HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, "AUGUST 7, 1937.
PAGE FOR THE
"The Greeks Had A Word
For It'
■ (BY SCRUTATOR)
In what is called Christian civili- Macedonian chiefs, the zation we
can distinguish two leading traditions. The first is that of Graeco-Roman culture <generally called "Hellenism") and the second is the tradition of the Christian Church with its Hebraic background and presuppositions The philosophies, the actent fr command of nature which has placed the peoples of the west in their present position of power in the world. Indeed, everything that pertains to modern "western civí- Ilzation" has its roots in. and is but 'a continuation of the ancient culture of Greece and Rome. PYTHAGORAS AND HERACLIDES
THE CHURCHES
ST. JOHN'S
11
CATHEDRAL
August 8, 1937-1fth Sunday After
Trinity.
3 n.m. Holy Communion.
ST ANDREW'S CHURCH
(Church of England)
Rev. C. B. R. Sargent to Preach.
Launch Pionic.` ·
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LESSON SERMON
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST. SCIENTIST.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG
8am. Holy Communion in Peak Church, 10 a.m. Children's Ser- vice. 11-5.m." Mattina. Preacher: Rev. A. J. Bennitt. 6.30 p.m. Even- song: Preacher, Rev. L. L. Nasă,
Weekdays-Holy Communion is celebrated on:-Thursday sind Saturday at 7.30 am. Friday at 7.45 am. (in Cantonese). Prayers munion 8.15 am. The Holy Com- The Golden Text will be: "No", for the sick, Wednesday, 10,15 a.m.munlön Fellowship Breakfast willman hath seen God at any time... Until September the Tuesday and not be held this month. Matins Hereby know we that we dwell in Wednesday (Peak Church) Cele- and address 11 am. Preacher: bim, and he in us, because he hath brations of Holy Communion will The Rev. C. B. R. Sargent. Even given us of his Split (I John). be suspended except August 24, St.
song and address. 9 p.m. Preacher: | 4:12,13). Bartholomew.
„The Rev. C. B. R. Sargent, (Atall
The following are the services,
Subject; SPIRIT etc.. for the forthcoming week at The subject of the Lesson Ser- 'St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon man in all churches of Christ, Bunday, August 8th. Eleventh Scientist, to-morrow, August 8, will Sunday after Trinity. Holy Com-be: "Spirit."
house of Ptolemy In Egypt. the house of seleucus in Asia, and the house of Antigonoua in Macedonia. Because these were men of Greek culture and education and speech, the culture and thought which, before Alexander, had been confined to a series of small Greek city states. became the culture of vast regions, This culture never produced any individual greatness comparable to men like Socrates and Plato and Aristotle, it never produced such
Others notices.-The Kindergar- great literary works as it did be- tore Alexander, but as an intellec-ten Sunday School will pot meet tual civilizing influence in the during August, but children of all vice. August 9. 8.30 pm. Badmin- ton. Cathedral Hall. August 11. 5
ices on Sunday and for the next week the Mui Tsai Petition to the 'Secretary of State for the available for signature for all those over 14 years of age "who are against the
Tsal (child Mui
Probably, for instance, the Greek / World it was powerfully exterided: ages are welcome at Children's ser" (Colonies will be in the church and
scientist Pythagoras was the first to discover and maintain that the earth had a globular shape, and Pythagoras was born about the year 570 BC. But even Pytha- goras did not suspect that the Earth turned round under the stars. He imagined it as the cen- tre of the Universe. We have to walt two hundred years for the advent of another Greek before it was discovered that it was the Earth itself which turned round; Heraclides of Pontus, 388-315 B.C., was the forerunner of Galileo.
Such essential knowledge, which *"western civilization" generally claims for its own discovery within Christian times that knowledge is actually part of our heritage from ancient Greece.
HELLENISM
Hellenism Arst made its appear- ance in the world about seven centuries before Christ, but the period of its greatest creative act vity was during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. It was the type of culture which produced the small city states. They spoke the Greek language, but each was in- dependent of the other, politically, although they are recognised
themselves as belonging to the race of the Hellenes.
THE ROMANS Although the Romans spoke a
Grecian. Most
different language their culture was essentially educated Romans read and under- stood Greek books.. Indeed" many examples of Latin literature (in- cluding the plays of Terence and the philosophical
of writings Cicero were either translations or Imitations of Greek models, In
9.15 a.m.. Children's Service.
H
"The Enjoyment of God." August 15; "Always more ready to hear than we to Bray,"
August 22: "Loving God with the Mind."
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Among others, the following cita-
tións from the Bible will be read: "Now there are diversities of gifts, But the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations but the same. Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the
A course of sermons will be
Spirit is given to every man to pro- Preached by the Rev. G. H. Bate-slavery) system). Primary Sunday man, S.C.F. at Evensong as follows: School 10 a.m.
Monday, Fellowship of Youth 8ft withal. For by one Spirit are
we all baptized into p.m. Teachers' Preparation Class
orie body, 7 p.m. St. Andrew's Club Whist whether, we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and Drive S p.m.
have all been made to drink into. one Spirit." (I Cor. 12:4-7.13).
The Lesson Sermon will also in- clude the following passages from the Christian Science "Science and Health with Key to Textbook.
August 29: "Olving Glory to God their law and organisation, then practical Life"
P.10
Tuesday, Brownie Pack 3.30 p.m. Wednesday, Rover Scouts 8.45
Thursday, St. Andrew's Club Ping
8 p.m.
Friday, Full Choir Practice 6.30
Romans of two thousand years The Chaplain will be away till ago, were original, but in philoso- August 27. The Bishop will be in Hong Evening 8.30 pm. Boy Scouts phy and science and the intellec-charge of all services.
tual aspects of culture, they were The Chapel of the Resurrection: the pupils of the Greeks. Thus the spread of Latin culture was actually the spread, of Hellenism through a secondary medium.
PAX ROMANA
At the beginning of the Chris-
ENGLISH METHODIST
CHURCH
Hong Kong (English) Circuit
p.m.
Saturday. St. Andrew's Club Launch Bathing Picnic, open to all members and friends of the club and the church. leaves the Folice
the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "Man understands spiritual existence in proportion as his tren- sures of Truth, and Love are en- larged. Mortals must codward, their affections and aims gravitate
grow spiritual,--they must near the
tion em the Pax Romana, the sin Queen's Road East, Wanchal, Hone! Pier at 3.30 p.m. Charge to non-broader Interpretations of being,
Kong (Opposite Royal Naval Hospital)
Sunday Services. August 8, 1937-
Rev. D. B. Childe to preach. Morning Parade Service at 10.15 at the English Methodist Church. Preacher: Rev. D. B: Childe.
Evening Service at 7.15 at the English Methodist Church. Preach- er: Rev. D. B. Childe.
Notices For the Week
The Social Hour, usually held at the "S. & S. Home" on Sunday Evening. will be suspended for the month of August.
gle government control, exte_ded over the known world. Travelling and intercourse between nations of different countries was easier than t had ever been before. Great roads were maintained: piracy by sea and land was prosecuted by Roman authorities. Never until modern times was there so much free travelling to and fro through- out the world. Horace for Instance. There will be a special meeting This was completely new type writes of one merchant who habi- or the General Committee of the of culture. Nothing like it had tually travelled three or four times". & S. Home" on Wednesday. ever existed, before. Its distinc- a year to the Atlantic shores. 11th inst at 5.30 pm tive intellectual quality
Can be The monsoon wind had been dis- described as rationalism. In pre-covered and sailors, using it, car- vious cultural groups or societies, red Greek merchants through the such as the despotic monarchies Red Sea to the ports of India, and of Egypt and Mesopotamia, men's philosophers who went searching conduct had been regulated by to acquire geographical knowledge. custom. and their thoughts about Then as now, the rich travelled *to see the sighta”, and troupes of professional actors, gladiators, pro- fessional rhetoricians wandered in' search of wealth and fame. And then, using the same means. Christian preachers, before the end of the first century AD. were tra- velling everywhere to apread the Good News of the Kingdom of God as they had learned it from Jesus of Nazareth and his friends.
(Next week; "Religion in the old ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH
the world were the hereditary lore of their forefathers. Until very recent times this was true of all the world outside the sphere of ***western civilization". But the
ancient Greeks were the first to challenge custom and tradition by reference to rational standards.
"A WORD FOR IT " The Greek language alone, car- red in itself a mode of rational thinking. It expressèd logical thought, in a way which no other language had ever succeeded in doing. What was written in the -Greek language before the end of
...
world".)
the fourth century before Christ DISTRICT-WIDE
remains among the greatest works of all human terature.
EVANGELISTIC
MISSION
STARTS SUNDAY
The Badminton Club. meets on Mondays and Thursdays at 7.30 p.m. Further particulars from. Mr. W. Sprague or from the Secretary, "S&S Home."
The Camera Club will meet on Thursday night, as usual, from 8.30 onwards. A Dark-room is pro- vided for developing, printing, and enlarging, etc.. Further particulars may be obtained from the Hon. Secretary of the club, Mr.. E. W. L. Fielding.
guarantors 31.
UNION ® CHURCH
NOTICES
Morning Service, 10.30 a.m. Even- ing Service 6 p.m.
Preacher at both services, Rev. K
Mackenzie Dow.
There will be a Meeting of the Management Committee at the close of the Morning Service.
The Social Hour will be held in the Church Hall at the close of the Evening Service,
The B.A.C.A. meets in the Church
Hall on Tuesday evening at 7.30
p.m.
The Helena May Christian Fel- lowship does not meet during the month of August.
EMMANUEL MISSION
CHURCH
and gain some proper sense of the Inanite, in order that sin and mortality may be put off. This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man's absorption into Delty and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged in- thought and action, a more expan- dividuality, a wider sphere of alve, love, a higher and more per- manent peace. When we realize that Life Spirit, never in or of matter, this understanding will ex- ing all in God, good, and needing pand into self-completeness, find-
no other consciousness. (Pages 269, 264).
ANNOUNCEMENT
First Church of Christ Scientist.. Hong Kong a Branch of The Mo- ther Church, The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Mass. MacDonnell Road close to Tram Station. Sunday Service 11.15.a.m Testimony Meeting, Wednesday 6 p.m. A Reading Room is located at Bank of East Asia Building. 10 The following are the Services Des Voeux Road Central and Is for the week at Emmanuel Mission open daily 10.30 a.m.-2 p.m. Satur- Church. 218 Nathan Road, Kow-days 10.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m., evenings except Wednesdays and Saturdays Saturday, 8.30 pm. Fellowship 3-7 p.m. All authorised Christian Meeting followed by the Lord's Science Literature is available at Supper.
the Reading Room. The public $. GARDEN ROAD
Sunday, 11.00 a.m. Divine Bers invited to attend the services 5th August: 12th Bunday after vice. Preacher Rev. T. Worship. and to visit the Reading Room. Pentecoat.
Bubject. "Three Phases of God's, First Mase and General Com-Grace": Text, "For the grace of munion at 8.am.
Second Mass at 10 a.m., followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
This service will be broadcast. To-morrow, August 8. at 8.30 sermon on "Sanctifying Grace" p.m. the District-Wide Interdeno- minational Evangelistic
by the V. Rev. Father T. Cooney Mission 8. J.
וי
will begin in the St. Andrew's Church Hall. 138 Nathan Road, the Assumption of Our Lady. 14th August, Saturday; Vigil of Kowlooh,
All that has been done since, in poetry, philosophy, science, politi- cal oratory, and history, by Euro- pean peoples, and much that has been done and attempted by Mo- hammedan peoples, has had its origin these Greek beginnings of rational thinking and writing. Greek writings contain within
The speaker will be Mr. Cord body of thought about the Lewis, a native of Alabama, USA. them world, and life, and human rela- Mr. Lewis is the International tionships, about the significant President of the "Young People's events of history and the princi- Fellowship Clubs", with headquar- ples of political action, which everyters at the Bob Jones College, succeeding generation of thinking Cleveland. Tennessee. This is the people in the Western world have fastest growing Christian Youth bulit upon.
Movement in the world.
Mr. Lewis has visited 48 of the
Abstinence.-
Con-
On week-days Holy Mass at 8 am before and after Mass. On Satur
Confessions are heard every day
days, the special time for fessions is from 4.30 p.m, to 8 pm. CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL
The following are the forthcom-
loon:-
门
God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.
Looking for that blessed, hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ". (Titus 2; 11-13)..
ROSARY CHURCH
The following "are the forth. coming Services, etc. at the Rosary Church: 20 Chatham Road-Kow Joon
Sunday, 3.00 pm Sunday School. Sunday, August &-12th Sunday, Young Women's Bible Class. Young after Pentecost. Low Mass at 6:30 Bunday, 8.30 p.m. Divine Service lowed by the Benediction of the Men's Bible Class.
7.30 and 8.30. Choral Mass, fol.
preceded by Bong Service at 8.00 Blessed Sacrament, at 9.30. At p.m. Preacher "Mr. Clifford Lewis. 2.30 p.m. Benediction of the Bless- Devil" Subject, "How to Defeat theed Sacrament. At the St. Paul's Chapel (Portland Street) Mass at Wednesday, 2. 30 p.m. Ladies 5.45. Bewing Circle at 1, King's Terrace.
Wednesday, 6.00 p.m. Sunday
School Teachers Preparation.
Thursday, 10.30 a.m. Ladies Bible Study Circle at No. 2168 Nathan ing services at the Catholic Cathe-Road. This is open to all Ladies In the Colony, who are interested August 8th-12th Bunday After in the Bible.
The Services are open to all No Collection on Sunday Even-
ing.
48 States in America and every dral, Caine Road. province in Canada except one.
THALES OF MILETUB When Thales of Miletus, the first recorded Greek philosopher, made the claim in the sixth century BC. He is now on a preaching tour Pentecost.--Morning Services: ist that the world was composed of around the world and has recently Mass at 6. 2nd Mass at 8 with water in various stages of conden visited Japan, Korea, and several sermon in Chinese. 3rd Mass at sation, he propounded "the first sections of China.
10.30 with sermon in English *historic scientific hypothesis." The music will be directed by Evening services at 2.30 Religious "Modern Science" la only the out-Rev. R. M. Clemmer, a missionary Instruction for Young People; at come and development of the from Kwangal Province. The sin 3.30, Catechetical Instruction to thought movement which Thales gers of all the Churches and Mis-Adults; at 4, Exposition of the launched In mathematics and stons are requested to join the Blessed Sacrament. Recitation of philosophy the Greeks travelled Chorus Choir, which will render further than they did in the na- special music from time to time. tural sciencea, because they lacked
The subject for Sunday night the instruments necessary for ac- will be How to defeat the Devil” curate measurement, 20
Monday night's subject will be "what the Bible teaches about. Heil". Other subjects will be an- nounced later
This
THE SPREAD OF GREZE
*** CULTURE ~
the Holy Rosary and Benediction.
August 10, St. Lawrence, Martyr. August 11. St. Philomens, Vir. kin and Martyr Solemn High Mass at 7.20 am.
August 14: Bt. Eusebius-Vigil of the Assumption of Our Lady,, Ab- stinence day.
On week-days. Mass at, 6 and 7.30.
Friday, August 13-Feast of Our Lady of sinners and Feast of 8t John Berchmans, C., Patron of the Sanctuary Boys' Society, At 7.30 Special Mass and General Com munion for the Sanctuary Boye At 6 pm. General Choir Practice.
Saturday, August 14-Vigil of the Abstinence. Assumption of Our Lady-Day of
On-Week-days Mass at 6.30 and
All week-night meetings of Em-7.30 manuel Mission Church, for the forthcoming week, are cancelled in order that members and friends CHRIST CHURCH. may co-operate in the campaign conducted by Mr. Cifford, Lewis of Americs, to be held at St. Andrew's Church Hall each evening at 3.30 D.m
KOWLOON UNION
CHURCHE
Sunday Services
KOWLOON TONG
(Waterloo Rond)
Matlins: “ Roy,"Cyril Brown to
Preach ^ The following are the Services and Notices..for the forthcoming week
August 8-11th Sunday After Trinity 7.15 am, Holy Com
Special services for the Chinese will be conducted during the week The messages will be interpreted Confessions Morning and Ever Preacher on Sunday: Mr. FT. munion am. Mattire and Ber- the by local pastors
The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that if the Greeks and the Macedonians were to unite they would conquer world.
happened kunder. leadership of the Macedonian king. Alexander After the conquests of Alexander the world he had con quered was divided between three
The meetings are announced for only one week and everyone is urged to attend each service be- ginning with the very drst one.
Ing.
Pastors and other Christian work- ers are invited to bring delegations to the services,··
Martin
Morning Worship, 11 am. A Evening Worship: 6:30 p.m. The Week's Announcements:-/ Saturday: Launch Picnic: Police Pier, 3 pm.
mon Preacher: Rev. Cyril Brown. There is no Bunday School dur- ing August
Saturday, August 14—Bathing Picnic, launch leaves Police Pier, Kowloon, at 3.15 pm
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