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TUESDAY, NOVKMB
3ora, 1920.
THE STYMIE.
NEW RULE IN U.S. GOLF.
Mr. R. Endersby Howard writes in the Daily Mail:
THE ADVENT MESSAGE. spend so much time in bemoaning them that we let pass the opportunities of rising SERMON AT ST. JOHN'S
tu fresh acts of service to God. 'I be- CATHEDRAL.
have some of the best ceople, who ought Preaching at St. John's Cathedral on to be the most successful upholders of Sunday evening from Hebrews c.2. v.14, righteousness and justice and love in the the Rev. H. Copley Moyle said :-------
"world, are often rendered useless because On this first Sunday in Advent wthey are so taken up with thoughts of begin our new Christian year. The their failures. That is, of course, a message which our Church would have us dangerous thing to say for there may be receive" and ponder upon is the Christian" Gospel that God has come into the world some in this congregation who have failed
ta be sufficiently; introspective, in human flesh in the person of Jesus
neglected the duty of self-examination, Christ to save us and to help us, and that
and such a saying may encourage them He will herealter come to judge us. His ぶ first coming we call the Incarnation, from
CONPENSATION FOR LOSS OF LIFE IN CHINA. PEKING GOVERNMENT AND
KAILAN MINING COU The Kallan Mining Administration kas The justice of the stymie, which has published a very lengthy communication been debated for as long as anybody can which it has sent to the Board of Agricul- remember, is about to appear fresh and ture and Conimerce is Feking in reply to delectable as a topic. It cannot fail to two letters received from that Board. Istake on new kirs as a result of a passage these letters, which relate to the explosion in the official report of the conference be which took place in the Tongshan Colliers tween the United States delegates and on October 14th, the Board made certain the British Rules Committee, which has remarks in regard to the methods of mine issued by Mr. George H. Walker, ing adopted by the Administration's
president of the United States Golf Engineers and put forward certain sugges
Association. tions for the improvement of these methods. They said that $1,000 per head should be paid to the relatives of those who were killed in the disaster. They condemned the Kailan Mining Administration's' Hos pital as inadequate, and finally alleged treat human lives a lightly as straw. that the Administration's Engineering Staff Mr. P. C. Young, the Acting General Manager, replied in detail to each of the charges with a view to showing that they are catirely warranted,
With reference to the suggestion that
Tens of thousands of gollers in this the Latin word "Carnis" which means country-perhaps even the majority flesh, because at that coming. He took our never will be brought to believe it theesh. As St. John put it in the begin- stymie's right to live. They may BRIDG
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that it has tradition on its side and ning of his Gospel: The word became sporting interest of its own, but they can flesh and dwelt among us. We believe If I play the better shots up to the that the eternal and almighty God took on not see any possible equity in it, green and my opponent prevents me from human nature and was born by the power winning or even halving by the accident of the Holy Spirit of the Vingin Mary.
have
in their neglect. I do not want to do that.
but at the same time it is necessary to-
warn religious people against becoming too much concerned about their religious.
morbidly introspective. health, for there is a danger of becoming
If you fall down when you are run-
ning a race you cannot afford to spend time in seeing how much you have hurt yourself, you must get up and run on.
of obstructing my line to the hole with He came that He might elevate and exalt o: you will lose the race. And it wel his ball-then that's not golf!
Such is
compensation at the rate of $1,000 per head the commonly expressed view, and if a four human nature and might show the have fallen down in the Christian race. should be paid to the glasses of the plebiscite were taken among the members example of a perfect human life, and his we must rise up and start again and run deceased miners Mr. Young wrote of clubs, I daresay that 60 out of every death might offer a perfect sacrifice for our hardest. It-is a race in which all the the sins of the world. And that by His runners fall at some time or other, so our You suggest that besides paying $100 100 would be against the stymie. compensation to the relatives of those killed.
victory over death, as proved by His Re-fall need not make us despair of winning This is the message from the U.S.surrection. He might deliver us from the the race. And whatever our fall may be G.A. president that gives a new setting
fear of death... "It is clear that if $1,000 compensation to the situation:
in our mines and beating the expenses of their burial, we should $1,000 com pensation in each case.
WHAT THE US. SAY.
SIMPLE WORKINU..
The working of the rule has the merit of simplicity, and it does away with the main objection to the stymie that is, the situation which makes it virtually impos sible to hole out.
sure "and'
certain hope of the Resurrection.. to eternal life. And, again, the sentence
Blessed are the dead which die in the
and again, in the prayer Lord,
Almighty God, with whom do live the Spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity, we give thee hearty tanks that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of the sinful world: and, again, in another prayer we speak of Christ having taught us not to be sorry,
Incarnation of Our Blessed Lord wa indeed, the greatest event in the world history, and we do well to mark its ir portance by dating all historic time as many years before or alter the birth Christ. Every time we write the ye 2020 we ought to remember that gre event.
It is generally found that amongst most and, however, severe it may seem to us. we have in our Blessed Lord the source of renewed strength and increased power. is paid in this case it must be paid in all Fortunately we found the members future cases, not only at our mires but of the Rules of Golf Comminee alive to peoples there is a fear of death, but there at all other mines. The matter will arouse the importance of uniformity and equally ought not to be any fear of death amongst if we are trying to live in constan much public notice and those concerned on ready to modify their views. The stymie Christian people. If we believe that nay future occasion will inevitably demand presented Perhaps the greatest difficulty, death is the passing into the nearer pre- touch with Him we have the secret of The dis- The Christian lile must be a victorious that the same compensation should be paid At first, the Rules of Golf Committee, re-sence of Our Lord, then death is to be success, and we need fear no evil.
A missionary in the to them as has been paid to others,
fused any modification of the styrnie for welcomed rather than feared. Until recently the rate of compensation Great Britain, but favoured the adoption play of 100 great grief at the funeral and a joyful life. paid in such cases was $40. Some months
much like a denial of the Christian faith. the natives "the man with the light in hi ago we decided that this rate of compense of a new rule partly abolishing the stvinte a Christian always seems to me very South Sea Islands used to be called b
in America.
If we realise the gloriou tion was inadequate, and that a higher rate
Such an arrangement could not con- Our Church certainly does not adopt the face," and that ought to be true of ever should be paid. As, however, the $40 had been paid through the contractors, under coal breaking away from the St. Andrew's note of grief, but rather of mumph in Christian.
through Our Lord, it will make us s whom most of our labourers are employed code on the part of the U.S.G.A. At the the Burial Service. Recall some of the liberty of the Christian life and th it was considered that before introducing last moment the two committees, leeling passages in that Service I am the triumphant power which flows into
Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty joyful that men will be antracted to th that this solution was unsatisfactory, res Resurrection and the life, saith the Lord," the payment of a higher rate of compensa tion we should devise means for paying the opened the discussion, and finally brought God of His great mercy to take unto Christian life. Let your light so shir money to the relatives of the decensed per about the following compromise, which Himself the soul of our dear brother here before men that they may see your goo son direct, in order that we might be sure will be placed before the Royal and Anci departed we therefore commit his body works and glorify your Father which is
heaven.' that the money was not misappropriated.ent Committee: This machinery is now being introduced.*** That if the opponent lays the player to the round After the accident of the 14th October we a stymie, the player may remove the op discussed with the local magistrates what ponent's ball; the opponent shall then be rate of compensation it was proper that we deemed to have holed in his next stroke should pay.The magistrates were of opinion If the player, playing within the bound that 280 per capital was a reasonable rate.aries of the putting green, lays himself After some consideration, However, *Wo decided that $100 per capita should be paid, stymie, the rule does not apply. and this amount has been paid accordingly.
The Advent message for us is, then, th From the enquiries which we have made This compromise has already been we believe that it is a higher rate of com adopted by the U.S.G.A., and it operated
thought that through Jesus Christ Pensation than paid in any other mines in for the first time in the recent amateur
have fellowship and the closest union w China You will have noticed that it championship at Long Island, New York
God. Let us try to rise to the simplic SIDUunts approximately to what labourer It will be remembered that the special
and the grandeur of this muth. The m be expected to earn in a year, making correspondent of The Daily Mail related
we can realise it and preach it the im allowance for the time when he is on boli.
Ler me conclude with some words day and so forth. After full-consideration in his cable how, in one match, S. David as men without hope, for them that sleep it will appeal to the masses of mankin we believe that this is the highest amount son Herron, the holder, was only saved in Him. We may certainly say that which it is safe to pay in such cases. I from defeat on the 37th green because our Prayer Bock service gives no note of one of our greatest English Bishops. any such sum as the Board suggest were having been laid a stymie he was able zipom, but rather of joy and hope of late Dr. Westcont, of Durham, writing to be paid for the future I feel convinced to remove the interposing ball, give his death. Such is the Christian view of the Incarnation, used these words: that the inevitable consequence would be rival the putt, and leave himself a clear death. If any hymns are sung at my do not disguise or dissemble the g funeral hope it will be that hymn ance, the infirmity of men; but for that in order to obtain the enormous Rum Duit to the hole for their relatives the labourers would be
Jesus lives, no longer now can. thy there is a remedy. In Christ each can find truth and forgiveness tempted either to make away with their
terrors, death, appal "us." m own lives or, worse still, to take the lives
We believe that death is the entrance strength. This, then, is our mess of their relatives working with them in
on a new and higher stage of life in 10-day commensurate with all the n which we shall have new powers and new of human beings: Fellowship with the mires. We have previously had reason to believe that labourers have deliberately. Thus it you were g-yard from the hole, knowledge. There is, of course, a cer- Father in Christ. It seems to be committed suicide, making it appear that with your opponent on the very fo of it fain sadness when we see bereaved re-which the Spirit is showing to us in n obtain so small a reward a 840. When and his ball dead in front of yours, you latives, who might have expected their ways. It is, in a peculiar sense, such a thing can happen for so paltry could give him his outt and knock his ball loved one to be with them for many years message of our Church It answer the present time! am, what must be the consequence of let away. To screw round it or loft over it and to have helped and cared for them I believe, to the half-articulate desir ting it be known that the loss of a life successfully would be out of the question here, but the sadness is not on sccount our sountrymen
of the one who is gone but for those who satisfies, the loftiest aspirations which in most cases, means the payment of a sum which is to
But if your rival were three yards from are left to feel his loss. For them we can form. It claims the exercise of the labourer beyond the dreams of avarice the hole and you were six yards from it→ } may feel sad, but not for the dead who natural powers and of the, powers o stymiethen probably you would decide have died in faith, for they are with world to come. I assures us of moral freedom, and liberates us fro to try and screw round the intervening Christ, which is far better."
The Old Testament is not very hopeful tyranny of physical forces. It co ball. You might hole out to leave him a
It is t stymie. And then you would have a good on the subject of death. In this it is the key to social difficulties.
in marked contract to the New Testament inspiration of Foreign Missions, deal the better of it. The right to remove But there is one expression constantly used cludes the two most powerful facto the intervening ball exists only when the player has been stymied by his opponent; in the Old Testament which is, I always human progress the sense of uni Some interesting developments in regard not when, the player has been so silly as think, a most comforting one; it is said creation and of union with God
of the patriarchs He died, and, was able to combat materialism," and to It T to the acute housing problems now confront-to leave himself a stymie.
gathered to his people. It gives us the sin in its true nature. ing the great centres of population in India
A BRITISH-MADE AMENDMENT.
thought of "death as the great reunion, to is a sense of what salvation is have recently been witnessed. Sir George Lloyd the present Governor of Bombay, Such is the new rule which has been when we pass to meet all those who have and opens a vision of blessednes himself introduced in the Legislative Council brought into force in the United States, loved us and died before us, all those who measurably greater in which it a little while municipal improvemendous housing and but loquiry indicates that Mr. Walker is have once filled so large part in our animating, elevating, solemnising several improvement scheme which, if it at least premature in his statement that lives but wise bodily presence we have all its parts.
will cost from £11,000,000 its adoption is to be recommended to the lost. and provide 50,000 new tenements for
for the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews. This, then, is the message of the text workers in the Bombay mille.
It has not yet bech discussed in its for us-Christ by His incarnation and Probably the chief obstacle has been lack fulness by the British Rules Committee, death has delivered us from the fear of of money. The Improvement Trust has been at work for over twenty years, clear who, if they favoured it, would recom- death, which is a real bondage to many. ing some of the worst of the almins, reclaim mend it to the R. and A. There is one who have not the Christian Faith.
circumstance, however, that gives it But besides freeing us from the fear of ing land on the foreshore of the congested weight in this country. It was drawn up death, that first Advent of Jesus Christ For the unlawful possession
rounds of ammunition which were island, and improving the communications. It has never succeeded, however, in induc- for the United States not by the American was the bringing into human life of a new ing the cotton mills to build new houses delegates themselves but by Mr. John L. power that can enable men and women in the false bottom of a box wh at present its Low, the Chairman of the British Rules to dare, and to-accomplish things which clanns when searched on the finances are in 10
in our own unaided strength we could not yesterday a Chinese was senten
Mr. Smith, to Be of $50, expenditure necessary. The milk them The United States party wanted a modi- have hoped to accomplish. The infinite selves have always pleaded that, the con- fication of the rule, and he framed this rower which comes from God. Bows: Into ammunition was confiscated. gestion being
as it is there can be no one, which would save the stymie from human nature through Jesus Christ, Men, guarantee that the accommodation they complete abolition. It does not follow, throughout the ages, had been conscious may provide will remain in the permanent however, that the Rules Committee are in of a lack of power to do the right and Occupation of their own employees, who are favour of even partial abolition. That is reach the highest, and it is that power always liable-after the Indian custom-to be filched from them by the recruiting a matter for future discussion, in which, which comes to the Christian from Our no doubt, the opinions of golfers in gene- sirdars of neighbouring concerns
ral here will carry weight.
an accident had taken place, in order to
HOUSING PROBLEM. IN INDIA
BOMBAY'S £11,070,000 SCHEME.
for their empty or the large / Committee....
sach
A COTTON DUTY.
The plan adopted by Sir. George Lloyd surmounts this dificulty by the new and ingenious taxation, which in part makes the "foreigner" pay aad, for the rest, so
Dent, and a
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A Bombay Development Department i to be created, the Directorship of which will
an old railway
Asmuck as
Lord and, which is sealed and made effec- tive to us in the sacraments, which are "the outward and visible sign of the in ward and spiritual grace given to us through the human nature of our Lord. The Incarnation banishes from the
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION O
MUNITIONS.
STREET FIGHT.
A fight with another man res a Chinese receiving such serion wounds on his body that he ha Government to the removed Hospital for treatment. His assai absconded.
of one rupeeper bale is to be imposed on it may problem in Calcatta an' hope of victory Icade to triumph. And an ingrense since 1910 of 13,170
the 9,900,000 hales of cotton entering Bom- bay every year. Further, the Government of India bes consented to a special losn doubtless, will be at the interest on which,
To the housing- American bas just tribution in
ent that no one need feel specially Sir Lawless. Hepper, at 7.200 a year. In him of ultimate victory in the great fight
The municipality is to be
Bir Lawless Hepper has no par between good and evil. Yet how often AMERICA'S POPULATION 10: to raise its general
tax by five per ticular experience of town planning, criticism Christian people fail to rise to the great- of & species town tax or octroi of the appointment if it has not
and the reward allottedness of their privileges, and remain in
In the United States there be expected
already the bondage of fear! The fear of defeat
is the precursor of failure, just as the 105,693,109 people. In the color
ars 19,250,000-möre. These fig useful con- the Christian should Have no fear of supplied a
of an Indian rate, sud not a Boubay rate. thus thoroughfare of Choringbee shall self, and his own strength, but on the case of what it was in the
that failure because he depends not on him- percentage gain of 149. This in
thirds This inc
in away amounts to demanding a be rebuilt on the sky-scraper principles infinite power of God, which cannot be In the last two years New amall contribution from the whole of India
Med mine sylvania, Illinois, Ohio, is certain that, sooner or later, some now towards the solution of Bombay housing difficulties, No one will object to that, departure will need to be made wo months There is a possibility of the Christian Massachusets have maintain
Restriction Court had in a bare two months however, inasmuch "as the Bombay slums
over 1,000 appeals against excessive rent becoming too introspective too much pective ranks in the lead, Bay are a gross discredit to India and an un charges filed in it. Hats and tents are to given to analysing his faults and so think which was seventh in the last of doubted source of discontent and mild, be erected on open spaces, during this colding too much of himself and too little of been displaced by Michiga Bolshevism.
weather to accommodate the European God It is possible by a false humility fornia. Amazing leaps wors to overestimate our own failings and to Arizona, ite increase being 83-1 (Continued at foot of mizi column.) population, which has no roof to its head.
overcome/