CATHEDRAL SERMON
Governor And Admiral At Seafarers' Service
The fourth annual seafarers' service was held at St. John's Cathedral yesterday morning, and was attended by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, and Lady Northcote, His Excellency the Commander-in- Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir Percy L. H. Noble, His Excellency Major General A. W. Bartholomew, naval officers and naval ratings.
The service commenced with the singing of the National Anthem and a bymu, and was followed by a Special Psalm. His Excellency Sir Percy Noble then read the 1st. Lesson, Isalah 40, verse 1-14, and His Ex- cellency Sir Geoffry
the
of this boyhood. There is no cate- chism on board ship, except maybe the catechism which survives from the days of sall:
"Six days shalt thou labour and
do all thou ori able, Northcote
"And on the seventh holystone the End, Lesson, St. John 21, verso 1-14.
Prior to the conclusion of the ser-||
decks and scrape the "cablo". But I do not want you to supposo vice the Very Rev. J. L. Wilson, Denu of the Cathedral, blessed the cun of her sallor
that the Church has been unmindful sons, The Navy of gregation.
England has not been entirely sermon was given by the Rev: neticeled and cut The
off from her Cyril Brown, Chaplain of the Saliors'
ministrations. I say "the Navy of Home and Missions to Scumen England", following the words of the Taking
as his text Ecclesinaticus, 43, verse 24-They that salinelent chronicler who wrote:
on the sen tell of the danger thereof, nd when we hear it with our cars we marvel," he raid:
There must be not a few present in this Cathedral Church this mor- ning who could tell Flory of hill many an exciting
und messmates and lands far away, of queer cargoes and varied waterfronts, of
of rock
and tempest, fire and foe-for the sailor mag wits over a spinner of yogs; and this elde of his nature provides nany a pleasant hour for those who, like myself, are able and ready to lister.
"It's up an' stars, an' for an
frost, an' blue weather and grey, "An' big sens curils' giren as glass afore they break, in pray, "Aa sudden dark on tropic sean
dropped like
bilnd that's drawn,
rea
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"An' stormy sunsets off the capes an' strange landfalls at dawn". The men of the sen have indeed mony and varied experiences which even we, who take steamer passage from time to time can share but in small measure; yet at our Seafarers' Service this morning, I want to try and sum up and interpret those ex- periences in asking.
What has the to teach men
about Gext? First, I would say that the sea Inparts
n sense of wonder which may help to recover the realisation of God in what is n purely mechanica was talking to a I Mariner board a freighter only last night. He said that
often, as a Junior wateli-keeping officer, he had looked up from the bridge on a clear starry
night and wondered at the immensity of things.
axc.
on
frame,
heart a
religious man", Captain friend-I belleve
Master
at
nak tiny so too. complex than the lives
His He is us ashore to-day. Fils
of
of so many dependence, even in this mechanical age, upon wind and tide and ther, and the Immutable
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"The Navy of England may be divided into three sorts, of which the one serveth for the wars, the sther for burden, and the third for shermen, which get their livin by fishing on the sen,"
1. As far back as the reign of King Stephen, there were Chaplains in that part "which serveth for the wars.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1938. ·
THE JAPANESE MARCH
MARCH ON CANTON
JAPANESE TROOP S ADVANCING across the mountains from Blas Bay to Tamshui, their first inland objective. be seen over the head of the Japanese sentry. This photograph, and the one on Page 1, Formosa by aeroplane and back to Hongkong by steamer.-Copyright.
The waters of Bias Bay can were rushed from Canton to
"On board each ship there shall Le a priest, and the same obser- vances as in purishes ashore". So runs the ordinance of 1147. There is record of a chaplain under Edward I whose name is preserved, for in the account of naval expendi- turer we find that one, Master Rebert of Sandwich, received pay
Pay at the rate of 6d, per day, which was half! that of a Captain, and twice that of a seaman, Frobisher carried a chap- inla on his voyages of discovery, so indeed did Drake in the "Golden Hind". By 1883, the great Bishop such a night as this, sir. Ken-then a Prebendary of Winches-idleness brought them here." fer-hau the oversight of the work, and thus, the author of "Awake, my soul" and "Glory to Thee, My God. this night" wrote of a chaplain's duties
"A priest read daily prayers to
every crew
"Taught them their vow Baptismal
to renew:
"That they who run the danger of
the deep "Their souls at pence with God
should always keep."
ago.
Not in Idleness
The second is this,
It was no that not one single man of the Royal Navy (whether officer or rating) with whom 1 discussed the recent crisis, expressed a desire to fight. "If only our navy might be strong enough to preserve pence", was a frequent remark. It is
dimcult, maybe, for other nations to bellove perhaps even the weapons of war our integrity, but such it is, and are indeed the weapons Pesce, May He grant that they may
of God's
"Cherish marchandise, keepe the
Admiralte,
"That wee bee masters of the
narrow sea.
battle "The ende of
is peace kerly, (e., certainly) "And power causeth peace finally. "Keepe then the sea, that is the
wall of Englonde, "And then is Englonde kept by
Goddes hand."
"Christ Who madest friends of
seamen, "Gulde and keep us, safe and
whole "From the seas that drown man's
body,
"From the lusts that drown his
soul.
"In the task accomplished teach us "True content, like Thee, to find, "Doing still our seamen's duty "With a glad and wiling mind. "Light of Light, go Thou before
Us,
"Night and day, by land and rea, "Then, our earthly voyage ended, "Bring us home, dear Lord, to
Theet"
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IMPORTED POISONS
Government To Check Abuse Of The Law
The Government Gazette publishes the draft of a Pharmacy and Polsons Amendment Ordinonce, by which the Pharmacy and Polsorts Ordinance, 1037, is amended by the Insertion Immediately after section 21, of the following section:
P
21A. It shall not be lawful for person to have any polson included in Part I of the Poisons List in his possession unless
(a) he entitled under this Part - of this Ordinance to sell the poison or in wholesale dealer duly Ecensed under this Ordinance to Beli poisons;
or
(b) the poison has been duly sold or supplied (the proof whereof shall We upon him) by an authorised seller of polsony in nccordance with tho provisions of this Ordinance and any regulations thereunder.
This Ordinance. shall come into force on the first day of Jantiary,
1939.
It is explained that Clause 2 of this Bill Inserts the new section in the principal Ordinance, to make it an offence for a person to have pos- ression of a poison included in Pärt I of the Poisons List unless he in entitled to acil the poison, or 13
duly licensed wholesale dealer, in poisons, or the polson has been duly sold or supplied to him by an authorised seller of poisons, and in the latter case, putting the burden of proof that the polson has been duly sold or supplied, upon the person charged.
Fecullar
Circumstances
The peculiar circumstances of this Colony where the effective control of the importation of poisons would be difficult and costly, makes it neces
sary
to implement the principal Ordinance by a provision of this kind. Registered chemists and ilcensed POLICE TRANSFERS
wholesale dealers are obliged by law Latest transfers in the Hongkong chases, whereby the distribution and to keep records of sales and pur- Police Force in consequence of the the ultimate destination of poisons retirement of Inspector E. J. Ellis, can be traced. There is however, no who left for England on Saturday, are
such check upon the unregistered or as follows:
unlicensed persons wlto Import Inspector E. G. Post, from Yaumati poisons for their own purpose, to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs. It has
been
established that Inspector A. Wright, frors Shauki-poisons are being imparted and dis- wan to Youmati.
tributed in the Colony in a manner Inspector W. A. Russell, from Kow- contrary to the interests of the loon City to Shaukiwan.
general public. Proof that the exist- Acting Inspector H. E. Rogers, Ing law has been broken is difficult from Hung Hom to Kowloon City.
Acting Sub-Inspector J. H, E. Edwards, from Central to Hung Hom.
ROTARY CLUB (C. Fox Smith.)
The speaker at to-morrow's meel- Harvest Thanksgiving
ing of the Hongkong Rotary Club will be Rotarian James Smith, and Observances
his subject "A Parent's Reply" (to Harvest Thanksgiving services Mr. Handyside). were held at the Methodist Church, Wanchal, and the Hongkong Union Church, Kennedy Road,, yesterday. The Churchs were suitably decorated for the cension.
It is no idleness which has brought you seafarers to Church this morning.
It is no idleness which brings sea-] farers Sunday by Sunday to the Hongkong, where the work of the Seamen's Chapel of St. Peter here in Missions to Seamen was begun fifty ya ay be a few In this Church ever so be used, who will remember the name of Arthur Gurney Goldsmith, and re- 2 "The other for burden." If early call that sumpan of many years ago there were chaplains in "that sort which Dew the "Flying Angel" Flag. which serveth for the wars", it was 3. The third for fishermen which not so in "the other sort for burden". get their living fishing on
hy The men of the merchant navy had These men, too, have not been for
on the too." cen."
to wait
vait until 1835 before an attempt
guiten.
At mar
many of the great fishing was made to include them in the ports at home-Yarmouth, Brixham The spangled heavens, a shining ministrations of the Church.
John and
and Lerwick-you will find either the Ashley was the pioneer; it was he
was he Missions "Their great Original proclaim: who, seeing a fleet of merchantmen society, the St.
to Scumen or her sister "For ever singing, as
"Libell of English Folley" (eirea Andrew's Waterside they shine, becalmed in
1436). the Bristol Channel, Mission, at work. "The Hand that made us is Divine."
of taking the But I have digressed. The sea Im-
And ΠΟΥ I come
to the third I believe that the sailor is conceived the iden
Gospel of Jesus Christ und the a sense of wonder and helps to lesson we may learn from the sea. ministrations of ills Church to incr recover the realisation of coch. That The ben calls to Adventure, Do you chant seamer:
in my Brst point.
remember that picture so often re- "Captain". said Ashley, on board-
The sea as n produced.
is. if my IL ing the first vessel, "has no one great uniter calls the nations to com- serves me right, by Sir John Millnis, memory been appointed to visit this im-radeship. Saitors are the ambas- and depicts an old sallor of the mense fleet? Here it is,
sadors of fellowship. English is the spacious days of Good Queen Bess. great Boating city. Has no one****
"lingua franca" of the sca. Every He sits by the sea wall and points been appointed to visit it?" Then, deck officer of any nationality knows towards the setting sun, while
the locking ut him, as Ashley describes enough English to signal nerons to boy who listens to his tales gazes out 1. "with a look of sovereign con- the ships that pass in the night, beyond the horizon and Fees 1350 tempt", Captain answered Almost any sailorman finds himself dancing buccaneers and hears
Visit
us, sir? No, sir, as long as on
on common ground,
he is chink of the pieces of eight. Life when they can Ket anything
by us seu anhore, with his fellows
will be a big of many
adventure; the sen inen, I believe they would leave nationailties. The
cat already lures him on. All through is a greate us to perlah like dogs".
leveller. It teaches to
Бес life and down the history of our race terday observed John Ashley and the mission which steadily and 500
it whole. Its e have been Its there
men who have Regality of Our Lord. he founded did not share that view, simple, stark, Immutable law, with obeyed that call, men whom the sen the celebrations, Solemn Pontifical and many are the tales recounted of their impersonal anallty, demonstrate has bidden to adventure, men who Mass was officiated by the Rt. Rev. shipboard services in those early the unimportance of man's own little the hardest of schools have been Bishop 1. Valterta days. On board a ship to windward ideas in the vast scheme of things, worth their salt. The weaklings, Catholic Cathedral in the morning, of the fleet, the men would assemble No real sailor could ever become the cowards, the timid, are not often and in the afternoon often on nights of tremendous wea-dictator; no rent sallor wants to fight found at sea. Adventure is seldom procession and Holy Benediction in ther. Of
the crowd
at one such the men who have service the shipmaster remarked, mates, or shared the hospitality of
been his ship- easy.
the compound of the Cathedral. The Old Spirit These men must have been spiritu Sailors' Homes across the world.
A large number of people, some ally-minded to leave their ships on Speaking of war, I am reminded spirit of the old sea dogs of long and among the large
We need to-day something of the from Macao, attend the procession, ago, men who knew no pessimism, were representatives of all Sodalities congregation self-pity or despair. This was the of, Hangkong and Kowloon. The spirit of the Great Captain of our band of the St. Louts Industrial Solvation, the living Jesus, the School was in attendance. Friend of Sinners, the shipmate of Galilean Fishermen, the Saviour of Men. It is more than dimcult to stand up for the pure, the honest
wen-
Jaws of the universe by which he lays his course across the neeun, bring him closer, perhaps, to the reality of Divine creation than those of more hurried life ashore
nte readily brought.
A Lesact Contact But when I say that I believe the sattor is a religious man at heart, I do not suggest that he finds participa- tion in corporate worship as easy as he might. What is commonly called organised religion is largely outside his ken: for him there is no church around the corner, and the hours of his Instruction in the tenets of the Christian Faith are probably but few, and they in the narrower past
the
As a
TO-MORROW
For The
sea
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First Time in The World The Stage Production of
"THE ROMANCE OF THE
WESTERN CHAMBER"
(English Dialoguo — Ancient Chinese Costumes)
BY SPECIAL PERMISSION OF Mr. S. I. Hsiung
AT THE
QUEEN'S THEATRE
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
The Hongkong Chinese Women's Club
in Aid of Relief Funds.
Enjoy Yourselves While Helping a Good Cause !
Don't Miss It!
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all.
The preacher at the Methodist was the Rev. J. E. Sandbach. Church during the morning service
The preacher at the Union Church during the morning celebrations was the Rev. K. Mackenzie Dow, and in the evening the Rev. Frank Short,
Roman Catholic Observance And Procession The Roman Catholic Church yes- the teast of the As part of
at the Roman
there was
DENTAL REGISTER
ta
and the right in the cramped space of a fo'castle or a mess deck. It is
The name of Dr. A. C. Ahrens has hard-how hard-to resist the tempta been ndited
the local Dental at the shore. Those and the Register, tions like problems are common to As we venture on our voyage of life let us try to be true to our Christian profession and trust to Him, our Captain and our Pilot, to give to us, and to all who saii with us, that love and strength which God alone sup- plies.
"Christ who, choosing for Thy
service
"Such as toiled with sail and car, "Sanclined the seaman's calling "In Thy sight for evermore.
"Friend of sailors, be Thou nigh
ts
"On the salt ronds where we go, "In all risk of storm and ship-
wreck,
"Fire and stranding, fog and floe.
"In the darkest watch of night-
time
"May we feel Thy Presence near, "And be sure God's guiding finger "Plots the course which we must
atcer.
"May we know in work and
Ieisure
"Christ beside us still the same "Hear our engines" steady pulses "Telling forth a Saviour's name.
"Thou the Captain, Helmeroun,
Pilot,'
"Thou the Compass, Thou the
Star,
"Thou the gracious unseen Ship-
zrunto
"On all oceans near and far.
owing to the precautions taken by the persona concerned In the reptitious distribution,
Gur-
It is considered that the most effective way of preventing abuse is to make the mere possession of Part the pos- I poisons unlawful, unless sessor comes within one of the excep tions in the new section 21A 69 enacted by this B.
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