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institutions in a soil th which they cannot possibly grow. The words of so staunch a Radical as John Morley will suffice. He' foretold "anarchy and bloody chaos" as the sure result of Bo mad an enterprise. And with the departure of the last British offi- cial from India the prophecy would be fulfilled..
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The annual dance given by the President of the Club will be held at the Cralgengower Cricket Club on New Year's Eve."
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1929.
ST. ANDREW'S
IT OF FELLOWSHIP AND
GOODWILL
CHRISTMAS SERVICE Christmas service was held in St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon on Wednesday morning.
that the creativa power of Christ has been the great outstanding feature of the world from the be- glaning of the Christian era.
The ideals by which we live. the conscience which controls and guides 'avery member of a nominally Christian community or nation and the British State itself are all the creation of Jesus Christ's influence.
Holy Communion was administer- ed to over 150 people at 7 and 8 a.m. Whence comes the spirit of fel- There was a large congregation lowship and goodwill, of love and at Matins, the Church symbolising of service which is so manifest in the real joy of Christmas with de- | the world to-day (and especially at Christmas time) if not trom corative flowers and shrubbery,
The service was conducted by the Jesus Christ? Rev. C., B. Shunn, assisted by the You will search history In vain Rey, E. A. Armstrong, while the to find it in the ages which pre- sermon was delivered by the Vicar | ceded his advent. (the Rev. W. Walton Rogers)..
of
Calendars for 1930 have been
The very language which We received by the "China Mail" from The full choir rendered a pretty speak is impregnated with Christ- the P. & O. & B.L.S.N. Com- anthem "Let Us Now Go Even Unto
mas ideas and ideala,
The panies and from the Tajmahal Bethlehem" (Hopkins), the soloist
ordinary postulates Silk Store.
being Miss F. McGill.
everyday life, common place truths Taking bla text from Matthew which no one thinks of disputing,
his 1-23-"And they shall call
can be traced simply and directly Immanuel, which name
is being and beyond all dispute to the in- interpreted "God with us"."-the fluence of Jesus Christ. Vicar saldi—
Why should we care about the Once again as Christmas Day sick or poor or blind or needy? comes round, with its Inspiring Why indeed if Christ had not
Overcrowding 15 ducks in a small crate led to two Chinese men being fined $5 with the option of 7 days hárd labour at the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning.
Among the latest naval appoint-message of peace and goodwill, and taught us the supreme value of ments is that of Commander H. with its flood of happy memories, love-the greatest thing in the Hickling to H.M.9. "Kent" (Dec. we are met to celebrate the greatest world. 23), and Acting Mate E. W. Lowson of God's gifts to men, the gift of to H.M.S. "Cumberland."
Jesus Christ.
During the three days ended December 26 seven cases of Church has smallpox were reported-one from Victoria, two from Kowloon and one from the New Territories.
A well known Police court mis- slonary in London tells the follow- ing story:
Old couple. Wife a drunkard. Home broken up more than once. Separation order. "Come back we will try again."
Story of Prince of Wales Here is a story at the other and of the social acale.
The Prince of Wales was asked one day to visit a little private
In that gift, from the very first, as stated in our text, the Christian seen something more than the gift of a great and good man to the world. Christ was all that; certainly, on whatever scale we may reckon, the greatest of the Messrs. Komor and Komor ad- Sons of Men-but also something vertise that Mr. Kodaka extends more-Immanuel God with us. his Pearl Exhibition until the end
We sometimes speak of a great of this month to give his patrons man (or a great work) as inspired hospital where 36 men, so terribly occasion to buy their New Year'a le.. Inbroathed by the spirit of God. | Injured in the war that they could presents. He has ordered a new At critical epochs of national (ornover hope for release, were fight- stock of pearls and mounted jewel-world) history such men have been ing the desperate battle of the half-educated clerk to bellery,
raised up and have taken their stand patience. and courage. The found in the cities and manufac-
for right in the face of great op- Prince named a day, and, on that turing towns feeds his primitive Steamship Campany's local agents, shown such a one to be justified, we pital.
From the Peninsular & Oriental position. When after events have day he drove privately to the Hos- brain on "Young India," and the Meesre. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & say that he was inspired, moved by In the ordinary way he went hot-hair preached by Mr. Gandhi Co., Ltd., the "China Mail" has re- the Spirit of God to do what he did, round the beds and was then con-
ceived the ever-useful and popular
"Power to Inspire
ducted to the door by the grate- It is the easiest thing imagin-"P. & O. Diary" for 1930, which But the difference between such ful staff. But he stopped sudden. contains a mass of information men and Christ is immeasurable. ly and said, “I was told you had able to start an agitation and call
and handy maps.
It is not simply that He was In-36 patients. I have only seen 29." yourself a leader in India. Prac-
breathed, indwelt, by that Spirit of It was explained to him that tically anyone can do it. In Bri- One of the two Chinese Jads God, but that He possessed and still the seven other patients wera no tain, if people were really aware] charged with hawking newspapers possesses the power to inspire tragically disfigured that the visit of the bitter hatred and contempt loon Magistracy this morning dia- still shows Himself more than ted.
without a licence, was at the Kow- others. He showed Himself and to their ward was purposely omit- with which great masses of charged with a cation. A cousin man, Immanuel, God with us. By "For my sake or theirs?" he people regard each other in India of the boy came forward and told a definite act of will commit your asked. they would know as a fact that Mr. Whyte-Smith that he has tried life to Him, and He will inspire it.
his best to secure work at a bather's For He possessed and still possesses swer the real prop and stay of the stall at the Kowloon Market and the power to re-create; to impress whole Peninsula from end to end had succeeded in doing so for the anew the image of God on sinful
lad. is still the British Army.
A man was inspecting the gems and at each bed he stopped for There can be no question of
Chung Tak, a young Chinese in a jeweller's store. Amongst sume minutes, saying cheering making India safe for democracy.man, charged with the theft of 40 them was an opal, which as it words and thanking each man in There is no India as a political cents from a person at the Hung lay there looked dull and lustre the name of Britain for his self-- entity, and there never has been; hom Market some time ago, and less. But the jeweller took it in sacrifice. Then, once again he
who was sent to hospital for obser- his hand and held it for some paused at the door. while the conditions of the depen-vation by Mr. W. Schofield at the moments; then he showed it again
"But there are only six, men dency, geographical, linguistic, Kowloon Magistracy, was called up to his visitor. It gleamed and here," he persisted. "Where Is the facial, social, and religious, now, again to-day, but he was not pre flashed with all the colours of the seventh ?”*
sent. Later Mr. D. Ogilvie, Chief rainbow. So there are many lives He was told nobody could see this and as far ahead as the vision of Clerk, informed his Worship that everywhere, which are rich in seventh man. Blind, deaf, maim- the most imaginative can pene- Dr. Ware, of the G.C.H., had sent their
possibilities of beauty.ed, and disfigured out of the like- trate, are, and must be, such as the man to the Lunatic Asylum. They seem dull and Justreless;ness of humanity, this seventh mad, THE FATE OF INDIA to make anything remotely re- The case was accordingly remanded they are perhaps stained with sin. they told him, lay in a bed in a
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sembling democracy impossible.
for a further week.
Writing in 1925 on the political What is really implied in every DEATH AFTER XMAS position in India in his book, step taken towards the declared;
PARTY "The Soul of England," the goal is the gradual substitution Right Rev. W. Inge remarked in the administration of India of shrewdly that if ever an Indian an oligarchy, the most exclusive PASSING OF POPULAR MEMBER crisis should occur when ever known, at once inefficient Socialist Government were in and corrupt, for an aristocracy, power at Home, we should be in which in the circumstances is peril of losing that seething probably the most efficient and,
A
OF R.N. DOCKYARD
HEART FAILURE
men.
For yours, Sir" was the an-
At once he instated on seeing
those seven men.' He was usher
ed into the ward where they lay,
The touch of the hand of Jesus room to himself, from which he brings out anew the radiance of would never stir..
"You must not sea him, Sir” said one of the officials.
the Divine Image hidden within.
"I must see him," sald the Prince. "Better not, Sir. You can do him no good. And the sight is ter rible.
New Era Inaugurated By that creative,
renewing power He brought a new, age' to birth; He inaugurated a new era; He laid the foundations of the
"Still I wish to see him.” Eternal Kingdom which shall Jn- crease and grow until it fils the
Unutterable Tragedy earth-the reign of the Prince of
One member of the staff de- Peace...
companied the Prince into that of unutter- Wo acclaim his worthiness anew little darkened room portion of our Empire. It does without qualification, the purest Prideaux, an assistant in the Chart our homage and our gifts. WoPrince walked firmly to the bed-
this morning:
we bring to Him able tragedy. He relates that the seem as though the prognostica-recorded in history" tion of the "gloomy Dean" were The ery for responsible gov-who was well-known and popular in sing with the saints on earth, and side, that he turned very white not the idle dream of a historical ernment, so far as it has not been the Colony, with a large circle of and passed over into the nearer neither see him nor hear him, with those who have preceded us but stood there with bowed head, looking at the man who could prophet, for events are so shap-prompted by visionary politicians friends, to whom his and passing ing in Mother India that, unless in Britain, proceeds. not
to
The death occurred suddenly early yesterday morning, of Mr. J. W.
Depot of the Royal Naval Dockyard,
The Funeral
presence.
was a genuine loss.
Thou art the King of Glory, O On Christmas Day Mr. Prideaux
Christ. the Home Government adopta a from the masses, the three hun-was hale and hearty as usual and
Thou art the everlasting Son; of
the Father," reversal of its present Imperialdred odd millions of Indian people entertained a party of friends at his policy, irremediable
Whan men meet in honour of who are incapable of comprehend- home at Railway Villas, Kowloon, damage
which he occupied with a couple of the memory of a great man, they may be done
the ing what is demanded and are messmates. He retired to bed at enumerate his triumphs, eg, foundations of that Empire, to destined only to suffer by the about 11 pm, and just before 2 Nelson and Trafalgar, Wellington establish which so many gallant grant of the demand; it does not a.. he was found dead in bed by and Waterloo. Britons have given their lives even come from the small frac- one of his companions. Apparently Let us remember, afresh to-day death was due to heart failure. In an age of rapidly changing
the triumphs of Christ. during and since the last cen- tion of the population educated tury. It is deplorable to realise on Western lines; it is the de- Mr. Prideaux, who was 44 years customs and standards, when many that matters have been allowed mand merely of the politically of age, is survived by his widow old established beliefs and ideas to get out of hand to such a minded, a fraction of a tiny frac and a daughter, who are at Home, are in the melting pot, it is good. besides other relatives, with all of to consider definitely established degree that the Swaraj leaders tion.⠀⠀
whom much sympathy will be felt in and Indestructible facts, which may now threaten the regime
their sad bereavement,WAN can never be overthrown. with civil disobedience and non payment of taxes if the demand reins of government from the the deceased was a member, took that Christ was born of a Virgin, Dockyard Recreation Club, of which Men may doubt it they will for complete independence is not hands of trained and tried British place at the Protestant Cemetery, or that he did this or that miracle, degree that the Swaraj leaders officers. They are in no sense re- Happy Valley, last evening, and or that he rose again from the of the calibre of Mr. Gandh! presentative men, and if what was attended by a large gathering dead, but no sane man can doubt imagine that they are going to they ask were given them they circles and elsewhere
of friends, both in Naval Yard
bully the Mother Country at a would be found incapable of Us The service at the graveside was time when a sympathetic Govern- ging the elementary: func-conducted by the Rev. Howart, ment effectually suppresses swift tons of government. They Chaplain of the Naval Yard.
The Wres no power to defend
desima av de large number, die wr com external at placed on the mava. Included, those
within from
// commonsense action, they
These are the men who in their inexperience claim to take up the
The funeral, arranged by the Great Outstanding. Feature
looking at that awful wreck of manhood, as though he would see the final anguish of murderous and monstrous war. Then, very slowly, the Prince stooped down and kissed the man's face.
When he arose it was as if an- other Presence had come into that little room.
That story will live in British
us an history and it has a meaning for }
Typical of the spirit of Christ, Immanuel God with us.
Takd his spirit, his presence, with you this Christmas
TEN YEARS AGO
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