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THE HONGKONG ́TELEGRAPH. · MONDAY, JANUARY
On Christmas night I listened in
We know that our new King shares the Broadcasting Studio to the King's Christmas mossage to his family. also this great gift of humanity and
rectness of approach to real, pro The tones of his voice were the
We can show our loyalty to familiar tones of the Norfolk Country lens.
in and our grateful memory to hle Squire, 1 was rominded very forcibly beloved father in no better way than Indecil that atrength of our King lay in the simple courage by by determining that we too, ench which he has kept his own personality in his own sphere, will dare to be
Duracives, anfo from the corroding influence of exalted rank,
tho
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ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH
Rev. J. R. Higgs Sermon
and
Empire's Sympathy
I have sold that we must join
hard
of
I had planned to speak this mom forced into war. No one could ne- the Crown throughout perhaps the ing of Jesus in the modern world cuse British people today of being most difficult period of their exlatence. and of a challenge to us that wo warlike. In recent months we have And at the end of his days he hande preserve that life back to his Maker as Arthur should dare in this age of machines made aupreme efforts to and great movements to assert the peace in the world and that has i did Excalibur to the arm in the lake, BISHOP'S REFERENCE
supremacy of personality: to dare, ways. been typical of our policy. We algnifying the belief which was his ав Jesus dared, to ba human are a peace-loving people. And in throughout his reign, that to gain AT CATHEDRAL
be simple, to bo personal this our late King has representei che's life one buat lose it as Jesus our ideals. In his Christmas Day taught both in precept and practice. in all our doings. The authorities of Preaching at the 11 am. service Palestine assembled against Jesus. broadcast addresses what a depth of Briefly then, the significanes of the V has been in St. John's Cathedral yesterday. He said, "Hereafter you shall see the feeling and emotion he put into that reign of King George Bishop Hall took as his text, "The Son of Man sitting at the right hand word Peace." He spoke of it as that by living for those principios King whall rejoice In Thy strength Of God." In the long history of Em-though to him it was the "pearl 01 that are specifically Christian, he has Jord," Ho said:
piros, conquerors and of kings, King great price." And not only did he
the Empire in a position which was The strength of God is in Bethlehem Jeorge stands out because he dared strive for it in the world at large placed the Crown, the Throne, and and Nazareth, in Galilee, on Calvary, be the simple man God made him, but amongst his own people. In never stronger in our history, and is Easter Day and on the Emmbusho majesty of kingship is nothing and Ireland know as much as anyone through them has blessed the rest of o the simple, majesty of the honest how much he wanted peace in those man who dares to be himself. lands and in our own industrial and the world.
political disputes his was always the great peace-loving heart that yearn- ed to bring love out of hate, pence with those both of his own family and and happiness out of discord confinion. He lived to bring "pence of the Empire at largo who mourn at the fact that on earth and goodwill among men."this time. Most of us find it
to adjust our minds A Religious Man
dead. When we But there is !!! another thing our beloved King
his do we shall fully realise the mighty without which any tribute to memory would be incomplete. King thing that has happened this last George V represents the growth in week and then our grief will follow. the world of the Christian view of And if this grief is ours what
those who are of his own family? monarchy. "I am among you as he that servetit," said the King of Kinga. For them we pray, for them we ask History can tell a sad story of kings for God's comfort and strength and all-abiding love that they may know who had other Idents. Our late loved king patterned his ille on that "there is no separation in the realm of the Master of men, He served of love." They have lost a father but if his people. Moreover his spirit was and a husband. Their grief must of
BOTTO other necessity be greater than ours but Christian-so unlike rulers in the world today. He was all love and sympathy are of the spirit that we mean when wo use the words, and if we believe in the spiritual "o great Christian gentleman." world, we can but hope that from Our late king was a religious man, this farthest post, of Empire sur On Tuesday next, being the day of This was the prayer he had hung prayers for them are effectual this on, the wall of his study in Bucking day and that with the rest of the The strongth of God is in Bethlehem our King's burial, we shall hold
Empire we are one in sympathy and and in Na areth and antong the short service in this Church at 9.45 ham Palaco:
The service will, in outline, be
"O God, teach me to observe the love. the Chileana.m. Galilean hills. Jenus countryman, Jens born at Bethlehem, exactly the same as the service in rules of the game; teach me neither There to cry for the moon nor for apllt boy at Nazareth, lover of the hills the Cathedral at 11.30 a.m. and birds and flowers. This Jesus is will be ne address and the service milk; help me to distinguish between the strength of God.
will include most of the Burial Ser- sentimeni and sentimentality, cleav- vice. I hope that many of us will being to the one and despising the other. Today we thank God for a King able to attend it. To-day our ser-Help me neither to proffer nor to re- whose power to lend his people lay vices will be of a different character. colve cheap praise. If I am called largely in his love for the country-They will enable us to think together on to suffer fet me be like the well- side, for birds and flowers and the of the life of him who has been taken bred beast who goes away and suffers and its in silence. Teach me to win when I oper reaches of the Norfolk fields,
from us of its meaning significance n life which was loved may and if I may not win, then above But the strength of God is not and respected by the people of all, I pray, make me a good loser." only in Galileo, it is in Gethsemane mighty Empire and by the world at and Calvary. am reminded again large. I hope that as a result they at this time as I was at the King's will make us all dedicate our lives Jubilee of the moment during the afresh to those principles for which war when I stood face to face with our beloved king stood, and which
Lis late Majesty, I shall nevor for- were focussed in his person. get the suffering wornness of his face and the deep lines of pain that told how intimately he was sharing in the horror of the trenches and the anxiety of nonlens home.
Aw we waited for the Proclamation dik- on Wednesday afternoon, a tinguished Chlacno gentleman told me of his visit the day before to lay n wreath on King George's statue. The tears could not be stayed as he remembered the simple and homely welcome he received from the King at Buckingham Paince some years
ago.
"The King shall rejoice in Thy strength O Lord."
Sympathy for the Jour
On the Late King Preaching at St. Andrew's Church Kowloon, yesterday, on the text, "And the Lord sald unto him, well done hou good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord," Matthew (25; 21.) the Rev. J... Higgs said:
a
And his religion included Church attendance duty which has been alumefully neglected by many of his subjects both, at home and abroad. Nothing could prevent him attending Sunday worship, and it was to the little church at Sandringham that he away. was taken after he passed He was not only the head of Church of England, he was a loyal and faithful member of it too,
our
Yes, he was a great, brood, peace-loving and a religious king-A monarch beloved whose ministry will always be treasured by a sorrowing and grateful people.
I confean that I am fas nil ministers are this day) at a dis- advantage in taking such services and
matter. peaking upon such
The ute King's life is known and loved by us all. It is its own illumination. It requires no lesser lights to give it radiance. It stands, a beacon on a hill seen by the world-a life that makes its own appeal to all in its simple grandeur. All we oan hope to do this day is to pay a humble tribute, to recall the significance of such a life, to try to join with those There is no doubt that he who mourn, of his own family and has done more for the stability of our people at large, and to pray of the world throughout hla God that we may live to be more worthy of ear beloved King who for twenty-five years had the love and affection of a mighty Empire.
But what of the significance of his life and roign? What will history say of him?
-Tower of Strength
OX
Perhaps the following versesR press our feelings better than wo can in prose:
The world is sombre now, darkened
the hills. A deep bell tolls," at half-mast
droops the flag.
The King is dead.. The King who
was a part
Of all our lives and of the things
ir
we loved.
We must not grieve.
Is three-
acore years and ten. Forming a rounded whole, drow to
their close.
Knowing his people's loyalty and
love,
He passed in peace unto the peace
of God.
Greatly, we loved him; his nobility, His quiet strength of mind And
single nim, His love of
country things and English ways,
His simple courage and his trust
In God,
Now he has passed and we are
left to tread
The path of duty that he knew no
well.
He rest in peace. Across the
world we send
Our love to him, our love to those
that mourn.
God save the King.
In the immortal words of Rupert
Brooko
King George's reign has been time of much suffering and anxiety, The prosperity of the preceding cen- jury was beginning to slow up even before dlm war. The problem of the livelihood of the poor was a deep and burning question which in the first four years of his reign was partly mot by National Insurance. It is not, necessary to speak of the agony of the war. Since the war life has been no easier for anyone sensitive to the needs of others. But here aain the strength of the late King lay where God would have it, lic; in Gethsemane and Calvary, in sharing in the suffering and the anxiety of Firstly, then, to pay a humble workloan handy - and comfortless tribute. There is no doubt that our homes. There can be no home in late greatly beloved King was the England to-day, however bitter their spitome of our most cherished Bag. sense of the Injustice of our social lish ideala. He had A beautiful inherit the earth" Or in other done thou good and faithful servant. order may be, which does not mourn family life. Everyone knows this, words, Chirstian character is not the Enter thou into the joy of thy the passing of a King whose great in an age when for many the ideal soft, sentimental thing
that some Lord."
nt lay in his understanding of their feelings and their sufferings and his enger desire to make England a nation whose prestigo iny deep rooted In Justice the poor and care for those in need. No man is strong and no man is great who shuts his heart to suffering.
An English Ideal..
"he leaves a white glory,
A Enthertd radiance,
unbroken
eventful reign
than any other man. Largely owing to the par- ticular sort of character he p sscss d -the character I have just out lined the British Crown is now in a stronger position than ever and is! a tower of strength to the whole world. Looking at this, through Christian eyes we see it is true
And because of the first Enster after all as our Lord enid, tha. marning, thank God, he still lives. "Blessed are the meek: for they shal.And the Lord sald unto him, well
A.width, a shining peace, under
the night."
TUESDAY SERVICES
has been lost, he, n: the centre of people think it is but possesses the Empire, has set a superb exampio strength which holds the world to- not only to his own people but together and is its aaviour. The strong the whole work. In this way he has ones of the earth are not the as-
A short brvice will be held at St. done more for the real good of Eng-sive, conquering, swaggering bullies, Andrew's Church, Kowloon, at 9.45 land than in anything clac. The but-men-ke-no-one-we-Tom-TuesdayTho- service-will, strength of a people is, aml always with sorrowing hearts to-day. They in outline, be exactly the same as the must be, in the stability of its family are those who realise the power of service at the Cathedral at 11.30 am. life. Nothing clae can take its place. moral force and who exhibit it in But Gethaomane and Calvary are Our late King has been, as it were, their own lives.
Matshed Churck Service not the and. There is always Baster rock in a desert of drifting sand.
A memorial service for the late: Day and the Emmaus Road. We can He has lived by those idents which as though it had
Twenty-five years ago I remember. King Georre V will be held at the leave aur beloved King in the hands we all in our heart of hearts know watching the train that contained the Tuesday, at 9.30 a.m.
yesterday, Matshed Church, Shamshulpo, on of God confident that one who shared to be true.
body of King Edward VII proceeding down the Great Western line to its people will share also in the peaco So, too, he has lived for pence oven destination at Windsor. At that me of the risen life.
though his country was for a timement King George V was assuming
so deeply in the sufferings of
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A Memoital Service will be held at Ohel Leah" Synagogue on Tuesday. Innanry 28, at 11.30 am for His Late Majesty King George V.
"Requiem" Performance
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the responsibility of a mighty Em- pire. Tennyson's "Morte D'Arthur tells the story of the King who at the beginning of his career was given the
It has been suggested that, sa a sword Excalibur from the lake, which tribute of respect to His late Majesty he used until his deathbert, when, King George, the Hongkong Singers after hesitating until the third time, should give a rendering of Brahms was thrown back into the lake by Requiem in the Cathedral at 6 p.m his knight, Sir Bedivere. It is n wonderful story and rich in meaning. on Wednesday, January
SH the Governor has given hils Twenty-five years ago King George
expressed his received his insignia of office and for approval and has twenty-five years he hus sorved his intention of being present. He also: people. The sword, to my mind. feels that a collection should be taken symbolises the strength drawn from and the whole proceeds given to St an outside source which
enabled Dunstan's in whose wonderful work King Arthur to be what he was, is known that our late King took Our beloved king received similar the greatest interest. strength the strength from an Out- There will of course, be no charge sido Source the strength that God for admission and no reservation of Himanlf wavờ him.
aents.
It is because of this-of this Those members of the Singers who, strength received from Christ-of tooit part in the Armistice Serviço. this acknowledgment of Christianity and others who know the Requiem, which means the belief in the best as notified that special rehearsals things our efvilleation contains and will be hold in the Cathedral on
he determination to stand by them--Fonday and Tuesday at 9.46 p.m. that for twenty-five years King
The Service itself will be at 6 p.m George has stoored the Empire and Wednesday next.
27, 1936.
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