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WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
By A CITY MINISTER
THINK it is undoubted that, include the "cssentials" of the faith people are asking-especially and yet would grant all needed thoughtful young people-that the latitude for legitimate and natural Church srould restate in clear and differences of thinking. They be- definite fashion, what its creed is, love that the finest unity is not and what intellectual and moral de-uniformity" but unity in variety, question is-What arc the mands it makes upon those who join unity with difference. The only its fellowingahip..
ls to encourage and develop the tendency towards the creation of n "sterling area" of countries which aim at keeping their national currencies stable in terms of sterl ing instead of gold. In this case, too, what matters in the interests of trade is far
moro short-term than long-term stability of the exchanges, and there is no reason why they should not keep the power to make long-term adjustments in
This statement of creed, it is casentials? the sterling value of their cur
enid, should be given in clear, sim-
Back to Apostolic Simplicity. rencies, while pegging the ex- Mr. Tao Shu-man of St. Paul's plc, untechnical and unequivocal
In the early apostolic days, a very First Prize terms-in other words, the Church's changes over short periode by the College, who won the
(Gold Medal), of the King's Theatre creed should be both simplified and simple teat or creed was demanded familiar method of holding sterling Essay Competition, is a son of Mr.modernised. The question is-Can from those who joined the Christian balances in London, just as Britain Tse Taan-tai.
this be done with gain or, at least, fellowship. That creed is reflected without serious loss?
in various passages in the New now holda dollar balances
One must remember, of course, Testament. It ran something like As the s.. Yuet On was leaving
Jesus in New York. It is true that
harbour for Kongmoon last night, she that there is such a thing as a this: "Do you
for Lord?" Only in later days, with long-term stability matters incollided with a fishing junk which was "false simplicity." No one,
can mako Einstein's the rise of various hereales and the respect of international debts; but damaged to the extent of $300. The instance,
Yuet On was stopped and the captain Theory of Relativity either simple impact of pagan philosophy, was existing
will long-term debts
promised to have the boat repaired,
or easy". In the same way, no one this simple formula defined, ampli- can make a doctrine of Divine Pro-fied, and theologised. clearly have to be readjusted, and
Personally, I should have 110 vidunce or a theory of the Atone- new debt urrangements could be
Suffering from injuries to his head ment a mere matter for babes. In hesitation in going back to that made, to fit in with the new condi-received by being knocked down by a the last resort, anyone joining the simple creed. Christ's only test to
Kowloon motor bus outside the Po Hing Treatre last night, Chiu Fak, Church is expected to think as well Peter was, "Lovest thou Me?" believe! To talk of making Jesus did not ask a disciple to have aged 23 years, was taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital for treatment.abstract thinking about God, the fixed and precise notions about Him universe, and the human soul either before He asked the man to follow in condition is not serious.
"simple" or "casy" is merely non-Him. Some people may reply that In other words, one cannot such a simple test would leave too simplify big things beyond a cer-much room for radical and crucial tain point without altering their differences within the communion.
But I submit two things:---- quality.
1. That there ought to be room
tions.
At the meeting of the Rotary Club to-morrow, Professor L. Forster will speak on "Travelling in Szechuan."
A combination mirror and clock was stolen from Mr. E. Edgar's_car which was left at the stand in Con- naught Road, near Queen's Pier on Saturday afternoon.
sense.
own
The "sterling area" thus en visaged would include 2H many Empire countries as are prepared to come la, but would be, open equally to other countries, such as the Scandinaviang, the South Americans, or some of them, and
Further, I hope that this modern perhaps the countries of Central
cry for a simplified creed does not for the exercise of Christian intel- | Europe which are now on the verge
spring from any foolish objection ligence on all intellectual concerns io u creed as such. A creed is only where difference is natural.
and codified 2. If a man loves Jesus, follows of currency depreciation. Such a
arranged, ordered,
as Lord I "sterling aren" would not he a The Hongkong & Shanshal Hotel, Ltd.
thinking. If we have any thinking Him, and owns Him Incorporated in Hongkong.
Police Constable Huang Hscub-fat all, we must define and delimit it. have no business to say that he has It would Stubi Road
purely British concern. Happy Valler
attached to the Anti-Piracy Guards become the concern of all and stationed at the Police Training Some people seem to rear up against no part in Him, even if he does not It is true that our Lord asked,' the
School, committed suicide last night creeds, in religion while they de- regard Jesus exactly as I do. countries included within
be mand then imperiously everywhere by taking what is thought to form of opium. He the group, and some
the clsc-say, in politics, philosophy, "Whom say ye that I am?" but He consultation between the monetary Kowloon Hospital at 9.50 p.m. and economies, and ethics. A politician, did not make the answer to that
died at 12.30 this morning.
for instance would not have a dog's question a test of orthodoxy. Dis- chance with his constituency unless cipleship with Jesus was rather a authorities of these countries would
he had a detailed programme, or kind of spiritual life than a kind have to be devised-perhaps, as the
what we call " platform." But of intellectual uniformity! forerunner of the long-awaited in-
what is a creed except the Church's programme ternational authority for managing the monetary affairs of the whole world.
IN MEMORIAM.
John Henry Pidgeon. In loving memory of one who'd never he forgotten.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 10:32.
GOLD AND STERLING
Bo-one
The Split in the Labour Party The breach between the Indepen- dent Labour Party and the official
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To the Editor. Hongkong Telegraph.]
case of a
SAUCE FOR THE GANDER.
and
platform? A Church without a definite creed of some kind would not be an or ganism, but only a kind of chaos!
The Need for Change.
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With this said, I agree that By Edward Kelly. Private Detective, Sir,-Some days ago, you re-modernised and simplified creed is VE are here to tell the world when there's any hawker's fully justified. The present creeds W the ported Labour Party was long in coming-helung fined for tmving purchase of the Church represent the mental divorcing to be done in Hong- so lòng, in fact that the final plunge scrap brass at a figure much below thinking of the fourth or fifth cen-
that turies-and this is the twentieth. kong, we are right on the spot to was little more than a formality.market price. In an age
We know all there is to The question of whether. and. The two wings of the party bave accepts buy-in-the-cheapest-market Besides, in any case, a creed ought do it.
as an economic principle, it seems to be fluid, if the promise of the been at variance for years, Out- if so, when, Britain should return ward unity has by no means con- morality
to me that a higher standard of Holy Spirit is true that He will lead know about the fallability of was expected for this us into all truth. The argument [human beings. We had seven to the gold standard is still form-cealed the inward disorder. Both hawker than that to which most for change or revisal may be briefly wives in Queensland-all bar-
summarised as follows:-
maids-and there is nothing we ing the subject of controversy at
conform. sections will breathe more freely of
1. Our present creeds are diverse don't know about divorce. Home, but the general impression now that neither has to maintain I have myself heard an Inspec.
We know all about this matri- [monial jurisdiction, too. Our last appears to be that decision appearances. In the past, the L.L.P.tor of Police say, after securing, and even contradictory in their de-
through haggling, an article in Initions and statements. ought to
2. They are antiquated in form wife was one of those indulgent be taken at present provided the driving force of the "Paddy's Market" at a ridiculous-
as well as in kind, who let us do exactly as she about the future value of sterling Labour movement. Its ranks were ly cheap price, "Of course, the and expression
wished. We didn't know what in terms either of gold or dollars.
mainly recruited from the intellec-lighter must have stolen it to sell thought.
3. They are naturally coloured by happiness was until we were mar- This is based on the point that uals to whom Socialism appealed it so cheaply," though I did not
notice that he was too keen on the philosophical terms and idensried. Then it was too late.. as an attractive philosophy. The
prosecuting. But then, it wasn't of their own day, now largely dis- yet knows, and cannot other, or Trade Union wing, con-scrap brass.-Yours, etc.,
carded. know, what the future value of sisted of those whose socialistle either gold or dollars in terms of theories
were strongly tinged goods is likely to be. One authori- with the practical determination, ty thinks that Britain can reasona- to raise the standard of living of THE WATER SUPPLY. tunately, not to make a simple state and hor co-re for over an hour. We ment to include and excommunicate remember it quite woll. At 11.27 bly seek to manage the American the industrial worker. While the
doubtful people. Indeed, the saddest p.m.-Never mind. exchange so as to prevent un-
Wo have many friends who are creeda and confessions were evolved married, but not seriously. Work necessary short-term fluctuations
THE MONTH $
In some desperate crisis of conten- this out:-A lady of means went and work in with the American
harness. Indeed they The total storage of water in the tion as much to exclude and de- three times around the world look- authorities in bringing "relation"
made such remarkable progress Colony's reservoirs on September nounce outagonists as to include all ing for her ideal man. One day she owed a sincere met him in Hongkong. He was a about, holding that such a policy
1, according to figures supplied the faithful who that by 1924 they actually found by the water Authority, was 2,976. loyalty to Jesus.
friend of ours, and his name was will be mutually beneficial. But
themselves in office. From that 66 million gallons, as compared
Most ministers of my acquaint-Bill Yous. Now she's Mrs. Bil he feels that no long-term decisions time, however, dates a steady with 2,789.73 million gallons on ance would gladly welcome a short, Yous.
Work out, to the nearest decimal, about the value of sterling should trickle away from doctrinaire to, the corresponding day and month modern, comprehensive statement
of Christian belief-one that would what chance Mr. Bill Yous had. be made for some time to come.
and even beyond, the orthodox of last year.
Of this total 2,289.41 m.g. were There is every possibility that Labour tenets. Mr. Ramsay Mac-
in the Island reservoirs und 687.- in the course of Britain's experi- Donald and Viscount Snowden, 25 m.g. in those of Kowloon as ments in short-term currency for instance, both, started their compared with 2,102.48 m.g. in the management a method will be hit political careers in the I. L. P. Island and 687.25 in Kowloon on upon which will make permanent- They are now sa much to the right Soptember i last year, ly unnecessary any return to the gold standard in the old In the past, the strongest part
sense.
Labour movement was still in its SITUATION ONTHE FIRST OF thing in Church history is that our teens the two sections worked together fairly comfortably in double
Secretary,
gallons.
con-
The consumption of water on of the main body as they were the Island for the month was 396.- formerly to the left. Other one-95 m.g. for an estimated popula- time leaders of the LLP, like Mr.tion of 389,750 giving a consump of the case in favour of the gold. R. Clynes, the former Home tion per head per day of 33.4
as compared with are" now pillars of gallons standard was based on the argu- Labour orthodoxy. The latest de-sumption of 390,750 or a consump ment that, in the interests of trade, cision has pushed others in the ton per head per day of 31.8 the relative values of national same direction, notably Mr. E. F.
In Kowloon. currencies ought to be nearly Wise, the English economic ad-
The consumption in Kowloon enough known in advance to enable viser of the Soviet Co-operative was 191.19 m.g. for an estimated
Socletics. buyers and sellers of goods across
The I. L. P. group, population of 303,400 giving national frontiers to make reliable after the minority which refuses consumption per head per day of
to cut ndrift from the Labour 20.3 as compared with estimates of their receipts in rela-
In August 1981 sumption- Party has gone, is neither very tion to their costs of production. large nor very influential. It in-tion of 289,600 giving a consump 160.40 for an estimated populn- This need, however, could be met cludes a few well-known parlin- tion per head per day of 20.1 sufficiently for most purposes if mentarians like Mr. James Max-gallons.
R
" con-
of
the short-term fluctuations of the ton and Mr. Frederick W. Jowett; The rainfall of the Colony exchanges could be kept within Commissioner of Works in the since January 1 is given na 82.83 narrow limits, as they were under first Labour Government. Inches 48 compared with 60.71
But
the gold standard. A similar they have at most 20,000 enrolled inches in 1981.
All the Colony's reservoirs policy of short-term stabilisation supporters-a mere fraction of execpt Pokfulam and Lower Aber- of the exchanges, combined with their erstwhile comrades on the deen are level with overflow. the power to vary them in accord-right, and actually fewer perhaps ance with changes in long-term than the Communists on their forces, could be pursued as it left. It is indeed difficult to see indicate that the process has al-
begun. how the tattered romnant of the rendy
Meanwhile, It will presumably be pursued now
I. L. P. is going to maintain, an acems obvious that the main body with the aid of the Exchange independent position between its of Labour will be strengthened by Equalisation Fund-without re- two neighbours,. The left cannot | the disappearance of an unfriend- turning to the gold standard atrail to attract the haros, and the ty ally who was really more ал avowed all. One economist thinks the right the tortoises. The disagree troublesome than" path of wisdom for Britain to-day-ment over leadership seams to enemy.
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