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And to-day, as we are the result of their work, in the glorious victory we are celebrating, we thank God for those who have made the supreme sacrifice in their country's cause. I do not doubt that they are rejoising with us to-day, and that they know of the victory that has been won; that to-day they see the seromplishment of their hearts desire, and they know that they have not died We thank God for their lives. and the splendid inspiration of their deaths. They thought not of themselves.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH, 1918.

bas brought us together here, and scarce a. His-a triumph over all-abst resists His spot or island can there be where it loving purposes with the children of is not welcomed as the good news of a men, and a fresh unveiling of the ideals great deliverance, the removal of sore for which He gave them to dwell on apprehension, the harbinger of happy the face of the earth and appointed to expectation. Peace is upon us, not the peace which is but the subsidence of exhausted passion, but that from which emerges a crescent hope. This is peace with a wide horizon, and, as we trust and pray, a safe and lasting foundation. for it supervenes upon a contest in which |

for some great purpose proportioned to" the toils and sufferings of the trials wa have passed through? We are summoned from this time to fear and love and sarVO Him as WO were not doing before. the nations the bounds of their habita-Under the area of that cloud of witnesses tions.

which includes our unforgotten and of how great are the issues we hold in blessed dead, moved by the realisation trust for our children at this turning- point in human history, touched by pro foundent gratitude to the God Who did not fail us when we sought Him in dis not prove unworthy. treas. let as vow to-day that, in His strength and through His grace, we will

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The costliness of the victory, too-and who can banish that from his mind for a moment?—is enough to arrest all mera light heartedness in its celebration. had to be decided the principles which tears, our tongue indeed Alled with sing We stand to day betwixt laughter and All the prospects, all the things for for the future are to guide humaning, but the eye ready to brim over at which men work and strive, all their affairs. That, I profoundly believe the thoughts of the sorrow which chastens talents, even life itself, they gave as a enters essentially into our thanksgivings the whole world, and will yet for many willing sacrifice for their country. If today. With us it is not simply that a day overhang it. That grief is beyond they had not done so, we to-day should Britain is not to suffer the sclipse of her our imagining, and indeed the effort to have been slaves of Germany, the British ancient glories in dire humiliation, in imagine it would be but a useless burden Empire would have fallen, and the world France and Belgium it is not alone being of the heart. To most of us perhaps would soon have been under the rule of cause they have escaped national deseven in this place of "shelter and safety Convent, the Brothers "of St. Joseph's truction, nor in América that grim and the tragedy comes somewhat closely home. College and St. Louis Industrial School,

the Hohenzollerns. We thank God to

day for our valiant dead They have saved the world by their deaths. They died that we might live. And from their deaths there comes to us the challenge

imminent menace has been averted from her peaceful shores. These threatened calamities are indeed spared us, glad. But unspeakably we are to know it.

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for where is the circle which has not suffered? We must believe and we do believe that it has been worth while thus to have aufered and sacrificed, and that

in looking back on it we shall be ablo to see that God hath done, all things

capacity, resterday, when the Right Rev. The spacious Cathedral of the Immacu late Conception was filled to its utmost Bishop Pozzoni, misted by the full body of clergy and seminarists, conducted a and Chinese clergy, of the district, the Thanksgiving Service. Besides the Italian Bishop was assisted by representatives from the Italian Convent the French

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to make our lives and our country worthy beneath and beyond all that is of those gallant heroes. They have died universal sigh of relief that the ark of for their country. for the cause of civilisation has weathered the severest well." And to-day we can rejoice and members of the Police Reserve, under the i

storm which has ever overtaken it. The safeguarding of social and national

by night and day, but now a stillness seems to reach us from that Western these thousand leagues away. front, a silence perceptible almost even

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righteousness and truth. but you and I have to do something which is to less

give thanks because at long last the cloud diffenle; we have to live for the same rights and interests would have been no yesterday, had the cannon ceased to roar has lifted. Not for fifty months, till cause, which is the cause of God. They small achievement even had it stood siid an unselfish death, but we have to alune. Bat higher than these and in live an unselfish life, and by the grace cluding them are the common franchises of all free men, and it is these which of Christ we can do it.

have been mepaced, these which now we see preserved, safeguarded, and, as we trust, set forward toward a wider vogue and established in a firmer hold upon the faith and affections of mankind.

More than just the glory of France or Italy or Britain would have perished from the earth had some strange fate decreed that to-day's rejoicing should have been within Middle Europe instead of all around it.

Look behind the great struggle that has closed and you will see that it was a struggle between two great principles. On the one side was the principle of Nietzche, the principle that Wight is Right, that the strong can do what he likes, that truth need not be regarded; and on the other side is the principle of truth, the principle that treaties are inviolable, the principle that the strong inust defend the weak, "the principle of unselfishness-in other words, the prin

We thank God for that, and for the complete what remains of their task free surety that our brave men may now

from ever besetting danger,

What heroes they have been, these boys and men who have dared and suffered and died, and now have triumphed for

God! For my part I can scarcely speak us, for country," for justice, and for

of what they have been and have achie ved standing between us and a ruin The ideals of kindness, of mercy, of worse than a hundred deaths, the men. ciples of Christ, The Germans openly justice and charity would, have been in the trenches or behind the barrage, derided the laws, the morality, the cach-sunk for the time-and that no brief ing of Christ. It was, as an Irish writer period--beneath triumphant ruthlessness put it; that Odin had thrown down his rejoicing as the storm-dead to ride its Iset challenge to Christ, and to-day we course. thank God that the principles of Christ have triumphod, and German culture lies ruined and undone. To-day the German nation has begun to learn that selfishness does not pay.

May that nation be brought to a real repentance by the hard ships and punishments which are in store for her, so that in the years to come

the mea in the mine-sweepers and the merchant ships, the men in the destroy ers and the little patrol boats, the men on the mighty dreadnoughts seeking the homes; for pure love of country there night, fair weather or foul, by sen or Men fight hard for their hearths and foc theg, could never find. Day and

always are thousands who count not land, under the sen or over the land is their lives dear. But this war has also the air, on the plains of France, the been for the common cause which over mountains of Macedonia, the wastes of passes all local boundaries, and men have stood forward just as men, neither

Palestine, the jungles of Africa, the Gallic nor British, nor Slav, nor Beman, sands and swaps of Mesopotamia, the steppes of Russia where has not the

command of Inspector Alves, marched

to the Church, at 10 am, hended by for Band, and were accommodated in special

The service commenced with the cele bration of the Holy Mass by the Bishop. during which Fr. Gonsalves sang the d Psalm 199 Wis Te Terari as a solo, offertory, Mr. chanted. During the collection of the E. H. Aquino Maria, and four voices of the Chair song the dre was then sung, after which came the rendered the Ave Verum. The Te Deum

The service,, which was very impressive, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. concluded with the singing of the Laadate Dominum, The organ accompaniments throughout were played by Mr. 0. A. Baptista

she may become an honourable astion Flest all which makes our human life British soldier gope and done his duty,the successes gained by the Allied armies.

and be found worthy to be admitted to the comity of civilised "peoples, from which to-day she is a parish and an out-

cast.

We thank God to-day for victory, and let us pray that, as our nation and our Allies were unshaken in the day of calamity, so we may be wise in the day of victory to use our success unselfishly for the good-of mankind and for the

worth, perpetuating should be swept from the ken of future generations."

The Allied nations have growingly be come far more than simply partners for the time in a passing enterprise of self-

preservation.

They have been welded

and also are his colleagues of the Allied He is a wonder that British soldier,

inte brotherhood in conscious and re-arms, but him we best know, of him we sponsible charge of the highest interests speak though for my part I feel it almost of the entire family, holding these in

an impertinence to praise him? But trust for time to come, and I believe we can thank God for him, and we

should, and perhaps may comfort our

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glory of God. We stand to-day at the it can be truly said they are united with selves aut unjustly with the hope that in righe and perplexity, thank Him for

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Dear Brethren in Jesus Christ," this The Bishop, in his address, said: -

with joy the pleasing task of voicing the us be glad and rejoice therein." I fulfil is the day which the Lord has made; let:

obtained the longed-for peace. unversal exaltation at having at last Yes, we rejoice from the bottom of our hearts because it is a great benefit of God which is ended. We are all pleased to acknow claims our deepest gratitude. The war ledge that from the horrors and cruelties, long and awful contest has emerged a from the miseries and sufferings of the. tendency in men's minds and hearts to bad forgotten God, who had fouted His come back to God

Many of those who

the supernatural, were, by the force of divine law, and ware leading lives of Sensual worldliness and

war. The war is ended. From the way circumstances, brought back to God. We

thank God

for this effect of the in which the war has been fought wa all have to confess that this is not due to diplomacy or to any agreement among nations, nor even to men's bravery but solely to God. It is God, therefore, the God of Hosts, that we must thank for and the British sailor convoyed him and forget that we have been granted this The war is ended: bat we must not applied him, patient, cheery, indomit-boon not in view of our merits but only able, ungrudging?:

because God in His mer, through the merits of our Lord, has deigned to hear sacrifice of those who fought and died our prayers, has deigned to accept the 10 the war, has deigned also, to necept the sufferings of the people and, in cont of our sins, has shortened the time of punishment. Oh, how grateful must be our thanksgiving to Him for having been so merciful towards

must thank God, also, for the wisdom He gave to those leaders of nations who took

such counsel in those dark days of

the valiant Generalissimo and to all the the courage and shrewdness granted to other generals, thank him for the heroic readiness to overcome all kinds of fatigue and to offer their life granted to al officers and soldiers; and for the stead fastness of our people to sacrifice every would have bout impossible to achieve

Without all these

it fual success. We are allowed to believe that God has been so merciful towards us as to deign to bless our sacrifices, grant our prayers, and guide those who haye tera the means of the triumph of our arms in spite of our demerits, be cause He always upholds the cause of right and justico. Let ba, then, always bloodshed that horrified us for more than be faithful to this cause, let the terrible four years teach us a precious lesson- looked in the economy of Divine Provi- the lesson that no wrong can be over. dence but will be paid for sooner or in

and that we must always bo jast ourselves if we wish our cause to be iden

our dealings with God, man, and

us pray that this may be the fruit of tibed with that of the Almighty. Let ritory. Let us pray that there may

this among the nations that order based on Bight instead of Might, and upon the possibilities of mutual con fidence instead of upon the menace of be a lasting peses in which men's hearts reciprocal jealousies, and that there shall can be at rest, because it will be founded thus surpassing all understanding. Let on religion. justice duty and

good will, us not fail to pray, also, for that nation and for all the others that fought against which unfortunately abandoned the Allies, the Allies that they,

also may learn Jessons of

of the war and profit by them, so that they may not be plunged in á strife which: nan baly result in anarchy and the sainide of themselves but may wrong to make reparation font siz to understand, and admit their. end to prepare themselves to start a

his place we might have done as be, for we are of his race, the race which God has ecemed to choose for special service in His world-wide cause!

most momentous epoch in the world's less of individualistic self-seeking than history since the Resurrection of Christ. ever before in history. God through Old things are passing away, a new them has intervened to save the world world is in the making. Is it to be a from Germanism and to aavo Germany world in which the old selfish principle from herself--the debased and poisoned. We think too, who can help it, of the of each for himself is again to become self which in this last half-century has dear, dear boys who will not come back, the rule 1 Or is it to be a world in which to the universal sorrow and amazement taken with the dew, of their youth still the unselfishness of those who sacrificed somehow displaced the older Germany on them, and never in life to be replaced: their lives for us is reflected in a new of which all were disposed to think well. It is right we remember them to-day apicit of unselfishness,

It is from these great and large causes though the memory cannot but chasten "Something kindlier, higher, holier-all and not any mere triumph of the British our joy.. for each and each for all."

flag that we citizens of the British The spirit of unselfishness is the spirit of Christ. Let us see that His spirit ralca in our hearts, and then the world will be a better world, a happier world,

Still, friends, it is not right that we Empire raise car banners this day. With should pity them, for though passed these things in mind it the more becomes from us they have not slipped from the as to make the first hour in this day's power or from the love of God. And it celebrations an hour of worship in the we knew all, I believe we should know that in some way they have a share in all that is best and deepest in our hearts to-day, that they know and rejoice in the triumphs of righteousness they gave their alt to achieve. They rest from their labours and their works de follow

a world that has learned the truth of House of Prayer. that divine paradox: "Whosoever will, save his life shall lose it, but whosoever will loss his life for my sake, the same shall save it."

AT THE UNION CHURCH.

There was

a large congregation at the Thanksgiving Service at the Union Church Hymns suitable for the occasion were sung and prayers offered. The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie preached a forcible and touching sermon: He said:-

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We are not looking to a tribal God who has strongly gone forth with our favoured armies and granted them exal tation over their enemies. We are at the footstool of the God and Father of all manhood, revealed to us in His Son them." Jesus Christ, the Son of Man and prof They live in our hearts we fored Saviour of all men, and it is His true, but they also live in reality and Kingdom we believe we soe advanced as and in the enjoyment of conscious being,

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we see this stern and unmistakeable live with God, in whose hands are the rebuke administered to the propaganda, souls of men, whether here or yonder... It is with very full hearts that we gather and, also, to the practice, of violence and Pity of their lot is pity not well here this morning, Overflowing thank-orime. If we did not believe that this placed. Pity rather ourselves should we fulness and joy are experienced over is at the bottom of to-day's onlebrations prove unworthy of them. the whole Empire, and are felt to the few of us here, I imagine, would have For us it remains to continue the task fall in the Allied nations and the great much heart for them. If it were no more and complete as much of it as in our time than 4 Up England" and Down her can be completed. Is it possible that Der feelings are shared, we believe,nemies it would not matter much after all this we can begin again, to be no in no small degree throughout the great mere episode in the so-saw of selfish, more than the men and women we have us not forget in our er part of the civilised world, and even

en content to be, seeking little ends, in primitive region, relief and rejoicing

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But if we believe in God and look to living chiefly for self, and that not the arise also, as helpless tribes of coloured Him in Christ we now thank him with highest self? Friends and brethren we men see themselves safe from the retar out misgiving and with a reverent mind have had a narrow escape, more narrow of the whip, the chain, and the exploiter. that it has plented Him to give us this than most realise. It is the Lord's doing,

Aroand the continents and oceans of victory, which is so much more than and marvellous in our eyes. the earth has flashed the tidings which simply our victory as to be manifestly fail to understand that He has done it Can we

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new life in the community of nations, Prayers the Couls of those galinat men who in their sas and in the air, have given up their hundreds of thousands, on land and on lives for the came of Justice and and smollity; let us pray with sorrow

•Let us prRY.. with fervour for our sins and a resolution to reform our lives; and rest seared that God will accept them as the best of thanksgivings. (Continued on page 4.)

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