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ST. PATRICK'S CLUB. visited Him." He spoke of love, a pure love that can work even for one's onemles, and He made, mon understand that the beauty of Heaven shone in hearts that wert so fashioned upon earth.

LECTURE BY THE REV. G. BYRNE

REFASHIONING THE WORLD.

A. D. C.

STAGING OF "BULLDOG

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He who would refashion the world should begin with its cradles. The following is an outline of the This Christ has done. As Chateau- lecture delivered in St. Patrick's briand rominds us the Ancients did

All those who have soon Club yesterday evening by Rev. G. not keep their eyes fixed on child- A.D.C.'s production at the Theatre Byrne, S.J., D.Ph.

hood for long; the language of the Royal this week have been consider "What think you of Christcradle seemed too simple and naive ably impressed by the charm and This question is as living and com-in its expression. It is only the finish, of the stage settings, which pelling a question to-day as it was Christ of the Gospels Who has ven- are generally acknowledged to be when Christ Himself asked it, near tured, without blushing, to point to the prettiest and most effective seen ly two thousand years ago. In fact,

the little ones as an ideal in His on the local stage since the depar- It is much more living question, kingdom and Who has offered them ture of Mr. W. Sinclair, who in then it was asked in Galilee; now as models to men. If in every this respect was in a class by him- It is asked all over the world. A country which has been deeply in- self and has since taken production more list of books, written in all fluenced by the teachings of Christ up professionally. languages and by all types of mind, a father, no matter what his per- In this important respect the would in itself make a formidable sonal life may be, seeks to protect A.D.C. are indebted to the kindly volume. The answers necessarily the little ones from suggestion of and courteous co-operation of local fall into two broad divisions "for evil, consciously or unconsciously he firms,

or "against." Within these divi- is influenced by the lesson of Christ Mias Honess, of the "Sign of the sions we find endless shades of that it were better for a man to Lantern," has personally supervis- thought. There are

the millions have a millatone hanged about his ed all the colour schemes and lent who accept Him as their God and neck and to be cast into the sea the decorations and lamp shades, smaller groups who are content to than that he should sully the purity which latter are the "Lantern's" reverence Him as the most perfect of a child.

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liar with the pre-Christian litera- by that eminent authorlty Carl In fact, a few writers

of the ture, whether Jewish or Pagan, Peterson at "five thousand of the school of the shallow philosophy of feels at once into what a world of beat" was supplied by the world the eighteenth century eyen ventur-infinitely tender love Christ has' in- famous Jewellers, Messrs. Wool- ed to question the historical exist-troduced us. Somewhere in the bot-worth, of London and New York. ence of Christ. Of such efforts the tom of the heart of man. must be We understand Peter's trousers distinguished rationalist Houston found the cry "show us the Father were supplied by Messrs. Poohoo Stewart Chamberlain wrote: "The and it la enough, at least a dim mull. They are considered one of fact that the nineteenth century has hope that somewhere behind the his best efforts. fed itself on books in which it was limited veil of beauty and love there The scenery has all been design- shown that Christianity originated ought to be a heart of infinite ed and made under the personal quite casually, by chance, as a phase beauty and of infinite love. But supervision of Mr. W.. A. Cornell, he had opportunities of discussing thesis, or I know not what, or again terances, man knew little of what given of his time to carry out this of mythology or a dialectical anti- somehow, in spite of prophetic ut- who has for years ungrudgingly the matter with some of the lead-as a necessary product of Judaisim, was behind the vell and he was half important work on ing Chinese gentlemen in Singa- &c. will give in later ages eloquent afraid to voice his hope:

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CONTROL OF CRIME.

In a heavy production like "Bull-

tion of every individual of every claims made by Christ are not only led Him to the Father. The 'Son dog Drummond" with five changes nationality resident in Singapore; and He is man; all power is His man roamed the dalsied fields to- ried out in a very short time, suc- great, they are unique. He is God of man' and the little children of of scenery which have to be car- house to house visitation; in- in Heaven and upon earth. He has gether murmuring "Our Father?" cess is impossible without the de quisitorial proceedings to get in-a code of ethics, a code of moral- admiring the beauty of His mind voted work of the Assistant Stage formation as to character, ante-ity; many will be found who are in the flowers and His never fall- Managers. To get through a long cedents etc.; which would act as this code, but their failure, to do so amongst them. The children laughin 24 hours, which was the time unwilling to shape their lives by ing care for the birds feeding play with five changes of scenery a filter of the bad from the good; means failure in His Kingdom, for ed with Christ and there was pure taken on the first night, is an a systematic distribution of well- He is a King, and it will be fraught joy in their laughter. Later they, achievement which might well be armed, uniformed police on patrol No wonder, then, that men Should They went very far from the by amateurs, and it reflects great with consequences that are eternal, or rather some of them, left Him. thought impossible of achievement day and night in all the streets challenge these claims: If false Father's home into a land where credit on Commander Hole and of Singapore, particularly those they are preposterous; if true no one hears no longer the innocent Messrs. Wynne-Jones and Marshall. where criminals were liable to other claims on human life can vio laughter of childhood. Christ fol-The A.D.C. are fortunate in having operate. The presence of a uni- with them. In the crowds which lowed them there, not only in par- members who are prepared to un-

Christ addressed formed policeman, in contradis Pagans. Both had their teachers: rest content untfi He Had satisfied who reads the few words mention- were Jews and able but in deed and He did not dertake work of this kind. Nobody tinction to his brother in plain these teachers did not know the true the Father's yearning that the son Ing these gentlemen's names on the clothes, would act as a much way. He came to replace them and who was lost should be found again, programme can possibly realise the their schools: "he that followeth Me and that the love of home should tremendous amount, of hard work more effective deterrent of crime; walketh not in darkness," you be kindled again in a heart where which is necessary thirdly, a way could be found by have heard that it was said to them it had ceased to burn. This indeed wonderful results obtained. which China-town would be divid- of old... but I say to you." In as a refashioning of man's out- The show has been such a "suc- ed into a number of sections or the world. The world was in sore other words He came to refashion

look on God and on life.

cess and the audience so enthusias- Man's Social Problems. groups of streets, each under a need of being refashioned. Those A religion which left man's social owing to the high cost of the glass tic that the A.D.C. would like to headman assisted by a detective, who have

give further performances but the headman to be responsible for Plate will remember the efforts of done little for the distracted world broken in the fight scene, this will

read the dialogues of problems untouched would have the good order of his section.

this Philosopher to try and get which Christ came to save and so

be impossible. Contributed. some order into the

chaos Fortunately

of to refashion. Men were tired of state of opinions prevailing in Greece, the the cold formallsm or empty ritual- affairs, in Singapore is not on all mistress of Pagan culture. Funda- lsm which their High-Priests and fours with that in Hong Kong. were open topics of debate amongst the void. The following words of mental notions of right and wrong to offer them. Christ came to fill Such measures as are advocated those trained by the Sophists. But Professor Harnack tell us what was in that centre are not called for the greatest disorder of all was the accomplished:

the

to achieve the

WORLD WAR.

TO BEGIN IN MAY NEXT YEAR!

With the large influx of Chinese from Canton and other parts of Kwangtung it is but na- tural to find what--without being alarmist-may be described as a miniature epidemic of serious crime. We are not prepared to quote statistics, which may even, we admit, rule out any conten-here-and it, is to be tion that the proportion of seri-

trusted universal system of slavery, by "What a richness and what a full- "The next great world war will ous crime is higher at the mo

which untold millions of men and ness! Each point seems to be the start on May 28, 1928, and will never shall be. Our object in

women were the chattels of the few principal point, one had almost said continue until September 16, 1996," quoting from the Chinese mem- who happened to have the power and the only one! Christianity is, the Raid Mr. Basil Stewart at the an- ment than at any given period in ber's speech is merely to illus. the wealth. All this had to be announcement of God the Almighty Israelites held previous years. Still less are we trate that the law-abiding section changed and Christ was to change Father, of His Son Jesus Christ, House, London, at the invitation nual meeting of the British prepared to allege that the effi-of the Chinese community there ing a political revolution on reli- Gospel of the Saviour and of salva- lie added:

at Londonderry NEW SEASON GINGER.ciency of the Police Force is not as here is always on the side gious reform. He inid down prin- tion, of redemption and of the new

it. He did change it, not by graft- and of the resurrection. It is the of the Marquis of Londonderry. all that it should be. At all times of authority and that they are in- ciples such that, once they should creation. It is the Gospel of love are we prepared to give the Police variably found most ready to have penetrated the human mind, and of charitable works. It is the the fullest credit for good work help the Government to the which humanity was suffering. A strength, of a serious moral code they would uproot the evila from religion of the Spirit and of done under most difficult circum utmost of their ability in coping merely human reformer would have and of sanctity. It Is the religion stances, and we are not inclined with epidemics of serious crime. emphasised the evil and tried to of authority and of absolute faith, to give more credit to any other It may be that in this Colony emancipate their slaves, or he would and of clear knowledge....All that frame a law compelling masters to but it is also the religion of reason Police Force in our Eastern there is not the same need for have invited the alaves to rise can claim to be religion it possesses; Colonies. It may be, of course, constructive criticisms of the against that the numbers are not quite Police Force, but that neverthe-Christ did neither, but to master is." The student of history knows the unjust oppression all that can be called religion It adequate, looking to the increased less does not mean to imply that and slave alike He said "You are that, in three centuries, the Pagan population and to the question- the readiness of the Chinese to netism of a personal appeal: "that tian very largely in fact.

brothers," and He added the mag-empire of Rome had become Chris- able character of large numbers co-operate should not be tested those who fed the hungry fed Him, knows also that the conversion of of Chinese who find their way here from Canton. In such an event reaches the height that it has in

long, before the crime wave and those who visited the prisoner Rome to Christianity, is an event of the community must expect that Singapore. The greatest room in the Government will ensure that!

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OVERSEAS LEAGUE,

He

outstanding Importance in all his tory. He knows that it gave a character to the development of civilisation, which refashioned man's social ideals and outlook. The old Roman empire, with its

dead weight of paganiem, gave way

of

This date is foretold in exact- ly the same way as was August 4, 1914, through the symbolism the Great Pyramid, which, gives us in the language of geometry, a chronological chart of history, though it does not actually specify the event.

By combining the prophetie forecasts of the Bible with the chronological forecasts of the Great Pyramid, however, we can foresee the future. The last time the symbolical stone was limestone and this time it is granite, which means a far harder struggle on a much big- ger scale.

Britain and her colonies and those other nations which are part of Israel will eventually. emerge. victorious, but Russia will be wiped out entirely.

and that, moreover, the system of Police Force to urge that no atone (To the Editor of the "China Mall"] protection of the public is of a be left unturned to give the full- nature to instil confidence to the est possible protection to the of your columns to address the very to the world and it quickly found Dominfe, a Xavier. Many have:

to the quickening spirit of Chris-call. Most have heard of a Francis Sir-May I crave the courtesy tianity.. It had new ideals to offer of Assisi, a Vincent de Paul, a

fullest extent..

In any measures for increasing. the personnel of the Police Force the Government is assured of the whole-hearted support of the Chinese community. In this сод nection a striking passage occurs in a report of a debate in the Straits Legislative Council aris ing out of an epidemic of crime on

public.

M. LEGENDRE.

DEATH OF SHANGHAI·

RESIDENT.

Shanghai, To-day. à much larger scale than this

The death is announced of M. Colony has experienced.

Legendre, Becretary of the French The Municipal Council aince 1919 Hon. Mr. Cheng Lock stated that Beuter.

many members here of the Over-a living language in which to clothe never reflected that the Church of sens League and ask their kindly criticise have not read the pages of candidates for canonisation, or if them. Those who stand afarvand Christ has never been without her support to the appeal being made by our Chairman, Sir Ernest Birch, for Augustine, a Basil, a Chrysos- they have thought of it they may a fund with which to purchase a

tom, a Bonaventure, a Bernard: not have realised what an evidence. new motor car for Mr. Evelyn Christ came speaking with author- it is to the power of Christ, in. 16- Wrench, the Founder and indefati-day His authoritative message is Those who stand seriously at the...

ity and speaking to the heart. To-fashioning the world. bu kad gable Secretary of the League still offered. His appeal to the cross-roads of history to-day and Subscriptions of any amount, which heart is still honoured. He appeal, who try to feel the world's troubled I suggest be limited to £5, will beed to men so to rofashion their pulse must realise that wherever the gratefully received by me and for lives that their fellows seeing the quickening touch of Christ has been warded to Headquarters.

Yours, etc.

Hon. Corn: Secy. (P.0, Box. 833). GEO. B. EDWARDS,

Hong Kong, Nov. 25, 1927.

fruits might glorify their Father rejected the old cry for salvation

in Heaven. A long line of martyrs arises from hearts that are seek and confessors have, answered the ing peace, and the cry for BightML

from those who have lost the vision Continued ut foot of next coldwin. of His Ideald.