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It cannot be denied that the worship men bestow upon money is one of the funda- mental causes of war, and if we are to erect a saner world we shall have to break down

this false god.

THE WE

GOD WORSHIP

By the Rev.

W. ROWLAND JONES

Vicar of Denton, Manchester

WE worship to-day not

God but Gold.

He

The temples of this false god are erected at innumer- able street corners. claims the most desirable sites.

Houses for the workers cannot be erected, homes for the aged cannot be built,

Hongkong Telegraph. but these rich temples for

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DRESS AND GOSSIP

THE

HE GENERAL MAN- AGER of the Glasgow Corporation Transport Depart- ment has issued to the women conductors on his undertaking a leaflet which purports to give ndvico to these ladies on the daring subject of dress and de- portment. We have no doubt that the instruction given is necessary if eficiency is to be kept up to a reasonably high- God has given in profusion for average, but it is unfortunate. their use.

Then I read of a city council spending £7 to provide lunch for

ten men.

that such efficiency should have. to be attained at the expense of two of women's most highly-.. prized attributes, the expression

I know it is not only un-of their personality by those christian but morally wrong, | individual touches to their at- and in the name of Christ, who tire which require no patent told us that a man's worth did rights because they can never not consist in the money he possessed, I say to our Govern

be duplicated, and that friendly

women to

If we have not completely dis-

ment and our high financiers: gossip in which it is the in-

"I may not be able to under-alienable right of stand your mysterious monetary indulge. system, but I know that it is unchristian because it turns men's lives into slavery and sipated the learning which was plunges the world perpetually forced upon our unwilling minds many years ago we might quote "You've got to find a new the Latin poet Ovid, who knew system which shall make money a great deal about the psycho- no longer our master, but our logy of dress. "Pars Minimn servant.

est ipsa puella sui," said that "You've got to find a system Roman expert, and the broad which shall provide every one of translation that "a girl is the God's children with sufficient

into war.

I do not think that Jesus money for life, so that he will owing a great deal to postic least part of herself," while meant His followers to maintain never have to think of money licence, has sufficient truth left an organisation like that, and to again.

in it to be worth remembering "It is best forgotten because even in these regimented and The snare of money enslaves there are so many more impor- materialistic days.

tant thoughts to hold in life."

He

on money.

meant, "How much more money "I Am Right”

There was

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10 clear the

coat collar;

Al-

but even within the narrow limits left to them and flair for dress effects

themselves felt, and wo

pity the poor male who will be called

the United Press Associations, who to him their very strength do, the Church..

Our devotion to this yellow I have also a deep suspicion The uniformed ladies on the Glas- pends.

god we worship is shown in our that our money muddles have gow vehicles may all conform to the dicta which insists that the hut must He is a ruthless god, and a common speech.

very largely arisen through the be worn forward on the brow; that fickle one.

He will raise men to "What did you make?" asked very questionable and danger- the shape of the hat must not be

· SENSELESS ACTION

great dignity, and then, by a a man in the market-place. He ous practice of charging interest tered; that the hair must be dressed THE repeated Japanese bomb- turn of his merciless wheel, he did not mean, "What service did ing attacks on Chungking have will cast them off, and trample you give to humanity." lately been of increasing vicious- them in the mire.

Yet they go on worshipping were you able to bank?" not suffered him. population has

a time when the upon to give judgment when any of A mourning party stood out- more than usual, the so-called He has his own High Priests, side my church. "How much Church held that usury was the conduct esses are "on the mat" As in so many other for breaches of the dress regulations. He will require the wisdom of Solo- "safe" zone and the Embassy who speak mystic words in his did he leave?" asked a bystan- wrong. and foreign press quarter have praise."If you are not initi- der. He did not inquire how things, the Church surrendered mon and the, dress sense of a Pa- been struck several times, in- ated," they tell us, "you will not much he left of real value for its judgment through the pres-quin.

QUT MOST OF ALL do we re- juries and damage being in- understand. The rites and the the benefit of mankind. He sure of the world.

Bu Men no longer think it is

gret the admonishment to flicted.

ritual are not for the common was simply talking about the

not to gossip with wrong to charge interest on the ladies The British Embassy, and herd. It is beyond their. com- god men worship-money.

foreign

A man on the bus said in my money.

am passengers. Who among us has not the

Consequently I hostel prehension-how dare they pre- press nearby, have always been out- sume to know? That is our hearing, "If this war ends too staggered to discover that out of had the pleasant experience of hav- ing a journey shortened by the jocu- side the "safe" zone which is on provinco!"

soon our firm will go bankrupt." 8s. 6d. charged as Income Tax, larity of a conductor, or by listening to interest and debt In to his comments on events which the south bank of the river and The Churches, who pretend to That seemed to him sufficient 8s. goes

be convulsing either his im- comprises British and American worship the true God, are slaves reason for continuing the war. charges with only 6d. available may

mediate world or the greater world It cannot be denied that the for State services. business houses, the American to this false god, who is known

bestow upon and French Embassies and a by many names, though his worship men

No doubt High Finance will beyond?

The irrepressibility of the. Cock- byword; he ney bus conductor in Chinese residential arcu. The chief votaries usually call him money is one of the fundamen- be able to explain that away in

tal causes of ivar, and if we are the interest of the god it wor actually brightened the already British Embassy is in the heart High Finance.'

a saner world ships and serves. His millions of worshippers going to erect

bright life of the Metropolls. In those of the Chinese city and far from any military objective-a-fact are less reverend, and prefer where-men-can-live in security The-measure of our worship far-off days when there was light, and even now his merry-gossip -13 more homely names. In my and happiness, and where ni- of this false god Mammon was sometimes the only light thing on a which would normally secure it against attack apart altogether part of the country they call this tions shall not live in constant never so clearly revented as in darkened journey. How much more from the large identification it honoured deity by the familiar fear of war, we shall have to the poster which is being used then could we enjoy the pratile of a

break down the altars. of

boost Our War Savings Scots lassie over the weary stretch, wears and which has been re- title, "Brass" peatedly rovealed to the Japan-

false god, Mammon, .

Weeks: "Men are giving their say, from Parkhead to Shettleston?

NIGHTINGALES ARE FER- The biggest obstacle will be lives; will you not lend your ese in unmolested low altitude The Gold God

found in the common idea that money 7"

MITTED in Berkeley Square flights round the buildings.

It is significant that Mr

Jesus spoke always of Mam- finance is a complicated and

When we want men's lives for surely Mr R. F. Smith will not insist on silence in Sauchiehall Street. We Under-mon, and He said that it was mysterious thing which only the war we do not hesitate to take sympathise with him on the neces R. A. Butler, the

them.

alty of having to make rule on the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, impossible to be a worshipper of brains of high financiers can said in reply to a question in Mammon, and, at the same time, fathomi.

When we want men's money, jdress and deportment of his women conductors, but may we plead on Men always prefer to worship we borrow it, if they are pre-their behalf, and perhaps also on be the Commons that it was not a worshipper of God.

You can't serve God and

a god who is surrounded by pared to lend and even for half of the more human thought worthwhile to protest again. Rince His Majesty's Gold.

But the followers of Jesus mystery, and that is the reason that privilege we are prepared to passengers for whom he caters, that

the rules be interpreted with Government's views on the

Yes, I am sure gain by men's slavery to Mam-

I am right!berality through which personality bombing of civilians were well have never quite learnt that les- why those who find personal pay them.

son. I used to attend Church mon instil in our minds how in- Mammon is the god we wor-From-

may toes Its dainty little head.

"Passenger Transportation Conferences at one time, but we scrutable and complicated are ship. heard so much about money and the rules which govern so little about men's souls, so monetary system. much of Mammon and so little The only purpose I can see in of Christ, that I decided to give money is as a means to enable up attending.

inhabitants of a country to buy I still have letters from the all they wish of what they make Diocese about it. Every one of and import. the letters asks for more and more money.

known.

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I find that the Church of Eng-- land is a very wealthy Church.

High Finance

this to

our

It therefore seems obvious;

The unfortunate aspect of this admission seems to be that His Majesty's Government evi- dently does not think that its protest would carry the desired weight; that a further protest would enjoy no better reception in Tokyo than earlier notes in a similar vein. However, there is the danger that if no official cognisance is taken of the affair, a precedent is created which might lead to a sort of unofficial Its money comes from ground that the total amount of money warfare. When Tokyo Ignores rents on public houses, race should bear a direct relationship the bad or good aiming of its courses, dog-tracks, and from to produce and goods.

It also seems obvious to me bombers, according to whether much poor property. that aim is deliberate or not, The money is not refused, al- that every man, woman and then it is tacitly approving though the Bishops and clergy child in a country should have those actions. Such a state of have so much to say about sufficient money to provide them with the necessaries of life, and affairs leads to the undermining gambling and drinking, of confidence between Govern- This absorption with money a little over for recreation.

The high financier, of course, ments, often followed by "mis- has turned the Church of Eng- understandings" and deliberate land into a vast money-raising will shake his head wisely, and antagonism.

institution which provides say something which really The fact that Britain and economic security for a huge means, "You poor mutt! Do you America are assisting China army of clerks, secretaries, really think that is possible? It's than has nothing to do with the con- typista and lawyers, to say far more complicated

that." atant bombing of the British nothing of clerical officials. Embassy at Chungking and

It may or may not be, but emphatically I say this: The!

does not excuse such wanton

acts in the smallest degree. to her own integrity. Incidents lives of thousands of my fellow turned into Ours is a stated and oflein of this kind simply strengthen countrymen are policy and we would not stoop the bonds between Britain and misery and struggle and wretch- edness in the ceaseless, soul- to such underhand aggravation China. of an already tenso situation as It is ironical that pamphlets, destroying effort to make re- "accidental" bombing. If the urging that immediate "peace luctant ends meet.

Women's lives are turned into Japanese Air Force are really between China and Japan would

agony trying to pay the must load to pence throughout all an Tokyo apologise for their inaccuracy Asia, were dropped with the family budget on too small an then that is one more reason bombs. That is another sub- allowanco. why Japan should not seek terfuge that could well bo dis more enemies. If, on the other pensed with,

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I cannot get them to take an interest in God because they are perpetually harassed by shor tage of money to obtain what

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