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RELIGION AND GAMES. SERMON BY ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN

OF ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL...

The Rev. T. R. Powell, Assistant Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, præach- ed the following sermon at the inorning service on Sunday:- "Know ye not that they which ran in a zace ran all hut que receiveth the prize.

Even so run that ye may attain, now they do it to receive a corruptible crown: but we are in- corruptible."- COR IS 24.·

THE CANTON STRIKE LEADER.

A SHANGHAI ORDER FOR HIS -EXPULSION.

Dznog Bing-ong (Chen Pinganng), ex President of the Chinese Seamen's Unior, was chargs in the Mixed Court

at

Shanghai last work with obtaining goods by means of false pretenes, passing worthless cheques whilst well knowing that be had no money in the bank. Det-Set Tinkler, informed the Bench that accused had gh-conded; but that an accountant in hi office had been arrested.

Mr. Maitlaml

| (proscuting), stated that, It is sometimes asserted by those who

in asking

to make an expulsion the Court to are not particularly renowned for their ordre against the accused in Dzung, sense of judgment that Christianity is he would outline, the man's career.

of incompatible with true maoliness. But Dzung was the instigator of a number a consideration of the character of auch er's strike and, after leaving Hong- a man as St. Paul, whose festival wo kong, went to Canton where he murdered celebrated a few days ago immediately his wife and a policeman and wounded gives the lie to this assertion, for he number of ather people

For this he was surely was a man in every sense of the teled, ir 19 to 20 years unprison- word. The Church in its Festival lays meut, but was pardoned by Dr. Sun Yat- stress not so amely on the life of then when be got back into power Dzung Apostle, as on his conversion, and there then went to Hongkong, where any order is good reason for this attitude, because of deportation was made against him for a period of 10 years because the Calonia! the conversion of St. Paul was the most important event in Church History after authorities found that he was a desperate a mengca to the pene and the day of Penticost. For St. Paul, with character and penetrating genius, saw something which good order of the Colony. Chuset would no one else had realised that the tiny therefore ask that an explosion order ba seet of Christianity still working within made against him by the Misal Court an the fold of the Jewish Church must be that he would not be permitted to reside crushed at all costs: le contended here any longer. though many openly, denied his opinion that the standalous progress of this small Curistinn body was hastening the inevit he able end of Judaism itself. Ant set himself to trample upon this small body of believers to extinguish then to vindicate once more the truth and infaltence, after which have to serve his sen-

The Court, in granting Mr. Maitland's application, said that the warrant against accused would stand, but if he were found the Settlement Again, he would be in tri un the charges of fake pretimees And, if found

he would be expelled

from the Settlement.

In the case against the accountant, who was charged with aiding and abettine. Det-Sgt. Tinkler stated that the Talia counsel for the prosecution did not objet to hail, which was acordingly

ibility of the Jewish faith. But in the middle of his task the finger of God touched him, he is suddenly converted to the true laith, he becomes a conquered rebel whom God leads in triumph in face of the world. Now to what can we attri-ged at $600. bute his outstanding success as

THE MARINE COURT:

And YAUMATI FERRY COMPANY FINED

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AGAIN.

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since the For the second time auguration of the new ferry service to Yaumati and Mongkok a fine has been inflicted on a coxswain of one of the new launches for carrying excess pasengers. | On the first occasion a coxswain was fired $100 for carrying 123 exces passengers. Yesterday, Leung Shings the coxswain of the A.. Mon Foo, was fined $100 by the Marine Magistrate, Lieute Com. Hake. R.N.R.. for having 20 passengers in excess of his licenes.

According to Lance: Sergeant Sampson, of the Water Folier, when he went on board the launch on the 1st inst. he counted 135 passengers. The licence, he said, was made out for 155. The launch at the time was on a voyage from Mong- kok to Hongkong.

mix- The cash bail of 8800. put up by Dzung, sionary1 We can of course dwell on his who has since absconded, was ordered "to mystic temperament, we can emphasise be forfeited. bis dialectic power and religious inspira. tion but besides these things we are im mediately attracted by his whole-hearted! ness, his thoroughness, his tremendous and overwhelming enthusiasm. when he would have the Corinthians attain a life success, he tells them to consider the Isthenian games, to learn from them the lessons of endurance pati ence and struggle. There was a special Etness in the choice of such an illustra tion in writing to the Christians at Corinth, for it was just outside their own city that one of the most famous of the festivals the world renowned Inthenian Games-were celebrated every two years, St. Paul himself could not fail to have heen a witness of the interest and ex- citement which these contests in wrest- Jing, boxing, chariot, horse and foot racing awakened. It is perhaps not easy for us now to realise the position which these games held in the national life None but Greeks of pure blood who had done nothing to forfeit their citizenship were allowed to contend in them. The month in which the festival was held was proclaimed a sacred month, while it lasted all hostilities.hetween rival states were suspended, on pain of the displeasure of the Gods. For ten months before the Festival the athletes underwent the sever est training, they endured all manner of restriction in food and drink to contend successfully. Then on the day of the festival the white marble steps that rigged the race course were crowded with eager spectators-the elite of cultured Greece, state embassies with their por geous retinues, vast numititudes from every corner of the nation and even from dis-

The marter of a coolie boat. Ho Sai Lo, taut colonies. Not less distinguished

WIK fired $5 for karrying fourteen sometimes were the combatants on the passengers in excess of his Hence, Hia course or in the arena: a prince of Marelicence showed that his boat was allowed don. Pythajoras, or even a Plato might have been seen striving for the mastery. When the contest was ended honours of every kind were heaped upon the victor. Friends reared his statue, hosts sang his praises, while the city to which he be longed received him home like a victori. ous general, with triumphal processions and joyous festivities The prize of the

For failing to observe the rale of the winner the corruptible crown of which road Ip Cheung, master of the steam the Apostle speaks was a wreath of pine launch wong Pung, was fined Ben- leaves chosen from the grove around the temple of the God.

And there Bt. Paul turns to the Chris- tians of Corinth, men and women very like ourselves and says to them "Look at the racers, trained by long and pain ful discipline, their eye fixed on the goal every nerve strained to its utmost-they do it for a corruptible crown, a twist of leaves that to-morrow's sun will wither; but you who seek the crown incorruptible what are you doing? How are you living So run with the same singleness of pur- pose the same panting eagerness; that ye may attain.

OF THE

THE LENIENCY

MAGISTRATE."

for

Twels Boatwomen were cautioned, hy the Marine Magistrate yesterday lying inshore without permission. The Magistrate, however, took into conside ration the approach of the Chinese New Year, and, said that arrangement would

made to allow boat people to come inshore for the next three days for the Chinese New Year celebrations,

to carry 20 passengers.

The master of the motor-bont Kwai On pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully allowing his craft to be under way with- out having a certified coxswain aboard. Fined $10.

St. Paul says, Surely we must be as Gymnasts with a view to Godliness We must strive and agonise to enter what the narrow gate for many are called but few are chosen.

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To bring, St. Paul's message home. There are many games played in. the colony. To acquire distinction at any of them needs asiduous and pains- taking practice. There are two events of importance coming off in the near future, a tennis tournameut. and a marathon And when you consider his argument race. Men have already begun to prac and illustration are you not bound to tice hard for these events. St. Paul admit that he was talking sound, sancti- would then say to us, Watch these men fed common sense For have we not to and consider their training, their pati

after ruggle, and train and labour for any once, their unending efforts thing worth having in this life? In mat supremacy: Translate their serious "and ters of wardly wisdom we are all full of strenuous attitude into the sphere of your wise saws and obvinits proverbs. In our

own religious life. Be carnest; he whole- efforts to preach down the follies of hearted, be enthusiastic and do more careless youth we mumble through our practice in the Church which is your beards the well known sayings" Practice training ground. Put as much energy makes perfect." "There is no royal read into your religion na you do into your to knowledge." Genius is an infinite sport. And such a message as this comes capacity for taking pains." "There is no

to us with added force, this morning

THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED.

gain without pain," and so on. We adorn For we think specially of one William our younger brethren, we instruct our Cecil Dutton Turner who attained great own children with wise philosophy of this height as a cricketer, who belonged to kind. But when we are asked to give a family famous for its prowess at sports instruction in the discipline and develop lle was a man who was universally ad- inent of the spiritual and religious life mired, who made many splendid friend- we tell quite a different story. We ding ships and who is held in glad remem our maxima to the four winds.

We, at brance in this Colony. He was a Chris least by our example generally say tian and a communicant member of this Everything will come right of itself congregation. The prayers he said in without much effort." "Step on, don't this Church are not dead though he bas worry we shall all drift into Heaven in gone from our sight. They have done the long run. We act as if sleeping something to make this house sound, they would accomplish quite as much as toil have been used to build up within the ing. We are all qualified anaesthetists walls of this Cathedral spiritual Temple, in religious matters. But why, why, dofit for, the presence of God. Let us Bec we think that things are different in the to it that we carry on worthily that moral and religious world? Why do we spiritual work in which he took his part preach the Gospel of passivity when the so that we may gain the incorruptible real things of life, the eternal things crown which not only brings peace and require even the greatest effort to attain happiness here but eternal joy and never (Continued at foot of next column). ending bliss in the heavenly mansions.

NOTICE. IS HEREBY GIVEN that A EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF HONGKONG and SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD., will be held at THE HONGKONG HOTEL, Victoris, in the Colony of Hongkong, on WEDNES. DAT, the 18ru DAY of FEBRUARY, 1934, at 2.80 o'clock in the AFTERNOON, when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions:-

(1) That the authorised Capital of the Company (which is now $5,000,000 consisting of 500,000 Shares of the nominal value of $10 each whereof 375,000 have been issued) be increased from $5,000,000 consisting as afore said to $10,000,000 (consisting of 1,000,000 Shares of the nominal value of $10 each) by the creation of 500,000 additional Shares of the nominal value of $10 each ranking (subject as hereinafter mentioned) as from date of allotment for dividend and in all other respects pari pasu with the Shares constituting the Company's present issued capital."

(2) That in the first instance $75,000 Shares be offered at par (in the propor tion of one New Share for every one Old Share held by them respectively) to the persons who on the date of the confirmation of this Resolution as a Special Resolution are registered in the Company's Sbare Register as the holders of the 375,000 Ofl Shares, and so that on acceptance of the offer the nominal amount due in respect of such 375,000 New Shares shall be "payable as to the Sum of $5 part thereof on acceptance of such offer and as to the balance thereof on the 30th day of June, 1924. And further that until such time as tha szid 375,000 New Shares shall be fully paid th3y shall proportion to pis-a-vis the said $75,000 Old Shares, rauk for dividend only the ratio borne,, by the amount paid up thereon to the fall nominal value (310) thereof, and that any of the said 375,000 new Shares which shall not be taken up by the Company's Shareholders in manner aforesaid be disposed of in such manner as the Company's Board of Directors shall think fit."

(3) That such offer be made by Notice specifying the number of Shares to which the member is entitled and limiting a time within which the offer it not accepted by the member on behalf of himssit or his nominee will be deemed to be declined and that the Directora be at liberty to fix such time and in the case of Shareholders whose place of Address is not in Hongkong to extend it to such date or dates as they may think Et.””-

(4) That the balance of 250,000 Shares constituting the Company's Unissues

Capital be issued at such time or times in such manner and for such purposes and upon such terms and conditions in every respect as the Company's Board of Directors may decide."

(5) "That the Regulations contained in the priated document submitted to the Meeting and for the purpose of identification subscribed by the Chairmann thereof be approved and adopted as the Articles of Association of the Com- pany in substitution for and to the exclusion of all the existing Articles thereof."

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AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that a further EXTRAOR. DINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the same place on THURSDAY, the 28TH DAT of FEBRUARY, 1924, at 2.30 o'clock in the AFTERNOON, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Proceedings of the above-mentioned Meeting and of confirming if thought fit as Special Résolutions the above-mentioned Resolutions.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will bo CLOSED from Thursday, the 21st day of February, 1924, to Thursday, the 28th day of February, 1924 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

The suggested new Articles of Association are similar to the old, subject to clerical alterations and to the following alterations of substance, vir: →

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(1) The deletion from Article 71 of the words and holding or representing by

proxy not less than one-tenth of the issued Capital"

(2) The alteration of the minimum nam ber ofDirectors to four and of the

maximum number to seven.

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(3) The alteration of the remuneration of Directors to payment at the rate of Four thousand dollars per annum and such sume as a General Meeting may determine instead of the fixed sum of Three thousand dollars per annum and such sums as a General Meeting may determine.

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(4) The alteration of the quorum of Directors to three instead of two.

(5) The addition of Articles enabling the appointment by the Directors of a Local Board or Advisory Committee in any place at a remuneration to be fixed by the Articles and the appointment by the Directors of Local General Managers, Secretaries or other Assistants, delegates or Attorneys at a remuneration to be fixed by the Directors.

(6) The addition of an Article enabling the Company to have an Official Seal

and Local Registers in places outside the Colouy.

A copy of the Articles of Association of the Company with the said alterations and amendments incorporated and indicated in red ink or red print can be seen during usual business hours at the Registered Office of the Company, Powell's Build- ing, Des Your Road Central, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, and at the Shang- hai Office of the Company in Hongkong Bank Building, Shanghai, in the Republic of China.

Dated the 31st day of January, 1924.

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By Order of the Board,

PERCY H. SUCKLING, Secretary.

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