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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1937.
PAGE FOR THE
RELIGION PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL
IX: Reform
(BY SCRUTATOR)
At the age of twenty-seven, in the year 1536, John Calvin published "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" which con- stituted the first complete statement of the Protestant position. Calvin who had come to Geneva and who in the tradition of all true reformers, was a close student of the New Testament and of Early Christianity, saw in the civil constitution of the City of Geneva the ready organisation for just such a unity as he be- lieved the Christian Church to have been in its beginning-a Uttle Independent republic. His zeal in reforming soon made. Geneva a Church City. The existing municipal organisation was taken over in its entirety and to it was added a consistory of twelve pastors and twelve representatives of the Councils.
ST. JOHN'S
CATHEDRAL
3rd Sunday After Easter:-8 a.m. Holy Communion (Communicants" Fellowship); 10 a.m. Kindergarten and Children's Service; 11 a.m. Mattins; Preacher: Rev. H. W. Baines, The Recall to Religion; 12.15 p.m. Holy Communion; 8,30 p.m. Evensong: Preacher: Rev. H. W. Baines.
Week-days: Holy Communion la celebrated on: Tuesday, Thursday ́and Saturday at 7.30 am; Wednes- day at 7.30 a.m. in the Peak Church; Friday at 7.45 am (in Cantonese); Prayers for the sick. Wednesday, 10.15 a.m.
CHURCHES
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH
~(Church Of England)
Annual Sunday Schools Festivmi
The following are the services etc., for the forthcoming week at St. Andrew's Church, Kowleon.
Sunday, April 18th Third Sun- day after Easter. Holy Communion 8.15 a.m. Choral Communion, and sermon i am. Preacher: The Vicar (Rev. J. R. Higgs). Evensong and sermon 6.15 p.m. Preacher: The Vicar.
Tuesday. Mothers' Union 3 p.m. Brownle Pack 3.30 p.m. Confirma- tion class 8 p.m..
CATHOLIC NEWS
AND NOTES
Vatican Envoy To The Coronation
The selection of Mgr. Pizzardo, Secretary of the Sacred Congrega- tion for Foreign Affairs, as the representative of the Holy See at the Coronation of King George is in accordance with the usual Vati- Young Peoples' Ber- vice 9.45, a.m. Primary Sunday can procedure. The relations 'be-' School 10 a.m.
tween the Holy See and the rar- Monday-Mothers' Union Com-ious countries are obviously not Other Notices:-April 20, 3: pmmittee Meeting" 11.15 am. Church the same as those that usually Mother's Union Working Party. Council Meeting 6 p.m. Fellowship exist between the various countries, Cathedral Hall: April 22. 5.15 pm of Youth 6 p.m. St. Andrew's Club and it is customary for the Vati- Finance Committee Meeting, Cathe-final rehearsal for Dramatic Per- can to be represented by one of ite dral Office: April 23, 7.15 p.m. formance.
chter diplomatic officials at func- Cathedral Training Group, Cathe-
tions that are not connected with dral Hall.
the Church itself, Frequently & Cardinal represents the Pope in FUS Cardinal foreign countries, Dougherty did recently at Manila, but only at Catholic ecclesiastical functions; according to the tradi- tional etiquette the Pope is repre- sented in diplomatic missions by a member of the diplomatic star, Mgr, Pizzardo is the highest mem- Thursday-Womens' Fellowship ber of this diplomatic staff. Per- 3 p.m. Boy Scouts 8 pm. Dramatic sonally. Mgr. Pizzardo is one of Performance by St. Andrew's Club the leading ecclesiastics in Italy, 1 pan. (as above). Half the pro- and he is particularly well-known ceeds for the performance will be for his great interest in social mat- give to St. Andrew's Church Bene-ters. He has on many recent oc- volent Fund for the Poor.
The Chapel of the Resurrection: 9.15 a.m. Children's Service.
Wednesday-Wolf Cubs 5.30 p.m. Dramatic Performance by St. An- drew's Club 9 pm. The Club's Dramatic Section will present The following the the forth- Three One Act Plays and the per- coming services at the Catholic formance will be open to the pub- He. Admission $1 (adults) 50 cents Cathedral, Caine Road.
Sunday after } (children). April 18th-Third
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both Christians were to receive This apparently democratic or- ganisation left little room for in- bread and wine in communión.” In dividual liberty. The regulations 1453 Pope Plus II issued a bull an- directing the conduct of its mem- nouncing that anyone who appeal-CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL bers were stringent indeed, ang ed against any papal decision to forcefully enforced." Pubile wor to the next meeting of the Council ship was compulsory. Dancing and was thereby excommunicated. This such innocent amusements were struck a death-blow at "the Con- made punishable offences. Un- cillar Movement at reform of the chastity was occasionally rewarded Church, and what might have been
The with capital punishment.
a great historical effort towards Sacrament of the Lord's Supper the true Christian democratic formL was a solemn privilege from which of Church government came to an all moral offenders were rigorously untimely end. Reform was defeat-
and ed
revolution seemed excluded 1 necessary by "excom-
In-
munication Purity
Church evitable. 01 membership was made a primary Doctrinal teaching consideration.
included the Lutheran doctrine of justification by faith and that along with predestination and elec- tion and salvation through the blood of Christ alone, constituted the main items of the creed. But despite this narrowness- and its rigorous thoroughness, Calvinism was possessed of a splendid energy Influence upon
the re- ligious life of western Europe is re- markable even to-day.
and its
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RENAISSANCE TIDE
The next sixty-eight years which ensued between the dissolution of the Council of Busel and the Lu- theran Reformation mark the high-water level of the effect of the Renaissance tide of thought upon the Church. The movement was simply a reaffirmation of the goodness of life and of man's ca- pacity and right to enjoy it. It contained no real
opposition or contradiction of the religion of Jesus as it is contained in the Gospels. but it was most decidedly opposed to much that composed mediaeval religious thought and custom. Yet it did not actually attack the Church, but sought in- directly to convert it, and in a measure it was succèssful. Popes became patrons of the arts. New Buildings were erected, including
Pentecost. Celebration of the Solemnity of
St. Joseph, St. Elphege,
Morning services: 1st Mass at 6. 2nd Mass at 8-Solemn High Mass with sermon in Chinese, 3rd Mass at 10.30 with sermon in English.
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casions been the chief speaker at
Friday. Confirmation class 6 assemblies in which social ques- p.m. Full Choir Practice 6.30 p.m. Evening services: at 2.30--Re- Saturday--St. Andrew's 18th ligious Instruction to Young Annual Sunday Festival. 3 p.m. People, at 3.30-Catechetical Sports. Tea, Entertainment and Instruction for Adults, at 4.- Prize. Giving in the Church hall Exposition of the Blessed Sa- and grounds. crament. recitation of the
.. Holy Rosary and Benediction. April 21st-St. Anselm, Archibishop
of Canterbury & Doctor of the Church.
April 23rd.-St. George, Patron of
England.
On week days Mass at 6 and 7.30. Confessions morning and even-
ing."
ENGLISH METHODIST
CHURCH
Hong Kong (English) Circuit
CONCILIAR MOVEMENT The Conciliar Movement, was part of the attempts which the Roman Church had made, prior to the Lutheran Reformation, to purify herself. The Council of Constance (1414-1418) at which laity were allowed to vote and at which John Huss was burned, and during which England won the hat- St. Peters, in Rome which was. | Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong tie of Agincourt against France, largely financed by the sale of in- after four years, broke up having dulgences. But through all decided that a Council would meet activities the Internecine wars of every eight years. It left all neces- Italy, in the Papacy was emboiled, sary reforms to be carried out at
continued unabated, until at the discretion of and by the newly length the Papacy was conquered appointed Pope Martin V. The by Spain and became the mere next Council, of Siena 1423 did no-puppets of the Spanish powers, thing at all.
The Council of Basel 1431–1449 after eighteen years sitting, was dissolved and its only actual ac- hievement was the inclusion as or- thodox doctrine, of what had been known as the Hussite Heresy, that
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LESSON SERMON
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG The subject of the Lesson. Ser- mon in all churches of Christ, Scientist, to-morrow, April 18, will be: "Doctrine of Atonement."
The Golden Text will be: "John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, "which taketh away the sin of the
world" (John 1; 29). " Among others, the
following citations from the Bible will be read: "And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed to- gether, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her unto him, and sald unto her, Woman, thou art And loosed from thine infirmity.
he laid his hands on her; and im- mediately she was made straight. and glorified God." (Luke 13: 10- 13).
IF
its
(Next week we will give à resume of the development and fate of personal religion in the mediaeval Church in Europe, and then turn exclusively to "a consideration of the English situation).
Kong (opposite Royal Naval Hospital) Sunday Service, April 18, 1937.- Third Sunday after Easter. Morning Parade Service at 10.15 at the English Methodist Church: Preacher: Rev. Donald B. Childe, Hymn No. 12 (Regent Square), Prayer. The Lord's Prayer, Hymn
No. 677 (Quam Dilecta), 1st Lesson Numbers 22: 1-21, Hymn No. 815 (Cwm Rhondda), 2nd Lesson-Johri 11: 1-29, Prayer, Notlees, Hymn No. 477 (Gersau), Sermon, Hymn No. 822 (St. Gertrude). Benediction.
UNION CHURCH
Morning Service 10.30 a.m. Ever.
ing Service 6 pm. Preacher at both services, Rev. K Mackenzie Dow.
The Social Hour will be held in the Church Hail after the Evening Service as usual
The Soldiers' and Sallors' Chris tian Association meets in the Church Hall on Tuesday evening at 7.30 p.m.
.
The Helena May Christian Fal lowship meets in the Institute on Friday morning at 10.30 a.m....
A meeting of Deacons will be held in the Church Hall on Friday 23rd April, at 5.30 p.m.
EMMANUEL MISSION
CHURCH
The following are the Services for the week at Emmanuel Mission Church, 218 Nathan Road, Kow-
loon::-
Saturday, 8.30 p.m. Fellowship Meeting followed by the Lord's Sup-
per.
discussion and tions were under his sympathy with the working class is recognised by all. It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the utterances of no clerical speaker in Italy are more wel-
How to get rid
of
Disfiguring Blemishes
How much younger would you look and feel if your skin was clear and entirely free from blemish?
Pimples, spots, blackheads, enlarged pores, burning irri- tations and ugly complexion defects are woman's most com.
"enemies. To mon ageing all who suffer, Cuticura presents the most simple and exfective way to clear the skin.
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Cleanse the skin with Cuti cura Soap twice a day. Its luxuriant, mildly antiseptic lather is soothing and softening: washes away pore-deep dust and grime which develop black heads, enlarged pores and ugly complexion defects. And to
rid the skin of pimples, out- breaks, rashes of irritations use Cuticura Ointment direct on the affected part before washing with the soap. Its antiseptic action kills germs, soothes and heals and quickly clears the skin.
Try this treatment to-day, see how your skin begins to look clearer and fresher; your com- plexion smoother, lovelier, more attractive than ever before.
Cuticura
For Clear Healthy Skin
Seld by all Chemists and Stores. Ask for Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. And for powder use Cuticura Talcum-exceptionally fine
and pure, exquisitely perfumed.
BISHOP'S PLEA
comed by the workers and the poor For A Healthy Race
than those of Mgr. Pizzardo. NEW CARMELITE CONVENT AT
Within
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Speaking at Oxford University Bishop of month,
Barnes)
the Birmingham (Bishop pleaded again for the right to. destroy the unnt and declared
the past few days the last Carmelite Sisters, who lived it- nerto in. Robinson Road, moved into their new convent in Stanley which has been built for them mainly through the generosity of sume Belgian and Chinese friends.
that the cost of social" derelicta (especially the feeble-minded) is
it is almost exactly six years since harmful both morally" and practi- the pioneers of this little religious | cally. community landed in Hong Kong
GERMAN REPLY TO VATICAN
Rome, April 15. Dealing with the German Gox- ernment's note to the Vatican on the Papal Encyclical about the sit- uation of the Catholle Church in Germany, the "Messagero," Roman id-day paper, declares that the strictest. reserve is maintained in Vatican circles about the contents as a statement of attitude 'adopred towards the charges made in te Encyclical.
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Non-official Vatican circles are of the opinion that Germany is will- He said that he could not thinking to negotiate and seeks a com-
mon ground for an agreement- after travelling from Saint-Michel- iez-Bunges in Belgium, and they it right to keep alive individua's Transocean News Service.
who are doomed from birth to a
"False
were for some time in Canton be- fore settling permanently in Hong sub-human existence. Kong. It was not long until some Chinese sisters were included, and now in the community of twenty the majority are Chinese, The Carmelite Sisters live In seclusion and spend many hours every day in prayer. They are to be found in all parts of the world and there
among whom they
humanitarianism" "he said, "is at the present time a definite drag on social progress,"
Falling the right to put-away and other the feeble minded afflicted human being the Bishop urged that at any rate they should
are already several convents in not be allowed to have children. China. The sisters live in great
He pointed out that in the lower to help those
live by their social strata there is at present an poverty, and try Sunday, 11:00 am. Divine Ser-lives of prayer and sacrifice. Many alarming number of mentally de- who were inclined to be hostile to fcients, and others suffering from vice. Preacher Rev. W. H, Irwin of llance. Subject, "God." Text, "He ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH | No. 637 (Rutherford), Lesson-John
11: 30-57. Prayer, Notices, Hymn that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under 18th April3rd Sunday after Eas- No. 448 (St. Margaret), Sermon,
the shadow of the Almighty. I will ter.-Celebration of the Solemnity Hymn No. 667 (8t. Clement), Bene-
say of the Lord, He is my refuge diction. of St. Joseph.
and my fortress: My God; in Him
Evening Service at 7.15-Hymn The Christian and Missionary Al- the idea of convent life have epilepsy, and other terrible dis-
First Mass at 8 am, with First Communion for Children, and Ge- neral Communion.
Service for the R Army and Navy at 9 a.m.-
At 10 a.m.. Pontifical High Mass and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. After Mass Confirme-
tion.
On week-days Holy Mass at 8 a.m.
Confessions are heard every day before and after Mass.----On Satur- days, the special time for Confes- sin is from 4.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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on him, will never alone make us imitators of him. We must go and do likewise, else we art not im- proving the great blessings which our Master worked and suffered to bestow upon us. The divinity of the Christ was made manifest in the humanity of Jesus." (Page 25).
ANNOUNCEMENT
First Church of Christ Scientist. Hong Kong a Branch of The Mo- ther Church, The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston Ması, MacDonnell Road close to Tran Station. Sunday Service 11.15 a.m.. Testimony Meeting. Wednesday 6
No. 550 (Abirdge), Prayer, Hymn
ROSARY CHURCH
The following are the forth- coming Services, at the Rosary Church. 20. Chatham Road-Kow-
loon.
Sunday April 18th-3rd Bunday after Easter Celebration of the Bolemnity of. at. Joseph. At with 6.30. Mass
sermon in Chinese, at 7.30 Mass with ser- mon in English, at 8.30 Mass with sermon in Portuguese, at 9.30 Mass with sermon in English, followed by the Benediction of the Blesse Sacrament. At 10.30 am-Meet- ing of the St. Vincent de Paul's Society. At 2 pm-Catechism in Chinese. At 2.30, p.m. Benedic- tion of the Blessed Sacrament,
Monday-April 19th Meeting
will I trust." (Paalm 91: 1,2).
Sunday, 3.00 p.m. Bunday School. Young Women's Bible Class. Young Men's Bible Class.
Sunday, 8.30 p.m. Divine Service preceded by Song Service at 8.00 p.m. Preacher, Mr. Hynds.
Monday, 7.45 p.m. S.A.Ç.A. Black. board Meeting.
Tuesday, 8.00 pm. Young Peo- pie's Club.
Wednesday. 2,30 p.m. Ladies Sew- ing Circle at 1, King's Terrace.
Wednesday: 8.00 p.m. Praise and Prayer Meeting.
Thursday, 10.30 am. Ladies Bible Study Circle at No. 216B Nathan Road. This is open to all Ladies in the Colony, who are interested in the Bible.
open to
all
Car-
THE DUCHESS OF
-BEDFORD
There will be universal sympathy with the Duke of Bedford, who has decided that the reluctantly. Duchess' death must now be pre-
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the
sumed.
Was The Duchess, who daughter of the Ven. W. H. Tribe, formerly Archdeacon of Lahore, was one of the most remarkable women of her time.
Her interests, pursued with re- lentless energy, were multifarious. As she was the first Duchess to
changed their ideas of it when they orders.
Speaking of parents doomed to fly, so, too, she was, the first have sought to learn "personally something. of the life of a
they Duchess to be educated, at 'a 'girls' melite community. Recently, in hopeless poverty, he said
A former pupil of Cheltenham France, a film was made of Car- should arrange not to have chil-public school. * melite convent life, and, rather un-dren if they knew it will be their expectedly, it not only made a fate to be 11-housed and under-Ladies' College, she made natural great impression wherever it was fed. shown, but it also proved a popular success. It is still being shown in an English version, named "Clois- tered" in England and the United Atates, and has done a great deal to make known the reality of Ca- tholle religious life.
· MISSIONARY RECEIVES SCIENTIFIC AWARD The Mendel Medal for scientifla been awarded for research has 1937 to
A Jesuit missionary in
de Chins, Rev. Pierre Teilhard Chardin.
history her spec.al subject and became au expert on ornithology. Such plain-speaking will arouse In this connection she was consternation among E certain frequent contributor to scientific do not journals. section in England who ilke being brought face to face with unpleasant facts, but a large, number of others admire the Bishop for his courage in speaking what he believes to be the truth.
hundred years ago by one who is now known as St. Joseph Cotte-
Shooting and Fishing Records The Duchess was also keenly interested in medicine, and was made a Dame of the British Em- pire for her work at her own hospital at Woburn.
Almost exactly 10 years ago she X-rayed a lad who had swallowed a halfpenny, found the coin lodged in his gullet, and rushed him to
Her exploits in the air are well known. A pioneer of woman's equality, she vigorously challenged the statement of her own pilet that men would always have a physical superiority as pilots.
Father de Chardin is interna-engo. Though it has always re-London for the operation.
tained the humble naine which it tionally known for his work in paleontology in Asia, where he has had at the beginning, it now devoted himself Thursday, 8 p.m. Bible Study Cir-
to the study houses more than 12,000 inmates, con- and contains hospitals, workshops, dle for men, conducted by Mr. of
and the early man temporaneous animal world for schools, almshouses, orphanages James Braga.
Less well known was her skill as The Services are
more than a quarter of a century, and many other refuges of the
a game shot and an angler, · An a No Collection on Sunday Even- He has also been associated with sunering and afflicted. It cares
Important expeditions, notably the for so many suffering that it 19 pheasant shot she had no equals Roy Chapman Andrews Expedi- belloved in actual fact to be the
among women. On one occasion tion Into Mongolia, the Chinese-largest hospital in the world. The before the war she hooked, played Swedish Aalatic. Expedition and institution receives no grant either and landed by herself 13 the Yale North India Expedition in from the State or the Municipal-
between salmon ity, and has no foundation funds luncheon At present, Fr. de Chardin is or any regular income. Incredible associated with the Cenozoic Re- as it may seem, it depends entire- search Laboratory, a branch
orly for Ita maintenance on offer-
of the Children of Mary at 6 pm.
Wednesday-April zist-Meeting of the C.Y.MS. at, 6 p.m...
Friday-April 23rd.-Feast of St. ing. George. M. Parton of England General Choir practice at 6 p.m..
On week days Mass at 6.30 and 7.30,
KOWLOON UNION
CHURCH
The Lesson Sermon will also in- clude the following passages from the Christian Science Textbook. "Science and Health with Key, to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "Jesus taught the way of Life by demonstration, that we may understand how this divine Prin ciple heals the sick, casts out error, and triumphs over death. Though demonstrating his control over sin and disease, the great teacher by no means relleved others from giv- ing the requisite proofs of their own piety. He worked for their days 10:30 am-12.30 p.m., everdngs Monday, 5-8 p.m. Table Tennis guidance, that they might demon-except Wednesdays and SaturdaysClub. Wednesday: 10 am. Women's strate this power as he did,and un-5-7 pm. All authorised Christian Guild: 6.30 pm, Fellowship of Re- derstand its divine Principle. Im-Science Literature is available at collection. Thursday: 8-11 pm plicit faith in the Teacher and all vices and to visit the Reading Table Tennis Club. Friday: 8.45
Room. the emotional love we can bestow
p.m. Choir Preticé,
Sunday Services: Sunday School p.m. A Reading Room is located at 10 am and 10.15; Morning Wor- Bank of East Asia Building. 10 ship 11 a.m.; Evening Worship 8.30 Des Voeux Road Central and is pim
The week's announcements open dally 10.30 am-2 pm. Satur~
CHRIST CHURCH,
ter.
KOWLOON TONG (Waterloo Road)
1935.
ings given by charitable persons, and it has never been in want. It run on the most up-to-date scale, ita hospital equipment espe-
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breakfast
Tay and
HEINEMANN PRIZE
**FOR 1937
HEV, CYRIL BROWN TO PREACH
The following are the Services the National Geographical Survey for to-morrow:
of China, which is largely support April 18th, 3rd Sunday after Eased by the Rockefeller Foundation,
LARGEST HOSPITAL" IN WORLD clally being the equal of anything. The Femina. Vie Heureuse and.... 7.15 a.m. Holy Communio. 9.00 am Choral Eucharist Prea-: The recent death in Tatly, of a In Europe. One of its remarkable Heinemann Prizes Committee have cher: Rev. Cyril Brown; se priest of eighty years of age call-features is an electric kitchen, a awarded the Heinemann Prize 6.30 p.m. Choral: Evensong. Prea- ed pubile attention to the Institu- hundred yards long. The entire for 1937 to the novel "Jeux de cher, Mr. J. C. Le Wong. tion of which he was the head, work for the poor inmates of the Vilains," by Elvire Pelissier, a Sunday School: Juniors at 9am. The Little House of Divine Pro "Little House" is done by religious, young Frenchwoman,
3 Duke Street. Seniors at thevidence of Turin. This remark- all of whom devote their lives to Vilains" is a novel of primitive
ab'e institution was founded a Church at 10.15 a.m.
this: task.
French peasant Hila-