SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1929.
OUR WEEKLY
SERMON
History And Modernism: Encouragements And Warnings
MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS
[By the Rev. H. D. A. Major, D.D., F.S.A.]
The "Modern Churchman" publishes the following sermon on History and Modernism" from the text: "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly" (St. John X., 10) :----
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our religion really determines the Kowloon, 9.1% p.m. cuality of our civilisation.
*Our scientific students of religion as they survey its long and varied history-extending far back into
Peak of Religious Evolution prehistoric times-can find, neither
The third fact to which I would in the past nor present, tribes or
direct attention is that the Religion communities or nations without religion.
Religion is universal in of Christ--which is something very The statements of different from many existing forms human history.
the of Christianity-constitutes some of our earlier anthropologists that certain tribes were atheists, highest point of religious evolution. to make simply indicated that their religion do not wish to seem
odious comparisons. 1 recognise was secretive or magical, or of a
to the student with gratitude the great spiritual type so unfamiliar
taught in other as to be unrecognized by him, The and moral truths
I honour their verdict of Auguste Sabatier is the great religions. verdict of science: Mankind is in-founders, saints and sages, but if a modern civilised man, you are Man is not curably religious."
there is of all the historic religions simply a cooking animal, a tool- using animal, a political animal only one that can be yours-if you fas Aristotle defines him), but he is feel as you are bound to feel, if you reflect about it, the need for a also a worshipping animal. man can no more help being fun-religion that is the religion of damentally religious than he can help being fundamentally ratitonal, moral, and aesthetic.
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This being so, the choice for mankind is not, Will you have a religion, or will you have no reli- but What kind of religion -gion?
One which is will you have? magical.
which
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received har brcublic
April 30-At 18, Macdonnell-rd, (lower flat) household furniture, 11] Auction a.m.
April 30-At 18, MacDonnell- rd (lower flat) valuable household furniture, 11 am.
May 1-At 292, the Peak, Gough Hill, valuable household furniture, 2.30 p.m.
May 3A 324 Kowloon Tong, household furniture, silver ware, blackwood and fine etc.. 2.30 p.m.
Christ. Of course, you may not valuable feel the need of it for yourself, but the need of it for others, for the
Sports education of your children for the
To-day -Fourth extra race strengthening of the forces werking for social progress, for the develop-meeting of the H.K. Jockey Club, ment of a noble civilisation and an at Happy Valley. undying art.
I do not mean
May 3-4 S.C. Command Inter- Now there are two very simple unit contest, Sookumpoo Valley.
Meetings obtests of a religion. superstitious, and
meeting of April 29-Annual is its expansion or the number of its scurantist, cr dominantly moral, rational, and adherents-although Christianity
H. K. Society for the Prevention of Messrs. Jar- spiritual? You can make your standa that test better than does Cruelty to Animals, choice; you are surrounded by all
other religion-but its con- din's Matheson's Board Room, 5.15 sorts of religions, old and new.ception of God and the moral ideals p.m. primitive and progressive, uplifting which it enshrines and propagates.
But you
cannot The test of the conception of God and debasing. make a right choice without taking was that selected by that wonder- You can ful thirteenth century missionary, a good deal of trouble.
not do it rightly without thinking about it both from your own point of view and that of others,
nor without rigorously testing your
choice.
Religion in Human Affairs The second fart to which I would
any
Ramon Tall, who sought in the days of the Crusades to convert Island, not by the sword, but by argument: that must be the truest religion which teaches the highest conception
of God. Now when we
examine
the attributes of Allah, we see that omnipotence, wisdom, righteousness
April 29-Meeting of Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd., P. & O. Bldg.,.
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April 30-Combined meeting of Engineers Guild (H. K. Branch.) China Coast Officers' and Marine 67, Des Voeux-rd., 5.30 p.m.
ON
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al "Dunbar House," No. 11, Cameron Road, Kowloon
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
(Catalogues will be issued.) On View from Tuesday, April 30, 1929.
Terms:-Cash on Delivery.
LÄMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, April 27, 1929.
HE Undersigned have received
Esq., to sell by Public Auction,
ON FRIDAY, the 3rd May, 1929, commencing at 2.20 p.m. at No. 324, Kowloon Tong A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-
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cargo are hereby notified that a Gen- eral Average has been declared. It is, therefore, necessary for the Aver. age Bond to be signed, and deposit of 25 per cent paid on the market value of the goods an arrival: All goals are being landed at con. signees risk into the non-hazardous, hazardous &/or extra hazardous ge- downs of the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd. ab Kow- leon, whence delivery may be obtain
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It
a be" signed. and age Bond to deposit of 2 per cent paid on the market value of the goods on arrival. All goods are being landed at con- sigrees risk into the non-hazardous, hazardous &/or extra hazardous go- downs of the Hong Kong & Kowloon. Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd. at Kow- loon, whence delivery may be obtain- ed. All damaged cargo will be ex- amined by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas on 1st May, 1929, at 10 am. No Claints will be admitted after
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May 7 Annual meeting of the
Cabinet, Fine Tientsin Carpets, the 3rd May. 1929, will be subject
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from its being we might suppose universal in human history, plays very important part in human affairs.
'Captains and conquerors leave a
little dust,
And kings a dubious legend of
their reign:
The swords of Caesars, they are
less than rust:
The poet doth remain."
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11 a.m.
Miscellaneous
Father of Jesus Christ is revealed not only as these, but also as love, redeeming. self-sacrificing love. April 28--Band concert by the This is a higher ideal of the Divine K.O.S.B. in Peninsula Hotel roof Nature, therefore the Religion of garden, 9.15 p.m. Christ should be accepted rather than Islam.
Christian Moral Ideal
As for the Christian moral ideal, it also is based on love, not love merely as an emotion, but as active service,
Virtue is for the Chris- But the founders of the great reli- gions leave to after-ages a more tian various forms of love love in the Christion majestic and enduring heritage, even actión: vice is for
Let than the poets. Religious fourders various forms of selfishness.
it be granted, glas, that our Chris- are among the greatest men of the past. Ita priests and leaders are tianity and our so-called Christian
very far prominent in all social and political civilisation are
They mould societies; lead from exhibiting che Christian ethic movements; create organisations; in operation: that in some respects foment antagoniams. We who our Christianity has been and is a horrible travesty of the Religion meet in an ancient university town
Nevertheless, things need no reminder of the part that of Christ. religion has played in education, must be judged by what they are
life.
indeed
ÚJ-
May 1 Spring Festival Quarry Bay School, 11 a.m.
at
May 2 Bridge party at Taikoo Club in aid of HK.W.G. & M.C.L.
May 10-At Volunteer Head- Corns smoking quarters, Annual concert, dinner and distribution of Corps trophies and musketry prizes.
RECRIMINATION PRISONER ACCUSED BY OWN WITNESS
COUNSEL IN DILEMMA
a
Df Drawers Bookcases, Box Couch, etc.. etc.
One Victrola and Records Fine Cut Crystal Glass, compris- ing:-Vases, Bowls, Decanters, Spirit Bottles, Jugs, Lamps, etc.. |
etc,
A Selection of Fine Silverware also
A Choice Selection of Blackwood Ware Joss Table, Silver Cabinet. Inlaid Couch, Standard and Table
Chairs and Stands, etc. Lamps, Writing Desk, Teapoys,
A QUANTITY OF PLANTS IN POTS and
One Kelvinator, Terms:--Cash on Delivery. Catalogues will be issued. On View from Wednesday, the 1st May, 1929.
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LAMMERT BROS.,
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Hong Kong, 27th April, 1929,
APPOINTMENTS
The following appointments
Mr. George Gwinnett Noble have been gazetted:- Tinson to be a member of the Medical Board for a further term of three years, with effect from April 7.
Mr. Norman Lockhart Smith to
Mr. Hin-shing Lo, who appear- nor can we fail to ask ourselves becoming, the direction in whiched for the defence of one of the or a robbery Judged in this prisoners indicted
found himself in whether there can be any adequate they are moving.
Christianity fills us charge,
dilemma
before the yesterday system of education which omits way, current
The Christian ethic religion. Tiele, a leader in the with hope. scientific study of religion, wrote of is capable of infinite expansion and Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice J. R. Charges against its Wood), at the Criminal Sessions. religion as one of the mightiest application. motors in the history of mankind.' impossible or unpractical character He called one of the three pri- Even in an age in which historians only mean that there are enormous soners, who had pleaded guilty, attach vast importance to the part difficulties in living up to it in our to say that his client took no part in the robbery. The witness call or sem:-Christian played
history in human
by present
ed emphatically said that Mr. Lo's that it is not, Christian societies, not economic, factors, they will dissent "from
Ticle's
assertion. really absolutely impossible to do client was in the robbery and that Herbert Spencer in his "Study of 30, or that it would not be highly the third man was not there.
The prisoners in the case were be head of the Sanitary Dopart- that all of us should: Sociology" tells us that 'A reli- desirable glous system is a normal and casen- indeed, that by doing so, we should Ho San, Chung San, Cheung Fat-ment and Registrar of Births and to, Wong Hoi (a woman). The Death's In addition to his other tial factor in every evolving society. create a society possessed of per- three men were charged with rob duties during the absence on leave We should mark the word evolving. fectly wonderful values, and those Religion is not characteristic of a not simply ethical, but also seisi, bery at No. 10, Castle Peak-road of Mr. William James Carrie, with
on January 31 this year, and the effect from April 22. and even seientific.
Provisionally and subject to decadent and dying society; in such aesthetic,
His Majesty's pleasure, Mr.. a society.its religion will also be at Thomas Carlyle confessed that the woman with aiding and abetting
in the felony. the best. a low ebb: ita rites will be neglected Christian character was
Mr. Hin-shing Lo (instructed by Benjamin David Fleming Beith to and its sanctions doubted. In Wherever we come across a real Mr. J. M. Hall) appeared for be an Unofficial, member of the such a case, if the community is to Christian," although a very
rare Cheung Fat-to. When the casa Legislative Council, during the ab revive and survive, ita religion bird, we recognize this..
was first heard, Ho San pleaded sence from the Colony of the Hon. must be revived, or the community
guilty, and he was removed from Mr. John Owen Hughes, with effect must get a new religion.
the dock while the trial of the from April 13, others proceeded..
Inside of Civilisation
Life Which is Life This, then, is our reply to those who think it fatuous and futile to be deeply interested in religion and in
[To Be Continued]
Yesterday Mr. Lo called Ho San
Of the many definitions of reli- the Christian form of it. To such to testify that his client was not gion which have been coined, none objectors we say: If you but knew at the scene of the robbery. Wit- da more suggestive than that which it; if you would but try it, it would ness aaid Cheung Fat-to was there describes it as: "The inside of give you, as you did so, the highest and held a gun.
The jury returned a verdict of .civilisation.' The truest, because values in life:' it would give you and
the profoundes, description of any your civilisation that life whica is guilty against all the prisoners, excepting Chung San. The two civilisation can be expressed in life indeed: it would demonstrate to male prisoners were sentenced to terms of its religion. Its reli you by your own experience the five years hard labour and twelve gion determines a civilization's truth of the words ascribed to Jesus strokes of the "Cat." The woman real character. Although religion in my text: 'I came that they may got three years hard labour and is not the same as ethics, and arises have life, and have it abundantly? Chung San was discharged, out of quite a different set of con- ditions, yet in all the higher reli- gions, religion and ethics are closely united, and a decay of religion in any community will be necom- panied and certainly followed by a moral decaya debasement of conduct and chacter. If there be aught wrong with our civilisation, and doubtless there is much wrong with it, it is most important to look to our religion. Economic, hygienic, social, educational, political pro blems are serious enough, but our religious problems underlie them all and interpenetrate, them all, for
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Mexico City, Thursday The mother superior Concepcion. Mr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, has been sent to the prison colony. at present Warden of the Law of Las Tres Marias, the "Devils School, Yale University, has been Island of Mexico" along with a appointed President of the Uni-number of other women convicted versity of Chicago. — Reuter's | of anti-Government activities.-- American Service..
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