1934-07-30 — Page 12

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LESSON SERMON.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST. HONGKONG

The Lesson-Sermon also included the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, "Séience and Health with Key to to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy: "God is what the Scrip- "Truth" was the subject of the tures declaro Him to be-Lifo. Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Truth, Love.... In Science, Truth Christ Scientist, yesterday..

is divino, and the infinito God The Golden Text was: "Load can have no unlikeness. Did God, me in thy truth, and teach mo: Truth, create error? No! "Doth a for thou art the God of my salva-fountain sond forth at the same Won; on thee do I watt all the dayplace swoot water and bitter?" God being everywhore and all- (Fantms 25: 5).

Among the citations which com-inclusive, how can he be absant or prised the Lesson-Sermon was the suggest the absence of omnipresence following from the Bible: "I will and omnipotence? How can there. pralo thee, O Lord, among the more than all?" (pp. 830, 287).. peoplo: I will sing unto thee

Among the nations. For thy morey

is great unto the heavens, and thy

truth unto the clouds.

a forful noise unto the Lord, all ye

Inada. For the Lord la good;

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his mercy is overlening, and b "TELEGRAPHS"

truth endureth to all generations (Psalms 57:0,-10; 100:1,5)

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HÖNGKONG - TELEGRAPHL-MONDAY, JULY 30,

ATTEMPT FAILS

:

#19843

big camera, designed for serial HEAT WAVE AGAIN. photography,, whepokod through the floor of the gondola and overy ninety seconds, as the balloon shot up through space, it took pictures of the earth.

AHANGCHOW SWELTER SHANGHAI, NANKING AND

Nanking, July 29, The capital is again sweltering

U.S. STRATOSPHERE CREW MEET DISASTER Holdredge, Nebraska, July 29. The three United States nero nauts attempting an ascent into the stratosphere failed to reach a record altitude.

The balloon was ront, and commenced to turn inside out at an altitude of 60,000 feet, and started

accurred; but, up, to the present, "The flight will be made to stroke, typhold and malaria have a rapid descent to earth..

The three members of the crew gather scientific data," Major no cholera has been reported. parachuted to safety from the Kepner said to-day before taking Reuter falling balloon, Captain Albert off. "If we break the altitude. Obaarver) record of 62,034 feat now held by Stovena (Sciontific jumped 2,000 feet, Captain Orvil the Soviet balloonists, it will be Anderson (Second Pilot), 1.000 only a single feature. "I am con- fident wo can reach 70,000 feat feet and Major William Kepner with safety, and perhaps more."

A double objective was planned by the flight to act a new record for such lights and to make # com- prohensive study of the compost in a heat wave. tion of the upper layers of the With a temperature of over 100 earth's air; cosmic radiation at degrees, during the past three high levels, and wind conditions days hundreds of casea of sun existant thore.

(Pilot) 500 feet.

The balloon crashed on a farm at North Loomis, Nebraska, seven miles north of here.

Disappointment.

on

Vast Possibilities,

and

Shanghai Temperature,

Shanghai, July 20 Shanghal, Nanking and Hang- chow are again in the grip of heat wave.

The temperature recorded here! to-day was 101.1 degrees in the shade, while both Nanking and Hangchow showed a temperature averaging 07 degrees.-Central News Agency:

Relief From Hent.

'Shanghai, July 20. The heatwave at Shanghai and and Nanking, which forced the mer

The possibilities are so vast that they're almost weird," Pro fessor Arthur H. Compton of the University of Chicago said to-day. The ascent was made from a

The professor, Nobel prize outstanding 4- deep saucer in the Black Hills;

winner South, Dakota. The

Was spol selected becauso the hills, 600thority on the upper regions, uever

has gone up in a balloon feet high, would afford protection admits that he gets a bit dizzycury up to 104 degrees in the on all sides from the winds until

top of tall buildings. Ho shade, was broken this afternoon the balloon was cut loose.

hoped, he said, that the "great by heavy showers. The rain last- Biggest in the world. with

secret" of the stratosphere might ed one hour here, while in Nan- Kasbag 300 feet tall, the balloon be solved by Major Kepner and klog a strong wind brought the mercury down to 87 degrees.-- towered up as high as a 27 storey

Capt. Stevens. building. It contained 8,900,000 "If they return to earth with a Central News Agency. cabic feet of bydrogen, Pro- fossor Plecard's balloon hold only near understanding of the baffling onergy of the cosmic ray. It will 500,000 cubic feet. The dirigible Lo -scientific sensation. An the "thin air" of the stratosphere means of more Macon holds less than a million understanding of the cosmic rays may provide a

conditions, even a year in advance. The bag was fabricated at the night unfold the secrets of radio-accurately forecasting weather A Norwegian meteorologist, "The best example of an out- Goodyear-Zeppelin factory and although formed of nearly 3,500 setanding discovery in the field of Bjerknes, has been working on pieces of cloth, was not stitched radio activity has been radium," theory that a study of the motion at any of the geams. Rubber he explained. "Radium has been of the air at high altitudes might cement-pure rubber dissolved in benzol and gasoline-was used of great benefit to medical men alter the entire system of weather

and perhaps, in a few years forecasting, Compton said.

The professor said that "some The 3,500 pieces of medicine will be benefitted as a Instead. cloth-put together they made

of daring may go beyond the three acres, enough to cover a direct result of stratosphere re-day but not now, some scientist stratosphere and Into the vacuum. fair sized city block-were care- search.

in a rocket into comented

position.

ke troposphere fully

plane." Something like 300 gallons of

cubic feet.

cement was necessary,

activity.

Power of Atom.

The record stratosphere ascent was made by Russians, 72,178 feet

"The power stored in the atom 1s beyond all conception," Comp- As a base, the balloon bag had ton said, "We have been able to the finest cotton cloth, woven Inget at some of the atom's energy, (13.67 miles) in February this strips about 42 Inches wide. but only in small quantities, and year. The halloon was smashed. Seven and one half miles of this wero forced to put more energy In September 1933, the Russians cloth was required for the bag. into it than we got out. Such had reached 56,000 feet, Com- Every square foot of the fabric atomic energy actually is being mander Settle (American Navy, was passed more than 30 times used in the sun and stars; we now serving in Shanghai), reach-

dipping know that."

ed 61,237 feet. Professor Plecard through

rubber 21

Many meteorologists and reached 59,161 machine..

The lens of Captain Stevens' scientists believe a knowledge of Prens.

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