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WHO'S TO BLAME?

4.

NOTES OF THE DAY

'A NEW M.P.

Tho election of fr. Kenneth Lindsay as M. P for Kilmarnock

is highly interesting as indicating.

tho now trend of thought

WHY I AM LEAVING

THE CHURCH

By The Rev. RAYMOND YOUNG

It.

The Very Idea I

ERPORT TRAGEDY

Eddie "Long Stop? Kelly

put on the spot by Hong- kong in yesterday's inter-

ing the National Government.I AM 82. For more than have no monopoly of the love of SHANGHAI, we read, was

six years I have laboured God, and are, in fact, strangers to in the ministry of the Free Yot for holding that belief and port cricket. Churches. There has never for saying so from my pulpit I been a complaint as to the have suffered ostracism from all

parts of the country,

quality of my preaching or my devotion to my ministry. My character has never been im pugned. I have laboured as hard and as zealously as I know,

I

It is useless the Shanghai players using recriminations A year ago I preached a civic sermon. I pleaded then for toler- against each other now. ance. I asked for a broadminded The damage is done. tolerance for the moral judgment and personal habits of others.

Most of Shanghai's ill-

I told them that a little drink

| Twelvo, months ago, Mr. Lindaay. would not have boon considered bilgible as a National candidate. Yet he fought Kilmarnock with the blessing of the Prime Minister, and goes into Parliament to join the Minister of Agriculture, the Minister of Transport and other lendors of the new school in striving for measures for social- betterment. Mr. Lindsay has been the driving force behind the group calling themselves the P.E.P. and issuing a broadsheet called Plan ning, advocating Political and Economie Planning. He was the founder of the Oxford Union Labour Club and the first Socialist President of the Oxford Union. Small wonder that the orthodox Conservatives are wondering what place he can find among them, though they agree that he might have added brains and distinction

But the spirit of protest has to the Labour opposition. The gone from them in many cases. fact that he sat as a National The Churches have lost their candidate reflects not a change in guts. They are dominated by won by two ministers. They in-wicket than looking after his own outlook, but in the guld-men. If the minister be a nian, if longer be welcome in any other

formed mo that I should nothing. ing principles of the Government. he has the instincta and the teler

THE AMERICAN PICTURE

Yet at 32, with what I bellove to he years of activity ahead of me, would harm no healthy man. Iluck, we understand, was due to have become a spiritual wall. exhorted them to show a little the crumbling wicket. It's no have resigned my pastorate, and measure of the tolerance upon use, however, Shanghai blaming go out into the wilderness, so to whose firm rock our Church was Hongkong for this. They should speak,

bullt.

blame their wicket-keeper. Al- ·' What I regard as sheer bigotry view. The Christian faith has lotted the job of keeping the I had good authority for my and pettymindedness have over been built up on the devotion of wicket, he fell down on the task. come my endeavours.-

I leave a fathers, the sturdy Independents,

protest. Our the virile man as much as it has on "refaned" pioty. established the Free Churches on their own devout protest against bigotry and obscurantism.

ance of a vital man, ke must con- ceal them.

His utterances in the pulpit, bis every-day talk, in my opinion,

must be regulated by the gossips of his congregation.

Once he is in the ministry, and the longer he remains, the chackles of prejudice and malice grow heavier.

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Furthermore, things aro com-

But my plan was answered withing to a pretty pass in cricket

swift outbreak of rebuke. when a man cannot keep a misor- The Free Churches of this disable wicket clean,

trict arrange an annual exchange We are afraid that modern cric-

of pulpits. Very soon after I de- keters are more concerned about Ilvered that sermon I was called displaying their leg before the

pulpit.

All this meant that I was to be

ostracised.

We are forced to admit, howevor, that several Hongkong players displayed a lack of sportsmanship." I was to be meted out with the liberately knocked down the little Young Pearce, for instance, de- fate that awaits any man who sticks, placed in the ground for protests against intolerance and the protection of the Shanghai- the self-complacent assumption of wicket-keeper, no less than six. virtue and Christian grace. forced upon me in recent events.

This question of drink has been

times,

Whether he did this in a spirit from a misguided sense of humour is not recorded..

It is only an Incident in the of malice or A man loses any value he may have in the labour market. The general protest against the petty bread and butler of his wife and Free Churches. But the storm of mindedness which dominates the family depend upon his sub-abuse which my sermon oveted

was astonishing.

Letters poured in. They were disgracefully abusive.

But my own protest has become inevitable.

The uproar which ensued would have led you to boilove that I had

In my opinion the Christian Inetincts of the parsons are being stifled. All over the country the ministers are disturbed.

The American scene changes so rapidly that the conviction is grow ing that observers are not alone in their inability to foreshadow what next will follow. The President does not scom to know his own mind for two minutes at a time. To-day Inflation seems the only cure for, the monetary crisis. Then it sud denly appears that Indation will not be permitted at any price. An ameervience. bitious gold polley is embarked upon with the idea of depressing the in such circumstances to abandon A man becomes sorely tempted In a limited sense, there is dollar and the succusa of the some ground for the view ex-manure is greeted with alarm, his own independence.

apparently because it succeeded be- pressed by Labour speakers in vond expectations. U. S. Govern the House of Commons that the ment securities fall alarming in

Events of the last few months denied the existence of God. It breakdown of the Disarmament consequence and a flight from the have pushed the question of total was the beginning of the end of Conference, and the serious Washington opinion talks of the the forefront of my dispute.

dollar develops. And one section of abstinence and temperance into my official ministry. situation which has consequently introduction of inflation as the only

I drink very ilttic. But I bo- arisen, originated in the failure way to save the situation. Just as lieve that wine is one of God's though It could have any other good gifts to man. I believe also of the League of Nations to take effect than completing the picture that a man may find consolation action against Japan when the of monetary chaos. The trouble

Manchuria were made obvious, But there is not the least just fication for the criticism that Britain is specifically to balme. The blame has to be shared by the Powers collectively. To charge the League of Nations, as such, is absurd. The League, after all, is not a super-State, or a separate political entity. It Is merely a conglomeration of Powers... If, therefore, 08 PREMAZOEZ in the case under notice, the Powers fail reach

They can see the conacquences

the part of Hongkong was forcing Shanghai to pay for 23 of their Another unsportsmanlike act on

runs, no less than that number of buys being recorded against the northern visitora,

Pereira was also guilty of tactlessness in dismissing young Mister Leach for a measaly 2.

Did he stop and think a minute before he did this? Did he think of young Mr. Leach's friends!

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Tannhauser-March (Wagner) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, full implications of her policy in seems to be that no-one is quite and help in an occasional friendly] of this baleful pettiness and spito. After all, our guests come from

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Damnation of Faust-Hungarian March (Berlioz)

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THE INTERPORT

wife, aweetheart and sisters say? What will Mr. Leach's mother, They know that it is the real Shanghai, which is not British reason of churches being empty. territory. Where is our vaunted

They know that their services British fair play?

the danger seems to be that the sure exactly what is wanted. And glass of wine or beer.

I abhor undue indulgence as rush to experiment will undermine much as any night-thinking man. every table structure and sweep fact that a vigorous, robust man that the bias which rules their But all these unsportsmanlike But that does not blind me to the ale muzzled by the incessant dread every theory away.

demands his diversions in fashions church may deprive them of thefracts fade into insignificance cont which do not appeal to women and living.

pared with the one that occurred busybodies,

There are honourable excep- at 4 pm.. It does not make me believe that|tions. Plous hypocrisy is not

"At four o'clock (we read) a5 an occasional glass of beer is one characteristic of all churchgoere. adjournment was made for ten." of the stigmata of immorality. But the people of whom I have TEA! Hongkong offered ten to

been speaking hold the predomina-our guests! ting influence. We are ruled by a monstrous regiment of women.

Words fail us. TEA! Passat "ObsoleteShanghai--adverb,

The Colony's cricketers regained their laurele at the expense of Shanghai, with plenty of margin to spare, but the victory was not all satisfaction. Most of the real. cricket came from the visitors. They wore human enough to collapse in the first innings, suffer- ing undor the moral effect of

The Church is Ruled by a Monstrous Army of Women,

Young

Beck's first bail, but they showed Says the Rev. Raymond how cricket should be played when given a second lease of the wicket. Hongkong permitted a Test Match atmosphere to be injected, scraping for their runs even when a winning position had been established. The ona really bright spell of the match men decided to have none of it. came when Donald Leach and his

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SPAIN'S ELECTIONS

The formation of a new Spanish Government with Senor Barrios

agreement on action to be taken against a member which is considered to have acted in de fiance of League principles, the issues are only obscured by im- puting failure to the League it self. It is a debatable point whether, had action been taken in the initial stages of the Sino- Japanese dispute, Japan would have changed her tactics. A point not to be lost sight of is that, even despite inaction, Japan decided to withdraw from the League, resenting the criticas Premier can hardly be regarded lams contained in the Lytton bringing to an end the political Report. To say that Britain has signation of Manual. Adana. In- crisis which opened with the re- inferentially encouraged Japan deed, events of the last few weeks to defy the world is to fail to get made it abundantly clear that a down to root causes. These new consultation of the peoplo causes will more likely be found had become necessary and that in Japan's avowed policy in the the real issue was not who should East, elaborated over a long govern but who should preside. period of years and made plain over the coming elections. Spain at what she considered to be the is not alone in attaching import- appropriate moment, when the ance to the personality of its

Prime Minister in an Powers were engrossed and pre-period. Rightly or wrongly, it electoral occupied with their own pro- is considered that on the charac- blems. American re-armamentter of the ministery in power may and the strengthening of de- depand the result of the appeal fences in Australia and New to the ballot box. Alejandro Zealand are therefore more Lerroux, who formed a short- rightly attributable to Japan's lived Cabinet, had made clear policies than to anything else. his intention of dissolving the The failure of Britain, in com- had fulfilled, its functions when it Cortes. In his view, the Cortes mon with other Powers, to put provided the country with a Con pressure on Japan, and the institution. Thereafter it possessed clination to accept Japanese no manilate from the people. It [offelal assurances at their face had been given a specific task, value, may have been a factor in and afterward its continuance encouraging the Japanese mill was purely, arbitrary. Nor can it tarists to go ahead with their bo doubted that some of the plans, but it cannot be regarded Government which characterised as the dominant cause of the the Azana Cabinet Bavoured of present situation. Admittedly, balleved it had freed itself the dictatorship from which Spain tho moral effect of allowing Substantially, the attitude of Japanese aggression to go un- Senor Larroux was widely ap challenged has been disastrous, proved, as was shown by the re- but Britain cannot justifiably be sults of municipal and = tribunal indicted as being alone to blame elections. Parliament had be- in this regard,

come divorced from the people.

Nor does it make me believe that total abstinence from strong drink should be exalted into a cardinal Christian virtue.

That is why I-am-going out from my church. My own congregation has been kind. But I have been overwhelmed with the self-com- piacency which has come to rulo a whole. Tho the churches as einlater hold is growing every day more strong.

I do not propose to abandon my service of the Faith.

I hope to run weekly-services in a cinema. The music will be as good as I can make it. The The Kingdom of. Heaven is as choir, I hope, will be an all-male much open to the man of robust one. thinking as it is to the feable of I shall deliver not a sermon, but this world. The little people who an address. I shall try with the mistake prejudice for faith, and utmost of my capability to talk to unctuous ploty for robust honesty (Continued on Next Columns.)

IRCUL

I have to go back again. I haven't enough vitamin-A."

"Ринс

R.S.V.P.

Mr. Edward Kelly regrets That owing to the shroffe Becoming so insistent This month

It is impossible for him To get his dinner- Suit out of Paren

In time to accept·

Mr. and Mrs. Whalesteeth's Kind invitation

To a party Saturday.

PEPPERED

A

A kisa may be midly pernicious, Meandering, sacred, or vicious, It may be a peck,

On the husbandly neck,

Or a elbliant sip that's delicious; But when I am fed up or jadad;; With the average thing that bab faded.

It's then-

That I dream of the kiss Of a sweet Hongkong miss, Whose muscles and riotous Artorios hiss

With a liberal danh Of cayenne!:

the people who will listen to me:: not of dry-as-dust dogma of authority, but of the things which concern them every day.

I shall invite them to put ques- flons to me when I have sat down. That lo one of the defects of our. present church organisation.

You can never talk back at the parson,, It is assumed that he is? the one man who knows ...

1 shall not be afraid of the things which the normal man! likes His church will be mor church, He is the man to whom I want to minister.

I feel that I am without the palo. But I shall fight prejudića? with all the strength which God, in Hia moruy will vouchmate to the..