The Rhondda Leader

The Divinity of Christ." Dr. Anderson at Llwynypia. Christ a "Spiritual Ideal." Dr. K. C. Anderson, the eminent J preacher and lecturer from Dundee, has I been on a visit to the Rhondda during the past few days, and has delivered several sermons and lectures during his visit. On Monday evening, at the Uwynypia Baths, he spoke of the Divinity of Christ." The attendance was verf meagre, this being accounted for, no doubt, by the boisterous elements. This, however, was only one of the un- toward events of the evening. As the Chairman (the Rev. Erie Davies) was pro- ceeding to open the meeting, the electric I light went out, and the place was plunged in total darkness for a few minutes. Under these circumstances, it was a singularly appropriate request on the' part of the Chairman that the meeting should unite in singing Lead, Kindly Light." This was done, and then followed" 0 fryniau Caersatem." As the last lines of this popular Welsh hymn were being repeated, a paraJtin lamp was iorougnt m ana piacea on the table near the lecturer's elbow, and it was then that the electric! light thought it.self justified to return once more to illumine the gloom. Dr. Anderson prefaced his lecture with I a few observations upon the work he had been engaged on during his stay in our i midst. He had had a most delightful week, he said; he had preached twice a day and had thoroughly enjoyed it, and after this lecture he was going to, "move on." Prooood,ing with his lecture, Dr. Anderson said that he did not know why the committee responsible for his appear- ance should have chosen, out of so many other subjects submitted them, the Divinity of Christ" as the topic upon which, he should address the in. There was a great deal of misapprehension in the mindsi of people in relation to this subject, and he would be very glad if he could persuade them to believe that there was no intention on the part of those who in progressive theology, to take anything away from them. He would not take away the faith of a, Roman Catholic if he could not give the Roman Catholic something better (hear, hear). Both of these terms, Divinity and Christ," said the lecturer, needed care- ful definition, and when they were care- fully a substantial agreement would be reached by all candid minds. The word divine" was used in different senses. They were just, now beginning to speak of the "divinity" of man. q'li(,i c was one sense of the word divine which it would be absurd to apply to man. Ordi- narily they meant by the word an "a11- wise," "all-powerful," "all-knowing" being. Man was not that, and if divinity meant all that, then it was unreasonable and folly to talk about the "divinity of man." n And yet they were quite right in talk- ing of the divinity of man, because, they meant that man was a child of God; God's own image in the growing'. In one oonse, man was not divine; in another sense all niell were divine, and still in another sense all men differed in the degree of divinity. No man could be infinite all men had only finite qualities, but Jesus was doubtless the most con- scious of his oneness with God of all people who had lived on this planet. But the New Testament never called Jesus God He's spoken of as the Son of God and the "Son of Man." He mani- fested God, and one of the inspired writers described Him as the expressed im:1go of God." which meant as much. of God as" could be expressed in Him. They generally used the term Jesus Christ." "What they should say was Jesuis the Christ." Jesus" was the name of an individual who lived in the past; Ii Ghrist)1 was the name of an ideal. The history of Jesus was the his- tory of a person; the history of Christ was the history of an ideal or doctrine; consequently, there was a great difference between the two terms. How much did they know about this individual Jesus? The actual Jesus—He who- lived in the reign of Tiberius Caesar—■ was not necessarily the Christ of apostolic tradition, but the Christ of speculative theolowv. They were bound to admit cer- tain facts about the history of Jesus, but the statements of history were not based upon what had actually occurred, but upon some thingt which,, the world had agreed upon to believe. They had no complete biography of Jesus, nor was it possible to get such a biogarphy out of the Gospels, .and the result was that, not, withstandiiig the fact that so much is said about this individual Jesus, they knew very little about Him. If they wanted to know how Jttsus looked upon God, upon the world and upon man, they would find such knowledge in His recorded parables and sayings, where He spoke as clear as if He lived to-day among us. But the facts of His life were interwoven with so much that was legendary, and He Him- self was depicted as the idealism of His biographers would have Him pictured, that much of what appears in the Gospels is so mixed up as to render a great deal of it mythical. The contrast in this idealism is most marked between the first three Gospels and the fourth. The divinity of Jesus did not depend upon as to whether they could affirm as true the supernatural manifestations in His life, or whether it was true what the Creed in the Churches said about Him. When asked if lie believed in the divinity of Jesus, the historical Person Who had been prophecied in the Old Testament, Who was recorded to be miraculously conceived of the Spirit and born of a Virgin, Who tramped the country of Judea and Galilee,, Who performed miracles, Who was cruci- fied, Who was resurrected from a rocky grave, and Who ascended to heaven after so many days-if they asked him whether, he believed in the divinity of this Tosis he would say that he did not kmn ai nobody else knew. But if by the <pit i o was meant did he believe that 'a J f j- absolute trust, a. life of unwe&i-yiiig,! love, a. life of the most perfect confidence in God was divine, he would ansjver that he believed it in his heart and mind, and was prepared to stake his eternal welfare upon it. The real question was: What did they mean; by the word- divine "? The world once thought that power was divine, that Jtuajesty was divine, that greatness was divine, that justice was divine; but there came upon 'the earth One without power, thout external majesty, and without the Slgllsalld symbols of greatness. But this 2né was patient, heroic and sympathetic. Q() Tnade no difference between the sins; n of others and His own He felt the sins of other people .a.s His own sins. Not only did He identify Himself with God, but He identified Himself with man. That was divine. There was more majesty in love than in power there was more spirit in patience than in force, and he (the I lecturer) should lie ashamed of his race if they did not deify Jesus (applause). That life was divine, and even if they i rejected the Church,, conception of Jesus, they could still accept and believe, in the divinity of Jesus, because such a trust was divine trust, such love was divine low1. That, to him, was the divine man, because it was the highest revelation and expres- sion of God (applause).

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Language and the Man. The Need for John Bull's Awakening. Glamorgan Student' Success in Modern Languages. It is no secret in the commercial world that much of the German's success in capturing foreign markets is due mainly not to the intrinsic superiority of their goods, but because of the simple fact that they generally manage to acquire a know- ledge of the language of the people with whom they deal. This point was very aptly illustrated by Mr. Lloyd George in one of his recent speeches. The Ger- man," said the Chancellor, when he hawks his goods in China, generally manages to convey their quality in a language Wxuch Cliin-Ching uiiderstaiidsi, but when the Englishman is in the Celestial Empire on business, he endea- vours to make his meaning clear in the broadest of broad Scotch." The same story is told by English consuls abroad, and if John Bull is, therefore, to main- tain his prestige in the work! of com- merce, he needs, not only to be awakened, but to he up and doing. The above comments are suggested to our mind by the perusal of the report of the London Chamber of Commerce's recent examination in modern languages. In this examination, several students from the Glamorgan Technical Classes, con- ducted by the County Lecturer, Dr. J. G. Goetz, sat, and no less than six passed with distinction in French, while a seventh also secured a, pass. Dr. Goetz has conducted these classes for several years past, and has made it a special object to encourage his students in every possible direction. He has spared no efforts in their preparation, with the result that many of them are now reap- ing the fruits of his tuition and their own labour in lucrative posts. It is evident from the syllabus and the papers set by the London Chambers of Commerce that their examinations are most difficult and searching. Passing in one or other of the sections of the exami- nation in any modern language will not secure a pass: the candidate has to satisfy the examiner in every part of both the written and oral portion in order to obtain a, pass. This observation may also account to some extent for the remarkable feature that the annual record does not show apparently any candidates from Technical Evening Classes, pure and simple, except those presented for some years by the Glamorgan Education Committee, even- tually those presented from the Evening Classes of their county lecturer in modern languages. v It is also pleasing to observe from a report prepared from the same annual return of successes issued by the Cham- bers of Commerce, that, up to now (and including the results of the present year), 39 students of modern languages pre- sented by Dr. Goetz have been successful since 1902, some in French, others in Spanish and German, viz., 26 in double Honours. 8 in single Honours, 4 passes without distinction, out of 43 presented for examination during the period men- tioned. Such results of our Technical Evening Classes in a single branch of their large range of subjects should not remain hidden under a bushel." They cannot fail to gratify our national ambition and to enhance our prestige and arduous strife for educational equality—if not supremacy—and last, but not least, might be considered a special item of gratificar- tion to our Educational Authorities in Glamorgan.

->C- Induction Meeting at Tonypandy. A large gathering assembled at Trinity Hall, Tonypandy, 011 Tuesday evening of last week to welcome the Rev. Ambrose Williams, Pontrhydyfen, to the pastorate of the above church. The Rev. F. W. Cole Cardiff, former pastor, officiated as chairman. The Rev. David Richards com- menced the meeting by prayer. The Chairman remarked that this meeting was a very unique one, the old pastor being the chairman in the induc- tion meeting of a new pastor. This was a. compliment to- him as well as to the church. The induction of a, new pastor was often compared to a wedding, .and here they had the former husband being invited to the wedding. Though her former husband, he (the chairman) was glad to state that he was not divorced. He. could speak very well of the bride, although she was not without her faults no more than any other bride. He begged of the church to give Mr. Williams their richest sympathy. These, were trying times for ministers. Little they knew of the hours spent in agony in trying to grapple with difficult questions. Trinity had a glorious past, and nearly everyone of those present had a. story to tell, how they had been raisijd from the ditches, from the depths into which Satan had drawn them. He advised them to keep near to their new pastor, and also to their Master. Mr. David Richards said that he had received letters, &c., from the following, telling him that they were unavoidably kept away, but wishing every success to both pastor and church:—The Revs. M. H. Ellis, Tonypandy; J. Whittock, Tony- pandy; D. J. Evans, Penygraig; G. P. Williams, M.A., Pontypridd; and Ll. Baines Williams, Ferndale. Mr. Richards then went on to give an account of the call." He said that two years had elapsed since Mr. Cole had left them. For a twelvemonth they had not done anything towards securing a, new pastor, continually expecting Mr. Cole to return. But when they heard that he was mar- ried to another church, then they began to proceed. They had tried several, but in vain. When the Rev. Ambrose Wil- liams' name was mentioned in the large committee, it was unanimously passed that they should give him a "call, and the work proceeded very quickly and easily. He believed that it was God that had sent him to them, and as long as lie (Mr. Richards) had physical and spiritual strength, he would back Mr. Willialll, up to the end. The Chairman remarked that that sort of spirit meant success. Mr. Thomas Thomas, a deacon at Pont- rhydyfen, was next called upon. He said that they had taken his beloved away, and not only his beloved, hut the beloved of his church. It was difficult to part, yet they had to exercise Christian spirit. He believed it was of IGod also. They had had a. glorious time together at Pontrhydyfen for thirteen years. He had been the means of saving young men and young women who- were to-day living monuments of the grace of God. He was a, very sociable man, made of the (laughter). He was also a. peacable TIlall but he would not have peace atanv price: He was a, man with a backbone, and would face anything when truth and principle was at stake. Mr. Parker, another deacon from Mr. Williams' late church, also spoke. He said he felt homely with them that even- ing, amongst brothers and sisters. Though he felt at home, he was, however, not haDDY. He was sorry to lose Mr. Wil- liams, and the neighbourhood was also sorry to lose him. The Revs. E. Richards, T. E. Davies, and John Morgan also spoke, each of whom sincerely trusted that the church would be blessed and be the mean's of saving souls and uplifting humanity. The Rev. Ambrose Williams begged to thank them all for the warm welcome they had extended him. He would never forget the inspiration he had already received. He was very pleased to hear Mr. Cole speaking so highly of his old wife—Trinity Church, and that Mr. Cole was not jealous of the new husband. He could see that he stood a good chance of living with her. Mr. Williams said that he was very happy at Pontrhydyfen. He could never hope to be happier anywhere. Trinity had had a glorious past, noble work had been and was being done. He felt his responsibility, yet lie had come, hoping that they would give him all their support. He was determined to do his best. He believed he was doing the will of God by coming. The Rev. W. Ambrose Williams lias had great experience in missionary work. His service has been sought everywhere during the last few years. He has not confined himself to Wales alone, but lie has also visited different towns in England and Scotland, conducting missionary work. The members of Trinity can congratu- late themselves upon their success in securing big services. We wish the church and pastor every success, and hope that the church will long retain the good name it has won for itself.

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