THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 21. 1920.
FROM THE PULPIT. and the peril of the social fabric,
THE BENEFIT OF GOING SHORT.
Notes of a sermon by the Rev.
All I say is, let us not expect impossibilities; do not look for happiness from abundance, even if shared equally all round.
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hangs on the capacity for it, and that is a condition of character,
J. Kirk Maconabhie at Union which comes through striving and Church on Saturday morning:contriving and going short, and is oply killed by having every "The full soul loatheth an
wishi gratified. honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet."
Prov. 27.6.
in the
"The full soul loatheth an honeycomb;" capacity for enjoy- Not a little observation of life ment is soon exhausted--thank lies behind this proverb. It hails Him who made us on any but from the land flowing with milk the highest lines. On this point! and honey, the land long sought, we have innumerable testimonies
1. whose possession was to be every will cite one, not from a sage of thing to these 12 tribes without a the old worid, but from the re country. It does not appear that Putedly richest man their expectations were fulfilled, modern world. Mr. J. D. Rocke- for their history in Palestine wasfeller. in his book of "Remin- a tale of discontents. Man noveiscences." "The mere expenditure dues find his paradise in his of money for things, so I am told possessions, nor does his really these who profess to know, misery lie in the want of them soon palls upon one. The navelty "He that loveth silver," says of being able to purchase any
wants $oon passes, Ecclesiastes truly, "shall not being one satisfied with silver, no he that because what people most seek loveth abundance with increase.", gainot by bought with money. Thus • rich men we'read about in "To him that hath shall be newspapers cannot get per- given and he shall have mesonal returns beyond a well detin-1 abundance is a law of lifeld mit fort eir expenditure which seems to hour hardly in and more to the same effect.
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is an unlimited capacity, in proving as lying to the! onjoving the favors which fortun Slawer- upon him.
The people who find He least! that could he bestowel along with the purse of Fortunatus it worth having are not these who
wvermesi to Use least! would be a fairy gift inbed, bar, He has those to whom life's favours fall Sindly. They are those who im profusely soon discover that the agine they have exhausted fe
whereas they have only exhausts; number from which anything an really be derived is Small. Thaled self and only 12 shallow, instance of America ani
millionaires may be ruckanged have but it is true," and I will witliving springs,
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the never worked from the deeper bades either in! interesting eatinentherelves or in the possibilities!
Hofle. Inevitably they become the so many of the problems og Victims of boredom, whom nothing civilisation on a huge seals, femian couse, or even for long amuso) the instruction of men a f. let us the victim has the sense to si hope, the satisfaction, uitur mtely, Hy is nausea for what he has,
which
working is
of the angels. The firts from
a Professor Stall of Chiengo. University. "who writes: "W Americans are the most unhape! people that have lived upon the
the
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to begin to dive. the recoil a nature noveer intended leaving to tla. das.
fas of the earth. Whether from his having got the best! cause we are the most prosperous bout of life, the zest of living is
the waiting to be tasted. The cloying i people. Becattss freest people. ferause we of the boy yeoh is one of t
most highly educat "homely lessons of the must
and what would be thought of thei Everyone of these sw-Up" infant who should refuse, aftur! ing statements IN
dortht it much swootness, believe! „pen
10 question. Det har any thing is now Wh21. that is not the point. The pain i
WING T is de grown men when is that thoughtful of servers extras things up when he finds. ever enne to such a conglit i inoré can be got out of them alent a great comtry wall on on the selfish or sensual park, 17 mous resources and trening bide has been following? niation, which has laid its if our taste and so how gracious the with tremendous em, náš toplars Lord is, and in the love of GVE) prosperity, to establish tre viena and the service of his rather and to promote education, Cremen find interests that will not pared with the hopes cherished fag in time and will enable hi and the boasts indulged in, dering believe in the happiness of result is profoundly disappoittelemite,
ing. By corm on aimission this)
is so the world around. an!! "But to the hungry soul everg whether more or less in Amritter thing is swoot." Contrast than elsewhere does not matter. juunid no farther go, yet this do s Modern civilisation as a hole isot po god the truth. The
so disappointing as to be profound, than try soul has a great possession ly disquieting. deep are in its unexhausted capacities. 8 rrows, so severe its struggles. Aecunding to a hundred cominen so oppressive its anxieties. Leasings and familiar wheelotts. is many times more opulent and the health and Lunger of the poor. ful than in the days of ourfich are the cavy of the rich I fathers. Every year adds to have heard a Hongkong lady say pportunities and its possessions Sy she would gladly change as new sources are tupped amplaress with a colic woman new discoveries made, turning carrying dirt.
the rarity of yesterday into th Yet nothing but experience will rominoplaces of to-morrow ges, inonvince the pas of men and and the lumber "of the women that getting all they think day after-to such an extent that, they want would not make them the increase of our wealth seems happy. They admit, it fails to but the doubling of our burdens. make others happy, but cherish The common ery is always, a belief that it would be different. "Give us more," and the common with themselves, or at anyrate, expectation is that when the they say they would like to take favoured few-so esteemed-shall the risk. Well, we are getting a cease to be few, and the like great deal of what favours become the portion of the people always do. many, we shall have attained the goal.
But
we want?
One by one the luxuries of the we past generation are coming to be You will not charge me with the necessities of the present. if indifference to the condition of our capacity for enjoyment could the meay, or with any wish to be increased in proportion to the perpetuate the prevalence of ostensible means of it, we should poverty and overtoil and glaring, inequality which are the shame
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY. LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary. General Meet- THE HONGKONG CENTRAL0g of the above named Company wil be held at the Registered ESTATE, LIMITED. Office of the Company, St. George's Building, Victoria, NOTICE is hereby given that 28th day of January 19:0 at of Hongkong. on Wednesday the the Sixth Ordinary Meeting of o'clock noon for the purpose 12 Stareholders in this Company considering and if thought fit of will be held at the Offices of
Messrs. Jardine Matheson passing the following Resolutions Company, Limited, on Thursdays Extraordinary Resolutions: 29th January 1930 at 11.30 am.(1) to consider, and if thought for the purpose of receiving the E approve the draft new Report of the Directors together! with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st Decem-
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The Register of Shares of the Company will be Closed from Monday, 19th to Thursday 29th January 1920 (both days in- clusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
The Hongkong Central
·Estate, Limited. MOWBRAY P. NORTHCOTE
Secretary to
The General Managers. Hongkong, 13th: January, 1920.;
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY COMPANY, LTD.
Hongkong the
Articles which will be sub- mitted to the Meeting. That the Capital of the Company be increased- Three milliond llars ($8,000.- 000) by the creation of Tw Lundred and forty thousand (240,000) shares of Ten dollars ($10.00) each, ranking for dividend and in all other respects pari pussa with the existing shares in the.. Company.
And in the event of the First Resolution being passed with or with ut modification. (3) To consider, and thought
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Company will Offices of Messrs. Jardine Mathe-
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George's Building January 1920 at 12 o'clock on Monday the 16th day of aforesaid noon for the purpose of receiving February 1930 at 11. o'clock in the Rep.rt of the Directors to the forenoon for the purpose of gether with the Statement of AC receiving a report of the proceed. Applications are invited for the counts for the year ending 31st, Ings of the above mentioned post of Part-time Tutor in December 1919. Physiology.
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