HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1936.
LAST LOCAL TRIBUTE PAID TO BELOVED MONARCH
SIMPLE BUT IMPRESSIVE
CEREMONIES HELD.
All Classes Join In Prayer
Hong Kong, like the rest of the British Empire, paid its last respects to the newory of His Majesty King George V. when in connection with the funeral of the de- parted Monarch special memorial services were held in various parts of the Colony, when every race and creed joined in the simple and impressive ceremonies of worship according to their religions.
The chief ceremony was observed at the St. John's Cathedral when nearly the whole of the Government Service, the three Services and members of the Consular Body, the Executive and Legislative Councils and others joined in the function, Prior to the service the bells of the Cathedral rang out their munified peals, while during the ser vice the big hell rang out 70 times.
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At the Roman Catholic Cathedral another large and representative gathering" was present to join in the prayers while the funeral oration which was delivered by the Rev. Fr. Byrne was both touching and enlightening. The Parsees, the Hindus, the Jews. all held services in, their respective places of worship.
A general observance of two minutes silence was held at 1 p.m. at the end of which His Excellency The Governor (Sir Andrew Caldecotty placed a wreath at the foot of the statue of His Late Majesty at Statue Square. Places of entertainment were all closel till 5 p.m. and the ships of the Royal Navy, together with the Royal Artillery," fired a salate of seventy one-minute guns.
Touching Scenes At The Cathedral
After the Bishop had given his Very touching scenes were wit- · nessed a St. John's Cathedral blessing, the organist played the yesterday morning when hundreds Dead March in "Sau." after which c1 people thronged the church to "The Last Post" was sounded by
their bugiers of the Royal Ulster- pay their last respects LO
late. King| Regiment. · beloved Monarch the George V.
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TOUCHING ORATION AT THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL
The Catholic Cathedral yesterday morning was the scene of a most
The service was brought to a was conclusion with the singing of thepressive service in the memory
The Memorial Service simple and solemn and touched the hearts of the hundreds pre- sent. The service was broadcast- ed, but even so. hundreds braved the wet weather and long before began the whole Le service church was packed to capacity while many stood in the aisles at the back of the Cathedral.
The whale assembly. was solemn one and almost everybody was dressed in deepest black ex- cept those in brilliant uniforms.
As the organ began playing "the Voluntary signs of emotion, were
not lacking among the assembly.
Chopin's Funeral March was then rendered by Mr. Lindsay Lafford, which was followed by the reading of the Burial Service by Rev. H. W. Baines.
Then was sung Psalm XC, "Lord, Thou hast teen our refuge from one generation to another."
The Proper Lesson for the day. Revelations. Chapter 21. veraes 1-7 was read by the Rev. E C. H. Tribbeck.
National Anthem.
diz-
THOSE PRESENT
and the large Amongst ingushed gathering at the service were the following:-
Sir
A DAY OF MOURNING Do not these thoughts come very paturally to our minds-to-day? It
rightful rulara, so St. Paul would have us offer prayers and thanks- giving for Kings and for all that
- a day of mourning. It is are in authority that we may lead more a day of remembering. Láng ago St. Augustine in his panegyric of St. Cyprian spoke these beauti- "ful words:
"Grtered without doubt was the Church-not for his loss whom she mourned, but for her own, be- Log evin desirous of once more possessing so excellent a. master. Yet those whom his trials had saddened, could not but rejoice in his. crown. On this day it is our privilege, not to fear, but to re- Joice," Might not the word of Augustine be happily Inscribed by the subjects of his vast Empire on "the tombstone of their late ruler, King George V?
There is a wide difference be- tween the mourning of courtesy and the mourning of the heart, Our modern world is lavish enough with the mourning of courtesy any prominent leader may have it; but It is far other with the mourning of the heart. Diplomacy may con- ceal the truth; the heart must be lent or reveal it. Could there be a great world-wide tribute to the Monarch who was so well known to the world than the fact that all nations-even those who at times were estranged from his--unite in feelings of sorrow not in mere messages of regret? Truly his people, while they mourn, may re- jolce that it was their privilege to have possessed so excellent u mas- .ter."
I shall say zothing to you about the details of a life well known to you. I shall merely ask you to consider the secret of its attrac- tiveness, for the King did attract, and, in the history of the largest Empire, attract singularly. cause he was a gentleman? But
Be-
many rulers have been gentlemen: 01 His Late Majesty King George Because he was tactful and pru- น The funeral oration, delivered dent? But tact and prudence have by the Rev. FT. G. Byrne, SJ, was been no strangers to royalty. 30- one of a most inspiring compost- cause he had wide knowledge of men and things? But most state- The tion. "In a sympathetic voice, one
men gain wide knowledge, pregnant with emotion, the ad-
reason lles far-deeper: It is be- His Excellency the. Clovernor, dress went straight to the hearts of
cause he had a scul"and he cult- Sir Andrew Caldecott, His Excel-the congregation.
Charles The Rev. Fr. G. M, Spada officiat.
vated it. There are still Intelligent Lency Vice-Admiral
men who consider it scientific to Little, His Excellency the General ed. assisted by the Rev. Fr. 0.
deny a spiritual soul: there are
·Officer Commanding, Major Liberatore and M. Robba.
The Church was filled to capacity | multitudes who have no time to General and Mrs. Bartholomew,
and many people had to stand dur-think about it. The King belonged the Right Reverend R. O. Hall and
to neither of these classes. Mrs. Hall the Very Rev. Father A. ing the service, which began with Mr. Justice "Ple Jesu" (Palestrina) and 'Libera
Perhape some of you remember Auganti, His Honour Lindsell and Mrs. Lindsell the Mo Domino (Peris!) after which the King's speech at the Guildhall, on his return from the 1909, visit Foreign Consuls-General, Consuls the Rev. Fr. Byme "delivered the
to India. He said: and Honorary Consuls, and H.M.funeral oration, Consul-General at Canton, Com- mander and Mrs. C. G. Sedgwick,
Sir Thomas and Lady Southorn, the Hon. Mr.
THE ORATION
them."
G. Alabaster, the In delivering the Generai Ora- Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, the Hon. Mr. Llon; the Rev. Fr. G. Byrne said:--
the E. Taylor and Mrs, Taylor,
"......now, saith the Spirit, tout Hon Mr. R. M. and Mrs. Hender- they may rest from their labours; son, the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, the Hon. Sir William and Lady Shenton, His Honour Mr. Justice Hayden and Mrs Hayden, the Hon. Commander G. F. Hole and Mrs. Hele, the Hon. Dr. and Mrs. W. B. A. Moore, the Hon Mr. T. Hand Mrs. King, the Hon. Mr. and Mr. Braga, the Hon. Dr. and Mrs. S. W. Tso, the Hon. MraT: N. Chau, the Hon. Mr. J. and Mrs. Pater- son, the Hon. Mr. W. H. and Mrs. Bell, the Hon. Mr. M. K. and Mrs. Lo, Sir William Hornell, Mr. M. J. Breen, Mr. and Mrs. G. R ̈ Sayer. Mr. W. Schofield. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. C. North, Mr. had
and Mrs. W. J.
The choir rendered the beautiful Anthem, "Thou wilt keep Him in perfect peace," and then the Rev. Lee Kau-yan and the people
alternately stunding, sald
the verses of Psalm CIL, verses 13-17.
" "Like
as a father pitieth his own children Even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him."
The Rt. Rev. Bishop R. O. Hall prayed and led the people in the Lord's Prayer. The Rev. J. R. Higgr said prayers of thanksgiving for the benefis the nation enjoyed under the rule of the late Monarch.
The whole congregation then sang the Hymn.---
The strife is o'er the battle
done: Now is the Victor's triumph Olet the song of praise be
sung:
won;
"I cannot help think" from all T have heard and seen that the task of governing India will be made easier ff, on our part, we infuse into it a wider element of sym- pathy there will be an over-abur- pathy. I predict that to such sym-
dan and genuine response,"
SIMPLE WORDS
quiet and peaceable life in all plety and chastity" (1 Tim. II). But an enemy has been busy un- dermining Society, Pride, sellsh-i "ness, unbelief, have been at work in high places. They have killed the gift of sympathy; "they have divided Society into the opposing classes of the grasping rich and How many the struggling poor. rulers have re-schoed the words of Roboum: "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke."
Kings XII, 11). Blessed, Indeed, a people whose
ruler understands that he, should be to them a father in God, and who endeavours to not under the guidance of that light. If, through all these troubled years. the Bri- unmoved tish Empire has been amidst the crash of thrones all round about, does it not owe its stability to the guidance of him for whom "Ood Save The King" was no mere royal salute bat a constant reminder that all his sub- jects are in the hands of a King The a solemn trust from God. problem of poverty is a ruler's pro- blem. It ever weighed upon the heart of King George.
BECAUSE THEY AEK NOT THE PEOPLE
But it weighed upon his heart. There are those in high station-- all too many of them-who cannot mix freely with their fellows, es- pecially not with those who are be low their own level of mental and. social cufttration. They cannot understand the people" because He they are not of the people," was the first of the English sover- to share with the work eigns classes the fatigue of comman toll With the salior he had stoked the fires and swabbed the decks. Be knew what it was to ache in limb as the labourer ached. He knew what it was in the_still, silent. hours of the night, to watch God'à atars in God's heavens. May ne not have learnt in those hours at sea a fuller understanding of the Providence of God, without Whose guldance no King can wisely rule? From all this it came to pass that the King could understand "the poor, and that the poor could feel. the touch cf true sympathy oI heart in a Kog who yearned to lift from the shoulders the bur den of poverty.
Civil war, international war: the threats of one, and the long agonles of the other, were among the anxiedles and sorrows pressing on the King during his reigo. We
know of his last personal appeal all know his mind towards war: we
to the Tsar, offering the whole weight of his influence to pré- Į vent the calamity. It was too Jate; the war cicud had broken.
far their works follow "Apocalypse" XTV, 13.
An open grave, some broken
Simple words, one may say. Ob- nearts, and then a tomb sealed in unbroken silence, at the ena vious truth. It was by no means of man?" "A tree bath hope: if is obvious to officials who governed. for whom Government was a legal be cut, it groweth 'green again...... but man when he shall be dead, machinery. Indeed the words re- veal what many accounts pass over and stripped and consumed, I pray
Is there no the secret of the King's attractive- you, where is.he?"
news:--sympathy. Sympathy da answer to the sad query of Job and must the hope of Love wither with the music of the heart-hear sing- the wineting of the love-strewning to heart the Apostle who wrote flowers No, dear Brethren, a the most beautiful love song knew thousand times no! Death is theit "Charity is patient is kind,ed in the Press about the King's
reaper that comes, with the sickle of time, to gather the sheaves Their works which are eternal follow them: Thy sun shall go
down no more, and thy moen shall | not decrease: for the Lord shali be
unto thee for an everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended,” (Isalas 60, v. 29),
seeketh not her own-beareth all things-never falleth away. No sympathy, no heart: no heart, withered soul: "they have killed souls that should never die.
on
I have said that tng secret of King George's attractivecers Was his sympathy. True sympathy is rare because sympathy cannot go far unless "it be founded religious faith. It 18 easy to salute those who salute us: the Divine Master demanded from the Father's children. Per- haps in the long accounts publish-
more
death, one item may have escaped your attention. Yet it is a most gnificant item. At midnight Her Majesty the Queen Mother left, the house. She walked to the Church where the body lay. Hating ask- In our age of problems there are ed the Guards to withdraw, she three besetting ones: war, poverty, knelt alone in silent prayer. Her the family. With
husband and her King had given
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"THE KING IS DEAD, GOD SAVE THE KING" The King is dead, God save the King." Never, perhaps, in English history had the traditional
Carrie, Capt. and Mr. R. D. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. R.. A. Scott. Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg. Mr. E. P. H. Läng, Mr. P. Collison, Lieut. Col.
all three the and Mrs. H. B Dowbiggin, Mr.
King had to deal. In all three and Mrs. R. AD. Forrest, Mr. and
It is only at the moment of death he showed the depth of his human to the King of Kings the final se- count of his 'stewardship!: “Our Mrs. EI Wynne-Jones, Mr. and Mrs. T. &. Whyte-Smith, Mr. J. W. that we can truly read the meaning ayripathy.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Dia lite. For those who pause to At no time in the history of the Father, Who art in heaven": there is the meaning of life; there is the Franks, Jeffries, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lock- think there is something very human race has such a violent at- hart-Smith, Mr. and Mrs. II. Green, pathetic in the auction of house-tack been made on the founda-end of file. For those who have THE BISHOP'S PRAYER The Bishop then prayed saying: Mr. N. Young, the Hon. Mr. and hold, furniture after the death of tion of the whole race, the family grasped it Death can have "Almighty and everlasting God, MR. H. Kotewall, Squadron the owner. He was proud of his ft is held up to ridicule in the sting, Death can have no victory. we are taught by Thy holy World: Ldr. C. R. Keary and Mrs. Keary, litle 1brary-fiction, sport, popu-theatre; it is losing its sacredness for the family doctor: It is public- that the hearts of Kings are in Mr. T. Megarry, Mr. M. T. Johnson, Lar science- the books, tuh, how Thy rule and governance, and that Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Kennedy many hours of his life he hadly degraded, in the assumed name ola in of selence, by the eugenist. In the Thou dost dispose and tum them Skipton, Mr. and Mrs. H R. But- spent over, them?) are
Comdr. A L. and Mrs. bundles for a few pieces of silver. wildst of all this the King has built as it seemeth best to Thy godly tera, wisdom: We humbly beseech Shields. Major V. E Duclos, Mr. So do the public" value & man's up a family doubly royal; royal by Thee so to dispose and govern the A. G. Bishop. Sir Robert Ho goods; how do they value the man blood, and royal by purity. What formula such meaning. The whole Tung, Mr. and Mrs. Ho Kom-tong, himself? Not, certainly, for his ever men may do, they must ad- world feel that that the father will The new King heart of Edward, Thy Servant, our
and Mrs. J. gold or his silver: they are no lon-mire the ideal of family purity. It live on in the son King and Governor, that, in all his Mr. G. Bird. Mr.
is one of the glories of the King comes to the throne with even a be Owen Hughes, Mr. and Mrs, G. P. ger his, but for what he was în thoughts, words, and worka,
that he has known it and known wider experience of the Empire may ever seek Thy honour and Lammert, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. B. mid and in heart. This they can glory." and study to preserve Thy Bilya-Netto, Mr. M. P. Talat, Mr. gauge only from what he did. If its source: all fatherhood des- than his father had. He has A. Kingdom Identified himself fully with "his people committed to his charge, in Lee Yau-taup, Mr. and Mrs. S. Ha man was rich in mind and in cends from God,” wealth, peace, Find godliness; Dedwell, Paymaster Commander heart, the world, even thought it divided against itself cannot stand, people whom he freely met on the and what greater division could a furthest bounds of his kingdom, Grant this, o merciful Father, for N. H. Bell, Colonel and Mrs. L. G. may have thought little about him Thy dear Son's sake. Jesus Christ Bird, Mr. E. J. R. Mitchell, Capt. during his lifetime, will mourn him, Kingdom suffer than the moral or To the young of to-day, who are our Lord."--amen.
R. Anderson, Brigadier. H. G. and will remember him: "opera enim physical destruction of its families, so rapidly and alarmingly losing Colonel D. Rillorum sequuntur,illos: their works To his nation, to his Empire, to the ideals of respect for their par "O Heavenly Father, who in thy Mrs. Beth-Smith, Son Jesus Christ, hast given us a Steward. Col and Mrs H Harri-follow them." We have no other the world, the King has given a ents, loyalty to their homes, and nor has God Almighty: roble example. May the nation, obedience to authority, the erstwhils true faith, and a sure hope: Help 800, CoL and Mrs. E. SO. Kirke, test; us, we pray thee, to live as those Co. and Mrs. J. Morris, Col, and Come ye Blessed of My Father. may the Empire, may the world Prince hus given a royal example who believe and trust in the Com Mrs. W. J. Bildergeck, Mr. and I was hungry and you gave Me follow it. Their works follow of the ideal in life. That he will uphold the beautiful tradition of munion of Saints, the forgiveness Mrs. A. L. King, Comdr. and Mrs. to eat: I was thirsty and you them.
The family is the unit. Human a family more royal in its intimate of sins, and the resurrection to Altwood, Captain Wallet, Captain gave me to drink." You had a life everlasting, and strengthen and Mrs. Tower, and Lieut.-Condr. mind alert to the call of duty and Society is the, complete structure, relations than in its social position, | this faith and hope in us all the Miyasaki, of HL J. N. Bagar and a heart respousive to the wach of Human Society is an ordinance of there can be no doubt. That he | days of our life: through the love Mr. H. M. Arrowsmith, represent yapathy. You life has been a dad to be guided, to be held to will work for the uplifting of the of thy Son, Jesus Christ ouring the British and Foreign Bible rich life, it will be rich for ever gether by God's will and by God's
with the joy of the Lord
Authority working through the Saviour. Amen."
Society:
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