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Lily Damita
A WOMAN BETWEEN (MADAME JULIE)
Lester Vail...0.P. Heggin
Directed by
VICTOR SCHERTZINGER
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1933.
HEAVY SENTENCE
AMERICAN KIDNAPPER
CONVICTED
EVANGELIST'S VISIT.
LESSON SERMON,
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONGKONG
"Christian Science" was the sub- ject of the Lesson-Sermon which was read in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, yesterday.
DR, FRENCH E. OLIVER TO /
SPEAK IN LOCAL HALL Bern Staples, Mass., June 26. Arecont telogram from the Kenneth Buck was sentenced to noted evangelist and Bible tonchor, 25 years' imprisonment for the the Rov. Dr. French E. Oliver, kidnapping of Margaret McMath, who has conducted big evangelis the ten-year-old daughter of ntic campaigns both la Britain and wealthy Detroit family.
America, contains the information The Golden Text was: "The" darkness Cyril Buck, his brother, was that he is now en route to China people that walked in acquitted.-Router.
to participate in various meetings have seen a great light: they The two brothers, Kenneth and] and conferences during the sum that dwol! in the land of tho Cyril Buck, were arrested by State mer and autumn in Shanghal, shadow of death, upon them hath police officers on May 7. The kid- Kuling, Poltaiho, and other the light shined" (lan. 9:2). napped girl, Margaret McMath, centres. was seized when he was return- ing home from school, but was re- turned to her parents after a ra- som, at first reported to amount to G$80,000, had been paid to the abductor.
Actually, G$60,000 was paid and this was all recovered at the home of Kenneth Buck,
The family of the girl gained contact with the kidnappers, and promised to maintain secrecy re- garding the negotiations for her relesso for 48 hours. They ap penled to the police to stop the manhunt lest some evil befall the child, but the police refused.
Ransom Paid.
Dr. Oliver is a passenger on the Glen Lino steamer Gleniffer, which is due to arrive in Hoagkong at noon to-day, proceeding to Shang- hai to-morrow afternoon..
Among the citations which com- prised the Leeson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: "Let not your heart be troubled: ye bellovo in.God, believe also in me. A meeting has bean arranged....Philip saith unto him, Lord, for Dr. Oliver, at which he will show us the Father, and it sufficeth speak by interpretation, in the us. Jesus saith unto him, Have Preaching Hall of Mr. Leland I been so long time with you, and Wang, 11 Bondham Road (near St. yet hast thou not known me, Phi- Stephen's Girls' School), this lip? he that hath seen mo ovening at 7.30 o'clock, to which seen the Father; and how sayest the Father? both foreigners and Chinese are thou then; Show us cordially invited.
....Verily, vorlly, I say unto you, He that believeth in me the works
hath
that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father" (John 14:1,8,9,12).
nounced that Cyril Buck was un- der arrest as a "go between." He was alleged to have driven the car in which Margaret was restored
The Lesson-Sermon also includ- The parents paid over-the ran-to her father. som, and the girl was later trana- Kenneth was stated to have beened the following passages from the ferred to a friend's motorboat, but|In the car, wearing a black hood. Christian Science textbook, "Selen- the news of her safety leaked out Later the police announced the ce and Health with Koy to the despite the efforts of her parents, recovery of the whole ransom of Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: Two coastguard surf boats visit. $60,000. They alleged they found "Divine Truth, Life, and Love gave ed the motor boat and took the $10,000 in a cupboard and $50,000 Jesus authority over sin, sickness child ashore with hor father. She in tin cans in Kenneth Buck's and death. His mission was was rushed to the coastguard sta-home
reveal the Science of celestial be ing, to prove what God is and what He does for man.....He proved by his deeds that Christian Science destroys sickness, sin, and death", (p. 26).
tlon at Wood's Hole, presumably! The police believe that no other for interrogation concerning her persons were involved. It had experience. The arrests followed, been hoped the solution of the General Needham, head of the mystery would also throw light on Massachusetts State police an; the Lindbergh mystery.
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