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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1933.

HOW TO READ THE GOSPELS

THE GOSPELS AND OUR ATTITUDE

TO LIFE AS A WHOLE

"CAVALCADE" OR CALVARY

At St. John's Cathedral yester- day Elshop Hall preached the third of his senes of sermons on "How to Read the Gospels.

The Bishop said:

The Gospels do not contain a set of principles for the guidance "of our life. Rather they describe in the life of Jesus a way of life, and attitude to life, which claims all living for God and haunts us with their offer of that way of life to us. The Gospels in fact insist that the meaning of Life is not Caval- cade, but Calvary.

That is still true. The central challenge of the Gospels is äimple the truth of Jesus, and His way of life. You are free to take it or leave it. And if you ask, "How can I know that God is like that?". there is no answer but the .aign of the prophet Jonah.

The Meaning of Calvary How adequate is that answer 10r What is the answer of Calvary, you and

me to-day to-morrow. and down the long avenue of to morrOWS?

You can see the light in Calvary Since the performance in best in the life set, towards the the King's Theatre last Wednes Cross, from the wilderness on, day night typhoon winds Jesus' life is one long struggle have been busy in my mind. with evil. The flim Cavalcade stressed vivid-

The Gospels do not say where iz, sentimentally, terribly, the is evil comes from. They show evil sue I had planned to raise with being defeated. That is exactly you this morning. The issue has the reverse of ourselves. We know become for me sharpened and in-all about how evil came to us. It sistant,

Is the meaning of life 'Caval cade' or 'Calvary"?

says

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London, Angust 30.

A large number of anti-slavery gatherings are being organised not only in this but in other countries, several of them being civic affairs, to celebrate Britain's decision of 1833-4 and the need for securing the abolition of every form of slavery. It was in 1833 that the British Par- lament decided to set all known slaves free on August 1, 1834.

The gathering addressed by Lady Simon in Rio de Janeirs a fort- might ago seems to have created wide interest in South America, and I hear that she is to be asked

next month. to address a gathering in Genera Sir John Harris is visiting Paris shortly to discuss the reviving of the French Anti-Slavery Society. The Acting Governor of the Gambia and the Governor of Sierra Leone have given the lead to meenings in both colonies, and simi

ar meetings are being organised in Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, and Trinidad.

important" gatherings now being

In this country, amongst the more i

arranged are Belfast, where Sir John Harris will be the speaker, Bristol, with Lord Lytton, Brigh ton, and Glasgow and Newcastle-on- Tyne. Two gatherings are being arranged in Liverpool Cathedral. for Sunday, October 9 when Sir John Harris will deliver the d dresses and the Lord Mayor of Mayor of Rull is summoning a Liverpool will attend. The Lord conference in the natuma to consi der what steps Hull can take to wards scouring a completion of the

was some repression in childhood. or some injustice in youth, that caused this or that moral weak- Must we toast the New

Year ness to-day. What we most want with dignity, courage, and senti- is the power to deal with evil. We 'ment; or, lay gold. increase, and have not got it: Jesus had it. myrrh before the manger in Beth How do we get it I cannot say lehëm? Is life one long success sion of sun-determined seasons-say how the living Christ of the there is no royal road. I cannot days shortening, days lengthen-Gospels will help You." He has ing, days warming. days cooling: His own way for each one I only or is there some meaning in the insist that in the Gospels you see words 'Anno Domini'? Is the evil mastered in a way which most *A.D. more

Important than the of us never attempt. "Call"down work done by Wilberforce and Bux *1933'2

Is the series Spring. Summer, the disciples-but the Lord hangs

fire from Heaven." we cry out with ton. The pageant play depicting anti-slavery scenes is proving "10 Autumn, Winter, more important there cruched by the world's pain, popular that it has been recessary than the succession Church's year. Christmas. Good and accept. His dying. He

of the To those of us who will not face to cure an extra set of costumes

Several performances are to bo giverri Friday, Easter, Whitsunday? Are gently but firmly, "Ye know not of

in different parts during the a they holidays only, or are they what spirit ye are of." Asif He tumn. 'holy days? Is the meaning of would say. "No one but God can God and man, the secret of fe

answer the problem of evil, and their offer of an entirely different Itself to be found in them?

here in Calvary is God's answer." Last Wednesday's

way of life, so different that they asked surely if in that Man hanging call it rebirth". The venerable that question insistently, senti-there is indeed. God, He is God in- mentally, terribly.

Did that wayside Calvary, stand- ing by the side

of the endless crucifixion of countless other sons of men, mean that the Son of Man is just one among those thou sanda; a helpless brokeni body beaten by a cruel world? Or, is the meaning of heroism, love, man, God Himself. in that broken figure?

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leader of the Jewish Church.

deed! God fighting evil In the buman sphere, not with evil's own drawn by the restible attraction weapons, but with God's own wes- of the Lord, is told that he must pons. And if that is how God be born again. All this may seem meets evil our Uves are indeed to you strange, unreal, impossible. bought with a price-not our own. It can become real, possible, and but His.

your deepest experience. This is how to begin.

NATURAL VERSUS

If in your heart you are cons- * SUPERNATURAL

clous of living with a deep disaa- Is the illuminated Cross of St. For us what difference does this tisfaction with life, turn to the Paul's Cathedral a pathetic aspira- make? "Ye know not of what Gospels, to the Gospels as a whole. tion or a profound answer to the spirit ye are of."To as many as

Let them haunt you, fascinate teeming questions of the life of received Him to them gave He, you, torture you with the promise London and the world of men?

power to become the sons of God." of another way of life. And like Please realise that this is the vital question of the day. Realise

It was when the spirit came upon Israel of old, wrestle with the too that the pathetic parson prea-

Him that He heard the voice say-haunting torture, and do not let

it go, until it blesses you. ching to empty pews is a true plc-ing. This is my beloved son. ture of our failure as Christians,

The Gospels offer us then "a The attraction of the Gospels is not in their beauty, their moral Realise too that it is not enough life in the Spirit". a life as sons to say, "I only men and women of God," which is other than and counsel or their dramatic power. would do as we do, all would be more than the ordinary life of They haunt you with the offer of well." It is quite clear to-day that men. If we call ordinary life a different sort of fe whose It is what we Christians are that natural, including in "natural", meaning is "Calvary" not "Ca- keeps others from Christ.

love, friendship, courage dignity. | valcade ”. They claira that prudence, tolerance, generosity, | “1933"" la unimportant, Anno and so on; the Gospel life is more, Domia!" "all" important. That the it is supernatural life.

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That is not to say that it is either a superstitious ilfe, or an unnatural bre; but, it is on anot- her plane.

I am a fundamentalist: a com- plete, determined, emphatic, fun- damentalist Because Christ was

world is in God's hand, and A fundamentalist, MO Christian

though we can see no final answer can be any other. He went to the

to. Its problems, we can find an foundations of life to see whether

answer for ourselves. And that or not they were spurid: He could tell rock from sand, and knew that

answer will enable us to take our manure must be dug in to the

Please let me quote Cavalcade part in working out the answer. roots where it cannot be seen it again. The singer who had lost to the world's pain, and the trees are to bear fruit. Let those her lover and her life's meaning world's problema.

the

war,

of us who profess and call our in

singing of the And the joy of that, answer will selves Christians look to our foun-Twentieth Century Blues" and be not only in being fellow-work- dations. Is our religion an inter- the pathetic parson, so typical of ers, but in being fellow-workers est, and our Bible reading a hob- us all, preaching. until his few with God. by, or is God the great reality of hearers had the blues, are both all our ilfe?

| living at the "natural" level. ́The Can we answer the world's ques- Church of God has let itself sink tion? Is Ilfe for us just an end- less Cavalcade or is its meaning it has lost its supernatural radi- on to the level of the natural. In 'Calvary? Is this only the yearance and power. The trustee of a 1933, or is it the rear of the Lord? triumphant message and a trans- Is life just an endless procession,

"How Are We To Know?" - There are three things at least that can be said:

or has the Kingdom of God come forming power: it is falling miser- into the world, and are we living ably in its trusteeship: perhaps, for that Kingdom?

because it has been content to be no more than a trustee. "In this case the trustee is heir as well. and can only be true to trustee- ship by vigorous acceptance of her 1. Notice Arst of all that Jesus heritage.

would give no answer to those „One" tragedy of this failure, is who said, "How are wwe to this: men and women were all know?" He would give no made for the supernatural life. aign to those who sought a It is your heritage and mine. sign, except the sign of the Being made for the supernatural, prophet Jonah,

In Matthew's account of this the level of the natural bores us sign giving, you will find these terribly. We seek refuge in bridge words, "for as Jonah was three and golf, and find none. We build days and three nights in the belly our hopes on our children, and of the whale, so the Son of Man when they are taken from us, hide shall be three days and three our emptiness in some form of nights in the heart of the earth." play acting. All the time we know. These words are not in St. Luke. inside that we are empty.

If they are omitted in St. Mat

thew, as I believe they should be, THE GOSPELS HAUNTING the next verse gives like St. Luke!!

to deeper significance to the sign.

Its meaning becomes this

"Nineveh repented when Jonah

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