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THE REV. CANON JAMES O. HANNAY, M.A.^ ON 



bodies have the afiection and love which the Church of England has 

 not got. If you want to know why the Church of England has 

 failed in the past to do much, and will fail to all eternity, the reason 

 is not far to seek. The Church of England, rightly or wrongly 

 (I speak in all love, for I know some of its curates and vicars are 

 living the most saintly lives, and many of them are my friends), 

 is in the eyes of the ordinary " Tommy," a worldly Church. If you 

 want a cure for the worldliness of the Church of England (and I 

 would dearly love to see her unworldly), if we want a cure for it, we 

 must go and preach Jesus. Ladies and gentlemen, if you go to your 

 parishes and teach Jesus, you will find that " Tommy " will no more 

 think the Church of England is a worldly Church, but will hear you 

 very gladly. 



Dr. A. T. ScHOJ'iELD : In the dearth of first-hand speakers, I 

 should like to make one criticism of the Canon's valuable paper. 

 He speaks of " the Christ we proclaim being in them all the time." 

 " If Christ be not in you, then is . . . your faith vain." Christ 

 in man is clearly indicative of subjective grace. I would submit to 

 the Canon that perhaps the reason why trust in God, which includes 

 the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, is not more known to the men in 

 the trenches, is owing to the absence of organisations which follow 

 up Scripture teaching at the Front. 



Christ crucified, dying and rising again as the Saviour of the 

 world, must be the basis of all Christian faith. I am sure that the 

 Canon would agree with me, that the clause wherein he spoke of 

 men being nailed to the Cross "along with Christ" is an unfortunate 

 rendering. I would suggest that He to Whom we all owe such 

 infinite reverence, the Son of God, the Saviour of the world. Who, 

 though He was rich yet for our sakes became poor that we through 

 His poverty might become rich, must not be put — I am sure the 

 Canon would not put His unique and glorious work on a par with 

 a man dying for the sake of his country, and I think they should be 

 carefully distinguished. From what I hear from second-hand 

 intelligence from the Front, that is one of the great reasons for what 

 the Canon deplores — the want of Christianity in the men. It is the 

 substitution of the sacrifice of themselves for the sacrifice of Christ 

 which has to be deplored. Once they know the objective Christ, 

 there will not be far to seek to find the love for Him. 



