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13

THE HONGKONG

KING'S DEATH

BISHOP'S REFERENCE

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY

The strength of God is in Bethlehem and Nazareth, in Galilee, on Calvary, is Easter Day and on the Emmaus Road.

27,

1936. *

GREEK ELECTIONS

MODERATE ROYALIST PARTY MOST POPULAR

Athens, Jan. 26, Greece goes to the polls to-morrow In the most significant general elec- tion since 1924.

Both the main parties support King

return sinca hin

In George, who, November, has followed a conciliatory and impartial policy.

to do this day is to phy a humble tribute, to recall the significance of such a life, to try to join with, thone who mourn, of his own family and of our people at large, and to pray God that we may live to be more worthy of our beloved King, who for AT CATHEDRAL

twenty-five years had the love and Preaching at the 11 am. service affection of a minhly Empire.

An English Ideal in St. John's Cathedral yesterday, Bishop Hall took na his text, "The 'Firstly, then, to pay a humble King shall rejoice in Thy strength Otribute. There is no doubt that our Lord." He anid:.

Into greatly beloved King was the epitome of our most cherished Eng- n beautiful ish ddeals. He had family life. Everyone knows this. In an age when for many the ideal has been lost, he, at the centre of the Empire, hus aet auperb example not only to his own people but to the whole world. In this way he has done more for the real good of Eng land than in anything else. strength of a people is, and always stability of its familly

With a view to assuring clean must be, in life. Nothing else can take its place elections provincial prefects have Our late King has been, as it were, been replaced by magistrates who In rock in ʼn desert of drifting, and will control the police and military

He has lived by those ideals which we all in our dicart of hearts know tile political meetings have been

On Christmas night listened in the Broadcasting Studio to the King's Christuins message to his family, The tones of his voice, were the familiar tones of the Norfolk Country Squire, I was reminded vury forcibly Indeed that the strength of our King lay in the simple courage by which he has kept his own personality safe from the corroding influence of

exalted rank.

ᎤᏓ

As we waited for the Proclamation.

n Wednesday afternoon, tinguished Chinese gentleman told me of her visit the day before to lay a wreath on King George's statue. The Learn, could not be stayed as he remembered the simple and homely welcome he received from the King nt Buckingham Paince some years The King shall rejoice ไปป Thy strength O Lord.”

the

The strength of God in in Bethlehem and in Nazareth and among Galilean hills, Jesus thenilen countrymann, Jesus born at Bethlehem,

to be true.

the

to

The

The coup d'etat threat by General Kondylls, who resigned the Premier- ship owing to dificulties which arose between himself and the King whom he had brought back to the throne, were considered at to-day's meeting of the Cabinets The Cabinet, which is non-party, in taking no part in the

campaign.

Public banned.

The parties which oro most popular are the moderate Royalists, lead by the Liberals, M. Traldaris, and formerly the Republican Party, who are now led by M. Soufoulis,

boy at Nazareth, lover of the hills word him it was the "pearl of one's life one must lose it as Jesus

the

and birds and flowers. This Jesus is

strength of God, Today we thank God for a King where power to lead his people lay

"Gallion" "Eth of God is not political disputes his was always the the Empire in a position which was

re

and

So, too, he has lived for peace even though his country was for a time No one could re- forced into war. cuxo British people to-day of being warlike. In recent months, we have made supreme efforts

preserve

Neither General Kondylis nor the peace in the world and that has al- ways been typical of our policy. We small extremist parties are expected are a peace-loving people. And into shine at the polls-Router. this our late King has represented our ideals. In his Christmas Day broadcast addresses what a depth of did Excalibur to the arm in the lake, feeling and emotion he put into that signifying the belief which was his He spoke of its throughout his reign, that to gain though to

'dil he And not only great price." strive for it in the world at large Briefly then, the significance of the taught both in precept and practice. but amongst his own people, india reign of King George V has been and Ireland knew as much as anyone largely in his love for the country-n side, for birds and flowers and the how much he wanted peaca in those that by living for these principles lands and in our own industrial and that are specifically Christian ho has open reaches of the Norfolk fields.

the placed the Crown, the Throne, and Bit slo

It is in Gethsemane

never stronger in our history, ne great prace loving heart that yearn- only in

Jove

out of and Calvary. I am reminded

and happiness out of discord and through them has blessed the rest of was at the King's nfusion. at this time as I

Ile lived

the world. 10 bring "pence Jubilee of the moment during the

Empire's Sympathy war when I stood face to face with on earth and goodwill among men."

A Religious Man

I hava sald that we must join Ilie late Majesty. I shall never for-

another thing with those both of his own family and But there still get the suffering wornness of his

to his which any tribute face and the deep lipos of pain that withory would be incomplete. King this time., Afost of us find it hard of the Empire at large who mourn at told how intimately he was sharing memory

to adjust our minds to the fact that in the horror of the trenches and the George V represents the growth in

the world of the Christian view of our beloved King is dead. When wa anxiety of sunless hume.

Ahall fully

realise monarchy. "I am among you as he

the mighty ened this last that surveth," said the King of Kinga. thing that has happened History can tell 'n snd ntory of kings week and then our grief will follow. who had other ideals, Our Inte be- And if this grief is ourn

what of loved king patterned his life on that the

those who are of his own family? of the Master of men, ile served For them we for them wo ask his people. Moreover his spirit was for

God's

and strength and confor unlike

other some

all-abiding love that they may know Christian-so

"there is no separation in the resint of love." They have lost

father and husband. Their grief must of necessity be greater than ours but is love and

are sympathy of the spirit and if we believe in the spiritual world, we can but hope that from this farthest post of Empire our prayers for them are effectual this day and that with the rest of the Empire we are one in sympathy and

a

Sympathy for the Poor King George's reign has been thing of much suffering and anxiety The prosperity of the preceding cen- tury was beginulog so slow up even before the war, The problem of the livelihood of the poor was a deep and burning question which in the first four

years of his reign was partly

"A

rulers in the world to-day. He was all that we mean when we use the words, Christian gentleman." Ercat our late king was a religious man This was the prayer he had hung on the wall of his study in Bucking ham Palace:

do we

met by National Insurance. It is not necessary speak of the agony of the war. Since the war life has been no casier for anyone sensitive here 4o the needs of athers. again the strength of the late King

"O God, tench nie to observe the Ins where God, would hit har rules of the game; teach me neither

Gethsemane and Calvary, in sharing in the sufferi

and the anxiety of to cry for the moon nor for spilt comfortless milk; help me to distinguish between workless

love. in sentiment and sentimentality, cleay- homes. There can be no home Englund-to-day, however bitter their into the one and despising the other. Help me neither to proffer nor to re

of

and

Y

Perhaps, the fallowing verse ex-

Injustice' of our social ceive cheap praise. If I am called Press our feelings better than we can

order may be, which does not mourn

whose the passing of Kine

great- ness lay in his understanding of their feelings and their sufferings and his enger desire to make England a nation whose prestige lay deep rooted in justice to the poor and care for those need. No man is strong and

in no man is great who shuts his heart to auffering.

on to suffer let me be ke the "well- I bred beast who goes away and suffers in silence. Teach me to win when may and if I may not win, then above all, I pray, make me a good loser."

And his religion included Church attendance-a daty which has been shamefully neglected by many of his subjects both at home and abroad. Nothing could prevent him attending But Gethsemane and Calvary are Sunday worship, and it was to the not the end. There is always Easterlittle church at Sandringham that he Day and the Emmaus Road. We can leave our beloved King in the hands was taken after he passed away.

He was not only the head of

our

of God confident that one who shared Church of England, he was a loyal so deeply in the sufferings of his and faithful member of it too, people will share also in the peace" of the risen life.

I had planned to speak this morn- ing of Jesus in the modern world und of is challenge to us that we should

dare in this age of machines and great movements to nasert the supremacy of personality: to dare, มิส Jesus dared, bo human,

to to be simple, to be in all our doings. The aut Personal

he was a great, a good, a Yes, peneo-loving and a religious king-t monarch beloved whose ministry will always be treasured by a sorrowing and grateful people.

But what of the significance of his life and reign? What will history say of him?

Tower of Strength

doubt Thero 19 no

that he of Jesus.

has done more for the stability Palestine assembled against

the world throughout his the of He said, "Hereafter you shall see the

than any other Son of Man sitting at the right hand aventful reign of God." In the long history of Em-

Largely owing to the par ticular sort of character he possessed conquerors and of kings, King

stands out because he dared the character I have just out- lined the British Crown is now in

offe

to be the simple man God made him. The majesty of kingship is nothing

men

a stronger position than ever and is

to the simple majesty of the honest A tower of strength to the whole

in prose:

The world is sombre now, darkened

the hills.

A deep bell tolls, at half-mast

droops the flag.

The King is dead. The King who

was a part

Of all our lives and of the things

we loved.

We must not grieva. His three-

score years and ten. Forming a rounded whole, drow to

their close. Knowing

his people's loyalty and

Hood.

in peace unto the peace

Greatly we loved him: his nobility, His quiet strength of mind

single aim,

and

His love of country things and

English ways,

His simple courage and his trust

in God.

Now he has passed and we are

left to trend

The path of duty that he knew so

well. Ile resta in peace. Across the

world we sond

Our love to him, our love to those

that mourn

God save the King."

In the immortal words of Rupert

Brooke,

"he leaves a white unbroken

....he ter

Flory!

A gathered radiance,

A width, a shining peace, under

the night."

world, Looking at this through man who dares to be himself.

We know that our now King shares Christian eyes we see it is true after all as our Lord said, that also this great gift of humanity and Blessed are the meek: for they shall directness of approach to real pro- blems. We can show our loyalty to inherit the earth." Or in other

And because of the first Easter him and our grateful memory to his words, Chirstian character is not the

that some morning, thank God, he still lives. beloved father in no better way than soft, sentimental thing

"And the Lord said unto him, well by determining that we too, each people think it is but posresses in his own sphere, will dare to be strength which holds the world to-done thou, good and faithful servant.

is ita gether and is Baviour. The strong ourselves.

into Enter thou

the joy of thy ones of the earth are not the aggres- Lord! sive, conquering, swaggering bullies, but men like the one, we remember with sorrowing hearts to-day. They are those who realise the power, of moral force and who exhibit it in their own lives.

ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH

Rev. J. R. Higgs' Sermon

On the Late King

Preaching at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, yesterday, on the text, “And the Lord enkl unto him, wall done thou good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord" Matthew (25; 21.) the Rev. J. R. Higgs said:

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Twenty-five years ago I remember. as though it had been yesterday, watching the train that contained the body of King Edward VII proceeding

A memorial service for the late PHILIPPINES down the Great Western line to its destination at Windsor. At that mo- King George V will be held at the ment King George V was assuming Matshed Church, Shamshuipo, On Tuesday next, boing the day of the responsibility of a mighty Em- Tuesday, at 9.30 a.m. our King's burial, we shall hold pire. Tennyson's "Morte D'Arthur" 4 tells the story of the King who at the short service in this Church at 9.45 beginning of his career was given the exactly the same as the service in sword Excalibur from the lake, which the Cathedral at 11.30 a.m. There he used until his deathbed, when, will be no address and the service it was thrown back into the lake by after hesitating until the third time, will include most of the Burial Ser his knight, Sir Bedivare. It is a tribute of respect to His late Majesty It has been suggested that, as a

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turn FUTURE have your liberty and they will and run down tho hlfl The Philippine Commonwealth prob lem is one we shall ultimately have to conakler. When they come back with their hats in thote hands and a dofielt of forty or fifty million dollars in their pockets wo shall have to decide whether to turn them over to the amiable British Hons or the leas a member of the Institute of Pacifle amiablo Japanese tigers or whether our boundary shall be the 118th.

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San Francisco, Jan. 24. In a speech at the Commonwealth Club to-day, Mr. William Allen White,

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vice. I hope that many of us will be wonderful story and rich in meaning. King George, the Hongkong Singers Relations, deplored the Philippines | meridian. abla to attend it. To-day our ser- Twenty-five years ago King George should give & rendering of Brahms Commonwealth as "another of those

ENS IBSIZIM OLUfkunun fur ognioran the entire na ten They will con ble tato think ingetter of the life of him who has boon taken

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Ing their belts. Japan's rising birth. mighty Empire and by the world at King Arthur to be what

fpels that a collection should be taken States 'a decade hence. "Liberty," he "All Oriental nations are tighten I hope that as a result they Our beloved king received similar and the whole proceeds given to Stald, "is one of those things ne people rate is crowding har Jalands China's can impose on another. We are confused situation arises from the will make us all dedicate our lives strength--the strength from an Out- Dunstan's in whose wonderful work afresh to those principles for which side Source the strength that God It is known that our late King took under the delusion that we have clash which

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