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P. & 0.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

"BTRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

$4.8.

Tons

From Hong Kong About

+KASHMIR

Destination.

Oct. 'M'seilles, I'don, R'dam & A'werp. Noon

th

1981.

**BURDWAN

0,000 24th

6,500 31st.

*ALIPORE

6,000

NALDERA

10,000

*KASHGAR

9,000

21st

RAJPUTANA +CORFU *480MALI

17,000 5th 15,000

19th 0,800 26th

7th

Oct. Nov.

THE

APOSTLESHIP OF

PRAYER.

Celebration of Golden Jubilee in Hong Kong.

[Communicated.]

CHINA

MAIL.

ber of adherents. The devotion it- self is a very old one in the Church of but the world-wide riovement devotion to the Sacred Heart owes ita origin to the revelations made by our Lord in the year 1671 to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, then a Sister of the Visitation Order in the Monastery at Paray-le-Monial in France.

"Do

On two occasions only is it ro-

The Association of the Apostle- corded that the Apostles asked ship of Prayer to the Sacred Heart spiritual favours of our Lord. One

was founded by Fr. Gautrelet at potition wna: 'Increase our faith': Vals in the valley of the Haute the other, Lord, teach as to' pray.' Loire in France in 1844, among a From this we may infer that after band of students. "You would bo divine faith prayer is or should apostles," he said to them. be the most important feature of you not realise that there is no and our lives. Jesus Christ taught by apostleship without prayer, His own example, as well as by pre that prayer in itself is an apostle- cept and inculcation, the import ship, as was clearly understood by ance of prayer, Ile gave thirty the Apostles when they said 'wo years to the practice of interior will give ourselves continually to life, of prayer and recollection, and prayer, and to the ministry of the three only to His public ministry. word." What other lesson do we. and for this He prepared Him-learn from the history of the monks self, as the Scripture tells us, by a in the desert, the contemplative Let your forty days' retreat of prayer and of orders in the Church? fasting in the desert. Again, how first prayer in the morning be "Thy often are we told that He went out! kingdom come, let it be your last into a mountain to pray, and He at night. You need not sigh im passed the whole night in the pray-patiently for missionary triumphs, er of God That He Intended His they are yours daily." example to be imitated we cannot doubt for a moment, for has He not said, "Pray without censing'; 'We

commend

Rapid Spread,

the

of

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

many evils of our day, but Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

Straits, Colombo, Bombay & Karacht. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Nov. Nov. Marseilles, London, Rolterdam, Ant-

werp & Hull

Doc. Marseilles & London.

Dec. Marseilles & London,

Dec. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

⚫ Cargo only. †Calls Casablanca. Calls Djibouti. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- ataplinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Lovant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Stoamship Co.

TALMA

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

"SANTHIA

TAKADA SIRDHANA TILAWA

1031. 8,000

Oct. 20th 10,000 12th Nov. 7.000 20th Nov. 8,000 10th Dec. 10,000 24th Dec.

• Calls Purt Swettenham.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta,

We

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We need not wonder that the Apostleship of Prayer spread ought always to pray, and not to rapidly in the Catholic Church and faint'; 'Ask and you shall receive, that Bishops and Priests were seck and you shall find, knock and anxious to have, in their diocesos it shall be opened unto you'? be and parishes, active centres of it sides giving in His own Divine Per-long before the compelling wish of son innumerable instances of the His Holiness, Pope Benedict XV., efficacy of prayer by granting all

who wrote in his encyclical manner of graces, spiritual and Maximum Illud: "We strongly re- temporal, healing the sick, giving

Apostleship sight to the blind, pardoning the Frayer to all the Faithful, without sinner-all in answer to prayer, exception; it is our desire that no Raimondi a deep debt of gratitude. fervent, humble, and persevering.

one fails to become a member." When on next Sunday they cele- St. Peter's Example.

His predecessor, Plus X, had said: brate the 50th Anniversary of the No sooner had He ascended into "there are many Catholic institu- establishment of the Apostleship heaven than the Apostles proceed tions devised to react against the of Prayer in Hong Kong, and re- none flect, at the same time, that the ed to carry out His heavenly teach ing. For it is recorded in the Acts more useful than the Apostleship Colony counts only 1 years of may well look that, "returning to Jerusalem, all of Prayer." Finally, in an allocu existance, they

to one tion to the Directors of the Apos- around them from Shaukiwan these were persevering with mind in prayer;" and again tleship, September, 1927, Pius XI. Kowloon, and be impressed by the hear of them constantly as "going said: "You will not have complete spiritual harvest which has been into the temple to. pray" and "perly discharged your duty, nor will gathered by the labourers who sovering in the communication of your work be complete as long as have sown the prayer seed-Thy the Bread and in prayer."

even one soul remains a stranger Kingdom Come-Apostles of souls whon St. Peter was put into prison to the Apostleship."

because Apostles of Prayer.

30 Million Members, The Association is only 87 years "prayer was made without ceasing to God for him."

old, yet it has on Its registers Every morning each one of the Following in the footsteps of already the names of, 30,000,000 thirty million members of the their Divine Master, they not only adherents. Thirty million ad Apostleship of Prayer throughout gave us the example, but they unherenta! This fact in itself is a the wide world looks away beyond ecasingly advocated the practice of magnificent protest against the his own little world and his own prayer. The epistles of St. Paul degrading tendency of materiallam. wants, looks to the greater world and St. James are full of exhorta-

Introduction Into Hong Kong. and the greater wants of the Heart]

a few tions to prayer, and from this

The Association was introduced of Jesus and prays-only store-house of divine wisdom the into Hong Kong by a Portuguese words are needed that the world Catholic Church, in the person of Jesuit, Father Sebastiao Aparicio of that Divine Heart may be ful- her saints and Doctors, has drawn de Silva, but it was left to the first filled in the Coming of Christ's repeatedly her teachings on prayer Catholic Vicar Apostolic of Hong Kingdom: Adveniat regnum tuum: and the interior life.

Kong, Monsignor T. Raimondi, to Thy Kingdom Come. That la the establish the first Centre in Hong Morning Offering, the first and the Kong in the year 1881. From the one essential duty of an Apostle of

Hong Kong Catholic activities have Apostleship of Prayer many allied Prayer. sprung, among the foremost being the Catholic Union.

And

On next Sunday, October 25, the Catholic community of Hong Kong

B.L Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for lat will celebrate with special and and 2nd class passengers.

solemn services the Golden Jubilee of the establishment in Hong Kong of the Association of the Apostle ship of Prayer to the Sacred Heart.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). The celebrations will be rendered

NELLORE

TANDA

NANKIN

-1981

7,000 31st Oct.

11 a.m. 7,000 2nd Dec.

1932 7,000 2nd Jan.

Karik, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney

4 Melbourne,

Regular monthly saltings from Hong Kong to Shanghat and Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-10 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:--

The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Buez.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London vin Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,

TALMA

MACEDONIA

*KIDDERPORE *KRIVA TANDA TAKADA

RANA

MOUMAN

BIRDHANA CORFU *KHYBER

TILAWA

BAWALPINDI NANKIN BANTHIA KARMALA

1981. 10,000 28rd Oct, Amey, S'hai, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka.

Daylight 11,000 1.24th Oct.

specially imposing by the fact that they coincide with the Feast of the Kingship of Christ.

. Sacred Heart. Among the many Catholle prac tices devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus can claim the largest num-

It is proposed to mark the Golden Jubilee of the Association in Hong Kong by a permanent memorial of some kind, but it will not be pos alble to decide what form this memorial will measure of support to be received from Associates and the Catholic community in general is known.

take until the

It is gratifying to note that Hong Kong appreciated, at a very early stage in the development of her Christian life, the significance of the Apostleship, and the large Catholic population of Hong Kong,

A notice of the special Services with the numerous Catholic educa. tlonal and charitable institutions to be held on Sunday appears else- in the Colony, owe to Monsignor whore in this paper.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD., HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS:

.

Telephones:

KOWLOON DOCK 58053.

Telegrams: KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 28020,

"MANIFESTO, HONG KONG."

DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTERS, WELDERS AND ELECTRICIANS.

On Lloyds

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

0a.m. 6.800 30th

Oct,

Shanghai, Mojl & Kobe.

List of

approved

9,000 1st

Nov. Shanghal, Moll & Kobe.

7,000

7.000

6th

117,000

6th

Nov. Shanghai, Koba &

Oth Nov, S'hai, Mali, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama. Nov. Amoy, Shal, Mejl, Keba & Osaka.

Çant

6,800 14th 8.000 20th Nov. 16,000) 20th 5,000 28th 10,000 17,000

Nov

Shanghal & & Kobe.

Kobe & Yokohama. Now. Shanghai,

Holl, Kobe & Osaka. Amey Nov. Shanghal, Kobo & Yokohama.

& Yokohama.

4th

Dee

4th

Steel

Manufac

turers.

7,000 7th

Amoy, Moll, Kobe & Osaka

Doc. Shanghal, Kobo. & Yokohama. Dec. S'hai, Moll, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama. Amoy, Moli, Kobe & Osaka. Dec. Bhanghai, Most, Koba & Yokohama.

Dec. 8,000 18th 9,000 18th

*Cargo only.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice.

All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Funka Louvre System. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries, hot more than 5 cu. ft. will be received at the Cora- Parcels measuring pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.

For further information, Passage,, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:--

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

P. & 0. Building, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong

Agents.

T.S.S. EMPRESS OF JAPAN.”

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1931.

Two New Marvels of Maritime Enterprise

•

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE ..

PRESIDENT HOOVER

DANCING

Professional American orches- tra for tea dancing, dinner,

and evening

.....

DINING

Delicacies from the world around. Dishes that are fea- tures in famous hostelries

DEAUVILLE POOL Large outdoor green marble pool. Fresh sea water chang- ed daily...

CHILDREN'S PLAY ROOM Merry-go-round, sand pile, toys, and dolls galore for the Younger Generation

GYMNASIUM

SAND BEACH

The ideal popular place for a suntan on a white sand beach from Monterey

Scientifically equipped with violet-ray lamps. Expert at- tendant in charge

STOCK EXCHANGE

Where passengers may keep

the world

in touch with the markets of

ELEVATORS

The newest-type electric ole-

PEACOCK ALLEY

A Shopping Promenade offer- ing ship board apparel, for- pign articles, gifts, etc..

vators connect all six decks.

SUITES

4-room apartments with large Marine windows, both French

and Art Moderne style

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES Fortnightly Sailings to New York

|WNER/

MUERZE W LOVE

EXPRESS

FARKA

SERVICE

BARBER WILHELMSEN

LINE

THE PREMIER ALL WATER ROUTE TO NEW YORK and other. U.S. Atlantic Ports via Panama.

All vessels call at SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES en route.

Passengers desiring to travel by this interesting route will find the accommodation provided well up to their expectations, and at a cost most reasonable.

e

42 Days To New York,

For Passenger and Freight Information please apply:-

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Queen's Buildings.

Telephone 28021.

Agents,

BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

BAILING DATES FOR OCT, 1931 (Subject to Change). DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5,80 p.m., Wuchow 3'p.m.

Steamer.

Leaves Hong Kong

Arrives Wuchow

Leaver

Wachow

Arrives Hong Kong

24th BUN. 25th MON.

28th THURS, 20th FRL

80th BAT. 31st{SUN. 1nt

26th

30th

TAI MING THURS: 22nd SAT.

26th WED. TAI HING MON.

281L FRI, TAI MING WED.

Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Steamers having good Accommodation for First Class Passengers.. Electric Light and Fans in Blata-rooms and Baloon. The s.8. Tai Hing"" is At- ted with Wireless.

Harbour

Call Flage Engineer

"K."

Boller.

muker

Ports of Call-Bamshui, Shulking, Takhing & Doshing. Fares Return (not including meals) $20.00.

Shipwright

Meals and Wines are to be obtained on board. Hong Kong Arrivals & Departures from Tai Hing Wharf.

For information apply to

29, Connaught Road, West,

SANG WO

∙Co.

Ltd.,

In No. 1. Dock Dimensions:—666′0′′ ́ Q.A. x 83′6′′ x 48'6"· Mld. 25,000 tons, Groza.`

The Company possesses Six Granite Docks and Two Patent Slipwa. The dimensions of No. 1 Dock are 700'0" x 88′0′′ x 30'6" · ́orer sill, II.W 0.2T Balvage Tag "Henry Kenwick.? 2,000 LILF. Wireless Call Signal V.P.BT, and Flig Call Signal T.HQB. Sheerlege capable of lifting 80 tons."

Codes Used: AL, A.D.C. Fifth Edition: Engineering. First and Second Edition" Western Union. Bentley and Watkins."

Kindly send enquiries to the Chief Manager,

R. M. DYER, B.Sc., MINA., Kowloon Docks, Hongkong,

Phone 20898:

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDER8. All work done in this establishment, is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two 6lip. ways and can accommodate any craft of 200 feet long. Town Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong. Tel. 20189, Bbipyard: Sham-shul-po, Kowloon, Hong Kong Kowloon Tel 52002. ; Estimates furnished on application

Hong Kong, April 1, 1924.

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