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*An ex-convict who once held a trusted position as a secretary, and started again when discharged from gaol as a clerk at 30s. & week,. is now earring a salary of £1,500
Among several offeers who have just left the active list at their own request under the special retirement scheme is Lieutenant-Comdr. R. C. A. Littleton, who retires as com In the presence of many clergy. mander «from October 31. He was of the discese, the Bishop of South-promoted to lieutenant in August, wark recently dedicated an altar 1010, from the Royal' yacht, and
This is one example of how some. which has been renovated in South- during the first part of the War wark Cathedral.
was second-in-command of the des-ra-convicts "make good," described In September, in the annual report of the Central troyer Renard.
Discharged Prisonera Aid Society, which was presented at a meeting in London last month.
In a charge to the clergy, the Bishop invited them to concentrate 1013, he took command of the Usk, their attention on three of the most and in April, 1917, of the larger urgent and difficult problems which destroyer Rattlesnake. In 1924 he confronted the Church today. He became first lieutenant-commander of the Fishgard, artificers' training referred to the spread of secularism. the call for the reunion of Christen-establishment, and in 1998 was ap dom, and the necessity for far pointed for duty at Hong Kong. greater union among members of His most recent employment was the Church if they were to avoid in the Greenwich, parent ship of the Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth. the disaster of disruption.
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The report states: "A most en- couraging feature has been the visits received from those who have been helped by the society, in pre- vious years.
The secretary of the society has acted as best man for the second time in his career at a discharged prisoner's wedding. The first bride
salaried position, groom attained a of £1,000 a year.'
Made Me A Man." A remarkable story of a man's re generation is told:--
Slowly but surely the skilled attention of the authorities and the prison doctor wrought beneficial difficult futura in the outer world results, and when he faced his
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A request was put forward at the Of all the dangers which con- 1928 Welfare Conference that, pro- fronted the Church to-day, he said,viding the periodical questionnaire secularism was by far the greatest. form is completed. shislactorily, It was not a movement which could marriage allowance should not be easily be defined in clear-cut terms, suspended under nay consideralion, but ita "fundamental principle was at home or abread. The Admiralty
"A drug addict, who had 'lost all that human life could be improved decision. promulgated in det and developed by material means Orders, is that the allowance will sense of moral and other respon- alone. Its outlook was limited to continue to be withdrawn on nsibilities, was sentenced to a sharp teria of imprisonment. Compul this life alone; it was not neces count of the wife's misconduct.or sarily aggressive in ita attitude to separation from her husband; and ory abstention from drugs was a religion, but it ignored, when it did as provided in article 1707, clause severe punishment in the early days not scorn, the claim that it was, of the King's Regulations, of his stay in prison. possible to receive help and guil. It will not; however, bo withdrawn from the unseen world. on account of a wife's residence Secularism to-day was greater road when her husband-is serving enace to religion than was the at home, if adequate reasons for the spread of victorious Mohammed- maintenance of the home.abroad are again his own words were: Prison Aniam to medieval Christianity, and ultimately it might prove that
"Outdoor life, in continuatio After an absence of eight years Christianity had stood better the shock of open hatred and persecu-in India the 4th/7th Dragoon of the beneficial influence begun in Lion than the gradual and enervat-Guards arrived at Southampton in prison, was aimed it, and he was
farm." ing influence of a more cultured the transport Somersetshire. There eventually started in work on i were 13 officers and 428 other ranks secularism.
under the command of Lieutenant- Many men, aided by the society, In England there was no immed Colonel E. M. Dorman, D.S.O., took up new occupations after be iate danger either of the State or M.C. The troops were greeted by aing in prison. A musician went to of any large body of private in-number of officers who served with tea, a clerk became a departmental dividuals directing a hostile move- them during the War, while ex-manager, a brewer took up a post A solicitor's ment agains: Christianity, for such Corporal E. J. Thomas, who is a traveller, and an open attack would be doomed credited with being the first soldier clerk was found a post as a man- to failure. Nevertheless, there
to fire a shot in the Great War, servant.
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D.-Locking device. 12-Poetic for enough. 13.-Kiln.
14. A number.
13.--Article.
16.-Mistakes.
18.-Organ of head.
20. Correlative of either.
22.Tu pain.
21.-Musical instrument.
27.-Greedy.
29-Doer of great deeds.
31.-Prefix: new.
32-Official weapons.
34.-A drink.
36,-Negative.
37.-An anesthetic.
30.--Elder.
41.-Symbol for nickel, 42-Tennis strokes. 44-Heating device. 4-To put on. 47. To run away. 49.-Heavenly body. 50-Man's name. 52.-Average point.
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87.-Nobleman.
50.-Supposing that.
61.-A bird.
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67-Payment.
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where they were recently relieved by the 9th Lancers.
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that unless it was arrested the Christian Church would soon con- It would be easy also to show that NEW sist of small groups of believers incommerce, politics, society, and art the midst of multitudes who were entirely without any kind of re- ligicus couviction. The vital issue, therefore, to be decided in the next
two or three generations was not whether England was to be Catholic or Protestant, but whether it was to be Christian.
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Why Secularism Spreads. Speaking of the causes of the. spread of secularism, Dr. Garbett SEEK WU HUI (Near Suzuno Suu': said it must be recognized quite
Railway Station). frankly that within, their limits the attempta to organize society with- out any reference to other-worldly Let them compare for instance ideals had had a large measure of, Sunday observance and Church-success. Secondly, civilization, by its complicated interests, by the going to-day with half or even n quarter of a century ago. Before absorbing nature of the claims it the War it was a day of worship made, and by the excitement it and rest, but since the War Sunday offered, tended to crowd out Chris- had become practically indistinguish. tianity. The novelty, attractive- able from the Sunday of the Conness, and excitement away from the tinent. The crowded cinemas, the quite and sober paths of Christian heavy traffic by rail and by road worship. A deeper and more funda- mental reason, however, for the as holiday-makers sought the coun try and the sea, and the music and growth of secularism and the neg- games in the parks, had changed fect of religious observance lay in the character of the English Sunday the fact that intellectual doubt was and with it had gone a most signi- gradually permeating every class, and decline in Church-going was frant decline in church attendance.
due to this rather than to any other Another, secularization of the cause. Even more unsettling to time was to be found in contem-faith had been the discoveries which
thought and tendencies related to porary
man's place in the usually reflected in fiction and
universe.
poetry. If they compared the at- The columns of the secular Press titude of the Victorian novelists showed that outside the Churches and poets to religion with that of there were many who were concern- present-day writers the contrast was most striking. The "carlier writera ed with the problems of religion and who were looking for a reason- regarded religion as one of the able answer to intellectual difficul- great factors in life; most of them ties. They felt that life without assumed the truth of Christianity, religion would be infinitely the it was always in the background, if not "the central theme of their poorer. In the words of a leading mathematician and philosopher, but works. To-day it would be hard to find a novelist of the first rank who no orthodox Christian: "The fact treated Christianity seriously. The of the religious vision and its his- most widely read novelists, Mr. tory of persistent expansign is our Galsworthy, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. one ground for optimism. Apart 33.-One who looks down on others. Arnold Bennett, and Mr. Michael from it human life is a flash of oc-
25.-Making anew.
26-Not so rich., 27.-Reparation.
93.Transaction.
30.--Poems.
35. Insects.
33.-Black.
40,-Small particles. 43.Inclined.
46.-Grand 48.-Woody plants. 51. Thus,
53.-Pronoun. 56.-Opening.
68. To tear.
80.-An insect. 61.-Belonging to 62.Pronoun,
84-Musical note.
68.-To act.
casional enjoyment lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience." ("Science and the Modern World," p. 288, by
Arlen, usually either ignored it, or reserved for it their most scornful epigrams. Among living poets, with the exception of three or four, how hard was it to think of any who A. N.. Whitehead.) found place in their verae for Christianity, save either as a myth around which they could weave Bome poetic fancy, or as an out worn creed at whose decease they could rejoice.
Christian Moral Ideals,
Even more striking had been the rejection of Christian moral ideals. For centuries they were accepted without question. Until recently
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Drift From Church Explained, Dr. Garbett declared that, the nation was drifting away from the influence of the Church, largely be- cause its members devoted an undue amount of time and importance to matters quite of secondary interest. It had been truly said that they must convince people of the Gospel before they taught them the faith. Different viewa on. worship and
This puzzle took 20 minutes to those who abandoned the Christian ecclesiastical order were of trifling solve. you to solve it.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
See how long it will take faith usually paid allegiance to the importance compared to the neces majesty of the Christian ethics. sity of convincing their contempor- Today, the supremacy of the Chris- aries that in Jesus they could sec tian moral ideal was no longer God. The privilege of recalling the taken for granted; it was criticized nation to the Christian faith would pass to others, to the Roman in principle, as well as rejected in practice. It was widely assumed Catholics or to the Free Churches, that it was radically unsound, unless they rose above the soul that it had favoured repres destroying habit of treating second- sion at the cost of self-development. ary mattere as of primary import- and that it must be now replaced ance.
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They must concentrate on hy a morality suitable for an en- the essential truths of the Christian lightened 20th century: Chastity, Gospel; later on they could deal with less important matters. While humility, and self-restraint were re- garded as signs of weakness and they were unnecessarily arguing as not as virtues. The teaching of to how they were to worship God, Freud and his school was treated multitudes were becoming settled in by many as a greater authority the opinion that there was no God than that of the Sermon on the to worship. To-day, some of those who looked to the Church for the Mount.
The decline in Church attendance, bread of life were offered instead THE ONE of deine liberztarojasomé- the dry, busks of controversy and the revolt from traditional morality in despair they turned elsewhere for proved the spread of accularism the help they needed.
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