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ARMISTICE DAY - COMMEMORATION.

12TH, 1925

BISHOP OF VICTORIA'S SERMON ON "THE GREAT SILENCE."

IMPRESSIVE, CEREMÓNY AT THE CENOTAPH.

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At II o'clock yesterday morning, when the signal gun boomed, all moyement in Hongkong ceared. The Colony, in common with all parts of the British Empire, spent two minutes in reverent silence in "tributo to those who had made the supreme sacrides in the Great War,

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Our recognition of Armistice Day was, as usual, marked by”... solemn commemoration and joyous celebration. There was Holy Communion at the Cathedral at 7.43 4.m. and a special Armistice Service at 9.45 at.. which the Bishop of Victoria, the Rt. Rev. C. R. Dupply preached a forceful sermon on "the meaning of "The Great Silence."......... Special ser- rives were held in many other Churches. The ceremony of laying wreaths upon the Cenotaph was a very impressive, one and was attended by, a' large concourse of people. Wreaths hrere deposited by H.E. The Governor, the Army, the Navy, by Ex-Service Men and representatives of numerous focal organisations. Up till noon the streets were thronged with ladies selling poppies on behalf of Earl Haig's Ex-Service Men's Fund and a rich harvest was garnered,

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From noon onwards the day was given over to holiday making A football match was played in the afternoon in aid of 'Earl Haig's. Fund and there were many cricket matches, In the evening the Ex-Active Service Men's Association held their annual dinner. There was the usual fancy-dress dinner dance at the Hongkong Hotel and a Poppy Day Car- nival at the Victoria Recreation Club. All European shops and business

houses were closed throughout the day.

THE CATHEDRAL SERVICE.

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te that Victory Ball the shades of those who had died only a few hours before :—–—– Shadows of dead man atand by the

whil

Among those present at the special service at the Cathedral were H.E. The Governor (Mr. Cecil Clementi, C.M.G.), attended by his A.D.C., Captain G. E Swinton, M.C., Mrs. Clernenti and two children; Sir Claud Severn, K.B.E.. C.3LG, Col. C. Russell Brown, D.5.0. (Acting General Officer Commanding the

3. Forces in China), Sir Henry Pollock, E.C., and Lady Pollock, Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz (Acting Chief Justice), and the Hon. Mr. P. IL Holyoak and Mrs. Holyoak.

The lesson was read by the Rev. J. H. Johnston.

THE BISHOP'S SERMON.

The Bishop of Victoria preached upon the subject of "The Great Silence," taking as his text the words in Revela- tion VIII. I "There was silence in heaven about the space of balf an hour."

The supreme moments in life, said the Bishop, are the silent moments-we are so made that when we feel most we can- not speak we are silent. And in the life of Christ we may say that the supreme moments were the silent moments-the silence of the Wilderness, the silence, of the Garden of Gethsemane, the silence of the Cross. Seven times He spake seven words of love and all three hours His silence cried." It is in silence most often that God speaks to man. It is in silence that the great things fashion them scives,

Watching the fun of the Victory Ball. God, how that dead boy gapes and

grins

As the tom-toms bang, and **the

shinny begins.

What did you think we should find,”

aid a shade,

"When the last shot echoed and peace

was made t"

Christ," laughed the fleshless jaws of

his friend,

I thought they'd be praying for

worlds to mead,"

Piss," said a statesman, standing

Deaz,

"I'm glad they can busy their thoughts

elsewhere!

We mustn't reproach them, they're

young yon sèe.""

"A" said the dead man, "so were

‚we,"

Victory! Victory! on with the dance Back to the jungle the new beasts

prance ..

God how these dead men grin by the

wall,

Watching the fun of the Victory, Ball

What I want to ask is this. Has that poem of Alfred Noyes' no rebuke for us today Are we lightly going to say that all the talk we used to hear about making the world a better world and about universal peace la vain talk

- MAILED -FIST OR RULE OF CHRIST. And to-day there is a great silence

The issue that has yet to be decided going round the earth "following the sun and keeping company with the hours." is which is to triumph the mailed fist or In thronged cities you will find it-there the rule of Christ! A hundred years ago. in Whitehall at the heart of our Empire. men thought that education, science, com- where some of us watched the Peace Pro-merce would inevitably bring about such eession on a day that we can never for get And in solitary places-in some lone outpost of Empire where only the three or four can come together. Twelve months have sped by since last this silenes circled round the world. Seven years have gone since there came upon this earth A strange silence, add the monotonous booming of the guns ceased, and the work of human slaughter was ended. Men's hearts went up to God in thankfulness on that day for there were few who had not some thought of God Most High then,

THE MEANING OF THE SILENCE. There are some I suppose to whom the great silence of to-day is merely a matter

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al and mechanical For the Great War sal rain. Nothing imposed on men from is already fading from men's memories: without can ever last, only that which its lessons and its sacrifices are already men freely accept. Secular solutions are hall forgotten. But to most of us the no solutions Man is spirit and can only silence of to-day is instinct with meaning be redeemed by the costly method of in- and purpose. This silence stands to 3 avidual conversion. That is the pria- for the commemoration of a great sacri- ciple for which Christianity steadily fice. For a moment earth's Babel sounds stands. Only look far enough and rou are hushed as we listen in proud silence will see that the ultimate cause of all the and with bowed heads to a great and catastrophies and miseries of our time is sacrificial chapter from the book of life. the entire lack among the great masses We commemorate a sacrificial offering of of men of any theory of the universe, men and women who went out to die for any clear view of God's purpose in his. THE something which they loved, something tory and in individual life. What people which they did not see, and we have not) are failing to see is that a civilisation sean, fulfilled. And in our silence we look which has been built up upon Christia 1. beyond the things of time to that, which principle depends upon Christianity for time's rude hand can never touch. We sta continuance: that there cannot be see to-day not simply great multitudes of good without God. There is a plain issue dry bones, broken bodies, and white cross before us; the choice between accepting ed graves but a vast triumphant host the governance of Christ or no govern- giving thanks to God Most High in joyful mons at all. Civilisation without God, alleluiah. We think not merely of the will destroy itself. We dare not face the sacrifice these our brethren made, but of prospect of an irreligious world. Two Him who by His death hath destroyed principles are struggling for supremacy death and by His rising again has re- to-day, the principle embodied in the stored to us everlasting life, who has not League of Nations and the principle of suffered these young lives, so unspeakably the mailed fat. If the principle of the precious, to be cast as rubbish to the mailed fixt is to have the victory then it void. Our minds to-day dwell not only means race-suicide and the result will de on a great sacrifice but on the Providence that the hour will soon come when we that is behind history. We aver our shall not even have bevels to live in bat unshaken confidence in the triumph of only graves. To-day something old is the good, in a justice that does not sleep passing and something new is being born and in a loving kindness that never grows for the weal or was of the whole world. WELTY.

the question to be decided is whether This silence also, stands to us for our society is to be based on self-love or on Dedication to a great Purpose The the true regard for dod and man, whether silence of to-day means to us the com

the world is to be a battlefield for oppos memoration of a great sacrifice, but ifting armies or a bome for a family, a meaps only this it is not enough. It must community of all races and classes and inspire us to dedicato, our hms to the individuals? thing for which these our brothers died ANOTHER BEEST BILENCE. The bugles of the dead come back to. The silence of to-day speaks to us” of sound their challenge to the living. I

think few things that have been written another silence. In the matchless words are more caustic than Alfred Noyes lines of Thomas & Kempis The time will on the Victory Ball. The ballroom is full, come when the Master of Masters will the dancing is eager, the music sounds appear, Christ the Lord of Angels. forth joyously. But suddenly there come

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