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AUTHORESS

THE · HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER

SAYS

9,

1937.

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.

room

Every night in a le

in it's a shame he never learned to read Maple-street-Just off Tottenham or write." Mrs. Hammond said. Court-rond, London--they sit side- "Doonte our little girl of three, slts 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 copy-book, and said: "I suppose it's -pencil in hand-slowly and careful- ly forms different letters of the al-never loo late to learn.

Oh, yes--now "Did I go to school? phabet as her husband repeats nnd and again--to a church schout, until coples the letters a dozen times or

I was 13. but I was often on thei more.

sick list."

Blind Golfor Scores 79 Captain Gerald Lowry,

famous

'UNTOLD HARM TO CHILDREN"

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Revivalism Blamed For Wave Of Hysteria

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(By A Special Correspondent) Methodists will be shocked to read-in a new graphy of John Wesley, “Wrestling Jacob," by novelist and historian Marjorie 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-

More than 150 girl employees were presses any opinions on Wesley's work she ix scathingly* critical, belleved trapped in this fire, at the

Auence on children.

S. B. Penick botanical drug manu-accusing him of playing on the fears facturing plant in Weehawken, N. J..of semi-idiots and having a bad in- until it was recalled the day was a Jewish holiday and many of them hind tot pone to work. Flames swept the plant, injuring 15 and causing 000 children In n school 50 feet

away to be imperiled.

Hen Lays "Siamese

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 falschoods in their shivering hearts; the most dread- ful of these was Hell... "It was no wonder that literate and semi - Idiotic peasants

slum- dwellers fell roaring to the ground, screaming. I will be good, like ni child threatened with a stick, and that: even the half-educated, especially i Louis Lombardi's lien has Isid also half-drunk, should be overcome three "Siamese" eggs in three weeks. with her fear and trembling ... Lombardi says the laying of one such egg, although unusual is not rare. but when the same hen lays three "Without humour, though not with- eggs, equal to a halfdozen within out a dry wit, John Wesley dis- three weeks, "that's different."

Eggs"

New London, Conn.

Pheasant Enters House

BANNED JOY

couraged Joy, pleasure, 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 gress and £448,800 net. This is half of what film circles anticipated. There are three trust funds on be- half of Miss Norma Shearer and her children, Irving and Kathrine (who receive £120,000 each.

"My husband is really very clever;|

"Ills school system did not allow a second for play, and very Girl, 16, Is Printer

few for exercise or repose; there Newburgh, N.Y. was not a child who came in Francine Fiske, the 10-your-old blind sportsman, returned a score of

pub-170 in game at Mersea Island A daughter of Frank B. Fiske,

pheasant was an unexpected: contact with eighteenth-century Methodism who must not have lisher of the Fort Yates Ploncer- (Essex) Golf club. The length of guest of Miss Mary McEvoy at her Arrow, became one of the

been the worse for it. nation's the course is 6,352 yards, and the home here. The bird flew through a and fluttered

"From, John Wesley's

Mr. Thalberg left £73,200 to his teaching, youngest printers when she replaced bogey is 75. His valet placed the front room window, the regular printer in her father's ball, told him where to stand and about ground noor and second which spread from his own organisa. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willam Thal- 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 Eng-berg, his sister, uncles, and aunts.

land and the Dissenting bodies, grew from being a £3 a week typist to Irving Thalberg rose in a few years vacation.

jan open bath room window.

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"STUNNED THE POOR"

In a foreward, while declaring that | Wesley helped to stabilise the social life of the times, the nuthoress wrlies:

"It has been estimated that in -the-perlod-during-which-John Weseley worked nearly half the

Was

population were and these unemployed,

great

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, 60-members of republican supreme courts, 124-members regional nad territorial courts, 190- procurators, There are many wo- men also among examining magis-

to whom the appealed, giving them religion AS A a crumb and a com- fort; he is now placed with J. J. Rousseau and Samuel Richardson as one of the great forces that moved the emphasis from the head to the hea

heart, from ration- alism to emotionalism. "Whether it was for good or evil trates. that John Wesley so drugged and stunned the illérate poor with bis preaching of Hell fire, a sentimental

love of God,' and his doctrine of aj life lived according to rigid rules as the only means of salvation, may be a mutter of dispute.

THE PROBLEM

"Whether he wrought harmfully or beneficially in fastening the clumps) of a terrible superstition on the minds of, the ignorant and Impressionable people, whether his emphasis on self- denial, on austerity, 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 and expounded these matters."

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

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

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

Sir Josiah Stamp said: "It's-all such old stuff, I'm surprised fl has been trotted out again.”

Sir Harold Bellman said: "The character and reputation of John Wesley are safe against such attacks.”

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