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WHAT IS AN INCIDENT?

UNDER the stress of war, some of our words are taking on a new meaning. They have joined up for the duration, and probably for longer. The most fortunate of these is the word

By the REV. W. ROWLAND

JONES

Vicar of Denton, Manchester,

whose outspoken newspaper articles are creating great discussion everywhere.

To Speak Of Many Things

PROF. PITIRIM A. SOROKIN (Havard sociolo- gist): "There is too much soft living at Harvard, the students are fat and lazy from too much to eat and drink. They live too luxuri- ously in their separate

BEFORE the Church can lead sects. They tell us that our set forth by Jesus of Nazareth. houses and their beds are

the world into the way of "unhappy" divisions are a good

It is not true to say that His too soft. What these mor- peace, she must be at peace thing, for varying temperaments teaching is capable of a hundred ally and physically softened within herself. Yet to-day noth- can be met, paying their money different interpretations. Theo- students need is a return to ing confuses the non-Christian and taking their choice.

logians have made His teachings the Spartan way of life. more than the fierce antagonism

They love to compare the vari- ambiguous because they would This would make them fit of the rival Christian sects.

material to be loading the United States in a time of

ous denominations to the many units of a fully-equipped army.

"If these people who are suing for my allegiance cannot agree I wish the picture were true. among themselves about what it Here is the true picture. is they wish me to follow, can

Imagine our soldiers defend- their Gospel be all that they ing our island home. Picture

claim ?". criticism.

It is a reasonable

Most Are Non-

Christians

have them so.

It's Crystal Clear crisis."

Would you dare to say "Love your enemies" is capable of more than one interpretation?

CARLOS DAVILA (former President of Chile, speaking at

one half of the Army in the Is it not crystal clear what Town Hall), "It seems to me South under the command of a Jesus meant when He said, dictator. Imagine also several "Love your neighbour as your self"? It was a querulous law Army Corps in the North.

yer, wanting to justify himself, The Southern Army will not who asked, "And who is my

neighbour?"

that this loss of vitality (in de- mocracy) may be laid to the be- lief that democracy is the nor- mal form of organisation for human society. already buili, definitely estab

Something lished, and which nobody will ever dare challenge; the gift of the romantic middle classes of the nineteenth century to our materialistic, struggling and for- gotten man.. We thought we had reached a goal which re- quired no militant defence, no I have read the words of Jesus mysticism, no self-denial, no ex-

The answer Jesus gave made

Look at the facts. Nearly fight side by side with the two-thirds of the population of Northern Armies. They will the world are non-Christians, not even admit the others are Of the Christian third; half are soldiers. "They can only be more clear still what was never Roman Catholics, a third Pro- come soldiers," they say, "by really vague. "Your neighbour Southern is the man in need, regardless of testants, and the remaining enlisting under

his rank or nationality." Dictator." sixth Orthodox Catholics,

our

No sort of communion exists Bishops Don't Know

so many times, and I can tell pansion. Democracy had ac- Add further to the picture and you in a few words what follow-cepted the diagnosis of prema- ture senility... Democracy is

between the Roman Catholic half and the rest. Only a 'frag-

Orthodox Catholics,

imentary communion exists be- see every Army Corps in the ing Him means. It is not cover-an experiment that began to tween the Protestants and the North acting independently of ed, believe me, by mere enthu-walk with our help in our

every other, refusing to strike a siasm for any sect or denomina- times." blow side by side, even at times tion. The Roman Catholic half of fighting against each

other, He asks just this, that men the Christians call the other often fighting against the South- should treat God as Father, and

half heretics!

ern Army.

fented.

The majority of Protestants

What would happen? The deny the genuine Christianity of those who call themselves Calho, disunited Armies would be de- lies, using the bitterest words (harlot' is frequent, but mikl} Their only hope would be to to describe their brother Chris- forget their internecine differ tians.

ences and to unite unler a com- mon command against the com-

A Strange Spectacle mon enemy.

live their lives in the certain as- surance that their Father will never let them down.

"If you do that," says Jesus, "He never will let you down."

sor of English at the University CHARLES C. FRIES (profes- of Michigan, addressing the Na- tional Council of Teachers of English at Chicago): "The efforts of countless generations of teachers to instruct students in grammar have been ineffec- tive and futile. The study of American English has never been used in the schools, and the experience of at least two hun- dred years shows that we cannot hope by teaching to change the practices of a language: we can only help our students to learn what those practices are."

Drab Respectability the real grammar of present day

Then, to follow Him is to Interpret that certainty of God's Fatherhood by venturous, recognition that abandoned

every man is your brother.

The only hope the Churches An unbeliever once sald in admiration, "How these Chris. have of survival is to sink their it is said in sarensm.- tians love one another?" Now differences and to unite.

I know certain Bishops who, The churches have turned hearing that, would lean back in that into an academic theory. their well-up-holstered chairs Jesus wanted it to be an enthu and smile. "Docs this fellow siastic method of living.

But the dismal story becomes

worse as you go on.

have deliberately blurred His clean

lines.

"incident." Through an inspir- ed stroke by the enterprising Japanese, it has come to mean' not this or that part of a war, but a complete war. Tokyo seems, to obtain peculiar satis- faction from referring to the "China incident." It has lasted for years, and must therefore be the longest incident on record. Moreover, it is not yet finished. The people at Home are much more modest in their war-time "incidents." With them the word merely means that a Ger- man bomb has fallen on such and-such a street or building or upen space-and many bombs have, un-Nazi like, preferred open spaces. The bomb may not explode; presumably it is an incident none the less. Even it the damage be fairly extensive, the affair remains no more than

There is only one hope for all "Count Me Out!" the churches-reunion. It is an incident. Therein may be

the only way of hope because it. seen further evidence of the

Money is freely spent on social is the only Christian way. complete self-possession with clubs, secular shows, dance which the British nation has bands, und street demonstra- adjusted itself to the war in tions in the hope that this secu lar bait will catch a few more general and to would-be Blitz-fist. krieg in particular.

While the Catholics, by means really think the, Church is so It will lend you, He said, to do New Crusade Wanted -most-thrilling-perilous things I want to see a new crusade which

of totalitarian methods, rigidly weak?" exclude all who vary from the

Bishops don't know. Smugly like giving away your coat when faith as Catholics accept it, thus forcing the appearance of unity, complacent, they never see the you haven't another; like asking Church as it really is. When people who hit you to hit you Protestants do nothing of the the bishop comes, crowds come. again. kind.

But it is like a specially blown-

It will lead you to the during The result is that the Protest- up balloon.

experiment of trying out new ant third of Christendom is

The Church normally is the ways of overcoming evil-ways broken up into warring scels too numerous to name.

We there empty shapeless bladder. It is much more glamorous and much fore have the strange spectacle far weaker than the bishops, more effective than the way of in our country of uncharitable realise. rivalry between chapel and church, between mission hall and meeting house.

the sword.

churches

this

drab

The I am not even impressed by

have made the apparent might of the thrilling life-venture into a Roman Catholic Church. Like a accepting of rules and respectabili- Many deliberately adopt the totalitarian

State (which it ties, That is not Christianity. way of competitive business to really is), it looks much stronger - You see why I wonder whether gain adherents. "Star" pren than the facts justify. chers are advertised, and paid fees according to their "draw- ing-power."

One Hope Only

But... I sometimes wonder

there is, after all, any hope for the churches. They have missed the crusading adventure of Jesus; they

A Master

shall be wholly concerned, as Jerus asked, in the love-experiment of

living as He lived.

I want common people whom He loved, to rally to that crusade, and to look upon Him as their laughing. during Comrade In a new way of life.

There Is no

encouragement In offeint religion, with its monotonous services, its slavery to

money, its stifling of comradeship.

Officialism in the churches has buried the true spirit of the God-Mun; if humanity is to be saved. stifled spirit must be given new ex- pression, new Hfe:

that

They have taken the tomb of our

Comrade, Christ;

They have buried Him deep

under steel and stones

But

we come, leading Crusade,

α New

To give our Comrade back to His

own.

Strategist

what

the British

and

Military experts, studying the guished pupil of the Prussian whether the greater hope is not Greck victories over larger and Potsdam military academy, had outside the churches altogether. better-equipped Italian armies, figured out in advance of this For the survival of Christianity believe that a master military war - greater thing than the sur-strategist has come unexpected- French High Commands had not The fish are not often caught vival of the churches-must we ly upon the European War scene-that the only hope of beating from the vague seas of unbelief, not rescue Christianity from the but from the adjacent rivers of churches?

Some may see in the widening use of the word, a tendency, thanks to the censorship, to be- come less and less disposed to call a spade a spade and a bomb a bomb. These sour critics may be dismissed out of hand. They up children, sports services with tion of the common people? know nothing of the beautiful the local football hero reading elastic of the English language.the lesson.

other sects.

Is it not true to say that all Frequently," public acts of the churches have departed so worship are turned into stunt far from the pure spirit of their

by shows

paid Founder it is a forlorn hope ever vocalists, cinema films, Sunday to expect them again to become school "sermons" with dressed. His instrument for the regenera-

means of

I want to see them gathered

PREMIER METAXAS

the Axis powers' mechanised war machines was with a highly mobile, elastic defences force, able to operate in independent unita.

This strategy seemed to be the secret of Greek victories in the mountains, ravines and vál- - leys along the Albanian border.

Although he is said to be well pleased with the first results of the war, Metaxas", confidants any ho is too seasoned and realistic to believe that the issuo' has! been settled. He, believes that the hardest blows will come when Italy throws the full force

I want to see a band of men and women larger than any Even if "incident" came from Can you wonder that healthy church, held together by an alle- some hard-working Department-ninded people keep away from glance more fundamental than

churches who use such blatant loyalty to any ereed. al pundit, we think well of it

methods? none the less. Perhaps some

Is it surprising that the aver- together from all the churches in the person of Greece's premier of its reserves and its dir other bureaucrat will some day

age man says, "Count me out of and from that vast "church" and dictator, Gen, John Metaxas, armada into the fight.

But if Greece can withstand apeak or write of "the incidence | this sort of Christianity!"? outside the churches.

It was becoming daily more the blow, he believes, Benito of incidents." Then our joy

Remarkably, there are many I want their allegiance to be apparent that the 70-year-old, Mussolini's Fascist regime will should be complete.

who defend the existence of the to the simple truths so clearly bespotacled Metaxas, a distin-fall..