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MONDAY, MAY 28, 1928.

NEW CHURCH.

ALL SAINTS' AT HOMUNTIN.

THE CONSECRATION,

On Saturday afternoon Hia Lord- ship the Bishop of Victoria eon- Becrated the new All Saints Church for Chinese at Homuntín.

The splendid new califice was filled with a very large congrega- tion of Chinose faithful, many of whom went over from Hong Kong to attend the consecration cere- many.

Hero people will come to receive the strengthening of the Holy Spirit confirmation and to feed on Him, who is the Bread of Life, In the sacrament of Holy Com- munion.

Here again those who are to tread Nie's way together in mar- riage will come for God's blessing on their lives.

And here at the end our dead will be brought to be left in God's keeping in the glad assurance of the resurrection to Eternal Life.

church like this, and what a bless- How many hopes centre round a ing it may be in our midat!

bullt.

So we pray to-day that the glory Long before 3 p.m., the hour fix of the Lord will fill this house of ed for the ceremony, both the body God as it did the Tabernacle of old of the Church and the gallery the Temple which Solomon above were packed, the attendance including a váry large number of of whom, Chinese ladies, some members of the younger genora- tion, formed part of the choir, one young lady presiding at the organ.

The Procession.

The procession formed up out- side the Church, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Duppuy being preceded by his Chaplain, the Rev. 'N. 'V. Kulward, who carried the Bishop's Staff.

Following the Bishop came in pairs the Very Rev. Dean A. Swann, the Rev. Arch Deacon Mok Bhau-tsang, the Rev. W. W. Rogers, the Rev. C. B. Shann, the Rev. C. J. Blanchard, the Rev. Lee Kau yan, the Rev. Tso See-kal and the Rev. Tuang Kel-ngok, Pastor of the wow Church. The Church Wardens were behind the Clergy.

Bishop's Chaplain.

In front of the Bishop's Chaplain walked the male

members of the Church Choir, the whole procession being headed by the bearer of a large golden cross.

The procession walked to the west door of the Church the choristers singing the hyran "The Church's One Foundation."

of the closed, the

The Western Door. Outside the west door Church, which was Ghurch Wardens prescuted a peti- ti to the Bishop begging him to consecrate" the Church. The Bishop then knocked three times upon the west door, which was then opened, and the Bishop enter; Prayers were sald just inside the west door, after which the Bishop, following by the Choir and Clergy proceeded up the central aisle to the altar chanting Psalm XXIV.

પૂર્યાં.

"The art is the Lord's.

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The Bishop then sat in his chair, and there received the instruments of donation and endowment which he placed upon the Holy Table..

After some prayers had been said, the Bishop and Clergy pro- ceeded to the Font whilst the Chair sung "We love the place, O God." At the Font, prayers were sald by the Rov. Lee and the Bishop, and then Dr. Duppuy placed his hand on the Font, the Choir and Con- gregation singing "We love the anered Font."

At the cliancel steps more pray ers were said alternately, by the Rev. Lee and the Bishop, and then the Choir and Congregation sang " is the house of prayer."

I Bethel-God is everywhere but God chooses special places to reveal Himself:-But let us not forget that the words "This is the house of God" were not used in the

senco among them the place where God met with them.

IV. The Temple:-Let us now turn our thoughts to another House of God. King David want. ed to build a House of God. It was the ambition of his life to build one. He collected all the materials together. We have a very moving description of this in the last chapter of the first book of Chronicles.

David himself gave liberally and the people gave liberally and we for that they offered willingly and are told that the people rejoiced

David the King also rejoiced with great joy and David said to all the congregation "Now bless the Lord your God."

But though David collected the material for the temple, it was Solomon who built it. The build- ing took seven years and the feast of the dedication lasted

* fort. night.

THE CHINA MAIL,.

We in our day have privileges The Bishop then pronounced the which could never have been en-Blessing, and than the ceremony joyed either in the Tabernaete or was concluded with the singing of Templo worship,

the recessional hymn "Now thank,

Afterwards the procession was, formed up again and walked out of the Church through the side. door, to the right of the altar.

For God has fulfilled his pro- we our God." mise to pour out his spirit upon all flesh. Christ has opened the way into the holiest for us all and His house is becoming more and more a house of prayer for all na- tions.

Homuntin is as nothing in gran Our little Church of All Saint's

deur to the Temple of Solomon but

all of whatever race and station, it is a witness to the fact that we may come with boldness Throne of Grace, that we are His people and He is sur

Good and that we all may know Him from the least to the greatest.

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VI. Church Building In this Diocese:-This leads me to say word about Church building in this a

diocese.

You will find a wonderful ac- this

The Bishop.

first instance of any carthly build-1 count of the dedication in 1 Kings ing at all.

Jacob was alone in a solitary place and he dreamed his dicam of the ladder set up to heaven and of the angels of God ascending and descending upon it as he lay in the open with stones for his pillow.

And God came to Jacob in his dream and when he awoke he aid "Surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not" and he said "This is the House of God, and this is the gate of heaven."

Yes, God is everywhere and he uses dreams and many other means to bring men near Him.

But God does choose special

places in which to reveal Himself and to set His name there.

It will help us, I think, this con- secration service to-day if we re call some of these places..

con-

God

8 and 11 Chronicles 5. There we are told of the way crowded gregations sang praises to and kept chanting "The Lord is good, His mercy endureth for ever." And we are told again that the glory of the Lord filled the home of the Lord.

Filled the House of the Lord.

of Solomon

The temple magnificent: it stood till the time of King Nebuchadnezzar when it was burnt to the ground, after it had stood about four hundred

years.

The New Church. The new Church, a picture, of

had already been raised by volun- which is reproduced, cost $30,000, the major portion of which money

seating several nationalities. of the Colony, the donors repre- tary subscriptions from residents

required to cover the cost of the A further sum of $5,000 is still new Church, whilst more will have to be raised for the build- ing of the Pastor's House in the grounds of the new Church, a site work will begin as soon as funds for which had been reserved and

are available.

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money

The first church to be built in At prosent the Pastor, the Rev. diocese was the Cathedral, Tsang, is living in his quarters at That was in 1845, four years be- the old Church situate some dis fore there was a Biskop of our tance away at the corner of Church in China at all.

Nathan-road and Pitts-street. Then followed in 1849 St. Paul's The Architects, of the College Chapel which now serves as Church, the foundation of which the Bishop's private chapel. I was laid in July last year, are think it says mach for the fore-Messrs. Leigh and Orange, whilst sight of the Rev. Vincent. Stanton the contractors are Messrs. Lam that he saw at the outset the need Woo.

for building, in addition te the Cathedral, a place where qen could be trained for the ministry- for that was the intention of Bt. Paul's College.

The first Chrish Church, Shameen was built in 1849,and“St. Peter's in 1871. It was not li 1885 that the first distinctively Chinese Church was built in con-i nection with what is now the Chung Hwa Sheng Hung Hai. This was the old St. Stephan's in New Street. This

had to be pulled down for street Improvements and In 1892 the present church at West Point was built.

come

1915

STAINED GLASS.

NEW WINDOWS IN R.C.

› CATHEDRAL.

"THE LITTLE FLOWER."

new

Four new stained glass windows have just been completed at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Glenealy. They are situated to the left of the Main Altar, and represent excellent artistic workmanship.

side.

win-

The fourth, on the other flank, which was presented by the com- munity, is a representation of St. kneeling in front of an apparition Theresa, "The Little Flower,"

of Christ standing on a cloud.

Two of the windows were erected Then in 1900 and 1901 Allin memory of the deceased wives Saint's, Yaumati and Holy Trinity, of two well-known members of the Kowloon were built, being the first congregation, a third was presented churches of our commamien, to be by Mr. Samuel Burchill, whilst the erected this side of the harbour.

other was subscribed for by mem- consecrated and in 1911 the present In 1907 St. Luke's, Pakhof, was

bers of the Catholic community.

The window presented by Mr. St. Paul's College Chapel and Chin- Burchill, to the right of the group,

Barnabas' Limchow; in 1916 St the Apostle John 'sitting by his ese Church; in 1918, St. Mary's, bears a representation of Christ Causeway Bay: ip

blessing the bread and wine, with St. John's, Yunnanfu; and in 1922 the Church of Our Saviour, Canton.

The two "In Memoriam" If to some of you it Zeems as it daws, which are in the middle, the Chinese Churches were at first bear representations of St.

to Was slow

the first St. Catharina Virgo Senensis, (in Stephen's was not built till 40 years memory of Aggatinha Fernandez), after the Cathedral the reason I and of St. Paschalis Baylon (in suppose Is simply because there memory of Severina Dixon). were not in those days the Chinese Christians to

fill them. Eighty Sixty-seven years later, in the years ago when the Cathedral was days when Confucius was living Chinese Christians of our com built I expect, you could count the here in China, Zerubbabel rebuilt munion on your fingers. But once the temple on its aficient site. The the work of people of the day, we are told, churches began, it has gone on

Building Chines were building very nice houses for steadily and I think steady growth HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS: themselves but they had no house is the best. There is still much to of God and they were getting to be done and not least in a growing

May 26, 1923. Менств. Ес. J. Bechtel,

Messrs. Chauviere, E. J. Car- H. Grocker, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. michael, 0. Christopherson, John Carson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Campbell, Miss G. Capp, Miss Campbell. Messrs. H. G. Deln, Dfticheim.

Messrs. T, B. Ellis, Ed. Eichthal.

I. Freed, Miss L. Freed, Miss J. Mr. A. J. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. Freed, Mr. and Mrs. J. Frye.

Messrs. R. Greenwood; R. in this Graves.

III. The Tabernacle or Tent of Meeting-First there WGS the Tabernacle or Twit of Meeting as; have none. Zerubbabel and the place like Kowloon, and what we it was called where God used to prophet, Haggai, saw the danger must do is to press og steadily in meet with, the children of Israel in, of this and they got the people to faith. their journeyings.

When they came to a stopping place Moses used to take the Tent and pitch it afar off from the camp and he called it the Tent of Meet- Ing. People used to go out to that tent to meet God and it was this

The Pastor, the Rev. Tsang, led pravers at the Prayer Desk, at the Lectern and at the Pulpit. At the Prayer Deak "We love The Word of life" was sung. and at the Pul-meeting with God that made the pit "We love to sing below."

children of Israel so great.

Then the Rev. Mok led prayer at the Choir Stalls and at the Holy Table, alternating-with the Bishop. "We love Thine Allar, Lord" and "Lord Jesus, give us grace" were sung

Consecration Fronounced. The Bishop then solemnly pro- nounced the Consecration with the - people kneeling. Dr. Duppuy then turned to the Holy Table and offer ed up a short prayer, and the To Deum, The Apostles' Creed and The Anthem followed,

Bishop Duppuy then addressed the congregation in English, which was translated into Chinese by the Rev. Tso.

The House of God. His Lordship Bait:-

The Bishop of Vietoria, profaced his remarks with a test from Genasis 28.17, "This is none other than the house of God," and Baid:

1. The dedication of a church: -We have come here to-day to de dicate this church; to offer it to God for His une; to pray that this building may be truly a house of God and a gate of heaven to many people; and that from this Church a ladder may, as it were, be set up to heaven and the angels of God ascend and descend continually; a place where people offer their prayers and worship to God, and where God, because His mercy en- dures for ever, hears our prayers and receives our worship.Net

This church, set here. in the midst of this busy place, is to re- mind us of God'a care for each one| of us and of his interest in daily life,»,

our

Here parents will, with hearts full of hope, bring their little chil-) dren to receive God's blessing in, baptism and will pledge them- selves to bring them up in Christ's Way:

gether and stirred them up to re- build God's house. The building took four years and we are told how the people kept the feast of dedication with joy (Ezra 6.16) and also of God's promise that he glory. would fill this house also with His

V. Lessons from the Tabernacle

Brandel,

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Mesars, A. Hooalef, M. Hobson, Hooley, Mrs. A. T. Holt, Mrs. R. *Hazek.

with hands:-What I want to re- VII. A House of God not made mind you of as I conclude is that what matters is not the splendour of material buildings, these 2000 decay though of course do all we can to make the houses wie must

of God beautiful-to worship Hit in the beauty of holiness-what the Tabernacle the people offered the Tabernacle and the Temple place, this is the House of God, and We read that when Moses made and The Temple:-As we think of matters is that our churches should their gifts

10 freely that too. two lessons atand out clearly: (1) man. Places of which men may Gossele, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. much was brought and Moses These Jews were right in trying saySurely the Lord is had to give command "Let me to put God first in their national place. this is the House of God, and ther man or woman make any life and it was this that made them this is the gate of heaven. Places F. II. Hoa, A. F. Henry, J. R. sanctuary. So the people were re-revealed Himself to them as to nowhere all ahall know Him from the more offering for the work of the great. Because they did this God where God fulfils His Word to pour out His Spirit upon all flesh, and strained from bringing as the stuff other people upon the was suffelent for all the work to (2) make it and too much" (Exodus pointed on to something better: to

But their temple worship God who is Spirit is worshipped in least even to the greatest, whers 36. 0.7.).

a fuller revelation of God.

spirit and in truth.

These earthly houses of worship The Temple by its very strucare but witnesses to us that the first, that the way into the holiest and the things which are not seen ture bore witness to the facts, things which are seen are temporal was not yet opened, that man did are eternal: that we have a build- not have full and free approach to ing of God, a house not made with God is everywhere but to the the Presence of God because the hands, eternal in the heavens. children of Israel in their war Mediator, 'Christ Jesus, had not yet derings the Tabernacle is for them come and secondly that God's the House of God and the gate of house had not yet really become heaven, the symbol of God's pre-a house of prayer for all nations.

And we are told too that the covered the Tent of Meeting and cloud, the token of God's presence, the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle (Exodus 40.34).

earthi.

Blessing Pronounced.

was taken, followed by the hymn After the address, a Collection

"At the name of Jesus.”

Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Janes. Miss J. feed, Miss A. feed.

Mesars, J. J. Kind, J. B. Kemp, Miss V. Kane.

Mr. A. H. Kützschbach.

Mr. W. Lathy. Mr. A. A. Marr. Mr. J. S. Nicholson. Mr. N. W. Peach, Mr. and Mrs. O, Pryer.

Mesara. J. 3. Reese, A. U. Reid, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Rector.

Messrs. Frank Strahan, A. M.. Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. T. Sawyer, Prince M. C. N. Svart!,

Capt. and Mrs. W. H. Thomas. Messrs. G. Wragge, W. E. Watmough, Mias C. Went.

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