Church's Continued Preference Of Smug Morality
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Taking as his text, whited But seemingly apart sopu chres, which indeed appear beautiful outward. tut are wichin full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness." (S Matthew 'xxi: 27), the preacher sa'd
This imagery would appeal strong.y to a Jewish audience. Whited sepulchres gleaming in the
sun were a familar feature in the everyday and cape. They
were caverns, cut into the rock with a great stone set up close to the entrance. Once every year these stones were whitewashed,
not to make them beautiful, but to warn people that a grave was
J there lest they touch "it and be defiled, You can imagine how the darkness and the dead men's bones would stir the mind of Jesus as a boy, so strongly in- deed, that when later in fe he wanted to describe something which he particulary hated, the haunting of his youth came back to him, and to the white heat of his hatred for hypocrisy he liken- ed the Pharisees to these whited sepulchres.
We cannot for A moment doubt the meaning of his figure of specch; "whited sepulchres is enshrined in our language as per- fectly expressive of the hypocrite, the man who is one thing in- wardly and another outwardly But when you come to examine the significance of the phrase in relation to the Pharisees * reveals Д deeper and subtler meaning. The Phir.'seen' sins never shocked anybody; never outraged the feelings of society: they never broke through its unwritten laws, yet they were eminently gully of high treason. to their sacred religious trust. They were eminently respectable, but from the point of view of Christ, they were worse than valueless, they were the source of evil and spiritual death. They were respectable sinners.
they
NOT SECRET SIN Now respectable sin is not just secret sin. It is sin, which when committed carries 00 social stisima. It is sin which an in-. dividual may commit and yet remain without social forfelt. It is sin which is tolerated by general opinion, that is not visit- ed with social ostracism. In short it is not what is generally called a deadly sin. But there is an element of unexpected aptress and surprise in our Lord's moral, Judgments. He Ja sometimes severe when we would be lenient, and, lenient when we would be severe. All sin was hateful to him because all sin is rebellion against God, yet undoubtedly, the sins which stirred Him most were not the' passionate sins, they were the cold and calculating .ones that masqueraded
respectablilty. The mind of Jesus towards Peter who betrayed him, and to the Magdalene who, be trayed herself, throbs with unut- terable tenderness and love, while towards the Pharisees we look in
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from Chris, life has a way of paying us out for such insincerity, and it " abundantly clear that the this'ness of being hypocrites to wards Christ is going to prove increasingly costly if not actually ruinous to us. The moral leader--{ ship of an un-Christian oviliza tion cannot much longer be main tained under modern conditions of life, by a people whose official religious faith enshrines monstrous insincerities and repulsive intel- lectual dishonesties.
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EX-KING EDWARD
Today, a large section of the British nation stands rebuked by the abdication of King Edward the Eighth, and the hardest re- huke fal's upon the Christian
Church to which he belongs, and on him. its leader, who has seen it to revile him publicly. The Archbishop of Canterbury's words are woefully revealing or" his Church's continued preference of smug morality to daring Christian expression of Christian truth, a smugness, which even the loss of a King, whose service to the world and to Chriat would have been even more valuable in the future than they have been in the past. has been unable to break...
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1936.
COLONY TRADE
Import And Export Statistics
An interim report issued by the Statistical Office of the Imports and Exports Department on the. trade of the Colony for November, 1936. states that imparts of mer- chandise amounted to a total of $45.7 millions (£28 millions)," "as compared with $28.4 millions (£2.1 millions) in November.. 1935: dollar increase of 60.9 per and a sterling increase of 33.9 per
cent. cent.: whilst exports totalled $38,4 millions (224 millions); as com- pared with $23.5 lions (£1.7 millions): a dollar increase of 63.4 per cent. and austerling in- crease of 41.2 per cent,
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Total imports during the frat eleven months of the year 1938 amounted to $407.7 millions (£25.8 millions), as compared with $330.7 millions (£33.1 millions) In the corresponding
1935: period of whilst exports amounted to $318.1 millions (£20.0 millions) as com- pared with $245.6 millions (£24.4
millions).
In terms of local currency im- ports increased by 23.3 per cent. in the first eleven months of 1936, as compared with the correspond- ing period of 1935, and exports in- creased by 28.7 per cents: whilst sterling value showed decreases of It is more than pity that those 22,1 per cent. In the case of im- who love him and believe in him ports, and 18.0 per cent. in the
case of exports. will never be informed of the trus facis, events and happenings, The following table shows cum- which led to King Edward's abdica- | parațive figures of imports and ex- tion, but it is regretfully certain that had he had a full, intelligent and articulate support from his professedly Christian subjects, even the possibility of losing him would never have arisen,
UNWARRANTED ATTITUDE The institution which professes the Christian leadership of Eng- and has falled the entire Empire, first, by refusing to recognise false class distinct'ons. a breach of the fundamental basis of all Christian living, and second, by exploiting to the Christian viewpoint, its un- the full, its irrational and from
warranted attitude to marriage and divorce.
WES
For what were the Archbishop's objections to King Edward's pro- ! posed marriage? He said” it
inconsistent with the Christian principles of marriage," what he Inconsistent with Anglican regula- should have said was that it was
tlos, and these two things are as far from being identical as is the the system and Christian Coyalty to Christ's Church Christ's teach- Ing on the sacramental relationship
of men and women is not a state- ment of natural law, not a com- mand binding upon man's tem- poral existence in any sense; it is a declaration of the eternal pur pace of God for mankind, which is tulled wherever true love ex'sts between a man and a woman, and which needs neither the sanction of the state nor the blessing of the Church to make it eternal, but is a union in the holy spirit forever and ever.
By his actions and words the
vain for such understanding. Archbishop of Canterbury presumed to deny the possibility of God's Spirit working in the lives of two of His children.
Against them and against 'all hypocrisy Christ hurled his strongest, bitterest, and sternest judgments.
MOST PERNICIOUS The reason for that is because. sin which is respectable, has an unequalled
power of deadening the mind, the sensibilities, and the conscience. Of all sins it is the most pernicious in its in- fluence
upon simple folk, and Jesus condemned it, so utterly, be- cause he had such a great love for simple-minded people. He saw how mightily it would appeal
to natures which would turn in revolt fro the coarseness of vice. And therefore out of his
fear
a
Intense love for foolish men did he terribly denounce it. For we are foolish about sins, we only those which will stamp jabel upon us, but are ready to receive and to do anything that does not merit social censure. To Dreserve respectability is the pro-
OMNISCIENCE
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ports of Marchandise and Treasure during the months of November, 1936 and November, 1935:-
Merchandise Treasure
Total
Total
IMPORTS
November November
1936
1935 $45,653.144 $23,404,624 3,297.280 4,851.212
$47,980,424 $33,255,836
For The Carnival
The Duo Artinellis, Russian dancers, who will be appearing at the Gloucester Hotel during the Christmas carnival season.
GIFTS FOR
A
CHILDREN
IN HOSPITAL
Sunday School Function
pleasing ceremony
took place at the Kowloon Tong Angli- can Church on Saturday afternoon when the Sunday School children gathered and laid gifts for charity at the foot of the altar.
PUNJAB
REGIMENT
SAIL FOR INDIA'
G.O.C. Present To Bid Farewell
A large crowd gathered at. No. 5 what, Kowloon, Saturday mor- athg to bid farewell to the officers and men of the 1st Battalion, 8th Punjab Regiment. who left the Colony for India
on the Banthi.
OH, BOY!
THAT
HERE IS SOMETHING YOU WANT FOR CHRISTMAS !
NOW ON SHOW AT
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
TOY DEPT.
AS STORE OPEN FROM 8.30 AM. TO 6 P.M. XHAS EVE TO 7 P.M..
Hong Kong Singapore Brigade,
The Bagpipes and Drums of the EXPORTS
Royal Artillery, were in attendance November November
on the wharf and rendered selec- 1936
1935. Merchandise $38,449,557 $23,541,998
tions from 11 am. until the depar- In the course of a short ser- Treasure ....
*3,745,425 33,232,844
vice Mr. R. Ashton Hill, pastor-in-hundreds of rank and file from the ture of the vessel at noon, while charge of the Kowloon Tong ABS- HKSRA. and H.K. Mile Corps $42,194,082 $56,774,842 lican Church, explained to the children how it came about that
vere present to bld "bon voyage" people gave gifts. at Christmas. A
to their friends... prayer followed for thanks, after which the children adjourned to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. F. Guest, who kindly loaned compound for the various sports events in which the chul- dren took part.
WEDDING,
The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Capt. David Murray Larmour, R.A.O.C.. and Miss Jean Andrea Jaffrey, of Greenford, Wee-
don Road, Northampton, who is "en route" to the Colony per, 8.3. Ralwalpindi.
WAH YAN COLLEGE
BREAKS UP
The Wab Yan College, Kowloon, broke up for the Christmas holl- days on Saturday, when it was an- nounced that the annual prize distribution will be held on Christ- mas Day, followed by a Christmas Treat for about 200 of the senior boys.
CHRISTMAS DINNER
. The annual Christmas Dinner to Servicemen will take place at the European Y.M.C.A. on Mon- day. December 28, commencing at 7.30 p.m.
the
But there is a stil further con- sideration which may have In- fluenced this presumption of om- niscience, the marriage which King Edward proposed to contract was with a woman, from "a social circle whose standards and ways of life are alien to all the best instincts and traditions of his (King Edward's people." There is not that King Edward should even the ghost of a suggestion love to ali men' und all
have highest that man is comes from chosen a royal wife for diplom- that divine love: The world de- Ec reasons, only a cheap social mands God's love, in all its wide- objection such as the humblest of ness and liberty, or it will never society climbers would use against function propery, so a wilful son or daughter. Surely have done with hypocrisy and the Archbishop has forgotten that with everything that savours of with Jesus of Nazareth there is it, and zealously seek the truth no respect of persons?
alone in everything, any other life is ugliness and disease ant death, "dead men's bones and all uncleanness,"
HUMAN RIGHTS
It is not understating the altua cess which passes for religion for tion to say that these, the 'hideous a tragically great number of sins of respectability, were English people.
the things which deprived us of the
we must
and
and
And while we fools Are making- courtesles,
erave compliments To our rare country,
"courtierty Swaddling our strength In
trammels of soft sk, The rotten depths grow rot-
tener. And
Let us be respectable at allfe of one who had proved his costs! Let us never do anything, wlingness to serve his people nor permit anything, which would and whose life would have been render us pervious to insult or given to us to the end if only ridicule from the rest of the there had been accorded to him, world. But to the Christ mind not the erstwhile divine right of which is given to the pursuit of kings, but the human rights of truth above all other things, and
an ordinary man, the right to And some of us are that, no which values his truth more marry where he loved: "The pity bloogically dead, but morally and than all the arguments of theolo of it, the pity of it!" That spiritually rotten, and unless we glans, it is terribly clear how our respectability and un-Christian turn to Christ, to Jesus of Lord would regard many.. who class-selfishness should deprive a Nazareth himself to see God and to-day call themselves by hts whole people of the leadership of love in him we shall remain the. name, who have learned all that one so well-qualified to lead and glistening deceptians which warn St. Paul and Et. Augustine, and serve,
men from the ways we tread. the Church Fathers have to say
WARNING OF GOD.
God grant that we may yet re about him, and who place their Let our loss of King Edward be deem the lives and Loves we have least word before the guidance of the warning of God to us! The lost that He Kingdom may not his holy spirit which was his re-nation and kingdom that do not fall in the least or greatest of his maining gift to men.
serve Him will parishi God is children.
their
The afternoon wast concluded by the appearance of Santa Claus, who distributed gifts among the
happy children.
The gifts the children took to the Church are to be distributed among the boys and girs at the Kwong Wah, Tung Wah and Tung Wah Eastern Hospitals.
Mrs. E. E. Booker, superin- tendent of the Sunday School, and her staff, Miss Dorothy Lee, Miss A. Sue, Miss J. C. Wong and Mrs. A. E.. P. Guest, were in charge of the function.'
R.U.R. CAMP
The Royal Ulster Rifles are leaving for Camp on Boxing Day and on their return will be sta tioned at Shamshulpo. Their place in Murray Barracks will be taken by the Seaforth Highlanders, who are relieving the East Lanca- shire Regiment.
GIVING ON LEAVE
Among the Police officers leav- ing for Home on Saturday are Sub-Inspector J. O'Donovan, Sub- Inspector W.. Ritchle and Sergeant Fell.
"RETREAT"
A Combined "Retreat" by the Band and Drums of the 2nd. Bn., The East Lancashire Regiment.. will be held at Shamshulpo at 5.15 p.m. to-day
MUSICAL TREAT
Among those who were seen on. board were HLE, the General Om-
cel
Commanding. Major-General
his A.D/C. Lleut. P. J. Howorth, A W. Bartholomew, attended by
RA, Col H. C. Harrison, GB.OL, Brigadier F. G. Beth Smith, Major (Bt. Leut. Col) H. H. Dempsey, Captain R. L. K. Allen, Capt. J. D. Milne, Capt. G. WP. Kimm, Lieut. Col. L. C. Reid, RE, Major L. A. A. Alston and Major E. 3. R. Mitchell,
KIDDIES TREAT
China Light And Power Party
The children of the staff of the China Light and Power Co., were entertained at their.. ännusi Christmas party at the Recreation Club, King's Park, on Saturday afternoon,
In addition sports, Santa Claus arrived at 6 p.m. and presented each
child with a gift. A large crowd of parents and friends assisted in the programme.
to the kiddies'
The following were the results of the children's sports:- Event 1. Children 5 and under: Girls: Won by Ena, Taylor Boya: Won by Fakir Samy Event 2. Children & and over: Girls: Won by Jean Grady Boys: Won by Miskin Samy
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Combined Choirs At Methodist Church
An excellent evening's enjoy. ment was afforded by the com- bind choirs of all the Chinese Protestant Churches in the Colony at the new Methodist Church, Wancbat, on Saturday night, when, under the conductorship of A musical treat will be presented Mr. Lee Pochi, a Christmas Con- at the China Fleet Club at 5.30 cert was successfully organised. p.m. on Tuesday, December 28, the Church Hall being Alled to China Fleet will give a concert, when the Massed Bands of the capacity with spectators.
HEALTH IN EAST
The latest Health Bulletin of Eastern ports notify the public of 24 cases of Cholera, 1 in Bombay, 18 in Calcutta and 5 in Chittagong and also 25 cases of small-pox: Bombay 1. Calcutta 3, Rangoon 1, Pnomi-perih 1, and Bhanghai: 19,
BOUND OVER.
Hung Ching. But, 34, coolie, appeared before Mr. Schofield at the Central Magistracy on Satur day and was bound over for theft. of 10 cattles of gypsum from the Hong Kong Whart and Godown Company, valued at 50 cents. Bergeant Clarke prosecuted',
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