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LEAGUE REFORM

· Past experience shows beyond all reasonable doubt the neces

JANUARY 31, 1934.

CODEX SINAITICUS

By DR. A. MINGANA

houses, occupied by over a million sarlpt of the Bible may not be Syriac,

The Very Idea!

BATHTUB BATHOS XTHAT'S a bath between

W friends?

Nothing but a hollow por- celain division.

Who invented baths? Christian BAHI

Nearly a quarter of a million

THE purchase of an old manu- translation known as Sinaltic persons, are to be replaced under

The monastery of Mount Sinai' alum clearance schemes submitted considered a great event by the to the Ministry of Health for man in the street. The same muy has always bean respected by Mo- approval. It sounds a lot, but, possibly be sald of the plous man hammedan warriors; and having al- while representing valuable pro- whose only aim fn, reading his so boon out of the reach of the gress, It still falls short of the Bible is to draw from it a healthy Mongol hordes, has proved during Its long history to be a veritable full requirements of the situation. nourishment for his soul. Next to the problem of unemploy- Although sufficient for all prac-storehouse of early

Only dirty people bathe ment, no social question in Great tical purposes, the English vor literature in Greek, Syriac and Britain has aroused so much sion, as presented to us in chur- Arabic, and I will not be surprised Those who are not dirty, and publie feeling during the last ches and schools, exhibits an in- if in the future even the proven-

flashness. twelve months as that of the herent insufficiency for the educat. ance of the Vaticanus ia ultimate- yet bathe, do it out of pure

from any housing of the working classes. ed man anxious to inquire into the ly traced to th...

Apart, therefore,

These thoughts are en- Clamorous demanda for action "how" and the "why" of the text

other consideration, to possess have stimulated the Government which he is perusing.

The answer to this "how" and one of the first books that the gendered by a recent law and it must be admitted that the Ministry of Health has successful "why" de supplied by the critical ingonulty of man hine produced. Is enacted in Russia that every Im Russian must bathe at least once ly brought pressure to bear on student, who bases his arguments in itself an event of local authorities and building on three differont acts of proofe: pornco

patriatic ne above two Greck MSS. of a month..

Those under ton and over 60 societies, and that the results in the manuscripts, the many respects have been gratify quotations and the ancient tran- the whole of the Bible are often

called by the name of the place in are exempt, also those possessing Ing. The problem is twofold:lations.

found: the their own bathrooms, which, it pulling down blocks of dwellings The best and most authoritative which they not fit to be inhabited, and, of these proofs is undoubtedly the Vaticanus because found in the is presumed, are used.

Bathrooms in Russia are sum-

Rex v. secondly, providing a sumclent fret that is to say, the argument Vatican, and the Sinaiticua be- number of new houses for letting derived from manuscripts, because cause discovered in the monastery clent evidence in a case at a price which the poorer mem the older a manuscript is the of Mount Sinal by the celebrated Perspiration.

Some similar action is needed in Both MSS are contemporary and bers of the population can afford nerer it brings us to the period Biblical echolar, C. Tischendorf. in which the Bible was written,

Tischendorf, who examined them Hongkong. Such as: THE CRIME OF

carefully, is of the opinion that DIOCLETIAN.

the same hand. which wrote the Vaticanus can easily be detected in, the Sinaiticus.

to pay.

IMMENSE SHORTAGE

upon,

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE

Here again the Government la Ruccess; 218,000 houses have been

urgency

of

the

по

the word

THE SURVIVING THREE MSS.

wore

BOTTIC

WHICH IS THE MORE PRECIOUS?

Ordinance 67B, sub-section B.O., relating to bathing of bodies: **Be It heretofor whereas'd that inasmuch and so to speak, any person or persons turning on showers be tween or about the months of December, January, February, and March, and standing near shaving cabinets, well away from showors, and saying. Br-r-r-r and singing 'Annie Laurio afterwards coming out of bathroom, or rooms, and saying that there is nothing like a cold shower to freshen one up, shall be fined a maxi- mum of $100 or a fortnight. God Save the King." Any man who does more than copies of the Scriptures which bathe his eyes in this Constantine ordered in A.D. 330 should be in a monastery. And, to be carefully written for the use anyhow, what advantage has the of the churches of the new metro-bather?

He comes from his cold shower, It is very difficult to decide which blue, numb, speechless. At the more office he says, "My word, tho

་

CX-

weather

Be warned!

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-SAVED FROM

THE OVEN.

The Sinaiticus contains also

Uriclo

SHORT CONVERSATION WITH SALLY THE CAT

Ned: What

are

you

have we Unfortunately In its plans for slum clearanco Biblical MSS. coming down to us the Government has acted with from the first three centuries of energy. The law provides full our era. It is true that we possess

This opinion seems to me pro- powers for ordering the demoli- somo papyri fragments of this or tlon of Insanitary houses, with or that Book of the Old and Now! without compensation to owners. Testaments, from the end of the bable from the fact that there according to circumstances. The third century, but no complete were not many scribes of that difficulty has been to induce the Book has come down, to us from period who could make good, use of parchment ns their writing local authorities, to thean any of those three centuries.

use

Some scholars lay the blame for matorial, and it is very likely that powers, The method adopted by the Government has been to call this deficiency at the door of Dio- the same scribe had a hand in There is also ground for bellev- upon all the authorities in the cletlan, who, it is reported, order the execution of both MSS. country to examine the insanitary ed the Sacred Books of the Christ

iana to be destroyed; but I do noting that these MSS. are the only dwellings in their areas, and to present a programme for demolish- believe that this act of vandalism two direct descendants that have ing them. Of 1717 local bodies thus could by itself account for the dis- come down to us of the 50 large culled

nearly all have appearance of all the Biblical replied satisfactorily and as an MSS.

I hold that few complete MISS. nounced yesterday programmes for pulling down 224,000 houses of the Bible were transcribed be have been submitted. The im fore the time of Diocletian, for polis.

the simple reason that we have no menso task of providing new dwellings remains. It is cal evidence that the use of parch- of the above two MSS. is sity of radical reform of. theeulated that there is a shortage of mont-the only material on which ancient, and consequently more shower was cold this morning!"

And the man who wiped his eyes League of Nations if it is to be about a million dwellings, and a book could then be written had valuable. There are some

wet sponge says, "Yea, but it doca freshen you úp!” saved from annihilation. None that in the course of the next suficiently spread in Asia Minor, traneous points, however, which the less, the British viewpoit, seven years at least a further Syria and Egypt to warrant us to might slightly outweigh the balon

So far as the New Testament is Let there be signs put up in all half-million will be needed. One believe in the existence of com-ance in favour of the Sinaiticus, in which France and Italy con- cur, that this question is sub-expert goes so far as to say that plote Biblical MSS. before the concerned and it is mostly in the bathrooms, "Any person bathing

If all the working classes were ginning of the fourth century.

The material used before, this domain of the New Testament that here does so, at his own risk."

a theso, MSS. have such pro- S.0.8. Not Shiver Our Sking- sidiary to the more urgent pro-accommodated as well as they blem of disarmament, should reasonably might be, five and a century was mainly papyrus, and

Iticus gives us a complete text, Men have been known to slip on find general acceptance. The half million; now houses ought to no good book, in the sense in ponderating importance the Sina- but Save Our Soap. next which we understand British Government is pursuing be constructed during the

book, can be written on papyrus: While the Vaticanus lacks many a cake of soap and break their its unremitting efforts to get generation.

The most that a scribe could do important sections, such as I. and necks.

II. Timothy, Titus and Philemon. the Powers into line on an

with papyrus was to produce a acceptable disarmament plan,

roll and not a book. hoping to secure such a measure of agreement as will lead to a positive step forward. The pre-

In my opinion, therefore, no some precious glosses that are sumption is that, as contemplat-able to point to some measure of

mas present?

Sally, blushing: Really, Sir. ed in the British Draft Conven-built during the last year. 169,000 book has come down to us from missing in the Vaticanus, One of giving the Ginger Cat for a Christ- Uncle: You are jumping to con- tion, some method of achieving by private enterprise record the first three centuries of our these glosses is to the effect that disarmament by stages will form which Justifies Minister's ora, because not many books were cortain reading which it exhibits the basis of the latest proposals prophecy that the removal of the written at that time. It was theia that which was transcribed by clusions, I was merely going to

Antoninus the Confessor and

so, that he put forward. First of all, how-subsidy, and therewith the com- age of rolls and not of books.

It is only from the fourth cen-collated with Origen's Hexapla by suggest an interesting book or per- could spend his evenlage in some ever, the reactions to the British petition of subsidized houses. overtures will have to be ascer- would bring down the cost of tury that there begins the eeries the holy martyr Pamphilius, when haps an indoor game

of the innumerable MSS, which in-prison at Caesarea...

Sally, indignantly: The Ginger tained. It will then be possible building and induce private enter- lie on the shelves of the libraries The account which Tischendorf other way. to estimate the chances of suc-prise to embark on big schemes. and museums of East and West; has left us on his discovery of thin

But the rate of increase, con-

Uncles Not always. The neigh cess. On the secondary, but aiderable as it is, does not satisfy and from the whole of this con- precious remnant of Christian Cat's evenings are his own affairs.

in which Christendom antiquity reads like a page from a

bours have already complained. none the less necessary, issue of those who are aware of the tury,

He narrates in vivid terma how Bealdes- the need. Private emerged victorious from the To- story book. League reform, Signor Mussolini

in 1844 he could only get a few Life is real, life is earnest, now makes it clear that his chief builders are satisfying the de- man persecutions, we only possess

Full of tears and full of smiles. objective is to strengthen and mands of those who can afford to three MSS.:

The one which has now found leaves of it. which are now in tho render more efficient the ma- buy their houses, but they are

ho discovered the greater part of

Cannot spend it on the tiles. chinery of the League. This is reluctant to embark on the more a resting place in our national library of Leipzig, and how in 1859 Even cats, however carefree

Another, which since 1481 has the MS. In the cell of the major reassuring. The need for a com- speculative task of erecting small museum.

houses to be let at a low rent. So

pnet yourself. of that

Catherine. pleto overhauling

strong is the public feeling that been the most cherished treasure domo of the monastery of St. Sally: I think you are going

Uncle: I beg your pardon, machinery has been attested the Government may

yet be of the Vatican.

He to emphatic that its leaves

Sally: Granted as soon as asked. The third, which is preserved in again and again during recent forced to reconsider its attitude! years, at no time more so than in regard to the catablishment of the monastery of Mount Sinai; a had been cut up to be used for during the prolonged delibera- a national housing corporation to Syriac palimpsest, containing iz a book-binding purposes, and leaves

nation-wide

pro- more or less complete form the no doubt in our mind that but for

(Continued from Page 4) tions over the Manchurian affair. undertake The cumbersome procedure then gramme for the mass production four Gospels in the old Syriac adopted not only made the of working-class dwellings. League handling of the issues

but farcical,

it somewhat definitely ruled out any question of a prompt or satisfactory solu...]

One of the most remarkable tion of the impasse. Of even greater import, was the im- features of the year which has just closed has been the obvious mession created that the League desire of the majority of Govern was more or less impotent in ments throughout the world to dealing with major problems hold fast to decent standards of affecting the rights of small working conditions. They have nations. This impression still resisted the temptation to use the persists, despite all the good economie dopression as an excuse work that the League has done for putting back the clock. This in other directions. Thus, the observation is prompted by the objective of any serious scheme experience of the International of reform must be to re-establish Labour Organisation of the Lea gue of Nations during 1933, Tho the League's prestige and so ILO. Is in close and constant simplify procedure that definite touch with industrial develop- and prompt decisions can be ments throughout the world and reached. Even the Covenant of may be likened to a barometer the League will need to be re which registors the position of vised if it is to have any value work-people. at all, Much of the "dead wood" which it contains must be cut out. But it is equally im portant that the vital provisions

This year, eighty-nine fresh be retained, and, what is more,

ratifications of model labour con. devised by some machinery

ventions by various governments which they cannot be side-have been registered at Genova. stepped. Along these lines, a This is much above the average. most fruitful and beneficial Up to the prosent, the total for scheme of reform could be plann- the ed. The chief essential, how ever, is that the members of the League approach the issue with a determination to reinforce its powers and make it what it was originally intended to be a bul- wark against future wars.

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"Well, what are YOU staring at?":

LIMERICK

There was a young fellow. on siia

Who suddenly wanted to snis, He woke up in "bed

With a pain in the head, And a nurse saying "Swallow

this, plie!

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Whimsical Monster Talking of the Loch Ness monster, we are inclined to think that the theory propounded by our Scottish correspondent, Donai' MacWhusky, who, like many High- innders, la second-sighted, double- jointed, and usually intoxicated, is probably the correct one.

MacWhusky thinks that the monster is really the crocodile in "Peter Pan.". Apparently the créa- ture has come all over whimsical. It is jealous because Poter has the leading part, and wants to be known as The Monster That Wouldn't Como Up.

So far all efforts to persuado it to give a performance In London. have failed. It is merely waiting for Sir James Barrio to say to it In a wheedly-tweedly sort of voice:. "Good morning, Monster, I nin sure the children In London love you just as much as they love Peter.

"After all, you are not a hor-wid old crocodile like the ones at the Zoo, but a fairy, and no fairy would disappoint the children, bo cause it would be most unfairy- like. Did you know that every time a monster sneezes it breaks into a thousand bubbles, and that every time a bubble bursts a littlo monstrosity la born?" -

Wo do so hope he'll any the magic words, don't you, kiddies?