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GUESSING COMPETITION.
My dear Children,
Here is the guessing competition which I promised you last week. Will you send the answers with your full Fame, age and address before next Wednesday, the 23rd to Peter Pan, c/o The China Mail Office.
There will be two prizes which will be given to the two first correct an- swers which are opened.
Your loving,
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GUESSING COMPETITION.
one page. You must write it all over again while I go and look Baby."
at
Naughty Tommy chuckled to him- self and thought that now he would on another nice clean pago have a chance of making more blots
So he set to work with his tonguo in his cheek and a pen full of ink and y soon the white page became amudgy and blotted,
pened.
And then-something queer hap Tommy felt himself lifted out of his chair and pinced on the table and then, to his surprise, found that he had been changed into the sheet of paper on which he had been writing. And, oh dear, it was uncomfortable.
Six large blots were dancing about shut out the light and make every thing dark and gloomy but they hurt him too. They looked like tiny men all dressed in black and they had huge feat in heavy black shoes and all the time thump, thump, went the black shoes on his face.
CHURCH NOTES.
THE CHINA MAILA
SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE
ADVENT.
Catherine wheels of modern fre- works,
A delightful concert was given on Monday by the students of S. John's Hall, the U. M 8. Hostel of the University. An appreciative audience enjoyed to the full the talent dia- played. The students are certainly to be congratulated on thate entertain- ing attainments, and when one con- siders the other excellens cuberta given lately in connectish with the University one can only hope that its
be revived. Dramatic Society may
To-morrow we keep the last Son- day of the Church's Year, and the day is therefore a time for us to look backwards with regret for all our neglected opportunities and a time to look forward with hope to a new year to be lived in the presence of God.
In the religions life there is never any need to be despondent-the
In this elnnection one may may Churob teaches us to be continually starting snow with sincere repentance, that it is quite the part of Mother confession, and resolution, after allChurch lead the way in stage our downfalls. It is well for all venture if only she would associate
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Church people to prepare during the herself more with dramatic
efforts it sencer, Sub-Dean
Okthedral. Holy Commons 13 noon. Evens gp.m Responses, Ferial; Psalma, 147, 149:
Ma mifi at, No 1: Nune Dimitris. No $ Hymns, 437, 895, 31. Prosch er: Lord Bishop of Victoris.. N.B.- salis 147, verses 1, 7, 12, 18 in union,
coming week for a great new com- is certam much good would ensue, mencement in the new year, so that not only by the guidance of a good when Advent Sunday dawns we may influence, but by the fact that the awake with a sense of happiness at divine merits of the morality as well the bad records blotted out and as the ith of Christianity could be clean new page on which to start impressed on the public. In history again. It was Henry Macmillan who we see that the home of the stage was said, "Life is not a continuous the Church. It was the Church that drudgery, a going on wearily in a per- invented the old miracle and morality petual straight line, but a constant plays which took such a great part in ending and beginning. We do the development of social and religions not see all the road before us; life of olden days, and it is the Church the bends of its days and that could do similar work to-day all months and years bide the future over the world. At home efforts have from our view, and allure us on with been made in late years by the Church new hopes and fresh expectations, to teach more by the Stage and the until at last we come without fatigue Film, and at the present time travell- to the end of our journey. Sufficient ing kinema shows belonging to the Divine Service ard Church Parade,
to each day is the evil thereof. Each day brings its own rest."
This Sunday, by ancient practice,
Church are going round the villages
of England, presenting a healthy pro- gramme for the uplift and enlighten- ment of the people. We often learn
Wonlayan Mathadist Church, Queen's Road,
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4.18 Bubject:-"The Master Bild Evening Service, & o'clock IA Lord's Teaching oncerning Forgiveness." Precher, Rev. C.
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Can you guess what animals these all over him and not only did they has been celebrated as a kind of eve and believe far more by the eye than/Wound by School 3 p.m.
are ?.
(1) When young he looks
In life or bookca
A leggy lanky thing, But when grown up (It's not a pup) His praises poeta sing.
Sometimes he'll race
At such a pace!
Or drags a cart behind.
Ho toil away
Must of the day,
Yet doesn't seem to mind.
It all depends
If he is friends
With him who is his master, If treated well It's bound to tell,
You'll find he goes much faster
(2) If people in deserts should hear
his wild roar
Be sure that they run as they
ne'er ran before.
Unless they should have a gun.
For he has a mouth like a great
iron trap,"
He doesn't think twice before
shutting it-snap! And that is the end of one.
And when be is caged he goes
prowling around, Sometimes he growls with a
deep thunderous sound,
Or shakes his head in the air.
And people have named him the
King of the beasts,
"Oh please blots," cried Tommy, "Do keep still, You are squashing me dreadfully."
"No we can't," they replied, "We were not made to keep still. Ink is always running you know and if we did not dance about and do exercises and grow strong and big our foe, Indiarubber, might wipe us off the face of the earth."
of Advent, anticipating the great Ad-we do by the ear.
vent Lesson.
a
an
Hailors and Soldiers' Home, Arsenal Street Sunday, 8.15 p.in. Chaplain's Meating and Foeisi tour. Wedve-day, 8.1 p.m. Wesley Guild. Debate, Subject introduced by Sgt. Floyd. Friday, 4. Ladies Sewing Party and Tea. Saturday, 8.30 pm Concert arranged by Mr and Mrs. Edmonds.
MacDonnell Road.
Sunday, 11.15 a.m. Wednesday, 0.46 p.m.
The Collect accordingly seems to Mr. Frank Wheatley, of the War- peak of the awakening or revival, in wick Company, which is at present which God stire up the will to energy entertaining us at the Theatre Royal, of service, in bringing forth good is well-known as enthusiastic works, and so obtaining reward-both churchman representing the Actors'
plenteous," the one in free love to Church Union. Wherever the com- First Church of Christ, Scientist, God, the other in His free gift to us. pany goeae does his best to secure a The Epistle is a passage from the focal Chaplain for the Union who shall prophecies delivered by Jeremiah be ready to act in that capacity when after the captivity of Jeconish. It is ever a theatrical company arrives. prophecy uttered in the midst of ruin Mr. Copley Moyle is the chaplain at and sorrow, promising future de- Hongkong, and, being at London, at liverance and greatness in the King the time of the annual meeting of the dom of the Messiah. There are fore-Union, was able to represent the shadowed in the coming deliverance Church of the Far East on the Stage from the Empire of Babylon, over at the Wyndham Theatre where the which Israel had been scattered, a de-meeting was held. liverance which is to outshine in their grateful remembranco even the Exodus "What a cruel thing to say," all from Egypt. The Advent promiso the blots exclaimed angrily. He of a Kingdom of God, which is also
And kingdom of deliverance from the must be punished for this." they began to dance harder than bondage of sin to the freedom of be righteousness, here begins to ever
"I wish," sighed Tommy, "That I were a boy again and I would soon fetch Indiarubber and make a nice clean page."
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Bang-bang-bang-went their brought out.
repetition of the The Gospel is a hard shoes all over the page and it hurt Tommy so much that he Fourth Sunday in Lent. It seems screamed out loud to his mother for clear that it is used on this Sunday:
help.
What is the matter." she cried, rushing into the room and there was Tommy sitting with his elbows on the table, rubbing his eyes.
the last of the ecclesiastical year, order to teach us to look back on the rick feast of His grace, which has in it been set before us, and even now, by repentance and prayer, "to gather up the fragments" of what has been wanted, that nothing may be wholly
lost.
Limerick.
The question of a universal langu- age has again been brought to the fore by the British Association, the merits of the two rivala, Esperanto and Ido, receiving a large amount of discussion.
"I do believe that you have been to sleep Tommy," she said, "Though I thought that I heard you call me."
"I've had a horrid time with the
Sunday is also a commemoration blots mother," he told her and his mother, looking at the page, said of 8 Edmund, King and Martyr, who rather sadly, Oh Tommy; six more was murdered by the Danes in A.D. 870. He was the last of the Eart
The Church of England has been blots on a new page!"
his piety approached as to whether or not it "I'm very sorry mother," he said, Anglian kings and
such 86 to inspire his would be to the benefit of Christianity "To-morrow I really won't make Was
followers and those who came that a universal language should be any."
And the next day when the writing after him to recognise him as a saint adopted. It ia argued that if the With a neck that is yards loug tesson was finished there was not a Who was ready to die in a holy cause. children of to-day were taught in their
single blot to be seen.
An Emperor even ones had him
at feasts,
I'm glad that I was not there!
(3) There is a yellow creature
It makes him look top-heavy
And I think that he looks wrong.
His head is quite a small one And his body's like a borse, In Zoos you'll always find him- But you've guessed the thing of
course?
PETER PAN.
PETER PAN.
What key in music would make a good officer?
A sharp major.
If the world will resolve not to have another war until the recent one ia paid for everlasting peace will be assured.
TOMMY AND THE BLOTS.
Tommy was always getting into trouble over his writing lessons. He
Convicted of cheating a ricsha had only just started writing with ink puller of his fare, a European named and be was not very careful with it Lewis, was sentenced to a month's in fact he thought it was rather rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Dawson, funny if a big blot splashed out of his at the Third Court, Singapore. It pen on to the pagò.
appears that accused came to the Co Tommy you are not taking any lony with a criminal history, having trouble," said his mother one day served terms in English and Indian severely, "That is the fifth blot on jails for house-breaking.
My
In the year 903 his body was trans- schools a universal language, then lated to Bury St Edmunds, and over in a few years time the intercours his bones rose, the famous abbey of nations would be so much improv- which is so well known to us of to-day.ed that a good foundation would be laid for the peace of the world, follow- ing a mutual understanding. It is also argued that its importance with regard to missionary enterprise would be inestimable; if a large number of heathen children were now taught a universal language, then, in the future, Friday is S. Catherine's Day. She the language difficulty in the spread is said to have been martyred under ing of Christianity would be overcome Maxentius, A. D. 307. Her popularity to a great extent.
Tuesday is set apart in memory of S. Cecilia who was a virgin martyr of the year 203, and Wednesday, in memory of 8. Clement who was bishop of Rome in the first century.
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in France and England dates from A further argument is to the effect that a universal language can never the bringing of her supposed relics to that the reunion of Christendom, at interpret the soul of a nation as does Rouen before. A.D. 1035. It would which all Christians should aim, is its mother tongue. On the other be difficult to find a saint more widely, more likely to be brought about when hand, there is no doubt that in China venerated than 8. Catherine, of whose Christians of every nation and tongue common tongue would help unity and the motives which prompt the true history so little is really known, can discuss their difficulties. not one single fact related of her It is, of course, impossible to say present efforts to teach a common being reasonably certain. The tradi- what the effects would be they might Chinese language are most commend- tion of her being placed upon a wheel be quite the reverse of what is ex- able though they may not rep with blades is at the root of the pected. At any rate, most will agres succs.
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