WN ARAW NASUTHE HONGKONGTEDEGRAPHI

THE WORD MADE FLESH.

By the Rev. G. R. Lindsay, M. A.,

It la man's unique privilege to 'be ablo not only to think but to givo expression to his thoughts so as to be intelligiblo to others. Do wo, however, over grasp the word until it in made flesh 7

With human hands the creed

of oroode

In loveliness of porfect doods More strong than all pootlo

thought.

But all this involved great anorifico for Him. Jesus Christ

DAY BY DAY.

Thore was only 0.74-inch of Train recorded at the Botanic

Gardons during Docomber.

A slight outbrook of fire in the drying room of Mr. Pentyorosa' residence, at No, 357 the Peak, was extinguished by the police yostordag.

The public is rominded of tho "Ideas," said Goorge Eliot, are often poor ghosts: our sun- bacama poor that we, through Ifle farewell performance of the Wish Wynne Company to-night, whon filled oyos cannot discorn them; poverty, might become rich. but sometimes they are made The Chinese have a lovely an entire change of programma. flosh They are clothed in a logend of the Great Boll of Poking. Will be given, as well as sovoral living human soul their The Emporor, they say, sent for numbers by special request, presence is a power and shakes the

us like a passion..." If this and

castor of described tho

tho bollei

toll be

bo so with other words, how desired. It was to ho larger than A Chinose is being charged by could the grandest, hollest word any ever mado. Its tone to be the police with falling to stop of all be expressed except in the moro beautiful and its music to after an accident on the Praya same way? "The Word was he heard a hundred milos. Ho East yesterday, in which a made flash."-St. John, chap. 1 was to have great honours if he Chinose girl was knocked down 14. There was no other way of succooded and a cruel doath if and injured by his motor as clo. saying "God" that wo could he failed. The master sot to understand. Wo should nover work, laboured day-ngl, night,

have understood, says Boreham, with the costliest mothe The forthcoming wedding in the abstract definition of so finished the ball and was dannounced of Mr. Arthur Leslie august a term-God; and so "in appointo. Ho tried again and Torry, of the China and Japan the beginning was the Word, and failed. He was at his wits' end. Toleshent and Electric Co., Ltd., the Word was God, and the Word Then Koni, his beautiful and Miss Daisy Annis Kearny, was mado lesb." Wo can undor daughter, consulted on auen route from England on the Atand that grout word now, trologer. Ho assured hor that Malwa, Bathlohom has made it wonder if the blood of a fair virgin wore fully plain. The Word, God, mingled with the metals, the music would have frightonod us if it had would ravish the oars of .overy not been expressed in the terms listenor. Koai returned to the arranged between the teams Club, of a Face, liko my face, and a foundry and when the glowing Juvenil and ARROCIACAO Doa- heart that boats in sympathy with metal poured white hot she plung-portive Macaonco, on tho The most awful, od into the shining bath before Kowloon-Cantan

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mysterious word that human lips hor. The music of the Great Belt Ground on Sunday the 4th. Inst., con utior has become the most is, the Chinese say, the music of at 3.15 p.m. Mr. P. M. Xvier has winsome in the whole vocabulary. hor sacrifice. It is only an Oriental kindly consented to referee the God is Josue and Jesus is God, myth, but it helps U8 to The Word was made flesh.

understand the solemn sweetnòss And so the word bad breath of the Christmas Bells pro-

and wrought

claiming the Word made flesh.

OBITUARY.

FAMOUS CARTOONIST.

London, Jan. 2.

The death has occurred of the cartoonist, Sir F. C. Gould.

Router.

INTERNATIONAL DEBTS.

THE QUESTION OF SETTLEMENT.

Washington, Jan. 2.

A high official of the State

maton.

Tho engagement is announced

PROFESSOR'S LIFE SACRIFICE.

aftor

the

HOLIDAY CRICKET,

UNIVERSITY MATCH.

The annual cricket match bo- Past" and Procent" was played at the University on New Year's Day, and the "Pre- sont" had much the bottor_of} things.

Bordeaux, Jan. 2.

tween Science has claimed another of Mr. A. E. Farrell, of Messrs. martyr in the person of Professor Butterfield and Swire, youngest Borgonic, who has died son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John months of suffering from Farrell, of Liverpool, and Miss ravages of Rontgen rays, with Marjorie Joy, only daughter of whion ho experimented With Mrs. W. Money, of Kowloon, and brilliant the late Mr. T. . Joy, of Cardiff.

Going in to bat first, the "Pro" success, particularly sent team compiled 133 (B. P. Ng 41), and later scored 116 for 2 (H. N, Balhatchot 64,;

and 69 for 6, Balhatchet taking 4 not out), Tho "Past" eleven compiled 107 (Ng 8zo kwong 34)

for 25 in their first innings and

against cancer.

Despite succossivo amputation, His many frionde will be sorry laboratory when he had become the Protossur only abandoned his Department has authorised the to hear, says a Malayan paper, a nopotens cripple. {The famous political carietatemont that no assurance has that Mr. A. E. Holmas- brown, toonist, Bir F. C, Gould, who had been received in Washington the late captain of the L'orak! attained his 80th year, bad for from London that Britain will not State cricket team, is so ill that, Grand Cordon of the Legion of second,

He was recently awarded the A.A.. Rumjaha 5 for 59 in the years been producing work oppose the Franco American debt almost daily for the Westminster settlement on terms more lenientin all probability, he will have to Honour.-Reuter, Guzelte. He was once described than the Anglo-American settle-0 Home. Mr. Holmos-Brown captained the Malayan laterport (by Lord Robebory) as themont, us allegod in a report Liberal Party's greatest nasat.published in London, but the team which visited Hongkong in His first oxhibition of original absence of any denial. by the drawings, which aftorwards bo-British Foreign Office that such came an annual affair, was hold suggestions might be forthcoming in 1892, and was only interrupted was noted with the greatest inter- after 22 years by the late warfest-Reuter'a American Service. He also issued a solf-illustrated

FRENCH PROPOSALS. volume of pooms, in 1923. He lost his wife in 1920.

November,

Tho Hongkong Electrio Bo- creation Club were the guests of A charge of importing 23 chow the Craigongower Cricket Club, puppies without a permit was and were easily defeated by their. brought under the anti-rabios! hosts, who scored 252 (M. Pinno regulations against a young 107, retired). The visitors com- An official notice postod at the Chinese before Mr. N. L. Smith at piled 75, and then 110 (Paul 41). Harbour (ffice states that ship the Contral Magistracy to-day. ping is warned to use the utmost Inspector Fred Fistior, who pro- caution when navigating through secuted on instructions from Mr. tho south channel or the Hainan . . Frost and the Captain' London, Jan. 2. Straits. The 5.8. Wing Hong Superintendent of Pulico, said that; The nature of the French pro-roports having gone aground in the animals were brought from aporals roaching Washington re- position 14 to 2 cables N. 40 W. Canton by the Lungasan. it garding the repayment of the from the Red Buoy and on the made an application or confisca

war debt is elucidated by a Parts line of Riversdale Buoy and the thun, but this was not considered emb-official message, stating that sati i marked 89 it. on the by his Worship, who posed M. Clemontol recently communi. Admiralty chart No 870.

only a nominal line of $5, cated some unofficial suggestions

By the death of this noted figure in political journalism big gap has been caused which will be hard to fill.]

DISARMAMENT.

SHELVED FOR THE

PRESENT.

to Mr. Horrick for transmission

to Washington, but no French offer binding on the French Gov-| ment has been made.

The Journal de Debata forecasts the French proposals, and sug- gests a moratorium for ten years, with payments spread over ninety yours.-Reuter.

Washington, Jan. 2. President Coolidge is stated to distavoor Mr. Borah's proposal for an international economie

Washington, Jan. 2. disarmament conference, includ-

Tho Cabinet has informally ing Germany and Russia, bocause

which Buoh a conference would be too considered intimations broad to obtain practical results, have reached American officials iving an advance summary of a The War Department appro-torthooming French Note dealing priation Bill, reported to the with war debts. House of Reprosentativos, in- The nature of the contents in volves on expenditure of throa not divulged. Official circles are

comment, hundred and thirty-one million unwilling

but

dollare, which is three hundred gratification is shown in the fact thousand below tho Budget esti-that the discussions have at last matas. The number of the per-produced a proposal from Paris.- sonnel is unchanged. Renter's Router's American Service, American Service,.

SOVIET METHOD.

ENGINEERING NEW

ELECTION.

Riga, Jan 2.

TEA PRICES.

LONDON MARKET RIGGED.

London, Jan. 2

The Evening Standard says that with tho resumption of sales in the tea market this wook, big Jaffort will be made to defeat the

ara

A message from Moscow says brokers whose operations the Boviot Government, after alleged to have brought the investigation, has decided that

market towards confusion.

the elections, which bogen two Mincing Lane is preparing for months ago, have introduced the biggest battle the ten trade undesirable elements into the has over witnessed.

Saviot's Government, consequent-

ly it has ordered fresh elections, The paper adds that recent and has instruoted the local enormous speculative purchases Bolshevik authorities to do their of tea for resale by biddors who utmost to combat the electors have been able to outbid com- the petitors, has had the effect of apathy and countornet

stoadily raising the market priso increased influence of the Kulaks by at least sixponce a pound. In otherwise the well-to-do peasants,j by assembling a maximum num-the event of those efforts boing successful, there is every prospecti ber of the possant masses to of a substantial reduction of the participate in the elections and ensure the return of Communiste rotail prices.

The Royal Commission on Food

and non-Communist supporters Prices has had its attention drawn

of the Soviet regime, Reuter.

to the position.-Reuter,

}

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