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ENGLISH EDUCATIONIST'S VIEWS.
WHAT MODERN YOUNG PEOPLE THINK OF RELIGION.
A treeät speech of mine (writes M. C. E. M. Joad, the well-known Educationist) at a conference held for the purpose of forming a society to promote the study of religions, in the course of which I remarked that young people to-day were to all intents and purposes without neither exceptionally intelligent religious belief, has aroused much criticism and more controversy.
Sir. James Douglas, in particular, dealt severely with me in the Sunday Erpresa, and in response to my protest that my views had been misrepresented, that I wished
Young people brought up in the neither to abolish religion nor to of the Community, and there is al- atmosphere of the modern world
Hence I cannot accept the sugges- These idens relate mainly to the tion that the young men, whom it material world; they are 'the ideas has been my lot to meet as a teacher appropriate to nomadic desert and a lectures are bopelessly un- tribes, and there is no reason to representative. The students from suppose that they are true Scientific whom I obtained an expression of ally they are exploded, yet Chris almost unanimous agnosticism are tianity remains entangled in a net- work of obsolete science, and much nor horribly bighbrow," but for- of what if teaches is clearly at tuitous collections of young people variance not only with what science. who earn their living during the has shown to be true, but, with a day as clerks, typists, cashiers, plain reading of men's personal ex- salesmen, and attend classes atperience. right to complete their education. They are drawn from most classea
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that in general I was not as black jers. as he painted me, has courteously permitted me to write an article. explaining what my position is.
"Young People."
Religion and Mythology.
Gloucester said in a recent sermon, "Your sons and daughters at schools and colleges will be so train- There are many who argue fromed that they will find it impossible to accept the old-fashioned views the present manifest decline of the of religion. They will respect the churches that the day of religion reality of your religion only if it is done. Religion, they say, is a is taught in a way which does not commit them to uncritical or un- form of mythology, a toy surviving scientiae opinions. from the childhood of the which our mature descendants will discard, and they point to the emptying churches as straws which show the blowing of the wind-
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First let me make it clear that by young people I do not mean the post-war generation. The genera tion which so shocked its elders after the war is no longer young but lapsing comfortably into mid- dle-age, and the generation now coming. to maturity is different, I cannot agree with this view. more serious, more socially and There has been religion in one form less individually minded, pore dis-or another among all peoples and in treased at the state of the world, all ages, and occurs impossible to more concerned to find a remedy for explain this universality of re- it. But they do not find the remedy ligious belief unless there is some
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in Christianity, or at any rate in fundamental need of human nature from which it springs and to which
appeals.
those forms of it which find organis
ed expression in the worship of the churches...
The indifference of young people to-day to traditional forms of wor ship as carried on in the services of the churches cannot, I think, be seriously question: the figures are unanswerable, Since 1910 the Church of England has lost roughly 1,134,000 Sunday school scholars, while last year alone the 'Baptist Union lost 1,000. Nor, indeed, is it questioned by church prople them selves, except when they wish to re- fute supposedly hostile erities like myself.
Typists and Salesmen.
It was only a few weeks ago that Dr. Brown, president of the Baptist Union, said that if it continued to decline, at this rate the Baptist Church would in ten years be "a dead as the dodo," while clergymen are continually heard to complain of empty pews' and to wonder how they can fill them.
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Hence there is a movement to furbish up the doctrines of Chris tianity so that they shall be in harmony with modern science. The attempt is surely mistaken, a creed in harmony with the science of to day will be out of harmony with the seience of to-morrow. Yet while science changes the truths of re- ligion, if true they are, must re main unchanged.
Mystical Experience. Science and religion are about different things. The religious con- sciousness is concerned with reality which, unknown to the senses, is revealed to the eye of the There seems no, reason why we soul. In my view a knowledge of should believe that the present gen-this reality is directly achieved in mystical experience, of which the cration differs from its predecessors religious consciousness of the ordi- in being devoid of a characteristicnary man is only a lower and more which all previous generations have confused version.
so remarkably exemplified, that it The experience of this reality is a purely private and personal con- is, in short, what biologists call a ceru; it cannot be conveyed intelli- sport." Very well, then, the in-gibly in words, and the assertion ference is obvious: the need exists, of its existence is meaningless to but is driven underground, and those who have not shared it. For young men and women to-day who this reason it does not lend itself have been taught by psycho-analysis to exposition in formulated creeds, to regard with pity and contempt and cannot he stated in terms of the sexually repressed Victorians dogma. But equally for this reason are themselves suffering from an it is invulnerable against science. unconscious repression no less dan It can, and does, form for many gerous because less easily detected the basis of a way of life assuring It may be asked why, if the need them that the universe is funda- exista, young people do not avail mentally worth while, and that it themselves of the facilities which matters to something other than the church has provided for its themselves how their lives are lived. satisfaction. Thereby hangs a tale: It is this assurance, more par- it is a long one and there is much ticularly, that young people need;: controversy and some bitterness in until they can secure it they are its" telling. Seience, I suspect, is likely, under the influence of largely the villain of the piece, science, to regard existence as a The great religions of the world. meaningless adventure in a pur and Christianity is no exception, poseless aniverse, and to embrace are presented to us in a toatext of "Let us eat, drink, and be merry, ideas which are hopelessly out of for to-morrow we die," as the only
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Queen's Theatre: "Condemned." World Theatre: Big City (Chinese film, Feng Yang Tiger" at 2.30 p.m. and 7.15 p.m.).
Queen's Theatre:
Condemned."
World Theatre:" Big City"
(Chinese film, "Feng Yang Tiger at 2.30 p.m. and 7.15 p.m.).
Star Theatre "Love."..
[-] "Kowloon Cricket Club, Letra ordinary General Meeting, 6 p.m.
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Tes Dance: Peninsula Hotel,
Dinner Dance Przinsula Hotel,
Star Theatre: “ Love." European Moila-Inward: 18 p.m. Europe vid Siberia (Empress of Canada).
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Official Welcome and Presenta tion of address to H.E. Sir William Peel, K.B.E., at Theatre Royal.
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