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THE NEGLECT OF BIBLE STUDY.
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SERMON AT ST. JOHN'S
CATHEDRAL
The Kov. H. Copley Moyle, Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral preaching on Bunday morning from the text:--
"Whatsoever things were written aforotime were written for our learning, that we, through patience and comfort of the Scriptums might have hope Rom. 184, said:-
A SERIES OF ARMED ROBBIES.
GANGS BUSY IN VARIOUS DISTRICTS.
During the weekend no less than ave cases, of armed robbery wore reported to the police. In each case the men were armed with revolvers and in all over 87.500 in money, jewellery and dething were stolen! *-
After
LOOT FAWNSHOP.
On Sunday night, at Samauipo the As our alma are asked this morning for a bountant of a pawnshop, named the the British and Foreign Bible Society it Wo-tai, was checking pawn-tickets at would seem natural to spend a few 10.30 o'clock when a man, whom he knew utes in thinking about the Bible and casually, entered accompanied by two its history: A writer in a London new strangers.
a short conversation, paper, recently, used these words "There the accountant went into the kitchen and is no greater need, in dur present day one of the men followed him." The is civilization than a better knowledge of countant. was overpowered and gagged. the Bible. No one who knows it and The robbers, who were armed with re learns how to rean it will remain unvolvers, then opened the safe and stole educated; no one to whom the Bible is a 3,290 worth jewellery and money to the closed book is really educated. A sady amount of $154, ***
MATSHED HOBBERY,
EXSTELLATIO NOBBERY AT PING CHA U--
ISLAND.
*
A large gang of men raided the Island of Ping Chau on Friday night and a large sum of money as well as valuable pro- perty was carried away. The gang first visited a shop during the absence of the master and forced a foks to lead them to a room on the first floor where a sum of $150, was extracted from two boxes.
of the men and women of the Bible ahows how deep that book goes into human nature, and what a revelation it
On Saturday night four men, armed is of humanity. Is describes human with revolvers, forced their way into a nature as it is to-day it asks questions mataaed occupied by a family, at Chi- and answers them. It is in fact the most ma-yuen, Taumati. Two boxes were modern of books" There was a time broken open and money and property to when it was said of the English people, the total value of $130 were stolen that they were the people of one book and that book the Bible, and I beheve that it is still a fact that the sale of the Bible exceeds the sale of any other book. But I fear we cannot say that the Bible is well known to-day. One of the causes of the present widespread neglect of Bible study by professing Christians, is a vague feeling that the Bible is not to be truated. This is in part due to the way in which the Bible was used in a past generad for purposes for which it was not faded. A hundred years ago English Ohristians had coine to have an idea of the Bible as an epitome of the history of the world, and had come to take many statements literally which wore not to intended. To-day Bibla studenta hoid very different views of the Bible to those held 100 or even 30 years and it would indeed be surprising if it were not so. We live in a changing, age when our habits, our customs, our manners even our language is changing but there is truth in those familiar lines of Tennyson:
to new,
The Old order changeth, yielding place And God fulls Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt
the world.
Two houses in Wing On Street wore.. subsequently visited by the gang and the robbers seized money Bad property, amounting to the large sum of $4,000.
Whitaker's Almanack for 1929, a copy publishers, marks the 54th year of ine of which we have just received from the of this indispensable work of reference. whitaker's enjoys a world wide ro putation, and no reference library can afford to be without it. We notice that the work is now published at 6/- sett.
into book form. This may possibly have been the case with a few of the propheta, as Joel and Ezekiel, but it cannot have
SMALLPOX AT: SHANGHAI,
FEWER CASES AMONG FOREIGNERS.
VISIT OF PRINCE OF WALES.
SINGAPORE ARRANGEMENTS. H.R.H. will arrive in Singapore ou
The passing of the old year, says the 3.-C. Daily News of the 18th inst.. bng Friday 31st March, and disembark pro- seen an abatement in the number of foreign cases of small-pox notised to the bably at 8 am. A guard of honour con Health Department. A similar decrease posed of ex-service man only from the has unhappily not been observed in the Straits Settlements will be mounted at ease of the Chinese. During the first half the War Memorial" For this guard. of the month only three foreign deaths Penang and Province Wellesley Volun from the disease took place in the Inter
teers will provide 30 all rauks. A national Settlement, Atatistics for Jan stand for other Ex-service man their uary up till the 15th inst. are as follows:
wives will be provided pear "War Foreign causes notified to the Health Memorial." A guard of honour from Department, 1 Number of deaths, 3: Asiatic Companies will also be mounted Chinese Isolation Hospital: 17. During (place not yet decided.) Penang Volun the week ending on Sunday no less than teers will provide a proportion of this 30 deaths are recorded among the regid guard. Other Volunteers will be utilised
for duty in the streets. eat Chinese population.
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is!
THE $90,000,000 LOAN. BRITISHI MINISTER'S OPPOSITION,
·
FRENCH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AT SHANGHAI. „ Voting in the French Municipal Coua- cil election at Shanghai, took place lass week. Of 1,071 electors on the register, only 278 went to the poll.
The proposal made by the Peking Government for raising domestic, bonds with the Salt Gabelle as security has already been cancelled owing to the protest by the British Minister to Peking,
There were six mndidates for fire coats: says a Chinese news agency. In con on the Council, and M. Artaud-Coste sequence, the Liang Cabinet has now was again unsuccessful. The only two under contemplation a plan to issue | candidates for foreign representation bonds with the Salt Gabelle surplus, were Mrasrs. Speelman and Shoop, d whigh is naturally to be delivered to both were well supported. The result, Chinn, as security with the object "of was declared as follows:- passing the China New Year. The sub Elected:- stance of the play, it is reported. is as follows:-
Total aum. $7,000,000. Interest, 15 per cent.
CHINESE CUSTOMS TARIFF.
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION TO
M. Speelmann M. Shoop
A. Tulane
P. Le Bris
A. Chapeaux
Not elected.
A. Arnaud Coste
1 124
100
130
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** 141 Messrs. Speelman, Shoop, Tulasne and Le Bris will serve on the Council for two years, and M. Chapeaux for one year.
Four candidates fre the Commission" Fonciere were elected, as follows:
Ch. Barriere F. Sallou
MEET IN SHANGHAI,
revision of the Customs tariff, whereby The Waichisopu announces that the the customs duties will be brought to an effective five per cent., will be in thej... hands of an international commission of which Admiral Tani Ting-kan will again be Chairman. This commission will also not on the official list. mest at Shanghai... -
J. M. Tavares
Dont......
919
10
240
A few votes were recorded for name9
JAPAN'S FOREIGN TRADE,
BALANCE OF IMPORTS.
The increase in to take effect four months after the conclusion of the Wash- ington Conference and two months after the publication of the revised duties. It is not known whether the Washington Conference has decided upon the period from which the duties will be assessed, The foreigh tride of Japan for 121. but it is anticipated that it will cover according to figures supplied by the number of years and will again be below Department of Finnce, was as follows:- to the great change in prices since the
The exports for 1991 (in thousands of the present actual effective rate, owing beginning of the war.
IN CHINA.
en).counted to 1,252,241. In 1920 they were 1,9-18,217. The imports for 1921 been the case with all of them. The
amounted to 1.612,870. In 1920 they were book of Jeromiah gives us an account of
2,335,841. These figures show the bal- Let us remember that the Church has the way in which some of that book was never defined exactly what she means by written. In the 30th, chapter of Jeremiah THE POSITION OF WOMAN Ce of 350.629 in favour of imports.
There was no export of gold and silver Inspiration, and the ideas which "one we read that in the 4th year of Jehniskim
in 1991, while in 1820 it amounted to generation may hold on the subject may Jeremiah received a command from God
3,508: During the past year gok and differ widely from the ideas of another to this effect; "Take thee a roll of a
The International Woman Suffragé silver to the amount 138,690, was "in- generation, but to-day the inspiration of book, and write therein all the words that Alliance, who issue a news service from ported. In
1920 they amounted the Holy Scriptures is recognised by the I have spoken unto thee. against. Israel." London has received from Miss Lee Lien, 104.727. best and ablest scholars as having been And in obedience to this command abundantly vindicated by modern re-Jeremiah with the help of bis scribe details on the position of the woman in of Canton, the following interesting
search and criticism.
Baruch made the rall which was after China: warda burned by the King, Jeremiah had been prophesying for years its governing marriage, and the old parental- 1.-There has not been any written law clear that the book must have been a arranged marriage has been broken down.
we are told that much was added to it
people concerned but they must gain consent of their parenta.
nor to, declare against a woman holding 2-Property. There is no law to assure or inheriting property. But it has been customary that a widow "who has children holds no property, and a girl inherits a part of ber father's property.
3-Guardianship of Children-No wo man has ever been legally guardian of her children.
4-The woman has a right to her own earnings.
5. The divorce law is equal for both
Bexes.
6State regulation for prostitution exisis, but a great anti-prostitution movement has lately been started
TENNIS AT SINGAPORE.
to
SAIGON RICE MARKET,
The Compagnie de Commerce and de
port dated Saigon. January 10th,
state:-
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Our market is still very quiet and we with Europe. Prices have made a fur- have only to report some transactions ther decline, though the arrivals of paddy from the interior is not abundant; the quantity, however, is expected
to
increase in the next few weeks.
The total amount of rice exported from
January 1st to December 19th, 1921, is 1,450,032 tons agzinst 993.191 in 1920.
We quote to-day:-Write Saigon rice, No. 2 Japan quality, Hongkong, 24.74 per picul, fo.b. Saigon, for January- February shipment,
WORLD THEATRE.
From the students' point of view there is a great difference between the Old and New Testament The New Testament was at one time violently attacked by a wave condensed summary of his teaching, and Engagements are initiated by the young Navigation d'Extréme Orient, in their of destruction criticism, but that has now spent its force and in almost every ease when it was rewritten. Some of the book the traditional judgment of the books of was apparently taken down by Baruch the New Testament has been endorsed by in Jeremiah's very words, and some of it modern scholarship. The attempt to as was the result of Baruch collecting, re aign them to the second century has pow cords of his master's teaching. been abandoned, and it is recognised | The book of the prophet Isaiah is now that they were sl, or nearly all, written generally agreed to have been written by in the first century, and mostly by the more than one author. The last twenty- Apostles and others to whom, they were seven chapters are believed to be the usually attributed.
work of a prophet living in Babylon Views of the Old Testament have towards the end of the period of the undergone more change, and it has now captivity and not the work of Isaink wha If we come to be recognised generally that the lived in the reign of Hezekiah. Old Testament books have gons-through | rend the last 27 Chapters of Isaiah we & considerable process of editing that shall see that the standpoint of the is to say they are in most cases the work prophet is that of the time when of some writer who has had various Jerusalem was in ruins, the Temple. was sources of written information before him in the dust, the cities of Judah were and has pieced together extracts, from deserted and the whole land desolate. these different sources. In some cases The exile had already lasted for a long. this is hinted at in the books themselves; time; there was a danger of the Jews in other cases it requires careful study loding hope of its ever being. finished, and to discover their sources. If we look at the message of this prophet was that the books of Samuel" and Kings we shall Jehovali, was about to deliver His people, seo clearly that they are compilations and that Cyrus who had already started The meeting of the well-known Singa. left the dramatic stage to try her fortune from earlier documents. In some cases on his victorious career was to be the pore tennis player, D. H. Kleinmann and before the camera, she was cast for the they give different accounts of the same instrument of the Jews deliverance. the S.0.0. Champion, J. A. Desa, with S. role of "heavy" and she played the event, as e.y. of Saul's being made king. The whole viewpoint of the prophets Nakamura, last year's winner of the Gaunt part with such skill and conviction that and of his meeting with David. These that of a Jew living amidst heathen sar Cup, and a fellow countryman named she has been compelled to play similar secounts which regard the event from roundings, which Isaiah never did. TheMikohara, on the 8.C.C. tennis courts ones ever since!
Miss Royce performs ber latest acts of different points, cannot always be har prophet was no doubt familiar with the attracted a large attendance composed to monised easily.
writings of Isaiah, and was filled with a great extent of Japanese supporters. villainy in the role of the half-breed Again, wo sometimes and an entire the same spirit. The name of the Bather The match took place in front of the Indian girl in Universal's photo-play of Club Pavilion and members and friends the Frozen North; Man Trackers! difference of style in the same book 'as was unimportant. It was his message when we compare the vivid, and dramatic that mattered. Like John the Baptist, the vernadaha. Some splendid, tennis World Theatre to-night.
were thus able to watch the play from which is announced to appear at the accounts of the events in the lives of in later times the people were to be at Elijah and Elisha with dry and formal tracted by what he said not by the
Her dark type of beauty and her whs witnessed in the course of two sea which were
played before
failing light dramatic ability combine to make her an accounts of the reigns and deaths of the speaker, The same idea of the com-
prevented. further, play and the honours ideal player for this difficult role, and Kings. The book of Chronicles Aamposite nature of the books may he said remained evenly divided. The Japaness if she does not win the sympathy of the some of the original authorities for the to be established with regard to the first
won the first set 8-7, their opponents audience in her character she certainly history of David's reign, viz., the history six books of the Bible, which are now taking the second, 10-8.
wins the admiration of the spretators For of Samuel the seer, the history of Nathan generally believed to be founded on four After being down, 40-love, the Japan the skill with which she portrays it. the prophet, and the history of Cad the principal documents, which embody ese won the opening game, but the Club's Beer. The author of the book of Kings' matter of rast antiquity coming down representatives obtained a lead of 6-3 names as one of his authorities the book from the Ages of the Childhood of the in the first set. A splendid rally gave of the Acts of Solomos, and refers his world. The late Dr. Driver, perhaps the the Japanese the next three games and readers for fuller information to the book greatest English authority on the Old after some very keen tussles they won the
AN INTERNATIONAL MATCH.
It is almost impossible to Eve down a bad reputation. Miss Ruth Royce, bad woman of the screen, has discovered this fact. Some three years ago, when she
KRYPTOK LENSES
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Success attended the visi.are the most perfect double focus glasace of the chronicles of the Kings of Judah, Testament wrote these words issors in the first game of the second set for both reading and distant. and the book of the chronicles of the the case that critical conclusions. Kings of Israel. In the Chronicles we are are in conflict either with the Christian but they lost the next three games told that the Acts of Jehoshaphat "are Creeds or with the Articles of the
The Japanese led by ordinary bifocal lens, the segment or masterly fashion. written in the history of Jebu the son of Christian faith. Those conclusions affect odd game in nise. Dean was using the part for reading is cernented to the dis- Hanani, which is inserted in the book of not the fact of revelation, but only its net a lot at this period but the Club took tant lens, raising the segment above the the Kings of Israel." So the primary su-form. They do not touch, either the next game and the scores alternated thorities for large parts of the history of the authority or the inspiration of the first one way and then the other until surface of the main lens. The segment the books of Samuel and Kings were the scriptures of the Old Testament.
They at sight all, Kleinmann and Dean finish and the line of union are always more writings of contemporary prophets. These imply no change in respect to the Divine ed the set by winning the last two games or less noticable. In Kryptok lens, no were largely incorporated by the Inter attributes revealed in the Old Testament, the more recent games.
by a vastly improved display on that of
Mr. O. B. cement is used, but the reading segment. writers who quoted them freely, so that no change in the lessons of human duty Bateman whatever may be the date when these to be derived from it, no change as to Prem..
umpired. --- Singapore Free is sicotrically fused in a depression in books were written they are based on the general position (apart from the
: the main lens, while the whole lens is first, hand information.
interpretation of particular passages)
ground smooth on both sides to the The same idea of the composite origin that the Old Testament points forward of the books in now held with regard prophetically to Christ."
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