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VICTORIA DIOCESAN CONFERENCE.

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS ON THE CHALLENGE OF THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE.

FAITH, MORALS, UNITY, THE MINISTRY, YOUTH.

The opening season of the Victoria Diocesan Conferenos took place yesterday, and the proceedings will be concluded to-day.

At the St. John's Cathedral Hall meeting in the evening the President of the Conference, the Bishop of Victoria (the Right Rev. C. R. Duppyy) gave a masterly summary of the Lambeth Con- ference. Emphasis was laid on the quest for the nuity of the whole Christian Church already taking the form of closer relationship. hoth with the Orthodox Churches, and the non-episcopal churche The Bishop said emphatically there is been no going back on Lanboth 1920, na suggested,

A very interesting address was also given by Mr. E., A. Gaunt on "The Scientists' Approach to God."

THE CHURCH AND THE MODERN WORLD.

The subject on which I am to national state which the national Addrees you to-day is The state exists to cerve; it is the King "Challenge of the Lambeth Confor- (dom of God, and practically we ence"--the challenge that comes must realise that to be a Christian hm that Conference to us 28 aimplies an entirely now attitude. Diocess And more especially to towards our fellow-mon. day we must think of its challenge" Luus nan Colonial Church: for $ you know our gathering represents

League of Nations," There has recently been establish primarily the Church of England among us a brand of the Longue side of our work, though we are of Nations Union. I think it is a gind to have among us as fraternal plain duty of Christian people to delegates two representatives of our dir all they can to support the Chinese. Diocesan Synod.

The Imbeth Conference meelser Nations Union,- for the League lengur. of Nations and the League only once in ten years, We are gives expression to the sense of com therefore as Church people the more on interest among the nations of bound to consider its decisions be the world. caise they affect vitally the Ang. It has been said, and I think hran Church throughout the world, taly said, that conduct is a by

The Christian Doctrine of God, product of mligion-an inevitable by-product, but not the main point, Love creates goodness by the way,"

HÒNG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1931.

TROPICS.

INTERESTING LECTURE BY

DR: HERKLOTS,

Dr. G. A. O. Herklots delivered lecture last night at the Union Church Hall, Kowloon, before a large and appreciative audience. Taking ashir subject ! The Dominance of Plant Life in the Tropics," the lecturer said in part:

sacred ministry and with this is but only connections between the PLANT LIFE IN THE

By connected the call to wel-pointer-readings that wan bộ ex- Come nnd us to the full the tuinis tracted from it. There is, however

y of women not only in the at least one thing of which we asioral work of the Church, but have immediate and intimate know. 8 tenching, and worship edge, and that is our own mind. ~quain-from the Encyclical futter, ka—comparing the perisinty of TERRORS: OF THE JUNGLE.

As regards the Chinese Church, things spiritual and temporal, it the need for more men, and for is well to remember this, it is bes the Highest type of man, for the cause we know it so intimately ministry is blatant. While I have Clint, our mind seema mysterious. been-Bishop-nu-endowment fund Wo are content to accept the scien for Chineso clergy has been start-tife symbols describing a table, of ed: it badly needs augmenting.

As regards wooica's service in the Church, I have this to say, I am well aware that there are able women who are conscious of their vooition to teach Christianity and of their capacity to fulfil this vous tion and who would welcome exact ing standards of training, who feel that the Churchy is not ready to give them the we come and oppor, "tunity it gives to men. Here in this diocese we owe much to the devotion of women workers, and as Bishop I should welcome the care ful considonation as to how the distinctive gifts and ideals of wo men may be the better used in the Barvice of the Church, whether as the Lambeth Conference does not ordained Descomeues (which order desire should be regarded, a the female equivalent of the existing Deacon, but as an order generis) or in other ways.

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whose nature we know little, but we realise once that they are inadequate to describe our mind. The most illuminating" thing we can say about matter is that it

· enters into : the working of our mind, Thore is now a tendency not to base an explanation of the mind upon. a supposed knowledge of matter, but to bazard a guess at the nature of matter by draw: ing upon our knowledge of the mind.

We look for causation in nature because we are conscious that we ourselves are able to cause certain effects that we desire. But if de terminism were strictly true, the

ing. Physics is not concerned with the past, and we could cause noth future would ready be settled by

causation of the kind that we

habitually look for; its primary laws do not even distinguish be tween canto, and effect; they sill ply expresa connections between pointer-readings."

The stranger to the tropics always associales" in: his mind the tropies with jungles and jungles__with ravenous beast, of proy. He is correct in his first impression but Very far from correût in his second. In regions of the world where the

mperaturo is high and the rain- fall 50 or more inoba a year, planta grow at a most alarming rate and to a colossal site. These conditions

rain forcat result in the development of dense huld for the equatorial belt and

A visitor to tropical jungle, un

lese he is especially bent on sooing. wild animals and orders his path nothing larger than a monkey and accordingly, will probably soc nothing fiercer than a scorpion. of

First Impressions,

The Challenge of Youth. The final challenge that comes to

| ecurse there are animals in almost us is the challenge of Youth,

The birth of physics in the 17th overy atretch of jungle, tigera and inoperation of youth, and Chris-stract rationalism and an in-and wild cattle, but they avoid The Church certainly needs the century was a protest against atropards, elephant and tapir,; deer tianity has in its very nature asistence upon irreducible and sub-man and are rarely seen except by peculiar appeal to youth for youth burn facts. I said just now that accident. No, the things to be fear tends to respond to what is idea we know our minds more intimate are the piny rattans, the number of younger men and wo and altruistic And yet a largely than we know the universe. If poisonous and stinging plants, and men to-day are alienated from the when we know, not through the The visitor must profect himself there is someone, not ourselves, the small bloodsucking parasites Church and organiand roligion. sensos alone, but with that same against these lesser evils by wearing The Church in a backwater, intimacy, then this is an irreducible special clothes; if he does so he cán many of them think

and stubborn fact that our philoso- forget about guns and revolvers lenial Church, Hong Kong is for ned. It is not very useful to

At any rate de regards the Co-phy must admit, or stand conde- | and the like, the most part a young people's discuss the existence of God; the The first challenge that comes to us is to consider afresh our idea The challenges, which action two

Colony nad it is good that it should | important question is whether wo In this short talk it is of course of God. The whole nature of our of the Lambolh Revort brings to us

by so.

know him. There is an amusing impossible to describe any parti life is determined by our idea of in this diocese are these,

Youth, I am persuaded, is not theory that I am the only person cular feature in detail. All I can what is ultimate; by our

idén of

Basentially irreligious and yet too that exists and you are all part It it be agreed that the existing often in this Colony as elsewhere it of my dream. It is entertaining do is to describe soine of the out- 'God.

social order is intolerable and What is to be the spiritual force something better than mere hape it would be un overwhelm- difficult to refute and ever to be to record first impresions. With passes the Churches by on the other tú dobate this theory-which is standing features or in other words, which shall teach mer the meaning hazard rules are to control is of life and evolve harmony and standards are we to accept thing misfortune if youth wore to half convinced by it and then to the exception of mangrove swamp order from the mental and moral As regards Marriage and Sox:

allow religion to lose its place in laugh at its absurdity. So, I jungle, which differs considerauly chaos in which mankind is strug granted that some of our tradition

our English life, either here or think, if wo knew God na Jesus from lowland and mountain forest, gling? Here in this diocesu, drei incrality belongs to a very im-

elsewhere. And if this is not to did, we might, enjoy the subtleties a type of tropical rain forest represented many ereeds, and some mature etage in our development

be, the fullest possible co-operation of an argument proving his non-have many things in common,

The fewness of the very large who have been brought up in, then hat standards are me to accept for of youth inust be invited and se- existence; and, at the end, God and trees at first rooms wrong, there a

think it is not being done among aheurd a conclusion. cured. I say this not because 1] we would laugh together at so

Our church stands or fals as it ur, but to emphasize its importance. wins and can hold youth.

Christian tradition have discarded JL. People have every right to ask of us who hold the Christian faith what is the Christian dextring of God, and how does it supply the guidance which our perplexed gon-

ration 'needs!

ouredves and for our community life?

What I want to emphisize with

you is that the Lambeth Confer-

ence of 1930 does constitute for us that bit by bit we must work out nan diocess a real thaflonge and

As regards Hove and Ponce and War: the sense of conradship and fellowship is not something to be achieved by being directly sought it 'followe naturally where men are The supreme question is Wintergaged together in common tasks. relation is there between Jesus The task of the Church is to multip Christ who lived in Palestine at ly the number of persons whose re particular period and the Eternal lations with their fellowmen are God, is he more than merely the guverned by respect and reverones greatest in a great company of of the individuality of others. THE SCIENTIST AND GOD. spiritual leaders, is he in his own Those who have the Christian at- person very God?"

titude to their fellowmen will mani. lost it naturally in racial relations

There are three things I want to say about Lambeth and the Unity of the Church -

I cannot strese too strongly the greasing importance of this subject for all our work, And lost anyone should be tempted to hold an easy view as to what is involved let me First, the quest that wer read you some works of Dr. William pursuing is that of the visible us

are Temple, Archbishop of York. "Ourity of the whole church of Christ- need is not go much to see this nothing less. doctrine or that doctrine further

of God).

Second, definite advance was

unde as to cliser, relationship be- tween the Anglican and the Or thodox Churches..

our response.-

WHY. MATERIALISM DOES

D NOT SATISFY,

OVER ZEALOUS CONSTABLE.

REMOVED EVIDENCE TO GET CONVICTION.

REPROVED BY COURT.

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perhaps but one giant to an gera, but this is due to their enormous canopy. In · Malaya: I have seen. these giant tries 180-220 feet in bright with perhapy not, a branch der the first 100 feet. Only at the edge of a jungle - clearing is it noble to photograph such a giant {free! T

The impenetrable nature of the. undergrowth is most atriking and is due to tangled masses of vines, relians, gingera, ferns and the roots ef large, trock. Cutting_n_path through this sort of stuff is ex-

tremely fatiguing work. It is neces bary to blaze a trail, obberwise one. an get lost extremely easily and

Mr. E. H. Williams reproved Mr E. A. Gaunt in the course of Chinese constable yesterday, for willin, but a short distance of the

obliterating evidence which would base up. have benefitted defendant, in a case mist, curious appearance,

Sometimes the liunca prezent

roach to God said: his address on the Scientist's an

These

The Science I shall speak about in which'n Chinese houseboy was finnes are very strong and one the is Physics; partly because I a not competent to speak of the charged with possession of liquor on thickness of a man's thumb will articulated or freshly defended; it

biological sciences; but also because which, it is alleged, duty had not bear a man's weight easily. The is to see the whole Christian view of the world, of life and of God

it is Physics that, has attained yet been paid.

chief snag about swarming up such a liane is that one cannot be certain made good against its only contemn. Thirdly, as regards non-episcopal act science, and it is Physics whose most nearly to the ideal of an ex-

The defendant was employed by that ite apex is firmly fixed to the orary rival" (that is what may be Churches:

I think there was no conspicuous auccess has influenced Mr. A. A. R. Botelho and was rare. Also such liants often sorve branches perhaps 20 or 100 feet called secular or goientific humanism going back whatever on Lambeth the whole background, of our rested at the Star Ferry wharf on as bridges for very fierce and large with its self-dependence and denial 1920 as some have suggested. It is thought.

recognised that the experiment in Though it often is crowded out South India is being made in the sick has been that of matter in mu and a bottle of champagne in his ing palme whose stems grow, scane-

The grant unifying iden in phy Monday with two battles of whisky warrior ants!

The rattans are a group of climb- in our busy life yet there is in man hope of "achieving a union between tion under fixed laws. The same possession.. the instinct for worship; he wants episcorn and non-opiscopal"

hur

and tincs to a length of more than 600 to adoro; how is this instinct to find ches such as has never get boon theory that predicted the fall of truc expression Above all yo uced effected" and in a resolution of the tions of the planets round the Sun. an apple predicted also the mo-

Inspector Shaftain, in charge of feet; diy are abundant in certain to have ever bufore us the first re whole Conference we ask the The physicists of fast century do draw the charges. He said that the extensions which are armed with re- tho case, asked permission to with type of wet jungle. The leaves of thers palma bive long whip-like' solution of the Lambeth Conference brethen of our communion to stand sighted in thinking out mechanical Church & the to the Christine your brothers in India, while models of everything. They felt police bad made enquiries and curved hooks arranged in encircling Church is the repository and trustee they ranke the experiment, with that when, they had described found the liquor belonged to Mr. bands like collars. These books are of a Revelation of God, given by generous, goodwik." Himself, which all members of the

really terrible and one avoide Mr. Botelho had been at the laces plant. A companion may touch a Botelho, who was present in Court: rattans more than any other jungle Church are bound to "transmit to others, and that every member of

last week and and ordered a part of Fattan 20 fort ahead of you the Churcloth clerical and bey

resulting in a loaf tip bending down is called to be a channel through

quantity of liquor from Messrs. H. and catching you in the face. Ong which the Divine Life flows for the

Buttonjee & Sou. The labels were once hooked me in the nose and on. quickoning of all mankind.!

eventually taken off, and, after the several occasions has my toper been

had been taken back ( Mesra, races, the three Bottles in Court lifted from my head.

Local Pandanus... Huttonjee & Son, who, however, re- fused to keeps them, as the labels Bay Shek O, De Water Bay, etc., On the sandy shore, of Big Wave

As regards ourselves here in this balls, flywheels and other devices phenomenon in terms of moving diocese, the challenge that comes. to us from Lambeth in that we shalod to its innor nature. It was

of the engineer, they had penetrat take our part in pursuing the' quest of the visible unity of the claimed that it should be possible to explain everything by the mo whole Church of Christ, and in tion of matter in accordance with passing I would like to emphasize the Laws of mechanics, and that that the Conference adopted un anything animously a resolution in favour brought within such a scheme must of efforts of Evangeliem in coba illusion.

which could not be

operation with Christians of other Communions

The Ohristian Moral Ideal, The second challenge that comes to us is the challenge to consider afresh the Christian Moral Ideal

more especially in its relation to The Ideal of the Anglican Márriagó and But, do Race, to f Fence and War

Dean. Inge has recently said that sit ething is not based on any philo, the present revolt against tradition sophy consciously held but rather on villapes of all authority, which Iwas left the promit generation with ut any universally accepted stan dards, No one who takes a large row of the world to-day can doubt

bat the Dean is right

io face the problem ren though

Communion,

Byn national sequopce we come the Anglican Communion have be now to consider the ideal we of fore us for ourselves and the fu ture to which we look forward

The Atom

had been removed" A physicist who accepted this Traces of the labels on the neckare a úder of plants called screw position could not believe that God of the bottles had been deliberately pines, or in Latin Pandanus. was continually at work in the removed by the Chipere constable

These have relatives in Malayan universe, accomplishing his purpose who had effected the arrest, before Jungle which have leaves with tooth- continue for a time to be haunted conduct would be the subject of delimbing plants and their saw-like and answering prayers. We hal: they were taken into Court. Hised edges as barbarous, as our native

the ghost of Victorian physics partimental treatment

feaves houg, down ready to lacerate inherit; but we can recognise that in the habits of thought that wo His Worship pointed out to the the face of the unutmoryant botanist. game of these habits are bad, and

species. Some of these relatives are

constable that it was not his duty to The force paths are always lu convicts man whom he had arrest testing. On their, banke grow try to cultivate better ones. Maed; it was only for him to stato the ferns closely related to the fern torialism is attractive because mat facts of the arrest.

tes seems so obviously real But The defendant was discharged..

Our ideal is nothing less the fourth report says, "than the Catho lic Church in its entire y Viowed in its widest relations, the Ang lican Communion is seen as in some

which we call Hong Kong bracken. All Forts of views about marriage sense an incident in the history of that is not the view of physics,

Occasionally one is lucky enough to and sex are held and are being free. the Church Universal. It bas his table, like the air, is made

get a view of a group of tree ferns,"" ls canvas. It would have been artsen out of a situation caused by of countless atoms. Each tom, la

perhaps the mont beautiful of all. cowardly if the Bishops had refused the divisions of Christendom. We not a sold tump, but miniature trunk. Such a tree presents a very Jungle forms of life. Trie forms aro

forest the day when the racial solar system. Its aim is the atomic strange appearance.

mest abundant to wet jungle high h someone has and the section bear and historical connections which nucleus, its planets are the cloc ** Hero, and there, whilst following

CUT! On the Rinitätu sides, hava ing on this subject does not conclude prestat characterise it will be trous; but most of the atom is path along the side of a steep sen them growing luxuriantly in transcended and the life of our empty spate, just as the solar ayh mountain one is lucky enough to Malaya, Java and the Philippines, communion will be merged in a

get a magnificent view, Sometimes different aperies but all very larger fellowship in the Catholic tem is mostly empty space.

mile after mile of multicoloured similar. Church.

Men Mattar and Mind,

forest canopy in the valleys and Jungle giants often have strange: The principle for which the Ang. 1 We are no longer confident that plains clow, reminds one of a mag and complicated roots. "Frequently un pasy, one; and it will need ooligan okarch stands is that of the we thoroughly understand matter with the count o nuurked out in the thicken considerably in two operation and criticism from every autonomy of particular churches while mind remains a mystery. Wo various colours. At other times the planes, forming plonklike strued

lpful source

hased upon a common faith and learn about the universe by the view is of mile after mile of rubbertures, I have seen a table top made As regards Race, the adjustment order

telegrach-messages of the Banses, plantations; a dull drab monoton from a portion of a single buttress n the relations between different Women's Service in the Church, travelling inwards to the mind; ous green but with the sea in the roul. At other limos, especially' in races is one of the major problems" A further challenge that comte tous physica suggests that our in- distance. Perhaps it in evening the pass of fig trees, inaumerabfa of the present century. The prins and one which profound,y affects terpretation of these messiges is and the viny. is punctuated with the prop roots are produced, some of calo for which we Christians have us in a diocese such as this-mare largely mistaken. Physion itself low of fires from native once which grow straight down into the to stand is that there exista some particularly of course in our Ghin does not now profess to describe mente or where jungle is being

mil, others of "which" encircle" the thing wider and higher than the co-work--is the challenge of the the inner nature of the universe, burnt:

(Vantinted Dir previous columna

a omal issue but rather creates new conditions under which moral issues ayu to ba deelded. The task of -building up ethical teaching in the Fiew conditions will not be a shart

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