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TOO
MANY SECTS
By the REV. W. ROWLAND JONES
Vicar of Denton, Manchester,
whose outspoken newspaper articles are creating great discussion everywhere.
To Speak Of Many Things
PROF. PITIRIM A SOROKIN (Havard sociolo- gist):"There is too much soft living at Harvard, the students are fat and lazy from too much to eat and drink. They live too luxuri- ously iri their separate
BEFORE the Church can lead sects. They tell us that our set forth by Jesus of Nazareth houses and their beds are
the world into the way of "unhappy" divisions are a good
It is not true to say that His [too soft. What these mor- peace, she must be at peace thing, for varying temperaments teaching is capable of a hundred ally and physically softened within herself. Yet to-day noth can be met, paying their money different interpretations. Theo- students need is a return to ing confuses the non-Christian and taking their choice.
logians have made His teachings the Spartan way of life. more than the fierce antagonism They love to compare the vari- ambiguous because they would This would make them fit of the rival Christian sects.
ous denominations to the many have them so.
material to be leading the units of a fully-equipped army.
United States in a time of
"If these people who are suing for my allegiance cannot agree among themselves about what it is they wish me to follow, can their Gospel be all that they claim?" It is a reasonable criticism.
Most Are Non- Christians
sixth Orthodox Catholics,
I wish the picture were true. Here is the true picture.
It's Crystal Clear crisis."
Would you dare to say "Love your enemies" is capable of more] than one interpretation?
CARLOS DAVILA (former ing our island home. Picture Imagine our soldiers defend
President of Chile, speaking at one half of the Army in the
Is it not crystal clear what Town Hall): "It seems to me South under the command of a Jesus' meant when He said, that this loss of vitality (in de-. dictator. Imagine also several "Love your neighbour as your lief that democracy is the nor- mocracy) may be laid to the be- self"? It was a querulous law-mal form of organisation for Army Corps In the North.
yer, wanting to justify himself, human The Southern Army will not who asked. "And who is my already built, definitely estab
society. Something
lished, and which nobody will ever dare challenge; the gift of The answer Jesus gave made the romantic middle classes of
Dictator."
No sort of communion exists Bishops Don't Know
пе-
Look at the facts. Nearly fight side by side with the neighbour?" two-thirds of the population of Northern Armies. They will the world are non-Christians, not even admit the others are Of the Christian third, half are soldiers. "They can only be more clear still what was never the nineteenth century to our Roman Catholics, a third Pro- coine soldiers," they say, "by really vague. "Your neighbour materialistic; struggling and for- testants, and the remaining enlisting under our Southern is the man in need, regardless of gotten man. We thought we had reached a goal which re- his rank or nationality."
quired no militant defence, no I have read the words of Jesus mysticism, no self-denial, no ex-
had so many times, and I can tell pansion. Democracy between the Roman Catholic half and the rest. Only a frag-
Add further to the picture and you in a few words what follow-cepted the diagnosis of premn
ture senility.... Democracy is mentary communion exists be. see every Army Corps in the ing Ifim means. It is not cover an experiment that began to tween the Protestants and the North acting independently of ed, believe me, by mere enthuwalk with our help in
every other, refusing to strike a siasm for any sect or denomina- times." blow side by side, even at times tion. The Roman Catholic half of fighting against each other, He asks just this, that men the Christians call the other
often fighting against the South- should treat God as Father, and half heretics!
ern. Army,
live their lives in the certain as What would happen? The surance that their Father wil disunited Armies would be de- never let them down. feated.
"If you do that," says Jesus,
Orthodox Catholics.
our
The majority of Protestants WHAT IS AN INCIDENT?
deny the genuine Christianity of those who call themselves Catho- UNDER the stress of war, lics, using the bitterest words
Charlot is frequent, but mild) Their only hope would be to "He never will let you down." some of our words are taking to describe their brother Chris- forget their internecie com: Drab Respectability the real grammar of present day
on a new meaning. They have tinns.
sor of English at the University CHARLES C. FRIES (profex- of Michigan, addressing the Na- tional Council of Teachers of English at Chicago):
"The efforts of countless generations of teachers to instruct students in grammar have been ineffec... ..... tive and futile. The study of
American English has never joined up for the duration, and
Then, to follow. Him is to been used in the schools, and the Interpret that certainty of God's experience of at least two hun- probably for longer. The most
The only hope the Churches Fatherhood by 4 venturous, dred years shows that we cannot fortunate of these is the word An unbeliever once said in
recognition that hope by teaching to change the practices of a language; we can "incident." Through an inspir-admiration, "How these Chris. have of survival is to sink their abandoned
every man is your brother. ed stroke by the enterprising it is said in sarcasm.
Jonly help our students to learn tians love one another!" Now differences and to unite.
I know certain Bishops who, The churches have turned what those practices are.” Japanese, it has come to mean-
But the dismal story becomes hearing that, would lean back in that into an academic theory. not this or that part of a war,
their well-up-holstered chairs Jesus wanted it to be an enthu- have dellberately blurred is clean and smile. "Does this fellow siastic method of living.
but
A Strange Spectacle
worse as you go on.
ences and to unite under a com- mon command against the com- mon-enemy,
lines.
a complete war. TokyoWhile the Catholics, by means really think the Church-is-so-It will lead you, He said, to do New Crusade Wanted
seems to obtain peculiar satis- faction from referring to the "China incident." It has lasted for years, and must therefore be the longest incident on record. Moreover, it is not yet finished. The people at Home are much more modest in their war-time "'incidents." With them the
of totalitarian methods, rigidly weak?" exclude all who vary from the
most thrilling perilous things I want to see a new crusade which Bishops don't know. Smugly like giving away your coat when shall be wholly concerned, as Jesus faith as Catholics accept it, thus
living as He lived. forcing the appearance of unity, complacent, they never see the you haven't another; like asking asked. In the love-experiment of Church as it really is. When people who hit you to hit you Protestants do nothing of the the bishop comes, crowds come. again.
kind.
the sword.
But it is like a specially blown- It will lead you to the daring The result is that the Protest- up balloon.
experiment of trying out now ant third of Christendom is
The Church normally is the ways of overcoming evil-ways broken up into warring secta too
We there empty shapeless bladder. It is much more glamorous and much numerous to nume. fore have the strange spectacle far weaker than the bishops more effective than the way of in our country of uncharitable realise.
chapel und church, between mission hall rivalry between
I am not even impressed by The churches have made the apparent might of the thrilling life-venture into and inceting house.
Roman Catholic Church.. Like a accepting of rules and respectabili-
tles. That is not Christianity. Many deliberately adopt the totalitarian State (which it way of competitive business to really is), it looks much stronger
prea than the facts justify. gain adherents. "Star" chers are advertised, and paid fees according to their. "draw- ing-power."
One Hope Only
word merely means that a Ger- man bomb has fallen on such- and-such a street or building or open space and many bombs have, un-Nazi like, preferred open spaces. The bomb may not explode; presumably it is an incident none the less. Even if the damage be fairly extensive, the affair remains no more than
There is only one hope for all "Count Me Out!" the churches-reunion. It is an incident. Therein may be
the only way of hope because it scen further evidence of the
Money is freely spent on social is the only Christian way. complete self-possession with clubs, secular shows, dance which the British nation has bands, and strect demonstra- tions in the hope that this secu- adjusted itself to the war inlar bait will catch, a few more general and to would-be Blitz- fish. krieg in particular.
But.
I sometimes wonder
I want common people whom He loved, to rally to that crusade, and to look upon Him as their laughing, daring Comrade in a new way of life.
There is no encouragement in omcial religion, with its monotonous services, its sinvery to money, its stifting
of comradeship.
Offclolism in the churches has burled the true spirit of the God-Man:
if humanity is to be saved, that this stiffed spirit must be given new, ex- 儿 drab pression, new life:
You see why I wonder whether there is, after all, any hope for the churches. They have missed the crusading adventure of Jesus; they
A
Master
They have taken the tomb of our
Comrade, Christ;
They have burled Him deep
under steel and stones
But
100 come, leading Crusade,
• New
To give our Comrade back to His
own,
Strategist
Military experts, studying the jguished pupil of the Prussian whether the-greater hope is not Greek victories over larger and Potsdam military academy, had outside the churches altogether. better-equipped Italian armies, figured out in advance of this For the survival of Christianity believe that a master military war
what the. British
and
a greater thing than the sur-strategist has come unexpected-French High Commands had not The fish are not often caught vival of the churches must woly upon the European War scene-that the only hope of beating the Axis powers' mechanised from the vague sens of unbelief, not rescue Christianity from the
war machines was with a highly other sects. but from the adjacent rivers of churches?
mobile, elastic defences force, able to operate in independent
Some may see in the widening use of the word, a tendency, thanks to the censorship, to be-
Is it not true to say that all Frequently, public acts of the churches have departed so come less and less disposed to worship are turned into stunt far from the pure spirit of their call a spade a spade and a bomb shows by means of paid founder it is a forlorn hope ever a bomb. These sour critica may
vocalista, cinema filma, Sunday to expect them again to become school "sermons" with dressed-- His Instrument for the regenera- be dismissed out of hand. They up children, sports services with tion of the common people? know nothing of the beautiful the local football hero reading
I want to see a band of men clastic of the English language, the lesson.
and women larger than any Even if "incident" came from Can you wonder that healthy church, held together by an alle- some hard-working Department-minded people keep away from giance more fundamental than
churches who use such blatant loyalty to any creed... methods?
al pundit, we think well of it none the less. Perhaps some other bureaucrat will some day speak or write of "the incidence of incidents." Then our joy should be complete.
I want to see them gathered
PREMIER METAXAS
units.
This strategy seemed to be the secret of Greek victorica in the mountains, ravines and val- leys along the Albanian border. Although he is said to be well pleased with the first results of the war, Metaxas' confidants say he is too seasoned and realistic to believe that the issue has been settled. He believes that the hardest blows will come when Italy throws the full force-
Is it surprising that the aver- together from all the churches in the person of Greece's premier of its reserves and its air age man says, "Count me out of and from that vast "church" and dictator, Gen. John Metaxas, armada into the fight.
But if Grecco can withstand ̧ this sort of Christianity !"? outside the churches.
It was becoming daily moro the blow, he believes, Benito Remarkably, there are many I want their allegiance to be apparent that the 70-year-old, Mussolini's Fascist regime will who defend the existence of the to the simple truths so clearly bespetacled Metaxas, a distin-fall.
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