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AVIio is tlie best-known Swedish film actor ?
John de FecUeubam (151S-1585). Ho was a tolerant Romanist dignitary who was Queen Clary’s confessor, but bo displeased her by pleading lor tbe Protestants.
■\Vlierc is Ifngli Town? In tlio AVbite Mountains, ^cw Hamn* shire, F.S.A.
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AVho invented tlio .siiinning Jenny? Tlio inventor of tlie fanions quick- firing gun which bonr.s his iiamc.
of 5.071* feet.
AVlien was the alphabet for the blind invented?
■\Vliero is Siinda Strait? Volcano on the island of that name m
the (ountry. r^i
Nils Asther, who has recently been .staying at the Savoy Hote!,^ don, while he made an English
AVliv was Canada so named? In 1S2D hv Louis lhadlo. a blind pupil of the Institution dcs Jeimes
Avpiigles. Paris.
Where is Krakaton? Tliirteen inile.s wide, ifc hos between
Java and Sumatra.
AVho uas .Sir Hiram ^Inxim? ,Tamos Hiirgroavos (Ii20-ln8), but be made little or no money out o[ it.
Whore is Mount Adams.-' I t h the capital of St. Mary’s Island, Sciilv Tslos.
film. ,
M'ho was the Inst mitred abbot to sit in tlic House of Lords?
the Strait of Snnda.
Jlecanse of a mistake made in Ljil by the explorer Pe Roberval, who thought the Indian word kanatn. meaning huts, was the name of
I t has an altitudo
Whalley, addressing Clithcroo llotary Club vosterdav week on “ Leisure.” Amongst other topics ^Ir. lluttorworth
habits of tiui preseut generation were made by the Her. Jt.
COiallenging statments regaii*diug the liuttcrwortli, Vicar of
dealt ill Iho course of his address with Sunday observance, drink, gambling, -and the tfieatre and cinema. TIic President (Potariaii F. Dugdale) presided over a fairly largo attendance.
Liable to be Misunderstood.
deal with tlio question of leisure from the Christian point of view. Tho Christian ciiurch was always and at all times liable to bo misunderstood, and it might he that some people would think that the Churcli regarded leisure as one of the temptations of tho devil to ho fought against. He did not think that was so, although certaiq manifestations of tho uso of leisure were hound to he opposed by tho Christian Church heeauso in her opinion they wore a bad thing, but at tho same time it was recognised tliat leisure was not only ncccs- sarv hub could be very useful. A full, coinplete life was nob merely bodily but included the mental and spiritual aspect.
i l r . Butterworth said he proposcil to
most obvious. Everybody knew wlieii they were well, wlieii they had had^ enough to cat, wlicn their bodies were tired. The question of mind was not quite so obvious. On approaching tho spiritual aspect tho question rapidly became more difficult. Tho spirit was something which although real was not tangible in the same kind of way, hut yet, at the same time, was niosb necessarv if one was to have a com plete life.
'J’he
phy.sical side of life was tho
gested, was to take increasing leisure from tho physical point of view and not nearly so iiuieh for the mind, and still le^s for tlm
spirit.
audience were interested in everything that tended for the uplift of thoir fcl o\y citizens, bub sometimes he thouglit that the modern tendency^ was to look after peoples bodies and minds and to forget about the spiritual side.
He assumed that the members o his , - , . Sunday Observance.
aiiiom^^t some people that the Church on the question of Sunday observance, for in stance, is a negative force,” Mr. Ihittcr- wortli proceeded. That the Church sa\s you must do this on Sundays hut you inust not do that because it is wrong.
“ There has recently been a growing idea
are still people who seem to think that tho Christian Sunday is the same thing as tho Jewish SaGhatli. but it is uot. ■\Vhat
llicrc
view with regard to the observance of that day? ] t is regarded primarily as a day on wliicli people can meet together to worship God. though nob necessarily tha'c people should worship only on Sundays, for they ought to worship on every day of their livc'i Wlion tliev have utilised the leisure afforded hv Sunday for .«.piritiial purposes then tliov Iiavo the opportunity during the
re.sb of tlie day to iitili^ the leisure lor the recuperating of their bodies and ol their minds. People nowadays go in a «rood deal for recuperating their IkhI ios with Sunday games. ] t seems to bo thought by many people that tlie Chnreli
is the Christian point of
is a<Miiisl such things. Tiioso who aie iiitoix’sted III the history of tlicir own county will know that , in the scvcnteciitli century James I. visited Lan- ca'^liiro and a petition was presented to
ADVERTISER AND TIMES. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935.
Christian View on Leisure. VICAR OF WHALLEY ON
MANY MODERN PROBLEMS.
SU N D A Y O B S E R V A N C E : G A M B L IN G : T EM P E R A N C E : S LUM S : H O L ID A Y S .
playing fields whore lliq childrou can play more i>leasurahly .and certainly more safely. “ Some of us can have decent iiolidays.
OLD HALLS OF RIBBLESDALE. SOME BEGOLLEOTIONS BY MB. E. BUCK.
Some of us are paid by the year and not by tho week. I t seems to me it would ho a* good tiling and a Christian thing if it could be arranged for people to have a decent holiday in tho year without having their wages stopped. I t has been nieutioiietl to me, and i iiave noticed it increasingly, that in various walks of life people arc getting holidays with pay, but those who work ill the mills are not in that category. Tliey Iiavo to save uji through Jioliduy clubs and* in any other sort of way aud if they do uot save up enough they cannot afford to go. 1 would like to see it made possible for their wages to continue while on lioUday.
The Christians and the Theatre.
question of our leisure is tliat of tlie theatre. Ho you remember when we were very young Jiow attracted wo were by the theatre and thought that our yearly 'dsit to the pantomime was the most woiiderlul event of tho vear? Mitli bated breatli we waited for the curtain to rise to disclose tlio wonderful tilings on the other Seme of our relations seemed to think that the theatre had a had influence on the people wlio wore in it. Tliey seemed to think that working in a theatre had a demoralising circct on an actor. or actress. There ngain we are up against an idea that has been liauded down to us from Puritan times. In the davs of tho Boman Empire the Christian Church lind to light the stage because the stage at that time was pretty corrupt. Later on there was no theatre except that which was provided by the Church which allowed miraclo and morality plavh At the Jteformatioii even these
“ Another point whicli arises in this
Vicar of Clitheroe on the
Italo— Abyssinian Dispute. NATIONALISM AS THE
CURSE OF THE AGES. Prefers— “ Quixotic Christianity of
‘ Dick ’ Sheppard and Geo. Lansbury to Statesmanlike Philosophy of Archbishop of York.”
world crisis was delivered at Clitlieroo Parish Church on Sunday night by the A
A thoroughly outspoken sermon on the
’icar (Rev. AV. S. Helm), who dealt at some length with the Jtalo-Abyssinian
STAN D EN HALL.
stopped. The Puritans came along and hcgaii to regard the theatre in itself as a bad thing.
th e
prc.soiib tendency, lie sug
speare was acting aud writing his plays tlioi’o wore many iwoplo who thoiiylit the stage was an evil inllnencc and that decent iiconle oiiglit not to (reqnoiit it. Me have not a good way past that nowada.Ns, hilt still lind the popular theatre providing the people ivith exactly what they want.
they want that which is good, then some manager or prodiiecr will give it to them, and il’ thev waiif .sometliing which is not good thev get it just the Paine. \ \e know that nianv plays aro piit( on tlio stage which altlmiigh they are all. right as far as thev go arc not .'•peeially iniproviiig. We sf iiictinics hear them spoken of as leg show.' There is a good deal of revue whieli is leg show. A Christian should not desire to go to'the theatre to sco stupid and iiilerior plavs.
It
lilii’c-stocking hut 1 do think Christians ought to want to sco (ilays which are good.
Cinemas and Sex.
We all know Imw very many people go to the pictnres. There again there are pla.vs which are iust orilinary ami ipiito a lot ot niavs which are too mneh eoncerited witii
“ The 'amo thing applies to the cinema.
is .a verv important thing iii life, hut it .vou 1-0 to the iiielurcs vou may sometimes ho Ted to believe that tho relations hetweeii one man and two women or two women and one mail wore tho only things that came into life. This is not so and enlightened Christians would try to go to and' to en courage plays and pictures that are good and to discourage by non-altcndanne pla>s and pictures which in tlieir view are not
the sex iiroblem. 'We ki'O'v
•of opfiosition. Tho same tiling applie.s to ChuiVh imisie. People like to sing >eai after vear the tunes they have aliy.ays been
him on tho subject of Sunday games. Jim kim^ allowed Sunday games, archery, and so on. to ho phiyeil by people who had on that dav been to eliurch. Those who had not been to churcli were not allowed to take nart in the gamo-^^. This decree made both the King and the measure very unpopular, liecaiisc the Rom.'in C^atliolics having con- scientimis ohjcction< did not go to clmrcli aud therefore could not pla.v. while the I’liritans tliouglit it wrong to play gamos at all on n Smiday, being full of tbe (ml Testament ami not nearly so full of tbe
New. Tkc Primary Duty.
Jobn Keble. tbo famous poet of tbe Oxford Movement, used to play cricket on feniidays with the bov.« of his parish. From that L hope vou will believe that the Umreh is not- opposed to innocent recreation on a Sundav iirovidcd that the primary duty of the dav is discharged, because if we do not di>charee that primary duty wo are leav ing out of account one of those three things which make up the complete life of man. Therefore if the Churcli is
accu.scd of being obscurantist ^nid olMriictiomst in this matter it is not altogether lier fault, but ic is pnrtiv because she is misunderstood. On tlie other hand there arc many people amongst Christians who arc ohseiirnntist about the keeping of Sunday and other thim^'. There are many things in our sneiM life that Christians ought to bo imicli more intcre.''tcd in than they arc.
“ Coming down to more modern times
tho last week or two references to the death of the Jlev.
J.lasil Jellicoc, whoso familv had connexioii*; with tliis part ol tho world. The Rev. Basil .Jellicoc worked in tho slums of Somers Town, and was largely responsible for jiroving that people in slums, if .vou give them the opportunity, will .sometimes do wliat you expect them to do. Tlicre is an old-fashioned cliche that if vou jH'ovide ]»eoplo in slums with batli- roo'ms' tlic^' will immediately turn tShoso hatliroom.s into coal-holes, and no doubt it is true that some will. Basil Jollicoo proved that there are otliers who will not. Ho was largelv rc.sponsihle for starting the St. Pancras ’Housing
As.sociatioii, which meant tliat ])eople. joined tho Association as slinreliolders and their money was utilised to
aholi.sli slmns and to erect in thoir stead respeetahlo dwellings for the people. Tho Association lias been actually able to pav a dividend. Housing reform i.s one of the thing.s with which enlightened Christian opinion ought to be concernod. “ Then, of course, playing fields enter
Slums, Playing Fields and Holidays ” You will have seen in the jiapcrs in
a fairl.v well-known opinion of^ some people tliat oven if vou provide
iila.ving fields for cliildreii thev will .still picfei to l)la.^ oir tho high road, hut I tliiiik an.\ Cliiistinn would bo desirous of tlio
c.stahIishmont of
into tlie question of leisure. We ought to consider in connexion with tlio districts in whicli we live wlietlier there are decent places in whicli children^ can play.
I t is
folk dancing as rather comical. 1 think it would he a good thing if we could rcyivt interest in the country dances our anccstois
.Some people repird used to practise. Gambling.
to mind the important matter of gamliling. This is a subject upon which there is need for the education of public opinion. Jt seems to mo unfortunate that when thcie is a football match it should he important to have something ‘ on it.’ I t docs happen somcliraes that dilforent
g.ames iis cooked to bring ahont .some result desired b\ tlio demands of betting.
“ 'J’ho (jnestion of the use of leisure brings
that we ought to he able to pla.v our
g.imes without luiving something ‘ o**. T do not mean that it is wrong in my opmioii loi a person to have a shilling or two on the St. Legm- if lie can afford it and is pro- parcMl not to sco his money again. J do not SCO mvscif that it is really wrong for people to ’have a copper or two on tlicir bridge, hut I think it is dofinitely wrong for people to say, ‘ Vo always pla.v for threepence a hundred because it makes ns hid more carefully if we have a financial stake,’ I t should not do. 1 think wc ought to lie able to play bridge witliout .a financial stake, for if we cannot play with out having a few coppers on it oiir bridge is not worth much. Superstition ton enters into this question of gambling. V’o have all heard of people who dreamed that they must put tlicir money on .‘^o and so ami they did and it came off. They speak of having a run of good luck and a run of had luck.
I t would seem
1 do not know that there is. AVe must admit .sometimes tilings seem to go hotter than at others, hut 1 do not think that is duo to luck.
Is there such a thing as luck?
tl.ing. Betting and gambling tend to weaken the moral fihn? of the people, wliilo
f doubt if there is such a
superstition is evident in tlie people wlio put mascots on to tlieir ears in tho liopo that it will bring them luck, Tliat is a form of gambling. ” On the sinme subject T cannot regard
(Continued from preceding column.)
in that way tho question doc.s
ari.se: Is it Iionournhle, is it worthy of tho cause? If you to go to a eliurch haznar why uot spend your money .straightforwardly, or better still, wliy should wc need a churcli bazaar? AVhy not give what moiy?y you have to .spare and avoid tlio need lor a bazaar at all.
Temperance.
eoiirse. in eniinexioii with drink. AVe know verv well there is now mueh loss ilmikiug than there used to he, wliieli is, of course,
. ” Another way of .spemliug leisure is, of (Continued at foot of next column.)
the raffle at tho church Imzaar as very sinful, hut T do feel that when we go to a churcli haznar we ouglit not to find that .sort of thing there
hocnii.se it is not up lifting. If YOU have to raise
your mono.v
•by anything else. 1 mentiou drink with groat reluctance because that brings in ilio word temperauco, aud when one mentions that one is sure to be
misimder.stood. Suniv the word temperance means—temperance ami applies to other things besides whisky and beer. .Some people who believe that drink is wrong are inost intemperate in other things. AVhat is the most im portant factor in tho drink question is
a very good thing because more lives and more homes have been ruined hy drink than
my own part, I believe that in this matter
temperance is tiie thing to aim at.” In conclusion. Air. Bntterworth said iho
that a-groat deal of money is spent iu this way whicli benefiting a few does a great deal of harm to otliers. The fact tin.I alcohol is not consumed ns much to-day shows ‘clearly that if people have other in terests tliey are not ns likely to he.tempted, i t is foolish to mnintniii that drink is go.'d for people. Tlio best opinion se*'^ms to lie that tho utmost good you can get fi*''in vmi f*nn . get in other waj'8. Do
not think, however, tliat T am suggesting that a glass of beer or whisky occnsioiinHy is wrong. I do not believe it is. Foi
hv Past Pi-esideiit Jiistcr. Golborno Colliery, Lancashire, is to be
ro-oponed after three years, and work may bo lound for GOO men.
homing pigeon, reached its loft at Rmchnau, East Prussia, at 7-23 p.m.. on the same day, having covered 800 miles iu 12J hours.
Released at Lympnc, Kent, a Gorman
Board, iv Britisli treasure ship, tho Do Bjnnk, whicli sank in Dolewnro Bay in 17S0, has been located bv n small company oi treasurc-Wunters from Arnssncjiusetts after many other attempts had failed.
Beliovetl to have £2,000,000 iu specie on
object of his address had been to point out w-ays ill which people could make a (Christian uso of leisure, and ho was hope ful that he had succeeded in pointing out some of its uses and its pitfalls iu the present
sy.stcm of society. Tlinnks* to Afr. Buttenvortii were voiced
^"™'\Vhat aiiplies to the theatre and cinema applies to music. You know what people are like about mn'ic. ^on know hou conservative they arc. H yon have an operatie soeiely and want to produce .some thing that is new or of a different type to what von have given before, it means a lot
used io and forget there was a time when the tunes thev regard as eternal were new. Our music should bo good and our dancing should ho good too.
I do not want a Christian to he a I expect that when Shake
vilhige of Dciulleton. I t diites buck to the fifteenth eentiiry. Whitaker in his “ History of AVhalley ” gives a record of James Aspiiiall, who was at tho Court ot Commission of Whalley Abbey, held in tlio Pari&Ii Churcli on April 15th, ]51fi, ond also jneiitioiis another Jamo.s Aspiiiall, who lield a house in Clithoroo in 1537, at a rout of 12s. This I think show.s us that Standen Hall was flourishing then and prohablv mueli further hack. The house has been altered and there are traces of tho old carriage drive friftn Pendleton road end winding through the trees to the south doorway. This would bo before the addi tion of the new wing facing Peiulle Hill in the vear 1757, when a new carnage drive was made, leading straight to tho main road and now forming a grand avenue ot
.Standen Hall is an old niaiisioii near tho
beech trees. Tho Aspinalks have held property for
ir.aii.v generations. There is plenty ol
evidence of tliis in the record of tlio late Colonel B. J. Aspiiiall, J.P., a little sketch of whoso life i-s worth recording. He was horn at Myttou Hall, near Whalley, part of the Aspiiiall
e.state. I t is to be ques tioned whether the County possessed a larger hearted and more magnanimous- minded public man. He was the embodi ment of courtesy, good nature, and well directed generosity. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College. Cambridge. In tho year ISSO, he was appointed to the honourable position of High Sheriff of Jjaiieasliire. aud lield the rank of Colonel of the 3rd Battalian Jtoyal Laneashiro Bogimont.
verv popular, being elected Mayor of Clitheroe, though nut a member of tho Council. Ho was succeeded hy his son, the
pre.sent ^fajor J. Jt. Aspiiiall, 3.P., a gentlemen who loves country pursuits and who maintains the family tradition by taking keen interest in his tenantry and
lu his homo district, he was tho public life of the district.
Rev. H. Hooper Welcomed to Clitheroe. MOOR LANE’S GOOD WISHES.
tlio Moor Jiano School on Monday, Air. '1. Hixou jiresiding, the Jtev. Herbert Hooper, newiv-appointed suporintcudeiit minister of Clitlieroc Aletluxlist (Wesley) Circuit, attended during the evening, ami was given warm welcome. Tho Bev. S. JL Harper, minister at Aioor
At tlie harvest social gathering held in ' Christian Work to Do.
appreciated the invitation of Air. Harper which gave liim tho opportunity to show liimself at that night’s gatlioring. to say ” How-d'you-do,” ami to express the hope
Air. Hooper went on to say how he
Lane, said that when arrangements were being made for the festival, he suggested it would ho a happy gesture if they could get Air. Hooper to come along in order that the Aloor Jjaiie friends might have an opportunity to give him a \yelcomc to the town at the outset of his ministry. AVhen he (the speaker) saw Air. Hooper, he will ingly consented to do so. I t was unfortunate that the wet weather iiad interfered some- wliat with the attendance, hut he did want to say, in the mime of the church, how heartily thev welcomed Air. Hooper and iiow sliiccreiy they hoped that he would have a happy and successful ministry in tho borough.
Clitheroe Methodists “ A A^ery Friendly Lot.”
Hooper was more fortunate than he, lor, outside preaching appointmeiils which liu took when at the Alauchcster College in student days ho had no exporionce of Lancashire cluircli life until coming to Clitheroe two years ago. But Air. Hooper had eiiioyed a good deal of cxporieiico iu the County Balatinc, so that he started all to the good. Ho would find the Alcthqdists of Clitheroe a very friendly lot and willing to co-operate in all good work. Someone asked recently how many Alelhodist churche.s there are in Clitheroe, and was somewhat surprised to learn that there are six within the confines of the borough. Jt would ho seen, therefore, that Alcthodism in Clitheroe rcpresenteel a very large proportion of tho religious life in the town, ami as Alcthodists they could make a real contribution to the power of religion in the borough. Concluding. Air. Jiariior said ho
cnjo.ved
Air. Jlarper went on to say tliat Mr.
two hap|>y years of friendly relationsliip with the late superintendent, the Jtev. G. AV, Tyson, and ho looked to a renewal of that friemlsliip with his successor. Air. Hooper, who was given a most cordial
that their relations would be of tlie friend liest in the coming years. Jt liad always been a joy to him to work in liarmony and friendliness with the nunisters of other churclies. And they were all Alcthodists now, whatever they wore before the Act of Union. They had a Christian work to do, ami they could do it all the better if they uorked 'together for the glory of God and tlic e.\
teu.slon of His Kingilom. He had heard a good deal about the people of AVcslo.v, though he did uot know them yet; hut during the two and a half years since he accepted tho supcrintendcncy he had been tohl that he was fortunate to have been invited to Clitheroe, and he sincerely hoped that good fortune would not ho all on one siile. They could do tho work better if they worked side hy side and in co-opera tion with one another.
to get to know Clitheroe was because ho was a A
A Libel on Yorkshire.
all, an ’say iiowt,” etc., and if tha docs owt for nowt, do it for tliiscn.” That wasJ an unsophisticated libel on the old A’orkshire character. Nor must they put cicdence into the A*orkshiremun*s “-coat of arms” : a Ilea, a lly, and a magpie, ami a flitch of bacon. “ A flea hito.s cveryhod.v; so docs a Yorksldreman. A fly drinks out of everybody’s pot; so does a A*orkshirc- iran. A magpie is always cliattoring; so \i a Yorksldreman. A flitch of bacon is no good until it is hung; iieither is a A
was cighty-5-evcii on the Aloiiday previous, was living at Jlkley. Ho warned his hearers against seriously accepting tho motto ” of the Yorkshiromau—to ” sec
reception, sj)okc in happy vein., He warned Mr. Jfarper that lie would probably he late because he had a meeting at AVesIey. I t was a lailies meeting, though he. would not suggest that ns a reason for being so very late! But it had lasted longer Hum he expatod, and as he approached Afoor Lane lie remembered a gentleman who, apologis ing for his late arrival at a social function, was inlerrupled by his hostess, who said; ” IMeaso don’t apologise; you never can come loo late.” The gentleman accepted tlie compliment ami, later in the evening Jit* had a desire to return it. Me noticed that his hostess was wearing a dress of ivy leaf pattern, in which sliedooketl very be- ceming. ” AA'liat a beautiful dress you aro wearing,” he exclaimed;
of ivy clinging round an old ruin.”
Hooper wlio, reiterating the belief that he would got on because he was a Yorksidro- mau, said there was a great affinity hc- twceii Lancasliirc aud Yorksidro men, and, because of that, he was looking forward to Ids work and to getting to know some of the people at Aloor Lane.
mail.”—(Laughter.) “ Don’t you believe that.” cautioned Air.
rather a pity that there should he two ciicults ill tho town and district, hut there ndglit he reasons for that. At tho same time, tlicy could work ns one for the glory uf God and the Kingdom of Clirist in tlio toAvn,
I t seemed it reminds mo
Harper and the member.s of Ids congrega tion for the welcome accorded to 1dm ami for their good wishes in respect of Ids work and ministrations.
Air. Hooper coueludod hy thanking Air. ’crksldre- Air. Hooper addod'tliat Ids mother, who
adding ” I was born iu the city of Brad ford. The Chairman (expressively); Hear, hear!
One reason why lie exiiccted to ho able ’orkshiremaii, Air. Hooper continued,
t.T speak directly about tho state of affairs in Jiuropo, particularly with reference to Abyssinia and Italy, He considered it the duty of a parish priest to give what guidance ho couUl to his people, to help to formulate opinion and to guide them, if lie might, in their attitude towards the ir.ternatinoal dispute. “ Give unto Thy servants that peace which the worki cannot give,” they prayed every time they said evensong in cluirch. A cynical observer had suggested that the words ought to nm: “ Give us that world which tho peace cannot give.”
dispute. At tho outset, tho A'iear said ho wished
Fallacies and Mistakes.
seventeen years .since the signing of the Armistice wo can find very little which gives cause for satisfaction,” Air. Jlclm proceeded. “ Tlio use whicli men have made of peace is hardly a record of which we can bo proud, ami it seems to many as though the present state of the world was a Nemesis for that misuse. Nevertheless 1 am not on that account unduly pessimistic. Jn all fairness wc must remember that post war conditions have proved to be so unpre cedented that it is hardly to be wondered at if things have turned out to be almost too difficult for men to handle. I t would he easy to point out the fallacies and mis takes of the past few year.s—the eontinued neglect to revise tho Treaty of A'ersailles, the miserable subterfuges used to evade the obligations of disarmament, the short sighted policy which wrecked the new post war Germany, and raised up the pre.'ient Hitler menace, tho failure to keep Ger many, Japan and America within tho League of Nations, and so on. “ But we must remember that wc cannot
“ Certainly as we look hack over the
\ —that comic opera gesture which Siguoi I Mn.'^soliui seems to advocate—can hide it-j I essential sclfisliiiess. The onl.v civilisation ' which can endure is that which admits tho leadership of Christ and seeks first tlm Kingdom of God and Jlis nghtcousne.-s, and that inean.s such things as loving join enemies, doing good unto all men, denying ;t-If and taking up the Cross. “ From all this it would
anvthiug in the nature of retnhutivo justice is'faEe to tho new commonwealth ot t-od. Justice which aims solely at pumshment ov ‘’•ettim'' one's own hack or claiming ones
clear that
seii'^e of justice, could not work this ivinla on a basis of retribiitivo justico l>nt
after men bad given the law a ong tna ami found it was unable to bclp tliem, t un Gml took tlie risk of a policy of free lio- giveness and set Himself to save the woiid bv love.’ ‘ Forasmucb a.s they bad not tbe
wberewitl.al to pay He both.’ Jt IS just tins
foolisime.ss of t.oH that we have got to realize is lyiscr than men; this weakness of God wliieh is stronger
than men. Prefers Quixotic Christianity to
Statesmanlike Philosophy.
Balfour said, men can love, to wliom men can prav, Who takes sides,
abstract justice is ruled out of court. God s purposes and preferenecs wdl ever (>e the interests of love, and Ho will take subs with tliose who most unselli-sbly seek t(> uphold tlicm. For this reason 1 " on d meter tho somewhat quixotic Cliri'tmmts of Dick Slioiipard and Cieorge Lansbury to tlie reasoned it .statesmanlike pliilosophy ol the Archbishop of York. A polic.v ol non- resistance and the rcminciatioii of all im perialistic claims must bg nearer to tho leind of Clirist than a philosophy whicli seeks to .iustify war in order to preserve tlie status quo. It comes to tins, there mi-t bo no condition of Cliristianity ■ that is I
poses and preferences, then .any tlieor.y ol
will bo good if yon will.’ 'Jbat -iin’!"-'* nations evorv bit as miicli as individuals. Christ would never coiintonanco .such an attitude. I t is true Ho bids us count the cost. Ho would have no man accept His terms imtbinkingly. but once liavim' put our bands to the plough there niii't be no looking back if we are tii bo fit for t m Kingdom of Hoavcii. Pcrliaps that is the -rcatest need of tbe world to-day, the urge ami drive of Christianity which mean^
maniifacturo the machinery of peace in the samp way that we can turn out the engines of war. Jt is easy to destroy, hut it is a long and arduous process to construct atjd rebuild. In tliis luattcr we have to begin almost at the beginning and learn all over again what it means to have peace. There fore we sliall ho wise if in this present crisis we realize that God is calling us to think out again with desperate earnestness the things which belong to our peace. I t is God’s direct cliallonge. Even at this juiic- turo if only we would try to profit by our experience I sec no reason why we should not have a world fit for peace. This means •somo hard and clear thinking out of the Christian position. I t would bo impossible for me, even if I had the ability, to do this in detail in one short sermon. All I can do is to indicate as clearly as I can where it seems to me these princiifies demand Im mediate and instant consideration and application.
Preserving Sanity.
made by Sir Samuel Jloarc at Geneva. The fact that England, and now France, have committed themselves to uphold the whole pact and covenant of the jA‘agiio is one of the greatest contributions that could have been made to preserve the sanity of the world, and we must do all we can to let them know they have holiind them Uie solid backing of the people. Jhihlie opinion in this matter is vit:il. for not only is it guarantee to a government that it can carry out its prolcssions, hut its effect on the present disputants is bouml to he salutary and restraining. “ AVitli regard to the Italo-.\hyssiniau
it is our houiulen duty to give every possible support to the statement of policy
“ And first, from, u practical standpoint, GRINDLETOIs^.
branch of the AVomoii’s institute held their monthly meeting last night week^ iu tho cluirch bchoolroom. Before the business it the meeting commenced, the President asked the members to stand in silent sympathy with one of thoir number, Airs. IJeii Smalley, iu her recent hcrcavcment. Tho members learned with mucli appreciation of the promise of Airs. Cowper to visit Griiidlelon in the spring and give an explanatory talk on tho agenda for tho annual general meeting to l)0
AA'OAIEN’S INSTITUTE.—Tlie Griiullcton
dispute, I do not protend to be able to assess the rights and wrongs of the
cau.se of tho dispute, but wo of tho Church can givo no approval to any action wliich aims at destroying tlie right of a nation to in dependent- self-existence. The Catholic Church has ever lield to tho principle of self-govornmeiit. In its own case national self-governing churches within the whole body of Christendom has ever been a main principle of Catholicism, and that nrinciplo must 1)0 extemied to nations. The ideal world is a family of nations witliln the brotherhood of man, and for one nation to .seek to suppress or
ab.sorh another nation is clearly contrary to the idea of brother hood. Jt may he that a backward nation should submit to some .<^ort of tutelage if it is liiiideriiig the
cour.so of true progress, but only iu order that it might develop more quickly its own gifts and iiihereut persounlity and so take its part more worthily in tho well-being of the wliole. This then is the one great
le.sson which the years of penco have to teach ns: q'he im- perativo nectl that tliero is for an awaken ing of conscience witli regard to the funda mental Christian doctrine of tho brother- liood of man.
hiotliGi’hnnd of man is an essential part of tho teaching of Christ. To deny it is to deny Christ.
No Aggression and No Monopoly. “ Tliero is no denying tho fact that the
counterpart of the Fatherhood of God. Tu actual expericnco it would mean nothing
I t is only a reasonable
tho Kingdom of God there may bo no aggression and no monopoly, but a common enjoyment of the nbiindance which He lias provided for all, and this applies not only to the goods of this world, but to its arts and culture and rofuicmont as well. A must realize tliat A’cstern civilisation is
In
form IS the curse of tho age and no nniount of waving of flags and pageantry of uniform ■ ■ ■
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not enough. I t is uoither iwrfoct nor com plete in itself. Tho chivalry, patience, genius of the East have thoir part to play ill tho cnriclimcnt of tho world tliat is yet to bo. But that can never come so long as solfisli aims and ideas of national great ness dominate tho policies of man. “ Nationalism cspccinllv in its present
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less than tho Kingdom of God. That is why, of course, tlio selfish aud tho un- .scr'iipulous, the lovers of money and tho advocates of force, always do resist the coming of tlie Kingdom for their aims aro inconsistent with true brotherhood.
was felt ihat this would he exceedingly helpful to the institute, * as also to the elected delegate. Tickets for tho enter tainment to >bo lield on September 27lh are now on sale, and full iT-avticulars are given iu an advertisement in these columns. Aliss Ada AVard’s name i.s well known and her “ Snapshots from the Platform^ ” .shouhl draw a crowded house. Aliss E. Greenwood provided an exceedingly interesting^ talk cn “ lAces,” and this was greatly enjoyed hy all. Aliss Greenwood also kindly judged tho competition for the contents (12) of a liomo medicine chest. The merit card vas awarded to the President. Aliss Fort pro posed, and Miss Hiiidlo seconded, a sincero vote of thanks to Aliss Greenwood. The lea
hostc.sscs for the evening kept up Iho luslituto reputation for kindly ho.spitality and willing .service. The entertainment committee provide<I a happy social half-hour of games and merriment.
held iu the Albert Hall. It SH OW E R OF FISHES,
1G9S, Air, Robert Conny gives the following account: “ On A
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is far from any part of the sea, or branelt of it, and a place where there are no fish ponds, but a scarcity of water, was all over spread with little fishes, conceived to bo rained down, there having been at that time a great tempest of thunder and rain. Tho fishes wore about the length of a man’s littlo finger, aud judgotl by all who saw them, to be young whitings. Alany of them, were taken up aud shown to several persons., 'Iho field belonged to one AVare, a yeomnji, who was at that Easter sessions one of tho- grand inquest, and wlio
c.arried somo of tlie- fish to tho sessions of Alaidstone, in Kent,, aud sliowed them, among others,- to Air. Lake, a bencher of tho Aliddle Temple, who uroenrod ono. of them and brought it to • London. The truth of it was averred, hv many that saw the fishes lie scattered nil over the field. Thoro were none in the other fields adjoining. Tho quantity of themTvns ostimated to iho a bushel. I t is probable that these fishes were absorbed from .surface of the water hy the electric power of a waterspout, or brushed off hy the violence of a huiTieane. The phenomenon, thnngli surprising, has occurred in various countries, and occasionally in situations fnr-
anno 1GC6, a pasture field at Cranstead, near A
’odnesday before Easter, A ’rotham, iu Kent. nTaout two acres, which
nioro remote from the coast than that »bo-- foro us.”
III tho “ Philosophical Transactions ” for A
exactly what it says. _ “ To .sum up, the crisis calls for im~
mediate support of the League of Nations a League of Nations not only concenioU with settling disputes, hut m promoting; the mutual intere.*sts and the well being ot all countries. Forasmuch as the l.eaguo depends for its existence on the moral strength of the people wo need a drastic levision of all our standards of Ide political, social, economic niul personal, lac basis of civilisation must no longer l)C national or European, but expressive ot and co-extensive with the ideal of tho brotherhood of man. The more our cou- duct approximates to the teaclung of tla fJermon on tho Aloimt. so much tho more .shall we find wo aro acting iii accordance with the plan and method of God. AMio calling the world to a realization of its danger and its opportmuty.
the glorv of our time.s if through the in strumentality of tlie Church we can lead men once more into tho way of peace.
It will ho
“ If wo believe in a God Whom, as land lio has pur
rights*"is no part of God’s pk”*- ‘ Aon m**Ht remember.’ said the late Bi.^^hnp of Lipon. ‘ that God. AVho i.s tho .source of all men *
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