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TUK\i> OF TUB TIMKS.
Two striking facts are now re
ported from Great Britain. It is
likely that the war lias something
to do with both. Neither seem to
lie related to the other, yet there is
a closer connection than would ap
pear on the surface. One of these is tii
announced attitude of George Ber.s
ard Shaw to Christianity, and the
other the position take by the con
scientious objectors to military serv
ice and the activities of the No-Con
scription League.
The latter movement is embracing
not less than twenty thousand of the
ablest men of Great Britain. i hey
flatly refuse to aid or abet the pro
secution of the war. They reject the
attempt of the government to make
them serve without being placed
upon the bring Hue, by serving in
t lie Non-Combatants regiment as a
greater insult than forced military
service on the firing line, being by
implication an attempt to prove tha
it was their physical cowardice and
not their moral scruples which pre
vented them from serving.
These men are being arrested
and dealt with in a manner unheard
of heretofore. Crulety of the most
refined type is the main character
istic of the punitive treatment meted
out to the passive resistance of this
man or that who refuses to serve:
“Many of the men so arrested have
been kept in solitary confinement
lor weeks. Some in irons, some with
a food allowance of eight ounces oi
bread and two cups of water daily,
not. to mention severer torture”.
One of them recently was fined
for issuing a pamphlet against
these tortures and in his defense he
slid among other things: “We wish
to secure the recognition of the fact,
that such men cannot be forced to
tight, that the State ought to re
cognize their right to their prin
ciples, quite regardless of whether
those principles are right or wrong.
The recognition of liberty in various
directions has always come onl>
after a struggle. The struggle to
secure liberty for those who think
it wrong to fight is now at its
height.The neroo -etion which
these men have endured lias enorm
ously increased their moral weight.
It illustrates the invincible power
of that better way of passive resist
ance which pacificists believe to be
stronger than all the armies and
navies of the world. Men inspired
by Faith ami free from the domin
ion of fear are unconquerable. Over
and over again in the world’s his
tory this has been proved. The au
thorities have forgotten it. hut it is
being proved over and over again
before their astonished eyes . . . .
I would say that whether I am con
victed or acquitted matters little.
Hut it is not only 1 that am in the
dock, it is the whole tradition of li
berty which our ancestors built up
through centuries of struggle and
sacrifice. Other nations may sur
pass us in other respects, but the
tradition of liberty has been the su
preme good tlint we in this coun
try have preserved more than any
thing else, and for that liberty ot
the individual 1 now stand”. Itussei
who was a college professor was
convicted and suffered punishment.
Yet everything that he says, is
true. Men must be prepared to de
fend their liberties and their prin
ciples at all risks if it is to remain,
and unless there is an Implicit faith
in the cause which they spouse and
the principles that guide them, they
will he certainly overcome.. If not,
nothing can conquer them.
Turning now to the picturesque
attitude towards Christianity which
Bernard Shaw has taken up, it Is
in order to say that it is picturesque
only because it is taken up by Shaw.
He asks that Christianity be given
a fair trial, and he says himself
that if we are to make any sort ot
progress we must.
, lie admits that this is a mighty
..erious declaration to make after
Christianity has neen ostensibly in
vogue tor nineteen centuries, but he
asks that the real Christianity be con
sidered, not the churehianity which
passes muster for the doctrines of
Christ.
It is no wonder that Shaw looks
askance at modern Christianity as
exemplified by churches and preach
ers. Christ preached the religion
of love and poverty, and feeding the
hungry, and self abnegation, and
humility, and passive resistance,
and warned against covetousness
and avarice.%ahd scorned the perse
cutors of men, women and children.
Those are the keynote of his doc
trines. There is no way of denying
it. His contempt for those who ac
cumulate vast treasures who exploit
the laborers, who ruin the lives ot
little folks, who affect sacerdotalism
find repeated expression. He has
again and again warned that whoso
would follow him must get rid of all
that they had, must be prepared to
suffer persecution for conscience
sake, and he epitomized his teaching
in the Sermon on the Mount.
Is it too much to say that practi
cally all his teachings are honored
by the majority of his followers in
the breach? And is it too much to
say that had his teachinsg been liter
ally observed by those who claim to
be his followers there would have
been no such thing as the misery
there is in this world, the poverty,
the suffering, the vice, the crime
the wars and destructions now uni
versally witnessable?
Undoubtedly not; and Shaw s po
sition is certainly intelligible and
clear. But equally obvious it is that
Christianity as it is contained in the
gospels is utterly impractical today.
In a world where wealth production
and wealth accumulation is the be
all and end-all of human existence,
how is it possible to follow the in
centives of every day life and still
do as Christ said we must do if we
are to be saved?
What we do see is a ludicrous in
sincerity and an hypocritical devo
tion which affects to reconcile the
worship of God with that of Mam
mon. Today the pillars of the Christ
ian religion are men of great wealth
and great power. Christ’s vicar on
earth has to consult a Morgan, ac
cording to the press dispatches of a
few years ago, in the investment ot
the great wealth finds its way to hia
treasury! The pastors seek those
churches where accompanying the
call is a bigger stipend! The Billy
Sundays who would reform the world
would have their guarantee of so
many ten thousand dollars before
they would take a hand in the
Lord’s work! A General Booth who
would save mankind starts life a i
ouLast non-comformist preacher It.
the purlieus of London and dies in
a mansion with an accredited wealth
control in millions sterling!
The scene where Mary Magdalen,
the fallen woman, comes in contact
with Christ is historic. He saw In
her condition one who had loved
much. Today look at the way their
Christian sisters turn up their r.oses
and hold back their skirts when In
the vicinty of the hapless social
outcasts of their own sex! In all the
world the religion of love has be
come loveless. An arrogant priest
hood and a calculating charity is the
twentieth century exposition of that
Sermon on the Mount..
Yet it is evident that only through
sympathy and fellow feeling and the
kindlier deeds betwixt man and man
can civilization continue. It is quite
certain it cannot exist upon bayo
nets. It is quite certain that it must
live by some adaptation of those
doctrines taught by Christ to mod
ern social conditions. It is quite cer
tain that religion cannot exist half
false and half true, half believed in
and never acted in. It may be “bet
ter a life of faith diversified by
doubt than one of doubt diversified
by faith”, but both lead to dissolu
tion of all religion. There is no way
out of it. And finally men must be
found who will live up to their be
lief. There must be men who will
not explain away a dereliction of
duty and a falling away from their
principles by explaining that it is
done because one must do as the
Romans do when in Rome.
And that is where we come to
these men who passively resist, but
powerfully resist, militarism in Great
Britain. If all who oppose wars
acted like that, there would be no
wars. If all believed in the brother
hood of man as Christ taught it,
thpre would be no misery and ex
ploitation that causes misery. There
would be no such evidence of feroci
ous effort to crush the daring indus
trialists who sacrifice themselves foi
principle, caring not what the world
thinks. The conventions of the mo
dern Pharisee would not shackle
every- freedom loving thought and
every noble instinct. Obedience
when obedience meant a violation of
one’s principle would be the supreme
vice ar.d not a virtue. Social dis
cipline that built itself upon the ruin
ot' personal freedom would be a so
rial crime. Determination to sup
press the efforts of those who live
up to their beliefs would be non
existent. There would be toleration;
there would be earnestness; there
would be sincerity where is now ty
ranny, indifference or hypocrisy.
These things are so. Every man
knows it. But every man builds up
his own indifferent morality upon
his economic existence. The store
keeper will pander to views lie
knows are wrong, vicious and unjust
to hold on a valuable customer. The
businessman will chasten his inde
pendent expression by careful diplo
macy lest lie antagonize those from
whom he profits. The worker will
crawl to hold a job, and the entire
fabric of our civilization becomes
a hypocritical worship of fear: fear
of an angry God who will punish
in hell hereafter, or fear of an
Angry Economic Power in this
world who will punish with social
ruin those who dare to hold views
which may threaten the mainten
ance of that Power!
It is true today that the power of
common morality is weak because of
the economic power that benumbs it
or the so-called religious power
tvhich terrifies it.
The religion of Love has become
a religion of Fear, and until men
will greatly dare for righteousness
sake and for freedom’s sake it will
continue to be fear that rules the
world.
This is no exageration. Men will
dare whisper to you that such is
their opinou, but would not want it
mentioned for the world or they
would lose their job; invertebrates
are perpetually grinding dope in the
darkness of their privacy that others
may inject it into the body politic
with its authorship unknown, be
cause they dare not express their
open conviction lest it injure them
commercialy financially or socially.
Few consciously realize, although
they instinctively feel the tremend
ous force of this economic power.
Its victims who affect to breathe an
air of absolute personal freedom
walk through this world whplly ig
norant of the fact that they are
morally and physically the slaves ot
that power. They know that their
acts are guided by what they term
commercial prudence, but that is
only another nam* for their fear of
the consequences should they dare
to express their views or dare to act
as their convictions dictate.
In the Magna Charta, this terrific
Power that could make men afraid
was freely recognized as incompat
ible with the status of a freeman,
and it is explicitly stated that “no
man durst make him afraid”.
But they have now made them
afraid, and they are prosecuting
those iri England who are unafraid,
and to make a modern morality they
have adjusted the requirements ot
the religious doctrines of Christ so
that today one can not only serve
God and Mammon, but he is the
best divine servant who serves Man
mon best.
John Hancock
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