1929-09-28 — Page 11

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1929.

OUR WEEKLY SERMON

Importance of Historical Element in Christianity

MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS

[By Michael Oakeshott, M.A., Fellow of ConvEle and Calus College. Cambridge]

(Continued from September 22.)

Traditional Interpretation

sacra-

this

THE CHINA MAIL,

ROUND THE CINEMAS gets his forgiveness at his father's

THRILLING EXPLOITS OF WOMEN

"BATTALION OF DEATH"

regiment.

bedside.

It is a fast-moving story, written especially for Miss Carol and Nick Stuart, by Bertram Milhauser, film and magatine writer. Lew. Sailer

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RADIO BROADCAST,

directed the picture. The photo-OFFICIAL OPENING CONCERT.

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THE "EMDEN"

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Tuesday, 8th October, 1929, at 9. p.m.

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Among the thrilling exploits of graphy by Arthur Edeson, adds the wonten during the great war, greatly to the beauty of the picture. one of the most amazing is brought| to light in the achievements of Vera Botchareva, who organized the first woman's regiment of Russia and

Fair to both Germany and Bri- THE HON. MR. which was later known as "The tain, and produced with the full kindly consented to address a few SOUTHORN, C.M.G., bas Battalion of Death."

co-operation of the German Adwords to listeners-in from the Mme. Botchareva, the daughter miralty is the New Era production of a Russian officer who was killed The

new Studio, Post Office Building. It is a comparatively simple pangs of the life, of Its Founder, in the war with Turkey, and who Majestic Theatre, Kowloon to-day published later.

"Emden," showing at the Detailed programme will be matter to detect inadequacy in it removed from sense to memory lost her husband during the con-at all four sessions. ideas and systems of ideas, but we and mind some at least of its powerlet of 1915, after two years' fight- Interest of the film lies in the can claim to have performed no use-to give actuality to the thing being, was first to realise the import- fact that three of the original offi- ful service until we have pointed to lieved. The historical element of ance of organisation and when she ce of the "Emden took part the 'aflirmative ground upon which Christianity took the place of was refused permission to join the in the re-acting of the incidents. Burgativos are basede. And cruder and more primitive methods colours and "pack a gun," sent out The "Endeu," in command of , the state of affairs I have detailed, of providing this necessary a call for volunteers to join her Admiral Ven Muller, began ber

like a negatives demands Its actuality. 'A Christianity, with-

destruction at Tsingtao, worked positive complement, which I can our sacraments, it has been sald,

Without offelal sanction of the down the China cost, sinking Bri- best supply, as I sed it, by asking could never have converted Europe, Government and yet without hind-tish vessela the whole way, and two mire questions (1) Is the and perhaps its greatest

rance from them, she called upon jentered the Indian Ocean, to homb Jelict in the necessity of the prime ment was what we

the students of the Petrograd Tech-Madras, call its ls-

At Cocos. islands, the fari historical the only interpreta-

torical element. "When historical had more

nical Institute and in a short time landing party of the "Emden" took Linn of the historical element of examples are pointed out

than two hundred over. but, seconds in time the Bri- Christianity? (ii) And, if hot.

10 us, troops from this college clamour-tish wireless operater sent the in- there is a kind of appeal. with what other. interpretation is there which we are flattered, made to our

ing for a place in her regiment, portant message tc H.M.A.S. which gives us grenier insight into

well as to our

This word swept the city of Pe- "Sydney." Houses, as

under trograd like wild this element of our religion?

anding, saya Bolingbroke in his in two weeks she had a regimente

fire and with- Full steam ahead, and the "Syd- Letters on History, and how potentof more than four hundred "troups" "Enden"

SOOD came to give the I have tried to make clear that the historical is to satisfy

a plucky fighter" his what we have been examining is craving for immediate awareness, rubbed shoulders with those of the scene was fall of realism of the Girls from the mills and factories share of bombardment. This only the traditional interpretation every generation of Christians nobility. Milliners and bakers, the final battle, which ended the career of the historical element of Chris-testifles," tianity, and the rest

high and the low, bobbed their hair of the destroyer of many. of ray argu-

A More Permanent Need and donned trousers. ment world, I think. go to support

chant ship. What has the paraphernalia of Two weeks later found thern in a suggestion that there might be historical evidences to do with the front fine trenches. They did another view of the matter, a less spiritual need-not the, temporary inen's work and were more feared

TO-DAY'S RADIO Christian and a little more logical. and immediate need which is satib by the enemy than the regiments The traditional view is a crude fied only by immediate consolation composed of men.

BROADCAST BY interpretation, the work of naive and confidence, but the more per- Aside from their activity in the

Z.B.W. religious minds seeking a theory of

manent need of the religious trenches, they acted as munition any sort rather than of critical consciousness of finding an intelles-runners-constantly fire bringing minds king consistency. It is dual world in which to be at home? munitions for rifle and gun to the without philosophical plausibility. To this question, then. our answer men or to those of their regiment, or, when we see clearly, any has been that in the erude' and In "She Goes to War", which pro- lasting practicn) value, for what obvious sense history and the his-duction Herry King directed for practical value it posesses depends, torizal have little or no connection Inspiration Pictures Inc., and is upon a condition of mind neither with spiritual need-are, indeed, showing at the Queen's Theatre for „permanent mor essentially Chrismathing almost foreign to it the last times to-day, the exploits tian. Bat 1. believe that there hut in a more subtle sange the con- of the "Battalion of Death' will be is another and better interpretation neetion may be real enough. It paralleled to a certain extent. of this felt necessity for the his has been argued that the demand torical and of the particular setis of the religious consciousness for faction Christianity has afforded an individual and unique experience self a demand for a belief in the necessity of the prima facie his- torical, but it is, I think, a argument.

What religion demands': is not a consciousness of the neces- sity and individuality of past events, but à consciousness of the individuality of present experience,

it.

A re-

false

turen feminina icle in "She Goes to wrote and which was adapted by War", which story Rupert Hughes, Madam Fred de Gresac. Howard Estabrook made the adaptation.

Eleanor Boardman has the fea

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"GIRLS GONE WILD" FILM

The pair of young screen players, the vivacious, piquant and charm-

Principle of Uniqueness fing Miss Carol, and handsome, mag- What Rickert calls the 'principle netic Nica Stuart, often featured

mer-

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be broadcast to-day from the Gov- The following programme will

erament Broadcasting Station 2.B.W. on 350 metres:--

1.48 in. Weather Report. 5.30-8.30 p.m.--Programme of Chinese Music (Columbia Re- cords).

7.48 p.m.-Evening Weather Re port.

8 pm Evening Programme. (Edison-Bell through the courtesy of Messrs. Records supplied

Sincere Co., Ltd.). "Poet and Peasant" (Supse),

Overture Royal Artillery Bend.

Dance Music

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8.4 p.m. Sandy & Jock" (Sutton), "A Moorside Suite"

Cornet Duet ...Black Dyke Mills The Motor Vessel.

Band. Dance Music.

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Deminds of Ordinary People Religion and the religious con- sciousness, as 1 understand them, are essentially · practical, ligion, in a manner to which a philosophy is not subject, may be proved lacking. by being proved inadequate to the demands of the ordinary life of ordinary people. Our felt wants are, of necessity of uniqueness is something which inglistdeally, work together perfect "Gondoliers" (Sullivan)," Selection, the starting point of our religion; is, indeed, to be found in history, ly-in "Girls Gone Wild," showing at the complex desires of that but is to be fond algo, and found the Star, to-day for the last time. kind of sophistimation, which would independently, in the determination The story has to do with a gay, see clearly the nature and meaning of present practical life to face the care-free young dapper, who thinks of the universe as a whole, but the irrepressible Kew and achieve the world was invented just for her simple needs inseparable from an some measure of freedom from the pleasure. She laughs at restraint active and practical life. Religion pari And because religion is all kinds and flaunts the traffic exists to satisfy no craving for nothing if not contemporary, the laws until she bumps into a traffic knowledge apart from the know- historical element

"cop" who is unimpressed by her of our religion ledge which comes with the mere must be interpreted so as to give father's wealth and political power.

not

strength and courage to take life it a permanent and nu a merely the girl's home and, in spite of He invades an elaborate party at

to glorious gain." One felt wants, one

Royal Artillery Band. Dance Music.

"Russian Lullaby (Barlin),

"The Whispering Pines of Nevada".

10.10 p.m.

Waltz,

Waltz

Riviera Club Dance

Orchestra. 10.30 p.m.-Close Dows.

RECENT CRITICISMS

We have received

from the

of

the

criticisms in the we hope to

as it is and turn its necessities temporary meaning. In place of threats and protests, drags her off Publicity Sub-Committe

of these the old interpretation of the bis to which the re- torical element in Christianity, that the giff's favourite boy friend, play-lating to recent

to Courts That he is the father of Broadcasting Committee a letter re- ligious consciousness is particular- it meane simply and crudely a beer by Nick Stuart, complicates mat-"China Mail." This

Hef in the necessity of the pirmeters considerably. The girl, Miss deal with on Monday is merely a Carol, anubs the boy and still in denial of the Christ-myth, I would pursuit of thrills, goes off to a tough put this other interpretation., that street dance given by her father's; this element of our religion means bootlegger. that the necessary actuality of the

ly sensitive, is the need for an al- most sensible perception reality

of the facie historical and of the object of belief. What Religion Demands Religion demands not that the necessity for the existence of what

no

that is; its

The bootlegger, marked for re-

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it believes in should be proved, for object of religious belief must be moval from the mundane sphere be-Gazette" that, the name of the Grey- It is notified in the Government that is an academic interest, but sought continually on A higher cause of threats against the flap-hound Racing and Entertaining. Com- to be made intensely aware of the place than one of mere sense, and per's father, revenges himself by pany, Limited. has been struck off the actual existence of the object of that when sought there it will be seizing the girl and subjecting her Register of Companies.. belief. A kleptomaniac may know found more intensely than ever be to brutal treatment which comes as that it is wrong to stea but he fore. And the path which it points considerable shock to one who has does not know it in such a way as us to ends in the achievement of a always been accustomed to having to feel it.

And a philosophic sensibility for which such a belief men fali at her feet in abject sur proof, for example, of the necessity in history also is an idolatry. render. of human immortality has little or The Required Actuality

religious value. We cannot

The conclusion, then, at which I love or live upon the knowledge of arrive is that the historical element mere necessity; love and life of our religion is not necessarily demand an immediate awareness, if historical at all; Rot of the senses, at least of memory essential characteristic lies not in and mind. The thoughts of re-a belief in the necessity of the the ligion must also be feelings in that prima facie historical, but in its The trafic cop, Nick's father, takes mótorships. The three steamers Srd October, 1929, will be subject they must possess the force and provision of the required actuality up the trail, but is waylaid and shot. will be put on the Australian ron, liveliness, which we connect with for the object of religious beliefing car, and, seizing his father's go on the coastal service, says a Nick is thrown from the speed-replacing three others which will feeling. to strike the mind and Ritual and sacrament minister compel not merely acquiescence this same need, and in some

star and gun, continues the chase, Nichi-Nichi message from Tokyo. but action. Religions have respecte labour under fewer and less of the cannien in their mountain Te finally finding Sue in the hands plied to this demand in various serious theoretical deficiencies; and retreat. They are "dancing ber Hyslop) until recently Lady Med ways; and no religion has left it while this belief in history is justi- down." that is, the one who tires cal Officer,

Mrs. Isaac (nee Miss K. M. entirely unanswered. Some lave fed by its fruits, it is justified only her out is to get her. She collapses from the Government Service. She depended upon ritual to create this so long as

Kedah, has resigned it bears those fruits at last, but the leader, who has lost, was married some months ago. Hring contact between the believer What I have tried to show is that shoots the winner and takes Suc for and the believed, some upon the the ability of the historical element his own.

and takes Sue for actual presence of that which is of Christianity to achieve its end,

Mr. A. W. Frisby, formerly of worshipped, some upon a visible re-that is,

Nick appears, and after a ter- the Penang Free School, has gone ed by presentation of him. Idolatry is believed, depends upon a certain and returns the girl to her parents, the Old Victoria Institution

to give actuality to the rife fight, disposes of the gunmen to Kuala Lumpur as Headmaster of an expression of this need, a crude mental outlook neither peculiarly telling them they are responsible and primitive expression perhaps, Christian

bit, so far as we can see, a neces manent,

nor necessarily

to

per for his father being shot He

It is not to be doubted rushes off to his father's beside in

sary stage in the development of that we shall always posse1S this element of religion...

Religion More Puzely Spiritual

A

the hospital. Sue, at last realia- certain susceptibility to history anding there are greater things in life Its power to give life to thought; than her pleasure, follows Nick and

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One of the revolutions which what varies and what is by Christianity proposed to the re-means pernianent is the degree of ligious consciousness was that this that susceptibility. actuality, given the necessary prepossessed it in a very high degree, of Christianity such a change The Jews the current theories of the Identity paration of mind, could be more and the culture of nineteenth would imply a destruction of our fully achieved on a higher plane, It century Europe, proposed religion more

was vividly religion, but I have tried to show purely conscious of it, but our generation that it is these theories, which are spiritual, yet one which should give seems to share that sensitiveness fallacious and not our religion ar Intensity of awareness of the less intens object of relief

with the consequence, which is moribuind What that f denied not that

ving, but change will amount to m. detall I must In must be excused from predicting, but that we can change ruch for the without ceasing to be Christians is which

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