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on arms, and there is still hope of definite results accruing. It would appear that opinion in the United States favours treating with, the several debtors separately, but this is surely not the best method of handling the problem, since it would of necessity Imply almost intermin- able bargaining. The plain fact is

NOVEMBER 30, 1932.

CHURCH UNITY

By Dr. WILLIAM BERRY

The Very Idea!

SQUADI SHUN!

Christian unity was a subject for and against the larger group-

By Pto Edward Kelly of mockery in the world of yes- ing of the Churches. There is no terday, a target at which every doubt that the movement towards without fear of consequences. We any right here and now, cynie threw his burning darta.

closer unity has most to fear that whenever there's any more

To-day it is not merely a pious from the desire, prominent in eer- that these war debts are a world one, nor is it a remote ideal it tain quarters, to secure toc rigid training to be done out in the

is at work in the practical rela-a uniformity of system.

Now Territories at the Volun isaue; they are at the root of much tionships of the different Unity and uniformity are twateer Camp, we will be right hore of the continued world depression, churches, and while some note different things. Variety is both in Victorin to write about it.

worthy accomplishments are al-a sign of life and the apice of and, as such, are obviously suitable ready to its credit, it is safe to life, and religion cannot afford to that strenuous endeavour out at We are all for a quiet life. All for discusalon by the World Econo-prophony that these are only the crush differences, either in the Fanling sickoned us. mic Conference. In the meantime, beginnings.

method of stating belief or of ex- First of all, wo had to march to all payments abould be postponed, the ideal of Christian unity, but the natural varieties of standpoint our 25-13 pack on our backs. When Lip service was always paid to pressing worship. To impose upon the Kowloon railway station with pending a real adjustment of the often enough it was lip service and temperament a rigid and uni- we got to Fanling we had to hitch whole question. That is the com-only. In our day and generation form system would be a movement our 25 cwt, pack up another inclt, the lenders of the churches are of reaction rather than of pro-and march to the camp. We can mon-sense way of dealing with the giving to that ideal the homage gress.

tell you that we were glad to get of practical service.

The statesmen of Church Union rid of that 25-ton pack. movement will therefore, be

After a mosquitoful night we well advised to draw their fron-were paraded before Mujors, sub- tiers on the big scale, and never majors, Minors, and all the other allow the ideal of inclusiveness to paraphernalia of War, fade from their eyes.

It was the rigidities of the past which led bodies of Christians to separate from their fellows, and It is only as that tragic lesson is

A shudder momentarily con- earned that there is any hope for unlon movements to-day. Rigidity vulsed our ranks, and strong meu

matter.

Consider for 'a moment some of Of Immediate moment, however,

the movements towards

unity Is the question of payraents of the which have left their permanent December instalment. It would ap-mark on the ecclesiastical map. pear that there is some difference The two great branches of the of opinion in the British Cabinet | Presbyterian Church in Scotland

now form one United Church. on the subject. We imagine, how- ever, that Parliamentary opinion in

Memorable Year. Methodist, Presbyterian favour of payment is representativo

and Congregational Churches in

The

One of them regarded us with a glaucous and resontful eye, and passionately said that we were going on a twelve mila route

march.

A beautiful six-leg console model of the bulk of British opinion; to the Dominion of Canada are now is, therefore, the. danger which is in the front row looked round with joined together in the United most to be feared, and the at- their fists doubled, seeking a way

finest

and

all

postponement,

on

Church of Canada."

in

The ranks stendied. One unit. looked up and hoped it would rain.

We have at least gathered, from the route marel, that Napoleon was wrong. An army does not move on 1ts, stomach.

Anyway, we got our own back on the brass hat who accompanied

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This year has been made memor-tempts to tone down natural dif-out. heterodyne completely shielded amount immediately due, two-thirds able in the religious life of this ferences may casily wreek schemes

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Methodist union.

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Men and women to-day have 10 reason that any representations on the most stubborn brand of con Height 44 inches. Width 26 the question were held in abeyance servatism rules in ecclesiastical mind to be separated into little inches. Depth 12 inches. I until the American, elections were

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over. It would appear, however, that sentiment, and nourishing itself larger note in religion.

on the brave memories of the the American Treasury has the struggles of the past, right to vary the period of notice. What the eventual upshot will be new movements towards Church lem of the world at this hour is remains to be seen, but it will be union, born in this country and to bridge the yawning gulfs of

across the HCAR, The waste bf separation most regrettable if Britain's divided forces is of necessity most and classes and nations, and if Second Note, setting forth cogent evident in new countries where the religion is to be in the van of reasons for postponement, is population is sparse and scatter that reconciling movement, it can received as coldly as the first. ed. It was the religious need of ot be achieved by the scattered If America refuses to

the remote and isolated communi- efforts of rival sects. be per- ties of the West which brought Am | suaded, then there would ap the

three great Churches in pear to be nothing for it but pay- Canada together, and that same ment on the due date. That, how-need seems likely to produce simi- ever, will not dispose of the gen-lar results in Austraila and South eral issue, which will have to be re- considered sooner or later. Bearing

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THE WAR DEBT ISSUE

election was over, however, the way was made clear for the taking up of the issue, which, however much It may be otherwise argued, Is es- sentially bound up with the repara- tions question.

Already there are rumours of

Africn.

Real Unity.

between individuals

"Now look here," we said, draw- They see clearly that the probing ourself up proudly. "Any more of this and we'll leave the squad. Remember, we are a Volunteer."

We stood it for two days, until the Scottish Company arrived.

With superlative indifference to interests temporal or divine they whetted their whistles and brought out their bagpipos:

Reconciliation must begin with the churches themselves if the full force of a reconciling Gospel is to be felt by the world at large.

This is the deep spiritual under current of all union movements,

In the resultant bayonet charge the enemy suffered savere casual- ties. The squeals and cries of the wounded ware heartrending to listen to.

It is estimated that no less

It is realised that it is n far larger than six bagpipes were killed Preparing Ground. Here at home, friendly sound-problem than that of devising an in the charge. that fact in mind, it is, to say the Inge have already been made in ecclesiastical organisation which So we struck camp and returned lenst, surprising that there seems three grent sections of the Free

will make a happy compromise to Kowloon. between conflicting methods of Wo learnt at least one thing so little disposition on the part of Churches in Great Britain-Bap-

and modes of wor- while we were out at Camp, America to let matters stand as tists, Congregationalists, and government

to be worth the We can now sing the first they are until it is found possible while no official negotiations have ships. Unity,

three verses of “Madamoiselle to deal with the whole question on

yet been set on foot, the ground name, must be a real unity; not

from Armentieren." is being prepared by informal and merely a unity of the machine, broad and comprehensive, lines,

but a real union of hearts And friendly conversations and con- | hands.

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movements

Can a union of that kind be nt-

A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

EVERY

It may be worth while to look Eliot,

One thought which will natural- ly suggest itself in regard to the

COCKROACHES, war debt issue is why much earlier

Cockroaches are being used for representations were not made to

Apart from these When the Sen Dog Barks.

in between Churches which have an tained? In the years of the past racing purposes Paris, and the United States by Britain and

After a struggle unparalleled obvious affinity with each other, there have been gradual modifi- clearly are not the useless insects France over the payments due in among peace-time encounters, Bri-there is another movement which cations of old divergencies. The which most people imagine them December. The

Apart from their reputed explanation is tain's indomitable sea dog has has more cult problems to churches have been learning from to be.

in that prowess on the racing-track, they quite simple. It is that by the pulled out of the iron collar of surmount, in the conference beach other. The result

tween the representatives of the there are few Christians to-day are considered by somo gastrono- time the Lausanne Conference, modern naval lingo to achieve Church of England and the Free who would claim that their own mera to be dellelous to the palate,

great victory in defence of a Churches.

particular methods are in all res- and in some parts of the world which dealt with German repara barnacle-backed tradition. After

There they are regularly ronated and These, then, are some of the pects superior to others. tions, was concluded, America was

An engagement that fairly rocked movements on the ecclesiastical are fewer still who would dogma-eaten whole. They are also much which are In the throes of the Presidential the keels of England's first line of field to-day which may vitallytically claim a menopoly of truth. appreciated by trout,

said to thrive batter on cock- election campaign, and it was na-defence, the White Ensign waves affect the whole religious situs-

roaches than on almost any other tion of the future. Some of the turally felt that any raising of the triumphantly over the terme, tentative approaches may lead to

diet; while scientists find them invaluable

for

purposes of war debt issue at that juncture "port" and "starboard During no result, for there are many diffi

laboratory dissection. In view of would be embarrassing to the 11oo the transitional era, in which the culties in the way, but in the light |

this glowing record of public ser- monkey wrench came to supersede of what has already been accom-

MAN WHO IS NOT A vice, the cockroach's minor mis- ver administration. Опсе the

the marline-spike as a symbol of plished it would be rash to pre- MONSTER, A MATHEMATICIAN, OR Adeeds in the larder surely deserve seamanship within the Empire's dict failure for movements which MAD PHILOSPHER, IS THE BLAVE OF to be overlooked. mighty armada, old-time tars are as yet only in the first stages. SOME WOMAN OR OTHER-George failed to read the handwriting on the wall. It is not surprising. therefore, that the navy was caught completely nback when authors of modern nautical terms There can be no questioning the clowed up their topsails and fired fact that all along America's debt-a gun to windward. "Away with ora had been led to bellove that such terms as 'port' and 'star- there might be some variation of board" urged the meddlesome but the the war debt agreements, provided well-meaning exponents of the various nations gave some evi-monkey-wrench era.

The navy dence of attempting to straighten late. In a raking fire of post-war answered the bold challenge too out European affairs. Indeed, one efficiency, the time-honoured terma of the arguments often heard was went by the board. "Turn the that there was no reason why the whool left!" "Turn the wheel United States should · forego her right!" were the strange-sounding due so long as curtain of her deb commands of the brass hats to tors were collecting reparations. deck responded with sad and slow which sentimental salts of the barth Similarly, it was freely argued that "Aye, aye, Birs!" With the new European nations could not expect year, the Royal Navy will turo any remission of the debta ao long over a new loaf, or rather turn aa they continued to spend hugo back to an old one. For a period sume on armaments. The agree of six months, steering orders will mont reached at Lausanne, involv-be given, "Wheel to starboard" or "Wheel to port"; after that, the ing cessation of reparations pay-command will be simply "port" or ments by Germany, represented a "starboard." Evan though sub distinct contribution towards an ad-jected to landlubberly interference justment of the whole of the obli- | for a number of years, the British gations resulting from the Great tar should be thankful that the Inadsman added no more humilia- War, and it was quite natural totion than to have him "turn the expect that it would have somo wheel left" or "turn the wheel effect on American policy. So far, right." For in order to bring stcoring directions into greater nothing tangible has come out of uniformity with land practice, the the Disarmament Conference, but monkey-wranch Admiralty might it cannot be said that there has have gone so far inland as to adopt the rural ex-cart pilot's torms of boon no diaposition to evolve plans "geo" and "haw" for holmsmen in for the cutting down of expenditure the Royal Navy,

"How can I get anywhere in the business world? The Orst time I bring the sales mangor home to dinner, you burn the pork clíopa!”

FOR THE LAWRENCE DRIGADE. Next year's sensation, girls, will be The Laundry Bills of v. H. Lawrence, reprinted from the ori- ginais in facsimile. For onco one of the world's greatest philo- sophers and artists will literally "wash his dirty linen in public. This publication has been prepared in response to Schzpfk's dictum (Zeitschrift zum Weltpolitik): "Every scrap of Lawrence's hand- writing ought to be preserved for nil time. There is nothing-how- over seemingly trivial that humanity can afford to lose." The edition will be limited to 500,000 copies, printed on rag paper and bound in imitation card-board, price 42a. the set, A collector's edition (500 copies) will be printed on vellum and bound in sablo- dyed nutria. Each copy will bo signed by Lawrence's laundress, Mrs. Slaughter of Tufnell Park.

THE "AMMUNITION" BOOT. One wonders whether the personal wolfare of the British soldier has ever been so carefully studied as it is to-day.

A new outât la now to be pro- vided for their comfort, this coming quickly on the news that the first stop towards "lighter in- | fantry"" has been taken by the in- troduction of a now form of boot, which is lighter to the foot and more elegant in appearance than ita predecessor.

The official description of tho new boot is the "ankie" boot; but It has been unofficially named the "ammunition" boot. The deriva- tion of this lattor term is a little obscure; but it la thought to be Inspired by the suitability of tha new boot for use as ammunition in the course of friendly scrapa.