WAR COMMENT.
A Home Latter to Soldiers Overka.
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her daughters were wearing. It is alwaye interesting to read "The hands of both " said the of the impressions made by ong prescher," had been backed off own people and institutions apon from the wrist. It is to save you outsiders and I was much struck "English girle from a similar fate by another tribute, from a that three gallant soldiers of our different point of view, which are fighting so desperately this came my way a day or
two 380. Sunday morning".
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1918.
gresier.
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SWITZERLAND.
First Impressions and
Reflections.
Not in so mipying reÜDO
the very
Comer to
of reconstruction. Similarly, he sacrifices which the Swiss people have made, not only at the call of patriotiem, bat fram motives of humanity, have not beer fully
the
with guns, maitions, money, quite comically exaggerated IN NEUTRAL
horrors remaine, snd gradually pursue their business and pleasure anime, and cummin than with the soalanod food. You equipped the reports concerning the alleged
one comes to sroept it as a great as if nothing unforgivable had | weightår matters of the nature of falinterlade of istional existence; happened. Surely it oan naver God and mad, of life and dead America Army until they could amount of booty taken during equip themselve Your Red the recent offensives, there was
| but at the same time one realses, be in the lifetime of the present and the hereafter-realities wbowe" Crom units have been on every issued an official statement that
that the Swiss are bearing their generation, unless the German presince they feel sometimes way share, and that no small cos, of has been so thoroughly chastened dimly, bat powerfully enough to front daring the whole war. - ther had captured from the
the world's heavy barden of that he repents in rack cloth and lead them to welcome anym Your financial resources appaer French, British and Amerins
trouble. A Times' o zr16spondent writes :
This beautiful land agber and stones in full for all the pathetic interpretar of their London, Jane 11k-I have a illimitable. You pay 5. in the enough munitione and metals to
that was Europe's playground of crimes that have made the name meaning, if only ba osu be found. friend who is a clergyman and pound income-tax and 16 in the last the German Army for a year. For sayone who
a byword Greatly daring, we may ren incidentally a Foldier as well-I pound excess profite tax, yet no In spite of this, the authorities Switzerland direct from London old, and is now her seylum and of the Vaterland think I have referred to his ser charitable appeal ever goes un-st home continued to pull down and Paris it takes some time to convalescent home, has fortunate throughout all the seven seas.ture to express the opinion tast mors once before in these letters, answered and your Red Cross bronze statues, detach bella from become scclimatized to the ideay escaped being drawn into the For the prezant, judging by those four teachers are paying too mush His admirable rermons bate & Fond subscriptions alone touch church towers and confiscate of neatrality and to some of its fray, but she has not escaped the one meste in Switserland, be attention to secondary mastere special flavour of their own, for $11,000,000. ̧ Your shipyards aucepan, and door knockers. immediate effects upon one's world-wide menace of hunger, shows no signs of repentance. He even in their attempt to explicats
Boul, daily life.
and she must face, like the walks delicately, it is true, having the central fact of Christianity- be never loses an opportabity of are doing to-day setually more Fran B:che, simple illustrating bie texte with a refer- work than they ever did in peace cannot understand why, if they
This pleasant oasis of perosuna belligerents, the necessity for nothing to gain here by bluster the Incarnation. To put it bluntly, ence to some experience of his, time and you have made your-have enough captured munitions pastorel industry surrounded on reorganizing bor national life and ing, and being generally engaged many laymez fool that they have selves practically self-supporting and material to last them a year, all-sides by the tide of war, this the new conditions that must espionage, or trade effestive the mode of the Incarnation and her principal industries to meet on some business of propaganda, heard enough for the present of own at the Front.
He was preaching the other day in regard to esential foodeine, they must still make raids on her aninreded place of refuge for arise when the world's armies which cells for a display of the stare of the Resurrection
Then cime the all its Boteam and jetsam, seema from the text "The victory of an achievement regarded as quite kitchen. battle standeth not in the multi- imposible a few years ago. As explanation. The official state-at first too good to be true. One's cesse from fighting and return to urbanity; but nothing in his de- Body, Important as these matters tude of an host bat etrength for the bravery and tenacity of mente abeat booty had been first few days at Genera, in parcivil life. Indeed, being cut of meanour suggests consciousness are, they are, after all, subsidiary
from direst scOSPH cometh from Besten. They came your men and your women too merely lies, it
to the res, ofthe fees that Germany's hardest to the Fact of Christ-and is it wae cficiallyticular, are obsessed by a haunt Swi-'rland's position has been, task in the future will be to live that Fact with which man ara sgainst us in mach pride and for that matter-it is imposible explained.
of nareality. OoB iniquity to destroy ne sad our to do justice to them. Not only words, but that was the effect of almost resents the tranquillity and still is, in some respects one down the infamy that she has concerned and about which they wive and our children sad to your soldiers and sailor I mean, it. They worded it like this of the splendid mise en scene, the of peculiar difficulty and grave earned by her methods of wariare, have not heard enough. They The neutrality of the German and wish to learn the reoret of Ha spoil me." I Micos bees, 3, 19), bat, for instance, the fishermen "The reporta about this great even tenor of the neutral's day, danger. Illustrating these words he reesll- and merchant seamen, whose booty could not be based upon the cheerfal accisl amenities of The lights and laughter of especially his colossal vanity, to whom they feel an irresistible ed a meeting be bad two years indomitable spirit bas reduced accurate assessment bat resulted his evenings when the festooned cosmopolitan Genera and Leus defies analysis, for all our stady attraction, but instead they End. ago in a French town behind the the efforts of the under-water from high estimäte.” That lights winkle guily over the suns are apt to obscure the new of the species. There is no doubt themselves hindered in their sp- Frout. Seated at bie luncheon pirates to impotence. And with was something of a climb down. Karessl and along the Pand da comer's perception of the price that the ambushed Junkers who proach by a barbed-wire fence of table in the railway hotel was a all the activities I never hear a It was then added that the Mont Blanc, and all the world which the Swiss people have infeat these Swiss betale look for definitions or challenged by the French lady and her two grown-word of depression. Here in demand for these metals, and bis wife, over flowing the paid, and are paying, for the ad with calm secarance to catchwords of controversies in ap daughters, whom he was eur London the spirit of the people is especially copper, continued to be wide pavement, take their beer maintenanes of their pledges and being welcomed and allowed to which they have no interest and prised to see her feeding out of astounding. They realis well great and that it had been found and loss at the Cafe du Nord. prizoiples and forthe preservations their social and commer-no real concern. It is to binder true sporn. The molber explained enough the peril of the German necessary to issas gew confies- These brilliantly lighted street, of their humans and impartial cial salivities in England and discipleship. to insist on these after a while that they were fensive and yet they go about tion orders,” Which wasn't very crowded with placid and apps neatrality. The part which the France, so soon as their good while neglecting the devout in- German pesce" bas been con- terpretation of that Life recorded refugees from the Lens district, their patriotic take absolutely consoling for Frau Etils Possibly rently prosperous citizens, who Swiss Government has had to claded. And unfortunately there in the Gospels, of Him whom whose bome had been captored, oodatated. It's magnificent', by way of compensation, they can watch the moon's silvery play bas frequently been mis looted and destroyed by the Ger. That was what my Australian bave banned the nee of table-path upon the wine-dark waters understood, because of failure to is little in the serenely neutral men feel still lives in the plea- `man and subsequently recaptared ; friend sid sly he was more cloths and napkins in alaba, of the lake without ever a thought appreciate the risks and penalties atmosphere of Switzerland toitude of His influence in their hearts. They are ready to BC- by the Allies. At the end of her enthusiastic. I bad to admit sa hotele sad restaurata sad the of air raids, long-distance gone, involved in the maintenance of deceive them.
knowledge Him if only etory the mother, with tears in modestly as I could that it was cloth thasreleased to be converted or carfew regalations; all the that neutrality. so well as ite vital
signifcance of their experience in eyes pulled back the cloaks that, all true.
iato babies' clothing!
ordered old-world regularity of importance to Earope and to the
plainly and boldly proclaimed. "Rejoe, yo Esnafraas, ring civilization's business and plea future of civilisation in its work THE NEED OF THEOLOGY, In a word, they want the guid-
your bells, the foe is put toare; the strange lack of men in
ance of Christian theology from flight
kbaki and hospital bine, the
First Thlogs First. thoughtful, well-equipped mer, "Our tale of prisoners hourly absence of all the sights and
who are able and willing to show Writing in the Times a cor-bow God reveals Himself in the Awells, there's no one left to sounde of war, which we belli fight.
garents have come to regard as
respondent saysTheology if it terms of human life, in the la "We're marched a hundred Dormal; these groups of young, appreciated. The more closely is not to be a barren elady, must carnation. It was contained in an article miles to day, a hundred towas able bodied man, exempted in one stadies the actual situation be an honest interpretation of It is harm enough if the I am eare that the people who written by a French woman in a
It must we're wrecked."
midst of Europe's in Spitzerland and the forces religious experience. heard from the palpit that first. Pari pemppaper about King Thos runs the Boche om. cor fisgration from the universal which there determine gablic deal with our deep and elemental absorption of our issobers is secondary matters only made it hand evidence of German devilry George. I suppose there is hard manique-or words to that effect. business of slaughter, all em- opinion (which has a far more consciousness of God's existence difficult for the unlearned to learn rational and of man's relation to Him. the truth about God, but necer went away with a firmer convic ly a man in the country who"We'll lunch in Paris this day bine to induce a carious sense of potent influence on tion than ever that this wer most devotes himself with“ more satir. week, in Calais two days.ister, transient illusion. You surrender policy than in moet modern Starting from the cor viction that be fought to a finish. But there ing energy to the business of bis Our progress so fare quite yourself to erjoyment of the oasis democracies) the more devoutly this relation is a real one, it must early it also prevents men stain- ing true self-knowledge. For wse one lady in the-congregation country then the King. He does unique and likely to be and its mirage of anwonted must one hope that the Swiss go on to express and to interpret until men And God they can who seemingly had not learnt her not go about with a flourish of
Bongations as if you were watch people will be able to remain the facts on which it is burd.never find eat the truth about lesson. She happened to be in- trumpets, he is not pars ned every-The loot includes 5,000 gana ing cone mideummer's are play neutral to the end, and eventual- The queen of sciences, it has to themselves. The Gospels mocks troduced to the preacher later in where like the Ksieer by oberqui- and planes and shelle galore; with the critical spectator's Desly, in a reconstracted Europe, to do with life the life of God and that evident. The Central Figure the day. She epike to bim of the pas reporters als lick his boots Of ateel we've got 10,000,000 of detachment. Indeed, there are achieve their complete independ. men-embracing in ile purview of the evangelic narrativen goe trouble that the war had brought and write sospy articles about. tone, of copper sven more.
moments when it seems incre-ence and in flaence from beyond all human experience of the things
of the Spirit.
to disclose among men upon her house. "My husband" him in the Pree. He does not "Our modest bosoms heave with dible that one should thus be their bordere,
Moreover, every chartoter of God, but no sooner she esid is in prison at Dart keep himself ccntinually in the pride to think of what we're translated, by the simple expedi- There is one outward and man who bea any religious er moor-he is sconscientious public eye by sending blasphem. done
ent of a night's journey in a visible sign of Switzerland's perience at all and gives the do men perceive His divine power objector, you know." "That one sad bypocritical telegrams to
railway carriage, to a lata where beneficent neatrality, however, slightest thought to it must be then they see themselves as they are, and learning that lesson they must be a great eorrow for the Qreen and other members of
people have slept quietly in their which the Arglo Saxon finds it interested a theology. seplied my clergyman the Royal Famils-with an eye" P.8. Sicca writing this report, four year of world-wide strife.
learn the meaning of penitence. bede o' night all through these difficult 10
with icionsly or unconcionely, he is How often are we told this is acoept Jou friend. "It is indeed ?"" said to their publication. But he is
we find on close inspection
equanimity, no matter how long theologian.
the first lesson of disciple- but I am earprised that as hard a worker as you will find " ebe,
That certain facts and figures
On Sunday, June 9, there was he may have been in the country It is too often taken for granted
ship sod that nothing can you who are a soldier should anywhere. His official duties are
the a gaily flagged regatta on the namely, may be subject to correction.
presence of that theology has no attraction be so sympathetic." "How can many and various, yet he finds
e.g. the Calsia trip's deferred, water front of the Qasi do Germane, and their reception on for the average Englishman. be hoped for until this is acknow
That may be true. I help being cry for you," time to perform much more than the Paris lanch postponed;
purple a fooling of equality, in decent There is less ground for that ndged ? rejoined the khaki-cled clergy is imposed upon him by daty." (You see, reports are sometimes backgroned of the Savoy shore society. Say what you will, this assumption than is frequently But men must know God before they can gain that knowledge. Å min, "seeing that your husband Long ago be was called "The
blurred or wrongly telephoned) little feets of white sails were goes against the grain. After so proced. It is true that we are true theology is plainly the mos loves you so little that be would King who sees for himeelt" and "Our figures-well, they're glancing and gleaming in the what has happened, after all that not given to fine distinctions, nor not lift a hand to save you from be ban well justified bie right to
merely round and must be read an. Excursion steamere, crowded the world has learned of the real are we distinguished for a love of practical concern is life. the fate that befell those two such a litle. Scarcely a day
with good bourgeoisie en fete, nature of the German, from his abatract studies, but these bave poor French girl?"
Then that passes but he rays a visit to some In several cases there'll be came gliding past trim gardene own thoughts, words, and deeds; no necessary connection with source in Dr. A. O. Headlam's woman went home to think about hospital or factory or some
found a cought or two too da Meat Bano, just as of old, they have done in Northern theology is a science, just as livered
and terraced hotels of the Quai remembering the things that scand theology. Naturally, since impressive inaugural lecture as Regias Professor of Divinity dej it.
eection.or other of the services, mash.
at Oxford recently. Daring the week I have had a cheering the wounded and en-"The estimates of
with rounds of music and France, in Serbia, in Romania, biology or psychology are sciencee, captured sralisa now on 's visit to this what the French lady, who was Oat copper captures too, we humanity that Switzerland has met be something wrong with a forms. But it basta in vod chat with a distinguished Aus- couraging the workers. This is eteel were p'zape exaggerated laughter. The most cosmopolitan and, above all, in would-be like them it must have itse was not at all directly con and polyglot collection of neutral Belgium-feals thatthers technical terms and its special cerned with such questione as we have raised. He was rather at country, and some of the remarks present at a recent Investiture st
life in God Paine to vindicate the right place be made about the Motherland Bockingbem Palace, writes about The first report was, otherwise,rer entertained was taking its political code or dreed that asks the realities
of theology in modern thought, made me blush with pride at the King under the heading the whole truth (barring slipe) orening stroll and discussing ite one to treat Germans se if they and man, and with all that men specially insisting on the read being an Englishman. "We bear George V. Democrat King:-
everlasting politica under the were still within the pale of call religion, and Englishmen are of freedom and sincerity so much of German efficiency". "The King of England is to be
For, like Herr Washington, no plane trees of the promenade. At civilization, to jog elbows with essentially religions, They may those who engage in it. Among lies could ever pass car lip. was one of his comments, bar seen by everybody.
There ie
the Osle du Nord a remarkably them in public places and show not wish to acknowledge the facts other things he enggested that really they can't hold a candle to nothing catwardly to distinguish
good orchestra was playing light no sign of aversion or disgust, but in the long ran they rarely Christian teacher should the Englishman for efficient him from the others. While
classical music, selected on strict And despite all the indisputably succeed in hiding it. And be
impose on himself this test; that, organisation." What first etrack "God Save the King" is played,
principles of neutrality, to a good reasons which hsv made cames they cannot but try
althcagh there might be this or him on reaching thie country we be stande st the slate, holding)
crowd collected from all the four neutrality the only posible estimate the significance of their that point in traditional belief on the spirit in which every mother's "bimself quite straight, bis grave
Cornets of the world at war policy for Switzerland thers are religicus experience they must which he might feel doubt, he ean and daughter-wee devoting rank face fall of dignity and
refugees, macaques, desertere, hundreds of thousands of sturdy become theologians. Who must be fully assured in bis own himself to the war. Be found the kindlinees. I look all around.
refractaires, men and women Swiss citizens, in the German and doubt this when on all banda we mind and conscience that be held whole population Folontarily me. There is no hysterical
epies and political agents of in the French cantons, who hear each questions 88, Why did the conception of Obrist's Person various shades of respectability. heartily erdares the sentiments God allow this wat? Why does and teaching contained in the enrolled, in the colossal war enthosisem, cone of the open-
Greeks, Tarke, Raeeian, Ramani of Benjamin Vallotton's "Palter He did not stop it? Why does New Testament and handed dowa weging maobize, Yon women mouthed wonder which donbilera are marvellona" be observed, is accorded to every step and
ane, Armenians, and Poles, Ger- ab," who deplore with him the evil appear to be so strong and by the Catholic Church in the We bave nothing like it in every, histrionic gesture of the
man Republicans and French necessity for suppressing their confident? Why has He per Cread. We would only add that Australia. Everywhere I go I Imperisi Keiser, but in all eyes
pacifists, interned soldiers and deep-rooted Helvetic instincts of mitted the world to be filled with this faith in as necessary for those ree them cheerfully engaged in may be seen the kind of trust and
civiliansand, over all, the Par liberty and justice la ause of the mourners who have done no who occupy the room of the men's work". But what im- esteem and affectionate plecare No Payment for 0.8.E, Helvelics, the strange pesce of obligations of a neutral State. As wrong? Buch questions are unlearned se for their teachers. preseed bim most of all was the with which one looks upon а No fee or payment was made thie neutral anctuary, An Polterab pats it in one cerlence, questions in theology. thoroughness with which we had kinsman or a friend of whom one for appointments to the O.BE, expert in local affairs counted 32 Il s'agit de savoir si on est pour The failure of religions teachersLaymen must at least be offered improvised our war organisatione. is proud. We have here a truly said Mr. Brace, Under Secretary different races gathered around le brigandage." As he put it, it took the Germans democratic Sovereign-one who for Home Affaire, in Parliament the little tables of the Cafe du As you sit st lunch at the Cafe forly years to do what we have instead of imposing his will upon recently and the recipients, if Nord that evening: a very Care de la Douronne or on the terrace done in ae many months. the people feels that he incarnates resident in Gres: Britain, were of Adallam, & Parliament of raie of the Beno Rvage, and the
"And not only that he went their sentiments and wishee, who invested by the King with the en exi
mawonted soond of German "but you are doing each a associates himself with their insignia of the Order.
Bat these first impressions, this gat arale first assaile your eare, number of wonderful things at labours and shares their anxieties
sense of blissful immanity from the beauty of the scene seeme to Baron's House Requisitioned. the same time, I don't quite and ordeala, who fulfils hie
the chaos and devastation of war, lose something of its magic. the remember how many ware you difficult role simply and con- When Baron Brono von wear off za one ocmes to look ennlight becomes less radiant, the arerunning in addition to the one scientiously. When the American Schroder's bouse in Fark-street, beneath the eorfice of things, to air leas eager. One look at on the Western Front but you Labour delegates said that with Park-lane, was commandeered by observe some of the many under these deck, self-estisfied Teutons, have Expeditionary Forces in him they had no impression of the office of Works, to 1917 has corrente that flow beneath its and, remembering the Luailazio, Italy, Macedonia, Palestine, being in the presence of a king, took a furnished house at 25 gain apparent placidity, to undertand and the Armenian macres, all Mesopotamis and Eset Afrios all they bestowed the highest praise ese aweek for 18 weeks. Beforethe something of the dangers and the long list of borrore perpetrat equipped from home. Your Navy on one who is only, and is content War Losses Commission recently difficulties with which Switsered in the name of their shomin is on every sea. Your Air Force to be only, the frei gentlemen of he claimed £290 for substituted land is confronted so the reaals of able Kultur, one wonders whether is the best in the world. You have his kingdom.”
accommodation, and expenditure the conflict on her borders, and in our day-as some would have delested in turn the Zeppeline, The German Lie Factory has in respect of the removal of what it has cost her to prese ve ne believe Germeng will be the seroplane raiders and the ratherrua past itself lately I pictures and fittings. The chair antil now her neutrality, ber permitted to resume their methode submarines. You bave invented mean it has made even the man's comment was that the means of sataistence, and her of pescefal penetration in Eng. a new land-weapon in the Tanks, Fritzes themselves sit up and take Barton had acted very fairly in territory inviolets. The sense of land, to belong to ear clubs, To keep your Alliee supplied notice. Following a serice of the matter.
immunity from the mates of war's frequent car holiday rescrie, and
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The Army now is well supplied
till 1921."
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feel, were over-estimated.
metsle,
Boj ladies, still your country yearne for all your housebold "Toot knockers and your c'fee urse, your door knob, since- pans, kettles,
"And if your loyalty should need
a little stimulation,
"N.B.The State has just de creed new laws re confica tion"-
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These reflections bare their
in
this, and for this purpose we is apparent in the fact that old plead that their teacher many men put these inquiries without knowing how to find should feel is their first daty to Leach such sound theology sa will their arswers. Car preachers bring this faith to all and make bave failed to interpret religious its meaning clearer to the ban experience. Their preaching is
blest disciple. concerned to a quite or justifiable degree with secondary matters. Soldier Digs His Wife's Grave, They appear to be absorbed in
The Osramaticipal sch--- subordinate questions, snob sa the ployees, numbering over 500,- bistcry of the Christian ministry, struck work recently, Street the order of the Canon, Lighting was interrupted, but the". the place of tradition, ecclesias greatest inconvenienes is at the tical o'ifice, denominational city cemetary. Several funerale interest. There, no doubt, beve had to be apspended; and others their place in religions, lile, but were rendered possible only by it is seabo diaste place, and me the organization of a Junteer are merely tested or irritated grave-digging oorpe. One.ldier, when they are driven to the con- who came home on leave, bary clusion
that the accredited his wife, had to dig t grove, teachera of Christianity are more and soldier comrades heed him concerned with tithing, mint, to complete the baril.