WHY?
CHURCH SERVICES BORE THE YOUNG DEAN INGE NOT SURPRISED. NEW TESTAMENT ETHICS. (United Press Association— By Cable— Copyright.! (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 4, 11,20 a.m.) London, April 3. Dean Inge, in the “Evening Standard,” asks why church services bora the young. Ha admits that he is not surprised that the young are bored and says that half the services are as antiquated as battle-axes and crossbows. “Why should we exhort the working man to think upon Rahab and Babylon,” ho asks, “when he wants to think upon Germany and America, and why should he sing ‘lf I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem,’ when it is Lon-
don he wishes to remember. Yet if there is any attempt to bring the prayer-book up to date, the tremendous conservatism of churchgoers comes into play. “I may say without irreverence that one difficulty in New Testament ethics is that it looks to no future for humanity excepting the miraculous ‘end of the age.’ All that side of conduct which aims at making the world a better place for those coming after us is omitted from the New Testament. Wo have principles cf social conduct, but the application of them is left for us to discover.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 90, 4 April 1929, Page 5
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