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THE BIBLE AND THE PEKING MAN."
THE TRUTH OF THE DELUGE.
ORIGIN "AND AGE OF "LOESS" DEPOSITS AND
THEIR FOSSILS,
(BY TSE TSAN TALJ
Identification of Fossils. This means that there exist two or more deposits of loess" and
SPOONERISMS
MYTH.
BY OTHERS.
·Earth' Takes a List, It was this great upheaval and subsidence of continental land that caused the Earth to make a list of about 15 degrees, removing the an-ALL EXCEPT ONE INVENTED tediluvian North Polar regions. from Lattude 3 and Longitude 40 of Greenland to the North of Asia, and resulting in "overlapping" and the four so-called "Ice Ages."
The whole Earth (excepting the North and South Polar regions) has never been enveloped in ice at any time of its existence, and the theory of" "Four Ice Ages" as
Dr. W, A. Spooner, whose "death was reported in yesterday's issue of the Daily Press, to whom all the Spoonerisms in the world have been attributed, and Mrs. Spooner cele brated their golden wedding in September, 1928, when the truth
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FÖR HABITUAL THIEVES.
CANTON POLICE INSTITUTE. DRASTIC MEASURE.
[FROM ONE OWN CORRESPONDENT.
CANTON, Sept. 1. Ten burglars who had thrice been convicted of larceny were taken to the execution ground on the north-
When I read of leading Church- men in England and the United States publicly declaring the Bible story of the Flood to be a myth, fossils, one on top of the other, and taught by our geologists and scien. about "Spoonerisms" was revealed late in the afternoon and there
it makes me tremble for the future of Christianity and civilization.
If Churchmen are of this frame of mind, when preaching to their flocks, it is no wonder that the number of church-goers and be lievers in the Bible should be rapid ly and alarmingly on the decrease. And matters are made worse by the broadensting of reports in news papers that scientists have discover ed the skeletal remains of buman beings and animals over 3000,000 years old!.
When the leading scientists of the World support these discoveries of
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tists is false and misleading, and is fully proved by a careful study of tions of the different continenta. the geological and physical condi-
eastern suburb of Cantor yesterday
made to face the firing squad,
Owing to the numerous thefts The famous slips of the tongue by Dr. Spooner are a myth.
One of his oldest pupils, Mr. Corstantly occurring on the streets, the Canton Police are again com- Robert Seton, who has been Ropelled to resort to capital punish- ment for those having three offences against them. Anyone who has committed larceny is strongly warn- ed and has to go to the peniten-
it is most important that their ages should not be confused, and that the fossils of each age should be carefully identified and separated. The advancing Artic cold sudden-
The mixing up of the fossils ofly fross Alaska and Siberia, which curder of Devizes for 25 years, con- were then enjoying a semi-tropical fessed his share in perpetuating these two separate and distinct ages climate, and preserved in the solid the legend. He was the oldest has been misleading and confusing, ice the bodies of the huge mans- and has resulted in the fossils of moths, which were suddenly caught the recent deposit of "loess" being browsing and drowned by the tidal WAYC. These mammoths did not mistakenly classed with the fossils die a natural death as believed by of the ancient deposit of Toess." scientista.
The question is what is the age of Dinosaures, extinct mammals, and Prehistoric man
Certainly not 3,000,000 years, as
"
Scientists and "unbelievers" have been ridiculing the Bible record of the flood by stressing the scientific impossibility of the flooding of the
MA of New College at the party
"Kinkering Kongs Thair Titles
Tako,"
"The dear old Doctor," said Mfr. Seton, "made, to my knowledge, caly one Spoonerism in his life. That was in College in the carly
whole Earth and the covering of part of 1879. He was conducting a
tiary for a certain period, depend- ing upon the seriousness and the A second nature of the theft. offence merits a much longer period in the penitentiary in addition to a stronger warning, and capital punishment is meted out to those
the so-called "Anthropoid apes" believed and taught by our scier. the highest mountain tops by 40 service, and stood up in the pulpit having three such offences charged
("missing link "-the imaginary. child of their own creation-it is
not
days and 40 nights of rain.
against them. t
But they are woefully aniss, and to announce a hymn. He gave it
Of the 60 or so burglars rounded in their vain efforts to ridicule and
out as 'Kinkering Kongs: Their belittle the Bible, they overlook the
There was a hush,up recently, in the city, to were imporant fact that the Bible does Titles Take. not say that the Flood was caused and the Doctor, calmly repeated found to have had two previous by this 40 days and 40 nights of his slip. I am afraid that we all charges against them. These were The Bible clearly and distinctly burst into laughter. I think the executed as a poignant warning to the remainder, and in accordance states beyond a shadow of doubt Doctor then saw his mistake.
with the law governing burglary. that the "Flood" was caused by a
"It was the talk of Oxford in
The others were taken to the peni- videl wave, followed by hurricanes those days," he said, "and we. and torrential rains, lasting 40
disbelief in the Bible is rapidly by a tidal wave caused by the updays and 40 nights, and this is my used to spend hours in inventing tertiary at Nam Shek Tau.
GENESIS:
tista; and this will now prove.
As I have already explained in surprising that misguided my books and 27 supplementary Churchmen should lose faith and pamphlets (see note) and newspaper regard the Bible story of the Flood articles dealing with the "Cradle as a myth, thereby helping to dis of the Human Race" and then... credit God's creation of Man and
"Flood," published between the bring into ridicule the belief that the Bible is the Book of God. years 1914 and 1998, all the con- Since this growing and dangerous tinents of the World were flooded undermining the foundations of God's religion, and increasing the heaval of Central Asia and the sub-finding: number of unbelievers" through-sidence of a large mass of contin- Lout the World, I believe it is my ental land in the Pacific Ocean.
duty for the glory of God to help in proving the truth of the Bible record of the Flood, and exploding the erroneous and misleading belief that the skeletal remains of human beings and animals (mastodons) of Chinese Turkestar, Gobi Desert, recently discovered in a limestone and the Whang Ho Valley (400,000 cave at Chou Kau Tien in a lake-sq. miles) of "China, Russian bed in the Gobi Desert north-west
Turkestan (600,000: 39, miles). of Peking are 3,000,000 years old.
Euphrates Valley, Indus River Valley, Lower Egypt, Sahara and Kalahari deserts of Africa, Colora- do River and Mississippi River valleys of North America, and the` deserts and plains of South America and Australia.
Diluvian Tidal Wave..
The truth of this tidal wave is proved beyond doubt, by the ex- tensive "loess" (Mud, etc.) deposits-
This is the tidal wave that des-
The majority of our Scientists beliers that "Horss" deposits are wind-blown, and that loess" and its fossils are therefore millions of years old! But of course they are hopelessly in error, when they tench and preach that these "loess" areas consist of deposits of fine dust, from wind-croded rocks!
Book of Genesis."
'Spoonerisms.' I collaborated with a friend, who afterwards became the Rev. Arthur Sharp, and it was a book of Chapter VII-11 says: "In the six be who brought out
hundredth year of Noah's life, 'Spoonerisms. About the time that in the second month, the Sharp published his book a man Beventeenth day of the month
the same day were all the named Ward, at Pangbourne, pub. fountains of the great deep lished a similar book. I believe brcken up, and the windows they caused a big stir in Oxford at of heaven were opened." Chapter VII-12 says: "And the time. the rain was upon the Earth forty days and forty nights." The words "The same day were all the fountians of the great deep broken up clearly in dicate and mean that the "land and sea" were convuls ed by a terrific earth quake ("broken up") and that the subsidence of land in the Pacific Ocean ("great deep") created a tidal wave ("foun tains of the great deep")." "And the windows of heaven were
opened" clearly, means that"
Many of the guests, however, en hurricanes accompanied this joyed recalling them, after an tidal wave, "And the rainnouncing that they had travelled was upon the Earth. forty to Oxford on the town drain." days and forty nights" means
"Kisstomary to Cuss the Golden Bride.!
The Town Drain," "Although Dr. Spooner has de- nied having uttered these slips of the tongue, be appreciates the humour of them,” added Mr. Seton, "and I believe that occasionally he has made a 'Spoonerism' deliberately te raise a laugh."
About 500 guests were present,
and for all of them Mr, Spooner had a kindly greeting but never a "Spooncrism.
};
These fossilised bones of adult and infant mastodons (Platybelo- don) were discovered at the bottom of a dried up lake-bed by the mem bers of the Central Asiatic Expedi- tion of the American Museum of Natural History. The animals were not "trapped in a bog and over-troyed all prehistoric (antedilu- wäelmed as erroneously believed vian) races and civilizations, creat- by these scientists, but, they were ing the mysterious "blank" in the auddenly caught and drowned by history of all races, which has been the Bood waters of the Diluvian perplexing our historians up to the Tidal Wave, and their bodies present day. swamped together with those of other animals, etc., and deposited at the bottom of the lake. Many similar deposits of skeletal remains will be found to exist in other parts
that the hurricanes were fol of the Gobi Desert (the great up
lowed by forty days and forty heaved dried up Diluvian Inland Sea), and big deposits of the tones
nights, of torrential rain.
There was one who wanted to of drowned wild horses and other
When Asin, the Pacific continent, know if "hags should be flung out contemporary animals have also
and Central America were convuls- been found in Europe and North America, all proving the truth of It is true that it must take ed by this terrific carthquake, which of the windows" in honour of the upheaved Central Asia and sent a golden wedding, and whether be the Universal Deluge recorded in millions of years for the wind to. Genesis (B.C.3342),
blow and transform retks into dust, continent together with its vast should tell Dr. Spooner that it Before attempting to fix the age but such a theory is impossible of cities and wicked millions to the is kisstomary to euss the golden of the skeletal remains of human belief and therefore absurd. Again, bottom of the Pacific, which is beings and
found in our scientists never explain how Proved beyond doubt by the remn It is to Dr. Spocner that the these limestone caves and ancient such vast quantities of dust are ants of Prehistoric cities and me origin of the "Spoonerism" is lake-beds of the Gobi Desert, it is carried and deposited by the wind galithic remains that exist on mine attributed, and the word is to be necessary to discover and settle for in the valleys and river basing of of the widely scattered island found in, the Oxford Dictionary good the origin and the age of the different continents. It is this roups, the heat of the turround with a reference to his name. "loess" deposits.
"Tasted a So far, the excavation of "logs" mistaken theory that has led to ouring atmosphere must have been in- scientists attaching such fabulous tense, being charged with the red-
One of these slips of speech at- deposits has proved the existence of ages to the fossils which have been hot volennic smoke and ashes of
this terrible and awe-inspiring tributed to Dr. Spooner is: "We fossils of two distinctly separate found in loess deposits. "life-ages," viz
manifestation of God's righteous all know what it is to have a hálf- warmed fish within us? (for half- wrath.
formed wish"); while on another. occasion the is said to have reproved an undergraduate with the words: "Sir, you have tested a whole worm' (for wasted a whole term).
animals
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(a) The age of gigantic lizards or dragons (Dinosaurs), and fying creatures (Pterodac tyls).
Mistaken Theory..
Loces" is, in fact, a water borne deposit, and consists of mud, surface-soil, etc., which has been washed down from the highlands and plateaux and deposited in the valleys and river basina by the tidal wave flood waters of the Deluge (Flood of, Genesis)..
(The creatures of this age were all destroyed by flood
Deposits of loess, salt lakos and earthquake, but not the
Elood of Genesis).. and salt deserts exist in all the different continents, and such phy Genesis, Chapter 1-20 ysical changes of the Earth's surface And God said, Let the wrought by the devastating passage waters bring forth abundant of this tidal wave around thy ly the moving creature that World, are indisputable proofs of hath life (ie, Diunosaurs, the universal flooding of the World, "etc.) and foul that may fly and will help to solve the many (ie. Pteryodactyle) above the scientific and geological riddles, earth in the open firmament of which are, at present, baffling and perplexing our scientists and
heaven.
(b) The age of huge mammals thinkers
(mastodon, mammoth, ele phant), wild and domestic aniínais, creeping things, and finally
MAD
(Man and, the creatures of
were destroyed by thegically. as recorded in Genesis
this
FLOUDE
This heated atmosphere account ed for the hurricanes and torrenti a rains, and scientifically explains the 40 days and 40 nights of rain as recorded in Genesis..
The Peking Man.'" Having proved the truth of the Delage and the water-borne origin
bride."
Whole Worm."
Is the Bean- Dizzy?". It is empty work preaching to
of the World's locas deposite. I beery wenches (for "weary work believe all scientists and thinkers preaching to empty bonches'') and will agree that it effectually ex-"I have found such a nice nosy plodes the theory that the "Peiping little cook" (for cory little man (Sinanhropus Pekinensis) nook), and Is the bean dizzy and the skeletons of the mastodons. (for "Is the Dean busy) are other ste, of the Gobi Desert are 3,000,000 Spoonerisms attributed to him. years old. T
And, having discovered and prov-
Bpoonerisms.
The police are of the opinion that such severe punishment will quickly minimize the number of thefts in Canton.
DEATH OF MR. ABDUL SABHAN ABBAS.
FORMER EMPLOYEE OF H.M.
NAVAL YARD, .
It is with regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. Abdul- Sabhan Abbas, recently connected with the local staff of H.M. Naval Yard.j
The late Mr. Abbas nad a record of 44 years service with H. Naval Yard, where he first joined as an engineer. He was later ap pointed as a technical writer to the Engineer Department, and be re-
mained attached to the Naval Yarð until 1928, when he retired or ac count of old age.
The deceased, who was 88 years of age, died from an attack of the Government' pneumonia at
yesterday. Always.
Civil Hospital posterion, the late Mr. Abbas had made a host of friends both inside and outside the Mohammedan community.
The deceased was buried at the.
when the funeral was attended by a Mohammedan Cemetery yesterday. Targe number of friends and rela
tives.
He is survived by his widow, five. relatives, to all of whom the deepest sons and two daughters and many sympathy of friends is extended.
ZIMBALIST AT THEATRE ROYAL.
PROGRAMME FOR TONIGHT'S CONCERT,
The great violin virtuoso, Efrem Zimbalist, and his accompanist Harry Kaufman arrived in the Colony yesterday from Manila. Mr. Zimbalist is now making his fifth circuit of the East under the man- agement of A. Strok. Reports from various centres indicate that M Zimbalist has stored heavily in Java, Straits Settlements and in Manila.
Mr. Zimbalist's appearance of the Theatre Royal to-night will be in od historically, scientifically and This secins an appropriate the nature of a gala performance This is the only scientific explana geologically that Chinese Turkes moment, however, to recall a Probably no other great artist has
tan of the Central Asian Plateau ton of the origin and the age of the World's "loess" deposits, and is the "Cradle of the Human Race," set of verses which were said to so captivated local audiences in the have been found in the wastepaper past as Zimbalist Eas done. The proves the truth of the record of and the destruction of making basket of a well-known Oxford: fact that this is his fifth appearance the food of Genesis of the Bible, by the "Flood" having taken place dignitary, and which were publish in the Colony is a tribute to his great drawing powers. The follow- historically, scientifically and geole in BC. 2348, some 4,218 years ago, ed many years ago in a newspaper ing interesting programme has been
Tam firmly convinced that Pre-
since defunct
Erranged for to-night's concert- When our scientists and geolo historic man and contemporary
1. (a) Praeludium
Bach." of the Bible).
gists are convinced that the "loess mammals, etc. are not more than My mind was filled with rests of
thought, deposits of the World are diluvial 18,000 years old.
(b) Concerto... Glazounow. Genesia, Chapter 1-24 gays (water-borne) and not wind-blown, Regarding the age of Dineenurs No more by currying wares die- 2. Suite Bizarre (1st perform.
And God said, Let the earth and that the flooding of all the and their kind. I can say for a cen traught, E
anée)
Achron bring forth the living creature continents of the World was due to tainty that they cannot be anything As lazing dreamily I lay after his kind, cattle, anda tidal wave created by the upheav near the fabulous "millions of In my Cannoodian canny. creeping things, and beast of the earth after his kind and of Central Asia and the subsidyears" as taught and preached by and ence of a large mass of continental our scientiste, and not wishing to Jand in the Pacific Ocean, it will hazard a guess or to be speculative, Genesis, Chapter 1-6 says: mean the reconciliation of science leave this question for our geolo All Grill my body make am religion, the proving that the gist and reitists to thoroughly narinderiagakan gus Bible is the Zook of God, and thet likeness; and let them have the record of the Hood is an hilforsigt udkig
Magna est veritas et prevalebit, dominion over the fish of the cal and scientific fact, and not a Boa, and over the fowl of the myth, as is generally believed and NOTE:-Mr. Tao Thau Tai's books and pamphlets are already in air, and over the cattle, and taught by our scientists and Blac
the Libraries of the principal over all the earth, and over many of our leading Churchmen,
Universities and scientific in. every creeping thing that who have been misled by their er
stitutions of the World. creepeth upon the earth. roneous theories and teachinga
it was so."
Ab
me I thought,
were, swite
Etincelles.
b. Yunsi Välse.
e. Grace.
d. Grimaces..
how leef
e. Galantrie
If mon could. ither recknor;
apite;
No tungles, then, to trip the tang, No more the undergraddering tita Would exercise their woolish fits On tidal ales, and falso, I wis Of my fame-farrod tamethesis
f. Pastorale.
g. Moment dramatique.
(b) Liebesleid .............................. Kreisler. (c) Liebesfreud ((d) La Rondo des Lutina.
Kreigler,
Bazziniz At the Piano Harry Kaulmar.