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TIME TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

L.XX LX. A.N.

9.15 10.30 11.40 19.0

994 10,39

Kowloon...

Dep 5.40

Dap

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Dep

7,02

9.86 10.51

Tipo ... Tipo-Market

Dep

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Dap. 7.41

9.59.11/08

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Stanchan Shaungabal Fanling Taipo Markst Tips

Shatin

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... Art. 7,49 10,1811,994 12:20

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A.M.

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15.29 17.30

16.98 $7.19

9.49 456 5.51 7.81 2.56 5.09 6,04 7,44 3.00 8.13 6.06 7.48 3.116.34 619

3.15 5.23 8.23 8.09

3.91 5.54 0.298.06

P.M.

IX.

7.3.

8,00

4178.13

8,06

8.07

4.24

5.20

6,15

211

4.29

5.24

8.19

3.21

4.38

5.34

€.29

3,25

5,366.33

3.98 4.58

5.61 6,40 3.50 5.08 6.09 6,58 2.$7 3,58 5.16 8.11

7,06

8.05 10.38 11.401.58 7.23 8.12 10.45 | 11,47 | Dep.

8.16 10.49 11,51 Dep. 7,33, Dep. 7, 8.28 10.59 12.02 Dap. 7,46 8.30 11.04 12,07 Dep. 59 8.63 11.17 12.21 Dop 812 8.55 11.99 12.53 „Art, 8,20, 9,03 11,37 12.41

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SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS, LX. 7.M.P.M. P.3L STATIONS

Fanling

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THE MOST ARTIFICIAL IN THE DR. CHARLES GORE'S VIEWS.

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HOW THEY APPEAR TO "MISS 1026."

A TOUR IN THE LAND OF THE CHERRY BLOSSOM.

[BY A LADY CORRESPONDENT.] After questioning a number of for eigners, the main characteristic of Japan was voted to berita artificiality-

The Japanese himself would doubtless- ly deny the charge. Or laugh at it, as he does at anything he does not like, or considers foolish. But from 进 casual observer's view-point, "artificial" is the most persistently recurring word in con nection with a tour in Japan.

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It is as though they are so proud, of! the works of their hands, that they would compete with nature, excel her in their own estimation, making her beauties give place to hand-made works.

ADAM AND EVE "ONLY A LEGEND.!!

Adam and Eve never existed in his- tory: in the Bible they are merely the embochent of every man and every

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This is one of the conclusions of Dr. Charles Gore, formerly Bishop of Oxford, in a remarkable heck, "Can We. Then Believe" published recently by John Murray."

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Dr. Gore also doubts if Christ ever "descended into hell which he sug- gests is a symbolical phrase but he ex- presses belief in the miracles recorded in the Bible. "Without such belief," he says, "the conviction of the Christian faith would not hold its ground." "

"The Bible." he asserts, was not tariff, so that China might benefit by the given to teach us science, and it simply position of ber experts in the world

markets. It looked very much as though 15, QUEEN's BOAD CENTRAL TEL CENTRAL Tõj. accepts the science of its time; it knows success were entirely with China-so much nothing of physical evolution. But there so that some of the foreigners whose are features in the Bible, especially the juterests. are dependent on the status quo account it gives. us of the slow and were expressing a definite irritation at

the complete success of the Chinese dele-1 gradual self-disclosure of God and His gation. gradual education of mankind, which, as some of the Christian Fathers perceived. seem to cry out for a theory of creation by evolution. We must surely recognise Even at wayside botels there if the that, while it in o way weakens the committee looking after the welfare "of the city of Peking. Subsequently, a same tendency. The dinner table is be-grounds for belief in God, it gives us a makeshift government came into exist decked with a plate containing a few far more adequate and satisfying con-ence, more to satisfy the necessity for a inches of soil, in which some weedy plant ception of divine method than the old continuity of diplomatic relations than

to exercise any power in the land. is coaxed to grow, like an unhealthy, scientific dogma of special creations, to stunted child..

which the theologians of the Renaissance unfortunately committed themselves.”

A striking example is the cult of dwerff trees, which, while it stunts the growth of young forests, and atrikes down giant branches in their prime, ensures a lucrative trade, making Japan famous as a land of horticulturists.

Thereupon one of those wholly useless and senseless civil wars took place. Ta Government in power was driven from office, and for a period there was no a self-constituted government at all,

THE TAKIFF CONFERENCE.. The Tariff Conference, meanwhile, The whole idea of the Japanese Garden

could not meet because there were no is purely artificial. It is as though s THREE-STOREYED " VIEW.

Chinese delegates with whom the for- taskmaster is attempting to discipline & Dr. Gore agrees with Dean Inge that cigners could discuss matters. All the refractory child. It is always kept the three-storeyed view of the universe while some of the foreigners returned to Chinese delegates but two ran away, within rigid bounds. There is no care-earth in the middle, heaven their own countries, to await a further lessness, no rioting, no running wild. Fabove, and hall beceath "has been de-call for the Conference. The beads of It is all strictly self-conscious. Laid out molished, although he rejects the effect at about Peking hopelessly waiting for the Japanese and American delegatious

in exquisite detail, it is true, but laid on the doctrine of the Ascension which China to realize what was happening. out to order.

Dean Inge seems to ascribe to the demo The one chance in half a century was Again, take the Japanese women, the Hition. Yet Dr. Gore claims that the thrown before the militarists like pearls

before swine. most attractive product of the whole "best Christian thinkers never did hold. The same conditions obtained with th country, at the same time the most the three-storeyed' view." He quotes Commission to investigate extraterritori

ality-They-could-not-make satisfactory artificial women in the world.

St. Jerome as declaring that "those who investigations because in some provinces Not being endowed with good features spoke of heaven as if it were literally a they were not wanted at all, while other or skin, they make flagrant use of place above the blue vault, in which places could not be reached because of cosmetica. "Geisha " girls resemble Christ sits on a throne and is attended the Civil War. When a group of the chalk painted masks, more than flesh and by messengers in His heavenly Court

do harm to the Church.. ་ vision actually seen by the apostles Dr. Gore has no doubt, but he admits the necessity for asserting that some of the ideas which Christians have held are no legger possible.

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Hands are held up in horror in Hong kong at the "modern" Young Lady of Fashion," but she is a clear-skinned school-girl compared with the average Japanese woman.

Even the little 'navaan

who brings grape-fruit before breakfast, and bitter green tea, is more highly painted in the morning glare, than any European star in the theatrical imelight. Their mincing walk, and piping voices, are wholly unnatural. They remind one of gaudy dolls, living in elaborate dolls' houses, taking the air in minatore gardens.

JAPANESE " MANNERS." Above all the manners of the Japanese

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On the other hand, foreign opinion in liab the abandonment by the Church of

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punishment or life sentence. "In Cheng- tu, he got a little over a year. In South China missionary property is constantly Thus," declares Dr. Gore, "we should being seized on the assumption that the are highly artificial. They are spoken regard adam and Eve not as historical Powers will do nothing to protect their of na the most polite people in the individuals, but as Man and Woman as nationals in China. Business firms find They certainly do the most Everyman. We have need to think out that they cannot collect debts or have bowing and scraping, and take the all the consequences of this change of absconding compradores punished. One TEL: Kowloon No. 7. Tel. Ad: "PALACE, position, and adapt all our popular teach foreign firm, for example, agreed to longeat time to strike a bargain, if that ing to it. And it is not so much an in- arbitrate a claim and asked the Chinese The Chinese isaaigu of good manneře. But they novation as a return to a position which to name the arbitrator.

named an American consular official, sometimes received expression in the seldom natural in conversation.early centuries of the Church."

who, on the basis of facts, décided in Most of them have learnt few phrases, Dr. Gore comes to grips with Dean favour of the foreign firm-whereupon, such as "Very sorry," Very nice, inge over the question of the Ascension. the Chinese, who had named the arbit

He points out that there is no evidence rator, refused to abide by the decision.

The cumulative effect of all the anti- which they repeat with clock-like rehat any one witnessed the descent into B.B.A. Air Rifles, and Miniature Rifles,ularity. Their whole attitude, however, hell-which therefore becomes merely foreign data is doing China no good. appears to be a strict conforming to an symbolical-but that there is evidence Men who were a year ago strongly pro- that the Ascension was witnessed, and Chinese now find themselves doubters. unwritten code of rules.

Even many misionaries, who sacrificed There is little spontaniety about them, therefore it must be true as fact.

"The strength of the Christian re the business man in their effort to win except their humour, which on first ligion was grounded," he asserts, on Chinese good-will, are becoming dubious glance appears, natural. They have a what were claimed to be events in re of the value of this good-will: China in delightful way of screwing up their cent experience, solidly witnessed to steadily losing in the favour of the faces at the slightest jest. On the other things seen, gazed upon, heard and world yet the Chinese themselves risk hand, it is possibly, regarded merely as paidled-concerning the birth, the life, all this, to satisfy the promptings of an good manners to laugh at a stranger's the death, the corporal resurrection, and inferiority complex which says: "China Joke

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All these impressions may be the results historical person, Jesus of Nazareth" This leads one to Mr. Chu Chao Hsin's af ignorance of the language. The

Dr. Gore pins his faith to miracles. speeches before the League of Nations. Japaneso, in his own language, may Christ,, he thinks, "refused to regard As Mr. George Bronson Eca, in a recent convey a very different impression. No miracles as means of compelling belief, article, pointed out, Mr. Chu is a brave, man should be judged in a foreign but regarded them as necessary to en-capable, fighting diplomat, who is striv language. But as the average foreigner courage or confirm & weak faith.

ing to win equality for his nation. But has only a smattering of Japanese, there the Christian religion," he de Mr. Chu is beset by China's hard luck. is no help for it. Japan would have clares," could not have begun without The Government in China does nothing been more appreciated in the eighteenth miracles or the belief in miracles, so I to back up MF. Chin. The provincial century. Artificiality was to the eigh-ink that to-day we are rationally led officials commit outrages every day which teenth century, what nature is to us. It to believe that they actually occurred, give the lie to Mr. Chai assurances. is not to be wondered at, then, that and that without such belief the convic Mr. Chu does the heat he can, but who Japan is regarded somewhat sceptically, tion of the Christian faith would not hold can fight China's. jinx?---Far Eastern by the critical eye of this age.

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