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ANNUAL DINNER
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MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1925.
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CHINA SUGARS.
and ignorance alone rønder suscepti-|ableness in our efforts to calist new foolish and ultimately futilo, have
te to much doctrine.
members and convert passive into tried to ploron, the veil of superati- netivo freathought. Further devo- tion, orror, and falso beliefs that There are Chinese wokenw that onents are proposed for this year, has hindered progress. The roault the doctrine of the missionaries in and an announcement will be made is that many boliefs exceedingly not representative of the real belief
about this matter later in the powerful, and in the eyes of many The report for presentation to of the nation, for euch doctrine is not that on which the foreigners in cessful issue will require all
evening. To carry thess to a suo-junassailable and final, bave long | the shareholders at the forty- our ago been confined to the limbo of seventh annual general meeting, China base their conduct. Some of】 tien informed Chinees are indiforts, and it is to be hoped that past superstition. Who to-day be of the China Sugar Refining Co., all members will cooperate in the lieven in the Gods of the Pharaohs Ltd, to be held at the offices of forent anal somo hesitate to inter
[plan which, I hope, will result in aor of Nebuchadnezzar, in Jupiter the general agents. At 11 am. fere, fram variona motives.
Rrent necess of strength to the Rationalist movement in Hongkong.
Propaganda Among Chinese In Hongkong and the Treaty (Applause) Ports of China are thousands of Chiesa familiar with the habits of foreigners, who are capable of read-
The Guests.
After a few introductory remarks.
and his relatives? Yot in enlighten
Grecco Socrate was put to death for questioning their reality.
on Tuesday, March 31, states:
it to the shareholders their re- The General Agents beg to sab-
port on the Company's business for the year onded 31st December, 1924.
The accond anual dinner of Hong kong rationalists was held at the Hongkong Hotel on Saturday night and a larger company than Inst year sat down to an excellent ment The chair was 'occupied by Dr. W. | W. Pearse, president of the Associa
What Rationalists Delieve. tion in Hongkong, and he was sup
The question often asked is: "In ported by other prominent memberni
what do Rationalsts beliovo!" The The balance nt debit of Profit Dr. W. W. Pearse, inpring Rationalist literature and will Mr. Kay, in proposing the toast of answer is: "In human reason nud and Loss Account, after deducting the toast of the Association, saiding to consider Rationalist propa-"Our Guests," said: Although inau verifiable inct." Every one feels the sum of $40,769,76 brought for- in part:
ganda without prejudica Every has been called a thinking animal complimented when he or she is ward from last year, amounts to $1.732.165.28. To meet this sum After our fra dinner, held last Chinese who can be persuaded to there is little doubt that the average told that his or her outlook is a
$1,700,000.00 has been transferred apring, we were assailed with criti-join our Association', will probably brain is naturally lazy and tends to rational one, that his or her methods from Sugar Fluctuation Account, rism and some invective. This was become in turn a teacher of Ration- take the line of least rasistance. The fin business aro rational: yet when Equalization of Dividend Fund to he expected. We are a minority all. I therefore ask that every mental world of the ordinary persona man employs these commended and Exchange Fluctuation Ac and like all minorities we have to member of our Association will do consists of beliefs accepted without methods to exsuming his mental, or, count into the New Account.
and his best to obtain now fight against vested interests.
membert question in childhood and early if you like, spiritual outlook he is Consulting Committee. The idens which looked at askance, supected by present Committee consists of fear. Among other terms of optrou amongst his Chinese friends and youth. To him new probrium enst against un was that acquaintances. In this way we may upset his mental equilibrium are sime, pitied by other, and in nome Hon. Sir Paul Chater, Kt., d.M.0. of heing
"Rooffers." Apparently do something towards combating disagreeable, and by him are regard- communities, oven today, is in daa. Messrs. A. O, Lang and It. P. this torm was used on the principle mutual misunderstanding and the fed with distrust or alarm. In the ger of social ostracism. A ration- White, who offer themselves for
19alist cannot take for granted any re-election. involved in the proverb "Give a dog spread of racial hostility by meet-domain of accepted belief man
Auditors. The accounts havo a bad name and hang him," the ing on the common ground of reason, especially conservative. In religion, thing that does not stand the test itten in which is probably clearer (Hear hear With this intention. I for example over no per cent are of reason. Reason is his only judge been audited by John Fleming and Mossrs. Percy persuasion as their between the true and the frise, the, C.A. when it la expressed in `n French therefore now ask you to join me of the version of the same preverly, mately, in the test "Shecess to the Ration parents. When young they accept only arbiter between the sane and Smith, Seth & Fleming, Incor
I believe that today, "If you wish to drown your dog sayalist Press Association.” (Applause), } unquestioningly Protestantism, Cath-ho absurd.
Buddhiara. Mabummedism. reason is more powerful than ever in practical things, ono free from that he is mad.” (Brusgliter)
Mr. Forrest's Reply.
Br Any other "im according befors (Hear, hear) Mankind in useless ritual and the supernatural, Replying to the fent, Mr. I. A. 1-to the accident of their birth, and abandoning the supernatural for the ons whose othies are based on the Forrest paid tribute to the work in later years they are usually too natural and is gradually-very, very Golden Rule, the religion which will done in his own absence by Mr.intent upon things temporal to gradually-giving up the idea of ado away with preposterous claims school days, Euclid, was not adverse Lamble toward the progress of the bother about things eternal Such vague heaven of golden streets and and distinctions, the religion which to the employment of the reductio association. Since we last assembled
a mental attitude spells stagnation harp-playing for the ultimate real marks for universal happiness, when, nd absurdum. There is 110 reason here our membership has grown
we from 36 to B, derinction being matter retrogression. (Hear hear). For henven ovolved by his own efforts an Tennyson yn why, when we have to fight,
For instance, to} shadd deprive ourselves of legiti-of three members who have gone, hetely for the race there have on this planet.
always been a few can cat truth quote one writer, "To-day men do mate forms of argument and in this continued As is well known, our seekers. men who have refused to not uns prayer books for disease but sonno we may be called seoffors, influence extends far beyond the
aosept blindly authoritative state-test-tubes." But this term carries with it n range of our subscribing adherentemente which seemed incompatible {
Order of Truth. certain BINASUTO of opprobrium and to the sum of the gratifying with reason, and who, in the face of The only religion of use to man- which I think we should take care items in this survey must be added criticism Aud opposition fierce, kind is a practical ono which deals to make undeserved. We do not the large numbers of those who have wish gratuitously to meek sincerity accepted or anked for copies of our and to burt people by verbal cruelty, pamphlets for consideration, Most of us have met people who are attendance at this annual dinner is opposed to our ideas and of whose also, though still wot as large na we honesty ནt! CLI have no doubt, could have wished, yet rather greater Our prentent difficulty is canned by than last year. (Applause). the elusiveness of those who pre-1
Now, aro we scufferst Ridicule.
is a good thing sometimes in argu- ment. Our logien friend of our
tend to argue with us
A Word of Warning.
Tho
our.
To this I must, however, wha Christainity Chonging. word of warning. The evolutionary Christianity has undergone a great history of our world affords us no change. In Protestant countries free reason to believe in an inherent law dom of thought, and practice in roof progress, unething not
ginn has developed Sectarinnism. Relyea which makes for righteousness
As science has ndvanced so ban
and Rationalism. Such imaginings Christianity altered its front. The must be left to others than ourselves. age-long doctrines of Christianity A Rationalist our plain duty is have been modified. The need of
to keep our powder dry, if we can- lefence ins broken. the army of
not endorse the other part of Cram- (Christianity inta, groups or tehnols. well'starivice. However strongly we ef thought and now we have in the may as the title setting in favoar place of Christians a heterogeneof liberat ideas: when we find many ous misture of Neo Christian aplicated
elergy ia substantial giets who seek to combat the ad agreement, with our views on many vance of science with a quasiphilents or professors of theology sophical misture of ethics and metaphysics Tint this is SA it
openly abandoning point after point.
at curity is mortal's chiefert enemy,"
of the faith onen delivered to the evidence of the slow but mure saints, let us always bear in mind vance of Nationalist thought and in a country like one own, with n free row and a certain amount of education given to all, eritivism of doctrinairs opinions cannot be hell in perpetual check.
The proverb saya truth will con- quer-but it will conquer only with the aid of those who will publish it. |(Hear, hear). While at Honte I read We members of the Nationalist in a parish magazine what a more Press Association who are in this than usually enlightened and frank| Colony must not however, forgel clergyman, who bed openly re- that we are in Chink, and we must patiated one of the most Blaken not be indifferent to the efforts articles in the creeds, wrote in reply | heing mails to spread Christianity to critics: The battle for freedomi Lamning the Chinese. (Hear, hear must be fought out anew by each
Speaking for the present only off
generation." This is profoundly Protestant missionaries, it is not true, and it is the perfect answer to merely a system of ethics which is those who say that the churches are being trought to the poor and now no weakened on to be hartuless, norant of the masses of Chinese,and niny be left to decay with the but the old-fashioned early and midi
progress of popular education. Victorian Christianity, with which (Hear, hear).
we, in our young days, and our
are
parents were familiar, that is, for The conclusion as far as we the most part being inculeated into concomed is inevitable: we inust the minds of those whom poverty use to the utmost our sweet reasou-
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