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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1937.
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THIS IS CHRISTIANITY
Do
you remember it?
LESSED are the poor
in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of hea
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righte- ousness: for they shall be fill- ed,
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peace-makers: for they shail be called the child- ren of God.
Blessed are they which are
TO-MORROW IS THE DAY WE CELEBRATE AS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. IN HONG- KONG AND ELSEWHERE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THE CHURCH WILL BROAD- CAST AN APPEAL FOR A GREAT RELIGIOUS, REVIVAL. HERE IS OUR LORD'S OWN STATEMENT OF THE PHILOSOPHY THAT CONQUERED.
THE WORLD
Be ye therefore perfect, even which is in your Father heaven is perfect....
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AND when thou prayest.
thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love 'to pray standing in the synago- Rues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. The engagement is announced of
But when ye pray, use not John Derek Holmes, lat Kumaon Rifles, Indian Army, younger son
vain repetitions, as the heathen of the late Rev. F. S. Holmes
Ye are the light of the world. tion, causeth her to commit adul- do: for they think that they of Queenstown, Co. Cork, Ireland and Mrs. Holmes of persecuted for righteousness' A city that is set on a hill can- tery: and whosoever shall marry shall be heard for their much Muelt Hudham, Hertfordshire to sake: for theirs is the kingdom not be hid.
her that is divorced committeth speaking. Dorothea Rosalie, daughter of of heaven.
Be not ye therefore like unto Mr. C. G. Alabaster O.B.E.. KC.
Neither do men light a candle, adultery. Blessed ate ye, when (Attorney General of Hong
men and put it under a bushel, but on Oshall revile you, and persecute a candlestick: and it giveth light"
AGAIN, ye have heard them: for your Father knoweth Kong) and Mrs. Alabaster
that it hath been said what things ye have need of, be- M.D.E., 270 The Peak, Hong you, and shall say all manner of unto all that are in the house.
fore yo ask Him. Kong. (China and Indian papers evil against you falsely, for My
by them of old time, Thou shalt
After this manner. therefore piense copy).
Let your light so shine before not forswear thyself, but shalt yake.
men, that they may Rejoice, and be exceeding good works, and glorify your oaths:
see your perform unto the Lord thine pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. d: for great is your reward Father which is in heaven.... in heaven: for so persecuted
But I say unto you, Swear not
was said by them of is God's throne:
Nor by the earth; for it is his old time, Thou shalt not kill: YE
are the salt of the and whosoever shall kill shall be footstool: neither by Jerusalem; carth: but if the salt in danger of the judgment.
for it is the city of the great have lost his savour, wherewith
But I say unto you. That King. shall it be salted? It is thence-
Neither shalt thou swear by whosoever is angry with his
The
Hongkong Telegraph. they the prophets which were YE have heard that it at all; neither by heaven; for it
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1937.
REFERENDUM
ON WAR
before you.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is ín
heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debta, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into tempta..
For thine is the kingdom, and. whosoever shall say to his But let your communication the power, and the glory, for
Amen. brother, Raca, shall be in danger be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for ever. at Washington, is a Congress-be found?
For if ye forgive not men That it is unwieldy of the council: but whosoever whatsoever is more than these man who has never been pro-and unworkable. Wars have a shall say, Thou fool, shall be in cometh of evil.
their trespasses neither will minent in the news outside his way of developing almost over-danger of hell fire.
Ye have heard that it hath your heavenly Father.. forgive home state of Indiana until just night. Some-one sinks some-
Therefore if thou bring thy been said, An eye for an eye, and your trespasses.... recently. But not long ago he one else's warship--as in the gift to the altar, and there re- a tooth for a tooth:
LAY not up for your- But I say unto you, That ye hit upon the not entirely ori case which caused the Spanish-memberest that thy brother
selves treasures upon American war-and tension de- hath ought against thee;
resist not evil: but whosoever ginal ides of submitting to velops. The explanation is not MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. referendum the most moment-satisfactory; satisfaction is not the altar, and go thy way; first check, turn
Leave there thy gift before shall smite thee on thy right earth, where moth and rust doth to him the other corrupt, and where thieves break ous decision that any Govern-forthcoming-after heated hours be reconciled to thy brother, and als
through and steal:
But lay-up-for-yourselves ment can be called upon to make of recrimination; words
And if any man will sue thee are then come and offer thy gift... at the law, and take away thy treasures in heaven, where the question of whether or weighted with a new signi- not to go to war. And he has ficance and tragic portent, and YE have heard that it coat, let him have thy cloke also. neither moth nor rust doth cor-
the time arrives when an ulti-l
was said by them of And whosoever shall compel rupt, and where thieves do not now become a figure of national matum is delivered. Shall the old time, Thou shalt not com- thee to go a mile, go with him break through nor steal: importance, whose name is nation
vote then? How long mit adultery:
For where your treasure is, splashed in headlines all over would it take to count the bal- But I say unto you, That who- Give to him that asketh thee, there will your heart be also.
The light of the body is the the country and is known lot? Would it be a representa soever looketh on a woman to and from him that would bor- abroad as well. A controversy tive vote anyway? People would lust after her hath committed row of thee turn not thou away." eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be rages around the referendum be inflamed with passion as nadultery with her already in his
VE have heard that it full of light. scheme; for on the face of it result of the insult suffered and heart.
the lives lost. there is much to commend it. with wisdom and
Would they vote And if thy right eye offend shalt love thy neighbour, and whole body shall be full of dark- But if thine eye be evil, thy Closer analysis shows its flaws, thorough knowledge of the facts from thee: for it is profitable for
asthee, pluck it out, and cast it hate thine enemy.
ness. If, therefore, the light however,
But I say unto you, Love your
orth good for nothing, but to be brother without a cause shall be thy head, because thou canst nut tion, but deliver us from evil: cast out, and to be trodden un- in danger of the judgment: and make one hair white or black. Mr. Louis Ludlow, member of (der foot of men. the
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Behold the fowls of the air: for they now not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
as their statesmen, who are thee that one of thy members enemies, bless them that curse that is in thee be darkness, how It will probably be argued by guiding them, possess? Not should perish, and not that thy you, do good to them that hate great is that darkness! its exponents, indeed this is likely.
whole body should be cast into you, and pray for them which No man can serve two their main point, that a demo-
hell. Another example. Japan and
despitefully use you, and per-
masters: for either he cratic people has the right to the United States are discussing thee, cut it off, and cast it from
And if thy right hand offend secute you;
will hate the one and love the show its desires when con- a critical situation which has thee: for it is profitable for thee of your
That ye may be the children other; or else he will hold to the fronted with the possibility of arisen out of the sinking of the that one of thy members should heaven: for he maketh his sun cannot serve God and mammon. Father which is in one and despise the other. Ye having to make great sacrifices. Panay. Will the United States perish, and not that thy whole to rise on the evil and on the Wny, since a country is entitled go to war? Take a referendum body should be cast into hell.
Therefore I say unto you, Take to express its choice in respect to-day. Suppose the vote was
just and on the unjust,
no thought for your life, what to political candidates for the
It hath been said, Whosoever overwhelmingly
For if ye love them which love ye shall eat, or what highest offices, when it even what would be the effect on re-give her a writing of divorce- not even the publicans the same? what ye shall put on. Is not the
ye affirmative, shall put away his wife, let him you, what reward have ye? do drink; nor yet for your body, clects the judges of its courts, Intions between the two coun- its state governors, in tries? It is not difficult to ima- ment:
And if ye salute your brethren life more than meat, and the America, should it not declare gine. Suppose the result were
But I say unto you, That who- only, what do ye more than body than raiment? its will for or against war? It strongly negative; what would ever shall put away his wife, others? do not even the publi would seem logical that a free be the effect upon Japan? And saving for the cause of fornica- cans so? people should have that right.
suppose tension grew greater Indirectly, it has. It must
to-morrow, and the next day, be supposed the public is ade-and there was another "inci- quately represented. in its dent" on the day following. Government and that these would the American people go representatives know their
to a referendum every day? Or business and serve their con- would they get a little tired of Istituents well, It must be shutting up shop and trotting surmised that the people who to the polls, and pick up a gun are responsible for the foreign and do something about it." A Merry X-X-X-mas!
The Hankow refugees Are policy are also responsible to
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training for the state, and that they will not A Government can tell fairly And then there was the man dinner in Hongkong. rush rashly into dangers accurately the tomper of its who complained that the only through stupid or blundering people without recourse to re-thing he got out of the pudding diplomney. For as long as a ferendum. If a Government is last year was dyspepsin. nation is a nation, it must have [hard-driven by circumstances leadors, and it must trust them towards war, it will be found the
Some of these stockings look and follow wheresoever they people are moving close behind, much better filled naturally. shall lend. Otherwise there due, in part, to the publicity will be anarchy and chaos, and given to developments, General- The Season's romance: The peace, as an aim, 'in out of the ly speaking, the world is safer girl in Robinson Crusoe who got question,
in the hands of its experienced her man Friday. The kien of a referendum on 'atatesmen and diplomats than in war looks nico on paper, but put the uncertain grip of an excit- 'to the practical teat, what will able public.
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You have their Christmas been reading
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This is the season when even taipana are permitted to blow their trumpets.
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---extracts from the Sermon on the Mount, from the
With all these parties it looks
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more like Christmas daze!
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At least one fond parent is go-
ing to enjoy himself to-morrow.
Gospel according to
Saint Matthew, chap-
ters five, six and
Meny a mistletoo the line over He has bought his youngster a seven. the week-end.
Jig-saw puzzle.