THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY,
IF I WERE
A CHRISTIAN
Ye now mantra a report operations.
may have noticed in cussed the pre-war world like
generals gathered round a map
that Dr. A. E. J. Rawlinson, Bishop of Derby, motored over to Markham Shale Colliery after the disaster recently and led the waiting crowd at the. pithead in prayer.
The Bishop was doing his duty as a Father in God. The prayers which rose from the knerling folk were certainly more heartfelt and holy than most of those sald in churches and chapels on Sundays.
Yet I read the news of Dr. Rawlinson's prayera with dis- appointment. It seemed to typify the present attitude and policy of organised Chris- tianity to the problems of a world nching with successtvc crises and disasters.
Once some great explosion has taken place, the Christians are always on hand to pray, to console, to deplore.
But until the explosion hap- pens the number of Christians who, foreseeing the danger, work to prevent it is so small that each one, like St. John the Baptist, la a voice crying in the wilderness though he stands up to speak in a cathedral.
If I were a Christian should feel ashamed. I should blush to my bones.
When I was a little boy I
I
grew up in a household Inti- mately concerned with profes- slonal Christianity. Bishops and missionaries, Noncon- formist propliets and storm- troopers of the Salvation Army came, met together and dis-
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They were all tremendour in their zeal against the powers of darkness.
The battle, they knew, never relented. The sallents of light and truth could only be en- inrged by forestalling the enemies of freedom and right.
They watched and they prayed without ceasing. They did not wait for the disaster to happen first.
Of course, they were not always right. Much of their zeal is that they wrought mightily was narrow. But what matters
agulist what they Бату DS wickedness in public life or in- ternational affairs.
They did not mince their words or heed their adversaries' feelings. Like John Wesley, they made the world their parish,
They were such men as Dr. Clifford, Joseph Pariter, Willam Booth,
Bishop Goro, R. J. Campbell, Sylvester Horne,
To-day the Bishops of the Church of England, the English Herarchy of the Catholic Church, and the leaders of Non- cry out
conformity do not
To-day's Thought HE who shall introduce into
public affairs the principles
of primitive Christianity wo change the face of the world, -FRANKLIN.
THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William
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THERE is much yet to learn as to why earthquakes occur more frequently during certain periods of the year than others. there seems to be sufficient data on hand to prove that most quakes occur in years of fewest sun-spots.
GOSH,
This photograph of a Guildford clergyman trying on his pas mask aptly comments on the present position of the Churches concerning the world outside them.
against oppression or iniquity at all.
Sometimes Д muffed and apologetic muttering rises up from organised Christendom, disregarded, almost mocked, by the proud and the great ones of the earth.
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At this moment this morn- ing-there are things going for- ward against which tre- mendous protest ought to be made by all "who profess and call themselves Christian."
In Geneva 'the last act in the betrayal of Abyssinia draws out. In China naked force struggles to enslave a patient and innocent nation.
In Spain civil war, started and forced on by military ad- venturers, racks the people.
In Germany Д philosophy
every opposed to
Christian principle and practice pre- pares for war on a scale which dwarfs the scale of the years from 1914 to 1010.
In Italy children of eight and nine learn to drill with little rifles, dressed in their little uniforms.
Here at home the Govern- ment forces on counter-pre- parations for war: The wealth or the richest people in the world is poured out to this end, "While the millions of the un-
their employed and
families drag on an existence without comfort, almost beyond hope.
I do not say that organised Christianity can find a remedy for these things.
I do say that its acceptance of them, almost without murmur, shocks, and shames
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You could laugh at Dlek Shep- pard. You might believe him to be mistaken. But at least he accepted the decay of civilisa tion as a challenge,
He never kept silent against what he believed to be evil. Ic gave his life working for Peace,
But Dick Sheppard is dead. And so, I am afraid, are all the Blahops and leaders of the Churches-dead to the realities of the world around them, to the fact that what they stand for is challenged as it never has been since Christianity began.
first
T.D.
Across The Czech Frontier
ONE
NE summer night three years ago, I drove with some friends In small car across the Czech frontier into Cermany without atop play. I was quite close to Eger. 1 tremble to think what would have happened if I had tried that sort of thing recently.
towed into the town. Pilsen i famous for beer, but we were too intent on having our car repaired little Czech money, and although to take up that point. We had very
we were not German folk we were desperately eager to be absorbed into the German Reich, and solvency,
The Czech mechanics were slow Noctiless to say, we were not try and exasperating, and it was not ing to make a desperate getaway As we awung ont on the road to until 10:30 that our car was ready. over the border. We had no inten- Eger it was already dark and we tion of giving the customs officials tore along under pitch black skica. the slip. Far from it. We didn't hoping to sleep on German soil. even see any customs officials, nor Not on the List did anyone try to bar our way- Until we arrived at the German frontier, across a no man's land of three kilometres, we did not know we were out of Czechoslovakia. We thought, indeed, that the German customs officials were Czech, until they refused to let us in. It then became clear that we had driven over the border without stopping. Towed Into Town
We were very tired, and I can just recall Eger as a blur of red and green lights. It must have been shortly after this that we gates | member a sleepy, portly German crashed into Germany. fean re- official solemnly checking our names off a list of suspects. For a mo- ment we were horrified, unt wo learned he was checking the fact that we were not on his list. Every- thing was in order, he said, except that we had nothing to show we had been through the Czech frantier station.
It had been a very tiresome day. In the morning we had left Prague reluctantly and headed for Pilsen and Germany. About lunch time We made our way back along the our little car had broken down-in-witting road to Czechoslovakia and
a lonely forest and we had to rely, on a motor cyclist to help us out. He was a friendly fellow and spoke German, as we knew no Czech. Whether he was a Sudeten Deutsch I don't know. It didn't neem to matter then.)
Outside Pilsen our car broke down again atil we were forced to the humiliating measure of being
Found that the Czech customis man had thought we were a party of Garman journalists who were to be Jel through ni ali speed. He was even more taken abnek than we were when he realised his mistake,
That was the only time I have crossed a frontier without stopping. and I feel quite proud about it. I doubt if I could do it again.
J. W. T.
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