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CIVIC, AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.

EMPIRE DAY SERVICES,

Loyalty was the key-note of the address given at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, yesterday, by the Rev. R. J. Nirthcott, Chaplain to the Forces. also of many other sermons of special significance given at other churches in view of Sunday beleg Empire Day.

It is a mistake to think that because a man is loyal to his own country he is disloyal to the greater Ideal of the brotherhood of nations said the Chaplain to the Forces.

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The opposite is, in fact, the casÓ Until am has learnt loyalty to the smaller things he is not able to apprec ate the larger things Teach a man to love his own home, his own school, his own Regiment, and you need not worry about whether he is going to love his. own country.

conventional theologians fought if the clele and morali virtuos are the new cosmology long and not inculcated in the morning of fèrcely, P

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The sterling" qualitles of It by no means followed that the courage, discipline, patience, de- foundations of faith were cut away termination, reverence for public from us in the height, the depth, law and respect for national rights," the gloors the glory," Modern have gone to make the Empire astronomy had demonstrated the what it is to-day, these same one-ness of the Universe. While qualities and these alone "cap it was true that "one star differeth maintain it. The founder of the from another star in glory," the Empire Day movement stresses same chemical elements were yet this when he says. "Lack of dia- to be found h the atmospheres of cipline in youth tends to self- giant and dwarf stars :slika:, indulgence in later years, creat Matter was subject to the same ing idle, selfish, pleasure-seekora laws in the most, distant part of among the rich, and 'tramps, the Universe as here on earth. loafers, corner-boys and hooligans In conclusion-the-speaker-syld Larong the poorer classes.. Let us On a day like this we do well to bear in mind, the Earl concludes, humble ourselves. In our Empire that no nation can be permanent- we have great responsibilities.ly strong which is founded on The size of God's domain should the quicksands of indiscipline." Got frighten us and make us feel Thence. it can easily be in- hopeless. It should rather on-ferred" what a "heavy respon

devolves, on courage us to use the spark of the sibility divine spirit which is la each of us in

Empire who to His greater glory. When we in their hands the moulding of take a big view of things. troubles youthful character from the nursery and tripl's seem trivial, sorrows to the University lecture hall. Sub away in a soothing rest in the Yon, dear children, are being Lord Who lworking His purposes educated by men and women who devote their entire lives unsparing- ly and ungrudgingly to the noble and difficult task of Education. To

out. And teach a man

to love his own country and you will not find him unsympathetic to a greater vision of loyalty. Because loyalty is not a matter of terms It is a matter of character. When you have got a loyal man you have got something you can depend on, something on which you can build

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Let us therefore ascribe any honour we have, any might, any majesty, any dominion and power. to Him henceforth and for ever-

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LAW, ORDER, LIBERTY. That it behoved them all to renew on this day their deep sense of gratituds to an Empire under the flag of which could be enjoyed civil and religious freedom was It to you in one word, Loyalty. Athe theme of the address of the simple and natural foralty Rev. Father Spada given yester that, is driven into the very day at the Cathedral of the Im-

of foundations

the British maculate Conception to children character. A loyalty that starts at

of many schools and a large num- school and goes right on through ber of adults also,

The men who made the

"We all know the Empire stands British Empire did not set out with for law and Justice," said the Rev. the deliberate intention of making Father Spada. "These are the two it the greatest Empire in the strands of the cord that unite this world British people never had whole mighty family of nations, the ambitions of a Napoleon, or a independently of race or colour German Euperor. They never had, Law, order, and liberty are the they never will have any part three watchwords of every true cular wish to rule the world. The Briton, both in the Motherland or men who made the Empire great in Greater Britain over the seas. set out on their guests, for the As to religious liberty-nothing is Our Holy most part, like a lot of school-bovs, left to be desired.. driven by the love of ships, by the Mother the Church is allowed to love of the sea, driven by the carry on her God-given Mission of sheer love of adventure. But when uplifting fallen humanity without ever they went, they went shoulder let or hindrance If we ourselves feel quite safe in this beautiful Whenever they, fought, they fought back to backlittle Colony, it is due solely to the And to every one of them the key fact that the Empire flag floats note of their faith was this, that proudly over our island home, and one man should never let another that small portion of territory

That is how British man down,

to

shoulder.

men came to be trusted all ever the world. Because men began to realise that Britons were trug to each other, and as they were true to each otherthey were true also to. their world. They might do many things they should not do, but this one thing you could always say about then, that wherever the British fe flew, there you could Trust Britain, to the last ship, to the last man.

The speaker concluded by ape. pealing to his hearers to recoznise that the world kingdom of God was only a larger vision of that

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pari, will see to it that the forces, moral and physical, which have gone to bulld the world's greatest Empire, coa- tinue to be actively engaged in its preservation. Its decline or fall will begin only when the morals of the citizens composing it will However, the begin to decline. efforts of those entrusted with your upbringing will be unavailing if vour, co-operation, dear children, is wanting.

Therefore you should regard the rules laid down for the regulation. of your conduct in the class room, on the play ground on the sports. field or elsewhere, not as 50 any restrictions on your liberty depriv ing you of many privileges, but as an effective training necessary for the duties of to fit you future citizenship in the Empire. These duilles fall under three

heads those towards the Creator, those towards the neighbour and those towards ourselves. We are bound to worship the one, true and living God by Faith, Hope, Charity and Religion. Man must not live for himself alone. It is his duty. to live for the welfare of all others as well

as of himself.

CHILDREN'S SERVICES.

The two biggest services for children held in connection with the local observance of Empire Day yesterday were those at St. John's Cathedral and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Imma- culate Conception, both of which! were packed..

to renew on this Civit Festival of to

It behoves us then, dear children. We have obligations in regard ourselves, the principle of Empire Day our deep sense of which in the words of the poet loyalty to the Crown and gratitude Tennyson are self-reverence; to those at present responsible for self-knowledge and self.control" traditions of that Empire on which Empire hold fast to these precepts the maintenance of the grand While the citizens of the British the sun never acts. May loyalty they can look to the future of the to the flug, be ever one of the out- Motherland and to that of nations standing characteristics of our that have sprung from her with the Schools located in this tiny outpost greatest hope and confidence. of the Empire. We have recently had striking proof of this warm feeling of loyalty and practical patriotism that pervades the whole Empire and welds its several parts into one. The Wembley Exhibi- tion has revealed and will continue to reveal to ourselves and the whole world that thought the Beating The Big Drum British Empire is widely scat- Empire Div was one on which fered it is in heart and mind it was easy for Britons either to closely united. We read day by beat the big drum too much or to day of the enthusiastic receptions grouse and belittle the efforts of accorded HR.H. the Prince of our ancestors and ourselves, sald Wales in the different parts of the the Rev. W. T. Featherstone in the Empire which he honours with his course of an address at the

presence. Everywhere the Prince Cathedral. He would ask "them has had evidence of that pride of for a time to switch their minds race, that unity of sentiment and away from this Empire and con- purpose, that feeling of common sider certain facts about the loyalty and obiigation, that eager Universe-God's Empires. for desire to claim a share, as we all example, revealed by modernare, In the glories of a great astronomy and to consider how Empire with a past, and it may be, these modern revelations affected

a greater future. It must pot be our ideas of God and of religion. forgotten, dear children, that the Giving figures showing that our youth of to-day will be the splae of Empire is the largest Empire on that hoped for greater future. It

Garrison School of Hongkong, dwarf earth revolving round a will be up to them to see to it St. Joseph's English College, dwarf star and quoting eminent not only that" Britons never shall Italian Convent, St. Francis scientists who held that hundreds be slaves" but that they uphold of millions of years had been re- the high standard of freedom and School (Wanchai), St. Mary's quired for the evolution of our own passionate love of Justice or fair School (Kowloon), Students of the world with possibly a billion as play set them by their ancestors, Cathedral Seminary, St. Louis' the unit of time in the life history and bring others to have a share in Industrial School (West Point), of a star, the speaker said that the that liberty-loving spirit of which Aberdeen Chinese School, Shauki- first effect of this impression of they are the fortunate possessors. wan Chinese School, Kai Lap vastness must be one of unsettle. But all this cannot be hoped for (Continued on page 14.) ment and it was no wo' der that

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