SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1929.
OUR
WEEKLY SERMON
Is A Science Of History Possible?
MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS
[By G. G. Ceulton, M.A., D.Litt, Fellow of St. John's College,
Cambridge]
(Continued from June 15)
THE CHINA MAIL,
FENG SITS TIGHT
HAS NOT MADE FIRST STEP TOWARDS EXILE
HOW NANKING WILL FIGHT
SHADOWS BEFORE.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL *
ENTERTAİNMENTS
To-day
Queen's Theatre;
Theatre;
Theatre;
Peking, Yesterday. General Ho Cheng-chur's office "The Waltz Dream.".. to-day admits that yesterday's offi To-day World. cial statement with regard to "Battles of Verdun." Feng Yu-hsiang's arrival at Yun- To-day Star cheng is incorrect.. Feng Yu-The Way of All Flesh,"
hsiang has not arrived although Let us turn to the second objec-emerged in this recent Prayer Book hope that he will cross the river to the authorities here express the tion. It amounts to this: that the controversy.
Not only a bishop. Shans very historian, however closely he may at one of those who might be most well-informed circles here do not shortly. However, follow Bossuet's and Mabillon's ad expected to know these matters, believe that Feng has any inten- claimed in "The Times" that Re-tion of crossing (to meet Yen Hsi-
To-day - Majestic Theatre; "The Gorilla Hunt."
To-day-At Repulse Bay, special entertainment at the dinner dances.
Band and Vocal Concert, 9.15 p.m.
To-day-Kowloon Cricket Club
June 23-25, Queen's Theatre;
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vice can never attain to results worth calling scientific; when he has collected his facts, put them in order, and worked out their relation to each other in his own mind, this may not be their true relation; he cannot go into a laboratory and convince himself, by repeated experiment, that cause and effect stand to ereh other in the exact relation which he sur- mises. That is true; but it is true also of other studies which are universally labelled as scientific of geology, for example. man can command the earth's crust to do gain what we now feel quite
sure she once did.
of the word, a Catholic custom (Feb. 4, 1928); yet we have no trustworthy evidence for this as a custom, in the only sense
which
Reuter.
Four Routes
Yen Hei-shan' will command the northern route,
Hankow, Yesterday. was really at issue in that distack against Feng Yu-hsiang be It is learned that should an at- cassion, for more than a thousand necessary, the National armies will years after Christ's death An- other bishop, a specialist in his converge on Tungkwan from four tory. confessed with honourable
routes, thus:- fraukness that the question of fast- ing, communion, to which he was personally attached, needed zerl ous investigation now. No
erually strong Anglo-Catholic, pro- fessor of theology at a great uni- versity, has made an equally frank suggestion as to the need of for mally reconsidering now, in the light of history, questions even more important than this of fasting communion.
"There, where the long street rears,
hath been
The silence of the central sea..... They melt like mists, the solid
lunds:
Like clouds they shape themselves
and go.
A Paridos
Ruskin, after elaborate observa- tions, convinced himself, para- doxically, that no river can cut its channel through rock, and that the river's function has always been to silt such thannels up: no- body has ever been able to disprove that paradox by real experiment, though very likely nobody believes it.
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To-day Inward from Japan, Shanghai and Europe via Siberia
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To-morrow-Outward for Shang- Europe via Siberia, ("Ouderkerk), 9 a.m.
Land Sale
June 24--At P.W.D. Offices, two lots of Crown land at Shamshüipe, 3 p.m.
Meetings
July Meeting of Creditors of
HAROLD T. CREASY. Water Authority. Public Works Department,
Hong Kong, 21st. June, 1929.
Ho Ying-ching the southern, Tang Seng-chi the eastern, Liv Hulang the western, Chiang Kai-shek will direct the It is significant that movements of all four routes.
the Hong Kong Tug & Lighter Co., I chu's
Han Fu Ltd., at Messra. Percy Smith, Seth and Shib. Yu-shar's troops & Fleming's offices, noon. (having deserted Feng for Chiang) are all being removed
Miscellaneous front and being sent to points pavilion of S.C.A.A. at Quarry Bay, from the June 29 Opening of bathing remote from the probable scene 2.30 pm.
That is where we of hostilities. sland, then, after so many ten- turies of partial study: the harvest is always there, but where have the Jabourers heen? Hérqagain I am reminded of Rashdall, and of his most impressive sermon before Cambridge Univeraity on the dan gers of an ignorant clergy, however well-meaning they may be is other ways.
Danger of Ignorance No Modernist can afford to risk this danger of ignorance; if we teachers have not some real salt
of
book-knowledge, wherewith
VATICAN LAWS
CITY GATES TO BE CLOSED AT 11 P.M.
Feng's Front Line difficult to obtain, but it is harned
News of Feng's position that his front line is at Kwan- yintang and that there is a large concentration at Shanchow. arrived here from Szechuan with a Liu Hsiang's representative has
Rome, June 12. report from Ho Ying-ching as, to
The organ of the Holy See conditions on the western front and publishes ordinances for the control a request for extra supplies of of Vatican City. They provide that munitions for carrying out ar anti-the gates will be closed at 11 pm, robel expedition--Reuter.
after which nobody will be allowed to leave or enter..
COURT MARTIAL
CASE FOR PROSECUTION
CLOSED
SPEECHES NEXT WEEK
shall we be seasoned?" The effort need not be violent, but it must be real; the busiest curate must find a little daily pornar for reading, and in what I am here about to say I look back clearly upon this same problem as it lay before me forty-five years ago the problem of reading after a day's hard work. It is enough, fur those who have least leisure, to read steadily at one good book, noting on the mar
in each successive day of the General Court Martial sitting in the math as we travel through it, and Officers' Mess thinking it over at odd times concluded yesterday afternoon.
at Murray Barracks between the actual reading. for this purpose,
proceedings were it would be until Tuesday morning when officers adjearned difficult to choose a better book for the defence and for the prosecu than St. Augustine's City of Godtion will make their final speeches. which is fairly easily obtainable
The case for the prosecution in the trial of Major G. M. H. Ogilvy, of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, by a
And, The
Geology, in short, is strictly history; the history of terrestrial transfomations. Astronomy, again, is not always to be controll- ed by experiment; and, the more we reflect, the mora clearly we shall
the weaknesses that which beset history are shared, to a-greater or less' degree, by other sciences. We admit them, but they do ant prostrate us, for, as Chris- tians, We live by that most Christian word, 'God's strength is made perfect in weakness'; the past heroes of the faith out of weakness were made strung. To know our weakness is the first step towards conquering it. We know that we are tempted hero in his- tory, more than in geology, to be- lieve that things are because we would wish them to be; we see that others err by proclaiming as cer- tainties not only things dublous but sometimes things false; and in a modern reprint of the seven- we are not Pharisalcal enough, let | tearth century translation, and it be hoped, to believe ourselves which yields to very few other immune from these temptations. books in length and breadth and But here again, we believe that God depth of influence. It has been. will, with the temptation, also called, and I think truly, the first make a way to escape, and that we attempt in all literature to formu- are something more than puppets late a philosophy of history. And in the hands of fate. We know we may say of it what Coleridge that, if we apply our whole reason
said of Jeremy Taylor:t is esp-
Berlin, June 12. King Fuad's official visit of three to these problems of the past, in cially valuable to the young stud days will and to-night with a gala the sense in which I always under-ent in virtue not only of its merits performance at the State Opera; stood Bashdall to use that word but of its defects; not only for where President von Hindenburg, 'reason,' of the totality of faculties the truths which he will suck from Cabinet Ministers, the Diplomatic and energies through which men it, but for the anarcs which he will Corps and prominent members of seek the truth in their daily lives-le to avoid; it satisfies, him society will attend. On Thursday I say that if we apply all our rea- with historical food, and forces the King will take ip residence in son to the problem, then we shall him into historical criticism. It is the Egyptian Legation. jaberit, each in his own measure, difficult to say that this latter con- His Majesty's original intention the fulfilment of Christ's promise:sideration is less weighty than the to bestow decorations on officials "Seek, and ye shall find.'-
One Sure Criterion
KING FUAD
END OF OFFICIAL VISIT TO BERLIN
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former. May we not say of the decision to adhere to the Constitu
has been frustrated by the Cabinet's real historical student, as of the real Christian, that in both cases it is rather a question of attitude than of result; not so much 'What things has he studied or observed?:
Nor is that the only word of Christ which may inspire us here. To the disciples of John the Bap tist who asked: 'Art thou he that should come? He prescrib- as 'How has he studied and ob- ed the historical method. He preserved them?"
In the Discours
scribed. It to all of us, again, as de la Methode of Descartes, the the one sure criterion between rival claims in religion: Ry their fruits
founder of modern philososky, there is a gospel very nearly re-
ye shall know them. For in both senbling, for our present pur these cases the evidence to which pase, the gospel of Christ's Seek, Christ appealed was already his--and ye shall and..
torical evidence; this was an ap- peal to time already past, and in- dications which date from only a few days ago, or a few minutes ago, may be as perplexing to read in their full truth as a document of distant centuries.
Ought not, then, the elements of Christian history to be familiar to
a Christians? And are not some
of our worst misunderstandings
COL A. C. YATE
DEATH OF A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
London, June 13. Seek, and ye shall find. The
The death has occurred of Col. main requisite for getting at the C. Yate, well known in the ser- truth' (says Descartes in effect) is fice of the Army in India and to a the wish to get at it; and the man newspaper correspondent.
whom we judge to be poorly endow Col. Yates entered the Army in ed by nature, if he really wills 1875 and served in india for many success, will get nearer to the root of the most difficult matter than years, acting as special correspond men of ten times his brain-power ent for the Pioneer and the Daily bu lacking his will..
Telegraph in the Shan expedition
A Rational Universe
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which in 1887-1886 annexed the
In that City of God, then, we Cis-Salween states and with which may trace one continuous thread was serving as Intelligence
due to the fact that this history of eternal truth that this is a officer. He was 72 years of age. ——
rational universe, and that reason Singapore Free Press.
has seldom been treated, in its
entirety, with the scientific care of
nobody has established, a rea-
(in the widest sense of that word)
themselves, than auye other
which it is susceptible? A false will bring us into harmony with it. feeling of reverence has too often The book is mystical in the sepse kept men from facing the possible in which MoTaggart deined mys- falsity of things which they would ticism: asserts a greater unity event in the records of the human wish to be true, or from acknow in the universe than that which is race. Augustine feels, and be ledging, even to themselves, that uncertainties are, after all, dubi- recognized in ordinary experience, makes us feel, how the loftiest suc- ous, and that no artifice tzn re- it is possible to be conscious of the completest failure. And he ar in science, see, and elso that céss may be born from what seem- move this faw of dubiety so long as this unity in some manner which makes us feel the greatness not sonable certainty. We cannot too brings the knower into closer and of corporate Christianity What only of individual Christianity but oftan remind ourselves, and the more direct relation with what had converted him was far less any words have become so familiar known than in ordinary discursive intellectual force, than the attrac that they are no longer needed of
thought To Augustine, history tion of St. Ambrosa and of the pr what Newman wrote just as ze was
Weaver one of the garments by quitting the Anglican Church for which see God. And the em ganized Church. 11 St. Ambrose
His words ran
phasizes, all along a truth;
the found a man who incarnated the bas
best qualities of ancient Rome: and, in the Church at Milan, he those had made Roman reas of the world. akes us feel as wa
eyer.
"It is melancholy to say it, but the chief, perhaps the only, English
writer who has any claim to be con in
aldered as a ecclesiastical historian of other
is the Infdel Gibson
Prayer Book Controversy NE
those wor
rection with three incidents which
taken themarther
out
(To be Continued.)
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