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EMPIRE DAY..
SERVICES AT ANGLICAN "AND CATHOLIC CATHEDRALS.
ADDRESSES BY BISHOP DUPPUY AND FATHER SPADA,
AT THE CATHEDRAL.
BY ONE OF THE CONGREGATION.] The Service at the Cathedral yesterday for the youth of the Colony was a very impressive one. Most of the local schools
were represented and Roy Scouts. Girl Guides, and Brownie Packs, helped to
the Church.
When the youthful congregation stream-
THE HUNGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY,
And then you read Norton's account of, how he nad Somervell made the first dash for the top. Somervell with his hacking eough dragging himself, all spent, to within 1,000 feet of the top and then having to give in. Norton, setting hin- self to do twenty paces at a time and nover heing able to do'moré than thirteen without pausing for a rest and to recover
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MAY 6TH, 1926
himself: each did the work his lendara | join in framing their own laws and as gave him to do: everyone of those men a practical people they have resilised was there to help the others; each was | föng ere this that without order enjoy- out to help none was there to grah | mens of true Mbarty is out of the ques- what he could for himself.
tion. It is worth while, giving thought for a short moment to consider what trus liberty connotes I say true liberty purposely because there is such a thing. as false-liberty the proper name for which would be licence.
In the last dash of all Odell might very well, as Norton suggests, have claimed that he should have gone in the place of Irvine but instead be remained in sup- port and" did wonderful feats of pluck and mountaineering in trying to rescue
his friends.
our attention.
In taking a retrospective ginace over Man must become a team or perish. the past year, two, outstanding events One whom I used to know quite wall directly affecting the history of the describes in a book he has written how British Empire arrest he was once in Syria watching a football The end of last year saw the close of the inatch. The trainer was an Irishman: the team was composed of boys from
great Wembley Exhibition. We are as many different races who, you would have sured by the originators and promoters together. Didn't you find it harded a phenomenal success especially when
ed in, it brought to mind the First Whitbreath, plunging in waist deep amid the said, would not have got on at all well of that gigantis enterprise that it prov- sunday when every nation under heaven now, gaining another hundred feet and work training those fellows, my friend viewed in the light of the main ohjeet:
were
were
gathered together "there" children of every age and size, in every variety of dress, trim guides and Chinese girta in flowered, flowing skirts, und
yjama-like trousers,
A goodly" sight it made for philosopher, missionary. Empire builder. Side by side the children sat--some with fair hair, sume with sleek shiny heads, sturdy Boy Scouts, some with fair complexions, some with dark. A challenge to the Belshevik indeed; Young China commemorating with us our Empire Day, and Queen Vic toria's Birthday.
then able to go no further, and finding himself at the end of the day as he reach el his rough camping place. completely
linded by the snow.
Mallory and young Irvine, the rowing Blue, spent as they were ready at once to set out on what the others had failed to, do, resolved to make a final bid- Mallory, shaking the blind Norton's hand. as he bare woul-hye on this inat elimb You read of Odell's last signs of the climbers, as he was pressing on in sup- port, through a moment's break in the clouds; then the long wait for the two who never erturned, and Odell's going up a secund time alone to Camp vi (the hast camp before the summit) to see if he could find traces of his companions. All this is a story of the heights to which un spirit can rise.
The Bishap did ret appear to preach, but to speak individually to rach boy and girl. They were to set themselves hard tasks to do-and to play for the side. They were to study the careers of such men as the Everest climbers, South Pole The nemorial air-thea tough stones explorers, David Livingstone, Georget-together there on lonely Everest—i Stevenson, who either overrame every ring out the challenge! Subdue self-1 dificulty, or died in the attempt
give yourselves hard tasks to do.. One wondered if those dark intelligent
Just in the same way as that rough tares realised the hard task that lay right wooden cross near the South Pole. which fu hand..... China, who needs her sons Barks the spot where Captain Oates fell to set her bouse in order. And, those fells the same tile.
To seek, to strive, to find and not to yield are the words
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young citizens of our Empire, did they give their responsibilities: thought ?
There seemed a splendul romradeship between the two nations when those
hire sang
Gand of our birth, our faith, our
pride, "For whose dear sake our Fathers
died;
Motherland, we pledge to thee Head, heart, al hand, through years
to be.
Kipling's Recession, were sung equally "O God, our help in ages past." and lustily At the National Anthemin swelled out, the whole Church stood to atteation, Tiny children who could scarcely compre head, boys and girls of many colturs, an·l creeds, were linked together in a common" thought of patriotism and loyalty." With much link does the Empire remain knit jogether.
written upon it.
were to Ko
SUBDUR SELF.
Het yourselves hard tasks to do, Subdue self. There you have the secret of David Livingstone's life and influence. If you to Westminster Abbey, that great Church which more than any one tells the story of the British people, you would find next in the tomb of the EP Çaknown "Warrior" that of David vingston And if as you stood there you asked yourself how did that humble the great of the world, you would learn Scotch lay are to have his tombs among
the secret as you read what is written on the tomb:
Here rests, DAVID, LIVINGSTONE, Missionary.
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said to the Irish trainer. Yes, I did." he said. "But my difficulty was over they learnt not to play their own game when I taught them how to pass, when but to play for the teaIT." Then my friend goes on to say in his book that is what all the nations of the world have got to learn. They have got to learn to be a team to get on together: to help one another and not to play each far itself.
What we don't want at home is selfish
children; what we don't want on a foot: ball field is a selfish player what we can't have in the world is a selfish nation The nations have to learn to pass. have to learn to play as a world team or to perish my friend saya and I think he is right.
BE A PLAYER IN GOD'S TEAM.
We
word specially to you boys and girls who I want to conclude by addressing a are before me now at this Empire Day service. This morning you have heard have shouldered tasks and won through of some of the world's great men who in face of countless difficulties. on the threshold of life with all life be- You are fore you
Remember a team is made up
of the different people who are in it: that what you and I do counts in the sum of things: Oxford lost the boat race this year because No. 3 in the crew broke down. And remember that men-the best of them can never live up to the highest deals without Christ. The love of Chris strife and illfeeling that exists in the the one force that enn overcome all the world. It is as the Spirit of Christ prevails through out the world that all that goes to divide will be conquered and the nations will become one man in
team. Run to win Play the game Christ. All of you be players in God's
hard."
ROMAN CATHOLIC SERVICE.
for which it was set on foot vii, to bind together more tightly than ever the whole family of nations that go to make up the greatest Empire the world has ever seen. The early part of the present year also witnessed the completion of the tour of the Empire by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Everywhere the Prince has had evidence of that pride of race, that unity of sentiment and purpose, that feeling of common loyalty and obligation, that "eager desire to claim a share in the glories of a great empire with a great
stand perchance a greater future. Yes, heir presumptive to the British throne has indeed endested himself to all irrespective of race, creed or colour and has nobly done his bit to promote the well being of the whole empire and to enlist the sympathies of all other countries.
THEIR SLOGAN.
The school is intended "to
in the school classroom you are at pre- Now, dear children, both at home and
sent being taught likewise to adopt as your slogin the three watch words of law, order, and their concomitant liberty. The teaching in this connection must be conducted in the first place under the paternal roof. It should be ever borne in mind that parents, first and before all others are responsible for the child's upbringing in this matter of low and order. This responsibility is a divine supplement the work of the home. not to command. supersede it. No secondary agency can adequately discharge the function of a primary power. There are things a father or mother can teach a child as no other human being can teach him or her.
minimise or depreciate the importance When I speak in this strain of home training I am far from intending to of the work of the school. I wish merely to set forth, the respective roles of these. At the Itoman Catholic Cathedral the
two educational factors in a clear light. church was filled to overflowing. So In the school room your devoted teachers large was the congregation that hundreds inculcate in season and out of season both of the children failed to and seating law and love of order which make fot by work and example that obedience to commodation had had to stand. The Cathedral was beautifully decorated with loyal and useful citizenship in after drapery and flowers.
years: The daily regulations which con- There was an attendanes of some 500
The schools represented were Cargobject not to hamper your activities, hut Istitute part of the school law have for at the service at St. John's Cathedral,
son School of Hongkong, St. Joseph's rather to direct them into proper chan- this large congregation chiefly consisting
English College, French Convent. Italian of pupils from local schools. The follow: David Livingstone set himself
Convent. St. Francis' School (Wanchai). ing up the sterling characters which will nels that they may be of use in build- ing schools were represented:-Central hard task to do. The task of opening of Mary's School (Kewloon), Students make of you law abiding citizens. We British; Kowbo British (Junior):
of the Cathedral Seminary, St. Louis' Queen's College, Prak School: St. in the name of Christ and of humanity Industrial School (West Point), Kai Lap dear children, that God is the Supreme must never lose sight of the fact," my the dark continent of Africa. And amid Chinese School Wanchai), Yak Ying Lawgiver. Stephen's Girls'); Garrison School fover, oneliness and difficulty he press School (Wanchai), Wa Yan English right of commanding, because He alone To Him alone belongs the School; Sai Ying Pun School: Ying Wabet on with his task undaunted to the School (Rolinson Road), Sacred Heart is the Creator and absolute master of all He died as you know in Afrin far other Chinese Schools in Hung Hom, does not always exercise this authority School St. Joseph's Villa), and several things visible and invisible. But God Among those present in addition from his old Seatch home of those he Yaunati, and Shamshuipo.
loved surrounded only by his faithful.
There was a sperial order of service, men. In other words He makes men by Himself. He also exercises it through carriers. They buried his heart in
which was conducted by the Rev. Father sharers in His authority, those who are ceived from the Supreme Lawgiver the of the supreme Ruler and Legislator in 'power to make laws. The 'representative the Empire is His Majesty, the King
SCHOOLS, REPRESENTED.
Bellios Girls' School: Ellis Kadoorie
College; Cap Road School and Yaumati School. were:Lady Clementi (in Ciri Guide Officer's uniform). M. AE Woud (Director of English Schools); Mr. G. F. Nightingale, Mr. A. Morris, the Rev. A. D. Stewart, Mr. E. G. Stewart, Mr. A. T. Hamilton, Mr. G. W. Reeve, Miss
Traveller. Philanthropist,
For 20 years ins life was spent
unwenried effort to evangelize the native races, to explore the undis covered secrets, to abolish the deariating slave traffe of "
Central Afrien.
Yes,
end.
an
(Director of Education), Mr. E. Ralphs Africa for those Africans said he gave G. M. Spada Pro-Vicar Apostolic) clothed with authority in society have re his heart to us, but his body they carriersisted by the Clergy and the Students of for nine months to the coast. len would the Cathedral Seminary. not believe it was Livingstone's body till
Assisting Father Spada, who delivered they saw that the arm bore the marka
an aldress on Empire Day," were the
Cooper and others representing beat of a fracture where it had been brcken Rev. Fr. L. Banchio, officiating at the Emperor who as you all know resides
of the Boy Scouts, Sea Scouts and Wolf Cubs and Mrs. Reid and Miss Birkett in charge of the Girl Guides and Brownies.
A special address was delivered by the Right Rev. C. R. Duppuy (the Bishop of Victoria). Among the clergy assisting at the service were:-The Rev. 1. Coples Acyle, the Rev. G. H. Hewitt, the Rev. G. R. Lindsay, the Rev. G. T. Waldg grave, the Rev. W. T. Featherstone, the Rev. G. E. S. Cadell. the Rev. G. F. Stopford, the Rr M. Venn, the Rev. N. V. Halward (Bishop's Chaplain) and the Rev. Lee Kau Yun.
Special prayers were offered for the Empire, the Forces, for peace, colleges and schoals, absent friends, and thanksgiving for mercies received. The service was concluded with the National Anthem and
the Benediction.
an from a lion. And you will
see at the head of the tool the "words:-
Brought by faithful hands
Over land and sew Here resta
DAVID LIVINGSTONE. " The tomb is a monument to the uncan- querable spirit of a poor Scotch boy and of the brotherhood of brave men through- out the world shown in the faithfulness of those Afrin bearers.
STEPHENSON'S MOTTO..
Set yourselves hard tasks to "do-that was "the motto of the Northumbrian boy George Stephenson, son of a fireman at Wriam colliery. It is he I suppose who by his invention of the steam engine has done more than anyone else to make the modern world. For years and years he worked away at his steam engine. Men jeered at him, scientists did not believe in him. He wrote, "I have fought for the steam engine nearly 20 years. I have put up with every rehuff determined not to be put down. And in the end he prevailed.
Rossi, and Ker. Fr. Granelli. At the whole Empire has grown and the mother- organ was the Rev. Riganti, and the sing-land of that federation of nation's that ing was led by the Cathedral Choir. The compose it. The King, is the link, the Rev. Brother Aimar. Director of St. living link, that actually binds the parts Joseph's College, was also in attendanes. together. Every true Briton throughout singing of the National Anthem by the head and centre of the national life, from The special music concluded with the the Empire, locks to the sovereign as the congregation.
FATHER SPADA'S ADDRESS. Father Spada in the course, of his ad- dress said:--As is customary on this day we have come together into this sacred edifice to give, as only meet and fitting, religious significance to this annual civil festival.
whom all who administer the laws or exercise command in the army or navy derive their authority. -Whilst Hia Majesty, King George V. takes a personal share the government of the bome- land cals, he has his representatives who act in his name in every province of the Empire. The King therefore may be rightly regarded as the living link which unites the sundry and sundered parts of his mighty empire.
We are here in the first place to offer heartfelt thanks and praise to Divine Province for Its watchful care in regard
We would in conclusion, dear children, to the British Empire during the year exhort you to ponder well these words of, THE BISHOP'S ADDRESS:
that has just rolled by As for us who the Apostle St. Peter in his first Epistle The BISHOP in his address dealt with
are living under the beneficent sway of Ch. II. V. 13 with a view to super- the need of setting oneself a hard task
that same Empire and who are benefit naturalising your submission to autho in life, and used the climb of Mount
ing so much by the protection accorded rity. The Prince of Apostles says, "Be Everest as an apt illustration of his sub
us in this colony by the British Flag, thin ve subject to every human creature for jeet.
Set yourselves hard tasks to do. That day might well be styled our day of God's sake, whether it be to the king as Taking as his text St. Matthew X.30 has been the motto of all great man. It thanksgiving not only to the Creator excelling; or to governors as sent by "He that loseth his life for my sake shai! was the motto of Wilberforce who for Himself; but to those responsible for him for the punishment of evil doers, find it," the Bishop said:
years had to fight before he could free the safe guidance of the destinies of the and for the praise of the good: for so, is When I was asked to speak at this the alaves. It was the motto of Shafter British dominions beyond the Seas. Not the will of God that by doing well you Empire Day service I found my thoughta burs as he fought to improve conditions only do we meet here to give expression may put to silence the ignorance of turning to those Everest climbers who for those working in the factories. And to our gratitude to the Giver of every foolish men, Honour all men. Love the two years ago tried to conquer the uncon-long before them it was the motto of one good and perfect gift, but likewise to Brotherhood. Honour the King and quered mountain, The story of those who more than others has changed the petition the same Divine benefactor for again these other words of 8. Paul to the men, Mallory and Irving,dying there lives of men-that little boy who used the continuation of His blessings and Romans; Ch. XIII. V. L. Let every soul Amid the eternal snows suggested two to wander amid the ships at Tarsus won-protection in favour of that Empire on thoughts to my mind for Empire. Day; dering where they all came from and who which His sun neyar seta. We set forth is no power but from God, and these be subject to higher powers; for there First that we should set ourselves hard is known to us as Paul the Dauntless, gratitude as the frst of our sentiments that are, are ordained of God. Therefore tasks to do; second, that we must play the great missionary of Jesus Christ, one on an occasion like this and rightly he that reaisteth the power resisteth the for the side and not for ourselves.
whose name will never so long as time so: for we learn from 'Holy Scripture ordinance of God..
Run to that it is a virtue most pleasing to the lasts he forgotten among men. win was His motto (i Cor. ix. 24% Play Almighty. the game hard. Set yourselves, hard tasks to do.
A HARD TASK.
-PLAY FOR THE RIDE.
LAW, AND JUSTICE.
Those Everest climbers set themselves hard tasks to do. They knew that ever since man bad been on the earth no one find climbed to the top of Everest. They
We are happy, to witness that to-day themselves some of them-had before
as in the past the Empire stands for tried to conquer Everest, but they had Play for the side and not for yourself: law and justice. These are the two been defeated. Yet they went to their Everest enn only he conquered by a team, strands that continue to unite the whole task dauntless and unafraid. When they imagine that when Oeneral Bruce had world-wide fabric of the British Empire. got to the North Col, some distance from to choose those Everest climbers he had Now as in "the past law, order and the top, there were feree storms and bitter to ask himself not only is he a good liberty are the three watch words of every cold and everything seemed to be against limber, but can he play in a team--for true Briton in whatever corner of the them. Every member of the party was a he knew that only a team, could enoquer Empire his lot may be cast. The British sick man, but still they persevered, with Everest. And when you read the story are a law abiding people.. The secret of their task.
They went on and, did not of Everest you see how well they their respect for the law is the fact that turn back..
played as a team. No man played for they themselves are the lawmakers. They
ESSAY COMPETITION PRIZES.
As usual, the St. Joseph's College Old prizes to Boys' Association offered students of the College for essays on Empire Day. The results were as under-
Master Hénaldo Alvares, Class 1A. Matric.)
Master George Pearson, Class 1B. (Sen. Comm.)
Master Godfrey Agabeg, Class 2A. "Master Heung Shing, Class B.
Master Boris Kolokolov, Class 3A. Master H. Siew Um, Class 3B.
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