MODERN CHURCH

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 58, 18 September 1928, Page 11

MODERN CHURCH

DEAN INGE'S EXAMPLE FALSE HISTORY AND TRUE IRREVERENT IRONY United Press Association—By Electric Tel** graph—Copyright. Australian Press Association. (Received 18th September, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 17th September. Dean Inge, in his presidential address at the Modern Churchman's Conference- at Cambridge, reached the conclusion that wo. are immortal spirits on probation, and have millions of years in which to work out our salvation. As a species the notion that civilised man is a very new experiment of Nature had hardly yet sunk into our minds. Incidentally Dean Inge argues that falsified history has, perhaps, more influence than true. "Consider," he said, "the mythical saints of tha Church of Rome, its bogus miracles, and patriotic figments upon which the children of all nations are brought up. Historians may. decido whether St. George killed dragons or was a dishonest army contractor who poisoned the Roman soldiery with bad beef, and whether St. Joan of Arc was all for French patriotism as Mr. Bernard Shaw declares, or was a barmaid who became a regimental mascot."