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THE

CHINA MAIL,

RELIGION IN CHINA CONVENT BAZAAR

CONTROL OF SCHOOLS BY

'CHINESE GOVERNMENT

[By Roy Allgood.]

LADY. CLEMENTI SENDS CHEQUE TO FUNDS

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1929.

OUR WEEKLY SERMON ·

The Jewish Contribution To Christianity

HONG KONG, JOCKEY CLUB. MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS

Interference and control exercised

THE SIXTH EXTRA RACE Lady Clementi. before leaving the TH MEETING will bo hold [By the Reverend Geoffrey Allen, B.A., Chaplain of In private schools by the Chinese Colony, kindly consented to be the

Ripon Hail, Oxford]

Government is now holding the patron of the Precious Blood Convent VALLEY on MONDAY, 14th Oc

(weather permitting) at 'Happy attention of misalonary educators Bazaar, and generously wrote out The Srst, place in the Christian From the tinge of Jesus the Old and leaders throughout China, it goes without saying that this dis-

handsome cheque towards the funds, tober, 1929, commencing at 2.15 heritage from Judaism must be Testament hus provided unfalling Whether or not to conform to the tinguished patronage is an encourage-

Christian piety; regulations recently issued by the mont for help from the generous com 1.45 p.m.

The first bell will be rung t given to the person of Jesus Him-inspiration for self. Tho corner-stone of the Lord Prothero, in hip book The Ministry of Education .of the manity. In addition to other donations, Christian fabric is the character, Psalms in Human Life, gives strik- Nationalist Government is to the from local merchants, the Hon. Mr. Public Enclosure will be $1 for The charge for admission to the and the religious outlook of if ing. testimony to the influence of average missionary a big question. A. C. Hynes has shown his benevolence all persons including Ladles Founder, The essential basis of this book of the Old Testament. Opinions vary

widely, Many towards the orphans of the Convent by

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform our religion is, not so much a re- Less fortunately, from the time of think submission means that niis. ending a cheque for $50 as a donation half price. lation of men to Jesus, but the¦ St. Paul to our own day, the sion schools must become an integral to the Bazaar.

Members are advised that they The Committee, including Miss Pearl example of the relation of Jesus Scriptures have provided an in-part of the Government system. Chaw (daughter

And Jesus, was born a exhaustible battery for theological They fear the fundamental purpose Chow) have decided to run the Bazaar admission to the Members' Encio- of Sir Shou-son must show their Badges to obtain combatants. To quote a text has of mission schools will be destroy-Jon a grander scale this year.

Bure. *The pendulum of historical ever been to proce an argument. [ed; that active Christian evangelism shanld be noted that unlike previous Each member has the right to criticism has awung back from its | If the quotation wrasta the next therein will be prevented; that years, the Bazaar will be held at Wah introduce 2 non-members to the first attempt to create, by suitable text far away from its original schools heretofore predominantly Yan College, Robinson Rond in both Members' Enclosure, tickets for expurgationa, a liberal Protestant context, this merely means that the Christian will horoafter be reduced its hali and playground for two con- whom can be obtained'

secutive days, October 12" and 13, Mrs Mesara. Linstead & Davis at $5 Jesura of the nineteenth century. true sense was as yet hidden, and to scarcely more This modern attempt to divorce that the mantle of inspiration has secular institutions. Those holding ing ceremony at 3 p.s. on the first day. 1929.

than ordinary R. H. Ketewall will perform the open each up to Saturday 12th October, the religion of Jesus from the Jewish | fullen from the author, on to his such opinions are usually of the Souvenir tickets issued at $1 and back ground is Indeed as old newest and most ingenious interpre-more conservative,the fundament- $2 have already met with

The charge for admission for as Marcion. Marcion, that prince ter. It is perhaps worth reminding alists. Rather than obey the re-sale. Those tickets will be oxchanged Ladies to the Members Enclosure)

favourable of heretics and sincerest of Chris- ourselves that the example of thegulations, they profer to close their an being presented at the Bazaar, for will be $2. tians, refused to set the primitive use and abuse of Scripture for schools. Others, the liberals, find an unknown number, which if it turns Each member can obtain upon' out a lucky ene will get a prize of application. to the Secretory enlarged opportunity for Christian.

numerous games at which to test one's free of charge. activities. The value of the legacy of They believe the freer approach to that the Dazhar will result in a splen luck, skill or intelligence. It is hoped Scripture may be said in a paradox religion brings

the best results. di success.

to God.

Jew.

It

from

legends of early Judaism on a level textual warfare goes back behind little cause for worry. They see anmany times the yalue. There will be Badges for admission of 2 Ladies |

St. Paul to the Tempter.

Value of the Legacy

ising extra-curricular

with the revelation in Jesus of the God of Love; he taught that Jesus revealed a new God, who was till tien a stranger to the world, and who entered it to deliver men from to vary inversely with the value They hope to win the confidence of the God of the Jews: In order ascribed to it. When the authority the government, and the favour of to prove this drastic separation of of the Old Testament has been re-more liberal concessions in the Jesus from Judaism, Marcion had garded as verbal and absolute, its future. Therefore, they would con- to adopt the premise that the influence has been pernicions; when form to all necessary regulations, Gospels and Epistles had been its infallibility is once for all re-retain control of their schools, keep utterly fabbed by Jewish cor- jected, then its true and real value them in opdration, compromise for rectors, a view all the more strange is appreciated. Marcion, accept- the present, and press on toward "since he accepted the historieni į ing the false promise of the the future with the assurance of

Inerraucy of the Old Testament. inerrancy of the old Testament, continued success.

A Different Message Ta-day we may perkaps agree with Marcion that St. Paul, at any rate in his arguments against Judaizers, has a new and different message from that of the Judale Gospels; we cannot follow him in the result ing step, too drastic for honest

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All that came before me were reads: "A private school is not per criticism, of weeding out from the thieves and robbers"; the Epistle of mitted to give religion as a required "Picador" (Horatie Nicholls) One-step, are being landed at their risk into tho Gospels everything Judais, The Barnabas would have us believe subject, nor is religious propaganda

opposite extreme is expressed by that any who accept a literal in- permitted in the class room. . If Klausner, who in his recent book, | terpretation of the Old Testament) there are any religious exercises Jesus of Nazajeth, first published in are inspired by Satan. The at-stadents shall not be compolled to Hebrew, gives a sympathetic and tempt thus to exalt the God of participate." on the whole very fair presentation

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"The Constitution of the Repub-Trading Association, Ltd.). was opposed by the Church. What graph II religious liberty to

11.30 p.m.-Close Down. Ita would the history of Christendom citizens. We are aware of the fact have been, if as perhapt nearly that this has been construed by happened, Marcion had triumphed, many people outside the church, cline in British migration to Aus and the New Testament had com-jamong them men of high authority, tralia, Mr. E. J. Mulvany, a mem- pletely superseded the Old? to, involve that the individual stud ber of the Commonwealth Develop- ant should be allowed the liberty to ment and Migration Commission,

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The Reformation

Religious Liberty

Commenting on the serious de-

to remain at a low level.

Love by isolating Him was magni. This rule involves the question "A Small Cup Of Tea" Tango, of the life of Jesus from the point ficent but impossible; fortunately, nearest to the heart of every mis-"Take Thin Bouquet Forget-Me-Nota"

Com- as we see to-day, it was also un-elonary. To deny him the right of . Foxtrot, menting on the verse, 'It is not necessary, for the discovery in the teaching religion in schools which meet to take the bread of the chil-Old Testament of an evolution of he has founded for the purpose dren and cast it to the dogs,' he the knowledge of God destroy the raises within his mind the old ques-"Spring Serenade,"

By tion of the freedom of religion.The Letter of Manon." says, Jesus in all is sayings and false premise of inerrancy. duines was an utter Jew. Klausner a quaint historical paradox the The point in dispute here is fully further holds, that till the time of heritage of the Old Testament, explained in a letter addressed by Trajan and Hadrian Jesus was re- coupled with the belief in its in- Lutheran Church of China to the

the Board of Education garded as a true Jew by the sages fallibility, was the indirect cause Churches in China to secure joint of Israel:

of our possession of the New action by them with a view to ob- Térrific Scorn

Testament: the Old Testament, by taining freedom of religious Ins- True, Jesus poured terrific scorn first provoking this drastic opposi-truction in private schools. In of Chinese Music. (Records supplied on the conventional Judaism of tion from Marcion..led later to the part the letter teads: His rejection authorization of a canonical New by his people is an unanswerable proot of the difference of His re ligion and theirs. Still, even in His antagonism to the narrow spirit of Pharisaism, Jesus was true to the finer side of Judaism. In his desire for mercy and not sacrifice He stands in the tradition of the Jewish prophets. Moreover other The influence of this heritage choose whether he wants to take expressed the opinion that until the contemporary Jews realized that all from Judałym was felt with re-part in religious activities or pgt.general economic position of the was not well with the conventional newed force at the Reformation, Ahd from the point of view of nonuntry improved; the flow of religion of that time." Other Jews when men turn for authoritativo Christian this attitude la intelligi people from abroad was exjlected recognized that religious legalbim teaching from a cerrupt Churchble. easily degenerates into hypocrisy, to an Infallible Bible. Calvin nud pointed a finger of acorn to the 'somewhere has written a slogan for "We believe however that the tell tell me what is my obligation Biblical fundamentalism, as paragraph on religious liberty as and I will do it' type of Pharisee. nothing useful to salvation has in most enlightened countries of the will be overthrown or not. The With regard to the positive teach- been omitted, so there is nothing world refers to an inalienable right third course of action is that of ing of our Lord, it may well be true, therein but what it is of import-of parents to determine in which evasion and protest. This will pro- as Klausner and Montefiore say. ance to know.' The Anglican way their children shall be instruct-bably be followed by some of that 'throughout the Gospels there Articles make the Bible the prior volves the right of the parents out dangerous policy to follow, as it ed' as regards religion. This in the most conservatives. It is a is not one item of the ethical teach- authority to the Creeds. The ing which cannot be paralleled judgment of, J. R. Green is classical of their own resources to establish implies a defiance of national law, either in the Old Testament, and for this country; No greater moral tion in the way which they deem tion from the Chinese Official. Such schools which give religious instruc-which naturally meets with opposi the Apocrypha, or in the Talmudic change ever passed over a nation and Midrashle literature of the time than pasted over

best, provided the standards of the a policy would probably merely an England during schools thus established are at least tagonize the situation with further of Jesus.' The true originality the years which parted the middle equal to those set by the National complications. The fourth course of Jesus lies, not in the propound of the reign of Elizabeth from the Government, and that the schools of action lies la closing the school, ing of new thoughts, but in the meeting of the Long Parliament. otherwise loyally submit to it. We either temporarily or permanently. selection He made of all that was England became the people of a do not maintain that religious ins-If the requirements for registration best in Judaism. Fils genius is book, and that book was the Bible.truction necessarily should be com- are Jaw, and if that law can seen in the simplicity of emphaals Under this revived influence of the pulsory but that the schools should not conscientiously be obeyed, then on all that was most fine in Old Testament the Jewish theocracy be allowed to make it so, if it is let the school voluntarily close its Judaism, and in the rejection of all served as a model for an Erastian deemed advisable. less weighty, mattera of the law. State, and wars were waged at the

doors in ailent protest "We believe that religious Ins His appeal is universal, just because beheat of the Jewish Lord of Hosts.truction will suffer gravely if the, He speaks with exceptional clarity, After the Reformation, the au-participation is left to the children as the foreigner views it. It la ef simple yet fundamental truths, thority of the Old Testament, was to determine and further that the further interest to note that Chin- which many others have spoken, and at its greatest, and the paradox voluntary system would lead to ese Christians think of it, This to which all men make assent, was proved, that its value was least. great inconveniences, so we feel view is well expressed in the di- More particularly His difference Harnack writes, 'It Marcion had strongly that an attempt should be torial notes of the from contemporary Jews, and a appeared again at the time of the made to secure an Interpretation of 1929, number of the Educ.. main cause of His rejection by His Huguenots and of Oliver Cromwell, the constitution according to the Review of the China Christian people, lay, in the prophetic em he would have met the Jewish God generally accepted views."

Educational Association, which phasis on morality, and the con of War, whom he had rejected

Threats to Close sequent eclipse of ceremoniallam, in horror, set in the heart of While the discussion continues ar "The action of the General Coun as the demand of God from men. Christendom. We may add that to the best course of action to foleil of the Church of Christ in China Moreover, Id proclaiming the the resuscitation of Marcion would low, the Ministry of Education is of October of this year (1928) on Father's will, He dared to resume not have been much more happy formally registered in accordance the opinion of very many, If not of insisting that all private schools be the subject, probably represente after long disuse another feature had he appeared so recently, as of the mantle of the prophets; Ho the second decade of the twentieth with its regulations. The time limit most educated Chinese Christians. spoke with authority,sa from his century.

own personal conviction, not as the Beribes. He gave men the ever new wine without troubling to hide it

In the old bottles

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(To-Be Continued.)·

MOTORIST'S ILL-LUCK

The Foreign View - The above represents the question

for registration has already passed: The Council re-affirmed actions pre- Schools, which have not previously viously, recommending registra taken steps toward registration are tion with the Government of all being threatened with closing. The schools conducted by the Church situation In some localities indic of Christ. At the same time I plac ate, definite decisions must be made ed on record this conviction; that within the next few weeks, private schools should have the

Four courses of action seem to right to teach religion, and to deter be open The first is compliance mine for themselves the best method International six-days with government regulations of all of teaching. It and voted "ata trial Miss Edyth private schools. Reports indicate favourable time", to present a peti- of the Ent- majority of schools plan to fol- tion to the Government asking for Involed low this course. The second is that is greater measure of religious frees batly of delay. Many prefer not to Hurry dom in schools. It seems probable

prefer the game of that these actions will de

happens to more serious consideration by Chin- which does register, and ese Christians than ever on the 6 Nanking Government whole question of religious liberty.

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