1934-08-20 — Page 7

MR. C. B. R. SARGENT

ORDAINED

Impressive Ceremony At The Cathedral

Mr. C. B. K. Sargent, MA., Headmaster of the Diocesan Boys' School, was ordained a Deacon of the Church of England by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Hall at St. John's Cathedral yesterday morning,

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In the congration were noticed a number of past and pre- sent pupils of the Diocesan Boys School, including the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kolewall and Mr. J. D. Bush.

The sermon preceeding the Ordination was preached by the Rev. L. L. Nash, after which Mr. Sargent was presented to the Bishop by the Archdeacon and duly ordained.

The sermon by the Rev. L L. Nash was as follows:-

" THE WORK OF A MINISTER

Preaching from the text, "Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand”” (St. Mark, Chapter 1, verses 14 and 15) Mr. Nash said: This incident is placed by St. Mark right at the beginning of our Lord's Ministry. Jesus had come straight from two crises in His life, the Baptism and the Temptation, and commenced his won by immediately preaching the kingdom. The gospel of Jesus Christ' is intensely individualistic. His dealings with people were as 'Son of Man to men. He know their needs, sorrowed for their sins, stretched out a loving hand to help, and sent them on their way rejoicing that they should sin no more, but that their lives should

be worthy of God their Father and

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The Kingdom of God is not only an individual possession. It it a corporate trust. The Son of God loved me and and gave Himself for me", shedding His precious blood on that awful tree, and as a consequence

my sins are all forgiven. I'm on my way to hea- ven, my heart is bubbling over, as we used to sing when children. But also we are told not to for- sake the assembling of ourselves together, and" we know that it was when the early Church were the moment of mighty all with one accord in one place Alled them with a corporate pur- Poe, and they went out in the

blessing

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1934.

REVENUE OF THE COLONY

Credit Of $15,000,000 At End Of May

FROM THE GAZETTE

Notifications And Appointments

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The following notifications and The Colony Revenue and Ex appointments are taken from the penditure account for the month Gazette:- of May. 1934, shows credit The Merchant Shipping Amend- balance of $15,020,075.88 made upment Ordinance, No. 6 of 1834. as follows:-

came into operation on Saturday Excess of assets over

abilities on

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Revenge for May

Total Expenditure

May

April

during

Jast.

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BARON EMPAINTM

On Visit To Colony

Baron Empain, the well-known Belgian Banker and millionaire, and party, arrived in, the Colony on Friday night on his pleasure yacht, Hellopolis, on the way hack to Europe after a cruise through the Orient. The party were seen "doing the town" on Saturday morning and attired as they were in their yachting outfits they at- tracted no little attention as they

.$14.957.177.81 The Governor-In-Counell, has visited the different places of in-

2.188,294.73 established. & juvenile count terest in town.

at the Magistrate's Court at Shan Land Once, ..$17,145.474.51 Ping

and assigns to such court, as an alternative to the juvenile court at the Magistracy at Taipo, the Lok Ma Chau, Au Tau and Ping Shan Police Districts of the North- ern District of the New Territor- les.

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$ 2,125.398.86

Balance

..$15,020.075.88

of May 1934, was $12,949,486 as The actual revenue for the month

compared with $15,890.188 for the same

period of the preceeding year.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed the following as"Deputy Dropa were registered

under Registrars of Births and Deaths:-- exception being the Kowloon Can-kle, Mr. J. H. Gelling and Mr. J. I practically every head, a notable Dr. W. B. & Moore, Dr. J. B. Mac- on Railway. Port and Harbour Barnes. dues "are down by $81,121.30 as compared to May 1933.

The expediture for the month of May totalled $11,747,015.47 as compared with $12,613,525 for May

name of their Master conquering 1933. and to conquer, between the anvil of persecution and the hammer of hate to build the Church of the Living God.

Many well-known" students of

the New Testament contend that the main purpose of Jesus minis- honouring to their better nature folk. nor the preaching of God's try was not, the healing of sick which He had made. The kingdom Love and Fatherhood, for even to of Jesus Christ is a spiritual kingdie on the Cross, but to select dom working in the. domain of

and to train the Twelve. Certain- personal experience. Christianity 1 He spent much time with them, 15 an individual possession. We rightly treasure this thought of the and in Mark's gospel we see the reason -- (1) for companionship.

essential self. being the only one exactly like that, and we rightly

Although there are regions of Jesus' personality no human can

They are called to spiritual ser- vice; so let us for a moment try to understand the quality of the ministry- service of this specially ordained

the true picture of God. For most al, it is to show forth Jesus as

men the dream world of fantasy and desire has far more influence than rational reflection in shaping their gods, and the job of the ministry is so faithfully to present whom the world worships may be Jesus of Nazareth that the god

like Him, met not only in personal

has

The Governor-in-Counci appointed the period between am, and 6.30 am, as an additional time for the firing of blasts within the area of the new goal site a Stanley.

the case.

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One of the first things the party) did was to visit one of the big Chinese restaurants "to sample. some of

Chinese your choice dishes as one of them put it. Then some one suggested a ride in a sedan-chair and at least one of the party thought it was a thrill to be borne shoulder-high through the busy streets. The general opinion was that Hong Kong was excellent place though the weather was not very kind to the visitors.

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The pleasure yacht makes yearly cruises to all parts of the world. Last year she completed a round- the world tour, having previously visited Honolulu, via Panama, the South Seas Islands, Australia and South America.

treasure the good news of the gus-enter, yet as a man He sought the life but also in the wider corporate / in respect of hospitals or charit- | expected about the beginning of

pel that Jesus, friend of sinners, can be a friend to men.

companionship of His friends. "The church is not an association This sense of personal calling but

& society," said 鼈 and individual responsibility before preacher of last century. To-day famous God has raised up prophets of we would go further and call it progress in every age whose indivi- a fellowship, men and women in dualism has meant much that is harness who have a satisfying good in the world; from Micah the answer to the meaning of life and prophet, to whom came the call have this corporate sense that that true religion was "to do others ought to know. justly, and to love mercy, and to 2) for commission. It Jesus walk humbly with thy God", or Christ is worth while then you the Apostle James, who bid his must pass Him on. The hallmark nock "to visit the fatherless and of a Christian is not his beliefs widows in their amiction and to or his assertions but his power, keep oneself unspotted from the his power to see through and to world", to a Wilberforce or a think through and to win through Samuel Barnett or a Robert Morri- all life's inconsistencies and des- son who revolted from the accept pair, its hollowness and lack of ed order of things and saw the direction. new Jerusalen coming down from heaven. They were not

mere

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stead of gain,

November.

The 750-ton yacht left South- ampton on May 25 last and cruised The regulations under the Pro- towards the East on no definità specting and Mining Ordinance sailing schedule. stopping At have been rescinded. The term Gibraltar, Port Said, Bombay, and of any grant of a mining lease or Madras. Here she pleked up her E prospecting or mining licence owner, Baron Empain, who had will hereafter be determined ac-flown by air from Europe. Con. cording to the circumstances of tinuing her voyage, the vessel call- ed at Penang, Singapore, Manila (Philippine Islands) WATER CHARGES

Keelung (Formosa) and Shanghai It was With regard to water charges, it is notified that on all new ac-hoped to have carried on to visit counts, Issued by the Government Japan, but a typhoon forced the excess water consumption charges bay 40 miles south of Woosung. after the 1st September, 1934, for vessel to seek shelter in a small

in respect of rated tenements or Her return to Southampton is

and national spheres,

able institutions referred to in sec- b) another quality of this tion 2(a), (ii) of the Waterwork

summed specially ordained ministry may be Ordinance, 1903, a rebate of Bi-

up in the words of the

teen per cent shall be granted Saylour Christ, "I am among you and allowed, provided payment of state that she is about 30 years old as he that serves." The temper the account is tendered at the and has had many owners. Al- of the modern age is frankly Treasury on or before a date, not though she now flies the Belgian utilitarian. Nothing is allowed to being less than fourteen days af-fag, her last former owner Mr, remain that doesn't pass

this ter the date of issue, to be fixed Anthony Drexell, American standard of value, and thereby we in each case by the Water Au- banker ·with offices in Paris, are not afraid of the future of thority and endorsed by him on operated her under the American the Church. Archbishop Head has the account.

flag. The yacht has been the pro- recently pointed out that the great fact that dominates the history of

perty of Baron Empain for the past Ave years. the Church of England during the nineteenth century is the change

PRINTING PRESS. from the position of privilege, in

The draft of a BUI to amend the the nation to one of service for the Printers and Publishers Ordinance nation. At the beginning of the has been issued. It is explained century, conscious of their privi- that by Section 3 (1) of the prin- leged position the clergy led the cipal Ordinance it is lawful for nation but they do not always the Governor-in-Council to make

Measure thy life by less in- visionaries but men of action, Not by the wine drunk but by practical and emclent, and we are

the wine paired forth. enjoying the heritage of their

The Church then is not a crea- labours. "Where the Spirit of the tion of the mind of man which Lord is there is liberty", and can be dispensed with at will, it wherever the spirit of individualism is the expression in time of God's In revolt brings into the world eternal truth as shown in Jesus "whatsoever things are true, or Christ our Lord. The man who honest, or just; or pure, or of good condemns church organisation is report". there we welcome God's generally the man to whom the free spirit working in and through idea of self-sacrificial service is the minds of men. The wind to be taken in homeopathetic is not expected to be competent to

bleweth where it listeth and thou canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it bloweth, Bo`is every one that is born of the Spirit," said Christ.

THE KINGDOM OF GOD

doses with plenty of holidays in between.

This regulation is to be regarded as a temporary measure.

Officers

An Ancient Town

aboard the Hellopolis

Her name is taken from the an- cient town of Heliopolis in Belgium which was restored and made into more or less of a resort by the father of the present Baron Emi- pain, who is a millionaire Belgian banker, as was his father,

Apart from two Belgian wireless such regulations as he may think fit with reference to the regula-operators, the crew of 35 now care tion of newspapers and their pro ried by the yacht are all British prietors, printers, publishers and subjects, including the captain. editors, and with reference to the H. V. Crandeld. keeping and use of printing press- es, and to prescribe fees.

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Serve

it in the spirit of Christ. Gradually they learnt to serve as their priveleges were taken from them, but the Church gained more than it lost, for at the end of the century it found itself nearer to the nation by service than it could ever be by privilege. "I am among

The amending ordinance substi-

WAGNER FESTIVAL you 2.5 he that serves," said tutes a sub-section which makes it Christ, and the disciple is not clear that the regulations as to above his master, The clergymen keeping and use of printing press- [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally

es, may deal with the licensing Press" (Copyright.)] solve all the economic or social thereof as well as with their re-

Berlin, Aug. 18. questions of his day, but he is gistration, purchase, sale or remov-

The foreign attendances at the called to serve his day and al -PARSON AND LAYMAN

the generation by dispensing the life) As the defination of "printing perfomances of Wagner at And in the church there are

giving Spirit of Christ. That ser press. in Section 2 (1) of the prin Wagner" festival in Bayreuth are differing functions of ministry. vice may lead him along broad cipal Ordinance is, purposely, just as in pre-war days with the This emphatically is not a call to But Jesus proclaimed not only different layers of privilege, some

thoroughfares or through little widely framed, the new Section 3 English and Americans predomin- lanés. Often the God's Fatherhood and the for higher and some lower. It is a

minute detall (1) provides for granting exempating. King Boris of Bulgaria, seems to a man to cloud the main tions. The new Section 3 (1) also Princess Maria of Italy and Prin- giveness of sins in Himself; He call to different avenues of ser-broad sweep of service for his enables the Governor-in-Council cess. Vigo of Denmark were also also proclaimed His Kingdom. vice. The edifying is for the body Jesus was no enemy to institu- of Christ, not for the self esteem

Lord. Wherever life's little duties to prescribe forms either in addi- present to see the performance of take a humble servant of the tion to or in substitution for the "Thering, Parsifal and Melster- tionalism.. Even the highly or of the one holding the office. Master Into the common ways of forms in the schedule to the prin-singer ganised religion of His day He And here let me mention a very

cipal Ordinance. came not to destroy but to fulfil important truth of our Evangell- and to purge. Even though the cal Reformed Faith. In the New process of purging conveyed the Testament lists priesta: are not ultimate seeds of destruction for mentioned. Every humble belle- the body politic of the Jews we ver is not only child of God cannot call Jesus a fierce icono- but he is also a priest. of God. clastic regarding the organised for He "has made us kings and religion of the Hebrews with the priests unto God and His Father, joyful eyes of the revolutionary to Him be glory and dominion for Jesus krew as well as anybody ever and ever. Amen." We are in else that man's personality deve- danger of forgetting this most lops in harmony and interrelation | comforting doctrine that the with others of his kind. Robinsonpriesthood of the laity with its Crusoe halled Mat. Friday with symbolic set of confirmation is as delight. Even the Divine Being full of potential meaning as the cannot dwell in lonely and isolat priesthood of the clergy who are ed splendour but must have the further separated by ordination to human for companionship in or- fülf certain functions in the life der to be divine; and, where and work of the Church. You human beings live together there priests of the living God," the

must be either organised society world needs your priesthood dis-

or chaos. That organisation may pensing

be an obligatory one, as the state, Christ.

or It may be a voluntary ana

DISPET

welded together by common ideals.

such as the old Cathedral Guild's

the sweet savour "of

NG THE SPIRIT OF

CHRIST

ideals of worship and service. To-day we are met in God's Jesus knew this common need of name to concentrate in time by man's essential self, and all the this symbolic act of ordination facts of the New Testament com- what God has eternally ordained' pel us to confess that institutiona- for these two lives. They need llam as such is not incompatible your sympathy and prayers and with His gospel.

understanding.

The provisions of Section 5 of the principal Ordinance as to the licensing of printing presses are not altered by this Ordinance.

life and haunts of men, however small the service, however restrict- ed the avenue, there we meet Christ the Master of men, Who was not afraid of scorn and for getfulness. He called men to He❘ MORE more abundant along the Clod-lit road.

"Father," where shall I work

to-day?."

And my love bowed warm

and free.

Then He pointed me toward a

tiny spot

And said "Tend that for

me.".

I answered quickly, "Oh no, not

that Why, no

see

Onc would ever No matter how well my work

was done,

Not that little place for me." And the word He spake, it was

not steri,

He answered me tenderly: "Ah, little one, search that

beart of thine.

Art thou working for them

or for me?

Nazareth was a little place,

And so was Galilee," To-day we are building the Ring- dom of God.'

DANGEROUS GUÖDS

Transocean Kuo Min.

provisions of this section. In both sub-sections the words "or ware- 'house' owner" have been inserted. after "servant or agent" in order The draft of proposed amend- to make it quite clear that the ments of the Dangerous Goods | owner of dangerous goods who de- Ordinance. necessitated in the posits them in another's godown main by the recent drafting of a ] is not thereby relieved from per- new and complete. code of "dan-sonal liability to take out a licence gerous goods" regulations to which in respect of such goods, the Chamber of Commerce has agreed and which are to be made

TENDERS INVITED. by the Governor-in-Council under Tendres are invited by the Sani- section 5 of the principal Ordin-tary Dartment for the supply of earthenware, urns for use in Gor- ance.

enment Cemeteries for the period of one year from Januay 1, next, The tender comprises the supply of 500 urns for Chat Wan Cemetery and for 16,300 ums for Abitchau.

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Clause 3 adds to section, 5 a new paragraph empowering the Governor-in-Council to make re- gulations for the labelling or marking by other means of dan gerous goods. Bluep labelling is a Cemetery... feature of the new regulations. Tenders are also invited by the By clause 3 pagections (1) and Banitary Department for three- (5) of section 10 have been res year contracts for the conservancy. drafted. The effect of the addi- of Pokfulam, Aberdeen and tional words, added at the begin- Aplichau (one contract) and for ning of sub-section (1) is to ex- the conservancy of Stanley and empt the masters of hips that Taltam (one contract), "both" côn- enter the harbour carrying dan tracts to commence as from Janu- gerous goods from the licensing ary 1, next,

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