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SLAVERY IN ABYSSINIA
TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935.
NOTES OF THE DAY
MAKING IT HARDER
M. Plerro Laval, who has won distinction as a diplomatist where.
ever he was called to conference,
CHRISTIANITY TILTS WITH SCIENCE
By WILLIAM EBOR
ROM time to time public at that the physical world is a closed
The Very Idea!
NOTES & COMMENTS
the man to whom many give credit tention is called by one event system, while claiming that A/The_Charity That Covered
| for bringing Russia into the League
of
he will be unpopular. Neverthe
re-
on.
ngree
tho
A Multitude of Sing
Ed. Kelly's Notebooks
But many ill-informed people have Theology increasingly insists supposed that all Christians re- that God is at work, not here and garded it as a piece of revealed there, or now and then, but every-
Faith sent her limousine from natural history: consequently, where and always. It fully numits the Peak to the Star Ferry to await. 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 and found that theologians were in na fully an expression of the to its berth at Kowloon, prepared to accept a doctrine of divine purpose, as completely due Evolution, this was thought to be to the divine will, as any excepingerie and frocks and shoes and The two elder sisters bought a great innovation and even a dis-tional occurrence, honourable shuffle.
hats and sheer silk stockings so that little Charity would not feel dowdy in sophisticated Hongkong. But the car arrived back with- out Charity.
Just as Faith and Hope were feeling terribly alarmed for poor little Charity, alone in bad Hong- kong, the amah announced her arrival.
or another to that adjustment of mighty God holds in reserve powers Nations, the statesman who
theological statement to advances was largely responsible for achievin knowledge which is always going to intervene by way of miracle, ing the Franco-Russian defensive
understood as a special' Interven- alliance, a man, in short, who has
tion. This line is objectionable Religion is rightly everyone's carried French influence into high.
concern and the discussion of it both to science and to religion.AITH, the eldest of the places and over stony roads, is
three lovely sisters, pack- Cannot and ought not to be con-Selened naturally objects to faced with one of the most arduous, fined to experts. But the result notion that its conclusions, reating ed her two pair of scanties delicate and thankless tasks of his 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 fault carcer, As Prime Minister of touch with the recent work of ex-through intervention on the part of departed for Hongkong, France he is trying to save the perts.
a power or force for ever beyond leaving Hope and little nation' money. To do so he is
Charity weeping quietly. lopping off ten per cent, of the of Christian beliefs from sources
Many people get their impression the rench of its calculations,
Religion finds reason to.object to pay of Government servants, pen- not very well informed, and then an outlook which involves that
Each of Faith's letters) sioners, sallora and solliers, and take it for granted that all theolo-every new scientific explanation of were
full of wonderful endeavouring to reduce expenditure glans uphold what they have in an occurrence hitherto attributed stories of the glamour of the this casual manner got into their to divine intervention curtails the in every direction. He is even
hends.
East. supposed sphere of divine activity.
Hope, and little attempting to reduce the cost of
Charity as well, divined that living in proportion as the wages that, when a theologian explains some relaxation of their formerly Faith was growing captivat-
One unfortunate result of this is Recently both sides have shown of the nation are cut down, by de- that Christianity is not committed rigid attitude, but it cannot be salded by Hongkong. creeing reductions of foodstuffs to 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 posed that he is wriggling out of an inelastic conception of causation that Faith had experienced less, he is the elected' head of a awkward predicament,
than it encouraged fifty years ago, seemed to fall to Hope. Faith democracy.
he Presumably
So it has been with the first Jenns that the universe has come
and many scientists
with
and she, were therefore not presents a majority. If, as it ap- chapter of Geneals. This offers a to look more like a thought than a greatly surprised when, two
France is faced pears,
with a
magnificent symbolical picture of machine.
years later, they received a note the divine activity in creation. criticnl Bannelal situation, it le
saying that Charity, too, was on Aurely
her way to the Colony. a most unpatriotic and short-sighted attitude which the naval dorkyard workers and others have adopted. They have stopped work, some of them, and rioled, doing much damage. and venting their wrath upon
an inoffensive police force, which itself has been forced to Becept wage
cuts. Steamers are tied up as a result |of the workers' discontent, and the
Scientists mostly agree that the But every competent theologian universe is the expression of a A great deal has been heard must
losses to the shipping companies knowa, and knew then, that from Mind. Theologians maintain that lately regarding the prevalence francs already. These policies on
have run into millions of an early date many interpreters it in the expression of a Purpose have declined to take that chapter for WIB. No one asks scientists to of slavery in Abyssinia, a sub-the part of Labour do not help the iterally an history, and St. Augus- afirm this as doctrine of science; ject on which
tine even held that to take it so they can agree that there is no considerable nation to win free from the econo-
was ridiculous. diversity of opinion prevails. mie tolls which impede it.
need on grounds of science to deny They
that the Mind expressed in the Authoritative facts on the sit only make the task of governmentiam is no new device for escaping be no quarrel left.
To take it as a piece of symbol-universe is also a Will, there will
She was preceded by dozens and untion have, however, been re-harder. The solid citizens
And the ans- the dilemma created by Darwin: wers to a questionnaire lately sent
dozens of boxes of lingerie and vealed by the League of Nations want security and prosperity and sago adopted by many of the most suggest that the majority of scien-wearing the finest of diaphanous workers of France who it is the interpretation of the pas to all Fellows of the Royal Society inga. Then she herself arrived, frocks and hats and sheer stock- Advisory Committee of Experts belleve in democratic government. trusted commentators centuries be-tists agree to this. on Slavery, which recently held will have little sympathy for those foro Darwin, simply because it
allks, provokingly scant. its first effective session. The responsible for the present dis- prelation required by the character science or philosophy and religion look at her.
appeared to them to be the inter- But it must be remembered that Faith and Hope took one long Committee states that slavery orders. And it is not impossible of the passage itself. has ceased to exist as a legal that those in positions of responsi-
or theology have different alms. The man of selence studies in order
Then they realised. Charity status except in Abyssinia and bility will lose patience with the nineteenth century
The triumphs of science in the to understand and control; the man bryan at Home!
have certain Arab Sultanates, though folk who make such a clamour familiar to everyone the main prin-derstand and worship. Both forms made of religion studies in order to un- the position in Liberin is some-
over the medicine which the whole ciples on which science works. of study may be perfectly sincere: what obscure. Regarding Abys.nation must swallow for its own
So far as there is still any dif- they may follow the same method sinia, it is pointed out that cer-forced to hold the noses of the
They will, perhaps, beligion and science, it does not con-difference of nim will yet affect cuity in the relations between re-and be equally critical. But the good. tain enactments have been pub-more violent
cern particular events, except con- some of the conclusions reached. lished on the matter, but there
element behind the sequentially: it concerns prin- is no documentary material to
present strikes.
ciples.
The study pursued by science is, within its own limits, more secure show that any laws have been
Science traces out sequences of but its result is less final, at least passed to "expedite the evolu-
causes and events, and rests on the so far as this is a means to con- great assumption of uniformity. Lion which these provisions
trol. For science which has given Then, is the physical universe aus so great a control over nature were intended to encourage.
A gathering without precedent | rigid, closed system?
cannot also prescribe the ends to It appears, however, that
and one that may establish a pre-
If so, what becomes of the faith reach which the control. is to be a cedent special bureau for the abolition falls to be noted in Imperial affairs.
of very great importance of the Bible in the "lving God"? exercised. Aerial bombing may be of slavery was opened at Addis in New York State, near the Cana view of the world, every time a
Sir James Jeans has reminded "prostitution of science"; but it Last week a conference was held.
us that, according to the scientific is by no means unscientific. Ababa in 1932, and that there dian border, an
Religion is less secure; faith is many matters baby throws his bottle out of a not knowledge, and would lose its are now sixty-two courts in affecting Canadian-American rela perambulator he shifts the centre spiritual value if it were. various parts of the country, Universities, and its delegates. Either, then, we are shut up to a tions. It was organised by two
of gravity of the solar system. and that 3,647 slaves were fifty of whem were from Canada, perfectly rigid universe in which all certainty; it is only common sense. It is not noble to stake life on a liberated in 1933-34. Slava were men of note in public life. freedom-human and divine-isBut what is offered to faith is just raiding is still occasionally prac-The papera read and the discus-sheer illusion, or else the principle what the progress of science makes tised. by Abyssinians in the is of moment to both countries, only provisional, validity.
sions covered every question that of uniformity has provisional, but daily more necessary-an appre- Sudan and in French Somali- but mainly bearing upon industry land, and by Saharan tribes in commerce. and economic, with French, Italian and Spanish prominence. The delegates 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 conference is already being ar-
honest
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U.S.-CANADA LINK
slowly
of
And
sinia and Arabia, and it is put the days of bitter controversy ranged, Times have changed since on record that apart. from raids when the Goldwin Smith school by Abyssinians into neighbour advocateil the annexation of Cana- ing countries, it seems possible are still some Canadiana, however, da to the United States, There that persons are captured with who think that what cannot be in Abyssinia itself and sold for attained by political argument may slaves. Attention is drawn par- movement
come about by the allent ticularly to the soldiers in West They say that the natural current economic foreca,
and South-West Abyssinia who of commerce runs, not east and are in the service, not of the west, but north and south, and Emperor,
that while the bonds of Empire but of provincial
may be stronger than ever, other Governors, but not paid by conditions make for wider inter- them, and who, it is hinted, per-This, in its turn, raises problemis 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 By Messrs. Mappin & Webb. tlun. Measures against this amicable adjustment. THERE IS DEEP SIGNIFICENCE
traffic have been enacted by the
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