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HOW TO READ THE GOSPELS VIII.
God's Rule In The World
Preaching yesterday evening at St. John's, Cathedral Bishop Hall
said:-
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widowed mother, or a young wife from a devoted husband letting chlidren be born blind or crippled, or leaving millions of breadwinners without employment.
"ART THOU A KIND THEN?"
Now there is a very great deal in the Gospels about this problem about God's rule in the world This is translated the Kingdom of God. Jesus died as a King. He began His life by saying. "The Hand."
To-night I am going to set a child in our midst. The child was w undergraduate of an English civic University. The Archbishop of York had been speaking and asked for questions. The child's question was this. "Why didn't God kill Adam and Eve and make them over again?" To-night I want to try and answer that ques-Kingdom of tion. The question that is in the heart of every honest Christian man is, "Why dues the world show so little evidence of any rule of God in it, and so much eyidence of misrule. This evidence of misrule is loud in the ears of many con- scientious men and women who can and no suficient evidence for ¦ God's rule." The more nearly men and women draw to our Lord Jesus Christ In sympathy and common outlook the more they will see evidence of misrule. From thas point they can take two steps. They can become cynical. But to become cynical about the world's misrule is a step away from the mind of Jesus. The other step is in the opposite direction. They can kneel before Calvary, the most complete picture of misrule in the world that there is, "and cry with Thomas "My Lord and My God." There are many who would. Hike to take, this step but believe it to be dishonest. Consequently they remain suspended, troubled, and if truth be told, ineffective in their dealings with the evil about
them.
VERIFYING THOUGHT IN
EXPERIENCE.
At this point I am going to use another of Professor MacMurray's suggestions in his recent book "In- terpreting the Universe. It is this "Knowledge is prior to thought. not thought prior to knowledge." I want first of all to convince you that this is the real process. In arguing with a friend you appeal to support your point of view to something of which he has already knowledge in his own experience. Jesus Christ was "understood by the common people" because He appealed to things of which they had knowledge; to the behaviour of fathers' with their children, shepherds with their sheep, house- wives with lost treasures. You will say that the story of the Prodigal son is not a common ex- perience, a most uncommon one.
That is true. But men and wo
men with a normal experience of fatherhood would accept this as a possible experience of fatherhood at a superhuman level.
God is at
HEIR TO THE ROMANOFFS Young Prince's Coming of Age
On August 30 the young Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia, only son af the Grand Duke Cyril, was six- according to Russian law, members teen years old, at which age, of the Imperial family reach their majority.
The Grand Duke Cyril is" the head of the House of Romanoff and Throne of Russia. During the past the legitimate candidate for the few years his activities have in- creased considerably, and his name is well known in Russia .
The young Grand Duke Vladimir is a boy of exceptional physique and intelligence, and has a great inter- His hobby is mechanics, est in the destinies of his country.
has his residence was the scene of a ceremony during which the young Grand Duke was declared of age. by his father to whom he had to swear in oath of allegiance in the presence of his uncles the Grand Dukes Andreef and Dimitri, as well as deputations from the Russian Crurch and Royalist organisations.
The last question. He was asked is Wut Thou then restore the King- dam?" Translations of such plc- ture language of great men are al-Briac, where the Grand Duke Cyril The little Breton resort of Saint- most impossible. But "The Rule of God" does more nearly translate, the phrase than The Kingdom of God." Pilate recognised this rule and said, "Art Thou a King then?" Jesus said, "My Kingdom is not of this world else would my servants night." But in the prayer which he gave us to pray he taught us to say, "Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be don in earth as it is in Heaven." He said, "That if I by the finger cast out devils, then is the Kingdom of God come upon you." In plain English that means God's rule of the world has begun in a new way.
Will you go back a minute to what I suggested about the Parable of the Prodigal Son. You have there the picture of human father- hood acting in an unheard of generous way.
Now Jesus' way of ruling the world of men is to all other known ways of ruling as the story of the Prodigal Son is to all other known ways of fatherhood. But once the story of the Prodigal Son seizes our hearts it makes significant any similar experience of our own, and convinces us of its truth, not perhaps as possible for ourselves, but as likely for God.
Once the
"My question is this, Life of Jesus, the death of Jesus, His resurrection, and the varied history of the Christian Churen, can be seen as an ideal experience. unlike all other experiences, and yet like enough to other experiences to be' thinkable, may we not come to a similar conclusion? This is un- like our own experience of 'ruling and impossible for us, but it is at lest an attractive suggestion that like the action of the Prodigal's fathe
it is possible for God. FAILURE OF HUMAN
GOVERNMENTS.
The problem of governments, of ruling, is not one about which we mên can boast, Europe is going through a new phase in the his- tory of the attempt of men to ruse. It looks as if we men are finding It is impossible to secure at the same time, the complete liberty of the person and the practical wel- fare of the community as a whole.
Among those present were M Kasem-Bég. head of the Young Russinus' Union, a hody with which the young Duke is closely associated This body aims at reconstructing Russia on the lines of a Federal Empire, and has an economic pro- gramme similar to Fascism. It is the largest of the younger emigre. organisations.
into one picture or pattern of thought, than from our experience of persons in personal relationship. with ourselves. Professor Mac- Murray contends that the failure. of our civilisation is due to a fundamental mistake of this kind, and that Russia will fall for the sampe reason. I remember Mr. Ramsay Macdonald comparing so- clety to a tree, and saying that Russia makes the "mistake of com- paring society to a house. Russia Bays. "Knock the house down and build a new one." Mr. Macdonald says, Society is not a house bat a tree "If you cut the tree down you destroy the Uring thing, and though you may get a series of shrubs you caimot in that way make a better tree." But they are both wrong. Society is neither a house nor a tree, but people, and you cannot treat people as you would treat a house or tree you must treat people as People. That is what Jesus did.
Is it possible that Jesus handling of people both in His life and since His death does really give us a picture for which there is no other analogy of the ideal form of gov- ernment, in which personal free- dom and corporate well-being are secure by the voluntary acceptance, of membership in a society? This society Is held together not by rules, or by common nationality, or by common interest, but by direct personal relationship with the Head of the society, Jesus Christ, who is God come into the world to lead it to it's final destiny.
2. Secondly the practical an swer. If you accept by contention that thought must follow experi ence, then you cannot answer my theoretic question until you yourself have shared the experience of life in that society. Once a man can kneel before the Cross and say "My Lord, and My God" knowing in his heart that this is God, 18 Lord, is ruler, he is taken into a experience which illumines the world in
new way. The
Our thinking about life and our conduct in life are conditioned by our cominon average experience and not as a rule by exceptional experience. though we may not Nothing was more liberal in its ourselves realise how much this is ideals than the Italian Govern- the case. I have a farmer friendment just after the war. But every In the North of England who was train was late, every vehicle ram- for many years a school-master be- shackle, and the country despised. fore coming into the little estate Italy, Russia, and now Germany. of his ancestors. Belleve it or not,
have sacrificed personal freedom this is what happened. He was
for corporate well-being. A liberal walking me through the woods and journalist from Britain has said, describing with a schoolmaster's "We talk about the horror of devotion to detail exactly how poverty in England. Italy has no many years it would take before freedom to talk about poverty, but the treelings would become timber. she is rooting the actual thing out Two ladies were coming towards of her country." Our experience us carrying baskets. Raising his of ruling, therefore, beyond the hat he stopped them and said, family circle is one continual com- "May I enquire, ladies what you promise between personal freedom are doing on this estate? It is and corporate well-being. A com- plain ..fact of the matter private property." The reply was, promise
is continually is - that those who accept "We have come to buy tomatoes.
breaking down. The independent the rule of God in Jesus Christ do Oft came his hat again, and he city states of Greece are followed find an answer to the problems of closed the Interview by saying, by the empires of Philip and Al- the world's murule. My soccer "We are always glad to welcome exander: the grand independence friends in the North of England customers. You will find the
of the Roman plebs gives way to thought Rugby football the pathetic glory of Augustus dangerous game until I tempted Good afternoon." Many years as Caesar. We are witnessing a simi- them to try. They are now en- in-lar process to-day. The personal thusfastic supporters of what the fluenced his attitude towards peo-liberty our fathers based on local press calls the carrying code.
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GOD'S WAY OR MAN'S. cognise similar cases of that, when independence is going down before
God's way of ruling is so different. men who have been soldiers be- the needs of the world as a whole. come secretaries of golf clubs, or
IS JESUS' MORE BUCCESSFUL · from ours that we could never be perhaps when men and women who
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