TIMELY TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 3 May 1933, Page 4

TIMELY TOPICS

CHINA’B CULTS AND CREEDS. It is not often realised how large a part Muhammadanism plays in China, but statistics complied by the Nanking municipality show that more adherents of Islam are enrolled in the capital than those of any other religion. Professing Muhammadans number 20,7(50, whereas Buddhism, the predominant religion of China, claims only 23,310, Protestant Christians number 2.140, Taoists 200, Catholics' 133. A majority of government workers in Nanking do not profess any religion, hut are adherents of Confucianism, an ethical cult. A large number enroll themselves as “agnostics."

O' Oi IS IS WORDS OF WISDOM.. Culivate simplicity or rather, I should say, banish elaborateness; for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart and carries into daylight its own buds of genuine, sweet, and clear flowers of expression. —Charles Lamb. g o o s TALE OF THE DAY. A Lancashire minder under the influence of good fellowship attempted to pass through the revolving door of a restaurant. Each time he entered he made the complete round and found himself in the street again. After several unsuccessful attempts lie sat down on the pavement to work things out. A moment later a young man walked rapidly up the street and ►went into the restaurant. The door revolved, and a young woman came out. The inebriate was puzzled. “It’s a beggar,” he said. “I wonder what j lie’s done with his clothes."