WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1920,
ST. SOPHIA.
HONGKONG STOCK
· EXCHANGE.
WHAT WILL IT BECOME.
Some years ago, in company with
a few highly favoured individuals, I was standing in one of the upper galleries of what is, perhaps, the world's most famous church. It was the Night of Power which closes the great Mohammedan Fast of the months of Ramadan. Its observance is carried out with an almost-fana- tical punctiliousness, for during the twenty-six preceding days not one morsel of food may pass the lips of any faithful believer from early dawn till nightfall
The upper parts of St. Sophia were lighted, galleries, columns, and arcades, all of them picked out by thousands of tiny oil lamps. Down below the whole thing was dim, Only with mysterious darkness. difficulty could Frealise the presence of thousands and thousands of men on the floor space as they rose and knelt and touched the ground with their foreheads and rose again. Just where the golden Altar used to stand in happier days was a single candle. of the id to have been one Caristian treasures of St. Sophia. Vhen that. candle has burnt its if out the grea: church will bec me
Christian, according to The popular Greek tradition. Beside the candle stood the Iman, his hand Haced upon his sword, and, one by one, did he utter his series of pro- clamations of the Might of Islam.
What will this year of grace one thousand nine hundred and twenty bring forth? Wil the Christian Eas ter. be kept within the walls of St. Sophia this coming April as in the olden days, or will the Mohammedan Night of Power, with all that it con- pates, of ruthless militarism, de cele brated once more when next August comes round?
ONE OF THE WORLD'S WONDERS.
For more than nine centuries was St. Sophia & Christian Church. It is no exaggeration to style it one of the wonders of the world. Architectur ally it stands without a rival. An themius, the genius who designed it. virtually succeeded in achieving the impossible when he placed his stu pendous dome upon the four walls of the old building which had been destroyed
fear 2
years church, which, previously. The was dedicated to the Eternal Wis- dom, must combine, so he averred, the two figures of the Circle and the Square. Mark well the fact, as YOU see St. Sophia rising there above the Golden, Horn wrapped round with the mists of evening, that bers is a true dome, unlike those of our own St. Paul's or St. Peter's a: Rome. These are in reality preposterous frauds, being nothing more than brick fuanels with a sham dome outside and another. very much smaller, within.
But, glorious though the architec-: ture and the countless decorations of St. Sophia may be, they fade away. as it were, almost into nothingness as compared with the unique associa - tions which have come to cluster -round this "the Metropolis of Easter Christianity." as the historian Gibbon styled it. Every joy and sorrow, every glory and disaster of the fam- ous Empire which lasted for well over eleven hundred years are bound up with it. Prayer and psalm, thanks- giving and intercessions never ceased beneath its dome. Hither came the Within Emperors to be crowned.
its walls were held more than one of the great Councils of Christendom. From their throne beneath its dome the Eastern Patriarchs ruled-from Russia to Egypt, from the Adriatic to the Caucasus. It watched the West sing beneath a sea of barbarism, and after hundreds of years slowly The rise again into civilisation. -claims of the Vatican and the Church of St. Peter at Rome seem a very small thing indeed when contrasted -with those of St. Sophia.
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HONGKONG BAVINGS BANK.
C. L. BANDES,
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7 Queen's Bond Central, Hangtong, December 11, 1919..
THE BANK OF QËNTON, LTD
HD O-PONGKONG.
ESTAKER 191% ·
Paid-up Capital. Baserver and Undivided
Prodim FORLION
Hongkong, January 1, 1950,
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTR. HEAD OFFICE No. Queen's Boad Central
PARTY-UP CAPITAL, BRSIETE FUND,
DIRECTOR:
$2,000,000.00 200,000.00
Mr. Pong Wai Ying--Chairman.
Mr. Chow Shon Bom
Ma. Li Loon Chan,
Mr. Fang Ping Shas,
Mr. P.I. Kwak,
Mr. Kan Yug F
Ye. Wong I'ns Tu
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PORATION, Biles may be obtained on appilation.
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For the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
N. J. STABE.
Olef Manager..
Hongkong, May 14, 1918:
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Chief Minager. Hongkong, March 10, 1919,
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE THE BANK OF CHINA,
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CHINE.
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. F. 7,000, DEO
·STESCRIBED BY THE GOVERN- MENT OF THE CHINES KEPUBLIC
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BRANCHES
MARSEILLES, PEKING, BHANGHAL TIMATHIN HANKOW, HONGKON
SINGAPORE, HANOL
CANTON, BAIGON HAIPHONG, YUNNANŢU, VLADIVOSTOCK, FOOCHOW, BWATOW
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Authorised Capital
800,000,000.00 11,378,200.00
2,197,400.00
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HONGKONG BRANCH:. 30/21.
Connaught. Boad, Central. Branches and
FADE OF 21D DAT GUN. DET KAN MAN Zeverent adored on: Current Boyota Aomeone Fixed Propane Ad the following Tada jon
For I want the rate of 27 pe For 6-month at the tow of pie pamant.
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Chief Manag
Hongkong, February 13, 1920.
BANQUE DE VINDO-CELI (FRENOS BARB
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IN NEW YORK. J. F. Morgan & Co. Laterent allowed on Current Achonnée and Fixed Deposit according arrangements.
Hyry description of Baz/king and
L. BERINDOAQUE,
MADRKET. Hongkong, Dec. 2, 1918,
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TAUYER FEL,
Manager. Hongkong, January 21, 1990.
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HE BANK OF TAIWAN, LED.. (lural Gonzo.
INCORPORATED BY 'SYNCHAL IZZERIJAL CHART. 1998,
Capital Federated... Yen 60,006,000, Capital (P
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*G. HASHIDAN,
Mazagur Hongkong, March 15, 1920,
NORTH BELASTE JA MERCANTILE INBURATOR CO.
WHICH ARE TREND DER CLARII SE. THE DOHÁN MÁRIAH INHURANGK COMPANY, ETL,
VLAD
THE RAILWAY, PASSINGRES ASSURANCE 00,
PO MOBA-Ginn, Kagl, Karenko, Esalong, Making, Nanto, Pinan, Shinchiku, Taicha, Tainan, Taizor, Tansul, Tobyen, Ako JHIWA-Shanghai, Hankow, Kiuklang,
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HỚTAL F1904 al 2lah Dasakan?
#33,910,30%-10
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HONGKONG BRANCH :WYRE.
· 3, Den Voenx Bond Central, Hongkong, November 1, 1919
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