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CHESTERTON

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to these facts as the rabid optimist might. A suspicion began to haunt him‍ that men were mostly

bad and whatever about the magic of the world, it was no place to live in-get ba laugned. He did not laugh like the atheist in bla

own story to save his face when

he had lost his soul. He laughed because he believed with Stevenson In the "ultimate decency of things" although he could give no rensoris, at the time, for his belief. It cer- tainly seemed that the world was utterly bad and that Galsworthy

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right: God may be in his heaven but he doesn't care as for the world. But Chesterton did not say this. Neither did he say

with the Communist that God is not in his heaven because all is not right with the world. He held ori desperately to a ragged bellef that existence should make a man shout for loy. Bot he was not satisfied. He hunted round in this

world. and he strove to peep into the next, for some sound reason for optimism; and then gradually, when all the new fangled theories gave him nothing but a pair in his head, he began to remember that the old theological theory sald something somewhere about

original sin, about man upsetting his own apple-cart.

into

Chesterton saw at last that man bad been made good but had gone bad. He saw that it was sin that had brought misery

the world. It wasn't that man has been created badly; it wasn't that God was cruel; it wasn't even that God had given man a aty to Live in. God had not, made man

REMEMBRANCE

The King At The Cenotaph

TRIBUTES AT HOME

AND ABROAD

HOME RUGBY

Oxford Fifteen To Meet Cantabs

London, Nov. 30: Oxford University's rugby afteen

The King stood beside the Ceno- į to oppose Cambridge in the annual taph, and the Glorious Dead were Inter-Varsity match at Twicken

They are ham to be played on December 17 remembered in silence. known always to the innermost was chosen to-day as follows:- heart of their own land." And on H. D. Freakes (Rhodes Univer-

Armistice Day remembrance tin-aty), W. N. Renwick (Loretto), M. gea every thoughtful mind. Here. M. Walford Rugby), F. L._Button, in their motherland, the Cenotaph (Trent College), Percy (Upping- Is the Empire's symbol of remem- ham), C. F. Grieve (Ampleforth), brance; the King's act of homage P. Cooke (Steward School), J. A. beside it, the symbol of his people's | Brett (Durham School), N. F. Mc- Grath (Stonyhurst), G. D. Roose bomage, states "The Times."

The central scene of remem- (St. Ellenbosch University), G. A brance around the Cenotoph is Reid (Uppingham), R. M. Marshall' familar, but its appeal has lost (Siggleswick), M. McG. Cooper nothing in Impressiveness with (Massey Agricultural College), C. T. the passing of me. The simple Bloxham (Nuneaton) and Hughes imonument that has such gran- ¦ (Lampeter). deur of inspiration drew to itself M. McG. Cooper. who last year as vast a throne as in any of the years that have passed. Grey mlat hung lightly above White- hall in the earlier hours, and from the Cenotaph the figure of

Nelson was scarcely visible above the heads of thousands who lined the way from

Trafalgar Square.

In the crowded scene the Ceno- taph stood out a thing apart, the space around It kept clear for the service of remembrance,

Grey greatcouts and bearskins of the Brigade of Guards atted sombrely into the scene close be- alde the navy-blue of sallors and that lighter blue of the airman's uniform. Men of the Royal Ma- rines, in their white helmets and khak! greatcoats. showed con- spicuously in â general back- ground where almost the only bright colour came from the long scarlet capes and plumed helmets for this earth "at, all: man's of the Household Cavalry. Then destiny was much higher. That

came, as the hour drew nearer. was Chesterton's conclusion. The the brightly clad choir of the Chɛ- Odyssey was over: reason

Pel Royal, and behind them the safely enthroned and the core of Bishop of London. his laughter was solid. God was solid," God was in his heaven and

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The Prime Minister, bearing a

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played for England against Wales and Ireland, is exptain of the team.

HON. MR. N. L. SMITH

"New President Of H.K.F.A

Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, Colonial Secretary, has Eindly consented to become President of the Hong Kong Football Association. in succession to Sir Thomas Southorn, it was ang nounced on Monday at a meeting of the HKF.A. Management Com- mittee.

SHANGHAI ACCEPTS

It was also stated that Shanghai FA. had replied accepting the Colony's invitation to send an Interport team here this season. Although no actual date for the match has yet been fixed, it will. as is customary, be played during Chinese New Year.

KO, TIMES Clubs participating in the Hong Kong Football league are requested It was up to us creatures with free į beautiful wreath of flowers on be- to observe that the kick-off-times wills of our own to see that all half of the Government, stepped for December bave now been fixed... was right with the world.

from the doors of the Home Ot- For second and third division ace with the Leader of the Op-games, the kick-off will be 2.45 p.m.. position, the Speaker of the House and for first division matches, 4 of the Common, and members of p.m. the Cabinet. Behind them fel- lowed the High Commissioners of the self-governing Dominions. re- presentatives of the Defence For- ces, of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets and of religious de- nominations.

To this end he went out to do battle with falsehood, injustice, cruelty and humbug. It was a long fight and a hard one and he never gave it up through all his Illness until his dripping sword, that was an inky pen, dropped from his fingers in death. He had to fight along so many fronts that the wonder is not that he did not write better but that the standard of his verse and articles is so uni- formly good.

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The King came by the same doors, and with hìm nis brothers, the Duke of York and the Duke of Kent. Each was dressed in haval uniform. With the Royal party was also a ruling prince of India, the Maharão of Cutch. The solemn

The question will now be asked; "Was 'Chesterton a great writer?" If the question means was he a careful English stylist, I should say, "No, thank heavens!" But if ¦ strains of the "Marche Funebre" literature means expressing fine floated through the air as the thoughts In apt language, then | King stepped from his place and many of his works are undoubted laid a wreath of poppies beside 17 literature. In the press of the battle he has written much that is ephemeral. He had no time for elaborate correction and he pub- lished almost everything that came from his pen. But when he was not writing against the clock, and sometimes even when he was, his works stand out from among his contemporaries because he has always something to say. If that į scene from a window of the Home should ever happen to the stylikts. perhaps they too would forge: the polish.

the Cenotaph, standing a mo- ment at the salute. The Duke of York also placed a wreath at the Cenotaph, and the same was done on behalf of other members of the Royal Family of the Domin- tons. Colonies, and Protectorates, and of the Bervices.

QUEEN MARY queen Mary, looked down on the

Office, and with her were the Duchess of York, the Duchess of Gloucester. and Princess Marie Louise. J.

Whatever about his casual week- ly articles; which I think should be The music of the bands ceased. collated as a sane comment on | The chimes of Big Ben rang out the history of our times; whatever over A hushed crowd, and the about his novels which sometimes | strokes of 11 sounded above a reach epic quality; whatever about great and silent gathering which his biographies and critical studies remembered. Here, Indeed, seem- which income cases such as ed the heart of the Empire's Dickens' cannot easily be bettered; | thoughts and the heart of its Two whatever about these, there are Minutes Silence. The thought some of his works which cannot and the prayer of each one in the be overlooked.. His "Everlasting | crowd were woven perhaps round Man" will remain if only to re- some different memory, but re- mind historians, and especially membrance was united in the prehistorians, that they have common silence around the com- "omitted to stress the most impor- mon memoriai.

tant event in history, the Incarna- Last Post sounded the end of tion, and that they have tried to the Silence, and there followed the blur the sharp dividing line be-brief service bealde the Cenotaph. tween animal and man and be- "O God, our help in ages past," tween any man and Christ. His the Lord's Prayer, Revellie, and "St. Thomas Aquias" will live as then "God Save the King." the meeting place across the cen- The King left the Cenotaph. It turies of two great champions, was the first time that he had heavy-weight champions, of sanity. led his people, as their King, in Many of his detective stories will this service of remembrance. He live because Father Brown was not į had done as his father had done merely a detective; he was a point before him. Time had removed of view. Some of his essays and from the scene in that same year many of his poems should pass others whose names stood out in into our commun heritage. Whe- | the. history of the War-Jellicoe, ther all this will happen no one Beatty, Allenby, Time had left Its can say with certainty. But one.Į mark on those who remain, and thing is certain the spirit of Ches- many of the ex-Service men and terton will live on because the women who marched past the spirit of Chesterton is the spirit or | Cenotaph the close of the service sanity that must always emerge were grey haired and ageing. The even out of the blackest periods of | lad of 19 who fought in Manders lunacy. Chesterton's life led him In the second year of the War is to the conclusion that there is now grown to the man of 40. He mare to optimism than closing has the memory of the War in his yours eyes to wrong; and now in own heart, and in the Silence of death, he knows that he was Armistice Day a younger genera right.

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