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THURSDAY JULY 24, 1924

WELLS ON CHURCHES, convincing which is required of the Churches would have to be a miracle of simplicity and given the possibility of such a miracle, the newer sufficient for the neods of-to-day wordd be insuficient for the needs of the morrow.

THE ETERNAL QUESTION.

HONGKONG SERMON,

THE CHINA MAIL.

the question What must I do?" The early Church was able to and has remained divided and give a plain and unanimous answer dividing since the first decade of ❘ to these questions. The dominant her history.

preoccupation of the primitive and early Church was not the present but the future. The return in triumph of the crucified Messiah, the restoration of His kingdom and His reign on earth constituted the daily and confident hope and expectation. The whole world was lying in darkness, the early believers awaited the Messianie dawn. The future alone was

Our reply therefore to those who demand of the Churches a plala answer to the most momentous The reason," we offer, is to be question we can propose to our Taking as his text: "What still found in the intellectual, moral selves or to the Churches is that all we do? What must I do in be and spiritual progress of the new.progress within the Christian Faved" (Acts. 2.87. . . the which, nuwes forward, however. Church raises new problems and Rev. C. Clouston Forri, H.C.F.much the advance may be dis the questions" What must I do delivered the following sermon puted What Angustitie und and what is salvation? are being the Wesleyan Church, Wanchai, Luther and John, Wesley said as constantly re-opened and the last Sunday.

not cecessarily sufficient for us.

answers continually readjusted. attractive. "Moru people are speaking These great leaders had a message

The Council of the Church, to-day and asking with a new for their time and for posterity bar which met at Jerusalem, to discuss intensity, wint must I do to be they were certainly no lurgers of what further conditions were 'saved?' The question is from l. intellectual chains for the men of required of Gentile believers than H. G. Wells all is to be found in God to-day."

of their Jewish elder brothers populer monthly Magazin.

was the beginning of questionings The present wave of indifference.

which have continued nearly to religion sprids" not, through

nineteen centuries and to which any lack of interest in religion birt

we see no end at present. though Jark of -dudiente in- ! strurgog arul quidatives. Mr. Walls Forts the Furches mospain. sible. People within and without the Churches ask. What must we dog ***The troubles the

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Chocles is that tay give a eu fised, unconvincing and antisfy ing answer.

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Ma must pass from From vui to real, from mistake

to fact, . From what ce seened goni.

to what now proves best." The study of the best "Out- lines" of Church history and an inquiry into what answer to question of our text was given by St. Peter, St. Paid. Augustine Luther, Wisley prove instructive and converfive", The Sud and maanimous reply of the Churchess,

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Further, the new religion entered into an alien world deadly oppos ed to its presence and antagonistic to its members. A world which crucified the Christ, and made the cross the Instrument of salvation showed small mercy to those who by their faith in the Christ condemned it as the murderer of The appeal to history may seem the World Messiah and Saviour. a cumbersome method of seeking Persecution blazed out in Jerusalem a way of salvation. We can only and spread with the rapidity of say that the confused, unconvincing the new religion. Martyr succeed and unsatisfying answer ofed martyr. The "saved" were Churches to-day can be under the threatened and imperilled, stood only in the light of their history.

The Christian Church began her We welente asws the assume accor

career as a sect, her founders nice of Mr. Wells that the timber would be but tentative.

regarded the Christian community of inquirers is invensing, aling earliest answer in aid its simplicity, national religion. The first apostles has a new sect within the old they may be miss and un- and because of its inspired si-were Jews, the Church was found kown to the Churrhus. We are plicity, may in the end he hustled in a Jewish city, on a Jewish encouraged by the new line of "envincing and sitisfying to those feast day and among Jews. intensity. We feel that if a plan who with a new intensity ask, Hebrew Christians remained Jews answer muald save the pel What st I do? Believe on in their racial distinction and pre- seckers to whom Mr. Walls raises, The Cord, desys Chris and thon judices, in their loyalty to tradition it would be a nuttek-ol greater in salt be saveds ports to the Clunches for them

Our aim this evening, which entheir habits of worship. They were and rite, custom and ritual, and in carry us, but a short way on our Christians in their belief that Jesus search after the word of salvation. Christ was Messiah and Saviour is simply to je u dat at the and as the saved through His name, beginning of the bristing were members of the Christian

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Christians remained Gentiles, they entered the new sect as a new religion and the Church as a community of Christians in which there would be no

Follwed the inevitable clash of“ nationalities, the uprise of racial prejudices and the confict be tween the old religion with its traditions, laws, customs and rites and the new religion of faith with its spiritual freedom.

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What must I do? became less urgent than What is salvation? From the peril which menaced there was but one. way of earthly deliverance, that of denial. The to the future to heaven, where persecuted turned their thoughts deliverance would be found from sin, death and the world. paration for salvation in a world beyond.

The doing" became a pre-

From the days of the apostles until the present this preoccupation of the early Christians has entered into the content of the Christian consciousness and the idea of therein is that of a deliverance salvation most deeply imbedded from this present evil world into a world beyond of eternal blessed- ness..

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Mr. Well's blame of the Churches suggests our second line

to was the effects they are making to promote reunion the interest of their own salvation and to devet their energies to form and to give to the new impairers in situations use which made community. answer in the interest at their possible at tap any state what salvation.

Gentile Mr. Wells requires in these modern Ti payer lave deurved to Mr. days, viz. de plain, convincing and Wills that the miswer the requires milsfying answer to the question of and for which men and won are salvation, which may be present or waiting concerning their personas Tuture, individual or collettive, a salvation, may offer the same deliver from this evil world distinction of race or creed. dilleulties, which a simple, cog find's method of delivering this vuring and satisfying rily to the world from evil. question some of us are" asking We have said that the work is riny leg.What inest werde tout to be sayed by any system of secure seal and gudronic sales, questions and answers, St. Peter Lion The question of questions and St. Paul believed in the power may include the thore.

If the Churches, have failed in of the Gospel preached and taught

The Christika-Chimel, bowever, give the answer; is it now an indica. by which we nem the piles and firm ilent. Mr. Wells asks for what brethren, acljeved her, initial is not within the possibilities of the triumph in Jerusalem on the day of Churches? Our candid din is Pentest by giving to the first that no answer would convince and inquires a jan answer to their autisfy the

The novelist, belongs to the world Those wis joyfully received the

tguöstion, “What must we do? of modern thought. Men of message. who found it convincing the first given too simple? What that would tolerant satisfying, "on that one day, to must I do? belef under compile. They the number of three casund were proclaimed an all-sufficient condi

Was the faith -age muspicious of eleïient authority: added to them,"

The voices of the Churches

The Church was tion of salvation? Were not the nisam Saying, "This do and the filed, besume a growing society earlier conditions to which the at the waved. And day by day Hebrew Christians submitted shalt be saved," would carry with the Tord added to their number binding upon all? Were not the them, no moral compulsión or those whom He was saying. spiritui qul borne

works of the Law and the Jewish We are doubtful, timt erou won her labours an

The thuel extended the field of ritual an understood part of the

wfurther condition? the satisfying and convincing triumph. At Antich, almost the

What was salvation? Was it the answer given, the pretrvos um whole populfiou rane to hear the privilege of all believers or of those times of peace to consolidate their

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The question, what must I do was beatedly debated in the Coun- cil, dissention ensued and opinions were divided. The defenders of the old religion were opposed by the chartplows of the new faith and

liberty.

Was not the simple answer of

The Jews rejected but the new Israel of God through the tintiles welcomed the good initiatory rite of circumcision? Puut.

Play listeurd with delight," the answer evinced and surished.

Certain persons said "Unless The Clunch opened her you are circumcised in accordance gates to the tile believers who with the Mosaic custom, ys can at

The world is not saved by the Sorral method of question and

* pleased tod," writes St. Paul. by "the foolishness ot fitn preaching to mitve then: 1 believe. Mr. Wells is among the preachers and should know ¦

Salvation, as Bone Biter dun the creato

tered in by faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour and were added to the

The Church funded in Jerus temas Jewish and tur nacube

society of the saved. is, ups Woh wognise, could not be con- ceived of as something static, winte Jews, The Church founded in ever else it might be

The idea of salvation an thu

Antioch of Syria was Gentile and supreme quest and the Kingdom of the Christi Church entered upon

the members Gentiles In Syria. God as the Vision Spterslid" her wider mission of salvation should satisfy MG Wells De Antioch became the centre most, however, that the Churches mother city of Gentile Clarebes. cod do would be to indicate the forms and Antioch, scenes way blazed by the martyrs, and the earliest triumphs of Chris bard pressed by the fext of countity, bid to become the less mystics, saints, and buable pilgrims of faith and say in that centres of her earliest conflicts..

which reate and sustain sets life

and uction but that is all.

and

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be saved".

The questions involved many questions, the character of the

new religion, whether it was to be national or universal, whether it or the bondage of ancient Jewish was spiritual freedom of the Gospel laws, rites or ritual, whether it was

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to our question to be found? If unsettled questions discussed, one; the Churches have failed to give of which was the pending resign- the convincing reply: is it to the tion of the fate president, Mr. M. Churches we must look for what Lokpal tof Messra. W. Assumm we ask?

& 'Co.) The resignation was ac cepted and new elections were

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Mr. G. P. Daswani (of Messrs.

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Is the salvation of the individual a personal or a mass deliverance? made.

of beginnings. The early Church President, Mr. H. Pritum to We turn again to the history J. T. Chaurai & Co.) was elected

and the establishment of expected the return of the Messiah Messrs. H. Pritam Bros) Messianic kingdom. What actually Hunorary Secretary, and, Mr. H. happened was that Churches were decundas fof Messrs. O. B. Rissun established instead. The era of persecution was followed by an

'mul&-Co.-ás Honoragy-Treasurer, i The oveting was the adjourned era of imperial patronage and

fill August 11. privilege. The Churches which had multiplied through the period of terror found leisure during the

Briefly. wic may note the development of organisation and priesthood and orders,

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altars, and an elaborately cere- monial worship. The simple faith was formulated into creeds, and hardened "into doctrines dogmas

VOTE OF CONDOLENCE, ·! ---- At the general meeting held on Monday, with Mr. Gouldas Br (Mesars. Gehimili ; D. Brus,) in)

resolution of fon- dolence wus passed on the prema- ture death of Mr. Watanmal Boxl- chand, the proprietor of the locat firin of Messrs. W. Booleband &

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Co. winch took place in Hyderabad Sind in India, on July 13. Mr. and G. P. Daswani spoke briefly on Religious duties were

the life of the decensed and ex-

carefully defined and enforced by the authority of the Churches.

The plain answer, "Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved," had entered upon a further stage of modification and enlarge ment.

pressed sympathy for his son, Mr.

Lalchund, and Mr. K., R. Sakhrani. ❤ the manager of the local branch. A telegram of condolence was sub- sequently sent to Mr. Lehand who is in India.

OLYMPIAD.

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London July 28. The opinions of British athletes voiced by the British newspapers strongly oppose the movement ibat Britain should withdraw

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to be Judaism or Christianity.

The answer of the Council was what Bishop Lightfoot described

Salvation remained a deliverance- "decree of compromise," from sin, death and hell. The The conflict between the Gentile world was a place from which Christianity and the Jewish safe y of soul. was found in

escape from its wickedness. continued through the century.

Religious progress must raise Individual faith was rapidly

into new problems within the Church | transformed

community Whas mugst I'd to be saved? At and as at the beginning opinions faith, and personal salvation into direction lies the distant goal. the beginning and during the en-will be divided, the defenders of corporate salvation within the

Salvation may be interpreted in

thisinste period, the one answer the terms of life and action; life: complate and harmonious action was given to low and Gentile. the traditions will be opposed by ark of the Church.

The message of the old Hebrew final, and conclusive answer to The Churches were organised free and sucrificial, The Churches may discover the sourve, und "whit | mise spoken by the prophets and questions defining the conditions and their chief concern was to future Olympiads because of thei

prophets, Repent ye.' is perhaps, doubtful, mediate, thenewed by the Christ of Divine and the nature of salvation is secure, the forgiveness of sins and demonstrations of Latin tempera- vitalising energies of the Spirit forgiveness of sin and the gift of possible only when spiritual the eternal blessedness of their ment in certain minor events. They point out that the remarkable the Holy Spirit. And the Gospel progress and enquiry have ended. faithful and obedient flocks.

However, remote from present- What must I do? What is feature of the Puris Olympiad haa Message, new na the apostles, "In Wint must I do to he saved?" the name of Texas Chris in 20 day Christianity may appear its salvation? The questions, abide, been the friendliness of the is a simple question but

primitive form, the garnest other name is the great salvation

two are Is salvation to be found in the English-speaking competitors in- seekers must feel that whatever to be found.

intimately related,

present or to be looked for in the cluding Americans. It is regarded. derlared St. Peter, they may attempt or achieve is there is no send name under to-day concerning salvation and to fit us for this world or to prepare be revived when Britain carried off The views which many hold future? Is the great deliverance curious that a controversy should even that has been given among men through which we are to be how it may be obtained, belong to us for the next? Is the faith that championships in which Britishers

"Believe on saved."

the Lord early stages of the history of the saves a simple trust in the Living take most pride.

Church and are survivals of old Christ or the fixed beliefs of the

Baron Decoubertin, president of Teens and thou shalt be saved,"

beliefs and practices.

Church or Churches? Is salvation the international Olympic con- What is salvatlen? Is its enjoy- to be found solely within the 'mittee, denies that the games in We recall the beginnings ofment to be looked for in this Church? Or is salvation the Paris destroyed the spirit of inter- Christianity in order to point out Churches can but say here is the that the Church of that period present life or is it to be found in crowning discovery of the indivi-national sportsmanship, and depre. ideal, the ideal actual in the Christ. gave the same simple answer to

the future?

dual quest; the glorious freedom cates their discouragement beeanse the Son of God, and there are the all, whether Jews or Gentiles; it this evil world, where the losses into the fullness of the life of the He accuses the French press of Is salvation a deliverance from of the sons of God, the entrance of a few enses of lack of discipline. powers at your disposal, if you will was the answer of the undivided of the piaasure we deny ourselves Spirit. Or the deliverance from the failing to educate the public up to innke the realisation, which is al Church but its history was brief. will be compensated by the joys self-concern and the selfishness of the true significance of the gamer. the truest form of self-expression.

The plain, convincing the aim and purpose of all you satisfying answer closed its short

and of heaven?

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and triumphant career at Antioch salvation to fit us for this world or known as Father, and of men who lamentations.

Is the alm and purpose of nesa of service of God, who is the press. is responsible for the The simple unever satisfying and

to fitus for the next?

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Salvation must also inchuk taught St. Paul,

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The Church became divided on

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