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CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF GOD.
INTERESTING SERMON AT THE CATHEDRAL,,
VICTORIAN DIOCESAN CONFÉRENCE.
The Rt. Rev, The Bishop of Victorin presided at the anecting of the Victoria Diocesan Conference held last exening' at the Catedral Hal
The following notes wore bronight to notice at the previous meetings.
The Rev. N. Watkins has been elected secretary, and the treasurer of the VDM.A. will alte net na treasurer for the con- ference, in accordance with the procedure laid down. ·
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL REPORT.
In reading the report of the Executive Council, the Dean said: Since the last Victoria Diocesan Conference the Excutive Council has met twice-on December 4, 1930,
and Eebruary 11, 1931.
minded us, thero is a "nee ssity to banish from our minds ideas on- cerning the diameter of God which are inconsistent wit the character of Jesus Christ. Surely it mud strike (y de Alrange that mich a warning should be needed in the year c Grace 1980.
At these meetings the following anatters were considered:-(1) the possibility of, Church Extension in Kowloon; (2) the building of n now St. Peter's Chuch; (3) the Confer ence Budget for 1931; (4) arrange ments for this Conference.
With regard to (13), a letter was written to the Government asking for the reservation of a site for a church in Waterloo Road, Kowloon, No reply to this letter has been re-that would harmonise with current [ceived to date.
A New St.. Poter's...
The Old Testament. How often theology has started with a conception of God taken from the earlier portions of the Old Testament, and then tried to modify organond this in the light of Christ's revelation. How much labour has been spent in trying to arrive at definitions and formulae
what God has to my about. '1' all' The Church's own mind often seema very confused about her stalo of valises in 1927 I left the Church of China fighting a desperate bodily against the powers of darknees, and found the Arch of England engaged in what gemed almost us free struggle over the Prayer Book. Some Christians aless maki ing as a deadly in, or playing game on Sunday, or going to na evening Communion.
A divorced person is banished by lie church, but a man who OWBA tenemen, property in which a clean family life is practically impossible is, salooned into a corner, sent. Is. at Th wonder if men not only ask
What in Cloud's will, bus bas He a will about it at nal?"
Morality of the Paat. Let us admit that a great doni of the morality of the past has been simply good betruviour, and in `so far as it consisted in conformity to custom or public opinion, without being the chalco of right for right's wo are faced with the task of re Bake, it was less than moral... Now. discovering God's will in this year 1931 on the hundred and one ques ions about which mon's minds are iarknow. We may noc., all jackiately be able to hear God speaking the same thing but we ann have no doubt that He has a word. to meak, and that Ho means us to understand it. Our supremo appeal must be made not to the decision of any closinetical gathering past future, but to the response of overy man's conscienco which, hear ing the truth, bears, witness, that it is true. Especially should wo stress
tess, and arouse men's consciences positive nature of God's holi-
bout the good they don't do more than about the wrong they have done. The more we know the true God and open our minds to Hint, the higher will the demands of His holy Love appear, and the deeper Become our sense of failure to mest thoro domanda The Cross must dvar stand at
accátre of God's Fatherhood. The Gospel is in the story of the Prodigal Son, it is sometimes, sid. Yes, but we are able to believe the story only because the Teller of paid the Inst price of His love for men. And our failures are not to be lightly regarded whon wo see that they crucify Him afresh.
ideas about the divine and the human natures. As we look back In connection with (2)" the Dean over the story of the Church history, reported that there seemed to be we have to admit that the God of a possibility of proceeding short too many Christians was not the ly with the building of a new St. Christian God at all. The besetting Peter's. The Cathedral architects in of the Jewish church was idola had, reported that a church to Sirry, and idolatry has made the Herbert Baker's plans could pro Christian durch fale again and ably be built for not more than again. What is idolatry but the $5,000 the amount promised by worship of a faulty or partial idea Government, and a suitablo site of God?"My little dildren," wrote the apostle, in what are near St. Stephen's Girls' College perhaps the latest wards in our New seemed likely to be available. After Testament, keep yourselves from discussion the Council asked that idole," "We know that the Son of God's come and has given us the St Peter's Sid-Council should insight to know Him who is the give its views on the site suggested. Real God" But how often me the Since this meeting of the Council Church lost sight of the Rent God. As we look at the long and dreadful the St. Peter's Sub-Council has catalogue, of persecutions, and
God As Almighty. emphatically voted for proceeding, blood-sheddings committed by all
ecctions of the Church upon ole. We must admit that the meaning as soon as may be with the erection other as well as upon unbelievers, of the word Almighty has under of the church on the site proposed what entwe gift that the God.
gone.considerable modification in goon as, that site and the of the men who did such things Christion thought. It no longer if, and as
Was the idol of their own distortest means able to do anything. We Government grant are definitely prejudices and passions and that recognise that belief in God as found to be available. Ine. C.M.8. often they simply did not know the Father who has given free moral Associated Schools, who now lease real God at all
personalities to His children, car- rics with it the necessity that He the land in question, have been
shall not act in any way inconsis tent with His being such a Father. We have, I hope, given up the falau idea that a thing is right because God does it, for the enviction that God does a thing because it is right, and that we must judg God's Rotigns by the light of those moral principles which our con Biences approve as the rule of our own. This is but to say, we must be sure that always, everywhere," God is good, and that for Him to e anything else would be to deny Himself.
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Many of us have noticed with thankfulness the way in which the
| shown the proposed lay out of the Revised Prayer Book has pruned church and it is hoped that a de-out from its services many pres finite arrangemat will soon be which reflect pre-Christian ideas of God. We are no longer taught to made which will secure this site for look upon sickness na being sent. the church. On the conclusion of by God, har upan physical disasters such an arrangement, the Govern- punishments" for wrong-doing We may feel regret that the work ment grant will be applied for. At of pruning was not in some respects its sond meeting the Executive more thorough, and that in the Council agreed to leave the matte tany God is still pictured as One who may take vengatinee of our now in the hands of the Cathedral sins," while the retention of the Athanasian Creed suggests that Church Council
During the business session the ring faith onsists in an intellee dual acceptance of right doctrine following persons were teated to instead of trust in Person. The the Executive Council:-Rev. C. B.. Bhan, Rev. WW Rogers, Miss of the churches by Christ's teaching, man in the street judges the. God Mow Fung, Rev. N. V. Haiwood,
and sometimes the conclusion, justly Prof. L. Forster, Mr. R. Ashton unjustly, is that He falls short, Hill, Mr. J. W. Baldwin, Prof. J. Our age, thanks to the hours of 1. Shellshear, Mr. A. C. Braine- Ilariael, Mr. C.. H. Duppy. Dr. many scholars, has a sore living G. A. G. Berkluis and Rey. A. D. picture of the Jesus of history than any since the first, find it is there. fore our plain duty to survey our Shann were reelected faternal delo. and purge out from it any elements
Stewart.
When we come to ask what is God's power in relation to the world around us, some difference- little Christian thought to-day of opinion continues exist, Not
pictures 'n God who is virtually a prisoner in the midst of the world'
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has created. The discovery of stilling of the tempest, and the or deliverance from material evil. the important and for reaching natural order as we know in generalizations which we style laws
This is emely to make a contrait
nt nature has seemed to make it But there are religious reasons which is false. Every good and difficult to retain belief in-miracle why we should maintain belief in perfect gift, material or spiritual, Miracle and prayer seem to involvo
Rev. P. Jenkins and. Rev. C. B. iden of the God whom we worship and in the efficacy of prayer, a Father God who is yet Almighty-is from the Father of Lights. igates to the Diocesan Synod, the thing will stand the test of the possibility of brasches taking we conceive of a real father who side the scope of His attention and
proposed budget was accepted.
Christlikences.
The speaker of the evening wasIt is impossible to do more than the Rev. G. K. Carpenter, M.A., look briefly at one or two aspects B.Sc., who introduced the subject of our conception of Gad this even- of The Christian Conception of ing. Let us take the first clause the Apostles Crond "I believe God." The speaker's text followe
waist is God Lake?
God the Father, if?,” in
God the
What is God Jiko? There are Taught by Jus we dare to think w questions the answer to which more and more consistently of God is more important. The divisions Father, in every relation of life. between Christian people are not Je is not inpersonal Force, which only due to varieties of tempera-inay make slavea but never could nent or accidents of education, but win sons, but has given His children in many cases represent different or real freedom either to choose good irreconciled ideas of God, and of or to choose evil. The problem of the ways in which Hs may be sup-forgiveness is not to be looked at posed to not To peek to know God, in terms of the law court. The the real God, is therefore the first wrong-doer in st right with God by duty of every Christian, and those being lifted into a relation which who are making for the same goal has ceased table legal Jeans de Fmust sooner or later End that their clareda Father who comes to short several patha are converging to the burden of our sins, and helps u to live down the shame of them Because we are Christians, that His arm around us all the time," does not mean we should be deaf to How much has, the almplicity of God's voice in history, in nature, the Gospel been burdened with in art and in science and in human theories of the Atonement that made life itself. Our ears are to be open rod sometimes appear, positively to every word which God speaks, immoral f It is the same God who spoke at: God is our Father, bus He is a sundry times and in divers manners righteous Father. Current thought to the fathers who we believe has, pictures Him at times as merely a spoken His crowning word to us benevolent sort of parent who lets in Jonus Christ. We gladly acknow his children do more or loss what Kdge this while at the same time they like, and takes little notice affirming that it is from Christ that of their failings. We have little we have the power to interpret and ease of sin to day. Old dividing co-ordinate nil. God's other words diner between right, and wrong are He must ever be for the Christian being challenged and torn up all the starting point and the finishing round us inay people are won I point of all his thoughts about God, dering. If there are any absolute As the Lambeth; Conference has re- moral values at all. Do we know
in the world of His creation, Can request of His child can fall out- place in these laws, and much would bind his conduct towards flan of action. Christian thinking has attempted his children by a multiplicity ofIn conclusion the Christian, cen to effect, a reconciliation with the rules? The essence of the personal cyption of God is not yet. We are seeking after it, and it is a demands of science, by the too relationship between God and our simple method of rationalizing out selves is just that it is personal, quest in which everyman takes bis the miraculous elements in the and so must not God leave Himself | rart. We still need the warning. Gospel story,
freedom to treat each of His child against imagining that my thought rrn as the need of each may ra of God is exclusivoly right, and quire True, God does seem to therefore my neighbour's must be bind Himself by rules to a high wrong. The apprehension of God degroe, in order to make the world is His fulness can only be by ali around us a stage on which the the saints, of every age and race, development of free personality quest for which even eternity may be too short. For what He has may be possible.
shown us of Himself, we thank His Fatherly love, and go forward in the confidence that what He will show us is a God greater, closer. more wonderful than we have ever dared to dream.
Generalization.
We must be able to direct our
The laws of nature however, while of the utmost service in the interpretation of phenomena and at the basis of fresh, hypotheses, are not and cannot represent final ur complete truth. Tremendous 48 are the strides which sciences making, we are atid, in Nowton's famous phrase, children playing on the shore of an infinite 809- “An' event may appear as a breach in Loonduct on the basis of generaliza what seems of any given time to tions about the behaviour of the the natural order, and yet be things among which we live,, and no real contravention whatever of kadir that our geperalizations are the real ultimate order of the for the most part trustworthy. Ex
cept for the knowledge that fire After the Rev Carpenter had · Universe.
burns and water drowns the closed his address, the Bishop in- Fifty years ago the healing martyr's sacrifice would lose its vited any discussion of Mr. E. A. miracles of Jeans noemed out of value. But yet Jesus revealed a Gaunt's address of last evening. any relation to enrrent scientific God both able and eager to place hero being non, tho. Bishop naked disposal of one who was attuned address (Among then estions that knowledge, get the discoveries made a miracle working power at the for discussion of Rev. Carpenter's aubsequently in the realm of pay chotheraply have opened up whole, to His will, and some of us would proses were Can I he a Ginasting forms the conception of God an new fields of Jack on the power ofness, restored to da almight and ant. obey some of the Christig spirit over, matter. Cases of cures to its place in our Inwa!" "Who is the Christ au are on accord which at least form thought of Him.
Miracles,”
The Discussion.
authority, to form a conception of God Pe
The discussion on peints arising
a link with some of those related If we live-within a coad.order,What is his (Rev. Carpenter') prayer, at least for material bene fits becomes largely meaningless In the interests of what tend to become a false spirituality, we are sometimes told we should rather pray for the greater gifts of sub- minion to and acceptance of the divine will than for material good
in the gospels Our attitude should not simply be that of trying to rationalize the miraculous ole ments in the New Testament but rather a humble expectancy that some day the key will be put into our hand they will show-us-n-link between pay touch miracles as the
from the President's Address was
To mroting, closed with a short dropped due to lack of tims - address by the Bishop, followed by a short pra
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