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THURSDAY, Oct. 1, 1936.

SPADEWORK FOR PEACE

One of the most remarkable features about the League of Nations movement is the way in which it has been responsible for co-operation between societies and organisations with widely differing

objects. aims and

many of them are realising that, without peace, they can never attain the full fruition of their own labours. Thus the Inter-

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If the Church is still in

The Manchester church of which the writer of this article has charge has indeed been in the furnace." It was burned down in May). There lads tried to save its treasures.

W

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arc told that

still in the Furnace,

way in many local matters of help to the unemployed.

Besides all this local relief work, we have never failed to make our

Two winters ago we fed the chiktren of the workless. We gave a room as a Work Centre to en who wished to make rugs, and considerable profit was made. We Unemployment Alds the formed an

Committee. We gave a piece of Church is still in the land for free allotments for unem- furnace. The common ployed men. We called in the Church Army to form a local people are the stokers,

The writer of the challenge Social Centre. which recently appeared in the "Telegraph" takes up the same old cry, "Let the Church give us a lead," and when you read the

We made a dignified protest article you find that what is really asked for is, "Let the Bi-

We shops give us a lead." Whose

have our

Peace Servies now. is the Church? The Bishops? We are in process of building a And are we to understand that parish church, and we intend to the Bishops and the Church are make it a people's church where the voice of Freedom and Peace shall ever resound.

identical?

with the

common

Has it never occurred to the common people that the Church is theirs, to do with as they will, and If the Church is reactionary, if the Church takes the sido against the common people, the blame rests people.

The Church is theirs if they like to possess 16. The voice of the Church might caally become the voice of the people, if they would be prepared to capture the Church. rescue it from the furnace, instead of delightfully accepting the role always of stokers.

I give as an example of what might be done throughout the country what has been done in my church in Lancashire, for it still exista, although Are destroyed the building we have worshipped in on May 23 last, The. Indestructibla bricks of my church are the com- mon people.

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AY churchwarden is

local Labour Councillor. Nearly every member of my Paro- chia Church Council is Labour, 100. Our militant M.P. will have nothing to do with us; and we are not sorry.

We have been able to lead the

voice heard in our protest against war and of other infustices to the common people.

against the exploiting of Armistice Day for military purposes.

We are not going to wall for D'shops or Lambeth Conferences, They are not the Church.

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all this become

Hpossible? When I Brst

came to this parish seven years ago. I paid several visits to the local Labour Party, and I spoke to many of its leading members.

I showed them that the govern- ment of the parish church was an entirely democratic thing, where it would be a perfectly simple thing for them to capture power..

Anybody who is a Churchman who resides in the parish can be on the Electoral Roll, and that is the body which elects the Parochial Church Council. This Council con- trois and directs all parish matters, including parish finance.

It also sends representatives 'to the Diocesan and Deanery Coun- ells, and they in turn send repre- salives to the National Counells of the Church. The system soundly democratic.

Now, it would be a very easy thing for Labour and progressive thinkers 10 control the Church.

It is what the Church. dellber-

The PEOPLE

are to

BLAME

says The Reverend W. Rowland Jones

ately asks them to do wiren It - stigates such a democratic system. A handful of Labour people in every parish could, by a little thought and organisation, expture their parish council.

That is a vastly easier thing: 10 do than to capture urban disirtet and county bodles, and Labour people have gone to no end of trouble and expense to do that.

It would cost nothing to capture the legislative councils of the Church of England. Moreover, it is a completely legitimate and de- sirable thing to do, and the Church wants the people to do 1.

We are a poor parish and we have not much money, but in that respect we are very different from hundreds of parkhes all over Eng- land.

They are wealthy; they own pro- perty: they have resources. These could all be controlled by the people, for the people, and, by set- ting up such a system, the Church wants the people in control.

The parish system is really a randy-made instrument for soclat amelloration.

Think of it. The whole of Eng- land divided up into geographil- cal, compact, and entirely man- agenble entities, none of them much more than 15,000 of populu-. tion.

There is in nearly every one of them a large commodious building called the Church, a bulkling put there by the people for the people. It may be used for worship and for imeetings.

During the National Strike, the Parish Church I was serving in Somers Town was used by the Rail- way Clerks' Association for meet- ings to consider their position-an admirable use for a Parish Church

GAIN, there are in many

Aparishes schools and in

stitutes which were put there, again, by the people for the people. They should be controlled by the people, and used by the people, especially for the workless in dim- cult days.

They are asking to be used

MEN, WOMEN, & MANNERS

party at which several people, By Lady Margaret

Fulton

Every Parochial Church Commen should become a local Sovlet of Workers, and the Parish Pilest their leader.

Would the clergy stand for 17 They would' have to, or so mich the worse for the clergy.

In point of fact, the clergy in most cases would be gind to lead in such definitely Christian nets as -feeding hungry children, and giv- ing their witness for peace. The parish clergy-thank God - are not Bishops, and are much more on the side of the people than the people will allow.

"The great mass of people who take their religion seriously" to whom the Rev. K. G. Budd refers ought to be up and doing, con- trol of the Church, and it is idle for those people to say parrot-like,

the Church is doing nothing.”

THEY are the Church, not the Bishops, and if it is trug that the Church 15 doing nothing,. THEY stand condemned.

No

TOW for a word about the Bishops-poor maligned and galtered. crowl They have been made Bishops because they

men. are."safe"

They have been placed in their positions by past Primo Ministers in order to preserve the status quo. You are as likely to get fire out of Incense smoke as action out of our Bishops. They have been put there because they are innocuous, but they are not the Church!

It is no long step from the cap- ture of the local Farochial Church Councils to the capture of the Na- tional Councils of the Church,

When I look over the names of the members of the National Assembly of the Church of England I and the names of Earis and Knights, of Cabinet Ministers, and High Mill- tary Omeers, of ICGs and MPs. and 0.3.Es., but I have searched in. vain for Trade Union Officials, for Labour Members of Parliament, for- Pazifists or Men of Peace.

You can't blame the Bishops for that! Those men are elected to those positions, by the Diocesan Councils, and they in turn have bean chosen by the Parishes.

Cho whole thing is a model of democratie control, and therefore- the blame for the allence of the Church must be placed against the common people.

the common people act now they can just walk into control, for there is no opposition, Just as in. themselves and their over-estimation bygone days there was no opposi of the Importance of the things they on for local Councillors, till the are doing at the moment. There abour Party started to fight. Wo people do not realise that, like them all have to be quick, though, or selves, we are all of us interested the enemy may get wind of our in our own jobs, and that we, oc- lacties. casionally, like to talk about them. do not claim that my parlsh is the only one whero action is being Good Listeners

taken.

great conference recently met in Brussels, has won the active support of an incredible number of existing bodies in thirty dif- ferent countries. There are many other illustrations of the same tendency to be found. Recently Geneva was the scene. of a meeting of the Joint Com- mittee of Major International Associations. Ten years ago it'] was first decided to organise a

a subject in which they were all interested-education and peace. Now they have decided to meet every year at the seat of the League. About thirty associa- tions are represented on the Joint Committee. The primary objects of some are educational, e.g. the World Association for Adult Education, the Inter- national Confederation Students, and a number of teachers' asso- ciations. Others are religious in character, such as the World Alliance for Promoting Inter- national Friendship through the Churches, the World Y.W.C.A. und the Y.M.C.A. We find the Boy Scout International Bureau and the World Association of

NCE upon a time I was at a dinner Girl Guides included along with the League of Red Cross distinguished for their wit, were pre- One young man, how a very Societies and the International sent. Conference of Associations of famous politican, who in those days

sported a

anal moustache, Disabled Soldiers. All the above found himself involved in a wordy have merely been selected from argument with the lady opposite-a How to be a Borc the complete list to show how woman of the dragon" type.

There are a few here and there I suppose he must have annoyed It is a great pity, I think, that the widespread is the interest in the

One of the most successful young in the big cities. We have All her, for, during one of those tulis in young. people of to-day who have men that I have ever encountered saints, in the heart of Manchester. cause of peace. This year a the conversation which happens even their way to mulca In the world doj achieved his success rough one definitely controlled by the people number of special subjects were

for the people and voicing likely. It is a fact that a fan or a woman heard BAGS chosen for discussion, all with at the most brilliant parties, we all not lake this advice to heart, because thing ed h

say: "Very

His rule was to draw other people always the cry of the "bottom but I don't like your polltles will be forgiven much if they have some bearing upon activities of Mr. the League of Nations and its at all. In fact, I like your politics good manners and are inspired with out to talk about themselves, and to dog. They have, by the wor

them with avid attention turned their churchyard into for the feelings of liston to little as I like moustache." a consideration

Everyone liked him-I don't believe playground for the children with. international Labour Organica- She then glanced triumphantly round other people.

they ever realised why and when- tion. First came the problem the table, rejoicing in victory. One of the faults in modern life ever there was something going in swings and sca-saws provided.. of unemployment among young But,

was not a complete seems to me to be that the majority the way of promotion or anything. intellectual workers. Then the one, for the young politician quicily of young men are fearfully interest-else he always get it. He was really am afraid, madam, ed in some aspect of life and believe very clever because he had discover- tendencies displayed by inter- observed:-"

ed that self-effacement is more likely

ET the common people. national congresses held since that you are not likely to come into that everyone else must be.

contact with either!"

They talk continuously on their to bring one into the limelight than

kind of religion at all within 1935 were studied. The remain-

The confusion of the lady at this own subject until, too often, those much talking. ing itema on the agenda were excellent bit of reparice may be present are bored with it. The talker A very clever and popular political their hearts, all who stand for relations between East and Imagined, but in any event there was seldom realises that for from doing hostess, once told me that she con- peace and not for war, all who

himself good. by his process he is

the extension of good manners was I very

want to sce sidered West, the Press, and peace and no excuse for her bad manners.

Brotherhood. which Was education. It is aasy to gather To-day, very few people are in- thoroughly popular, and self definite sign of additional Intelligence tru from this survey that work of clined to bother very much about roughly unpopular, and it is only and that she had always discovered preached and carried out by our when some kind person tells him that well-mannered men and women Leader, Christ-let those same com the utmost educative value is manners, mainly I suppose, because that he is really becoming a bore were always more clever than other mon people, who in Ills day heard being performed by the Interests they do not realise what a very im- that he realises what he has been people.. suppose she meant that Kim gladly come in and crowd and....

portant thing they are. I remember, doing.

people who were intelligent enough possess and control His Church, involved, covering as they do all years ago, in India, hearing a most

would suggest to all those modern to develop consideration for the feel- which is, their Church, and the

ings of others must be additionally Church will then have a volca. well as adults. Such activities oficial who had just come out.

und that they were desirous of making a place for them-

Better even than a volca, aho will *You probably haven't much

selves in the world that they should quicker to see he observed tritely, "and

not inclined to a moment and consider people who were tion of an atmosphere for peace you

just what are the most important worry about what they considered to dens, feeling for distress, binding

be "mere triles." and in building up a strong body personality. No one would ever ac-attributes of success.

up the wounds of humanity. of public opinion against the cuse you of being good-looking, and

Surely the first is a general popu~ Surely success comes more often although you may also be a brilliant. bellicose spirit which is so much wit I haven't observed any signs of

through other people than by our larity?.. in evidence in these days. This it. Therefore, my young friend. Roughly we may divide people into own efforts? No matter how good is the great need of the time, advise you to keep strictly to business two classes. Firs those we want to we may be our endeavours are in- for if the will to peace is suf- and work hard and above all have see and secondly those we desire to clined to be rather useless if no one ficiently strong, the fear of war good manners. No matter what els nvold: Many worthy people come notices them. I have known many you may lack they will sco you into the second class because they clever people whose excellent work

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