SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1929.
OUR WEEKLY SERMON
Significance of Historic al Element For Religion
MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS
[By Professor C. C. J. Webb, Oxford.]
THE CHINA MAIL.
TROUBLE IN HARBIN
CHINESE SOLDIERS AND AN AMERICAN
GIRL BRUTALLY HANDLED
Tokyo, Yesterday. From Harbin it is reported that the outrageous conduct of the local Chinese police and soldiers has be- come a daily happening in Harbin. Not infrequently foreigners are the victims.
ing religion from a point of view which ignores the fact that many
The latest case wherein a for- of the emotions and thoughts of in- dividual beings are only intelligible eigner was subjected to physical in view of their inheritance from violence at the hands of the Chinese and their participation in & com-police occurred on the afternoon of mon social life. But they are, I July 30 in broad daylight in the think, mistaken in treating religion street. The victim was an American as in the end an illusion created in employee of the National City Bank: the individual mind by the power of New York, who was violently fül influence of social environment treated when he tried to remonstrate that against the brutal handling of an of acknowledging instead there is in social experience a American girl who had roused their genuine revelation of the nature of ire. Reality; and, on the other hand, that it is of the essence of religion
Consular Protest?.
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JEWELS IN PAWN
MAHARAJAH OF BURDWANA SUED:
London, July:10. The Maharajah of Burdwan ap- The American Consul lodged a peared as defendant in a West Lon- to recognize what comes through protest with the Chinese authorities, don County Court action in which social experience as the intimate while it is reported that the Miss Zena Bell claimed the re- concern of the individual soul. In Consular Body is seriously concern-Miss Bell had pawned and which startling contrast with Durkheim ed over the increasing violence on the Maharajah had redeemed and his school, Professor White- the part of the police.
Defendant stated that his daugh-
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When, after I had promised to write a paper for this Conference, on the Significance of the His- torical Element for Religion, but be- fore I had begun seriously to con- sider what I should say in it, there reached me in its final shape the printed programme of our proceed- 'ings, I perceived on its first page a paragaph, not in any way inspired by me, giving an intelligent anti- cipation' of the contents of my still uncomposed contribution to the dis- cussion which it was proposed the Conference should undertake this year. It was not without some apprehension that I began to read this paragraph, since, not having been at all consulted, I feared that it might have committed me in ad- vance to dealing with topics on which I had nothing to say, or to "what a man does with his solitari- Chief of Police and demanded anter and Miss Bell lived together in A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF advancing views which I did not ness." He is no doubt calling atten- explanation, reserving the right to furnished and their affairs got mix aflat which the Kumarini had hold. I was therefore, not a little tion to just that feature of religion protest if an investigation justifies relieved to find that instead of mak which Durkheim and his school it-Reuter. ing my task mare difficut it made it overlook, namely, that it is precise- easier, by suggesting to me a line ly in religion that a man most com- of thought which I was glad to monly first becomes aware of hav- follow, and which I might not other-ing a function peculiar to himself, Arise have felt myself so sure that a duty to be done, a soul to be I was justified in selecting from among several which might have been covered by the thesis assigned
to me.
Text of the Paper
I will, therefore, show my gratitude to the unknown composer of the paragraph by reading it to you at the outset as the text of my
paper:
head has described religion as The American Consul visited the
saved, a personality of his own, unique, unshareable and irreplace able. But the phrase which Profes- sor Whitehead uses ignores in Its
Japan's Diplomacy
Tokyo, Yesterday.
covery of certain fewellery which
ed..
ON. THURSDAY, August 8, 1929, commencing at 2.30 p.m...
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street
Comprising
CURIOS.::
He redeemed his daughter's Flower Bowls, Jade Trees, Amber, Porcelain Vases, Bowls, Plates, jewellery and found amongst them Crystal and Agate Ornaments, four articles belonging to Miss Bell Lacquer Screens, Joss Tables, There seems little doubt but that which he offered to return for 10 Blackwood Joss Tables, Opium Japan will be very unwilling to but Miss Bell refused the offer, Stools, Bronze Ware, Embroideries, participate in the suggested Inter-
The judge declared that he pre Chinese Hand Paintings, etc. national Commission dealing with ferred the evidence of the Manchuria, unless possibly in the Maharajah of Burdwan and the event of an unforeseen emergency Kumarini to, that of Miss Bell re- Even so she would not welcome garding the ownership of the other jewellery and found nominal religion, namely, its envisagement the participation of the of this unique self as set against Powers in the settlement of ques-damages of a shilling each for the the background of an all-embracing tions affecting Manchuria, where plaintiff in respect of two unnamed Universe, or (to-express it other she considers her own interests are articles and allowed the Maharajah wise) in the presence of God known paramount and more vital than any costs in respect of the defence of as the Judge of the whole earth, of considerations of International co two articles. our fellows as well as of ourselves, operation. Consequently the Japan- Government extremely anxious to see the Sino-Soviet negotiations proceed smoothly. Reuter.
turn a no less essential feature of
Primitive Religion Primitive religion is tribal; for when man first awakes to a con- aciousness of himself in relation to an encompassing Reality which is, to use the phrase which Professor Rudolf Otto has lately," made familiar, "quite other than he, yet with which he is most intimately concerned, so that to propitiate it,
"The third paper, so it runs, "will deal with the Historical Element in various types of religion, eg, it the might be contended that in animistic religions there is no his- torical element, these religions being Apotheoses of aspects of Nature Again, that the ancient state-religions are apotheoses of political and social ideals and that the historical element enters into them in that form.. the founded religions history, enters as the biography of the founder and the history of the primitiva society; and an important aspect of these re-render it friendly to himself, is s
are apotheoses ligions is that they of personality. Once more, mystical matter of the greatest moment and philosophical religions might be when he first awakes to this con- held to be independent of any his torical element."
This, then, shall be my text, though I shall take leave, like Dean Gais- ford in a well-known story, only partly to agree with it.
I do not myself consider that there is ary religion in which there is no historical element; although, no doubt, there are religions in which
ese
is
[Later news on page L.]
MONEY LENDING
LAW ON REGISTERED NAME OF LENDER
SIGNATURE DENIED.
sclousness he finds himself à mem- The adjourned case in which the
The Maharajab of Burdwan, testifying in the action, said that he met Miss Bell on a liner when proceeding to London with the Maharani and his daughter. The latter and plaintiff became friends, on the liner, and the Maharajah
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OLD TAYLOR
AGED BY TIME
suggested that Miss Bell should SHADOWS BEFORE.
| stay with them till she went to her
aunt.
Plaintiff gave his daughter and himself dancing lessons. When Miss Bell left his house she and the. Maharajah's daughter lived in a Bat.
Mrs. Bell, plaintiff's mother,
ber of a group, and his first re- Oriental Loan Association (an Asso- testified that she had never run a lations with the mysterious power ciation of Indian moneylenders) e boarding house, but that she took or powers which impend over suing K. U. Laung for the recovery of in a few paying guests when she human life.. are mediated chiefly 3540 on
a promissory note, was lived in Calcutta.
at the Summary (though perhaps, even at a very sumed yesterday early stage of development, not Court before Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, quite exclusively) through the name of Sapooran Singh, a member of group of which he is a member, the Association. At the previous hear- Very
B000 there arises a ing defendant denied that his name was
The action is being taken in the
ON SPELLING
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it is more obvious and prominent "mythology," which, though not in. Leung. He maintained that he
To-day Queen's Theatre, in re- our eyes a true history. (and yet it had never known the plaintiff and that then in others. For it is
"Our Dancing Daughters. ligion that man endeavours to ex- may very often preserve genuine he had never signed the note,
Speech day at Chigwell School,
To-day World Theatre; press his own attitude to, his own memories of real events and per- At yesterday's hearing, his Lordship Essex, famous as the school of Wil- "Steamboat Bill, d position in a Whole of reality, with sonages in the past of the tribe), informed plaintiff that a new polat Jiam Penn, founder of Penny 70-day - Star Theatre;
On looking up the Ordin-vanja, was marked by the vialt of "Tracked by the Police in which he and all with which he satisfies for the time being the de- had arisen. has to do, all which falls within his mand for an historical element in ance, he found that a money-lender the Archbishop of York. In an ad-
Today Majestie Theatre; experience, is alike embraced, In religion. The aspects of Nature, should only trade under his registered dress, he said that the first busi- "The Actress. religion he does not merely ap- of which the writer of the forecast me. There had been a case in 1929 ness of any school was to be a Lammerts' Auctions prehend this Reality at the back of of my paper which I have taken for when two money-lenders formed a society. That was the great mark Aug 6-At 1, XO D. Block partnership. One of the members of the traditional English educa- Kennedy-road, Hong Kong, house- sverything he feels it as encom- my text suggests that animistic re- later accepted a note in his own name tion which, in spite of the small passing him on every side, as in-ligions the most primitive kind of and failed to recover because it was amount of thought given to it in hold furniture, 11 am timately present to himself and religion that he seems to recognise not in the name of the registered England, was the best in the world. Building, Kowloon, household fur haunting him, so to say, even when make into gods, may figure in partnership. alone as regards the company of his this mythology; but they figure, as From the ruling in that case, it would school should be a living-society fellows. It is about his path and in the fanciful tales of children, as appear that plaintiff was in a similar in which those who belonged to it about his bed'; it 'spieth out all his historical personages; not neces- position. His Lordship therefore ad really took a responsible part in Aug 7At Sales Room, Dud dell-street, valuable leasehold pro And not only does he still sarily, indeed, imagined with any vised plaintiff to withdraw the name its life.
"Its primary duty," said the perty (situated at Shomeen. Can- feel it; he acts in such a way as to thoroughness or consistency, in of the Association from the writ and to put himself, if he may, right with human form, but yet as playing sue in his own name, and also to get Archbishop is to turn out not ton), 3 p.m.
scholars, or athletes, but men, Aug. At 10A, Mody Road, Kow- But religion, if its character be their part in social intercourse with the advice of a lawyer,
The case was restored to next Fri- Education," continued his grace, loon, household furniture, fi am.**** such as I have said, is, in philosophi the ancestors of the tribe or of the
day's list.
""meant nourishment, band all Aug. 8-At Sales Room, Duddell eat phraseology, at once universal animal species which constitute so
nourishment was taken in two Street, a collection of curios, 2.30
Sport
ways.'
It
Aug 7-At 42, Humphreys
niture, 11 am, 2
and particular; in other words it interesting and important a part lapse of the successive mortal gen-parts. The first was taking some-p...
historical.
Like a "Science".
For a form of experience may be
properly called historicul when it is neither merely particular, a matter
of momentary feelings, such as a being might have who did not enjoy the human privilege of looking before and after, nor merely universal, like a science. which concerns itself with general laws
and only considers individual things
of the environment of humanity in erations which found their unity thing from outside and putting it the infancy of civilization. The in relation to this centre. It was inside, and the second the assimila sociological school to which I have a matter of subordinate importance ton of what had been taken. To-day Happy Valley Summer, already referred, of which the late whether there was, as in certain Merely stuffing was no good at all Golf Meeting for Championship and Emile Durkheim was the founder, monarchiles, always a visible per Learning dates, the schoolboy's Captain's Cup did a service to the study of rell-sonal embodiment of this spiritual bugbear, was of italf absolutely Aug. 15-At European- Y.M.C.A. gion in pressing upon the notite of unity in a divinely descended and useless. It was the causes and hard courts, knock-out tennis tour- scholars the evidence which exists divinely endowed king, whose func effects centred around the date ney, 5.15 p.m. that men finst became Interested in tion as incarnating the unity of the which were the real mental exer- Land Sale what we regard as topics of ab- people or state passed on hia de biser
Aug 6 At FWD Offices two
stract science in the measurement cease or deposition to his successor, "I always felt's desire,” he added, lots of Crown land at Prince Edward. of time, the fixing of direction in or whether there was attributed to to give double marka to the boy Road, Kowlcon, and space, and the like in connection the national god who had borne who was two or three years wrong
Home Mall; with arrangements for accom- and carried his people all the days in a date, because it indicated that, To-day-Inward from Amerles modating the life of the tribe to of bid who was afflicted in their at any rate, he was likely to have and ports ("President Lincoln")- seasonal changes or to its geogra- afflictions and who triumphed in some proper understanding not of
their victorfes, a separate existence dates, but of history
Aug. 10 and 24 European. of his own, apart from the mortal The Archbishop also referred Y MALA, bathing pionics. The substitution for a purely tribal magistrates to whom his authority scathingly to English spelling organisation, usually through the in the community might from time "The most fatal thing to do he subjugation of a number of tribes to time be delegated.
phical situation.
Progress in Culture
by more warlike neighbours com-
· An Historical Reality-
or events as particular instances of such laws; but involves a sense of the uniqueness of the individual thing or event in its relation to other things or events no less unique in a universe whose own unity is no less Individual a unity than that of every real thing or event which has its being in it, whether, when we commanded by some leader of military It was the peculiar achieve to philosophize, we think of the genius, of ons to which we can apment of the prophets of unity which belongs to the whole as ply the term political is often a Israel that they came, by immanent nly, or (with Profes companied by a progress in culture recognising in their national deity sor, Taylor in his brilliant Vindica- which, by facilitating the
the God of all the nations of the ated to tion of the records of the past, earth, whose choice of Israel for al) as im makes possible a better knowledge his mous con, by the members- political him
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