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› SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929.

OUR WEEKLY SERMON

The Jewish Contribution To Christianity MODERN CHURCHMAN'S 'VIEWS

[By the Reverend Geoffrey Allen, R.A.. Chaplain of Ripon Hall, Oxford]

(Continued from October 19.)

THE CHINA MAIL,

ASTONISHING SCENES THREAT OF ECONOMIC

IN WALL STREET

GUARD OF SPECIAL POLICE KEEP ORDER

EXCHANGE LIKE A BEDLAM

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New York. Yesterday. Trading rallied considerably st

FORCES

EUROPEAN FEDERATION

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"ANGLO-SAXON HEGEMONY"

, Paris, Yesterday. M. Doumergue has entrusted to: the opening of the share markets, M. Daladier the task of forming a but quietened down. Popular Cabinet. countera rose from fre to 201 paints.

Demoralisation

M. Daladier, who was a Minister

[ in 1924-5-6, succeeded M. Herriot

St. Paul, the author of the Epistle not al from

last year as president of the a correspondence in Several hundred extra police Radical-Socialist Party, and was to the Hebrews, and a long suc-"The Guardian" the belief, quaint if were drafted into the Wall Street re-elected at the Party Congresa at cession of later theologians develop it were not tragic, that the League area as a precaution against pas-Rheims yesterday, ed the metaphor of redemption, and of Nations is a pernicious institusible disturbances.

The stock In his Presidential address he added to it conceptions of sacrificetion, because by stopping wars and market opened rallyingly. but warned his audience that economic borrowed from a primitive stage of rumours of wars it would provent speedily reacted downwards. forces in the New World are Jewish religion; in so doing they the ensuing Second Comlug.

The floor of the exchange was threatening to expropriate Europe. carried Christian thought far away The Church must unite to reject again like Bedlam, although yes- He stressed the necessity of form- from the simple unhillty of the the legacy of the apocalyptic terday's scenes of demoralisationing a sort of European Federation Gospel of Jesus. In rejecting crude school. There is nu eternal damna-were not repeated. Prices moved by large scale economic agreements theories of atonement and propitiation; such a belief is quite incom-upwards towards the close. Reu-between competing industries. tion, we may well learn

a lessonpatible with the revelation in Christ ter's American Service. from A modern Jew. Montefiori of a God of Love. There is no Future Grand Assize; we accept the "The object of the death of modernization of this belief, a

writes:

There

Luxury Business

Thrist for Matthew is the in-modernization which is after all as cheerful feeling at

to

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Such a Union would only be reuch- able if the European States were absolutely secure against War. Dis New York, Yesterday. armament was consequently impera- Was A distinctly more tive. trading on the stock market last are on the eve of a resumption of

the close of M. Daladier went on to say. "We TRYING TO AVOID night, due to the impression that competition in land armaments, BLOODSHED despite the Government and and the consecration of the Anglo- banks' disavowals, they are pre-Saxon hegemony at sen." pared to prevent an abyssmal col- M. Daladier will give I. Dou.

old as the Fourth Gospel, that "this giveness of the sins of mans. the judgment, that light is come is odd that round Jesus, who was so prophetic a teacher, these sinto the world, and men love dark superstitions should quickly haveness rather than light." There is clustered. The atoning efliency

no reason to expect a return of the blood of Jesus has been earth of Jesus in the clouds of believed in by millions for een heaven; the spirit of Christ comes apse such as would drag down mergue his answer by 3 o'clock to-

again, wherever and whenever men the nation's. bustness and indus-morrow-Reuter. turn to Him and let is spirit of try. Luxury businesses are the shoukl agree with Mr. Boys-Smith shake-off. Love reign in their hearts. I most likely to be affected by the

of

turies. Without shedding blood, says the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, there is

no remission. One feels that

such

doctrine 2

with

scorn.

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In both his statements, that another Jesus would have repudiated Christ may come, and that we presenting over £1,200,000,000, it At a conference of bankers re- Judaism, after the fall of the should not be justified in using of was indicated thut yesterday's Temple, had no need or use form the name Jesus. Should Fearket situation was largely due any doctrine about Atonement or cataclysm, but, like Jesus, in a rather, than fundamental causes, come, it would be, not in to technical trading conditions, forgiveness being secured by blood. Matthew seems to have natural way as the Child of his and many quotations were carried held that it was the blood of the world exceeds imagination, as

time. The probable duration of below justifiable levels... Jesus, his netunt death, which does the present length of its made God forgive the sins of those who believed in his mission, Messiahship, and, sonship. A strange doctrine. How much

existence.

A Historic Day Yesterday will go down to his- tory alongside the day of the out- break of the Great War, which What, then, of the eschatological necessitated the closing of the weeks,

Beliefs Through Disciples

purer is the doctrine of Jesus and teaching of Jesus? It Can of exchange for seventeen

and

ment."

A Vital Issuė

of Rabbinic Judaism. All God course be argued that these Jewish The mid-day rally was signalised needs is repentance and amend-bellefs came into the Church in a dramatic manner by broker- through the disciples, and not age houses tossing, margin aê- through the teaching of our Lord.counts overboard wholesale, with Another contribution of Judaism,If Jesus was Himself responsible rate and prices at their worst- for this teaching in primitive United States steel being 190, scholars hold to-day, then we must when a Christianity, AS

many

eminent compared with 218 a week ago

number admit that He was mistaken in the powerful bankers got together. form of Hia eschatological teach- Christianity was deeply influenced the spirit in which He used that pandemonium quietly emerged the ing, though still profoundly true in behind the scenes and out of A few simple orders were given by Jewish apocalyptic Messianism. form. Our Lord accepted, as it gure of Mr. Richard Whitney, a It is tolerably certain that the Jewish apocalyptis books were well seems to me. the contemporary Morgan broker who suddenly known, both to Him and to His wish belief in the imminent end shouted "205 for 25,000 Steels."

One which constitutes Д vital issue in Christian thought to-day. llor in the realm of eschatology. There is little doubt that the Founder of

of this world order events soon

of the

most

hearers; and many phrases in the proved Him mistaken; in any case, effect, and changed the whole Gospels are only understood when He had Himself confessed ignor- situation.

The bid had an electrifying interpreted in the light of these ance, for of that hour knoweth no writings. The phrase, "Ye shall not have gone through the cities of one, reither the Son.

He was Canadian Exchanges Suffer Israel till the Son of Man be come," wrong in accepting as literal fact-

Montreal, Yesterday.

have been.

*covery.

FINE WEEK-END

To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states: The anti-cyclone has passed Into the Pacific to the North East of Japan, and another has develop- fed over North China.

The typhoon is situated to the South of Kochi moving N.N.E.

A fresh monsoon will prevail along the China coast and ever the North China Sea.

The forecast for Formosa Channel la: N.E. winda, strong. For the South coast of China between Hong Kong and Lamocks and between Hong Kong and Hainan, the forecast is as follows: N.E. winds, fresh, fine.

MUSSOLINI STILL WARLIKE

"ITALY IS ADVANCING LIKE

MOBILISED ARMY”.

SITUATION IN HANKOW STILL TENSE

HOSTILITIES MAY CEASE

Hankow, Yesterday.

Though the situation continues tense, there has been no further news of fighting, and yesterday Chang Chih-chun intimated to an Interviewer that there is every possible that hostilities will be ceasing very soon, as the Govern ment is trying its hardest to avoid further bloodshed, and is endea- vouring to settle the question by peaceful and political methods.

Supporting this statement comes news from Taiyuan stating that Yen Hal-shan has formally agreed to mediate, and he is accordingly returning to Taiyuan to open up negotiations..

Liu Chih has left: Siangyang, and is at present at Wangshul. It is stated he is proceeding northward to inspect the Kin-Han, defences, and possibly to participate in mili, tary conferences at Heuchow and Chengchow.

Tang Seng-chi's Troops The vernacular

papers briefly state that Tang Seng-chi's troops have occupied Loyang, but this la inconceivable, unless some agree. Ament has been reached between the opposing forces, as all reports of fighting on the Lunghal line so far indicate that the advantage, lies with the Kuominchun 'side.-Reuter. Trouble Acute

Shanghai, Yesterday. It is learned that since the Kuominchun trouble became acute," the National Government has com- mandeered 37 Chinese ships.

Owing to the military com- freight trains on the Tientsin- mandeering the rolling stock, Pukow Railway have stopped ran-i ning since. Thunday-Reuter,

HIS REGIME ABSOLUTE could not have been invented, for the dramatization of the future as The stock market here collaps

Rome, Yesterday. it was already proved false when sudden cataclysmic judgment. ed to-day, values declining hun-nor attack from without can deg- "Neither intrigue from within it was written down; and in such doing we neglect at our peril the short covering movement

We roject to-day the drama; in so drads of a connection the Son of Man must real lessons which Jesus taught afternoon caused a

million of dollars. Atroy my regime," declares Mussolini be used in the same sense as in with the drama, that there is

this in a message to the. "Blackshirts" the Book of Enoch.

partial re- throughout Italy at the seventh Some mix-

Spiritual Kingdom to be attained on understanding, some heightening of

anniversary of the Fascist revolu the apocalyptic element from Proto-earth, that Truth and Goodness are the grain exchange resulted in a blinded by prejudice could fall In Winnipeg, hectle trading onion, affirming that no observer un Luke or "Q" to Matthew, there may but belong to an eternal world, prices, largely owing to the de- on all

not a passing phase of life on earth net fall of six cents on wheat to see that Italy The Marcion-like at that to attain salvation men must bacle-in-the-stock markets. Mi-advance and steady tread of a was advancing tempt to weed out all Jewish-live-in this world as not of this lions of bushels were thrown on mobilised army-Reuter,

froats with the ordered eschatology, from the Gospels can world. Rejecting the drama of the the market to cover Wall Street only appear to be special pleading, Second Coming, we shall not, it is reverses. Reuter's American Ser- influenced by the desire to fit the to be hoped, lose the faith that vice. Saviour into a twentieth century inspired the Jewish apocalyptic, the frame. The truth seems to me to assurance that, however dark the be that Jesus, in common with other day, in the ead God would triumph. Jews, expected in the near future Finally, and this is all-important, the end of the world and the sud-the rejection of the bellef in the den founding of a new kingdom.coming end of the world does not In any case, if it did not come from at all affect the validity of Christ's Jesus, this eschatological expectaethical teaching. tion, derived from Judeiern, and

Jesus did not perhaps earlier from Zoroastrian-would suggest, only an "Interims- leave, as Dr. Schweitzer and others sm, is found in the Christina com athik. The ethic of the interim is munity immediately after the death for Christ the same as the ethic of

It probably influenced

of Christ.

'DOCKERS' STRIKE

Increase of Wages Pro- mise Ends Stoppage

Karachi, Yesterday.

The dockers' strike- has ended.

the unfortunate experiment in com- the Kingdom; only thus can we ac- Wages will be increased, and munism of the Jerusalem saints, count for the other side of His houra reduced. Reuter,

It was held by St. Paul, though with apocalyptic teaching, that men in

a waning influence in his later this age are not far from the King-

dom, that the Kingdom is already

US. Indignant Washington, Yesterday, The State Department has in- structed the Embassy at Rame to make representations to Italy re- garding reports that American citizens of Italian extraction are being pressed into the service of the Italian army.-Reuter.

TO AVERT CRASH German Banks Help Hard Hit Concern

Berlin, Yesterday. The biggest continental woollen blanket concern, the Gerbruder

:

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BRITISH FLIGHT TO KENYA

AIRMAN LANDS OWING TO HEAVY STORM

HIS COMPANIONS CONTINUE

London, Yesterday. News was received this morn ing that the airman who left Croydon for Kenya yesterday, had. arrived in Paris.

Some anxiety had been expari- the aeroplane, especially as there enced, owing to lack of news of Epistles. In its main features the in their midst. Perfect self-sacri- here, whether or not the original Zeoppritz, of Mergelstetten; Wurt afternoon. Calls for news of the

was a Jewish belief was carried on into acing fove, this is for Christ both Last Supper was the Passover temberg, is financially embarrass airman were sent out by the heavy storm during the later Christianity, Origen quotes the condition of men entering the meal. from Papias a purely Jewish pie-Kingdom and also the characteris evidence concludes: "The words in $600,000.

Canon Streeter on textual ed, with abilities approximating French Broadcasting Stations last ture of the Millennium; Tertullian,tic of the Kingdom, when it comes. Luke suggest, though they do not in a passage quoted by Dr. Burkitt, The drama is rationalized by say quite compel the view, that in his to avert the arm's bankruptcy, yesterday's storm, but the pilot Wurttemberg banks are trying aeroplane suffered no damage in

night. It is understood that the. accepts the prophecies of Enoch as ing that love is the condition of the source the Last Supper was referring to Christ. The vision of

and to tide over the situation by thought it was advisable to land

CON-

a fature judgment, again a purely Kingdom, not when it comes, but celved as taking place on the day an offer to the firm's creditors and await more favourable condi Jewish conception, has survived it comes. The ethic remains, in before the Passover." Lietzmann Arrangements are being made to tions, bat his companions intend down the ages. We hear echoes of full force for men in this world, argues from the omission of the continue the business, which is a to continue their journey to a purely Jewish creed in that although the formal beller in the liturgical blessings and the four century old, gloomy modern slogan, Millions cateclysmic end of the world is cups in the account, that it was not directions.

under influential Kenya. British Wireless Service:: now living will never die." Popu: abandoned.

the Passover; according to hlin, Zeoppritz's assign their col however, in the early Christian lapse to the unfavourable ocono RUSSIAN LOYALISTS influence in regard to Jewish and there is a close connection with the with Sklarek Brothers, prominent There is another sphere of Jewish on the Jewish synagogue or temple, the textile industry in connection liturgy if there is no dependence mic situation, and depression: in

EXECUTED Christian warship; to this we can ceremonial blessings at the Jewish Berlin clothing manufacturers, give little more than a pointer for festival meal, the Sabbath kiddush and racehorse owners, who were. further study: On the Christian Klausner, on the other band, sups recently arrested on a charge of Sacraments the influence of plies the omissions in the narra defrauding the City of Berlin of The survival of Jewish apocaly Judaism is not very great Dr. tive; and he has the most convincs $500,000 by issuing worthless bills tle may bring occasional benefit to Burkitt makes the somewhat ex ing solution of the problem of the and forged documents-Beuter. a seaside resort where the newest trende statement, The Christian dates, namely, that Jesus and His and most fashionable false prophet Sacraments are certainly not part disciples followed the Jewish prac is volcing his cry. It is dimcult to of the inheritance taken from tice of that time in celebrating the see that it serves any other useful Judaism; they are not derived from Passover

lar religion is still disturbed, by Another Sphere of Influence vague hopes and foars of the cur- ing of the end of the world, and Jewish eschatology forms the main plank of the platform of a variety of British and American dects.

Fashionable False Prophet

TENDERS ACCEPTED

day early on this Thurs: It is notified

purpose. The belief in eternal the Temple worship aor, accept Indy, to avoid breaking the Sabbath damnation has debased the Chris certain minor details, from the by killing the victim, on the Fridi tian conception of God, and proved service of the synagogue.~ As Bt. evening. We would' an occasion of stumbling to sincere Fault set an end to logellam in the on

Christians

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though

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