If the
Bible
came out as a new book
ITS
-by-
today...
Peter Forster
TS title means simply "The Books," It contains travel books; several novels, including one, the Book of Ruth, pleading for racial intermarri- age; systems of law; instructions for personal hygiene, and church ceremonial; correspondence, and all kinds of histories.
It is at present translated into more than 200 languages. has end calruizble millions of copies was rare
kept chained
up in churches, is now plared in every hotel bedroom in Amerka.
The greatest
It is the greatest book of the West, yet was an 2172 the burlers of the Etet, many ง Whove legend it echoes.
It is not meant to be read consecutively, since it follows no clear time-sentence--ipe Book of Genesis. Glway printed Brat, Was written some 48 years after the Boult of As". usually printed thirtieth,
The earliest passages were being written a thousand years before Christ's birth: The firs
{
Moreover, they here not gorilled, folk-hemes.
re human
distorted
It is POR stlering to follow this mall balion's struggle to preserve its faith and identily, Whether by stratagem or battle even in that greely unequal combat between David and
infinthi,
(For what chance had a giant ez.chambered with inore than 6,000 sheets of armour and equipment against $7 agile young enemy who knew how to vas a sling?)
There are odd contradictions about some of the Books--the pessimistic. almest fatthless Beclesiastra
have been canon but
might well Hot included in the for is early attri-
established whole lext camė bulion to King Solomon, who nearly a thousand years His death.
&her could not have written It.
From it almost everything can be (and has been) proved, from monajomy to vegeturianísın.
Coherent
The Gospel of St John was
Jesun Christ #limself, as almost certainly no written by reported in the fullest of the 1 Apostle John, just në the Gospels, St Matthew. has on Epistle to the Hebrew was record only some 14,000 words.... probably nol from St Paul, set upon that sucemet. sinali
base of fewer words than euld be of a great Biblical scholar However, the categorieni asser- be printed with are in five complete pages of this
may be noted: "No fundo. paper. history tas built antal doctrine of the Christlan
news-
uncountable mass of words and dentrises, like a pyramid upside
down,
The wars
rests
tezding."
disputed
Moreover, for all its literary ride-interests, and despite its apparent incoherence, the Bible does miraculously colere.
of muny such
From suci interpretations and Creeds which Judaism super- misinterpretations have spring sted are absorbed by it: Elijah, the wars of religion the growth to take ene and conflet of
the examples, das foreshadow Jehn enlonising and the missions, The Baptist above all, for elavery, and the ending of the Christians, Christ is demon-
slave trade.
empires,
Yet for all its complexity its ultimate basic message is single and clear: the Way, the Truth, and the Life,
3
is a huge eathedit of book, built over eleven centuries. in many styles, and worked on er since with innumerable side chapel of devotion, and at its end, as the heart of all, the simplicity of the Cro-5.
the
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1961.
Angry “hello” girle in Britain who say they were “rocketed" for being slow with the Postmaster-General's calls, reported him to their union. Now, to speed things up for the P.M.G., Mr. John Bevins, a special direct line links his home in Queen's-drive, Liverpool, with the exchange. A special buzzer-“It sounds like klaxon horn"-drones through the exchange when he is calling. A special orange light flashes at the operators. More than 500 operators were warned by their bosses: This is Mr. Bevins's exclusive line.” They were also ordered: “Don't keep him waiting."
ANSWER P.M.GS FLASHING LIGHT AND BUZZER IMMEDIATELY
| POSTMASTER BE PRIVATE LINE
"I have a complaint from the Postmaster-General. Every time he uses his buzzer a similar sound comes through his end"
a
London Express Bervico.
The farm boy who made LOGAN
A
a science of surgery
TREMOR of fear and horror ran through
the freak as he noticed the man at the back of the show-hooth. It was a man he had seen before. For days on end the man had been fol lowing him, watching him, gazing at him with macabre expectation.
strably and consciously
True, the freak knew that the Mr-Ja foretold centuries watcher had no earlier.
designs on bis 1 life. But the freak Wax not The revolutionary concept of worried about that. He was Bil. the old Testiment is of a single 4in. tall. His hands measured 14 Gad-hand, but in all its 30 books Inches from wrist to middle there is no mention of personal anger. He could look after his immortality.
own life all right.
Hidden
What really worried him was the thought of what might hap- pen after his death, Earlier the mun had brought an offer from
It is with the New Testamenta West End surgeon who wont- that the tremendous idea As a detailed account by divers salvation comes in. ant with it corpse.
of led the treak to assign him his lunds DI early Middle Eastern Ete-after-death-for how may n polies, seme of might seem seul be saved it the grave is the of interest only to scholar-yet end of ally who could read, say, Genesis ant! the struggles
fre
of Abraham and "The
AVID QUEST
KO
late
дугу. The faltiaful guardians of the corpse, after sharing a brite of £500, carried It out to the surgeon's cab themselves.
With the
Mr Byrne tolling at his side, the little man hurried to a subterrancan pas sage in Earls Court, from which a magnificent skeleton was later carried in a ginss case ready for display.
By ROBERT PITMAN
newest
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GOURLAY
Such an embarrassing time for the freedom man...
AD
DD 12,000 miles (approximately) to my total of journalistic journeys. Add place names local bright boy. He did not
like Kenya, Nairobi, Nanyuki, Tanganyika, Moshi, St George's was a haspital work is way down to London arranged on the
prin Uganda, Entebbe, Mombasa, Malindi, Zanzibar, from a university in the North, eiples. Instead of operations Egypt, Cairo, Aswan to the map I've covered. He passed no exams.
taking place in the wards While his prissy and elegant aside.
special operating room was sel And add these men and elder brother William Wat
moments these people and im-hold since Suex. Before tho already prospering a medical In that room John watched pressions-which bring the mep man in Covent Garden, John and assisted while the great to life.
Egyption authorities grant- squat.carrot-hended, surly-was surgeon Cheselden
ed permission they had to working at the
James Gichuru, leader of the be assured that it had no lalie for a gall-stones with no Glasgow cabinet maker,
pain-killer cnva African National Union stronger than rum and louda-and undoubtedly a Minister in political significance -what-
num.
removed
ball
Then the cabinet maker went
The African Goverment after soever. bankrupt. John went South to Cheselden could never inure the February elections, is the help Willim. with the
who chief himself to suffering. Betore an AIN
cald recently in It wos 20 Scottish duty of procuring corpses for operation he would often be Swahill: "We are no longer organised by the St Andrew'a Willam's medical school.
begging for uhuru (freedom) Society. from the Europeans. They will soon have to kneel before us.
for the
Who was the surgeon? No one A respectable as Sir Russell At that time only the bodies Brock or Sir John Weir, of of hanged criminals were legally St Augustine's words:
But the
course. But they would be the vallable
dissecting celebrated
Charles Arst to New Testament lles Byrne,
concede that he was table; anci though aware that
even at 40 carly Patriarchs, without hidden in the ld, and the Old would soon die from tuberculosis greater, perhaps, than any other ing. William himself would have
he greater than either of reeting that in this history of a Testament is manifested in the and alcoholism, did not want to surgeon in British history,
them cighteenth-century rate of hàng- small nomadic tribe is the story New."
if he gone bankrupt assign his giant,
had fall manketod, told in little? It is the most influential book body to anyone,
gin-sodden
depended on the official Issue. ever assembled.
John Hunter, born His students would have taken biography, THE RELUCTANT 1728, the subject of a new their fees elsewhere. SURGEON, by John
Heinemann, 213.).
Kobler
never
than
Ke
was
However difcult the time
It is the guide-book of Chris- That was why Byrne was so sequence who has nol been tianity, and withem it Chris agitated when the surgeon's man carried away by the sheer sweep tinnity would
have began to wali like a vulture at
A prosperous school needed o of the historical narratives-by travelled so far.
the back of the booth. That was
steady supply of dend, and the great stories of Joseph and Indeed, no
young John proved a brilliant fact in human why he ordered on Moses and Samuel and Solomon, history is more fantastic
expensive The story of Hunter's avid supplier. Already the graveyard lead con for himself, and as well as by the vision of that
quest for poor Byrne helps to raiders were so active that one 50 much should have team of fellow-Irishmen to tow explain his greatness. prophets like Ezekiel and sulled from the life and teach-it to the mouth of the Thames
newspaper advertisement Jeremiah and Micah, who was ing of the village carpenter and sink it beyond the reneli of
nounced:- 10 Arst mut ever to envisage whose birthday we celebrated any scalpel.
But the plans of mice and -(London Express Service). nie-and of plants loo-can
the idea of universal pence on 1st unenth. worth?
physically ill. Yet once he started his hand never trembled. An assistant held a watch.
After a series of deft but terrible movements Cheselden would be bolding the extracted stone while the assistant call- ed out his timing, often longer than two and a half minutes.
The magazine
I danced an eighisome rock with an Egyptian Government official opposite me, When 1 threatened to make a speech about home rule for Scotland he said: "That's all right. We
I met him in a small offer in always support small oppressed Da Nairobi side street, He sat at nationals
for their
have left
PRICE of a bungalow for two in the Mount Kenya Safari Club partly owned by William Holden: two
nghting a small desk with nothing on it independence and freedom." except a copy of an English He was deadly serious.. John Hunter took Cheselden's national woman's magazine. distaste for suffering, still fur-
He said: "My secretary must ther. He learned how the human
the magazine. borty can often heal itself with certainly not mine."
It's out the knife. He become the
"All this fuss reluctant surgeon. But he never said is nonsense.
about what Z became a scholar. An-
His written notes were muddled and
"I simply meant thini the hundred dollars: (about Hunter has few dramatic
wi Europeans will have to hand HK$1200) grammatical, discoveries to his credit-unlike
Years later
a day. That ever the power to us. his pupil Jenner, the ploncer of well be" dragned
"Many hundred dead bodies Darwin, reading onc passage
includes meals- think. "My their from them, discerned that in a being misinterpreted from
sporches nre always vaccination. Yet his ceaseleys coffins this winter, The only maze of confused
and mis- probing of the fabric of tie safe coffin is rideman's Patent unter
verbiage
quoted itself made him the founder of wrought-iron one."
had anticipated the basis of his
Mr Gichuru kas own theory of
another scientific surgery.
cvolution.
personal worry on the ove of In earlier ages the probing than his rivals. His eye, already
elections. Bio-hes just had most had been limited Indeed. On kindling with medical curiodly, not through ordinary books, but he gets replacements speech
Hunter's influence was spread of his teeth extracted and until one occasion, when the margrave could spot what were going to through his great book-without- moking is dimcult. of a German Slate was suffering he the interesting specimens words, s
He Bald: "Must Africans as from heart
collection of speel- trouble, debate before they were actually dead.
Jou'vo mens, end through his continual
scen took
have beautiful, place among the court
experiments. physicians as to where exactly
natural feath. I don't know why his heart would be. To settle
mine are bad,"
At least he didn't blame the Issue, a pig was dissected
But Jolan went
one beller
PROTECTION
before the pallent's eyes and Thus for John learning and location of its heart duly business began to go hand in hand. Soon his knowledge of
noted,
the
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It is as inspiring story-and Hunter's experiments was intensely sad too. For one of decaying elvilising European catastrophic as it was amazing.
#
Influences.
...the human body was exten- It took place while he was IN ATHENS, where my
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ONE ANSWER
QUOTE a small advert, which and bright newspaper, the Dally sppeared in Kenya's new
Nation the Aga Khan);
·(which is financed by
Titled Indy would like to meet gamekeeper."
The editor told me-andly, I thought-that only one reply had been recelved,
ECONOMIST
ro-
It was John Flanter, more sive that he was admitted as leading than any other man on earth, a surgeon's pupli at St George's scourge of the age,
the attack on the plane stopped on the way who dispelled the logering Hospital,
venereal home, I was foolish enough disease.
WAS going down in On the verge of mar- vertiges of such feudat
rlige, in a mistaken and over-
to complain to an assistant Picture that big building at confident experiment, ignorance for ever,
the illt in Cairo's Nilo in an airport shop because Hilton Hotel he dell- Hyde Park Corner
(which young berately injected himself with she would not accept a minded At his Leicester-square a joyn John Hunter saw it. On the syphilis. He reported that he British £1 note. She said: conditioned
me of an sir- house his cultured wife's guests left of the doorway sat the
quickly cured it. I did not "No British money, thank with beds). The other pe« bus terminal had to pick their way, to her borter and his assistant. musicnt evenings through rows
realise that, his own children
you. There's nothing wo, cupant was a dark-skinned want, from you now. We've young man wearing a whità got Cyprus."
jacket.
were probably affected.
Nor did he connect the ce
End of barter.
OPPRESSED
At the fourth. Noor in stepped another dark-skinned man who smiled at Mr white Jockel and said: "Are delegate from the Sudan #10:
of grisly, bottled specimens. At This pair not only minded the la country home in Earis door. They prepared the surgical Court a menagerie of tigers, dressings, bathed the patients, lions, and specially bred freakatted tho dally quart of beer periment with the tornient of animals roared and chattered. given to every Inmate fit to angina pectoris which burdened drink -and kept the key to this later, ezrser and finally kill- the hospital's chamel house,”
ed him.
Inside, across the Banded ward John Hunter's was που the floors, the staff doctor made his the connection clearly. A bitter TN Cairo I attended the the Economic Mission?"
True, Jika rounds carrying a cane with and ironical ending to the path so many, plonoere of medicine, vinegar-soaked
fint social #ponge in the which led from the bankrupter which the British commu. From the roof bar with the dagʻas
function Reply: "No, I'm a walter he came from a farm In Soot hend an, a protection against of a Glasgow cabinet maker. land. But he was not the the felly atmosphere."
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