RELIGION IS VIRILE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 887, 3 February 1930, Page 14

RELIGION IS VIRILE

i NO NEGATIVE CHRISTIANITY THE MASTER MISREPRESENTED That true Christian life was virile and positive, that the Christian religion was affirmative and should not be negative or repressed, and that modern people should be definite and real in their religion, were stressed by Canon H. K. Archdall, headmaster of King’s College, at St. Mary’s Cathedral last evening. Mr. Archdall, speaking of the Pharisees, asked if there were not still many good people who fancied ■that a Christian life was merely a negative prohibition. These grievously .misrepresented their Master. On the other hand was the mistake ma.de by those who would give way to every impulse and desire of the human heart, or those governed by futile fatalism, who worshipped sloth and neglected the one steady purpose which should run through life. Mr. Archdall deprecated the religion which took no real interest in man’s body or his physical needs, although the body and the spirit should work together, in co-operation, according to the teaching of Christ. He emi**asised the need for this spirit of co-operation to be carried into the home and the community, and said that the male and female qualities were getting a little mixed and mingled. It was a dreadful thing tc hear people speak of the home as a sort of prison where women were incarcerated. Human life was full of conflicts which could be overcome only by a growing application of the spirit of co-operation.