has
lection.
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THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. testants by patrimony, and if they domination. It was in part a re. There was a delightful Australian escaped from some private col-being landed and placed at their rink
COPENHAGEN.
The M:S. "AFRIKA'
wax as turn to the original Gospel, but who gave me only bedroom on often do, they" are actuated by this was leas central feature of a cattle station, but warned me to native pugnacity rather than by the movement than the Reformers wedge an axe under the door, be reasoned conviction. As long as supposed. The leaven went on cause he was riding down to the sleeping dogmas are allowed to lie working in both parts of divided nearest ea con fifty miles away to things may go on quietly.All Christendom, though both sides "blue" his month's pay, and might colours look much the same in the were brutalised and coarsened by not be in a fit condition when he dark. But when the issues are the exigencies of a long and fierce returned to remember that his fairly raised the leopard refuses to straggle
uayal couch was occupied i lie down with the kid. The ardent Catholic and the ardent Protestant discover that they worship different gods.
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Thoro was an Arab king who pre- rented me with a sheep rosited
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Fierce And Determined, Mr. D. Seth Smith, the curator of birds at the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, N.W.; said to a reporter that the bird was probably
No Claims I will be admitted after the a white tailed eagle. He added:
We have had reports during the Goods have left the Godowns, and xll past few months about eagles Goods remaining undelivered after the being seen in Bedfordshire and 10th May, 1995, ill to subject to Essex. They probably refer teen broken, chafed and dafanged one bird and it is quite possible that the bird now reported is the
same.
The white tailed eagle occasion ally visits Britain, generally in the winter, and usually keeps to districts near the coast. It feeds on carrion, poultry, and other birds, and on newly-born lambs, but is not likely to be dangerous to children.
Goods are to be left in the Godaw where they will be examined on 8th May, 1928, at 10 am, by our Surreyors, Mesars. Goddard and Douglas,
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May 5th.
At the present time some of the whole and stuffed with chickens as principics of the Christian religion | a breakfast dish and, when I didn't Is Christianity anything more have so far permeated the structure make much progress, poured over than the generic name of the of civilisation that the Churches it a bucketful of cuetard padding
by seem no longer to have so much to encourage my appetite! professed various religious
There was a thin German planter people with white skins? It is true reason for their existence as they
Social equality,in Samoa, who seemed rather wor that the morality inculcated by the had formerly. different Churches is much the which is a Christian ideal, has come ried by my hunger till a sudden Bame. But is this much more than much nearer. Except in war-time, ides struck him. We lunched on the type of character admired by society is much gentler and more succulent flesh and, when I left, he all nations which have reached the considerate than in earlier agee. told me warmly: I so glad that xame stage of civilisation 1 Modern The humanitarian movement is one morality is very different from the of the chief features of the modern you to-day came am, for yesterday my leetle horse sick was and die. Education has been so Now we him enten have !!
The white tailed eagle, according Optional Bills of Lading issued to United Kingdom Ports.
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Hai Ning, for Swatow, the figure of the Founder às á peg less potent than it used to be moved. The guest, apologising pro on which to hang their own best though it is still very far from fusely, remarked: "I can't think PRINCE GEORGE A MASON. Ho Sang, for Amoy,
Hozan Mary, for Swatow. how it happened. I was only doing thoughts?
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The struggle between Catholicism thie," and promptly knocked off the
Huichow, for Canton. and Protestantism il part of the other. Still the lady of the House Prince George was initiated last Kiangsu, for Swatow,
month as a member of the Navy Kiung Chow, for Amay eternal conflict between order and contrived to smile.. liberty, between tradition and pro- The perfect bost arranges every-Lodge of Freemasons at the Café Kwong Foh, for Pakhoi..
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The ceremony was attended by the Nero, for Bangkok. future. But in the concrete the sure of his guests and then pro- classification is by no means so ceeds to enjoy himself as much as Frince of Wales and the Duke of President Monroe, for Manila. pillar, Origen, in his study, St. simple as this. Protestantism, in anyone else. The foreigner is apt, York, both of whom are prominent Seang Dee, for Amay
Seikai Mars, for Singapore. d cassock and his genial piety, the Itself, and is hampered by the dead worry too much over his guests Francis of Assisi with his unwash particular, has never quite found in the politenees of his heart, to Freemasons.
Prince Arthur of Connaught Pro- Sunkong, for K. C. Wan, grim Ignatius of Loyola, as merci hand almost as much as the rival entertainment, and we English over vincial Grand Master of Berkshire, Junning, for Shanghai. Icas to himself as to others, Oliver system. Nevertheless, it does not the organisation of a party, is another member of the Royal Seale, for Bwatow
unpardonable ain of At une formal and imposing din Family prominently identified with Tak Ding, for Macao. dragoons, the Quakers with their claiming a gospel of non-resistance; George grace and favour for the members dial on the jade-green carpet. naught is Grand Master of English Trier, for Manila
Unkei Maru No. 6, for Mooila. Fox, John Wesley, Cardinal New- of a single political institution. Ignoring the crach the hostess Freemasonry
Fat Shing, for Swatow, man, Lord Shaftesbury-what is the This is, perhaps, the greatest crime went on talking till a depressed link between them! What makes that a Church can commit; so far voice murmured in her ear: "Shall
Fun Lee, for Bwalow, for Tientsin. Sang, Christian Orthodox beliefs, de- as it goes, it indicates a complete I pick up the plicasants, ma'am? | votionality, or a good life? When apostasy from the mind of Christ, I'm afraid they've got a bit dam- Christiana anathematise and burn the greatest loveller of barriers that aged.
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