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DEATH OF SULTAN

OF PAHANG.

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"The High Commissioner has re- ceived with profound regret the news of the death of His Highness the Sultan of Pahang, Al-Mu'tasim al- Sultan 'Abdullah, K.C.MG., ibni al-Marhum Sultan Ahmad al-Mu'adzam Shah, which occurred at Pekan Inst night at 8.25 p.m.

MALAY RULER OF THE OLD Bi'llah

TYPE

FIFTEEN YEAR'S REIGN.

.......

a).

Kuala Lumpur, June 23-Theia Excellency desires to, place on Sultan failed to rally from the de record his sorrow at the great loss oline reported yesterday and at five sustained by the State of Pahang o'clock his condition became como and his deep sympathy with all its tose. He passed away quietly, people.

The British Resident of Pahang, The obsequies take place at 2. Mr. H. G. R. Leonard, was with p.m. this afternoon at Pekan, and the Sultan to the end, and British His Excellency commands that all medical officers wore constantly in Government offices be closed to-day attendance at the paluco at Pekan. from that hour, and all flags on About a month before the Dur Government buildings be down at bar of F.M.S. Rulers which was) half-mast."

curred.

1932.

DR. BARNES ON ATHEISM.

PURPOSIVE MIND BEHIND LIFE.

MECHANICAL IDEA DISPROVED,

theory that the universe is govern- ed solely by mechanical laws was made by Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Bir- mingham, when preaching to the students of Leeds University.

A remarkable refutation of the

ciples of evolution, the Bishop in- Though he believed in the prin-

sisted that the mind of man was not the product of chemical or phy- endeavour was to be dismissed na siological laws. Unless all human

fruitless, there must be behind it some Controlling Mind from whom such purpose proceeds

"What reasons have we for be- lieving," asked Dr. Barnes, "that! chanism but that, on the contrary,' the Universe is not a blind me

should we be theists rather than of purposive mind? Why, in brief,

atheists ?"

held at Pekan in April, His Higb-As announced in the Straits Times uess developed a small boil on the on June 23, His Highneas passed knee. This was treated, and the away at the Astana Pantai, Sultan appeared to be in the best Pekan, in the presence of the Hon. of health during the Durbar, but the British Resident and Mem it has evolved under the infuenco several days later the trouble reHighness, it is announced, had not bers of the Royal Family. His

been enjoying good health for some It is understood that. His Highmonths past and in October last

The question had peculiar inter- ness at first declined to consent to year was seriously ill with fover

complicated by poor lung condithe Soviet Government included est at the present time inasmuch as an operation, but afterwards, as ation. Early in May of this year, atheism among the sot of ideas result of the persuasion of H.H. His Highness was found to be suf- which is sought to spread through the Sultan of Perak, who paid a fering from an abscess on the knee the world. We had no right to re- special visit to Pekan, and also the accompanied by slight temperature.ject atheism because

The abscess was drained and His Soviet Communism. We must al wo disliked persuasion of the Resident of Fa-

Highness's condition continued to low that a religious orthodoxy was hang, the Sultan agreed to opera- remain fairly good until the 18th, integral to the Czarist regime, and tive trentment if it was found to when he became subject to periodi that it did little or nothing for. be necessary.

cal bouts of temperature,

social righteousness.

Operation Not Possible.

On June 3, the illness became more serious and surgical intervention

Soviet atheism was partly a ro coil from the beliefs of the Czarist The State Surgeon, Selangor, appeared necessary. The State system, and partly due to a convic Mr. Danoats, and an ariaesthetist Surgeon, Selangor, and the anaos tion that the discoveries of modern accordingly went to Pekan, but thetist proceeded to Pekan on Jung science proved the Universe was n found that His Highness's general 11. In view, however, of the gen blind mechanism. This point of condition was too sorious to peroral state of His Highness's health, view became widespread shortly mit of an operation. He was sul- it was considered unwise to par aftor Darwin's theory of evolution fering from diabetes and malaria form an operation.

was propounded. Huxley champion. ed his teaching and maintained that mind was but a by-product of material changca.

in addition to the septic knee. It. The late Sultan Abdullah was the is stated that the medical advisers third son of the late Sultan Ahmad favoured His Highness going to Madzam Shah and succeeded his Kuala Lumpur for hospital treat eldest brother the late Sultan Mah. ment, but the Bultan was unwillingud on his death on June 19, 1017.

Further Than Darwin,

to do so and treatment was con- The late Sultan Mahmud had no

**Most men of science, to-day tinued at the palace..

children and Tengku Abdullah, his

would go further than Darwin," eldest brother, in accordance with said Dr. Barnes. They would al- the rule of succession, succeeded to low that the primitive forms of the Sultanate, and was proclaimed life, from which we are descended, Sultan on June 20, 1017...

''

Malay medicine men were also summoned from Johore and Treng ganu and performed incantations.

The Sultan, whose full title was H.A. Al Mu'tasini Bi'llah Al- Sultan Abdullah, K.C.M.G., was

Eldest Son Succeeds.

His Highness leaves nino sons and

themselves arose from non-living matter, under conditions favour- able to the production of complex chemical molecules, at a relatively 55 years of age and succeeded his six daughters. The eldest, son, early stage of the earth's history. brother, Sultan Mahmud, to the Tengku Abu Bakar, Tengku Mah-

As the beginning of this his- ¦ throne of Pahang in 1917. He was kota, as heir to the Sultanate, suc- tory, we can, with reasonable con- the old fashioned type of Malay ceeds to the throne of Pahang His fidence, assort that the earth was Ruler, unable to speak English and

travelling very little putaide his own State. He took a keen inter- est in the welfare of the Malay peasantry, and during the serions foods Inst year he deputed his son

Highness Sultan Abu Bakar marri ed a daughter of His Highness the Sultan of Perak and has a son and

torn from the sun between two and four thousand million years ago. It gradually cooled, and possibly

a daughter. The second and third 2,000 million years ago primitive sons of the late Sultan Abdullah living organisms emerged. From are the Tengku Bendahara, Tengku. them through primitive vertebrate to visit the stricken areas and die Mahmud and the Tengku Temeng./ and ultimately through the apes,

tribute rice and do other relief work.

He will be buried at the village of Kampong Merhum, which is four miles from Pekan..

The Succession.

we have been evolved."

gong, Tengku Abdul Aziz."

The late Sultan Abdullah also At first sight this scheme seemed leaves behind four brothers, the capable of a purely mechanical ex oldest of whom is the Hon. the Planation. It might be argued that Tengku Besar, Tengku Suleiman, the nature of living organisms was G.M.G., the second, the Tengku determined by the materials com It is understood that the Sultan and two others Tengku Omar and cal changes in our bodies, and that Fenglima Perang, Tengku Jusoh, Posing them and that our mental processes were due to physico-chemi- will be succeedled by his oldest son, Tongku Mohamed, both of whom are our thoughts and aspirations owed Tunku Abubakar, whose installation at TrengganThere are also their origin to these changes just in the office of Tunku Mahkota of three sisters, one of whom is a certain bright colours were deriv Pahang took place last year. The the consort of His Highness the

ed from coal tar. Tunku Mahkota, who is about 34 Sultan of Trengganu. years of age, visited England last year.

His Highness had the honour of being presented to H. R. H. the The history of Pahang is obscure, Prince of Wales on March 25, 1922, and was largely concerned in format Kuala Lumpur and was present

The Final Answer.

But the secret of living tissue still ovaded those who would find it To watch the process of cell see what was to be likened rather division under a microscope was to

er days with invasions from Siamed with the insignia of the toa mizole than to an element of and, it is said, Malaoca: In 1866, K.C.M.G. An Honorary Colonel of from life to mind, to assert that a mechanistic scheme. And passing during the reign of Wan Ahmed, the Enhang Malayan Volunteer In mind had emerged as a by-product the disputed boundary with Johore, fantry, His Highness took a keen of material change was to pass far at the river Endau, was settled by interest in matters pertaining to beyond all evidence, the arbitration of the Governor of volunteering.

the Straits Settlements. A political The Jate Sultan Abdullah was an compinte-and-final-answer-to-the-

and

I commercial treaty was conclud- enlightened Ruler with a deep sense ed, and Mr. (now Sir) Hugh Oll of duty and universally liked. He ford was established an Governor's was of a shy and retiring disposi Agont at Pekan in 1887. In 1888 tion. Mr. (afterwards Bir) J. P. Rodger was appointed the first British Re sident

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Dr. Barnes continued: The strongest, and, to my thinking, the view that mind is a mere epipheno- the fact that, if this view be cor- menon of material change lies in rect, all human purpose must be dismissed. as vain. Our endeavour to find truth and our aspirations after righteousness becotue mere illusiona. Det mind from Whom such purpose pro- Surely one has only to state Further Details of Ruler's Career

seeded. They were thus led to the such nonsense to reject it as value, idea of God. The Creative Mind, mind in man can manifest purposive lesa. But, if we once allow that The following notification ap- far surpassing, but not wholly un-activity, the whole Inschanistic peared in a supplement to the like the mind of man, in the bescheme of the universe collapicer F.1.8. Dovertinent Gazette pub ginning made the matter of which tionary process some controlling

There must lie behind the evolu ished on June 23

the universe, was built?"

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