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WHAT

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1947.

YOUR

What are the religious beliefs that play so large a part in British character and history? On what do the Churches agree? Whore do they differ? At this moment, when once more the cry is heard, "We need a great spiritual revival to

us,"

the leaders of the three most

rousc

RELIGION?

powerful

the

and

religious communitics, the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, the Moderator of

Churches, Frod

the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, have agreed: to sot down, in simple language, beliefs for which thoir

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Churches stand.

THE BELIEFS OF THE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND

THE principal beliefs of the

Church of England are expressed in Its Book of Common Prayer and are sum- marised in the Apostles' Greec

In a short article it is ob- viously impossible to expound them or even to state them: but I will say this much.

We believe in a personal God who has a character and a will; who is for some thlugs and against others; who has made men to be persons, with

the responsibilities of charneler and choice; whose moral laws are good because He is good, and are necessary for life because He is God.

Love of God

We believe that Jesus Christ is both God and man, that He came to live for a time as man mong men de three things: to show the true' chareter. of God in relation to men and of men in relation to God; to bring the redemptive force of it's own love and sacrifice into a world where every buman situation and every man quite clearly needs redemption from the des- tructive and killing forers of evil; and to make that force effective in all who believe jrt Him.

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We believe that Jesus Christ called believers in Him into a Society of which He who came from God and through death and resurrection returned God is the Head; to which through the Holy Spirit He gave and gives His presence; in which nían can live and walk by the Spirit: through which the redemptive work of Christ is to be continued,

That Soc

WO call the Holy Catholic Church, party militaut here on earth, pardy tramphant In the eternal Kingdom of God to which Christ

all faithful brings men. there to glorify God and enjoy Him for ever,

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The Archbishop of Canterbury

Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury

In the times at followed (by divisions for which the Church must carry its own share of the blame) it ceased to be the Church of all the Christian people of the country.

Confirmation, the weekly gathering of the family of Christ on the day which commemorates His resurrec tton in Sunday worship. the central net of the Family and of all its mem- bers in the Holy Communion, and

Further, It was too much under all the other sherimental nets of the

net the control of the State. Church-a sacrument being on in which the Church

elther knows,

appointment

from our Lord's

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"They may easily enough be allow- ed to cause a confusion of voices.

"But It Is the conviction and the

Church Justification of the

of England that Christ means us to essay this diffle.lt comprehension, to hold together within our com- munion of the Catholic Church what without may not be put usunder grievous injury, and to present as far wholeness of the two as we may, the

Gospel of Christ."

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It affirms the fundamental trinen of the Church. It repudiates carlaip accretions to them

those between limits it leaves a great measure of freedom and gives to its members

<rroneous:

the right and the duty of private Judgment.

All the doctrines of God's dealings with men lead lu anysteries which men see only through a glass darkly.

There

matters which the whole Church has not and never

can deflue Anally in precise term of human language; over-definition leads to error on one side or another

In this region the Church of England, within the limits which I have mentioned, raves a wise free- dom, believing that in this way the per responsibilty of each mem- her is best developed and enrichment Christian truth and understanding best comes: it is therefore slow to embark on heresy-hunts,

Sign of truth

Of course every Church must ask itself this question-Where is the final authority to which we look for the falth which we hold?

The Church of England believes that the Holy Spirit of God, the only Anal authority, speaks to us in Holy Scripture, In the tradition of the Church and in the living and experience of today.

Thus there is a threefold

thought

cord,

each single strand of which unrelate..

to the others leads astray

of

At my enthronement. as Arch-. "The bishop I used these words:

within the Church As a result of this long history we trusses of it or fron its own experience, inherit much cumbrous and out-of- England, so far as they are due to that there is a special Interaction date machinery, which is in process tensions between divine truths im- remedied by continuous perfectly integrated by men, arc between our human spirits and the of being Holy Spirit of God.

measures of Church reform, but signs of truthfulness and of health. which s handicaps us.

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The tradition

He fuls also a system of Church order which also goes back in

the days Af broken turersitz to the Apostles, whereby bishaps are

Yet It remains true that in a very the chief oververs of the people

rent sense the Church of England of Cheet: priests and testeras * does at bome and even more abroad ard dined by them to minister the stand for and express the Christian word of Gd and His holy sacra tradition of this country, and is in ments and to be panors,

004 al kinds of ways built into the shepherds" and the inity are

one fabric of par national life and this with

work of the literature and social institutions. them in the series-tender-of-hop-Chirekes-in-Church-in-which-all-are-"-royal- Britain are to state their principal priesthood, a consecrated nation."

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beliefs.

Agreement

artlets of stabenquent

I that every one of them would went all What have just written.

Let us gave its full strainlcance to the fact that over such a great area. of fundamental Christian doctrine there is agreement between all the mahi Christian bodies; and let us thank God that is recen' fimts the recognition of this fact has removed very much of the bitterness of con troversy and opposition which in the past so injured the cause of Christ.

Differences remain and some of them go deep, but it is not my puy- pose here to discuss them. I a asked only to plate our own prin- elpal belifs.

Sacraments

A member of the Church of Eng land then belleves the doctrines of the Apostles' Creed: he believes

Hr Ands abo in the

For instance, very citizen lives in seme parish of some diocese and

ira- enough almost

So we test all things by the three- fold appeal to the Holy Spirit in Scripture, tradition and contemporary reason, and believe that in the fellow- ship of charity and worship the Holy Spirit will keep us in the true salth,

Our heritage

faulty as every Church is faulty, yet So the Church of England slands,

Catholle Church of Christ and in the with manifest signs of 75 place in the

working

out of Christ's purpose: with many weaknesses, but strong in its resources of divine experience ant Hark! pressed In a dificult race world. but resolute to meet it with the Gospel of Christ; English in its turution, its tendency to decry It- self, its wise besilation to protest tou much and beyond the evidence, but Cathalie in its secure foundation upon the rock of Christ.

room in

iler is the rich heritage of nur Christian past enshrined In our glorious cathedrals and lovely parish churches: here is a large which men may move freely to love Christ and battle for Him: here is the strait gate and narrow way which

lends to He.

All these things play their part in the beliefs of members of the Church of England..

The second article in the series, by the Rev. J. M. Richardson, M. A., B.D., Moderator of the Free Church Feder- al Council, will be pub- lished next Saturday.

AN AMBASSADOR

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OF ILLWILL

on the

worship, can claim the spirtual counsel and FROM time to time, nations become chaotic unless the War Leaching and fellowship of the intristration of its parish priest; send out people under the Office can be persuaded to re- Church his Christian dullest heir and this pastoral duty of the clergy pleasing and friendly title "Am- lease its throttle-hold emphasis varies as the conditions made often of secular life vary: but fundumen paa

Possible

by the aggregation ofbassadors of Goodwill." Some- Colony, which has brought to a tally they are the same after the immense populations and the times they fly around the world, standstill progress and vital example of Christ und in depen shortage of clerical manpower) still

or travel in parties. It is their development. dence upon him to worship God in remains as the first care ond pri- job to foster friendly relations spirit and in truth, to love the vilege of the Church. brotherhood and honour all mo, to endure hardness as a good soldier If in God's good time there can cf Jesus Christ, and so to be alot be reunion of now separated bodies, with his fellow Christians the the Church of England will again salt of the earth" and "the leaven and more fully be that which our Izt the Jump" of the world's history marks it out. be. heaviness.

The other characteristic grows in I have put the first things first. part cut of our historie past, but has Now let me mention two secondary á málversal Aznillcance,

of the Church of

charcteristles

England.

It has in a pcculiarly intimate way grown we wil nation, powerfully affecting it and bring affected by it.

between their own nation and It is nothing short of scan- other races, and there is no dalous that the greater part of doubt that, in many instances. the most valuable part of the better understanding is brought Colony is used for housing a about und mutually beneficial few troops and providing "Or- relations established.

dnance and other stores, which could easily be accommodated Occasionally, some misguided elsewhere. and narrow-minded people throw

We seem to wait in vain for It is sometimes sald that nobody spanners into the wheels of in- ran tell whit the Church of England jornational

relationship, and the man of vision, action and heligvda. I hope I have shown

to ubility, who will possess suffi- they have only themselves

the English above that the accusation is untrue. I blame if they earn the title of cient personality and power to in the faith of the "Ambassadors of Olwill," The restore the land which, under

11- believes Catholic Church of which

part, and that faith is in the Creeds, I

Creeds American Colonel McCormick the Crown, rightfully belongs to

It was the foster parent of our nationhed end of eur liberties, the Prayer-book and the Ordinul that the Church of England is { the pioneer in education and in port of that Holy Catholic Church what

we should now call social

of which Corist is the Hend,

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Within the Church of England

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At a time when the nation was reaching period of great vitality it finds a system of Church life reformed itself, pulling away, in a

It is also said that you can find great variables of interpretation held which goes back to the days of the Aposticiranee to the Church many of the buses and errors of

rough and ready manner perhaps, in the Church of England. by Baptisan with its completion in the medieval Church.

That is true and. as I shall show. is a strength and not a weakness. v

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A SPEAKING of housing:

friend of mine, shortly That he should have the im- leaving the Colony, advertised pudence to insult the British his flat. nation stamps him as a man with him opening one hundred I spent an evening whose ego is overwhelmed with and fifty-eight replies! the importance of its own an importance. He lucks vision Little do those who are com-

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