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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1931.
THE THIRTEENTH ANNIVERSARY
SOLEMN OBSERVANCE OF ARMISTICE DAY AT THE CENOTAPH AND CHURCHES.
SERVICES AND PUBLIC JOIN IN REVERENT TRIBUTES TO 1 THE DEAD:
CHINESE HEROES REMEMBERED.
Armiation Day, recording the thirteenth anniversary of he ending of the Great War, was observed it the Colony with the customary reparance. Services, of remembrance were held at the Churches, and reverent tribute to the Glorique Dead were paid at the Cenotaph, where the caremony, simple but extremely impressive, was followed by the laying of wreaths which con- tained do small sprinkling of Flanders Böppies
A similar tribute was subsequently paid at the, Chinese War Memorial in the Botanical, Gardens, where a profusion of wreaths were laid on behalf of foreign and Chinese.crganisations in the Colony. Meanwhile willing band of helpers, toured the city selling popples in aid of Ear!" Heig's Fund, which, vouzived a gratifying" response from all communities.
TWO MINUTES SILENCE OBSERVED AT THE CENOTAPH
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
SERVICE
SERMON BY THE DEAN,
The commemoration service held in St. John's Cathedral was at- tended by H.E. the Governor and Lady Peel, accompanied by Capt. T. A. H. Coltman, A.D.C., adal
Mr. G. W. Tufton, Private Secre
tory. The service finished in time to enable the congregation, clergy and choir to reach the Cenotaph before 11 o'clock. Wreaths, which Werg afterwards laid
the Cathedral Memorial Cross, were dedicated during the service,
Clergy taking part in the servich were the Bishop of Victoria"(the Right Rev. C. R. Duppuy, D.D.3. the Dean (Vary Rev. Alfred Swann), the Revs. H. V. Koob, N. L. Watkins, N. V. Helvard, E, F, Foley, W. Walton Rogers, Powell and Tribbock.
The sermon was preached by the Dean, who, taking as his text Isaiah XI 9 They shall hot hurt nor destroy in all my hely mountain," said
is the best opportunity for this:
It hda been said that perhaps
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is of great value. Apinistics Day them a more enlightened outlook in this matter than we inherited. Are. we not responsible for teaching the peace in the full songe is impossible children of this Colony wherein lies among nations of sinful men com-the only real hope of future world peting for a share in the resourcer peace i
1.
"ot a globe in which the population But when one has spoken, of the is pressing upon the means of sub-education of adults and children in sistente. That is to say, friction the objects and work of the Leaguo between nations is inevitable. Dis of Nations one has only touched putes are sure to arise, but they the surface of the thing.
(maybe""settled without war, if the
popular will to avoid war is saf-
ficiently strong.
It is plain, therefore, that there
is great need for the education of public opinion throughout the world
Stá
Mon
Must Believe in Christ. Men will only believe in the League of Nations if they believe peace and peaceful methods. They will only believe in peace if they believe in the possibilities of human nature. And no one can truly be Keve in human nature without be lieving in Christ
How long must we go on saying
League Commended by Church. We are glad of this opportunity to commend, with all the weight we can use, the League of Nations. that so long as human nature is The Christian Church is commis-what it is wars will continue? This sioned to preach the Gospel of is not only hopeless, it is blaap- peace, and it quite fails in its duty hemous It is a denial of God, as does not support the most we have learnt to know Him in Christian International organisation Jesus Christ, and a flat denial of the world has ever been.
the possibilities of human nature,
if
to be secured.
In 1919 the League was an ex- periment, suspected and sneered at. us the task not only of urging sup-
We Christian people have before") To-day it is no longer an experi-port for the League of Nations, but! ment. Over and over again in the the far higher task of reminding Why should we go on observing past twelve years it has much more men that there is a God-a God of Armistice Day The Great War is than justified its existence. Only truth, God of righteousness, a year by year receding into the past. the very unwise or the very ill-in God of peace; and that when man- It is only a name. to the young formed sneer at it, now. But & kind decides to live and work in people of to-day Practically no great deal of education still remains harmony with Him and in the power ons under thirty years old was to be done before the League can of His Spirit then peace will come tively engaged in the war. Those have behind it the power of public upon earth in whose hands the future rests opinion which it deserves, and which have no experience of the
Every year at Christmas time a grim
f must have if the world's peace is wave of peace and goodwill spreads realities of modern war.
And for all of us it is becoming
over the civilised world. För increasingly unreal merely to look
A Hong Kong League of Nations short time we allow the Holy Spirit ‚A back. Clod knows there are plenty Society has been established, and of God, the Spirit of love, to his whose hearts are still some and who should be supported by all who His way Why must we lose it cannot sometimes do otherwise than look back with love and pain. Five long for peace. Its membership is again with the New Year! Bar- million wives lost their husbands, still far too restricted. nine million children lost their fathers. But even for these it would be intolerable if there were nothing to do but recall their loss.
We must look forward-forward to better things and we must be lieve them possible. The main ob stacle to the avoidance of future wars is the common doubt of the hundred distinct League of as Viscount Cecil has said, "the possibility of peace. We do not Nations Societies. In Great Britain yet neliers in peace and peaceful and Northern Ireland about eight methods. The League of Nations
Can we riers of distance, barriers of olgan,
not use this Armistice Day to in- break down at Christmas. Is not crease its numbers grently 7
this an indication of what the In constituting this Society Hong Spirit of Christ can do with human Kong has merely followed what has nature when given a chance? Ex- been done elsewhere all over the tend this spirit and maintain it, and world. There now exist well over you have the prospect or realising,
Instruct Children In Aime of
League.
dreams of that long line of poets and writers, of philosophëra, end theologians, of rulers and statesinen who have seen a vision of a new world in which nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shull-they learn, war any more.".!*
Spend the Bilence in Prayer. In connection with the education of children there is still much to minutes silence at the Cenotaph? How, then, shall we use the two be dous. In 1923, at the Assembly Burely not only in backward-look- of that League, Dame: Edith Lyttle ing. That will get us nowhere. In ton moved a resolution which was Moffatt transistion of chapter passed in the following terms seven of the Book of the Rerala- The Assembly digon the Govern- tion it is, promised that those who No Real Fence Yet.
ments of the States menibers to have been faithful unto death arrange that the children and youth shall hunger, never again, and Perhaps one good reason for re-in their respective countries, where thirst never again." Our thoughts, taining the name " Armistice Day" such teaching is not given, bo made in the Silence may well begin with those who never again shall go only enjoying a truce from war. We of the League of Nations and the through the game experiences, but have no real pence as yet. In spite terms of its Covenant. As a Te we should go on to pray and re of the limitations of armamente sult of this the League prepared solve that never again sich bell in the last ten years the Great certain commendations and submit recur. Powers are still pending upon them ted them to States, members. In more than in 1913 when the struggle 1927 the British Board of Education minutes in genuine prayer to Glad Let us therefore, spend the two far military suprematy was at its called a conference of Local Educa- Let us shut our eyes and really height.
fion Authorities, and by 1920 it pray
is the hope of the world, the only hundred thousand persons have hope; and it is the most completo, joined the League of Nations Union folly and blindness' to decry its since its inauguration. efforts. But the League of Nationa will have a continually up-hill struggle and may even die if it has to fight against a great masa of apathy and, indifference to the enuse of peace. We must believe in the possibility of peace. If the proples of the world do not believe in peace, long for peace, and work for peace the League of Nations is powerless,
ידי
is that it suggests that we are still aware of the existence and aittis
had become the practice of most
There is no security in our pre- sent absence of war as shown by this continued competition in arms ments, and by the present events in Manchuria and the extreme an- sioty with which the world is awhit-tion Department has taken certain Although the Hong Kong Educa ing developments, History shows steps to keep the work of the us that in the past, though the League before its teachers, I under majority have not realised it, pehce stand that no regulas teaching on has always been precarious. And this subject is giron in Government
Remembering the devastating toll
of these to request, their teachers of life and wealth and morels which to give regular instruction on the the Great War levied on suffering League of Nations,
humanity, and having in mind t represented by the name 'Azmis- insecurity of our present peace, a tice Day," and even perhaps by thr troops standing about the Ceno- taph, let us pray that God may give to the world through all its keep ever bright in our minds the hope of the day when they shall not hurt, nor destroy in all God's hölv mountain, and when the earth shall bo full of the knowledge of the
this has been because men have not Schools: Could not this be done lenders a true love of peace, and
been convinced of the possibility of
pence,
Peace can only be secure if we set it before us as a positive good to be worked for, and, if necessary
There is no question that the future of the League of Nations and world peace is in the hands of the flaing generation. They kilow Jittle or nothing of the horrors and futility our duty to them if we do not give
to suffer for An annual affirmation of war. We are surely failing In Lord as the waters cover this sen.
of the public will to preserve peace
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