SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1932..
Bishop's Ministry "A Challenge"
Enthronement Ceremony At Cathedral
A STIRRING SERMON
SWEEPSTAKE
RESULT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
St. John Ambulance Draw.
Amid impressive surroundings, how what it had cost him- in full.
and in
the
presence
of a dis- self.
He
lived in
Newcastle
To-Day's Short Story.
THE
BLACK
-CAT
NOR
By Edgar Allan Poe.
Ticket No. A3002, sold by Mr. §. R. Farlow, of the Royal Naval Dockyard Pulice, drew the Arst prize, valued at $10,000 in the St. John Ambulanco Association draw. the most wild yet most about town, I fancied that the cat homely narrative which I avoided my presence. 1 seized him; Before the draw commenced at am about to pen I neither expect when, in his fright at my violence, China Building, yesterday after; nor solicit belief. Mad indeed he inflicted a slight wound upon noon, Mr. Ho Kom-tong announced would I be to expect it, if a case my hand with his teeth. The fury that 39,733 of the 50,000 tickets where my very senses reject their of a demon instantly possessed me. had been sold, and that the Com-own evidence. Yet, mad I am I knew myself no longer. My ori mittee had decided to pay the prizes not and very surely do I nat ginal soul seemed, at once, to take dream. But to-morrow I die, and its flight from my body, and a more A large crowd watched the draw-{]
to-day I would inburden my than fiendish malevolence, gin-tur- tinguished and full congregation, for the past six years, among the ing, which was operated by Mr. Ho soul.
tured, thrilled every fibre of my the Right Rev. Ronald Owen Hall, people, the school children and the Kom-tong and Mr. Lam Wing-kam.
From my infancy I was noted frame." was enthroned Bishop of Victoria great number of unemployed, who Prizes can be obtained from Mr. for the docility and humanity of I took from my waistcoat pocket: in St. John's Cathedral yesterday had very little hopie in life. But Fung Kong-yuen, at the office of
my disposition. My tenderness of a penknife, opened it, graspod. the afternoon. His Lordship later when the boys and girls grew up to Mesara. Fung Tang. Pedder Build-heart was even so conspicuous na pour beast by the throat, and dell- preached an inspiring sermon, which manhood and womanhood later they ing. iras interpreted in Chinese, and gave generously of their services. The following are the prize-win-to make me the jest of my compan-berately cut one of its eyes from pronounced the Blessing.
As Jesus had wept over Jerusalem, ning numbers in order of value-ons. I was especially fond of ani- the socket! I blush, I barn, I A3562, F8655, 1874,mals, and was indulged by my par-shudder, while I pen the damnable Seated in the front row of the said the preacher, he felt the same
ents with a great variety of pets, atrocity. Cathedral was His Excellency the way abnut Newcastle, with its rits, 9181, C3212, D9757, A7407, A0858,
I married early, and was happy When reason returned with the D0774, D4422, B1666, E9449, F8018. Governor, Sir villain Feel, jahipyards and heather hills.
to find in my wife a disposition not morning--when I had slept off the K.C.M.G., K.B.E., and Lady Peel, i But in a strange way God had
ancongenial with my own. Obser- fumes of the night's debauch- accompanied by Capt. R. F. Walter, given life to China. At school.
ving my partiality for domestic experienced a sentiment half of A.D.C., and Mr. J. G. Pilcher, Bishop Hall had three very close)
pets, she lost no opportunity of pro-horror, half remorse, for the crime Private Secretary. Others present friends, and they were like David}
Iruring those of the most agreeableof which I had been guilty; but it: Included Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C., the und Jonathan. With the great war
kind. We had birds, gold-fish, awas, at beat, a feeble and equivo- Hou. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, the Hon. they were taken from him one by,
fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, cal feeling, and the soul remained
untouched. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Sir William, one, and he was left alone. He had Hornell, the Hon. Mr. R. H. and lost the spirit of friendship. Then Mrs. Kolewall, the Hon. Mr. W. .jin 1922 he was sent to a Students Bell, the Hon. Commander C. F. and Conference in
Peking
and hist
A3902.
LATE CZAR'S STAMP COLLECTION.
Sold On Behalf Of Guy's Hospitaly.
(Renter's Mail Service.)
London.
und a cat.
This Intter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entire-1 ty black, and sagacious to an as-
Mrs Hole, Mr. Justice and Mys. J. R. friendship was renewed in the The stamp collection which be-tonishing degree. In speaking of
entered
bi-lingual.
were
the
hause.
TUESDAY'S STORY.
Tuesday's short story will be "The Old Man," by Holloway Horn.
Wood, the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, strangest way. His friendship came longed to the late Czar of Russia is intelligence, my wife, who at the Hon. Mr. T. N. Cha
back and it was the friendship withị
not a little tinctured has been sold at auction here for heart was Four years At 5.30 p.m.; the procession head-a Chinese Christian.
£250 on behalf of Guy's Hospital.usion to the ancient popular no- with superstition, made fréquent al- ed by the united choirs of St. after that the Chinese spoke from In the collection there are Jolin's Cathedral, St. Andrew's the same pulpit and told of how he Church and St. Peter's Church was a Christian and what that "essays," original artists' proofs tion, which regarded all black cats
jand colour trials of the last witches in disguise.
In the meantime the cat slowly re- ly. the
Pluto this was the cat's nume- West Door, friendship meant.
Romano stampes issued in 1913. and proceeded singing the hymn Continuing. Bishop Hall said that The series contains the portraits was my favourite pet and playmate, covered. The socket of the lost eye "Lord. pour Thy
alone fed him, and he attended į presented, it is true, a frightful ap- Spirit from one could not imagine the joy he on higher." The service was had in serving his people, the love of Romanoff. Czars from founder of the dynasty le
1013) wherever I went about the pearance, but he no longer appeared Following immediate for his mother country and love for dawn to the Inte Czar.
to suffer any pain. He went about| lay fellow countrymen in China.
in this the house as usual, but, as might - The collection of 1,200 pieces! Our friendship Insted went with the ezar in his retire-manner for several years, during be expected, fled in extreme terror ment to Tobolsk, but on his trans-which my general temperament and at my approach. I had so much of Ifer to Ekaterinbury the albums character-through the instrumen- my old heart left as to be at first | were left behind. A Russian yihad (blush to confess it) exper the part of a creature which had itality of the Fiend Intemperance— į grieved by this evident dislike on (oficer took them to a neutral coun-feneed a radical alteration for the once so loved me. But this feeling
The stamps
has been all over worse. 1-grew, day by day, more soon gave place to irritation. And the world, first in New York, then moody, more irritable, more regard-then came, as if to my final and ir- revocable, overthrow, the. spirit of less of the feelings of others. in Stuttgart. and five years ago they were acquired by a prominent suffered myself to use intemperate perverseness. Of. this spirit phile- European philatelist and passed as language to my wife.
ly behind the choir members of the Victorian Dioresani Synod and Conference, Dioresan. Trustees. Beaconess Miss J. Li Vincent. Mr. J. H. Bust. 0,3... Mr. Wong Shu-pun. Dr. Yenng (Lay Readers), Mr. Chan Nai- maan. Mr. Pok Wingerhing Cate- chistr), Rer. F. Freeman, R.N. Rev. H. F. Foley, N., Rev
Work in China.
He had great joy in serving their vigorous and beautiful Colony, und God had brought upon his heart in China a friendship after his bereave- ment at the close of war. In a way his ministry, was two- fold. First and 'chiedy it was
D. V. Edwardt, B.Nos, do have and share the know
Beans, RN. Rov. P: 6. Damn.
ledge and power of the great. H.N.. Rev. 4. N. Lewis Bryan,
enternal living Gad and S.C.F.. the Revs. W. Ste
secondly to torm closer links La Po-oo. Lee Ying-pui. Chong
hetween the people of England Yaq-lap., H. A. Wittenbach, Mo
and the people of China. G. K Yung-in. P. S. F. Tso.
Ki- They had seated him that night; Evans, Lei Carpenter, N. chong. t. T. Wahfegravo, E. W. Las Bishop of Victoria, and in com Martin, K. Y. Tsang. W. Walton: to the service the cangregation, anew. the Rogers, Lee Kan-yan, A. 1. Stewart, he said, had dedicated
try.
maeulate condition." Five years ago. the collection brought £500.
Personal Pars.
Mr. H. Dixon was another,
For Vancouver Bruger
C. 1. Manchett, Archdeacon Mok of work of furthering the kingdom of Canton, and the Dean, Yory Rev, A. God in South Chinn. He was vers Emuress of Asin.
by
At length sophy takes no account. Yet 1 am
a gift to Gay's Hospital. Experts even offered her personal violence, not more sare that my soul lives ic im-My pets, of course, were made, to than I am that perverseness is one. report the collection
feel the change in my disposition.of the primitive impulses of the| not only neglected but ill-used human heartone, of the indivisi! them. For Pluto, however. I still ble primary faculties, or senti- retained sufficient regard to res munts, which give direction to the train me from maltreating him, as character of Man. I was this un- I made no scruple of maltreating fathomable louging of the soul to pas-the rabbits, the monkey, or even ver itself to offer violence to its the the dog. when, by accident or own nature-to do wrong for the through affection, they came in my wrong's sake only--that urged me way. But my disease grew upon to continue and finally to consum- Dr. W. W. Comfort was a passen-me-for what disease is like Alco-mate the injury i had inflicted humbly and in the service of God- WILA After the hymn, a lesson in a way he could not describe. He ger for Vancouver on the Empress holland at length even Pluto, who upon the unoffending brute. One which left Hong Kong was. now becoming old, and conse morning, in cold blood. I slipped a
quently somewhat peevish-even noose Pluto began to experience the hung There was need, be soid,
Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Dover and effects of my ill temper.. the psalm, the congregation faved for more and not less pray-
One night; returning home, passengers by the Empress of Asiațintoxicated, from one of my haunts The Bishop knocked three times par for one another in the days of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Bitker were
for Vancouver,
Swann.
The Bishop Knockst
grateful to them and he would promise to servo Them faithfully,
rend from 1 Thessalonians, verse been conscious of the prayers)
8 to 14, and this was followed by for his wife and himself.
Psndra 122. At the conclusion of
the West Door which was closed.
the door with his staff, and the door the months to come.
was opened.
The Bishop said to the Dean. Venerable Sir,
We beseech you that you will bej
of Victoria, Hong Kong,
The Dean replied-I am · right; willing so to do,
Let us proceed.
Amen,
With the Archdeacon of Canton on his right hand and the Arch- deacon of Hong Kong on his left,!
Choir.
ness.
Giving and Forgiving. ~
of Asia
yesterday.
DOUBLE MURDER IN BROTHEL.
about its neck and it to the limb of trechung it with the tears stream- muching from my eyes, and with hte bit- terest remorse at my heart-hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence-hung it because 1. knew that, în so doing I was committing a sin—a deadly sinį that would, so jeopardise my im- mortal soul as to place it—if such a thing were possible even be- yond the reach of the infinite mer- A tragedy was discovered by they of the Most Merciful and Most
Terrible, God.
Two Women Found
• Bound On Bed.
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But it was a particular kind of prayer he asked for. He asked that it might be The following passengers arrived a prayer continually forgiving. Aby the P. and O. s.s. Kaisar-I-Hind farmer did not turn bitter against from Shanghai yesterday: Mr. willing to hear our petition to this field if the crop was not good, J. T. Asquith, Mr. G. 5: Brown, Mr. enthruned Bishop of the Bishopriet instead ploughed it deeper. R. Baliey, Mrs. J. Chew, Mr. H. F. But with fives it was different. Chen, M. F. W. Franks, Mr. one did not get from a person the H. E. A. Franks, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. crop one expected or if they fail us Finch, Mr. and Mrs. L. Hazel, Dr. er betray work that is deur to us. Hackett. Mr. F. V. Han, Mr. and inmates of a brothel on the second then our love for them is less and Mrs. J. W. Innocent,
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On the sight of the day on which Choir-In the name of the Lord then grows in us the root of bitter. Jenkins, Mr. C. Judd, Mr. S. C. Kao, day when they found the dead this most cruel deed was done I was bodies of the mistress and a girl argused from sleep by the ery of Mr. C. R. Mayo, Mrs. J. Moodle, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Nock, Mr. on a bed. Their hands and leg fire. The curtains of my bed were "I know that in many things H. W. Pickering, Mr. R. E. Powell, were bound and their mouths gng in flames. The whole house was shall disappoint you," said tha
ired. the Bishop was conducted to the Bishop. I ask then for your pray-
blazing. It was with great difficul Both victims seemed to Have ty that my wife, a servant, and my News In Brief.
been dead for some hours, and are self, made our escape from the.com- After the hymn "O Spirit of the er and that it will always be for
believed to have been strangled flagration. The destruction was Hving Ged" was sung, the Bishop giving and forgiving-the qualities
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"It, was inevitable to-night that and 2 and reopen on the Srd day. until preparations had been com- cause and effect between the disua Sir Henry Pollock (Pro-Chancellor).
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