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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1959.

THE FAITHS BY WHICH WE LIVE-Part

THE CHURCH THAT SAYS

"WE AGREE

TO DIFFER

by BERNARD HARRIS

As the damp smoke rose from the burning sticks

n pince of everlasting punish-

ment.

What about Heaven? They do not try to describe what an after-life will be like. Nobody knows. They think it will be "fo nearer to God Himself."

But, for the most part, Unitarians prefer, as one of that ministers has said, "to take one world at a time? Rather than speculate about life after death, they seek to make this world Just and righteous, beautiful and happy-by listening to God's

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True?

Do Untiartons regard the Bible ay the "Word of God?" No.

the London crowd jostled to get a closer view to accept everything of the white-faced man who was the centre of the in it as true. spectacle.

The name of the man? Bartholomew Legate, a 37-year-old weaver who had turned preacher, And the crime for which he was being burned at the stake? Religious heresy.

Though the gaping onlookers Servetus found himself unable to nl Smitheld on that bright accept the Christian doctrine spring morning in 1012 could that God is the Father, God is not know Legate and a fel-

the Son, and God Is the Holy low religionist who died soon Ghost, And that these three after at the stake in Lichfield persons are combined in one were the last persons ever to God. be done to death in Britain as heretics.

This Sunday morning thou rands of people who shore the beliefs for which those two men died will be worshipping in niore than 300 churches and chapels throughout Britain.

Among them will be former Cabinet Ministers, There will be privy councillors, peera, university dons, leading Indus- trialists, plain working men and *women

crom-section Britain itself.

The beginning

of

Who are these worshippers? They are the people known today as Unitarians,

them adopted to distinguish from Trinarians.

name

It Indientes

their belief that God is One. They recognise They only God the Father. reject the doctrine that Jesus was one of three Persons in a Divine Trinity, which is funda- mental to the faith of other Christiana,

Controversy over the reality of the Trinity had, of course, arisen many years before Legate was burned at Smithheld,

In 1531 be published The Erruts of the Trinity, in which he denied what the theologians all "the tripersonality of the Godhead."

Is ideas horrified Protestants At trial and Catholles alike.

But they look on it as a supremely valuable book, from

which much knowledge of God can be obtained.

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even

Other good books can help is this quest. So it is not unknown fur Unitarian person to read at a Sunday service extracts the scriptures of other from

from ligion Shakespeare or Bernard Shaw. A Unitarian anding himself in a town where there was no church would be Unitarian

to attend services encouraged of any other denomination-- whether they were in a Roman Catholic cathedral or a Jewish synagogue,

The Unitarians have three colleges for the training of Qeir ministers, But their parsons' pay in lower even than In the Church of Eugland,

in Geneva, where he had bec seized, he was found guilty of heresien "blasphemously ex-

Though the Church aims at a pressed against the founda- tions of the Christian religion." minimum of £600 a year, ther

are many ministers who receive less than this. Some could not serve at all unless they had private means.

Calvin Bat He

that It is sald wanted him beheaded. he suffered a worse fato. was burned at the stake. Today those old controversies

the A are largely forgotten in Unitarian Church.

however, It remains true, that this Church has no Creed, It belleves u cmplete freedoen for its members to think for themselves, to search for truth about God In their own minds And it allows them freedom to differ,

Valuable.

So a man who sets out to be Unitarian minister needs above all to be dedicated to his work.

Vallancs, minister at Altrincham since 1943.

How many Unitarians are tatal there in Britain? "The

estimated membership Is

at about 24,000, though the number of attenders at services is put substantially higher than that.

Uniterions represent barely a half of one per cent, of the population, But their achieve-

ents and influence are out of all proportion to their numbers.

Our own Dr Joseph Priestly,

discoverer of the

oxygen, established the first Unitarian church i

America tn 17B4. And though the per contage of Unitariana the US, is no higher today than It is here, about one-third of all

in

the names in the American Hall

of Fame are those of Unitarians, They include several Ameri. can Presidents-and AKIONA the present-day adherents to the religion is the former presidential candidate Aulat Stevenson,

Here in Britain the adherents over the years range from John Milton-two of whose hymns are in the Uniterion hymnory-- to Sir Isaac Newton, Leigh Hunt, Dickens, Darwin, Bol Florence Nightingajo,

President

This year's president of the Unitarian General Assembly Air James Chuter Ede, former Socialist Home Secretary.

Other leading Unitarians Include former Cabinet Minister Lord Woolton, who was for mony years Tory Party chair- man, and 60-year-old Lord Pethick-Lawrence, who Wes Secretary of State for India in the Socialist Government after. the war.

In the House of Commons the Church

la represented by the Rev.

Reginald Sorensen, Scelalist M.P. for Leyton, who stili ngures in its supplementy list of ministers, and by Mr Charles Hobson, Socialist M.P.. for Keighley.

·Women have figured in the ministry for more than half a Towthian, century. There hava been occasiong when father and daughter were ministers at the same time,

An example is found at the Dunham Rond Parsonage, Altrincham, where three pastors live-the Rev. Alfred Hall, now in retirement; his daughter Elspeth, who entered the her ininistry in 1939; and

Rev. Arthur

Unitarians belleve in Jesus But and follow His teachings. they do not look upon Him as the "only-begotten" son of God, husband, but as a leader and example "born to show what human The beginnings of Unitarian- life can become when lived in fam are usually traced back to a obedience to God's will." Nor Spaniard, Michael Servalus, who do they accept the orthodox idea storled to engage in theological of a physical Resurrection.

Unitarians also university

refuse speculations

to

student.

believe that those who do evil An all-loving Though nominally a Catholic will go la Hell.

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and a firm believer in Christ, God, they say, would not create

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An adherent on the T.U.C. general council is Mr George tecretary of the Building Trade Workers' Union, Novells R. H. Mottram is another prominent Valtarlan, It is in helping met and women to seek the truth, In buliding faith and charecter, that the creedless Church today finds its real work--and not in pursuing the controversies which caused those scenes la Sraith- fleld more than three centuries ago.

Weekend Friell

SHAWIROSS (Ex-Sacialist)

FOR THE LORDS

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The festering_sore

MAL

of Malaya

Singapore,

ALAYA enters 1959 with high hopes that the ten-year-old festering sore of Communist rebellion may soon heal. But this healing may indicate that a new and more dangerous malady is about to poison Malaya's body politic-that of Communist subversion.

-BY

David T. K. Wong

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0:1 the other side of the In return for this concession Bursa is willing to

4,332 cloftlans and buy moro ledger, Malayan rubber and undertake military personnel have to be on good behaviour on the killed by the terrorists, 3,336 have been wounded, and 834 are There are growing signs that Southeast Asia. The new tactics world's tirs market.

balts still missing. the Communists have changed follow two discernible patterns. These are tempting

Today, Emergency regulations tactics and that they are now One is the slow infiltration by since the Malayan resorting to more rublle means Communla's Inte government booed primarily on rubber and are enforced In about a quarter of Malaya. People living to those than open rebeillan to gain con- organs, political parties, trade tin.

and It is learned, however, that areas have food rationed frol of this strategle area In unions and other organisations.

This la done by Communists the Malay Government has generally have to observe a dusic

to turned down the proposal, main- to dawn curfew. have sneaked back

They cannot travel without normal lifa from the jungles and taining that as long as it in

activo wär against permits nor can they buy, sell, by Communists who have re- waging en

Communista, it cannot enter into store or move foodstuff of any fumed from exile abroad.

Even Communist terrorists diplomatic relations with Com- kind without special permission. who have surrendered under minist comiries.

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But this activo aver la likely to because of

are likely to be still dangerous. end this year both Although al surrendered ter- rorists are carefully

effective military operations by screened the government and becmise the Comulets know that forceful

But interrogated before they nro allowed to return to normi Eociety, it is often difficult lo determine whether they have

because et surrendered genuine change of heart or for ulterior motivez

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danger. Beveral Your

Communist terrorist surrendered-and- was grandani « ly accepted back Into normal society. He was cleared for Malayan enlistment in the

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army. But it has since

to light that he has not broken off from the Communisi Parly, becaus subversive Cont manial documents were found In his barracks and ke was geoled.

Coupled with this inattration Is a constant pressure by Com- munlit countries to strengthen trado and diplomatic Les with Malaya,

les can no longer succeed. Then, when these overtures are repeated, they will be map ported by a local opinion that is moreasgly neutrallat and they will be dañaut to resist.

The Communist rebellion which tha British with characteristio understatement"

Ersergency havo termed the

a new rсoeding farther and farther into the Jungles and Is being continued by only about 800 hungry and scattered fer- toriale.

They are broken into small bands trudgiar the Jungle paths in six of Maltya's 11 sinien and they

are out of touch with më another. The Emergency; which started Jaw of 1048, har cost Malaya on' estimated $300,000 (US$100, 008) a day. At ila height i 1050-51, there was a well-armed well-equipod Communist Trade with Communist force of 11,000 spreading a reign tions has been increasing staði- of murder and arvon throghout ly over the yeate and it is learn- the fand

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start of tha ed from diplomalle voirces that

0,072 Communist 2 overtures have been made by Energency

Tussia throud noutral chanel torrorists have best killed, 7,015 and 275, coptured. for the palabilahmen of a. Savjet. wanded London Express 'Service.

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