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SLAVERY IN ABYSSINIA
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
NOTES OF THE DAY
MAKING IT HARDER
M. Pierre Laval, who has won 'distinction as a diplomatist' where- ever he was called to conference, the man to whom many give credit for bringing Russia into the League of
AUGUST 9, 1935.
CHRISTIANITY TILTS
WITH SCIENCE® -
By WILLIAM EBOR
that the physical world is a closed system, while clairing that Al. mighty God holds in reserve powers to intervene by way of miracle, understood as a special interven-: tion. This line in objectionable
He Very Idea!
NOTES & COMMENTS
The Charity That Covered A Multitude Of Sins
Ed. Kelly's Notebooks
FROM time to time publie at
tention is called by one event or another to that adjustment of Nations, the statesman who
theological statement to advances was largely responsible for achievin knowledge which is always going ing the Franco-Russian defensive on. alliance, a man, in short, who has carried French Influence into high
concern and the discussion of it places and over stony, roads, in cannot and ought not to be con- Science naturally objects to the faced with one of the most arduous,fined to experts. But the result notion that its conclusions, resting led her two pair of scanties of this is that many of those who on observation and reason, might into a brown paper bag and join in the discussion are out of at any time be found at 14 departed for Hongkong, Hope and little Charity weeping quietly,
Religion is rightly everyone's both to science and to religion.FAITH, the eldest of the three lovely sisters, pack-
delicate and thankless taaks of his career. As Primo Minister of France he is trying to save the lo so he is nation money. To
Many people get their impression lopping off ten por rent. of the of Christian beliefs from sources Religion finds reason to object to Each of Faith's letters pay of Government servants pen- not very well Informed, and then an outlook which involves that
full of wonderful slonera, sailors and soldiers, and take it for granted that all theolo-every new seientific explanation of were endeavouring to reduce expenditure glans uphold what they have in an decurrence hitherto attributed stories of the glamour of the
this casual manner got into their to divine intervention curtails the East.
little In every direction.
Hope, and He is even
supposed sphere of divine activity. Charity as well, divined that heads. attempting to reduce the cost of
touch with the recent work of ex-through Intervention on the part of perta.
a power or force for ever beyond leaving the reach of its calculations.
ereeing reductions of
prats.
Recently both sides have shown One unfortunate result of thin in fiving in proportion as the wages that, when a theologian explains some relaxation of their formerly Faith was growing captivat- of the nation are cut down, by de-that Christianity is not committed rigid attitude, but it cannot be said fed by Hongkong.
foodstuffat some notion popularly associated that we have yet reached agree- Hope decided to join Faith. and necessities of life. Naturally with it at the moment, it is sup-ment. Science has a much less The same charming progress he will be unpopular.
Neverthe-posed that he is wriggling out of an inelastic conception of causation that Faith
had experienced awkward predicament.
than it encouraged fifty years ago, seemed to fall to Hope. Faith Iss, he is the elected bend of a
and many scientists agree with
and she were therofore not democracy. Presumably he re- So it has been with the first Jeans that the universe has come
greatly surprised when. two presents a majority. If, as it ap-chapter of Genesis. This offers a to look more like a thought than a
years later, they received a note Franco is faced
magnificent symbolical picture of machine. with
the divine activity In creation,
saying that Charity, too, was on critical financial situation, it laut many ill-informed people have
Theology increasingly insists her way to the Colony. surely a most
unpatriotic and supposed that all Christians re-that God is at work, not here and
Faith sent her limousine from short-sighted affitude which the garded it as a piece of revealed there, or now and then, but every naval dockyard workers and others natural history; consequently. where and always. It fully admits the Peak to the Star Ferry to await have adopted. They have stopped when these people became aware of the principle of uniformity, but Charity on the Hongkong side, as Darwin's "The Origin of Species," claims that every instance of this the P. & O. liner slowly steamed work, some of them, and rioted, and found that theologians were is as fully an expression of the to Its berth at Kowloon, doing much damage and venting prepared to accept a doctrine of divine purpose, as completely due The two elder sistera bought their wrath upon
an inoffensive Evolution, this was thought to be to the divine will, as any exceplingerie and frocks and shoes and palier forer, which itself has been a great innovation and even a dis- tional occurrence.
hals and sheer silk stockings so honourable shuffle. forced to accept wage cuts.
that little Charity would not feel dowdy in sophisticated Hongkong. Steamers are tied up as a result nf the workers' discontent, and the
But the car arrived back with- losses to the shipping companies
out Charity. must
have run into millions of an
U.S.-CANADA LINK
They
concerns
..
Just as Faith and Hope were feeling terribly alarmed for pour little Charity, alone in bad llong- kong, the amah announced her
arrival.
Charity
The other day we went along to an optomet optimist oplomenerts-an eye chappie to have our eyes tested. He stuck a chart in front of our eyes and when we couldn't read it charged-- Jus $10.
asked since,
Scientists mostly agree that the But every competent theologian | universe is the expression of a knows, and knew then, that from Mind. Theologians mamiain that A great deal has been heard Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra.
early date many interpreters it is the expression of a Purpose lately regarding the prevalence francs already. These policies on
have declined to take that chapter or Will. No one asks scientists to Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra. of slavery in Abyssinia, a sub- the part of Labour do not help the literally as history, and St. Augus-affirm this as a doctrine of science;
jort
tine even held that to take it so if they can agree that there is no on which considerable nation to win free from the ecano-
was ridiculous,
need on grounds of selence to deny BD-178 My heart jumped over the Moon-Fox Trot
diversity, of opinion prevails, mic toils which impede it. Jackson's Orchestra.
that the Mind expressed in the Authoritative facts on the sit-only make the task of government isnu is no new device for escaping be no quarrel left. And the ans dozens of boxes of lingerie and
To take it as a piece of symbol-antverse is also a Will, there will
She was preceded by dozens and Little Golden Locket-Fox Trot..Jackson's Orchestra.
uation have, however, been re-harder. The solid citizens and the dilemma created by Darwin;wers to a questionnaire lately sent frocks and hats and sheer stock- BD-179 On the Prom, Prom, Promenade One Step
honest workers of France who it is the interpretation of the pas-to all Fellows of the Royal Societyings. Then she herself arrived. Jackson's Orchestra.
Ivealed by the League of Nations want security and prosperity and sage adopted by many of the most suggest that the majority of scien-wearing the finest of diaphanous I Love you Gipsy-Fox Trot .. ..Jackson's Orchestra. Advisory Committee of Experts believe in democratle government, trusted commentators centuries betists agree to this.
silks, provokingly nenut. on Slavery, which recently held will have little sympathy for those appeared to them to be the inter- fore Darwin, simply because it On the Good Ship Lollipop (Film "Bright Eyes")
its first effective session. The responsible for the
But it must be remembered that Faith and Hope took one long Rudy Vallee's Or.
Committee states that slavery orders. And It is not impossible of the passage itself.
present dis-pretation required by the character science or philosophy and religion look at her. I've got a Note-Fox Trot
jor theology have different aims. New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. has ceased to exist as a legal that those in positions of responsi
Then they realised. The man of science studies hi order status except in Abyssinia and bility will lose patience with the nineteenth
The triumphs of science in thete understand and control; the man | began at Homet Me and the Old Folks-Fox Trot
century have made of religion studies in order to un-1 certain Arab Sultanates, though folk New Mayfair Dance Orchestra.
who make such a clamour familiar to everyone the main prin- derstand and worship. Both forms the position in Liberia is some- On Venetian Waters-Fox Trot
which science works of study may be perfectly sincere; I'sc Right over the medleine which the whole ciples o
So far as there is still any diffi- they may follow the same method what obscure. Regarding Abysmation must swallow for its own
culty in the relations between re-and be equally critical. But the sinia, it is pointed out that cer-
good. They will, perhaps, beligion and science, it does not con- difference of aim will yet affect tain enactments have been pub-
forced to hold the noses of the cern particular events, except con- some of the conclusions reached. lished on the matter, but there present strikes.
more violent element bebind the sequentially:
prin- ciples.
The study pursued by science is. is no documentary material to
within its own limits, more secure show that any laws have been
Selance trnees ant sequences of but its result is less finial, at least causes and events, and rests on the so far as this is a means to con- passed to "expedite the evolu-
great assumption of uniformity. itrol. For science which has given tion
we've Why, Then, is the physical universe nus so great a control over nature shouldn't we save our public which these provisions were intended to encourage."and one that may establish a pre-
A gathering without precedent rigid, closed system?
cannot also prescribe the ends to It appears, however, that
acedent of very great importance special bureau for the abolition falls to be noted in Imperial affairs. of slavery was opened at Addis in New York State, near the Cann Last week a conference was held Ababa in 1932, and that there inn
many matters hre now sixty-two courts in affecting Canadian-American relu- various parts of the country, Universities, and its delegates. tions. It was organised by two and that 3,647 slaves
fifty of whom were from Canada, liberated in 1933-34. Slavo- were men of note in public life, raiding is still occasionally prac- The papers read and the discus- tised by Abyssinians in the is of moment to both countries, sions covered every question that Sudan and in French Somali- but mainly bearing upon industry, land, and by Saharan tribes incommerce,
and
economic, with French, Italian and Spanish prominence. The delegaten were tariffs, of course, in a place of North Africa. It is, however, well satisfied with their delibera- becoming rare. Slave-trading tions, so much so that another is virtually confined to Abys-ranged. Times have changed since conference is already being ar sinia and Arabia, and it is put the days of bitter controversy on record that apart from raids when the Goldwin Smith school by Abyssinians into neighbour-advocated the annexation of Cann- ing countries, it seems possible are still some Canadians, however, da to the United States. There that persons are captured with- who think that what cannot be in Abyssinin itself and sold for attained by political argument may slaves. Attention is drawn par-movement
slowly come about by the silent
of economic ticularly to the soldiers in West They say that the natural current forces.
and South-West Abyssinia who of commerce runs, not east and are in the service, not of the west, but north and south, and
that while the bonds Emperor, but of provincial may be stronger than ever, other of Empire Governors, but not paid. by conditions make for wider Inter- them, and who, it is hinted, per This, in its turn, raises problems course with the United States. haps capture and sell slaves common to both, and that can be from among the native popula- solved only by understanding and tion. Measures against this amicable adjustment. traffic have been enacted by the
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If so, what becomes of the faithreach which the control is to be from this sort of thing. We've of the Bible in the "living God" exercised. Aerial bombing may be prepared a chart of our own, Sir James Jeans has reminded a "prostitution of science; but it guaranteed to tell you right view of the world, every time a us that, according to the scientific is by no means unscientific.
away whether there's anything wrong with your eyes. Religion is lens secure; faith is baby throws his bottle out of a
Why pay expensive perambulator, he shifts the centret knowledge, and would lose its doctors? Use the Kelly Method. Either, then, we are shut up to a of gravity of the
spiritual value if it were. solar system.
It is not noble to stake life on a perfectly rigid universe in which all certainty; it is only common sense, Freedom-human and divine-is But what is offered to faith is just sheer illusion, or else the principle what the progress of science makes only provisional, validity. of uniformity has provisional, but daily more necessary--an appré hension of the goal and direction of human Hfe, in pursuit of which we obtain the needed guidance how to use the control which science gives us.
*
Earlier theologians tried to get out of the difficulty by admitting
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--Logan (Ohio) Republican,
Mary Wimple won the fat giris" race by good three feet, only to fail down after breaking, the tapo. The plenicera had a good laugh at her expanse.
Mercer (Calif.) Weekly Drevan,
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Hammerville (Twx.) Observer,
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we know,
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There was a girl named Pasalom
"I asked her for a` date,
-I took her out to dinner:
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