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RELIGION AND THE MODERN WORLD.

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SOME DIFFICULTIES ANSWERED.

HOW TO INTERPRET THE BIBLE.

DEAN OF HONG KONG'S SERMON AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.

Preaching on Sunday morning at St. John's Cathedral on the question of the relations of the Christina religion to modern life and modern knowledge, the Very Rev. the Dean of Hong Kong (the Rev. A. Swann, M said frankly that much of the Bible must be taken as syndole and not literal truth. There were, however, certain fundamental truths, such as the survival of the personality through death which were quite unaffected by any recent discussion or change of outlook..

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The Preacher who took his text from Matthew xiii. 52, said

I am sure that the majority of side we live in a New World with young people to-day who are un-its own new ways of thinking and connected with our churches have the two are seen to be alien to each very little idea of what we are other at many points. about. They have got into their minds a picture of the churches" teaching and practices which does not at all fit in with the rest of life. Life is one thing, religion is "another.

Life they know something of, some more than others, its problems, difficulties, disappointments, ab sorbing interests, pleasures, wards.

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Religion they know next to no- thing of, at least as an organised system, and they have little desire to know more; because, as I have said, the conception of it which is armly fixed in their minds is one which appears to them to bear little relation to life,

Of course, this is not the whole cause of the absence of so many from our churches. There are num- bers, unfortunately, who have seen the light of goodness, truth and beauty, but prefer the darkness be- cause the light is painful.

However, it is of the honestly be wildered man and woman that I want now to speak, and let it be frankly admitted at the outset that the blame for their bewilderment lies mainly at the churches doors.

The essential truths of the Chris- tian. Religion are eternal and un- changing. We are right in sing ing-

Change and decay in all around,

I nes

O Thou Who changest not abide

with me."

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Alter a year of "diligent study and experiment he managed to bad that he knew it was worthless. print a 10-mark. note, but it was so

Capital Exhausted. His little capital was exhausted How then are wo to harmonise and, in desperation, he told the these two conflicting methods of secret of his life to a young pedlar, thinking and expression? How can Kurt Preuss, who became a sleeping we continue to give to the Bible partner in the business. He raised the high place in our esteem' which the money required for further ex- we feel to be its due? I am can-periments from friends and re- vinced that first of all it is veces latives.

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sary quite honestly to face the fact That was last December and since that it is impossible that a collee then Alfred Deatsch has gone on tion of literature, written two to with the work until, a month a80 three thousand years ago, should study, self-sacrifice, and persever- be used in the 20th century AD.ance brought their reward. The without having some of its forms maker of slippers and the tinkler of K. Landa bay.

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Abiding Messages. There are certain abiding mes sages in the Bible, the truth of bus we must recognise the fact that which time can never undermine,

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We believe in a thousand daily the working of the Holy Spirit in "comings again" of Christ through the hearts and minds of men and K. Ropes (ald) ....

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The Resurrection. For example, we believe in the persistence of personality through death, but we do not believe in the resurrection of the flesh, or even of the "body" in the sense in which the writers of the Bible believed in

"Our forefathers could not imagine encourage, guide, warn or rebuke.

He comes continually to immortality apart from a 'resurrect- ed body. Physical resurrection human soul is answerable for his We believe assuredly that every was the setting in thought of immortality. The very there is such a thing as divine which they He to the Author of Life, and that word Resurrection," eternal life, would never have come

to express Justice. to be used unless the current belief to be expressed has been that of the literal re-vivifying of the body. We can no longer believe that our it do alter greatly from time to material bodies will be re-assem time. And the Church has often bled. We know that that part of been unsympathetic to such changes.us goes back at our burial to the

The Bible.:

earth and is used to give life other forms of life; but still we hold that our soul or personality or character survives and goes on its way into the nearer presence of God.

God never changes. The truth about His nature and purposes docs not alter from age to age-But and this is where the church has been to blame the way in which meg apprehend this Eternal Truth, and still more the language and similies which they use to express

Now a great source of confusion at the present time is the Bible. There is not the slightest doubt that the Bible is the greatest Tres- sury of Spiritual Truth which the world possesses, but there is nothing: at all to be gained by blinking the fact that in very many cases it thoughts are not cara and its methods of expression quite alien to modern minds.

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The Demon World,, Consider still another example of the same principle. The Bible is full of demonology. Everywhere it is assumed that the majority of the I must say at this point that evils of life are to be attributed to believe that the Resurrection of the machinations of multitudes of Jesus Christ was in a different cate-evil spirits. Devils were the un gory to that which we expect for questioned cause of sickness phy-

Amsterdam The Spiritualising otical and mental, natural catas But the Churches still tend to ourselver give their Congregations the im- His body was for as altogether trophes, personal temptation. The pression that the ancient forms of special purpose at a special time. power and scope of demons was

It was for an end which could not taken for granted. are literally binding have been 'secured otherwise. And expression upon us still. We cling too closely the wholly unique nature of His

This universal assumption beld ion have worked their way into our event for me unnecessary. to words, which, from long associat Person makes any doubt about the the field for centuries after Bible times and almost down to the pre affections. This is no difficulty to

The coming of the But our belief in Eternal life for sent day.. the habitual worshipper who knows

wealth of knowledge which acienti how to construe these words, but to ourselves, though not the new comer it is merely an in- the resurrection of the feth, ific investigation has brought us has dication that this Church is either exactly as real as that of our fore. changed all this. The realms where demons used to operate have been invaded by scientific knowledge.

belief in

a collection of people who are firmly fathers, who argued and fought for grounded in an intellectual back- the dead should rise from land nad insanity, once ascribed to demons, the vision of a judgment day, when water or a body of rather cowardly hypocritus-and he does not come sea or be restored from ashes.

Take another illustration of this again.

same principle.

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is known to be the result of a dis- ordered brain. Epilepsy, blindness, deafness, dumbness, hysteria, once regarded as evidence of demoniac possession, have been diagnosed, described and carefully understood. The cause of thunderstorms is no temptation is generally looked upon longer diabolic but electric. Moral not as the inspiration of the devil, but as the result of our own evil impulses.

Topsy Turvey World.

The Kingdom Of God. Listen to E. T. Brewster in "The

Every time I say the Lord's Understanding of Religion." "Six days a week we live in an ordered rayer I assert that I believe in world. On the Seventh, we open when righteousness shall be vic- the coming of the Kingdom of God, the Church door on a land of topsy- torious in the earth, and Christ turvey, where axes float, dry sticks change to serpents, cities shall have come into. His rightful ara let down out of the sky, angels place in the hearts and lives of stir the waters of wells, bedevilled men but I do not believe in the

We do not claim omniscience and swine run violently into the sea," physical return of Jesus.

There is no doubt that the early of evil spirits, but we no longer deny the possibility of the existence. Much has recently been done in our Church of England to reduce Church mistook the meaning of attribute our

troubles to their this incongruity by the better Christ's words about His Kingdom, activities. Selection of Lessons to be rend and and read into them the sense which

Nevertheless we have not get rid Paaims to be sung, but there still they wished to find. The sufferings of evil by ridding ourselves of the remains much room for improve of the firet Christians, in feree fear of demons. Every malign in- ment. Not only in the arrangement pertecutions, made their longing fluence, which demons used to of our public worship but also in for the literal return of Jesus in stand for, is with us still. The our teaching about the Bible we the Clouds of Heaven, to vindicate business of the Christian Church is most desirable still to cast out the spirit of evil need to take more pains to make His followers, a the ancient literature live in a New vent. It became an article of and to bring in the reign of the World.

their belief..

Spirit of Good. Once we realise Here is the perplexity which Early Ideas Of The Earth. this we can return to the Bible. troubles the minds of educated men. And the cosmology of the early and especially to the New Testa Many of them honour the Bible. centuries of the Church made it ment, and find there the record of They know that the noblest elements easy for our forefathers to picture the Casting Experiences and needs in our civilization have sprung such an event.

of men even though its method of from it, they reverence Jcaus They believed that the Earth was expression is not ours, Christ. But they are honestly a flat parallelogram, bounded on When a man says "I believe in bothered by many things in Scrip- all sides by seas. Beyond the sess the immortality of the Soul, but not ture. They don't know what to were great walls which supported in the resurrection of the flesh; I make of them. They find it hard the Vault of Heaven. Above the believe in the victory of God on to use one method of thinking in Fault were the celestial dwellings. Earth, but not in the physical every other department of life and In such a world it was a simplú return of Jesus; I believe in the another in religion. What has hap-] matter to think of our Lord's reality of Sin and evil but not in pened is this. Historical know- Ascension: as physical levitation the power of evil spirita," I hold ledge has given us a vivid under until He was received into Heaven that that man believes in the Bible, standing of the old works from a definite distance above the and is a true disciple to the King which the Bible came, so that we ground, and to imagine His return den of Heaven, because he is like see the Scriptures' original mean as a physical descent from the same the householder which bringeth ing in terms of the times in which place.

forth out of his treasure things both they were written. On the other (Continued on next Column). new and old.

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