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CHINA MAIL.
MODERN SCIENCE AND RECORDS OF NATIVE SCHOOL ATTACKED. CAMPAIGN FOR 'MORE STONE AGE RELICS
THE GOSPEL.
Dean Inge on a New Perspective.
CHRIST OR MARX?
He gave it as his considered con clusion that the teaching of Christ contains a message of moral and spiritual regeneration but not of social reform.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
FOLK-SONGS.
DECOROUS ROME'.
IN CHINA.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST SEMINARY.
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS.
Members of Rhodesian Tribe Highly Amused.
Passing of the Pussies Important Discoveries in
from Trajan's Forum.
THIS IS WHAT YOU
Kansu.
ALLEGED ANTI-KUOMINTANG.
ARE REQUIRING.
USEFUL WORK.
A choir of nine natives from the
Much amusement has been pro neighbourhood of Zimbabwe ruins, Alleging that the authorities of voked by the latest episode in the Southern Rhodesia, have recently the Seventh Day Adventist Theo: campaign for a more "decorous" "Christ was a prophet, not
completed a series of records of their flogical Seminary are anti-Kuomin Rome, writes the Rome correspon-
Peking, Sept. 1. legislator; he gave us principles, recording company in Johannesburg. actions and that they are enforcing cleaners-up" have now declared China, including a sword, an axe
a Home paper. The primitive chants for a gramophone-tang in their sentimenta and their dent of
Implements of the Stone Ago in not rules, and we are meant to use The natives were absolutely, raw. a "cultural invasion" policy in China war on the cats in Trajan's Forum, and several arrow-heads, all of common sense in interpreting them." None of them had ever seen a town by compelling students to study, the and an order for their eviction is stone, have been found by the
Hsing Peng-en has said to be imminent. The reason Swedish-Chinese scientific expedi said Dean Inge in the Backly tee-before, and many of them had never Bible, one
They be addressed a letter to the Shanghai given is that the eats, while tolerable tion directed by Dr. even seen a motor-car.
Sven Hedin, thre
which he delivered to the longed to the Amakalanga tribe, District Kuomintang asking for the in the past when the Forum was the noted Swedish explorer, ac- Wesleyan Methodist conference in one of the eldest in Rhodesia, and suppression of this institution. almost a slum neighbourhood, are in cording to word received here from Leeds recently.
believed by some to be the remnants In reply, Mr. Hsing has been in congruous and offensive now that the expedition in Kansu province, of the Zimbabwe culture.
structed to submit a report to the the area has been restored to its
Dr. Hedin has not been able to Their visit was arranged by the Tang-pu of the district in which former imperial dignity. Witwatersrand University and the he lives so that a petition may be
join the expedition in the field this Tho alarm produced among year, but has remained most of Southern Rhodesind Government for sent to the Centrul Koumintang Roman cat lovers by this decree the time in Peking. However, the scientific investigation of pri-headquarters requesting that strong has been somewhat mitigated by the four Swedish and several Chinese mitive native
It is also action should be taken to deal with assurance that the cats are to be scientists have worked all the sum "I say quite frankly," he said, intended by means of the records the seminary referred to.
taken care of by the Society for the mer and into the autumn in the "that in the New Testament we do to perpetuate the primitive culture. Mr. Hsing's original letter says Protection of Animals. Indeed, a remote parts of Kanau and are not find the guidance that we The natives travelled from Rhode that the Seven Day Adventist special home is, it is stated, to be now proceeding into Sinkiang, should desire, because the idea of sia to Johannesburg in n motor-Theological Seminary was formerly provided for them in more Chinese Turkestan. a Christianised world advancing lorry in charge of Mr. H. T. Tracey, situated at 25 Ningkuo Road, Shang salubrious spot in the suburbs. The The expedition also has discover- by degrees towards a social order a Mashonaland settler. The party, hai, but it was moved to Chintu cats are to be transported thithered a number of "books" of the in which the Kingdom of God camped by the roadside every night. cheng, Halachu, on the Shanghai- en masse in a motor-lorry. It is Han dynasty period, written on might be realised on earth is quite and over the camp fires Mr. Tracey Nanking Railway, in 1924. The pointed out that the animals will bamboo, and prehistoric fossils foreign to the Catholic Church, trained the singers to obey his signs, original Chinese ranie was "San Yue thus be promoted from their posi- which may throw new light on the until very recent times.
By the time they faced the micro-Ta Hзuch" (San Yue University), tion of dependence on ensual foreign early history of man. "For us science hoa opened up phone they were perfectly trained. but this was changed to read "San charity to the status of honoured an entirely new perspective," he
A "Lobola Song.
Yue Shong Haueh" (San Yue pensioners of the Italian Govern- said. "The basis of civilisation
when the ment, under whose efficient caro The first record to be made was Theological Seminary) has filled some 10,000 years; the a "lobola" song dealing with the National Government ordered the they will no doubt in time acquire future may last for a hundred purchase of a wife Its native title registration of all private education- a truly Fascist sleckness.
means "Child promised beforehand," al institutions, and represented the bargaining of
CAPT. F. POWELL.
thousand or a million.
UB.
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acngs.
"Cultural Invasion."
The
A
An Ancient Bett. The geological section of the ex- pedition also has had great suc cess, and has charted the coast of an ancient sea at Chu Yen, indicat- ing that the ocean once extended over what is now the most im portant part of China. More than 900 kilometres of uncharted coun- try has been mapped by the, ex-;
"We are still children; we have as a race nearly all our life before a native father who wished to The writer then goes on to allege' This new vista has altered pledge his little daughter in ex that the seminary authorities are and ought to alter our whole way change for a first instalment, which anti-Kuomintang in their sentiments of looking at the world. Such would enable him to pay some of the and their actions and they are COUSIN OF THE CHIEF SCOUT pedition. thoughts make us realise as we debt he still owed for his own wife. attempting to enforce a "cultural
DEAD.
The expedition left Peking lasti never could before the aplendid Another song was a threshing song. Invasion" policy in China because,
October, and after a long and cir-) adventure of the life of our race
After a trial record had been according to their catalogue, the
cuitous journey. reached its as a whole; its glorious possibili made, the singers were allowed to students are compelled to study the
death is reported of destination in Kansu on July 18. ties, the unimportance of tempor-listen to the reproduction of their Bible and they are forbidden to Captain Frank Powell, ary failures, and the privilege
R.N., although they had expected to get| Ditton, whilst visit there in March. The presence of which we enjoy of being links in own voices. For a moment they sat study Kuomintang principles or to Tapas
dumbfounded with amazement; exhibit Kuomintang literature Ining his mother. Lady Poweli bandits everywhere did not pre- then the sound of the record was the school library.
Further, theat Shankiln, at the age of vent the party from getting lost as they burst into shrieks of writer concludes, students
are re- 54 years.
He had been an active through. quise to subscribe to Christian member of the branch of the laughter.
The expedition is financed by periodicals and to propagate British Legion, of which he was Dr. Hedin, and large contributions Christianity but they are not allow chairman.
The Chinese have not given money, The eldest son of Ad- have come from the United States.
but several Chinese scientists are assisting the expedition.-United Press.
so magnificent a chain.
Not Social Reform.
"This earth of ours has become more precious to us, and we may
people it in imagination with a PREMEDITATED FIRFed to observe national or Kuomin-miral Sir Francis Powell, K.C.M.G., race of human beings far superior
in every way to us and our con- MANAGING PARTNER ABSOLVED temporaries and yet the Gospel has
a message of moral and spiritual
regeneration, not of social reform.
FROM ALL BLAME,
"Do we really think," he asked. "that the work assigned to us as Christians is less important than into a fre
• Christianity has neither
savour
Bre.
Klang, August 31.
oc.
WAL
tang holidays.-N.C.D.N.
HEALTH HINTS.
CHILDREN WHO CATCH COLD.
is a source
he served on the China station and saw much fighting at the time of the Boxer outbreak, During the major part of the Great War he served in "mystery ships" and was twice torpedoed. Captain Powell was a cousin of Lord Baden-Powell He leaves a widow; three sona and one daughter, who is captain of the Esher Company of Girl Guides.
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MAN WITH PISTOL.
GLADSTONE'S WOULD-BE MURDERER DIES.
An inquiry has just been held Ú Á shay in Main that which occuples the attention Street in connection with which of the politicians? Do we really Tan Hin-cheong, managing part. think that any solid and stable ner of., Chop Sin Hoe Hin, amelioration of society can be cupiers of the premises,
As Winter will soon be here
A celebrated trial at the Old made without a new heart and a charged with arson. The charge (says a writer in a Home paper).
Bailey 87 years ago, following a new spirit? If we do we shall be of arson was withdrawr. by the I want to take the subject of ordin
threat to assassinate the late Mr. making a far wòrae mistake than deputy Public Prosecutor and aary common colds in detail, be- vitality is lowered, and again any W. E. Gladstone when he was Prime i the early Church did when the Inquiry Tan Hin-cheeng was cause-though they are so ordin-wandering germa finds a home.
Minister, is recalled by the death at neglected social reform altogether further exonerated from a blameary, and not usually regarded as
Criminal Lunatic "The mind of Christ was kept as to the cause and origin of the serious-they are responsible, ao a Now we will take. the treatment Broadmoor alive in the cloisters and Sacra-
doctor tells me, for twenty-five per of colds. Do treat them at once. Asylum, a few miles from Reading, ments of the Catholic Church, but During the inquiry Tan Hin-cent, of our total illnesses.
Do your very best to get rid of one. of William Henry Townsend, aged an externalised and
when the fire secularised cheong said that
First, let's take the causes of At the very first stage, when the 78. occurred he
Townsend was a gunsmith in the was in Segamat. colds. The main cause is infec-throat la sore and the child feely nor salt; it is no dynamic to red goods he valued at $20,000. child with a cold
When he left the shop it contain- tion. Don't ever forget that a miserable, give him a dose of sweet North of England when his mind generate the world.
of nitre and a hot bath, and see that became unhinged, and he was obsess. "Christ was not in the ordinary When he returned there were danger to others. Your child may he keeps covered up during. the ed with the idea that by shooting sense an asthetic", said Dean Inge, only $6.000 worth of goods in the be supremely healthy, sensibly night. If the cold is a bad one, Mr. Gladstone he would be doing "There is no doubt. He used hyper- shop.
clothed, with no trace of adenoids, keep him in bed if you possibly national service. bolical language which could hard- In reply to questions he said it but if he comes in contact with can.
In 1893 he went to London with Give a dose of Californian ly be continued in popular preach-as possible that the cooliea he germs, you can't protect him. So Syrup of Figs. as it is important, a pistol to carry out his purpose, ing. He did not shun the society,!
who were dis do your utmost to keep your if there is the slightest feverish. and walked up and down Downing of the rich or repel them in any satisfied owing to a coming de children away from sources of in-ness, to keep the bowels well open. Street until the Premier appeared. way. His counsel of perfection to crease in wages, had set fire to fection. If someone in a tram or Hot lemonade to drink, and
Disarming Smile. "Mr. Gladstone's back was turned the young man who thought that the shop and taken some of the bus coughs and sneezes, It is worth oranges to eat, will make his he had kept to the Commandments Foods. There had been a strong your while to take your bairns on throat feel easier, and with broth to me," Townsend told a friend was not addressed to everybody. antell of oil about the shop. He top, or off the vehicle altogether. and a light diet be best for him. later, "and I was just going to fire In those days, perhaps, a man did not, in the ordinary way, keep If one of them catches cold, keep If his noge is very "stuffed up" when he turned and smiled at me. could hardly follow Christ in His Dil..
him away from the others as far and you can see he won't be able His smile was so charming that journeys without giving up or en- The court of inquiry decided as you possibly can.
to breathe easily at night, get an I had not the heart to shoot him." Remember that that the fire was premeditated,
hot dangering his hoarded
Soon afterwards Townsend was rooms, old jug. and fill it with boiling There was no regular investment but there was no evidence of churches and picture places, where water and add a few drops of recognized by the Police and arrest of capital In those days.
Let him bended. blame or negligence attaching to the air gets hot and stuffy, are Friar's Balsam. "It is hardly necessary to say anyone. Straits Times.
wealth.
that even if, He had, wished to lay
had left behind,
down a scheme of socialism--and Christian love or charity and cannot such an idea never occurred, to claim to be in accordance under Pontius Pilate and Herod Christian economics.
• Him-the conditions of Palestine
would have put it out of the question.
with
bound to spread germs. Germs over it and inhale the steam, and At the inquest at the asylum It flourish in bad, warm air, and his head will feel much clearer, was stated that Townsend was found perish or are blown away in pure If he has a slight cough, glycerine, Guilty but Insane of sending a letter fresh air, so it is obvious that the lemon juice and honey, in about threatening to murder Mr. Glad- less your children go to hot crowd, equal proportions, make a pleasant stone. ed places the better. As they grow remedy. up, you cannot always prevent it, I know, but you can in the case of the smailer ones.
In 1803 he recovered and was dis When the cold goes into the charged, but was readmitted the second stage that is, the dis-same year, having relapsed mental. charge from the nose gets thicker ly. In 1927 he was again discharg- and yellow-it is as well to help ed, but had to be taken back in
Monastic Communists. "Christianity," said Dean Inge, "His travelling missionaries "s a revolutionary Idealism which were to live an alms like begging estranges revolutionaries because A child with adenoids, that is to friars but this proves nothing. It is idealistic and estranges con- Bay, a child with an obstruction at to get rid of it by letting the child 1929. He had had an apoplectic His own little band seemed to have sorvative minds because it is re- the back of his nose, which makesį sniff up warm salt and water. Put seizure saven months ago, from carried a bag with money in it volutionary. The Churches have him breathe through his mouth, is a half teaspoonful of salt to half which he never recovered.
needed it....
Methods That Have Falled.
and to have bought food when they tried to work by bribes and threats bound to catch cold easily. The pint of water, and get him to A verdict of Death, from Natural
-essentially irreligious appeals to filter in his nose, which should sniff it from the hollow of his Causes was recorded, attract or terrify the irreligious, warm and clean the air as he hand, if you haven't the right little These methods have failed and we breathes it, isn't working. The glass vessel. The water will' come "Some people reject Christianity talk of the decay of religion.. cold impure air goes straight to] down the back of the nose and run because they do not understand it;. "The real appeal of Christ is as his lungs. Therefore, as I have out of the mouth, bringing with it Ferocious French Fun. others because they do understand strong as ever but we know we are maid often before, if your child the yellow mucus. ft. To the latter class unquestion-led to expect that there will never koops on catching cold, have him ably belong the disciples of Karl be an inconvenient crowd trying examined, and if he has adenolds, Marx. For what excites their to enter by the narrow gate. have them removed. - : passionate hatred to Christianity
"The monasteries were a real
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I hope all of you have invested
in a thermometer—or that you will | now, if you haven't done so up to fs precisely that idealistic stand-experiment in Communism. His- The child who wears too many this. It'a really such a small ex ard of values which cuts the tory seems to have proved that clothes will also catch cold easily pense for invaluable services. If ground from under the feet of such experiments can succeed only The unnecessary warmth makes you have a thermometer you can their savage and vindictive under two conditions-a religious him perspire. The dampness can make aure" about baby or the materialism.
baals and the rule of celibacy. not escape through the layers of older children, whenever there "If Christ is right," he said, "The chief cause of modern vest, combinations, woollen bodice seems the slightest thing wrong, "Rousseau and Marx are utterly wars," he added, "is fear, and as or stays, woollen petticoat and and avoid" all that unnecessary wrong. If Login and his disciples long as Governments think that frock, or woollen jersey (I have worrying,N BRA had turned Russia into an earthly they may further their own 'sup- Indeed known children who wore You all know, I expect, that the paradise wo might have some posed interests without any refer all these, because their mothers right temperature is between 38 qualms about the wisdom of the ence to moral principles those were so afraid of their catching and 99 degrees Fahrenheit. Any- Christian method, Christ pointed- Zears will be justified and no cold), and so the damp garment thing found about a 100-degrees ly declined to act as an arbitrator nation will feel itself safe until it clings to the body, lowering the means alight feverishness, while in disputed questions of owner is stronger than a possible, enemy, child's vitality and making it 102 or 108 la certainly more than ship. The Church condemns an in which case its neighbours, easier for any wandering germd to a "bit of a temperature," yet, a irrational love of accumulation but would have good grounds for be- find a home,
child with a perfectly common- we have no right to say that one lieving themselves to be in danger. The child who wears too many place cold will often go up to this system of taxation is more ChrisThis exemption of Governments clothes feels a change from a hot temperature.ne tian than another and nations from the obligation of room to a cold one so gradually Beaf tea or meat essences should "Special taxation of large in Christian morality has been one of that his skin doesn't work in this not be given while the temperatura comes may be desirable on public the most disastrous blots upon way, and is body, unprotected, la "up" or Indeed, until twenty- grounds, but I is no substitute for modern civilisation.":
goes on losing heat. Then his four hours after it is normal agal
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