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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
THE LATE EARL HAIG.by some envied, but he is not loved,
and his memory is not held in grate ful regard:Y
TRIBUTE. AT THE UNION
CHURCH
1928.
INTERESTING. LECTURE BY
DR, SHELLSHEAR.
He know his countrymen, know that MAN'S INTELLIGENCE. our pooplo rise, to their best when they are faced with the impossible, His aim is to use humanity, and when their backs, as he said, are to the humanity would be glad to forget wall and the last ounce of effort and him, To him life is an opportanity sacrifice is required of them. Ele for self-aggrandizement and the warld knew also that man's extremity is A background for self-display, ed when often God's opportunity, for he was "For Davidh, after he had served his time comes the world, in wall connigher resource than the arm of fieth in balioving man and had faith. im a his own generation by the will oftent to let him go,
alone. God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathare, and saw corrup- tion: but He, whom God raised again, saw no corruption."--Acts 13.36/37.
Preaching on this text at Union Church on Sunday morning, Rev. J. Kirk Maconachio said:
These sentences occur in St. Paul's first address to his fellow-countrymen in the synagogue at Antioch.
The sermon follows the usual line of approach taken by the Apostles in
the Jews.
Earl Haig's Splendid Exemple.
In the end mankind "knowa : the difference between its servants and Its exploiters, and it is the servants whom we delight to honour,
To-day we all have in mind a dis-
NO REST AT NIGHT
For Parents or Child Until BABY'S OWN TABLETS Were Tried. They Cured The Little One's Pains,
was Interestingly discussed in kong think gratefully of Baby's The evolution; of the intelligence. Numbers of parents in Hongs.
lecture by Dr. J. L. Shellshear "at | Own Tablets, and among them la True to His Church.
the Helena, May Instituto yester. Mr. Pang Chi Hung, an employee day evening. There was a large in the firm of Mesars. Douglas. He made no parade of his religion attendance presided over by the Laprak & Co. who writes:N but neither did he conceal it. He was not one of those who seem half Very Rev. Dean of St. John's "My baby daughter suffered ashamed to confess Christ before Cathedral
from teething pains associated tinguished servant of his country and men, All through the war, it is suldan. Shellshear prefaced his neas. Her mother and I could not.
with crying and fretful sloopless whatever the pressure on
on his time and strength, it was his constant practics lecture by explaining that intel have a peaceful rest at night in that was available, and did not simply faculties on one side "sensa ministered Baby's Own Tablets to to join in Sunday, worship whenever ligetice was composed of three
consequence. But after we ad- show up on special occasions."
tion and on the other side "exthe child she immediately became
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his time who has just passed away The words written of King. David ancient time are fully trua of Field Marshal Earl Haigs having servod his own generation according to the
presenting the claims of Christ to will of God, he was laid unto his. The country honours him as a hero, pression," with a new mechanismoothed, sleep came to her and she
fathors.
which was called "Intercalation showed no more pain. Since then. placed
between the two. Dr.
Shellshear then referred to the whenever she has been unwell. with atomachache, vomiting, purg- general belief that there were only five sonses. According to the lecturer there were innumerable cutaneous sensibilities which we
which is his due; the Church also Even in a literal sense it happens can commemorate him as a Christian, The providential history of the nation is reviewed, special mention that the closing phrase holds good, and that should not be forgotten.
for ho left directions that his body Earl Haig remained true to his re- being made of the illustrious law should be buried at the old home inligion and faithful also to his Church givers, judges, kings and other lenders whom God raised up from time the family tomb. It matters little and the Church of his fathers, St.
what
becomes of the mortal remains Columba's, where he worshipped in to time to direct and deliver them.
of us, but this great leader will London, is a congregation of the were not able to realise.
arty of In the whole impressive and ex-be not less kindly remembered for the Presbyterian Kirk of Scotland. traordinary story a great Divine personal modesty and the love "of purpose is traced, a purpose brought
betokens,
g or fever, I have given her Baby's Own Tablets and less than ailments. She is now plumb and. one vial" has always cured these
active and beginning to talk" A few years ago, though so far 1. Dr. Shellshear then traced the
Baby's Own Tablets are sold by to its fulness in the anointed Christ home which this small eircumstance. have seen, no mention of the fact, Earl evolution of the intelligence from all chomista,.,or post. free at 60 Haig was ordained an elder of that the water living forms to the land cents per vial, by The Dr. Wil- congregation, and warthily he filled living forms. He showed lantern lams Medicine Co., 60, Kiangse the office.
slides of the extraordinary fossil | Road, Shanghal'- For these reasons it seems fittingfish,, the Lang fish, which was and I think will be so recognised, that mention should be made of him in capable of living in mud with the
presence of mere moisture this Church, whose membership is 30 largely recruited from his own com- munion.
whom the great figures of the past in some sort prefigured. This Christ, the Messiah, was to be of the royal line, a prince, of the house of Davis, and the Apostle claimed that Jesus, whom they preached, was this expect ed and long awaited one. To prove this they appended to the fact that although the Jewish rulers had reject od Jeans, God had raised him from the dend.
David, in the spirit of prophecy, had sung of an immortal hope which was fulfilled symbolically not in himself. but in Christ, Who was not suffered even in the flesh, to "see corruption." As for David himself he had met ho common fate of mortality: "After he had served his own genera tion by the will of God," he fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers."
4.
A grateful country would have had him buried in St. Paul's, where the tombs of Nelson and Wellington are conspicuous.
The honour was deserved, but most of us will rather be glad to think that in death he did not wish to be divided from those of his own kin or indeed from the common lot of ordinary man. It will be agreed, I think, that no with less ostentation than he did. one could have worn great honours
He accepted the honours and carried them in no spirit of personal vanity, ing the gallant and fadomitable forces but looking on himself as represent of all ranks whose devotion brought us through those awful years of crisis and, crowned them with victory hard won and long deferred. Still for his own part he deserved. His distinctions,
over been carried by a British soldier
From the lung fish, the lecturer traced the evolution to various
Wo remember him not only as one who stood nobly in the breach for animals of Australia including the King and country in the time of opossum which, he said, was one stress and received well merited roof the animals nearest to the wards of dignity and honour. We ling of man's ancestry. He point think of him also as a soldier of Jesus ed out the diminution of the pro- the good fight of the faith and for tures of other animals he showed Christ, who fought in his own sphere minence of the nose and in pic- whom is laid the crown of righteous how the eyes were drawn to the ness.
front of the face.
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cloud of witnesscs who encompass us One more has been added to the around and watch as we run the race
His Wonderful Work.
Let us sea that we do not became
Ape Ancestry.
kept to trees, the lecturer explain- Coming to the animals which These are the words which are par-
The Army Council in the Order reset before up Licularly in my mind this morning,
ed how they hnd less use for their. but I review their context because it ported yesterday says that, "As the
organs of smell, and with the aid is not right to use Scripture words | Commander-in-chief of the British France and
of further slides ho showed the and phrases as mere detached, snippets Expeditionary Force in
different positions of the various which might have come from any-Flanders, he bore, through four long where.
years, the heaviest burdon which has
unworthy of them, for that is what faculties of the brain, explaining we de beconte if we content ourselves how areas had expanded while OXYGEN In any case, however, this is a in the history of the Empire." His with sounding the praises of famous others diminished. noble sentence, and it would not be
we may be sure, will accept that easy to find one which better sums judgment. No British leader in days bequeath us. I wish I could honestly men while dropping the tasks they u the whole duty of man. No man ean map out a higher destiny for his past was ever called up to handle rid my mind of fears that we may do such masses of men, to deferd a front
so in this case. A generation is self than this-to
serve his Own
of auch enormous extent or to coming forward which knows little range attacks on such a tremendous about the Great War and apparently had rather not be told about it. Yeats pass quickly, and it is difficult to realise that young men and women will be voting at the next General
Dr. Shellshear dealt on the de- Election who were in kindergartens when the war broke out and not long out of the nursery when it ended. Ivelopment of the visional organs, they are ignorant as to what it air showing a slide of a monkey needle. Remarking meant is it because we, their seniors, threading a have been too forgetful?
generation according to the will of
God.
nenle.
What a dignity that lends to life, what a nobility it imparts! Also, one
Man of Superb Calibre. might add, how immediately practical it is. One's own generation is the
We trust and pray that no sheh appointed field of service. Duty is demands will be made on our nation We close at hand. Our own people ander any other in time to come. our own time have the immediate claim.
True Lino of Self-development.
It is right to learn from the past, right also to build for the futuri. But the truest reverence for the past lies in loyalty to the present, and in that also lles the right foundation for the time to come.
hope the very magnitude of modern warfare, and the fact that it directly involves the entire manhood of com batant peoples may serve as a declaive detorrent
But, however that may be, our leaders in the late war had to meet quite unprecedented depande, and it took men of big calibre to meet them The whole conditions were un precedented.
The world is keen to reap the frults of victory and would like to forget the cost of it. But there are things which it is wrong to forget, though the remembrance of them may be painful and may put an unwelcome check on our prosperity and our pleasures. The late Field Marshal not only served his generation under Providence by doing so much to win the
The samo WET.
Providence
That there were twenty-eight brain but with only a few being different microscopic areas of the generally known about, was the result of a noted anatomist's study of the brain.
upon the powers of concentration, he said, smilingly, that the average man, cannot properly concentrate for more than a quarter of an hour every day.
imaginations and everything worthing their profession. It is wonderful dear to them in comparison with the turbaneca in man's mind, continu- :
Brênes,
while is transferred to their distant
But our lot has been cast in the 20th century, and neither the first nor the 25th; and if we are falling tho 20th century, if wo are ahirking, dreaming, refusing to pull our weight here and now, it would have been just the same yesterday and would be no different to-morrow.
Any noble view of life—and if we do not take life nobly we were better dead-implies that we are placed here and placed for a purpose. Behind life is God. Our place, our time, our duty are what they aro, according to his will
Dr. Shellabenr, then showed the moulds of several brains which had been found by different ex-
Whilst aliden of monkeys were being shown Dr. Shellshear. ex- An illusion which seema to possess
pressed his disbelief of the theory New and unexpected elements were many people is that if they had been liable to be introduced at any time.
that man evolved in, 'direct line born in some byegone' period which Trench warfare, poison gas and air
from apes, although-they probably their fancy dwells on they would have | craft fighting were enough of them-
common origin. The had better opportunities and would selves to make, war a different thing spared his precious life and put it had have made more of them. Or Utopias from what it was when senior officers into his kindly heart to keep a later talk of man's evolution from mon- owes keys has caused unnecessary die. of the future lay hold of many like Hnig were young and first learn generation in mind of what
to those who ce
counted not their lives that so many of them were able to
ed the lecturer. adapt themselves to the new dertiands, call of duty. Life has not been over
kind to the men wha and only a man able to do so pre who forfeited the chances which are won, the war, eminently could have remained at the bend of a growing organisation like the common right of youth, who come the British Expeditionary
on through, Force on
many of them crippled in
them belated in the to the end. The burden of those body, disturbed in mind, and all of plorers and commented upon the organic systems of each. An in- if they come raco years, not, to him alone but to him supremely, will be even more fully through at all. For them and for teresting exhibit was a mould of
their
dependents Douglas Halg spent the brain of Dean Swift, who, the understood in years to come, as in himself unsparingly, and there is no lecturer declared had possessed deed the Army Council's Order scema doubt that the prestige of his dis- the biggest brain known. to suggest. It must have been enough tinguished nathe and high position has to how the strongest shoulders, and done much to keep their claims from At the conclusion of the lecture no one is surprised to learn that the strain of those dreadful years is be-boing overlooked in the rush for wealth Dean Swann expressed thanks to leved to have shortened the life of and pleasure which is the worst Dr. Shellshear.
reaction from the great upheaval, the late Commander-in-chief."
For that human kindness his memory Perhaps the wonder is that he was will be treasured as much as for his Ho is working out ends which in spared us to so considerable an age, great achievements, cludo us in their sweep and which are but in any case he lived well beyond furthered as we serve our own the complotion of the special task in generation in the line of them.
which he served his generation by the There is a cry nowadays for "self-will of God. Like David's of old, that expression" and "self-development," service was as a leader of men in the Very good but service is the only true line of self-development, and a self which expresses itself in filling Its appointed place and helping its own time is the only kind of self which is worth expressingt-
Those whom history agrees to call great were not so much what would be called supermen
as servants of all. The superman is pretty much the arch-egoist. He may be feared and
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