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"THE WORD WAS MADE HOME FOOTBALL
FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US.
BISHOP HALL'S SERMON AT THE CATHEDRAL
No other text is possible in ot;, John's Cathedral on Cathedral Sunday. No other text more ftly
covers what is in my heart to say. As the physical body of Jesus wa the Word of God made Flesh to dwell among us, so this Cathedral stands always as a visible witness
The situation is like a game of Rugby football when the stand of half, trying to get through on his Own, has been pulled down. There has to be a scrum down and a new start made before a try
can be acored. The stand off half in this case is the popular emotional to the unseen Spirit of God. Those preaching of the evangelical re- who gather here Sunday by Bun-vival. It worked. It brought men day to worship God go farth from and women on to their knees before this place to carry the Person and God. It changed lives. It. con- Power of the Living Christ into verted sinners. It captured 'the every office and home in this city.
BETWEEN PULFIT AND PEW Such is our theory. What are the facts. The fundamental fact is the gulf that exists to-day ?w. tween the parson and the" layman.“ Here are some aspects of this guit: Very many laymen to-day are Unitarian. They do not really be- lieve that Jesus is God-made-Man, but a good man supremely used of God to help the world
The clergy are Trinitarian not by convention but by conviction. For me the choice is between the In- carnation and Communism.
If
Jesus is not the Word of God made Flesh, then God if there is a God, is beneath contempt, and Marxian Communism the most hopeful at tempt yet made to make tolerable a hopeless and intolerable world
BIBLE AND CHUKUM Nearly every layman belleves the Anal authority of the Church lles in "the rules of life laid down Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.. Most clergy know that Jesus lald down nu rules and discredited all conduct which does not spring from the heart. For us the authority is the Living Church of which we be Lieve Jesus Himself to be the Risen and Ascended leader. He may tell you to do something which it would
be wrong for me to do.
DIVORCE
Sunday: School as nearly all the teachers were men and women so converted. But like the stand off haif it exploited its key position. It tried to get through on its own. It has been brought down and now We have to start all over again. The effects on the lay mind of this period is a double one.
You recognise that the uncriticat use of the Bible in that popular preaching and Bunday School teaching was wrong.
You therefore reject also the dogmatic teaching about the Per- son of Christ, and are left with Jesus as a great teacher of ethics but you and your faith in God tenuous and vague.
The effects on your heart and spirit of all this is powerlessness, confusion and a hidden fear. For that reason you love the old hymns. They remind you of the days when God was real and you were not afraid.
Programme Curtailed Owing To Fog
London, Dec, 22. The defeat of Aberdeen Ary Glasgow provided the main
SUT- prise in to-day's soccer program- me, which was "considerably, eur- tailed owing to for.
Detalled results, « ás cabled' b
Reuter, were as follows:
FIRST "DIVISION
*Arsenal
Bolton Pirmingham 4 Everton Blackburn
Chelsen "Grimsby
Leeds
Liverpool "M'ster G. Stoke . Sunderland West Brom.
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6 Aston Villa
2 Wolves
1 Portsmouth"
◊ Preston
1. Wednesday
Huddersfeld
1 Middlesboro'
3 Derby
I Brentford
0
SECOND DIVISION
*Blackpool Bradford
*Bury Doncaster Leicester Norwich Notts. F. Sfeld U. Southampton Swansea West Ham
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• Plymouth
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7 Hull
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Aldershot Brighton Bristol C.
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"Newport
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Swindon *Torquay Watford
THIRD
BRIDGING THE GULF Three years ago to-morrow I ar- zived In this city to assume the responsibilities .given, to ma. - "In those three years I have had more friendshio than any one, man can Carlisle possib.y digest. I can therefore D'lington speak frankly to you as friends G'head about the future; about the bridg- Halifax H'pools Ing of the gulf between us.
I would like to give first place Mansfield to the Oxford Groups; not because "Oldham we share a dark Blue Label or he- R'ham cause of any particular technique, mere but bcause they challenge us in Walsall the inmost heart of our religion. Wrexham
0 Eflingham
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1 Crystal-P.
2
3
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Luton
3 Bristol R.
0 Reading
Notts. C.
2 Southend
2 5'mouth
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4 N'ampton
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DIVISION (North)"
2 C'terfield
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4 Rochdale
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0 York
0
2 Linco
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1 Stockport
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1
3
1 Barrow :
1 N. "Brighton
2
2
1 Crewe
Chester
1 Accrington
4 Scuthport
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
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"1 Queen's PL.
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5 Aberdeen
3
3 Hamitin
5 Albion
5
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Nearly every layman belleves than divorce and remarriage is often the right and best and most Christian way either tor yourself or for your Le our faith alive or is it dead. Is friends, and that birth control latt "the Word made Flesh" in you' both natural and right. Many or me or is it the Word of Life clergy belleve otherwise. But here
become a corpse And here is one I stand with many other clergy on test; a crucial and valid one. Have Ayr
you, or can you, help anyone else Celtic to find in Gad release from gin, Dundee D'I'I ne confusion and fear? The test us certain
Hibernian as the word hip-
*Motherwe popotamus in a mental hospital,
*Partick If you have not power to help
T. Lanark others there is one simple thing the matter with you: 'self' is shutting that power out of your own life. You will not be happy, free or use- ful until you let go and let God have His way with you.
the side of the laity. I have no fear that in time the gif between clergy and laty un this matter will be closed by the clergy coming over to your side.
Reuter
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3 st..Johnstone Postponed owing to fog.
BACKWARD LOOKING HYMNS
Lastly: very many laymen love to sing the hymns and chants of school days. We clergy are deter- mined that Church music shall be more progressive. We know that religion based on sentimental mem-
ped in a puritan napkin of à nega ories is looking backward" and
TEACHING AND WORSHIP
tive plety, we will come with nothing doomed, like Lot's wife, to saline
in our hands. It will be spread far
·mortification. When I set out to
The Oxford Groups are to-day in afeld in the home of the poor, the teach my Newcastle people some
the key position of the stand off
hearts of the lonely and by the new hymns I found the school haif. Fortunately their leaders re-bedsides of the sick. children knew them already; they cognise this fact. They will not had been set in all the Council repent the mistake of the evange- Schools for the Annual Musicalica revival and attempt to get Festival. The Church is following through on their own. and not reading in the revival of good music. Two years later a keen youngster of twenty one still insisted that "Abide with me" was his favourite hymn. The last news I have of him is that he is a Communist and an atheist, a victim of saline mortification caused strange paradox-by sugary senti- mentality.
SUNDAY SCHOOL-ITIS
•Now notice where the division des. On things to do with sex I belleve the average Lay view Is more nearly right. It is a thing laymen and women have faced in expert ence and tried to understand. Laymen, in this, are adult: the clergy are still adolescent.
when the most atheistic and materialistic in this city is led to thank God and to know God be- cause of the living streams of love and service to the community that flows out from this place.”
I understand some years ago it was alggested that we should sell this site, so that the road to the Peak Tram would run straight." So the pulpit of this Cathedral The Cathedral is empty anyhow," will also be a teaching pulpit. We was the argument. Those who do shall endeavour" week by week to
not worship here do not understand make the Word Flesh. We shall be how "sacrilegious that suggestion faithful in reading, 'in study and seems to us. But we shall be follow- in meditation so that we may being clearly in our Lord's footsteps able to explain, more and more of the Spit and the way of Christ. | Above all we shall endeavour to be faithful always to 8t John's Leaching about our Lord and about. God. The theology of St. John la the glad proclamation of the fact that in Christ,. God has come to man. "We behold His glory," John writes, "the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." But just for this reason because God has acted, has come into our life as our Redeemer and our Friend we shall always make worship the centre of our fellowship in this Cathedral.
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SERVICE
LIVING STONE
The Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us in this Cathedral building the Word is made stone. It dwells among the other buildings of this city as witness to the living God. It has been the glory But in the use of the Bible and
of England to build a Cathedral in Christian doctrine the clergy are
in every great city as a symbol of more adult: laymen are still adoles.
our Christian faith, witnessing to cent. Perhaps it would be truer to
the fact that God dwells in our say that the lay mind as typified for example in the writings of Mr. But the Word was made Mesh at midst. Bo it is right that the stone Bernard Shaw is infected by a form Bethlehem. Jesus was born a few from Canterbury Cathedral, the of Sunday Schooltis. An example of Mary His mother. He trod the Mother Church of all England. of this Sunday School infection is Gallean hills, He died at a cer- thould have been fastened to-day the answer given to me once by a tain time and place under one this Daughter Church. It is s man in a key position in Shanghai. Pontius Plate, Procurator of Rome symbol both of our faith in God and "No Oriental," he said, "can ever in Jewry. So we shall not rest un-of the beauty that we give back in speak the truth. I was brought up til every member of this Church is worship and in art. on the Bible, so I know." I replied, making the Word of God Flesh in | “Including the New Testament his own life here in Hong Kong in He replied automatically Includ these early years of the twentieth ing the New Testament" then century in service, costly service for rapid's changed the subject. I his fellows, so that we do not come knew he was beginning to remem- here Sunday by Sunday only to be. ber that Jacob and Esau were not renewed by the Laving Spirit of in the New Testament; I was pray-" Gód; but to offer Him all that we ing that his chlidren were in a mo- have done during the week for Him, dern Sunday School.
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It is a strange coincidence that: there should have gone out from Britain as one of our earitest, mis- slonaries a man whose name was Living Stone. God grant the same Living Spirit may ever go forth from this dead building to serve and help and win for Hun this great city which he has made for Himself.
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