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ENGLISH CLERIC'S VIEW
SAVING OF LIFE BY PRAYER
"I suggest that if a new re- velation of God ever comes to this planet, It will be through some heightening of the tele- pathic thought," said the Rev. T. F. Royds, rector of Houghton, Staffordshire, in an Address to the Modern Churchman's Con- ference at Oxford.
"Some day a Heavenly vision may be seen more often," said Mr. Royds "Our physical evolution has been complete for
thousands of
much slower.
many
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He and that not
Sutton Coldfield, kind of religious faith which involved a night from fact was tolerable to those who are children of the age of science.
"At the same time." he went on, "I hasien to acknowledge, with heavy heart, that this is an age that even now may be passing away, doomed to be submerged unter an uprush of There exists to-diny Irrationalism.
between the world of religious Calth a widespread sense of incongruity and the world of facts.
"A headmistress of a well-known years, but our spiritual evolution is pubile school told me that she found it simply useless to tell her girls that They want to ja thing is wrong.
know why it is wrong.
"Telepathy is already a well-esta- bished fact. In America nearly a hundred thousand experiments have been made over a period of three years, and it has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that some prople. perhaps only 1 minority, have the power to transmit their thoughts to others nt any distance, like brøndenst speech.
Referring to prayers for the
There was a tendency nowadays for the religious teacher to avoid the difficulties which had troubled his father by disregarding the factual world. Claiming an autonomy for the world of faith, he withdrew himself within his own domain.
The great or theologians wito coined these phrases dwelt in a world in which the frame- work of thought was different from that of to-day. In that distant world fine our nendeinle theologians had
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answered prayer, but not all kinds so that they could preserve the trea-
sures of old time. of prayer.
But when they approached the children
century of the twentieth talking the language of the fifth cen- tury they were, it was to be feared, wasting their breath.
"Prayers for seasonable weather! can change nothing but 'the minds of those who hear them. The spirit of God can heal and strengthen not only the spirit of man but niso through it bir body. I believe that.
EXPLOITING PERSONALITY
All this might make the work of I, for one, know what it means to be the purnchial clergy more interest- instrumental in saving life throughing: It certainly made it no easier, prayer. I do not care to give details. Many sought a way of escape. Some except to those who have been exploited their own personality if it through something of the same kind, happened to be attractive, and they because such an experience ist in-had the gift of getting it across from communicable, tind 1 Inve no the pulpit to the congregation. They selentifle evidence to offer.
made no great claims on the intelli- gence of their people, and it would be futtle for the more intelligent of their people to make any great claim on theira.
STORY OF Elisha
RENO-VATED AT RENO
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the hard facts and clamant problems of everyday life.
What they offered, however, was in truth only mysticism and water heavily sugared with sentimentally, It found musient expression in the worst of the more popular mid- Victorian tunes of "Hymns, Ancient genuine mystle and Modern." The would give it very short shrift.
"I will only say that two years ago I understood, for the first time, the story of Elisha at Dothan, and They were generous of emotion, how the young man saw the mount were rather addicted to accusing tain full of horses and chariots of the more thoughtful of their fellow fire round about Elisha, I do not clergy of an intellectualism which
HERD MENTALITY mean that I actually saw anything, they were pleaded to stigmatise as but I knew I was there as surely as dry. It might be objected that they Psychologists were criticised by the I know I am in this room.
were unduly Jealous for the assured Rev. J. C. Hardwick, who said:"As interests of the Intellectually weaker we look round on the contemporary members of the flock, and were apt fcene we can observe every device of to forget that God had endowed them psychology and science being employ- with minds us well on with wills anden in the technique and propaganda emotions. They were often lovable to submerge the modest amount of possessed by average men, and no one would grudge them rationality
used their measure of success within their humans. Psychology is being
at present to dehumanise
The own sphere.
herd mentality is being deliberately fustered and exploited."
"There are severul kinds of psychotherapy, for example Christian Selence, Couc-ism. auto-suggestion, ul the miracies of Lourdes, and they all deliver the goods to some extent
or they would not survive long.
"The same are sure that God has spoken to them, but so
the Insane. How can we tell when Cod really has spoken? Surely by telling the difference between the sane and the insane.
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MYSTICISM, WATER, AND
SENTIMENT
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"Psychologists are betraying the Others, Though in private they whole conception of the personality might show themselves to be theolo- and the sacredness of the Individual. gins of a drastically critical type, In It is not beside the mark to note how Mr. Royds, speaking to a reporter pubile ministrations also appealed to the new psycholeglenl doctrines are later about his reference to prayer the emotions, thaugh in a different being accompanied by new political -being-instrumental In-saving life, and less-personal way. They had aand economic social ideals, which re- sold that it was a very personal fair for what was beautiful, digni-duce the individual to the status of matter, which he did not wish to discuss in public, beyond saying that fed, and awe-inspiring in ritual and a unit. To-day the ordinary citizen ceremonial. They were adepts in a cog in the industrial machine, fodder for the military it was a case of seemingly incurable the technique of mass-paychology, cannon illness which was cured by
faith-They put liturgiology first und machine, and a rubber stamp for the healing.
theology second. These, again, did political machine. hot fail to find ample material res-
"We have risen above the beasts, FAITH AND FACT
ponsive to their art.
but are we better than they? That greedy, The need for a religion which Others indulged in a pseudo-we are, mare, cruel, more reconciles faith with fuct
was mysticism which walled the worship-more lustful, can hardly be denied. emphasised by the Rev. G. L. H. per Into a realm where the doors We are, indeed, more cunning, but Harvey, rector and rural dean of were bolted against the intrusion of Is cumming a moral quailly?"
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