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CHANGING RELIGION.
THE MODERN, VIEW OF MIRACLES.
EVOLUTION. BUT NOT FATALISM.
THE CATASTROPHIC PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.
While Churchmeh are wrangling about words and phrases and details of ritual, which no doubt may involve important questions in principle, few have realised that a more momentous change is in progress Modernist victory at the expense of both the old parties in the Church, writes the Very Rev. W. R. Inge, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, in the Evening Standard.
It is tacitly admitted that the old men feel themselves threatened "in argument from miracle and pre-their souls by a mechanical theory can no longer be used. I which seems not only to deny human phecy do not mean that a clergyman may fiberty but to make the order of stand in the pulpit and proclaim the world blind and irrational, they that he does not accept the miracles find a satisfaction in believing that in the Creeds; but when a young the maker of the clock sometimes man tells his Bishop that his belief jogs it or moves the hands... To be in the divinity of Christ is inde- sure, this does not restore human pendent of the dogmas about the liberty, but it introduces caprice, Virgin Birth and the bodily Resur- which many people like better than rection, very few bishops hesitate dull uniformity. to ordain him. This is one of the changes which have come about silently and gradually. The centre of gravity in religious belief has shifted very considerably, and the Church is accepting the change.
The word supernatural · does not occur in the Bible. Nature is
contrasted not with supernature but with spirit. The spiritual world differs from the natural in that it is invisible, eternal, above the forms of time and space. We could not speak of the spiritual suspending the laws of the natural, for in one sense the two are too closely asso- ciated, and in another sense too far apart.
Miracles As Evidence, When Whichcote, the Cambridge Platonist of the seventeenth cea- tury, said to his opponent, "Sir, I oppose not rational to spiritual, for spiritual is most rational," he is claiming the identity of the divine law in the visible and invisible worlds; when St. Paul says that that which is spiritual comes after that which is natural, he means that there is an order of development, which brings us through nature to spirit, through the world to Ged. This is quite different from the cray- ing for signs and wonders which Christ rebuked. "A faithless and stubborn generation seeketh after a sign; there shall no sign be given to this generation."
Telegraphs And Wireless. There is a curious reluctance to believe that wo live under regular laws, although it might be supposed that a machine made by an all-wise designer would run regularly," with- out the need of tinkering. orthodox apologist, driven from pillar to post by the advance of knowledge, Batters himself that
The
there are still a few gaps in which he may take refuge. It is an up wise notion. Those who take refuge in gaps find themselves in a tight place when the gaps begin to close.
No one says dogmatically that miracles are impossible; that is more than anyone can know. But whereas in the dark ages it was considered the most natural ex- planation of a strange occurrence to assume that it was a miracle, we now expect to find either that it was not a miracle or that it did not happen. We do not call tele- graphs, telephones, and broadcast ing miraculous, though they would have acemed so two hundred years ago; they are not miraculous, be- cause their mechanism is under. stood. If something appareatly in- explicable happens, we assume that there is a natural explanation, and sooner or later we find it. If we' could be assured that there is no natural explanation, we should con- clude that since the strange pheno- menon cannot be fitted into the course of events, it differs from all other events in being entirely us important. We should not trouble ourselves much about a meteor which crossed the earth's orbit and vanished for ever into space,
The idea of miracle as evidence for religious truth, and the desire for such evidence, are characteristic of minds at a certain stage of edu- cation. In primitive societies such evidence, though it is readily re- ceived, makes but a small impres-
A Critical Transition. - " sion, for the laws of nature are not
This shows how completely, our then understood. Where there is no
way of looking at the world has law, there can be no miracle. When changed. It is the change from a science begins to establish the uni-
catastrophic to an evolutionary formity of nature, miracles becceme world. Traditional theology believ more startling, but much harder toed in a world in which the ordinary believe. The golden age of super-course of history had no significance naturalism is at a stage inter- The natural tendency of mankind mediate between these two states was, perhaps, they thought, to get of culture. When God is banished from nature, and men's hopes and sepirations are fixed on another world imagined as far away, then is the time for stories of occasional intervention by God in the natural order to be welcomed.
We
wothe. But the history of the universe was for them a cramped drama extending over only a few thousand years, marked by four sudden catastrophes. These were the creation of the universe less than 6,000 years ago, the fall of man, the redemption of mankind through the Incarnation, and the final destruction of the universe, which might be expected in the near future.
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The Powers Of Darkness. - The period when Christian dogma crystallised was one of those tran- sitional stages. The two worlds were kept too far apart, and were then violently brought together by The conception of miracle be intercalating "supernatural" pheno- langs to a catastrophic, not to an mena in the natural order an ex-evclutionary, scheme of the world's pedient which neither spiritualises history, and many of our difficulties nature nor naturalises spirit. These with traditional theology arise from interventions are often regarded as the fact that our theology was con atanding in no relation to the moralstructed to agree with a character of those who benefit by trophic philosophy of "history, them. God,
are told in a whereas we all believe in evolution. modern Catholic treatise, Bome- It is quite possible to bring the times asserts His liberty by sudden-Christian revelation under an evolu ly elevating souls from the abyss tionary scheme; the Fourth Gospel of sin to the highest summits of gives us more than a hiat how this perfection "just as in nature Ho may be done. But our religion is asserts it by miracles." So the passing through a critical transition, theory of arbitrary interventions so that we cannot be surprised if tends to weaken the moral sense, it shows signs of temporary weak This weakness is most up besides leaving.us helpless in face nesa.
parent in those bodies which are of absurd superstititions,
If omnipotence occasionally sus trying to face the situation and pends "the laws of nature, such as adjust themselves to it. The Die. gravitation, why should not Chris bards, for the time being, are în án eina mirabilis have flown, without easier position, rejecting the new an aeroplane, over the tops of knowledge and the new way of look. trees? (On one occasion this saint ing at the world altogether. But was unchivalrously brought down by faith and courage point to a more a monk with a stone and broke worthy attitude, which will justify her leg.) There is this further itself in time. danger, that the power of working miracles is not confined to "the Deity. The belief in Divine inter positions has its dark counterpart in the abscene supernatural, which turned life in the dark ages into a long nightmare.
A Good World.
the scientific view of the universe, Only, if we are ready to accept as in process of evolution by re- gular laws, we must not give way to fatalism.. If, as Bacon said, nature in conquered only by obey-
"Nature Set Right.” ("") ing her, it is equally true that she It is like coming out of a charnelis obeyed only by conquering her. house into the sunlight to pass from Nature is a friendly opponent, with the world of witches and devils, whom we have to wrestle, like incubi and succubae to manly Jacob, till the dawn of day, and utterances like the following from who will yield her secret and her William Law the author of the blessing only to him who has strug "Serious Call" "There is nothing gled manfully with her. This is a that is supernatural in the whole good world, because it needs us to scheme of our redemption. Every make it better. part of it has its ground in the Work out your own salvation, workings and powers of nature, and for it is God that worketh in you," all our redemption is only nature We cannot get beyond this paradox, set right, or made that which it Faith and grace are the obverse ought to be. There is nothing that and reverse of the same coin. Never is supernatural, but God alone." and nowhere can we say where Supernaturaliam is no doubt a nature leaves off and supernature
When begins protest against naturalism.
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LONDON, June 13th. A sensation was caused at the Law Courts this morning, the closing day of the official enquiry into the interrogation of Miss Irene Savidgs at Scotland Yard, when Mr. Lees Smith, the Labour M.P., who is sitting on the Tribunal with Sir Eldon Bankes and Mr. J. J. Withers, read extracts from the diary of Sergeant Chambers, of the New Southgate Police Station.
Miss Lecs Smith had previously police diaries of the officers con requested the production of the nected with the ease, and the ex tracts created considerable surprise,
Discreet Enquiries.
The most notable, evoking a stir Se the Court, was an entry in Sergeant Chambers's diary which read:
Discreet enquiries re Irene Savidge."
Mr. Lees Smith declared that such an entry proved that the Police were making enquiries, Tato the characters of, the parties con- cerned right up to the time of the sitting
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Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., who represents the Polise, submitted that all the evident went to show that the case against the Police had signally failed. Remarking on the attack on the organisation of Scot- land Yard, Mr. Birkett said that a blow struck at the Police was a blow struck at the whole fabric of the State.
Intolerable Outrage.
Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., "for Miss Saridge, declared that a system which permitted an exami uation like that which Miss Savidge was forced to undergo at Scotiand Yard was absolutely intolerable.
The mere method by which she was taken to Scotland Yard was an outrage.
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