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KING & CHURCH who has seen at to revile him
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DECEMBER · 21,... ....-- 1936.
AVIATRIX CRASHES publicly. The Archbishop of Can Lerbury's words are woefully reveal-
MARYSE HILTZ · INJURED REV. J. D. MACLEAN'S lag of his Church's continued pre- ference of smug morality to daring
IN ACCIDENT DENUNCIATION
Christian expression of Christian trulha amugness which even the
Marseilles, Dec. 20. Strong denunciation of hypocrisy | loss_of King, whose service to the
Maryse Hitz, famous French air- in all forms, with specint reference world and to Christ would have been woman, is reported to have been to the part played by the Christian even more vàluable in the future seriously injured when the acroplane Church in the abdication of Eriking been unable to break. It is more, break the speed record crashed into than they have been in the past, hus in which she was attempting to VIII, was the keynote of a address by the Rev. J. D. MacLean than a pity that those who lo: - the hills. from the pulpit of the Union Church, Kennedy a large arction
Road, yesterday.
formed of of the British nation stands rebuked by the abdication of King Edward the Eighth, and the hardest rebuke fails upon the Christian Church to which he belongs, and on him, its lender (the Archbishop of Canterbury), who ling seen at to revile him publicly," zaid Mr. MacLean.
and believe in true facts, events and her machine, which
him will never be In- She had to leap by parachute from
happenings which led to King Ed- wrecked:
never
was totally ward's abdication; but it is regret She was flying the same machine fully certain that had he had a full, in which Detroyal recently broke intelligent and articulate support the flying record In the United from his professedly Christian sub-States. Reuter. Jects, even
the possibilliy
United Press adds that of losing
the air. him would
Have
arisen.
woman crashed at Elang Estomac. Failed The Empira
Detroyat swept the board, at the The institution which professes the Los Angeles air races. A large congregation was present Christian leadership of England has
Dakar, Dec. 20. Including many from the Royal Navy falled the entire Empire; first, by re-
Maryse Baste, French avlatrix, and
Army. The service concluded fusing to recognise false class dia has arrived and has commenced pre- with the singing of the National An-tinctions, a breach of the funda-arations for her solo. flight from The
In which all joined,
Dakar to Pernambuco.--United Press, mental basis of all Christian lying. The text of the sermon was: And, second; by exploiting, to the
Miami, Dec. 20, Whilted
from sepulchres, which indeed ap- full, its irrational and,
Desversky has gained an unofficial the pear beautiful outward, but
world record for amphibian plones are Christian view point, its unwarranted for 100 kilometres at a speed of 200.4 within, full of dead men's bones, and attitude to marriage and divorce, of all uncleanness,"
mlics (St. Matthew For what were the Archbishop's
hour.-United Press. per xxill : 27).
objections to King Edward's proposed This
-Imagery would appeal strong- marriage? He said it was "In- respectability, were the things which ly to a Jewish audience, Bald the consistent with
indeprived us of the life of one who preacher, Whited sepulchres gleam-clples of marrie Christian prin- What he should
had proved his willingness to serve ing in the sun were a familiar fen have said was that it was inconsistent been given to use to the end if only his people and whose life would have ture in the everyday landscape. They with Angilean regulations; and these were caverns cut into the rock will identical as is the the system and
two things are as far from being the erstwhille divine right of kings, there had been accorded to him, not with a great stone set up close to the en- trance. Once every year these stones
tones Christian loyalty to Christ's Church, but the human rights of an ordinary were whitewashed, not to muke them Christ's teaching on
man, the right to marry where he the sacramental beautiful, but to warn people that a relationship of men and women is of it that respectability and un- ta. loved. "The pity of 0, the pity grave was there lost they touch it not a statement of natural law, nor Christion class-selfishness should de- and be defiled. You can imagine
ommand binding upon man's prive how the darkness and the dead men's temporal existertee in any sense: It ship of one so well qualified to lead whole people of the leader- bones would stir the mind of Jésus is a declaration of the eternal pur- as a boy so strongly, indeed, that pose of God for mankind, which is and serve. describe something which he parti- between a man and a womnt, and nation and kingdom that do not serve Let our loss of King Edward be when, Inter life, he
in
He wanted to fulfilled wherever true love exists the warning of God Lo us! The cularly hated, the hounting of his which needs neither the sanction of 11m will perishi God is love to all. youth came back to him, and in the the State nor the blessing of the men and all the highest that man is, white hent of his hatred for hypo- Church to make it eternal, but is n
comes from that divine love. The crisy he likened the Pantisees to unto
to unton in the holy spirit forever and world demands God's love, in all its these whited sepulchres.
ever
Dy his actions and words the wideness and liberty, or it will never We cannot for a mement doubt Archbishop of Canterbury presumed function probably, so we must
have the meaning of his figure of speech; to deny the possibility or
God's
done with hypocrisy and with every- "whited sepulchres" is enshrined in Spirit working in the lives of two thing that savours of R, and zealously our language as perfectly expressive of His children. But there is a still seek the truth alone in everything, of the hypocrite; the man who is one
further consideration which may any outer fe is ugliness and discre thing inwardly and another out-have Influenced this presumption of and death, "dead men's bones and wardly. But when you come to omniscience. The marriage which King Edward proposed to contract was with woman from "a social circle whose standards and ways of
examine the significance of the phrase in relation to the Pharisees it reveals a deeper and subtler mean- ing.
Iespectable Stas
are alien to all the best instincts and traditions of his. (King Ed- ward's) people".
There is not even the ghost of n suggestion that King Edward should
chosen B have
royal wife for diplomalle reasons, only a cheap of society climbers would use against social objection such as the humblest wilful son or daughter. Surely the Jesus of Nazareth there is no respect Archbishop has forgotten that with of persons!
The Pharisees sins never shocked anybody; they never outraged the feelings of society; they never broke through its unwritten laws, yet they were eminently guilty of high trea- son to their sacred religious trust They were eminently but, from the
point on
respectable,
講 of view of Christ, they were worse than valueless; they were the source of cyclable sin evil and spiritual death. They were respectable ners. Now respectable sin la nct just secret sin. It is aln which, when committed, carries no social stigma. It is sin which an individual may commit and yet remain without social forfeit. it is sin which is tolerated by
that is general not wirited with soc 15
opinion, short it is
ogerierally | called " deadly Bin". But there an element of unexpected aptness rise in our Lord's moral
and
when We lenient
when
not
HU
him most were
In
is sometimes severe would be lenient, and
we would be
be severe. All sin was hateful to him because all sin is rebellion against God; yet undoubtedly the sing which stirred not
the passionate sins-they were the cold and cal- culating ones
ones that
masqueraded as respectability..____The mind of Jesus towards Peter who betrayed him, and to the Magdalene who betrayed her- self, throbs with unutterable tender- and love, while towards the Dess Pharisees, we look in vain for such understanding. Against them and against all hypocrisy Christ huricd his strongest, bitterest, and atcrnest judgments.
The Subtle Mind The reason for that is because sin which is respectable has an un- equalled power of deadening the mind, the sensibilities and the con- selence. Of all sins it the most pernicious in its induence upon simple folk, and Jesus condemned it Eo utterly because he had such a great love.for
simple-minded great He saw how mightily it
it would appeal inded peopic. to natures which would turn in re- voit from the coarseness of
vice. And therefore out of his intense love for foolish men did he terribly de-. nounce it. For we are foolish about sins, we fear only those which will stamp a label upon us, but are ready to receive and to do anything that does not merit social censure. Το preserve respectability is the process which passes for religion for a tragically great number of English people. Let us be respectable at all. costs! Let us
us never do anything, nor permit anything, which would ren- us pervious to insult or ridicule from the rest of the world,
der
But to the Christ mind which is
given to the pursuit of truth above all other things, and which values his truth more than all the argu- ments of theologians, it is terribly clear how our Lord would regard many, who to-day call themselves by his name, who have learned all that St. Paul and St. Augustine, and the Church Fathers have to say about him, and who place their least word before the guidance of his holy spirit which was his remaining gift to men. *Retribution
But seemingly apart from Christ, life has a way of paying us out for auch Insincerity; and it is abundantly clear that the business of being hypocrites towards Christ is going to prove increasingly costly if not actually ruinous to us. The moral leadership of an un-Christian, civili- zation cannot much longer be main tained under modern conditions of life, by a people whose official re- ligious faith enshrines monstrous in- sincerities and repulsive Intellectual dishonesties.
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"To-day, British nation stands rebuked by the abdication of King Edward the Eighth, and the hardest rebuke falls upon the Christian Church to which he belongs, and on him, its leader,
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