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SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1929,

OUR WEEKLY SERMON

Modern Christianity And Religion

LEADING ANGLICAN VIEWS

Mythological Views of Jesus Become Popular

and Religion":-

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Shanghai, Yesterday. Chinese General Chamber of Fighting has been going on on Commerce was held yesterday, both banks of the Yangtze River when a large and representative between. Shasi and Ichang between. gathering of Chinese business-15,000 former Wu-Han troops, who XE Beg to notify Patrons that the men was present. Mr. Li Yick- are being attacked from the east asual Daily Tea Dance and Din- The following is a continuation, from last week, of the intro- duction by the Editor of the "Modern Churchman" to the series of mui and Mr. Chau Yue-ting, the by National forces and from the ner Dance will not be held on the above date as the Grill Room and addresses by eminent clerics on the subject of "Modern Christianity newly elected Chairman and Vice- west by Szechuanese for the Na Roof Garden have been reserved far

Chairman presided.

tionalists. Gun firing went on all the Chamber of Commerce Banquet A tribute to the good work of night long around Ichang.

in honour of H.R.H. the Duke of Japanese women and children Gloucester, Mr. Ip Lan-chuen, the retiring Secretary, was paid. On the resought refuge aboard a Japanese signation of Mr. Ip they lost a gunboat-Reuter.

Talk With Feng staunch supporter, the Chairman

Shanghai, Yesterday. said.

Mr. Ip is succeeded by Mr. Chan A communique from the front number says that a considerable Heung-pak.

Mr. Ip Lan-chuen, after thank-of Tao Chun's rebels have been ing the Chairman, suggested that disarmed by Government forces whe on account of the recent inaugura-have seized over 10,000 rifles in the

But to turn now to the other question. Can we believe that there was a Jesus of History, or was He a myth? This question has been discussed on and off for the last one hundred and forty years in France, Germany, England and America. There was a notable controversy on this point in Germany and England

they were persons who were very well known to his readers. The 'brethren of descendants of these the Lord, according to the great Church historian, Eusebius, the friend of Constantine the Great, survived for several generations in a humble condition. It is impos. sible to account for these brethren

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tion of the Chinese Library in region between Kingchow and Shuai FANLING HUNT the Chamber, and the fact that The remnant of the rebels the Chamber is making annual fleeing in confusion.

A message from Nanking says contributions to quite a number

Those who wish to road the argu- ment against the mythological school And justly can find it accurately presented in four books in the Eng-of educational institutions in that 16 aeroplanes are being des Hong Kong, including the Univer- sity, to increase the annual mem- bers fee for individuals to $10, for business shops $15, for com panies $20 and for the minor busi- ness associations $75.

the first two by the third by an

in the first two decades of this of Jesus if He Himself were not a century. It raised its head in Eng-human being. land with J. M. Robertson's Christianity and Mythology publish- ed in 1900, and received its coup de grâce from F. C. Conybeare's The Historical Christ (an investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. Smith) published by the Rationalist Press in 1914. In Germany it began with Katthoff in 1903, and Mauren brecher, Kautsky, Jensen, W. B. Smith, Drews, Stendel, Lublinski, W. Schultz and others contributed volumes to it in favour of the mythe logical view, while Holtzmann, Werule, von Soden, Julicher, Weinel, J. Weiss and a number of other favour of the historic view. I men- tion these names to indicate the magnitude of the subject and the interest it aroused. It is a matter with which Christian teachers should be acquainted, for the mytho- logical view was put forward with a great display of crudition, notably in certain cases by leaders of the social-democratic movement, and it has become popular with many educated men of the artizan class, and although, as we hold, the conten- tions of the mythologists were cou- clusively answered, the answers are not known in circles where the mythological volumes were read or possibly extracts from them cited.

lish tongue: Englishmen, American, the fourth by a German. (1) The Historic Christ, by F. C. Conybeare (Watts and Co., 1914); (2) Jesus the Christ: Historical or Mythical? by T. J. Thorburn (T. & T. Clark, 1912); (3) The Historicity of Jesus, by S. J. Case (University of Chicago. Press, 1912); (4) What is the Truth about Jesus Christ? by Friedrich Loofs (T. & T. Clark, 1913). I would fain add a fifth in document, the chapter (iv) entitled volumes

Jesus of Nazareth in that most brilliant and enthralling of all Professor Glover's writings, The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire (Methuen, 1909). It does not treat the mythological issue, but it gives the ineffaceable impression to its reader, such as he derives from the careful compara- tive study of the Synoptic Gospels. that he is

scholars contributed

walking on the solid ground of historical fact. As he rises from its perusal and from that of the Synoptists, he can put to himself Weiner's question and will feel himself able to answer it in Weinel's way: Do we know Jesus? Yes, we know Him very Bindeed, Dismissed as Grot, que

Letters from Messrs. Li You-

tsun, Ho Iu, Ho Kwong, Ho Wing, and Fung Heung-chuen, indicat- ing their intention to resign from the Executive Committee of the Chamber, were read, and after

some

Hankow, Yesterday.

A Chinese (pro-Nanking) gunboat was reported to be in action to-day five miles below Shasi (which is 287 miles above Hankow). -British Naval Wireless.

Shing-kui, Ma Chu-chiu, Yu Chuk-patched from Nanking to the front

deliberation Messrs. Li sang and Lau Yuk-wan were elect to assist in the extermination of the ed to fill the vacancies.

Famine

The famine in China caused by the serious drought was then dis- cussed. The meeting decided to send the letters to the Tung Wah Hospital urging that some relief be afforded to the northern re- fugees..

Herbalist

Wu-Han insurgents.

A further message from Nanking

the Kuo Min news agency says that Hauch Tuh-pi, the Minister of Health, who is going abroad shortly to study health, conditions, left last evening for Hwashan, Shenal, to "confer with General Feng Yu- hsiang concerning the general situa tion." He will later proceed to see Marshal Chiang Kai-shek before departing for America.-Reuter.

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Wuchang, while a branch office only is being maintained at Hankow.

The question of the appointment of a chairman of the Provincial Government continues to cause con aiderable surmise, since a fortnight| has elapsed since the occupation of Wu-Han and nothing definite has yet been done. It is understood that A letter from the Hong Kong

the delegate, Shao Li-tae, is. again Native Herbalist Association,

visiting Feng Yu-hsiang at Hwa- Hankow, Yesterday. shan, and is conferring on this mat- complaining of the ban placed on

It appears that all fighting is ter. the use of herbs as medicine by the Nanking Government was

the Kuominchun for

Meanwhile, the present. The suspended read. The Association urged the position at present 38 that Hu continue to occupy Laohokow and Chamber to lodge a protest to the Taung-tao and Tao Chum are oc- Kwangshui. Nanking Government. It is ex-

There is no further news from It will seem amazing to plain. This passage from Weinel is only plained that herbs had been used cupying a stretch of country be- people, when we have a whole liter-in seming conflict-with-one-offer for thousands of years in the tween Shast and leheng, where it up-river, and it is understood that

cited from Schweitzer. (Knowledge Country and the Hong Kong As is stated they are digging in and hostilities are still suspended.

The Chinese navy has reached a sociation cannot find any good erecting defences. Their rear is connaitre; in Schweitzer's weisset, reason why the National authori-protected by the Hupeh General Liu

Strange Yet True

ature like our Four Gospels and the

other writings of the New Testa

ment, which. assume as absolutely Jesus and tell us a great deal about Him, that anyone can doubt that. He was an historic personage. It seems equally strange, when we have a

certain the existence of the historic

in Weiner's sense is kennen,

savoir). We may dismiss the mythological Jesus theory with the remark that it seems as grotesque to the scholarly student of the New Testament as Anglo-Israelism does

ties should take these drastic

measures.

The Secretary informed the re- presentative of the herbalists that on account of the strong resent

nally preventing a further advance Ho-ting, who holds Ichang, effect- by Liu Haiang's Szechuanese. The latter would require additional forces to capture Ichang, but dare not draw further troops from

great institution like the Christian to the critical scholar of the Oldment in many parts of the coun Chungking owing to the threat of j

Church, which commemorates His shameful death in its chief sacra- mental rite and His resurrection on its weekly sacred day, that anyone can doubt that He was crucified. It seems almost equally significant that while the Jews, who were the bitter-

the est opponents of

Christian Church, contradicted many things: the Christians taught about Jesus- denying His virgin birth. Hia sin- Jéssness, the resurrection of His body, etc. they never denied His being an historic person.

Non-Christian Evidence

Testament.

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point just below Shasi, should an extensive drive against standing by, to assist the army, the rebels become necessary.—- Reuter.

Hankow to Shantung

Peking, Yesterday.. Five thousand troops belonging to try the Nanking Ministry of Health had cancelled its order a occupation by Yang Sen and Lu General Chen Tiao-yuan, stationed few days ago.

the Peking-Mukden Chi-chow. Meanwhile negotiations at Lutai on are going on between Hupeh and Railway, embarked in three Chin- Anti-Japan Boycott Nanking representatives and it is ese steamers at Tangku on April 17 Reference was made to the hoped a peaceful settlement can be for a southern destination, believed to be Shanghai. It is reported that seizure by anti-Nippon boycott arranged-Reuter.

they will go to Hankow to replace pickets of goods from Hong Kong. One such lot was 15 buckets of

some of Chiang Kai-shek's best

near

Wu-Han Muddle

Harkow, Yesterday,

salt fish, produce of the U.S.A., It is announced that General Lu troops who will garrison Shantung at Hohau, Samshui, on the West T-ping's garrison headquarters are upon the departure of the Japanese. River. Another was 24 bags of being shifted from Hankow to -Reuter. Java sugar at Tunghoi, Swabue (Shanmei). Action will be taken by the Chamber to urge the picket headquarters in Can- ton to release the goods. China Products

It is the weakness of non-Christian evidence to the existence of Jesus which has lent strength to the mythological theory, On several

"To encourage China products will be the sole and cardinal means occasions at the Girton Conference reference

The original story, "Father and to save the country," states the was made to the testi-

Josephus was Son," was written by James Hopper Chinese General Chamber of Com- mony of Josephus. born of a high-priestly family in and it was published in the "Satur-merce in Shanghai, in a notifica- Jerusalem in 38 A.B. He witnessed day Evening Post." Many of the tion to the Hong Kong Chinese the awful carnage of the Roman-football scenes, which are said to be Chamber that the Spring exposi- Jewish war, when Jerusalem was extremely thrilling, were "shot" at tion of China products will be destroyed in 70 A.D. He was intense-Loyola College, Los Angeles. Un- opened to-morrow (in Shanghai). ly interested in Judaism; he was a usual scenes of the players in actual Hong Kong merchants are asked profound student of it; and he was contest are among the features of] to take part in the exposition. also one of the great historians of the picture, antiquity. He wrote the Jewish his-

In the well-selected cast the direc- A renewal of the anti-British

has chosen such artistes as tory of his own times, yet it is very tor doubtful if he ever refers in his Roscoe Karna, Tom Elliott, Sidney

Mack Renan believed❘ Bracey, writings to Jesus.

boycott at Wanhsien, an Upper Yangtsze port of call between Fluker. Maxine Ichang and Chungking, is report-

ed in a R-N. communique..

that he did, but it is thought by many Shelly, and Betty Recklaw. that the passages have been inter- polated. The first undoubted non- Christian testimony to Jesus is by Tacitus, who lived about 52 A.D. to

120 A.D. He was the great his- torian of Imperial Rome. He writes

in his Annals XV, iv, 4:

I

of "The author

this

name

[Christian] Christus was execut-

ed in the reign of Tiberius by the Procurator Pontius Pilate, and the detested superstition, sup pressed for a time, broke out again, and spread not only over Judaea, where the evil originated, but even through Rome." Suetonius, a Roman historian, börn ebout 70 A.D., and Pliny the Young- er, born in 61 A.D., a Roman Gov- ernor, also refer to Christ. Certain ly the evidence is alight, but Jesus of Nazareth in the eye of Roman imperial historians was a very in- significant person in that great empire of a hundred million souls.

Epistles Genuine

It is among Christian writers that we get the most inspiring evidence. All critics accept St. Paul's epistles. to the Corinthians and Galatians as genuine. In I Corinthians it, 5, he speaks of the brethren of the Lord, and in Galations 1, 19, he refers to James, the brother of the Lord. He does it in such a way as to indicate that

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