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·CHRISTIANITY THE RELIGION OF JOY."

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INSPIRING SERMON IN ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL BY THE BISHOP.

`LARGE CONGREGATIONS ON EASTER SUNDAY.

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Sharing With Christ. Matins yesterday. Chairs brought The Resurrection gives us jos not in from the Cathedral Hall were only because we know that Christ placed in the aisles in the baptistryrose from the dead, but because He and even in the west porch. The wants to share His life with us. service was exceptionally beautiful I lie was to be joyous, as it should nad impressive and the serman be, we must let Christ share His Frenched by his Lordship, the Bishop of Victoria, will not easily be forgotten by any who heard it. The decorations and the joyful Easter hymns echoed the message. of the Bishop that" Christianity is the religion of joy." Recently the singing in the Cathedral has shown noted improvement and the anthem was very impressively ren dered.

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Taking for his text the words Jesus

came and stood in the midst," and said "Peace be unto you the Bishop emphasised the necessity of joy in human life. I you killed joy, he said, you killed life. The Spirit of Jesus was & spirit of gladness and the Christian religion stood for joy. If we had no true joy in our lives we had Failed to understand the meaning of the Christian life,

Easter Joy.

There was no joy that could.com. pare with Easter joy. There was that day One in our midst Whom we knew not, but Who knew as through and through and said

"Peace be unto you."

risen life with us; that was what" the Eucharist and prayer meant. Christ went up on high that He might fill all things:

OTHER SERVICES.

THE DEAN'S SERMON AT EVENSONG.

Easter time services were "ex- tremely well attended this year, churches of all denominations hay ing good congrégations at the Good Friday services and being crowded on Sunday.

The Dean in the

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course of a

VERY INEFFICIENT

KIDNAPPERS.

OVERCOME. BY FUMES OF THEIR OWN ANÆSTHETIC.

VICTIM ESCAPES AND CAUSES THEIR ARREST.

SHANGHAI, April 4th After using a bottle of ether to subdue their victim, two Korean" kidnappers, whose information led to the arrest of their principal and another confederate, failed to res cork the bottle tightly and they, themselves, succumbed to the effects of the anesthetic. The victim re- leased himself, informed the police,! who organized a raid in the Central district on Monday night, and the first pair of kidnappers were taken into custody.

The kidnapping which took place, whilst police were on patrol a few feet away, was not reported to the police, while a letter written by the

victim to his own office, owing to The morning service at St. John's until 12 hours after he had effected postal delays, was not delivered Cathedral is referred to above. his own release. Both the 7 a.m. and 8 am, services

the latter a Choral Eucharist, i Mr. Pei Tso Ming, who is the saw far larger congregations than managing director of the United usual. while Evensong, at which the

Mercantile Agency, Ltd.. 00, Very Rev. the Dean of Hong Kong Kiangse Road, was visited by two preached was extremely well at-

Koreans, who invited him to their tended.

'offices, in a further end of the same | building. They had a business deal” brief but very telling sermon said which they wished to discuss at that he wished to emphasise the length with Pei. Inside their office great joy of Easter. "I want you to feel the atmosphere of this day the great rush of it, the speed at which events moved from the

He entered and they threatened moment that the women returned him with an antique Mauser pistol from the garden to the Apostles and a long clasp dagger. Ta pre- house with news of the empty vent further trouble they applied tomb and then Mary Magdelene gag and ether. When the victim quickly followed to say that she awoke he was securely bound. bad seen and recognised the risen Upon recovering consciousness, be Master. We rejoice because it is was forced to write a letter to his Christ's personal triumph. The own office, demanding 8100,000 ran- enemies of goodness had done their som for his release.

To anyone who could discern the Lord in that Easter service would come a new gladness and joy. which would be proof against all adversity.

Christ is the shepherd who seeks His sheep seeking to reconcile the world to God. It was no easy thing for St. Paul, the Apostles, or dis ciples to go about, preaching the Resurrection because it was no easy thing for them to believe in it. It was not cary to-day with the know-worst; there was the gloom and sorrow of Holy Week, but all that ledge which we had of modern science to believe in the Resurrec tion but it was a standing article. of our faith, and whatever changes might come in science it would re- main e stnuding article. If it were: not true there would be no purpose

in life.

God gives us life and salvation through Christ, and the fact of Christ's Resurrection made Chris tianity different from any other religion. We rejoiced on Easter

was a desk and several chairs and a screen which shut off part of the

room.

Kindly Treatment. was past. Goodness, bad come out count, nothing of great concern

According to Pei Tao Ming's ac-, on top, Love had won, evii had occurred throughout Sunday and triumph was what they wished to well and gave him an ample supply been beaten. The joy of Christ's Monday. His captors, treated him

inspire."

of food and refreshment, with which they had provided themselver.

Secondly, it gave a great con- "fidence in their belief. Christianity

stood like a great tower, and it Hidden behind the screen was u was founded upon the fact of the

Under Resurrection. If the Resurrection arrow hed and a chair. crumble away. But the Resurree On Monday night, the Koreans were discredited Christianity would the bed was the bottle of ether. tion. was as well attested as a went to sleep on the bed and left fact in history. The early Chris His teaching or His miracles or the they thought, on the floor. It has tians preached Christ, Risen, not their victim. tied, up, securely an doctrine of the atonement, but the not been explained how the cork in fact of the Resurrection.

Day because the Resurrection proved Christ to be the Son of God, and the Resurrection was arr his torical fact which could not be dis-die, but came out of the tomb after rate, Pei smelied the gas, and sometimes said that Christ did not the bottle became loosened. At any | proved by any test:

The Battle Of Good And Evil.

Christ came to make all things new. We could not get away from the fact that there was evil in the world, but there was good in the world too, and the good had to be accounted for as much as the evil So long as the human race con tinued there would be a fight be tween good and evil. This fight could be seen even in the human life of Christ, in His temptation and in the garden of Gethsemane. It was often questioned, "was the Ruler or this world good or not, was Omnipotence on the side of good?" If God had left His Holy One to lie in the grave, He would have left the world's best man in corrup tion. But the Resurrection of Christ proved that God does not interpose in the working of the World. That He raised Christ up proves that personal goodness was in the heart of things, that all things were being reconstructed in Christ, that every thing was moving towards a great consummation, and that love was winning all the time.

It was

a period of trance. The Jews at realizing what would happen to his the time never suggested that and

so accurate was the description of captors, managed to loosen his the crucifixion that modern doctors bonds to such an extent, that when could name the cause of our Lord's he believed them to be asleep, he ashamed to stand fast upon this death. "We are, therefore, not great fact and to defend it before. the World."

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in the morning and the Rev. C. B. hurried to the place in motor cars. YOUNG CATHOLIC CHINESE

har in the crewing. The church white flowere. was very beautifully decorated with

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THE UNION CHURCH. "At Union Church, Keniady Road, K.D.S.B. Farade at 10.30 am, the light, and found the Koreans be there was a general service and their number silently turned of jo preacher being the Rev. F. P. Wyond resistance. In the bed they Alexander, C.F. In the evening found the Mauser and dagger. led by the band of the K.O.S.B.'e there was a special musical service and at which Mr. H. Glover was the soloist. The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie was the preacher..

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THE REV. PETER CHAU. CONSECRATION 'SERVICE BY

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It is amazing to find the great number of foreign articles now in

family was on Saturday received far off the beaten track, writes a A young Chinese of well known use, even by the country people, into the Catholic Priesthood at the North China Daily News correspon- Cathedral of the Immaculats Condent: Wristwatches, spectacles, ception. The new Priest is the hats, overshoes, raincoats, thermos The police handcuffed the gang Rev. Peter Chau.

flasks and all descriptions of patent and re-corked the bottle.

His Lordship, Biskop H. Valtor medicines and food. "In spite of Holy Communion at 8 a.m.

At St. Peter's Church there was

ta, condusted the constoration for the many wall-posters denouncing and Upon being examined at Central vice and was assisted by the clergy the British-American Tobacco, Com- Choral Eucharist and Sermon at station, the men told of a third of the Cathedral. A large congre-pany, it would stem this company 11 am, the preacher being the who resided in the French Conces gation consisting mostly of Chinese is on the eve of a great revival in Rev, N. V. Halward.

Catholics and members of the young trade, judging from the renewal of We rejoiced to-day because we ROMAN CATHOLIC SERVICES. French police he was arrested early Cathedral."

sion. With the assistance of the priest's family were present at the their very attractive signs and ad-

vertisements. saw that Christ in His Resurrection The Eastertide and Good Friday yesterday morning.

The Chinese Catholic Young

Electric light and all kinds of was making all things new.

services at the Roman Catholic

Men's Club gave & concert in machinery are now to be found in Christ is the Resurrection and the Churches were well attended and Still another was arrested yester honour of Father Chau in the com- the least expected quarters. The

impressive.

old time quiet of many a rural pound of the Cathedral. The usual services day. Science and practical facts Mass, Tenebrae and "The Way of Life.

The Concert opened with an town is now broken by the throb- did not do much towards giving us the Cross" were held on Good

The three Koreans appeared yes- address of welcome to Father Chaubing, of the exhaust of a milling hope of another life; it needed Friday, and on Saturday the Bleesterday before the Japanese Conau- and congratulations were also explant or the sound of the hooter the revelation of God to show us Fonts were observed at the Cathe outlined the case, and the men hav-

ing of the Paschal Candle and lar Court where Inspr. Hunter tended to him on his attaining them some factory in the making,

priesthood.

North China Daily News, that man was raised again. People'dral and St. Margareta,

His Lardshin Bishop Valtaris now-a-days were inclined to assume Easter Sunday was celebrated at ing confessed, were remanded for also spoke, and the programme ar- too easily the fact of immortality the Cathedral with the Pontificial judgment

High Mnes at 8.30 followed by the immortality was won for us by Papal Blessing. His Lordship The Chinese will Christ.. God gave us as a great gift Bishop H. Valtorts, offcisted at the Provisional life eternal,

both services.

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ranged was greatly enjoyed - A Boxing by some members of the dance was given by young girls, C.C.Y. M.S. The Rev. Father Foter appear before and a Chinese play, entitled:"Lit Chau is a younger brother of Mr. Huet Ching, Tse" was staged fol- Dixon Chan, the Principal of the Court North Lowed by an exhibition of Chinese Docksin English School, Caine.

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