SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929.
OUR WEEKLY SERMON
Importance of Historical Element in Christianity
MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS
4
[By Professor F. C. Burkitt, D.D., F.B.A.]
Romans' Contention
is
THE CHINA MAIL,
SUNSHINE AND RAIN WINE TO ABERDEEN SHADOWS BEFORE.
MEANS AND EXTREMES FOR
JULY
was રો
LIKE TAKING COAL TO NEWCASTLE
SOME COMPARISONS
JUNK COXSWAIN'S BREACH
According to the meteorological That taking wine to Aberdeen was observations made. at the Royal like taking coal to Newcastle, was the Observatory, there
total remark made by Commander G. F. rainfall off 22.700 inches in July Hole, R.N., (retired) when he heard a case in the Marine Court this morn- as compared with 14.595 for the ing in which the Chinese coxéwain of same period last year.
the motor junk Tang Mi," charged on three counts as follow:- (1) carrying five passengers in excess
of the
the number allowed by hie licence;
last year.
Believing in Time, as I do, I also St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa believe in the Course of Events-pailed down with a text. nst Battles only or General Councils, bu. also the states of mind of past The Romans consider that individuals, as well as their publish- intention of consecrated and con-
This secrators ed speeches and writings.
In Paker's case. Was ínasmuch Course of Events has shaped us, has faulty,
ទង់ their brought us to where
intention was rebellious against | we are, whe-
their
head.j propar ther we know it or whether we don't. Rome,
Observatory, The Science of History to me means This brings me to the second point} knowing about past events: that is that the Church of England is difficult enough, in all conscience.
Here again many of Botanical Gardens, But the past events are there and we can't change them. They have. made 43, To ask that we shall be able to predict the future is like asking the scientist to have such a
An Act of Faith
Inches
Was
(2) (3) using the junk to carry cargo outside the trading limits of the Colony.
leaving the harbour without e clearance; and
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN "CHINA MAIL"
Social Functions To-day Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
To-day Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel and
Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Aug. 29-At European YMUA, Kowloon, Flannel Dance, 9 p...
Entertainments To-day Queen's Theatre; "A Lady of Chance."
To-day World
Theatre; "Tracked by the Police."
"o-day Star Theatre; "Odette,"
"Mike" at 5.20 and 9.15 p.
To-day Majestic Theatre: "Mark of Flum" (Chinese picture) at 2.30 and 7.15 p.m.
To-day-K.C.C.
During the whole month there were 23 wet days, and the total hours of sunshine were 175.7 as the compared with 213.2 hours in July No sunshine was re- corded on only two days. Rain- fall statistics follow:-
No. of
Mr. Hin-shing Le appeared for the Days
defence. He entered pleas of "guilty" to all three charges, but asked the Kowloon 28 22.70 Magistrate to take into consideration. the fact that the five excess pas- 28.28 sengers on the junk were members of Hong Kong 24
the defendant's family. break between Rome and Canter-Matilda Hospital,
Mount Kellett 24
Commander Hole said that he could bury was made in the sixteenth
Golf Club, Fanling 24 24.64 not accept that plea. A few days ago century, and but for the revolution
a boatman who had 7 passengers on Police Station, Taipo 17
20.87 of the sixteenth century, the
The lowest reading of the baroeuse, and now he would have to make bis junk got away on that same ex inches at 5 p.m. on the 19th. sists only of the father, mother and aquatic sports meeting at V.R.C., 9
Reformed.
the details do
The not matter.
11.79
mastery of physies as to be able Protestant revolution, our breach meter at mean sea level was 29.43 ja ruling,that a boatman's family con- to change the laws of electricity. It with Rome would never have been is enough for the scientific
elec-made, or if made would have assume
The maximum gust velocity, as the children. a totally different character. recorded by the Dines-Baxendell trician to find out the laws of elec- cd
The Church of England has borne, anemograph, was at the rate of tricity.
and continues to hear, the mark of 49 miles per hour at 11.30 a.m. the sixteenth century deeply im-
on the 27th. printed on its formularies and its
The maximum temperature for ways of thinking. Aa Catholics, the month was 92.2 degrees on the are proud of 8th and the minimum 74.4 degrees English Churchmen their continuity with the past, but on the 12th. in the twentieth century the past includes continuity with the six-
With such Beliefs as these of mine, it appears to me that Philosophy of History in the sense it was mostly used yesterday is not what we call science nowadays, but
rather an Act of Faith.
It is the
giving of a substantial form to our Sextres, a proof of something which
We do not see how to demonstrate.
But when I caine to consider what is involved in the title assigned me to talk upon before this Conference it became increasing clear that it
Mr. Lo pleaded that the defendant was a man of the coolie class, and did not understand the law.
He was carrying wine to Aberdeen, but before going there he had first to take some the trading limits. molasser to Putai; which was outside
The Magistrate said that he could not accept that plea either, and made the remark quoted above. Defendant was convicted on all three charges and
and (3) $50.
teenth, seventeenth and eighteenth VILLAGE MURDERS fined as follow:-(1) $25; (2) $100: zenturies, as well as the Middle Ages.
For three hundred years, from 1558 to the middle of the nine-
teenth century, English Churchmen were proud to call themselves Pro-
is not, at all an academical' or mere-testants, and they knew very well in
ly theoretical thesis, not a general a general way what they meant by question but a concrete one.
For the term.
we are not gathered here as seekers of his day, a
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FUGITIVE WANTED IN CANTON
SURRENDER SOUGHT
ROUND THE CINEMAS
"MIKE "
William
A Modern Churchman Hamilton heard extradition proceed-giving, Sally O'Neill and
Yesterday afternoon Mr. E. W. Marshall Neilan's production "Mike," friend of Archbishop ings in which the Canton authorities Haines the leading roles, is the attrac after a religion, or as constructors Laud, William Chillingworth,, ex-are secking the surrender of a Chinese tion at the Majesty Theatre for the of an ideal religion for the in-pressed the pith of what was meant who is wanted for alleged murder in final showing to-day, at 5.20 and 9.15
not
to
habitants of Mars. We are even a Missionary Conference consider how best to present Chris- Tibetans, Bantus ΟΙ tianity 10 persons ignorant of our religion al-
togather. We are, I suppose, in the first place a company of members of the Church of England met together
in
in his famous phrase. "The Bible, the village of Kong-ma-shek, Shan-shin
p.m., only.. Kwangtung province, the Bible alone, is the religion af district,
The theme is unfolded in a desert, Protestants.' To the thorough August last year.
Mr, L.
where Sally (as Mike) lives with her R. Andrewes, Assistant drunken father, her two brothers and Portestant the Bible was everything. Crown Solleitor, appeared for the sisters, in a freight car. the authority, the sole authority. Crown, whilst the alleged fugitive was love with
Mike is in Moore (Haines), who is Moreover, speaking generally, the not legally represented,
always rejected by a gang of crooks. Facts of the case, as given by Mr. These cruoks later held up the mail Bible meant to Protestants, the obvious literal meaning, what it ap- Andrewes were that the murder took
train, but are to the plain man. place on August 23, 1928, when the caught by Moore, in a most thrilling unsuccessful, being to consider our own
inherited repeared to mean
were the fulerum, fugitive was alleged to have murdered climax the screen has ever made.
alleged mur- ligion in the light of modern know- The Scriptures ledge and the ideas that have been the rock, the base, upon which the two men. The day of
der was a market day, and volunteers Murray, Ford Sterling, Frankie Darro In the supporting cast are Charles Protestant position rested. In were collected from the various viland Sam De Grasset.. born from that knowledge.
many details Frotestant controversy lages in Shan-shin district, to act as
Fox News and a Comedy-"Election successful: raany very
a armed guards to protect those going Day" are also shown. practice, many an axiom of religion to market.
Nice Distinctions
One most important effect of this modern knowledge has been to make a good deal of the methods and pre- suppositions of ancient controversy The antiquated and out of date. Church of England is by its very nature both Catholic and Reformed.
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as then commonly understood, was The murdered men were amongst shown to be not only non-Biblical, the volunteers,, and with seven others but quite alien from the practice they were placed on duty in a mat- and beliefs of the writers of the shed in the market place. Their pre- New Testament. Not only attending the market. They were arm
sence was to give security, to those SIX I am not thinking of nice distinc-dulgences, but also Mariolatry, theed with rifles und revolvers and were worship of saints and relics, nay, on the lookout for suspicious charac- the Papacy inzelf, are a very long ters..
The fugitive and his gang way from the sort of customs and beliefs which can be elicited from walking about. in another matahed,
tions made in the Articles: I am thinking of the general trend of things.
The Church of England is,
a
gure The only
were
FLYING FORCE
HUNDRED, APPRENTICES
REQUIRED
laon, 9.15 p.m.
coreert, Kow.
Aug. 18-19 Queen's Theatre; "Publicity Madness."
Aug. 23-H.K.V.D.C. promenade
concert.
Sept.
Sports
P..
7 H.K.V.D.C. anneal
Lummert's Auction, Aug: 19—At Kowloon Marine Lat No. 49, Yaumati, 23 logs square and 25 logs round billian, 11 am.
Land Sales
Aug. 19-At P.W.D. offices, four lots of Crown land at Mong Kok Tsai, Tai Kok Tsui and Wong-Nel- Chung, 3 p.m.
Miscellaneous Aug. 24-European bathing picnica.
.: Y.M.C.A.
CALCUTTA STRIKE
NOW SETTLED AND WORK TO RESUME
EXTRA PAY GRANTED
Calcutta, Yesterday.
The jute mills strike has been settled and work restarts on Mon-. day.
on
The settlement is based extra pay-retrospective to July 1-for an extra -six hours'"work) bringing up the hours to sixty. weekly.
There will be no victimisation, and favourable consideration will
maternity beriefit for women work- be given to the provision of a
ers-Reuter.
A meeting was held at the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Shanghai, when Mr. Hou Moh, the Commissioner concurrent chief of the European- American section of the Wal chiaopu, discussed the possibili- |- ties of a trade and friendship with Czecho-Slovakia, with Major J. Hnidzo, the Czecho-Slovak delegate.
The Ministry of Public Health is
the other great the study of the earliest Chris-about 25 yards away. Suddenly the Training at Halton, Bucks, and at reported by the vernacular papers
was Holy
But the
tianity.
"Alien Spiritual Tyranny"
Six hundred aircraft apprentices, between the ages of 16 and 17, are required by the Royal Air Force for in some sense, Catholic-Catholic in
entry into the Schools of Technical sense that
fugitive was alleged to have dashed Protestant bodies are not Catholic at
over to the volunteers" matshed and Cranwell, near Sleaford, Linca. all. Lutherans and Calvinists in
On these lines our fathers succeed at the two victims. The rest of the of an Open Competition and of a fired two shots, at point blank range. They will be enlisted as the result the sixteenth century broke away
ed in freeing themselves from an fugitive's gang then rushed up, and Limited Competition, which will be altogether from the then immediate
We past. If in their New Model they alien spiritual tyranny.
can-shots were exchanged with the volun-held in the near future by the Civil retained this or that rite or office, not but be grateful, and we cannot teers.
but have respect for the dialectic
Service Commissioners and the Air After firing one or two shots, the Ministry, respectively. Successful it was because in their opinion the which had power and authority to volunteers became panicky, and, fling- thing or office could be proved by embolder them to reject the then ing down their arms, bolted from the candidates will be required to com-
warrant of Holy Scripture. universal and immemorial
matshed Subsequently Con-
a raid was plete a period of twelve years' re- exception
made on the fugitive's village. but he gular. Air Force service from the Scripture self, which they received i stitution of Religion without losing and bir gang eluded the searchers. mainly from tradition, there being of the Church of England, without tive until June 28 of this year when return to civil life, or may be per- age of 18, in addition to the train- Religion itself; nay even, in the case
Nothing more was heard of the fugi-ing period. At the age of 30 they at the time very little Cispute among feeling that they had lost their he appeared at Kowloon City. Christians about it.
Oldmitted to re-engage to complete time Church of England never broke in birthright. But this freedom was friends invited him to stay with them for pension. · this way with the past. It does not, bought at a price, and that price we He uatstayed his welcome, and would
are now paying.
neither pay nor. work for his keep.
Full information regarding the) and never did, ragard itself as a New Model, but as the Old Church,
Finally the hest became suspicious of dates of the respective examina the sure warrant of Holy Scripture formed the Police there.
now is their authority: his guest, and, going to Canton, he in- tions, the methods of entry, and the cleaned out indeed-perhaps one
That which for a couple of gerera- got inte touch with the Hong Kong ly may be obtained if early applica- The latter aircraft apprentice scheme gencral- might say 'restored, but even a
tions has been apparent to 'intellec- Police, and the fugitive was arrested Church which has been spotit by so- called restoration is an old Church,tuals' and critics' and 'advanced' on June 28. something different from a Persons generally has in the last twenty years, and still more since building erected on the old site!
the War, become obvious. From Intention That Matters, Further, from the point of view every quarter we hear of the decay which I want to emphasise in this of organized religion, of the slight connection, it is the intention hold that religion and the restraints rather than the success which has of religion have upon the generation been attained that matters. Per- that is growing up, a generation haps the most significant Anglican which (as we shall do well to remem- ceremony that has ever taken place ber) is the first generation for cen was the consecration of Archbishop turies that has not been brought up Parker: In that ceremony, as the upon the dogma that we have in the Romans rightly hold, it is the in- Bible an infallible guide to truth tention that in the last resort mat- whether about science, or about ters. And what was that intention? history, or about conduct. In the yesterday afternoon.
new
Where
The case was adjourned,
ARMS AGAIN !
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY BY CHINESE
USUAL GAGGING
Three robbers, one armed with a re- volver and the others with daggers, raided the second floor of No. 16, Tai- thek-street soon after three o'clock
They entered by the stairs door Obviously, to do all things as far as recent controversy over the pro- which was closed but not locked, and possible in conformity to the ancient posed new Prayer Book what I took the accupants by surprise. These order. Was Parker really con- venture to think was quite obvious comprised the mistress of the place, secrated,? Did he resily attain was that while on the one hand the two other women and six children. the mysterious grace of episcopal strength of anti-Roman, anti who were, of course, too timid to offer dignity ↑ Strictly speaking, God Catholic, sentiment in the country any resistance. The robbers had no alone knows. There is no test had been curiously underestimated trouble in binding and gagging their known to science which can dia by the majority of the bishops and place
victims, and then they ransacked the tinguish a bishop from an ordinary other persona in high position, on A chest of drawers was forced open man. Anglicans believe that the other hand the voice of the and $160 in notes extracted from it, Matthew Parker became a real opposition was notably inarticulate after which the robbers made a colles- bishop, while Romans are of the What wonder, things being as they tion of jewellery and clothing worth contrary opinion. But it is at aro? It was the voice of a $325. They finally decamped after least obvious that the Elizabethan majority unwilling to submit to a spending about half an hour in the authorities did their utmost, by new yoke of ecclesiastical authority, house word, by deed, by precaution, by in- but extremely hazy as to where true tention to bring Parker into the authority is to be found./pe Episcopate, to make him not only one with Peter and Paul and the Christians of the frat generation,
[To Be Continued]
The Lister medál for 1980 for
Fung Shin-wan, a Chinese who was charged with manslaughter as a re sult of his Ford car knocking down a pedestrian was absent from Court but to make him the spiritual heir distinguished contributions to yesterday when his case was called of Augustine and Lanfranc and surgical science has been awarded at the Kowloon Magistracy. De Anselm, and Langton And In | to Dr. Harvey Cushing, of Beston, fendant had been out on bail, and doing this the Church of England | US-
his solicitor
ong, took upon itself a good many of the
who represented him in the evious: Labilities of the Old Catholicism Many arrests were made in hearing was in Court. He And on what is this Ola Catholicism Viena during- Communist des did not know the whereabouts of his based ↑ On tradition, ves; but also monstrations which had been procent. His Worship directed that?
befasued for his arrest
on Scripture. Every conclusion Inhibited.
tion is made to the Royal Air Force, Gwydyr House, Whitehall, London, S.W.I.
In this connection, the sons of officers, warrant officers and senior N.CO's of the three services re ceive
special consideration.
"Engineering.".
to have asked the National Govern- ment for permission to assume con
vention Station.
trol of the Tsingtao Plague „Pre-
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