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RATIONALISM AND MODERN | which was shall one day be judged.
CHURCHMEN.
It is only by exulting the good that evil can be overcome. No 【To the Editor si fur Gijjna Mail) | evil has yet been stamped out
(and never shall be) by condem-. Sir--I cannot pretend to enter this has its faults, errors and nation and prohibition. Bud- apon long nowspaper corresponfallncies, but these do not hinder dence but will endeavour to make
many thousands from em- Bome comments on the letters of
bracing it und through it ((1) A.E.F., (2) A Member of the
gaining vision `of Gort. B.P.A. and (8) Palmos. After this I hope to las able to stop cor- our differences have patience and Therefore let ES among all responding but will insert articks charity, After all fife is too on occasion. if you will publish short for bitterness and petty them.
Before doing so I would like to Bay Bat my reasons for giving publicity i the Churclimen's Union are
(I realised that many people did not know of its existence and it appears to the that many people will stay in the Church if they realise that the Church has a constructive policy based upon and sympathetic with | the ancient greels, modern know- eldge and science.. (2) I think the policy of thy' R.P.A. us ex- hibited at its dinner, destructive;
a
time is ours with Kents. quarrels, Let us rather, while
To love till love creates Within its own wreek the
and to forward God's, Kingdom, to
- things it contemplates hear our Cross and to live more nearly ought we to have done."
We prny. All those.
Yours, etc.
BRASMUCH. Hongkong, April 24.
at the me Lime realise and (To the Editor of the China Mail.) know that it attracts people who have perhaps hatt & narrow re ligious education, and after drift ing for voters, suddenly · „ronlise that they must try and get some rens de basis by which they cam
mbat Relig
No with regard Jetter
Sir.-I regret that I must re- main anonymous but I think a great debt of thanks is due to the Rev. W. T. Featherstone for the attitude he has taken on the mat- of or satisfy their Iter of Rationalism: it is a decided 'spiritua yearning. think this frontrast to the feeble, but ad- satial in een be given by the Einittedly pointed, skit in St. Chur d' Inland that John's Cathedral Notes. I have thered for such people to given up going to, Church as F or impuse" the Christian always felt the preacher was not honest and never had an oppor- the unity of giving my views,
Mr. Featherstone has a policy,į (1) Pound Bratterus not now La plan and Union behind him. carded as the Baste text The aim of.the. Union should ap Boks of Theological, Col-peak to everybody and for one Lelig. Stephen have in the last few days changed my views with regard to the Church. She is not as stale, asal thought she was. Why cannot wo bear more about great move- nents in the Church? [ CRD quote se mimy men and women'
$ words of a generatio age emrat be exjected to give a whose if the Church toothy; in At his statements do no apply
DRRY beating Churchner of 300 yours too, A Tangus mxdern writer" neking to a movement like the sounds rather auriem the Charelimen's Union. We all need ein imply that Churchnici, the spiritual in life. "The Church would say you mirable has least potter bectiuse she has agnosties, eling to the old fast appeared to combine spirtuk husks. Why not try some ity with honesty and intellec new busks%
nality. ((2), "a member of the RANA." I have made enquiries about the mits that a spraker at Union and am surprised and thir slimmer negketed the pleased to learn that, in addition ex options, for the geniallo Dem Inge, who is the Pre- ra'e in the course of brees-sident of the Union, there are sarily brief remarks. There several Bishops who sympathise foe think I was right in with and support the Union: using the words "indis- among those Bishops are the pre-, criminately attack." How-sent Bishops of Durham. Liver- ever, thank the Member for pool and Birmingham. his kinly expressions und The Diocesan School is fortun Ray that
I thought there ate in having such a Head. He wil might be some Member of have opponents but am sure the LK.R.PA, on leave in that this is a movement which England who wold like the will do us all a "heap of good" opportunity of attending the and keep us in our Churchmen's Union Confer-Church.
Chufel wil appeal to people (8) "Palmos will find a very much more than Rationalism out- adequate answer in the side the Church. The local sermon. "Buy 1 Truth." kindly published on page elven of the "China Mail* Yesterday. His outlook showe the necessity for the fourth aim of the churchmen's Erion which is "To defend
ence.
Mother
BIBLE FACTS.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
Every much in the nature of a red stiff against the soft collar herring trailed across the path of (which I fail to see how he recon- the main argument, a moderately ciles with his arguments in open neck such as one gets with favour of the opeŋ neck), If an ordinary tennis shirt is a very social etiquette must be conform- different thing from exposure of ed with and the "Cissy" is doom- one's whole chest and a little more fed to bloaspm only on the occa besides, which in my opinion is alon of the week-end game or out- not so much "effeminate" (which ing. I think the soft styles in was the accusation Euripides collars now offered are by far the feared) as "school-boyish." best substitute. I hold no brief
It
(To the Editor of the China Mail,)
Sir,Your correspondent "Nuda Veritas aries to cover up his ignorance by n mass of sarcastic verbiage which becomes a critic of the Sacred Record. The cubit is equal to 25. Pyramid or British inches, hence the size of the Ark was 695′ × 104.1′ × 62,5′, More to the point was the letter for whoever holds the agency for There were three storeys and there of Less Hopefully who would ap- the pe, but I do know from per- All the space peur to be one of those lucky in-sonal experience that there is an available was made use of, there dividanls who are able by the excellent soft collar on the market → being so machinery of my other very nature of their work and the which conforms in every way to of the modern conveniences, of situation of their offices" to dis- the strictest fashion decree, occan going liners. Your carre- ficard their collurs and ties in the is practically indistinguishable spondent has not apparently performance of their duties when from a stiff one and is extremely troubled to work out the carrying, the hent is such as to justify it, comfortable. capacity of such a vessel and he This correspondent thinks his The discussion is an interest- says nothing about its depth. He example might quite properly being, ond, "Why not get some of has also not answered the "ques, followed even by those whose our local business people (Anan- tion as to how its proportions work involves their exposure to cially interested in the question)
hould agree with the most
the gaze of the public but here to express an opinion? ninlern theories of shipbuilding again surely my suggestion is the
Yours, etc.. and why it ship of this size was better one, A shirt with an open
CISSYLIUS." not "repenter until modern times, collar is surely better than no Perhaps your correspondent can collar at all and the only argu- say how it is that the Ark is ment that ass Hopefully brings exactly 100,000 times the size of froward on behalf of his minus (Ta the Editor of the China Mail). the Coffer in the King's Chamber collar and tie versus open neck of the Great Pyramid; and whyshirt-hat a complete shirt
Sir, Your correspondent the Ark of the Covenant in the would have to go to the wash "Hopeful" has the true Darwinian wilderness was exactly the same collar. How terrible!
twice a day instead of just a instinct. Give us the open neck size as this stone coffer: or why Less Hopefully would like to in-shirt he cries.
Perhaps
Good, I reply. this same coffor contained exactly vent something after the style of But why stop at the open neck four quarters of English wheat, the dickey that no doubt useful shirt? Why not, as the vulgar Perhaps it may be news to your but by no means distingue stift have it, go the whole hog? correspondent that the law of detachable shirt front,
What good word that, hog, is it not? gravitation was given in the about a detachable open collar? So appropriate too. Great Pyramid over 8.000 years But that might lead to eye brow sider moment, before the time of Newton. The raisings such as gre called forth God who designed the Ark for the by the appearance of the purpose intended, knew how many with the useful ribber collar species would be required to enter which he can take off, give a lick il and also, as to their food, ete, and a wipe, and put on the nest and doubtless. du: provision was dag! made accordingly. The Ark was 120 yards in building and there was ample time to provide for all future needs. The fantastic
man
Yours, etc.. (STILL) "HOPEFUL." Hongkong. April 23. »
Hongkong. April 23,
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For precisely the same
Why do we wear collars at all? reason that we wear any garment- because, apart from the warmth (which can hardly be a factor in a climate such as we have here) · it is clothes that raise us above the beasts of the field.
No? Then tell me any part of the world where men, however primitive or
imaginings of "Nuda Veritas" are To the Editor of the China Mail. svage, can be found who wear
therefore besile
the mark.
!
nothing at all. You can't? Why? Because there is no such place.
If plothes it is that raise us above the beasts in the field-and as I have shown the point cannot
clothes is an attack upon civilised make no bones about it and go practices. We might as well naked at once.
Divine facts, which it is not neces Sir-What is a 'Cissy shirt?" sary to give in minute detail, are asked one of your readers who not overthrown by any man's curae to me yesterday with a copy ridicule of them. Your correof yesterday's "China Mail with be disputed any attack upon spondent's arithmetic is also at the letter of "Euripides" under- fatit as is also his statement fined in pencil. For the beneft about Mount Everest which shows of those also in ignorance 1 pass how casually he has read the on the reply I gave him and a few narrative, for the waters roke 16 observations which may be of cubits above the highest moun-interest to your renders.
Absurd, says "Hopeful." kalns. Moreover it is open to A "Cissy" shirt is similar to
néver suggested anything so question as to whether the mouy tennis shirt except that the you did say "away with the fantastic. True, I reply. But tains of Ararat are those which collar, when opened is wider and collar!", and when you said that we know by that name to-day. the extent of the opened portion
There are many
things in greater and deeper, when fasten- struck the first blow at the unture that even the scientists ed it is similar to a
entire philosophy of clothes.. For fastened cannol understand and the tennis shirt. The sleeves are why not also the hat, and after perpend. If the collar is to go, sensible man will always say with wide opened at the end and finish the hat, why not the sleeve. And the Patriarch, shall not the just above the elbow. Their ad-. Judge of all the earth do right? vantages as a means to coolness When your correspondent, can are obvious and the people who understand even the simple things smile at the golfer, tenais player which take place all around him or merely the walker in the street can answer all the whys. whys, who has shown his.common sense whys which are capable of solt-in donning one simply don't know tion, can answer all the questions what they are talking or thinking asked of Job by the Almighty is about if they try to make out that chapters 38 to 4 and obore it they are not "the thing." Several possesses the view-point of the of the leading tennis players in Almighty, it will then be in order the Colony have worn them in the for the created being to question course of the tournament now the acts of his creator or to say progressing and if my memory what deest thor?
serves me rightly O'Callaghan, our "hope" for the season, was one of their number.
SO ON.
your
No Mr. Hopeful" (so unlike,' you are, as you must be the choice of nom de plume would Bunyanesque character suggest)no, Mr. "Hopeful." I say, if accepted opinion in the matter of dress is to be upset in say, when individual opinions run one particular, then who is to
sonally I think I know. and strings of shells.
riot, where it will all end. Rationalism in the
R.P.A. has met its match.
1 honestly say-Thank God."
Yours, etc.,
ANGLICAN.
Hongkong. April.24.
the freedom of responsible (To the Kiliter of the China Mail).
students, clerical as well as
lay, in Their work of critic ism and research."
me
Sir.-May I take up a very small corner of your valuable In conclusion I say that we are
space for a little quotation which living in an age of a climax, of a appeals to as being very renaissance and of a reformation, apposite to Buch as occurs in the history of about Modernism in the Church?; the correspondence the world every few hundred The quotation is as follows:→ years: it is up to all of us to do"We cannot without absurdity our best, unitedly and peacefully, call ourselves at once believers Bo that this renaissance and re- and inquirers also.". That seems formation can. Be accomplished to me to put the position in a nut- with as little travail and revalu-shell. tion as possible;
Yours, etc..
W. T. FEATHERSTONE.
Jongkong, April 24.
To the Editor of the China Mail.]
Yours, etc.,
PAT. Hongkong. April 23.
A NEW CREED.
Sir-1 plead and "urge that (To the Editor of the China Mail).
Christians should argue and
quarrel less among themselves,
Sir. I have read with great
especially in such a country as interest, the letters which have this with its thousands 01 heathens
appeared in your paper on what
Quarrels between Christians may
*still amronverted is called Modern Churchmen, and the letters from Rationalists and prove to be stumbling blocks to others. I must place myself on Those who are trying to see and the side of the correspondent, who and Christ in us, His followers,
pleada for simplicity. In this
If a person sincerely and earn-respect I should like to be allowed estly seeks after Truth he will to mention the suggestion of a not only find Truth but God bosides. However he needs to be clergyman at Home. He has said:
told that Truth, Love, Know- Jedge and God cannot be found by argument and while the spirit of a true secker after God is lacking. They can only be found by knocking and seeking within. It is foolish to seek from without that which is already in us; and the quicker we realise this the better it is for us and for our neighbours.
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Some blame Roman Catholicism for the doctrine of Papal, and the *Protestants for Biblical, In- Fallacy. Might not the Rational- ists, by unduly emphasising the other aspects of the Christian doctrine, fall into the same error. Surely it is our intentions, the degree of our sincerity and what reare, which count and for
I would like to suggest that from time to time, either Sun- day by Sunday, or on certain stated occasions, the congrega- tion in every church should recite the Beatitudes exactly as they now recite the Creed.
I would oven put them into the form of a creed, a déliberate and solemn declaration of belief. I believe, that the poor in spirit are blessed, and that theirs is the kingdom of heaven. I be. lieve that the meek are blessed, and-that-they shall inherit the earth.
dea.
It geome to me a very beautiful
Yours, etc.
Hongkong, April 28,
SIMPLICITY,
Yours, eté..
W. A, JORDAN, Hongkong, April 21.
"CISSY SHIRTS.“
The trouble about the "Cissy"
Per- Woud
Yours, etc.. BACK TO THE APES. Hongkong, April 23,
shirt (and here I agree with (To the Editor of the China Mail). 'Euripides") is that people do not take enough trouble with the "Po the Editor of the China Maia other garments when they don it.
"Sir-I see in your paper some- Shorts, stockings and shoes are one has been writing about "open Sir, Reading such extracts as quite alright to wear with it, in necks" and he says "the lower a "no sympathy," "Hopéfal has fact almost anything goes with it cross between a football player overlooked the fact that provided that that "anything" and a soldier." etc., from the letters of "Loss smart. If a "Cissy" advocate that a soldier is not worth looking Does he mean Hopefully" and "Euripides" one goes out with shorts and boots be at his legs? Why drag in a might be led to believe that their is simply asking for ridicule und soldier? Didn't we do our bit in views were violently opposed to he is not giving "the style the great war about which the mine, whereas if they might be chance. taken as representative they only i
likes of your writer has com- I agree with "Euripides" that pletely forgotten. go to bear out my contention that it only needs someone to make a fehased the enemy out of France Soldiers legs the average man would welcome a move in the matter for most of us and before this has made old change such as I have indicate to follow.suit, but I do not agreel England's name."
The Cissy shirt is. after all, with him in his advocacy of the writer have open necks if he Let your
ANOTHER HISTORIC SKETCH FROM MACAO.
A Macao correspondent sends us the above sketch by Chinnery of the Garden at the back of the Residence, Macao, ,"as it was in the old days." Only a small portion of tile fardon now remains, several buildings having: boen: constructed on the site in connection with the Industrial School.
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FRIDAY,
·APRIL 24, 1925.
wants them, but leave the tommy SPORTS CABLES.
alone.
Yours; etc. ONE WHO DID HIS BIT. Hongkong, April 23,
(To the Editor of the China Mail
Sir,Is not this agitation a result of the visit of
་་ Tha Peaches" of whom you will re- member we saw quite a lot” when they danced in the different revues that were given One was called "Back Again"-which was quite true.
Yours, etc...
<! "
(S.) PEACHLESS. Hongkong, April 24.
HOME FOOTBALL. BNGLISH LEAGUE DIVISION III (SOUTHERN SECTION.)
(Reuter's Service.)
Results
LONDON, April 23. of football matched played to-day (home team given first) are as follow
Aberdare ... Swindon I Norwich 1 Northampton...
DIVISION III. Southern Section.
. "Goals.
P. W. L. D. F. A. P.
(To the Editor of the China Mail).
Sir,If only people would for- get about our poor tailors, collar and tie manufacturers, laundrymen, they would appear Swansea......39 21 8 10 64 33 52 And Plymouth 40 2299 70 37 53 or the streets of Hongkong either Bristol C...40 21 10 9 57 38 51 in tennis shirts or collarless Millwall 40 17 10.13 56 37 47 shirts, Why burden oneself with Newport 40 19 12 9 59 41 47 a collar, be it soft or hard, when Exeter...40 19.12 9 58 44 47 there is far more comfort in a Swindon....41 18 II 12 59 37 collarless shirt? Can it be said. Brighton...40 18 14 8 $4 that any one is afraid of exposing Northants 41 19 15 7 49 his neck because nurse has not Southend ...39 19 15 given him his daily scrubbing? Watford.......40 16 16
Let the press proclaim it as a Gillingham...40 12 14 14 recognised thing, befitting the Norwich.....40 12 14 14 47 sumner of Hongkong, that collar. | Charlton 40 13-16 11 43 46 37 less shirts be the fashion between Reading....39 13 16 10 33 33 the hours of 6 a.m. and 7.30pm Luton 49 15 17 45 57.35 Aberdare .41 14 19 8 53.64 36 during the months, April to November, and no one would be Bristol R40 11 16 13 40 45 35 ashamed of waiting outside the Bournemouth 40 12 20 8 38 55 32
Queen's P.R. 41 33 10 9 38661 Peak Tramway Station, or sitting Brentford....40 9 247 36 86 25 In a public place, in the company Merthyr....40 8 27 5 34.69 of Indies, without a tie on. Give
us a collarless summer and for once Hongkong would be able to boast of having put visitors and passers-through out of fashion. Why should not Hongkong set the summer fashion in men's wear?
Sir, you would be
doing humanity a great service if you could persuade our taipans, (who) always want to be the first with fidens), to adopt the collarless
shirt.
Yours, etc.,
COLLARLESS. Hongkong, April 23.
HISTORIC MACAO SKETCH. (To the Editor of the China Mail)
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TENNIS SENSATION.
INDIA COUNCIL TAKES.. ACTION.
(Reuter's Service.)
LAHORE, April 23. The Council of the Indian Tennis Association has instructed Fyzee and Jacob to give the Lawn Tennis Association the necessary under. taking to settle the matter men- ¡tioned on April 20.
"
The Indian Association does not question the English body's right to act as it did, but it questions the method, notably the latter's omission to communicate with the former as far as the Indian Davis Cup players are concerned.
ex-
Sir, Your correspondent Mr. Cheng Yu-chau is correct in his surmise regarding the leenlity to which the sketch relates. The "clock tower" however, to which, [A sensation was caused at the he refers, should, I believe, be the Roehampton Club on the first day "bell church." in the absence of of the tournament when Jacob, the a Chinese character to denote the All-India Davis Cup captain was- colloquial term, and as "clock" informed that the. Lawn Tennis and "bell" have very similar pro- Association had suspended him nunciations in Chinese, the error from all play in tournaments and is not impossible. I am inclined matches until further notice. This to believe that the term refers to was a sequel to the Helmore team's "bel!" because the church indicat-visit to Parls when the Asso- ed, St. Lawrence's, has a fine peal ciation called upon a number of of bells of great age, while theplanation of their acceptance of
well-known players for an clock was only recently added. the hospitality of the Paris Tennis am open to correction, of course, Club. A. H. Fyzee, who visited hut only contribute this in the Paris with Jacob, was also sus- hopes that your correspondent pended. The Association's official might find it of interest.
statement said these two players Mr. Cheng will be interested to not having given the required learn that the building was not undertaking by the appointed date. demolished, as he states, but still to deposit their share of the Paris stands. Upon the dissolution of expenses with the Association, the Company the Residence was were suspended from playing in used by the British Government open tournaments in Britain until as a Consulate Building, passing the Council should into the hands of the Portuguese] decide] Government a few years ago, and recently the Salesian Fathers, an Italian Order, moved into the place and established, an indus- trial-school for Chinese orphans. Many additions have been made to the premises, but the old house, Sergeant F. Dungey.effected the A party of pickets led by in a very dilapidated condition, arrest last night of a Chinese at still stands. The Italian priests Praya East with a fully loaded. only recently demolished the wall, automatic pistol and 300 rounds known by the Chinese as the of "sixteen pillars" substituting in opening of the package in which
ammunition. During the" place thereof the present plain the arms were found, the man wall.
altempted to get away but was The name of "sixteen pillars" caught. It was later discovered: was given to the street because that the man was a pantry boy of the wall, and though the pillars on the ss. President Cleveland.. no longer exist, the name still A formal remand was made when elings to the locality. All the the man was brought before the cther buildings shown in the Central Magistrate this morning. sketch have since been demolish-A committal to the Sessions will ed or altered, but the residence of be asked for by the police. the Superintendent of the British East India Company, over a cen- tury old, may still be seen,
I am sending you another sketch by Chinnery of the Garden at the back of the Residence, as it was in the old days. Only a small portion of this garden now re- mains, several buildings having been constructed on the site in connection with the Industria! School.
Yours, etc.,
1 Macao, April 21.
J. M. B.
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