1936-06-29 — Page 3

THE RELIGION OF A

PIONEER

Yesterday's Sermon At The Cathedral

The following sermon was delivered by Rev. Baines at the Ca- thedral yesterday morning:-

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"Thou shalt be called Peter," said the Master, and on this rock I will build my Church.” Yet by a tragic paradox this saying has proved to be the rock on which the Church has split. Into all that lamentable controversy I don't propose to enter this morn- ing. But I wish to say something about St. Peter himself whose day it is to-morrow and the legacy of his spirit. It is the spirit of a ploneer,

It is one of the strangest ironies, heritage but he took it "Who was of history that has fastened on" he said in a final and devastate him the patronage of the most ing rejoinder "who was I that I uncompromising rigidity in the re- should withstand God?". It was cord of religion. The shadow of a risk: it might have smashed up Peter passing. by has too often

the Church-it nearly did; but blighted spiritual freedom and en- there was then as always the more terprise and struck the soul of re- dangerous alternative and that ligious progress barren. Men have

was to atand still and watch it made him the 'patron of exclusive- freeze out. Those who opposed ness when in fact he was the Peter and criticised him for his apostle of generosity: of ecclestas generosity were soon left in a tical conservatism when in fact spiritual back-water. The Chris he was a religious rebel. We al tiah future was with Peter and the know the picture of St. Peter legacy of his spirit is the spirit of with the heraldry of the keys: the pioneer but his mission was to open doors, not to shut them. The spirit of Peter was the spirit of the pioneer.

THE NAME SATAN

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SPIRITUAL DEFEATISM

Is it not a tonic to think of Pe- ter the ploneer, to remember his call to launch out into the deep?

There is far too much spiritual defeatism.

I' grow (weary of all the talk of the weakness of the Christian cause in face of a dead weight of materialism and le thargy. A Church content to stand on the defensive is a Church which has already written its will." There is no need for craven tactles. It we have the courage to make op- portunities out of problems as Pe- ter did then there are greater openings before than

Us

there centuries. have been for

After all what is there left? All other prescriptions

Wayward, impetuous, inconsis- tent, at one ghastly moment his courage deserted him; there were times when Simon son of John. got the better of Peter and earn- ed the narce Satan. But at his heart there was a rock-the deep loyalty that never falled, the faith that would trust his master to the end and follow his lead where- ever he went. On that rock Christ built His Church and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it. It is the rock of human character redeemed by loyalty to Christ; the rock of all that is so immensely loveable in the ordinary wayward man and woman of us redeemed in all its naturalness by the dis- cipline of Christ's obedience. This It is which the prophet meant when he wrote “A man shall be | faith: To some appears that as a refuge from the heat and a hiding place from the tempest, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land."

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St. Peter was, I say, a spiritual adventurer. When a big demand was made on faith and insight it was he who was first to recognise the possibilities of the situation. And that is the test of spiritual genius, to see in a problem the opening opportunity.

TRUE FAITH

Imagine the great scene at Cae- sarea Phillipi. It was Simon whose Ialth and love were true enough to acclaim in a discredited fugl- tive the King of the new age, the Lord of Life, the Desire of all na-

are bankrupt, all

other leadership discredited. Our people wait for a living farth and they want the Church of their fathers to supply it.

Let us follow Peter the pioneer in

the popularisation of the findings of modern science must be under- mining the "Christian faith. But the true conclusion is the exact The advance of the opposite. scientific temper and of scientific achievement both in the physical sciences and in psychology are

up new opening because they are banishing ignor

and superstition I know ance that to be true in work that is be-

fields to faith

ing done for the children in Hong Kong through bacteriology and dietetic study of milk. I know that it might be true in Hong Kong if there were some among us, doctors,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1936.

DEFENCE LOAN IN FUTURE Significant Hint By

Chancellor

JUSTIFIED BY RISE IN INCOME TAX

(Special Air Mall Service)

Westminster, June 10. We are to regard the increase of the income-tax this year as "moral

Justification for borrowing in fu- .tura."

That "significant statement was

the climax of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's interesting defence of the main proposal of his Budget to-day.

He vindicnted himself earnestly from the charge that he had un- derestimated revenue and that higher taxation was unnecessary. He gave some suggestive indica- tions of his views on a loan for defence.

This speech was made in answer to some well-argued pleas from supporters of the Government that income-tax should be kept at the present level."

5,000 ACCLAIM

GIPSY SMITH Diamond Jubilee As Evangelist

SPEECH TO CROWD FROM BALCONY

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June 12 There were remarkable scenes at Central Hall, Westminster, last meeting to night when a plass celebrate Gipsy Smith's diamond jubiler as an evangelist brought more than twice as many people as the place could hold.

When the doors were opened a crowd estimated at 5,000 poured in. The main hall was packed in a few minutes and the two halis on the ground floor were then filed. The speeches were relayed ! to these and to the entrance halls.

A crowd of several hundreds was left in the street, Gipsy Smith, who is 78, addressed these from a balcony window before entering the hall.

were

Congratulatory » messages read from, among others, the King, Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Baldwin and the Archbishop of Canter- bury.

Mr. Lloyd George said Gipsy Smith's message was more than ever needed now, in a world nearer to the brink of the abyss than he sared to think, a world where wrong was triumphant and righteousness was timorous, fear- ful, inept, beaten

SURPLUS SUGGESTION Mr. Mabane supported his con- tention that the Chancellor was much revenue budgeting for too

recent by pointing out that in years the Treasury had covered it self against emergencies which had not arisen and the yield of in- come-tax had proved to be con-

The great audience, which had siderably in excess of the estimate.

Earl Winterton countered

Mr. this risen to its feet for

Lloyd rose again for Gipsy by maintaining that the increase George. was actually required for rearma- Smith, who was accompanied by a, son and daughter and other ment and that it was far better to provide for such expenditure by relatives. He sang a hymn with taxation than, as in foreign coun- his daughter before his speech. tries, increase armaments through piling up debt. It was undoubted- ly the fact that all classes of in- come-tax payers here were in a far better condition than the com- on the parable classes anywhere

Continent

Mr. Bopthby contended that the increase of 3d.was not get neces- Bary. It would have been better to put on Bd next year if that were required.

Capital expenditure on rearma- ment should be provided for by loan, only recurring expenditure out of revenue. He urged con- tinued credit expansion by con- trolled inflation.

Sir J. Wardlaw Milne predicted that this time next year we should find that the 3d increase had not

been necessary. He appealed for consideration to income-tax.pa- yers who had been hard hit by the Govern- lowering of interest on

ment loans.

UNDERESTIMATE DENIED Mr. Chamberlain, in his reply.;

maintained that some speculative teachers or parson element in a Budget was now who had made a thorough study | inevitable. There were incalcul- of psychology. We need all to able factors in income-tax. Yield work thus to make a new creative

the whole Church.

of estate duty must be guesswork

On

of the new Customs duties. the other side of the account, ex- penditure in unemployment was uncertain and equally uncertain appropriations for the defence programme.

tlons. It is as though he said "A theology the common possession of They had only a short experience pearances are all against you. By the standards of the world you are facing disaster. But still we trust you, we believe in you, we believe that you hold the future and so we commit ourselves to jou. Whatever appearances, nowever dark the night, thou art the Corist the Son of the living

God." And that is the true Peter, one who looks beneath the sur-

Why, he even made an oppor- tunity of the shame of his denial for it was he who first of all of 'the twelve disciples accepted the

vision of the risen Master.

THE SOCIAL HABITS

And again I am sometimes told here that the differences between our social habits from those at home and the new fashions in our Last year there were supple- thought and taste are destroying Christian puolic" worship. But what this means is that the whole this year,. We knew what we were tradition has got to be re-thought | going to do—as much as we could. But unexpected developments might vitiate calculations.

face of things and sees real quality and re-translated into the terms and gives himself to it.

and order that are true and At for us. "The detect of, the liberal theology of the lust two hundred years" wrote Weatherhead “Is that it has confined itself to the sug gestion of minor vapid reasons why people should continue to go to Church in the traditional fas- hion." That is playing with а serious subject. What is required

"A PIONEER

mentary estimates of £14.000,000. He did not think there would be

He had made the best estimates he could, and was not justified in -11 writing up revenue to avoid an Increase of taxation. With grave emphasis he declared that he had not underestimated revenue in or- der to provide for contingencies. He had taken what hë believed to be an optimistic view,

Peter was a pioneer. As you may read, in the 11th Chapter of Acts it was be who frat dared the is fundamenial thinking" about the A substantial increase of income- spiritual venture of admitting the whole relation of worship to work tax this year, Mr. Chamberlain Gentiles to the Christian Fellow- and leisure for adults, for adoles continued, would have had a de- ship thus it was he who committed ents and for children in the Twen- pressing effect which he was anxi the Church to its world-wide mis-teth Century. How are children ous to avoid.. Though the rise of sion overleaping the barriers of to be intoduced, to Communion? 3d had caused shock, surprise, and privilege; therefore it is to him What is the relation of statutory disappointment, within a few days under God that we owe our pre-prayers to freer forms of worship trade recovered!" sence here to-day. That trance au for those who come to Church to- His final argument was that if Joppa on the house-top when day? What form of mårriage ser- he had passed over this year and Peter saw the net let down was vice will preserve both the dignity | said, "You have got to expect in- one of the turning points of his-and beauty of marriages and also creased taxation in the future the tory. For the modern mind it is best express the love and thought Amount of which I am unable to hard to appreciate the tremen of the Church for her children defin," he would have done much dous spiritual issues which for a who are being married? Are we morë to undermine 'confidence man of St. Peter's up-bringing | facing these questions honestly. than by the increase of 3d. were involved in the question of

food laws. But it goes, right down

And so lastly with the moral

contsin.

But if all this seems to you to bẹ unimportant-if all you want is

into the whole meaning of the Fel-direction of the changing patterns with the number of fishes they lowship of Christ. How could the of our new age. The future is that converts form a Christian brother of the ploneer who has built his hood If they could not meet at a house upon the rock. If we try common table nor are in the to cling to a mere traditionalism, bread and cup together? "What we shall become a sect of rutile God hath cleansed call not thou antiquarians in a social order gone unclean." Peter knew what a tre- mendous risk he took in going

pagan.

a well trained choir to sing to you' in a nicely furnished Church then remember the voice which Peter

heard on another occasion when

As the Voice once said to Peter | he fell naleep "Sleep on now and

back on the Law which was the "Launch out now into the deep." take your rest;, the Son of Man-is safeguard of Israel's spiritual If we dare, our nets will break being betrayed."

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