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The Creed of Britishers in India.
News of the situation in India
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1932.
DEAN INGE ON EVOLUTION AND RELIGION
"WORLD - ORDERS OF WHICH WE KNOW NOTHING."
interrogated by an officer of the "Star" Ferry Company. What the result of that interrogation was we do not know. But this we do know, the Company has not yet prosecuted the gentle- men for raising a false alarm. We are surprised that the Com- pany and be it remembered that it is a public utility service company - does not appreciate what duty it owes to the public this case. Railway com- panies, when alarm signals are brought into action without pro- per reason, do not hesitate to prosecute and demand heavy worlds than the planet we live on penalties. Why did not the was expressed by Dean Inge, when "Star" Ferry Company take some auch action?
lin
The view that there are other, Christian
thinkers from St., Paul and St. John to our own day."
Modernism.
This tradition, the Dean
con-
Suppose, instead delivering his second Warburtontinued, was now assailed by what
looked like a coalition. He was go- ing to call the coalition Modernism
of raising the cry "Man over-lecture in Lincoln's Inn Chapel. board," the cry had been raised Dean Inge anid that some of the of either "Fire" or "Ferry sink-younger scientists had returned to a wider use of the word than ing." Into what a panic may not theory which in the last century passengers on the ferry at the was scouted, that of the creation of time have been thrown, and with the world in time. Philosophy had what consequences had best be generally inclined to the belief that left. to one's imagination! And the world was perpetual, as its I selves. yet, the "Star" Ferry Company Creater was eternal. views with leniency, apparently, The perpetuity of the universe an incident of a grave nature. vas the reflection under the condi- The public using "Star" ferries, tions of time and space of the surely deserve greater considera- timeless, unchanging, eternal nature tion. But they not only deserve of the Creator. Even Christian it, it is their due. The "Star" philosophy, apurt from the Bible, Ferry Company ought to have tended in the same direction. known better in which direction The fact of a creation in time was
The Holy Spirit,
The
its duty lay. It must be more a good example of the kind of truth discreet. in such cases in future, which could not be supernaturally and it must not shirk a respon-revealed in any way. sibility, no matter how unhappy it may be, which. who entrust their lives to the supported by the witness of the Christian revelation WAS Company on the passages across Holy Spirit in our hearts. But a the harbour, have a perfect right purely cosmological theory could ap- to expect it to shoulder,
passengers,
News in Brief.
peal to no such corroboration, and if it rested on statements in the Old Testament we were now con- vinced that the writers of those books knew much less of the early One case of amali-pox, three of history of the world than we did building up of a new India, delineat-diphtheria, two of enteric fever, and ourselves. ing their plans and showing how the only one case of meningitis were
In the absence of any super- foundations may be cut and laid so notified yesterday.
natural guidance, they were left to conform to delineations.
with the uncertainty that while al- Again, they plump unanimously for the principle that there shall be that cinemas and other places
For the same reason, it is learned most all other arguments pointed to tolerated no possibility of adverse entertainment, where crowds gather, the second law of thermodynamies of the everlastingness of the world, discrimination, religious, racial, have been placed out of bounds for pointed in the opposite direction. commercial, or otherwise, by any Service men. majority against any minority,
"My own belief," Dr. Inge said, "is that if the cosmic process, as The
one supreme reality, in at Accidentally falling into a hold we partly know it, is doomed to pass welter of unreality, which Euro- of the es. Kwelchow, lying under out of existence, there will be, and now-a-tinys is meagre This is not peans in India hold steadfastly to, repairs at due to the activity of the censor, is the facing of India's problems on coolie, Yeung Choi (32), suffered ordere of which we know nothing. Taikoo Dockyard, a perhaps are already, other world- but to a full in the political upheavala provincial basis; and they hold, scalp wounds and a fracture of the But this belief is based mainly on which has been so characteristic of tentatively, to the opinion of the left leg. He was removed to the the objection that
possibility of India's supreme pro-Civil Hospital.
we can hardly India in the past many months and,blem, the communal
imagine the Deity existing alone after his world has been finally indeed, years. The last cables of with her other problems, being In a fit of depression over finan-destroyed. It has no support what any importance
found capable of solution on a pro- cial matters, a married woman, Liever in natural science. received in the
vincial basis. Colony, in respect of happenings in
Lan, (45), living at 4 Chung Sing A careful consideration of the Street, first floor, is stated to have India, were to the effect that the creed of Britishers in India, as out-taken an overdose of eucalyptus oil Government of India had banned lined above, will, we think, convince She was taken to the
our readers that, far from Euro-Civil Hospital. the holcing of the annual session of
peans in India being antagonistic to the Indian National Congress in Indian aspirations they have the Deiht, and the expressed determina-truest interests of India at heart. tion of the veteran National Con- gree leader, Pandit Mohan Malaviya,
to held the session in spite of Gov- ernment's interdict.
To-day, we wish to
the asirpations of Indians.
This
one, together
Skylarkers?
I
that which the Pope invented as a designation of the Liberal Catholics, and which some Liberal Anglicans had adopted as a name for them-
The two chief tendencies in Modernist thought which brought it into conflict with the great tradi- tion, were the philosophy of movement.
anti-intellectualism and
Some of our modernist guides would substitute "God as history" for the subject of "God in history." error This he considered a very grave effects
which had had pernicious OR the religion of the day. It was a common- nearly 100
place that for
years we had used the concept of evolution as a general framework in which to set our ideas about his- tary, natural science, civilization, and politics.
The idea of evolution had in- vaded philosoply and religion and had been predominant in all the thought of our time. That it had often been used in an illegitimate went without saying. It had become a favourite catchword which was brought in to adorn pre- tentious and thoughtless writing on every subject.
manner
torical Christianity of any idea of evolution in man, and of progress for society, was a matter of great Importance for the understanding of Church history.
Purely Individual
almost to our own
In historical Christianity, down day, evolution was purely individual and was con- fined to the present life, which was to be followed by a static condition either of rest and enjoyment, or of unending torment. It Was thas plain that the idea of permanence or stability was overstressed and
ed. and progress were unduly neglect- the values of change, movement
The complete absence In hig-
After
ideas of Charles Darwin, who came, some discussion of the he said, exactly at the right time to put the keystone on to the arch, from the religious point of view Dr. Inge concluded by saying that
the method by which God wirke. "evolution" was only the name of
New Discoveries.
lead back to the fundamental pro- "These great questions aways Government blem of the conditions of knowledge. New discoveries have called public Members of the Rotary Club were to all thoughtful people long before, attention to a fact which was clear guests at tiffin on board the 8.5.that the mythical cosmology which President Hoover yesterday. The was part of the Christian tradition speaker after tiffin was Mr. A. M. is a poetical and not Bowes-Smith, a well-known local account of the origin of the world a selentific Bill and Exchange Broker, who we live in. spoke on "These Bullion Brokers."
"Some opponents of Christianity nor favourable to it. It merely sub- It was neither hostile to religion abaurdly maintained that the substituted belief in regular action for the catastrophic theories of Divine It had transferred the aspirations stage with a vision of a perfected of the individual life to a larger humanity in the far future in place of the hope of the final delivrance of the soul from the trammels of existence in the world of change and chance.
A skylarker, according to the great Noah Webster, is a person concern our- selves with the attitude of Eure who frolics, sports or carouses. On account of meningitis assum-stance of the Christian religion has peans in india to the Reforms and And "skylarking," according to ing epidemic roportions in the been thus destroyed. My contention the same authority, is a nauti-Colony, the lecture by the Rev. Erris is that Christianity stands or falls, attitude is often misrepresented and cal expression applied to the act/C. H. Tribbeck on Ibsen's "Peer not with any theories about the past misunderstood within and without of running about the rigging of Grat," which was
to have been and future of our planet and its India It is a travesty of the facts
a vessel in sport.
given in the Sallors' and Soldiers' inhabitants, but with the "philo In view of these definitions, it Home this evening, has been post-sophia perennis," the great tradi- fu say that Europeans in India adopt a die-hard attitude in respect
is not correct to describe the poned. of the Reforms, and that they are
gentlemen, who caused some excitement on a "Star" ferry
totally unappreciative of Indian as
pirations.
last Saturday night, as skylark-eating house at 282 Henessy Road, On a summons for sub-letting his Europeans in India stand for the occurred on a vessel, but that is Ching, was fined $10 by Mr. Scho- ers. It is true that the incident to a carpenter for his trade, Lo progressive realisation of
all that there is to associate the field in the government, but, and very rightly incident with skylarking in the this morning.
Central Police Court:
Sanitary Inspector
too, whatsoever in where
the
the
selt.
of
iL
tion, the foundations of which were laid by the Greeks and which has been developed by a long line of
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ACCIDENTAL
DEATH."
Hennessey Road Tragedy.
The death of a Chinese woman, who was knocked down by a car,
on
activity which were previously held.
returned a verdict of accidental death and attached no blame to the driver, who in their opinion, took every precaution to avoid in
accident.
The Coroner expressed the sym- pathy of the Court and of the jury with the deceased's husband..
Ten Years Ago.
IFrom the "Chian Mall" of April 13, 1922.3
*
од many
are opposed to any advance nautical sense. It may be ad-W. E. Allen prosecuted, stating that self-government mitted that what those gentle the defendant had contravened his organised defiance law is still
men did was done in sport, but licence. In addition to the fine order there will be few to agree that imposed, his Worship made an order of the day. They are, of course, their action was a sporting one. for the carpenter's business to be opposed to the barren creed of non-Indeed, we have heard it describ-closed within a week, co-operation.
Who is not? They ed as "damn foolish" and even are convinced that no matter what "wicked." sort of government is set up in
At the Annual Meeting of the driven by Mr. C. E. Gahagan in India, it is the first necessity of any it has already been recorded in Diocesan and Missionary Assocla- March 28, was the subject of an
Let us retail the incident, as St. Andrew's Branch of the Victoria Hennessey Road, Wanchal, such government to see that the Press sheets. laws are observed and order main was approaching the Hong Kong Pfister is giving
When the ferry tion at 9 p.m. to-morrow Dr. M. O. inquest held by Mr. Schofield (sit- tained,
To-day's dollar is worth 2/5 9/16. They believe that the com- landing stage on Saturday night, "Through Yunnan to China's Sacred Magistracy yesterday afternoon.
lecture on ting as Coroner) at the Central munal question must be settled one or more of these gentlemen Mountain, voluntarily and not by imposition, if threw overboard one
Omi," illustrated by Mr. E. S. C. Brooks watched the Hong Kong Tramway Co., Ltd., the At the annual meeting of the success is to be the fruit of that more lifebelts and raised the cry for admission and the meeting is Gahagan.
or two or lantern views,
There is no charge proceedings in the interests of Mr. Chairman said, "in regard to the settlement. They hold that proof "Man overboard" It was open to any friends who wish to
subject of Dr. G. H. Thomas stated that the Kowloon, you are vincial autonomy should be given only for a joke, they, perhaps, come.
A tramway in effect to for a sufficient period to say. But we fail to see where collection in aid of the funds of the mission, from shock and multiple occasions applied to the Gov-
There will be a retiring woman died five minutes after ad- this Company has
aware that enable the outcome to be judged the joke lies, or lay). The ferry V.D.M.A. before anything approximating to was stopped and another gentle- fall federal autonomy shall havo man, not of the party, is report- taken place. They are convinceded to have discarded his coat and that accepting democracy as the plunged overboard to the rescue basis of India's future constitution of the "Man overboard," the a federal policy is the only one to moment the cry was raised. son Chow is at present indisposed: replied, that he found no such in We regret to learn that Sir Shou-having been run over, and witness achieve success. But its founda- This gentleman is to be applaud- tions must be well and truly laid.ed for his gallant action. Not so
dication, although the infuries There must be no building of the those who were the perpetrators Sanitary Board, the Chairman, Mr. having been knocked down by make a motor service on the con-
At yesterday's meeting of the were consistent with the woman roof until the foundations have of a foolish, childish prank, G. R. Sayer, regretted the loss of car. settled and it is known as far as There, we have the bare facts of the services of the Hon. Mr. T, N.
ditions laid dowu remunerative." the wit of man can know Buch the case,
A Chinese mechanic, who was an No tender, was however, accepted, things, that the foundation is strong
Moby Chau as a result of his appointment eye wliness, stated the car was and the scheme was abandoned. Now, what happened when the as nough to bear the superstructure. ferry, after some delay, came Council; and
a Member of the Legislative travelling at full speed and ran Blace that time, a tramway conces- There is no objection to the many alongside and tied up to the land- M. K. Lo on his appointment to take heard no horn sounded.sideration, and I believe tenders congratulated Mr. straight into the woman. He sion has again been under con- political architects, interested in the ing stage? The gentlemen were Mr. Chau's place on the Board, After hearing evidence the jury will be invited in due course."
Personal Pars.
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infuries, including a ruptured ernment, for the concession and spleen and broken riba.
were in fact prepared to construct The Coroner asked if the post a tramway eight years ago. Last mortem examination, disclosed, any year the Government considered the. "definite Indication of the
Your Directors submitted, a tender instead, and advertised for tenders. woman question of a publle motor service
asking for a substantial zubeldy which they considered necessary to