The S.C.M. campaign opened on Wednesday last to a quite fair audience (both in number and sex) with Jack Froude as Chairman, anxious to get rid of the chair, Eventually the principal speaker Lex Miller, agreed to accept it, though without the profusion of thanks that the gift seemed to merit.

The Church, said Lex Miller, was only a company of the whole community just as sinful as the mass, but it had come to see that it had crucified Christ: and this realisation was like a commission laid on it to testify as to God—to point to facts that will help to interpret the real meaning of life.

Facing these facts we saw, first, that our knowledge was inadequate to explain life. Misfortune, sadness fell on good and bad alike, and there did not seem to be any intellectual solution.

We saw that there was a gap between what man wanted to be and what he was that could not be disclosed by human will.

We saw further that our environment did not minister to our needs.

There were two alternative suggestions: first, the stoic suggestion that we should cut down our desires to the level the world would satisfy. This was the logic of the materialist school.

[unclear: The loudly] there was the suggestion that we should take this world that did not satisfy us and build a new world. The struggle for a new social order was one aspect of this. But even supposing economic conditions perfect, the world would still be dead because of the perpetual thwarting of our self-expression.

And so we saw that man could not live unto himself. Christ's reign on earth was testimony of this. We knew we were helpless Christ came to prove it.

The claim that "service" and "brotherhood" ideals were substitutes for religion was refuted by the fact that man was not by nature brotherly, but selfish: and man could not alter this by his own will. With the intervention of Christianity man could be seen—not as he was, boorish, dull, but in a new light as the object of God's love.

Mr. Katz suggested that the gap between what man was and what he ought to be could be closed by greater social co-operation. The speaker had said that a world, perfect materially, would be meaningless without a further fact, and he asked us to believe this without one hint of what it was or how it affected us.

Lex Miller replied that Christianity was essentially a supernatural religion and that the new world that came from the knowledge of Christ would always be the most important fact.