DECEMBER, 1916.

SOUl" plac~ €t"ical South Place, Moorgate Street, E.C.

e)blect or the Society •

.. The Object of the Society is the cultivation of a rational religious sentiment. the study of ethical principles, and the promotion of human welfare. in harmony with advancing knowledge."

• MBMBBRS"I"'. Any person in sympathy with thu Objeet ot the Society is cordially invited to beoomo

.. Member. PnrtioulnTB of Memoorsbip m .. y be obtained in th. Librn.ry oofor. and after the Sunday services, or on application to tbe Hon. Regjstr ar, Miss F. BRcnu" Soutb Place Institute, Finsbu ry, E.O. .

lISSe)(!llITBS. Any person interest.ed in tlle Socjety's work, but not wishing to become a Member,

may join 0.8 an ABBoeiate. Particuln.rs may be obtained from the Hon. RegiBtrar a. abov •.

SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES. The following DISCOURSES will be delivered on Sunday mornings,

Service beginning at ELEVEN O'CLOCK.

November 26. - JOSEPH McCABE.-The MIssion of Hope and Repentance.

A.nthem.

Hymn.

{ 1. Truth is ~reat nnd must prevnil 2. Gentle night... ... ... ...

{No.61. ,l1y not tho strull'll'lo noull'ht .. ,'nU.th (first tune). !\o.72. Would you gll.in the golden city.

Mendel8801m S7JOhr

December 3.-S. K. RATCLIFFE.-The Way of Martha. and the Wa.y of Mary.

Anthems

Hymns

{I . God is not dumb ... . . . 2. ) t Burely is a.. wastc·' hpart ."

{No. li. A drcn.mer dropped 0. I'llnnom thought. No. ~a. There is a. song now si nging.

December lO.-JOHN A. HOBSON, M.A.

Anthcl1l1 {I. Dn.re lo I>e true ... :to llcl1cnt.h thib starry nrch

Hymn. {No. 7:;. H ope, wine of eye nnd wild of wing. No. 7u. 'l'he out..worn rite, t.ho old abuso (second Lunc).

Schubert Col/et

Crotch Flower

December l7.-HERBERTBURROWS.-The Rev. R. J. CampbeU'sPilgrimage- Whence and WhIther?

A.nthem. { 1. A litlle chilrl in hulrush al'k FloU'cr 2. Most beautiful appear ... Baydn

Hymn. {No. 116. Mother of mUll's timc~travclling ~cnera.tions . No. tin. Long ago did Ill" fOl'prathCl's how the head and bend the kuce.

December 24.-No Service.

December 3l.-JOSEPH McCABE.-The Present Temper of Germany. Anthems {1. Quis est h01no ... ... ..,

2. Doth 1Iot wisdom cry aloud

Hymn. {No. 1iO. Now the last [lct,,18 leave thc rose. No. 1;2. Ring out, wU,l hell", (first tunc).

JJl'Orrrl, JJakill,q

Visitors are it/vited to ablaill t't'formatioll regardi'lg the Society i.1 tlle Library all SUlIday 1I10rllillgs.

A Collectioll is made at eaeh Service, to et/able those presellt to cOl1tribute to I he expenses at the Society.

Oyellou deRirl1lU to attend the Service. are informed Ulat the Oommittee have made arra'lg emenl8 for hou-&ing their machine. in tile baBomcnt.

The BuUding is to be let for Meetings, etc. Forms of Application may be had of the Caretaker, n . South Place, E'C' i and when ftUed up should be sent to Mr. N. LIdstone, 96, Blackstock Road, Fmsbury Park, N.

The Chapel i8 licensed for Marriages. Arrangements can be made for the conduct of Funeral Servioea on 8.IIpl1catloD

to the Secretary.

Su nday School. The Ohildren meat At Armfteld'. Hotel, opposite the CHAPEL, OT0r"! Sund .. y Morninll"

at 11, aud their I .... ou i. ginn during tho d,lcou".e. Member. and fnends w",hing theU" ohildren to attend .cbool Me reque.sted to oommunioLte with tho Socreta.ry.

The Ohildren'. Library. in the cl .... ·room onr the Vestry, i. open .,nry Sunday Morn· ing before .. ud Llter the •• nice. Hon. Librarian, Mis. GRACE GOWING.

December a.-Mr. F. C. Gould. December lO.-Mr. W. Varian.-Animal Studies H. December l7.-Mr. J. Hallam. December 24.-No Lesson. December al.-Miss F. A. Law. Vi.sitoN briniing ohildren to the Sunday Morning Service. Me oordinlly inTited to

LnOW them to attend tho Ohildren'. I ..... on.

Lending Library. The Lending Library i. op&X1 free to Membero of the Socwty o.nd 8 .... on Tioket Hold", ..

ou Sunday morning. belore and .. Iter the Servioes. Assooiates and Non·Members of the Society may mnder certain condition. bo grLnted the us. of the Library upon payment of a subocription of 2s. 6d . per annum. The o..talogue, inoluding a supplement lor 1905-7, 18 on .ale, price 6d. Subsoriptions tow .. rd. the puroh .. s. and repair 01 books .. re inyited.

Hon Librarian. {MISS MART RAWLINGS, 406, Mare Street, Haokney, N.E. WALLlS MANsrORD, Oherry Tree Court, 53, .A.ldersg .. te Street, E.O.

SOirees. The next Monthly Soir6c will wire place on Monday, December 11, when Mr. J. n. K.

TODD will deliver .. Lant~rn Lecture on "R. L . ." Mauy of the illustrations will be shown for tb e first time. There will be Stevenson music arranged by the Secretary. Tea and coffee, G.30 sharp. To conclude about 8.30 p.m. ,\dmiBsion 6<1.

Hon. Sec.: Mis. GRACE GOWlNG, 302, Dalston Lane, Hackney, N.E.

ehildren's Party. Tbe usunl Children's Party will be held on Tu<sday, January 9, at 5.30 p.m., wllen

there will be n. plnynnd ballet by Mr. Rarry FoTjeon. nrrnngcd b~' ~Iiss I'nYLLlS FEN1'ON. Children under 14, Gd . ench; odults, Is. 'rickets to bc obtaincd in the Library or from the Hon. c., Miss GllICl: COWING, 302, Dnlston Lone, N.E.

Treat to L.e.e. ehildren. The ,Innunl 'rrl'nt to nbout 300 poor children will bo given on WcdneBdny, January 10,

19li. .1 subscriptiun list will bo on the Library table on SundllY .morllings, and nH contributions will be wl.'lcomcd. Uiftb of clothing or mntcrials will be gl'tltcfnlly accepted.

Sunday Popular eoncerts (ehamber Music). Tbe THIRTY· FIR T EASON will be oontinued every . undllY evcning until lurth~r

notioo (except December 24 and 31). 'I'h. following arc the arrnngcments as far aB at present made:

November 26.-1nRirumentaUxts: lIfessrs. R. H. Wolthe,v, JOSCpl1 Jongen, D~sir6 Defauw, Lione! TertiB, and Emil. Doebord. Vocali.t: M. Constnntin Shoesco. Joseph .Jongen's Trio for Piano, Violin, and Viola; Schumann's Piano Quartet; ond Mozart's Sonnta in B flnt, No. 10, for Piono and Violin.

December 3.-InRtmml'1ltaliRt8: Miss Daisy Kennedy o.nd M. Benno Moisehvitsch. Voralixt: :lir. John Booth. Accompani8t: lIlibS Ethcl Attwood. Duets by Brnhms nnd Catoire; Yiolin Rolos by Ko.loff, Zimbalist, ODd Kreisler; Pianoforte Rolos by Rach­mnninoff, Pnlm!r1'l'n, lIfedtner, llDd Beriabinc.

Deoember 10.-1nRtrumentali.tB: Messrs .• Tobn Saunders, Gharles Woodbou"", H. Waldo Warner, Olmrles A. Ombbc. ond R. H. Welthew. Vocali.t: ]lliss Edith MoCullngh. 'fhe programmc will include, tring Quortets: Phnntasy ill D, Op. 15, No. I, by H. Woldo Warner, ome hakespea,'e Fftiry Oharncters by Jos pit ,peRight, and ~'wo Impressions. Op. 5!Jo. by JOB.ph l1olhrooke. .\ 1.0 ~cthoven's Piano Sonllta in D, Op. 10, No. 9, and Friskin's Pinno Quint.et..

Deoember 17.-111Htr"""'ntaliRtR: Miss Myrn. Hcss, lIliss lIlnrgery B<ntwich. Miss Tltelm .. Bentwich. T'ocaliRt: lIfr. Frederick Rnnalow.

Dcoomber 24 and 9l.-No Ooncerts. JnntHtry 7.-B_Hffi CONORn.'l'. T'ocali.t: Mr. J. CampbeU McInn<8. Ooncerts begin at 6 p.m. Doors, 5.40. Mr. RIcnARD H. WALTIUW'S Thr ... Lecture. on "The DeTe]opment of Chamber 1>1u8io"

may bo ho<!, price 6d. net oomplete. Committee ill .... tings on , undny., December 3 nnd 17, at 5 p.m.

Hon. Trea8.· . F1IAI<X A. HAWXINlI, 13, Thurlow Park RGAd, Dulwich, 8.E. Hon. Sec.· . . ALr1lED J. OLB"ENTS, 8, Finohley Wo.y, Breut Garden Vill"ge, Ohurch End,

Finohley, N.

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Mrs. OLUUNTS, 8, Finohley Way, Brent Garden Village, Churoh End. Hon. Aut. Seu. Finchley. N.

D. OURI8TIl TAIT, 36, Lambolle RoAd, 8. Hampstead, N.W.

erchestra. Conductor: RICHARD H. W ALTHEW.

Weekly pro.ctices nrc hold on Friilays (6.30 to 8.:)0). SuhscrlptlonR for the half-senson to Ohristmas, 10.. .A 11 int.reste<!, both string and wind ployel·., LTe invited to communicate with one of the secretorie8- E. J. FAlRRALL, Windmill Lane, Southall, Middlesex.

H. C. S. HICKS, 27, Ohco.pside, E.C.

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OFFICES TO LET. Well-lighted and convenient Offices to Let on first floor at 12. Sout!} Place. Mod ,·.te

"""tal. Verl. suitable for n. aocicty neC<ling occasional use of large hall (adjacent) fo,' meetings. 1wo or three minutes from tram, 'bus, tra.in, o.nd tube.-Apply: N. LtDSTONr., South Place Institute. South PI.:.,Q.Oe.:..:..:.., • .=E....:.O....:. _____ _

The G£NER\T. ComlT'TTm will mee t on Thursdny. December 7. Correspondence dealing \Vith mattero for consideration should be forwarded to Mr. W. T. HARVEr at the enrlie.t po.sible moment. All matters relnting to flnance ohould b. addres""d to the Treasurer.

Booretari ... 01 sub·committees "'re notified that h""dbiU. intended to be oirculated with the Monthly LiBt should be dclivered to Tbe Utopia. Pr.",s. ~~. Worahil' Street. E.O. It i. hoped th .. t those BOOretaTi •• who have address •• of persons interested In their work (other tha.n Memberll, A8sociates, or Sea80n Ticket Holders) will oommunica.te them, with 8. viow to .noh persons receiving the Monthly List regularly.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

To SPEED THE OLD YEAR.-Wh~n we take stock of the past twelve months and realise what- a period of stress we have come through, it is distinctly gra'tifying to note the good attendances at South Place on Sunday mornings of late. We hope to make some permanent friends among our casual visitors, and will cordIally welcome their co-operation in the several useful activities we are trying to carry on in the face of considerable difficulties.

During December the ladies' sewing mee'tings will be in full swing, and we heartily commend Mrs. elements' appeal for helpers to our members and friends, in order that as a result of their devoted labours the necessitous children attend­ing the L.e.e. schools in the neighbourhood may be provided with the new clothes they sadly need.

Thanks largely to the enthusiasm and organising capacity of Miss Gowing, we are not to be disappointed of our usual Monthly Soiree, and habitues of these popular gatherings are assured of an interesting programme.

THE GREAT \"1AR.-A great opportunity presents itself to the Ethical Movement in general and South Place in particular at a time when masses of people of every grade and category (not excluding professed RatIOnalists) have abandoned them­selves (however unwilling they may be to admit it) to the promp'tings of primceval instincts. Never was it more impera­tively necessary to assert the supremacy of Reason in precept and in practice. Only by subjecting instinct to the control and guidance of Reason can we prevent the recurrence of such a holocaust as we are now witnessing. Security can never be obtained by mutual and interminable slaughter.

Ethical Morality. (MR. IIERDERT BURROWS, AT SOUTll PLACE, OCTODER 29, 1916.)

The supremacy of the Moral Law, that is, of the Moral Life-for the Life, as Matthew Arnold said, is the habit or disposition which springs from conduct-is the aim of Ethics and of the whole Ethical Movement. For long years we have been taught by the churches that morality is really a code, a code which is to be learned from a church, a priest,

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or a book. In the Protestant Church it is a book, the Bible as interpreted by man. In the Roman Catholic Church it is the priest, who claims his authority as dispensed to him by God, acting through the Church. In either case the member of the particular church is taught his morals second-hand. In the Ethical Movement it is the man and woman themselves who are their own priest and their own church. The difference is enormous. The ethical man or woman is at once brought face to face with the soul-searching task of discovering for himself or herself what are the real foundations of the truly moral life, and that searching is in itself of 'the highest educational experience. Morality, which really means our relations to our fellows, is not a thing to be found in water-tight compart­ments, sorted out and labelled ready for emergencies, bu't a growth, a continually expanding growth of life, again in harmony with advancing knowledge-life in all its aspects, in all its contact with our fellow-men and fellow-women. It is a process, not a product; a process which depends on the proper use of reason, on the free play of the emotions when properly and legitimately used, on the careful balance between an expanding heart and a cultivaled brain, on the all-round development of every faculty of body and of mind, and above all on the profound conviction that we are all parts of one another, 'that the units of the body politic, so-called, are useless for good if swayed by 'that greatest of all heresies, the idea of separation; but potentially all-powerful, if permeated with the far-reaching conviction that the one aim of every individual should be the union of all into one great fellowship, whose basis shall be the uplifting of the corporate conscious­ness by the ennoblement of the individual life-by the common effort of each for all, of all for each. That is ethical morality, and we claim that apart from creeds, priests, or church, it is a morality 'to which every man or woman who feel within themselves the aspirations for a nobler life may give their free adherence and their full consent, apart from any theological systems or from any dependence on any outside supernatural power.

Science and Ethics. Thc:re has been a good deal of rather superficial moralising

during the period of the war, and many generally accepted tenets have come under review. The claim of science to be ,1 benefactor of the human race has often been called in question, and critics have gone so far as to assert that she must bear her share of responsibility (and a large one at that) for the present world-catastrophe. The following remarks of br. L. H. Baekeland arc well-timed, and perhaps help us to a truer

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perspective. They form the concluding part of an address delivered by Dr. Baekeland at the Rumford Hall, New York, on January 2I, I916, when he was the recipient of the Perkin Medal of the Societl of Chemical Industry.

"By a sort 0 hyperindudion, science, after helping industry, got stimulated itself by the growing exigencies of industrial enterprises. But some will ask me: 'Where does all this lead us to? Will the world at large be better for it? Are not our scientists, our chemists and engineers, just those who have helped to make the present war so atrocious?' To this I can answer, that those who are responsible for what is happening now are not the scientists themselves, even if their work has been pressed into service for means of destruction and sorrow. Vvar is many ages olaer than science! Greed, iniquity, lust of power, the main inheritance of the aims and thoughts of the past, rendered respectable by a rather large share of our so-called classical literature, together wlt.h our awe for tradition, are the main influences which keep us 111

the cold, relentless grip of the wrong ethics of bygone ages. Even our men of science have not been able to shake off entirely many superstitious beliefs, many erroneous traditions, rendered respectable through pedagogic smugness with which the minds of the children of each succeeding generation have been mummined in prejudice of certain points of view. This accounts for the fact that the average man is still more easily swayed by elegant phrases than by scientinc truths. True science, on the contrary, has no more respect for the most brilliant rhetoric of classical literature, if this latter promul­gates ideals which are contrary to fads, than it has patience with the utterances of a politician whose passion or interest makes him overlook or distort facts.

"Notwithstanding the fact that chemistry and electricity have enriched an enormous number of people, there are few, if any, instances where scientinc men, engaged in applied science, have become as absurdly rich as some of the big money hoarders of this world? Why? Because their work is too interesting to induce them to get into a life of mere money­getting; for the chemist, the fmancial consideration is a neces­sity for his existence, but thal is not the chief end, as it is for those whose conception of success does not go much beyond the desire of money or power.

"If a mistake is made in arousing nations or social groups to hatred or fear, it is innnit ly more costly than if a mislake is made in some special problem of physics or biology; but by an irony of fate, the denunciation by Society in the latter case is apt to be much more severe than in the former. This is the result of the fact that the rigid consideration of truth and the feeling of responsibility for truthfulness which exact science has established, have not yet reached the masses. And this situation will last until the influence of the metaphysicll romanticist has been replaced by that of the scientist." •

/0 Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry. Vol. xxxv. No. 5.

Trea.urer

Secretaries

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H~IU!'RRRY ~pp.eBRS.

... { F. W. ItEAD, 65, Har ley Read, Hnrlesden, N .W.

Mr •. O. FL£TCHER SMITH, 17, Sydenham Pa.r k , B.E . IV. T. IIARVEY, 63, nigh Street, Uxbridge.

negi8tr,,:, of Members and} Mi •• F. BEeHA .. , 47, WnJ.8lDgbam .&o .. d, m"pton , N.1!l. A880c,ate8 .•. •.. . ..

Sunday Lecture Secretary W. RAWLINGS, 406, Mare Str~et, Hackn ey, N .E.

Editor Of Monthly LiBt H. T. HERm, 45, Hogarth Builclings, Westminster, S .W.

Librarians {Miss MARY RAWI.INGS, 406, Mare Street, Haokney, N.E.

••. .•. .. . .,. WALLIS MANsroRD, Cherry Tree Court, 53, Aldersgate Bt. , B.O

T reasurer> and Tru8tees { J. R. OARTER, Old Hnil, Wnilington , Surrey. 01 the Rebuilding Fund E. OUNNlNGllAM, 52, Bow Lane, Ohea.pside, E.O.

E. OUNNINGnUI E. F. EnUtNGTON MISS H. M. FAtnUALL E . J. FURHALL MISS GRACE GoWING MISS ItOSE HALLS

BuUding

Concert

Finance

Music

Publica tiona Soir ee

Sunday School

Organist

Birth :

Members of General eommlttee.

W. T . IIARVEY MISS F. A . LAW N. LIDSTONB Mns. A. LISTBR Mus. HonOAKE MARSH MRS. E . G. OVERY MISS MARY RAWLING!

Mns. F. A. RIODARDS MRS. C. FLtTeREn SM ITH E. SmI.LING Mns. STEVENS D. CnRIsTIB '£UT Mns. H . W UNToAn

Secretaries o f Sub-eommlttees.

F . llEROERT MANsFoHD. Wo.lden. Kingscnd. Ruisllp.

ALFRED J. OLEMENTS, 8, Fincllley Way. Ercnt Garden Village, Church End, Fincl,lcy . N.

FRANK A. HAW1UNS, 13, Thurlow Park Road, Dulwioh, S .E.

E. SNELLING. 8, Amberl ey nand, L eytoD.

Miu GRAce GOWINO, 902, Dnlston Lane, Hackney, N.E.

{Miss F. A. LAW, 59, Montpelie r Roud, Peckho.m, S.E . Mrs. ST. A"UBIN, 18, Emperor's Ga.tu, S.W.

H. SMITll WORsTEn, 53, Lomine Rend, Holloway, N.

On October 17. to Mr. anu Mrs. R. n. VICKlms -a dnughter.

Change of Address : Mr. ll. T . PeCK to 306, Earl's Court Itond, S. W.

DlilRY FeR D E e E MB E R .

DECEMBER

Orche~tra Practice ... 6.30 p.m. 3 Service and Sunday School II a.m. 3 Popular Concert 6 p.m. 7 General Committee meets 6.30 p.m. 8 Orchestra Practice . .. 6.30 p.m.

10 Service and Sunday School I I a.m. 10 Popular Concert 6 p.m. IJ Soiree 6.30 p.m.

DECEMBER

IS Orchestra Practice .. . 6.30 p.m. I7 Service and Sunday School rI a.m. I7 Popular Concert 6 p.m. 22 24 No Service. 24 No Concert. 29 31 Service and Sunday School II a .m. 3! No Concert.

N.B.-All communication, for tll. Monthly Lil t , "ould be forwarded NOT LATIOn t/, an t ll_ 16th 01 tll. pruioUl rrwnth to H. T. Hll1n, 45, Ho&,arth Buildin&'I , W""tm.in.ter , S .W .