And weeping o'er the grave, we make four song: Alieluye As the hour of eleven swept on its majestic twenty-four hour course round the world, loyal Britons mourn ed their late King, and, with the sympathy of other nations, also gave praise for the benefits which he conferred by the facts of his life and reign, It was so in Shanghai, when well before tke hour at which' it was arranged that British subjects should take leave of him whom they mour jerowds commenced to assemble in compound of Holy Trinity Cathedral waiting for the doors to open. And when they did the body of the church, all too small for such an occasion, was speedily filled leaving a block of Sea's In the nave for British officials and laid this formal act of grief, But} was it formal? There were upon the! faces of so many of those present, upon the visages of strong men, wear-Ing so many medals which betokened their loyalty and service to the dead monarch and the Empire which ruled, upon the faces of many sad women all those Indices of a real personal sorrow, and it seemed as Though the words of tke Contakion were designed 10 bring comfort unto those that mourned.
The Dean led the intercession after the congregation had recited the Lord's Prayer, giving thanks for the and example of "Our, late Sovereign Lord, King George." asking for "such earthly comfort and consolation og Thou sees best" for the members of the Royal family in their bereavement, and finally expressing the common hope that all might be found acceptable in the Divine sight on the last day.
'A. request for blessing, and Bishop Curtis preacted the dignified sermon ven In full below, after which the congregation sang that wonderful hymn which has been the comfort, of the British Empire in many a day of distress, "O God, our help in ages past, cur hope for years to come." and, after the Benediction had been 'Then our voice of joy and praise was part of that great ery of thanks~ giving that circled the globe for our King's 25 years' reign; now our voices are hushed while we share tke sorrow that bids the members of our Empire be quiet before God for a space, and solemnly mourn the passing of our late King. The contrast between these two days of our gathering in this place puls into our minds the words of the Psalmist, "As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field so he flouristeth, for the wind passeth over it and it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more", and suggests to us the prayer from another Psalm, 0 teach, Us to number our days that we may appl our hearts unto wisdom", "The Captains and the Kings depart" and fu their company the whole ordinary multitude—the tinker the tailors, the candlestick makers—"to give account of the deeds done in the body". May. we hear in the silence to-day the voice of Him who says as we pass even now along the road to dusty death—"T am the resurrection and tke life—he that believeth me though he were dead, yet shall he live, "and whosoever live th and be-Wovet in Me shall never die", and "This is life eternal, that they should Know Thee, the only God, and Jesus "The Cathedral was crowded to over- nations who joined in the act of verse of the National Anthem brought ChF'st Whom Thou as sent". the representatives of those other pronounced, the singing of the Ast owing, and many hundreds gathered mourning, memorable service to a close. The the awn and in the Great Hall|""here was a silence during that choir and clergy departed a silently of Duly of the Cathedral School to participate half-hour wait, broken occasionally by og they came, and the official wor But to-day we are gathered to in the service which was conveyed that cough which Is but the betrayal Shippers followed out into the com-think of ourselves—we first look back the reverent crowd outside the Cathe~ of emotion, Sidesmen quietly ushered pound, where so many hundreds more in thankfulness on those 25 years. ral confines by loud-speakers. The arrivals in their brilliant uniforms had followed the devotions with the duty bravely done.
We see our king] buildings, all around the Cathedral and glittering medals to their apsplendid Towd assistance of two calmly and courageously facing the few their Mags at half-mast, and the pointed places; choristers busied speakers. troubled days of internal strife that musie silenced the morning traMe din themselves finding the necessary marked tke beginning of his reign; of the Central disirlet as reverent musie for the ultimate use of their we see him unfalteringly, Kundreds joined their volees in. the colleagues, while, just inside the Bishop Curtis's sermon was as fol-Aled with an awful sense of the wing and refrains of the choir. chancel rails, tke Union Jack halt-horror of the sacrifice demanded and Early in the morning, the crowd began masted gave that final emphasis to the Tt seems but the other day that this altantly made, leading his Empire to gather, oMeinls appearing resplenmessage which a slowly tolling bell same company was gattered in this through the years of horrid war, and dent In full, regalia in their cars to Outside was conveying to all and sun-same place—representatives of the yet again we see him at the head of enter the Cathedral, and others to congregate on tke lawn outside where the bareheaded crowd slood silent. Intent and impressive until the com= moneement of the service, at which Dean Trivett oMciated and Bishop Curtis delivered the sermon.
'The British forees were represented by a detachment of officers, Marines, and naval ratings from FINS. Cape: town, and representative groups from each' of the British military units Slatloned here. Special Interest attached to the detachment from the Loneashire Fusiliers, for it Included Regimental Sergeant-Major Edward dry who could hear it.
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