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POET PREACHER HAS VISION

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD

Dr. Elvet Lewis, the poet preacher, who ta occupying this year the chair of the Congrega- tional Union, was honoured in two

delivered when he wayn

his address.

Right to the end of the gallery every scat in the City Temple was occupied. Further, the address was broadcast because people in the Wolsh valleys wished listen-in.

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Owing to blindness Dr. Lewis could not read his address and for 40 minutes delivered it in his musical Welsh voice without single aid to the memory.

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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. · · THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1933.

REAL INVENTOR

OF ENGINES

CORNISHMAN TAKES PRIDE OF PLACE

A CENTENARY

AQUATIC SPORTS.

V.R.C. To Hold Opening Night Fete To-morrow.

THE LIST OF ENTRIES.

GARRISON TENNIS

(Continued from Page 8.)

Aren Tennis League, Kowloon See- tlon. Scores "wern os. follow:

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SPORT ADVTS.

THE HONGKONG' JOCKET CLUB.

Lieut. Prior & Sgt. Pratt (ILKS,

The EXCITH EXTRA RACE Bde. R.A.) lost to Lieut. Garthwaite MEETING will be held (Weather Fer. &Lleut Shields 6/4; lost to BS.M.mitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Wilks & B.Q.M. Sgt. Clark 0/3: loat Monday, 6th June, 1933, com. The opening night fete of the Victo Master Gunner Wardle & QMS.mencing at 2.60 p.m. toria Recreation Club will be held to Jones 0/4.

The First Bell will be Rung at morrow, commencing at 0.15 p..

1,80 p.m. There are altogether eight events, in- cluding a water polo match which will If you want to annoy a Cornish-wind up the swimming programme, man, mention casually that Steven-There will be dancing at the conclu-

sion of the sports. son invented railway engines.

London.

The entries for the various events "Never!," your Cornish friend are as follows: will reply. "Trevithick wAB tho,

Sgt. Harding & 9gt. Bryant (H.K.S. Bde, B.A.) lost to Lieut. Garthwalte & Lieut. Shields 6/3: lost to S.M. Wilks & B.Q.M. Sgt. Clark 0/3: lost to Master Gunner Wardle & Q.M.S. Jones 6/4.

B.Q.M. Sgt. Little & Sgt. Brown' (H.K.S. Bde. RA.) lost to Lleut. 60 Yards Boys' Handicap. (Open to Garthwaite & Lieut. Shields 6/2: lost real father of the steam locomo-Sons and Brothers of Members). to B.S.M. Wilks & B.Q.M. Sgt. Clark Souza, L. Osmund, R. Silva, K. 775; lont to foster Gunner Wardle tive."

Guterres, R. Marques, L. M. Ru•{& Q.M.S. Jones 4/3. medios, R. Rocha, F. Rocha, T. Cas-

And it is to this neglected genius, who died in poverty, that British His epilogue told herors that engineers are paid tribute this year, the subject"Jesus Christ, then century after he died. One Lord"-arose. out of a day- dream during a period of india- position last October, when he be came conscious of the presence of those who had helped him most companions of the quiet hour.

Benson

Whether he was in the higher realms of imagination or on the border-line of slumber he could not say, but he was confronted with the question: "If you spent a with one of the noblest Boule of all time, whom would you choose?"

Dr. Elvel Lewin said that after the vision, which he pictured vividly, he felt that he had to put the question to himself and the Assembly "Where Christ come in?"

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Jesus

NEED FOR HUMILITY. Points from his address were: In our approach to the pure mysterics of religion the first essential preparation is to put on the garb of humility.

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50 Yards Members "D" Class Han Mr. C. Runner, the French Vice- leap-Aggregate.-J. A. Guterres. Consul, has reported to the police the S. Gidley, V. Barradas, C. E. Barron, theft of some swimming costumes £. P. da Silva, J. A. Gutierrez, P. M. and towela which had been left in Richard Trevithick designed the N. da Silva Jr., Leo Silva, C. F. his car, No. 1880, in Chater Rond]

Rozario, E. M. Sequeirn, J. A. da Luz, about 5 pm. yesterday. first practicable steam road carri-V. M. Nunes, E. J. Ribeiro, G. M age and the first railway locomo-Xavier. tive, and he foresaw the great pos- sibilities of a mechanised agri- culture.

100 Yards Members "B" Claen 11. L. Ozorio, E. B. da Roza, W. Law- II. M. Remedios, L. Roza Handicap-Aggregate. Ed. da Roza,rence, A. M. Rodrigues, S. E. Sousu, A. A. Perolra. Guterres, A. A. Rozn, D. Gasano, J. Diving, Members Scaled Handicap LJ, D. Krmnedics, Ed. da Roza, L. J. Smith, A. A. Rumjalin Jr., Soares, G. Lynn.

itoza, E. Lawrence, C. Pinna, G. A. GO Yards Members "C" Class Finn, L. Roza, Fereira, G. Figuereido. Members Team Huce.-S. V. Git. Handicap-Aggren, Sing Teans, F. B. da Roza's Tean, L.

M. V. Soares, J. Guterres, C. M. C. Victor, A. Atoza Pereira's Team, H. M. Remu Noronha, J. C. Itemedios, I. A. Barros, dios' Team, H. L. Ozorio's Team.

Water-Polo. Intra-club).-M. M. C. A. Coelho, E. A. V. Remedios, N.

ogado, E. Lawrence, A. Elms. A. N. de V. Soaren, Leo Silva, S. E. Sousa, da Silva, A. J. Basto, L. A. J.. Silva, II. M. Remedios (Capt.), A. M. Rod- 1. Roza, J. Lima, C. Santos, J.rigues, A. A. Roza and C. Roza J. Smith, L. Rezu Never, M. A. Baptistu, E. L. Goxano, Pereira. J. rol-

J. Figuereido, G. A. Pinnn.

Pereira (Capt.), F. W. Ambrose, A. A. 100 Yards Members "A" Class Guterres, N. Delgado, E. L. Goxane! Handicap-Aggregate.-S. V. Gitting, and T. L. Knight.

Until he began his experiments, engines had been worked on the low pressure, or atmospheric, prin- eiple. This involved the use of a condenser and a steam pressure which rarely exceeded four or five punds to the square inch.

Trevithick eliminated the denner and increased the pressure to between 80 and 100 pounds. In this way he produced a portable engine.

On Christmas Eve, 1801, his road earringe carried the first load ever conveyed by Humility is hard for the heart of passengers and still harder for the intellect-steam, and in 1803 he created a and perhaps never harder than sensation by running another of his | to-day when the achievements of the mind in science and inventioncarriages through the streels of are so thrilling.

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To by humble anachronism-something out of due time, a discredited moral relic, That is but the loss of balance which always comes with fresh surprises of time.

Are we

not suffering, to-day from the partint displacement of our One Lord? We rightly view with concern the wasting resticna- ness of the ministry; we are still more gravely disturbed by spiritual church meotings and ungenerous correspondence.

CHURCH FUSIONS.

The Rev. J. D. Jones was re- elected hon. secretary, the Rev. S. M. Berry, secretary, and Sir R. Murray Hyslop, treasurer.

Dr. Berry, referring to the question of Christian unity, said they kept in view the possibility of larger groupings.

"But," he added, "our first task is to set our own house in order and to strengthen and emphasise the distinctive things in our own Congregationalism. We are not out to join with any body at any price."

London.

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CIRCULAR RAILWAY,

In 1808 he again added to the gaiety of London. This time he built a circular railway near the new highway, now called Euston- Road, and thrilled the public by them round at a speed rushing varying between twelve and fifteen tailes an hour.

But he foresaw other possibilities than transport for his invention. 11eased it for boring and break- ing rock, and for dredging, and he entered into a contract to lift ballast from the bed of the Thames, He said he could raise 500,000 tons

year.

Even that did not exhaust his inventive enthusiasm. He bullt a threshing machine and in 1812 he told the Board of Agriculture that if they used steam in all the phases et agriculture they would double the population of the country and make our market the cheapest in the world.

On returning to England in 1827 from South America, where he had been engaged in mine prospecting, be unsuccessfully petitioned Parlia ment for a reward for his inven- Cons, and six years later, on April

Two committees were appointed to consider further the question of closer relationships with the Baptist Union and with the 22, 1833, he died at Dartford- General Assembly of the Presby-penniless.--Renter.

terian Churches of England res-

pectively.

Unemployment was the subject UNIVERSE PEOPLED

of a special resolution success-,

fully moved by the Rev. H.

Parnaby, of Portsmouth,

This expressed the conviction

WITH SOULS

that "the triumphs of modern in- DEAN INGE'S BELIEF

vention and the vastly increased

productivity of Nature are gifts

of God and ought to result in

rising standard of life and

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There may be (and I do not doubl there are) an immense number of souls in the universe,

more abundant leisure for the some of them nearer to the divine impoverished classes in the cam-life than we are. munity," and called upon #311

Christian people to sack "this just This is the belief of Dean Inge. and possible result by more de- It was expressed when he de- finite application of the principlos fivered the Warburton Leisure of Christ to the production and from the pulpit of Lincoln's Inn distribution and consumption of Shapel. The Dean also said: wealth."

LATEST LUXURY

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Paris.

"I do not think we need follow Fechner in believing that every heavenly body has a soul of its own. But I would rather be a star worshipper than believe with Hegel that the starry heavens have no more significance than a rash on the sky or a swarm of Alica."

In the equally difficult problem as to survival in the literal sense our whole position in regard to time was (avolved.

of

So largo ia the new French

The. revival of so-called luxury liner "Normandio" that she spiritualism and the cult cannot got out of the port of St. necromancy among masses of the Nazaire with the quaya arranged half-educated showed how very crudo were the notions of n "future life among many who did not reject the iden altogether. Faith in human immortality stood or foll with the bellof in God.

The Chamber of Commerce has therefore decided to raise a loan of 10,000,000 francs to defray the cost of re-arranging the wharfe so that the "Normandie" can enter and leave the port.

and her total height from keel to The "Normandie,” which le near-bridgo, 128 feet. Sho will have ly 20,000 tons gross larger than accommodation for 2,000 pas- largest liner afloat, was launched at sengers including 800 first class. St. Nazaire on October 20 last. Officers, crow and hotel staff will She has a displacement of 70,000 number 1,400. Sho should bo tons and an estimated speed of 80 finished in the spring of 1934- knots. Her length is 1,027. foot

-Renter.

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