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"DEATH."
SERMON BY 'THE REV, H. COPLEY MOYLE. M.A.
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NORTH MANCHURIAN PLAGUE PREVENTION SERVICE.
TWELFTH ANNUAL GENERAL REPORT.
Hussia. in
1824
SHANGHAI AND RABIES.
VERY LITTLE RABIES "THROUGH.
OUT THE SUMMER.
RABIES.
PEAK RESIDENTS "REQUEST A MUZZLING ORDER.
GOVERNMENT REFUSES.
To the Hon. the
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The following sermon was preached it St. John's Cathedral on Sunday morn A summary of the Twelfth Annual The following extract is from the report ing by the Rev. II. Copley Moyle, MA.. General Report of the North Manchurian of Dr. Athelstans Hill acting" Comria Senior Chaplain. (The sermon is the first Plague Prevention Service for the year
The following correspondance between sioner of Health at Shanghai, for the: of a course to be preached during Advent ending September, 1994, which has been amari.
the Peak Residents Association and the on "The Four Last Things. Next Sun submitted to the minister of Foreignmonth of October:- day the Rev. T. B. Powell (Assistant Affairs in Peking says:
"There has been very little Rabies Government has been sent to us by Mr. Chaplain) is to prench
It may be at suce stated that during throughout the summer, but in October B. C. Hornell, hon. secretary of the scrmion on Judgment on Sunday, the 14th, these past 12 months, the plague situ
four dogs were found rabid by examina
Association, for públicstion:— Hell" will he the subject of a sermon on throughout the world was serious.
tion at the kennels and laboratory," and by the Rev. Copley Mogle; and on Sun- In India, plague was very prevalent.
14 November, 1924. two more from within the Settlement October 1923 and May 1924, day, December gist, the Rev. T. B. Fewell for between
were repored by veterinary surgeons. will preach on the subject of "Heaven"). 8,000 cases were reported. resalting i
COLONIAL SECRETARY, Preventive inoculation of dogs haa dren 150,000 deaths. The most severely affect proposed and apparently favourable re- Odenth where is thy sting? O graveled district was the Madras Presidency
SIN-Our attention has been drawn to the recent ense of rabies in the Peak' dis- where is thy victory 1 Con. xv., | In 1993 there was a general increase of sults have been reported from other places Then, reports are by no means lague in the well-known and principal conclusive; but, while this Department Hydrophobia of an employee of the Peak
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the method proposed is certainly harm how many other dogs the affected animal sider the subject of Death. Death is in Egypt, Siam, Mesopotamia, Persia. spoken of in the Bible in two senses, Africa, Andagascar, and South America.less and it is north a trial. It should be may have bitten wo earnestly request that districtly understood that inccalation muzzling order be brought in forth- sometimes as meaning the death of the Moreover, there does not seem to be any does not warrant the least neglect of with. With the large number of children
improvement in the situation in 1924. body, as in the text, sometimes as menn-
now at the Peak we consider it essential other precautions. It is particularly re- ing spiritual death, as in the words "The [There has not been a single case in
quested that information should be given that means should be taken, to protect wages of sin is death." Today we will longkong this year.-ED. 11.1).
to this Deparment which will make it them, as well as adults, from the terrible eonine our thoughts to the death of the Coming nearer home, Hongkong ap
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animals and form an estimate of the real Foochow
Amoy. Antury and later when we think of Hell. There is Japan,
value of inoculation.” no subject which has been more thought Nanking reported some cases,
North Manchuria has been free from about and spoken about than Death, and'; so, you will not expect to hear anything plague, though two cases were reported Dauria in new on the subject this morning but it from Substation 3 near may be time well spent if we try to see August 1624, and one case from Karanor ought to think or whether we think of it as men thought before Jesus Christ, over came it.
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The Jews in Christ's time bad, gradu-
after Death, the Pharisece, as we know held the belief in a resurrection en future life but the Saddnens, who were the priestly party amongst the Jews, he: lieved that me bad so spirit which would survive, his bodily death. It was this doctrine which gave to death its sting Death was thought by the Sadducus to be the end, and when that is the case it is generally regarded as an unmitigated evil. Amongst the Greeks at that time, the best thinkers had come to think of death as the passing into another life. Socrates for example said that, Death must be one' of two things: either it is to have ne Peonsciousness at all of anything whatever
being in Soviet territory, 30-30.miles wear of the lanchurian frontier.
In Chita, in December 1923, two labora- of the Veterinary In- tory workers stitute, a lady doctor and a male assist doctor accidently, spilled an emulsion of an died of pneumonic plague. The lady plague culture on her apron, became ill 1 days afterwards and died 3 days later. The male assistant was infected by her when he went to vist her.
THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK, GOVERNMENT AUTHORISELU TO BUY ALL SHARES,
harmless nip from an unsuspected dag. We have the honour to be, Sir. Your obedient servants,
1. M. Youso, President.. EB. C. HORNELL, Hon; SerwetUTY.
20th November, 11223. SIR-With reference to your letter of the 14th of November I am directes to Governor General Wood last week state that the question of the introduc
providing for the reha. signed the bill Bank. The new law among other things Government, but that it has been decided bilitation of the Philippine National tion of a muzzling order has already received the eareful consideration of this
provides that no dividends are to be as that circumstance do not at present war- to stockholders until all its losses are rant the introduction of such an order. paid.
It also reduces the Bank's capital to P10,000,000. The Government is authoriz. ed to purchase all privately owned ahares at market value.
A DAILY EMETIC.
A TEN MINUTE TALK WITH
RICHARD DOUIN
PIE-JAWS.
I am to suggest that you should im- press on the members of your association the desirability of keeping their dogs on atensh in order to minimize the risk of their being bitten by an infectedk animal am, Sir. Your obedient ser-
CLACID SEVERN, Colonial Secretary.
Sath. November; 1924.
The constant menace of Manchuria by plague is from Transonikalia. There is an enormous territory involving practi cally the whole of Central Asia, from the Hingan Mountains in Manchuris to the Ural Provinces in Asiatic Rasia where a rodent, the marmot (or tarabagan) abounds. This animal yields a good fur its flesh is eaten and its fat is utilised. so much so that it almost stands for noney to the natives and is eagerly hun. or else it is a kind of change and migrated. We have proved conclusively by
The Hon. the COLONIAL, SECRETARY, tion of the soul from this world to another, long and pains-taking investigations that
-Su-1 am in receipt of your letter and he went on to say that whichever the tarabagan harbours the pingue bacil
We all remember the good all fashioned it was it was something to be desired. lus and acts as a feservoir for it. "In
piejaws of our school days. The of November 20th with referencesto the
arquest of the Peak Residents' Associa If there were no consciousness beyond fact, it is infected by a chronic forta of Death, he said, Death would be a great plague, and this chronic forma may change uneasy invitation I would like to ation for the introduction of a Muzzling acute one, resulting in you for a few minutes in my study after Order to prevent children and adults gain and if there were consciousness, i into an Death brings us inte touch with the great epidemic of plague among the taraba evening prayers”
from being bitten by dogs with hydro- The ghastly smile assumed by the head-phobia. Linea who have lived in past ages, then gans
If a man were to skin a plage strick-master. The well turned platitudes. We what greater good can we desire? But
We note the suggration of the Govern en tarabagan,
be infected ho may Soemtes was a very exceptional man,
bers of the Association the desirability hefore Christ could reach his calm and research showed that the Beas of the tara-
of keeping their dogs on a leash in order to minimise the risk of their being bitten hopeful view of death. Of most inen it bugan gan transmit plague from one was true to say that "through fear of animal to another and this mode of in. death they were all their life time sub- fection has also to be considered. In
by an infected animal. If this is to be ject to bondage." Our Lord Jesus Christ, whichever way the man is infected. he
taken as a reply to the Association's re- quest for Muzzling Order to prevent conquered Death by dying. He passed suffers from bubonic plague. As a result,
adults not necessarily secondary plague preumonia may set in A great and good man, Huxley, I children and through Death and rose again and He and he may infect his contants through think, observed that in Nature nothing owners of dogs from being bitum I very enne back to assure us that there is a life, hesoul, a Fandise of God, where the breath by coughing and sneming. His is ever lost. It is so oven in business much regret that thus fiovernment are the wicked cease from troubling and the contacts will now suffer from primary They say that in the sage factories unable to suggest something more effec a place or state of plague pneumonia and may spread the that are the glory of Chicago they can tive and beg them to reconsider the wey are at rest."
atilise every part of the pig, except the matter, which my Association considera growing knowledge and power and in-
This then เห the way an epidemic of squeal.
is a very serious one-i have the honour creasing Stness to be in the risible pre-
pneumonic plague starts in this part of sence of God, and by His assurance of
the world and givea other favourable con- So 1. in my humble way, have discover. to an. Sir. Your chedient servant,
E. B. C. HORNELL, that future life He has taken away the ditions such as overcrowing and rapided a use for well, wore truisms, for ald terror of Death and robbed it of its transportation, the disease will spread moral gags, for copy, book headlines.
Hon. Secretary- sting, so that we enn now look upor it like fire. The plague problem is essen- I hash them
with November, 1924. Sie-With reference to your letter of
and few people who lived in the ages through wounds on his bands. Our latest remember it all as if it were only yes night that I should impress on the mem
disease to others.
terday.
What, however, we did not know in those old days was that the "pie-jaw might, in certain circumstances, become an article of commerce, might, in a word, be sold for good hard cash.
as a great-reunion with all those whom | tially a tarabagan problem and it is our minutes tall and serve theni na "Ten i
research.
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we have loved and lost for a time. Christ constant endeavour 10 solve it by has taught us that it is the spirit that really matters, the body is but our tem- porary home, the frame work of the apint. The essential self is not material. so that when the material holy is laid aside the casentia! spirit remains con- sciona and vigorous, This has been beautifully expressed by a modern poet who was more Christian than he thought
**He who died at Azan sends
This to comfort all, his friends: Faithful friends! It lies I know l'ale and white nod cold as 'snow; And ye sayAbdallah's dead,'. Weeping at the feet and head. I can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers;
this Yet I smile and whisper
I am not the thing you kiss," Lease your tears and let it lie; It was mine-it is not I."
Komeone
A great writer once published a won- derful book called "Sermons in Stones."
I have been able to improve on that, the 25th November, 198), I am directed to for End sermons in everything, even inform you that the Government has in my toothbrush or the glass of mineral fully considered the matter and is not water that I usually take before retiring prepared to introduce a muzzling orden for the night.
which in the circumstances of this Colony
My range of subjects for "Ten-minute it would be extremely difficult it not Talks is therefore practically inex impossible to make effective. haustible. You may say that though I do, exhaust my readers. cannot exhaust my subjects 1 can, and
"THE RICE-EATERS." List, atranger! While I tell to thee
"A tale of noble mon!
In bounteous plenty, blythe and free, They dwelt, where Lows the eastern sea- (Not far, you know, from you and me, A city of our ken !)......'.
the purpose of preventing such dogs from biting third parties restrains by, u brash, is practically as effective as muzzling. - I am. Bir. Your obediest servent,
CLAUD, SEVERN, Colonial, Secretary.
1st December, 1924.
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The Hon. the COLONIAL SECRETARY,
SIE,-1 am in receipt of your letter of the 27th ultiuo from which I regret to note that the Government are not pre- pared to introduce a muzzling order be cause it would be extremely difheult if not impossible to make a niüzzling order effective in this Colony,
dying. We feel we are made for for life and not for Death. All our loggings and aspirations are for a larger richer fuller life, and Christ says to us am come that they might have life and that they
My previous letter appears to have might have it more abundantly.
And as we take Him at His word we do find
been misunderstood. The word " their "* referred not to the owners of dogs but that life grows greater and achler and
There is some truth in this objection to the dogs themselves. If overa will we come to realise that what is greatest but so long as there exists a large, fairly keep their dogs on leash the risk of such and noblest in it is not laid aside at wealthy and half educated lower middle dogs being bitten by infected animals is Death, but is developed and becomes greater. when we are no longer chained class there will always be a market for very materially diminished, while for to our material body.
my wares and my swing, self-satisfied, Death is not the end of life, it is but and welloiled opinions will continue to the closing of the first volume, yet it decorate the English-speaking Press, "aceds preparation,・・ Accompanying the shrinking from the thought and talk of Death there is often a strange nawilling Too often Christian people allow them-ness to make those preparations for it selves to think and speak about Death in which are fitting. Everyone who has any a truly heathen fashion. As though it worldly possession: ought to make a will were an unspeakable evil Our horrid and settle how thote worldly goods should enstom of dressing in black, when be disposed of, however young he or she dies, always seems to me may be and however unlikely he may seem to be pagan rather than Christian.
to die, we never know when some silden If we believe our loved ones who have accident may force us through the gate been taken from us are with Jesus why should we try to make ourselves look so gloomy They are far better and bap pier in that world beyond than they were here. Why should we speak of them with bushed voice as of something terrible and unktown! They have been found ready for their call to a higher and better world, if we grieve because we have lost them, we should also rejoice because they are so much better off now than they were And we should-malie-it-our-sim, as the #Come! Leave the tea that gold-red here. It is a relic of paganism to avoid the thought or the subject of Death that I may dread, the grave a little as Far finer nectar dreams disclose!
Nirvana's path I now propose During the War when Death was com- my bed. We should got into the way mon people generally adopted, a more of commending ourselves to God every * Ose grain of rice per day ".. healthy spirit in regard to death, it ceased night as though we should not wake to be abnormal and became ordinary, again. By so doing we become familiar He spoke! With sacrificial fre
Now flames cach valjant soul, when hundreds of thousands of men in with the thought of, death and -like so the full strength of manhood were pass many terrors it become less formidable No mundane suppers they desire, an ing through the gate of Death the sub when it is familiar. It ceases to be full No menu-cards thoir tastes inspire, ject could not be avoided. It became of horror and becomes the Golden Key Club tiffins light the funeral pyre natural to speak of it, but now we seem which opens the palace of etemity." It
Of joint and flowing bowl to be getting back to the bad old way of trying to bazish Death and the thought of it from our lives and so again people speak of it with hushed tones and try fore us. to avoid the subject. If we furnish Death Let us insist on the fact that Death No more Debt howls his fame and fass-tion my Committee intend to publish the with the atmosphere of the abnormal and is normal, and is not terrifying, let Then why the baleful glare discuss" try and banish it from our lives it will as refuse to speak of it in busbed have its revenge, but if we are ready to toner and with biled breath. It is the consider it and look it straight in the transition to the fuller life which Christ." Example more then precept finc!”. eyes it loses all its terrors,
came to give us, it is the release from the i So runs the sage advic
of Death, and it is foolish not to make They loved (as all good men and true, preparation for it I have often been surprised to find that people who seemed The toothsome pie, the envoury atex,
From knighthood's days adored), quite reasonable in other matters had been so foolish and selfish as not to have The roast beef of Did England too, made a will. It is foolish because no The "ginger-beer" of golden hue, one knows that he will live till to-night,
That danked the festive board. and it is selfish because in case of death his friends and relatives have much an- When lo? A mystio scribe arose,
And thus to them did say:- necessary trouble over bis affairs.
glows
familiar evening lyma tells “to live,
is the entrance into the very presence of
i
Our Saviour and our introduction to the If any count Nirvana thas, crowds of great men who have gone hell
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Know then, thou does not lie!— Their sad, wweet shadows stay with us,
That lights each ghostly eyel
We and ours are due to death," as pains and infumilies of the body. Sin Hotels now Lust a gleaming mga- the old Roman poet sang. It is as natural alone can make Death dreadfal, and if, "All wealthy tourists here may dian, as birth, and far less to be dreaded. Yet through Christ's help we overcome our One esh për diem (minds wine!), there is a repugnance which most people sin we can say with St. Paul "O death The new,ambrosis, try our linc,- feel to Death. We resent the thought of where is thy stig? O grave where is Une grain of congre rich!!!,
(Continued on next Column,} thy victory ?"
ME'S HERE!”
ly Committee would welcome any effort on the part of the Government to make muzzling effective.
There was not any misunderstanding on the part of my Committee za, to the meaning of the word "their" in the con- "cluding paragraph of your letter dated the 9th November, the entire abject of our pressing for a muzzling oder being to firevent children and adalts (dogs were never mentioned) from being bitten by a dog suffering from Pabies.
As requeried we will circulate all mem bers of tho Association to comply with your suggestion of only allowing their dogs out on leash, but this will not pres vent a free mad dag biting either the dog on the Irnah or the owner or anyone elre.
In view of the importance of this ques-
correspondence on this subject in order, that members of the Poak: Residents' Auth sociation will understand that if any of their families or servants should be bitten by a mad dog, the Association have not been negligent in bringing the risk to the notion of the Government-I harn the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient ser- vant,
E. B. C. HORNELL,
Hon. Secretary-
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