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To wear a Summit Dress Collar is to apppreciate to the fullest extent what a difference the Summit system of quarter sizes-four sizes to every inch→ really does make in the comfort and appenance of one's collar. By wearing a Summit Dress Collar that is a quarter size smaller than the collar worn by day it is ensured that in exactly comfortable and comfortably exnot.
There is no gulf between the collar and neckband of the shirt.
To-day's vogue is for a dress collar with wide opening and fairly long square-cut points, as expresied in Summit Shape 28 (as ilustrated) or Shapeñ. 23, 26 and 27 are similar but of different depths. Each is a correct shape for Dress wear.
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GREAT STRIDES."
Following the customary practice on the "nearest Sunday to St. Andrew's Day (November 30th), the Scottish Company of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps attended the morning service » · at the Union Church, Kennedy Road, yesterday. `-
To the strains of bag-pipes they marched a fairly strong muster from the parade ground at Headquarters, shortly after ten o'clock, under the command of their compaby commander (Capt. K. S. Morrison). Also on parade were Lieuts. A. Mackenzie and G. Duncan, M.B.E. In addition to members of the Scottish Company there were also members of the Reserve Company with them.
Mr. D. Templeton (President of the Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society) and Mr. A. K. Henderson (Vice-President) and a fair representation of members of the Society and their ladies also attended the service. There were also present a strong contingent- of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, headed by their bag-pipes, * and drums. Major R. A. Wolle Murray:(Adjutant, H.V.D.C.) also
attended.
The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie (Pastor of the Church) presched a stirring sermon, and also conducted the service, a feature of which was the hearty singing of the bymas." The service opened with the hymn, "Give to our God Immortal Praise," and other bymns, were" Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!”, “* Ee Gates, Lift up your beads on high!", and "Jesus shall reign where'er the
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After the service the Volunteers marched back to Headquarters, where refreshments were served.
Captain Morrison welcomed the Chieftain who, in reply, said that he looked forward to seeing all at the St. Andrew's Ball, when they would be assured of a good time.
A group photograph was then taken, the Chieftain and Mrs.. Templeton, who was attired in a becoming gown of royal blue figured velvet chiffon, occupying the centre seats with the Company officers on either side.
THE MINISTER'S ADDRESS.
PRIDE BEFORE DESTRUCTION. The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie took as his subject Hope Drawn from Retrospect: A Call to Future Ser vice." The text being "And the "King of Israel answered and said, tell him, let not him that girdeth Da his armour boast himself as he that putteth of of" lat Kings,
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The preacher said:-We have here a pithy saying which may have been qurrent as a common proverb and when Ahab sent it as his reply to Benhadad the King of Syria's demands for a submission were too abject to be endured.
Like other tyrants the Syrian
went farther and farther in his exactions until at length even the worm was forced to turn. Brought to desperation, Ahab throws out a Jefance, whereupon the Syrian swears. by all his gods. that he will reduce Samaria to dust, as, with his overwhelming forces, he could easily' do.
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ing those upon whom falls the brunt of the battle of life or whe are about to enter it. The veteran may see errors due to inexperience, but why harp on them! Here or there a touch of conceit or cock- sareness may crop up, but it should raise a smile rather than resent ment. It is all a misleading and mischievous, so absolutely futile this habit of invidious comparison between the generations. There
giants. in the Land in those 380 runs a scrap of pre- historie tradition in the early chap ters of the Bible, and it lasts on up to this moment. There were giants it is tras. They lived in caves, rolled in dirt, clubbed their wives, fought one another, and along boastful defiances in all
directions.
Man Hot Hade To Tail, To-day, 10 years on, I should want to do the same. How any Christian can be a pessimist is past my understanding. I believe in God I am bounil also to believe in man, whom God has made, and not made to be a fallure. Are we to despair of the world for which Christ died Are we to give up. the fight because it is long and toil some? Are we to bear ourselves. as if God'a "resources for bringing his purposes to pass were exhaust- ed yesterday, last century, as uny period in the past? Let us rather understand that ho hai always some better thing in store,-if we cannot take, that inference from our book! of records we had better close it.
But the saying that the study of history is the best cure for pes simism is true.
The Christian Apostle puts it in experi- the personal sphere that " eace worketh hope" which is to say that Christian faith works, as every man who sincerely tests it will find, for it will not only bring him personally through, but will furnish him with the "hope"which sheds a shining ray far down the future's broadening way"—and that is a fine equipment for the battle of life.
Those of you who have been a long time in the ranks should know! these things and tell of them. It out of our experience we can only apeak discouragement we ought to bold our peace. Boasting of our own achievements is, as I said, excluded, but we are free to echo the Palmist when he cries My soul shall boast- herself in the Lord".
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Looking back over the length of years which souie few of us here can recall there are defeats and disappointments in the record no doubt. The armour soon to be laid aside is dinted and battered in many a spot; here or there perhaps pierced right through
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But it is the long campaign wo have to count by, not a season's spurt. Historians speak of n "tide of victory," a tidal motion is up and down, forward and backward. No advance at all occurs in the eyes of the passing onlooker," but if you watch a bit longer you see the cur. rent creeps onwards, the balance and the onward move is irresistible,
Things Improving.
Well, comparing the present time with times I can well remember I can see the tide has been rising in many respects, in spite of many set-back.
Not at every point or in all directions. Net in any way or de sign which would justify resting on our oars it is still a long way to Tipperary or any other outpost of ed might easily fill out an impos the Golden Age. Anybody so mind. ing schedule of failures, draw-backs and shortcomings the world around, white here on the edge of chaotic China we may seem to be in a Take all the savagery out of that sheer backwater for the time. Yet ancient parable and let us admit even about that one should not that there are always giants in the make too sure..
Thank God there were also young David's quietly minding their father's sheep, and more than a match for the old boasters when the day came.
This is the reply "Let not him epoch that is passing away: It when waters are troubled that girdeth on his armour boust Geniuses, fine talented servants, that their healing virtues are liber- himself as he that putteth it off"citizens of renown, character, ated, and one of the things experi Overhelming forces or not, the capacity-yes there are always ence has taught some of us is not battle was yet to be foeght; and such, though often we scarcely to make a bogey of mere unrest; history has repeatedly proved that know it till they are taken from us much more dangerous is it to sub boastfulness is preparation for But I must also believe that there side into stagnation. victory. This ancient chapter from are always David's growing up. the annals of Iernel is then who will come forward in due time striking illustration of the indis-to fight our battles and God'e putable fact that pride goes before battles. destruction.
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The campaign against publicly are not giving the Church a fair discussed vice, in which for many deal, and they will discover one of years" I worked hard in facs of is these days that the neglect is to good deal of chloquy, is now, I see, their owil loss.", More Happiness, Less Crime And
ca the eve of triumph; white So I make my closing appeal to Misery.
slavery" absolutely discreditied in all who have any real care for Granted anyhow, when no pae Europe and doomed before long brighter things and the progress would deny, that a very great deal even in the Orient. You may, perhaps, have seen as very much amiss, I cannot but I make my bow to, that obvious mach advertised recent article by a believe that ground has been gained for much breaking down of years on?" to take the refrain of In religion I have seen and work. of God's Kingdom among men. "How will it seem to you forty implication of my text, and having well-known journalist on the new edwithin my own remembrance, sertarian barriers. done so will hasten to explain that world we are said to be living in for which I must give humble praise
the old song,17 20 The Bible bas been translated Forty years on when the armour I do not propose to read you since the war. One of the head-
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A Memory Of 40 Years Ago.
to be.
beneath the
The battle of the future will be
no easy one," any more then that
of yesterday or of any past period.
...sermon from it as a cautionary lines reads: "Is there one great to our fathers' God, I believe that into hundreds of new language; will have to be laid aside and you proverb, though cautionary pre-man in the World to-day ?" The freedom, happiness and justice have the Cross has won triumphs" in reckon up which way your life has verbs are believed, I fancy, to be writer appears to think not.
made great strides. I believe that every congenial nourishment for the Seat- He says that with the doubtful more people now get a fair chance; Liberty and charity have been en- told and whether the way it is now tish soul.
exception of Woodrow Wilson the that there is less misery, oppres- larged, and although Sir Arthur moving has yielded anything worth
while. sion, starvation, and also less Keith and Bishop, Barnes have just Seventh Welcome To The Scottish war threw up no outstanding per violence and crime than there used lately been whipping dead horses,
Company.
sonality.
and the prese making a great atar, Somehow the circumstances of He goes on to ask if there is one
In our home country the popala- about it, thinking men of all views the day put this saying into my great preacher in the country, or tion has nearly doubled but the have long made up their minds that You would not wish it to be. Life mind, and I felt I must use it even one great stateman, or one great prisons have decreased. There are the so-called quarrel between as an easy business would not be if not in strictly logical fashion. poet; and he adds that there has poverty and unemployment, ill- science and religion is unreal and worth living, it is the striving, the To-day tharks the seventh year in been no giant in literature since health and bad housing, but so need keep no one awake overnight. effort, the aim, the conquest which succession on which it has fallen, to Thomas Hardy.
there always were, and it is quite Progress Has Really Been Made.
lift it out of deadness and futility. Men are wanted for the war; me to welcome the Scottish Cöm- |
certain that a public conscience has pany of the Defence Corpe to this
This is all very sketchy, to be may every man bear God's call for As I read all that I found arisen on all these, evils which is Church,
It is not impossible that it may sense of familiarity creeping over great deal keener and much sure, but I only want to suggest his enlistment. Let us work while be my lot to do it once again, but Presently memory awoke and wider spread than a generation ago, some of the many lines along which, it is day. The hour for putting off The same is true, to take another as I see things, progress has really the armour is bound to come ere I suppose it is unlikely, and the fact years to & long-forgotten evening instance, as to the critical question been made, progress which means long to some of us, yet it may not bulks somewhat in one's mind.
Whatever you growth in good i
justice, and farthest advanced in years. The preacher this morning is at a hall in Devonport where I, of world peace. somewhat in the position of one young student, had been put in may think of the exe o tolerance, kindness, food feeling not come first to those who are who is about to lay aside his the chair, at public debate. I Nations, and the Locarno pact, the belongs to the happoate duch as Towards The Sunrising,
forget the precise resolution put disarmament conferences, they do to the Kingdom of God and armour, for the present purpose at before the meeting, but it was} beyond doubt represént a desire for helps us to trust that His reign of Not that the time has come to something about the decadence of peace and a deliberate attempt to righteousness is indeed upon its the times, on which subject a very promote goodwill among men such I am far indeed from saying that trenchant speaker hammered home as were but poets dream If nay type among un calls for pain- views that seemed to meet with preachers platitudes at the close everything is as it should be, or less extinction: it is the reminiscent much acceptance." The only grest of the 19th Century. The parlia that you or I are everything individuals pass out, and so too it
might be.
any rate,
boast That time will never come.
boaster.
Unchristian To Overpraise The Past,
took a leap back over nearly 40
Woman As A Ditiren,
and
way.
Moral Rot.
In The Orient.
from the adventures and achieve-Ost or passing; we were a recall," as a child, asking my mother stopping the morih.
Two at least of the fine-young
pany to Church in my time have officers who have headed the Co- finished their course; one, whom wy sorely mis, this very year.
The Corps goon on though the statesman left was Gladstone, and mentarian and the journalist now
is in the service of Jesus Christ. His work continues, though the- be a septuagenarian. Fiction had say any day of the week the kind died with Dickens, poetry only rur, of things we minister used to say
Here in Hong Kong a great deal workers have to drop their tools. No one would want to prevent vived in Tennyson, the pulpit had on the annual "Peace Sundays" to is very different from what all of There is no discharge in this war. our scarred veterans from exchang but Spurgeon and Parker. Carlyle find it discussed then as sentiment us in our best moments would like fare. While I live I strive, and ing memories of past experiences had gone from
literature; in alism.
while I strive I hope. If this be toincerely pray that whoever indeed any farewell word to you I in the club or the chimney corner, rational philosophy Tyndall and recalling" anecdote and incident Hurley were "approaching the term I have lived to see woman take may take up the armour here after want it to be a word of good cheer. In short all the glory her place as a citizen whilst I can me may be able to do more towards For, believe me, trope in God is the
rot and ments of days gone by. But when was
prerogative of every soldier of the past is praised by way of re- poor lot with a pour prospect, and what it was that women and to spiritual indifference which besets Jesus Christ for here and for here flection on the present, when the novel à Mones among us to lead suffer, she having signed one of the the European in the Orient than ater.
And so when the veteran pango. veterans give the world to under- toward lands of promise."
earliest potitions for women's I could do. I hope also he will stand that they were the people How the vote went eventually I suffrage."
tena receives fuller support than has away in due course, or the fighter and soldiership has died with them, can't remember, but I do recall I have also seen the legal recog fallen to my lot from some sections in bis prime is taken, as would it is another story, I do not know that the young chairman got exnition of an equal moral standard of the community which I have done seen before his time, do not say he
has
goop Went." Remember that a more unchristian habit than the cited and asked leave to take the between men and women, after my best to serve, nay tumata
"You know without my telling you his face was, and always is “to. way which not a few seem to drop floor and reply to all the pessimism, thousands of years of cruel wrong into of depressing and discourag, and we had a great set to l in that respect..
that many who should know better ward the sunrising
11.