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INDIA'S MILLIONS.
|
DAY BY DAY
THE DEEPER I GO IN MY OWN CON- SCIOUSNESS, AND THE MORE SIMPLY I ADANDON MYSELF TO IT, THE MORE| IT SEEMS TO TELL ME THAT I HAVE NO RIGHTS AT ALL, ONLY DUTIES:-
aro 'not now recolved as settlers.
Migration to the towns is an- other solution, which is certainly the most popular amongst the in-Mathew Arnold. dian upper clanacs. They assume, on very little evidence, that India
The P. and O. 8.8. 'Mirzapore, from
THE REVOLT AGAINST
MARRIAGE.
By DEAN INGE.
TXHAT is to be the attitude of novelists. Other porlods in which
Charches towards the Christian Ideal was not re-.
W the
would normally have developed Shanghai, is due here on Wednesday
ut 8 a.m. like European countries, and have thirty or forty per cent. of its A derelict vennel is reported on changes in the civil law of marpudlated in words have been for
July in Lat. 36° 471 N. and Long. ringe? and indua-122 48 E population in towns trial centres. It is often said that
Thore profugate than our
generation.
own
n
The Churches have never had a
Even so good a Christian more difficult question to decide.
They wish, of course, to bo loyal Samuel Johnson told Boswell that to the teaching of Christ, which fils wife had given him leave to for Christiana la the final court of [be intimate with as many women
A whist drive is being held this a few years of "sympathetic" gpv-evening in St. John's Cathedral Hall ernment, by which is meant a at 8.45 p.m. policy of prohibitory tariffs and
A sunken junk, with one mast show-appeal. Unfortunately we cannot us ho liked provided he still loved bounties from public funds. will
"Was Mrs. Johnson so Ifberal?" ing. is reported 147, five cables from be certain whether Christ meant her.
to legislate or only to hold up an industrial Tungsha Light vessel. torn India into 11
ideal; and, since the text of the replied the faithfai Boswell, who, in al-
not however, expunged the passage country. Actually India
Mr. W. lung, of 88, Hobinson Road, Gospels la uncertain, we are ready Protectionist
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country, has reported to the
that even sure what He anid. Nor are from his Life of Johnson-it has police and pays extremely high bounties Romeone stole eight liver cups valued we agreed whether the decisions only lately been unearthed.. What
at $150 some time during Saturday of the Church, or the Churches, in new is not unfaithfulness
the marriage vow, but a theory to such young Industries as Tata's night. Entrance to the house was past times are binding on us now. which justifies it. Steel Works. There is no reason gained by an open fanlight,
The power to dissolve marriage
Let me contrust the Christian by legal process was introduced in to believe that a Federal Govern-!
A Chinese named Yu Chuen, aged England in 1857. In 1871 there view of marriage with that of the ment, which will contain represen-22, a boarder of the Ng Chow Board were 166 divorces; in 1920 there new romanticism.
The Christian marriage vow is theting House, of 76, Connaught Road were
In the alter year 3.300. latives from the States and
Central, was removed to the Govern-there was one divorce to 92 mar-1991 a declaration of passionate
Civil Hospital agricultural districts, is going to ment
yesterday riages, and there are part of the love, but a promise of life-long muffering from the effects of opium do exactly what the mill-owners poisoning, stated to have been set. United States where the propertion fidelity and affection. want, Probably tariffa will bendrainistered.
is ten times greater.
The Church's Problem.
It is the most sacred and soleni contract into which a man and woman ever enter, an obligation anforced by every consideration of honour, decency, fairness, and
To say that our affections are not under the control of our wills is to beatinlise human nature and Lo strike at the binding force of all contracts.
rained experimentally, but Indian On admitting a charge of having | industry, which increased five-fold stalen 28 lba, of putty, the property The law of the Church, based between 1891 and 1921, in not like for the Kowloon Docks, Tung Chan on the words of Christ, cannot be religion.
WH sentenced to nao
month's enforced on the whole population, ly to develop very much faster imprisonsent by Mr. Humiston and public opinion is at present the Kowloon Magistracy this morn than at present, when it takes ing. The accused stole the stuff from hostile to a strict interpretation of each year about another 40,000 the stores and was arrested by Mr. the Founder rule.
II. Marriott, men and women into the factories. It would have to increase at forty After being entrusted with a sum
of 554 with which to pay accounts, times its present rate. adding foki of a stall in the Tsimshatsu ench year Industries equal to all Market absconded and, on enquiries being made, it was found that he had its present factories, in order to not paid the hills. absorb half yearly suradas from evered that the man had, during the past week, stolen goods to the value the villages.
for $277 from the stall.
a serious' nature,
Believed to have fallen from
her
What is the Church to do! Most of the bishops seem to The view of the new romanti- incline towards compulsory civil cism is that the basis of marriage marriage, the Church remaining is ardent 'physical emotion. free to make rules for its
Own If at any future time this members. But this arrangement feeling comes to be aroused by found that would not remove all the diffeulties, some other person, the continu
Can an established Church brand ance of married life becomes an as "notorious evil livors," and ex outrage upon the higher feelings, communicate, a couple who are and the home must be broken up. It is possible to be optimistic
man and wife by the law of the
Public opinion is increasingly Through missing his footing and land?
telarant of such cases. about India's immediate future, falling through the asbestos roof of
Is the innocent party in a divorce
The adulterer and his or but, according to competent obser-the Majestic Theatre, whilst engaged
to be forbidden to marry again in paramour are legally_“married." in repairing the roof girders, a vers, it is difficult to are how the Chinese Danied He Kuen, 14 years of church (the bishops say "Yes"); and received into society. Extremely interesting figures)
to age, of 383, Shanghai Street, received and does public opinion approve of
Injuries to his Imek and was removed thus placing stigma on the Respectability. have been revented in the prelim-great bulk of its people are.
cruelly wronged inary report on the Census re-javoid growing poorer and poorer, to the Kowloon Hospital for treatment character of a
Ought the offenders to bo per- tied. DE they are, to a limited area Fortunately his injuries were not of person? cently taken in India. The com-
The usual answer is that collu-manently excommunicated na lung as they continue to live in sin," can sion is so frequent that we
er ought the civil marriage to be plete returna will not be available of land, and with a population
growing so rapidly. Such people.moving Ltamenr in Johnson Rond. a
never tell which party, if either regarded as conveying Boite men- for many months, but the pre-
was picked up
is innocent.
sure of respectability? Jiminary estimates are generally whether they stay in the villages Chinese woman who
I answer that it is the business
II America, oc leve, the or move into the towns, will be unconsefous near Tat Yuen Street, was
taken Lo the Guvernment Civil of the court to stop collusion and
flans try to maintain the stricter 2,000. and are quite sullinient for continual threat to the standard Hospital suffering from injuries to perjury; the clergy cannot try such Roman Catholics and Episcopa-
her head. The woman, Cheung Lack cases over again.
view, while the other Churches in. of living in other countries. kdrowing certain general
of 61. Hennessy Road, was found at
In very many cases there is no cline to greater laxity. midnight and taken to hospital by the doubt whatever that one party is clusions. They show that the
Police" early this morning.
My own sympathies are so far innocent, and lay opinion is strong-with the rigorists that I think the population of india has increased
Twelve months' hard inbour and 24ly in favour of accepting the more man and woman who have broken
of the by about 36 millions in ten years,
strokes of the birch was the sentence merciful interpretation
up a marriage should, as a rule, The Franco-American nor inposed by Mr. Hamilton at Kowloon words in the Gospels,
never be admitted to Christian rising from under 320 La over 56
agreement-confirmation on Wong Wu, who admitted 4 The Church, however, is faced fellowship unless they agree to millions. There is also evidencetorium
more gold with a much of the final details is taken for charge of having snatched a
far-reaching separate. to prove that it is the agricul
granted--will
little
The mawkish twaddle about rattau bangle from a child, which was revolt against the Christian Idea en- being carried by its mother, fa of marriage. The change Beems the "love" which absolves people tural population which is growthusiast, possibly misgiving. Shanghai Street. Inspector Clarke ing, and, that in spite of much be Too many vital issues are left said the wontan was returning from more startling than it is because from their vows alls me with dis-
the Victorian Age was, out the market with the chill on hey
snatched from behin
reckoned to be accurate to one bi
CON-
Moratorium Misgivings.
lief to the contrary, there is no unsettled.
large movement
arouse
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firm stand against the popular doctrine that any rule which Interferes with "happinces" ia
irrational taboo.
Nevertheless, I cannot avoid the conclusion that Christ was a prophet, not a legislator.
into the cities. between France and the other back, when the defendant came up theory and practice, vory puritanist, and I think the Churches
creditor Powers, ( between bangles. The population of the thirty as
France and Germany. Mr. forty regest inwas shows an in-
Mellon appears to have been con-
An ald Victorian lady is report- eroase, bat of very little
tent to make the best bargain pos- torium. Already, the uncertalatyed as saying, "I think, an than the ten per cent, which is the sible in the matters chiefly in-has caused a break on the Berlin, whole, it is rather worse to break now the Sixth Commandment than, the average of the country as a whole.teresting to the United States, and Bourse. Unless steps are
It is probable that the propor-it would be a grave mistake to taken promptly to clear away the seventh, because when one com- tion Indians living in villages assume that his success in this final difficulties, the moratorium mits a murder the consent of the no code of laws. fel under f1,000 inhabitants will re-direction clears the air to any may prove an empty gesture, Its other party has not been obtain-
Contrast this with the morality and left us to apply thom. the beneficial value frittered away by main, as it has done for the last important
popular essayists and The Law of Christ, forty years, at about 20 per cent.moment, the correct attitude is one "statesmanship" and "diplomacy." of
of reserve The world will be satisfied that all is panning out as
extent. AL
of the total. The large cities are still chiefly looked upon as tem- President Hoover planned it, or porary quarters round industrial undertakings, the previous Bom bay census showing that less than one in six of the people had been born in the city. Agricultural In dia e thas producing each year a surplus population of about three
nearly so, when, and not before, the problems affecting all con- have been reduced to cerned agreement and duly documented. France, we are afraid, is bbsessed with political aspects of the offer. She justifies her attitude by hypotheses which Auggesta to four millions, and at the pre-an, opinion that other nations sont rate it will add to itself every also
unable to respond twenty years a population conto the offer in, the spirit in which siderably larger than modern Ger- it was made. Serious doubts will he aroused by the fifth point in Looking at the problem merely the provisional agreement cabled from the economic standpoint it this morning. France in clearly seeking to use the moratorium as is As one commentator remarks, a lever in her campaign against
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pon. to these surplus three mil-She wants political guarantees Hon villages. They cannat omig-from Germany in return for relict rate, for no other country wants from reparations payments,' and' la. Mr.. Mellon has been content to them except as indentured bourers, and this:system has been dismiss it with assent to the pro- position that it is France's affair; practically ubolished. There are
for France to settle with Germany. fewer Indians abroad now than But it is not quite so easily dis- twenty years ago, and of the mil-posed of. The issue offers a lion or two who are still out of the prospect of discord greater than other differences combined, country nearly all are In Ceylon all
or Malay. There is not likely to though it is just possible that bo any increase In the small trad-Germany will swallow the pill. France may thus secure a diploma- Ing communities In East and tie triumph, but we cannot approve South Afrles, and no country with her methods, and meanwhile she any large waste spaces shown the has boon wasting time, which is least sign of welcoming Indian tantamount to destroying the politicians value and purpose of the mora- Immigration. Indian
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"We are facing a crisis, gentlemen Our competitors have added till another English walnut and two more
peanuts to their fudge cream bar."
He wrote no book and drew up
He gave us broad principles,
Are we sure that if a very hard Caso had been brought before Him, He who said, "The Subbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath," might not have said, "Marrings was made for man, not man for marriage"
He said that Moses "for the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives": He did not say that Moses, as a lawgiver, was wrong in making concessions to the hardness of their hearts.
In short, I find in the Gospels that marriage was intended by God to be Indiasoluble,
That should be enough for all who wish to obey the law of Christ. I do not find that it is always and everywhere Inadmie- sible for the State, or ever for the Church, to allow exceptions exemptions. "We are not under law, but under grace."
So long as wo are loyal to the spirit of the Christian rule, which, as we have seen, is widely re- jected in our generation, I do not think we are bound very closely by the letter.
"Hard cases," we are told, "makp bad law."..
Yes, we may answer, but it is a bad law which multiplies, hard
casos, ...
Absolute indissolubility of mar- riage bas never in practice been onforced. ----
The Church will defest iu object if it refuses to make any concessions to high-minded and an lightened public opinion.
But let the exceptions. as possible.
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