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YESTERDAY'S SERMON AT THE CATHEDRAL
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Christianity A Religion Of Escape?
The following sermon was de livered by the Rev. H, W. Baines" at the Cathedral yesterday morn-
ing.
consequences. To live on flusion is to destroy the soul *|
MATTER OF HISTORY But 19 a matter of history Acts. 1. V.II. "Why stand ye gaz-although the conditions of the ing up into heaven?"
divine glory into which Christ was exalted are to us unknowable and indescribable, yet the chain of events of which the Ascension was the beginning and we have not yet seen the end, is a chain running all through the raw material of rea! life.
Let me say in passing that no- body need really loose much sleep over the argument of the psycho- logists that religion is a self pro- duced comforter. If that line of argument would be fatal to religion
MAY 25 1936.
ASSAULT CHARGE
AMENDS ORDERED
Cheung Lin was summoned be
Central fore Mr. Burgess at the Court on Saturday charged with nasauiting Chu San-min at No. 20, Cross Strees, first floor.
Complainant in the box saia that she was lying on a bed in the passage and the defendant came up and hit her on the thigh previously she had a quarrel with Witness complainant's husband. said she got up but the defendaus dragged her down again and squeezed her throat and stamped on her stomach. Witness stated that she was in a certain condi tion.
Defendant said thai the co.n- plainant's husband Owed her money and even when the com- plainant and her husband were
married it was she (witness) who provided the money for their mar- riage. It was on the 7th that she and the complainant's husband had + quarrel over the. money.
"Jesus offers paradise hereafter, Lenin offers paradise hero" ao reads one of the posters of the anti- God propaganda. And the cap tion carries a suggestion which is likely to make us feel uneasy as did the question put by the angels to the disciples, "Why stand ye gaż- ing up into hearen?" The sugges- tion is that the Christian religion with its faith in God and its other worldliness win's comfort for its people at the price of escape from reality; that it is a religion of re- it would be equally fatal to psycho- Complainant went to the assist- fuge bringing nothing more than logy. It. I mean to say, all the or-ance of her husband and struck dope to the social conscience, pre-der and goodness and meaning witness. They refused to pay the
money. "aching content where it should in- which men believe they find in the spire rebellion, seducing mer from universe are but the" fantasy of our the urgent tasks of this world and sub-conclous. something that we blinding them with its continual read into the facts so that we may heavenward gaze to the political į escape their ruthlessness, then and economic realities of everyday science Itself is also an escape me- existence. Of all this tendency to chanism; and the attempt to dis- compensation and escape the As- credit religion by contrast with the cension of Jesus seems symbolic, Admittedly he had courageously faced superhuman difficulties dur- mg the course of His short life but
But the real answer lies along this was journey's end, the boarneless speculative lines "Why stand of His endeavour which He had al- | ye gazing up into heaven?" was the ways known He would reach, with ir. the fragrant seclusion of which He would receive the adoration of those whom He left to run the gauntlet of the trail which He had Dlazed.
SAME CHARGE FROM ANOTHER ANGLE
Mr. Burgess ordered that the de- fendant pay the complainant 33 amends.
Defendant: If that is the order, I would rather prefer to dle.
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HEROIN FILLS
BOAT WOMEN FINED
Found trespassing on Stone- Remand of one week was grant- cutters Island without a permited in the case wherę Wong Kant four. women made their appear- 34. appeared before. Mr. Burgess ance before. Mr. E. Himsworth at on Saturday charged with the the Kowloon Magistracy on Satur- possession of 500 heroin pills at day and were fined $1 each or in No. 150, Third Street. Det.-Sergt. default. to serve, seven days im- Cashman asked for a week's re- Sergean May of the mand in order to examine the Water Police prosecuted.
pills.
"facts" of psychology turns out to URBAN COUNCIL prisonment.
be merely a huge piece of bluk.
THE REAL ANSWER
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ORDERS OF THE DAY
At the fortnightly meeting of the Urban Council which is to be held to-morrow, the following items will come up for discussion
Letter from Government relative
NINE BIRDS IN CRATE
A farmer. 47 years of age, was Aned $3 for cruelty to animals at the Kowloon Magistracy on Sa- It was related to Mr. E. turday. Himsworth that accused was seen
in Salisbury Road carrying a crate
to the appointment of Mr. W. Nwith three geese and six chickens Thomas Tam and Mr. B. Wong in it.The crate could not com- Tape to be members of the Urban fortably hold the nine birds, sald Council.
the prosecuting officer.
and "Offensive
(b) Cattle, Swine, etc. (c) Conservancy.
(d) Markets.
Minute by the Chairman relative to the proposed arrangements for the illng of vacancies various Select Committees of the Council.
on the
The Chairman, pursuant to no- tice, will move:.
question put to the disciples "This same Jesus which is taken from you shall so come. in like manner as ye have seen Him, go lato heaven." Has not that been true in the lives of His followers? Not only has the Christian imagina- tion dwelt dh, the most painful More than one contemporary and most cruel experiences in the Writer has brought the same charge whole of mankind, a young man
Letters from Government signify. from another angle. It is implicit | executed by slow torture amid be-
noting the approval of the Legislative in Mr. Woolf and Beverly Nichols trayal failure and despair: writing for his Mayfair ay only is the symbo, of Christianity Council to the amendment of the dience And it necessary in a cross and not a cushion, as following by-laws:-
(a) Dangerous Lis most interesting defence Canon Barry has put it; but also
Trades. ct the Christian faith to con- from Stephen and Saul, rom the tend that virtue cannot go un-martyrs of Lyons and Vienne to rewarded in the life to come. We St. Joan of Arc and all the noble ought to be sure whether we can
.army of martyrs, men and women meet this charge of faint sentum- in the power of Christ have not entalism, that we Christians live in evaded but gone through the mid-' Utopian fools paradise, that dle of and transfigured life. it there is no real contact between may be thought by some to be the Kingdom of God and the Em- morbid but it is a very doubtful pire of Britain, After all it is example of escape mechanism that likely that we should be driven 11 has been the characteristic of to be found
That in exercise of the powers into some such bolt hole at this Christians always present time
when all that the where need, and poverty and suf- conferred by section 3 of the Pub- Christian tradition stands for is tering were greatest and that lic Health (Animals and Birds) Or- threatened by sheer brutal force. however cynical the Rationalist dinance, 1935, the Urban Council Many people to-day are thinking may wax over human destiny the rescinds by-law 39 of the by-laws On Christian has refused to deny any made under and appearing in the the British Empire. of them it honestly never man either sin or the out ine of Schedule to the said Ordinance and seems to have dawned that there the divine. The centre of Chris- makes the following by-law in sub- are any moral or spiritual issues in tian devotion has never been at stitution therefore, with effect on the sphere of international politics, the parts of Christ's Life which and from the 1st January, 1936:-- easily acceptable. At the 38. The fee payable for each Any such belief would appear to are
and our head of cattle housed in a deput them the delusion of an imriature heart of our worship intelligence. With us it is other- sacraments is the austere glory of shall be sixty cents when cattle across and it is from it that men se housed are removed to any place wise. We believe that the Ascen-
draw-faith and courage and power other than the slaughterhouse ad- sion standa for the glory of God in His ascendency and in His constant to deal with the facts of life vic-1oining such depot or another de- advent and not in His absence, Wetoriously. believe that all the prayers that are now being offered for the just and beneficent government of the Empire and for international peace touch with the true realities of the situation and are not said in the hope of evading the facts and taking refuge in plous fantasy.
about
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REFUSED TEMPTATION
and removed shall be thirty-five cents. No fee is payable on 'admis- Bion."
pot, and the fee payable for each pig similarly housed and removed shall be forty cents and for each How could it be otherwise with sheep and goat similarly housed" the religion of Jesus? He ré- püdiated a religion of escape. Siren voices called Him down one after another false paths of
Proposed motion by the Chair- dramatic and superficial success.
man to rescind by-law 1 under the Fantasy piled itself on fantasy to heading B. Licenced (Itinerant) allure Hip,, "Cast Thyself down, hawkers in the Schedule to the from the pinnacle of the temple: Hawkers Ordinance, No. 22 of 1935. He shall give His angels charge Correspondence relative to cer- "All the same," says the tiresome'
over Thee," "Command these taln stallholders in Spiwanho Rationalist with whom Mr. Beverly Nichols discourses in his book "The "convert the cross into something
stones that they become bread; Market. Fool Hath Bald, "The vehemence nice. But no. He rejected them offensive trade licence for feather Application for a dangerous and with which you protest the reallyal Thou shalt not tempt the storing in addition to that for bone of your prayers and the reality of
ANOTHER EXAMPLE
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a
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com-
GIRL ROBS MOTHER The mother of a giri 17 years
a's the of age, appeared plainant in a theft charge levied against Lau Tsal at the Kow.p01 Magistracy on Saturday. who was accused before Mr. E. Himsworth with stealing a pair of gold finger rings and a gold bangle.
Complainant and her daughter were stated to reside on a sampan and the theft was alleged to have occurred while the craft Was moored in the Yaumati Typhoon Shelter.
Lau told the Magistracte that was made to without pay- she ment of money and therefore was forced to steal
BAMBOO TREE
Ng Chuen, 19. a scavenging coo- de, appeared before Mr. Burgess at the Central Court on Saturday charged with the cutting of a bamboo tree at Macdonnell Road. Defendant stated that he was sup- brooms and the handle being broken he posed to mend his own
went along and cut a handle.
Mr. Sheriff of the PW.D. sald that the brooms were all supplied by the department,
'Defendant was fined $2.
·
ERROR OF JUDGMENT Yee Lung Fu, driver of car No 886 was summoned before Mr. W. Bchofield at the Central Court on Saturday on a charge of driving without, due care and caution at
the junction of Ice House Street Queen's Road Central on May 5.
• Mr. E. L. S. Alves, a clerk at the Catholic Union Club said that the car ran over his foot.
Remarking that it was a slight error of judgment defendant was
ned $10
CAUTIONED
The girl was bound over in the Chan Fook, 18., bricklayer" and $20 to be of good he-Fung Yat, 17, boatman, appeared before Mr. Burgess at the Central haviour for a year, sum of
Court on Saturday charged with (a) damaging the Taumati Ferry... wharf and (b) trespassing on the wharf.
BANISHEES
Wong Shing. 57, and Chan Yin unemployed, were KL 23, both
charged before Mr. Burgess at the Central Court on Saturday with
Wong Shing. banished for 10 returning from banishment,
years on January 30, this year was sentenced to one year.
Chan Yin Ki banished for 10 years on February 10. 1933. was sentenced to 8 months.
SCOUTS RALLY
Keen Competition For Banner
Over 250 scouts took part in the |
Wales's Banner at the Diocesan
God is only another example of the Lord Thy God" Jesus faith in God bolling, bone storing and tallow spring rally for the Prince of well known process of compen-belongs to a real world in which melting at No. 146, Pau Chung sation. Leave public affairs on one life and history have a meaning Street. side and, don't you see how easy it and must have a real part-to play.
Thirty one" applications for
is without knowing it to seek to Was He not an apprentice in a cences in respect of various trades
escape from the hard facts of life? carpenter's shop? Did He
not
came up for sanctions while the regular returns are also tabled"
Boys' School on Saturday.
Sub-Inspector Jonnson said, that they were seen by the P.W.D. fore- man chipping the whart for shell-"
Ash.
Both defendante denied the first charge and admitted the second. The second defendant said that he was walking along the wharf to get to his boat.
They were cautioned.
NEW HONORARY A.D.C.'S
LATEST APPOINTMENTS
His Excellency the Governor has
̧ ́ | appointed the following officers to
Subadar Major Warts Khan, Hong kong Brigade; Hongkong and Singapore Royal Artillery,
Owing to the late hour of be his Honorary Aides-de-Camp, finishing results of the competi- 1936: tion could not be worked out and w not be known until to-day.. | Is it not true that you build up realise and accept the conditions
The following troops took part your elaborate defence against the and the rules of His trade? When"
in the events:1st Hong Kong Subadar Major, and Honorary recognition of facts which seem to in the hour of His physical agony
18t Joseph's), holders of the Lieutenant Lal Khan, Bahadur, `ist you to be harsh and unpleasant? he refused the ancient equivalent
morphia. He
1st Hong Kong (sea Battalion, 8th Punjab Regiment, consistent ber that if we would be disciples Banner. was Your Christian religion is a crucial
Second Lieutenant Herrique Al- Instance of this tendency. It is with His life-long attitude. The of Christ we need not. expect to Scouts), 2nd Hong Kong (Catholic
Hong Kongberto de Barros Botelho, Hongkong essentially an escape mechanism; a cup which my Father has gives escape from the hard and bitter Cathedral), 4th means by which your spirits; con- shall I not drink it? That is not experiences of life-Indeed we shall (Murray), 7th Hong Kong (King's Volunteer Defence Corps, fronted with a terrifying univeres a religion of escape: is a re- see them all the more clearly and College), 15th Hong Kong (Wah and a humiliating waywardness in ligion of victory and of ambition, share more vividly its more pain-Yan College), 15% Kowloon (8t The ascension of Jesus is the ful and exacting tasks-we. may Andrew), 3rd Kowloon (Sham- our own powers, seek to find re-' fuge and security in the fantasy of visible form in which the glorific-confidently expect to be given shuipe), 4th Kowloon (Garrison). a loving will that cares for you."ation of Christ can be expressed to faith, for victorious Lying "and to 6th Kowloon (Diocesan Boys Now although that certainly goes the imagination of man but lettriumph over the challerige of the School), 7th Kowloon (Your Chi), 8th Kolpon. 11th Kowloon (Wan near the mark it is clear that no me say again. It stands not for facts.
The appeal of the Ascension to Yan and 13th Kowloon St honest man with any respect for absence but for assent: He who his own integrity can accept re- at this time we regere as risen.us is not to stand gazirig Idly into Theresa's)....
The second half of the com- gion on such terms. The one ascent and glorified does not heaven bus to ax, our gaze in a.re claim that religion cannot waive promise to make us comfortable: erent and onedlent adoration petition for the Banner will take to be to communion" with a real He does not offer to us nor to any upon the King at Kings and Lord the form of a Camp towards the God. If that is not true then re-body to save us from dying but to of Lords who will come in ke latter part of this year, following ligion perishes. If the Ascension give ye courage and inner free manner to make an Empire in the which the winners of the Banner marks the climax of Christian devo-, dom, And so whether it be in our kingdoms of men and in the hearts will be announced. tion to a cult of the unreal then own personal responsibilities or in of us all And they worshipped. The inspecting officers on Batur while the various competitions, were Mr. Cyril Chamakin, were ned under the guidance of the more devotedly we observe it the stupendous tasks that confront Him and returned to Jerusalem day
Deputy Commissioner, and Mr. A. Rovers the more disastrous must be the the Brits Empire let us remem with great joy,"
Lieutenant-Commander Robert Shearman Barry, Royal Navy.
Lieutenant Ronald James Douglas Clerk Grieve, Hongkong Naval Volunteer Force.
Flight Lieutenant Reginald Cyril Field, Royal Air Force.
Mr Alfred Reginald Seymour Major, Hongkong Police.
Mr. Fang Ping-fan, St. John Ambulance Association Brigade,
Grad. Assistant Commissioner,