1929-06-08 — Page 11

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1929,

OUR WEEKLY SERMON

Christian Interpretation Of History

MODERN CHURCHMAN

VIEWS

[By the Very Rev. W. R. Inge, C.VO, D.§., F.B.A., Dean

of St. Paul's

Lotze mentiona

Continual from June 1)

the

was

THE CHINA MAIL,

Does this Johannine treatment of guidance as to our attitude towards the Incarnation give us Any history in general? I think it does, in the following way..

Sacramental View of Life The Incarnation is the supreme justification

for a

view of life.

why the world was created.

sacramental

COURT MARTIAL

LIEUT. COLONEL COMYN SEVERELY QUESTIONED

- FURTHER DISCLOSURES

The General Court-Martial, which is sitting in the Officers' Mess, Murray It is useless to ask charge of negligence against Major Barracks, to investigate the alleged

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Depended on the Accused K.0.S.B.. was farther queationed, by Lt. Col. Comyn, Commanding Officer, Major Miles (accused's "friend.")

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Such knowledge is arting as President of the Regimental not for us. But we are to fake ac Institute, was resumed yesterday after count of the fact that such a world noon. after-and could be no accession of dignity exists. The eternal and unchunge native though not very different to a divine Being as the result of uble thoughts of God are objecti theory that humanity as a unitdry | anything done by Him in time. He fied as a system of vital laws and whole is realizing in the lives of received in His own words, finite purposes, which need Comyn When you took over the com- Major Miles to Lieut. Coloricl individuals the Idea immancut in glory which I had with Thee before time and place for their develop mand of the battalion did you ever it from the first. I have already the world was'; nothing could be

ment. I am content to be frankly question the accused with regard to said that this is a philosophical added to this or taken from it.

agnostic as to whether the whole the organisation or the administration if we But the notion which we may hold

revelation to men

cosmic process can be subsumed of the hettalion Naturally, I felt. the strictly relative to their power of re-under a single unitary plan.

promotion, mainly in his hands I had like; but we must not say that as

If

to rely on him as I was new to the Christians we are committed to it. ceiving it.. After His departure the universe is perpetual, as ita battalion.

from the earth, His representative, Creator is eternal, there can hard-

The President:-Say Yes or No. the Paraclete, who is really Himselfly be any single purpose in it, since Major Miles: In 1927 did you re-.

ceive orders from Command H.Q. to under another mode, undertakes the purpose which is not eternally hold your battalion in readiness for education of mankind, teaching frustrate must have a beginning immediate removal from Hong Kong?HE COLLEGE has varated its them by degrees many things which and an end. It seems on the whole There wore a number of orders to

premises al Prospect Place they could not bear earlier, and

that effect nhout that time, more probable that all the purposes initiating them into the true signi-of God in creation are finite and

at Stanley is C. 6264, and Pokfulam. The new Tel. No. ficance of the historical ministry limited, though they are worked out

History and Experience

in an unending succession. There

Did you say to Major Lake: "There are wheela within wheels; some count and it will be better to say as

is no need to mention the messing a purposes have their fulfilment in little as possible to have the enquiry a very short time; others are con- finished as quickly as possible," or terminous with the duration of a words to that effect?

Colonel Comyn-Yes. There was no single human life; others relate to charge against Major. Ogilvy in con- the whole national life of a great ection with the messing. people. But the principle is the Discussing the Matter same throughout. Every spiritual Major Miles Did you understand force proceeding from the rhind of that the accused would retire from God must take the form of a willed and that nothing further would trans

the service and from the Regiment process, realising itself in time pire?Does that question arise?

Shall we then, Lotze asis, agree with those who altogether deny history in the sense of a progres- sive development on earth? Shall we follow those mystics who wish to interpose nothing externai and contingent between the soul and God? If we carry this flight from the world to its logical conclusion, we shall find only vacancy; for he who has experienced nothing is made no wiser by solitude, and Na- turo teaches little to him who know not man. If we do not go so far as this, we may fairly ask whether history can achieve any- thing outside its own plane, whe ther temporal activities can have eternal consequences. Burt here?

we are too bear the licentious' lines of Pope, quoted by Boswell: 'Can sins of moments claim the rod

Of everlasting fres?"

Temporal Advance Our moral sense protests against denying that temporal advance is a real good. Lotze makes the in- teresting observation that Wa ery the good fortune of those who are to come after us; wish for their happiness is purely disinterested. "This." ho saya,

ουτ

'may well tend to confrm our be lier that there is some unity uf history transcending that of which We are conscious, a unity in which we cannot merely say of the past that it is not-a unity, rather, in which all that has been inexorably divided by the temporal course of history has a co-existence indepen- dent of Lime; in which finally the benefits produced in time are not lost for those who helped to win but did not enjoy them.

A

human longing to find 锋 guiding thread in the confused variety of history springs from the unselfish desira to recognize worthy and sacred order in the sys-

and course tem

of the world.' Humanity does not consist in a gen- eral type-character, nor in a mere mass of scattered individuals. It consists in that real and living community which brings together men past, present and future, all in the order which they hold in the growing whole. History is not a alender line dividing two nothing- nesses, unborn to-morrow and dead yesterday; it points to and actually deals with a permanent reality be- yond the Bux.

aa

Unknown Beginning

This, mys Lotze, is a matter of faith only. Observation shows us in history only a path leading from unknown beginning an un- known end, and our guesses as to its general divertion are vague and uncertain, But the faith in question is what we actually feel

in our best moments,

These reflections of Lotze base meliorism on the faith that life

If the idea of a progressive re- velation had ever been so clearly stated before the Evangelist wrote, I know not where to find it. He gives us the message of the glori fied and indwelling Spirit-Christ to the third generation of Christians, and he throws it back, to the time of the earthly ministry. In this way be binds closely together the Christ of history and the Christ of

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Even the

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the Christian consciousness is that demption of mankind could not be

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Did you give the accused any indi- cannot remember, I probably did.

Why did you say it?-For the rea. son I have stated. The messing ac count was settled by the other inquiry. Major Miles-Did you; in March or April, discuss with an officer who you believed would be a member of this Court Martial, details of this case?— No.

Major MilesNow consider this very carefully. Did you?-I again re- peat. No. Can you name the officer Major Miles:Yea, I can, if neces sary. Do you wish me to do so?

The Judge Advocate: do not think

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Major Miles:Did the accused tell you that in order to save the honour of the regiment and in order to avoid publicity and a long drawn out Court Martial, that he would plead guilty?

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Major Miles: I suggest that this witness, Lieut.-Colonel Comyn, biaseded, the accused with regard to his subse- quent actions.

Major Miles to the Witness: Did you say to the accused that you had seen the officer whose came is written on the slip of paper, and that you had both agrced it would be best for the accused to plead guilty, and then he would only be reprimanded?

The President:I think he had bet ter deal with these questions in pri- vate.

When the court resumed, the Presi dent said

"The Court was closed to consider whether the two questions shall stand, and we have decided that they shall." The Court resumed its sitting this morning.

A full report will appear in the "Sunday Herald" to-morrow.

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Letters of administration have been

In the world must have a worthy purpose, and on our stubborn re-

the estate of Mrs. Guilhermina fusal to regard the past and future by so doing. The book does not and Passion of the Divine Being Hernille Cabral de Carvalho, widow, as non-existent, or as valueless for pretend to he

the world who died in Lisbon on August 19, 1928, blographical through whose agency a

She is described as a British sub- ourselves. They will serve to help document in our sense; but it brings was called into existence.

jest formerly resident in Hong Kong us in passing to the third attitude out with incomparable penetration Keats called the world the vale and latterly at 11, Rua dos Nave of Christ, His of soul-making. It is a sphere of gantes. Later is the fawful, al- of religious thought cowards his what the Parson

The petitioner. Lory, that which I have chosen to example, and His teaching were to being in which the perfect can

torney of Mr. Eduardo Henrique de pssociate with the teaching of the mean to humanity. He lifts the never be fully realized, since its Carvalho, residing in Lisbon, who is the Fourth Gospel.

historical Figure above the shackles whole raison d'etre ja to be a scene only son of the deceased lady and bene- The

relevant parts of the re:

́of the locil; ' temporal, and ac of unending conflict, But for us, ficiary of her estate. ligious philosophy of this

Total estate left by the deceased mysti- cidental, and exhibits Him in His as

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amounts to $186,700 In shares cal treatise, which often puzzles permanent significance.

at Creation, there is the obligation to house property in the Colony. its readers because it is a book the same time he makes it im-translate into act every inspiration sui generis, the only extant speci- possible ever to separate Jesus of which comes to us from the spiritual

from the Pneuma-world. men of this genre of composition, Nazareth

Every vision must inspire make to the historical process are as follows:

Christos. The work of the Spirit a task. Every noble thought, every our country and of the human race. was to be for all time continuous prayer, every generous impulse to

House Not Made With Hands with and explanatory of what the self-sacrifice, is incomplete until it The stage on which we act, the has taken shape is an act of will tools which we use, the visible in Galilee.

Relative Reality

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must all ultimately be awept away. though He is eternally 'with God,'

The reality of the world we live in But we know that though this He lives as the source of its life, In form, no doubt, the promise of consists in furnishing the necessary fearthly tabernacle be dissolved, we and especially as the light of men,' education in divine knowledge was conditions for the realization of the have a house not made with hands, the inspirer of reason, wisdom and made only to individuals. Christ absolute values in an infinite variety eternal in the heavens. Thare, love. All the life of creation is does not say that the Church in the of ways. Inasmuch as the realiza-we must believe, all spirits, with be beller instructed tion of purposes requires time, and what is significant and real in their Hia; He was in the world' froin Future would the first. But in the fullness of than the Apostles themselves. But sometimes, It seems, a very long life's work, live for ever in the time the Logos became flesh and

the date must remember

at time, history, has for us a high presence of their Creator live no tabernacled among us, and we be- which the Gospel was written, and degree of relative reality and im- longer separated, except by differ- held his glory, the glory as of a the evident intention of the Evan-portance. But historical events, as ences of character, but still distinct, unique Son of the Father, full of geliat to communicate teaching such, are not important for them still as having filled a particular grace and truth.' The Incarnation which he believed himself to have selves. Their meaning is pre-place in the great pageant of history, was the revelation of eternal truth. received from the Pneuma-Christos, served in the eternal world; for, still as being a part of one among It altered nothing in the counsels of but which was not derived from any great thinkers have said," "Nothing the definite purposes of God. God, but by means of a supreme documents or from oral traditions that truly is can ever perisly; but With this thought in our minda, dramatic er sacramental representa This claim amounts in principle to temporal happenings are nothing we shall live in time, but not for tion, it brought those counsels into a belief in progressive revelation out of relation to their eternal back- time. We shall see without the sphere of human knowledge through the Spirit-Christ. I think ground, in which they have both sorrow the passing away of what and activity. In this way a new we are justified in saying that the their source and their consumma-must pass away, as Time hurls the chapter in human history was open Johannine Christology enable usblon. We ourselves are immortal products of Time into nothingness; ed: a light was kindled which.

to place a real Incarnation in the spirits on our probation. We have and our ambition will be not to A little boy at Rheydt, Rhineland, should never be put out. His task

frame-work of history, and of his each of us our appointed task-one raise some monument to ourselves was drinking water from a tap achieved, He who was incarnated tory not necessarily regarded as living stone to bring to the temple more durable than brass, but to when another lad suddenly turned as Jesus returned to the position the short story of a derelict world of God, one little contribution to be able to say as we lay down our the tap on full, The powerful which He had held as the Logos visited at intervals by catastrophic

burden, 'I have finished the work stream of water entered the boy's before the Incarnation. There was supernatural interventions;

(Continued at fool of Next Column.) (that thou gavest me to, dov

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