THE
foe to the heart of man, which without faith looses all that is truly worth possession. Den. ling next with the protective helmet of salvation the preacher emphasised the distinc tion between the present defence from danger, afforded by the shield of faith, and the protection of hope, which promises future evils as well. Without hope we seem to see the black carrion orows of hovering over life's battlefield; hope is white winged mogel that waves off the brooding vultures of despair; defended by the shield of faith and protected by the helmet of
atfon we shall verlly be Christian soldiers, lafincible in bar strength, indomitable in our purpose, invulnerable in our character—such a Christian soldier as Browning meant when he
grote the magnificent words:
One who never turned his back but marchel
`brosst forward,
Nører doubted clouds would break.
*
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Finally, the preacher considered the conquering sword of the spirit as the weapon of our active warfare. Each one has bis Nemean Lion lurk- ing in hiding that must be overcome. No weapon forged in the arsenals of the world is equal to the task. The sword of the Spirit of God can alone make us vietors in the contest.
THE LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
The following are the first ties in the Cricket Clab Lawn Teunis Tournament :—
CHAMPIONSHIP.
bye Gershom Stewart
Lysley R.B bye
Capt. A. P. Welman... by
P. B. Sheldon ........ G. H. Potta........................
C. A. Tomes
by
W. Newton .........................
K. W. Monnsey.
bye
Sur. Major Reade...
-0. M. Firth...!..
by
C. W. Knox, E.B..
14. J. Grist ....READY
C. C. Platt :
T. Maitland
Porcival, R.B....
G.Anderson H.KR.
pye bye bye
M. C. Allenby, R.N... bye Dr. Lowson
A. S. Anton
DOUBLE HANDICAP.
HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
M. A. A. Souza Ross Thomson
F. J. East...............
EL A. Messor ..................... C. C. Bowring...
W. R. Stewart, R.E. E. M. Haseland Capt. A. P. Welman. A. Donald
J. A. Jupp........................ Wm. Macbean A. H. Mancell W. Low
J. S. Ezekiel G. Lysley, B.B.. L. Sutton.......... E. D. Sanders... G. A. Woodcock H. Grant Smith.... F. Barrington Deacon
receive + 157- .............. owe 15.2 scratch owb 15 receive 15.1
.................... owe 157
scratch receive 115
...owe 15 owe 13 Owe 15 receive 15 ....soratch owe 15 receive † 15 scratch .............. owe ‡ 15 .............. receive 15
receive 4 15 3
PROFESSION PAIRS. E. M. Hazoland and C. H. Gale...... Civil Service bye C. N. Buzzard, R.A. and Capt. A. F. Welman Army bye R. M. Gray and C. A. Tomes
Commerce bye M. C. Allenby, RN. and H. A. Gillett, B.N. Navy bye Capt. Ecoles, E.B. and G. Lysley, R.B...... Army bye Douglas Jones and S. G. Bird.. Commerce bye E. A. Measor and G. W. Millward Railways bye
Bankers C. Inchbald and S. L. Darby
F. Maitland and C. M. Firth........: Commerce K. W. Mounsey and E. J. Grigt...... .. Lawyers bye T. Sercombe Smith and E. A. Bam... Civil Service bye G. H. Potts and Gershom Stewart......... Brokers bye Commerce bye E. W. Maitland and P. B. Sheldon W. C. M. Woodcock and P. G. Anderson Army bye Dr. Atkinson and Sur.- Major Reade...... Medical bye F. N. Firth and A. S. Anton
Bankers bye C. W. Knox, R.B. and C. Percival, R.B
Army bye
HONGKONG Rifle AssociaTION.
Twenty-two members were present to compete for the short range Cup on Saturday last. The Cup was won by Major Wrottesley, the first two competitors not having entered for it. The spoons were won by Sergt. Shearing, R.B., Pte Woolridge, R.B. Major Wrottesley, Lient. Hoey, R.B., Sarg-Major Westcott, and Mr. Gillies. The following were the best scores :---- 500 600 H'cap 1. yds. yds. points.
bre
tota
bye
Sergt. Shearing, B.B. Prt. Woolbridge, R.B... Major Wrottesley
29 30
4
63
28
30
+
32
26
34
61
29
61
26)
61
60
59
M. Gray and C. A. Tomes ..................................... owe } 15 bye EA Ram and Sur..Major Reade ................. owe 15.3 bye F. N. Firth and A: 8. Anton............. owe 15.2 bye 8. G. Bird and C. C. Platt
...................... Owe 30,2'
***
W.C.M. Woodcock and J. 8. Ezekiel, scratch C. H. Harton and Boss Thomson..... receive † 15' Capf. Eccles, B.B., and G. Lys ey, B.B. scratch FB. Deacon and E. D. Sanders receive 15 E F, Mackay and A. Sharp ...................................... scratch I M. Hazeland and E. J. slengens receive † 15 Gershom Stewart and Dr. Lowson......... owe 15 R. Humphreys and F. Collins scratch El W. Maitland and P. G. Anderson
... owe 15 →C! Inchbald and 8. L. Darby, receive + 15 A. A. Souza and F. Ji East...... receive 15.1 CW. Knox, R.B. and C. Percival, B.B. owe 30 G. 4. Woodcock and J. M. G. Manuk rec. 1 15 C. W. Arnould and A. Donald receive 15 H. C. Mcolle and C. C. Bowring 21. Maitland and G. H. Potts G. Balloch and Capt. A. P. Welman receive † 15 P. B. Sheldon and G. W, Millward owe + 15 H, Humphreys and J. A. Jupp ....................... owe † 15
1. A. Messor and C. H. Gale
receive 15.1
owe 30.
scratch bye
K. W. Mounsey and E. J. Grist .......................... owe § 15 by
› M. Firth and W. Kewton .................................................. owe 15 bye
14
CLABS BINGLE HANDICAP. C. C. Platt
own 30 bye G, W. Millward................. receive ♣ 15 bye Bar Major Reade ................................................. owe 15.1 bye K. W. Mounsey ........................ scratch bye H. Humphreys
..................................................................... scratch bye C. W. Knox, R.B.
G. Balloch
G. H. Potts .............................................................. owe 15.2
E. J. Grist...
C. Percival, E.B........... owe 15
10. A. Tomes.
soratch
P. G. Anderson, H.K, Regt.-own 15.2 )
1. S. Anton :
W. Newton
C. M. 19
EMaitland
E. W. Maitland.
P. B. Sheldon
M. C. Allenby, R.N
Gershom Stewart
owe 15.37 scratch
owe 15.2 bye ................. owe 30 bye ...................... owe 15 bye .......owe 15 bye owe 15.2 bye ......................................... Owe 15.1 bye
“B”” CLABS SINGLE HANDICAP.
B. Garde, E.N.
Collins
E. T. Kuckay
0. Inohbald
8. L. Darby
C: W. Arnould
| J.M. G. Manok.
C. F. Harton ... 10. H. Gals....
FPK. Humphre
owe 15
owe 15
owe 30
cratch
receive $15 'owe 15.2 owe 152 ................. receivá 15,2 )
Lient. Hoey, R.B.....
Sar..Major Westcott ... N. Gillies....
Private Godbear, R.B... 30 Corpl. Dowsett
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REVIEWS.
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of the capital to the blue-blooded scions of an aristocracy so ancient that no member of it begins to think his family worthy to be called an old one until he can trace a clear descent for six or seven centuries at least. There are Daimyos of the old régime, Ministers and Seore- taries of the new-possibly, also, a Prince or Princess of the Imperial family. There are the greater and lesser nobles of the feudal era, most of them now enrolled in the lately-created peerage; and former samurai, of all degrees, who mainly compose the large official class of modern Japan. Many are accompanied by their wives-those gentle, devoted, well-brød, and essentially feminine women who brighten Japanese homes, and who, you rejoice to see. are no longer disfigured as of old by blackened teeth, but can, and do, smile on you in all their native comeliness, The prevailing dress of both sexes, if it be morning, the yukata, or modent cotton bathing-robe, of all hues and patterns, bound at the waist by a girdle of silk, satin, or crape. Here, however, comes a Buddhist priest, all shaven and shorn, in his silk robe and cool mantle of delicate gauze, fanning himself with holy but needless fervour. Next, a high Foreign Office dignitary, looking, as he well may do good deal bewildered about the "Treaties, and clad in the quiet silk and orape garments of ordinary life, with the crest of his house woven in white ou the back and sleeves of the uppermost
Then, perhaps, you come upon one, pair of young dandies, in all the pride foreign clothes, stand-up collars. tight gloves, and dainty canes, and shoes. But they are mistake here, where, excepting themselves and the foreign-style" socks, shoes, and straw hats, now pretty common among the men, you have little or nothing to remind you that you are not in Old Japan. Next, oh happy con trast! a flutter of fans, a patchwork of vivid colours, a ripple of laughter, and you are face to face with a gay troop of Japanese Hebes, rosy lipped and dark-eyed, with beautiful teeth, clear complexions, of all shades from ivory-white to nut-brown, willowy forms, tinely-pencilled eye- brows, and rich masses of black hair, tastefully braided and set off by some bright flower or coral ornament, with a neat binding of blus or crimson orape. Mirth, guilelessness, and-if there be anything in physiognomy-a large capacity for love, beam from the faces of these most killing Japanese beiles. And their dresses are a study. While Japanese parents and adult folk gener- ally content themselves with colours of almost Quaker-like sobriety, the nation seems to have lavished a world of artistic taste and skill on the raiment of its girls and children. Be the colours
Letters from the Land of the Rising Sun. Be-bright or dull, the patterns bold or tame, ing a Selection from Correspondence contri. the fabrics coarse or fine, the contrasts sharp buted to The Times between the years 1886 or soft, you find that in artistic arrangement, and 1892, and r produced with the permission grace, and beauty, the whole eff-ot is always By charming. As for the children, they swarm; of the Proprietors of that Journal. HENRY SPENCER PALMER, F.R.A S, Major. they are delightful, and they present veritable General, Retir d List, Royal Engineers, Yo-nosegays of colour: If at first they look a little old- kohama: Printed and Published by the fashioned, in costumes which as to cut are merely reproductions in miniature of those of their Japan Mail Offon. To a graceful and flowing style the late General parents, you soon find out that in reality they
When you know. Palmer
united the experienced scientist's are very children of children keen powers of observation, a sympathetic nature, them better you also find that, with all the at. and a wide knowledge of affairs. Whatever tractions and virtues of children, they have very subject be wrote upon he rendered attractive few of their faults. Long before Herbert and in the Land of the Rising Sua be had a rich Spencer taught the Western world how children field before him. The series of letters now should be reared, Japanese parents had of their before us were collected in book form a few weeks own motion adopted most of the very principles before his last illness and appear here exactly of training which be inculcates. The result is as they were written, his own scheme of arrangement and plan of illustration being followed. The series is not complete, the politionl letters having been excluded and the descriptive alone retained, by the author's choice; but several of them have a direct connection with the history of Japan's political evolution,ly, as they are." amongst which we may mention those on “Social Progress in Japan,” The Birthday of a Con- stitution," and "The Birthday of Japan's First Parliament." The book is a veritable edition de luse, well printed and bound, and contains seventy-six excellent illustrations in collotype. It is in quarto size.
the Japanese child of to-day. Great changes have passed over Japan during the last thirty years, Great changes still lie before her. But, come what may, let us at least hope that in dia- position, manners, grace, and dress, Japanese children and young girls may remain, essential-
But dress at least seems bound to undergo
Social Progress in chango, and in the letter on Japan" the reason is set out. Picturesqueness and comfort have to bow to political exigency. But what, it may be asked, has political exigency With the tone of to do with the native dress ? Western civilization, says General Palmer, per The first letter, "Life at Japanese Spa" haps nothing in Japan is so gravely out of gives an account of Ikao, which will be read with harmony as the position of her women. There interest by all who have visited that charming | is abundant proof that, if women are to take retreat or who contemplate doing so. Of the that part in the great work of national re- native society there General Palmer gives the following delightful sketch :-
“On this neutral ground you meet representa tives of nearly all classes of Japanese society, from the plain shopkeeper or professional man
generation to which they are entitled, and which is essential for success, their whole position in society must be radically obanged. It is believed that the adoption of foreign apparel by women of the upper and middle classes would be a t
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