"THE LURE OF
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1934.
THE EAST
Rev. Dr. F. W. Norwood Deli- vers Inspiring Address to
Rotarians.
GREATNESS OF THE HUMAN MIND
AND HUMAN WILL.
An inspiring and instructive address was delivered, at the Rotary Club yesterday by Rev. Dr. F. W, Nor- wood, minister of the City Temple, London, yesterday at the Rotary Club meeting, over which Mr. T. B. Wil- son presided. There was a large number of guests, in- cluding the Hon. Sir Thom Southorn.
Dr. Norwood chose as his subject "The Lure of the East" and his speech was followed with rapt attention. by the gathering, who were greatly impressed by the wisdom of Dr. Norwood's remarks and at the same time-
which the did not fail to enjoy the wit and humour v speaker displayed throughout which were the cause of frequent laughter.
-sea voyage. (Laughter). I see you have heard of our Pilgrim Fathers (Loud Laughter). We do tot make a song of them as the Americans do (Laughter). We are undoubtedly more modest people and we always say it is no won- der we are a fine race of people „for our original stock was selected by the best judges there were in (Laughter).....
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SOLDIER'S BODY CORRESPONDENCE
ON RAIL LINE
Head and Feet Missing
On New Year's Day, the shock- ing discovery was made of a de- capitated and footless body, at the railway line, near the Fanling dia- † tant signal
believe there was nothing in the universe at all but what the hu- man mind could master and what the human will could use.
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THE UNION CHURCH SERMON
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “* HỌNG KONG
** DAILY PRIS"]
Sir, Permit an outsider to atter his very sincere congratulations to Dr. Norwood and to 'the Church where such things are preached.
Ubiquitous India
The body was subsequently. as-
During twenty-five years in "But now you see that by that certained to be that of Private
Langdon of the East Lancashire which I have opposed what is com time the whole "world virtually Regiment. Death is believed to be monly called religion, I have found had been unveiled and the Eng- the result of an accident. many defenders of religion but lith more than any other people,
The station-master at Fanling few defenders of the churches. on the earth were probing Into
Lau Kau, was walking along the To "this, happily, I must now add its secret, tracking through Africa, fine at about 8.15 p.m. when he that the latter have done more in. and sailing round Australia and
came across a terribly mutilated the last few years to earn respect the Island and cultivating the pro body in the middle of the track than in the twenty preceding." "It is spects of India, Unina and Japan. Both feet Had been cut off and the not scandals of conduct within the Just think how the Indians, the head was missing. The body was church that bring it into disre most stay-at-home and perhaps the clothed in a military uniform pute; the churches have never least ambitious people on the which was so badly torn that claimed, and no layman now be globe, have somehow got their identication was impossible leves, that its ministers have any pame written all over the world-- The liltary authorities were special grace in these matters; and accidentally of course. The North immediately informed, and follow- no reasonable freethinker seeks to American aborigines are stiil calling a roll call yesterday it was discredit a church by reference to ed Red Indians and those of ascertained that Langdon was miss-
the conduct of its members. "A S. America are still called, South ing..
'church will discredit. itself, howat American Indians The Islands off
ever, when it sinks its ideals or America are called West Indies and
becomes ashamed of them and those East of India the East Indies. The word "India has
wins respectability at the expense of respect; and it is from such a entered into our speech in more ways than I could and time to
position that men like our speaker safeguard the Institution to which describe. Indeed, when we were
they belong. boys, if we read of a new Island with savage people, they were at ways called Indians. When they era, an era of which you must be is above all oplum for the people discovered gutta percha, they call-conscious, Hving in Hongkong, in will blame Dr. Norwood. As some poked their rose about into almost
ed it India rubber. There is unar which there seems to be a wind one recently wrote, uhulle religion all its corners. They found Aus-
ticle we now use everyday which blowing over these great Eastern and politics are brought together tralia, New Zealand and many of
are awaking, they there is little hope for either, and we call China. There are certati lands: they the islands of the South,: but by
processes of industry we speak of make their claim for a place in this is the complete answer to the that time they were hazy in their minds as to which side of the line as being Japanned: You will and the sun. They find that they can unthinking doctrine that they our language is sown through and copy, or adapt, or even assimilate cannot be mixed. If morality is Western civilisation in its mater not within the sphere of the they were really on and they were afraid that if they made their dis-through with words which.. show coveries known, the matter might
fal aspects quite easily: They find churches, then it must be an empty. that machines are not, national. sphere indeed; and if the attain get into the bands of lawyers. I
they are international: they and ment of economic and internation- assume there are none here, of
that anybody can work them if al Justice is not a moral question, course, but as you know, lawyers are gentlemen who can discuss
he just gives a little time to the then one may well ask what are
coal. study of them; that
conceived to be questions of moral and Iron, and steam, and
ity. If, however, I should be wrong electricity any question with extraordinary
in my estimation of the numbers belong to the whole race of man- ingenuity, though God only knows
kind, and they make the amazing of those who will blame his ser- what might happen at the end.
mon, then Dr. Norwood will cer (Laughter).
perplexing and disturbing dis-" covery that their simple standards tainly reflect that it is not the: of living give them a tremendous first teaching of which it has been recorded that many were offended economic advantage against
thereat. the West, which for many centur- des has known itself to be at the very apex of power.
RAPID SURVEY OF WORLD HISTORY.
Dr. Norwood satd
"I would advance. the theals that "The Lure of Asia" has been one of the greatest historical-fac- tors in modern world history The fure of Asia led to the unveiling of the world as we know it to-day. From the point of view of Euro- peans, the greater world was very little known. They knew Europe, little of Asis, they knew a strip of the Northern part of Africa and they scarcely knew more, though venturous people had for ages been in the habit of making long voyages down the Mediter- ranean Sea into the Levant and then journeying "overland to India, China and sometimes to Japan.
I always thought that one of the most crucial events in world istory was that which took place la 1453 when the Turk, after many attempts: succeeded in tak- Ing Constantinople. Many of the great forces of the modern era took their rise from that event When the Turk took Constan- tinople. the Mediterranean sea was virtually closed to traders. No longer could they come that way in quest of the East. Then the European world, fascinated still by Asia, began to dream of other ways of reaching it than that way. Turning westward, as it were, they began to wonder It might not be possible to reach India and the lands beyond, either by sailing south or sailing west. I was in the next half century that the Portuguese, who with Spain made the greatest nations of the world at that time, began to thread their way down the western coast of Africa until at. last Vasco da Gama, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and turning Westwards · resched Calicut and Goa on the Western Coast of India. A few years later B Genoese, but in the employ of Spain. Christopher Columbus, one of the first to believe the world was really round, and that if you went west you would reach the east at last, put his theory to the proof and sailed away with a few crazy little ships to find, what he thought, was India, though we now know Mr. Fresident it was unty America (Laughter).
I am speaking, in geographical terms. Laughter). You will be the first to admit that he had only goné kalf way" (Laughter);
man.
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meanwhile
Discovery of Australias Both Spain and Portugal hush- up their discoveries for a ed hundred years and their power was declining The English and French were begin- ning to rival them, and not only these nations, but also the Dutch After a while, it was the Dutch ships which came down the Atri- can Coast and rounded the Cape 01 Good Hope, making for India. Soon they discovered that they turned sharply round Africa, went 3,000 miles due east and then turn north, they would get the benent of favouring winds and currents; "so they stumbled across my native and Australia and named it New Holland. Indeed, most of the. geographical names down South, where I live, are. Dutch names; New Holland. Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand and New Guinea, The Dutch only saw Austraila on its Western side which does not include Sydney Harbour (Laugh- ter They saw only its barren aspect and the Dutch returned with the report that the land was worthless. The Governor of Java, Van Diemen, was inclined to ex- plore these new regions and sent Tasman more than once to make great exploratory Journeys, but the Directors of the East India Company sent a stern letter out | from home to cancel these un- economic and worthless attempts and to concentrate their attention, upon India and "the East Indies So the Dutch lost their chance of possessing Australis,
that the East not only fascinated the West and Inspired the West to become merchants, explores and Empire bullders, but to me credibly increase the wealth of the. West
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Eastern Kindling
A Wind is Blowing "And now we are in the new
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Few but those for whom religion:
DIAGORAS.
tako England, Scotland. Ireland and Wales, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, Cheko-Slovakia, the Balkan States and Turkey in Europe, put them, all into Australia and then have a million and a quarter square miles left over. And what is true of Australia is more true of Canada. You could get the greater part of Russia, as well as the countries that I have named, into Canada.
For all these things happened at a curious time, at a time when men were really beginning to be Leve that the whole world was in their gift, when they could use the forces of Nature for the ad vancement of their purpose, when they were beginning to-learn how to make machines, when the powNow, I am not a specialist: I' er of steam was discovered and 1st on ordinary buman being. the steam engine was inventet
a Briton: I was born, one: when railways became a possibl
never consulted about it, so far as I know, but I have never This tremendous surge of lity. enterprise and of the spirit of rebelled against it. I love Britain conquest was kindled. I repeat, still, love it more now than ever into flame by the East, not by I loved it since life began. I be- West, and Europe for a few cen- lleve in the British Empire still; turies now has been made incre- I believe that her course is not dibly richer by the East, untu tun: I believe that she has a now it seems as though there is magificent contribution still to nothing more left to discover, make to world affairs: indeed. I There is not a little island any believe she has had peculiar and where, so far as I know, where special kind of raining which,
"About 80 million people is about from the very ustafe of her 195- one could go and get comfortably
the number in the Japanese dong Empire has brought her in Islands, about the number in Ger- lost (laughter)..
to contact with manteld iaces. "And the forces that we have found hidden in Nature were now giving her sagacity, patience, ten-many now she has lost her Co-
lonies.
"Backward People."" being exploited with incredible acity, and all manner of qualities
"Now, gentlemen, let's be reason- power, with results miraculous which the world is in great need
able about it. We have got a that we could never have believed of to-day.- in them unless they had been ac-
Britain's Destiny.
great share of the world, not near- "May she never become reaction-ly developed as it might be, and tualised: Why, I saw not long ago in a newspaper that a man, ary, never persuade herself to our first job is not to be niggard- in an aeroplane hovering over Los | think she can' fling her power to- ly or afraid concerning the emer- Angeles carried on a wireless con-wards the daming up of the rivers versation with a friend in Bir- of progress for other peoples of mingham, and the man the the earth. I hold, if she were be- aeroplane asked the man in Birgulled or terrified in any way to mingham not to shout so loud! It think that she could use her force is most unpleasant to have any- to stop the emergence of China, or one bawling in your ear! (Laugh- the rise of Japan, or the rise of ter).
India, she would become guilty of "I saw also not long ago that the greatest perversion in her his- a man in Buenos Aires, troubled tory; and she would be defeated about the state of: his heart, got in the end, as irresistibly as men in touch with a specialist in Maare defeated when they oppose "To match the hour drid, and when the arrangements the tides,
in
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gence of, shall I say, backward people (using the word "dark- ward" historically, not culturally): our job is not to resent the emer-. gence of the less fortunate pec- ples; our first job is to make ef- fective the great Empire which we already possess and, shall I add, calls for greater qualities than were called for from our even fathers.
with a
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British Always Läst! The British were the last to
sagacity and statesmanship and come. The British always are
were made, the specialist listened "I look around the British Emproadmindedness that will cause last; it is part of their religion.
to the beat of that man's heart pire- as my friend here does and this old Empire of ours "not to (Laughter). It is said they never
across the Atlantic Ocean, día- I see that somehow or other we sink towards her decline, but to meant to achieve an Empire.gnosed his case
and prescribed have got one quarter of the world. march forward as a real pioneer There were just absent-minded
for him:
We never meant to have it, of course among the peoples, to something Columbus Misses India
when they did it (Laughter).
(laughter), we just happened to bigger and greater than ever our "Christopher Columbus died a The British nearly always arrive
News from the Polest
be going about our business and fathers dreamed. broken hearted and discredited Cast. but they are nearly always
I was in New York when Com occasionally we took our hands I know it is one thing to talk (Hear, Hear, followed by the last to go away and so the mander Byrd was there and the out of our pockets and drew out of these things in words and an-
Empire grew. loud laughter). While he believed
"New York World" delegated a half-continent and a cluster of other to work them out in policy. and everybody believed he had "When Captain Cook was sent reporter to keep in touch with him islands and said, "Where on earth live by reason of speech God actually-found India he, could not out to our latitudes, he was not to get the latest news for even did they come form? But I can forgive me, I love words as much and the great populations, the big sent to discover new territories from the South Pole news is no not help renecting patriot as I as a merchant loves trade, Words cities, the jewels and spices that He was sent out with a briz of good unless you get it at once. It am that, as a matter of fact, we are the counters and symbols that he knew to be there. In that 340 tons with a party of astrono- happened that nobody in the have not got 85 millions of white- represent value to me very same year in which Colum-
Words, Words, Words, mers in order that they might office of the "New York World skinned Britons in the whole across America watch the transit of Venus across knew where the reporter was stay- world. We have got one-quarter- "I am bus. stumbled
the last man in the the sun. You will all perceive (1492), there came a new Popé
one day, of the world, with vast popula-world to think you can settle world into power, Alexander VL, how heavenly-minded our aning in that city and
when they wanted him in a hurry. tion of a different colour from our affairs with words. But you have (Borgla),about whom one has cestors were (Laughter). heard various things sald, but I "Ther watched the transit near they sent a wireless message to own, but while in the ittle Bri-a right if you are a man like me think he was a man of large ideas, Tahiti,then Cook remembered Commander Byrd at the Southtish Islands we have 40 millions, to try and help your fellow coun for he regarded Spain and Portu at other men had seen the Fole, asking him to tell them in Cangus we have less than 10 trymen not to swing backward gal as the only two nations which western side of New Holland and Where in New York their man whereas south of the line the when they should be marching United States has 130 millions forward. You have a right not to mattered very much. England the place must have an Easternived and France had not put on their side, and as it lies close to me, saw not long ago, Gentle In South Africa we more or less allow, if you can help it, this men, that Signor Marconi in a possess half a continent, almost ception to take place in the m strength then. He took a line 45 I will cruise home that way, and decrees west longitude, which so he stumbled across the con-ttle ship in the Gulf of Genos from the Cape to Mombasa. It is of your countrymen that they runs through the middle of the tinent in 1770. He had salled caused a great electric lamp in under our control, and yet we have hold hings just as they Atlantic Ocean through the around perhaps a third of the Sydney, Australia to fame and only a million or a million and a forbid the emergence Azores and with a stroke of the Coast line until he was satished besome luminous at a stipulated quarter white Britons there, Near people who are human beings
New Zealand there are Islands the ourselves, children of the pen settled it, as he supposed that it was really a continent he time forever. "Any Jand which might had discovered. He then return "If you can light a lamp from size of the British Islands, you lasting Father, even as we are. be found west of that line shoulded Home and informed the Gov-half the world away, I wonder get about 11 millions there
Bhall Britain with her
reached. go to Spain and any East of 1ernment that there was a new what else you could not do?
A Question of Size. to Portugal. A most simple and continent waiting to be added to should not be surprised 1 generous way of dividing up, the the British Crown The British in the wars of the future world. But you see neither the were not very interested They there are to be such things the Pope, nor many people understood were having trouble with, America ofensive might easily be directed that the world was really round at the time and In the next dem from half the world away. and it the Spaniards, kept on cade they lost the United States Indeed, it is a world that Ing West and the Fortuguese, Leub
on toing East there might
trouble over frontiers by
It happened that
Portuguese and Spanlar virtually round the contiivous
Zoyages,
had
of Americe, so they lett Australia scarcely recognisable to anybody. alone for anybody to walk on who has historical sense. with until 1788eighteen years as something datent had been a
when lying there quietly throu thek rised a touring party of less ages - until the """ time, people. Flagpo they Belleyed when man, -throwing. would" benent by
longperstitious and inhibitious could
In Australia-ny native land we have got less than 7 millions in a territory that comprises 3 mil- lion square miles
than two white men-
Her vast design but wel Bink- down exhausted
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