MR. WELLS' GOD
The Story of a Spiritual Pilgrimage.
WEST RIVER PIRACY.
Two Chinese Kidnapped,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1917.
DISSATISFACTIONTM IN GERMANY.
Effect of Failure of U-Boat War to Bring Peace.
A oss of piracy on the West "It is when men most urgently River has been reported to the need fod that they become least Hongkong Police by the poxswain
Copenhagen, June 2-Private: patient with foolish presentations of a cargo bost, which trades and dogman."
between Tai Ping, Tang Kan advices from Germany tell of *God is my immortality; what, and Us Long. He states that growing dissatisfaction among the of me, is identified with God, is on May 14, whilst the boat was people with the political results of the submarine campaign and God, what is not is of no more on its way to Tai Ping, & sampan, the absence of any indications that permanent value than the snows in which were eight men, amit has brought the desired peace alonguide. Bifies were pointed of yester-gear."
"Complete sgnosticism in the st him and his men, and fire menneer to hand. During their long matter of God the Creator.... boarded the boat, stealing money gitation for the unrestricted use of entire faith in the matter of God and other property. They also submarines, the advocates of this the Bedeemer.”
kidnapped the master, aged 61, measure made definite promises of immediate results. "Two or These sentences are taken from and a foki, aged 39. The sampan
three months," was the phrase the
story of the spiritos soon made off, going in the
ased everywhere in street and pilgrimage of Mr. B. G. Wella.direction of Sei Lau.
newspaper arguments in regard That story makes a book whicb the house of Cassell pablishes "God the Invisible King." The title warns one that the God whom Mr. Wella bas found is not
Prize Day.
Mr. E Raloha is to present the prizes st the Ying Wa College on the God of our fathers, not the Saturday next at 7.30 p.m. The God of Bible history. His God is programme will ineludemusia sad the God in our boarte, and he uses | Chinees and English plays. the term the Veiled Boing for the ultimate mysteries of the universe. "God' in his beaver," wrote Browsing:
"all's right with the world."** God's in use," says Mr. Welle" all's right with man- kind."
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standing side by side with and touching someone that we love dearly and trust completely. It is as if this being bridged a Mr. Wella's touch of the pro- thousand misunderstandings, and phet, his quality of vision, is brought us into fellowship with a especially applicable to any writ- great multitude of other people.
Next, we are invited to consider ing on religion, and it lights thie book, You will probably violently the Likeness of God, na Mr. Wells disagree with it, from the intro- conceives Him. How does He ductory moment when Mr. Wells Boom, what are the things that throw over the whole doctrine of make and distinguish the Like the Trinity."which the wranglingness of God 7---- - and disputes of the worthies of "And firstly, God is courage Alexandris and Syria declared to... And next, God is a person, be God." But, probably also you .. The third thing to be told will read on, for there is reference of the true God is that God is in the book, as well as vision, and youth."
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Statements that France has been "bled white" and will be forced
Inspector Garrod fatsted that to retire from the war, have been made so often that they no longer the Polica were willing to with- attract the slightest oredence. The draw the case and defendant was entry of the United States and willing to pay compensation. Brazil into the war and the rup-
Mr. D'almads appeared ture of relations between Germany for
Police Reserviet, and the balk of the peatral world and Mr. J. H. Gardiner for the outside Europe, are now taken defence, the latter saying that the seriously and regarded with gloom. charge and counter-obarges were
Questions have been recently withdrawn. asked of the correspondent by This course bad the approval this war time, with its berCAVE- White hair, beard, bearing Germans here, not in official poei of the Hegistrate, and the case ments and burdene, is a time of wrinkles and other things of a tione, who are dissatisfied with was accordingly withdrawo. earnest quest for religions faith."time-worn immorts!"-Mr. Wells the result of the submarine cam- Mr. Wells bas bis faith, not in will not have these in God. "God, paigo, as to what would be the & Creator God, an Outward God, we hold, began and is always effect in the United States if the
into bat in an Inmost God, the God of beginning. He looks for ever submarine warfare the Human Heart. To the priest the future " and pareon rebaking anyone who "If a figure may represent him has left the Christian communion, it must be the figure of a beanti for declaring belief in God, he ful youth, already brave and wise bas hardly come to his strength,
by acnstipation ? Are you bilious, It is not that we who went out He shoold stand lightly on his bolster up the waning confidence liverieb, troubled with sick bead. at home and quiet the complaints aches, pimples, poor appetite. into the wilderness which all feet in the morning time, eager of neutrals. thought to be a desert, away from to go forward, sa though he had. It is a matter of knowledge to
costed tongue, unpleasant breath? their orseda and dogmas, have but newly arisen to a day that the correspondent that at leset The remely is turned back and are returning. was still but a promise; he ona member of the German Go- It is that we have gone on still should bear a sword, that clean;vernment refused to commit farther and are beyond that discriminating weapon, bis eyes himself to any definits time limit desolation. Never more shall should be a bright as sword, for bringing Great Britain into a the dainty little laxatives which we return to those who gather his lipe shoald fall apart with frame of mind to discuss pesce, gently seeist nature As good for under the Cross. By faith we es gernees for the great adventure
the correspondent's last children as adults. Of chemists, disbelieved and denied. By faith before him, and he should be in informal conversation with Dr. o poat free 60 cents the vial, from we said of that staffed scarecrow very fresh and golden harness, Alfred Zimmermans, head of the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 98ture of maker, and year made, of divinity; that incoherent sc- reflecting the rising sun. Death cumulation of antique theological should still hang like mists and nations, the Nicene deity, "There cloud banks and shadows in the in certainly no God." And by valleys of the wide landscape about him. There should be dew Where does this order of faithapon the threads of gozamer: carry, what in the fruit it brings and little leaves and blades of the the inquirer? Not a God, Crea- turf at his feet."
"If the United States will only THE NATIONAL LOAN OF tor and Raler of the Universo LE It is Mr. Wells' great advantage keep hands cff and let us alone, THE THIRD YEAR OF THE the Boriptures present him, for-as a preacher that he has a prose two or three months will be REPUBLIC OF CHINA (1914)
"At the back of all known style instinct with life and beauty. enough.
$16,000,000 AND SUPPLEMEN- TARY ISSUE of $8,000,000 things there is an impenetrable Somewhere he speaks of s cathe Then, seeing that the corres- curisin; the ultimate of existence dral as a Great, still place, pondent noted this Foreign Office THE NATIONAL LOAN OF is a Voiled Being, which seems to argent with, beauty" somewhere use of the stock phrase of the THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE know nothing of life or death or else he says, "The necessary ruthlessness advocates, he quickly good or ill. Of that Being, elements of religion can be written amended bis estimate." whether it is simple or complex; on a postoard"; and he describes "Say six months," he said and, or divine, we know nothing; to modern religion as "a process of then, seeing the correspondent's as is in no more than the limit of truth guided by the divinity of further look of inquiry, he added: understanding, the unknown | mer." It is a style which carries "Well, let us not är any defi- berand."
him on to elaborate his portrait of nite time." the Invisible King s in those | Dr. Zimmermann then went on the future service of these loans, farther passages:-
with the argument that England interest payments. are-and-wi'i "Our God is, we fool, like, and the Eatente would quickly be adequately secured by cash Promethens, & rebel. He is an be made amenable to the peace funds in my hands and at my Bome day in the endless filist. And the accepted figure of ides if the United States would sole disposal. future there may be a knowledge, Jesus, instinct with meek sub only refrain from breaking role- an understanding of relationship, mission, is not in the tone of our tions or declaring war in con- a power sad courage that will worship. It is not by suffering sequence of the proclamation of pieros into those black wrappings.¦ that God cooquern death, but by the unrestricted submarine cam- To that, it may be, our God, the fighting. Incidentally our Gad Captain of Mankind, will take diess million deaths, but the thing D","
that matters is not the deaths but He expresses the same thought the immortality."
- faith we have found God,"
Homan analysis probing to wards the Vailed Being reveals nothing of God, but the prophet in. Mr. Welle anggests that—
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in another way when he says
"Oar crasifix, if you must have
Foreign Office, a few hours before Saschuen Road Shanghai.
ewe of the raptare of relations with the United States. WAI received in Berlin, the Minister, who was eager to know what the United disten would do, declared impalsively:
paign.
German naval writers for some time have been preparing their
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COMPANY LIMITED. "It may be that minds will pre-a crucifix, would show God with destroyed by submarines. Many sently appear smong us of such a hand or a foot already worn away of them farnish the advance ex-
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lacy; & face without pain, pain of vessels to torpedo, or, as some will be payable on THUR-DAY Hasswhile, there is the other lost and forgotten is the surpses Bay, to the results of British 26th July on which date Divi God, the reachable God, the God |ing glory of the struggle and the methods, No mention of any end Warrants may be obtained of the Heart, the God within na, ind xible will to liva and finoresso in losses of, submistines on application at the Company's the God of hir. Wells, who tells prevail"
is made. bow Re comer:
Not peace but a sword is what *Toin onedinal experienos is an' the God of Mr. Wells hrings man- unionlating, immediate sense of kind. There we bear a high
Shanghai's Hot Wes' her. Gode is the attainment of an atreenous: note of faith, and abucluse vertainty that one is not verily hope marchen triumphant Newcomers to Shanghai often alone in onsself. It is as if one over destruction, in Mr. Welle's express earprise that there is no was touebed as every point by a quest for a God. At that we may Tarkish buh establishment bere, being akin sa ommell, sympathetic leave & deliverance so spacious, Now they know why, in the come bogood
wiser, steadfast, revolutionary and sincere that it ment of the N 0. Daily News on le compléter har just been let aponk for fasif, the extremely hot wasther being
islike J. in the Daily News.
mosd in Shangh
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