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Last evening the various Commis-! A number of school teachers in Bank, 4 months' sight 1/11 1⁄4·
4 months' sion charged with the consideration Canto are considering the advis-Credits, sight of special subjects resumed their ability of petitioning the local discussions. One of these, that Kuomintang to rescind its order Donumentary 4 months'
sight. dealing with Evangelism, struck that the local Press shall publish what is likely to be the dominant what is handed them by the pro- note of this annual meeting of the paganda bureau. Some educators On demand National Christian Council. There consider it very harmful for youths Credits, was a general sense of the need of to read from newspapers such
On Berlin- spiritual awakening in the stories as the one that General Han churches, and of the necessity for Fu-chu received $8,000,000 from On demand meeting the challenge of the times Marshal Chiang Kai-shek to revolt by well planbed and eager aggres-against his superior, General Feng On demand sion with a view to doubling the Yu-hsiang, or
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Wire the next five years. The Commission bribes. in ite deliberations had the valued
Before the advent of the new On demand help and counsel of Dr. John R.
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Wire Mott, who heartily endorsed the usually taught to be loyal to their committee's recommendations
elders or superiors and, as a good On demand the general Council for the in-citizen, to possess the spirit that auguration of this Forward Evan-
"for the rise or fall of a country,! gelistic Movement.
Today, at 8.30 a.m., a brief devo-every individual has his tional meeting was held in the Col-sibility.""Nan Chung Kuo News lege Chapel, conducted by the Rev. Andrew Weir, of Manchuria. This was immediately followed by a gen- eral mecting of the Counel at 9 o'clock.
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of The special feature this was the reception of the Rev. H. Kozakl, D.D., and the Rev. W.
Before Major C. Willson, O.B.E., Axling, who come as friendly dele-at the Central Magistracy, yester gates from the National Christian day afternoon, there was a sequel Council of Japan. Dr. Kuzaki has to the recent theft of several pac- been a Christian minister for fifty kets of tram, "bus and ferry ticketa Copper Cash
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He is also a great author, the Kowloon Motor 'Bus Co, was Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par. whose works are very widely read. charged with the theft of a packet
LONDON EXCHANGES His address was especially interest of 50 bus tickets issued by his ing for the method of interpreta Company, and, alternatively, with tion, and was heard in three langa receiving, the stolen tickets. These agos: ́ He, himself, spuke in Japan-tickets were special Government ese, Mr... Axting translated into tickets and when the accused one English, and Bishop Lindel Tsen day handed in the 50, Lui Fak, the into Chinese.
chief ticket collector thought that it 1871 to 1929 Dr.
Kozaki said that in 1907, was odd that 40 of them bore cou- eccutive numbers. He then threat- when China was celebrating its hundredth anniversary since the ened to have the acouused arrested beginning of mission work, they in and the latter finally admitted that Japan were keeping their fiftieth he had bought two bundles of these for eighty. since the entrance of Christianity. Government tickets from an un- Japanese missions began in 1859. known Shanghai man The first Christian Protestant cents each. It was pointed out that church was opened in 1871, so that the full value of the bundles was $1 each, so that the accused had hoped in his country Christianity Was still in its opening stage. Japan to make forty cents on the trans- had made great progress in modern action.
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His Worship convicted and passed
it concerned commerce, industry sentence of six weeks' hard labour.
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and politics, but it was not so in regard to its religious life. Japan felt that in her new life, confronted with nations strong in every way, she must needs develop in a material and military way, and these things had therefore been em- phasized, and matters religious had At the China Auction Room yes-nounced that, owing to bad at- been neglected or ignored. Alao terday six Chinese tenement houses mospherics parts of messages are the prejudice against Christianity situated at Nos. 62, 64, 66, 68 missing. created three hundred years ago, Queen's Road Central and Nos. 19 doubtful.] and persisting through the long and 21 Stanley-street were put up persecution of the Roman church, for auction.
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bad become ingrained in the Bidding was brisk. Starting at! nation's thought. When he first 500,000 with minimum bids studied Christianity, sixty years $1,000, the price rose to $540,000 ago, he was faced by serious pro-when the property was knocked Elems of interpretation; and for a down to the Oriental Investment long time, between the two camps Company.
of conservative and liberal thought,
he was regarded as a heretic by
both. But that era passed, and to-
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German Rationalism
Reception also was
GIRL KIDNAPPED
ALLEGED SALE FOR $180 IN KOWLOON
At the Kowloon Magistracy, yesterday, Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith heard a case in which three elderly Chinese women were charged with having been involved in the sale of
so, and there are few novels writ- ten, even by non-Christians, where At one time the inrush of Ger-the actions and ideas of Christian an 18-year-old Chinese girl who
was kidnapped from Kongmoon. This is man rationalism had seemed as if people are not introduced.
According to Mr. H. R. Butters, It would
in the work of the great! swamp the Christian 80 church. Some great Christian Christian socialist writer, Kagawa, of the Secretariat for Chinese It was leaders became propagandists of and in the writings of Kunami, who Affairs, the actual kidnapper of the rationalism and for a long time is at once outstanding as a literary girl has not been arrested. their teaching seemed to dominate light and as an earnest Christian, alleged, however, that on her ar the Christian churches. This con- The Imperial Household represente rival in Hong Kong the girl was tinued until 1910, when there was the centre of conservatism, yet, turned over to the accused, and No. a marked return to the saner in-even here, Christianity is being re- introduced her to the mistress of terpretation of Christian truth. cognized. At the recent Imperiala Yaunat house. Second accused Even to-day, Christianity in Japan wedding, and the banquet following was alleged to have received $180 of the girl. This leaus rather to the historical in-It, three religious leaders were in for the sale
One of these re money was paid over to the kiduap- terpretation of the Bible than talvited as guests, the fundamental. These theolo-presented Protestanism (it happen per who gave second and third gical controversies had the diss-jed to be himself), the other two accused $5 each as their share in trous effects of unsettling belief were Shinto and Buddhist. So also the transaction and of blocking evangelism, and at the Imperial coronation. Seven
First accused was alleged to have
this accounts for the belated pro-religious leaders were amongst produced a promissory note purport gress of the Christian church in those who were invited. Of these, ing to have been signed by the girl Japan. In the earlier days there three were Buddhist, two were for $800 she was supposed to have
were Christians. received. were no denominational differences. Shinto, and two Subsequently these appeared, and So it will be seen that Christian
After the girl had given evidence,!
still later a determined efort was teaching and Christian influence the case was adjourned. made to secure unica. When an are entering into the very heart and important consummation of union life of Japan,
between two great bodies was on Discussion on Constitution the verge of consummation, nego The Council met in full session But union this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and for tiations broke down..
is to-day a large question and all the rest of the afternoon went into the important communions have committee upon the draft of the appointed committees to consider new constitution of the National the possibilities; the National Christian Council. There was con
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Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Christian Council of Japan is doing siderable and warm discussion as Kong for June (Standard time of all it can to stimulate and help the to whether the English or Chinese the 120th Meridian, East of Green- union movement...
versions should be the standard, wich), are as follow Christian Influence Strong and strong objection was taken by Numerically there are in Japan some of the delegates to the fact June 170,000 Protestant believers, or that the Chinese version appeared eluding the Protestant, Roman and to have been translated from the Greek churches, 300.000 Christian English. Patriotic feeling suggested people. It would not be fair to the opposite course. After pro-
A street running north-east- judge of the Influence of the longed debate, it was decided to Christian church merely on basis make free use of both versions, but wards from Baker-street, termin- of these numbers, for the influence to regard the Chinese documents in ating at its junction with Cooke- and impact of Christianity or connection with the Council's work street is to be known as Malacca- Japanese life is far beyond the as the standard, and the English as street. HF. the Governor has numerical strength of the Christian translated. The Council then pre-ordered that that portion of Church. National ideals are frank-ceeded to paas senistim the various Middle road from the S.D. corner ly and broadly based on Christian paragraphs of the first section deal of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 414 to Ideas In Iterature, Christian ining with the preamble-Communia Junction with Salisbury-road
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Sir Kingsley Wood, M.P., speak- ing at a gatherrig of the foremen and draughtsmen of Woolwich Arsenal at the Holborn Restaur- ant.
the ordnance said that factories were an essential and vital part of those services upon which the Empire depended for its. defence and security.
We could still be lover of peace. and at the same time believe, in proper and adequate provision be- The ing made for our defence. quickest way to bring about an- other world-wide conflict would be to adopt the proposal of Soviet Russia with reference to total dis-
armament of the
The strength of the Arsenal had, during last year, not only been maintained but slightly In- creased, and he was glad to know that so far as could be foreseen there would be no substantial
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