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HOW TO READ THE GOSPELS
The Gospels And Our Personal Problems
·
AN ANALYSIS OF THE SERMON
ON THE MOUNT
The Bishop of Victoria, the Rt Rev. RO Hall preached in St. John's Cathedral yesterday morn... ing the fourth of. his series of, sermons on “How' to Read the Gospels"
Dersonal
moral
problems
after He spends a whole night in. prayer. Then He chooses twelve. What the twelve tribes had been in the old Jewry, the twelve apos- tles are to be to the new move- ment.
PIDGIN ENGLISH
beauty, His power, you are more
"by deliberately attempting to copy,
Him
likely to do the right things then Opinion Of A Chinese
HOW TO BEGIN.
Satirist
COMING SHORTLY!
Finally, if I may give very prac- tical advice for every day Kylag.
Mr. Lin Yu Tang, satirist, makes I would say this. Do not use unt an amusing case for lowly. putter when you are in a bunker pidgin," the language of Chinese or still some way from the green treaty ports, as the only respect- Supposing the latter is still your able international language of the position: suppose you are still future. Basic Engliah, supported some way from the green: suppose by so many western scholars, does in your heart of hearts you do net-net compare in ita passibilities with WHOOPEE really want to change your pre- pidgin English,in Mr. Tio's sent way, and yet, you do not want opinion. He agrees with Mr. G
Remember
to lose the heavenly vision This Bernard Shaw that the pin no Remember
is what I advise you to do rean is & more expressive and more
(1) Read one of the many gooi Lives of Christ that have been written recently. And if you find one that really spear to you, keep it at band and dip into it every now and then.
(2)
:
(3)
(4)
forceful expression" than the “ un¬ able ” of standard Engliah. "When a lady says she is unable to come, you have a suspicion she may change her mind and perhaps come after all, but when she replies to aur request with an abript, clear- our - no can,” you know you have to reckon without her company."
fellow intellectuals Mr. Lin's have been prone to regard pidgin with contempt, but he finds its to its purpose of edaveying ideas glorious language," ideally suited
Lastly, do not strive or cry. It has the merits of Chinese, which [from one human being to another. Do not set your face to go. Lin points out bas been consi to Jerusalem. Let Jesus keep
Take one Gospel, preferably St: Luke or St. John, and use It in the same way. When- ever you are bored. fed up, Il tired read there some
story of Jesus.
If you can make that sort of
reading a daily habit.
you in the quieter Galileandered by philologists like Otto days, until you find yourselfJesperson and Gabelenz as the sim- inevitably drawn to the Jeru
plest, most advanced and "most salem pilgrimage:"
logical of languages.
Bishop Hall said:...
The Sermon on the Mount is given to these followers. They are "The child is the father of the to go the way of the Son of Man, man," But the man in many the way of God, the way of the ways remains always child. We Cross. When Feter proclaimed like to be told what to do. In Jesus as Messiah and then rebuk- our hearts we rather resent God ed Him because Jesus said that the having made good Hving so dim. Messiah must suffer and die. cult. If we could avoid intricate Jesus spoke to him those stern life sharp words. "Get. thee behind me would be so much happler: the Satan. You are taking man's ways," "things we would not those we do,
we must go God's way.” The ser- and the things we would those were He gave them, is
mon He gave them, the way of God's do not. Being a person is not so easy as we expect, Perhaps it's way of life and God's way
St. Matthew makes that
Mr. Lin believes that the whole true to say there are no personal ring out in his account, "Be ye
trend of development of the English problems, only problems of perperfect as your Heavenly Father is
language has been steadily advanc‐ | sons, because our problems arise
ing toward the Chinese type. Eng-| perfect, sending sun and rain on out of our unsatisfactory per good and evil auke." In St. Luke's Christ, but you realise how imper-over grammatical nonsense and re- If your Hire is already given to·lish: commonsense has triumphed Gospel, it reads, "Be ye therefore fect it is; how much it is a mat-fused to see sex in a teacup or a merciful, as your Heavenly Father ter of the will; how much of your writing desk, as modern Frenen is merciful.
other Christian ufe depends upon you and German still do. It has prae- cheek to him that smiteth thee. rather than upon God, try this tically abolished gender, and it has When men are spiteful do not re-way of Bible reading Take the very nearly abolished case. It has sent it. Blessed are ye, happy are
passage given in the Prayer ve, when ye are treated and Book as "The Gospel" for each
now reached a stage where Chinese take it patiently."
was perhaps 10,000 years ago.”. Sunday. It has always some pic-
sonalities.
rent worse."
But it remains true that Jesus Christ is not only, the healer of deep diseases, our Merciful · Re-. deemer who makes us new. but also our friend and our brother.
lova.
Ouer your
of
IF YOU ARE FURTHER ON
HOW TO GO ON..
Mr. Lin entertains himself by comparing the possibilities of pid gin as an international language with Prof. C. K. Ogden's Basic,
I have, therefore, tried to insist that Christ's way is to offer our whole personality a new way of Hfe. He will not put new wine into old wine skins. He dislikes patching old garments. He says to those of us who would patch up out life with this new habit or The Historical origin of this ture of Christ: Read that every that, "You will only make the "Counsel of the New Way" seems morning and every evening, each
Jesus Christ is a to have been as St. Luke describes day for the week and after read root and branch. reformer. The it. Probably it was given as St. in spend ten minutes or longer English, with its vocabulary of 850 Luke describes it. Probably it was you want to, realising the pre-words. In Basic the word "gramo- Gospels do not offer a dose of
given in St. Luke's "words. St.sence, the power, the reality of phone must be cricumlocuted a this or an application of that to Matthew added a great deal which that source of life, that Master of a. polished black diso with a pic cure your cold. They say, "Your carries that same "Counsel" into all goodness and of truth. Then ture of dog in front of a horn," cold is a sign of a deeper disease: other departments of life.. Progo on your way to your day's work whereas in pidgin it becomes a your whole direction of life is bably at many times Jesus elabor-or to your night's rest Enowing 'talking box." He finds that wrong."
ated in this way this "Counsel of that your Ufe is, hid with Christ Basie is still at a loss to express
as each problem telescope" and 'microscope, the New Way" to those who would in God, that follow Him.
comes up he will help you to deal whereas pidgin has no difficulty. with it. Or, if you have no Prayer "Look-far-glass" and "show-small. Book or And sometimes the Gos glass" are unmistakable. ** Basic · pel for the week does not speak English, in its effort to reduce- to you, take not an odd verse or vocabulary, omits such words as a string of verses, but some episode. some parable, the whole story of the crucifixion, the story of Peter's recommissioning. the story Ox Zacchaeus, or Mary, or the woman taken in adultery. Read it and
East and West already have found let it speak to you because the source of that story is Jesus Christ. common ground in pidgin and Mr. There was an officer in the war. Lin sees no reason why the language cannot be even more useful, in a practising Christian, who, which has been so useful in the past future. Mr. Lin suggests that think, had never seriously betray ed his Lord in the grosser sense 450,000,000 use Chinese, so that" a in thought or deed. As the language which both English-speak- went on his resistance weakened.ing and Chinese-speaking people He was weary, and death was so discover so easy to master holds Albert Schweitzer the great Al- relentless so continuously imminent satian theologian, musician, and that nothing seemed
more possibilities than any other. to matter. Meanwhlie, pidgin English, like missionary, calls it definitely "In- The meaning werft out of life-lt | terims Ethik." He believes that was all grey. One day, as it were Topys, delights those who come in Toysy, "jes grows, and, like
My subject this morning is simply
"INCONGRUOUS TO-DAY?" Does there seem something in- congruous that you and I to-day In twentieth century Hongkong, this, "How can this friend help us, how can this brother brother us, bothered about servants or employ ment, or the unkind words Mrs, in the daily business of living?"
So and So said about" us to some". THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
one else, or our continual failure
Naturally this morning the Ser-
to keep our tempers with irritating, mon on the Mount is in our minds.husbands or aggravating wives? Is There gathered up as it were like there something incongruous that we should look to this "Counsel of a beautiful collection of flowers from a perfect garden, are phrases, the New Way" given by a Galilean sayings, stories, each going to the carpenter to His fishermen fol- lowers. for practical guidance' to- heart, of His life. It was not His day and to-morrow, next week and intention to paint a portrait of
the week after?' Himself but we may compare it with the self-portrait of an artist. He has reflected for us in those sayings of His His own character, His own" way, the secret of Els charm, and the heart of His power.
11
Jesus did not expect the world to out of the blue, a letter came.
last very long. This "New Way" was for a few years only.
"
There was nothing much in the letter, but as he told me after- Wards, he know he was loved. The writer of that letter is still the comrade of his life.
telegraph. But pidgin calls the telegraph electric report," the telephone electric talk the cine
M&
"electric picture and the radio "no-wire electricity
contact with it.
LESSON SERMON
First Church Of Christ, Scientist
!! Reality " was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon which was read in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday September 94.
The Golden Text was: Behold, I create new heavens and a new, earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind " (Isaiah 65:17).^;
It is therefore, of vital importance that we should understand. His purpose in giving that sermon.
I do not myself believe Dr. The Movement of Liberal Scho-Schweitzer is right, but his view larship which I have been describ- at least challenges us to consider ing is a really practical help at whether Jesus meant this "Coun-
In the same way Christ warts this point. It has discovered that sel of the New Way" to apply to to share our lives. He wants us St. Matthew and St. Luke always future generations or only to those to know that we are loved. He use their materials in different to whom He spoke.
wants us to find the "meaning of ways. 8t. Luke's method is best
life by letting His love into our described as the "scissors
We shall, I think, get clearer on hearts. and
How are we to do it? paste" method. He takes whole this point if we stop to think of There is only our way, the way sections out of St. Mark and puts the place in Jests' mind and I have put before.... you. them fir Without altering their thought occupied by the Kingdom
The Gospels offer to us His love, order of very much their language. of God. He was crucified as a St. Matthew on the other hand King. It comes in the Lord's His life, His friendship. Read has a different method. It is Prayer. Many of His parables are them to find Him. And as you described as "conflation." He col-parables of the Kingdom. He read wait for Him to and you. lects together parables or sayings seems to have seen His coming as Ferhaps you are in a far country with a similar point. He puts to the coming of a "new rules of God"-let the Gospels bring you back gether what he takes from St. In the world. He invites all who And as with heavy heart perhaps,
Among the citations which, com Mark with what he takes from will to walk in the way of this you take them up, again to seak other sources, in a way that St. Kingdom. The Counsel of the for life in them, the Lord of life prised the Lesson-Sermon was the Luke does not do.
New Way which he gave in the Himself will come, and meet you following from the Bible: Rejoice Sermon on the Mount, describes in His own way. He will speak of the Lord, O ye righteous for GOD'S WAY NOT MAN'S WAY" the Spirit of the rule of God. We, your heart in the way, your heart praise is comely for the upright, you and I today as much as the needs, and you will know the joy. For the word of the Lord is Now you may have felt it dia- men of His own time are invited and freedom of His friendship and right; and all his works are done in cult to imagine how Jesus could to enter into that Spirif. The pls love. have given, so long a sermon, a Kingdom is for us as much as for. comprehensive, as the, Bermon on the Mount in St. Matthew at one time. You may also have wonder- ed how in the absence of short- Hand writers it could have been di thai peip 13 this Counsel to taken down, so thoroughly and us? May I give a practical illus. completely Turn up St Luke's tration. You may go suddenly Gospel and you win and a much very badly off your game at golf, shorter sermon describing a cer- or find that you are not driving Potsdam En Fete For Solemn tain way of life way of long your car as successfully as usuni
the Scriptures by Mary Baker suffering and forgiveness. It is in traffic and round the corners.
Edkły - .'' To- grasp the reality and spoken not to the multitudes, but You may for a week or two strug-
order of being in its Bolence, you to that band of followers He had gle by concentration and effort
must begin by reckoning God cae chosed to carry on His work. Ir to get back your did torm, then
the divine Principle of that you read back a few chapters you you suddenly realise that you are | inauguration of the new Prussian really, in ..... There is but, ono will "and that this is what had not seeing as well as your did., Slate Council at the assembly-ball | primal “chuse. Therefore, there can happened, He had been rejected You go to the oculist and heef Berlin University, the offic
any other cause by. His own home chich the prescribes glasses. With the help assumplen of duties, by the synagogue Lát Nazareth. That of the glasses you recover your | State Council followed to-day
not finally convinced Him that his at normal, vision, and consequently - Potsdam, the Encient tempt to get the synagogues, to your accuracy, and precision both Frederick the Gre
God as He 18, and in golf and the driving of your car God's will for the Jews, was In- In the same way tỉ lễ you swo possible
Stried erou remem solve personal problems of conduc
over the cut, you would do 1. I think, better by occasi the bottom of Fazing your attention daily uprimarcelý - aga
Luke the Coun
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PERSONAL PROBLEMS.
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