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MODERN BELIEF IN GOD.
ADDRESS AT DIOCESAN CONFERENCE.
physical disasters as 'punish- ments for wrongdoing. We may feel regret that the work of pruning was not in some respects", more through, end that in the Lliany God is still pictured as One who may lake vengeance of our sins, whilla the retention of the Athanasian Cread suggests fhat anvling faith consists in aur CHRISTIAN IDEAS. intellectual acceptance of right
doctrine fastend of trust in ..f the Person. The man in the street The recond session
Judges the God of the churches Victoria Dloresurt Con'erenen was held at the Cathedral Hall yester-beariat's tenchine, and!
ranclusion, justly day afternoon, under the chair-mon manship of the Bishop of Victoria, for unjustly, is that He falls short, when the Rev. G. K. Carpenter. Our age, thanks to the Inbours scholars has a more B.Sc., delivered an address of many
som
MA Christian Conceptio of 1 living plature of the Jesus of
God."
Mr. Carpenter said:
What is God ice? There are to few questions the answer
The which is more important. divisions between Christian people are not only due to varieties of accidents of temperament education, but in many cases re present different or irreconciled ideas of God, and of the ways in to which lle may be supposed act. To seek to know God, the the first real God, is therefore
Christian, and duty of every those who are making for the same goal must amener or later And that their several paths are converging together.
Because we are Christians, that does not mean we should be dend in history, in to God's voice nature, in art and science and in humen life itself. Our ears are
history then any since the first, and it is therefore our plain duty God idea of the to survey our whom we worship and purge out from it ane elements that will not stand the test of Christlike-
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It is impossible to do more than look briefly at one of two aspects of our conception of God Lake the this evening. Let un fit clauso of the Apostles' Creed
bellage in God the Father. Al-about it all? The Church's own opinion, without being the choice the demands of His holy Love ap miritty”,
Taught Jesus
pear, and the deeper bocome our sense of failure to meet those
than moral. Now we are we dare to mind aften seems very confused of right for right's sake, it was
about her scale of values. In less 1927 1 left the Church of China faced with the task of rediscover-demands. fighting a desperate battle against ing God's will in this year 1931 the powers of darkness, and found on the hundred and one questions at the the Church of England engaged about which men's minds are in food. In what seemed almost as fierce darkness. We may not all in-story of the Prodigal Son, it
think more and more consistently of God as Father In every relation of life. He is not impersonal Force, which may make plaves but never could win sons, but He has given lits children real freedom other to chooir good or to choose evil. The problem of forgivenera not to be looked at in terms of
to be open to every word which the law-court. The wrong-doer in God speaks. It is the same God set right with God by being lifted into a relation which has ceased who spoke at aundry times and in
1 the fathers helen. Jesus declared a divers manners who we believe has spoken Iis Father who comes to share the
to SIN
in Jesus burden of our sins, and helps us crowning word Christ. We gladly acknowledge | live down the shame of them. times arm around us all the time. this, while at the
from Christow much has the simplicity of affirming that it is
with that we have the power to inter-he Gospel been burdened pret and co-ordinate all God's other theories of the Atonement that:
sometimes words. He must ever be for the inde
appear Christian the starting point and positively immoral.
all hin 'the nishing point of
Ax the thoughts simul God. Lambeth Conference has remind- ed us, ther is a peremity to banish from our minds, ideas concerning the character of God which are roupistent with the character of Jrgus Christ. Sure. ly it must strba s
God
[
A Righteous Father, God is our Father, He is righteous Father. Current thought ietures in at times as merely
nevolents sort of parent who lets his children do more or less little what they like, nud takes strange Dating of their failings. We find of sin In the today. Old dividing
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are being challenged
tituti tern
ap all round us. Many people are wondering if there are any absolute moral values at all. Do we know what God has to
thm such a warning should be 'Hitle needed in the year of Grace 1930.world How often theology has started sines between right and wrong with a conception of God taken from the earlier portions of the O.T., and then tried to modify or amend this in the light of Christ's revelation. How much labour has been spent in trying to arrive at definitions and formulae that would harmonise with current Ideas about the divine and human watures.
the
As we look back over the story of the Church's history, we have to admit that the God of too many Christians was not the Christian God at all. The be setting la of the Jewish church was idolatry, and idolatry has made the Christian church fall again and again. What is idolatry but the worship of a faulty or partial iden of God? 'My little children' wrote the apostle, in what are perhaps the latest werda in our New Testament, keep your- selves from idols.' "We know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God." But lost how often has the Church sight of the Real God. As we look at the long and dreadful catalogue of persecutions and blood-sheddings committed by all sections of the Church upon one another # well as upon un- believers, what can we nay but that the God of the men who did such things was the Idol of their own distorted prejudices and passions and that often they simply did not know the real God at all.
Revised Prayer Book..
Many of us have noticed with thankfulness the way in whic the Revised Prayer Book has pruned out from its services many phrases which reflect pre-Christian Idous of God. We are no longer taught to look upon sickness as being 'kent by God, nor upen
sny
MENTHOLATUM
What a Cold!
At the first indication of a cold apply MENTHOLATUM freely to the nostrils or inhale after beat: ing it in a spoon over steaming water and it will quickly bring relief.
MENTHOLATUL veniversally accepted as an invaluable remedy for neuralgia, headaches, cute, bruises, bums, in eruptions, etc.
inan
The Cross must ever etand
centro of God's Father- The Gospel is in the
a struggle over the Prayer Bookmediately be able to hear God is sometimes said. Yes, but we are Some Christiana class smoking as speaking the same thing, but we able to believe the story only be a deadly sin, or playing a game can have no doubt that He has a 'cause the Teller of it paid the last And on Sunday, or going to an evening word to speak, and that He means price of His love for men.
us to understand it. In persuading our failures are not to be lightly Commation.
A divorced person is banished others, our supreme appeal must be regarded when we see that they by the church, but a
who made, not to the derision of any jcrucify Him afresh.
God as 'Almighty, wi tenement property in which reclesiastical gathering past or
We must admit that the meaning the response of clean family life is practically future, but to
every man's conscience which of the word Almighty has under- impossible is welcomed into corner seat. Is it a wonder if hearing the Truth, bears witness gone considerable modification In longer men not only nak What is God's that it is true. Especialy should Christian thought. It ne will but as He a will about it we stress the positive nature of menns able to do anything.
God's holiness, and arouse men's recognise that belief in God as a at all
Let us admit that a great deal consciences about the good they Father who has given free moral the personallties to His children, carries, of the morality of the past has dont do, more than about been simply good behaviour, and wrong they have done. The more with it the necessity that He shall in so far as it consisted in ean- we know the true God and open not act in any way inconsistent
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