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with the work of the various bran- ches of the church; it is a matter of attracting to the church the people who at present stand aloof. Not one out of ton people of the population of England, it is stated, belong to any church whatever. is 2 almilar problem which facing some of the churches Hongkong..

DAY BY DAY

MEN ARE

DISTURBED

NOT

BY

THINGS THEMSELVES, BUT DY THEIR It OPINIONS OR THOUGHTS CONCERNING le, THOSE THINGS.—Epictetus. of

When we get down to basic con. WO must alderations, of course, reallee that religion is something very much more than mere atten- dance at church services. These services are not the final in view; rather are they to be regarded as the means by which, as it were, our religious impulses are strong- thered. Religion is life. To be of real value, it must demonstrate Itself in our everyday activities. The extent to which a man reflects hlo religion in his life is the ex- tent to which he is entitled to be

religious man; regarded as a represents also the measure of his grasp of the essentials. But In the present state of human society, there must be organised means by which the church can express it- self and order its growth. "And the wider the appeal that these agencies nake, the greater will be the number of people brought with

The Ben Line 0.8. Banvenue in due here from Home ports via Straits on July 8th.

current

Typical Will Rogers humour added to a story of Balkan intrigue bearing some little resemblance to history, diffuncs excellent entertain ment in the Alm "Ambassador Bill" now being shown at the King's. It portrays Will Rogers at his best. cast, a film There is also a capable well worth seeing.

SUGAR MARKET

ROBERT LYND REASONS WITH G.B.S.

the realdents of

TT is too much to expect that publicans were annoyed because At a meeting of the local take Mr. Bernard Shaw's attack

consider the on their hillalde auburb lying tradesmen held to

new situation, however, it was down.

Replying to an Invitation to at-unanimously decided that, since tend a meeting held in Hampstend Mr. Shaw was the greatest living for a charitable purpose, he wrote writer, and indeed the greatest to Lady Pentland, the convener of living human Being, and indood the meeting, assuring her that he (not to exaggerate) the greatest knew what Hampstead was like in writer and human being who had ite attitude to social causea, and ever lived, the sacrifices must be that it was "the most hopelessly cheerfully borne and that any

Boon glowering at subtradesman of callous damned centro

neo-Shavian because he was urbanism on earth."

"You will get no money there," vegetarian, non-tea-drinker,

teetotaller should be regarded as he added, "for any good cause." In traitor to Hampstead. When Shaw Came.

One enthusiastic publican,

Shaw had Broad-minded Hampstead will not deny that the suburb has learning that Mr.

deteriorated written a novel about boxing, even respects in some within living memory; but they proposed that a petition should will reaent Mr. Shaw's attack all be sent to the town council urging nome of Ilampstead the more bitterly because the de- that the terloration dates from the time should be altered to "Shawtown."

Blins was it in that dawn to be when Hampstead frat came under Mr. Shaw's influence and is entire alive, but to be young was very

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THE LATEST.CABLED QUOTATIONS The following cable at the closely due to it.

Alas, however, there was England, No other suburb in of the sugar market yesterday_haa

that became daily

in It been received by Messrs. Pen- Scotland or Wales embraced the daw

our little hilltop with visible Shavianiem new gospel of tenth and Co.

oquai enthusiasm. Hampstead read Paradise.

Before the advent of Mr. Shaw Mr. Shaw's tracts, went to see his

hin playa,

by

dramatic and his gospel, Hampstead had да "Appy Amp- criticism, and defended his most been known

Instead," and its inhabitants were audacioua jokes to the irate

most part cheerful, Baya- for tho

charitable, easy going people. The habitants of Kensington, water and Ealing.

swore

London Terminals. August 1932 5/7 up 1%d. December 1932 5/9% up 11⁄2d. March 1933 6/0% up 11⁄2d. May 1933 6/3 up 1d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking d-d. more,

There was a time when Hamp-spirit of the place was embodied In those hilarious, red-faced bus- London 20.6.32-It is reported that a cargo of Java Muscovadoes,stead was the only place on earth men who drove their triple teams basis 90° polarization for July whose blood did not boil at men-of horses at is snail's pace up shipment has been sold to Martion of Mr. Shaw's name.

in the fold. The churches do wellseilles at 5/8 per cwt. c.l.f.

to look into into the means they

Hongkong Telegraph employ, in their desire to achieve

TURDAY, JUNE 21, 1932.

ARE THE CHURCHES LOSING GROUND?

or

New York Terminals. Spot 90 no change. July 1932 .81 up 1 pt. September 1932 .87 no change. December 1932 .95 up 2 pts. March 1993 1.01 up 1 pt. May 1933 —. New York 20.6.32-Messrs. Lamborn & Co. report that market shews signs of a reacting trend.

A HERALDIC PAGEANT

COLOUR FOR BATTLE ABBEY

Innumerable heraldic devices em- blazoned in vivid colours will bo Battle one of the features of the Abbey grounds next month. Abbey Pageant to be held in the

Rosalyn ..

such a nest of

poor

If, an seemed likely at one time, Mr. Shaw had had to fly for his Whose Fault?

of the life, owing to the wrath

When I first came to Hampstead could exasperated multitude, he always have found sanctuary in the suburb was Hampstead, and there was not a charity that I have seen n Hampstead woman who would not stranger in a public-house being gindly have hidden him in angiven free drink after free drink attic or under a sofa and played by the local customers and heard

him murmuring rapturously to the part of Flora, Macdonald

he held each glass in its turn at Mr. Shawn Prince Charlie.

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1 myself arrived in Hampstead arm's length and looked and saw that it was real: "Kind hearts are about the time when the

craze

Yes, was at its height. The Dukes in more than coronets, and simple Mayfair were still asking, "Who faith than Norman blood."

there were kind hearts in Hamp- is this fellow, Shaw?"; but Hampstead in those days. stead could have told them.

come

maximum results, Never at any time in the world's history Was there greater need for the applica- tion of the principles of Chris- tianity to current problems than It is for the church's at present. lendera to face the issues squarely, bet nothing that is beneficial The problem which is ennfront lasting will result from any com-

Then Mr. Shaw wrote "Major I attended all the first per- ing St. Andrew's Church at Kow-promising with the great, undying

formances of the Shaw plays at Barbara" and other plays, telling loon is one by no means confined truths of the Christian religion.

the Court Theatre, and apart the world at large and Hampstead to that particular body. It is, in-

from the dramatic critics (who in particular that poverty was a did not pay for their seats), I do crime and that the philanthropy deed, a problem which has given

Sail Suils Out of the Solent,

not remember ever seeing a single of the rich was merely blackmail rise, to much anxiety even in Eng-

Hampstead, the home of charity, A romantic relic linking Eng-

person in the audience who had paid to keep the poor quiet. not come from Hampstead, You land, where it can be said that

gasped, but felt that it Mr. Shaw ports with the church-going is much more firmly land's channel

from by the height of their brows laid this it must be true. One entrenched than it is here in the glamourous days of sall is dipping

could tell where they had It is proposed to hang high in and the rapt expression of their rich Shavian in Fitzjohn's-avenue immediately cancelled his sub- the East. Again and again have weits ausign to the prosale course of

It would take a clever arithmeti-cription to the League for shields bearing the coats of arms neen it stressed at religious commercial progress, the famous every tree and on all the walls, faces.

of thecian to count all the money that Suppression of Toy Soldiers.

The rest of us followed suit. I gatherings at Home that there is Solent pilot cutters being replaced of the lending families

steam yessels. Almost the periods concerned, and the air will has poured down the hill from remember the agony it cost

Into Mr. Shaw'a a marked decline in the number of by

Jone day to refuse a penny to

giva pockets, people regularly attending church only remaining vestige of hemp and be thick with fluttering banners Hampstead

The fame of Hampstead as the cornet-player. I longed to

him a penny. I would not have Research has been carried out.by

But services. Im particular, it had canvas and good old marlinespike

minded making it twopence. been declared that the church is seamanship around the waterways the Rev. E. E. Dorling, an authority Shavian Mecca Roon spread, and the country for falling to attraes young people to leading to the great port of South-on heraldry; to ensure that all the Shavians came flocking to it from I could not bear the thought of fter being denounced by Mr. Shaw as

a blackmailer. its observances, It is this latter ampton is about to sail right out devices are historically correct, all parts of

from the great King's Banner of shelter. I know a girl who

all the way from Oban becauso

In time, to refuse became less factor which has

fears of the picture. There are no bet Henry VIII, which had to be no religious leaders ter sailors on British sounding less than 24 feet long by Statutory her family could no longer bear difficult, Word went round kmongst many

than the far-famed harbour and regulations, to the long warrior the sound of Mr. Shaw's name.suburb: "Shaw says we've got to

warriors Then there were the three athelats

be callous. Philanthropy's only 'And so dovotedly that the church is losing ground.

river pilots. Many may recall the shields of the Norman

bearing curious devices in spots and from Abertillery. And the vege-black-mall." In these matters, once it is conlegend of the crack clipper Ther- bands, before the days of heraldry tarian cat burglar from Leigh-on-did we put Mr. Shaw's philosophy Sen. And the nati-sweet-eater Into practice that, within a short ceded that the church is not mopylae arriving in the Channel

The great King's Banner, which who trudged all the way on foot time, barrel-organs all but disap making the appeal that it did, it is in a whole gale and heavy sea and

peared from the streets and good will float over the Abbey, bears from Truroa.

causes ceased to call at our doors, quite natural that there should be having to take on the pilot by

upon its silken surface the Red

'Appy Days."

retreating to the less Shavian considerable searching of heart re-storming up to windward of the

They were a most peculiar lot, suburbs, such as Highgate and Dragon and Rose, the Fleur-de-lys garding the cause of the decline. cutter, bracing up the main yard Cross of St. George, the Tudor

and fishing the plucky pilot out of of France, and flames of fire among these newcomers, and the natives Holloway.

If we keep our purses shut at So we frequently hear each es his craft--bowler hat, umbrella other emblazonings, a contrast to of Hampstead looked at them at

suspicious eyes. The the present day, and Mr. Shaw tions as these:-"Are the minis-and all-in the bight of a gantline the simple flag born at Senlac by first with ters of the Gospel at fault?"

rove off from the end of the sway- the Conqueror-then Duke William butchers were naturally annoyed hurls his angry vituperations at daring is consisting principally of a yellow because the neo-Shavians bought us for our "callous suburbanism," the clergy present their message ining yardarm. Such

no meat. The grocers wore an-we can only hurl back the retort:

who have made noyed because the neo-Shavians "It is you creas between four blue disca.

bought no tea or coffee. The what we are."

arotised

"Do

and pennants.

proper.

Shields And Banners

The students at the Hastings School of Art are engaged inder the direction of Mr. Philip Cole in making these shields and banners; and the work is being carried out with admirable skil in an atmoɛ- the accompaniment of quaint old phere of medieval England and to

to the students.

"The blazoning of this coat of arma is parti per saltire azure and

re-

a form suitable to the present-day typical of British pilotage.. There Outlook ?" "Do the forms of ser- is an air of glamour and adventure to the picture of the tiny sailing vice need revising?" "Is there a

cutters hovering about the broad need for the re-statement of

and sometimes boisterous reaches doctrines in terms more readily

of the Solent in this day of steam comprehensible to the masses?”. turbines and quadruple screws. It These mul a hundred and one other is a sight that thrills the most ex- queries are to be found in the dis-perienced traveller to watch the cussions which are taking place in stout little ketchen sail boldly un-words that are intensely amusing preas and pulpit nowadays. The der the ley of huge ocean liners other day, at a religious conference to put a pilot aboard. Rising and falling in the heavy seaway, the in England, one of the speakers great skill required of those who argent, with a saltire gulcs," declared that the spirit of revolt man these comparatively small against, the established order of craft is clearly apparent; such things, which le said to be conditions call forth an exhibition manifesting itself in other spheres, of seamanship that is always Many an is creeping also into the church worth watching. To

These were simple matters com- ∙occan voyager, the sight of the obvious If that is so, there is an

white sail on the distant sen line pared with some of the more com- plicated blazonings. For instance, danger to be guarded against after long days at aca means pick there is the banner of arms of Sir

deemed Whatever else may be

was the Anthony Browne. ing up the pilot-safe voyage and the situation, happy landing. Sail senda a mes-first private owner of Battle Abboy necessary to meet

sage of welcome or farewell to after the dissolution. The banner are woven the travellers aboard the great ocean bears an intricate marshalling of castles of to-day that no wisp of arms, into which smoke from the smudgy Solent arms of eleven different family con- pilot steamer will ever quite con-

In

marked one young woman student. when I paused to gaze at the arms of the Gage family..

"Argent, a fesse dancette gable, with three bezants or," chimed in another student.

nexions.

He

the church and religion in general must be the losers if standards are to be lowered and compromises in vital matters are sanctioned.

Among the hundreds of coats of erms in preparation are those of regard to the form of services, we wey.

many well-known Tudor familles touch a matter upon which views

with descendants still living in tho will necessarily differ. There are

The American Consulate General in vicinity, such as Lord Gage (who is people who favour elaborato ritual;

Hongkong has received an inquiry taking the part of his ancestor others who lean more towards the concerning the present where abouts Lord Gage), Fiennes of Herstmon- simpler evangelical approach to of LeRoy Brownice, the son of Mrs. ceux, Fuller of Brightling, Lord de God. We must give the one group J. 11. Walls. He is believed to have a Warr, Culpepper of Wakehurst, tical banners vill include those of credit for just as much sincerity been attached several years ago to Pelham of Stanmer. The ecclesias the United States Navy and on die- as the other. But primarily the charge, to have returned to Ilongkong. Westminster, Canterbury, Roches problem which has to be faced Is Any of our reader who may ko Inter, Durham, and of the following French abbeys and monnatorica, a position to supply Information con Boc, Contances, Jumleges, Rouen, not one which concerns those who

cerning the man aro anked to com- Bre already actively associated municate with the Consulate.

and Marmontier.

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