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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1936.
A PAGE FOR THE CHURCHES
SPECIAL "DAILY PRESS" FEATURE
Commencing today, the "Daily Press" will feature every Saturday Church News and Notes. In addition, this Saturday feature will
contain a stimulating article by a spiritual leader in the community who will write under the pen-name of "Seruţator”.
It should be clearly understood that the columns of this Page For The Churches is not the special preserve of any one denomination, but is open to all who feel that there is some useful purpose to be served by making contributions to the spiritual thought and well-being of the Colony,
Contributions “should be despatched so that they will reach the Editor not later than Thursday evening.
CHRISTIANITY
OR
COMMUNISM?
"Jesus of Nazareth Is Greater Than Karl
Of
Marx"
PROVOCATIVE PROGNOSTICATIONS .
BX
'SCRUTATÖR
Christianity as the miraculous dupe of a credulous majority has been sanctified out of all semblance of reality; as the bugbear of the bourgeois petty philosopher it has been ignorantly re- veiled and execrated. There are others to whom it offers the inevitable way of life.
THE DISTORTION OF CHRISTIANITY
Christianity has suffered more than any other religion from these two distortions, for the sole reason that it claims a universality and absolute validity to which no other
form of faith has ever laid elaim. In its mere primitive form as a belief in the miraculous, it con→→ tributed little that is of modern value.
It is impossible to deny the re- liglous motif in Russian Commun- ism, and the gradual decay of its Vitality since the death' and em- balment of Nicolai. Lenin Its failure has shattered the hopes of many who looked to the Russian experiment for a determining lead
In the formation of the world state.
and follows in the wake of many other failures, including the col- lapse of. the Greek City
REVOLUTIONARY
EQUIPMENT ↳
In the light of these very sum- mary abstractions the titanic de- mands of Christianity are seen to supersede the claims of the Com- munist programme.
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CHURCH SERVICES AND SERMONS
CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL"
The following are the forthcom-
But the fundamental distinction and superiority of Christianity is ing services at the Catholic Cathe- contained" in the fact that Chris-dral, Caine Road.
tianity supplies its own revolution- September 8-14th Sunday After
ary equipment, which Communism, admittedly its only rival, depends upon the acquired ability of one class to wrest from another the power to carry out its revolution- ary programme.
Without becoming a plenipoten- tiary and eternal system, the ac-) hievement of Communism ir i should ever succeed, will be of a purely transient nature. But every Individual who experiences the birth-bangs of the Christian ideal within himself, finds himself able in the very power of his experience, to contain in however small a mea- sure, a part of the very scheme in- tu which he has been born.
Communism is a political pro- the truth of the religion of Jesus, gramme, so is Christianity, but the and the scope and practicability of tatter is first and foremost a re- ! Its plan of human life may be-gious faith and way of life. With- come apparent and appreciable to put admitting too many human all nationalities and cultures. Once analogies into our thought, Chris- liberated from its associations with tianity knows that behind the Uni- the Imperialism and ecclesiastical verse there is not only a mind but bonds of the West its appeal and that there is also a heart, and that.) its plan may very quickly become the pains of the human mind and universally accepted.
heart are Its pains. With this knowledge the suffering of all the world becomes the pain of the in-.
the
JESUS OF NAZARETH- is GREATER THAN KARL MARX
States. the breakdown of the IN CHARACTER, AND HIS dividual Christian, and the vic- early Christian attempt at THOUGHT, THOUGH FUNDA tories
of human life are
communist way of life, and the DENTALLY AIMED AT THE | triumphs of every man. still-born achievements of the CREATION OF THE WORLD French Revolution.
STATE OR BROTHERHOOD,
It has taken the human mind two jas WAS THAT OF MARX, thousand years to dissociate, the IS IN ITS 'ACHIEVEMENT MORE | na baste human truth of Christianity COMPLETELY REVOLUTIONARY from that which was purely 8C- AND CREATIVE eldental in its earliest presenta-
It drove individuals to suicidal fanaticism and to the fatal satis- faction of neurotic selfishness-the hermit in his cell. the stylite on" his pillar the famous Paphnutius, who tried both means, lived. long enough even to detest himself. when unremembered by his Thais in the hour of her death, he passed his hands over his face and felt tion, and, unhappily: the libera- his own hideousness." History and tion of its truth from ancient orl- human experience concede no pow-ental trappings has been succeeded e: to a belief in the purely by a guise of purely western In- miraculous: even as a soporific it is novation. Perhaps this recond ob- temporary.
scuration of the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth was humanly inevit- able, considering the almost tyran- nical power which capitalist Europe has exercised upon the rest of the world since the Middle Ages. THE END OF "WESTERNISED CHRISTIANITY
THE RUSSIAN AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS
The summais dismissal of the Christian way."however, and the
vacuous conception of ie which succeeds such ill-considered proce- dure, has failed to create any workable basis for human life.
Religion is a fundamental neces- sity of human nature.
EVEN THE FANATICAL AND ENFORCED ATHEISM OF SOVIET RUSSIA HAS ONLY SUPPLANTED
AN UNSATISFACTORY FORM OF CHRISTIANITY WITH AN EQUAL- LY UNSATISFACTORY POLITICAL RELIGION.
IMPORTANT TO LIVER SUFFERERS
By Dr. Quignon Of The Faculty Of Medicine,
Paris j
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Already the end of this western type of Christianity is in sight and that end must be hastened so that
tends amidst a
While Marx disembles and con- class-divided SO-
ciety, the Nazarene, in his own mind, has risen superior to such false distinctions. In thought he lives in a classless society, and his plan of human salvation is based nòt upon a class confict, but upon. a classless conception of society, Communism, as the world knows
it, demands the humiliation of some for the welfare of the major- ; ity. Christianity demands and means the humillation of all, for all have erred, rich and poor alike, in their adoption of class distinctions, for the salvation of all.
"MAN"
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LESSON SERMON
THE SUBJECT OF THE LESSON SERMON IN ALL CHRISTIAN
SCIENTIST CHURCHES TO-MORROW, SEPTEMBER 6, WILL BE
MAN."..
Just now I am kept very busy by man. ta our image. after our an epidermic of "liver" disorders-likeness; and let them have A great many people feeling "out dominion over the fish of the sea. of sorts," billous, depressed and and over the fowl of the air, and nable to enjoy their food. Un-over the cattle, and over all the doubtedly the best remedy for an earth. and over "every creeping upset liver is provided by certain thing that creepeth upon the famous Continental Mineral earth. So God created man in his Springs, but science has now made own image, in the image of God it possible for all Hver sufferers to created he him; male and female enjoy, in their homes, all the bene- created he tiem. Make a joyful fits of Continental Spa treatment, noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. at little cost. By reproducing in Serve the Lord with gladness; crystalline form the essential prin- come before his presence with ciples of seven world renowned singing. Know ye that the Lord Spas, including those at Vichy, he is God: it is he that has made Alx-les-Bains and us, and not we ourselves; we are Marienbad, Alkia Baltrates' pro-his people, and the sheep of his videa what is probably the Anest pasture. Enter into his gates with liver tonic and corrective known, thanksgiving, and into his courta -It is obtainable from all high class with praise; be thankful unto him,
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reflects infinite Truth, the perfect man, and beno.d the Life, and Love. The nature upright: for the end of that man man, thus understood, includes all 19 peace." (Psalms 37: 37.)
that is implied by the terms Amongst others, the following"image" and "ukeness' as used in citations from the Bible will be the Scripture. Immortal man read. "And,Ood sald, Let us make was and is God's image or iden even the infinite expression of infinite Mind, and immortai man is coexistent and coeternal with that Mind: He has been forever In the eternal Mind, God; but in- Anite Mind can never be in man, but is reflected by man. The spiritual man's consciousness and individuality are reflections God. They are the emanations of Him who is Life. Truth, and Love. Immortal man is not and never was material, but always spiritual and eternal God. the divine Principle of man, and man God's likeness are inseparable, harmonious and, eternal. 'God and man are not the same, but in the order of divine Science, God and man coexist and are eternal God is the parent Mind, and, man 10 and bless his name. For the Lord God's spiritual offspring. The is good: his mercy is everlasting; relations of God and man, diving To men and women who are and his truth endureth to all Principle and idea, are indestruc feeling liverish and "out of sorts," generations." (Genesis., I. 26. 27. tible in Science: and Science and to those who are sufering from Psalms 100: 1-5.)
knows no lapse from nor return Rheumatism, Lumbago, Kidney The Lesson Sermon will also to harmony, but holds thế divine trouble and High Blood Pressure Inchide the following" passages | order or spiritual law, & which can recommend Alkla Baltrates from the Christian. Science Text- with confidence, and I advise them took "Science, and Health with key the treatment without to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker
Eddy.
Carlsbad,
to
start delay,
God and all that He creates are. perfect and eternal, to have re- mained unchanged in its eternal history. (Pages 94, 336; 470.)
(Continued from Page 2)
Pentecost.
MORNING SERVICES
1st Mass at 6..
2nd Mass at 8, followed by the Procession of the Blessed
Sacrament.
3rd Mass at 10.30. with sermon
la English.
EVENING SERVICES 3.30.--Catechetical Instruction. 4.-Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament
John
September 8.-The Nativity of
Our Lady. September 11-Blessed
Gabriel Perboyre. Martyr. September 12-The Most Holy
Name of Our Lady.
On week days: Mass at 6 and 7,30. Confessions morning and evening. UNION CHURCH, HONG KONG
Morning Service, 10.30 am. Evening Service, 6 p.m. Preacher at both services, Rev, K. Mackenzie Dow.
The Social Hour will be held after the Evening Service as usual
The S.A.C.A Blackboard Meeting, will be held in the Church Hall on Tuesday evening at 7.30 p.m.
The *Helena May Christian Fellowship meets in the Institute on Friday morning at 10.30 a.m.
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