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A BRITON LOOKS

AT CHINA.

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A HANKOW INCIDENT.

INSPIRATION IN GENESIS.

PROPHESIES OF CHRIST.

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[BY C. 8. ARCHER:]

"The following little sketch ap peared in a copy to hand of the Daily Mail." "It puts one or two awkward questions and suggests,

more.

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Out here it is part of the white men's burden to appear unmoved

CAPTAIN SALVA- TION" AT THE QUEEN'S.

NISTER BUT ARTISTIC

*PRODUCTION,

ADDRESS BY MR. J. 5. FLACKS NED FOR CINEMAS •WITH

AT UNION CHURCH,

An interesting lecturó was de livered on Wednesday at 3.30 p.m. in the Union Church Hall, Kennedy Road, by Mr. Joseph S. Flacks, a Hebrew Christian.

Introducing the speaker, Mr. R. D. Wilson remarked that Mr.

at all times. At approximately Flacks had been in Hong Kong in

A TRADITION."

[DY OUR FILM CRITIC.)

Captain Salvation" A Motro ddwin picture now on at the Cea's brings us back again to t necessity, if cinematography is tbecome an act in any way com.

3.90 there was a violent explosion the year 1921 and 'was here again fable to that of the theatre, of

outside the windows of these offices,

I continued opening my mail.

As I pretended to read I wonder-

ed what it could be. Had the walls of the old 8th Army Headquarters fallen in An uncommonly large firecracker'? Whatever its cause, the explosion produced a marked effect on the Chinese staff Their terror showed how thin is the veneer, of conversation and drinking placidity. These people are living in hourly expectation of calamity: there is no security any

tea

dema theatres with a tradition. Je cinema

as it exists to-day, kept in very large towns is every- dies theatre. The adveźtemente

month ago." He was well known to most of the audience.

Opening his address, Mr. Flacks remarked that he had read in press announcements sent out paper that a group of Cambridge

the theatre give little or DO professors intend to present to the ication to the general public of public an abridged Bible. In this

has sort of fare may be set be- DEW Bible," they are retaining

re them. You do not go to 'the Genesis. Hence, we cannot be counterion to see Ibsen, nor will you sidered narrow or out of date if

hd George Robey at His Majes- we look carefully into the contents

les, but there is nothing to in- of Genesis.

icate what you may find at our New cannot be properly under cal Queen's, World

Salvation" follows stood. Metaphorically, the photo-Captain

Paris graph of the New Testament is seen prightly Bebe Daniel in After the first excitement had in the Old. The New Testament is it the Queen's, and next Thurs died down a little and I felt that an unfolding of the Old. Touching hay we shall see the sentimental I had borne the white man's bur- on the account of the Creation as romanticism of Barrie's

given iri Genesis, many theories to Street." den long enough I walked to the disprove it had been advanced and Captain Salvation is a fine window and looked out at the these had multiplied. His inten-production but is will not be, to the Bund, the hulks, the ships, and the tion was not to quarrel with those taste of those who enjoy Barrie, It is a sleepy, wintry Yangtse. People who disbelieve but simply to statelaud "Sorrell and Son

a macabre Beardsley were still flying in all directions what the Bible says and, on this story with from the spot on which the explo-occasion, to find the picture of atmosphere and cast in the mould

Jesus in Genesis. sion had occurred,

inore.

sagged.".

Without the Old Testament, the

Jesus Christ as the One to bruise the head of the Deceiver of the father of th human race.

or Star.

**Quainty

of the Russian drama.

man-

A

Just past the corner of the Cus-

Having sinned, Adam was hiding.There is a portion of 1 in which an toms House a lorry was standing.

in the midst of the tree' is what atmosphere of ovi, without any I was laden with wooden boxes the literal Hebrew expresses. Bu very definite incident, is so force. marked with Chinese characters for God seeks for hin

The woman tuly conveyed that you wonder if the 19th Arms. Kuomintang. which God gave was to stand by such realism is justifiable in any few of these had been unloaded (lit. Heb.) the man. She failed an am. The pictured scene makes u and two or three were burning caused him to stumble. Thoug more vivid impression than the slightly, their aiden torn

responsible to God himself, Adal written word, and perhaps the very blackened. At first I saw nothing blamed God for the woman and a loss of the spoken wort adds to else there. Below me stood ac

laid the cause in the Serpe the sinister euect. The captain of officer, cursing and screaming at a However, God made provision r the convict ship might on the stage terrified inferior. Following the direction of his gesticulations, Ian's condition. In the immedite be a little ridiculous owing as he saw the last significant part of the instance He clad His creature th does not a little to the immortal a covering of skins. Christ is b- Hook of Peter Pan; but on the

** macaroni " picture.

film with hig He was lying at a distance of stitionary for man's need. some three agonising steps from Promise shone through the one rere he becomes sheer horror.

The story of Aason Campbell trained for the the boxes, just where the stone and the Seed of the woman wuld who has been pavement in front of the foreign crush the bead of the Sentistry but whose heart is with shipping firm begins and the mud, This pointed to Christ. Ishall the sea is vital and arresting. of the native embankment ends. bruise thy head"He the girl of bad reputation is rescued His head was bowed, the upper original where it occurs. As we

from u wrecked chip, and, when half of his body was stiffly sup- follow the genealogy, we fill men- ported on his arms in an effort to tion of Abraham of whom Divine they discover her identity, the vi

lagers of Maple Harbour in their keep his face away from the utervention a great nation was to

narrow puritanism decide that she bloodied pavement. As I watched, exist. We eventually come Jesus his arms bent jerkily, his head as we look over the reards of shall be left to die on the shore. Because the young minister takes Scripture.

her to the hut of a sailor, friend Perhaps the cold touch of the

and restores her to life he be stone reminded him too cuttingly

comes an Ishmael, and later boards of death, for he struggled up

an unknowa ehip with his unfortu again. He made no sound. He Jesus is well portrayed in Abel, nate companion. was a dying gladiator, Chinese the second son of Adam. bel-the Here the horror begins for they fashion. He spoke to no one. He name in Hebrew stands fq keeper, find themselves on a convict ship, asked, no help, expected none. He shepherd. It is the same word in whose captain is worse than his was merely part of the picture. Psalm 23, My Shepherd and it cargo. The woman determinre to Not an important part even, from is characteristic of leadeth mend her life, but the young The his comrades point of view-nor, ine.... He restoreth mention man gives way to despair. maybe, from his own.

ed in that Scripture. Agin in the climax is reached when Bess stabs Gospel according to St. John "I herself to avoid falling into the Absoa am the good Shepherd. The good clutches of the captain, Shepherd giveth his life for the after a terrible fight in the rigging sheep." The Epistle to the Hebrews of the ship kills the captain and tells us that Abel offred unto rejoining Bees in the hold where God a more excellent sacifce than she has been laid among the cap by it, be bing dead tives is implored by the dying girl

It was te fulness to pray for her soul. of the strength of the flocs and the fatlings which Abel offerd. Jesus was the Sacrifice unto Cad expres sive of this. Christ is also excell

This scene might very easily have catis pictured to us in Abel, In the Corinthian Epistle there is failed and have become the typical mention of Christ. One died film sob stuff," but it does not. for all then were dead." From the moment when Bess stabs Christ's death speaks r us as a herself the atmosphere of evil sen substitution. God does not accom-sibly lessens, though it would be modate himself to aur ancies. He very difficult to say exactly how bestows His righteousdess on the this effect is gained, and the final scene in the hold is effective be ground of substitution.

The inevitable crowd had collect ed. Standing at a distance from the smouldering boxes, they waited for something to happen or for

For somebody to do something. tunately for them nothing happen- ed. But as this was near the Cus-

Cain. toms House a foreign establish- ment-somebody did something. Ayet speaketh.' foreign Customs man arrived on the scene with a fire extinguisher. He climbed into the truck and, keeping its high side between him self and the smouldering cases of Stokes mortar bombs, he soon managed to put out the fire.

With regard to Cain-the name meant a buyer, a merchant.

I turned my attention. again to the man who was dying on a fac, cold, winter's afternoon, lying there on a granite slab beside the grey, sluggish Yangtse. He was in the position in which I had first seen him. Nobody did anything for him. The onlookers did not had rejected God and chosen the seek relief in action as would an Devil having lent himself as his Occidental. They were unmoved tool. Men are constantly insisting save by curiosity, which they venton having personni liberty but ac ed in jabbering discussion as to tually there is an invisible, power And so behind them spurring them on. In how it happened.

Ho

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Disbelieving LORD BALFOUR'S MEMOIRS.

he makes an effort for her sake and the effect which her death and his words have upon the convicta restores, his faith.

TWO VOLUMES IN PREPARATION.

LONDON, May 12th. The Daily Mail learns that Lord. Balfour is writing his autobio- graphy.

Lord Balfour began the work about two months ago, and his al- cause it is neither over long not ready written some thousands of over sentimental.

The picture is "extraordinarily the 200,000 words which the two/ moving and the lesson of tolerance volumes will contain: He icon- is clear and effective, but it is not

cumulated during his lifetime, in- film which everyone would choose sulting a mass of documents ac to see as an entertainment.

The acting throughout is excel- cluding letters to him from famous men and women, some of them still never do better than his presenta living, who have enjoyed his friend- tion here of Anson Campbell. The ship, production ie artistically one of the nest which has been screened and a very real triumph for Metro Goldwin, both sea and, land scenes being convincing in all essential details.

he died there, with the winter's sun the 53rd Chapter of Isaiah we find leat Louis Hanson probably will on his bowed head, his blue cotton"We have turned everyone to his clothes clinging to him clammily own way." This is true but there and the red splashes of his blood is a power outside, of ourselves on the granite.

I returned which has chosen, the wrong way to my desk and put aside my cor for us. The second chapter of

Ephesians records that "Ye respondence. I felt sick

Why should he die with his were dead" nevertheless "Ye walk- people standing about him, watched according to the course of this ing him make his kowtow before world according to the prince of the the ultimate victorDid he die power of the sir.' because we have taught those people The Mystery Of The Jews.

The speaker also observed that

to manufacture Stokes bomba

but cannot teach them proper

and words. Consciously or uncon-

Jesus had said "Search the Scrip tures in them ye think ye have care in packing and handling while strong nations had declined, eternal life, they testify of me." them f I want an answer, and God in His wisdoan had preserved It is not sufficient to read and when I am given, it I must apply a feeble folk in the nation of Israel. recite, let us search the Scriptures. it to all the 400,000,000 of his Jacob was named Israel, meaning As regards the Apocryphal books, prince with God. The nation there is no evidence that they are people.

He was only a common soldier were the custodians of God's works inspired writings.

One who does not consider Genesis PILLS, probably a country fellow from

Hupeh, too stupid to take heed of seiously, the Jew is a living witness a concoction of myth and fable, to the supernatural. No one can unscientific and unreasonable can the printed warning "With care"

and his mother, if and when she give a proper explanation of the find Jesus in Genesis as the Seed hears of his end, will wail for him origin of the Jewish race excepting of the woman, the Shepherd in Aber in the streets of his village accord- in God. The birth of Isaac was and the Lamb, which was offered ing to the castom. But the only supernatural and he was super up in sacrifice, it worth searching When the the Scriptural record with an open one who is troubled by his pain naturally sustained. and his extinction is an Occidental speaker was a boy, every Jewish mind and finding the Living Word who sits at his desk, wondering in lad read and recited the Old Testa in the written. Word

Further lectures are to be given an Occidental way about pain and ment Scriptures and chanted the responsibility and the ultimate Song of Solomon every Sabbath in the Union Church Hall by dr.

(Continued on next Oolumn). Flacks, purpose-it, any.

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