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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1928.

OUR WEEKLY

SERMON

China Mail" Rakes The Globe For Messages

NO. XII-THE PEOPLE WHO GET WHAT. THEY WANT

CHRISTMAS FILMS

THE CHINA MAIL,

SOME EXCELLENT PICTURES A SOUTH SEA SIREN

TO BE SHOWN

"HULA",

Several notable pictures are included in the special holiday programmes of the local theatres, Variety is the keynote and each film presents popular star in a striking role.

By Percy C. Pegler in the "Methodist Recorder."]. It is sometimes said that, broad- *ly speaking, everybody gets what he wants provided he wants it badly enough. It sounds like non- sense, but there is a good deal of s vy likeness and to want to thrilling story of romance, based

the paint and keeping off the grass, or of a hardly won victory snatch- ed from the jaws of defeat. It la to realise that God can make us in

QUEEN'S THEATRE To-morrow and Monday at the Queen's Theatre; "Rose Marie," a

he like Him, to want the spirit of upon the famous musical comedy Jesus shed abroad in our heart more success, will be screened. Joan than we want aything else. Bless- Crawford is the heroine and is sup- ed is the man who wants that sort porled by House Peters, James of goodness, for he shall get what Murray and many others. "Hula," he wants,

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a fascinating story of Hawaii, with

Clara Bow in the leading role will

truth in it. If you want a thing Buthelendly, with sufficient ardour and persistence, if you are willing to pay the price for it and to make the sacrifices which your ambition demands, if you know how to wait and can bauiah all seruples, it is

I am not sure if we allow suf-the the feature Alm on Xmas Day get probably true that you can

cient weight to those two words and Boxing Day. The chief attrac almost anything upon which you

familiar on from Thursday to Saturday is sot your heart. Jesus, at any rate, which have become so was sure that what a man asked this connectionHunger and The Divine Woman," a sensational for he got, that the thing that was Thirst. Jesus was not pronouncing sufficiently desired was attained. His blessing and promising hap-story of a woman of impulse, star- satisfaction to the ring Greta Garbo and Lars Hanson. The man who sets his whole heart piness and on making money generally makes people who approve of goodness, Throughout the week, at the 9.20

The man who will have like to see it done.

wito admire and applaud it, and performances, Signor Carpi's "Tar-- money.

Most folkisiun Revue" will appear. popularity, who will do anything to world admit upon a challenge that

WORLD THEATRE rel talked about, generally gets read

Gloria Swanson will be seen in goodness is the greatest talked about in his heart's content; thing in the world! We mean "Stage Struck" at the 5.15 and 9,20 the man who likes a quiet life, who to give a man the highest praise performances at the World Theatre would rather be comfortable than we can bestow when we say "He to-morrow and Monday. At 2.30 face up to responsibility and all was a good man." We don't say and 7.35, the Chinese picture the burilens imposed by ambition, gets left in the desired backwater without any trouble. The toy who knows what he wants to be and Jays his plans accordingly, works and sacrifices to attain his end gon- erally becomes the sort of man he has set his heart' on becoming.

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it very often, not half as often as we "Nemesis" will be shown. On Xmas way, "Oh yes, he was a clever feland Boxing Days, Syd Chaplin's low. but when we say "Ihe was a famous war comedy "The Better good man," we know we can say no Ole" will hold the bill, while the greater thing of any man. But chief attraction from Thursday to Jesus does not promise anything to Saturday will be "Seventh Heaven," the people who applaud goodness starring Janet Gaynor and Charles like that. He promise3 satis Farrell. faction to people who hunger and The fact is that very few people thirst after it. If we were not so

The following pictures have been want anything with any real in familiar with those two words secured for the Star Theatre. To- tensity.

Most people don't know-think they would startle what they want, and more still Think of the insistent, compelling,morrow and Monday, Richard Dix in The Quarterback." Xmas Day starving want a thing so feebly, that they ravenous desire of are. easily discouraged.

Most of us have never been and Boxing Day, larold Lloyd's The first man.

hungry in our lives. We have only great comedy, "Hot Water." Thurs. diffenity inuuts them, and if they had a good appetite for our dinner. [day to Saturday, a' delightful story The man who is really hungry can of modern night life in Paris, "Paris not forget it. There is an in- At Midnighi," with a splendid cast ward gnawing that cannot be sup- of players headed by Lionel Barry- pressed, sometimes sinking to amore, lika Goudal, Mary Brian and dult aching emptiness, and some Edmond Burns. times rising to a pitch of inten-1

five

don't get what they want în minutes, they give up pursuit and take what comes with the best grace they can. Another trouble is that when we do, got what we want, most of us complain that we

We set

tenance with ferocity.

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Or. think

did not get something quite differsity that stamps the whole coun- ent. That may be illogical. but most of us are illogica?. our heart on money, and get it, and then complain that we have got money and not happiness. We ask for popularity, and complain, when it comes, that it does not last. Of course it doesn't, but that is the na- ture of popularity, and we should have thought of that asked for it. If you ask for gue cess and get it, it is silly to com plain that you have not got leisure.. A lot of our discontents arise from the fact that we. ask for incom- patible things and then complain because we cannot have both. f

before

is silly to ask for the ephemeral and

then complain that we have not got the abiding; to want a soap bubfile, and get it, and then com- plain that it is not a billiard-ball.

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of thirst, the parched longing of a suggest, that real goodness is man in whom fever or wounds have something that is given to us. drained every drop of moisture However sturtling that may sound, from the body, Read the story it is quite true. Character, as and be- of the desert, or the sea, or the distinct from manners hospitals, or the battlefields, if you havour and respectability, a good- want to know with what dreadfulness that is part of your nature,

real you, and not intensity the whole body can ache the

you thirst. Think of the in

suit-in B Sunday your we with.

between

the "New those great word, what

Testa-. difference elemental destres, those tense ment calla holiness is not some- figures of speech, and our tepid thing we achieve, it is something destres after goodness. The God's Spirit

achieves in ravenous desire of a starving man! Jesus does not say, what we are The Serce longing of a parched so often inclined to say, "Blessed throat! Is it not grotesquely are those who struggle, for they after goodness most of us ever ed are those who fight the good ridiculous to compare any desire shall attain goodness," or "Bless-

sort? felt, with physical cravings of that fight, for they shall win the crown We are most of us like the of goodness,” What He says is child who asked God to make her "Blessed are those that hunger a good girl, when she said her and thirst after goodness, for they prayers, and then explained, when shall be filled," a radically different Jexux used to say that the real she was naughty, that she did not thing. "Grace" is a nourishment, secret of happiness was not to get

mean all at once! As a matter of and the richness of its sustaining what you wanted, but to want fact, for all our professions and for quality is determined by one thing what you ought to have; that the all our abstract approval of good-alone, the genuineness of our desire secret of all success and of all hap-ness, for all our genuine but lepid for it. The plain fact of the piness was to want the best things desires to be better men, we don't matter is that goodness, as Jesus and to want them so intensely that long to be good with as much understood it, is a plant beyond That is surely the sincerity and conviction as we long our power to cultivate. If we are meaning of the familiar Beatitude to be successful in our business, ever to have even the beginnings about the blessedness of those who or happy in our home, or com-of real goodness it has to be given hunger and thirst after righteous. petent at our job; and, if we are to us, to be the work of the Holy ness and the certainty of

their honest, we know we don't. We Spirit in our hearts. Goodness, being fillert. If we hunger and say, "Oh yes, of course we know as Jesus meant it, is the gift of thirst after unworthy things we might be a lot better than we God, and the condition of receiving money, and a good time, and a soft are; we ought to be better"; but it is genuinely to desire it-to job we shall probably get them we don't hunger and thirst after desire it honestly, earnestly, Bu if we want them sufficiently, but goodness, and that is why we don't premely and continually. they won't make us happy; it is not in the nature of things that they should. On the contrary, it will probably come home to us, one day, that the irony is we have got what we wanted and found it week: "I want to be religious,

who get very cOMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED disappointing. That is why Jesus not too religious, but I went to see discouraged in their attempts to enys, "Set sour heart on goodness a man a

IN THE "MAIL? was live a Christian life, who feel and you will get it; want that, amd dying and could not say the pretty hopeless sometimes about because it is the thing you ought Lord's Prayer" !

you got them,

That

get it, why most of us are just man, says the Faalmist, "shall re- comfortable mediocrities, not much ceive the blessing of the Lord better than we were twenty years and righteousness from the God of ago. Church," a woman said to me last

"I'm going to come to your his salvation."

Notice

few days ago who

how Jesus says this

is to be met and satisfied."

Those

There are those

ever getting over their faults and failings. It is not a bad thing

I have changed it to goodness. who really have it shall be filled power, and give our life into the i

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word, with associations not always helpful. We may, for instance, be- little it, as the Scribes and Pharisees belittled it, till it comes to mean. nothing more than conformity to a conventional standard of behaviour is through his stomach, so wise measure and quality of the good-Stage Struck", at 5.15 and 9.20 manager of Kamuning Rubber and and morals. It is the easiest thing wives" tell

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ever attain to perfect goodness in Dec. 23-24-Star Theatre; "The giving up his position to take up Nobody in his senses ever hunger-miscarry, ed and thirsted to be a church- kettes handy in the house, as, a as a thirsty man wants water, want "Hula."

Therefore keep Plaas a hungry man wants food and warden. I have sometimes con- prompt corrective of intestinal or it so that we are willing to pay the sidered charchwardens from afar, liver torpor, to aid digestion, and as price and make the sacrifices which "The Better "Ole." and concluded regretfully that the a safeguard against bilious attacks, goodness, like everything clae, Dec. 25-26-Star Theatre; "Hot "Straits Times" to hand. penalties of virtue were too heavy sick headaches, and those little demands. I don't know that we Water." When Jesus spoke of righteousness. rifts in domestic harmony so liable do. But if we do, there is no doubt.

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He meant rightness. To be right-to arise therefrom. Sold by chem about it we shall get it. Our pra-The Divine Woman." eous is to be right, right with God, ists everywhere,

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