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RATIONALISM AND MODERN CHURCHMAN'S POSITION.

....[TO THE IDITNE OF THE "HONGKONG

DAILY PRESS."]

SIR,The article which I enclose' Ap-

tion's m

other hand, we and teaching, which He left, followers to carry on His work What He reaches sometimes to the Christian.iere.in. the power of. His spirit.

In Jesus Christ we have the true pie-himself thought about the time and ture of God's character. That is the connature of His return it is diffent to viction of the New Testament writers and determine. There can be little doubt, that of Modern Churchmen. Now Christ de- the disciples expected His "Second Com- haitely sets aside some Old Testamenting at any moment. Thus the question teaching as itumoral, He gepudiates, for of Charch organization can scarcely have example, the law of revenge (an eye for been overwhelming interest. Still less, za eye and a tooth for a rooth), and it it: we may trust, the Gospel portrait, can Church from early days has been govern- this is universally recognizat.. it

follows,

That the

The Tro-

Of Creeds. I shall say little Creeds are based on the New Testament. They have no independent authority. unless we ac to suppose. that the Church which vouches- for. them is infallible, and this both com monsense and the record of Church his- tory forbid, as to do. The statements of

commenda

Labour.speaking at the Constitutional

Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of peared a short time ago in a Magazine f will do a great day for the Churenes when it have interested "Christ. Club recently, thus summed up a situa. called the Modern Churchman which is then, that the whole of the. Old Testa ed by bishofis, and that government by enuse of bent is not binding upon us today. As bishops has proved effective, is true. But Christians we are concerned only with to say that is not to say that a Church a Magazine to maintain the Trata, Freedom and Comprehensiveness Crist's teaching, and spirit. Nothing not so: governed ir no Church, nor may in the Church of England. As the top which falls below the level of that teacher assert that government by bishops of the first page of every issue of this ing, or is.out of harmony, with that spirit, or any other form of government what-

is to be accepted. in Christ, His teach ever was rounded by Christ.

those "who magazine you will and the two quoting, is acts. His life, His spirit-in Church consists of all

Christ Himself, we see revealed the char féess and call themselves Christians" its (1) By identifying the new learning arter of God. Christ is the answer to existence is necessary for carrying on the with heresy, yoR make orthodoxy the insistent question: What is God like work of Christ; it is, in St. Paul's phrase, who follow Him and works synonymous with ignorance-haus. He is "The Portrait of the invisible His body, inasmuch as His spirit dwella

(2) A State without the means of God. By the picture of dod which in those

He said change is without the means of its Christ prevents, the truth or falsehood of through thea The unity which Christ

required is a unity of spirit. all other pictures must be judged. conservation-Edmund Burke.

Many have come to recognise the vahe nothing of organization. Where sun or There are many members of Christian

three are gathered in His name. there is Churches who conscientiously believe that of scholnts' work on the Testament: Christ Modernism is destroying the foundations they admit the result to have been not of the Christian Faith. My own belief is loss, but, gain; they see that to treat the exactly the contrary, and I am convinced beaks.pl. the Old Testamentlike any that the future of the Church of England other look to apply to them the ordi is in the hands of the Liberal Evangelicals nary,ruethods of criticism and research, is the sure way to discover whatever is and the Modernista.

On the question of the infallibility of extraordinary or anique in their teaching. We understand now that the Old Testa certain Christian dogmas the modernist | position is nearer that of Christ than is ment is inspired because it was written the Creeds are no more above criticism

Catholic, by inspired meo, and for nu other reason than the statements of the Bible. While " orthodox Roman

the that of the

Creeds are, valuable suunaries of cer" many Low Churchmen and the majority But we are quite clear that an inspired i

wholesale acceptance of High Churchmes. The first believes writer, 3,000 years ago was no more magic this aspects of the Christian faith, it is condition of in the infallibility of Papal deerees when ally protected front mistakes that an inbauril to reare uttered cathedra, the second class spired writee of today. In the case of of their statements as

with the best, will in the world we cannot hoid the Bible, to be infallible and the the Old Testament this is now pretty membership for the simple reason that the generally admitted, ot, the New. Testa hin ourselves in reptat all the clauses. the decisions of last regard as

councils.

The Modernist ment it is no less true. A har and fast is exactly the sense which occumenical At Southampton, where a dustman gets oes not believe in the inerrancy of the line cannot. be drawn. Inasmuch as the itself to our neighbours.. In this connec-

writers of the New Testament - stand Pape, or of Holy Scripture or of occu-

rearer to the events which thuy describe. we do well to remember the saying 19s, for a 4-hours week, he has 12 anys menical councils.ie tends more than the evidence for those events may be

af the late Bishop of Carlisle, "The holiday a year with; full pay, while if The Modernist

more complex the Creed, the more it ar is Al he receives half-pay for the rat the

to theories elevate thought to be so far better yet:complète five weeks and quarter-pay for another spiritual life because it makes men fall certainty is no more divinely guaranteed obscures the dihirist!"

There en le no doubt that Baptism five the the other hand, a skilled worker hick on the Holy Spirit and work with for the New Testament than for the Old. in Southamptan docks, such as ship's that Spirit in deeds, and a life of We are concerned here not with what and Holy Communior go back to the fitter, gets 378, Udi. a week and no holiday righteousness, knowing that thus and thus might have been not with what we should earliest days of the Christian Church, and or "wick pay.

only will spiritual truth be attained, have expected or preferred, but with what the Modean Chureliman desires that these sacraments shall be profitably used and instead of resting on an external author actually is ity which may violate reason and con-

Tuke, for instance, the question of Newhonourably esteemed.. At the same time science and drive educated and sineere

some alleged miraculous event, either did magical significance. He would have it quite plain that wabaptized infants mes into indifference or opposition to the Testament miracles. Absolute proof, that he is careful not to ascribe to them a Christian Faith.

Modernists are not infallible nor door did not happen, as described is fever are to are beyond the circle of the lova As against these rates of pay in Lan-they claim to be infallible; but they do obtainable. In order to ranch even to of Und, than those who have been

claim that it is their most earnest desire some degree of probability, the question haptized. don and the provinces for this class of to learn the truth and to interpret that must be approached from many sides. manual lalar, highly skilled engineers never ceasing revelation of God which The New Testament writers, expected unreal. The presence of Christ in the are now receiving only 60s. 113. per werk has been given in the Holy Scriptures, in miracles; the older, defenders of Chris Holy Communion in no way depends for and neither sick pay nor holiday money the thoughts of men and in the workings tianity saw in miraries the strongest of tim upon the ministrations of a priest episedpally onlained He may be even of the laws of Nature and listory. Such that the Christian religion was

uncertain whether Christ intended to in- SOLE AGENTS. from their emplojera.

as attitude, of frankness, of not being To-day the position, is different. afraid to say what we think, of not seem any of us miracles are a difficulty, not stitute a service which should be repeat- a help. We see God not in the inesplied. On the other hand, he sees in the ing to tell little lies in support of a

instinct with will

the spectuslar, Holy Communion a service makeable, the extraordiARTQ; great" truth and of humility"

cause of return the personality of Christ; it is full of educated men and women more keen to but in the whole support a right kind of missionary work and story. To find, Gud only in the Christ's spirit the idea to which it the gives expression, are His The Holy Cem- It will also make our personal faith, and gaps" is to see Him less and less ab life more real, mere strong and God- gaps in our knowledge are filed up, and muzion stands for the truth that the

to run..

tue risk at last of, driving God world cannot afford to forget Christ, that trusting.

Christi is nu mere memory, but a present altogether from the world. The Modern Churchman believes that what are termed Friend: that in. Ein all are brothers, that

God is

is seen in the common things and is accessible to all alike, that service and. sacrifice are the very bread and wine of existence that to be a Christian is to receive into yourself the Spirit of Thrist arified, and to let that spirit. express itself work and action. There- forms it is that the Church does well to keep, that service as the centre of ita worship in every age.

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POLICE COURT ITEMS.

An Indian soldier was formally re- manded for a week by Mr. EW.

Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on a charge of baring in his possession, 102 taels of raw opium. Bail was allowed in 82,000, a friend of the accusial "saying he would act 13

sponsor.

At the Kowloon Magistracy yester- day before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, a. Chinese was sentenced to three months hand labour and twelve strokes of the birch, for having snatched a hat from little girl in Sham Shui Po on the pre- vious day. The police stated that defend." ant was captured after a chase.

Before Mr.. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy, yesterday, two Chinese, charged on remand, with having stolen some planks of wood from a con- tractor's yard in Sham Shui Po, wer

sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.

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infallibility

The acknowledgment of God in Christ accepted by thy reason, selves for thee all questions in the earth and out of it'

Yours faithfully,

W. T. FEATHERSTONE. The Diocesan Boys' School,

Hongkong, April 17th, 1998

(Enclosure))

RATIONALISM AND THE POSITION -OF-THE MODERN CHURCHMAN.

(CONTRIBUTER),

Labels are generally misleading. They mean different coings for different people 11 label myself a Modern' Churchzian, it is not that I altogether like the name, nor that I wish to label others as behind the times. Modern, Churchmes consent to wear this label, as an indication of their belief that all new truth, from what ever quiter i come, is part of

may.

true.

For

For him the distinction be- tween valid and invalid sacraments is

we

are eager, as not to make

boatmistresses were each fined $5, with are thinking of the search of ma after facts and the explanations offered to Our aim, Christ as Master

the alternative of five days' hard labour. for dredging in the harbour.

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the miraculous aures of Christ happened substantially as recorded at for him they are not mineles, if by miracle you nican a breach of natural hw, but rather proofs of whata, mda may do who under- stands, witat Nature's God would teach. With a story like the Feeding of the Five Thousand, the Modern Churchman has more difficulty. He does not deny its possibility, but he is inclined to seck an

A For the Modern Churchman, as for all explanation in some' antural erent. study of the growth of miracle stories in Christians, Christ is central. No one has. other religions and in the Middle Ages even succeeded in making too much of shows him how easily a natural event can Jesus Christ. But just because we are be transformed into a supposed miracle. sq. certain of this,

What are we to say about the stories Richard Baxter was eager. of the Virgin, Birth and the Empty Tomb more fundamentals than Christ made. The Modern Churchman asserts that the As Modern Churchmen we seek passion- arch even, of these events must be tested ately the real Christ. In that search for hy the evidence available. Not even hers reality we welcome the results of what is called the Higher Criticism, which en- can we sponk of absolute certainty. But able to know the Jesus of Galilee with if the Modern Churchmia questions the At the Maring Court yesterday, continous revelation, of God to man.

narratives of the Virgin Birth, he does surer knowledge than was possible in

fornger days. We find in Him one who, fore Liest-Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N.,

God, from His, vary nature, is always not question the truth of the Incarnation; 10) one bart-mistress was fined $5, or five trying to reveal ilimself more fully: manif he refuses to commit himself to a belief saw God as Father, men as sons of God, life as an opportunity for service in the lays hard labour in default, for obis so constituted that to follow the rath in the Empty Tomb, he does ret doubt spirit of love. For us as for Christ the structing the Yaumati Police Pier.

the reality of the Resurrection, or the asscatials of Christianity are found in of discovery is, assential to a true Ele. When we speak of Revelation, we are.

of Carl, love of and an altitude thinking of a moverment of God man fact of a living and present Christ. He

claims the right to distinguish between Mf.

discipleship

is simplification... ward; when we speak of Discovery we

Here, as everywhere, the law of acount for them. Christ, the Fortrait Christianity, someone has said, Gqd co-operation holds good. The best re- of the invisible God" that is the fact,

would like to make it." This sults are obtanaike only as God and many that fact the Modern Churchman thing a great deal simpler than the work together Thus fear of new know stands But the Iset does not depend on we believe. But by simplification we do ledge should be impossible. To speak the story of the Virgin Birth, and that not mean

of a conflict between Religion and story he holds himself free reject if whittled down,

When the evidence seems to require him to do character; we mean rather a Christianity is really meaningless. Darwin published the Origin of Species so. Again. Christ lives. and He convinced so simple in presentation that a child can Rabens, Conrad Nagel and there was an outery on the part of the the disciples of His continued presence grasp it, yet so true to Christ's own in- Wyndham Standing, whose names are Churches, of which rost of us are now that is the fact; by that, too, the tention that only tluse led by His spirit. But he is can see the full page of the ideal which. Modern Churchman stands. Darwin's bypothesis. known to film-goers ali over the world. beartily, usnamed. are the screen celebrities in The Re of evolution was hut a new and splendid nat, therefore, bound to except the story it presents to me. With the aim of jected Wonan the Distinctive Pictures revelation, or, if you will discovery of of the Empty Tomb. That story, is per- simplification. I should wish to link the haps nothing more than an inference from search for truth as a dominant desire. Production which will be seen at the the metuod by which God worke

Resence has been recently World Theatre for four days' run, Some people, of courte, are sill ask-the fact of living Christan inference amongst us.

to the Church's exasperating Leonors Hughes, inse are sin, with natural indeed to the fest

century, but made mencing Sunday. famous dancer and beauty, has an im Genesis, and if not, what value is left out of barmony with the thought of to-habit of telling Ettle lies in support of portant role.

to the Old Testament? Now it may be day. In each case the fact and the ex-great truth." As Modern Churchmen we.. In support of these four will be seen said at once that as a textbook of science planation are on different planes. I can seek to free the Church from such a Believing neither is an infallible a high citas capts including George the Old Testament is absolutely worth never prove that the tomit was Church nor in an infallible Bible.. MacQuarrie, who has appeared in less, because since its hocks were written that Christ was born without a human chim Christ's promise of guidance, hundreds of pictures: Beda Lugosi, both Revelation and Discovery have pro-father. Нете

into styled "the Hungarian Barrymore:

women pledged Antonio D'Algy, Follies Beanty; Mme. grossed, and Professor Soddy, let us say, deny with anything more than probability further truth: we regard the Church as

is a more reliable guide on scientific ques-behind my statement. No experience of a company of men and LaViolette,

as a way of noted French actrees;

living ordinary life; we stand to it that Aubrey Smith, the distinguished Eng-tions that the writer of Genesis, or even mine can make the truth of these stories to proclaim Christianity

sh actor and Fred Burton, the well than Galien Shall we then scrap the a whit more certain. On the other hand, Christ has a message for every man ir

Old Testament altogether? That would when I assert that Christ lives and that' kuown Eroadway stage actor.

be as foolish as to insist that Biblical in Him I see God, I cannot force you to every age, and that in Ilim lies the soh science must be accepted by all Chris agree with me; but I ene offer you the tion of the world's problems, the answer

to man's every need. Carter: the much bravelled and much tinos in the teeth of modern discoveries test of experience. L can say, "Look for With the great scientists we hold that heralded magician and his company have The value of the Old Testament is reli- yourself; see whether the faith of a Chris- been booked to appear for a short sea-gioas, not scientific. In the Old Testa fian does not work as a bypothesis, does the most important discoveries are made "not frem nay desire of gain, but from son at the Queen's Theatre beginning ment (and remember we are concerned not fit the facts, does not verify itself a simple determination to know the from April

A He is 40 American with a library, the contents of which increasingly with the growing years.

truth

We heileve that by following and he gives a full two and a half hour cover a period of more than a thousand faith so tested has nothing to fear from this road Christians will become as entertainment which is lavishly staged, years) we have the record of this double new discoveries; it is 'n faith for simple containing

scientists have become of the natural and clever process of Revelation and Discovery. We and learned alike, since it rests not on great masters of the spiritual world, ne Illusions, huayrical

Icats, assistsce, a growing knowledge of the character the exploded authority of an infallible world." With William Penn we ed by five talented assistants.

and will of God. The pictures of God in Bible, not on the hardly won conclusions that God did never ask man leave to In Camille, shown yesterday at the the Old Testament are not all equally of critic and scholar, but on the sure basis introduce or make farther discoveries of Queen's Theatre, Nazimova has the role of true. If a fan tries to get at the truc

woman of the underworld whom the picture of God by putting together all of experience, an experience which may His mind to the world with Robert triumphantly, in tàn love of a law student lilin to heights that the Bible anys of Him, the result be achieved by any honest and adventur Browning we say

conviction of a personal experience which of devotion and sacrifice, and who re will be confusion. Some of the actions ous seeker after truth. turns to her showy, pitiful life upon stamped in the Old Testament with the If the Bible is not infallible. neither is no doubt can shake-The acknowledg learning that her sweetheart bas abändou divine approval are on's level with the tae Church, To the, Modern Churchman Ement of God in Christ nccepted by in ed his career for her sake. It is a

worst crimes of the German army in the question: Did Christ found the reason, solves for thee all questions in the poignant tragedy that holds interest un Belgium. In the great Prophets, on the Church 1 is really without meaning Clear. earth and out of it."

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