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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1937.

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ven.

THIS IS CHRISTIANITY

Do

you remember it?

LESSED are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of hea-

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righte ousness: for they shall be All- ed.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain merey.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall seo God.

Blessed are the peace-makers: for they shall be called the child- ren of God.

TO-MORROW IS THE DAY WE CELEBRATE AS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. IN HONG-

KONG AND ELSEWHERE THROUGHOUT

THE WORLD THE CHURCH WILL BROAD- CAST AN

A APPEAL · FOR GREAT

RELIGIOUS REVIVAL. HERE IS OUR LORD'S OWŃ STATEMENT OF THE

PHILOSOPHY THAT

CONQUERED

THE WORLD

Be ye therefore perfect, even your Father which is in heaven is perfect....

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AND when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synago- gues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But thou, when thou praycst, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which secth in secret shall reward thee openly.

But when yo pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen Ye are the light of the world. tion, causeth her to commit adul- do: for they think that they tery: and whosoever shall marry shall be heard for their much her that is divorced committeth speaking. adultery.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' A city that is set on a hill can- sake: for theirs is the kingdom not be hid. of heaven.

Neither do men light a candle, Mr. C. G. Alabaster O.B.E., K.C. . Blessed are ye, when (Attorney Generat of

men and put it under a bushel, but on Hong shall revile you, and persecute Kong.)

and Mrs.

a candlestick: and it giveth light Alabaster M.B.E. 276 The Peak, Hong You, and shall soy all manner of unto all that are in the house. Kong. (China and Indian papers evil against you falsely, for My please copy).

suke.

The

in

Hongkong Telegraph. they the prophets which were

Friday, Decemturn 24, 1037.

REFERENDUM ON WAR

Mr. Louis Ludlow, member of the House of Representatives

before you.

check, turn

Be not ye therefore like unto

heaven.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

will

AGAIN, ye have heard them: for your Father knoweth that it hath been said what things ye have need of, be- After this manner therefore Let your light so shine before by them of old time, Thou shalt fore yo ask Him.

not forswear thyself, but shalt men, that they may Rejoice, and be exceeding good works, and glorify your oaths:

see your perform unto the Lord thing pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. lid for great is your reward Father which is in heaven....

Thy kingdom come. Thy will heaven: for so persecuted

But I say unto you, Swear not YE have heard that it at all; neither by heaven; for it be done in earth, as it is in.

was said by them of is God's throne:

Give us this day our daily shall not kill: Nor by the earth; for it is his YE

are the salt of the old time, Thou

bread. earth: but if the salt and whosoever shall kill shall be footstool: neither by Jerusalem; the great in danger of the judgment.. for it is the city of have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be anlted? It is thence-

But I say unto you. That King.

And lead us not into templa- Neither shalt thou swear by with his whosoever is angry Forth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden un brother without a cause shall be thy head, because thou canst not tion, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and der foot of men.

in danger of the judgment: and make one hair white or black. whosoever shall

But let your communication the power, and the glory, for to his дау

Amen. brother, Raca, shall be in danger be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for ever. at Washington, is a Congress- be found? That it is unwieldy of the council: but whosoever whatsoever is more than these For if ye forgive, not men man who has never been pro-and unworkable. Wars have a shall say, Thou fool, shall be in cometh of evil.

their trespasses neither minent in the news outside his way of developing almost over- danger of hell fire.

Ye have heard that it hath your heavenly Father forgive home state of Indiana until just night. Some-one sinks some- Therefore if thou bring thy been said, An eye for an eye, and your trespasses.... recently. But not long ago he orie else's warships in the gift to the altar, and there re a tooth for a tooth:

But I say unto you, That' ye

LAY not up for your hit upon the not entirely ori-case which caused the Spanish-memberest that thy brother

selves treasures upon resist not evil; but whosoever American war-and tension de- hath ought against thee; ginal idea of submitting to velops. The explanation is not CO., LTD. referendum the most moment satisfactory; satisfaction is not the altar, and go thy way; first

Leave there thy gift before shall smite thee on thy right carth, where moth and rust doth to him the other corrupt, and where thieves break ous_decision_that_any__Govern- forthcoming-after-heated-hours be reconciled to thy brother, and--

through and stent: alen

But lay-up for yourselves Iment can be called upon to make of recrimination; words

And if any man will sue thee are then come and offer thy gift... at the law, and take away thy treasures in heaven, where the question of whether or weighted with 4 new signi- not to go to war. And he has ficance and tragic portent, und YE have heard that it coat, let him have thy cloke also, neither moth nor rust doth cor-

the time arrives when an ulti- now become a figure of nationalmatum is delivered. Shail the old time, Thou

was said by them of And whosoever shall compel rupt, and where thieves do not shalt not com- thee to go a mile, go with him break through nor steal: importance, whose name is nation vote then? How long mit adultery:

twain.

For where your treasure is, splashed in headlines all over would it take to count the bal- But I say unto you, That who-

Give to him that asketh thee, there will your heart be also. the country and is known lot? Would it be a representa- soever looketh on a woman to and from him that would bor- The light of the body is the abroad as well. A controversy tive vote anyway? People would last after her hath committed row of thee turn not thou away. eye: if therefore thine eye be rages around the referendum be inflamed with passion as a adultery with her already in his

single, thy whole body shall be YE have heard that it full of light. result of the insult suffered and heart.

hath been said, Thou with wisdom and the lives lost. Would they vote- And if thy right eye offend shalt love thy neighbour, and whole body shall be full of dark- But if thine eye be evil, thy thorough knowledge of the facts from thee: for it is profitable for

as thee, pluck it out, and cast it hate thine enemy.

ness. If, therefore, the light But I say unto you, Love your their statesmen, who are thee that one of thy members enemies, bless them that curse that is in thee be darkness, how It will probably be argued by guiding them, possess? Not should perish, and not that thy you, do good to them that hate great is that darkness! its exponents, indeed this is

likely.

whole body should be cast into you, and pray for them which No man can serve two their main point, that a demo-

Another example. Japan and

despitefully use you, and per-

masters: for either he cratic people has the right to the United States are discussing thee, cut it off, and cast it from

And if thy right hand offend secute you;

will hate the one and love the show its desires when con- a critical situation

That ye may be the children other; or else he will hold to the which has fronted with the possibility of arisen out of the sinking of the that one of thy members should heaven: for he maketh his sun cannot serve God and mammon. thee: for it is profitable for thee of your Father which is in one and despise the other. Ye having to make great sacrifices. Panay. Will the United States perish, and not that thy whole to rise on the evil and on the Why, since a country is entitled go to war? Take a referendum body should be cast into hell.

Therefore I say unto you, Take to express its choice in respect to-day. Suppose the vote was

just nnd on the unjust.

no thought for your life, what to political candidates for the overwhelmingly

It hath been said, Whosoever For if ye love them which love ye shall cat, or what ye shall highest offices, when

shall put away his wife, let him you, what reward have ye? do drink; nor yet for your body, it even what would be the effect on re give her a writing of divorce- not even the publicans the same? what ye shall put on. Is not the elects the judges of its courts, lations between the two coun- ita state governors, RS in

tries? It is not difficult to ima-

And if ye salute your brethren life more than meat, and the America, should it not declaregine. Suppose the result were soever shall put away his wife, others? do not even the publi-

But I say unto you, That who- only, what do ye more than body than raiment? its will for or against war? It strongly negative; what would

Behold the fowls of the air:

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scheme; for on the face of it there is much to commend, it. Closer analysis shows its flaws, however.

as

with

affirmative,

hell.

ment:

would seem logical that a free be the effect upon Japan? And saving for the cause of fornica- cans so? people should have that right. Indirectly, it has. It must

suppose tension

grew greater to-morrow, and the next day, another "inci-

be supposed the public in ade- and there was quately represented in its dent" on the day following.

BULLS AND INNERS

☐ ☐

From the Office Butts

Government and that these

Would the American people go representatives know their business and serve their con- would they get a little tired of to a referendum every day? Or stituenta well, It must be surmised that the people who to the polls, and pick up a gun shutting up shop and trotting are responsible for the foreign and do something about it. A Merry X-X-X-mas !

The Hankow refugees are policy are also responsible to

☐ ☐ the slate, and that they will not A Government can tell fairly

training for their Christmas And then there was the man dinner in Hongkong. rush rashly into dangers accurately the tomper of its who complained that the only through stupid or blundering people without recourse to re-thing he got out of the pudding diplomacy. For as long as a ferendum. If a Government is last year was dyspepsia. nation is a nation, it must have hard-driven by circumstances! leaders, and it must trust them towards war, it will be found the

Some of these stockings look and follow wheresoever they people are moving close behind, much better filled naturally. shall lead. Otherwise there due, in part, to the publicity will be anarchy and chaos, and given to developments. General- The Season's romance: The peace, as an aim, is out of the|ly speaking, the world is safer girl in Robinson Crusoe who got question.

in the hands of its experienced her man Friday. The idea of a referendum on statesmen and diplomats than in

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This is the season when oven taipans are permitted to blow their trumpets.

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With all these parties it looks

more like Christmas daze!

At least one fond parent is go-

for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

(Continued on Page D.)

You have been reading

-extracts

from the Sermon on the Mount, from the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, chap- ters five, six and

war looks nice on paper, but put the uncertain grip of an excit- Meny a mistletoe the line over He has bought his youngster a seven. to the practical teat, what will able public.

'the week-end.

ing to enjoy himself to-morrow.

jig-saw puzzle.