Page
FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON-PAY US A VISIT WHERE. YOU MAY HAVE A NEW PERMANENT
All kinds of beauty work by skilled operators.
RED ROSE BEAUTY
PARLOUR
National Bank Building
Ice House Street.
25, 1933.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER
THE OLD TESTAMENT HOW TO
FERRY TIME TABLES
On and after 24th of December, 1933, VEHICULAR FERRY SERVICE. Hong Kong to Jordan Road | Jordan Road to Hong Kong Every 10 minutes between
READ IT
LESSON SERMON
Jonah
"A
Whale Of A Book"
First Church Of Christ, Scientist Hong Kong
5. am
and
the
6.54 a.m. 7.90 0.
BISHOP HALL'S SERMON AT
ST. JOHN'S
Bishop Hall preached the sixth of his series of Sermons on How to read the Old Testament" "at St. John's Cathedral on Sunday:—
19
"Christian Sclence" Was subject of the Lesson-Sermon which was read in all Churches. of Christ, Selentist, on Sunday, December 24th.
The Golden Text was: "These signs shall follow them that be- leve; In my name shall 'they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick,
shall and they
recover (Mark 18:17, 18).
Among the citations which com- prised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: "Let not your beart be troubled: ye, belleve in God, believe also in me... Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that be
eveth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater these shall he do; works because I go unto my Father.... And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Com- abide with forter, that he may
than
The Book of Jonah is not a book | fighting, to keep their precious re- about a whale, although it may glon sate from contamination by be in the language of our Ameri- their neighbours. Think of the can cousins' a whale of a book. stern measures-taken by Ezra and The text of the Book of Jonah is Nehemiah against those who had "God so loved the world" That married foreign wives. Think of
contemptuous
to attitude is why I put the Book of Jonah the for Christmas Eve. It stopped
wards the Gentiles that is in the short at "God so loved the world".
New Testament; of the tussle that It needed Christmas to fula St. Paul had even with St. Peter with the bewildering news that to save the hew Christian church "God gave His only begotten Son."
from the same prejudice. Jonan This is the striking thing is a protest against this attitude. about the Book of Jonah, the However valuable the attitude is whale is only mentioned in three it can be carried too far. The you for ever; Even the" Spirit of phrases. Some people say that result is prejudice and bitterness, truth; whom the world cannot re- they would believe that
Jünah which are against the will of God.ceive, because it seeth him not.... swallowed the whale if it was in The writer of the Book of Jonah But the Comforter, which is the the Bible. But this is to belleve say that God loves all men that in Holy Ghost, whom the Father will In the Bible rather than in Ged. the end the religion of the Jews send in my name, he shall teach all things, and bring all It is to belleve in nightmares ra- with its faith in God, its know-you
things to your remembrance"" ther than in mt acles. I belleve ledge of Him as Father, its up in miracles because I belleve in reme teaching about the loving "of God. Jesus Christ is the great neighbours, is for all men. miracle of history. But the Book of Jariah does not assert that a whale swallowed a man.
(John 14:12, 16, 17, 25). PACKING CORPORATION
CALIFORNIA
CALIF., U S.A.
RED RASPBERRIES
"Red Raspberries
The pick of berries”.
APRICOTS
"Del Monte's Apricots
The Best to be got"
I
Obtainable at All Compradore Shops.
sole Agents KUNG SHEUNG CỎ.
HONG KONG
CHINA BUILDING
PHONE 23268.
Parfumerie Rigaud
PARIS,
"UN AIR EMBAUME Flacon de Luxe Grand Modele." A Hygienic and Refreshing Perfume in grest Favour on all. Oversea Marketa.
OBTAINABLE FAO)—
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD THE PHARMACY. ·
THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY
WING ON & CO.
THE SUN CO.
SINCERE CO.
AGENTS:
VICENTE ATIENZA & CO.
No. 54, NATHAN-ROAD, KOWLOON.
TEL 57156,
THE WORLD'S GAZE TURNS POLITICALLY, ECONOMICALLY, ARTISTICALLY TOWARD
JAPAN
Where Oriental charms are jealously preserved intact amidet
the most advanced Oriental Civilization.
THE JAPAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION (Affiliated with the FAIRMONT Hori Do. of the Pacifio Coset and the UNITED HOTELS Company of America) MEMBER HOTELS
Hotel rates for Bingle rooms (without bath), including meals.
12.00 up incities and some popular resorts. 10.00 up in country districte.
ATANI:
ATAMI HOTEL
1* JAPAN
KOSHIEN
KOSIEN HOTEL
Manras: Horas BKTOTO:
KAMENOT HOTEL
KYOTO HOTEL
MIYAKO HORIZ
NAGASAKI:
JAPAN HOTEL NAGOYA
NAGOTA HOTEL, NARA
Nana HOTEL HOTEL NIKKO-
BOZENJI (Nikko), KYOTO STATION LAERATUE HOTEL JAMAKURA — KAININ HOTEL `KABUIZAWA :-*
MAMPHE HOTEL MIKARA HOTEL KOBE
MATSUSHIMA –
ORIENTAL HOTEL Tox HOTEL
*PLEK HOTEL MIYAJIMA:---
MIYAIYA HOTEL [MTYANOSHITA
KAWAYA HOTEL OSAKA
DOBIL HOTEL
QAKÁ HOTEL
TOKYO -
BOTKI
IMPERIAL HOTEL MAMPEI HOTEL MALUNOUCHI
OKOLI HOTEL
UNZEN
Krush HoraL
·YUNXI BOTEL
TAKABAZUTA HOTEL YOKOHAMA
*(Hakone)i- SHIMONÒSEKI, HOTEL NEW FUATIA HOTEL BAXTO HOTEL
IN TAIWAN (FORMOSA)— TAIHOKU – TAIWAN RAILWAY HOTEL
IN CHOSEN .---
HEIJO
Hatto RAUWAT
Horas
GRAND
Jesus and Jonah
The Book was disregarded "untu Jesus came. Now remember the scene in the New Testament when they asked him for a sign. What does a sign mean?
Moses and Aaron were given a sign. Aaron's rod blossomed; this was proof that The Jews they came from God. asked Jesus for similar credentials. He said, "I have no sign for you but the sign of the prophet Jonah, *Nineveh repented when they heard Jonah preach That is the "only sign he will give. Ee goes on to quote, the Queen of Sheba coming to Solomon. She
It tells in a typical orientai way the meaning of the captivity of the Jewish people. Jonah means 'dove. The Jewish people were somethimes called by this name. Jonah is not a prophet: He is the Jewish people. They were a prophetic nation. The writer of the book asserts that the captivity of the Jews in the heart of Assyria (a whale of a nation, if you like) was meant to teach them a lesson The Jews would appreciate the significance of this lesson more than we can because of what the word "Ninever would mean to them. We talk about the Shang- hai mind, Paris, New York, Chi-He claims that his own coming is cago, all have certain associations of more significance than Solo- which may or may not be due tomon's. Those of you who heard the particular characteristics of me speaking on the New Testa-
The Lesson-Sermon also includ- ed the following, passages from the} Christian Selence textbook, "Scf- ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "Our Master said, "But the Com- forter...shall teach you all things! When the Science of Christianity appears it will lead you into all truth...To-day the healing power is widely demonstrated of Truth as an immanent, eternal Science, Instead of a phenomenal exhibi- tion. Its appearing is the com- ing arew of the gospel of "on earth peace, good-will toward men" (pp. 271,150).
saw his greatness and accepted it. DOMESTIC BONDS
LOSE HEAVILY
"
those cities. Hollywood at any ment will remember how the com- Market Disturbed By
Ninevah
Jews
Reports Of Fighting
came
rate means something' very de- ments of one of the Gospels on only the the sign of Jonah is a later inser- finite to us. It is not place where pictures are made, tion by a copyist, "Three days and but where a particular kind of ex- three nights in the belly "of the travagance, and rather fantastic whale" is nothing to do with the
and the resurrection of Brisk trdaing was renewed at the living goes on. Nineveh was no- death torious for cruelty, and all that Christ. It is not in some of the Chinese Government Bond Market horror of brutish violence which is earliest M.S.S. and it breaks the carlier than expected last week dus associated with some of those run of the paragraph. No, it is to reports to clashes on the Che eastern empires. In the Family as clear as day-light that. Our king-Fukien border. While they of Empires of Bible history Lord did not say that. A mechan-are only skirmishes at present they s like Judas, nothing ical sign of that kind is not the may at any moment develop into good could be, said about it. Now sign of the prophet Jonah. It is fighting in earnest; and this feeling. the meaning of was apparently shared by many see the point of the Book. The quite clear that precious knowledge and love of the sign as Jesus gave it is the operating on the market which ac God which had been given to the same as the symbol of light in St. cordingly suffered substantial “de Jews is to be shared with Ninevah. John's prologue, "This is the judg-felines.
The turnover. for the day im- It is like telling Peter and John ment, that light has come into the that they must go and forgive world; and men. loved darkness proved to reach the total of about Judas and Pilate. rather than the light." Nineveh ten millions, a fairly presentable Calaphas,
rebelled repented when they heard Jonah figure as compared with many days! No wonder the against this suggestion. No won- preach. Here is a greater than last week. "
The recession movement der it seemed incredible to them Jonah and Israel will not repent. after the beautiful teaching of The Ninevites did not know their early and fast. With no transac- Hosea of the love of God, and the right hand from their left, and tions for 18th Year Customs, Rear- strong teaching of Amos that men they were ignorant of the know-ganisation opened the market with must live nobly, gently, humbly ledge of God. When Jonah show-a one-point drop, followed by a with their God. No wonder ited them the knowledge of God similarly heavy loss on the part of seemed impossible to them that even the cruel Ninevites heard Disbandment. Thereafter it stead
the message and accepted It.ied somewhat as selling activities Ninevah could be dear to God. But that is the heart of the Book That is the only sign Jesus will abated. The next four issues after Disbandment, receded by an average of Jonah. The text of it is "God give the Jews.
So much is in the New Testa of just above half a point, while so loved the world."!
ment. But I like to think that the the last issues faired much worse Book of Jonah' meant "more even by dropping yery near one point. that this to Our Lord. After all Fluctuations were less violent at Listen to the last two phrases: we have so little of what he said, the second session as the market had "Then said the Lord, Thou hast so little of what he thought, is by that time got over the first had pity on the gourd, for the which our short gospels, Jeus' teaching effect of the reports of fighting. thou hast not laboured, neither is all in the spirit of the Book of Nevertheless, it failed to stamp the modest it grow; which came up in Jonah. He must have understood tide and the market slid down a a night, and perished in a night; it as it was originally written. He little more under compulsion of the and should not I have pity on must have seen in it the living momentum of the first session;
A reaction came at the closing word from God telling Him the Ninevah, that great city; where- in are more than sixscore thou- real mission of the Jews, to be the period as sellers began to take pro- sand persons tha cannot discern prophetic nation teaching all the fit while at the same time nerve between their right hand and their world about God. Like the Book were steadied generally and the left hand; and also much cattle?" of the Law bolt up in the wall bears loosened their hold I am prepared to guess that for of the Temple, the Book of Jonah all the people who know about the had got built up by the other whale in the Book of Jonah not books of the Bible. Jesus, disco- one in a thousand knows any-vers, as it were, this book hidden thing about the gourd, but there away. His life and death bring the gourd than out its meaning as the key to the is more about there is about the whale. God destiny of the Jewish people,
"God so loved the world" "says made a gourd grow, then a worm came and eat the gourd up, and the Book of Jonah. Christmas Jonah was angry at this waste of says that "He gave His only be-
The Gourd and The Whale
18
OLD BRADFORDIANS
Mr. Drinkwater As An Insurance Agent
Mr. John Drinkwater,
while
a valuable plant which was shel-gotten Son." To-morrow an off-speaking as a guest at the dinner tering him from the sun God ering will be made of a gift from of Old Bradfordians' Club at the in London said he aald, "If you are angry about the an English Christian for the Chi-Savoy Hotel gourd being destroyed by a worm, nese Christian Church in far Yun-used to have to go round the pur- if you care for this plant, should an, the capital aum of over seven lieus of Manchester and try to not I care for Nineveh? You did thousand dollara. It is going to induce people to insure their lives. "It was a most melancholy un not make the gourd grow. It help them to endow the pastorate is implied, though it is not stated, of our Church in Yunnan. There dertaking, both for me and for that God made Nineveh and all is a little congregation of Japanese them." he said. "They hated the Its inhabitants-how much more Christians within a quarter of a right of me, and I must say I did should He care for them. And alle of this place. There are, I not much care for them." (Laugh-
ter.) suppose, besides JOHANGCHUN (HOTEN (Mekden then see how modern the prophet Christians, Indian, European, and my neighbour in th
in the office YAMATO HOTEL is largely ignorance: they do not other Christians in our midst. included Bradford in his district, know their right hand from their remember last year hearing the sad he used to say with extreme Russian Christians at worship in dejection, that, he had to go to that the hall of St. Andrew's Church, city Now I could never under After the Exile
The Book of Jonah asserts that stand this, for though I had never God loves all men. Christmas and been 60 Bradford, it seemed absurd The Book is written in those all that has followed from it has for anyone to be melancholy about days after the exile, when the taken that love into the heart of going anywhere outside Manches-
tor. Jews were fighting, and rightly every nation
Laughter.)
HTOJUN Pari
Arthur)Lett. TAMATO HOTMI
IN MANCHURIA :— ¡BEINGISHU-
*Yamaro HorEL -BEINGIRITU. SʻZATION DAIKEN
YAMATO HOTEL BILJO
BOTAL CHOKE HOT
· HOSHIGAURA; YAMATO HOFB Open from april let until Ostaber 31st,
THE JAPAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION Care of Tearriɑ Bunkaʊ, DEPARTMENH OF HÁILWATE, TOKYO.
Bod
7,01 m.
8,40 p.m.
Followed by
7.18 m.
7.51 s.m.
7,12 m. 17.49 0.
7.36 ..
After which the Ferry will
Between 8.05 a.rà, and 8.25 p.min.
Leave at every......
3 minutes past the bour 25 minates past the boar
30 minutes past, the hour 55 minutes past the hour
I
Between 8.00 am, and 8,80 a.pp,
Followed by
aight.
19
8,36 p.m. 10.12 p.. 11.38 p.m. 9.00 p.m. 10.24 p.m. 12 mid- 9.12 p.m. 10.48 p.m. 9.30 p.m. 11.00 p.m. 9.49 p.m. 11.24 p.m.
Leave at every
10 minutes past the boar
20 minutes past the hour 40 minutos past the hour 10 minutes past the hour
4
8.42 p.m. 9.54 p.m. 11.06 p.m.
8.84 p.m. 10.08 jām. 11.18 pm. 9.18 p.m. 10.30 p.m. 11:48 pm,
9.30 p.m. 10.42 p. 18.00 Midnight
On Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays a 10 minutes Servien will be maintained during the following hours:
From Hongkong Between 8.05 a.m. sad 8.25 p.m. From Kowloon Between 8.000 a‚m, and. 8.50 p.m. provided the extra vehicle ferry vessel is available.
H
Jordan Road Passenger Service
5,00 a.m.
and
6.54 a..
and
Hong Kong to Jordan Road | Jordan Road to Hong Kong Every 20 minutes between''
6.40 a.. } 5.00 8.0 Every 12 minutes between
7.84 p.m.
6.48 sm.
7
and
6.40 a.m.
and
7.49 p.m.
8:05 am.
and
and
8.10 p.
"
11.30 p.m.
Every 10 minutes between
8,10 p.m.
800 m. Every 12 minutes between and '2 midnight | 8.42 p.. and
· Followved by 11,45-p.m. & 19 Midnight.......... Special Vehicle Ferrier will run up to 2.40 am, on the 26th and Stat December, 1938.
.8.38.p.m.
Fares in Special Ferry.
Cars under 1 Tena.
Cars over 1 Tous
Passenger in Cars
Season Ticket for January 1934
....$1.00
...$1.50
*.. 10 senta
...83.00 each
HONG KONG & YAUMATI FERRY CO, LTD.
Telephoce 20113.
SHIPBUILDERS, SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS,
OXY-ACETYLENE AND
ELECTRIC WELDERS,
MECHANICAL AND
ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERS.
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING
OF
HONG KONG.
SALVAGE TUG “TAIKOO'
WIRELESS CALL
V.P.G.N. 600 Marxas.
KONG, LIMITED.
COMPANY`
-DRY DOCK
Length 787 Feet Length on Blocks 750 Feet Depth on Centre of SH) (H.W.0.S.T.) 34 ft. 6 ins. -THREE SLIPWAYS,
Capable of Handling Ships Up
to 4,000 Tons Displacement
Electric Crane at Sea Wall, Capable of Lifting 100 Tons at 70 Feet Radius.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents,
HONG KONG, CHINA & JAPAN.
TEL. ADDRESS: "Taikcopock, Hoxo Kona TELEPHONE: 30211
CALL FLAG: "C" OVER "ARE. PENNART."
Hong Kong Weekly Press
Pictorial Supplement.
Eugene Chen and Fukien:
Interviewed by a Foreign Correspondent,
If Gossip Wo Must:
Sir Miles Lampson in Hongkong:
His Luncheon address.
All the pictures in the "Daily Press duced in an Art Paper Supplement.
are, repro
THE WEEKLY with the yeLLOW COVER.
Price :—30
Cents
Annual Subscription: Hong Kong, $13; Post Free to
address, 818: Quarterly Subscription, 8450. Orders should be sent to the
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS., LTD. TELEPHONE: 30251,
11 Ion HousE STREET.