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LESSON SERMON.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,
SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.
"Ancient and Modery Neer mancy, aling Mesmerisin nud Hypnotiam, denounced”'
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the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in, all Churches of Christ, Scientis on Sunday, May 31,
The Golden Text was; "Sing un to the Lord, praise ye the Lord; for he hath delivered the soul" of the poor from the hand of wvil doers." (Jeremiah 20; 13.)
Among the citations which com prised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible; "Thert shall not be found among you any due that maketh his son or hu daughter to pass through the firo,
BRITAIN'S MIDDLE
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CLASSES.
MORE ATTEMPTS AT TRADE UNION OPPRESSION.
WHAT OF AN "INCOME TAX STRIKE."
Political power is lost by the carnings and accumulations of the failure of its possessors, whether elever and industrious minority, and individuals or classes, to perceive spent in the doles, pousions, school when they have gone far enough, | bills, unternity benefits, subsidised by their inability to pull up in time, houses, etc., of the jovial masses, writes A.AB, i the Evening who pour into London from the pro
tandard,
yinces in their thousands to watch a football match.
Real Victims.
No material Government, purse in hand, attends the middle class mas
In their early days the trade 01 that uneth-divination, or an obanions perfomed two social func- server of fimes, or an enchanter, ortions of great value; they taught a witch, Or a chirmer, or a conthe manual workers to combine for sulter with familiar spirits, or the purpose of collective bargain from the cradle to the grave." wizard, or a neuromancer. Foring, and they extracted subscrip- why not? In the Arst place, be all that do these things are artions from their members to pro-
cause he is out-numbered, and is heenuse of these abominations the sickness, unemployment, and old Lord thy God doth drive them outage.
not 'combine. Is it not time, if from before thee." (Deut. 18; 10 Their success was their undoing that the large class which stretches they want to escape submersion, for it attracted vote-hunting politi-between the territorial aristocracy. to. 19.)
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AWAY WITH FOOD GLADYS COOPER AS
FADS."
(Continued from Page 1.)
There may be more than one view on this question; here at any rate x mine. There are very few poo- ple who are entirely free from idiosyncrasies in the matter' of. food. Some of us revert to our carnivorous ancestors and have a consequent distaste for fruits and vegetables others ef us revert to
WITNESS.
QUOTATION FROM HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY.,
WHAT SHE WROTE OF ROBERT LORAINE,
Miss Gladys Cooper was called as witness during the hearing in the King's Bench Division of the libel
uur herbivorous ancestors and enaction brought against' Mr. Robert - - not abide meut foods.
Loraine, the actor, and lessee of the
Some cannot eat shelfish, others Apollo Theatre, Loodan, Are unable to eat ushrooms;| Plaintiffs are Mr. Archibald others, again, suffer horribly if Purnell and Mr. Alfred Zeitlin, who they cat as simple a thing as a carry on business in Golden Squire, strawberry; and, incidentally, be it W., as theatrical agents and pro- said that an increasing number of ducers.
maladies such as nathma and bay. They claim damages for libel and fever are being comelusively provedlander alleged to be contained in to result from certain of these a letter dictated by Mr. Loraino dietetic idiosyncrasies.
with reference to payment of hip Be Independent,
salary in connection with his co- Now, apart from giving rise to duced the French war play," Tha |gagement by the plaintiffs, who pro- definito symptoms, there are many Man I Killed."
types of food which, though harm. less to the majority, do not suit
Publication of the latter, malice,
quite normal.. Flesh foods, for tory meaning were denied. Alter example, do not agree with some
natively, Mr. Loraine pleaded people, baby puddings do not agres
privilege and that the words were Gruç,
The Leason-Sermon also includ cians. The trades unions became and the proletarint should shake off certain prople who are apparently and that the wordu bore a defaran- ed the following passage from first the spoilt children and finally tho Christian Science textlouk, the masters of one of the great | "Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Biker parties in the States. The results Eddy; "Christina Scienes goes to were the Trade Disputes Act of the bottom of mental aetion, and re 1000; the Political Levy Act of 1913; reals the theodicy which indicates the rightness of al divine netion, the General Strike of 1928; the As the emanation of divine mind, amended Trades Disputes Act of and the consequent wrongness of 1927; and, fually, the failure during the opposite so-ontled action, this session to replace the Act of evil, occultism, necromancy, merism, animal magnetism, hypno | 1927 by a new charten of licence. tism." (p. 104.)
Almost a Blessing.
The General Council of the
WIVES URGE PRISON FOR Trades Union Congress have learn
POLYGAMIST.
WANDERING SAXOPHONE PLAYER MEETS HIS DESERTS.
ed nothing from the history of the present century, or even from the erents of the last five years, Great as, was the injury inflicted upon our trade by the General Strike, from which we have not yet recovered, New York, April 9-With four it was almost a blessing, for it of his six wises in the court room, clearly established the Enel that the que of them bysterical and the other trades unions are not the nation, three urging the limit for him, Robert J. Gooding, a wandering axophone player, wis sentenced to serve two and a half to five years in Sing Sing prison. for bigamy,
in face of the overwhelming evid- ence Gooding pleaded guilty.
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If the aristocracy appear to be and glorious innings, and they have washed out, they have had a' long. still got their names, their manners, and their cousinships to help their careers in the City. It is the mid die-clem man, doctor, the painter, the journalist, the lawyer, the
the professor, the clerks, secretaries, and accountants, who are the real victims of the present system which taxes them to death in order to relieve the weekly wagemen-of civic duties and responsibilities.
Bled to Death.
As wages have doubled and tre bled so has the cost of living. The reason why the middle-class man and the small capitalist are being bled to death is that they lack the power of combination. Artisans cun. combine, but the classes above them cannot combine; they want the courage and the faculty of co-opera- tion. The British rubber industry is ruined because the planters and their directors could not combine to defeat the American tyre-makers and because they cannot now com.
the Dutch bine with amongst themselves to force some scheme of restriction upon their Governments.
ог even
with others and so on.
Mr. Kerilic Laski, K.Q., and Mr. Gilbert Boyfus were for the plain- tids; Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C,
The disagreement does not pro-| ceed to the point of provoking ill- ness, but it 'đóng go to the length ut impairing efficiency, and the re- and Mr. G. 0. Slade were for the stressing of it uses up energy which would be more profitably employed elsewhere.
defendant
Miss Sarah Allgood, who took a leading part in the play, gave evi-
The refsa to recognies this obfence that the custom in the then- vious fact, writ large
In the ridi-trical profession was to pay salaries
on Fridays. enions uniformity of the diet, of the majority, acenunta lor a great deal of the subacute ailing which wo, se around 13.
Those many persons who, though not ill, aro never really well, are usually the unconsel, victims of this deadly compliance with dietetic custom.
Independence and self-expression
Mr. Loraine, further eross-CX- amined, said that he never doubt- ed the Enducial stability of the plaintiffs, although he had a slight suspicion that Mr. Parnell was evad-- ing payment of moneys due to him.
"What was in my mind," added Mr. Loraine, "was that, in view. of the quibble in
respect of the deduction of one-eighth of my salary at Birmingham, in view of Mr. Parnell's slight irritation at The sensible man who desires to my refusal to let to him the Apollo free from the annoyance and Theatre on similar terms to these disabilities of petty aliments sets which he had been offered for the out to ascertain what sort of diet Criterion, and in view of his annoy
are more necessary in diet, than in anything clar.
Bustees Proposition,
who will not be bullied by organised abour. The behaviour of all, young and old of both sexes, was simply splendid during that short and tharp specimen of civil war. Ona wife wES so overenie by Undaunted by this defeat, the indignation she had to be carried trades unions tried this session to from the court room screaming and kicking. The remaining three made repeal the new amended Trades de comment other. täna to urge Union Act, and again they failed. that a severe sentents should be
Incredible as it appears, Mr. meted
their tou-loving! Броиве..
Hayday and his General Council now come forward with a proposal which, if serious, must ruin their reputation as practical counsellors. The British colliers can combine, They intend to suggest to the Royal and have obliged the Government Commission on Unemployment In-to, introduce the quota system. If is best suited to the kind of lifeance at my reful to forgo a week's surance the abolition of the coutri- the middle classes were to combine' butory system and its replacement by a new income-tax on all income of every kind, beginning with 1 per cent.. or 2d. in the . on incomes below £250 mal graduated upwards until it reaches on average of. 18. 80, or 7 per cent, an average, 1 suppose, arrived at by a muchment of direct and indirect taxa- larger percentage on the higher in- tion. somes, which now, an everybody But it is waste of time to talk knows, pay in income-tax and aur of remony and idle to hope for tax, anything from 7. to 126. in
in recovery of trade so long as high the £.
wages, short hours and exorbitant fees for supervision combine to make our goods too dear for the modern purchaser.
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In the last five years the State
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he leads.
salary, I thought I should have If he is unable to take plenty some difficulty and delay in obtain of exercise then he restricts his ing the money due.' intake both in quantity and qual
Payment of Salaries, ity. If he is observant he is not Miss Gladys Cooper (Lady Peur- long in discovering whether, with-son) said that the custom in the in the four corners of his ordinary profession throughout her experi- dietary, there are any items which, eure, extending over many years, owing to an idiosynerasy on his 25 an areas, manageress, and part, he had better avoid. And.he producer, was to pay salaries conducts this inquiry not with Fridays. thermometer, needle-syringe and Cross-examining, Mr. Laski quot- microscope, but with a pencil anded from witness's autobiography, in a sheet of paper, as a business pro-which she wrote, under the bend- position to see how he can make ing. 1 fall out of love with The best of a very puzzling problem, Raffles": towards the solution of which there is little to guide him sava general principles, experience and common
schise,
When the dirt most suitable to the individual has been thus as-
on
"The theatre is full of erratio people. There is, for one, Robert Loraino. There is a man of in- finite charm and brilliant ability.
. But how he docs rub people up the wrong way at times." Asked about the custom of pay- certained it should, of course, bement of salaries, witness said: “lť adhered to as a matter of routine. is a long time since I have been
But thers should he reasonablepaid; I always hand out anlories." degree of elasticity. figidity en. Sir Patrick Hastings (re-examin courages introspection and bore, ing): What did you mean when you dom, one of which destroys the wrote that Mr. Loraine, rubbed sou; the other the body. Hero, people up the wrong way That he as elsewhere, variety is the salt of was very strict in the theatre, life, and one of the most serious
of the many objcctions to fade is that they limit the field of legiti mate choice,
Away, then, with fads. It is
In your view is that a good thing or a bad thing-Very good.
Are you strict in your theatre 1- Not so strict as I ought to be.
Mr. Loski asked the jury not to
what you do babitually that matbeleu
tre, not what you do cecasionally, Gladys Cooper in the witness-bor.
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