SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1929.
OUR WEEKLY SERMON ·
Significance Of Historical Element In Christian Idea Of Incarnation
MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS
[By the Rev. J. S. Boys Smith, M.A., Fellow and Chaplain of St. John's College, Cambridge]
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(Contiuned from November 9.)
It has sometimes been maintain ed, however, that the great signifle enco which Christianity necessarily attaches to certain events in the past of itself implies belief in the ultimate reality of the historical processita reality, that is, for the universe as a whole. This opinion, I think, rests upon a misapprehen- of it. I sion; and, by criticism shall develop a rival interpretation. F. II. Bradley said very truly that in philosophy False Alternative is that fallacy which. beyond all com- parison, most prevalent and in- sidious,' The contention before us is an instance of this fallacy.
If
but are
everywhere
· The Positive Sudde But the view which I am vocating has also ita positive side. If It denies full reality to all inito events and persons, it denies some
measure
none,
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"We supply about 95 per cent, of not by its ledged leaders in their fields. of each is measured,
the traction for the Territorial} self-sufficiency or independence, but.
forces," auid Captain Riley, "and by the degree of service it renders
Included among the principals also equip the mechanized units of to, and the measure of grace it are such entertainers as Sue Carol, the regular army for the summer carrying His Majesty's Mails, will
KIDDERPORE" receives from, that one whole which Frank Richardson, Stepin Fetchit, manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain. is both the source and goal of them Lotta Lane, Sharon Lynn. Dixie
be despatched from this Port on It is in such service that the Lee, David Rollins, John Breeden, Territorial units, and the drivers November, 1929, at Noon, taking "We supply instructors to the or about TUESDAY, the 19th fullness of life consists. It is not David Percy, De Witt Jennings, are coached, both in the theory of Cargo for the above Ports. by seeking high status for myself Arthur Stone, Archie Gottler, construction and in practical driv- Silk, Valuables and Tea for Italy, in tsolation that I am exalted, but Muriel Gardner, Carolynne Snow-
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Bombay into the Mail Steamer This is so in hundred performers in all, including more fundame, is more than 1.
"Our fleet consists of twenty-four proceeding direct to Marseilles morals, where I seek, not my pre adagio dancers, chorus and
{and London. forty-five-horsepower sent satisfaction, but what would girls, ballet and principals.
In ad-six-wheeled
Parcels will be received at this lorries, five chain-track (caterpil- atisfy me if, by jolning myself to dition, there I became forty pieces.
lar) tractors fitted with forty-Office until 5 p.m. the Day before Home greater whole, what I ought to be. And in re
The songs were written by Con horsepower engines, and twelve Sailing. The Contents and Value ligion, where in a sense I may Conrad, Sidney D. Mitchell and light cars for reconnaissance work of all Packages must be declared. For further Particulars, Apply seem to have achieved my end at Archie Gottler, among the foremost
"The whole feet; of course, is of to-
it is assumed, as it seems here to be implied, that the alternatives time of the
acceptance
character Q: ultimate #T
the dismissal the universe and
are
4.A
of time as mere illusory appearance, then no doubt belief in Incarun tion would require the former. But a whole philosophical tradition, to say the least, depends upon a Gezial of the validity of this antithesis of fully real and merely illusory. The problem of the status of the historical is a particu lar case of the yet mental problem of the status of all finite existence, as this is in our experienes: and it is standpoint that it must he com- sidered. According to the view which, since I cannot here defend it. I am forced simply to assume,
Some of the Principals
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ing..
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сап company The consequence of of folk back stage, was provided by the abases me. value.
All such elements full a
such a view is not to emphasize the David Butler, who has been actor worthy, and even a
necessary transiency of each, finite self, but and director on the screen and who function, albeit a subordinate one.
rather to reveal the indefinite extent also directed the 'Follies. A Question of Degree
of its capacity.
Status of Finite World
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"I don't know why people say British cars are no good for over- seas. use. I am sure average con- ditions there can't be much
From the way the Fox Movietone Follies is heralded, it would seem to So long. I would urge, as we work with the antithesis of fully real
It is, from this standpoint, and take precedence as a definite in- we shall fall, not from that of the faisc alter-novation of screen entertainment. and merely illusory. both to find a solution of the pro- native of real and illusory, that the Fox Movietone officials, zealously rougher than they are during Ter
working to preserve leadership in
ritorial artillery manoeuvres, blems which confront us, and to do atatus of the finite world, and by the production of audible pictures, justice to our own highest expert consequence the status of that ences. Everywhere it is A ques-world in its aspect of an historical are said to have spared no expense pull across country weigh sever
or effort to make their Follies as tion of degree, of how far some process, must be considered. particular finite existence succeeds estimate of the historical which nearly perfect as possible.
real,
The
"Midnight Taxi” Nose-dives and tail-spins have be represented by a further quotation from Bradley. 'But become as commonplace to Antonio me, he says, 'an to everyone elso, Moreno and Helene Costello as the world is throughout full of trafic tags and stop-and-go signs change, and as to this, I suppose to the ordinary individual. there is no question. The question
In expressing the nature of what is such a consideration suggests may
To turn all such existences Into Hlusion is absurd: they are our own experience, and we have But to rest in them nothing else. as final realities is to do violence both to our reason and to our pense of value. We are, indead, a customed to take
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During the filming of "The Mid- SHADOWS BEFORE. is how change stands to that which night Taxi," in which these two as solid reality changes or shows change, and what, popular players have the leading that selection and interpretation, and how far subordinate, is the roles, Miss Costello and Mr. Moreno of experience with which in com- place which belongs in the Universe were required to spend many hours
But to mon life we have to work.
this its aspect of change....up in the air, while a however difficult,
un- And so again it is with becoming another airplane recorded necessary for most practical pur- and the endless incompletion of breathtaking flight to circumvent poses, it may be to divest ourselves the world. To deny that this side the plans of a gang of hi-jackers, of this assumption, it does not stand of things is fact would in my view the test either of criticism or of 'experience. This 'real world' of common life is itself an interpreta tion, in large measure, practical, and fixed. never really either final or
Achievement of Experience
To rise above this common world is the achievement of all grent experl- ence. The antithesis in question is, as Bradley has said with his ac- customed ruthleanness, "the pre- judice which everywhere Common Sense opposes to philosophy. Com- mon Sense is persuaded that the first rude way in which it inter- prets phenomena, is ultimate truth; the and neither reasoning,
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It was a new experience in the
both declare it to have been one
they would not have missed for n
grent deal.
be absurd. But on the other hand, film careers of both the dashing to accept this side of things as real Antonio and the fair, Helene, but in itself and unconditionally, and to proclaim it as being in its own character the last word about the Universe, seems to me
no leas ridiculous.'
That this whole position has grave dificulties is
an im-
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To-day-Dinner Dance at Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 pm.
Entertainmenta
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William Russell plays portant role in this exciting story-To-day of rum-running and hi-jacking and "Alibi." Myrna Loy will be seen as a young To-day Star
The engagement is obvious, lady very much in the confidence of "Midnight Taxi."
announced They centre, as usual, round, the the crooks.
To-day World Theatre; of Mina Beryl Sidney, of the "The Woman from Hell." (Con Lawson-Sidney Players, and Mr. tinuous, performance from 1.15 to Ronald Coles of Gopeng near Ipoh, 11.15 p.).
Miss Sidney is leaving the company
problem of the precise relation which exists between the infinite and its finite elements, the one and
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It is understood that Mr. T. To-day -Outward for Europe] Calder, M.C.S., District Officer, ence, and can supply a real inter- ceaseless protests of its own daily pretation of that valuation which GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS AT 5 pm.
via Siberia ("Empress of Canada"), Alor Gajah, is being transferred to Kuala Lumpur. to the Co-opera- experience, can shake its assurance.
Christianity has set upon the events 'facts' of
MAJESTIC THEATRE
Meeting. The events and so-called
tive Department, and that Mr. from which it arose. Incarnation
November 18-Hong Kong Jockey S. N. King, M.C.S., will succeed Mr. ordinary experience, have every-
will be but another name for the where their importance, but not participation of finite existences in
Club Meeting, 6.15 p.m.
Calder at Alor Gajah. Sport everywhere an equal Importance; the nature of ultimate reality, or
To-day Extra Race they have everywhere their degree of of the communication of the life of In order to cope with the re-Happy Valley."
Mr. A. Grant Mackie was in reality, but not everywhere an equal the whole to its constituent but sub-quirements of the talkle" which
Kuala Lumpur for a few days last degree.
Thus reality, so far as the ordinate members. We may speak, le to be installed in the Majestic Tomorrow Tea Dance at Re- Penang and will leave for Port week. He has now returned to world of our finite experience 16 if we like, of the self-transcendence Theatre, Kowloon, in the near pulse Bay Hotel, 4.30 p.m concerned, must be measured every of the finite, finding its fuller life future, the Management of the
Såld early next month. "As the Nov, 19 Hong Kong St. An-result of two visits to Bad Nauheim where by degree. The world of our in the higher; or, again, of the theatre informed a "China Mail" drew's Society experience is subject to constant self-condescension of the infinite, representative yesterday that the Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.
Practice Dance, his health has, considerably im medification; and (more important) which, through the life of the seating facilities of the dress
proved. It is susceptible, to an, indefinite finite world, is constantly replenish-circles of the cinema house, have Lecture on "Impressions of Java," Nov. 19 Helena May lastitute extent, of transformation and exed or constructed. pansion. Indeed, it varies enormous-life consists in self-giving with a
In each case, to be re-arranged. As be
The alterations will be effected ly from person to person and, for positive end, dying to live. Both by spacing the seating rowa. * each person, from time to time, ac terms are essential, God and the The total number of seats in cording to the power of insight and world: otherwise the finite would the dress circle is 360, and this appreciation which each possesses lose its importance and Incarnation is to be reduced to '210, so that
Infinite v. Finite
be impossible.
Without the world. five runs of 80 seats each will be The degree of reality which a given we may therefore agree, God is not removed. experience may claim is measured, God but only because the world, according to the view I am neatm- to far as it is reni, is real in Hind ing, both by the degree of value and by the degree of rationality which
that experience displays. Thus it
ts in our greatest experiences when we live more folly - and see
more deeply that
Aloria
wholly
least inadequately fally real, though within, our comprehension, --- To know the infinite is not to disparage or to escape from the finite, but to ses the finite. Itzelf as within.
(To Be Continuech.)
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Helena May Institute, 4.80 p.m. Missionary Association "At-Home," the Italian Crown Prince Umberto with the Belgian Princess Mary Joseph, the Imperial Japanese Court is going to present the Italian Court with a Japanese, writing desk Meara. Sun Moh-wel, Yu Ya and, inkstand case, both ornament A spacing of four or five feet ching and Wang Yi-ding have beened with golden raised lacquer work will be provided. Instead of the elected presidents of the Talehow representing a story of Japanese present space of one or two feet, Famine Belief Society. The direc legend. which is considerable as unsuit for elected are Messrs. Wang able. These seats will be provid. Halas-lan, Wang Han-chil; Li ed with new and comfortable un-ahu, Koo: Shing-yi, K. H. Lin seats,
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