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wrote this article,

just before Easter

last year. It is an article all Christ- ians will ponder over deeply

THEN I go to church I

usually have a distressing sense of my own hypocrisy and/or that of too many of those around me in the pews.

I feel it worst at weddings and funerals. Perhaps the regular- friends have subsequently brák- ity with which so many of my

en their marriage vows hrs made me cynical at weddings.

Even in the cases of happy Stubbs Road marriages, the subsequent hiatus in the church-going enreers of so many professed Christians has been too often in my mind at their funerals,

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9. 1930.

AMERICA AND WORLD PEACE

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That because of the passing of one I love-I should find my- self attending a divine service that I so seldom attend when happiness smiles, strikes me as a rather cowardly sheltering | behind an institution to which I 10 not whole-heartedly sub- scribe.

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To-morrow is Good Friday Although the United States, are you going to church? by its policy of avoiding

Millions tanglements, is not directly in-

Christians teresting itself in the problem of cause they believe it is a sacred | throughout the world will go be establishing and preserving duty to go.

European prace, it is beyond But millions more will stay

Why have we no Church?

Are there not enough Chris- Churches tian for us to choose from?

Yes, too many: nineteen

Jun-

Why are they

psycho-"

consider that modora logical research throws. any now light on sin?

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Why do they think-and the answer must be in specifle terms -that their own denomination is the best?

What do they think of the other grent Churches of the work|? Of the Buddhista? Of the Confu- cians? Of the Mohammedans?

Is it possible over to reconella

these Christianity with

other religions?

'All of which may sound as if I wore an infidel with a destructive bent. I am nothing of the kind. Priests with whom I have occa- sionally raised such questions as theso have seemed most Inter- ested; they have observed that I had a most Inquiring mind, and have accepted with politeness my assurance that I consider myself a Christian.

But they have failed to answer the questions....

And then' for the lost millions there is the question of "doubt." Perhaps the chief doubt aroused in their minds is by the fashions and fancies of the Church in the past, and the widely differing points of view current in the Church of to-day.

"It's this way," you hear some one say "How could I join a

·Christian Church which considers it a sin to celebrate Christmas with a children's party? Or on- other Church that frowned on the use of anaesthetics ut child- birth? Or birth control in the Flum areas?

**Take Sunday, Surely, after all theae centuries, it should be settled whether or not it is wrong. to go to a theatre? Or whether it is right or not to stay indoors all day and rend the Bible. Can't they have a conference and settlg these points among themselves?"

They will point inquiring to the horrors of the Inquisition, when cruelties of incredible -forority were rapid

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Who preached tleness and merey; only to be matched by the sadistic orgies in- stituted by the Protestants-alaʊ In the name of Christ.

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On a less intense note they point to auch fashions as the one for bodily filth which enslaved Christian priests for several centuries. In what exact way intalneas came to be confused with dirtiness I find it difficult to say: but so it was, and there is sonie appalling evidence of this odd vogue. is the use of alcohol, for instance. a deadly sin, as one Church preaches? Or something to gladden the heart of man, as another Implica?

question that the American

away through laziness; millions pemple ns a whole are anxious will be there merely as a sane- timt concrete steps in this end anionious habit; and get may emerge from the present lions more will stay away-be- discussions in the capitals of cause they have no Church. Europe. Dr. Nicholas Murray, I number, my- as President of the Carnegie self as one of Endowment for International that last legion Peace. is, however, concerned of the tempor over the lack of lendership by

arily lost. the Government on this issue, for he fails to find signs that any important group now in exercise of official power in the life of the nation recognises that United States participation and even teadership in collective security measures is vital at this june- Yes, too_many: nineteen_hun- ture. He does, however, per-dred years after the first Good ceive that public opinion is Friday mas finds not one united moving steadily, with increasing Christian Church, but a hundred sectarian rivals, each interpret- strength, toward an understanding Christ's words in a different ing of the need. According to this well-known international figure; it is little short of amaz-consider

There are also large numbers: To say nothing of answering of the poor Nazareth carpenter, Who the simplicity of of clergymen who sincerely be- questions dealing with the exter- never had a church to preach in. ing that the Government of a Christ's teachings as recorded lieve that in couching their nal aspects of the Churches. people which, through President in the New Testament.

language in an archaic medium McKinley, and Secretary Hay in Saddening, too, when you re- they are being rather devout. What do the various denomina- all the priests and clergy there is no 1899, through President Theo-flect that the world still stands This inability to express them- tions think of disunion between dore Roosevelt and Secretary sorely in need of an accepted selves in comprehensible Eng- the Churches? Root in 1907, through President standard of moral judgment and lish results in an inability to

If they agree that such factions Wilson in 1919, and through faith in the divinity of mankind. answer questions which it seems discord is bad-then what are President Coolidge and Seero-

to me the duty of a minister of they doing to rectify it? tary Kellogg in 1927-28, made

Do any of the Churches officially

way.

not going to

church?

Which is strange when you

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such outstanding contributions Are all eyes on the leadership the Lord to be able to answer.

millions of Christians answer is a sud "No,"

whose

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NOTES OF THE DAY

Then I have myself listened to n Christian preacher enlarging with considerable gusto on the doctrine which would "damn the soul of an unbaptised baby. And....... Inna__city, with thousands of half-hungry people' living in conditions of health-wreck- ing squalor, I have attended a ser- vice so opulent in colour and ritual- texture, in raiment and choral splen- slour, in material magnificence and air of triumph that I could only wonder what it all had to do with the Son

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Yet of the personal sincerity, of

of their views that puzzles the lost shadow of doubt: it isn't the sincerity

millions, but the direction of them. All are inspired by the same Word: Baptists, Anglicans and Catholics Presbyterians, Lutherans and Metho dists Calvinists, Congregationalist and Quakers--Salvationists, Unitar-

ians and Cristian Scientists;

And all coming to different conclusions.

But is it really possible that the essential words of Christ were so as to be capable of

loosely phru interpretations?-

so many

Turkey wants to fortify the, sort of queen-gambit in Austria, literally at my mother's knee.

Then

it

themselves.

by

to the building of those inter-of the Christian Churches?

Ask yourself; perhaps your ! national institutions and policies which alone can take the place of answer is "Yes." But there are international war and make it. increasingly unlikely. should

Certainly it never seemed so when now show itself so largely in- A veil of vagueness and doubt i

I was first told the story of His

life, different to these matters. Innot doubt of Christianity, no!

Ger- seemed that overything He said this connection, it is pertinent to hangs for these lost millions

was extremely simple: not until recall the part which the United between the voice of the Master Dardanelies. Just as Austria de-threatening checkmate to

elded she needed to conscript a new many's allegedly aggressive moves was first taken to church was my

original conception obscured States played in the Pact of and Sunday morning servicc. Paris, which renounced war as Take the "vagueness" first.

At the same time the ritual and ceremonial of the ser army, Turkey feels she żequires towards Vienna. an instrument of national policy. They wonder why it is that so

Introduction to the knowledge that According to Dr. Nicholas Mur-many clergymen indeed, the something to reinforce her secu- he has moved a pawn or two to- lees, that being probably my first

well enough alone. ray Butler, the American people majority-seem unable to speak rity. Europe's post-war treaties wards Geneva where developments mankind seems never able to leave are "substantially unanimous' the language of the common are crumbling about her cars. may embarrass his game in Ethio-

That is why my three children, in their desire to avoid inter-people.

Some blame Germany for all this, pis. We must not forget the For whom I am bringing up, will be conscripted into, no denomination national war, but he takes the You can count almost on the saying had she acted rationally and Eastern game of wits, either, with until they are able to choose for view that something more than Angers of one hand the Christian not flouted the agreements she this is needed that they must publicists who can preach a ser-signed after the Armistice all might

Japan and Russia,duelling for n

I find Christ's religion simple. When I made that remark only join in preventing war, whether men in print without resorting

Othere blame the predominating position in the coun

yesterday to a man, the reply was, economic or military. It has to in almost every other sentence, have been well. be realised, of course, that the to quaint ceclesiastical jargon. mon who made the treaties in the try immediately north of China's Oh, but you're so wrong: Christ Is

frontier. Their amazingly complicated and subtle."

But then that man, like so many United States is at present That there are ministers cap-first place. But all of us, no matter perambulating largely preoccupied with domes-able of intelligent self-expression whom we blame, lament the fact game is more nolay than that play others, dotes on the technicalities of lic problems of considerable makes one feel sorry that there that the carefully built pence ed in the highly civilised Occident, religion as a scientist is absorbed by magnitude. There is the further is not some Holy Order dedicat-structure in Europe, which we had but it is no less dangerous. And the number of combinations offered factor that some of the treaties ed to the pursuit of expressive hoped would tower somewhere near finally, in the Philippines, there is a designed to preserve world language.

to Heaven, in toppling like a verit-now International content, concorn 10-MORROW is Good Friday-and peace, in which the United

Ing the Japanese hemp Industry and there will be millions of empty States has had a hand, have been

an investment of some 30,000,000 seats in hundreds of thousands of treated with seant respect in The pressure of events may, in There are a number of games of pesos which is in danger of destruc. Christian churches: murely one of the certain quarters, a circumstance deed, ultimately force America political chess worth watching at tion because the Japanese land saddest sights in Christendom.

But will thore ever come a Sun- which may raise in American to assume a more prominent role the moment, even for those of us leases are illegal and the Philip day when service in a church is minds doubts as to the value of than is hers at the moment, who scarcely knew a bishop from placa want them surrendered. But shared between a Roman Catholic, a further effort along these lines. Meantime, however, It Is evident Yot, when all is said and done, that the policy of comparative knight, or a diplomat from a this really ranks only as an amateur the fact protrudes that there are isolation will remain the domin- dumb-boll. Signor Mussolini ap-contest and apparently is only situation which are of very vital until some marked change occurs once, or maybe more, like any of one man, the Secretary of concern to the United States, in the world situation.

champion. Just now he is doing a Agriculture.

able Babel.

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LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. aspects of the International ating role of the United States pars to be playing two games at dignified by threats against the Ilfo

by a formula,

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Calvinist, and an Angllean?

No?.. It's impossible?

Millions of Christians, to whom ritual and ceremonial mean little and ecclesiastical tradition lens, will. still live in hope..

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