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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1937.

SILENT ZONES AND

SPEED-LIMITS"

Kowloon people will, we have little doubt, welcome the pro- posed institution of a "Silent Zone" and of a speed-limit of 30 m.p.h.

on the peninsula, Both proposals are warmly sup

CHALLENGE to the

CHURCH

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"TILL 1937 see a revival in of Christianity this country? HIIS Grace the Arch- bishop of Canterbury hopes so; and he has broadcast a recall to religion which has provoked an enormous amount of in- terest among all sorts of people.

No one can doubt that just now religion is news. My own experience as a parson is that

this reawakened Interest in religion, thought casual at present, might very quickly become a ferment and lead to a

great spiritual rebirth.

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certain thoroughfares in Frésidential districts and that it shall only apply during specified hours of the night. The speed- limit plan is envisagedas applying to residential

tian: One of the unmistakable signs of the times is the grow-

discover new sources of power, in the psychological or spiritual realms, with which to imple- ment his idents of peace and Justice, he is doomed.

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HE' drift towards war and the consequent

·"breakdown of civilisa- most of the tion seem inevitable unless he area across the can obtain access to some

dynamic, hitherto unused, upon - harbour, but the K.R.A. think any large scale. What if Chris- it should be extended as far as tianity, with all its failures. Laichikok Hill. Both mensures holds the key to such resources?

are

It is in this mood, part fatal-

Istic, part hopeful, that all kinds of people who have no religious loyalties at all are disposed at least to listen to an Archbishop

by Dr. Donald

SOPER

QUESTION TIME ON TOWER HILL- Dr. Soper addresses one of his well. known outdoor free-for-all meetings.

when he bids them have faith in God and join the Church,

I believe with the Archbishop. that the establishment of true. Christianity in this country and throughout the world is the only answer to our problems; but I should be profoundly disturbed If we allowed it to be assumed that all we consider necessary, in order to secure such a rell- gious revival, is to issue on be half of the Church a cordial invitation to the outsider to come back to the fold. That's not good enough, and it won't work.

Before the Church challenges anybody else to accept its faith In God it must surely do two things: I must declare in con- crete terms what is God's will for the age in which it lives, and it must demonstrate in its actions its confidence that God will enable His children by, the spiritual resources which Hé bestows upon them, to carry out that will.

The Church at the moment is not doing these things, and that is why its appeal is so flaccid and effectuel.

There is a widespread feeling that the Church is afraid to speak out uncompromisingly about nationalism, or capital- Ism, and is still less prepared to rely upon the divine powers about which it preaches; Its appeals for faith in God and a

return to ways of plety sound like a despairing effort to cover up its fallurcs and an attempt to justify its existence by con- centrating its efforts on indl- viduals, since it dare not pro- nounce upon society.

So, long as such a suspicion persists, recalls to religion will go unheeded. There is only ono wny for organised Christianity to overcome that suspicion, and

for that

representative spokesmen of the Church to de- clare unhesitatingly where they stand in obedience to God's will upon these great issues which are prompting the man in the street to listen to the voice' of religion, and then, and only then, to invite the outsider to Join a fellowship which is abso- lutely loyal to that Divine Wm.

WH

THAT does that mean in the terms of our immediate problems?. I think it means, this:----

The Church must declare what is the Christian form of social life and must refuse to support any other. The King- dom of God is not a benevalent. form of imperialism, it is not nationalism, however camou flaged, it is not a refinement of capitalism-it is not a better edition of these things, but

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human society different · radī cally from them all.

I'll go further. The Kingdom of Heaven is a non-violent com- munism. A Church loyal to the spirit and teaching of Jesua is bound to challenge the world with such an ideal and more-is under a divine obliga- tion to lead its followers towards that promised land,

Then let its leaders denounce the ovils that we all face and, thunder out their message as prophets hailing a new dawn, rather than complain as coro- ners at an inquest.

I want men to know that by giving their allegiance to Chris- tianity they will be embarking upon a great campaign to banish war and poverty and in- justice; to overthrow the falsc and corrosive doctrines of State, Empire, and race purity, and to set up a communal life where love and service have taken the place of selfishness and armed' might.

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UT just as important I want the Church which sends out this mani- festo to be the "advanco copy" of 'that now world it preaches, and by its example as well as its precept to commend the religion it advo- cates.

If a revival of religion is to come, the world must see in the Christian Church the marks of that new society.

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In other words, it must power of God at work, revolution- ising the lives of its members. The -trouble at present is that to the

naked eye the Christians don't ' seem to be very different from the heathens.

That is true in many fields, but especially in the realin of violence. The Christian Church, for all its insistence on the imperative duty of loving its enemies, has fought with just as much ferocity as the savart in the past, and even now no large Christian Church has om- cially renounced war.

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ET it remains true that for Jesus Christ the only way to the Kingdom of Heaven was the way of non-violent lovo.

I'm afraid It's not much use pleading for a return to Chris- tianity until those who are sup- posed to represent it appear to be taking its commands seriously.

This question of pacifism, what- ever may be its intellectual merits. whatever will be its political and personal repercussions, is the acid test of the sincerity of Christians. In the eyes of the man in the street.

He may or may not accept it for himself, but he is sure that we can't avoid being pacifists unless

twist the book.”

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I agree with him -- war and' Christianity simply will not mix. Only a non-violent Church will persuade the world to-day that it is sincere and that it means what It says. I realise that this is a hard and dangerous thing to say, but I've no doubt as to its truth,

are in the nature of experiments. It is to be presumed that the authorities intend trying out the proposals on the island as well. Both measures are in operation in most big towns at Home, particularly the laying down of a speed-limit in built-up areas. There is even greater need in this Colony for the ap- |plication both of "Silent Zones" and speed-limits. So far as the former plan is concerned, it would greatly lessen the inces.

Inced tree boughs, into a meadow be, and unlooked for, came at last to ona takes for granted, the small, yond, arched over with the wide, take the vacant place.

But the little thrills of every day, sant noises in the city if it could odd. pleasant happenings that every- unclouded sity, and flooded with sun- be applied in the business centre day life can bring, that almost every shine. And although you may have if sought for, would make a long and

day does bring, are apt to be under-

sorrows, and the unrest varied list. You may have been of the town, where day is made valued. One passes them over for and menace of the troubled world coming home at a certain evening hideous by the constant konk-the-more

evident and

substantial may haunt your soul, yet all that day hour for years, and then just one evening you seem to see your house, ing of car, bus and taxi horns pleasures. It is only on beginning to you are a little happier.

them that

realises the It is a very ordinary thing to walk as you draw near to it, as if you and the perpetual clanging of part they play in lightening the through the city streets, glancing at were not used to the sight of it, almost tramcar bells. It is to be monotony of the dilly round. the faces in the crowds that pass you as if you saw it for the first time. conceded that our streets

Still, many of those ordinary events by. You are not aware of seeking You see suddenly the charm of its often crowded with stupid jay in the familiar routine of the passing anyone, and yet perhaps there is the setting of your little garden, the lit windows, shining into the twilight; hours, can never become really somewhere in your mind, conscious walkers, but it is open to ques- prosaic. Will the arrival of the morn- or subconscious, some little thrill of trail of a rose bough or a clematis tion whether the incessanting letters for Instance, ever cease to expectancy. And you may turn round the casement, and within o tooting of motor-horns is con- be important? Will that sharp trill corner of some street and meet some table spread, and people, coming and Walt ducive to a lessening of danger of the bell, or that clap of the knocker, one you had never thought to see going in the bright room, who

under the postman's hurried fingers, again; "returned perhaps on

u visit you." to these pedestrians.

All at once you realise that life is Tooting ever full to awake, in those who hear to the old country from some distant becomes largely a habit with it,

sweet, and in spite of earth's sadness. part of the Empire. that thrill of anticipation? many drivers; it is certainly faces round the breakfast table to

your heart is thrilled by the loveliness have only to glance at the

of the little every day things of home. indulged in indiscriminately by law that everyone is alert and wall- You are so glad to see him, and you the majority of chauffeurs, to an Ing. And that he who says, dully walk together, having so much to talk So many things that bring joy to extent which makes it a public and resignedly, when the distributing of, and to recall, concerning the people you are mere trifles, or unlocked-for and pledging themselves under all nuisance. If it were

hand passes him by, "I knew there who were young with you both." And Interludes. A sudden glimpse, in more would be nothing for me," is

only you laugh about old love affairs, and your evening walk, of the moon strictly controlled, or, even hiding his heart. For is not every old adventures, and even old quarrels coming round the towering crags be better, altogether prohibited in one always expecting a letter?

He tells you of the Smiths, who went yond the city. At first, linc, a certain areas, the probability is

And you know that amongst those to: Canada, and you tell him of glimmer of radiance, growing slowly that drivers would be far more

uninteresting, inevitable missives, Petersen and his family. And you to a crescent, then a circle of gold, more or less of business matters, that go home afterwards thinking of the sailing out into the waiting sky, re- careful than they are to-day, have fallen to your lot, you look, al- meeting. And you are light-hearted, vealed in all its perfected glory. And Far too many take risks and though perhaps unconsciously, for one and keep saying to yourself, "Who you say to yourself, "For as long as would have thought I would meet those heights existed at this season, hope that the warnings which that will be different.

Jones-like this, just by tmppy and at the moon's appointed rising. they sound will cause pedes-

chance, after so

so long!"

this lovely thing has been happening, One trians to scatter in time.

see it for the first Perhaps it is the happy chances that and to-night And some day it may come. Per- point which cannot be disputed hops, from some friend far away, go to make up the little thrills of time!" is that there is far too much right at the other side of the world, every day; the unexpected, that per So although there is bad luck in unnecessary speeding, both

of whom you had not heard for many haps everyone la vaguely expecting. life, there is also happy chance. on years; who writes, that he has yielded You may have read the story of the Although to-morrow may not bring the island and the mainland. to a sudden impulse to send you his wanderer who begulled his loneliness you a message to say you have in- The imposition of a speed-limit news; to ask how things go with you, in journeying through cities and towns herited a fortune or to inform you by of 30 m.p.h. on the whole of the and to recall old interests and old and villages, and out and away to for that all your ships, so long delayed Kowloon peninsula and in built to you both.

affections, the

that

once mattered so much country, places. And at every little adverse winds and tides, have come Inn at which he halted he caused the in at last. At least it may bring you And the getting of that letter was able to be laid for another. "I am with the trill of the bell, the clap would be thoroughly justified, something, that even for a moment, always expecting a-guest, he would of the knocker, or the turning of a It is, in fact, an absolute neces-through, a shadowy wood comes charm of the little tale lay in the tell- joyous little thrills of every day.

made life scem better. As one walk-answer when questioned. And the corner of a elty street, one of the sity.

MARION W. SIMPSON. auddenly, from the avenue of Inter- 'ing of how a guest, lovely and gentle

up areas on the island as well CRAWFORD'S

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WOULD ülke to concrude by venturing

pro- phecy. If in 1937 one

of the great historic Churches of Christendom will call upon all men

to seek a new co-operative com- monwealth by belloving in: God,

circumstances to refuse the arbl- trament of violence - which, will mean the abandonment of com- fort and security, the acceptance of persecution, and the probability of apparent failure, multitudos who have lost faith in Christianity as the complete answer, to our human needs, will turn agnini to. that Church and find in its fellows ship the power and the programme of insting peace and goodwill.";

I can't prove this — you, may think it an impossible dream. - I. belleve it to be the technique of essential Christianity. Let that Church takes its courage in both! hands and test it out.

-To-day's Thought- REMORSE goes to sleep dur-. ing a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity.

-ROUS

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