The Archive · 1926

A Spiritual Regeneration

In short, Chin to-day needs, above everything else, a spiritual regeneration, There is a great deal of sound tenching in our ancient]

ges, much of our moral and re-Vigious wisdom can and must be preserved, But there is needed a new life, 'n new motive, a new re-Valuation of all things. Religion alone can do this; for it gives the fighting edge to lite. Professor! Phackmar says, "Historically religion has produced what has come to coalled in these latter days 'Moral' Today man may not need religion to enable him to the successful in raising crops or securing food. supply, but he certainly needs a faith—faith in the eternal justice and righteousness, faith in unchanging' truth and goodness and faith in the possibility of making life a worthier thing and the world a better place. It is only on such a foundation may we hope not only to make China rich and strong but to build up a new Chinese civilization more gloria and more enduring than the one before, Music Teacher: "Your daughter improving, bat when she gets to the sales live to watch her petty Mother: "That's just tke her father. He made his money in the rerceory business."

Kove Japanese sighted a foreigner! and his wife photographing in the fortified zone on the coast of Otsu, Yokosuka, on the 1st instant at about 11 am., and notified it to the gendarmerie. ' On the arrival on the spot of several gendarmes the couple fied in a motor-ear towards Zushi. The gendarmes immediately gave chase on motor-cars, but, owing to the slow speed of their cars, they misted the foreigners. The authorit-Jes have no clue whatever to locate the foreign couple, even the num ber of the car being obscure, but are trying hard to ting them out in Hayama and Kamakura. In all probability reading about it in the paper was the first intimation that the foreigners haq that, they attracted official notice. Tt would interesting to know the respective types of motor-car used.

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