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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19505, 13 June 1925, Page 5

the ideals of the Sermon on the Mount —its inward companionship with God its unsoiled integrity of soul, its unstinted magnanimity, its unbounded love—would ho bo a Christian?” The Fundamentalist answered: “No, ho would not.” One Fundamentalist recently said: “Jesus Himself was not a Christian ” Dr Fosdiek commented : “ There is this much truth in that, which the Fundamentalist did not mean: If Josus should come back now, hear the mythologies built up around Him, see 1 the credalism, donominationalism, secruinentarianism carried on in His name, lie would certainly say: ‘lf this is Christianity. I am not a Christian.’ ” Dr Fosdirk closed his sermon with these words; “The centre of my religion is in the Gospels, not the theologian; in the Master's way' of living, not in what men have said about Him.” Dr Shailer of Chicago, has drawn up a short series of affirmations representing the Modernist view of things. Summarised, they run: — I believe in God revealed in Jesus Christ, and in history' ns Love. I believe in Jesus Christ who revealed God as Saviour. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the God of love experienced in human life. I believe in the Bible, historically interpreted. I believe in prayer, in forgiveness, in the practicability of the teachings of Jesus, in social life, in the continuance of individual personality after death, in the Church, and in the ultimate triumph ot justice and love. Dr J. D. Jones, writing in the Bichnicmd Hill Magazine on Iris experience in broadcasting a sermon, notes that it was very uninspiring from his own point of view. “When broadcasting alb one can do is to read a sermon, and that is a very different thing from preaching'. And vet letters I have received since that Sunday night have made me fool that though hroad< astiug may he a dull enough performance for the speaker it is well worth while, for it brings no end of comfort and cheer to invalids and to people who live in lonely places. I got many letters of thanks from such—from people in mv old citv of Lincoln in sore trouble about their only child; from a man in a mountain village in Yorkshire, crippled with arthritis, and in constant pain. , . . But I think (lie loiter that touched me most was a brief note I got from a lonely parish minister in the Isle of Skye thanking me for the refreshing the little, address had brought to Ilia soul. Incidentally, too, I may say that my dear old mother was ‘listening-in’ at Towyn, and heard everything quite distinctly. So. after all, broadcasting is worth while. It exercises a wide and gracious ministry.’’