"THE REAL WORLD,"
DR. HODGKIN'S LAST LECTURE.
NTERESTING
QUESTION? ANSWERED.
There was a big audience present in the Helena Mas Institute last night to hear Dr. H. T. Hodgkin deliver the last of his series of four lectures on The Christian Revolu- tion. Cammodore Bowden Smith resill.
Before he began his lecture Dr. Hodgkin said that, as this was the closing lecture, he would like to
express his appreciation of the wel ecine extended to him and his thanks to those who had presided and to Mr. forken and the committee who had made the arrangements, He would like to express, also, his appreciation of the Piss for the very full way in which they had reported him and his thanks to the authorities of the City Hall and the Tretit are for londing the
Troms for the meetings I feel." adled Dr. Molekin. that it has been privilege to Lecture hemp and } 11
has brought me into touch with
taking cut of the child the very thing in The schools
THE CHINA MAIL.
did, advocate the world needed? And a little child idealian and attruism. This had been thall lead them" was round rom-monstrated, in the spirit of self- monsense. Education should aim at sacrifice exhibited in the recent war. developing and directing the creativ. { ̈ Dr. Hodgkin, in a previous neidress,” instincts of the child, not simply continued Mr. Edkins, ' referred to fitting him for, and making hím con- Į the absence of a spirit of, adventure tent with, things as they were but in our people. We should not have making hina a worker for things ass on the colonies and great enter they ought to be. Such people would prises built ap unless there had been bara vision and "where there is no a spirit of adventure I am not clear vision the people perish."
what Dr. Hodgkin is advocating in regard to idealism. I cannot imagine that he wanta us to throw ordinary
QUESTIONS ANSWERED, During his lecture Dr. Hodgkin dealt with a question that had been submitted to him, "What is your idea of Heaven ?”
In order to
explain his views on this subject he used, in illustration, the theory of the fourth dimensional wodd, We may be infinely neat, said Dr. Hodgkin, to another world. There may be a world beyond, a possibility of being that will be open to us when the gates of death give way, which will bring us into a new relation to our own world and not take us far away from it hut
still leave us wonderfully pear."
The
methods on one side. We must be and cons of the situation. You are practical, we must consider the pros
where we shall apply those ideals." advocating ideals; what I miss is
FOOTBALL.
ST. JOSEPH'S 'F.C.
YESTERDAY'S MEETING.
SWAT THAT FLY.
"The Fly Fest" was the principal subject discussed at the fortnightly meeting of the Hongkong Sanitary Board which was held in the Board-
A large number of Old Boys at-room, Post Office Building, yesterday tended a meeting of the St. Joseph's evening, College Football Club in the College Fall last evening for the purpose of discussing plans for the coming season and transact other business,
3
1918.
tears in the
Senior
Mr. G. R. Sayer presided, and there were present the Hon. Mr. T. L. Perkins (D.P.W.) the Hon. Mr.! S.R.C. Ross (S.CA.), Mr. Chou Shou Son. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Dr. W. W. Pearse (M.O.H.) and Mr. C. M, W.¦ Reynolds (Secretary),
The Chairman mentioned that there
had been one or two complaints from the residential district of Magazine Gap of the prevalence of flies. He would ask the Medical Officer of
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The Rev. Bru. Cassin presided. Mr. R. M. Omar, Hon. Secretary of the Club, recalled the institution's
the careful statement of the point League and the Junior Division of Dr. Hodgkin said he appreciated part achievements both in the School which had just been made. In his the Hongkong League. A College second lecture he dealt with the team first entered the last named in
carry over, of idealism into every- day life. In those regions of our cou-1911, and the College had been cox on life which were being worked out peting in that league every year since, at a point lower than the ideal the with varied measures of success. The method be adrocated was that people Club had made steady progress ever The Medical Officer of Health said Dr. Hodgkin also deal with the who saw a better way should make since it was started. Ther first won that on Saturday orenoon he visited inquiry as to his conception of justice/experiments as social pioneers. His the Junior League Championships in the portion of the Peak ruentioned by glad that it Those who lived in the sense of The point was that the spitit of adventure | 1914. They repeated their success the Chairman and found, in the:
Real World." he said, would be more
did not find adequate expression, is
and ngsin last In 1919 they entered garden of the very person who com- The work being done in this Colony concerned to get justice for other xt in times of national crisis. It season.
might result in a man becoming a
plained of the fly nuisance, a very were you have great difficulties yet people than for themselves.
stabli gous possibilities, and where. I can principle that "it is more blessed to great adventurer on the Stock Ex-Division for the first time. They did considerable quantity of net help feeling, there is, amongst the give than to receive" transcended change and have no other outcome Dot win the Championship, but gave fix There were other gardens in manan, exposed and awarming with justice, and the existence of a body that personal enrichment. The pro a very good account of themselves of men and women who believed that blem was to harness the spirit of amongst the top notchers. In the same the vicinity, and although he did not season the Club also entered a team he was inclined to think, from ia see any other stable manare exposed, would powerfully counteract the The Chaiman said he did not in the Challenge Shield Com etition. quiries, that other people used stable vespicions and antagonisms that threatened to disrupt society.
think it fair to tax Dr. Hodgkin her worked their way right up to manure on their gardens. Many In his four the final and lost to the Police only people seemed to imagine that if they Sumucarising his view of Christian addresses, the Lecturer had expound sites a replay, and by a very narrow covered stable manure no harm could our common life than the problem of ideas, Dr. Hodgkin asked Was ei, with great eloquence and power margin. The past succes of the Club result. That was a great mistake as the right relationship of races to one it a ghastly mistake which Jesus a number of questions of great in made the events which followed all if flies laid their eggs before the stuff arethe. We love to go on trying mac and was it proved to be a nis portance. Dr. Hodgkin had given the more disappointing. Last year was covered, the maggots would still to solve it by many experiments, ani take by the fact that He, in trying these addresses in addition to a great they here efforts are being made, and I hop will continue to be made, toto carry it out, was crucifed? Or is deal of other work: they had evident from tam Senior League owing
hatch out and would ravel through wark a mal solation of this question, matter of history that the results been the fruit of mach study and the departure of some of their best
many fect of the light garden which if it be put solved in the next of that life has been a far more thought and he would take away players. The Club is as badly off for breed in every kind of offal; they soils in Hongkong. Flies would creative thing towards bringing in a with him their grateful thanks and players this year, and it I oked as if new social order than if He had very best wishes for his future they would have to again keep out of adjusted His He tc what we (Loud applause.)
the Senior League.
different rationalities mixing here spirit of determination to revise some of the pillities and overcome difficulties to be found in any such meeting place of rare as this. There is aut a more urgent problema in ali
bursired years can only man great and grave dithealties in human life."
PLUCKING BLACKBERRIES,"
Dr. Horlekin'- address had for title -The Beal World" and by way of indicating its theme he quoted these
lines:-
Earth's cranited with Heaven, and
every bush afice with God: But only those who see take of
adventure to social netis.
further at that hur.
Call the practical facts of Dr. Hodgkin in acknowledgment life'? The things I have been said he had been well rewarded by trying to say have not been easy: the patient and close attention that I am afraid I have spoken elusively he had received.
and that some of my statements will Afterward there was an informal not seem very relevant to the pro-meeting of those who wished to blems you are facing. But I do not to discuss with Dr. Hodgkin the admit the charge. These great practical application locally of the their shoes:
questions of social and international principles he bad expounded. The rest sit round and pluck black-reconstruction are not to be solved, Later on in the evening Dr. Heig.
berrice.
kin spode at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, nn "The Faith for a New Age."
primarily, in the great conclaves of Occasionally," he said, we get men, in national assemblies or trade this sense of another world. of the federations. The real solution rests absolute reality of the world of with the common men and women thought, of emotion: the world that like ourselves. Every person whose is not to be mecanted. weighed, seen, life is related in some clear, well- toueled the Real World. And then thought-out way to this real world" we ship out of it, as it were; and we of the unseen is one who is helping pluck blackbernes lacking black-forward the time when the world may bernes is the portual attitude of must be lifted out of its evils into per of us in this word and yet every now and truer ways.--(Load and prolonged and then, we get this extraordinary applause). glimpse of the world we do not touch that is the ultimate reality. The tragedy of the evis that befall men wars, revolution unit the likes that we do not live in the real world: we live in the word of time and space and sense, in the world of business and commerce, and we do not see that these unwen things are the actual realitie.
11 we did, when vil breaks
out in the worn we should find mens el meeting it without having ourselves to descrd to the methods of evd." ·
THE CHILD SPIRIT.
Questions were invited and Th. Hodgkin read a series of thought questions he bad received in writing. The questioner asked it the super. natural should not now be removed from the Christian ethic and suggested that the leaders of religion hul been too dogmatic on matters about which
no one could be certain.
The Lecturer said be believed them
was a supernatural element it religion and that it was not contra natund. The task was to show forth that element in a way that did not oppor reason but led beyond the realms to which it was possible for science, logic and philosophy to attain. He to ana at breaking down the avete welcomed the questioner's sugestion
Dr. Hodgkin went on to refer to
the development of the child ad and the tendency of aduits deliberately
детте forced
to
CAPTAIN'S GAME LEG.
withdraw
preferred excretal matter. g. that of human beings, and stable and cat- tle manure, especially house manure, Horse ranure was extremely liable to flies on account of its very frishle form an active breeding ground for nature.
Senior Captain, said the speaker, was "Teddy Hyndmar. their popular
now laid up with leg trouble, and an operation was imminent. Xavier and Flies were to be blamed for the! amained and advised against further typhoid, paratyphoid, even cholera, Ismail have both been medically ex- conveyance
of many diseases- participation in football, or, for that in certain circumstances-and such matter, any strenuous game. Finally diseases as infective enteritis, mani- they must record the loss of Sepher festing itself as extremely severe and and Yalesco, two of their best players, even fatal cholerai diarrhoea, might who have gone to the University and be conveyed by flies. He felt that would now turn out for that inst-tu- the time had come for the Board to tion. In the circumstances, it would forbid the use of all such crude be out of the question to enter a term manures in gardens in crowded and POLICE RECREATION CLUB in the Senior League, but in ouler sidential areas, until the present th the Club might not be totally dry system could be replaced by the uurepresented in P.R.C. will be held in the Club House, team should be entered in the fenior and some would hibernate all the
the Hongking water carriage system. The annual general meeting of the League this season, be thought that a Happy Valley, on Monday the 17th Division.
Flies world live for many weeks, This team, with very winter hiding in sheltered places in Inter alia, the
report by Mr.few exceptions, would be ena-houses, ready to produce the ax Carpenter, Hon. Sec. states:
posed of new players, who would generation of fies when th In the Lawn Bowls League com- require a lot of training before they weather came. He had writ en out Petition some good games were could be put into League trim. They some notes on anti-fy measures; he witnessed, the Club Shishing 4th should not expect too much from the had not given them very fully but place in the League.
new team, who, of course, could not had selected a few notes on traps, compare with some of the old timers poisons, and protection of refuse and who had made their mark in the foot-food. He thought it the local news- ball history of the College. but no papers would find room for them, that pains should be spared to put apa the notes might be of use to the com- stiff fight to retain the cup. At the munity and help them to protect least, the team would serve to keep themselves against flies. the College colours flying until better times returned, which he hoped would not be later than a year hence.
The Club Championship was wut Mr. W. G. Gerrard, Handicap wor by Mr. Knight, the Novices by Mr. Nicoll and the Shield Competition by Messrs. McLellan, Gerard, A. Clatk
and Robertson.
The Tennis Championship was won by Booker.
three friendly games were played Cricket-During the season only therefore batting and boxling ag regates are not shown.
The Club entered a team in the
and Instiulness of the child, until the that we should be tentative with Football League but were not success 1oaf of the was auven out and regard to the things not yet completely The old was 12 nike s elders revealed." pretty buasi and pot vay sure that
IDEALS AND PRACTICE.
even Goa Hunselt as tree to act in M. G. T. Edkias said be bad Its own world." In the connection,listened with much appreciation, Dr. Hodgkin quoted :—
great interest and very ruuch sympathy to Dr. Hodgkin's advocacy of idenis sad idealism but he must
Why, with such errues? paits dost
theu provoke The years to bring the inevitable
Joke!
ful in gaining first place.
Through the kindness and courtesy President (The U.S.P.) the Anual Xmas Tree and Sports were held and an enjoyable afternoon both for children and members was spent. The Membership of the Club is 12. Thanks are duc
to the CSP, confess that be found, as Dr. Hodgkin ASP, Meests Course, Knight and continued, a certain elusiveness in Wiltou for their kindness in present- The unspoiled childspitit. what he had to say. It was diff. ultting prizes, also Mr. A. K Henderson seriously believed.
the spint to express one's thought, following on for a donation of $50.00 winch grown they wad women proded such an address, but what he had in today to boog tetu ugat into the mind was--Could Dr. Hodgkin express word of really, Relation to "the more cleany the relationship between real word**
the great gut the idealism he advocated and the that chAdren had to make to hubad
obligation everyone was under to ity and was there not a dunger, whose observe the standarde of We were teaching the chic how to common day? He did not think did justice earn the living and how to fit himselt Dr. Hodgkin quite into the social order, that we were to our educational methods; education
NOW-DO TRY TO BE MORE CIVIL TO THE WAITER - THIS IS VERY SWELL AND NO ONE B'ST THE VERY BEST PEOPLE GO
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A TRIBUTE.
warm
where we find
The Chairman: Do you mean that Bocumulations of manure we shall have to take action under Section 26 ?
Dr. Pearse: Yes, The meeting then concluded.
ANTI FLY MEASURES.
The notes mentioned by the Medical Officer of Health were as follows:
trap; (b) Tanglefoot spread on glazed 1. Traps-(s) Japanese mechanical paper or other unabsorbent surface.
C. Van Leu paid a tribute to Bro. Alphonsus, for many years the sports master of the College. It was a pity that the circumstances as outlined by the Hon. Secretary, should follow so closely the departure of their energetic organiser and popular Chairman. The Club's successes in past seasons were due in a great measure to. Bro. 2. Poison-Milk 20 per cent.; line Alphonsus able handling of the Club's water 77 per cent.; formalin 3 per affairs, and to the loyalty and unity cent. Mix and add one teaspoonful of the Old Boys. In Bro. Cassin their of sugar to one soup plate full of the new Chairman, they had an able roirture. Place a small cube of bread successor to Bro. Alphonsus, and he to form an island for fties to alight on deserved all the support that they in the middle of the plate. could render for his efforts at main- taining the high position of the Club. (Hear hear.)
AN AID TO DIGESHON..
The financial position of the Club HEN you have a fullues and weight was then discussed after which are in the stomach after using you Holation not to enter a team in the may know that you on to muce, First Division, was unanimously ap duld take out of Chatber's proved on being moved by Mr. by all Chemista suu toreker pers. Tuuleta to aid your digestive. For sale * Cordeiro, seconded by Mr. A Rahmin.
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