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If the Church is still in the Furnace,

The Manchester church of which the ioriter of this pritele has charge has indeed been "in the furnace." "It was burned down in May, These laus tried to save its treasures.

that

the

way in many local matters of help to the unemployed.

Two winters ago we fed the children of the workless. We gave a room as a Work Centre to men who wished to make ruga, and a considerable profit was made. We formed an Unemployment Alda Committee. We gave a piece of land for free allotments for unem-

ployed men. Church Army to

Social Centre.

We called in the form a locai

The PEOPLE

Bealdes all this local relief work, we have never falled to make our voice heard in our protest against war and of other injustices to the common people.

E are told Church is still in the furnace. Tho common people are the stokers.

The writer-of the challenge which recently appeared in the "Telegraph takes up the same old cry, "Let the Church give us a lead," and when you read the article you find that what is really asked for is, "Let the Bi- against the exploiting of Armisilee Whose Day for military purposes. We shops give us a lead."

have our own Peace. Service now. is the Church? The Bishops? We are in process of bullding 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 over resound. identical?

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 side against the common people, the blame rests with the common people,

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The Church is theirs if they like to possess The voice of the Church might easily 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.

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give as an example of what might be done throughout the country what has been done in my church in Lancashire, for it still exists, although fire destroyed the building we have worshipped in on May 22 last. The indestructiblo bricka of my church are the com- mon people.

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Y churchwarden, is local Labour Councillor. Nearly every member of my Paro- chiel Church Council is Labour, 100. Our militant MP. will have nothing to do with us, and we are not sorry,

We have been able to lead the

We made a dignifled protest

We are not going to wait for Bishops or Lambeth Conferences. They are not the Church.

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OW has all this become

Hows be? When I frat

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 cntirely 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 Eicctoral Roll, and that is the body which elects the Farochial Church Council.-This Council-con- trols and directs all parish matters, including parish finance.

It also sends representatives to the Diocesan and Deanery Coun- cils, and they in turn send repre- selves to the National Counelis of the Church. The system is Boundly democratic.

Now, it would be a very easy thing for Labour and progressive thinkera to contret the Church.

It is what the Church deliber-

are to

BLAME

The Reverend

says The W. Rowland Jones

ately asks them to do wlien it in- stigates such a democratic system, A handful of Labour people in Mit]c every parish could, by a thought and organisation, capturo their parish council,

That is a vastly easter thug to do than to capture urban district and county bodies, 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 it.

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

They are wealthy; they own pro- porty; 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 ready-made instrument for social amelioration.

Think of it. The whole of Eng- land'la divided up into geographi- cal, compact, and entirely man- ageable entities, none of them 'much more than 15.000 of popula- tion.

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

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

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AGAIN, there are in many

parishes 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

ONCE

NCE upon a time I was at a dinner

party at which several people, By Lady Margaret

Fulton.

distinguished for their wit, were pre- One young man, now a very sent. famous politican, who in those days sported усту amall moustache, found himself involved in a wordy! argument with the indy opposite How to be a Bore. woman of the "dragon" type,

chosen for discussion, all with heard

She then glanced triumphantly round other people.

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Every Parochial Church Council should become a local Boviet of Workers, and the Parish Priest their leader.

Would the clergy stand for it? They would have to, or so much the worse for the clergy.

In point of fact, the clergy in most cases would be glad to load in such definitely Christian acts 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 roters ought to be up and doing, in 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 true that the Church is doing nothing, THEY stand condemned,

Now for a word about the Bishops-poor maligned They, have and galtered crew! been made Bishops because they are "safe" men.

They have been placed in titeir positions by past Prime 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 Parochial 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 find "the anes of Ears and Knights; of Cabinet Ministers, and High Mill- tary Oneers of KGs and M.P.s and OB.Es, but I have searched in vain for Trade Union Omelais, 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 been chosen by the Parishes,"

ho whole thing is a model of democratic control, and therefore the blame for the silence of the Church must be pinced against the common people.

the common people act now tiley can just walk into control, for there is no opposition, just as in themselves and their over-estimation byrone days, there was no oppost- of the importance of the things they tion for local Councilors, till the These abour Party started to fight. We are doing at the moment. 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- tactics,

do not claim that my parish is casionally, like to talk about them.

the only one where action is being

Good Listeners

taken.

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national Friendship through the Churches, the World Y.W.C.A. and the Y.M.C.A. We find the Boy Scout International Bureau and the World Association of Girl Guides Included along with the Longue of Red Cross Societies and. the International Conference of Associations of Disabled Soldiers. All the above have merely been selected from

There are a few here and there the complete list to show how

It is a great pity, I think, that the One of the most successful young in the big cities. We have All widespread is the interest in the her, for, during one of those lulls in young

I suppose he must have annoyed

people of to-day who have men that I have ever encountered saints, in the heart of Manchester,

one success through of peace. This year

the conversation which happens even their way to make in the world do achieved his

definitely controlled by the people for the people aud number of special subjects were at the moat brilliant parties, we all not take this advice to heart, becausething only.

voicing her say: Very likely, it is a fact that a man or a womun

His rule was to draw other people niways the cry of the "bottom They have, by the way, some bearing upon activities of Mr., but I don't like your politics will be forgiven much if they have

for the feelings of listen to them with avid attention. turned their churchyard into a the League of Nations and its at all. In fact, I like your politiet food manners and are inspired with cut to talk about themselves, and to do."

as little as I like your moustache." a considerationi

Everyone liked him-I don't believe International. Labour Organisa.

hey ever realised why--and when playground for the children with tion. First came the problem the table, rejoicing in her victory. One of the faults in modern life ever there was something going in swings and sea-saws provided.

or anything. of unemployment among young But, alas, it was not a complete seems to me to be that the majority the way of promotion intellectual workers. Then the one, for the young politician quietly of young men are fearfully interest-else he always got it. He was really

ET the common people, tendencies displayed by inter- observed:-"I am afraid, madam, ed in some aspect of life and believe very clever because he had discover-

ed that self-effacement is more likely Let any national congresses held since that you are not likely to come into that everyone else must be,

They talk continuously on contact with either!"

their to bring and into the limelight than

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

The confusion of the lady at this own subjoci unt!!, too often, those much talking. ing items on the agenda were excellent bit of repartee may be present are bored with it. The talker

A very clever and popular political their hearts, all who stand for LCC the extension of relations between East and imagined, but in any event there was seldom realises that far from doing hostess once told me that she con- peace and not for war, all who

himscit

good by his process he is sidered good manners was a very want to

Brotherhood, which was West, the Press, and peace and no excuse for her bad manners. education. It is easy to gather To-day, very few people are in- on a fair way to making himself definite sign of additional intelligence true from this survey that work of clined to bother very much about thoroughly unpopular, and it is only and that she had always discovered preached and carried out by our. kind person tells him that well-mannered men and women Leader, Christ-let those same com- the utmost educative value is manners, mainly wit a bee that he is really becoming a bore were always more clever then other mon people, who in its day heard being performed by the interests I they do not realise what a very`im that he realises what ho has been neopte. I suppose she meant that Him gladly conte in and croied and

portant thing they are. I remember doing.

people who were Intelligent enough possess and control. Els Church, involved, covering as they do all years ago, In India, hearing a most

I would suggest to all those modern to develop consideration for the feel- which is their Church,, and the classes of people, youth as important personage advising a young young people who are ambitious and Ings of others must be additionally Church will then have a volce.

desirous of making a place for them-quick-witted, and that they wero Better even than a volco,she will well as adults. Such activities official who had just come out.

probably haven't mush

selves in the world that they should quicker to see and realise things than have hands and heart, fitting bur- observed

who were not inclined to should be productive in the crea-brainly

tritely,

"and pause for a moment and consider people, tion of an atmosphere for peace you certainly don't possess a striklus just what are the most important worry about what they considered to dens, feeling for distress, binding.

be "mere and in building up a strong body personou of being good-looking, and

No one would ever ac attributes of quccess.

trifles" Surely success comes more often of public opinion against the cusp you of

Surely the first is à general popu-} although you may also be a brilliant

through other people than by our bellicosa spirit which is so much wit I haven't observed any signs of Iurity? in evidence in these days. This it. Therefore, my young friend, 1 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 tub classes. First those we want to we may be our endeavours are. for if the will to peace is suf- and work hard and above all have see and secondly those wo desire to clined to be rather useless if no one. ficiently strong, the fear of war good manners. No matter what else avald: Many worthy people come nollers them. I have known many you may lack they will zde you into the second class because they clever people whose excellent work.

(Continued on Page 5.) bore us with their continual talk of l may be banished from the world. through."

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when some

up the wounds of humanity.

To-day's Thought MIGHT there not be some dream not of?

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STEPHEN PHILLIPS,