Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1935 — Page 12

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WORLD NAVAL TALKS LIKELY, FRANCE HINTS Conference to Be Held in October. Is Report After Parley. By l i.i i, ,i i-r. •* PARIS. May 3.—A hint that a orlri naval conference might be caJlcri for October was given today by Minister of Marine Francois Piotri on his return from a visit to Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, British first lord of the admiraltv. It was indicated the October suggestion had been made by Lord Ey res - M on se 11. The suggestion of a conference came when diplomatic, circles here *cre predicting that there was almost no chance of a successful conference whose motive would be continuation in some form of the Washington Naval Treaty limiting battleship construction and the London Treav governing the construction of auxiliary ships.

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The Religious Question Box nun a 9 a R?a4*r of Th' In<iianapoli Tim** aro invited to end in qneationi regarding the Protestant. Catholic or Jewish faiths Questions will he answered in tbia rolumn at promptly at possible. They should be addresaed to The Time* or in the National Conference of Jews and Christians. 2K9 Foorthav. New York Cits W hero a personal replv la deaired il should be so stated.

Q —What is the “sin against the Holy Ghost” mentioned in the New Testament? A—There is no definite agreement in Protestant teaching as to what is the sin against the Holy Ghost, but the best opinion would be that it is the persistent refusal to follow the highest ore knows whatever that highest rm y be. In other words, the point is that the -in against the Holy Ghost is concerned not with specific beliefs or with specific actions, but with a certain quality of life—a persistent preference for the nearer rather than the remoter good; for ones own interest rather than the interests of others—in a word the persistent choice of the self of the moment rather than that better and more permanent self whom the Spirit of God is continually seeking to bring to birth in the spirit of man. Insofar as the Catholic meaning is concerned, the sin against the Holy Ghost has been interpreted

bv the fathers of the church and by her theologians to mean the sins of despair, presumption, impenitence or a fixed determination qot to repent, resisting the known truth. These sins are said by Christ to be unpardonable not because He will not pardon them but because the sinner’s disposition is such that he WILL NOT be pardoned. In a word, the irremissibleness of the sins against the Holy Ghost is exclusively or. the part of the sinner, on account of the sinner's act. As to final impenitence, pardon is impossible, for even God can not pardon where there is no repentence, and the moment oi death is the fatal instant after which no mortal sin is remitted. Wind Wrecks Kentucky County V,)l f riff ft I*rr* LEXINGTON. Ky„ May 3.—A severe wind and rainstorm early today caused heavy property damage in Fayette County.

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RELIGION MUST SAVE MANKIND, SILVER PLEADS • Famed Rabbi Urges Generous and Tolerant Manner of Living. BY DR. ABBA HILLEL SILVER Rabbi. The Temple. Cleveland. O. It is quite possible that in the new era organized religion will have to assume the role of the sole surviving champion of the rights of the individual. In the face of the amazing pretensions of the state, religion may have to insist, and religious spokesmen in Nazi Germany have already had to insist, that man possesses certain rights, over which the state, however noble its purposes and however exalted its program, has no power whatsoever. There are ! sovereign rights which are man's own by virtue of his humanity and not by virtue of his citizenship in any given political group. It is clear that the new era is being ushered ’n by way of dictatorships. Whether these are passing or permanent, it is impossible to say. These dictatorships, wherever established, have so far been characterized by their utter ruthlessness. This is true both of capitalistic and of communistic dictatorships. They are equally unscrupulous when they get into action. In Age of Ruthlessness Both have no compunction whatsoever about trampling upon the prostrate body of human rights. For both, the end justifies the means. Both raise political violence to a principle. In the fury of class struggle the mandates of personal morality and basic human decencies and amenities are entirely lost sight of. We have entered an age of sanctified ruthlessness and exalted cruelty. The Dark Ages could offer no comparable records of mass brutality. But even more alarming than the toll of victims of dictatorship’s physical violence is the tragic roll of victims of its spiritual and intellectual violence. Men are driven into terrified silence. Conformity is prescribed. Men dare not dissent. All opposition, all parties, all dissenting opinion in press, pulpit, class-room, platform and book is stamped out. The threat of all this to man’s spiritual life is clear. It tends to dry up the mainsprings of his spiritual creativeness. When man is not allowed to stand alone, to dissent from the majority, to proclaim the truth which has Veen born in him through his own soul’s travail, his spiritual life is destroyed. Church Must Save Men The new era may thus burden the church and synagog with another task—to save man from the dark, ghastly heresy of sanctified ruthlessness and brutality, to preach anew and with increased fervor the mandates of reasonableness, tolerance and charity, and to safeguard man's spiritual freedom and autonomy in a world constricted by encompassing walls of dictatorships. The new era is likely to witness distress is leading to national national intolerance. Bitter economic the intensification of racial and economic isolationism. Each nation is attempting to become economically self-sufficient. Nations are entrenching themselves behind tariff walls and other artificial economic barirers. The world is becoming fractionalized to a degree unknown in the past. The universal idea which fired the imagination of men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the idea of a federated world, of an integrated humanity has been pushed out of man’s mind by the demands of a blatant, militant and provincial nationalism. The youth of the world is being taught to think not in terms of international solidarity and humanity, but in terms of exclusive, aggressive and competitive nationalism. • In countries like Germany, nationalism is even further restricted to a fantastic race cult, and in its name citizens not of the majority race are being disfranchised, degraded, humiliated, and the very means of livelihood denied them. Here race idolatry has run riot to a point where all human virtues have been sacrificed to it. Cultural Pluralism Needed What is required in our day is not superheated race or national apologetics nor mystic yearning after social or cultural co-ordination, but a generous and tolerant way of life which will give each race and nationality the opportunity to live its own life, to express its own soul and to contribute its unique values to the commonaky of human life. Our age needs a form of good will which will not only tolerate differences but which will gladly use them for the enrichment of life. Judaism and Christianity have a message and a mission which overleap national boundaries and race barriers. They speak not to the racial man or the national man, but to the man qua man. They speak of truths and values which all men need for their spiritual and moral sustenance and which all men may cherish regardless of their color, their station or their nationality. Neither Judaism nor Christianity has always been faithful to the universalistic, international implications of their respective teachings. In the new era they will have an historic opportunity to confront the rampant, nationalistic and racial aberrations of a confused and disintegrated world with their strong, ancient gospel of “One God in Heaven and One Humanity on Earth.” Ludlow to Explain Bill Sneaking over a Columbia Broadcasting System hookup at 10:45 Sunday morning, Rep. Louis Ludlow will explain his proposed constitutional amendment for a referendum on war.

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