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THANKSGIVING SERVICES Prussianism is not the only drag upon Trite they are trito as the ten con- the whole Christian world, the then Allied armies miraculously conquered the wheels of His chariot. But the sign mandments, and as inexorable AT THE UNION CHURCH,
of it in the dust gives heart to the The Lord reigneth. A Living God and shattered at Lepanto in Greece sha peoples of the earth to throw off other works His will in this our world, and if power of the Turks threatening to Yesterday morning there was a large Oppressions, to assert that the time past men refuse to let Him rule he will over invade and, destroy Europe.
From the 15th of July last till the is sumcient for the nations to have lived rule them. There is a power, not our- congregation, which included .. this jealousy and self-seeking, which selves, making for righteousness, and it glorious 11th of November the Allied Officer Administering the Government are the root of all strife and of which has affcient authority over the con armies, led by the illustrious General science of manking to rally strength to ssimo Foch, General Enig, General Could you nak a saler guide! Certainly no it one is better qualitied to judge a musicals the Union Church, when a special russianism is the supreme expression.
The sin and folly of the exaggerated oppose strength when the battle against Pershing, and all the other distinguished Thanksgiving Service, for the success of nationalism of the past have been demch wrong is set in array. Let the earth be generals, by the favour of God, with a marvellous strategy, bravery, and tena instrument. They know music. Their life Allied arms, was held. Appropriate strated and rebuked by this war in a glad, for it is not left to itself un-
We thank the God of our city obtained victory after victory, the work is prie And Melba, McCormack, hymns were sung and psalms chantedway which makes men's souls tremble governed
During the service it was announced that for the future of the race unless bumanity fathers that we have lived to see this strongest positions in which the enemy now day glorious with a vindication of fancied themselves secure falling one Caruso, Farrar, Galli-Curci, Gluck, Homer the Union Church Ladies' Working Party can find means to start from
Sober statesmen righteousness which will not be forgotter after the other till the great collapse and a host of other world-famous artists intended sending parcels to the Hong-pon a better basis.
Kong man stationed at Kirkee, Friends are talking seriously of a League of while mind and memory st.
The hope of the future is that victorious march. have chosen the Victrola to carry their of the men who wished to send special Nations to prevent all future war. They
take thut glorious, vindication We thank God for having guided. com- Parcels or money were invited to dispatch do that because they must, because it is we
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We ask this their share to this success, from the Boxes be packed on Thursday. unless civilisation is to be destroyed by do not omit to ober.
The Rev. J. Kirk Machonachie, preach applied *cience, all the world.
man's for ourselves, and also for the nations with highese Minister of States to the hum perverting ed an eloquent sermon
cay growing mastery of natural forces to the whom it has been our necessity to contend blest worker, and from the chief of all downfall and the new era which has development of means of destruction, so sternly. The enemy peoples, deceiv the Armies nad Navy to the bumblest of dawned for the world and Christianity The parliament of man, the Federaed and deserted by their rulers, are not the rank and sle. "They bare undergone Taking for his text.
The Lord reigneth's let the earth ht tion of the world" we have been can forgotten of God. and we will trust and untold sufferings, have braved many tent to treat it as a poet's dream. God pray that a new spirit may indeed come dangers, have passed through terrible (Psalm 871) and The Lord has taught us once again that the man
to birth among them and produce anxieties. Let us bless thank, and prake j glad."
reigneth: let the peoples tremble."
who despises the dream of betterment proved and lasting changes which will God for having sustained them and pre- (Psalm 99/1), the er, gentleman said betrays the future. The alternative to make it possible at some future time served them to see this happy day.
Two groups of feeling, not opposed bits this dream is Prussianism, and nations for their children and ours to dwell to-
We must not only thank God by very diverse, spring here from the are being shown unmistakeably that they gether in unity
mouth, but we must show our gratitudes cause. which is the manifestation of th
The Lord reigneth. Let the peoples to Him especially in practice. It is our Divine sovereignty that forms the then
tremble. For the eyes which run to and duty to learn the lessons of the war so of this group of Psalms. There is no
fro in the whole earth are too pure to that that the sufferings of so many mystery in this to elucidate, ho contra-
behold iniquity; the hand which holds the millions whe have been killed or main. or suffered terribly in so many dition to be reconciled.
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must either move towards the vision or ink back to the weiter of utter rain into which some Prussianism or other would sink civilisation before
more generations have refused, like their fathers, to live by God's law of love rather than their own proud selfish lista
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all
and glorify Thy name for only Thou art holy. All the nations shall come and worship before Thee, for that Thy righteous acts have been made manifest"
Situated as we are today, we ander stand very fully what it is to
rejoice with trembling, bow natural-indeed inevitable that whilst we shout for joy and know not how to express our hap- piness, our hearts are none the less pro foundly solemnised by the surpassing manifestations of the Divine power and providence which we are. privileged tri witness in these days. Many prophets and righteous men have desised to ser such days as these, and have not seen thegmen who long have toiled and Horrowed, yet not survived to see the result of their Labours, but died, as the lived; in a faith not confirmed by con crete events, passing away in hop still see that the beating of swords into celebrated by the Rev. Fr. Augustine, in the holy sacrifice of the Altar and in all unfulfilled, and leaving it to the futum ploughshires must cease to be just a the presence of a very large congrega other good works of mercy. to prove that they had not dreamed vain matter of "hymn singing, and there is tion. At the close the Rt. Rev. Bishop" dreams, mis-directed. their life's effort, that the thing so long dismissed as im. Pozzoni oficiated at the Te Deum and
have come to see (if one may say so with entire reverence) that God knew His own business best. To have stopped the war sooner would have been to leave it the seed of future strife, but the war continued so long, and reached such a consummation that the political rulers of the world are taking seriously and practically the ideals of the ancient pro- phets. The praction man has come to
ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH.
At St. Joseph's Church, yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, Solemn Mass was
We must also discharge a special duty- of gratitude towards all those noble. heroes who have 90 willingly and generously made the supreme sacrifice to preserve our liberty. Not only must we honour their memory, but, as dutiful children of the Catholic Church, we must remember them in our pious prayers at
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
offered at St. John's Cathedrn at the Special prayers of Thanksgiving were
The preachers were the Rev. M. Bailey and the Rev. J. W. Harrington, respec- tively
believe that "right is right since God carried out The error of the Germans Father Spada, who said:-Last Monday morning and evening services, yesterday.
and spread abroad misleading assur Lances when they encouraged others to is God, and right the day must win.
We have thought our struggle along one-and so, indeed, it has been from our immediate point of view-but have any
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The sermon was preached by the Rev. practicable and visionary can really be gave the. Benediction. is that they have never wanted it car
when the wire brought us the happy news ried out. Believing themselves strong of the signing of the Aristice ending and indulging an incredible coarse ness of nature they thought to hack their the terrible war, a most lively joy per- way through every hindrance, including meated the soul of every one at the
ROSARY CHURCH, KOWLOON.. ather four years in human history the moral law, to their crude ideal thought that at last by God's mercy peace brought about results of the like magni: of swaggering domination. They had with victory was coming and the horrible
There was a very large congration at tade and significance a pulling down thriven by war, and meant to thrive bloodshed was finished. Hongkong has of the mighty from their seats, a scatter- ing of the proud in the imaginations of further. War was their crowning in splendidly celebrated before many vie the Thanksgiving service at the Rosary their hearts, such as the world has never dustry, which all other national effort torious and auspicious events, but surely Church, Kowloon, yesterday morning at nourished and led up to. Their Deity one has been celebrated with such a pare yet witnessed?
was no God recognisable by either Jew and deep joy by the community, both and the service consisted of Holy Mass, European and Chinese. The relief from the Te Deum, and the Benediction. An The whole structure of society an Europe is being transformed, and the or Christian, but the old-time demon of the anxieties of the past four years- the appropriate address was delivered. The exterior of the sacred edifice was decorat- transformation of the structure betoken' Teutonic mythology, whose angel was victory over an unscrupulous enemy ed. with the. Papal flag and the dags of..
Valkyrie hovering vulture-like over faithless to the most sacred duties of a'change in mental outlook which is even more remarkable Victory has at length fields of battle, and whose heaven a humanity, determined to subdue the the Allies, while inside the columns and been achieved with a suddenness and Valhalla, where slain warriars carous world to his will by every means, guilty the altar were treated as for the most The adjoining vicarage, also, wax completeness almost beyond the venture out of the skulls of their enemies,
embellished with patriotic emblems, of our hopes, and men are in a mood Germany of Kant and Beethoven had of many crimes in Belgium, Francs joyful festival of the Church's Year. to ask themselves whether they hidegenerated to that of Treitschke and and elsewhere-justly, and rightly made Richard Strauss, rattling the sabre and glad. The Thanksgiving Services, the been setting their expectations too 19 the cymbal in the ears of a world which public speeches by the members of the mongst which the Union Jack and the in ather
Government and by prominent citirens, French and Italian flags were mutters besides military triumph. The military decision has ought not to have endured it so long as the public displays over the buildings spicuous.
it did.
PARSI SERVICE. silenced a great deal of pessimism in one
One does not mean, of course, that during these past days have been a solemn special line, and it is inevitably sug- there are no Christian souls in broad expression of duty towards God and
Special prayers were offered yesterday by gested that we have been hopeless 0 Germany. There are, and may they country, and in all of them we have! unbelieving all round. Prusinnis is not the only entrenched and prepared prove a saving salt in its hour of needgladly and heartily taken part. We are the local Parsi community in their place enemy of humar progress, and if resolute Bat publie aim and policy, as expressed invited to-day again to offer humble and of worship in Elgin Street. determined effort has been able to bring by Emperor, statesmen, tenebers, the grateful thanks to God for the benefits was conducted by their High Priest, who Prussianism to nought what evil can press, and finally in action through the received, and we do it by offering the delivered an eloquent address on the over by the British forces and their gallant to go on saying it is too powerful. ton janity can hold na terms, being bat ́ a most acceptable homage to God that our Allies. Special stress was laid on the in- thers be in this world of which we are war, was of a kind with which Christ-Holy Sacrifice of the Altar, which is the wheluing and complete victory gained
We acknowledge and abide by the take up the cause
defatigable, efforts of great Britain to "
of Right It was a German missionary in the Christian principle that man proposes deeply rooted, too well panoplied and crude reversion to type of barbarous ages. grateful hearts have, at their disposal,
against Might. to accoutred, too resourceful and able and
bring the great conflict to a We Catholics must glorious end, whereby civilization had eure of itself to be challenged and over East, believe, who said his country was but God disposes.
bukid to use the war if God has eyes. know and remember that the ex-Kaiser,
been anved The High Priest concluded thrown?
"Doubtles our earth is full of sorrow And there lay Germany's grand error and with him Lutheran Germany. pro by expressing loyalty and devotion to to-day: But not less certainly is it in torgetting that God has eyes, driving posed and expected last October to cele the King-Emperor.
brate his own glorification, the glorifica travail of a new hope, and the time is.ugh all moral considerations, or
good old. German tion of Prussian kultur, by a crushing coming, perhaps sooner than we are to nolding that some think, when we shall remember no more God reflected from their own imagi- victory over all in celebrating the fourth the anguish for joy of the fresh life which nations would see them through. They centennial anniversary of the spostate is born into the world. Prussian maue miscalculations enough, we know, Luther, the most faithless, the most which had set its horn on high, is fallo and to day must bitterly rue them. They proad, the most profligate and cruel to rise no more. It is doomed for the gauged wrongly the resolution of Bel German religious reformer, incarnating future to rank with Babylon ns?the giura, the character and resources of in himself the German spirit of the
These celebrations have CITY HALL WORK PARTY (under Mr. sinister" symbol of intoxicated godlesk France, the loyalty of British dominions;
superman" pride exalting itself overmuch, and anally, and fatally, they misjudged the been omitted, and the ex-Kaiser with his Lammert for Mrs. Stabb). Twelve cases councillors have seen in October the were packed for transmission to Vladivo perished of its egregious lust for power. temper of America
But all these blind stupidities were destruction of their most sanguine bopes, stock, containing-149 mosquito nets, 39 The Day," anticipated, prepared for,
one fundamental. blunder-as the sacrilegious King Balthasar of sheet. 112 pillow cases, 760 handker precipitated, has come, and for those who based on
it, it has proved the Day of contempt for the common conscience of old, to whom, when he was glorifying in chiefs, 280 shirts, 225 pairs of pyjamas,..
right and wrong, and ignorance of the himself and his power, appeared on the 204 bedjackets, 225 vests, 101 dressing. Judgment.
"Mene, gowns, 43 pairs of slippers, 10 pair of who beyond any one other self-devotion with which men will rise wall the mysterious words: incarnated the inordinate arrogance of in its defence. General Hindenburg, who Tekel, Fares," signifying his rejection bed-hoots, 30 ahronds, 39 table covers, 14 his people is, at this moment, a fugitive, by the way seems to wish to play the by God, the punishment of his crimes, discrowned and discredited, and nothing man by standing to his post, has been and his ignominious end with that of in language or literature can be found proclaiming that his armies have stood in express his fearsome Fate, except for four years against a world of perhaps, that tremendous apostrophe of enemies. the prophet Isaiah to the Shade of It is not so. Four years ago his coun- Nebuchadnezzar descending to the place try had many friends. But she turned prepared for it:-"How art thou fallen them into enemies by claiming to be a
UNION CHURCH WORKING PARTY (under from heaven, O day star, son of the law unto herself and defying every rule
Maconachie). Three cases for morning: how art thou cut down to the and scruple held boncurable among men.
Mrs. ground, which did'et lay low the nations It was the outrage upon Belgium which
Vladivostock, containing-24 mosquito nets, 38 many tail bandages, 42 rolled Thou saidet in thine heart, I will ascend roused our country as one man and
We believe in the divine power of a bandages, 12 eye bandages, 12 holdall into heaven, I will exalt my throne virtually stilled opposition to the war; above the stars of God.
I will it was the reckless attacks on France and humble prayer and in the value of bags, 62 paire of pyjamas, 25 bed jackets, be like the Most High. Yet, thou shall Serhis which detached Italy from the personal sacrifices through the merit of 49 doz. food covers, 7 doz. scrubbers, 24 Our Holy hospital squares, 12 pairs bed socks,, 5' be brought down to Sheol. to the utter-Triple Alliance; it was the wanton war Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Father the Pope, who has done every surgical caps, 530 pairs socks, 51 pairs most parts of the pit. They that see upon merchant ships which led the re- thee shall narrowly look upon thee. they actant United States to intervene and thing in his power, consistent with the kneecaps, 38 caps and helmets, 9 trench shall consider thee, saying. Is this the Snally turn the balance. It is the policy strictest neutrality, as the Vicar of sweaters and 9 muffers.
Christ to alleviate the miseries of the. CATHOLICE WOMEN'S LEAGUE" (under man that made the earth to tremble, of frightfulness which is responsible now that did shake kingdoms; that made the for the humiliating conditions of armis war, and especially in the work of Miss Loureiro).-13. pairs socks, 5 pairs. world as a wilderness, and overthrew the tice which have had to be enforced, the exclanging prisoners of war, requested bed socks, 3 mufflers, 1 sleeveless sweater, cities thereof; that let not loose his pris conquerors being left no choice but the pricats all over the world to celebrate 3 pairs knee-caps: 7 helmets, 14 knitted oners to their home? All the kings fairly to draw the fangs of the offender. the Holy Sacrifice on the ath of last Ecrubbery, 34 doz khaki handkerchiefs, of the nations, sleep in glory, Egain, the Germans fomented anarchy June, the Feast of the Prince of the 10 dez, food covers, 30 doz. gauze swabs every one in his own house, Rut thou in Russia to disable the sword arm of the Apostles, to obtain the triumph of justice and 72 doz. rolled bandages. art cast forth away from thy sepulchre Slar, and behold the backwash of the and a lasting peace. Hundreds of thon WESLEYAN WORKING PARTY (under Mrs. like an abominable branch, clothed with tide bag carried Bolshevism to the Rhine sands of Holy sacrifices were offered Mitchelmore)-60 shirts, 22 muflers, 23 the slain.
Thou shall not be If their country is ruined outside and according to the-Holy Father's intention pairs socks 6 doz. handkerchiefs, 28 joined with them in burial, because thou inside, as our Premier says, it is only on that day, and to these, added to the scrubbers, 624 rolled bandages, 11 vests, hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain because God has ordained that action pleadings and penances of the religious, 10 balaclava capa, 11 knee caps, 1 surgical thy people; thy seed of evil-doers aball and reaction should be equal in the the holy communion of children, the stocking, 7 mittens, and 22 swabs. not be named for ever." (Isaiah 1.) moral sphere, that when the spoiler has
rows of widows and orphans, ave no 522 roller bandages, 96 many-tail band- Truly when God's judgments are in the ceased to spoil be ahall be spoiled, that prayers of the suffering, the patient sor PEAK CLUE (Under Mra Sutherland).
obtained from the Divine ages, 96 thell swabs, 72 gauze swabe and earth the inhabitants thereof learn he who digs a pit shall fall into it, doubt
A 8 pneumonia jackets. righteousness. A revived prospect of that they who take the sword must perish clemency the triumph of our cause. hone is opened before every soul which with the sword, that he who rejects the few days after this great day of expia. HELENA MAY INSTITUTE (under Mrs. reeks the good of man, as we see it cornerstone of justice and good faith on tien, and exactly on the 15th of July, Jordan)-606 rolled bandages, 6. trianga- demonstrated once again that there is a which bangs the welfare of ordered the third big enemy offensive of the year lay bandages. 11 pairs knee caps, 2 paira God who reigns in holiness, against society, shall yet find it grind him to began, and sorely no one could even surgical stockings, 7 scrubbers, and 57 Whore counsels no weapon can be formed powder. Prideindeel goeth before imagine that from that, day peace was swabs,
his empire. We see this already, in part, happening with regard to the chief monger of the war.
We give thanks to God that He has mercifully saved us from falling victims to that dreadful Kultur, and has shattered to pieces the boast of the proud ex-ruler and his people, and has wonderfully disposed our salvation by granting a complete victory.
small bags, 43 triangular bandages, & head bandages, 4 eye bandages, 21 pairs of operation stockings, to mops, 12 food covers, 8 pneumonia jackets, 100 milk covers, 52 scrubbers, 17 reversible jackets, 15 small pillowa, 510 pairs socks, 120 pairs knee-caps, 53 mufflers, 54 belmets and 12 caps.
to prosper: Who, though He be so long: destruction, and a haughty spirit before so near that on Rosary Bunday, October U.S.K.C. (under Mrs. Keigwin.) suffering that our impatience double fall How these old sayings come out th, the enemy had formally aved for 710 roller bandages, 9 ere bandages, 18 Him. will by no means fail to vindicate sharp and clean to-day in the ears of nence. This very circumstance recalls shell swabs, 13 paire knee caps; 8 paira His law and make it honourable to our a generation which had begun to think how over three hundred years ago on socks, 4 mufflers, 1 balaclava helmet, 2
that same day, through the prayers of pairs wristlets and 3 scrubbers, wondering eyes.”
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