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BASTER IN HONGKONG. WELL ATTENDED CHURCH SERVICES.

The

AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL..

Easter services in the local Churches were well attended. At St John's Cathedral the number of communi- cante was unusually large, especially on Good Friday and yesterday. The first ser

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 218, 1981.

vice on Good Friday was at 10 mm, follow Chorus-Be'ours the hearts."...H. B. Gaul our church, and I hope Church of Eng

ed by Matins at 11 am. and the Meditation on the Passion at noon. In the evening, Evensong was well attended, and a helpful address was given by the Rev. P. H. Copley Moyle.

THE URATORIO AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.

St. John's Cathedral was crowded on the night of Good Friday to hear the Oratorio by a chair of nearly seventy voices, and it was the general opin ion that as musical effort we have bad, nothing in Hongkong to compare with it in recent years with the exception of the very successful rendering of "The Messiah" three years ago. Mr. Denman Fuller, the organist and choirmaster, is entitled to the highest complimente: upon securing such a combination of

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The programme was follows:- Organ Solo Meditation” (Lux

Christi) Denman Fuller.... Elgar. Chorus Thine Arm, O Lord,”

H. B. Gaul Bolo--" From thy Lore, as a Father,"

alt. Howard Freeborn

Goaned. Solo Come ye Children

Mrs. R. Brown

Sullivan, Rocitative “ban He was come dowa,!! Mr. GH Piorcy and Mr. A. “É. Compton H. B. Gaul,

Be Thou my help Mrs, R. K. Duncan... A. J. Cowie Recitative-And Jesus Said,”

Mr. G. H. Piercy H. B. Gail. Solo"Lord, I am not worthy" Chorus Do Than our Great Delivarer,"

Mr. A. H. Compton H. B. Gail B. Garl Solo-"As a Spirit didst Thon Pass, "*

Mr. Howard Froeborn E. Elgar Solo Thou only, hast the word of life,"

Mrs. A. D. Brawa

E. Elgar, Chart" Lotd, on as thy Spirit pour,"

E. B. Gaul Duet." Love Divine,"

Mr. R.K. Duncan and Mr, Howard

Stainer. Chorus My Help Cometh from the

Lord,"

H. B. Gaul, A collection in aid of the Organ Fund was taken during the singing of the hymn "Rock of Ages.******

our.

Freeborn

AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL. St. John's Cathedral was tastefully decorated for the Easter Services yester day There were large congregations pre

Bishop will need to be partly supported

I have just used a word heavenly by the members of the Church of England minded" to which exception is apt to be I am not one of those who say No takes. It seems to suggest to most people Bishop, no Church" To me God seems to the notion of being too impossibly good for be using our non-Episcopal brethren to this world, or living in a sort of sentimen- win gouls and hasten His Kingdom, They a cloudland" from which self-righteous are our Allies in this great spiritual war souls look down with complacent censori- But for ourselves Bishops are notousness on the remaining rine-tenths of us anachronisms. They are links with the who struggle along in our poor faulty way whole Church; they are desirable for the in this workaday world. Still, if you order, the continuity and the unity of banish that word you will be forced to land people will see that the new bishop and another to describe a thing which has a house to live in, and that they will after all, we see and reverence here and cordially support him in his efforts to there among our fellow pilgrims. It is at: extend Christ's Kingdom amongst the Any rate a scriptual word, and the millions of Chinese în his diocese. Is it apostles did not hesitate to offer to the nothing to you that there is a supreme vary, human and very criticisable Church opportunity of winning the allegiands of members, to whom they wrote these letters, this intelligent, industrious and peace "So your mind on the things that are able people for Christ's army? It abore, not on the things that are on the would be quite possible for English earth," is added here, and what is that' Churchmen bera

to undertake the but an echo of the Master's own call, evangelisation of this colony as the Angli- Set not up for yourselves treasures upon" can Church's share in that enterprise earth, but lay up for yourselves treasures and thus relieve the Church Missionary in heaven?" The reason is that the heart Society of the support of some nine or follows the treasure and the destiny fol ten missionaries. The clergy, amongst lows the beart. Where your treasure is them might be Missionary Canons of this Cathedral. Be sure of this whether you your heart is, and there, depend upon it co-operate or not this is the cause that is where you will be, for there is nowhere will prevail and when Christ's triumph is question that will matter will be "Did there shall you be also," says our Lord complete and we stand before Him the one else that could bold you,

Where I am,

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musical talent and in training it, in the sent at Communion, Matins and Evensong we do our part in bringing about that to His disciples. Where then is Hel At

short time since his return to the Colony to the degree of perfection reached on. Friday night..

Mr. Denman Fuller opened the Oratorio

with a readering of Elgar's "Medita- tion "Lux Christi), which he played with skill and sympathy.

One can hardly refrain from writing of the chorus in what may appear to be extravagant terma of praise, for their work was extremely well done. Mr. Fuller had chosen four of the works of a gifted American composer, H. B. Gaul, for the chorus, and except for the thought that obtruded itself occasionally that one or two of the pieces were a trifle too high for the range of the voices in the chorus, nothing can be said of the choice of the pieces or of their rendering but the fullest praise. There was more unison singing in the choruses than one is accustomed to in that class of work, but the parts were well balanced, and there was never a discordant note. As an illustration that gome of Gaul's music was too high for the Hongkong amateurs, it was noticeable that in the last chorus My help cometh from the Lord the contraltos had to come to the resete of the tenors, who could not sustain a high range. There were ten contraltos, ten tenors, fourteen bases and the rest were sopranos, and the harmony was perfect.

Of the solos, Mr. Howard Free born, who has an excellent and robust tenor voice, was greatly appre ciated in Gounod's "From Love us a Father" and As a spirit thou didat pass,' but in his duet."Love divine" with Mrs, Duncan, it was obvious that he had been given too much singing

to do.

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Mrs Brown who sang Come, ye Children (Sullivan) in a rich and pare soprano, is a distinct acquisition to local musical circles. 200

At the Matins, the Bishop of Victoria officiated, assisted by the Rev. V. H Copley Moyle. Special psalms were sung and an anthem was rendered by the

choir,

The Bishop of Victoria (Hongkong) whe the preacher yesterday morning. His text

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The Holy Communion was again cele. God's right hand. That then is our Chris. brated at 3.30 p.m. yesterday followed by a tian destiny, and I do not see how you children's service, at which the Rev. M.

Showell, Chaplain to the Forces, doare to realise it if you start out by saying, livered an address. The Cathedral was practically, that it is much too good for almost full yesterday evening,

yah. That may be a true thing to say, bat truth can be said in ways which turn it into miserable error.

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So, when you are persuaded to let go of God's promises because they are too bright, when you give up striving after your Christiani calling because it is toɑ high, when you that your eyes to your too good for you, why then let Satan be heavenly destiny on the ground that it is congratulated on a good day's work, and let all scoffers and cynics esy "Amen,

Set your mind on the things which are above, not on the things that are upon the earth "if the Apostle had laid down his stylus at this point there might have bees

wise man that he is adds another good- sized section, so that before the stylus is dropped cot the dullest soul in all Colosse could be in the slightest doubt that getting one's afpetions on things which, art above. means tackling one's daily te wi a very firm hand as a most practical pro- position,

AT THE UNION CHURCH, He must reign till He has put all The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie, who it enemies under His feet." (I Cor. XV. may here be mentioned is leaving, for 25). He said: When the Japanese began Homs on a well earned holiday at the end to turn their attention to Western nations of the present month-soon after the Rev. as models for their re-construction last G. J. Williams, who was pastor of the century one of them said to Dr. Eugene from Australia to take charge of the Union Church about 20 years ago, arrives Stock, We may even adopt Christianity" pastorate temporarily preached a very as our national religion," to which Dr. stimulating sermon at the morning service stock replied, "What good will that doesterday. Taking as his text " If ye then be rison with Christ, seek the things which you if it is not true?" and thus asserted are above, where Christ is, seated on the the principle we can never ignore that right hand of God (col. 3. 1), the

preacher said pom

some excuse for the notion that he was "We live by aspiration, hope and speaking out of cloudland, and forgetting Christianity claims an historic. basis. It is not a moral philosophy or a code of love" never did poet pentruer line that merchants and mechanics and horse ethics. It is the result of a stupendous than that of Wordsworth's. Destroy mothers and slaves had to walk with their there and life ceases, leaving only exist feet on the ground, and hard ground' at fact that God became incarnate in this ence as a stagnant pool. The pool needs that for most of them. But the old Apostle world, was put to death and rose again to be stirred, as in morbid conditions of the third day. Either the resurrection the body the patient must be brought to live before he will rouse himself. With of Christ is a fact or it is not. Many of in limits it may be said truly that people the cleverest man of the age are satisfied live so long as they have an object before that it is a fact, or, at any rate, the them, and very little longer. Have you not, for instance, seen love conquer death difficulty of accounting for the existence many a time, and people who themselves of Christianity on any other theory is would be glad to rest go on living for Coming to details the resurrection life someone else's saket Have you not also means that some things are to be killed insuperable. Yes, we believe Christ rose

knows the tide of sickness turned hope, and others cultivated. There is writes from the dead and that He must reign when some piece of good news was able to Paul, an old nature to be mortified We He ever claimed a kingdom and he was rally the ebbing forces of vitality, renew know it well, and its works and tendencies. raised to be a Prince as well as a Saviour. ing life where death: threatened? As for Impurity and covetousness head the list aspiration, it is a potent ally to the hope given here, and if anyone imagines that The apostles preached His resurrection as of life, the love of it, and therefore also these belonged only to the old decaying a fact and the Church has done so all the continuance of it. The student, the pagan world out of which the early Chris along the ages, and signs have followed investigator, the explorer has always tians were snatched as brands from the thy in the spirit given to men like Saul of something more, to seek for: he would fain burning let him take stock of current Tarsus and hosts of others in every age he leaves off. As for workers in God's ask if the race for money and the worship have his time over again, to begin where fiction in this year of grace and let him and the same is going on now. Con- firmees of last month in this diocese Kingdom, old Robert Moffatt spoke for of it are not the be all and end all of Chinese and British soldiers and sailors, for another life to spend among the Bure ideal known among men. I need not were very varied poor lepers, educated the all at the close of his eighty years thousands to the besmirching of every all alike voluntarily bear witness to the besthon!

pursue the black list, the items are printed power of His resurrection Yes, HeNow, the preaching of the gospel of in plain Saxon out of homely Greek- reigns over thousands of all races and He Jesus Christ was, broadly regarded, life ranger railing, falsity and the reat. They must reign, throughout the whole world. from the dead. That is agreed among may be repellent vices in such homely That alone is certain. The true Christian those who have most knowledge of the con- dress, but he who has wholly swept the cannot be a pessimist. Whatever the dition, intellectual and moral, of those traces of their from his heart has indeed future has in store for our civilization, early times. The resurrection of the Lord Mrs. R K Duncan, who has sung in our organized society, our nation we know was the type of a newness of life to men several previous oratorios. was in fine not, but we know that the Kingdoms of who had been dead in trespasses and sins. voice, and her solo "Be Thou my help," this world will become the Kingdom of That is the unvarying point of view in to a setting by A. J. Cowie, was sung our Lord, and His Christ. The enemies which these apostolic letters are written with all the feeling and sympathy essen that will be put under his feet are all to the Christian communities gathered out tial to its successful rendition. In the sinful principles ignorance, superstition of the great pagan cities of the old Empire, Read on and you find Christian counsel duet Love divine," Mrs. Duncan also worldliness, selfishness, envy, hatred, The couatant appeal to those who have for life in its daily relations, for husbands, sang her pare very sweetly and effectively.ng, still have s good deal of fight in their case there has been a "new creation" Lousehold None of it too humble and malice, stupidity and ugliness but these entered upon the Christian way is that in wives, children, parents, servants in the Mrs. A. O Brawn sang Elgar's "Thou only hast the word of life," but it was them, and it seems as if in this age Christ and that they are living on a new basis, homely to be named in the same breath them by the devo- The faith of the resurrection is never with heavenly-mindedness, and all of tion of his followers." trumpet call to rally to His side to do which it inspires. If thou shalt confess counsel, whatsoever ye do, in word or The duct"When He was come down one's hit so that He may triumph with thy mouth Jesus Christ as Lore and in dead, do all in the name of the Lord Messrs. G, H. Piercy (bass) and A. Perhaps the greatest need of the Church believe in thine heart that God hath raised Jesus The resurrection life is feasible . Compton (tenor) was not by any of England is more moral earnestness for from the dead, brou shalt be saved because the sphers in which it is to be means the least appreciated of the items Christ, I can understand and sympathise So writes St. Paul, and that he is think manifested precisely that state of life in the programme. Mr. Piercy did his with any who have difficulty in believing very best with the part which was really the facts of the Incarnation and Resurreag of no merely verbal confession he thews in which it has pleased God to call ne meant for a much heavier bass. He is tion. I believe our Lord will be tender by adding, “For with the heart man be God k elect, boly and beloved," that is as be showed, a singer with a future. towards such, provided that they are liaveth unto righteousnes, and with the how these humble Christians are addressed Mr. Compton's tener was beard to excel honest and really weigh all the evidence. mouth confession is made unto salvation.here. They did not go about the streets lent advantage in the duct, but he was If they are truly anxious to do God will, Saving faith is a belief which inspires to of Colcase with aureoles on their heads. not quite so successful in his solo effort they will ere long know of the doctrine righteousness, and if we are not in this Many of them carried burdens on their Lord, I am not worthy. This item Yes, I can understand their attitude, but sense risen with Christ" it matter backs, and scars underneath where the issh was meant for a purer tenor than Mr. I cannot respect the attitude of those who nothing that we went to the testimons had Lighted Others of them kept accounts, Compton possesses; his voice is rather believe the Articles of the Creed and yet that He left the tomb. DAM

minded. &hildren, worked at trades, like inclined to the baritone. Mr. Piercy's remain indifferent concerning them-no In thousands of Christian temples wil the great average always and everywhere. solo And Jesus said" was a most credit. say the outward observances of religion lions of people are gathered to-day repeat The difference lay not m outward appear nble effort.S

are not in their line or who leave it to Those who took part on Friday were their wives. F'do not pond toz a revival dhe solemn confession of our common ance but in the inner mainspring and inf

creed-That He was crucified, dead pulse of these people's lives."Your Life Mrs. H. Bunje, Mr. B. Harker, Mrs. of the severe Puritan Sunday, and Lknow and buried and the third day He is hid, writes their teacher, to them and Johnstone, Mrs. A. O Brawn, Mrs. there is nothing necessarily permanent rose from the dead, and sitteth at the right to us," hid with Christ in God, a Bowen, Mrs. Skilton, Mrs. K about our Mating and Evensong, bat hand of God the Father Almighty." That Duncan, Mrs. Bentley, W Winfield, say that loyalty to Christ will necessitate is well, but what would it profit any of us resurrection life is lived aspiration to Aspiration, hope and love, by these the Mrs. R. Brown, Miss, Crees Miss Cor some religious recognition of the Lord's unless the public confession menas that we grow in grace and in likeness to our Lord, nell, Miss Atkins, Miss Higgens. Mrs. Day and the observance of his regulation who use it, or though we may not do so hop, which maketh not ashamed because Drew, Miss Williams, Miss Holloway concerning the Lord's Supper We need in those words nesant to it, and embody is being progressively fulfilled, love for Miss Jack Miss B. Jennings, Miss Wilmore keenness and stronger corporate it in our Easter praises are in spiritual the ideal to which you aspire incarnate son, Miss D. May, Miss N. Williams, Church life. The Christian society our sympathy with the heavenly ideal and Him who loved and gave Himself for Miss Roberta, Mias R. Mow Fung, Miss Lord founded is not an insurance society Cooper, Miss E. Paterson, Mr Hickling to save our poor stunted and starved souls sincere efforts to realise it in practius. If stair be not present, salvation, there Mrs. Irvine, Mrs. Stubbing, Mrs. Sprett Perhaps they are hardly worth saving to seek the things which are above, where thing and the extent to which you make it cal godliness? This summone of my text no such thing But there is such a Masters Bond, but an army to fight against H. Martin,

want much lips,

more caprit des corps. It is depressing requirements. It is only what the world your practical faith in any future salva Mr G. Davis, Mr. that business meetings of the congregation expect and his every right to expect ion or indeed of your real desire for it. HR Freshom, My A. B. Raven, Mare only attended by very few people from all who profees and call themselves les our pliations be really quickened M. R. Bell, Mr. E. Bullock, Mr. R H Opposition I better than indifference; Christiana Resurrection life in the toward the things which are above where Jewsbury, Mr. G. E. Longyear, Mr. A. that shows life. Indifference may mean Church is the final proof of the resurrec Christ sitteth at the right hand of God, Het Compton, L-Cel Czoese, Capt. spiritual desdness. If Christ must reigntion story. So long as the life can be and, our expectation of the world to come Skilton, Mr Gardner, Mr. O Orispin, there most be on the part of His followers found, the creed will be credible. "But will be keen and exim. Where: Christ in Mr. F. Schnepel Mr. W. Winfield Mr enterprise Christian education must be heavenly-minded and Christian-hearted no with the treasure, and the destiny follows a wide vision, a broad outlook and bold the nominally Christian fol cease to be the Christian's treasure is, the heart goer H. Sykes, Lt. J. Bryant, Mr. B. taken up on a really big scale; old, builds amount of other testimony could cause the the heart JW Rosser, Mr. C. A. Grimes, Mr. Gings rebuilt, old methods scrapped, and if historical fact to be believed or indeed, ag

Blled away a atone from the sepulchre which would imprison his better life. These weeds, destroyed, there are plants of grace to be cultivated the heart of com passion, kindness, placability, love, which is the bond of perfectness

not a solo altogether suited to her cu will only triumph over, any there is a separated from the higher ideal of living it is included in the comprehensive closing

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