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AANBRUTAL MURDER..

The Attorney-Lieneral (Hon. Mr. J. H. Kem) prosecuted on behalf of the Crown, and Mr. T. N. Chair was counsel for the defence.

THE HONGKONG DARY PRESS, TU SDAY, OCTOBEE

SHUT UP IN A VAULT-

RAKIETIC

MEDICAL MISSIONS.

23RD, 1929.

the rubbiah weikare talked about Mis-

PALLEGATIONS AGAINST TWO

LETTERS FROM A SERMON BY THE CHAPLAIN TO Sons because we all talked it for the same reason—we didn't know what we were WOMEN AND A MAN."

KIDNAPPED YOUTH.

THE KONCESIN

talking about. It may sound like shirk- "The ators af how an old Chinese bant Extrets from pathetic letters written The following sermon was preached 14 ing the argument hat it is perfectly true munówas murdered allegedly by three of by a kidnapped youth were red in a cast. John's Cathedral by the Ber. I d. to say you cannot argue about Missious. his relations two of them women-was which was heard yesterday afternoon, be Northeutt, C.F. on Sunday Quornier. You can only ask people one questions, fore, Mr. J. It W. Wood. The case was The collections at the Cathedral on "Do you believe in Jesus Christ?' And told at the Criminal Sessions yesterday.

The alleged murderers, one an old one in which two men, along with others Sunday were for Medical Missions

you always get the same, rather indig- woman, another, little more than a girl, then tuly www charged with demen Text St Virt WHs do yo nant, pawery Yes, of courag, 1-believe and the third a young man, were indicted dips 80,000 with menaces from Chad into all the world and preach the Gospel in Jesus Christ I believe in just that before the Chief Justier (Sir William a merchant of No. 200, De in every creature. St. John VIII-12 same beautiful, pathetic, suffering per- Vaux Road Central and master of the um the Light of the World he that sonality, we've been talking about." Yes, Rees-Davies). p.

Hip Wo pawn shop Cantor, who followoth me shall not walk in darkness but do we realise that a beautiful, pathe. had been kidnapped. He told the Court but shall have the Light of Life.”

tic suffering" personality who died on that his son had resided at the pawn shop

The trouble that trophies most of us is Good Friday, and was buried the same at Canton and on the 14th September be that there is so much trouble in the day, is not going to be much usd to us left the shop to attend a meeting of the

world, and so much of it, seems to come two thousand years afterwards. Masters' Union' in Chiton. He had not

our ways that we haven't got much time question we have got to face is this. "Do for anybody's troubles but our own. As we believe hot in a dead Christ, but in somebody said to me the other day, "I sing, Risen, Glorious and Ascended dont know why we are born at all, at all Christ, who is nearer our hearts to-day We didn't want to ho, we didn't ask to than ever He was when He shed human Aberdeen leathaikler's shop arguing bet letters were addressel to the shots be We try us soon as we arrive in the fours over the shattered beauty of Jeru tween themselves regarding the price of

Salem. 71 about. They were boatpeople, related in Cantom, and one of them asked the world and we go on crying until we learn father, to meet presentatives of the to laugh, and then we only Jaugh to keep.

Have we thought this out, and fought to each other, and belonged to Aberdeen.

at the Shi Wu Restaurant, Yau- ourselves from crying. Even in the beat it out, in our own minds? Are we now They went away, and later in the day mati. The father, sent a representative years of Youth when life really does rise convinced that there is that power in went to the Aberdeen police station to make a genetal complaint among them and he brought back nother letter, to heights of rupture and beauty it is Christ Jesus which can and with, not all which equined a request for the father constantly blighted by great gusts of at once but gradually, fashion out of our selves. They were told not to quarrel, to meet them at the Ming Chan, to passion which to resist is clearly un-old lives a now creature. Do we believe and with that, as they seemed to be ap-house Yaunati! The distered parent natural, and yet it a man sields be be pessed..they went away. That afternoon then tuck the matter to the Secretary canes useless, and beastly, and the light Jesus foes really bring Light to beat. on that the knowledge of God in Christ a gardener living near the shore was look-

Top Chinese A

isud Inspector dies in the eyes of his soul Moreover,

The Attorney General, outlining the case, said_the_alicged murider took placa on the 24th August. Early that day four people, three of whom were known to be the defendants, and the third believed to be the dead man, were seco outside

ing

turned. Since then the father had received several letters from the on, who was in the hands of bandits, and from the handits themselves, demanding - a reason of 80,000 and 500 tacks of opium. All

bandits

4.

The

over the Aberdeen Harbour towards apple was placed in charge of the in these modern days few people are able the unutterable darkness of this world.

the island of Aplichau. Tè saw a man struggling finthe, water, and heard him gry out for help. A sampan was in the. near vicinity, and the gardener took a hant and commenced to go to the man's rescue. Before he could get there he saw theather boat, which was then making off in another direction, turn round and go luck to the man in the water. It- stead of helping him the people in the boat were seen, to strike him and push him under the water with poles and vars. When his cries bad ceased they made off in another direction round the island. The gardener raised the alarm, and then Je came.nn, the scene and arrested the prisoners. The young man and the old

woman were the two people sech by the gardener to use the poles and ours on' "Inc. deceased, but the young girl was not been to strike him at all. As she was at the 'ulo" and was responsible for the steering of the boat, it could be safely asaumed that she was a party to the mur- der, and there, would seem no doubt but what she assisted by steering the boat.

Evidence was then called.

The gardener told, the Court that when he saw the people in the simpan pushing the struggling man under water he gave chase.***

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His Lordship asked witness why it was that he did not first of all confine him. Bolf to saving the drowning man.

enze, A trap was set and the two men were arrested.

The letters are interesting documents. The rottowing is the watch was trud out

10 is from Court yesterday afternoon.

the son to the inter.

A light, dim perhaps sometimes, but to marry when they ought to be able, and always enough to see our way even in the even if they marry, marringe is often darkest times. A light leading us on to bell; if on the other hand it is heaven, the solution of life's problems in the it is a heaven continually clouded by mystery of God's Love. Ged's Love shin- ing from Eternity, piercing, transcending anxiety, by pain, by sickness, and the time, and all temporal things? Can we To my Father, Since I was kid haunting shadow of death. Indeed con- at least understand S. Paul when he says Dapped you have not been able to and sider life from whatever angle you like." Who shall separate us from the Love of God shall tribulation, or distress, or any trace at me. This has preventedf what is it but a frenzied struggle after persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or me from writing to you, and indeed things nobody wants when once they've peril, or sword. Nay, in all these things have been infitál, . I am now kept in

conquerors through the den of the robbers and the members got them, and against odds, which how we are more than

Him that Loved us. For. I am persuaded of saeir association have beater malever brave and strong a man may lie, that neither death, nos life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, mor depth, nor any other croature shall be able to separate us from the Love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

over.

original dust from which he sprang As Matthew Arnold pats it.

O suttering world,

O known and unknown of, my common

flesh, Caught in this common net of death

and woe

And life which binds to both. I see,

I feel,

1. wvery day. My body: A wounded ait | must eventually crumble him back to the

t can get no food when in hunger and beverage when thirsty I am in a very miserable condition. Sometime ago, on the 28th, I heard them say that they would go to Hongkong to talk about counts, I don't know if you have sent any man to Hong- kong. In my opinion it is a man's face to be rich but still money is obtained "through" man's work. if man i living he need not be afraid that he will have no money. I beg that you will gee to the matter at an early dato, so that may no longer dure this terrible maltreatment. I yeu delay too long you will only get back my dead body when you redeem me. I believe. that you will care about your flesh and bloed and will not grudge any amount of money.

If I am saved from thir prison shall not care to complain in the future even though no share of the property you may leave to your children come to me." "I beg that you will consider my miery-

Sent by Hing Lun when in trouble ” The following passage is extracted from a letter written by the bandits to: the father:-

Witness replied that it was too late as he was already drowned. Had the pri soners not struck deceased with the oat and pole, and had they not returned to the scene, the probabilities were that he could have saved.. the man. As it was The letter goes on to ask the father, to such a thing was hopeless. Witness went meet the representatives of the bandits in

Yaumati on to my that when he reached the sam- After further evidence had been taken pan he was assisted by a man in another the case was adjourned,

you"

The vastness of the agony of earth, The rainness of its joys, the mockery Of all its best, the anguish of its worst Since pleasures end in pain, and youth

in age

And love in loss, and life in hateful

death

h cheated, so it

Me too this lure hathi

seemed Lovely to live, and life a sunlit stream For over flowing in a changeless peace

The veil is, rent Which blinded me. I am as all these

men #7

Who call upon their gods, and are not

heard.

Or are not beeded... ... I would not let one cry Whom I could save."

That is why we cannot argue about liave, or do we not believe. If we be Missions. It is just a question do we be-

into all the world and preach the Gospel lieve it is just one clear call “Go ye

to every creature. Why? Because Jesus is what we said He was, "The Light of the World." and "he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness not in the abysmal darkness that can be but shall have the light of life.”

On these grounds T appeal for Medical Missions. Whether you believe or not I appeal for suffering humanity. If you do believe I appeal because you know that a man is happier dying in the knowledge and love of Christ, than he is living with 'ont that knowledge and without that love." I am particularly to bring to your notice this morning two institutions. One is n Mission Hospital at Pakhoi, which is also

leper hospital where for the past two years one lady has carried on absolutely unaided, without even a doctor, doing the very work Christ told his disciples to do,

Gospel to the poor.'"

cleansing the lepers and preaching the The other is the

boat before the police arrived, and be tween them they kept prisoners in safe custody. When he asked them why they pushed deccused into the water, none DR. SUN'S TROOPS NOT YET IN interested people like ourselves shadder, the Matron told me I should like to re-

replied excepting the young man, and he simply uttered the ous ward, "Drowned."

The case was adjourned. The Jury were Messrs. T. Meek (pre- man), B. Hunter, C. IL D'Almeida, S. L. O'Hoy, Peter Wong, A. O. Marshall, and TL Knight.

WAICHOW.

POSSESSION.

We beg, that you will think the the Gospel Story of Jesus Christ we are True, when we turn over the pages of matter over and over again. Money spent can be regained but a man killed azed by what S. Paul calls, the kind: Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals nesa and love of God Our Saviour to-in Hongkong, which, under the direction can no longer live. Let us ask you' of what use can money then be toward man." One thing the Saviour could of the London Missionary Society, include not bear was the sight of human suffer the Nethersole Hospital for women and ing He could not send hungry looking children, and the Ho Miu Ling Hospital people away bunkry lest they faint by for men. Last Thursday I had the pri the wayside. And when, at even vilege of visiting these latter hospitals, unto Him the sick with divers diseases, hand if I attempted to tell you of the. when the sun was set, they brought it would, I am afraid, sound very second- the broken limbs, the sightless eyes, the spirit of Christian love which pervades wasting bodies, the palated, the leprous, the whole place, and the works of merey the venereal, He laid His hand on every nad skill that are going on there every one of them and healed them. He always day. So close to us and yet so few of healed them. Indeed even cheerfully self us knowing.anything about it. One thing often enough, at the thought, and the Peat to you, she said, "Our aim is that sight, of human suffering, and when we are no patient should leave our hospitals The announcement of the capture of asked we give a dollar, perhaps two, ber until they have heard something about Waichow by Dr. Sun Yat Sen's forces haps more, that suffering may be allevi, the Gospel." I said," Are they inter turns out, once again, to be premature ate. But when Divine Love entered aested "Yes," she said, "they are all human heart, and faced human sorrows interested, you see they have never heard The Canton Daily News of yesterday with Divine Compassion, the heart of it before." I could not help thinking tell us that "The Western Punitive God broke, and the blood and tears which that is just our difficulty. We have heard soldiers, who entered Waishow through streamed down the sides of the Eternal it before. Indeed we have heard it, so the Southern gate last Wednesday morn Cross have gone to soothe for ever the often that familiarity with it has almost ing are fighting with the enemy troopa sorrows of the whole wide world. But bred contempt. It has been with us all TWELVE DAYS ADRIFT IN inside the city of Waichow. The north have they! Have they really Isn't it our lives and we have never bothered to

A WRECKED JUNK

ern, eastern and western gates of that all just talk? Does it honestly make any practise it. Like an old piano it has lain city are still occupied by the enemy difference to your trouble and timing dusty corner of our minds, and we TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE

troops, who still fight strenuously to keep that the Son of God was revealed to us have almost forgotten that it might hring the Constitutionalist soldiers out of the One whose experience of life was an into our hearts, and into our homes, the eity. Constitutionalist soldiers poured experience of almost continual suffering time wo considered again what Christian- music of our Eternal Home. Surely it is

Hunk on: Saturday in a -vory exhausted in large numbers since last Wednesday marred more than any man's." Does it what it might mean to

Might people were taken off a wrocked into the city through the outborn gate and disappointment. "Whose face wasey ought to mean in our own lives, and condition. They had been adrift for Waishow is expected to be entirely free really make any difference? That is the taylw days in the water-logged vessel of the enemy troops within a few days, point. On our answer to that question peoples in the world alter having encountered a very severe

On the other hand, if the enemy depends the value of dar Faith Lormar the Foros Channel. Their still hold three of the four gates of the

As we said a moment ago most people wwel was badly battered nad became un city, it is just as likely that Walchow are moved by the sight of human suffer- manageable and gradually drifted down may be entirely free of the Constitutioning. Few people like to be thought so the cost towards Hongkong. On Saturalist troops in a few days. The rejoic mean that, day they were picked up to the South ings, in Canton have evidently been pre-100 n charity. Fast of Wagian Island by the master of mature,

fishing julk No. 3219 he, and brought into Shaakiwai During the storm, which they describens g typhoon, four of the crew of the disabled jonk were washed

verboard and drowned.

EIGHT

PERSONS.

THEFT ON A SHIP.

SNATCHER BANGLE

COOLIE

OF

CHILD'S

DR. SUN TAT SENS HEADQUARTERS.

520 lives of other

IMPORTANT. ARRESTS-

MURDERS..

will not give something ECHOES OF RECENT WAL

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Or for hospitalsOr for these dear The police bave arrested at No. 2, Fark strange people amongst whom we live: Street, seven men who are suspected of the coolies with their scarred shoulders; complicity in a number of murders and the women (mothers very often) and baby rehberies which have occurred during the boys and girls staggering up the hills last six months, which have hitherto with their eternal loads or your hailed the police:: Amongst the crimes REMOVED TO BOCCA TIGRIS. charity? Yes, yes, a dollar, perhaps two, of which they are suspected is that of perhaps more, that suffering may be less, the murder of the Chinese constable, who More than one reason may I suggested that, the load of human sorrow may be was foully done to death whilst on duty for the removal of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's lightened.

ment: "Observatory Road, Kowloon, His Headquarters to Boces Tigriz, but fellow But when we say Medical Missions body was discovered in some bushes ing from the Canton Daily News is pro Medical? Yes, of course, we must have covered with stub wounds. They are Biso sumably the official one.

doctors. But how do you mean Missions? suspected of having been concerned in Since the East River military campaign Evangelistic work? What's that? Telling the murder of Detective Cheung Chông I was alleged against a Chinese in drawing to a conclusion and an expeople about Jesus, trying to make them who was fatally shot outside Ullman's, charged in the Marine Court yesterday pedition against the North will be start Christians? Well, you know, I don't the jeweiler's, in Queen's Road Central morning with going aboard the as, Vaped by the Constitutionalist forces shortly, know Why not let people remain as some time ago. They are also alleged to without permission, that he matched a Dr. Sun Yat Sen the Generalissimo will they are Mahominedans, Confucians, Bud have been concerned in an attempted. bangle from the wrist of a child among establish his Temporary Headquarters at dhists, they're all after the same thing murder of a man named Kwan Wo, who the pawngers on the vessel Defendant amied, the accusation, and said he went the Bowen Tigris. Several gunboats of in their own was Besides, as for con was at one time a police informer, as well the River Squadron and the cruiser vorting the heathen. isn't it true that as in several armed robberies at Shauki board the vessel for the purpose of 'ingfung will be stationed near the fort when you make a heathen a Christian wan and West Point The Magistrate (Commander CW for the protection of the Generalissimo's you often make him ten times more of a The arrested men are to be put on Beckwith) disatieval his story, and sen. Headquarters. Dr. Sun went to inspect heathen than ever he was before he was identification parade as soon as the peces- Komood him to two months hard labour the fort yesterday morning (Sunday). a Christian?" May God forgive all of unsary witnesses can be collected.

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