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THE HONGKONG: DAILY PRESS FRIDAY MAY

APPEAL

1920

THE MODERN SPIRITUALISTIC New Testament is to be re-edited so a

(to bring oùs the onential relationships. of the fres, and second, Dawn. For, after all, was not the original Gospel only a great psychic wave bringing Life and Immortality to Night Did they not have cloven tongues spirit voices, rushing Winds and majorialisations "I If we road the New Testament aright is it not imply the report of a great edance 1

MILITARY GOVERNMENT

SHANGHAI

ALLEGED

INDECENTEAND

BILLS.

SUB-LESSEE RESPONSIBLE, INTERESTING, ARGUMENT.

As the Augistracy, yesterday, the hear- ing was continued in the case in which

(1) " Broeft of the Truths of Spiritua

lism" by the Rev. Prof. G. Henslow,

SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION. P.L.S., F.G.S., FEHS., etc.

According to an occasional correspon (2) "The Vilar Mesare," by Sir Arthur

dent, the members of the "Military Govern! Conan Doyle.

ment in Shanghai have decided to resume During the last few years the public har

business as soon as L. Lich-kwan, the the management of the Wo Ping Theatre been simply inundated with books on

representative of Tong Kai-yao; has was summoned for distributing bandbilis Spiritualism Most of them are low

arrived in Shanghai. The questions which containing indecent advertisements in grade good) 3 from the literary point of

are to be discussed are (1) to notify the reference to some pilla. view: few of them are by mon of first-

How are we to recognise a new Renation the reason why the Military class intelligence, and the general reader velation Herein lies the crux of the Gorament and Parliament are to be sub-leased the theatre to another man and The defendant had pleaded that he bad | spirits 1. And who is to say whether they

FRAUD.

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| ways exceptions to the general mass Henslow seems to think they always tell to send a representative to Shanghai to been taken out in his name but said that The two mentioned above are in many are telling the truth or not Pror. Polik (the leader of the Firas Squadron); ment. He admitted that the licence had They are both by men well-known in the truth. Biz Arthur is quit, explicit : } attend the moeting; (3), to request the he had intended to transfer it to the sub-

ly in the same thing. This is a distinct) NS-THE TEST OF TRUTH. misfortune as it detracts from the judicial About twenty-five years ago the present merits of their books. We wish both of writer listened to one of Mr. Beant's them had a little more of that sound lectures on Mahatmas. She produced common-same oremplided in the story of home photos of spirits taken on the astral plane and gave us some of their theyoung man who, after--vigorous prayer for a quarter-of-an-hour that the messages. There was no apparent fraud. neighbouring mountain might be removed, The photographs might almost pass for But Mrs got up, and, looking out of the window, some of Prof. Hanslow's.

Christ's resurrection-body from Prof.

certain spheres or learning the one, as Personally, I have received and have a botanist of great repute the other, as been deceived by several such messages MPs, in Shanghai to re-elect the Adminis

Messages so detailed in their trative Directors; (4) to raise funds for an author of thrilling detective stories. Neithor of them, perhaps, a first-rate mondacity that it is impossible to think the expenses of the Military Government qualification for the propagandist of that they are deliberately false. To the now religion, though some seem to think uninitiated three-fourths of the mediams and Parliament, (5) to raise funds for the a good initial and most of the messages seem to be false. Į armies; (8) to request the representatives that Sir Arthur's was

This, of course, is not Sir Arthur's view of the armies, who are being sent to training.

THE VICE OF FAITH,

but he seems to think that the truth of Needless to say, both are enthusiastic the message, eta, must be a matter e. Canton, to leave Canton for Shanghai or and wholesale believers though not exnet private judgment.

"Yunnan (7) to request the Ministers of the Government, now in Canton, to leave Canton, and go to Yunnan; (8) to con tinue work on the projected University after dismissing Chang Shih-chao, one of the committee members; (9) to discuss the question of negotiation of peace with the North, and (10) discuss methods of dealing

lessee..

Mr. Arcolli, for the defence, submitted that the sub-lesson was responsible.

Mr. Smith and that it seemed to him that it defendant took out the licene he was responsible, otherwise it would be ne easy way of escaping prosecutions by sub-casing the property

Mr. Arculli reminded the Magistrate of a previous case, similar to the present in which the immediate landlordt - was. adjudged the responsible person.

Mr. Smith remanded the case for fur ther consideration.

At yesterday's bearing Mr. Smith

exclaimed: There, I knew it wouldn't Besant's spirits had a diferent view of with Shum Chun-huen, and Luk Wing | remarked that if no fresh argument was

Prof. Henslow's book has all the Henslow'indeed, had a different view ting. It is stated that Dr. Sun Yat-seni demerits of faith. It is a higgledy of the human body in toto. Which has been elected Chairman of the Com-introduced by the prosecution he intended piggledy jumble, totally uncritical and rits am I to believo Prof. Henslow's mittee appointed for the formation of the to dismiss the summons. The license was Lillogical_No attempt is made to sift for Him Besantu Both claim sup new Government in Shanghai and Tong responsible for the theatre, but the ques-

evidenes, no attempt to estimate the worth normal accuracy for their spirits in re

tion was Who issued the handbills 1:

of the witnesses. Sometimes the English ference to mundane matters: Which are Kai-yao is the Chairman of the Executiver. Arquili stated that to be liable -is...ungrammatical; at others the reader we to trust about the supra-mundane Council which is entrusted with the task ander the Ordinance he submitted the is supposed to be speaking, The book have finally settled-Can the spirits give of putting the proposals into effect in prosecution must prove direct publication

has great difficulty in discovering who There is one other question we wish to

is illustrated with numerous spirit photos no satisfactory answers to the great graphs for the genuineness of all, of which riddles of the past? We don't want to there seems to be about equal authority.ow if we will die next year or live

Yunnan.

The ordinance said "any person who publishes in any newspaper or by sneh or

And yet Prof. Henslow believes in it all happily ever afterwards. But there are EXHIBITION OF JAPANESE any other meads distributes the publica-

so implicitly that one finds a dificulty few great enigmas, in not respecting his faith..

GROSS MATERIALISM. Persons versed in the literature of spiritualism joust

noticed the have gradual change of front of recent books,

a

THE ENIGMAS OF HISTORY. Thora have been conversations with, and even materialisations of, many of the Brest, from Moses to Flato. If the mediums cannot button-bolo Shakespeare

PICTURES.

A FINE ALL-ROUND COLLECTION.

The many local resitlents who have

OF

the first day

tion." He did not think the licensee harl anything to do with the matter, as he had no hand in the management.

Mr. Smith: The defence have proved to

mises.

The Hon. Mr. E. B. Hallifax said that according to the regulations the licenses won responsible for what happened in the theatre.

The older writers, like Myers and Gurney, himself, can they not, now that Bir Evisited the City Hall in the past two days, my satisfaction that although they hold showed a subtle insight into the meta Durning-Lawrence has gone West, got to inspect the collection of paintings by the licence they have sub-leased the pre physical differences between mind, and to touch with him and find ous de Japanese artists have been very favour Richard II out of the Northumberland ab impressed with what is undoubtedly. finitely who tore out the M8. copy of Papers? Or if Bacon used the form a very fine collection.

Orgia, many of us would give a sold, and this in spite of the fact that "Shakespeare" as a pseudonym

nearly 40 per cunz of the pictures were month's salary for a conversation with Irenaeus. All the mysteries of the problems of early Christianity, might be Fourth Gospel, and indeed the whole

that great Father Irenaeus, when young, artists do not appear to have expended solved in a five-minute conversation th had visited Polycarp, and Polycarp sufficient time, or which they worked in had boun an associate of John the

the prices were not exactly moderate. slumsily executed pictures, on which the

As in overy ex

exhibition, there are a fow

Mr. Smith: Yes, for any offerice, against the Theatre Regulations.

hody. They saw the weak points of philosophy which said that I

Oh I lyric leve half angel and half bird was only an allotropic form of protein and might eventually be sold by the lb. But all the subtleties of Myers and Gurney are now thrown to the winds. We are introduced unblushinglyly to system of unadulterated materialium :--- When Wm. Crocker made his first ex periments with high vacuum tubes, matter put on an entirely new condition, ... the glowing bombarding partich he called corpuscles, others electrons. Apuntie Yes, when the question of the hurry. These daubs-and we, use this to be a little doubt on the matter."")" But the point is that nothing else what authenticity of the Fourth Gospel comes term with the presumption that their ever is in existence. All atoms of matter im head of saying that Polycarp told authors are professional, artists, and not and of mind are made of corpuscles and him that John had written it, he pro those who moreiy paint as a pastime matabeds...

because there are four winds Why can yokingly says there must be four Gospels not we get some clue on these great and burning questions of the past! As it is! we can only say with the portim

"Ah, what a dusty anwar gets the soal When hot for certainties in this our life."

these are made of pure electricity and nothing de" (page 129. The italics are Courn.)

Readers of Prof. Ernest Mach's "Analytis of the Sensations" and of M. Hugh Elliot will begin to rub their yek. We have no doubts as to which psychology we prefer.

SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY. As-already-stated, ProfHenslow, has his book illustrated with about fifty reproductions of spirit photographs. For a pure materialist, nx Prof. Henslow is, photography of spirits is the most natural thing imaginable. One recent book on spiritualians had photographs of thoughts A hideous, ugly-looking splash of vapour, like a cross between an amecha and a cockroach, was a wicked thought-jealousy, "if I remember rightly. Why not photograph a bun, decently 1 After all, the identity of the bubo and the thought, jealousy, are no more dificult than the identity of a splash of vapour and the same thought,,

WORKHOUSE FOR THE

CANTON POOR. GOVERNMENT GRANTS A SITE. The Caston Government has granted the Yuk Taze Hils, outside the East Gate, to the Institution for the Poor. This

voll (Mr. Hallifax read the ordinance a Mr. Hallifax Far aug offence pretty second time and then said there seems

referred to Chinese Theatres horse in Mr. Smith I thought the ordinance.

are, however, more than offset by the large number of works in which

Mr. Halifax: "It covers a Chinese "an extremely

theatrical performances whether in a bigh standard of art as practised by

by Euro.

-permanent building or in a matabed. II, pean artists has been reached. Most of you hold that the original leases is not those whose pictures are now on exhibis responsible as he has sub-leased it, I will tion in Hongkong have studied under have to prosecute the sub-lesso for hav -European-and-American artists, and those ing performances without a licence

not familiar with artistic work from the brush f Japanese must have been sur prised to find that very rarely indeed-tions of the licence.

Mr. Hallifax: Under the licence he is by the use of what might be termed an responsible for everything taking place oricatal colour scheme-have the artists in the theatre. If he is not responsible, revealed anything, approaching national "Mr. Smith: It is a case of publication." failings. The word "failings" is here it is rather extraordinary that the person

red from the view point of one accustomed who printed it is not responsible

Hon. Mr. Hallifax: The printer İş not“ to study purely Western art

liable,

Mr. Smith: The licensee is responsible, of course, for any breach of the condi-

no one is.

יו.

bill, with an area of 5,753 cheng and se Clanese aquare feet is the property of the Unvernut With the exception of several mor of rice Gelda the his covered with a number of graves, and for

It may here be stated that the members Mr. Smith: I suppose be sets under the removal of which the Government will of the Hongkong Sketch Club, even the the orders of the person who cagages him bear the expense, and a suitable piece of best of them, have a lite to learn from Who is responsible for the publication?" to print it. It is simply a question of: In circumstantial detail the photo land nearby has been aloted for reburial, a study of some of the Japanese pictures. As it is not an offence under the licence, graphs are not good indeed they would The graves are now being removed and the bold colouring the wonderful love the original licenses should not b Font, convince the elect. The more calabonruz." buya also been engaged to level of detail, the striking range of subjects charged”

tions spiritualists fight shy of photo the hill, graphic proof. Bir Wm. F. Barrett. in Until the completion of the proposed the unusual atmospheric and water effects

completion his recent book on Psychical Research new building the Institution for the Poor Produced in one or two of the pictures less is responsible for running perform- offers the following healthy advice will occupy part of the Mode: Prison for all have their lesson for the student. Iancer without a licence and for publication

In pawing, it might here be remarked preliminary work; and in order not to there is nothing at the exhibition to equal of the handbiliser de that the evidence for so-called spirit waste time, the Institution will recruit photography is wholly inconclusive; most certain handicraft during the occupation, some of the poor and set them to learn alleged cases are pure fraud

Lot the Model Prison

Mr. Hailifar: That means that the sub-

Pherson has put into her pictures the atmospheric effects which Mrs. Mace Mr. Smith dismissed the summons.

of

Hongkong. by night or the delente lande

THE SHORTME OF THE SENSE OF HUMÚDR.

Mrs Britton, there are cape studies of The spirits to whom Prof. Henslow tion for the Poor will endeavour to raise admiration of the best of focal amateurs.

The organising committee of the Institu many marine and landscape studies of

CHINESE CLAN FIGHT, such fine execution as are worthy of the POLICEMAN INTERFERES WITH introduces ns are a decidedly prosy $500,000 which is considered as efficient sermonic lot. On one occasion Prof. for carrying out its plan, and $200,000, One of the gemis of the exhibition is

DRAWN REVOLVER. Henslow had been delivering series of has already been subscribed by the Hill Mr Alami's Ikao in Winter, and oil discourses on our Lord's discourses with tory Governor, the newly appointed Civii pamting that is really striking in execu acause two Parts chair bearers a the apostles aftor His resurrection. The Governor the Magistrate of Namboio Another picture that has been much crosched on the preserves of Hoklo men. spizit rather naively compliment him district, and Mr Tax Laiting Canton Show This artist's works have been European fare, a free fight took place admired is Mr Takeuchi's Morning in opposite the Star Barry wharf, and took on the merit of these, discourses and cen- Tinch,

hung at the Royal Academy, and it is not on Wednesday evening in Podder Street too much to say that the colour effects A large number of Hoklo followers and reveal the great artist,

chair being damaged and a man being

firm the truth of his theory of the Rem surrection body. As Prof. Henslow be

lieves in the veracity of all the spirits HOW TO GET MARRIED IN he has put on to, most of his pictures Punti men participated, resulting in

we wonder what he would say if an ather spirit fold him that bịe theory of the Resurrection body was all wrong. But we will come to this later,

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE AND THE NEW

GOSPELAR

JAPANCREA

The following is a selection from recent paid it a visit should not lose an oppor- advertisements appearing in the coluremanity of doing so.

The oxhibition will be open today for badly bruised A Chinese constable who the last time, and those who have not yes interfered and arrested as leader had to draw his revolver in order to take his "catch" to the Station as the man's followers adopted a menacing attitude. This man was charged at the Magistracy, yesterday, with assault and with damag ing the ricksha and was ordered to pay $4 compensation to the chair-bearers and was bound over in $50 to be of good behaviour for six months.

of Japanese papers we Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's volume is man, born in Tokyo-fu, second son of a Wanted: Position of Heir. Young quito diferent. It is a contemporary wealthy family good looking, healthy, ples for the now Gospel by a firm intelligent, LLB touching in Higher RESULT OF BOARD-BHIP ATTACH

ROMANTIC WEDDING. believer. When Myers closed his mong Commercial School mental work he made the following Meguro University, complete

and attending prophecy: venture now on, a bold desire to enter a family where there

outfit, saying; for I predict that, in consequence a young, good looking, marriageable

MENTA

THEFT OF MINERAL WATERS

of the new evidence, all reasonable men, daughter. Reply to Japan Matrimonial Magistrate's Court by special cence, on The marriage took place in the Colombo A century hence, will believe the Bosur Company "s rection of Christ, whereas, in default of Wanted: A wife, up to the age of Rangoon, and Lady Florence M. Pringle. April 26th of Mr. A. MacGregor of the new evidence, no reasonable men, a 26 A real gentleman, aged 30, position Both the parties arrived in Colombo on century hence would have believed it,with a certain firm, bearer of 8th Order April 24th by the Gloucestershire on board stracy, yesterday, to stealing a quantity A Chinese pleaded guilty at the Magi Thus the very central doctrine on which of Merit household treasure worth of which they had met for the first time of mineral waters from the rondence the Christian Faith rated was pracY.80,000, desires a wile. tirally dead letter in need of some 4 Wanted To marry Daughter of steamer. Lady Pringle is the widow of the Mr. Crew said that he missed several.

They left for Rangoon by the ente Mr. AH Crew at the Peak. fresh vitalising force. Sir Arthur feels wealthy landowner, good loolding, aged late Bir Norman Robert Pringle, Bart, bottles during the month sad male this, too, with the increasing force due to 20, graduate of Girls High School, every and daughter of the late Mr. J. Vaughan. vestigations. Defendant was a nigh the years which have elapted The qualification you could desire, besides Bir Norman Hamilton Pringle, Bart coelis and had sold the bottles to ano teachings of the Old Testament with their bringing wedding outfit, exacting penalties are to be

hes to marry who icceeded his father in the baronetey man, who was present schw rthy person. Your reply will be arrived ja Colombo by the same steamer Mr Hi

by to learn planting

the museum of degraded super

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