THE NEW GOSPEL.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16988, 10 November 1920, Page 5

THE NEW GOSPEL.

—• — ; SERMON BY BISHOP JULIUS. j (frou our own correspondent.) \ LONDON, September 23. 1 Bishop Julius preached at the Harvest Festival service at St. Martin's, , Brighton, last week. In the course of t his sermon ho said Britons came from a 1 strong and •God-beloved raco. "In the last century we have wandered away J from God," he continued. "We have j found a new Gospel, the Gospel of self- j help and new wealth. We have in- j creased our riches, our splendour, our , comforts and lost our way to God. f There is every modern convenience at r one's hand, and everytlnng to help us , , to lead a comfortable life without the ; t lielp of God. We have been teaching j ] these things for years, and we have done ] it successfully. j "We have taught our children self-! t help, the 'get-rich-quick,' honestly or j i otherwise sort of tlnng,, and the new i Gospel is firmly planted in our hearts, c Religion began to die down when we < started to teach these things; and with j ] we bluffed the world. Then came ; i tho war, tho greatest test God had ever j \ put upon humanity." It brought out i 1 the. realities, went on the Bishop, and found the countrv out. Tho shams were | exposed, and the few "real men' of the , nation showed themselves. leop. j t prayed that the end would come; ' i,t ; t must come soon," they said. It .did, i f after weary years of trial. Then came . i reconstruction. t "Wo had one idea," said the Bishop, ! j ''that reconstruction would see better e ' cities. Reconstruction has not gone t fast. We have gone tho wrong way s round. Th&re will bo no reconstruction r unless we all get together, and work as c comrades. Now we are struggling— al- r most at war —among ourselves. \\ e r have started the old days again." c Bishop Julius said the great mass of i people in England, as far as he could t see, were between heavy grindstones a and were being badly ground, but he i l>ado all "have not anxious hearts and . t trust in Him."- t