OVER THE TOP.
Mr. R. H. Charles is perp xeen getting "over, the top at the ⚫rocont Fanling" Hun steeple-chase meeting. (Photo: Moo Cheung)
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Delhi, Feb. 19.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1926.
MORAL COURAGE.
By the Revd., G. E. Arrowsmith, M.A.
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"Courage without moral aim," says Dawson, is merely animal recklessness, with moral aim it is a Christian virtue." And this is a virtue that weak and strong || | alike may have,
The smallest child, who has the power of Christ in his heart, may be a giant in spirit and do prodigies of valour. We think of the youthful martyrs in the days of religious persecution
the flercest temptations could not“ deter Him from obeying God's will, and the apostles and early disciples showed the same spirit of" unflinching herpism. Why, then, should Christianity be dub- -| ben unmanly, effeminate? think the reason is this; in, these days of religious freedom, when, every man's conscience is a law unto himself, there is no longer the call for such "excessive bra- very as was demanded in the early days" of the Church. As a
have slipped in. When, religion meant. persecution, only those who were sit cere, and who were determined to fight to the bitter end, entered the ranks of God; but now that there is no fear of torture and death, the half-heart- ed, the lukewarm, and the Insin- cere come Rocking in. It is these Lime-serving, case-loving, hypo- critical disciples who have dis- credited the Church in the eyes of the world.
of the lad Pontieus, only sixteen years of age, who, rather than renounce his faith, suffered tor-consequence many undesirables ture of the most fiendish dea- Teription, and died still true to
his God: or of Pancratius, mere child of fourteen, who, when brought before the Emperor Diocletins and commanded to re- cant, cried boldly that he was ready to die. "For," said he, "Christ, our Master, inspires the souls of His servants, even young us I am, with courage to suffer for His sake." He promptly scal- ed his testimony with his life's blood, for the imperial monster It is the duty of all who are had him beneaded on the spot.
whole-hearted in the service of It is a courage of this sort that Christ to combat this wrong im the Church looks for from her pression, formed by popular. disciples to-day. The dauntless opinion. Let us show in our lives Spirit of Jesus should be shining | some of the courage of Christ. Are we during in our faith, de we show any real boldness in our religion, are we willing to suffer No, His Whole isolation, to be regarded as “old- teaching His whole life urges fashioned." to endure. laughter us to be "very rourageous," to and scorn for conscience' sake? be unswerving in principle; to do if not, let us pray the "God of the right in the face of every all power and might" to hardien
"endure hardness the moral fibre of our being- opposition, to us good, soldiers of Jesus Christ," He can enable us to say "no" to The world has mischievously re- temptation, not a feeble quaver- presented the Christian life as a ing "no" breathed by a tremulous weak, effeminate existence. suit-soul within, but bold, incisive, able for women and children and clear as the clarion's call-a "no" we will stick though parsons, but not at all fitted for to which vigorous, manly men. "Inoffen- our life's blood be drained drop sive suavity," that sums up the by drop, popular conception of Christ's ideal follower.
The Indian Commercial Con- through the lives of all His Kress Subjects Committee has followers. He told us to be meck, rejected a proposal by tlfe Bem-gentle, forgiving, merciful, but bay Millowners Association that was that all? the Government, be urged to terminate the Indo-Japanese Con- vention et March, 5, 1905. The proposal has accordingly been ahandened.
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The Congress has passed a re- solution orging the Government to adopt measures like the British Safeguarding of industries Act proteel Indian industries against the competition of other countries. It has also passed a resolution in favour of the adop tion of a gold standard and gold -currency for India.—Reuter,
CHEAP STEEL.
A NEWLY-INVENTED PROCESS.
us is the highest form of But the Bible bravery-worthy of our man- gives "no warrant for this idea, hood, worthy of the Christ; a the Christian is usually referred courage which puts to shame the to there under the figure, of a mere physical intrepidity of the soldier, and the stern virtues in-bloodstained battle-field, and pleated by military training are which Christ Himself will acknow- those it ivocates.
ledre at the lust, and honour with a heavenly crown.
Our Saviour. Who is our pat- tern, was a man of extraordinary moral forre, the most terrifying opposition failed to dauat Him,
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Peking. Feb. 10, invented during the war known de As previously reported, while silica gel, a colloidal silica, which there still exists a "wide gap in possesses great absorbent quali- the views entertained by the tlea..
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GIANTS AND PIGMIES.
Describing the pigmies, Mr. Roome said: "They live right in the heart of a forest and are the CENTRAL AFRICAN TRAVEL wildest specimens of humanity existing to-day. On approach TALES.
they run like rabbits and hide I have pulled A remarkable record of explora-behind trees, tion came to light with the arrival foliage aside and seen the little in London on a furlough of W..J. eyes peeping at me. W. Roome, for some years Secre-1 "With the help of a pimy guide tary of a Bible society in East I managed to reach an encamp Central Africa, who crossed Africa ment of sixty-three persons. They five times from East to West and carry, fitile spears and bows and five times from North to South, arrows and conduct à silent trade armed only with a camera,
His total travel of 75,000 miles pigmies are desperately danger is unequaled in records of African .ous. exploration. Among his adven-
with other forest triben,
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tures was a visit to King Muzinga "Many a man has died from one consider that the rendition of the of Ruanda, a seven-foot giant who of their poisoned arrows. Shanghai Mixed Court is a matter rules a nation whose upper caste jure neither nude nor cannibalistic
or leaves, is composed exclusively of men and wear bark, cloth of course, have now
under
from six to well over seven feet But as they stay in, a dark forest? consideration a plan to establish' | tall.
they have sallow skins of ochre
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Mr. Roome has met leopards and
a new court after the rendition of The young men of this nation hue." the Mixed Court in order to dead has photos of a tribesman clear-buffate within forty yards, but his
are great athletes and Mr. Roome) with cases that may arise betweening by over a foot a bar set at six recipe for peaceful travel in
Chinese and foreigners,
With this end in view, the Dr. Patrick said that a steel Diplomatic Body and the Chinese Ministry of Justice, acting in co- mill in England was using the authorities regarding the ren-operation with the foreign office process successfully and that the dition of the Mixed Court is now drawing up regulations for United States Steel Corporation had plans under way to install and the reconstruction of the the establishment of a required the new system in one.of its Municipal Council of Shanghai,
plants, that a New England com- the Chinese authorities, who now court..
pany was manufacturing r-
frigerator cars based upon the
use of silica gel and that the Paulsboro, N. J. plant of the Standard Oil company was using the now material in the refinement of petroleum.
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Course Sand Resembled. Silica gel fa ninde with water glass and acids. It forms a subs-] Lance, which" resembles coarse sand, but contains innumerable, pores so fine that they cannot be seen even under the best micros- cope.. From the absorbent qualities of the substances of these pores in one gram of silica gel would cover half an acre.
Dr. Patrick said the new pro- duct also would make it possible to obtain gasoline from natural gas at slight expense and benzine from coke oven gas. These 'use by no means exhaust its possibili ties, he said.
In the manufacture of steel, he said, silica gel hnd Increased out- put 10 per cent. and decreased the cost of coke 15 per cent. By far the greatest volume of substance passing through'a blast furnace, he explained, is air, about 50,000 cubic feet of which passes through a goodsized furnace every minuto of operation. Water vapour in this hitherto has caused consider- able difficulty in operation, partl cularly as it varies with weather condition. By putting the alr through allen gel il is dehydrated; practically all of the moisture being removed.
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Mr. Roome gave a vivid picture Africa is: "Never, bully wild Just say good morning
of finding a shy, frightened tribe animals.
of pigmies, whose men are mostly
less than four feet tall while little and pass on.". ". mothers of three feet nine inches were nursing babies. He encoun-
By his study of native, dialects)
teret them in a great thousand- the Bible will now be brought to
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