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MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1932. ⠀⠀

DEAN INGE AND WORLD'S END

CLOCK” MAY BE WOUND

·UP AGAIN. :

THE

GLOOMY THEORIES OF SCIENCE.

Or, if an

which science is based, absolute beginning and end are un- thinkable, is it not reasonable to assume that whatever power wound One up the clock once may probably be

able to wind it up again?

A visitor to New York from Ohio -from Circleville, Ohio, to be exact —stopped at an hotel in the Grand Central district...Qne night he went to a cinema, later strolled up Broadway, smoked a cigar, and at length beaded for his hotel. He went in, stopped at the desk, asked for his key-967-got it, yawned, and. took the elevator up to

Dean Inge, in his first Warburton When he entered it and Lecture given in the Chapel of Lin room.. flicked on the light, he was start-coln's Inn, challenged the astro fed to see that he had been cleaned amers-theory that the world is tout, bag, baggage, toothbrush, running down like a clock.

everything. Oddly, too, the mar who first wound it up could do so auders had apparently. shifted the again.

"Is there really no escape from bathroom from the left side of the

While the nineteenth century had the final doom of the universe? If room to the right. Baffled and been called a century of hope, it was we have to admit that the irrevo- alarmed, the gentleman examined to be followed, it new seemed, by a cable degradation

Yes, it was 067 all right, century of disillusionment. God proved, how does it affect our be and that was his room he never was bound up with His creation for lists about God? forgot a number. In examining

the men of science, philosophers, so- "We believe that if there is the key, however, he discovered ciologists, and historians of

the God He must be omnipotent and what was the matter. It was the last century.

I eternal. But if there is such a key to Room 967 in another. hotel

"And yet if Jeans and Eddington being, and if it is He had walk are right," said the Dean, "this create a world, must He not create His nature to a few blocks nway. ed into the wrong hotel. Pulling merging, evolving, improving God always? Can himself together, he took the eles, no God at all, for surely a God literally surviving His creation and we imagine. His vator back downstairs, lightly toss-under sentence of death is no God. living on without it?

"If the universe is running down' "Even if the whole of the world

his key.

ed the key across the counter to a

of energy

is

1

smiling clerk and walked, two like a clock, the clock must have order that we know must submit at blocks up the avenue to the right been wound up. The world, if it last to the universal doom and pass place, tired but happy, declaring to is to have an end in time, must have out of existence, that only means himself that it had indeed been an had a beginning in time.

that the whole universe is, after all, interesting adventure-North China

The Old Creation Story. only a finite purpose of God, which, Daily News.

"'Is science itself driving us back like all the purposes, which are not to the traditional Christian doctrine frustrated, has its proper beginning, that God created the world out of middle, and end. News in Brief. nothing at a

In that case certain date? That there may be, and probably are, would be an amazing contradiction other world orders of which The lowest open air temperature of some of the presuppositions upon know nothing." yesterday up to 4 p.m. was 58 de- grees. The humidity was 68 at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

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RECORD ASSIZES.

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a man

we

Seeing to Belleve. Berlin, he went to Chicago the other Acting on peremptory orders from day to see for himself."

Within five minutes of his arrival

A GERMAN VISITS CHICAGO. At. to-morrow's Rotary Tiffin the speaker will be Hon. Mr. W. E. L

Theory is a mouse in the claws of Shenton, and his subject "The Ins- Later a man, or men, broke the the Malva proverb. It is a maxim the tiger of experience. So runa titute of Pacific Relations." glass in the window of the cubi- the truth of which finds daily justi-

cle and lifting the bolt, entered fication. abrupt and violent breach over Magazines" at the next meeting of the

Mrs. C. E. L. Grist will speak on and took the two quilts forming

Hear the sad story of Herr Paul which the youth of to-day can- the Hong Kong Branch of the Eng- Someone saw

subject of the charge. Scheffer, the most distinguished not easily look back.

lish Association in the Helena May away from the house, and when of the best book on Bolshevist Rus- walking journalist of Germany, the author The same sort of thing hap-Institute to-morrow at 5.30 p.m. the complainants returned and sia, and now correspondent of his pened, more slowly but perhaps

discovered their loss, this in- newspaper in the United States. still more drastically, in the In-gained admission to 165, Portland One of them went off on his bicy been telegraphing him for lurid Armed with daggers, four men formation was given to them. For months now his editor has dustrial Revolution, when a great Street, yesterday.

After binding cle to follow in the direction the stories of Chicago gunmen. Herr of the population was and gagging the inmates, they stole man was reported to have gone. Scheffer, however, does not believe jects for comment in the Press transferred bodily and mentally jewellery and clothing to the value! He visited all the pawnshops in in lurid journalism. Hitherto, he is perhaps the least understood from the ancient agricultural life

of $215.

the district, and in one of them has been inclined to regard the reign of any dealt with day by day into the life of squalid factory and

found the accused trying to pawn of gunman terror in Chicago for the columns of the newspapers mining towns, and lost all con- auspices of St. Andrew's Society

The Burns Dinner under the the quilts. Arrest followed,

the diversion of a sensation-hungry lat Home and abroad. In mail

Prisoner's Record.

public. tact with its former roots.

will be held on January 23 in Lane week, we notice that somebody

Referring to the accused's Crawford's Restaurant at 8.80 p.m. record, Mr. Fitzroy said that at The whole Empire has suffer- Subscription (exclusive of wines, the age of 11 years, in 1905, he has been complaining that the ed from the suddennass of that $4 each). generation now undergoing what

was convicted for the first time change. is popularly known as education changing again almost as rapid- Yet to-day We are

for stealing and went to jail for no such knowledge of the ly, and we

A drowning tragedy has just 21 days. Since then he had been he went into a tobacconist's to buy been revealed by the discovery of convicted 31 times and had ap- some cigarettes. While he was Bible as was drilled into its im- enough about how to mitigate whose disappearance was reported Court. He had spent 18 years of tered the shop, shot down the tobac are not thinking the body of a boarding house foki peared six times in the Supreme making his purchase a guhman en- mediate predecessors. That the effects of the change. What to the Police on January 7 threatens to open up a religious is more, it seems inevitable that

The his life in jail and appeared to be contat, emptied the till and departed unfortunate man is Yau Sam aged addicted to housebreaking and controversy, which must be in the immediate future the pro-Fat Kee Boarding House, whose

50, a foki of the Chung Wah Hing small larcencies.

Before Herr Seheffer had recover- ed from the shock the police arrived rigidly tabooed in

a secular ceas of change will become in-body was found by the Water Police

: A Good Prisoner.

and at once arrested him. Several daily newspaper.

creasingly rapid. To mention floating In Causeway Bay in a bad-Counsel commented, and added from which he was extricated only "He seems to like the jail," hours in the clutches of the law, that "inside" he was regarded by the intervention of the German a gulf has been visibly opening and the cinema have altered the

az a good prisoner and a good Embassy, have convinced him that worker, and gave no trouble. The In the way of side-walk excitement between the old and the new whole atmosphere.

accused was able to turn his hand Moscow has apthing on Chicago. generation. Everybody who was

to any trade, and it was hard to adult in 1914 has noted that the

progress of modern invention appointed a member of the Sani- to get an honest living.

Mr. Wong Kwong-tin has been understand why he did not try

STRAY DOGS GET THEIR DAY post-war youth has been growing swifter adaptation. We are like three years.

go on, necessitating still tary Board for a further term of up in quite a different world people flying not only through

Taxi Rides and Sun Ray Treatment. from that which existed before space but through time to arrive D.P.H., until recently Bacteriolog-I have no alternative. If I tryin taxi-cabs and have aun-ray treat- the War, and that its outlook in-in a new and unfamiliar age. evitably tends to be different. It

ist in Hong Kong, has been ap-to be honest by hawking I can't ment In future, A wealthy widow may be difficult to name precise to the benefit of the race. But, at St. Christopher-Nevis.

Materially, perhaps, it may be pointed Medical Officer of Health get a licence. ly the points

His Lordship commented that the Chicago Anti-Cruelty Society who died recently left £250,000 to of difference. mentally and morally, what will Dr. A. C. V. Melbourne, of the record.

that was no doubt due to his bad for this purpose. Parents themselves become ac-be the results? One cannot but Queensland customed to the new order of doubt whether they will be en-making an economic survey of the soon as I get a stock and lay out

University, who is Accused: That is not it. things, to adapt themselves more tirely good. or less to their children, and to human nature will it be which vestigations.

What kind of East, left Hong Kong for Shanghai my stall I am arrested and by the Talamba to continue his in-charged with obstruction. and forget, except in moments of has no roots in the past?

lose all my capital money! paternal or maternal lecturing,

His Lordship passed sentence how differently they themselves

of three years' hard labour. ́

Accused then asked his Lord- were brought up. And probably

ship to issue a hawker's licence that is just as well; otherwise,

to him. the width of the gulf would be come tragic What is perhaps most clearly noticeable, however,

It is not only in respect of only the most elementary in-ly decomposed condition. Bible knowledge, however, that stances, the motor 'bus, wireless,

will

And

the

From Other Pens.

Bill Of Rights.

Personal Pars.

Dr. E. P. Minett, T.D., V.D.,

CHILDREN'S PARTY.

R.A.O.B.

His Lordship (to accused): You appear to prefer being in jail than outside it.

Accused: That is not the case,

Stray doge in Chicago are to ride

carry injured animals to central Arrangements, have now been As made with a taxi-cab company to:

headquarters in cases of emer- gency.

To-day's Thought.

Some work so hard that they cap

play while others play, so hard they cannot work."

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China "Mail" of January 18, 1922.1

Mr. Justice Lindsell told him that he would have to apply for Postponed along with many it at the proper quarter after It is difficult to be a neighbour Christmas and New Year gather-this discharge from jail. inoffensively. One man's life is ings on account of the diphtheria Accused: That will be no is the fact that the youth of to- another's despair. Neighbours do epidemic, the annual children's good! day seems to have ao little com-exercises. Sometimes they even the R.A.0.B. Club, Duddell Street, more when he was ordered to be all kinds of things like Ava-finger Christmas Tree party was held in He was proceeding to say some prehension of what life was like dare to have bables, yesterday from 2 to, & o'clock, removed from the dock. before the War. That is not its In Canada a legal precedent has

r. That fault, nor any occasion for blame. been established that they may tendance or the exuberance of the Assizes which was adjourned The delay did not affect the at- This closed the business of the Youth always lives in the premoreover though this clause may youngsters, dome of whom turned sine die.

To-day's dollar is worth 2/4 % sent and the future; it has rare is allowed to pry

be thought tautologous the baby up as early as noch "to avoid the ly any great interest in the past, "It is one of the ills, to which tastefully decorated and, carefully about the plaintiff's behaviour in afternoon, Miss Barber, of the. ruch The Club had been very, "Was there anything peculiar cident on Pokfulam Road, yesterday As a result of an unfortunate so nor should one expect that.

humanity is heir," said the judge draped with flage, the Christmas hospital? coursal naked a police Founding Home, is now in the Gov- The point is that formerly one bour's bill of rights. It lathe of hidden mystery. After a series Bench case. "Yes," the officer re from a broken arm and

who added this clause to the neigh Tree was for a few hours a thing man who was a witness in a King's ernment Civil Hospital suffering generationalipped Impe

natural exercise of a pair of health nes, musical selections play plied, "he wanted to kiss the nurse Juries, Mise, Berber was drivin

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