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Has Christianity Failed in its Mission ? By T, E. ENTWISTLE (Evangelist.) (Concluded from last week.) The words of Dean Farrar, with respect to the influence of Christianity on the world in the early days, are worth reecalling. He says: "The effects of the work of Christ were, even to the unbeliever. indisputable and historical. It expelled cruelty, it curbed passion, it branded suicide; it punished and repressed an execrable infanticide; it drove the shameless impurities of heathendom into a congenial darkness. There was hardly a class whose wrongs it did not remedy. It rescued the gladiator; it freed the slave; it protected the captive; it nursed the sick it sheltered the orphan; it elevated the woman; it shrouded with a halo of sacred purity the tender years of the child. In every region of life its ameliorating influence was felt. It changed pity from a vice into a virtue; it elevated poverty from a ourse into a beatitude; it ennobled labour from a vulgarity into a dignity and a duty; it sanctified marriage into almost a sacrament; it proclaimed the brotherhood of the roce. And in all lands, where it has moulded the character 4 the true believer; it has created hearts so pure. and lives so peaceful, and homes so sweet, as to compel one to admit its heavenly origin. We must beware of measuring the success or failure of Christianity by worldly standards. Let us reflect, for a few moments, with Ben- jamin Scott, on the state of the contending parties and systems at Rome, in martial con- flict during the occupation of the catacombs: I would have you notice," he says, 'if you have not done before, the irresistible, the stu- pendous power of pure Christianity; and not-I icing that, ask yourselves if it be not of Divine origin? On the one side were arrayed all the powers of the world-the Roman emperors, whose will dictated law to the earth; a powerful army; all the wealth of Rome; all the learning of the,, Augustan period; all the philosophy and sci- ence 'falsely so called'; a priesthood. whose influence extended to the bounds of the Roman Empire, and whose power perhaps e-xceeded even that of the emperor himself; all the rulers; the great majority of the people and the pres- tige of high antiquity in favour of a religion c which was admirably adapted to corrupt hu- man hearts. On the other hand we find a few (compara- tively) poor, illiterate, despised outcasts, hid- ing in dens and caves of The earth.' without arms, or refusing to use them, decimated by persecutions repeated again and again, oppos- ing not their enemies with carnal weapons, but blessing and praying for them; and yet we find one emperor after another declaring that they were oi-, in other words invincible. Again and again edicts went forth to ex- terminate them from the earth, and inscriptions were set up to celebrate and perpetuate the supposed success of the persecutions. Here are two which have been preserved by anti- quarian writers Diocletian. Caesar, Augustus, having ad- opted Galerius in the East; the superstition of the Christians being everywhere destroyed, and the true worship of the gods propagated," "Again: Diocletian. Jonus and Maxtinian, Hercules, Caesar, Augustus. The Roman Em- pire having been enlarged throughout the East and the West, and the name of the Christians, who were overthrowing the Roman Republic, blotted out." "Never in the world's history was there found a more striking instance of the short- sightedness of man, and the irresistible working of the Providence of God. Within ten years of the reign of Diocletian, the superstition ev- erywhere destroyed and the 'name blotted out became the prevailing, the established religion of the Roman Empire. The seed cast into the ground, imbued from the first with Divine life, and water continually by the Di- vine blessing, sprang all at once into observa- tion asserting its power, and overturning the decaying system which impeded for a time its upward progress. ), Christianity, like Rome. lias had both the Gaul and Hannibal at her gates but as the "Eternal City," in the latter case, calmly of- fered for sale. and sold. at an undepreciated price the very ground on which the Carttha- gianian had fixed his camp, with equal coolness may Christianity imitate her example. The future is assured. As the glory of the Resur- rection followed Get lis am a ne and the Cross, so the followers of the Lamb, through crushed to earth, shall rise again. rough all the long dark night of years The people's cry ascended The earth was wet with blood and tears Ere their meek suffering ended. The few shall not for ever sway. The many toil in sorrow The bars of Hell are strong to-day, Rut Christ shall reign to-morrow." But', some object "If Christianity is from God. why does it not cast down this, that, and the other stronghold of Satan. destroying it oil the spot ? And we may answer: God does not work so, my friends, either in moral or the physical world. The earthquake and the tornado are not His usual but His extraordinary agencies. Why he does not work so is not for us to determine we can watch, however, and trace His working in Nature, and we shall find it agree with His dealings in Providence. God is in no haste (if I may use the expression). His time is not limited like man's, who, if he have aught to do, must do it with all his might, for the night cometh when no man can work." But it is not so with God; eternity is before Him, and He works, to our senses, deliberately, but surely and irresistibly. Consider one or two illustrations of His method of workin,o:- "Insignificant insects are diligently piling at- om upon atom; ages pass away, and their work is gradually rising to the top of the waters, lifting up itself a coral reef above the foaming waves sea. birds alight on it and seaweed is flung upon it, and contribute to the formation of a soil; volcanic action, deep seated beneath, is heaving gradually the surface into hill and -cla,te. A bird drops a seed here, a wave casts up another there. The peaceful palm, the useful bread-fruit, and the grateful orange spring up, and a forest diversiifes the scene. "But thousands of years have passed away since the animalcules began their task. "Look again A drifted canoe is borne out of its accustomed' course: the island is peopled the inhabitants are naked, savage. idolatrous, q t v a-l e i d ol atrous, bloodthirsty. Another thousand years wing their flight. in "Again the scene changes: a strange sail is in sign?; a boat puts off-civilized men a,re landing; they make overtures of peace and of reciprocal barter. The inhabitants clothe themselves, and erect convenient dwellings; a written language is boing constructed; a print- ing press is set up; the Book of Truth is prin- ted read, acted upon. They have "caat their idols to the moles and to the bats; they have thrown down their blood-stained altars; they have converted their "swords into plough- shares, and thajf spears into pruning hooks," God's Purpose is complete." The word has reached the utmost isles; God's Spirit moves upon the deep., Already, from the dust of death, Man, in his Maker's image, stands; Once more he draws immortal breath, And stretches forth to heaven his hands." But it has taken, perhaps, six thousand years to bring it about! Let us beware of judging the work of God by a cross section. Let us, at least in vision, endeavour to catch a glimpse of the work as a whole, complete in Christ, summing up all things in heaven and on earth, at the last. 'Tis weary watching wave by wave, And yet the tide heaves onward; We climb, like corals, grave by grave, Yet beat a pathway sunward. We're beaten back in many a fray, Yet newer strength we borrow; And w here our vanguard rests to-day, Our rear shall rest to-morrow. The ultimate triumph of the Gospel is as- sured sooner or later the kingdoms of this world shall be subdued and absor bed by the Kingdom of our God and His Christ. And WE may hasten the day of this glorious con- summation. If the nations of the earth do not as yet recognise the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man; if they do not participate as yet. as nations in the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, it is largely because the Church has failed in leadership. Instead of manifesting the manifold wisdom of God to the world, and thereby LEADING the world out of darkness into light, the Church has all too often been found ready to FOLLOW in the train of worldly wisdom and vain deceit. But, thank God! there are those of our tribe and people who do look up to the One God, and cry "Abba Father," and who recognise nei- ther Greek, nor Jew, circumcision nor uncir- cumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free," as going greater than the common bonds of humanity, and who are striving unto the end that Christ shall be everything, and in all of us. We are living in strange times. The history of the early days seems likely to repeat itself, when. in the land known throughout the world as being per-eminently the land of liberty, there comes forth from the prison cell the L ov4e cry, with regard to the Master's message, Love your Enemies" Words, tdte words 1 Mere useless, wasted breath— Though anguish wring them from angelic soul. Though heaven itself their vivid truth unrolK, Though they bring life in place of dreadful death, Though essence they of all the Saviour saith; Though writ by sages deep, in ancient scrolls; Though every age their priceless worth extols; And history's lore their warning echoeth— Yet fall they vain and void on defeaned ears, Not deafened with the crash of bursting shells, But deaf with jealousies, ignoble fears, And fierce, self-righteous vengeance, that com- pels Blood to be washed with blood, tears drowned in tears And hell's work defied in deeper hells." Has Christianity failed in its mission? No! a thousand times no But we Christians have! And we are daily confronted with the dreadful results. A faithful Church, a praying Church, a living Church would have LED the world in ways of pleasantness and paths of peace. What is the remedy for the failure? The attitude of the Apostle to the Gentiles "Forgetting the things that are behind, and stretching forward to the things that are be- fore, I press on to the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.' "Our hearts brood over the past," says Gerald Massey, and in these days we are con- strained to say with sadness, "Our hearts brood over the present." Let us turn from these and become "dreamers of dreams," ye, even though men may taunt us, for we may reply to them: Dreamers of dreams, we take the taunt with gladness, Knowing that God. beyond the years you see, Hath wrought those dreams, that count with you for madness, Into the substance of the life to be." Our hearts brood o'er the past; our eyes With smiling futures glisten; Lo! now its dawn bursts up the sky; Lean out your souls and listen: The earth rolls freedom's radiant way, And ripens with our sorrow; And 'tis the martyrdom to-day Brings victory to-morrow. Then, youth, flame earnest, still aspire With energies immortal: To many a haven of desire Your yearning opes a portal; And though age increases by the'' way, And hearts break in the furrow, We sow the golden grain to-day, The harvest comes to-morrow.
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Newport (Mon.) LLP. FORGING AHEAD IN FINE STYLE, I The branch is forging ahead. We are making members weekly. After the local trial of our comrades, eight members were added to the oranch roll at the following meeting. The Wo- men's Guild, which has been formed in con- nection with the branch, has now between 30 and 40 members. They have formed a sewing class, and are preparing for a bazaar to raise money to secure a permanent home for the movement in Newport. They also run whist drives and lectures, which have been very successful. On Sunday afternoon, June 4, Com- rade A. E. Cook, of the Socialist Labour Party, addressed an open meeting of the Socialist Sunday School, and three of the scholars re- cited. The attendance was hampered by the iuolèment weather. On Sunday evening Com- rade Geerge Smith, of Cardiff, gave a good ad- dress on Some Problems to be .Faced in the Future." The attendance at our weekly meet- ing has been a record one this year; our liter- ature secretary reports record sales 35/- last week-end "Pioneers" and "Forwards" going well; there has also been a rush for T. Wilson's book, Hellite. or the Last Weapon." Next Sunday we are looking forward to a visit from an old Newport bov. Comrade Clifford Allen, B.A.
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Dowlais Solid for Peace. ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING IN CARNEGIE LIBRARY. STIRRING SPEECHES BY REV. J. M. JONES AND MR. EDWARD ROBERTS. On Thursday, June 1, a Peace meeting was held in Dowlais. It was addressed by a Minister of the Gospel—a rare occurrence in these days—and a solicitor. The minister was that indefatigable fight-ei- for the Cause of Con- science, the Rev. J. M. Jones, of Merthyr; and the solicitor was Mr. Edward Roberts, who has unhesitatingly staked his reputation as a solicitor in the fight for Truth and Freedom of Conscience, and who is slowly but surely making his name in the world of politics. The Chairman (Mr. W. Fishpool) outlined the aims oFthe Peace Council, and named the so- cieties of which it is formed. He deprecated the fact that there were no ministers of the Gospel present excepting Mr Jones, and re- ferred to the lack of Christian principles in these gentleman. He caustically referred to that cum-Oonscriptionist-Socialist, C. B. Stan- ton, and his childish procession through the streets of long-suffering A'berdare to make a fu- neral pyre of the Labour Leader. Amid ap- plause, Mr Fishpool declared that the Peace Council was formed to promote in that district the spirit of Peace. He had much pleasure in calling upon Mr Edward Roberta to address the meeting. Mr Edward Roberts had an enthusiastic re- ception. During the course of his remarks, he said that the Chairman had said we had two long speakers. He wanted to correct that: there was a long speaker and a short one-he was the short one. (Laughter.) "I want to say here to-night that I'm not ashamed to be a Peace crank. (Hear, hear.) I would prefer be- ing a Peace crank that a war crank." The peo- ple were becoming sane again. Throughout the country attempts had been made to prevent the principles of Peace being advocated. Talk to the men who were shouting for war, and they would say they* wanted Peace. They want Peace after slaughter: we want Peace before slaugh- ter. (Applause.) The longer the war lasts the wider the field of operations and the more complicated the question of Peace. The Govern- ment of this country have refused time after time to even state what we are fighting for, and it almost seems hopeless to ask them to negotiate for Peace. In the House of Commons yesterday Sir Arthur Markham asked the Prime Minister this question: In view of the fact that the war might last for several years, would the right honourable gentleman consider the advisability of letting the Germans knojv what our actual terms of Peace will be? Mr Asquith said This is a debatable question, and I do not think I can usefully add anything to the answer I have already given. It is time, said Mr Roberts forcefully, that we ask the Government to step the war. (Applause.) We have our Allies, and want to know what they are in the war for? Take Russia. Russia came into the war to save Europe. Was Russia in the war to maintain European justice or to get Constantinople ? Is Russia in the war to save Belgium? Is she in the war to free the Nor- thern part of France? Is she in the war for the same reason as we are? Take Italy. Italy did not come into the war for the sake of Belgium. If she had she would have been in the~Var in August, 1914. Italy has entered into an arrangement with us, and Italy is bound in this compact of Peace with us. At any rate the time has come when we should know what we are fighting for. The time has come when the Government must state on what terms they are prepare to end the war. I believe that although the Governments in Europe are not anxious to obtain Peace, I believe the peoples are. (Applause.) In this country we have got the Defence of the Realm Act, and we find there are additions being made ever day. Now you have got to be careful what you carry on your persons, and as the 'Lainour Leader' says: By-and-bye you will be prosecuted for thinking. (Laughter.) Not only do the people want Peace, but I believe the soldiers want Peace. If you remember, when war broke out all the papers in this country were printing columns of letters from our soldiers at the front. If you follow any of the newspapers now you will find that very few letters are being published from our own soldiers. They had published any ft. -om our owi s amount of letters that are written by Ger- man soldiers to tell us what the German j)ia,it so l?cl ic?i- ,s to t,?'; ] ] 1 1 1,, soldiers think about Peace." Mr Roberts then read a letter from a German soldier which ap- peared in one of the newspapers, and gave an appalling picture of Verdun. The German sol- dier spoke lovingly of Peace, and condemned the German warmongers. Continuing. Mr Rob- erts said: If we can arrange this Peace by negotiation, what is the prospect in front of us P Let me read to you what is in the Lon- don "Daily News" to-day. It is an extract from one of the German papers written by one of her best known journalists. He writes:- This is not a struggle for a forest or a town, but a struggle for the life and blood of two great nations. In this unparalleled struggle is symbolised the whole meaning of the world war. We have been thrown back into an- cient times when the object of war was the de- struction of the enemy tribe. The fearful strug- gle for blood intended for us has now turned. It is now a question of the red gore of France." We say the domestic Governments should en- deavour to arrange terms of Peace with the enemy. We believe that the people of the enemy countries and the peoples of the Allied countries want Peace. We want the Govern- ments of the countries to seek what the peo- ples want. (Applause.) Peace is the object for which we are setting cut, and I hope it is one we will soon attain. (Loud applause.) The Reverend J. Morgan Jones then address- ed the meeting. He said Mr Chairman, Com- rades and friends, I thank you very much for that kindly and hearty greeting. I am sorry to confess that I am sensitive to the attitude and conduct of people towards me, and your cordial greeting touches me verv much. I am very much obliged to you. A Pacifist in times of peace is a sort of bore. In times of Peace they look upon him as a harmless lunatic, but in a time like this public opinion hardens to- wards the Pacifist as a mischievous and dan- gerous person to be hated more than fo- reign foe himself. My newspaper, the spectable of them all, "The Times," Li calls us traitors. As for myself I am made to realise in a number of ways since the war began what it means to be a Pacifist, and if I heeded my feelings. I would slip quietly out of this place into a desolate corner of the mountains until the tempest is passed. But I cannot do that; I have been trying to do my duty as a Pacifist for 18 long years, and now I feel I must go through with it, come what may.' (Applause.) Even if the world hate too, even if the people of my own church should hate be. I feel confi- dent, with the help of God. I shall not hate them. After all, what does it matter what happens to me? At this moment there are millions of my fellow-men sacrificing their lives on the alitar of duty, aId I should be a. coward indeed if I shrank from whatever sacrifice my ¡ duty demanded of me. That in brief is the reason of my appearance before you to-night. I must confess I am at a loss to say something fresh. I am so used to preaching old sermons. (Laughter.) However, yesterday my good old friend the Times" came to my rescue, as it has come many times before, when I saw two of the finest heads for a sermon, and you shall have them in the order they came to me. The title of one of the special articles was "A Loop- hole for Conscience." I read the article, and I discovered that the same loophole was the em- ployment of Conscientious Objectors on work of national importance under army rates of pay, but under military rule. There was nothing new in the proposal. Surely, I said to myself, this is a climb down; and as I read the article I found it was not a graceful climb down —but for all that a climb down. As regards the stuff in the article it was of the usual "Times" qua- lity. (Laughter.) What interested me was the title, "A Loophole for Conscience." I need not tell you-j-nd I could not tell you if I would— how I disliked the phrase. Cet-taiiil)- the "Times" seems more generous than the Tribu- nal. What can be said of a government that leaves only a loophole for Conscience P It is not through a loophole that Conscience should come but through an open door. (Hear, hear.) Had it indeed come to this? Is it true that in England there is only a loophole; for Conscience? My friends, let me confess candidly if I believed that I should be left absolutely and truly without hope for the future of my country. But I do not believe it; it has not come to that. If it has it is only for a moment. (Hear, hear.) That hateful and abominable phrase represents only a section of our people—a powerful one—but only a section, of a ppdrit that is not of our people. There is in our people a love of liber- ty, always latent in our national life, but for the moment enchained. But neither the spirit nor the period is representative of England — of the soul of England. (Hear, hear.) The men who coin phrases like that are not Eng- lishmen in the true sense of modern England. This kind would tamper with the baser princi- ples of English law. They had never read his- tory if they had they would have found that British justice is not fond of loopholes, but of the open door and the high road. They would have known that British justice is instinctive with the spirit of Trutrh and Liberty. They would have known that British justice has long since thrown the gates open wide for Conscience. It is a long time since it has been possible to prosecute a, in an for Con- science's sake, even in a I trifling matter like vaccination. What is this un-English, this cowardly, this spirit that has broken loose in onr nllcbt, Seeking the ways of dark ages and perhaps less civilised than ourselves- And why is it that these people are now seeking to leave a loophole for Con- science? Why this sudden capitulation to the No-Conscription people and the efforts of other Pacifist pests? (Laughter.) The answer is plain. The lesson these people are learning so wdily will receive their respect bye and bye. There are thousands of our brothers in the trenches to-night—officers and men who went there at the bidding of their own Conscience. I know many of them. I know why they went; they themselves had told me why they went, in a solemn hour and a solemn manner. They would never have gone at all but for the bid- ding of Conscience ? They hated war as I hate it; they also hated tyranny as I hate it- (Ap- plause.) And when they come back they will hate the Government that persecuted their brothers for acting according to their Con- science. They went out I do not know why the Government went to war—but I know why my brothers went out to fight. They went out to fight militarism. Thev went out to fight a Prussian Militarism. What will they say when they come back and find the same thing at home? And will they be pacified when we say that they told us that the Government did leave a loophole for Conscience at the last mo- ment? My Comrades, I do not hate the Ger- mans—the German people. I have.rafured to join this silly and stupid campaign to disparage their benefits to the cause of human progress. When war broke out with us and them, I was, affected with the same degree of horror as if it had been with our own nesh and blood in Can- ada :p,nd Australia. Deeply as I had admired the German people, I hate the system, the idea of national life that governs them. A system that denies truth and liberty, of military necessity exalted above personality. I have known dozens of them in connection with the Peace move- ment during the last 20 years who hate the thing as I hate it. I have vivid recollections of the working of that system in the towns, in the villages, in the remote hanitets among the mountains, and in the forests of Germany. I can tell you stories to-night that would make your hearts bleed, I have seen the same thing here, with my own eyes, during the last few weeks. (Shame.) At the Merthyr Tribunal, in the ceils of the police station, in Cefn, in Swansea Gaol, in Cardiff Barracks; and I tell you truly and solemnly there is no difference. It is the same diabolical monstrous thing. Do you doubt it? But no! I must refrain; I must not forget; I am a Pacifist. Far be it from me to-night to say anything that will cause personal bitterness in any heart that is here. Let us forget persons, and deal with princi- ples. (Applause.) Many times have I visited Germany during the last 25 years, and I have thanked God for England, the home of sanctu- ary and liberty; but it is with grief unspeak- able I have confessed to myself during the last few weeks I care not whether I live here or there now. I have seen here with my own eyes the worse thing I have ever seen there. Has this thing come to stay? Is this England of ours to be a country in which there is only a, I loophole for Conscience? No! no! If I thought it I would never have the couirage to talk to you to-night. The Northcliffe Press is talking about providing a loophole at last; then, my ■ brothers, let us press op, and demand that that loophole be made larger. Let us press on un- til we have secured something more of a loop- r hole—a broader highway for Conscience. (Ap- plause.) I am 110 politician; I am not even a man of affairs. Rightly or wrongly I have kept within the walls of that church of mine during the last 18 years. However, in the face of glaring wrong I have been compelled to depart from the habit of a lifetime and to speak out against such a wrong as has been perpetrated in this neighbourhood during the last few weeks. Eleven of our lads are suf- fering imprisonment to-night. (Shame.) And what is their crime? I want to say they are imprisoned unjustly and illegally. But what is their crime ? Their crime is my crimen they are only working the same doctrine I have preached. (Loud applause.) If their crime is mine, then why is not their punishment mine? If anybody is to go to gaol. whv not send me? More than that. and greater than that, their pumsIunent is illegal, What sort of lads are they? They are among the cleanest, truest, most upright, bravest men in this neighbour- hood. They are of the best human stuff that we have got. I saw them in Swansea Gaol, and was proud of t-li-em-(be,ai- hear)—in Cardiff Barracks and was proud' of them; and proud to say they were my friends. Their conviction is illegal. Let me say it deliberately—not that I want to get into trouble with the authorities -but because I want the truth to be known. The pretence by which they were convicted will not stand the test of an impartial scrut- iny. More than that I need not say. I have never seen anything more admirable in mV life than the way these men have borne them- selves without a word of abuse. I have never seen a more shining example of Christian for- titude than among these young men of the I.L.P. (Applause) We must appeal to the Government to give these men another trial bv a competent and worthy Tribunal. (Loud ap- plause.) Mr Sam Jennings moved a resolution calling upon the Government 'to seek the earliest op- portumty to promote negotiations for Peace.- Mr Evan Davies seconded, and it was carried; unanimously.
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