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OPENING OF THE NEW MINISTRY.
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MEMORIAL SUNDIAL IN
RECREIO GROUNDS...
It is understood that arrange The Rev. F. C. Young opened his ministry at Union Church on Sun-ments have been made for the day morning in the presence of a creation on the Club de Recreio large congregation.
ground in King's Park, of a Prenching on "The Will to memorial to thelate Private Frank Health" and basing his sermon on M. Soares, of the Middlesex Regi- the incident at the Pool of ment, who lost his life on the Ypres front during the Great War, on April 5.1915.
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The Church, they were tald, was dying institution: it was suffer ing from a wasting disease: the patient was not even progressing atisfactorily; the end was only a question of time.
Nol Dead Yet,
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OCTOBER 22, 1928.
AMATEUR CONCERT.
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE OFFICERS ENTERTAINED.
Thoro was a very large attendarion at the Ellis Kadoorio School for Indians, Sookumpoo, on Saturday. night, when the Indian section of the St. John Ambulanco Brigade enter- tained the officers of the Brigade and members of the Indian com- munity to a concert and too party,
Avery longthy and attractive pro So far na car be-necertained,gramme was presented and there Private Soares was the only mem
were several features in the concort ber of the local Portuguese com worthy of mention. A very imposing munity who have his life in the stage was constructed at ono ond of front line in actual action. Mady the school hail and special decora
tiona others volunteered and went over- sens, but an early volunteer Private Soares, was one of the first to cross to Franco and made the supreme sacrifice.
the Final arrangements for orection of the memorial have not yet been completed, but it is understood that it will take the form of a sundial, with a suitable inscription..
scious of our weakness but, surer of our strength; we will not plead our inabilitics; we will emphasive our sureties."
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Of the music, Mr. W. Abbas's opening item, which comprised two popular marches on the piano, was well received ng was Mr. M.0, Hoa- seu's violin solo, the piece choren being Humoresquo. The "Black Diamond" string band of nine players nla helped to entertain during the first part by rendering selections of Hawaian music.
During the interval, ton was served on the lawn.
"Rize, take up thy bed and walk," the preacher commented on the wide use at the present day of the metaphors of the sick roam in de scriptions of modern civilisation and the state of society. From Amerien came a book called "The Malady of Europe" and an article in a well known magazino referred to "the malady of America." The two indicated the depressing con- clusion that, on one side of the Atlantic, Europe was "sick unto death," and on the other side, America was "bored to death." Mr. R. H. Tawney had published a book, "The Sickness of an Acquist- Bortrand tive Society". Mr. Russell, looking through dull- coloured glasses, was tempted to wish the whole race could bo blot ted out, it was so desperately sick. Dean Inge wrote, "We are in the
"Never Had a Chanco." presence of a grave disease of the body politie; n discase which may What had Jesus to any of the even prove fatal." In short, many mood of self-despising? asked the were obsessed with the idea that preacher. In the words of the man the world was sick: Internationally, by the Pool of Bethseda, one could nationally, commercially, industrial-discern the self-despising and self- ly, religiously, spiritually, we were pitying.
"Thirty-eight desperately
years have. I laid here wafting, and when I step down someone is be fore me." "I never get a chance." 'Get up, lift your mat, and WALK." said Jesus, and through that de- moralised personality, that devi- talised soul, there went singing the assurance, "I can, I can!" No sano man could deny that picked up the mat which for 38 years had carried him, and ho there were defects, in every institu- carried it. Not in the pool, but in tion, but it was necessary to remind the strong soul of Jesus he found oneself forcibly that "Disease is the echo to his deepest want.
A short play in three parts formed not the whole truth." "
The primary thing in any anti-the recond half of the concert. It
was entitled "Johnny joins tho Am-- majority of the race were healthy. cipated cure was the will of the
written by th The British Empire, though re-patient to be cured. The doctor balance," and was ported as dying for the laat hundred sought to call forth the will to member of the Indian division. years, was not dead yet. Britain, health," and Jesus had the same Mariestly described as an "unmusical In spite of terrible wounds inflicted method, "He comes to us as of abwurdity," the play proved to be a by the war, seemed to be healing old; he finds us confronted with very subtle form of advertisement at a reasonable rate; trade
the problems of our living, the
fur tho Ambulance Brigade. There warn jokes and songs in plenty and commerce, though suffering from challenge of our desperate day and malnutrition, was by no means in generation, the struggle for exis- the players performed their parts the sanatorium of the world, and tence. In what mood does he find quite well.
though the Church,
Recounted
118? Depressed, unexpectant, har- weakly, still had an amazing de rassed, confounded? He must not
And us obsessed with gree of vitality.
our own failures. When hope has died out. Sinners Potential Saints. "We become too easily obsessed we are impossible folk. What is with our complaints," said the religion for but to give us the preacher, "and is not this truc of will to health, and with it health the Church also? If we consider itself. It gives 'a sound mind in ourselves an alling body, doomed sound body more, a healthy to early decense, the end will be spirit in a healthy body."
Not Auto-Suggestion. think. We speedy than Similarly, there is an approñch to' If we place our confidence in the man outside which says you Him, there is no difficulty that look desperately ill; in other words, will bear us down; we will not be you are an atrocious sinner, we browbeaten or depressed. This is full-blooded not auto-suggestion; this fa no expect from you no health, no holiness, no self-eneri- paychologien! dodge for persuading bava dice, no devotion-and, the result ourselves; It is because we 18, we do not get it. We tell a man made contact with a living persona this Church, and for my ministry he is a ponsible devil, instead of lity, because we have discovered that I know one thing and only one,
he IA reminding him that
personal faith. is not that the dis. I hope you won't come to me for potential saint. We often do not tinctive power in Christianity? It any cranky creeds, any queer reli- eultivate what
always takes peuple with no will, no degions, or obscure and obsolete be- Jesus
termination, people with a wish-liefs. What I pray is that you may created a 'will to health.'"
"The man of to-day asks the bone where their backbone sucht seek and discover the personality church what can you give me for to be and it makes them men and of Jesus Christ, for, honestly, I new purpose and know nothing else. The task of asane and healthy daily life, what women with a tonic that will give my life a value spirit. I do not know anything every minister of religion to-day and a meaning, what strength for else in the world that will do it. who really wants to do his job is what Ours is not a de-personalised reli- the task of every Christian soul who duty, what firmer faith, truth? This church, nor any other,gion, but one in which a personality really wants to be like Christ. is not dead, but living; its glory stands supreme, the personality of want to show you that in the per sonality of Jesus Christ you will les, not in the past, but in the Jesus Christ." future. We know our fallings, but
find all you can ever want or hope more our we know Infinitoly
for, and if I do that, I shall have done my job?" we are con- glorious successes;
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