Regulars > 100 years ago
What Church of England statistics show
THE annual publication in the Official Year-Book of the Church of England of statistics relating to the life and manifold activities of the Church of England is an occasion for inevitable comparisons and deductions. The fact…
100 years ago: The Assyrian Christians
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN has gone to Geneva mainly in connexion with the dispute with Turkey concerning the northern frontier of Iraq, and the pro-Turkish Press, entirely indifferent to the sufferings of the Nestorian and the…
100 years ago: Prayer for the departed
THERE was a time when memorial services were little more than appeals to sentiment. Tennyson’s poem, “Crossing the Bar”, was the most prominent feature, and represented the maximum of definitely Christian thought, a few…
100 years ago: Expect trouble over Zionism
DR. HERTZ, the chief Rabbi of the British Empire, is naturally an enthusiastic Zionist. He says that a thousand Jews are now landing in Palestine every week, and that next year it is hoped that the number will be increased to…
100 years ago: Submarine lost with crew
THE tragic loss of the M.1 has caused the Chairman of Lloyd’s to write to the Times pleading for an international agreement for the abolition of craft that are no more and no less than instruments of death, sometimes for an…
100 years ago: Fascisti ambush Daily Herald
IT IS most unfortunate that at such a time as this official action should suggest that even if there is not one law for the rich and another for the poor, there is certainly one method of the administration of the law for the…
Dean Inge in the papers
WE HAVE read Dr. Inge’s essay in the volume called ‘‘Science, Religion, and Reality” , and we are frankly astonished, not at what it contains, but at the attempt of purveyors of sensational news to boom it in the daily Press.…
100 years ago: ‘Hideous’ war memorials?
LADY OXFORD* is an unfortunate person. Whenever she does the right thing, she invariably does it in the worst possible way; whenever she speaks or writes wisdom, she qualifies it with folly. In a letter to the Times she…
100 years ago: Prayer Book revision again
ON THE eve of this week’s momentous meeting of bishops the Morning Post published a leading article bidding them leave the Prayer Book alone, and our contemporary has since printed letters from its Protestant readers…
100 years ago: Immorality in the theatre
THAT there are many more women than men in the congregations of most churches is a fact frequently deplored and sometimes cited — rather oddly in these feminist days — as evidence of the decadence of religion. But according…
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