THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY DECEMBER 24, 1949,
THE GREATEST STORY Seeing the
F
EVER TOLD
ROM Capernaum Jesus sent out Peter and James to bring to Him ten others whom He named from among the throng that helpfully and for months
The time had come to had followed Him wherever He went. An hour later He make one speech to these
ranged the Twelve in a Twelve that would sum up circle around Him, as they all His teachings, com stood on an unfrequented plete and formal statement part of the pebbly shore of of His message, which the Apostles would learn by the lake.
A hybrid crew, those heart.
It was positive, dinainio“ like
future
Jesus him. They, was, to want dashagan give, when asked to give; lend, when asked to lead; and, where- as the old law allowed one to love his friend and Hate him
D
URING my rag-tag careèr sá a showman, I've met up with a lot
cente but in a desire to under-enemy, my to you that hear, of fortune tellers, and it's stand and follow the laws that love your enemies, de good to my bumptious beller that, govern life and that are part of them that surt you, and bear when it comes to fortuner
the will of God.,
We must also 'de widrciful so
117
pray
design of a man that. (a). a palm is.
for those that calumniate you." there's just no telling... Chapter Seven of
After watching these heralds Fulton Oursler's
of the henceforth in night will we earn mercy for our Design Of Life
clubs and side shown for a I'm of a century, whole new life of Jesus elves. And who hell not fided
THE
life should be to, accumulate Christ told Those shall be happy, too,
who are clean and pure of the treasure, not of time but of something to rest the chin, on, twelvál Derived from in- As the disciples sat on
heart; Jemis promised them that hernity. To do this be sound and (b) that the creases in a A rotting pin rather than the congruous sources! Yet their hools in a ring around in the language
they would me God. But He love. God and Serve Him and man's skull. usually come from Jesus Informed them that Him, He began to teach of our times...est Dei:
It was a base meant what He salt in the full- nothing else
Which brings me to the story purity meant more mistake to let the exigencies of day after tomorrow, He had chosen deliberately, There
Winona, the mind was never heard in
than just a lack of lust; it call- the world centre on moral de- and that His official mission this world, before that day
cisions; if God feeds the birds of Princess ed for a goal, a purpose in life and clothes, the Bowers of the reader, a 200-pound bundle of must begin at once, with
of divine revelation,
Back in the good old miss Again, those who were per fields more richly than the omens and onions. concise от a more the death of John the Bap-
His, arthly
1200 I wak meal' days of the tist. In the language of since,
And so that day the term apostle orderly statement of a uni- the rules was that a mans must secuted for the sake of justice, glory of Solomon,
would be happy, that He will care for them as
two-bit vaudevillian. I was ready and willing when meant "one who is sent" versal philosophical system; be poor in spirit; he must be for the teaching He gave them children should have confidence ting comic material for any
has there ever been gentle, practising humility, not for theirs was the Kingdom of well.
Winona's agent in« "Oh, you of little faith!" Princess and applied especially to
it one had subceeded in eno
exclaimed Jesus sadly, when formed me that his client was couriers who carried letters another such chart of human heady and proud and arrogant; for their
behaviour. Here was all great task, he was not to sit
Reward Is Great
He had reached this point, "You prepared to part with 50 bucks up with some from rulers or others in the soul needed to know of and gloat and brag, but must
must sook fist the Kingdom of if I could come
to fun up her authority. Explicitly He God and creation and dally go tight on, planning another
"AND" He finished with the dod and fils righteous and peppy chatter
Inst beatitude, "blessed aro all these things shall be added act. named His Twelve as mes- life, of today and hereafter, Job, a Harder and better one.
you when they shall revile you unto you. Bongers.
and persocute you and speak all
demons.
nor
or
ever
ac-
He would send Here, too, were the most
promises them out to preach, promis- audacious ing that they, too, should
humanity: made to heal sicknesses and cast out good news of eternity
cording to Jesus Christ. Chosen Twelve
FIC began by telling them being could be THEY followed Him, as He how a human
made His way along the happy in his life on this earth. shore, healing many along There were only eight rules one the way, until the press of had to follow and one would be blessed, rules to keep that man people grew so large that serene and capable in the midst once again He took refuge of any disaster, in a fisherman's boat. The The eight rules, which were called the Beauludes, time had come when He to be and His chosen dozen must were simple arul wise but n put the multitudes off from mittedly difficult to follow. The
to destruction way
was broad them and be alone together, and inviting; the way to glory,
straight and narrow.
First of
Must Be Meck
--they, too,
a restst
:
this
"Soek and you shall find, "Knock and it shall be open-
"What man is there of you who, if his sy asked for bread, If you et unto you.
would give him a stone? then, being evil, know how to
SATURDAY at the DIAMOND HORSESHOE
That night 7 borrowed a nickel from solvent
shoe. shim boy and subwayed
my
to
by BILLY
way out the vaudeville theatre ot Brighton Beach
ROSE
where she was
From the comfort of the IN the second rule a man must that is evil against you, unruly.
be meek; that was not to for My sake. Be glad and re- great promise He passed on to be a cringing coward but to joice, for your reward is very others, even more audacious.
"Ask and it shall be given believe in the goodnem of God great in heaven".
of The and in the friendliness
Twelve you To the gasping universe, even when the soul is
they suffering and can see no renson Apostles, there to learn their im-
Ho sald why it should muffer: the rule mortal lesson,
evil? No, bowldered Tu mourn, too, would be
and bewildered pos-
playing. And, happiness Twelve, en acceptance of God's will, were not to resist evil. Not to third blessing, but
not to resist
Guro enough, would come, not in feeling or terity, you are
much as in When you learn that force is for ourselves ry
ву
others not the answer to force, peace give good gifts is your children, her act was as stilted as the tali your man in a circus, chockablockc more shall
of: wheezes on feeling comparsion for
will come to the world; never how much and trying to help them.
Again the dynamic follower of until then. That is true in your Father In heaven give good with the kind
thing what hard day at the office. His message would hunger and private lives as well; if a man things to them that ask Him? embalmer might get off after a
back; turn the noever you would that men thirst after justice and right- puncher you on the right cheek, Therefore, all
should do to you, do you even cousnets; not merely in a legal don't hit him
left check to his fist!
so to them; for this is the law and the propheta.”
Talking about Following
Music...
the same old routine
LONDON.
T the back of the Wig- more Hall most nights it is possible to détect ព row of music critics but let us usc more euphonious noun of them - a aggregate for livery of musical critics.
They sit next the door and it ia neeessary if you want to see them at all, to look quickly. They are likely in a moment to vanish into air, into thin air.
I was myself once caught escaping from a concert before the interval. "Why are you rush- Ing away?" I was asked. "To get home and enjoy some music," was the truthful answer.
is
For tho musical critic doomed to hear, week in, week The works. out, the game dramatic critic geta a new play every week.
by
NEVILLE CARDUS
Stravinsky,
thanks to the ballet, has achieved wide
4 renown also. No symphony not
as "standard" recognised "classic" or "hackneyed," will All a concert hall everywhere.
OF
Sibelius is more or less only a The organisation concerts in name in France and Italy, Elgor cities nowadays depends on is soldom pinyed abroad. Large audiences drawn from a production of
A
Power Grimes,
for
new and, so far not sophisticated even in England, depends or musically iterate pubile. support on a definite, if enthu Naturally they prefer to listen ta siastle, "set."
the familiar masterpieces.
So the music-critic Scams
NO CHANGE WANTED doomed for years to that dread-
I
shy
am now
sang
all from Audible gasps Twelve! For months now they had heard His merciful ideas, but nothing so radical and shocking as this calm instruc- tion.
Lord's Prayer
ALL these things and
"Princess," I gald, when I saw her after the show, "the Arst thing I'd suggest is to drop tho emphasis on your super- natural poWETE, What the act needs is a little kidding in be- tween the miracles."
י
The booking office would more probably liko it that way." 1 have no in- A Jesus explained to the Twelve she said, "but Jesus was fulfilling the old as they mat around Him on the tention of making light of the has given law with a new and gracious ledge of the mountain overlook-powers Providence
Twelve
listeners, ing the distant lake. The sun me."" expansion.
the "It isn't the booking office I'm it straight and clear: if a vanished behind the water coed, thinking of," I saki. got
"It is the and deepened, man takes away your coat, give gloaming came him your vest as well. And if, and a little scimitar moon. began customers. And the best way hands is to poke fun at music and your ability to dis- under the cruel and oppressive to rise as He told them that to keep them from aquatting on
occupied land, a only by prayers could a man their
You know, tinguish good singing from bad. laws of this
convinced of your Roman soldier compels you to and the strength to live a life your own racket.
walk with him a mile, carry like that. And how should a pull a pawn ticket out of your instead of the are of Incompetence.
ing his shield and sword in the man pray? Not with the vainalcevo "For in your notice to-day you hot sun, go with him another repetitions that had bored and spades-comething like that." Winona looked Waddlesome you disillusioned him in his child- given when that I
Schubert's mile, freely
hood,
but, remembering always at me as if I had called her u Winterreise in perfect voice, and don't have to.
that God the Father already sub-Webster
evident- knew the needs of His children, man," she said, "you're the form of their prayer there confusing me with some of the charlatans you've worked for. Not only can read, minds, LIGHT of understanding was fore should be: voice, and that my phrasing was A shining the face of the
Our Father who art in but nature has given me on crude, owing to faulty breathing. listening Twelve.
hallowed be Thy extra Thus a man heaven,
sense--the make himself free; the name. Thy kingdom come, Thy look into the future and pre- ท "It posses
my understanding could
giving of more than required will be done on earth as It is indict what is going to happen." how a newspaper of your re-did that the new, watonishing, heaven. Give us this day our "Okay, okay" I said hartily, out on the putation can etc,, ele."
wholly Christian doctrine of the daily bread. And forgive us afraid of missing reaches low of surplus service.
forgive nity. "It'll take me a week to those who trespass against us.frame up, a new set, and then me, I shall know that the king-| With a
And lead us not into temptation, I'd like to go over it with you. What theatre are you playing Text week?" but deliver us from evil.....
for
with phrase. But any novice In the
unerring instinct
audience could have told you that for once, I was in very bad
a letter
Man Is Free
+
When such
senso of increasing dom of Heaven of the music
and glory they heard crluc la at hand at last;
and I power
Him go on to the golden rule shall enter it joyfully, to the
that a man must do unto others drains of the Fifth Symphony of
as he would have others do un- Beethoven (sull in C minor).
over to him an improvement all similar statements because
London Erpresa Service.
our trespasses as wo
(TO BE CONTINUED ON TUESDAY)
name.
young
ibility
to
"I wish I knew," said the Princesa
-(London Express Service)
Five minutes each weekend
WITH THE
JOHNSON,
DR
ful fato which Goethe called "the Routine," time musle was imprisonment in NCE on a
the The new public like Zuleika SAMUEL: Sharpest mainly distributed by
doesn't know much 18th-century wit and wealthy fow to the not-so- Dobson, wealthy not-so-many. It was about musle but knows what it then possible to maintain stand likes. ards of taste, and insist on some exclusiveness.
scholar. Born September
IB, 1707, at Lichfield.
The immedinte future of con- Son of prosperous book- John- with this public, seller Michael certa rests
is sensible enough to
Son and wife Samh The irony of the contemporary which
he begin its education with the music-critic's lot is thut
Ford. Educated local would not alter things consider- well-tried "classics." This public
wcountry schools and at" calls
tune and it the ably even if he could. Concerts are not given for the delectation always be the same old tune. Oxford University. Be- of elderly men bored by long The weary critte himself would and professional attendance be the first to wish that his own and denied even the satisfaction children approached music that
way, of paying at the door.
arc
The wise and resigned critic knows that every time the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven is play ed some young ears and some
ex young imaginations periencing for the first time all the wonders, thrills and exalta- tions which he himself went through years and years ago. There are no hackneyed master places, only hackneyed listeners. OUT OF TOUCH
WORLD'S
WISEST MEN
LARGE OFFERS and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
NOTHING is little to him who feels it with great sensibilty.
JUST PRAISE is only a debt but flattering is a present.
IT 18 wonderful how rare a quality good-humour is in life.
SUCH IS the condition of life, that something is always want ing to happiness.
YOU MAY have reason why
THERE ARE beauties that arise out of nature and of truth; the superficial reader cannot miss them, the profound can image nothing beyond them.
BOOKS without the know- aro useless; for ledge of life what should books teach but the art of living?
I WOULD have every man be master of his own business.
DEPEND on it, no woman is the worse for sense and know- ledge.
NOTHING can be more dis-
than a guisting
narrative spangled with concells.
POWER pleases the violent and proud, wealth delights the timorous. Youth
two and two should make five; placid and
but they will still make but four, therefore flies at power, and age
THE LAW is the last result of grovels after riches. human wisdom
huntin experience.
acting upon THERE must always be›¤
Of, struggle between
came a school usher, but left to write his first book. Married at 20 wealthy widow, Porter, Elizabeth con- Nonetheless, too many
Famous publication, his ductors and performers exploit, more than they need, the faci dictionary of the Eng-
Ianguage,
which that for the first time in music's Ilah
are dependent.
him earned
A pension history concerts
a father and WHEN A MAN is tired
one aims at power son, while for economic existence on thou and the nickname Die-
Johns
London he is tired of life.
and the other at independence, sands of cars and susceptibilities lonary that are finding new paths and Greatest friend: Bos-
THE DIFFERENCE betwee whose blorraphy
THE GREAT art of life is to adventures in Beethoven, Bach, well,
of him has become
EWELAHAN course and refined abuso ko na Brahms, Tehalkovsky.
between being play for much and to stake little. IF YOU mean nothing, say the difference than Johnson's Many of these conductors and more famous
WE ARE all agreed as to our own writings. Recreations; eat nothing. performers are obviously breathing, steaks, drinking tea, sitting
COURAGE is reckoned the bruised by a club and wounded**
by poisoned. arrow,
owh liberty: we would have as ing and moving freely in al beside a coal fire. Died 1784, greatest of all virtues because HOPE is always liberal.
AGE is commonly boastful, much of it us we can get: but we THE cutlook for him is darker werd hound happy to Burming-up by a friend: "The unless a man has that virtue, he
head, has no security for preserving and inclined to magnity past acts are not agreed as to the liberty of others: for in proportion as than ever at the present strange. They are
and past times. time because composers are now, "mark time," so to say on a re- a man of a very clear
CURIOSITY: Is the thirst of A MAN grows better humour- we take, others thust lose. very gay inagination, But he
He NOTHING will cover ba aty out of touch with the average pertory which by now they have great power of words, and any other.
probably committed to memory.will not hear you."
od as he grows older. the roul,
experience. intelligent musical public. They
CLARET is the. Hquor for Improves by
young, he thinks tempted, if all possible objec- write for groups, for the coterk,
THAT WHICH is to be loved boys; port for men; but he who When
tions must be arst overcome, AWAITED. LETTER
long, must be loved with reason aspires to be a Jero must drink himself of great consequence, everything of time and brandy. CAN foresee the day when rather than with passion.
portance. As he advances in life. in everyday life, class distinc musical criticism will have A MAN should marry first, for
he learns to think himself of nd tions are having influence on no more importance in the daily virtue; secondly, for wit, thirdly,
consequence and little things style and production in music.
newspapers than those little for beauty; and fourthly, for
little importance and so he be ALLOW CHILDREN to be I heard a young man the square paragraphs entitled "100 mones
years ago. The days of tho
THE JOY of life is variety. happy their own way; for what comes more patient, and better But before the twilight de Let us do our duty and be
In an age which is ignoring
class distinctions more and more
-
other evening dismissing Brahms music critic are well-nigh done, SADNESS only multiplies self. better way will, they ever find? pleased.
'on account of his "bourgeois" orchestration. Somebody in the
Â
"
of
FITY is not natural to ma
are always cruel, Children Is acquired and improved by the Savages are always cruel. Pily.
cultivation of reason.
NO VIRTUE is without its worknesses.
BO FAR is it from being true House of Commons may pre-scends, I wish for the consumma-RISTIANITY is the high- that men are naturally equal sently be expected to refer to tion of one hope, which I have
IT IB to be. deity, that no two people can be half- AMBITION:: is natural, to IT IS better to live rich than the harmony and rhythm in nursed secretly in my bosom est perfection of
by an hour together, but one shall youth. Wagner as "verminous."
Htetima, Every crille receiver letters every day, and in all very few experiments that no require an evident superiority THERE LURES, perhaps in E MATTERS not how a man every human heart a desire of, dies, but how he lives. The not The main stream or general languages. I pray that one morn-man is much pleased with a over the other. repertory of music has not been ing before. I bury my book and companion, who does not in• EXPECTATION, when has distinction, which inclines every of dying is hot of importance, it very much broadened and added pen deeper thun, did ever plum-crease in some respect, his fond- wings are. once expanded, easily man frst to hope, and then to lasts so short a time, k
reaches heights which perform- belleve, that Nature has given
peculiar to him to these 30 years. Puccini and met pound--I hope to receive, a
WILAT cannot be repaired if ance never will attain; and when him Strauss were the last two com- latter running like tile:
ahe kas mounted the summit of self. de MAALUMINA posers able to appeal, to the orga
hot to be regretted. dinary civillaod musicalear the Dear Sir, I have always ROUND NUMBERS are al perfection, derides her follower THE PROMISES of authors
who dies in the pursuit, karo like the vows of lovers, world overMANAG
mehe suspected your knowledge of ways false.
ness of himself, wirel
from The Wisdom of pr
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