nothing more to say-lic saw a launch, which he called the Kia La, pass the Sul Kau barrier; he did not prove that this was the General Grani, and he knew nothing about Changsha or Te Hai, the places the latter was charged with visiting! And stranger still, this was all the evidence, Mr. White did attempt to produce a certain poster stating that the General Grant would call at Soi Kau, Changsha, and Te Hai; but where the poster came from, how it was obtained, who printed it, who ordered to be printed, not a word was said. It was not shown that Mr. R. Fr.. Smith was connected with it in any way, or that he knew of its existence. He denied himself that he did, and Mr. Alabaster very properly ruled that it was not evidence, The amazing circumstance is that Mr. White should have thought it right or fair to produce this piece of paper, and try to make it evidence, It is curious, by the way, to note that the only witness on being asked by Mr. Alabaster whether he had seen the Kia La since replied that he had not, but when Mr. White asked him a moment later he answered that he had. Obviously in this state of the case Mr. Fraser-Smith had nothing to reply to, and on the general merits of the case he held his peace.
After deliberations extending over an hour and a-half, the Hoppo's deputy thought the evidence of which, as has been seen, there was not a scrap-reliable, and that the launch should be confiscated; hut in a few crisp lines Mr. Alabaster put the result of the whole inquiry, as we have tried to show, in the only sensible and reasonable way
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and curse the doctrine of the movement of the He was then committed to prison, earth, treated with remorseless severity during the remaining ten years of his life; and was denied burial in consecrated ground." between Religion and Science," p. 1710)
By this it will be seen how fully con- viaced the adherents of the Bible were of the theory of the earth's immobility and flatness as propounded in the Scriptures. Since science has demonstrated such a theory to be fundamentally wrong it must needs follow that the Book which propounds it cannot be essentially right.
and remained unshaken for centuries, till the dis- of Galileo, Copernicus, Magellan, Newion and the modern scientists stuck the belief in its foundations. Origen, who flourished In 254 A. D. was of opinion that the sun, moon and stars were living creatures, endowed with reason and free will, and occasionally inclined | to sin. (De Princip., 1.7, 83). Lactantius, 335 A.D-expounded the following theory on the form of the sarth: About the antipodes also one can neither, hear nor speak without laughter. It is asserted as something serious that we should believe that there are men who have their feet opposite to ours. The ravings of Anaxagoras are more tolerable, who said ("Epitome of the that snow was black."
"How is it with those Divine Institutes," 39). who imagine that there are antipodes opposite to our footsteps? Do they say anything to the purpose? Or is there any one so senseless as to believe that there are men whose footsteps are higher than their head? or that the things which with us are in a recumbent position, with them hang in an inverted direction ? that crops and trees grow downwards? that the rains and snow and hail fall upwards to the carth 7 And does any one wonder that the hanging gardens (of Semiramis' at seven Babylon] are mentioned among the wonders of the world, when philosophers make hanging fields, and seas, and cities, and moun tains... What steps of argument led them to the idea of the antipodes? They saw the courses of the stars travelling towards the west; they saw that the sun and the moon always set If there had been any evidence that the General Gront.had towards the same quarters, and rise from the traded at other than Trexly Paris I should have astenked to her
But since they did not perceive what confiscation, but as there is not a particle of evidence that the
contrivance regulated their courses, nor how they General Grant went to Changsha or Te Hai, those being the plares she was seized for visiting, and it is not even alleged that returned from the west to the east, they she traded clandestinely er traded at all, either there or anywhere thought that the world is round like a ball, and eise, proof of which would be necessary in tertes of the Tray they fancied that the stars and sun, when Justify confiscation, I regret that I must dissent form the Deputy they have se', by the very rapidity of the motion The launch was released on a bond by its owner, of the world are bome back to the east. It and the whole malter now goes to Peking. A followed therefore, from this rotundity of the more complete travesty of judicial procedure or heavens, that the earth was inclused in the midst of ordinary equity it would be impossible to find of its curved surface. But if this were so, the in any country, and it will be well that the pro-earth also itself must be a globe.... But if the
ANTIQUITY OF MAN.From the fossil remains ceedings of similar inquiries in China be watched earth also were sound, it must necessarily happen with the closest care and vigilance. We should that it should pre ent the same appearance to of plants and animais found imbedded in not conclude without expressing our sense of the all parts of the heaven. And if this were so, various layers of the earth's crust it is easy to calmness, ability, and dignity with which the then the last consequence aisu, followed, that demonstrate not only the remote antiquity of the 'British Consul performed his part, and prevented there would be no part of the earth unin-living beings whom they represent, but an order a gross injustice being done to a British subject; habited by men and the other animals. Thus but, indeed, these are qualities which we have the rotundity of the earth led to the in- long been taught to expect from Mr. Alabaster. vention of those suspended antipodes. But if you inquire from those who defend these Since the above was written another mail has
marvellous fictions, why all things do not fall arrived with the report of a second inquiry, also into that lower part of the heaven, they reply. at Canton, before the same tribunal on Dec. 1, that such is the nature of things, that heavy into the use of the Stephen Thompson, another bodies are borne to the middle, but that the launch seized by the Customs. Here again Mr. bodies which are light, 3 mist, smoke and Alabaster totally dissented from the conclusion fire are borne away from the middle. I am of the Hoppo's Deputy. We are not in the at a loss what to say respecting those who, when habit in these columns to use the apostolic they have once erred, consistently persevere in phrase of speaking evil of the dignitaries; this folly, and defend one foolish thing by an much allowance should always be made for other. But I sometimes imagine that they officials performing difficult and onerous duties; either discuss philosophy for the sake of a jest, but we regret very much to say that on this or purposely and knowingly undertake to defend -occasion Mr. White undid bis previous record falsehoods, as if to exercise or display their in injustice, and, we grieve to add, insolence. talents on false subjects. But I should be able To begin with, be warned Mr. Webber, a to prove by many arguments that it is impossible solicitor of Hongkong, that he was in Court for the heaven to be lower than the earth, were as a spectator, and must not give assistance or it not that this book must now be concluded, and that some things still remain which are more necesary for the present work." (Divine In- This is entirely contradicted by the testimony stitutes, ¡II. 24). Si., Augustine has the following of Geology, Paleontology, Anthropology, Phylo- concerning the theory that the world is logy, Archeology, and History. According to round :—"But as to the fable that there are Baldwin, Egypt existed as a civilised country antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite not less than 5,000 years B.C., or 1,000 years side of the earth, where it sun rises when before the creation of man according to Scripture. sets on us, men who walk with their feet opposite The first dynasty of Egyptian Kings, according to ours, that is on no ground credible. And, indeed, |'Lenormant, was at 5,004 years B.C. The same it is not affirmed that this has been learned by author in "Manual of the Ancient History of the historical knowledge, but by scientific conjecture, East" says that the same system of writing existed on the ground that the earth is suspended within | in Egypt then as that which was in use thou- the concavity of the sky, and that it has as much sands of years afterwards, and that there are room on the one side of it as on the other. Hence | no indications of any interruption produced they say that the part which is beneath must also be inhabited." But they do not remark that although it be supposed or scientifically demons trated that the world is of a round and spherical form, yet it does not follow that the other side of the earth is bare of water; nor even, though it be bare, does it immediately follow that it is peopled. For Scripture, which proves the truth of its historical statements by the accomplish ment of its prophecies, gives no false information; and it is too absurd to say, that some men might have taken ship and traversed the whole wide ocean, and crossed from ibis side of the world to the other, and that thus even the inhabitants of that distant region are descended from that one first man, [Adam].” (“ De Civitate Dei," XVI. 9).
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take any part in the case. Why is this pro- fessional gentleman not to tell an inexperienced | defendant what is evidence and what is not; to give him bints and aid as he goes along defending himself against an experienced Customs official? We regret that Mr. Webber did not boldly have the matter out there and then, for, in our opinion, where a British subject can appear in defence of his property there he has a right to appear by a representative. The defendant being prosecuted by one Customs officer, and being practically teled by another, objects to the two exchanging confidences the judge and the prosecutor-and la brusquely told his objection is trivial. It is not trivial, for it goes to the root of the whole investiga- tion, to its fairness, its equity, its bona Aides. Again, the Consol thought it advisable to examine a witness minutely about rate of speed, when Mr. White Interrupted, wanting to know the object of the question, as If the Consul were not as good a judge of what was relevant as Mr. Whites and later on the latter had the effrostery to say, in reference to Mr. Alabaster's questions to the same witness i "I don't see the object of the questions, and think it a waste of time asking them." Possibly it was with a view to save time that Mr. White tried to answer one question for a witness, when he was effectively pulled up by Mr. Alabaster vigorously objecting to the witness being prompted.
THEISM Y. REVELATION.
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IV.
THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE INTRINSICALLY CONSIDERED.
SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF BIBLICAL COSMOGONY,
(Continued)
POSITION OF THE EARTH IN THE UNIVERSE. -The essential assumption of Biblical Cosmo gony is that the Earth is the centre of the Universe. The sun, moon and stars are reported to have been created long after the creation of our present abode. The Astronomical notions that prevailed in Babylon, in Egypt and through out the known world anterior to the Bible, and at the epoch when the Pentateuch was written execily coincided with the Mosaic view of the Universe, Greek and Roman poets and writers
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of succession or contemporaneousness quite diff rent from that given in the Scriptural, record. It is by no means a difficult task to find out from the data of the same record the date of nian's a pearance on earth. From the 5th and G'h chapters of Genesis we can a șertain the lime that elapsed between the creation of Adam, (on THE HONGKONG CHORAL SOCIETY March, 1889, for the purpose of confirming the the 6th day) and the Deluge Adam is reported to be 139 years old when Seth was buɛnj Seth was tog when Enos was born; Enos was go at Cainan's birth; Cainan 70 at Mahalaleci's ; Mahalateel új at Jared's ; Jared 162 at Eübch's; Enoch 65 at Methuselah's; Methuselah 187 al Lamech's; Lamech 182 at Noah's; and Noah was 6c0 years old when the Deluge took place. These years summed up give 1,656 as the num ber of years from the creation of Adam to the Deluge. From other dates furnished by the | Bible we gather that the Deluge took place about 4.0 years ago. Consequently, according to the Bible, man has existed on earth for only about 6,000 years.
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by deluge, which, according to the writer in Exodus, covered the tops of all moutains, and destroyed all life on earth. Sir Charles Lyell, ("Antiquity of Man," p. 204) says that the primitive men of France whose remains have been found in the valley of the Somue, with those of extinct elephants, lions, bears, hyenas, etc. lived more than one hundred thousand years ago, Ansted (“Earth's History," p. 185) says: It would appear that the lowest humanremains must be of a date carrying us back A quarter of a million of years," Page ("Man, Where, Whence, and Whither," p. 183) says: "There is the ampleat evidence ofman having been an inhabitant of Western Europe for ages pre ceding the popularly received chronology." Broca (Anthropological Review," 1865, p. 47) The main error underlying the geocentric concludes that "Man has left traces of his theory is the supposition that the earth is larger existence, marks of his industry, and remains of than the sun and the stars. The writer of the his body, in geological strats, the antiquity of Pentateuch, like the Hebrews, Babylonians and which is beyond computation." To this may be other peoples of that epoch had no concep- added the following pertinent remarks by the tion of the magnitude of the heavenly bodies. author of "Man in Genesis and Geology," p Colenso gives the following calculations : Taking for:-"The unchanged appearance of leading the Sun's diameter as 880,000 miles, and the types of mankind, as far back as we can trace Earth's as 8,000, it will follow that the bulk of these in history, requires a considerable extension Sun: bulk of Earth: : 110: (cub.) 1:1,131,000: 3. of time to account for their origin, provided we We can form some conception of this enormous adhere to the physiological unity of the race, bulk, by supposing the Sun placed so that its | Upon Egyptian monuments that date back - centreshall be coincident with the Earth's centre: | from one thousand four hundred to two’thousand then (since its radius is 440,000 miles) its huge years before Christ, the negro is depicted with body would stretch out in all directions nearly colour and features as marked and characteristic. as far beyond the Moon, as the Moon itself is as he exhibits at this day. When did this type distant from the Eatib, (240,000 miles). We originate, which has remained unchanged for can thus gain some idea of the enormous more than three thousand years? If the type magnitude of the 'greater Light,' the lord of the itself was a gradual product of time, how much Solar System, One travelling at railway-time, before the date when it begins to appear p:ed, day and night, 331 miles an hour, or upon Egyptian monuments, was necessary to to miles in 3 hours, would reach the Moon in establish its marked and unvarying feattires! 300 days) and at the same rate, he would reach According to a tablet of Sethos J., the Egyptians the Sun in 330 years. But, if he could reach divided mankind into four principal races-the the Sun in one single day, it would take 550 Red (Egyptian), the Yellow (Ammonites), the Binck (Negroes), and the White (Lybians). years of such travelling to reach the nearest
plane' which the earth was considered to be, for all that enormous interval, on every side of | pair.—and again, if the whole peopled earth was upon the perpetual darkness which reigned at our Sun and its little family, there is, as we destroyed by the flood, with the solitary excep the bottom or nether side of the immense dish know, an awful vold, as far as regards any tion of the family of Nosh, how much time was on which men and animals lived and moved possibility of the existence of animal life! And required to originate peculiarities of race, which upon the Sun which rose in the East and set in the same tremendous vacancy, as far as the can be traced back without variation. through the West, hiding itself in the cleft of some possibility of animal existence la concerned, most the whole known course of history? To this high mountain; upon the Styx, or the principal probably extends between one Star and another, may be added the evident, traces of the fossil river of "the: lower world, and upon a thou, and on all sides around each separate Star,—day, man and of his implements of chase and war. sand and one other fables of a like description around each separate mote of nebulary star-dust. fare found in the caves of the Glacial period, The Bible, which we hold to have been inspired,The investigations which led to the discovery which dates back a quarter of a million of years In deeply impregnated with the false notions of the globular form of the earib and its double according to the most renowned Geologists. then prevalent fact sufficient in itself to con- motion of rotation on its axis, and revolution Traces of the Tertiary mɩn have also been vince the impartial reader that the cosmogenic round the sun, were of various kinds and it is found in localities far distant from the record of Genesis and of the other Books is exelu- unnecessary to detall them here. During the centre of man's first appearance on earth, sively the work of the human mind. The earth is eclipses of the moon the shadow of the exutis Is Geology-Nature's own Revelation is clearly clearly stated in the Bible to be a stationary body, represented in a' circular form; a body which in | irreconcilable with the short record of man's Joshua stops the Sun from careering westwards all positions casts a circular shadow must evie existence on earth as given by the Bible. Besides, In order to allow him suficient light to fintas his dently be a sphere Pythagoras taught that the the Bible man was to all appearances created in battle="Then spake Joshum to the Lord in the sun was the centre of our system, and that around a state of perfection, and he is said to have sub- day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites it,the planets revolved in circular orbits. Cicero sequently undergone a process of degenerdby, before the children of Israel, and he said in the reported Nicetas' suggestion that: if it were whilst Paleontology and History record quite a sight of Tersel, Bun, stand thou still upon admitted that the earth revolves on its axis, the contrary process, viz. the extraordinarily low Gibeon; and thou, Moon, In the valley of dificulty presented by the inconceivable velocity stage of civilisation of the primitive men, and Ajalon. And the sun Blood still, and the of the heavens would be avoided. Ptolemy their gradual sscension up the scale of progress moon stayed, until the people had avenged objected to the Pytagorean system on the ground through time and space, money an ~themselves upon their enemies. Is not this that if the earth were in mution, it would leave
(To be continued.) wiltten in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood the air and other light bodies behind it. He, still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to therefore returned to the geocentric theory, go down about a whole day a Uosh. x. 12, 13), which continued to be upheld by the Christian the sufferers from Consumption, Scrofula and There can be found no clear exposition of the Church till the voyages of Columbus, De Gafna, General-Debility will try Scott's Emulsion of iblical geocentric theory than this pattage; and above all, Ferdinand Magellan or Maga. Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphiter, they and yet modem aclenge has clearly proved what likes the first circumnavigator of the globe will find immediate relief and a permanent ould have been the consequences If the earth entirely disproved such a theory and demory benefit. The Medical Profession in the various stopped one second from revolving on its axis strated to the evidence the spherical share of countries of the world universally declare it a in its orbit round the Bun
the cartil," Newton, Copernicus, and Gallien remedy of the greatest value, and as it is very VonThe geocentric theory of the Universe, of the demonstrated; the rotation", and fevolution of palatable it can be readily taken by the most latness of the earth, and of its immobility, such | our globe. The persecutions, endured by Gálileo" | sensitive stomach, and will never, fall to give bi li was inculcated by 'the Bible has been con- ¦ for divulging his discoveries, are well known. relief and comfort to the sufferer. Any Chemist idered to be so arident and irrefutable that By the low and ignorant ecclesiastic, says | can supply 1-A S. Waton & Co. (Limbles “uped into the ballef of the Christian Church . Draper, they were denounced as deceptions or I agents in Hongkong and Chiẩn,-
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Will be sold at Home Prices;
Exchange 3/- per Dollar, Kayless Field Watch English Half Hunter.... Horizontal
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A FEW CASES
2.12
12.12 4.0
Glen Dronach Blend Whiskey (Pure Highland
6 years in bottle, $7.50 per case of a dozen,
for cash.
'A small parcel of STUART'S
Vins de Pasta' Sherry
per case of 1 dozen, $7.00, for cash.
and excellent building sites already levelled A 6TH DIVIDEND of 63% on all claims 500 New Standard works and Novels published
against the Hongkong Branch of the for Building, Shops, Dwellings or Mang ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, which have factories.
been approved by the Court of Chancery will be Fullest particulars, including Plans and paid at the Offices of the NEW ORIENTAL BANK application tg
at 3/35 cents each, Three for a Dollar. THE HALL & HOLTZ CO-OPERATIVE
Hongkong, 18th February, 1889.
Expatiated upon the description of the "indefinite! Fixed Star. And then, it must be remembered, If all mankind were descended from a single Conditions of Sale, may be obtained, op 1 CORPORATION, LIMITED, on and after MONDAY, THE PUNJOM AND SUNGHEI DUA
HENRY J. HOLMES, Solicitor,
54. Queen's Road; ZOW, ST. JOHN H. HANCOCK, DENISA CE, FRLBA
3 Beaconsfield Arcade.
or to the Auctioneer, Duddell Street. Hongkong, 20th February, 1889.
Masonic,
EOTHEN MARK
OF HONGKONG, No. 264-
REGULAR MEETING of the abar
the r7th March next,
SAMANTANĀMINING COMPANY,
LIMITED,
Creditors are requested to apply to the Bank for their Dividends and to produce the letter they hold from the Official Liquidator admitting their claims in order that the payment of the 6th NORDINARY GENERAL MEETING Dividend may be endorsed thereon,."
PAYMENT OF FINAL DIVIDEND IN JADVANCE UNDER DISCOUNT. nielskyamankan
HE Oficial. Liquidator, by arrangement with the Assets Realisation Co., is prepared to pay in advance to Creditors willing to receive anch payment, IN FULL DISCHARGE OF THEIR CLAIMS the Dividend of 5% payable in the YCAF 1890, UNDER A DISCOUNT OF FIVE
TWELFTHS PER CENT,
Creditors who are willing to accept payment of the Final Dividend, less discount as above are requested to communicate with the Under signed BEFORE, THE END OF THE CURRENT ALODGE will be held in FREEMASONE. JAN UTTER HALL, Zelland Street, on WEDNESDAY, the
E. WRUTTER, 27th Instant, al §. 30. for 9 O'CLOCK precisely any damag Agent for the Official Liquidator
Hongkong, aist February, 1889.40
Oriental Bank Corporation, in Liq 2, Queen's Road, zsilna lidtHongkong, 6th February, 1880
122/1ONGKONG LOTEL/COMPANY;;
Dotices of firms. »
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING singhur flest
MCHI MA
1st January, 1 BBG-
Br. Order of th
LIMITED, NOTICE
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[ERS are ested to SETTLE AI UTSTANDING ACCOUNTS on or before the
the Board of Direct
has been
the Bank Hen
¡Cider
ATAJACKSON
LYALA
mgkong, 15th February, 1889.
gkong, Tat December, 1888,
OTICE hereby given that, an EXTRA-
of the PUNJOM AND SUNGHEL DUA SAMANTAM · MINING COmpany, Limited, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company No. 9. Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 25th day of February, 1889, at 4 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, when the subjoined resolution. will be proposed:
Should the resolution ba passed by the required. majority it will be submitted for confirmation us special resolution to a Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
RESOLUTION:
That the Capital of the Company be incesssed to the sum of $600,000 legally current in the Colony of Hongkong by the creation of to any direction to the contrary, that may 20,000 New Shares of 310 each. Subject be given by the Meeting sanctioning the Increase of Capital, all New Shares shall be offered to the Members in proportion to the exlating Shares held by them, and such offer ball be made by notice specifying the bumber of Shares to which the Member fr entitled and limiting a time within which. the offer if not accepted will be deemed to be declined, and after the expiration of sich tims or on the receipt of an inifnation from the Member to whom notice in such given that he declines to accept the Shares offered 2Bachy Shares sisļi: be, dealt with by the
Directors in their discretion.” Dried the 74th day of Föbruke" 46
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