'SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1929.
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of the Universe
[By the Very Rev. W. R. Inge, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's]
Omar Khayyam makes his fierce and blasphemous protest:-
O thou who didst with pitfall and
with gin
Beset the path I was to wander
{13......
For all the sin wherewith the face
of man
Is blackened, man's forgiveness,
give-and take!
port.
p.m.-Evening Columbia Records), "Pomp And Circumstance," "Marche Lorraine,"
March. The Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards. Dance Music,
8.30 p.m. "Just The Reverse," "The Face;"
Feb 4-Lantern Slide lecture at Helena May Institute,” 5.30 pm.-
Feb. 6-Rev. Fr. P. Joy, Bp. speaks on "Religion: The Fetters of Freedom," at St. Patrick's Hall, 6 Garden Road, 5.30 p.m..
Feb. 7-Distribution of Univer- sity Certificates to Candidates of Comedian. George Robey. the French Convent School, Cause-
Dance Music,
way Bay, by the Rev. Fr. Byrne, S.J., at 4 p.m.
Feb. 19 At Repulse Bay Hotel. (Do I Do Wrong?). (from "Blue Eyes").Chinese New Year's Eve special din- Duet. Evelyn Laye and ner dance.
Geoffrey Gwyther. Dance Music.
Feb. At Hong Kong Hotel, Chinese New Year's Eve Carnival.
Feb. 18-Lecture on "The Re Higion Of To-day And The Science "Get Out And Get Under The Of Tomorrow," by Rev. Fr. R
Moon,"
9.45 p. "Skadatin-Dee,"
Comedians. Van and Schenck.15
Dance Music. 10.10 p.m.-News Bulletin.
Dance Music.
In the useful series of booklets, which needs to be accounted for. called "Affirmations," edited by Dr. Percy Dearmer and published at one shilling by Messra, Benn, there is one which raises the most funda-] mental of all questions-Can 'it bel true that God is Love? It is written by the Grand Old Man of the Church of England, Canoa J. M. Wison, formerly Headmaster of Clifton and He was then Canon of Worcester.
That Is how life looks to many- Senior Wrangler in 1859, and has
9. p.m. therefore had ninety years in which an environment at best indifferent,
Thore is not "Blue Eyes," to test his faith that God is Love. at worst malicious.
This long experience has left him much comfort to be got out of, "Blue Eyes,"
science, though quite convinced that the words of, materialistic St. John are true, but not at all Haeckel tells us that "the formative satisfied with the traditional pre power of the formless protoplasm sentation of them. Ho dislikes the calls forth his highest admiration." popular emphasis upon the "por Other observers, like Mr. Bertrand honality" of God. The time will Russell, have been driven by the cone, indeed it has come, when the same spectacle to a defiance half text 'God is Spirit will form the herofe and half theatrical. Huxley basis of Christian theology."likened our life to a game of chess "Christ is the revealer of God as with in unseen antagonist, Holy Spirit." "The mental plays fair but never overlooks image of a Personal God is ne- mistake. But does not the unseen we play, cessary to the preacher at the pre opponent, however well sent stage of the world's religious end by upsetting the table and education, but It may not be, sweeping off the stakes? think it certainly is not, the final
And yet all this pessimism won't stage." "It seems to me natural do.. If our environment is hostile to think of the Holy Spirit not as or even indifferent, we cannot main-
Person but as Christ's real contain our, Ideals.
What can we do ception of God as Divine power against a supreme Power who is and grace and life and light, given our enemy? Religion could only to men and implanted in them. live us slavish superstition; prayer Was not this destined to be the final could only be the cringing of a conception of God, behind the image coword. Fear, which has and parable of the transcendent wrongly said to be the beginning of Fathor in heaven, and destined to worship, would be its ignominious replace it?" "The incipient spiritual end. life in man is verily the Holy Ghost." "May not the true Gospel be the glorious news that man la a partial incarnation of the Divine Creative Spirit ?" From this to "God is Love" is an easy transition.
Robust Conviction
ho
Rough and Smooth of Life
who
B
been
Is there any class of men who, after experiencing the rough and the smooth of life, have testified that they are convinced of the "friendliness of the Universe," or, in religious language, that "God Is Love" 7 If there is, it is worth while to consider why their opinion differs 80 strongly from that of Schopenhauer and his followers.
There la such a class of men.
Thero la none of an old man's caution about these "Affirmations." Theologically, they are dangerous But this robust conviction, that the order of the world is friendly to - man, is the reaction of a very long They are those who have faced the and active life upon his early faith obvious fact that if there is an in- Like Margaret Fuller, the Ameri- telligent Power behind Nature, that can blue-stocking, "accepts Power is not bent on making human The the Universe." "Gad! she'd blife pleasant or comfortable. ter," was Carlyle's caustic comment philosophy of self-indulgence, and on the good lady's pronouncement aven of vicarious pleasure-seeking,
not But it was a silly speech,
the desire to give everybody a good though it sounds ao grandiloquent. time, is wrecked upon the laws of
Frederick Myers was once asked:
It therefore leads the universe.
But to pessimism. "If you could ask the Sphinx 'ono
straight question, and one only, what would the aim of the Supreme Power is that question be ?" After a short
the growth of character, if Keats silence Myers replied: "I think it was right in calling life "the vale our standard of would be this: Is the Universa friendly"
ture
It is the eternal question between faith and unfaith, between hope We all know how and its absence.
The Schopenhauer answered it.
Na- Universo
unfriendly. is hus. arranged A system
and baits
traps to in- of duce living creatures to act in such a way as to serve her purposes, which have nothing, to do with our welfare. If we were not beguiled by her wiles, we should see that life is an evil thing, and we should not wish to perpetuate it. For us, 18 for many Asiatic thinkers, salvation means deliverance from the weary circle of existence, and nothing else.
Nature's Cruelty
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WEDNESDAY
Gallagher, S.J., at St. Patrick's Hall, BANK BORZACIS
Garden Road, 6.30. p.m. take Feb. 20-At St. Patrick's Hall, 5 $ Garden Road, the 'Rev. Fr. P. Joy, S.J., lectures on "A Book And Itsk Story," 5.30 p.m.
.
Feb. 21-Hong Kong Horticult 13tura, Society annual show, Volunt
teer Headquarters.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN THE "MAIL *--- To-day-Queen's Theatre; "Hang- man's House."
Feb. 22-H.K.V.DC. Annual In- spection at Murray Parade ground, 5.50 p.m.
Feb. 23-Laying of Foundation stone of the Kowloon branch of: Chinese Y.M.C.A.
Feb. 27-Lecture at St. Patrick's Hall, 6 Garden Road on "The For To-day Majestic Theatre;
tress Still Standing." by Rev. Fr. Learning to Love."
Today Theatre Royal; Farewell G, Byrne, S.J., at 6.30 p.m.
March 7-8 Church of England of Coyne's Musical appearance
Diocesan Conference, St. John's Comedy, in a special programme, Cathedral Hall, from 5.15 to 7.15. 9.15 p.m.
To-day-Repulse Bay Hotel Car-jp.m. nival.
To-day-Star Theatre; Children's Matinee, "Old Clothes," 2.80 p.m. only.
Heaven,"
ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
STREET ANGEL
AT
THE QUEEN'S
GLOOMY READING
PARADOX OF PLEASURE- LOVING AGEN
Mr. G. K. Chesterton, commenting. The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice on the decision of the Poetry Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals Society not to award its gold medal, To-day-World Theatre; "Why bega to acknowledge with thanks as the efforts of the twenty-three the following donations to the funds competitors-twenty-two of whom Worry."
To-day-Star Theatre; "Seventh of the Hospitals:-
were women-did not warrant the Per Mr. T. N. Chau!–
award said: Feb. 3-Star Theatre; "Seventh The Hong Kong Excava- tion, Pile Driving & Heaven," 2.30 p.m.
Feb. 3-5-Queen's Theatre: "Lost
Construction: Co., Ltd. $ Mr. Cheung Sum-wo In The Arctic."
Feb. 4-5 World Theatre; "The Mr. Ho Wa-sang Mr. Lo Chap-son The Lan Tai, Mutual Fire & Marine Insurance Co.,
#
Ltd.
Ring."
Feb. 4-5-Star Theatre; "Chang." Feb. 6-7---World Theatre; Cam- pus Flirt."
Feb. 6-7-Star Theatre "Roaita."
Mr. Ma Chihung Feb. 6-9-Queen's Theatre; Mr. So Sau-nam
{*; "Street Angel."
Mr. Mok Kong-sang Feb. 7-Concert organised by Mrs. L. C. F. Bellamy, at Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m.
Mr. Ng Tsz-mel Feb. 8-9-World Theatre: "The Mr. Ma Ying-plu
Mr. Ma Wing-chan Feb. 8-90-Star Theatre "Bardelys Mr Woo Pak-kwan
RiceGuild⋅ The Magnificent.”
Feb. 15-Macdons Players' Stage Ginseng Guild our ideals. "The Philanderers" at Star, Thea Druggists Guild We And, in short, that to a retre, Kowloon in their final perform- Brass & Iron Dealers ligion of redemption the Universe ance. is friendly.
of soul-making,"
good and evil, of friendliness and changed com- unfriendliness, is
We have now a world un- pletely. friendly to our unregenerate de- aires, but friendly to
Denial."
Feb. 16-Variety entertainment] by the K.O.S.B. as farewell to Mrs. Luard, Theatre Royal, 9 p.m.
The Heart of Reality And whore do these Ideals, which
Feb. 10, 21, 22, 23-Hong Kong pessimism must regard as the most cruel and heartless of delusions, Amateur Dramatic Club presenta spring from, if not from the heart "On Approval," at the Theatre of reality? Are we to accept a Royal.
Feb. 20-International dance, view of the Universe which leaves all our values out ? Why should Club Lusitano.
Those who have re- Feb. 23 International dance, we do od 1 solved to live as if those values Club de Recrtio. were ultimate truths and this is exactly what theology means by
Land Sales
Feb. 4-At P. W Offices, Tour
Lammerts Auctions. Feb. 4-At Sales Room, Duddell- st. Miscellaneous goods, furniture, Yale Hardware, etc, etc., 11 ata
Feb. 6-At Sales Room, Duddejki st. household furniture, 2.30 p.m.
Feb. At Sales Room, Duddell- st. a valuable" collection of stamps, 5.15 p.m.
There is, of course, very much in Falth-have not been disappointed. lots of Crowa land at Shamshulpe, our experience which points to-They have begun with an ex-8 pan. wards pessimism. Nature often pariment which has ended as an ex- The first saving change, seems quite Indifferent and some perience. times wantonly cruel. It is only a writes Clement of Alexandria, is superficial view which. ignores that from unbellef to faith; the next, Nature's law is a conjugation of the from faith to knowledge; the last verb "to eat," in the active and is when knowledge passes Into love, passive. It is only familarity that which unites the knower with the blinds us to the outrages upon known... human dignity and self-respect It all amounts to this-that "he which Nature has provided for us Universe is friendly" to brave men when we enter the world and when who are willing to enduro hard- we leave it. The preliminaries of ness; it is not friendly to cowards birth are such that we do not speak nor to those who merely want, to of them; the sequelae of death are enjoy themselves. We might have so revolting that we are fain to hide preferred another kind of world, the remains of our dear ones out of some isle of the Lotus eaters; but sight before the terrible changes our lot has been cast in a vale of are visible this the consoul-making" in which we must be duct of a Power which has any love ready to lose all in order to gain
all. or care for its creatures ?
Sports
Feb. 8-Gymkhana of 2nd Batta. King's Own Scottish Borderers, at Kwantl
Feb. 9 Boxing Tournament at the City Hall, 9.15 p.m.
Feb. 9-10 Paperchase, etc., at Canton by Invitation of Members. of Canton Ride...
Feb. 11-Hong Kong Football Assen. Interportgame” “"Hong Kong V. Shanghai, HACFO, ground, 8.80 p.m.
Feb. 17-China New Ya steeplechase meeting of Fanling Hunt, at Kwant race course. Feb, 25, 26, 27& Mar. 2-
Can we say with confidence that Marcus Aurelius, who was almost civilisation has made man anya saint, though a very poor emperor, happier? Durar in a remarkable exclaims: From Thee, O God, 411 picture represents Humanity sit things come in Thee all things sub- ting Badly among all her cunningly sist; to Thee all things return. 801 invented toys, sick at heart that say of the world, Dear City of God" they have forought no good with That is courage and resignation, Kong Jockey Club Annua them. "It is the yearning cry but he never gets to "God is Love," Meeting. Bays Wellhausen, that goes because,keslmost all ancient Meetings through all the peoples; as they ad philosophers, he starts by seeking vance in elvigation they feel the a treed which will make him in value of the goods they have sorvulnerable. This is the fast in fied for it
firmity of noble thinkers: they want Many treatises have been written to be invulnerable on the Problem of Evil
it acc all the sure might be held that evil so far pre- worl dominates in the world that some scutal pupil of Mephistophelbe mikht try which hals hand on a thesis, cale 14The and Problem of Good One could which write a drea showing that Good
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