1929-07-27 — Page 11

SATURDAY, JULY,27, 1929.

OUR WEEKLY SERMON

Is A Philosophy Of History Possible? MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS

[By Professor A. S. Pringle-Pattison, LL.D., D.C.L., F.B.A.]

مین

(Continued from July 20.)

deification

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THE COLONIES

SIR B. BLACKETT TO HEAD COMMITTEE

TO ADVISE ON FINANCE

THE CHINA MAIL

ROUND THE CINEMAS

COMEDY TEAM IN HILARIOUS FARCE

"THE BÁBY CYCLONE"

The popular screen team, Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle, are to- gether again in a new comedy, “The Baby Cyclone,” which will be shown to-morrow and Monday at the Queen's Theatre.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

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CONCERT POSTPONED

LOCAL WHARVES

CHANGE IN THE OFFICIAL LIST

London, Yesterday. Sir Basil Blackett is the Chair- man of the Committee appointed under

the Colonial Development Bill. It comprises, in addition, Sir Felix Pole. Sir Allan Smith, Mr. Surely this view of "the human dissolution, and in Christian philo- Ernest. Revan, and Mr. R. H. Jack-

The picture is a hilarious film- and the earthly as the exclusive sophies of history it appears but as

SOF-Reuter."

M. Cohan's. isation of George of great' of part

praeparatio reality this

[Sir Basil Blackett was Finance ordained Member of the Indian

famous stage play, with Cody as Exccutive humanity and its progress-has evangelica-a divinely

and Miss only to be stated in order to con- medium for the propagation of the Council 1922-1929, and is a noted in the romantic club man

Sir Felix Pole is Pringle as the financee who throws demn itself. The emphasis of new faith. If we go farther, the ancial authority. Hegel's thought on the divine improvidential direction of history General Manager of the Great West-him over for the sake of a pet dog.

ern Railway: and Sir Allan Smith is manence and the knowability of means one thing for the Roman Chairman of the Management Board

Robert Armstrong, famous on the The following regulations were made the thus manifested 'God, as against Church and quite another thing for of the Engineering and Allied Em-stage in "Is Zat So?" and Gwen by the Governor in Council under sec- the deistic idea of a far-off self- the Churches of the Reformation.ployers' National Federation.]

Lee play the other two important clon 26 (1) (1) of the Merchant Ship- roles in the new production. It ping Ordinance 1899, Ordinance No. 10 involved deity, a spirit, as he says, beyond the stars who eventually

tells they story of the havoc wroght, of 1809, on July 24:---- amid two loving couples by the little sperified as wharves in Victoria for 1-(1) The following are hereby evaporates into the unknown and

dog who himself, of course, unknowable, belongs, I hold, to the

receiving or landing passengers to or great and true insights of his

perfectly innocent.

from boats plying for hire, philosophy. "God is not a spirit beyond the stars. He is Spirit in all spirits." We do right, there- fore, to seek God in our spiritual experience rather than in the in- mensities of the physical universe. But it is fundamentally absurd to suppose that the Power which cradles and encompasses all our lives is not itself a living fact, and that it is reserved for man to bring

Great Armada Blessed The Pope blesses the great Armada as it sets out to crush a heretic nation, but the medals of Eliza- bethan England struck to com- memorate. Its destruction bear the words "Aflavit Deus et dissipati sunt." And in the following cen-- tury, in one of his most famous Milton identifies the sonnets, Church of Rome with "the Baby- lorian woe."

REDS ARRESTED

FRENCH EDITOR IN CUSTODY

Athens, Yesterday, Ten Communists have been arrested at Drama, and 18 are reported to be in custody at Angora.

Paris, Yesterday. You will remember, M. St. Preux, manager of the Com- the munist newspaper "Humanite," has too, the great passage of Areopagitica in which Milton ad- bean arrested on a charge of inciting jures the Lords and Commons of the troops to disobedience.--Reuter. England to remember "what nation

INVITATION TO RUSSIAN ENVOY

the Absolute, as it were, to the it is whereof [they] are, and where-"COME TO LONDON" birth, Such a theory, as I have of [they] are the governors'-a argued elsewhere, "'cabins the nation "chosen before any other, spirit of man within a narrow and that out of her, as out of Sion, self-sufficient positivism. It under-should be proclaimed and sounded mines the sentiment of reverer.ceforth the first tidings and trumpet and dulls our sense of the infinite of Reformation to all Europe." greatness and the infinite mystery "Now once again," he proceeds, of the world."

"God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reforma: tion itself.

What does he then but reveal Himself, to his servants and, as his manner is, first to his

Such language. Britors."

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London. Yesterday. Answering a question in the House of Commons Mr. H. Dalton (Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) (announced that Mr. A. Henderson had invited M. Dovgalevsky, the Soviet envoy, to come to London.

It is proposed to open conversations on July 29-Reater.

CHINA DISBANDMENT

Vistas of Modern Astronomy The explicit statement of such results is, I think you must feel, sufficient to discredit them. The sheer identification of the absolute Life with the course of human his- tory would be absurd enough even fear, is too reminiscent in our ears if we still, as in ancient and to-day of the Kaiser's references to

Nanking, Yesterday. mediaeval times, held this earth to "the great Ally who never forsuuk

China's military leaders yesterday be the centre of the universe; but the Germans." "Our Lord God held a preparatory meeting which is that such views should be seriously would never have en striven for the expected to last five days, to discuss put forward by thinkers fully cog- German Fatherland if He had not various items in connection with mili- nisant of the Copernican revolution meant great things for us. We are tary re-organisation and disbandment, and the illimitable vistas of modern the salt of the earth." He had the for consideration at the coming plen It grace to add, "but we must make ary session of the 2nd Military Re- astronomy is indeed strange.

The organisation and Disbandment Confer can only be explained, I think ourselves worthy so to be.". though not excused-as a reaction parallel, however, ought to makeente which is scheduled to take place this month-Nan Chung Kuo News against the naturalism, sometimes us chary of such detailed inter- Service. deduced from the Copernican view,pretations of the ways of Pro- which would make man efface him- 'vidence.. self before the immensities of

Human Record Ignored external nature, disparaging there-

We do well also to remember that by the significance of his life as a the most comprehensive of our rational being and a sharer there philosophies of history leave much fore in the eternal values, which of the human record out of account. are the foundations of the world. The Mediterranean Sea, as Hegel Neither a true philosophy nor a frankly says, is for them the centre reasonable religion can surrender of human history. So far as their this conviction of "the essential story is concerned, the civilizations greatness of man"-man a creature of India and China stand almost as capable of seeking God, and there- much apart as if they had grown fore, as Grotius said, "a creature up on a different planet. Let us most dear to God." We may not, therefore, tie ourselves down reasonably hold, then, that the too much to details either in our evolution of mankind and the forecast of the future. The span fashioning, by the manifold experi- of human history is so insignificant ences of time, of spirits fitted to compared with the ages that pre- take their place in one great ceded it and the length of the which science allows spiritual commonwealth cannot be future

the planet

and

its

in-

a mere show or appearance for anto eternally complete deity-cannot | habitants that any inductions based be indifferent to God himself as if upon it which would anticipate the

it were merely a pageant which course of that future are too pre- passed before Him-but must carious to inspire confidence. If, rather be conceived as a process in as men of science have of late often which He bears a guiding part, a assured us, the race is as yet only process whose results are truly an in its infancy, it stands to reason enrichment of His own life. But that it doth not yet appear what it seems to me that the theory of we shall be after ages to come: it divine participation and direction is difficult to estimate the possibili- can be usefully or safely applied ties of progress in any of its direc only on the largest scale, when we tiens. Of perfectibility, as pro- are contemplating the process as a claimed by the eighteenth century, whole the history of the earth, let it will be wiser not to speak; and us say, the emergence and evalu-an automatic law of progress carry- tion of animal life, the arrival of ing the race irresistibly to its man's non-human ancestors and destined goal, as held by Herbert ultimately of man himself, and the Spencer and others in the nine- shaping of the human animal in teenth century, we may confident- long periods of prehistorie time in-ly deny. Progress such as we con- to a social and morally responsible template can only be won by effort; being. In this age-long history a and if the effort be relaxed, a re "purpose of nature" (as Kant calls gression is only too easily initiated.

What Survival Means it) may be more securely traced.

than in the political and ractal It is certainly not the case, as vicissitudes of the few thousand seems to have been imagined by years which constitute all that we the nineteenth century apostles of know of human history in the progress, that every step taken is ordinary sense of the terms.

necessarily a step in advance. Sur- Hopes and Fears Dvival, d either of organisms or of We have seen how would-be ideas, does not mean superior ex philosophies of that history are in cellence unless we take very long, evitably coloured by nationalistic views. Progress on the whole is hopes and fears or racial ambitions, compatible with long periods of re. and how, when events have disprov trogression, such as may easily be ed a particular theory, a new pointed out in the past. Whether philosophy is phomptly produced to progress is to continue or not de meet the altered situation. In this pends, therefore, ultimately on our way the philosophy of history is selves; but in other respects a be continually being re-written by the lief in its continuance is consonant, last comer. After the shipwreck as Kant felt, with a theistic view of Jewish nationalism, the Hebrew of the world, and it is, he adds, the

philosophy of history was re-edited only belief which can give us

by the early Christians, who claim courage and hope to face the

ed to be the true Israel, the future.

recullar people of God, to whom

the Old Testament promises were

transferred. The destiny of Rome

Alfred Webber, aged 17, of Bent

formed the theme of the last great worth road Shepherd's Bush, Wy Greek historians. Fortuno, says whose foot was caught in an escala, Polybius (he uses the terms God, Fate and Fortune almost indiffertor at Shepherd's Bush tube station ently), "has caused the whole world was taker home after treatment for and its history to tend to one pur injuries to his toes at the We pose, the empire of Rome and Virgi In the Aneld, with a deeper religious feeling, blands the glories of Rome's mast with the thought

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Elaborate settinga, in a modern- istic style, typifying present-day New York, are used in this hilarious and rather spectacular romance.

Fenwick-road Pier. Luard-road Steps.

O'Brien-road Steps.

Fleming-road Steps.

Stewart-road Steps.

Tennocby-road Steps, Marsh-road Steps. Canal-road West Steps. Percival-street Steps.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN Appearing To-morrow at the World "First select a funny situation. (2) As a consequential amendment then build a series of the must to regulation. 1 of Table N in the ridiculous adventures that can be Schedule to the Merchant Shipping conceived around this dominating Ordinance, 1899, amended as appears idea, and, finally, enact the result-in Governmert Notification No. 7 of ing plot in the most rainstaking and 1924, the wharves specified in para. graph (1) of this regulation shall be serious manner possible." This is added to the list of wharves in Vic- Charlie Chaplin's recipe for making toria in respect of which provisions of successful comedies.

section 28 (1) (f) of the said Ordin- Chaplin's pictures are perennial once apply.

Although Charlie sticks to the same old recipe, every pro- duction he turns out is a tremend- ous hit the world over. Those who have tried to copy Charlie's gar- ments and antics have fallen by the

while wayside,

the опе great comedian continues to climb to new heights.

successes.

Thus he is better than ever in "The Circus," his famous comedy, which starts 3 Hong Kong run at the World Theatre to-morrow. Many people claim that this is the little man's finest achievement-certainly it is a superlatively funny produc- tion. It will be shown during each performance, 2.30; 5.15, 7.15 and

9.20 p.m., until Wednesday.

2. The said regulation 1 of Table N is hereby further amended by the de- letion of

Arsenal-street Wharf. Arsenal-street Steps, Ship-street Steps. Jardine Steps,

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