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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1937.

AUTHORESS SAYS WESLEY'S WORK "DRUGGED" THE ILLITERATE

TEACHES HUSBAND TO READ

Twenty-six-years-old Jim Hammond can neither read nor write, and his pretty 23-years-old Welsh wife, Tid, is giving him lessons.

Every night in a little room in It's a shame he never learned to read Maple-street-just off Tottenham or write." Mrs. Hamunand said. Court-road, London-they sit side- "Doonle our little girl of three, sits by-side at a table littered with school and watches us. She will probably exercise books.

learn to write before her father does. Jim looked up shyly from his blue Heads close together, the young wife -pencil in hand-slowly and careful-y-book, and said: "I suppose it's ly forms different letters of the al-ever too late to learn. phabet as her husband repeats and copies the letters a dozen times or

more.

"My husband is really very clever;{

Girl, 16, Is Printer

"Did I go to school? Oh, yes-now and again to a church school, until was 13, but I was often on the sick list."

Blind, Golfer Scores 79 Captain Gerald Lowry, famous

More than 150 girl employees were belleved trapped in this fire, at the 5. B. Penick botanical druk matu- facturing plant in Weehawken, N, J., until it was recalled the day was a Jewish holiday and anuny of them! had not gone to work. Flames swept the plant, injuring 15 and causing 600 children in school 50 feet

way to be imperiled.

Hen Lays "Siamose Eggs"

New London, Conn. Louis Lombard's hen has laid three "Siamese" eggs in three weeks, Lombardi says the laying of one such egg, although unusual is not rare,

but when the same hen lays three eggs, equal to a halfdozen within three weeks, "that's different."

Pheasant Enters House

UNTOLD HARM TO

CHILDREN.”

Revivalism Blamed For

Of Hysteria

Wave

(By A Special Correspondent)

Methodists will be shocked to read-in a new bio graphy of John Wesley, "Wrestling Jacob," by novelist and historian Marjoric Bowen-that "it seems doubtful whether the good that Wesley's movement had done in the country balanced the evil caused by the wave of mingled hysteria and imposture."

The book, published recently, is a detailed account of the great preacher's life.

But wherever the authoress ex-1 presses any opinions on Wesley's

she 15 Work

senthingly critical, necusing him of playing on the fears of semi-idiots and having a bad in- fluence on children,

She writes: "John Wesley took advantage of that religious emo- tion he was able to rouse in the wretched and Ignorant to Implant some terrible falsehoods in their alivering hearts; the most dread- ful of these wai ffell.

"It was no wonder that illiterate peasants and semi-Idiotle slum- dwellers fell rouring to the ground, screaming, '1 will be good,' like a child threatened with a stick, and that: even the half-eduented, especially H also half-drunk, should be overcome | with her fear and trembling ...

BANNED JOY

"Without humour, though not with- out a dry wit, John Wesley db- couraged joy, plensure, all gay and lovely things; those who could not find their happiness in striving after Heaven might remain miserable.

NORMA'S HUSBAND

LEFT

£893,000

Hollywood.

THE estate of Mr. Irving Thalberg, who died last year and who left the bulk of his fortune to his wife, Miss Norma Shearer, has been proved at £893,802 gross and £448,800 net. This is half of what film circles anticipated. There are three trust funds on be- Francine Fiske, the 10-year-old blind sportsman, returned a score of

half of Miss Normo Shearer and her daughter of Frank B. Fiske, pub-70 in a game at Mersen Island | A pheasant was an unexpected

children, Irving and Kathrine (who lisher of the Fort Yates Pioneer- (Essex) Golf club. The length of guest of Miss Mary McEvoy at her Arrow, became one of the nation's the course is 0,352 yards, and the home here. The bird few through a

recelve £120,000 each. youngest printers when she replaced bogey is 75. His valet placed the front room window. and fluttered "From John Wesley's teaching, Mr. Thalberg left £73,200 to his the regular printer in her father's ball, told him where to stand and about in ground floor and second which spread from his own organisa-parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Thai- shop, while the printer went on

a the distance of the ball from each floor rooms before escaping through tion to those of the Church of Engberg, his sister, uncles, and aunts. vucution.

Jan open bath room window,

land and the Dissenting bodies, grew Irving Thalberg rose in te few years that form of religion which was to from being 4 £3 a week typist to en

overwhelm the country for nearly the most highly-paid and successful Producer in Hollywood. He died typical middle-class Victorian and the suddenly at the height of his fame, | English Sunday."

and since then Miss Shearer has been living in rotirement.

green.

what

happen

Newburgh, NY.

**Hils school system did not allow a second for play, and very few for exercise or repose; there was not a child who came in contact with eighteenth-century Methodism who must not have been the worse for it.

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"STUNNED THE POOR"

in a foreward, while declaring that Wesley helped to stabilise the social life of the times, the authoress writes:

"It has been estimated that in the period during which John Wesley worked nearly half the population were panpers; It was these unemployed, outcasts,~and~ criminals, to whom

great

evangelist appealed, giving them religion as a crumb and a com- fort; he is now placed-with J, J. Rousseau and Samuel Richardson as one of the great forces thai moved the emphasis from the head to the heart, from ralion- alism' to emotionalism."

"Whether it was for good or evil that John Wesley so drugged and stunned the illiterate poor with his preaching of Hell fire, sentimental 'love of God,' and his doctrine of a life lived according to rigid rules as the only means of salvation, may be a matter of dispute.

THE PROBLEM

"Whether he wrought harmfully or beneficially in fastening the clamps of a terrible superstition on the minds of the ignorant and impressionable people, whether its emphasis on self- denial, on austerity, on gloom, on an absorption in the Idea of a vengeful God, was to the good or not of the national character, must be left in open debate, or referred to the his- torians who have so carefully and lucidly examined und expounded these matters."

Most of the book, however, is not cancerned with this kind of criticism.

5.

"Wrestling Jacob" is published by: Heinemann at 15s.

Last night I questioned lending Methodists on their opinions of the views expressed in the book.

Sir Josiah Stamp said: “It's all such old stuff, I'm surprised it has been trotted out again." Sir Harold Bellman said: "The character and reputation of John Wesley are safe against such attacks."

South Africa Lacks Butter

Pretoria, South Afrles. The export of buiter to England is considered to be one of the reasons for the serious butter shortage which

throughout being experienced South Africa. More than two-thirds of the Union's production is exported to England.

Soviet Has Women Judges

Moscow... Thousands of women now work in the organs of Justice in the U.S.S. R. Of these 913 are elected people's Judges, 66-members of republican supreme courts, 124-members of regional and territorial courts, 100- procurators. There are many wo- men also among examining mugls- trates.

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