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February 8, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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A disgrace to the Prayer Book!
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By the Rev. W. Rowland Jones
AROLE LOMBARD, I have also to remind him, what a nghting not only an stern and relentless Father he has in Heaven, who is really chastising liai epidemic, but a stubborn with fatherly correction Authority which refused to spend money to help her, utters a telling line in A. J. Cronin's film-piny, "Vigil in the Night."
I have to urge the, poor creature to take everything in good part, because the arrival of some painful disease is only sign of God's love,
1am Instructed to misinterpret some passages from the Epistle to Whe lebrews and thus prove that disease is something sent to us for our good by Divine providence.
Heartbroken in her unequal struggle, where money could have saved little children's lives, aho cries, Bo much_for_eyerything How very comforting for the sick else, so little for the sick!"
I shall remember the line, because I saw the film immediately after visiting a sick girl in hospital, who, for her cure, needed oxygen.
"I can't have any more," she said, "because in war-time it is too -expensive.”
So much for everything else, sa little for the sick!
"Perhen?~-
When I was a candidate for Ordin. ation the Bishop's chaplain naked me what I would do if there was a' sick person in my parish. I replied: "If i wanted film to die, I would use the Prayer Book Service for the Visita. tion of the Sick!” Strangely enough, they passed me.
This teaching is contrary to the Lenching of Christ Ho spent three- quarters of His time on earth healing the sick, and openly said that disense
Hospitals In Need Of was the work of the Devil not God.
Funds
It isn't only in war-time that we thus so completely forget to practise our Christianity. In the year before the war our voluntary hospitals bad to. make do with 18 million pounds, which would have kept our armed forces, in peace-time, for just three weeks,
We are so proud of our voluntary hospitals-these shining examples of our national religion-yet, in that year, 1938, they could not pay their wayl
We forced them into a huge deftelt. The London hospitals alone found themselves overdrawn by nearly a millon pounds
So much for everything else, sa little for the sick!.
Perkops a dimsy caso could be mada out for saving money on healing during -war-time. Could any sort of case be runde out for what has recently been reported in the dally Presa7
Witen market-gardeners of Lancashire found that they could not sell lettuce at a profit their vitamin-yielding pro- duce wan destroyed. It never occurred to them to give it to the sick. Or would! that liave been heresy against the God of Profit?
When there was a glut of fruit in to South, and the growers wished to send It either to the hospital four miles away, or to the Army camps, they could not get il convesed. Petrol was wanted for more important things.
He would not even allow people to say that sickness was inevitably the result at alti Who did sin." they asked him, this man or his parentă, that he was torn blind?" "Nelther!" came the abrupt reply.
Some diseases are the result of the unsocial acts of man-overeating, over- drinking, lust, milice. But no question of Divine punishment is implied; it is an obvious law of cause and effect.
God is Light, and Life, and Health. and if man will live his life in harmony with God's laws, he will enjoy thos0 precious gifts.
Ninely per cent of alckness is pre- ventable, it we are prepared to spend our money without stint and use our devoted doctors and research scientista for healing, without limiting their efforts
How ready we are to use them for the purpose of destruction!
Disease Due To Lack
Of Food
Medical men tell us that the chief cntiso of disease in this country is under nourishnient.
Sir George Nowman, for 28 years Medical Offleer to the Board of Eduen- tion, says, “A substantial portion of aur total population is not as well nourished as it ought to be in order to maintain full health and resistance to infection." Eir George anys that in 1910 it waN stated by the Board of Education that defective nutrition stood in the fore front as the most important of all physl-
Wrong Way To Talk To cal defects from which children suffer.
··Invalids
Why is it that in our Christian siviliaäzion we are so casual and so close fisted in our concern for the sick? I suggest that it is largely due to our Churches wholly unchristian CX- planation for the existence of discard.
As a clergyman of the Established 'Church I am instructed, in the casos of sickness, to go into the sick person's house and tell him in unmištakable “phintea why hự la thus stricken down.
I have to my, first of all, Dat it is the doings of Almighty God.. I have. to tell the poor sufferer. whatever tho nature of his disease, that he is to know, certainty, that it is God's visita tion:
"That declaration," says Sir George, "has never been disputed, IT IS STILL TRUE TO-DAY."
Ho anys, that man's conquest of disease and premature death, although it may have beon tiniting and hosítáïit, kas now became decisive. All that is needed for the defeat of this enemy in a war that never ceases. Is the better application of modical knowledge by the state, and its wider usage by tho people In the new world, which we ought now to be planning if we are to win the Peaco conquest of sickness must become a paramount concern.
The CRUBOS of disease-under- nourishment and bad sanitary condi-'' flons-must be attacked as vigorously as we are now altacking foroign
planter.
The Onurch. if it in to gain the respect of the people, must lend in that attack. It cannot lend if it allows medleyal and mistaken platitudes about disease to fu Its service books.
It is a sad commentary upon our mod- ern Church that it has allowed its early enthusiasm for the healing of the sick to pass out of its bands. Treasures Of The
Church
There is a fine story of a clergyman its Rome who discovered the city alúms teeming with sick Te sold his posses clons and porsunded. the bishop to sell the gold vessels of the churches and use
VIE “BUSHMILLEN
A newspaper correspondent on board a British cruiser in the Mediterranean thought he was going to see a naval battle, but in- stead saw how
THE DUCE'S FLEET RAN
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WITH the biggest naval engagement of the war but a few minutes away, a broad-shouldered sailor stood on the pom-pom deck in front of me, with both thumbs sticking up and a wide grin on his face.
"The Italians are going to get it this time, if they don't run home to mother before we can get at them," he said:
His words typified the spirit of the whole force of British ships as we plunged along at full speed to engage what we knew to be a superior enemy force.
Out on the horizon were at is believed to have sustained least two battleships, one of the damage. The only damage to Intest Littorio clar and one of our force was two shell hits on the Cavour cluss, seven cruisers, the Berwick.
four inch and three 7-inch, .70 MILES OFF
and about twelve destroyers.
SMOKE SCREEN
It was ten in the morning when the news came that the Our hopes ran high as the Italian ships had been sighted enemy appeared to be turning steaming south-east, 20 miles off towards our battle line, consist- the const south of Sardinia and ing of the 8-inch gun cruiser 70 miles away from our posi- Berwick and a large number of tion. other cruisers and destroyers,
Just after noon the masts of
the battle-cruiser Renown, the the enemy ships came within, Flagship, and a battleship.
They were 16 miles away. Rapidly the distance nur- rowed.
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vision of the naked eye, ahend THOS COOK & SON, LTD. Queen's Bldg. action began the enemy threw out a smoke screen and fought the usual Italian. rear action, while running at high speed for
The enemy opened fire first. safety.
The shells fell well short of the After a 50-minute pounding cruisers in the centre of the the enemy ships escaped north- line. wards. Our ships were then
Then our own guns opened within a few miles of the enemy fire. The sea around the Itali const and were forced to aban an ships was alive with water- don the pursuit as the superior spouts,
wooden-ones-in-order-to-mitigate-the-speed-of-the-enemy-ships-had-Cun-flashes stabbed out from
sufferings of the diseased.
The authorities became suspicious and arrested him. "Surrender the Church'я treasures! they demanded, "It will take many wagons," he said.
Next day there rumbled into the Fortun a great procession of wagons, full of blind, cripples, lepers
*Thiese," said the clergyman, "are the Church's treasures!
You don't talk or net like that If you think disease is a fatherly chastisement from God. You do if you are convinced that it is of the devil, rind that, by God's power, it can be conquered
Why is it that Church' and State will not expungo such blasphemy from our State prayers? Why is IL that they are content to propagate the le tint God E the Author of disease?
In a humble attempt to decarbonise the cylinders of a Church which won't get a move on to change the world, I give you the reason:—
IT IS EASY TO BLAME GOD FOR THINGS WE CAN GET RID OF OUR- SELVES, JUT WON'T BECAUSE WE REALLY WORSHIP ANOTHER GOD CALLED MONEY ONE OF THOSE THINGS IS SICKNESS; ANOTHER— WAR.
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the Italian squadrons, which were now steaming on the port Our gunfire had taken heavy side on a parallel course to us. toll of the enemy. Aircraft Shells plunged into the from our cruisers and the Ark around the cruiacra. Royal reported that one Italian We were concentrating our cruiser, believed to be an 8-inch, fire on. an enemy cruiser. An was on fire and burning furious- enemy destroyer began to lay a ly while a destroyer of the smoke screen, and we switched Grecale class had stopped, down our fire to her as the smoke be by the stern and was listing began to veil the enemy ships. slightly.
When it was reported that the The enemy ships, having es- cruiser was on fire, we concen caped from our guns, suffered a trated our salvoes on another further battering in the after- cruiser for the remainder of the noon from Swordfish bombers, action..
who returned to report the scor- By this time the Italian fleet ing of a torpedo hit on a 35,000- had nearly disappeared over the ton battleship of the Littorio horizon, running for the shelter class, another on an B-inch of the coast and shore batteries, cruiser of the Bolzano class, Fifty minutes after we opened and there were two bomb near fire on the enemy the order. to misses on a 6-inch cruiser which cease fire was given.
The New Aesop
THE IMPOSTOR
CERTAIN Jackal who had been lucky enough to be the Lion's friend in the last great fight against the Vulture greio vain and ambi- tious.
So conceited did he become that he procured a Lion's skin, and covering himself in it strutted around the Jungle saying. "Look at me! Am I not a Lion? And am I not a virile and younger, more braver Lion than any of you have ever scen boforo?"
The other animals were dubious yet somewhat im- pressed.
"Let us hear you roar," they said.
At this the Jackal oponed his throat and roared as loud as he could. It is true that his voice was really a tenor, but it was very loud and re-
verberated remarkably well, Thon to show his courage he fell on a Blackbird and de- voured it.
"Perhaps he really is a Lion," said the Cuckoos, and even the wicked old Vulture, admired him and asked him to be his partner..
Then when the poor Mule, who was the Jackal's Medi- terranean neighbour, had that terrible trouble with his left leg and his right, the Jackal bit the left leg so that it be came useless.
"Now," screamed the Jac- kal, "who says I am not tho king of beanto?"
Encouraged by all this, the Vulturo attacked the real Lion and his friend the Cock, swift- ly killing the Cock and then turning against his ancient, onomy.
At this the Jackal, thinking the opportunity was expedi tious, joined the Vulture, as he was certain he was going to win. The real Lion waa very angry at this, and after a time he struck the Jackal a heavy blow which toppled him into the sea.
"
"You can't attack mo here, whined the Jackal, "for this is my act. "The Lion uttered a deep rear and went into the water after hivi. Again he struck, and this time so hard that the Lion's skin fell right off the impostor.
"“Mercy! Mercy?" screamed the Jackal. "Who will help me! Can't you see that I am only a poor, Jackal and that I was just pretending to be a. Lion”.
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