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CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES AND SPORTS.

The traditions of Christmas were duly observed in Hongkong in the usual man ner. We have no wiatry snows or hoar frosts, but the flower sellers see to it that we get the hollyberries and the mistletoe The hotels and many private houses were duly decorated for Christmas; the vari nus stores of the Colony which had made provision for the Christmas demand for. toys and articles "eminently suitable for Christmas presents were well depleted by Xmas Ere, and the European children of the Colony had a merry time what with the round of Christmas partios during the week, and the shower of Christmas gifts which met the gaze of probably every one of them on Christmas morning. The Christmas services at the Churches were well attended. The collections at the Cathedral services were in aid of i

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IMAS MESSAGE

And the answer is found in the Xmas message that in Christ God has com pleted, will complete. His creative work, that Jesus Christ is the Everlasting. Son of the Father and that in Him we are in touch not with time alone bat with Eternity. He is the keystone of the arch of history, the redeeming Presence of God in time......

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If you think the Christmas story with all its loveliness and haunting beauty is too wonderful to be credible to modern minds. then remember that the child who was born, lived, grew up, taught and healed and died and (as we bold) is alive for overmore and that the change He bas wrought in human life is more wonder ful than the story of His birth; that the control of the world, the Kingdom which has endured, has not been that of Herod ar of, Caesar but that of the Man of Nazareth, not the sword or the throne but the Kingdom of the Son of Man.

And the storied part is but the prelude, and send a message over to home of an illimitable future. In days to come and up to heaven which will bring such men will return to the simplicity of the joy that the very ether would shout to old Gospel story and End in it a history carry it. God grant it be so!" more real and permanent than any his tory since and will find in it their re- demption and their "rest.

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the Diocesan Boys and Girls Schools Christmas Day was "free" day in the Navy and Army, discipline being somewhat relaxed. The masts of all ves-

Philosophies change, science advances, sels of the Fleet were decorated with generations have their day, time shrinks. greenery and the ward rooms" and variand its barriers crumble, but Christmas Day will never lote its message or its ous messes on board the ships were at

hold... tractively decorated. Murray Barracks, and Wellington Barracks, Whitfield Mount Austia Barracks were all centres af revelry and fun-making.

There were many sporting fixtures for the holidays Special holiday golf com- petitions were held at Fanling, and of Christmas Day, Boxing Day"aid yester. day, the golfers' trains were well-filled.

Tai-Mo-Shan.

"For unto u a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be apon His shoulders, and his name shall he called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty tiod. Everlasting Father, Prince of Pence. Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end."?

AT THE UNION CHURCH. "The preacher at Union Church, Ken nedy Road, was the Res. J. Kirk

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to make a real break with ain and foolish-ideas rank far above persons But the

UNIÓN CHURCH, KOWLOON. Almost every seat. was occupied for the first Christmas Day service held in the Union Church at Kowloon. The children brought toys and playthings for the sick and poor, to be distributed by the London Missionary Society and these gifts were placed on the Communión table.

The Rev. J. Horace Johnston (minister at the Church) presided and a liberal

Sunday School Funds. offertory of nearly $100 was made to the

At the conclusion of the service, Wal lace MacGregor, the infant son of one of the members was baptized.

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In the course of his address, the Rev. J. Horace Johnston said: "This day is a At Kowloon, a "One Club. competi-Slavonachie, who took as text the words day of rejoicing in all Christian lands tion was held at Kowloon City Golf As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is and among Christian people in every good news from a far country. Prov. quarter of the globe. To-day we ceie- Course.

This ancient and expressivebrate An event of supreme importance There was cricket both on Christmas saying the preacher said, can be read to the human race, the turning point in Nineteen hundred and twenty-five Day and Boxing Day and on the latter on the walls of our Post Office, and they the bistery of the world.

are well placed, for we in this distant day a football match also.

tropical settlement know the value both years ago (for our Calendar does homage at the Cradle of Bethlehem), He was Members of the European Y.M.C.A., of the good news and the cold water.

born who remains for all time at once Kowloon, enjoyed a strenuous climb of Some time or other in your life you

have, doubtless, experienced a really the meekest zed the Kingliest of men, burning thirst on a blazing day, and had completely human and yet perfectly The Fanling Ficands met on Christmas to tramp for hours before striking a divine, the manliest and godliest of morning at Mr. da Silva's bungalow and strenos at which it could be quenched. woman born" the one mediator between The traveller in the desert would give God and men, the man Christ Jesus" on Boxing Day afternoon niet at the his earthly all for a draught of cold To Him has been given na Empire the Kernels, Kwanti, and held a paper enze.water his soul thirsts, as the Psalmist extent of which is not to be measured in Yesterday they were out for a drag hunt puts it in another connection. Like that, miles and leagues nor bounded by rivers says our proverb, is the longing of the and ocean coasts. His territory is the The annual yacht rate of 71 miles to exile for news from home, and it will be mind and heart of man. His dominion Macao started on the morning of Boxing strange, all our means of quick com is over the will and conscience of the munication notwithstanding, if some soal race. The constitution of His Kingdom Day, the yachts returning yesterday.

in this far away spot is not feeling that is love and long suffering, patience and There were Boxing Day Carnivals at way this very Christmas time when mail purity, peace and inward joy. It is fore- the Hongkong and Repulse Bay Hotels bags all round him are hursting. Friend told: Of the increase of His Govern (to be repeated on New Year's Eve): ay greetings, loving remembrances: they ment and peace there shall be no end" have come to most of you How, you And who dare deny that, once the eyes social evening for the Navy and Army looked out for them, and how you would of all men turn to Him, once their minds are set to understand and to obey His at the Union Church Hall, Kennedy have missed them bad they failed to

golden rule of holy brotherhood, once come t Road; a Christmas tree for the youngsters

Jesas, lifted on His cross, shall have

at the Civil Service Cricket Club and a tea-dance at the, Craigengower Cricket

Club.

CHRISTMAS DAY SERVICES. AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL The Bishop of Victoria (the Rt. Rev. Dr. C. R. Duppay) preached the sermon

Christian view is that ideas divorced from personal lives in which they are embodied may be attractive but remain vague and powerless to satisfy, as Con- fucianism bears witness. Jesus was the divina objecs given in history for be lieving sight and if our faith faltered, as it so often does, we could look up is the fairest among. ten thousand and again for steadying power to Him whe altogether lovely..

CHRISTMAS AT THE CHINESE

·Y.M.C.A.

The Good Tidings of Great Joy," scene specially arranged by the Young

in China To Chai, for its Christ- People's Society of the Church of Christ

mas Eve entertainment at the Chinese Y.M.C.A., Bridges Street, Hongkong, last Thursday evening, was so enthusias tically received that it was twice repeated on Christmas Day as the exercises of the To Chai Sunday School in the afternoon and the Christmas Tree celebration of Ying Wa College in the evening. In the scene were shown shepherds watching their sheep and angels above them blow ing trumpeta A chorus of more than 50 voices were hidden behind the grossery and flowers forming part of the stage decorations. Fathers, song and daugh ters; wives and husbands; brothers and sisters; formed this special chorus, and the singing was accompanied by an orchestra. In the Christmas celebration of the Chinese Christian community, the severs! gatherings at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. auditorium on Christmas Eve and Christmas are noteworthy.

The Y.M.C.A., the St. Paul's Girls School, and other institutions also had their Christmas entertainments in the Chinese Y.M.C.A. auditorium.

Practically all entertainments at the Chinese Y M.C.A. and in the Chinese Churches along Caine Road and Ladder Street during the holidays were opened to the general public, and nan-Christian Chinese who attended were as numerous as the Church members,

HONGKONG HOTEL CARNIVAL.

drawn all men into the glorious fellow CELEBRATIONS ON BOXING DAY, ship of His sufferings and His outstretch- cu arms bare embraced them all within the redemptive purpose of the Almighty. Father-then, I say, who dare 'doubt that. injustice and oppression, war and cruelty and all our ten thousand miseries and woes, the untelul progeny of sin, and

Upwards of 430 people attended the Carnival in the grill room of the Rong- kong Hotel on Boxing Night and greatly enjoyed themselves. Most were in faney

How beautiful upon the mountains," sings ao prophet of the Restoration

are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth.?!

Now the gospel of our Lord, the begin ning of which in our world we conmem- orate on Christmas Day, is "good news from a far country," If we were deprived selfishness, shall be banished from the dress and the scene in the artistically of it, if we had to watch and wait for earth and sorrow and sighing shall fee it and wonder if perhaps it might not away. come, we should know better bow.. To Jesus we look with hope and eager the Champion of our at the morning service at the Cathedral supremely good it is and how supremely expectation as

other ITZIZK on Christmas morning taking his text wonderful. It is a message from heaven Salvation. There is no from Matthew 1.93 They shall call to earth, a message of goodwill to this under Heaven whereby men must be

world which is the scene of so much ugly, saved His name Immanuel which is being inter strife and poisoned ill-feeling. preted God with us.""."

If Christmas is not true what is our

GLAD TIDINGS.

near and yet so far," we say, is

hope the preacher asked. The story that sphere of perfect good and love and of Christmas seems almost too beautiful bliss, Far away, yes, alas, but only be to be possible. Yet if it be not true-cause, we keep it so, for never was a truer what then is our hope?..

word than the poet's line,

"Heaven lies about us

"nearer than we think"

We come we know not whence. We depart we know not whither. About us lies the universe with its immeasurable forces. Above us, we cannot but feel, is But, near or far, out of that home of some supreme intelligent power which God and of good came the glad tidings ever hides itself, so that when man asks that "God was in Christ reconciling the the why and the wherefore there comes world unto Himself, not imputing unto no answer but the echo of his own cry. en their trespasses." Such is man's positionman's pathetic position-it the Christmas message is not true.

This is the Church's Empire Day" This is the birthday of our King. This, in a profound sense, is our "Armistice Day This is the day when the long hostility of man to God was in Jesus put to rest. lu Him Heaven moets earth in close agreement, In Him-are God and sinners reconciled.".

An excellent dianer was served and the decorated room was gay and animated. floor was well occupied by dancers till i am. the closing hour.

As the table reservations were over-

overflow dance was held at the Repulse booked at the Hongkong Hotel, a Boxin Bay Hotel, which was attended by inst as many revellers as the function at the Hongkong Hotel

The big Carnival at Repulse Bay Hotel. however, is on New Year's Eve and that it is going to be a huge success is clearly shown by the fact that table reservations for this function are now closed. In view Thus we recall the ground of our of this a special dinner dance has been rejoicing and, however pressing may be arranged to take place at the Hongkong to 12 midnight and table reservations can the troubles of these present times, how Hotel on New Year's Eve from 6 p.m. ever dark the immediate outlook in the now be made for this. Fancy or evening future, we lift our thought above and dress for the Carnival at Repulse Bay is beyond these narrow horizons and find optional and motor coaches will leave the inspiration of our gladness in the for the Hongkong Hotel and the Peak age-long, world-wide, heaven-high par- Hotel at 1.15 am. There will be a late

tram car to the Peak at 1.30 am poses of cur Redeemer God.

ARMY AND NAVY, Provision for the entertainment of

on Boxing Day was made by the Christian Endeavour Society at the Union Church,

Is it not indeed like cold water to a thirsty soul? Does it not meet a bitter want When we get rid for an hour,

AT ST. ANDREW'S. THE MAN ÖF NAZARETEL or a moment even, of dreamy unbelief,

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Rev. G. B. Lindsay took no his of besetting sin, of cumbering care, how The Man of Nazareth has been the gladly, we draw water from the walls of text at St. Androw's Church on Christ. mightiest factor in the world's history, salvation; how ready are our ears, dinned

The birth of Christ is the turning with the jarring strife of common, days, as morning Luke II. 10: Lo, I bring members of the Naval and Military forces

for the heavenly message from the" for you good tidings." country! The gospel of grace finds a In the course of his discourse, the Kennedy Road, a social being arranged welcome because on one side it is so preacher said: It was just because per in the Church Hall for the soldiers and remote from mich in the actual life of sonal character was the only true mirror sailors. A large number availed them- of a person and truth embodied in flesh selves of the invitation and thoroughly

enjoyed themselves. and blood was more persuasive and satisfying than ang other that the. Father approached his children through human personalities. God intervened in history to meet men's needs; through the Babe among the bulrushes in Egypt right through to the. Babe among the oxen in Bethlehem

men.

AWAY FROM HOME

A CLIMB TO TAI MO SHAN.

point in taman bistory, yet we do not kaow, perhaps we can never know, the precise date of His Nativity. His coming was unmarked by clocks and calendars. The course of human things went on na usual: each man was taken up with his own little project, the inn Alled and emptied, travellers came and went. Yet Concluding his discourse, the preacher this unobserved nativity has become a said: Now you and I know well that season as unchallengeable as the tides: this place is far indeed from home to the turning point in time.

not a few, in more senses than one. And the story of Christmas means this: There are men and women going about that behind this universe there is not apparently merry enough, but uneasy at merely a principle but a Person, a Father heart because they know the distance they in beaven whose name is Love. If you have travelled is not to be measured by ever really think about the vastness of mere miles. this universe you must be staggered; If they write home it is less often staggered as you consider the vast than wey used; their letters are apt to pageant of life, the great processes of tell less than they omit, and be sure the creation, the limitable expanse of the loving sculs who read them do not fail universo-a universe in which our sun. to read hetween the lines.AK which we used to think the centre of all What about sending some really good An Indian priest said to a missionary climbers had a superb view of undulating things, is only a tumble little dwarf star. news over that long distance this Christ once: It matters nothing to me whe countryside. Kowloon was again reached You realise you live in a universe vast mas time, news that will give more hapther the story of Bethlehem is true orat0 pm. The expedition was in beyond imagining and all around you you piness than all the riches of the Enst it. whether Christ was a real person so long charge of Mr. J. H. Hunt, the Secretary sec the signs of curiously unfinished you could dispose of them? Fossibly as I have the vision of moral beauty of the Institution, world where each stage seems to be point someone who hears or who will read these which he sets before me. This was the Another climb of the mountain has ing on to something higber. What is the words may pluck up heart in the strength old Greek view struggling to day for the been arranged for New Year's Day, when meaning of it all you ask?

of God and by the grace of Jesus Christ mastery. (in theosophy for instance) that a different route will be taken.

A party consisting of the European members of the Kowloon YMCA climbed Tai Mo Bhan on Boxing Day. They sex out from Kowloon at 9.00 am God's supreme revelation of Himself and after two and a half hours hard came through one belonging to this self climbing most of the climbers reached ate sphere of reality in which we our the summit Heavy rain somewhat solves live one who irod the earth we marred the expedition and a thick mist tread upon now, who lay in a human obscured the panoramo of the surround- grave and on Easter morning shattered ing country. The fog, however, cleared the same death which slays men, before the descent was made and the