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DO YOU SAY YOUR PRAYERS?
Practical Hints On How To
Broadcasting from Union Church
Sunday morning the Rev. John Foster gave some "practical Instruction how to pray. The text was Matt. vi 7, "Seek and ye shall find." He said;-
If the Bible still waits to show us what He was and is and shall be, and we have resolved to seek Him there; if He is alive and we may come to God through Him: how shall we begin that commu- nion of soul with Soul which we call. prayer?
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It depends where you stand upon this pilgrims' way. "Prayer is something which grows as you grow. A child's capacity tor sharing with its father varies ac- cording to the child's develop
ment.
Most of us start with the idea of prayer as asking God to give us something. Even this is oc- casional. In times of special need. and as a last resort. I had a shipmate during the war, who was the most foul-mouthed and evil
into the dark and wonder if it will come true: Like a child ́send- ing a note up the chimney to Santa Claus to tell him whether he wants a woolly dog or, a pink rabbit: "It may get there," he thinks, and is content. Like the old lady from the country who shouted her grocery order down the telephone receiver, and hoped it would get there. Later she asked why they had all those funny it tle figures in round holes on the dial....
But if prayer is commur.ion, you are bound to ask, "Is there any one there?" The answer you seek is not a magic gift but an answer- ing voice. Buu It is hard to under- stand and feel and know that the contact is real. "I must not be that sort of person," you say, and give it up.
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NO PICNIC Hard? Of course it is hard, Did you expect to find it otherwise?, When I came to China and settled living man I have ever had to down to leard the language some textbook recommended as "Chinese made Easy." I thought, how splendid! It is. It is just the title that, in the
of a novel, makes a best seller. And let me tell you, this book too ought to be classed as fiction: Chinese is not easy, you are sentenced to five
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years, and, whatever any one says,
It is hard labour.
enough to issue to ourselves when we are "on parade."
TEN COMMANDS
1. Look: Whatever your daly scripture reading may have been, always before your prayers read or recite some words of Jesus about Jesus. We end our prayers with through Jesus Christ our Lord." That is meaningless unless we have begun with Him. When the talkies were invented they sent some of the stars of the silent Alm into eclipse: The girl who danced like a fairy might have a voice like a fishwife. "The con- verse may happen when television is added to our wireless sets: when every one can see me, I may not be allowed to broadcast any more. But sight will add a sense of nearness and reality. We pray
"through" Christ in the sense that we see God through Him: "The light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ! Look at that face first. Then say to yourself, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever." Through Him, the living Christ, you are coming to a Christlike God.
2. Kneel: That is the attitude Posture of body of adoration."
suggests and influences the atti- tude of mind. As tri kneeling you relax your muscles, so let your mind relax, and wait there, affort- less now, before Him.
live with. One dark stormy tight, patroling without lights in the Irish sea, there came a loud crash. We were thrown out of our
3. Listen: There is a strange bunks with the shock of collision,
power in silence. How often we He and I were close together as
are told so: "Be still and knoW We reached for our febelts and
that I am God." "In quietness dashed for the companionway.
"and. confidence shall be your
strength." "0 I saw him cross himself. I heard
rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him" (1 him mutter, Lord Save us!'- That is prayer, That is prayer to
I often see advertisements in
will give you rest.” "My peace English magazines, something like give I unto you." the
vast majority
We are not people. of One of the sickening things about
this: French without tears. Ty heard for our much speaking. One the simplified system of M. def of the hardest lessons we of this a parson's job is that so many
L'Aisibones." You do a correspon- modern age have to learn is to be class him (and the religion he
dence course for a month or two quiet. stands for) with the doctor and
and buy a couple of gramaphone the undertaker.-some one to be
records, and then become the pride called on in a crisis. Those who
and joy of fellow tourists. There have had no thought of religion when they were falling in love
may be something in it. Language want to be married in Church. masters in my schooldays believed too much in the educational value Those who were tar from God in the begetting of a child ask the. of tears. My eyes still feel tender Those when I think of irregular verbs. parson to christen it. whose lives have been. Christ-less And not my eyes only.... But 1 don't believe you can make the want to make sure of a Christian funeral.
earning of any language int à plen'c.
CRYING FOR SOMETHING Or if our demands on God are mare frequent than that, prayer does for most of us, even within the Church, remain a matter of crying or something. Fathers would prefer it if Children could be had ready-made at, say, three years old. What fun is there, in a tiny baby? Between feeding times it sleeps. When it wakes up it is generally to cry for some, thing. The mother seems to and fun in the drudgery.
But even she might not but for one thing: She is able to anticipate the joys that are coming, the cooing con- versations. the baby
endear- ments, the changing from a small squealer into a jolly little boy.
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The advertisement that most at- tracts me is another correspon- dence course, "Pianoforte without Fractice." That would be splen- did. Even now my small daughter at her Ave-finger exercises. The miracle of telephony without wires pales before the wonder of music without scales,... And I should like to think that sometimes the advertiser pales before the te-
merity of his own lle.
TRIAL AND ERROR
It cannot be so. There must be trial and error: there must be stammering and tears; time must be spent and labour; practice stili makes perfect. It is so if we are to get anything of value in know- ledge, or in art....or in religion.
God our Father has so many of us who refuse to grow up.
Prayer is the language in which Our Lord taught us. "Ask and
I speak to God and God speaks ye shall receive."
We are not back to me. Prayer is the music of wrong. If we bring our dally needs the multitudes before the Throne. Into our prayers.
But we are I must learn, must try and fall wrong if that is all that prayer and try agaii and keep on, trying means to us. After all, there is That which is easy is cheap; that not much that you can tak for which is hard is glorious. There until you HAVE FOUND THE is one easy way to meet that glory FATHER.
which is God.
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I should think it unnatural and false ir when my children thought they felt hungry they re- cited a manu. They don't. They call one word, "Mummy!" If you find a lost child don't say you will give him a penny if he stops cry ing. Don't take him to the Cinema to help him to forget. There is only one thing to be done. Go to the police station and get the telephones busy. He wants his mother.
ONLY ONE SOURCE If prayer is genuine. not an in- voluntary cry as you feel yourself
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your eyes to heaven, there is only one thing to ask "God be mer- ciful to me a sinner." You have
to and the Father. Once "really.. found, prayer begins to take on a new aspect. If your experience of fatherhood is entirely com posed of "Give met "I want,”- you had better stop trying to run household and call it a depart- ment store. It is not the father who offers prompt family up- Diles The FATHER offers more, and expects more. And God is Our Father. The essential nature. of prayer is not demand and sup- ply. It is fellowship and com- munion, g
That is what makes prayer hard If prayer were only asking for things, 1 is easy to shoot off a wish
Our Lord sald, "Ask and ye shall receive," We have seen that there is only one thing to ask, and to receive this requires effort and discipline. He adds, "Scek”-with" patience and perseverance—“seek and ye shall find." How shall we
seek?
You will expect, after what has been said, no short cut. I can only give you a little of the experience of my own seeking. I have ar- ranged it in ten 'short commands- short enough to remember sharp
4. Be grateful: Don't start with asking for things. Leave that awhile. Let every bright memory, every good feling, every bit of joy and love and beauty in your life jolh to say. We thank Thee Lord.”.
GENERAL LIU MURDERED
At Railway Station
Peiping. Aug. 5. General Llu Tso-chi, commander of the Peace Preservation Corps in the Luantung "area, was murdered on the platform of the Luanchow railway station at 4.o'clock yester- dy afternoon.
Four mea. dressed in plain clothes were his assassins. They stepped up to him quietly, closing in 'irom all sides and opened are
at close range,
General Liu had no chance of escape or of defending himself. The murderers' automatic pistols, heavy calibre weapons, struck with shattering force. He died almost Instantly.
A Japanese gendarme, who was strolling the platform, and who apparently attempted to intervene. was struck by one bullet and seri- ously wounded... Reuter..
is coming home. If you have fallen, in the mud admit it to your Father but keep your gaze fixed not on the mudstains but on the Father.
H.K. POLICE RESERVES
ORDERS BY MR. D. BURLING–
HAM INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE)
Chinese Company
Strength-Constable R50 Lt Man Tsung has been permitted to re- sign from the Chinese Company. as from 27th July, 1935..
•Commendation-Constable R18. Leang Yau To' is commended and granted the meriterious service bar by the Inspector General of Police
assistance for hist arresting a Chinese Male who was three years Hard sentenced to Labour at
Criminal the June Sessions for possession of forged banknotes.
Indian Company
in
1st Aid Classes. All members taking this Course will report' at the Potce Headquarters" Gymna- dum on Tuesday, and Thursday.. August 6th and 8th at 18.30 hours for instruction..
Training Course-Part II-A recruits of the Indian Company will attend 3, Cliff Road. Kowloon on Thursday. August 8th at 17.30 hours for instruction.
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8. Forgive: Freely and without exception. We must f our own souls are to find peace. Our Lord Instructional Patrol-The has told us so, and this has lard | structional patrol for members of Hs finger on the secret of much of our failure in prayer and in life. Don't pretend that you have
enemies, no one who has offended you, no one you are Jealous of. "If ye forgive not men their trespasses neither will your heavenly Father forgive you.”
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Emergency Unit Reserve
Strength. Constable R416. L. R. 7. Keep your me: Prayer is Dixon and Constable R432 W E not "If you have time this morn-Dorablee have been permitter to ing any more than is breakfast. resign from the Emergency Unit Reserve, as from 15th and 23rd You must have time, Fix one and keep it: early morning for most July, 1935 respectively. of us before the newspaper, mind, and before the first cigarette.
all nature wakes 5. Be honest: Don't say what think
with freshness into praise. you don't mean because you think morning you ought to say it. Don't pre-
The birds do. And we are made tend to be better than" you are by the same hand.. because you are praying. A child. has no party manners when he
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