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WHAT IS GOD?.

QUESTIONINGS OF YOUTH.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER # 1925

THOSE PURPLE HOURS. «. OBSERVATIONS ON CRICKET.

a' book.

HEART IN CASKET. CURIOUS FIND IN CHURCH

THE OLEOGRAPH.

AN ARRESTING PSYCHOLOGICAL

STUDY.

sur-

· A curious discovery has been made dur I suppose that I have watched as much first-class cricket as most man of my ageing the excavations, at the church of the WHERE THEOLOGIANS FAIL

who have some other business in life. Grey Friars, Cardiff, where in the south I was brought up on horsehair, like. Some of it has been an agreeable, colour wall Ave vaults have been found. In any other Victorian child; and the horse- The need for a revision of theological ful experience; far more of it-75.06 of one of the vaults Mr. J. P. Grant, an hair had no mitigating circumstances It terms, the religious demands of the it, may I say since first-class cricketers architect, found a dressed stone, which stood upon a cheap Brussels carpet of

are so fond of decimal fractions?-has proved to be the lid of a receptacle en the regulation typer with a linoleum younger generation, and the effects of been as thrilling as the perusal of a Gerclosing a lead casket. In this casket was round, fasted by varnished dado haunts my fancy like a nauseating smell the war upon religious belief were mat man professor's treating of "Bimetallistaa human heart. The relic was resting whose meaningless and dowdy design still

on a female skeleton. in Relation to Statistical Relativity." tern discussed by the Rev. J. S. Berzant Why then do I go again! Well, there

Mr. Grant has advanced two theories As I remember it in my boyhood, every" at the Conference of Modern Churclare those purple hours, anul 1 am ready for the presence of the heart-either thing in our house was shabby, and mea, st Oxford, on August gath. Mr. to take a ganibler's chance. also take that it was removed from the body and nothing was antique. Not even now, 30 Besiant, who is vice-president of Ripou In all matters of sport the Englishman embalmed, or that it was the heart of years afterwards, would these furnishings in the Crusades or who had died abroad, pitiful sense; they had never been costly articles, but only auch low-priced" necos. Hall Theologien College, Oxford, rendis an incorrigible optimist, His will to the husband, who may have been killed be counted okl in anything but the most

amount of squalor and tedium, of over-

It has been established that the burials clergyman's purse when he sets up house. crowding and vile entering can prevent him from throwing his money into the must have taken place at some time All too soon, married life, and a family hands of the sport purveyors The news between 1230 and 1539 In his book of Victorian dimensions, made alteration papers play up to his mood by describing Cardiff Grey Friars," the Rev, J. M.(except for the worse) of the original every sky as blue and every hour as Cronin states that the Grey Friars were scheme impossible. purple, and they have an excellent reason founded in Cardiff in the year 1930. and for doing so. If they told him the leaden that they surrendered to truth, he would immediately cease to buy Visitor appointed by Henry VIII. on them. Do you, for instance, expect to September 8th, 1535. find anything like the following in to- morrow's sheet i

paper opon What we Believe' about J'enjoy himself is an enormous that no his heart only being sent home for burialities as come within the reach of a poor

God." The main obstacle to religious belief in the younger generation, he asid, were not concerned with the familiar dificulties of the Gospels, such as the Virgin birth, physical resurrec tion, or the problem of the person of Jesus Christ They were anxious about the much more fundamental things which concerned the providence of God and His action in the world, To-day they could find little or no eridone that ho did anything. They were uncertain what the Church meant to teach. The teaching seemed inconsistent and self- contradictory. They were only certain that they disbelieved much of what her er the formularies appeared to say Bible seemed to imply. The nature of God. His power, love, and relations to the world and individuals, we pro- blems to which Christian theologians No, you will not read that. You will must give inersing attention it the gather that there have been record crowds were to help those to whom this vitalit Punter's Park, and that everyone was matters were too obviously open ques-happy. And you will gather the truth.

They were happy. Such is. England.

jons

There could be little doubt that the

war finally killed even popular efter

the Lord

KILLED AT BANNOCKBURN, A probable explanation is that Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester (1243-1995). who brought the Grey Friars to Cardiff, and founded the Friary, intended, the vaults to be the burial places of the Lords of Cardiff Castle.

The racegoer who makes cre visit to Punter's Park is rash: the man who goes twice is a fool confessing his folly, For the sum of twenty-two shillings and sixpence he is entitled to fight death Should he be parti by suffocation.

It is also suggested that a male skele cularly fortunate or ferocious, he may get a glimpse of part of a race from ton found in the south-west vault nearest an angle at which at which he cannot to the nitar is that of Gilbert de Clare tell the winner. If he is neither fertu himselt, who died in Monmouth in 1995, nate nor ferocious, he just pays twenty-and was presumably buried in Tewkesbury that the female skeleton is that of his two and sixpence.

wife, the Princess Joan. daughter of Edward I., who died in 1307, and that the beart in the casket is that of their only son, Gilbert, the last of the de Clare lords of Cardiff Castle, who was killed

Could any setting be a less meet nurse for a poetic child? But let a child's fancy spill its gold over the whole, heterogene ous ass of ugliness, and a miracle hap pens. At family prayers my station was

Even horsehair, thank Hes on the sofa. begun to ron and split on all sides. To Ten, cannot last for ever, and ours had hide this state of affairs an ancient fox- skin carriage rug. procured from who feature of Enows where, but already

the family universe when I made my entry into , covered the overworked sofa.

Childhood not being naturally devout. our part in the family devotions was per functory, and eager eyes looked about for some device to while away the time ac- cupied by a long, extempore Presbyterian prayer. Pulling out hairs from the skin, ticklo an equally unregenerate' brother, or stuffing from the sola with which to satisfied only one side of the natural man, It is the same with cricket. Do not exat the battle of Bannockburn in the destructive. Chance sometimes sent pret to be faced with this at your break-In view of the young Gilbert's great cour the cat, mincing along the back of the age, Robert Bruce sent his body to Edcouch with lood and impious purrings, steinhle

ward for burial without demaniling That, too, was better than nothing. Or.

any ransom

Glamshire and Starkshire Teet for their annual fixture at Coketown to day. If the play is anything like Inst ear's. a visit to the ground will be an infallible test of imbecility. watch was left draw because neither the presence of the Marquis of Bate.] was to fix que's eyes on the oleographi

That

side made the slightest effort to finish it. Their one desire was to stop their opponents geting five points, and if the game had lasted a week it would not have been decided. The average rate of acoring was thirty runs an hour.

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if one shut one's eyes and fabbed them The casket has been replaced in its hard, one saw queer flashes of light and original position and the vault closed in color. But the chiefest device of all that hang on the wall above the sofa, and lose oneself in it.

under whose direction the excavations are taking place.

I am prepared to be thus audacious. And so, which is more important,

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THE ALPINE SCENE. Perhaps it was a superior oleograph; MARTIN, Charist. Seitkampting perbapa time had mellowed its bright hues into some sort of harmony; perhaps the original work of which it was a copy had been inspired; perhaps childish im agination accounted for it all. Whatever

entered an enchanted region. It repres seated an Alpine scene. There was sloping pasture on which some cows were grazing. The pasture was surrounded by tall, dark pine trees. A wooden chalet and the figure of a Swiss peasant were seen in the foreground, and beyond lay high crags and snowy peaks. It all Yet, -al- sounds commonplace enough though my own home was surrounded by Highland bens and lochs, this picture seemed to me to be mountain scenery at its sublimest. and I longed to travel in such regions as the mystic longs for the beatific vision:

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in the cataclysmic and miraculous as present methods of Cd's work. To the question why God did not stop the wiekeness of the war it was langerously easy to frame a reply having the appear- ance of logic and designed to show that the question was unreasonable, but the fact remained that in the Bible men saw God acting visibly, while their own ex perience in life forced them to doubt if ever Be did act, and, if He did, to ask why He no longer did so. The only

If the Coketown Argus were moved to many of the greatest cricket players. way in which these difficulties could be met was for Churchmen to say frankly candour of this kind, it would be publicly Why otherwise do they turn to rackets. that Biblical stories of catalysmic inter burned on the ash-pit that passes for the tennis, and golf? I sometimes visit ference with the natural order were in shilling seats of the Coketown cricket golf club whose walls bear long testimony natural events, and in others were not Bround. To live at all that journal must to the trophy-winning powers of' one the reason, by way of that old picture | O cases dramatic interpretations of

renew its formal obeisance at the Palairet. Let us avoid this Chauvinism of ericket that will have no rivals: also history at all, but myth.

throne of King Willow,"

of "Cricket." an let us pass over sonnets which address The appearance "A JUDGE OF ASSIZE."

Anthology compiled by Mr. Samuel the game, thus. Mr. Bezzant deprecated the use of Loker, moves me to reflect that the metaphysical terms in describing the Kame is in danger of being smothered in

is made beenI30 gical raptures attributes of God. They were either an embraces. My criticism of these antholo worthy or required so much interpreta aumire cricket, not because I loathe tion to be intelligible. We were over- burdened with such language to-day. It is time that cricket were rescued Your ethien!" and the lyrical the and theology was largely a science form two kinds of pestilent enthusiast the explanation of terms which did not moralist is always confounding the game say with a disciplinary exercise. A cricket- what they appeared to

The

use of the term shirt is a surplice in his eyes, and all the (Laughter.)

No, in all these 0 years I have not mnipotence should be dropped. It virtues of the ages stand balanced on a

The best judgment on this effort would was a relic of the time when God was stump. I find this rant about dannelled chiefly useful for military purposes.saints as idiotic as the Jingo's rant about come from the Treasurer of a County set foot on any Alpine mountain side, but The term omnipresence was also open to flannelled fools. The doctrine of Play Club, who is considering (a) the lowest there is at least this cause of thankful- objection. It suggested God as every up and play the game is just as appli- price that will keep Bouncer out of league ness in being born a British schoolboy, where present, like a finely diffused gas cable to the shove-halfpenny board in cricket; (b) a suitable retaining-fee for especially of the Scottish variety, that in or ether, and lent itself too readily to the Bricklayers' Arms" as to the green Shorter, the Transvaal terror, who is spite of horsehair beginnings, perhaus feld, and I fancy that many genuize putting in two years of local residence because of them, one may have Imperial pantheism of the lower kind.

cricketers have been sickened of the sport for qualification, and (e) whether he dare endings. In our village street. almost. in their school-days by the confusion of sack Snely altogether for refusing to every household got from time to time march, a hillman clad in rough homespun bowl on a batsman's wicket, and for using letters with foreign stamps, Colonial, emerged from the forest with a bundle

Indian, Chinese, American.

Manchurian We were of skins slung over his shoulder. Do pulpit and popping-crease.

Cricket began with ad ethical assump language to his captain that passes the shot as by some centrifugal force into you want any furs, Sahil" he asked.

aphysical and festat dreams of a sergeant-major. tions. It was affait on Broad Half-penny," and Mr. Criticism, however, should make some distant lands, and, when my turn came, Locker has done well to lead off with positive contributions, and I shall there found myself an engineer in the Public

Indian Empire. Nyren's remarkable tribute to Hampshire fore offer the cat garland-gatherers of Works Department on the rim of the the game a couple of, contributions of my catering

The ale, too-not the modern horror own. This, in the familiar folder under that name, that drives as many style:- men melancholy mad as the hypocrites do-not the beastliness of these days, that will make a fellow's inside like a shaking bog, and as rotten; but barley. corn such as would put the souls of three butchers into one weaver. Ale that would fare like turpentine gen. uine Boniface 1. This immortal viand (for it was more than liquor) was vend- ed at twopence per piat. Then

11.63.4

The conception of God as love, and of His fatherhood, continued the speaker had been almost obsented by the crude and dreadful doctrine of everlasting punishment, and by the fact that most of the popular metaphors of God had their brigin in that eve of military and political civilisation with which Europe had been too long familiar. In a world, the basis of which was becom- ing enemic, that sort of god was an anachronism, and served as a warning not in future to give an economic or scientific twist to the character of God. (Laughter.) Anachronistic, also, as the conception of God which resembled a judge of nasize. The overwhelming justi- fication of the doctrine of evolution, together with what we might reasonably regard the end of human life upon earth, had rendered "the old idea of judge and judgment unreal.

the quantities the follows would eat! Two or three of them would strike. dis- may into a round of beef. They could What we believed about God was least

no more have pecked in that style than inadequately represented by saying that

they could have flown, had the infernal He was the reality in which

black stream (that type of Acheron!), which soddens the carcass of a Lon- highest ideals of wisdom, love, righteous

doner, been the fertilizer of their clay. ness, beauty, and truth had their ground and being. It was ip these

The account-books of the Hambledon ideals, which, like Himself, could not Men confirm this view of cricket as the be explained in words, that we least Englishman's aperitif. The old bills 20- nouncing a "match not only remind us unworthily represented him.

Replying to a point raised during the that the game was for gamblers the debate us to the difficulty presented by stakes are often surprisingly large-but. some sapects of the sex question, Mr. that the time and place of feeding was an essential item of information: Mr. Beatant said that one of the most die quieting signs of the times was that sex Jingle's outlook on the game was of s Met a party-flannel Toomed so large in the outlook of the similar." order. : younger generation, alike in literature jackets-white trousers anchovy sand. and conversation. It had a place which wiches-devilled kidneys splendid fel it should not occupy, and, in fact, did lows-glorious." And again," Capital not occupy, in the outlook of active and fun-lots of beer-hogsheads rounds of healthy minds. But psychology showed beef-ballocks, mustard-cartionds. Glor that not only much that was hail, unions day! After literary communion savoury, and painful, but also much with Nyren and Dickens, it is inadvis that was beautiful, good, and true, atuble to attempt to meal in the public tached to sex. · ·

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For their last law, the law of honest

тел.

Up lasses and lads, to Mudford to-day To stand and to spit and to barrack

the play.

Wait an hour at the doors, well mar-

shailed by cops, And you'll sed little Podger play back

to long hops.

A shower comes down. Podger's off

helter-skelter;

He can get a move on when running

for shelter.

The sux may return, but the players

will not.

Stop and look at the grass and thank

God for your lot!

4:

The sonnet is more difficult, but its challenge must be faced, and I therefore humbly submit

A dozen overs, every ball a dolly: The artful Podger, watches them Ius Then gently pats each succulent half

apin..

volley: There's talent money and the points to

win.

He's going to get his benefit next sum

... mer;'

His average is better than last year. The Glumshire bowlers go from glum

toglummer;

here.

He's get his thirty e'er the night is Sing hey for Glumshire, that's the team

to stick it! 15

Sing ho for Starkshire, who can stick

still more!

Sing hey for all the purple hours of

cricket!

KEATING'S

As I stood there, arrested on my day's

Furs? Let's see them. What are they? Fcx, stone marten, a bearskin; but not cured. They are pickled, Sabih, and

will keep well until you can have them Children have premonitions of their cared." I took a silver fox-skin from his What had future, and it is a queer thing that, re- hand and sniffed at it. membered or forgotten, these demonic happened? I stood stock still as if some moments of insight come true somewhere seizure had me in its grip. All this had and in some later hour. In, the course of happened before the green slope, the my service I was stationed in the hills herd of cattle, the dark pine forest, the near Simia.

Anyone who knows any dazzling snows, the but of timber, the thing about it will tell you that in the cowboy with his flute, and even the furry immense tracts of mountaincus country smell. The magic potency of a scent to that lie towards the Thibetan plateau arouse the memory of forgotten experi

ences had acted so swiftly that for z. there are regions of sheer loveliness anil enchantment not to be surpassed by any moment I was like a man in a trance oner portion of the world, perhaps not diving down into the unconscious. by Paradise itself.

NARKANDA - RIDGE.

"

WHERE DREAMS, COME TRUE.

In a moment memory and present im- pressions get clear of each other; ani It so happened that as I tramped along there rose to my mind the vision of a the Hindustan-Thibet road on my first little restless boy saying his prayers with tour through iny district in the warm days bis nose in an old hairy rug while his of spring, I passed over the Narkanda spirit burst through its wrappings of cir- ridge where a white mist hid the great cumstance and roamed inntrodden panorama" from view and dropped down forests and over mighty gluters in lands the shadowy track that winda off towards of its own imagining. And I knew that the Kula Valley through the silent, the imperial spirit is still the spirit of primeval forest of black, giant pines adventure that defies horsehair and where even one's footfall minke no sound cleographs, and cannot breathe its fill in the paths-so thick are the fallen until it sees its own far-flung horizons

and realises its destiny. Na

"Where do you come from ! I'asked needles of many years.

the trapper, who was of a type not yet familiar to nie.

He pointed to the most distant snows and said, Twenty days march from here, "-between two and three hundred

miles.

And who is the ruler of your poun try!" said I, expecting to hear of some Thibetan shape.

"The English king," he said.

Suddenly the gloom of the forest was shot with light and we stepped out, my Indiau peon and I. on a scene of Bur passing beauty, A wide green glade sloped steeply down to where serried ranks of mastlike stems seemed to form an impenetrable barrier. From our van- tuge ground we looked over the spike tops of the dark evergreen firs and cedars to the deep, deep valley beyond where,

A word to the trapper and my peon on an infinite series of tiny terraces, bright green crops of corn made all the sent them hoth on to my next stopping landscape cheerful with the signs of place. Left alone I stood still for a long habitation and fruitfulness. High above, time in the tense silence of the forest, as if suspended in mid-air, the mighty and the memories stirred took cleater snow 'peaks jutted into the sky and filled form. I saw the allver head of my father the horizon with majesty. Eeside the and the brown head of my mother pras pasture, dotted with blue and white ing for their children and their country Anemones as sweet to see as fields of prayer that meant so little to me then, asphodel, there clung a hut with wide and heard my father's voice reading. caves clone to which a herdboy sang and Depart. For I will send thee for hence I may add that these candid and whistled and remonstrated with his dcer- among the Gentiles. And I hared may like cows as they serumised hitter and head, for this seemed to me a meeting. cantankerous poeins are strictly copt. right, and that my fee for reproduction thither with the agility of goats. The place with the God of my Fathers who to all fiture anthologists of cricket is repose and simplicity of the golden age sends us out into the unknown places where our dreams come true. MM. With the great and grand old manly one guinea per piece, per person-Saturrested on the whole scene...

UEQUEART, in the Weekly Westminster." [day Review. game we love?

parts of a county cricket-ground. Such an experiment, however, will defeat any inupulse for the lyrical outburnt that is the second plague of the game to day,

I have confessed to intense enjoyment of the game, and I can equally enjoy the gusto of a man, who writes with know- To the informed ledge of his subject. writer who follows county cricket day in and day out for four months and keeps his gustatory powers, respectfully lift 10 hat. But for the flimsy madrigals of the pavilion poet, I can find no appetite

What Englishman can dare Any pastime to compare

What's that? Hurst Park, Fast Flag

per. Nine to four.- Who'd. mock the game or libel British

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