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D.B.S. SPEECH DAY
(Cantinued From Page 2)
cut short by death.
The Past Does Not Enslave "But surely," you will object, "our business is with the future and the present, not with the past. If there is any progress is the world; the young princes as many of the any hope for struggling humanity, brilliant poor as he could find does it not lie precisely in ahaking means to support. We read also off the chains of the past and in that his school at Mantua was call- looking steadily forward?" Yes! but ed "La Giocosa," or the House of the chains of the mind are only Joy. How it was frescoed with broken by understanding and in so playing children and lay in a pleas far as men are unduly enslaved by Haji Abdul Latiff Ahmed, Want garden, and how the life of the the past, it is by understanding that Basker & Co., Madam Chu Yun pupils was interwound with the past that they may hope to be free. kum, A. Sarritte Curlo. Darwish daily miracles of meadow and river, And it is not the past which en and Lachschand (Ben Meyer's In-of little hills, and shady walks. alaves; it is always the present. In The highest praise of all must ternational Commercial Directory). How the school went a-pleasuring any age there are always fragments go to Mr. Lucey (Mr. Latimer), Miss K. Elson (c/o H.E. Hotel), in the green places of Golto, and of the uncomprehended past float- who has a very long and difficult P. Hafemans, Missco Hinman. Ghow all form of bodily exercise ing like dead things, pretending to part. He must convey to us a Hummell (c/o J. P. Bissett & Co.), making for grace and dignified mo- be alive. A man who is the slave at once whimsical Mons. Frezelowski, A. V. Pinson, tion-riding, swimming, fencing of theories must get outside them temperament and essentially sane. His
John Pooler, Daria Recblowa, Satoor were inextricably a part of the and see facts; a man who is a slave
Tack Rootas, Shing of values and of humour must be de
Bros., course. all the time a foil to the selfish- E. W. G. Wesson, ness of Anne, the absurdity of Unclaimed Rafdo Telegrams Eustasia, the vapidity of Nicholas, Farataknichi from s.s. "Aki Maru."" and his quickness of mind and Hing Lee, Des Vœux-rd. perception must make yet more Tungshan. ridiculous the crass stupidity of Kangpaisum from Tchekam, Leonard. All this is done.with Yewth from Swatow.
and polish. It is Smidtoo from Namdinh. perfect poise difficult to believe that Mr. Lucey Samkoo (c/o Yee Cheong Loong is acting: you are convinced that 232, Third-st.) from Macau. he must always be just like this; Tanco from Swatow. in fact, that he really is a Mr. 4100 from Medan. Latimer. And no greater praise Albertina Eca Remedia from Macan. can be given.
6025 from Soerabaya. Dominic is incredibly funny. He Noraceny from San Francisco.
sense
from
is the Arch-Butler. It is not clear Mrs. Cheng Fai (11, Yadhong-st.) why he turns back the lapel of his from Modjokerto. coat as if he were a disguised $785 from Canton. aleuth showing his Secret Service Poachcopian P/A Planters Ver- |badge to a confederate. But the ceniging from Medan.
laughter evoked by the gesture Hawpar from Manila. justifies it. Of the twu ladies, Suitable from Tandajongredb. Anne (Miss Taylor) has the longer Sang Mow from Haiphon. and the more difficult part. She Bowainung Jindoyuen (Dewoux-rd.) has to be at once unsophisticated, from Seattle. and yet clearly wanting to be a Carmico from Canton. woman of the world. She is selfish, Monroe ("President Lincoln") from and yet has her moments of tender-
Canton.
We are
to his own desires or prejudices Where is Jerusalem?
must widen the range of his experi- Four hundred years pass; the ence and emotion. But the thing scene changes.
in the that enslaves us most, narrows the House of Commons at Westminster range of our thoughts, cramps our and Macaulay is describing the capacities and lowers our standards, schoolmasters of the poor as he is the mere present. The present found them in England in the year, that is all around us, accepted and of grace 1847-
taken for granted, as we in Hong "How many of these men are Kong accept the fire crackers of the now the refuse of other callinge Chinese New Year. The material -discarded servants or ruined present, the thinx which is omni- tradesmen who can not do a sum potent for us, is the great faller and of three; who would not be able imprisoner of men's minds, and the to write a common letter; who do only escape from him lies in the not know whether the Earth is contemplation of the not-present. a cube or a sphere and can not of the future? Yes! but you can tell whether Jerusalem is in not study the future; you can only Asia or America; whom no gen- make conjectures about it, and the tleman would trust with the key conjectures will not be much use un of his celler and no tradesman, less you have in some way studied would send with a message?"
other places and other ages.
In the course of the same debate, Progress is a real fact, but it is another speaker quoted a dame never a straight forward march; it (these women played an importanis never a result which happens of part in the English elementary edu- its own accord. I is only a name cational system of those days) as for the mass of accumulated human having summed up the situation by effort, successful here, baffled there, saying "it's little they (the pupils) mis-directed and driven astray, but ness and of self-knowledge. At the 0006, 8883, 3141, 0171, 5894, 0068, pay us and it's little teaches
on the whole and in the main pro- beginning of the week Miss Taylor
0577, 0382, 5714, 0006, 2896, them."
ducing some cumulative result.
Proclaim Faith of Educated Man
Porthos
did not make Anne quite clear. She 4382, 5281, from Canton. was rather too pleasant. But at Moinardeau Bord the final performance on Saturday, Kwongchewan.
we
Dr. Bell, a prominent edu-: eationalist of those days, used to from say that if you gave him 24 pupils to-day he would give you 24
she had found just the right touch 0613, 0451, Wuchow, 3541, 4848, teachers to-morrow, of rather hard humour and self-
7193, 6567, from Wuchow.
possession. She looked charming, Salestans.from Balikpapan.
and acted with restraint and skill. The very critical might cavil a little at the want of variety in her tone, but she very cleverly gave the shrill, | strained voice of a tired, nervous girl in the first act.
LESSON-SERMON
My message then to-day is to proclaim the faith of the really educated man. He may be a man
We have, of course, changed all this, but in spite of all the interest of letters; he may be a scientist; he which is taken in education, not may be a teacher; he may be a law only in Britain but also throughout yer; or an official; or even the head the British Empire, we British are of a poverty stricken Univeralty. apt to feel a little doubtful about It is the faith which is in him that this faith which the whole business and though we matters. It is go plodding on with the gloomy gives him an escape from the noisy reflection that there can be no turn present into the region of facts ing back, the sceptism which is in which are as they are and not as the air, has undoubtedly robbed us foolish haman belags want their to hardly deserved such a fate. Per-real" was the subject of the Lesto some extent of enthusiasm. The be; an escape from the commonness haps the most delicious moments of on-Sermon in all Churches of life of a teacher does not now at of daily happenings in the remote all were when she was reading Glb. Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, April tract the British boy and girl as world of high and severely trained
Gloating Over Aliction Mrs. Grossman's Eustasin was only too convincing. Even Leonard
14.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG
Are sin, disease, and
death
bon to the unhappy husband, and
It did, and the cause of this is not imagination; an escape from mor {tality in the service bf a growing The Golden Text was: "The in her voice could be heard a posi-
and durabie purpose,the progres- tive gloating over
the afflction Prayer of faith shall save the sick, by any means economic.
Imprisoned in External Present which made him so helpless a víc. and the Lord shall raise him up;
You have here the makings of an 'sive discovery of truth. And thie, tim to her. Leonard (Mr. Raikes) and if he have committed ains, they excelient school, but I am not going let me tell you, is that religion of shall be forgiven him" (James to pretend that if only the school, Democracy, for the cardinal doc-
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his sneezing no words can do it following from the Bible:
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the Lord, O my soul, and forget they go out into the world, succeed it own powers and desires, into the KWONG HANG & CO.
On full spiritual heritage of the human- Mr. Brayne Harknell as Nicholas not all his benents. Who forgiveth as the world counts success. was fatuity personified. His patent all thine iniquities; who healeth all the contrary. I am going to remind race.
The Committee of the Diocesan you that the greater part of the life boredom, the clumsy attempts at
thy disease.. Who redeemeth thy LAMMERT BROS. worthy of
restraining it, bis foolish stance are life from destruction; who crowneth of man ta rigidly confined to the Boys' School and Orphanage is ap- round of things which happen from pealing to the educational and idiotic of Mr. P. G. Wodehouse's thee with loving kindness and ten hour to hour! that it is exposed to charitable work which the institu
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its stream of consciousness is chan, possibilities of the future, and is that are oppressed. The Lord is mer-nelled and directed by the events asking the public of Hong Kong and
and plenteous in mercy" (Ps. 105:
Man, in fact, is imprisoned in the giving of their charity to the 2-4, 6, 8). seen. Surely Mr. Latimer was The Lesson-Sarmon also included external present! How is he to Diamond Jubilee Endowment Fund THE Undersigned have received taking a serious risk of even graver the following passages from the escape this prison? A breaking of of the School and Orphanage. I instructions to sell by Public complications when be exposed his Christian Science textbook, "Science standing still in the prison. Yes viction is that the future of Hong the prison walla will leave him support this appeal because my con- guests to so seductive a pair of
and Health with Key to the Scrip But it may be in a prison so en Kong depends, as does the future of maidens. But perhaps that was
tares," by Mary Baker Eddy, "To "part of the treatment."
hold yourself superior to sin, be-larged and enfranchised that it any place in the world, ona, con posed a vote of thanks to the Vice Everybody gonberned, those be-
bon, but a free
Chairman, Mr. A. H. Compton, really educated men and women. which was seconded by Kwan Wing- world. hind the stage as well as the cause God made you superior to it becomes not a prison but a free stant supply from its schools of
and governa man, is true wisdom.
The scholar secures his freedon (Applause), players, is to be heartily congratul-To fear sin is to misunderstand the
honthe Vote of Thanks ated. The Colony is indeed fortun
Before the assembly dispersed power of Love and, the divine by keeping hold always of the trea- até in having a company of an Science of being in man'a relation-sures of the past so that in a pre in proposing a vote of thanks to the hymn "O, God Our Help in Ages. teurs who can give productions
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also from communion or brotherhood, all would miss him. They would And this communion is one of the lack forward to his return and hoped
The Hon. Treasurer begs to King Alphonso and the Spanish Arrangements have been made realities of experience. The stu- that he would enjoy himself during Catalogues will be issued. Royal Family, with the Prime Min-by the Fu Yih Benevolent Society, dent as he realises it, feels himself his holiday.
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