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.

Christianity Defined.

On Thursday, Mr. Froude and Miss Feltham spoke on "The Real Problem." Mr Froude explained that the Christian faith is not a method of running our lives or the world. It is God's Message to us, obedience to which creates a definite community with definite rules.

Miss Feltham said the greatest difficulty in the Christian faith was how to live it. A Christian would find help in the intelligent reading of his Bible and in prayer.

Seeking the "Logos."

The attractions of "Chinese White were not all-absorbing, for on Friday night a few ardent spirits gathered to listen to addresses of the tragedy of being a student.

Miss Hoby, speaking briefly and pleasantly, said that we were here to gain fullness of life. We could not do this without entering into the social life of the college: but above all we must seek with sincerity and courage for the meaning of existence—for the logos.

Mr. Nash described the problems—social, political and international—that confront us. Our solutions to these problems are dependent on our attitude to God. Christ taught the love of God and of our neighbour. In the light of this teaching, the student will use his specialised knowledge to the benefit of the community.

A brisk discussion followed. The chairman (Mr. Miller) dealt ably with many questions. There was a real effort to arrive at the basic proofs of Christianity. Mr. Miller would have it that the vital things in life could not be proved after the manner of a geometrical theorem but that a man's faith in God was comparable to the certainty felt by lovers.

Prof.'s Perfect Precedent.

Professor Williams shows the proper attitude towards the Professorial Board. He forgot to attend his first meeting.