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THIS MAY SHOCK YOU BUT

We recently printed a New York cable pointing out the large attendances in Ameri- can churches compared with Bose in Britain. Now. T. E. B. Clarko-the famous Exlug, Alm writer on a US trip filen his personal ob- servations of this "church boon" in Hollywood. They are printed an he senda them-without comment

"Y

·OU don't Nee empty pews in our churches," said the Hollywood citizen proudly. "That's more than you can say in London, isn't it?"

I conceded the point and switched to another tople, for I could not have Cut- tinued the discussion with- out questioning the menos by which churches are fill- ed.

Perhaps

Jun unduly cost-

live Perhaps it may be safel that these means are Jusufied by the end that if churches and prein is manage to draw large #ongregations bv silvertsing themselves on movie Baes well.

their efforts have the blessing of (to use their own jargon) Man Upstairs"

What fallows

seem

shocking and ireverent to many people. If so, I trust I shall từ exonerated from Personal ཛཱཎཱི' ཡ sponsibility For I simply writing a tre and objective re- port of the way in which they religious leathers of Los Angeles appeal to the man in the stred

BS

The visbor from Britain Rods it dieult to taken in his stride. such a newspaper headline "Was Jesus Frimed?"-especial- ly when he goes on to read: "His Trial before Pontius Pliate annlysed by Lloyd Beth, bril- Han Chicago Inwyer

CHLES

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1956. *^

田田白

Which of those mun attended that disgusting strip-tease concert?'

The remarkable

London Express Service

career of the Red Indian princess who

saved the life of one Englishman-and married another

POCAHONTAS

ONE OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES

11 was the first of her race to become

EL Christian, !! first to marry

Englishman. who successfully prumcuted some of

The Windy City's most notorious erfalls of the gangster era "

ment.

For example:-

DISCUSSES LOVE

inore

The Rev. Krather Kriyananda

ut

the first

By C. Baker-Carr

an supplied an occasional deer Calon Joan Smula with

to for roasting. Disense spread forectul visit England, and the first and colonists sickened to die off the shores of died. England. But no one has

As

But Pocahontas grew ill. soon as she recovered she visited the Queen in Denmark House. That was the signal for all the his courtiers to come to the Inn and " pay their respects,

pervazlity and

methods began to and sense" build Lap

dourishing com- munity. To cap it all he became President of the Couvell in September, 1608, but his rule lasted for a brief 18 months.

Struck out gt his own

be

וש

Intu

However the liness returned. Queen Anne's own doctor arrived to help treat her.

More Serious

Whon Pocahontas wont to London she took off hor Red Indian feathers

wore and

Elizabethan

dress.

*

ever found the bones of 121 the search for food, sailin One blinks even

that girl-wife who was per- up the River James, trading as attempts to Introduce the sex

Soon

A new "white chief" arrived angle by a churchgoing induce-haps one of the first to im he went.

trouble subsidiary cheer from England, Sir Thomas Dale, pry the end of the

year the -prove Anglo-American

repechancenough and ls band had been appointed interim emed cured The Rolfes lations.

of warriors SOW Smith, who Governor of Virginia, Sinlth be- were invited to attend the Twelfth retreated into a bag which held came ill, soil that all the In Night Ball given by the

King him fast. He had to surrender, dians and most of the colonists and Queen in: Whitehall. Rolfe. thought he was dying. He sailed watching from the gallery the great home to England, out of the life was allowed to closer). Smith was led to the Indian chief Powhatan. when he

At the of Pocahontas--who never shed Pocahontas in her court clothes daughter of Powhatan heredit-

saw "Princess Matala end of the lung march he arrived a tear. She was growing up. A

to dance. attempting strange

ary Overking of the Algonquin nixture of

born 1385, In January 1817 Pocahontas Indions of Virginia, Indion character

Her was ill again, and this time it hapted 1013, died 1617, with tempered

serious. They romantic marriage to John Rolfe Western ways and was far more

Ludgate Hilt from

settle- to the to brought práce knowledge compll moved

To mark a picturesque Brentford and the change seem- ment, ented

young

of Helf-tealisation Fellowship SURDO

diaries Inve

speaks at tomorrow' 17 n.z. service in the church 41 4860 Rubre! Boulevard.

But then und hav:1 nly glance at the pages of religious

That advertising to realise

the Jinisters

Maki

their

churches belleve in borrowing freely from

methods nf The

the publicity

nim companies,

these bear on

The lay-out of nouncements

an-

equally close resemblance to the movie ads. Take that of the Sky Plot Rovival Centre, to which the eye is attracted by an illustration of a jet plane and the notice in large black lettering: SUNDAY AT 2.30 P.M. — HOLY GHOST RALLY.

She

course, Was, of Princess Pocahontas, one of the best-loved of our school dny heroines.

In 1595, the year that Shakespeare finished writ-

Was

ing "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a daughter boru into the large family of Powhatan. hereditary chief of the R. Iulian tribes in Virginia.

Twelve years later on Ane April day three ships sailed into Chesapeake Bay and headed up the James On board! River, Virginia. were about 140 colonists and 40 sailors, sent out by the newly-formed Virginia

Or that of the Spencer Healing Company of London, estab- Campaign:-

Mun, Night—Water

Baptismai

Service. Sat. Nicht Sperlai

Holy Ghost Niglit

lished by James 1.

They were a motley col. lection: aristocrats down on their luck, adventurers out

for change, pirates in

search of a rest. and It

The Soul Clinic International liberal wrinkling of honest

strikes a more original note:--

MEET steven misionaries toine out under sponsorship of Soul Cinte International,

SEE missionaries in cotnur.

tul native dream of countries

to which they are going.

Some churches have their own slogans. Thus

wc

the

the

(ind

itself as "The church with Warm Heart in the Heart of the City."

Trinity Methodist advertising

30

The exclamation mark, Leloved of movlè advertisers, is by used with no less restraint the Immanuel Gospel Temple:

nien.

"He is mino, my man. + take him." cried

Pocahontas.

at the village, and 12-year-old cahontas was among the small group of children watching.

Shortly he faced Powhatan, and he knew he was to die. But first came the customary feast. when he ate while a circle chiefs watched. Smith Anished and wiped his hands.

the

girl's life.

い

5000

to

bo-

be

Pocahontas.

ed to some good, but lack of episode in the history of two new interest after the whirl- nations this memorial Avis set

up by friends in England America 1933."

But

the turn of wind of court life brought on a come

relapse. Pocahontas

One of the few really welcome made prisoner by the English. visitors to the house in Brent- Governor Dale had been ruthless ford was the old and faithfui in dealing with the Indians and

Bishop of London. Dr King. had angered Powhatan, who However, one morning there was reacted violently. His daughter knock and in walked her first became a hostage, but she was love-Captain John Smith, Не allowed the freedom of James.

man, a changed

gaunt, town under the care of Bessie haggard. ragged and the ad- and "Mollie Gates, girls of her

venturer's gleam had gone from own age. It was a tense situa-

his eyes. If Pocahontas had any fion.

Powhatan held

illusions left at all they fled at mmmber of hostages, too.

that brief meeting. From a hero he had turned into a blouted hore.

Scripture Lessons

EVERY day Mr Buck,

WDS

In March, 1017, their visit to England ended, John Rolte and the Pocahontas went on board the

on

preacher, gave the Indian George nt the Tower steps- princesa tersons in Scripture and she had to be carried from the roach. Her illness had worsened. taught her to read and write.

She was baptised into the Pocahontas knew she was going

and given to die, and her life ended Church of England the name Rebecca. Soon after board the George not far from

wards she met her future hus- Gravesend. She was 22. band, a morose widower named Little Tom had been left be John Rolfe, who was the first hind-it was the dying wish of Englishman to grow tobacco in his mother that he should be Virginia while Pocahontas was brought up an Englishman-

Vir- HE vessels carried a num- en he was seized and hurled a minor expert herself. She while Rolle sailed on to

Brew all her father's tobacco ginin, his tobacco plantations to the ground. His head was for the new Colony. Among thrust back on to a huge

and had plenty of advice for and another wife (this time on Bat the solitary, hard-working Eng- English girl) them were Edward Wing stone.

shman from Heacham in Nor-

An Adventurer

ber of potential leaders

folk.

deve- Slowly the friendship loped until in April, 1614, they

married

by the

were

Rev.

Burned Down

DOCAHONTAS was buried in

field and John Smith. Wing- His blue eyes stared up at the field was an aristocrat, a two stone axes held aloft by his spendthrift and an idealist, executioners, who were await- Ing the signal from Powhatan. and it was he who was Suddenly something crashed on Richard Buck. her former finally elected President of to his body, something worin teacher, in Jamestown. They the chancel of St George's

The Derce. the Council. Captain John yet

up tomahawks built their home farther

Church, Graveseral, That church hovered uncertainly in the

was destroyed by fine in 1827 end river near to Henricopolis, and Smith was not even allow terrible silence and John Smith's ed a seat on the Council, rescuer spoke up: "He is mine,

were soon tilling the ground for cl the bodies were supposed to a new tobacco plantation.

have been moved to another since he had made trenson- my man. I take him."

that grave. Then, os recently us 1897, Their son was born in

was bullt able remarks on the

unique Anglo-Indian home and another church they named him Tom.

roughly the same site and work- men came across hundreds of bones.

way Pipe of Peace

over and had been prompt-

ly clapped in Irons for the

remainder of the voyage,

Firest

Pomiled

A. Bari tee Announces FOURTH WEEK OF CONVEN- TIUNI Comel

Reel Heart Demonstration of Bible Truths!

And to resestre us that the

sordid all-important if rather

business of making money is not necessarily sinful, we read:

DUSINESİMEN'S CRUSADE FOR CHRIST Itear Dr Pierce P. Brooks

BusineNamen

Evangelis, proaching Delivere anes, Salvation, and Teglingi

That, I think, will do. As

a incro recorder of what I sco here in folywood. I make no comment. There are no emply pews in the churches Let's love it at that, 25

WAIA

nt

In 1010 the Rolfes decided to visit England. John had worked

on

DOWHATAN relaxed and hard on his plantation, export- Thinking. Incredible as it may animal 12-year-old ing the dried leaves to England seem. that they were Smith was a strange man. Pocahontas, who was

still at a handsome proft, For Poca bones, the workman throw them An adventurer at heart, he clutching her traway Engilsh- huntas the country she had all in a huge heap. Rag-and-

The tensic essed all heard so much about lay ahead bune

men passing through a tough and stocky man.

Indiens oround them.

crowd-England with its hedges and Gravesend found a ready tradę, farmer's son with a violented forward to peer more closely green fields, its cities, and its

time It was too late by the temper, a bloated ego and at the while man saved by their ships.

the authorities realised the bones stubborn will.

ruler's daughter.

"After arriving in London she were human. The coffin of the That night the traditional pipe and her husband set off with indian princess could not be These two men clashed of peace was passed solemnly baby Tom for Heacham.

traced, though much later there. After a short stay at Heacham were indications that the casket nimest at once. President between the old chief and Cap- Wingflold was

determined in John Smith. After a short Hall, where a younger brother, had been removed to a church stay Smith was sent back 10 Edward Rolfe, and his family in Waterico Road, from which it on peace, while Smith was Jamestown.

were looking after the nnecsisal vanished. in favour of extensive forti- During the next two years home. John and his family went

the Anglo-American fications in case the Indians the relationship between the back to London again, staying become church at Gravesend has

Indians and the colonisis became at the Hell Inn, known comixing

to Pocaliontas and in should prove hostile.

Teas strained. More ship came Savages of socount of an erst November, 1992, it was turned 10 Jamestown with fresh while family ownership. Later into a Chapel of Unity, a non- Jamestown took shape applies at men and food, taking it was called La Belle Sauvage debominational house of wor- slowly, protected only by back to England holds filled and carried a sign depicting ship. At the little village chireli lopped-off tree-tops;: but with freshly cut timber..

of St. Mary, In Heacham, Nore Pocahontae became a frequent, Visitors to the Rolfes in- folk de sau sinbariansbaa guligt food became short, even viskor to the village and played cluded Dr King, the Bishop of consisting of a 1016 poriente, of though the local Indians with the fans alike, childbad, London and fly. Waitse Raleigh." Porchentaa wad wehla inscriptions.

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