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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

1929F

GOSPEL'S AUTHENTICITY

IT HÆM CHINAK MAIL.

St. John's Gorpelihahada SHADOWS BEFORE IN OTHER PLACES harder fight but the result is the

same here also, We are back at COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED the traditional dates. From 180--

Rev. Father Joy's Address On “A Book & Its Story 170, dates given by Baur and

HIGHER CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY

SP IN THE "MAIL"

In St. Patrick's Hall last night the Rev. Father P. Joy, S.J., a fine appeal regarding the essential truths of the Gospel. be seen he dealt with the New Testament historically and

that the "Jesus, of history is the Christ.of Faith."

made

Bruno Bauer, we get back to 150- 160 with Schwegler; Volkmar Musical Comedy Co. In "Ok Kay" To-day — WIR? Banvard's New gives 155; Zeller 160 Taylor retires to a data between 130-195, Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Keim gives 180: Schenkel, Renan, East Reclamation, 9.15 p.m.

To-day-Harmston's Ciftus, Praya Nicolaa give 110-115.. It is al ways back, back to tradition till

As will argued

To-day-Queen's Theatre; "Love." we reach Aube who gives 100 and Miserables" (5 and 9.15 p.m.) To-day-World Theatre "Les" to-day we have Harnack assign-Chinese picture "Poor Daddy (230 ing the dates 80-100.

Harnack's Avowal

and 7.15 p.m.)

To-day-Star Theatre; "Spring Fever."

LES FROM JAPAN TO JAVA

Yut-on has been postponed from The funeral of the late Dr. Sa

March 8 to June 1 on account of the" fact that the Chungshan-reddüln Nanking has not yet b plated;

At a recent ineeting of the Singa pore Municipal Commission Dr. Mint Han-hoe asked Why is ft' neces sary to produce the police reglètr

for motor vehicles?'

The Rev. Father Joy, who had Gospels cannot be, sources of his.ung. the question further, I can To-day-Majestic Theatre; "Her tion certificate when paying f

a large audience, said:

I propose this evening to deal with the Higher Criticism of the Gospels. My plan will be to give an outline of the views of the various schools which have at tacked the Gospels, with the briefest possible comment on each and I shall then narrow down the

discussion to the most vital point of Christian history-the Resur rection of Our Saviour, and examine. the value of the various hypotheses put forward by that

crucial test.

favour.

story was

ation.

Herman

No

more

was.

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Of the Synoptic problem little

A

Feb. 23-At Sales Room, 6 cases

Sports.

H.E the Governor (Sir Hugh Clifford) left for Port Swettenham recently by the yacht "Seabelle 11.7 He stayed in Kuala Lumpur untiT Feb. 1, returning to Singapore on that date. The Acting Colonial Secretary (Mr. G. Hemmant) acted" as Governor's Depirty.

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At 9.15

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If any one is interested in pur-

torical authority,"

supply him with a long list of frank avowal of the thoroughly point. But no one who knows the

names and references to prove the Honour the Governor.” ***

To-day Hong Kong Amateur unhistorical method of rationalist present position of the contro Damatle Club presents "On Ap

In connection with the first visit Bible criticism could be fomu-vergy will question the general proval." at the Thebtre Royal.

of HM the King of Siam to his: lated.

To-dayVocal & Plano Recital | West Coast dominions the Siamese conclusion. It was in the last de- "Myth" theory?

What was the fate of the cade of the last century, if I re at Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m. Consul at Penang is proceeding to

I quote Kar-member rightly, that Harnack

Feb. 23-International dance Puket to take part in the "forth- Back:

The ¡made the frank avowal: "In the display At Club de Recreio, King's coming celebrations there.

programme Includes a grand fire-" "The assertion of Strauss that Criticism of the sources of pri Park. 4 p.m. the Gospels contained very much mitive Christianity we are, with-

Feb. 29--Star Theatre; Banvaed works display, that was mythical has not been out doubt, returning to tradition," Musical Comedy Co., in "Tip Toes," verified, even if we allow the very In 1906 he was able to say that 5 pm

Feb. 24-Star Theatre Banvard indefinite and erroneous idea of this statement, which produced a the mythical of which Strauss storm of disapproval from his Musical Comedy Co. In "Folles

fellow-critics at the time, had Bergere," pin:** To avoid possible misunder- makes use."

Kong standing, I wish to make two pre-

Hotel: Another critic, Chamberlain, is facts. In his "Essence of Chris- Special Dinner Dance.

been abundantly proven by the Web. 27 Hong liminary remarks. The first is more severe. He writes:

March 1-Dance at Engineers and that when I use the term "ration- "At the beginning of the nine-tianity," a year later, he tells us: alist" or rationalistic" I include teenth century... it had beter of the Gospela is to-day

"The absolutely anique charac Shipbuilders Institute? Buka

March 6-Garden Party at Club) not only those who would call come the fashion to, explain universally recognised by Criti de Recreio, King's Park, in honour themselves Rationalists but all everything as 'mythical. In the cism. That we are, in essen- of the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga and the those who approach the studly of year 1835 David Strauss followed tials. face to face with primitive Hon. Dr. Teo, 5.80 p.m. **** the question with the philosophi, the example given him on all sides tradition is incontestable."

Lammerts' Auctions cal presuppositions of ration- and offered as a 'key' to the Gos-

For my purpose this evening Feb: 22 At Sales Room, a valu alism, viz., the rejection pels, the 'idea of a myth.' To of all that is supernatur-day everyone sees

it is sufficient to point out to you able collection of Postage stamps. that not!

the significance of this conclusion. 5.15 p... al or miraculous. The second an idea' but simply a being, who we have in the Synoptics docu is that in this lecture I shall actually lived, as well as the in-ments giving the sccounts of butter, noon. neither quote from, nor cite the comparable impression of a Per- authority of a single Catholic sonality, such as the world had actual eyewitnesses, which were

in circulation in the very place Feb. 24 Fanling Paper Hunt, Bible Scholar. There is, of course, never previously known, give the where the events narrated are starting from Sousa's Bungalow, 11 a vast literature on Bible ques- 'key' to the origin of Christian- tiona on the Catholic side by ity. The progress of the said to have happened when thou-am.

Feb, 25, 26, 27 & Mar. 2-Hong scholars of eminence and distinc-historical and critical research sands of other eyewitnesses were

still alive and therefore could have Kong Jockey Club Annual Race tion-but by employing this self- causes Strauss's mytholo- denying ordinance, I shall not be gical theory to be regarded to-day exposed the fraud, if fraud there Meeting.

Feb. 28 Meeting of H.K.V.D.C.]: open to the charge of quoting as so death, even from its incep-

thors with prejudices in our tion, that one cannot look through authorship is a matter of second-

Beside this fact the question of Sergeants' Mess Committee; 6 p.m. the pages of this worthy man ary importance, but to complete Ltd., Annual Meeting.

March 1-Hong Kong Tramways The first to apply the princi-without yawning audibly." ples of rationalism to the Gospel The Myth theory being dead, the matter I may mention that it Jardine's office, noon.

is now universally admitted that March 2-Boxing Tournament at Samuel the pendulum swung back again Matthew wrote a Gospel (though Theatre Royal. Reimarus (1694-1768), His posi- to deception. Ferdinand Chris-whether the Aramaic only or also tion was that the whole Biblical tian Baur went back unblushing the Greek is still disputed); all meeting of Shareholders of HK. & March 7-Forty-second annual history, especially the New Testa- ly to Reimarus. For him the admit Mark; Harnack's study K. Whf, & Godown Co., Ltd., Mesara. ment, was a fraud perpetrated by Gospels were invented in the has Anally established Luke's Jardine offices, noon. the disciples of Jesus on their second century to settle a conflict authorship: the fight for John's

March 16 St. Peter's Church credulous and ignorant followers. between Jewish and Gentile Chris- authorship still goes on. They invented the story as a tianity, the Petrists and the

YM.C.'s Marathon Race, 8 p.m. means of livelihood when Jesus Paulists as he called them. But

Meetings failed in His mission--according the arguments which crushed the the Gospels can deny that there is of European Y.M.C.A. Kowloon, need be said. No one who reads To-day-Annual general meeting to Reimarus a political mission to first Deception theory crushed dependence either on one another 6.30 p.m. free the Jews from Roman domin-Baur too. The whole critical apor, more probably, on still earlier To-day-Annual Meeting of

paratus with which Baur has dis- Even Rationalists realised the puted the old tradition rightly sources. St. Luke tells us ex-European YM.C.A. at Kowloon,

pressly that he is drawing from p.m. absurdity of the hypothesis. It passes to-day for worthless." So

earlier sources. Libraries have never had a

Feb. 22-Fourth Annual meeting serious hearing, confesses Harnack.

} been written on the subject and of Hong Kong Telephone Co., Ltd., Later Rationalists, however, differ Sceptical Criticism

we are far from a solution. If Echange Bldg., (2nd floor) zioon. from Reimarus not quite so Rationalist criticism was hard the enemies of Christianity were Feb. 28-Further extraordinary much as they themselves would put to it. A desperate disease wise they would talk less about meeting of shareholders of Hong requires a desperate remedy and the Synoptic problem. To put Kong & Shanghat Banking Cor "Natural" Explanation Bruno Bauer (1809-1882) invent- the matter in a nutshell-if, forporation, City Hall, 12.45 p.m. Mindful of the Reimarus fiasco, ed it. He denied not only the his- example, Harnack succeeds in

Feb. 28 Ninth yearly meeting of Paulus (died 1851) let the toricity of the Gospels but even proving that the first edition of Kowicon Residents Association, In a person as Mark and the famous "Q" docu- St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, Gospels go apparently for historyclaimed that such but interpreted them "naturally Jesus of Nazareth had never ment appeared before 50, then 6 pm. and rationally." Unfortunately lived at all. For 40 years he our Gospela are as near to the

.-5.00 Feb. 28 Thirty-third yearly for Paulus, the "natural" explana-wrote his hymns of hate but long events which they narrate as we meeting of the Dairy Farm Ice & tion was so unnatural that Strauss before his last book appeared, his are to the Coronation of King Cold Storage Co., Ltd., 2 Lower had little difficulty in destroying life-word was condemned and for- George V.

Albert-rd, noon." it scientifically within a few gotten. Amazing as it may seem, Evolutionary Hypothesis. years. Subsequently, however, it | Bauer's worthless theory has

This brings us to the final stage Feb. 22 H.K.V.D.C. Annual In- formed the favourite theory for been dug up again in recent years of Gospel Criticism. The Liberal spection at Murray Parade ground, the romantic biographies of by a few Critics. Their assertions, School of which Harnack is the 5.60 p.m. Christ, It made possible, for however, have met almost every head, recognising that it can no

Feb. 23-Laying of 'Foundation example, Renan's Life of Christ where with the contempt which longer be denied that in the Gos-stone of the Kowloon branch of which appeared in 1883. Of they deserve.

pels we have the testimony of Chinese Y.M.C.A Renan's work another critic While all this struggle was go- eyewitnesses whose sincerity is Feb. 24-Y.M.C.A. (Luthardt) wrote in 1864: ing on, another was also being unquestionable, seek another way Quiet hour, 9 p.m..

Kowloon, "It is a book in which only the fought out with which the first to get rid of the miraculous and topography of Palestine, where was intimately connected-the the supernatural. "The Gospels, the author travelled, is true and fight for the genuineness of the they tell us, "have described only the language is beautiful. Gospels. Unbroken Christian tra- Jesus not as He really was, but All the rest offends at every step dition had placed the dates of the the Christ, as He appeared to the both those experienced in such Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, heart of His Church and as the matters, and also the Christian by Mark and Luke) at between 60- faithful needed Him." They its superficiality and godlessness." 70 A.D., and St. John at between therefore try to dissect the Gos-

Renan (so the younger Dumas 80-100 A.D:

pels so as to find out what parts informs us received a million

Historic method would suggest belong to the "Jesus of History," francs from the Jew, Rothschild, that such an unbroken tradition what parts must be rejected as for having written the book. He should be taken into considera pertaining to Christ of Faith." made a better bargain than Judas. tion. But rationalist criticism What is the principle of selec Renan, however, had sunk into ob- began by flinging tradition to the tion? The good old rationalist scurity before his death in 1892. winds. If its theories were to one which has turned up so often

Next comes

Strauss (1808-stand it had to make the Gospels-whatever is supernatural or 1874). Having destroyed the as late as possible. Accordingly miraculous must, for that reason, "natural" explanation of Paulus, Strauss placed them "at the be rejected as “exaggeration"... Strauss practically returns to earliest" at 150 A.D. Baur, more quite sincere and unconscious-on Reimarus. "Undesigned, poeti- modest, assigned them dates be the part of the disciples which cal, legend" replaces deception, tween 180 and 170. The others took place "from the earliest days Miracles in particular are "Mythi whom we have been considering and indeed already during the life cal garlands which enwreathe the and their, followers, if they dis- of Jesus Himself.” If this or any portrait of Jesus of Nazareth,"cussed dates at all, put the Goa- other of the theories can get rid The Gospels originated far down pels late in the second century, of the Resurrection, it may help the second century and are, con- The second half of the nine- the rationalist case. But if it sequently, spurious. I quote one teenth century saw a return to cannot, the whole structure falls priceless piece of "argument" sanity and criticism has been to the ground. “”. which I beg you to keep and hold: forced to give up one date after Why do I choose The Resurrec- "If the Gospels are really his another, until today it accepts tion as the acid test of rationalist toric documents," he tells us, "the dates for the Gospels that are thebries Zalongong brankopaten miraculous cannot bo eliminated approximately those of Christian 1. Because it is the central fact from the blography of Jesus; if, tradition. I give dates for the

like to think.

on the contrary, the miraculous is Gospels that are approximately

incompatible with history, the

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those of Christian tradition.

I

give a few dates as samples of

the process-

2.

Synoptics at

between

70 and 117

In 1872 Keim dated

In 1875 Helgenfeld 70 100 In 1886 Holtzmann : 68

In 1897 Welne

L1908 Harnack 2 65

100

96

98

of Christianity. If Christ

rose from the dead, Christian

ity has upon it the seal of the Divine.

Because Christ emplíašided it beforehand as the great test of the truth of His claim to be the Son of G531F0-3 and 8. Because od Mil Christ be not risen then play our Preaching "yain ; and your Faith": is also. vain. Yes, we are found false witnesses of God as St. Paul tells us wATIEKS Because, the enemies of Girls! tianity from Jew to Batigna). 1st have always found, it-the ktumbling block and have TEN ected against it thell får

← By 1911 Harnack had given stilli Augcarlieri; dates, 4 holding that

» Matthew, must be dated at 70, 4.

Four present Mark), (which he | holds to be a second edition)" at about 65 and Luke at 67 #Zahn thinks that the Synoptics were all written at dates between 60 and

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