Show I lAND DRIFTING WARD PAGANISM i I Is FE OF PULPIT Made That Eln Empire inI nl 1 2 r i is Bec Becoming ng Rap Rapidly I llY Ice BY Iy 1 lr 6 ls Is la England as a aD oar Mar ar don n I radon DeJon D toward alI paganism sm on a from the P pul- pul ul- ul roes ly emphasized tho the croW iroW- b recentlY o of th ho tho o British dUsh public evidenced by fast ast r. r 0 ion f nl religion g at nt the churCh churches i. i In ks denomination and creed es iVO e of o e f revival ro frequent ados I and efforts to brighten and Present resent religious lous churches ta attractive manner c In a more mora It ro la in asserted 1 jer etl that hat pica pic- pic a h palaces and other places of ot Increasingly popular on meat h arc aro In J Inver O ratio to the tho ou LL s j cT cr break t from rom our permanent cra and Ind t to religion and Its value Ind In lu InIS of 1 d lives cs L the IS ap o Is duo to an entirely 1st f of ot worship and antl tho conception nog of its value vs ns an of realization klc ED asset was w the opinion C ex- ex i ed Dy by Canon vicar o or of Indifferent t to think ho said eald English h p pope people becoming more and more different fe to organized reliGion In thu th I I think do not of churches but I ACM A po to religion Indifferent Ivy rr aro are mat we want vant is to link Unk up the thesa 1 i sa of ot diffused Christianity with n a cuon that expresses Itself In united f Tho The author of ot The Student n Arms a book boot that has circulated b by I I P zi rc s of thousands noted the dice dle dl- dl In the minds of tho soldiers be be- be arce ce e i I I I tween their splendid virtues of or self self- I sacrifices etc and the church services services er ices at the tho front They Thoy had h no Idea Iden that going church-going was wat moro more than limn a form Once connect up life with Ith ro- ro Ion ligion and there will m be bo no more rno-o C- C ference Church and chapel must mustI I show how quite Quito clearly that hat their work cork and andI their worship aro are Intimately connected At present the tho masses feel fecI that thc the churchgoers behave e jn in their lives ltv cs ex exactly exactly ex- ex on tho the s same m principles as 15 tho the T 7 should not SJ say that En England and Is pagan paean I would rather say sad that many English Christians arc are becoming pa pa- and ancl many pagans are arc moro more Christian than chur churchgoers An extremely pessimistic view o of the tho present day attitude of ot the general Jeneral public toward the churches was expressed expressed ex expressed ex- ex pressed b by Father hathor Bernard Dernard Vaughan I 1 grieve beyond everything e he ho said raid to to have to say ho hoy hovy my country country- folk tolk In bulk do not accept the tho divine divino personality of our Lord that Is to sn say they do not give whop hearted belief belle In the Apostles' Apostles Creed AndI And I Christ tho they only 1 know 00 as a na namo o al always always al- al ways as to reverence and sometimes t to o swear byDo byDo by b- Do not for tor a moment think that I Iam am lm making this statement without foundation on foundation on n tho the contrary what 1 Is thrust before mo me moro more and more moro ever every tV day Is that not even en tho the lan language u Go and nd terminology of or Christianity 1 Is understood by the the- people y Read Plead tho the latest book on the tho subject subject subject sub sub- The Tho Army Anny and Religion An In In- In n T T. n A- A 11 v u 1 v a. a I i bus fous Li Life of the il Nation It 1 Is compiled compile 0 1 i d d dout out of or COO 00 memoranda resting on tho the evidence of ot many hundred witnesses Lamentable When hen you havo have put pot that book down dO you will find that there Is hideous s reason lamentable reason for believing bellev- bellev In ing that Christ to 8 85 per cent of ot ou our r beloved belo countrymen and countrywomen countrywomen country country- women 0 men Is today only one name among others like Jlko Plato Sophocles or Marcus a A u re Ii Ur To this growing ro section of the community community com com- Christ is not a a. living force orce inspiring In Inspiring In- In t their lives and Christianizing their conduct Must I sn say It ho he continued that we wo are aro living upon tho the low of ot Christianity which before tho great religious Ious revolt ro in the tho sixteenth cen con century tury tUr- was woven not merel merely Into tho the religious but into tho the legislative philosophic social and domestic life of or Merrie land England for tor 1000 years yeara MuM lo t Start With Ch To convert England to Christianity wo we must start like our Catholic missionaries missionaries mis mis- among amonS' the tho heathen with heathen with the children Alas parents to whom Christianity Christianity Chris Chris- is nothing and Its dogma dos worse than nothing will refuse to lo havo have their I children respond to the Divine Masters Master's Mas tasters ter's call Suffer little children to como come unto me and forbid them not Somebody will ask me me Is this neo neo- paganism duo due to the war Not n. n bitor bitof bit bitof of or it The war has been tho the occasion of revealing g it It that Is all If JC you ou want lo to know lenow what has Ims dc- dc Christianized the tho country I point m my finger ln er to tho the provided school from which Christ has been turned out and I tho the door I slammed in Ills face tace Tho thought of it makes males mo bury my taco face In my hands and sob with sorrow and shame An army chaplain during the war and tho Inaugurator of or free tree discussion discus discus- sion slon between the congregation cons and nd tho the pulpit tho the TIC Rev G. G Clark Gibson Gillson speaks with an intimate knowledge of or the tho attitude of tho the average orao soldier I toward religion during tho the war War nr Accentuated J I I think he be said It will be e true truc to lo sa say that as ag v result of or tho the war the paganism alread already existent In the nation nation nation na na- tion hay has been accentuated The Tho cl between Christianity and pagan morality for tor Instance Ins hrs been both widened and deepened This is so In tho tiro case of or morals morale rho Tho usual I arguments one would meet meol In a messor mess mesa messI I or dugout to support tho the action of aman a aman I man who regards occasional I as permissible aro are distinctly pagan p I Not Kot a few find Iud no room for the Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian ethic as 18 to Christian relationship As As one of ot tho the arm army lecturers on this subject I attempted with my colleagues colleagues colleagues col- col leagues a n. restatement of ot this subject from a Christian standpoint In which the average c dugout dUlout arguments argument were countered With regard to lo national and International international inter Inter- national rL morality I think that they are uro loss less pagan than tho they were Again as 18 the result of or tho the war non men havo O been compelled to put blood arid and tears Into their thinking with tho the re result ro- ro sult that tho great reat ideals wo we have havo pat put before us aro far more Christian however however how how- ever far our practice mn may seem to fall faU short |