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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at EXCHANGE BUILDING (FIRST FLOOR), Das VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, on TUESDAY the 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1930, at 11 "A.M. in the FORKNOON, for the parpcas of considering and if thought at passing the following Resolutions ns Ordinary Resolutions, vis
(1) That the authorised capital of the Company (which is now $1,500,000 consisting of 200,000 shares fully paid up of the nominal value of 37.00 per share all of which have been ianed) be increased from $1,500,000 consisting as afore said to $3,250,000 (consisting of 300,000 shares of the nominal ralue of $7.50 each) by the creation of 100,000 additional now abares of the nominal value of 87.50 each.
(2) (a) That 50,000 of the said 100,000 new shares be, offered forthwith (in the proportion of one new share for overy com- plete number of four issued shares held by them. respec- tively) to the persons who on the 23rd day of September, 1930, are registered in the Company's"
Share Register as the holders of
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BISHOPS AND THE BIBLE.
SERMON AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
BLOW TO FUNDAMENTALISTS.
*
The following sermon was proach- ed on Sunday at St. John's Cathe- dral by Rev. H. V. Koop:
14. XI. 9.-The earth shall be full
of the knowledge of the Lord,
the waters cover the sca..
BATTLE OVER A BOOK.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND "MRS. EDDY."
outline continuous process of creative development in which at every stage we can find the Divine presence and power. Thui scien- tific thinking and discovery seem to be giving us back the sense of reverence and awa before the sublimity of a Creator whe is, not only the cause and ground of the universe, but always and every- where active within it. Chris- tianity, more than any other of the great religions, has under- gone the discipline of contact with scientific methods of thought, and energes therefrom still strong ef Edwin Fronden Dakin', "Mrs. to redeem and inspire
Eddy," reissued in London last So much for the confict of re-month in popular form.
asion and science which has waged
The most amazing circalar ever issued by a publisher was inserted by Scribner's in their new edition
It is even more extraordinary for the last fifty years. The old thin the fascinating biography hostility is gone. And with it goes with which it deals. It describes another great obstacle to progress-the fight between the book and the the old or fundamentalist view of Christian Science movement, which the Bible. Even while I was read tried to consor it. the methods adopted to induce booksellers and libraries not to stock or circulate the book, and the failure of this concerted effort to put a blight on the liberties of free speech, free thought, and a free Prou."
Ten years is a long time. As we look back on the remarkable change Laat have taken place during the Tast decade, he would be a bolding those paragraphs about science, man who would dare to prophesy many of you must have been think how the world will be in 1940. Yeting "what about the Bible?" It that is the date of the next Lambeth is contradicted in a hundred places Conference and it is for the inter- by the discoveries of science. Yes vening period that the bishops have it is, and here with one voice the drawn up their spiritual pro- Bishops repudiate, let us hope for gramme; their marching orders for Fundamentalist view, and which is ever, the view which we call the
the campaign which lies ahead. still held by many dear people who Now there is in the mind of every ought to know better, the view that because a thing is written in leader some one point of object the Bible it must be literall, true." which claims precedence over every other, which he will get clear and put first in any plan of action he inny propose. What is that point in the minds of the archbishops and
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the said 200,000 issued shares at VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
a premium of 87.50 per share
and so that on acceptance
of
the offer the nominal value due
in respect of such new shares
PROPERTIES.
plus the said premium of $7.50 KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. bishops which comes before all per share (making 815.00 per
share) shall be payable in full Such, new shares (when allotted) shall rank for dividend-as-from the First day of January, 1031,
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(6) That such offer as aforesaid be máde by notice specifying the number of now shares to which the member is entitled and niting the time or times within which the offer if not accepted by the member either on behalf of such member or his nominee will be deemed to bo declined and that the Directors
fix be at liberty to such respective times and to extend. such times to such date or dates and upon such terms as they may think fit and further that any of the said 50,000 new shares which shall not be taken up by the Company's share- holders in manner aforesaid be disposed of in such manner at such time or times and upon. such terms as the Company's Directors shall in their absolute discretion, see fit.
(e) That no shareholder shall be entitled to claim for a fraction of an additional new share in respect of any odd share held by him.
(d) That the romaining 50,000
new shares constituting the Company's unissued capital be issued at sach time or times
in such inapner and for such purposes and upon such tering and conditions in every respect as the Company's Board of Directors may decide.
NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER of MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 17TH to ELD SEPTEMBER, 1930, inclusive during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered.
Dated this 4th day of September, 1030,
By Order of the Board, De
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"It is no part of the purpose of the Scriptures to give informa- tion on those themes which are the proper subject-matter of scien- tific inquiry."
Let those words, sink into our
Attempts At. Suppression. "For many weeks," say the pub- lishers in a foreword, it seemned as if the sale of 'Mrs. Eddy' might be so reduced that the book could not be kept on the market. Many stores were forced by threats to renounce its sale, and many to conceal it. Others openly defied those who came to threaten boy-
ears, especially those of us who are in any way engaged in the instruccott, and in all but a few cities. tion of the young. Most of us have known that this was the truth, for
the book could always be bought a good few years now. Don't let us
somewhere."
the authority of the Church behind
The Bible."
wonderful book in
The Bible still remains the most the world, greater than ever because it is no
longer put in a false position. It That is to be our starting point; is something better.
is not a text book of science; it It contain's and inevitably so. So many men, the story of God's revelation of
himself to men. so many opinions" but at the root
If we want to know what God is like we must go of every man's religion whether he to the Bible: It is the supreme is a Bolshevist or a Buddhist, a
treasure of the Christian Church, Theosophist or a Christian Scien-only let it be used with caution. Remember that. God's revelation of tist, a Mohommedan or a Funda-himself was a progressive one. mentalist is a conviction, a right or wrong conviction about. God-and whatever good or bad there is in his religion is directly traceable to For particulam apply at the what is good or bad in his idea
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So it is with Christianity and so it will be in the carrying out of this great programme of Christian witness and practical endeavour which is set before us for the next ten years.
We must get back, then," as Temple Gairdner used to to first principles "-and the first of all principles in God and what we believe him to be.
say.
A New Epoch. Hence it is that the bishops have concerned the first eight of their 75 resolutions with what they call the Christian Doctrine of God, and attach to them an importance, far Detached and Semi-detached Villas in excess of that given to any others,
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beginning, the wise men of the Church had insisted that it was.not enough to think of God as Creator Father and Redeemer Son, but that he was, too, and had always been Indwelling Spirit, the Lord of all Good Life where ever, it was found. It has been left to this generation to reexplore that side of God's work and in so doing to find that "the work of God is broader than the measure of man's mind,” and that many of the barriers which Christians set up between one an other were artificial and unneces sary.
For example there was the barrier which was raised between religion and science, because in their lack of faith and narrowness of mind men thought the scientist was the enemy of religion and were afraid of what be called scientific truth,
...
"The American book trade recog- aised the principle at issue, and the moment it gained public sup- portas it did when the public became aware of the attempted sup pression-it so valiantly rallied against this tyranny that the sale of 'Mrs. Eddy' rapidy increased."
of
Plain Facta Revealed. "Mrs. Eddy" although it pays leadership, tells how the founder tribute to her great powers of Christian Science copied writ ings of an obscure healer, named Quimby; lifted wise reflections. from Carlyle, Ariel, Ruskin,, and Kingsley; found a bried sermon from a now-forgotten Scottish divine, named Hugh Blair, and altered it slightly to form a mess age to my beloved students;" pillaried as a thief and robber any The Bible is not a collection one who took or merely adapted a
from "Science of separate oracles, each contain thought ing the character of God which Health" but at the same time are inconsistent with the charac-used the writings of others and ter of Jesus Christ."
passed them of as her on.
Here the Bishops once again sound warning against those who would put the Old Testament" on a level with the New and believe every thing in it that is said about God to be true.
How different would have been if those words had been written and the story of the nineteenth century acted upon a hundred years ago! How blind are those who say that God has forsaken this generation when the Spirit of Truth is calling men back to God as he is in His Wisdom and Splendour and Love!
and
magnetism,
It sets down the life of a woman aggrandisement, one who was full of vanity and self- who, while she preached the gospel of confid. ence, was herself always afraid that enemies were attempting "malicious animal which she called M.A.M., against her, and wag so atraid that "the fact that even the people around her were succumbing to the poison- Think worthily of God; that isu, darts of the Fiend made her the first call sounding to the world fear actually for her own life," from Lambeth 1330. The Spirit of Truth is among us and what he has done negatively to destroy the old prejudices and misconceptions he waita to de positively in many
fields,
Old Prejudices,
...
"Bookseller Fears. Libraries were asked, it is stated, to exclude the book, or, at least, to place it on the closed shelves. Rockaellora were asked to stop sel- "We know but too well that ling the book, and in many casea, the root of our failure to behold as shown by documentary evidence God and to manifest him to the in the Scribner files, the request world is sin; that what we have was sharponed with a threat of to deal with is primarily not im-boycott if they refused If they perfect thinking but evil willa. did refuse, they were asked to re-
Yet, if our proclamation of the more the biography from their gospel of God is to have its pro- shelves and keep it hidden, per appeal to the world to-day,Then booksellers began to write we must see to it that we our 'in expressing their fears about salves are thinking about him as selling "Mrs. Eddy," and telling persistently, as largely, and as of the pressure brought to bear on worthily as we can. We must then. school ourselves to include in our
habits of thought about the during October and November of. The sale was not stopped, but Creator God as much as we can
of the beauty and order of the 1929 it had so diminished that for world and of every thing in life a few weeks it appeared as though that invokes the awa, the loyalty
the attempt to emother the and the self-sacrifice, of men and biography would succeed. women at their beat 2
God. That is the call; to think
Think worthily, persistently of
with some of the thought we give as readily, to business or golf or the other interests of life. If those other interests, business, pleasure, and the freedoom of our modern life, gave deep and lasting satis faction there would be no need to speak of God; but they do not satisfy. God alone can do that, He calls us to know him.
Now that war is over. Christian There is no royal road to that thinkers have realised that Truth knowledge, but one sure way is the is one and that there are no two way of worship. That is the prac truths, whether in biology or theptical note on which this first parti logy or geology or astronomy for of the Lambeth Letter ends," anything else which do not fit. The theologian and the scientist are engaged in the same quest for the One Trath. Religion must look to science for the facts about the uni- verse; and science will look to re- ligion for the interpretation. The leaders of the Christian Church in their letter rejoice in this DOW found fellowship,
Science and Religion.
We recognize in the modern discoveries of science veritable gifts of God. We are now able, by the help of the various do- partmental sciences to trace in
"The Church's chief duty is to Jove and worship God and in that. love and worship it gives its chief witness to the world. Christians should reflect what wrong thay đô: to God, to others and to themselves if they grow slack in fulfilling. especially on Bunday, this their | clear and obvious duty. Worship units us in a fellowahip of adorn- tion; and, when it is worthily offered can become for us all a joy as well ar'a duty, and bring s that refreshment and encour agement for which thousands are really hungry, though they know not for what they hunger
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