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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1935

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DECAY OF

OF MODERN

RELIGION

Everywhere. EXAMINATION OF FIRST

TESTS FOR DRUNKENNESS

Tests for drunkenness had at- tained a different kind of fame long before they aroused the pre- sent controversy between eminent medical men.

They deserved it for their variety and ingenuity. Some of them fitted into systems, other into no system intelligible to human logic.

·ACROBATIC.

eyes closed

CAUSES

FUNDAMENTAL FAITH AND

EXTERNAL TRAPPINGS

(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge, D.D.)

essence

--

words

of

him. But if they general title of this ar ficulties to ticle is taken from an essay have reason to think that he is by Aldous Huxley. It follows an-ja man who will say only what he There was, for example, the other essay in which he good-helleres to be true, whether it is tongue twister system by which humouredly makes fun of me for orthodox or not, they will come

with approval Ato him readily enough. We need " the suspect was made to say "Bri-quoting «

N. Whitehead's

about new criterion of clerical hon- tish Constitution.” “Truly rural.”

the

of religion.esty. "The Leith police dismisseth us.”

"Religion;" sang this eminent The Church used to get hold. "The artillery marched past and saluted the constabulary and the philosopher. is what the indiv of the unconverted by extrava

idual does with his own solitude.gant promises and larid threats. like.

is always Collective enthusiasms, revivals. Organised religion

rituale, directed to the half-converted; institutions, churches. Bibles, codes of behaviour are the this is what Huxley is driving at. There was the acrobatic system trappings of religion. is passing But these bribes and threats are -walking a chalk line. standing forms. They may be useful or heard, no more, The clergy are on one leg and holding the cther.harmful The end of religion is ashamed of them; the people do not believe them. Divine justice or bringing the index finger sharp-beyond all this.” ly to the tip of the nose with the Aldous Huxley really agrees must bear some relation to hu- with this, for he says that all man actions. The natural penal- There was the bridge-calling test the founders of the great reli- for being a bad man is not to and the general knowledge test and xious have been solitaries. But be baked in an oven: it is to be- the handwriting test. (A Cam if they wished to found spiritual come a worse man, and to banish bridge undergraduate was

con-religions, they failed. The reli-joneself from the presence victed a few years ago because be sions of Jesus. of Gautama, of God, here and hereafter.

Modern "Materialism” first wrote the word "absurd" cor-La-Tse have never appealed to

We hear a rectly and then changed the final more than a few Christians, Bud-!

great deal about "d into a "."). -

dhists, Taoists" To satisfy the modern "materialism" "Secular- majority, seciable and unspiritualism" would be a better word. Ma- SUSPECTS OWN

religions, formidably rich in alterialism is a scientific and phi that buys men's souls.” had to be losophical doctrine, The second school of thought|

Suspects have devised their own invented.

beld takes for granted that people tests.

by leading ¡science in the Mr. and Mrs. John S. H. Waan who want to fight will fight if There was one who stood on his wish to express their thanks for they have the weapons, and con-head and sang The Wearing of the kindness and sympathy so tend that even if we generously extended in their recent ensure

industrial

He spent, the night in the cells. bereavement. Also to the sisters rations will be peaceful there is and staff of the French Hospital at any rate a moral duty not to The United States adopts slight-most people religion is one of the are still very tentative, will take and Dr. Montgomers for their supply anyone else with the testing drunkenness than they do sociableness. We may regret it; other

more scientific methods of things which a man does not with time to reach the masses.

solitude. but with his Secularism, however, is 2D- means to fight. devotion, care and interest.

seven- in England year-long Disarmament Confer-

but, as Aldous Huxley says, "acceptance of a low and inspirit- ence did at any rate make this

the Dean imagines that he is ual standard of vaines, and as clear that the opposition to breathstellera football blad-going to transform a single born such is the deadly enemy of the this doctrine comes. from the der which the prisoner' is made to sociable into a spiritual solitary, higher religion, Whether it is blow up and which is afterwards ester much mistaken, where increasing or not. it is hard to analysed for its percentage of plant

alcohol

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

that

the

The

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which was

of

last century,

men

Some Doubts Religions of pure spirituality though they avoided the name. and solitariness, such as Quaker-Modern science is not material-

cannow the Green" to prove his sobriety-lism, have never been popular. Forfistic; but the new ideas, which

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smaller nations. who cannot Hong Kong Saturday, July 27, 1935. afford the expensive

which would usually be idle, the constant experiments that are unproductive of anything use ful The result would be that

Munitions

The favourite there is

the

Your Daily Smile!

Buddha

matter.

It

means

the

and Jesus have failed. Say. There is certainly far too will the Dean of St. Paul's and much of it. the long eng muhabe Professor Whitehead of Harvard) When we turn away from what succeed? I have my doubts.” Whitehead calls the trappings of I have my doubts, too; but I religion, and look at what he re- Yesterday we referred to the all power of final decision would A lady, was entertaining the small am more than satisfied if what I gards as real religion, we should. change of popular sentiment in be in the hands of the half-son of her married friend,

mean by pure religion is sub-expect, since human nature does regard to war generally, and the dozen Great Powers, and the force of the more or less new smaller Powers would only be meats, Marvin she inquired after stantially the same as what the not change much that the num

Founder of Christianity

ber of really religious people pro- feeling that no State should be independent în name.

Oh, yes, ma'am," he replied with-by it. Huxley suggests that I ap- bably remains fairly constant. gin to fight unless it had first It must be admitted that the out looking up from his plate. We parently find it easier to pray in The number is never large, and is tried to obtain whatever it re-principle of equality of national often have it as touch as thir at my bedroom or study than in St never likely to be large: Christ gards as its just claims either rights. on which any tribunal home." by direct negotiation or by call must be based, has not yet

*Are you sure

watching him a moment.

+

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meant

Paul's Well, it is true, I did. never encourages as to expect an

ing in the services of a third established itself firmly enough Union Street, Dublin, was pretty welt Sermon on the Mount, and amway. "Few there be, that find it

It was a raw, blustery night and But I remember a verse in the inconvenient crowd on the narrow party to act as what Bismarck to take the sting out of this deserted Whatever hope, then, the not ashamed of myself.

Democracy would like to widen use to call the honest broker." argument. It will be a long elderly Irish woman singing by the

lit into All this is just to make it clear

an arterial read, but I If to that obligation be added time before France will acknow- pavement had of earning a copper

cannot be done. It will never be the duty of other Powers not ledge the equality of Monaco, or two must have been faint indeed. What I mean by religion when I directly interested to enforce Germany bow to a claim by act that tempted her to accostalis

Possibly it was a realisation of that ask the question whether religion safe for motor traffic. There is

declining. Fer

nothing on which Christ was more those who such action, we arrive at the Luxembourg. But it is doubt-rentleman who was passing and to think as I do the decay of church-explicit than this. doctrine of "collective security."ful whether the tendency to con-jas "Please, sort could ye spare going does not

mean the decay beliefs take up

Those who have lost the old There are, however,

two centrate power in the hands of copper for an old woman”

The gentleman, taking pity on her, of religion. Nor are we

various causes.. schools of thought about how a few units can be resisted, or to induce aggrieved parties to whether it would be an undesirave her a sixpence.

impressed by what many people "Got blese, sor," came the ready think of their able development.

encouraging accept this solution

More and renly, "an' may every

signs hair of yer

revivals in Protestant quarrel Obviously a nation more technical ingenuity tends head be a candle to light ye to glory.estatic

Taking of his hat and exposing a countries and the crowds who

much

enthusiasms, fads, which promise some satisfaction to their unap- peased and often unconscious de- sires. Most of them are very one-

duce fanaticisms, but no satisfaction...

that wants to fight will ignore to make the old mass warfarelaid pate, the gentleman dryly Fe-persuade themselves that miracles/sided andținadequate; they pro the protest of

nation of numbers obsolete, and the marked, "It won't be much of a torch-are worked at Lourdes. any that is in no position to make war of the future a thing of ght procession, madam.”

its protest effective. The one highly trained specialists using school deduces from this that an enormously expensive equip-

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If this last is religion, we may agree with Whitehead that “yeli-|

all the nations, even the smaller ment There would be noi The judge was trying to secure algion is not always a good thing: non-industrial ones, should be necessity for the self-governman was being questions to his it is sometimes a very bad thing" was as Or: rather, this kind of religion is allowed to arm themselves to ment of smaller units to be fitness for jury service. the limit of their resources, and limited so long as it was kept! "Do you believe in capital punish-14 very mixed thing; it caters for that it is an obligation on those for purposes of self-govern- jment*** asked the judge.

too severe.”

human nature in all its moods,

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real:

WIFE FINED FOR ASSAULT

Husband Afraid To Go Home

London

(who can provide armaments to ment The loss of the oppor "Yes," replied the man, if it isn't good and bad, wise and foolish. 1

do so at request The serious tunity of attacking their neigh-!

Įdo not care much whether this Ipoint in this arrangement is bours would do noñody any -

kind of religion increases or de- hat ammunition must fit guns, harm The trend of the age

cline. spare parts must fit engines; has already gone far in that maintains the refusal of export

Church-Going Decline and that the main demand must direction without any conscious permits, which we strongly The decline in church-going is

Daniel Ryan, of Railway- -- loccur after hostilities have be-planning.

approve, there appears to be no easily accounted for.

street, Barnes, summoning his gun. In fact without the

practical difficulty in stopping worship is indispensable

wife Rachel for assault, at Mort. guarantee of supply during war In England no armaments can this war so long as France Cilliterate population: to an lake recently, said he had been nobody will give orders during be exported without a licence operates. The co-operation of

Reliance must there from the Government No ex-the United States is already them, masses of good devotional

have, or may have if we

cautioned by his son, and in con- - peace.

sequence went to the police- fore be placed on the deterrent press embargo is needed; all the secured. The decision rests and theological literature. station and asked for an officer effect of the general condemna-Government has to do is to re with M. Laval, not with Signor was can listen in the B. B. Cay 31, as he was afraid to Or to go home with him on Friday, tion of the aggressor, which it fuse permits; and we are told Mussolini.

is a friend to religion, but no enter. is hoped will prevent war al-that no permits have been! The ideal solution would be friend to the poor parish priest. ftogether. The plight of an jgranted for four

months that Italy should undertake The Anglicar liturgy is dear to but remained on the opposite A constable went with him, army that went to war on the France is stated to have imposed Mandate, although both parties those who were brought up with side of the-street. Continuing. strength of having a supply of an embargo. Abyssinia has at this stage vehemently reject it, but repellent or meaningless Ryan said: munitions of a perticular sort, got her munitions from Bel that solution. The principle of and then found that nothing,gium, and the Skoda Works in ruling African natives in their parts to others. Why should "As I attempted to enter z gould be replaced, would be de- Czechoslovaida, and Japan All own interests, is the only princi- we think upon Rahab and Baby teapot crashed down at my feet. And it must be re- these supplies have been im- ple that has any moral justincature of "Og. the King of boiling water also crashed down

lon," and exalt in the plorable

discom As I Jumped aside a kettle of membered that in these days of ported through the French port tion, and it would be an excel- accurate and rapid information, of Djibouti. Although Italy is lent thing it throughout the Bashan

at my feet Before I had time calculations are based on facts to a large extent self-suficient, Continent Fowers who have ter-

The clergy, it is said, are to get away my wife came rush- and bluff is sure to be called she also will have to use the ritories under their control seldom consulted, and inspire no ing downstairs, flourishing & It was this line of thought that French railway that starts at would voluntarily accept that confidence. There are very many broom and saying, H you led Sir John Simon to make his Djibouti, and she has already principle and make themselves exceptions; but on the whole we attempt to enter I shall do you chilling and unpopular speech, used her gold reserve to pay for accountable to the Mandates must admit that it is true. As in.'" in which he said that the only imported supplies presumably Committee of the League. long as the idea prevails that Two years ago, he added, she result of an Arms Embargo from the Enha

Even now the Anual Reports the parson is a kind of cheap had put 22 quart milk bottles would be to increase armament Provided that England of the Governors of our own jack who is paid to cry up cer- through the windows of the production by compelling all the observes the general principle, Protectorates are forwarded to tain wares, an advocate who has house next door smal nations to make their impartiality except in hence the Committee as a mati

of to speak his brief people na Mrs. Byan wh to a decision of the

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