1926-03-27 — Page 15

RECENTLY

HONOURED.

Above are seen Sir Shou-son Chow and Lady Chow, tho formor wearing the numerous decorations which have boon conferred on him, including the insignia of "Knight Bachelor, with which he was recently invested by His Excellency the Governor. Photo: Ming Yuent.

GUILTY STAINS.

By the Rev. G. R. Lindsay, M.A.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

· TELEPHONE MEN ELECTROCUTED.

FALL ON LIVE "RAIL.

Lashed to a telephone standard which snapped, two" Post Omee engineers were thrown 100 feet on to a live electric rall outside Farringdon-street Station, London, and killed. They were-F. G. Maritt, of 'Catford, and A. W. White, of Now Cross. Both were married.

White was electrocuted, and Muritt died, Inter

died instantly.

In hospital.

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A third man who was standing at the foot of the standard had narrow esenpe. He was flung through a window, but except for shock was un- injured. The telephone standard was bullt upon the roof of a five, story building which overlooks the railway line.

Train's Narrow Escape.

..

A number of wiremen' arrived about 9 a.m. to mend some wires, and two of them had to ascend this standard. Without the slightest warning the base gave way, and women shrieked as the. pole, with the men Inshed to it,i crashed over the parapet. All the station lights went out, traffic was held up for 20 minutes, the cur rent was short-circuited, wires were torn down, and a train filled with passengers waiting in the station had a narrow escape.

minute later and the train would have smushed into the pole, which lay across the metals,

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It was some time before the, bodies could be reached. Flashes; of light illuminated the station until the current was cut off, and when the police and ambulance got to the fallen men they found' them terribly burned by the live rail. The pole, with few strands of the stays attached, was taken charge of by Post Office officials for 'investigation.

Women havo not yet won the vote in France, although they can and do practise at the Bar, Borrow and if a Fronchwoman is always

Is there such a thing as absolute, against remorse and forgetfulness? We know that They fly to company, mirth, and roudy to discuss politics, as sho often we rondombor things wo pleasure, as narcotics. But, the is ready to discuss anything, the thought we had forgotten. Sonfe whole thing is futile for this me- general indifference about suff- have suggested that porhaps in thod deals with the memory alone, rage is such that the question is the futuro stalo our past will and when a man sins he defiies not likely to burn until the excess stand before us in absolute com- his whole nature, it becomes of women over men, which is pleteness. Whether this is true moral problem.

already bringing it to the front, or not, we do, at any rate for present world uses, forgot many things and wisely, so that we may remember the things more necessary. But what if we cant forget? There is one religius sentiment which is the offspring of memory, that is guilt.

"Outit is the identification of an evil action in the past as the property of the author who is responsibic." The sin may be old but some incide awakens the memory and the sense of guilt overwhelins. In most lives there aro certain past actions which can never be remembered without shame. Many a one is dogged by an evil mentory; some act in a period of mind folly, a malpractice in business, a corrupt influence overa companion which started him downwards, or the single slip in an unguardod moment. No matter what, it holds him like a leash. He sees This is what tho Cross moans, the folly of it now, but the inde- the satisfaction of the vexed con- ible fact remains. A guilty sciento; God and man are mado kamomory! what is the curo? Someone again. The language of a would say "refuse to worry, turn well-known hymn, though highly: the blind oyo, and got on to the metaphorical, expresses the great next business." But the sensitivo reality: mind wants the thing cured, not ignored, uprooted; not winked, at The error that many fall into is to try and kill the memory of tho guilt, instead of the sin itself. Thousands endeavour to stifle the memory by drugging their minds

Is there no process available becomes even greater than it is and adequate? Must we drag on at present. Through an admin- with a memory loaded with theistrative anomaly, however, two guilt of every fall? Is there no women are already sitting as process by which we may look municipal councillors for a com- up into Heaven again and become mune in the suburbs of Paris. new creatures, and,” enjoy delici-Their election was officially Yes, there is annuiled, but they appealed, and oos liberty." Christ's process, full und rewly until the appeal is heard they wafession to Go and any we keep their seats. One of them have wronged." "If we confess would even have been appointed as

He is faithful and just a delegate of the commune for the

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a forgive." "; even I am Ho election of senators if the Prefect that botteth ont thy transgres-had not stepped in to declare the sons, and will not remember thy appointment void. It may be mentioned that the ladies in human need. Judgmont deserved

This is the answer of love tonestion are Communists.

but mercy given. The instant we truly confess, absolving love wipes the guilt away!

"He forgave me and I could

not speak,

"His morcy choked me."

Drawn from Emmanuel's veins,

And sinnors plunged beneath that flood,

"Lose all their guilty stains"

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