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HISTORIC FIRM

IF CHRIST CAME TO

PALESTINE

EVER-RECURRING THEME EXAMINED

Mr. Charles Maugham. brother YOUNG MAN'S SPECULATIONS ON A

of Lord Justice Maugham and Mr. Somerset Maugham, who has died. was associated until his retirement. |10 years ago, with an historic firm

af solicitors...

Founded opposite the British

FASCINATING SUBJECT

(By Oliver Baldwin)

Embassy in Paris just after the Med on Christ's thoughts particular historical spot.

TANY people have speculat-church is built on this or that

Napoleonic wars, it was subse--

What Of St. Paul?

-

quently bought by his father, Mr. should He return to this pre- Robert Mangham, and remained sent-day earth, and many have But of all things in the world for a hundred years the only firm wondered what effect His pre-that I would wish to know, this

would have on sence

the au- is for me the greatest What of English solicitors in Paris.

Since the war other English and thorities or upon the ordinary would Christ have thought of

St. Paul? American solicitors have started inhabitants

In speculating on that ever I fear that the learning of to practise there, but, Mr. Mang- ham's firm, which has now changed fascinating subject. it is inter these things would send Him

away from the its name, still handles all the Bri-esting to wonder what would thoughtfully

happen to Him if He were te cities and His curiosity might tish Embassy basinesa.

revisit Palestine.

lead Him, to His house in Naza- reth Should He seek for the house where one story says. “Hế

MOSCOW'S HEROES

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. department of revolutionary his-

L

Strange. Contrast

Away in the country, among was born. He would be directed A traveller who has just return- the Arabs and native Jews. He to Bethlehem, where another ed from Russia, says that the peo- would find the same little mar-story may still show Him in a ple are better-fed and less bed-kets; the same beasts of bur-manger: and if He listens to raggled than at any time since the den: the same heat and smell the guide He will learn about In Jaffa and Haifa He would the star in the East and the Revolution.

motor-cars and European adoration of the Magi. But He He paid several visits to

the see Museum of the Revolution and to clothes, electricity and cinemas will not mind this; for such the Marx-Engels Institute. which Such things would be new to stories have brought great-

read of happiness to many and have in may be described as the research Him He could also

happenings in far corners of the spired some of the most beauti- world within an hour or two of ful paintings the world. has. tory.

their taking place, and listen ever seen: hat He will be sorry The Museum of the Revolution.

to strange music from a radio that even these stories hare which is situated in the old English set.

not beautified the souls of their Club, contains the portraits of These things might make believers sufficiently to elimin every Bolshevist leader except one. Him happy or unhappy; it just ate intolerance, bigotry, and an The China Mail vitude: but in a slave-owning There is no Trotsky. An inquiry

depends.

But He would acceptance of war and hatred as country there is no room for a about this omission produces the find two things that would cer-part of our twentieth-century middle class between the man reply: "Yes, there was a man called tainly make Him sad. things existence. Boaz Kong, Saturday, Sept. 14, 1935 who owns land and slaves, and Trotsky, but he made a mess of about which Judas of Gamala,

the slave who works on the things."

jand John the Baptist, and He land. Democracy is the reign. At the Marx-Engels Institute is Himself. spoke severely-taxa- of the Middle Class the manja special English alcove, decorated tion and usury. who has enough education to with the busts of the three think for himself, and enough whom Moscow considers England's There can be no doubt of the genuineness of the regret ex-without fear of a master. In Cromwell, Bernard Shaw, and Sir growing protest against Roman the years to the days when an property to say what he thinks greatest revolutionaries. They are In His early days it was the pressed by even his most bitterį, all slave countries there Thomas More. political opponents at the sud-arises therefore a third and den death by the hand of an most unfortunate class too on his "Utopia." assassin of the late Dictator of proud to work for a living, and Louisiana. The danger of too poor to set slaves to work bullet fired by some unbalanced for him: despised by both the fanatic is one of the incidents classes who fit into the system; lof public prominence; and

estranged by his colour from every monarch or statesman is the slave class, he has none of reminded by such an event of the education or traditions of the mutability. of human the master: In Africa called mirror, powder compartment, mant centuries before His day, caus-again, and I wonder if He would affairs. It seems that in this the "Poor White," in the cure set built in, and a hideaway for ed Moses to say: "If thou lend think we were worthy of the

Huey Long

which

"

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Taxation

taxation that first united the

Persecution

He will hear rumours of per secution. away, to the north- west, of his people by persons reared in a belief in Him and He will be able to trace this- strange outburst back through.

peace treaty laid

un-Christian

Interest in More is based mainly poorer members of the Jewish its eggs in the shattered nest.

community in revolt against of an un-Christian war. their masters, and it was usury] Your Daily Smile! the canker of what we call. And farther back still to the to-day "simple and compound on glory, and the usury that.

cause of it all power, "domin Billers: "This typewriter will revo-interest"-which to Him was

comes from trade for profit lutionise the industry.”

the thing that "devoured rather than for need. He will Seller: "How**

widows' houses" and which feel He must start all over Billers: "Look at the adjustable;

*

"Hard LabourTM

Sunrise

money to any of my people that trouble. is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither:

Love Of Beauty

are: nfore

beauty.

case the murderer was the son-Southern States he was called chewing gum in-law of a Judge who was in "Poor White Trash." course of being removed from

Introduce now to such a so the bench by a special · · Bill

Foreman: "Do you think you're shalt thou lay upon him usury." The first despair will, we hope. which the Dictator bad drafted ciety a system of Universal for really hard labour

This usury, this using of give way to a realisation that Applicant: "Well, some of the best and submitted to the Legisla-Suffrage, and you are putting a

as a commodity to be even if we do still kill for gain. ture; and the irony of the dangerous weapon into the judges in the country have thought money

gambled and played with. He and enter into possession many, hands of a man who dreams of tragedy is that the

would not only see around Him many thousands are kinder and Bill has now been passed, and the Judge nothing but revenge. He in-

but read of in some connection more considerate one to another: sympathetic and some or other in every issue of every

whole world.

So I imagine that Christ How then would He start His preaching now that that which would go eastwards from Pales He denounced is a million-fold tine, where He could be alone. in His and here He would feel and stronger than it was

realise that we are victims of day?

those circumstances not He would be interested to find nationalism at work in much because we desire them but because we have not follow- Palestine; but His heart would be torn at the dissensions beed in His steps and have allow tween Jew and Arab, and if Heed materialism to cloud our

understanding. sat down to dine with the Arabs, would He not lose the interest of His own people?

He would be expected by the latter to take up a nationalist |

of

Annual Report For 1933-1934

·SECOND SHELTER OPENED

The second annual report of the Street Sleepers Shelter So

HOW TO MAKE MONEY

So

will be duly displaced in favour herits a hatred of the man who Tm thinking of growing of some successor who will no is born to wealth: his inevit peas" said one amateur gardener to newspaper throughout the understanding: and still love doubt be more amenable in his able programme is "soak-the another. "Have you any idea what is [decisions to the party

rich

There have been many the earliest time for setting them?**

"I dunno," replied the other. "Day- shouts the slogan "Share The rough customers who have break I should think." Wealth." The interest of this carved a career for themselves particular tragedy to the for- in American politics; but Huey eign observer is the light it Long was the first representa-

tives throws on the doctrines of ex-Trash" to reach an

the "Poor White STREET SLEEPERS treme Democracy.

influence which made men think serious- Louisiana is a large and ly of him as a candidate for the wealthy State which was Presidency. His attitude to all founded by the long sighted the conventions of society was policy of Colbert, the famous expressed once for all when he and wise Treasurer of "Le Roi received a formal call from a Soleil in the days when the German Admiral, and met him Court of Louis XIV was the in suppers and pink pyjamas. centre of the Western civilisa- tion. The early Governors were The other aspect of this ple-ciety for the season, 1933-34 standpoint and I do not think men of the aristocracy of turesque career that one may states that at the West Point he would do it, for although He domination France whose polished

notice is only of interest be shelter, the total number of knew the Roman Mar- them to despise the mere ad- to the long list that any his to April 15, 1935 was 17.156. An- killed John, and His own people ners and cultured tradition led cause it adds one more example sleepers from December 1, 1934 Persecuted many of His people. it was His own Tetrarch who. venturers and traders who torian could give, that a Dicta-alysis shows that 323 men were settling far away in the to unless he returns once the Shelter, eight of these coming who had persecuted Him and northern seaboard and work more to his plough, like Cin-every night for the whole 136 urged His own crucifixion. ing for a living either by culti build any permanent structure nights; four for 134, 133 and 132 can destroy but not nights. Eight men came for 135

In Sorrow vating the land or by trade.

Therefore, in sorrow, He These traditions linger long, True, the process or persuasion nights, two for 131 nights; three would wander into the country.

London. and in the old families who teaching is terribly slow, for 130 nights; 18 for two nights and perhaps in the communal

Whenever Cecil Bernard Asher often heartbreaking; but he and 43 for one night

Saw a

broken, defective cellar fan- subsequently lived on their

and co-operative farms He would hight, or an ill-kept footway, he estates and cultivated cotton who takes short cuts, who dis- At the Po Yan Shelter the total find a semblance of the life He knew there was money in it. with slave labour there was al-penses with colleagues, even if number of Sleepers from Decem-lived and aged upon His own ways a touch of the old grace he has a temporary justification 16,269, Analysis shows that 364 He would undoubtedly receive daughter, while walking over your

This motives are honourable and ber 15, 1934 to April 15, 1935 was followers.

He would write to the agents of land dignity of manner and

property and plead: “My family pride which resisted the

in an urgent crisis, leaves nomen used the Shelter, five of assaults

one behind who

a better welcome from His own footway has fallen. She cut her of Liberty" and

can carry of these coming every night for the people this time. for in the ce face" or probably it was “strain- "equality" while they exercised

his battle Huey Long, with a whole 122 nights. Three mentaries that have passed, and beed her ankle". the virtue of "fraternity" with rigorous mind and no educa came for 120 and 118 nights. those

cause of the persecution the pat whom they deemed tion, aimed at taking money The total number of registra Jew has undergone. he has be worthy of it. In due course from the rich and giving it to tions for both Shelters was there come tolerant and broad-mind- The agents would refer the mat- Napoleon, with the avowed ob the poor; his followers with fore 33425 and the total numbered; indeed, save in the fastness ter to the insurance company and ject of wasting England by their slogan of "expenditure of of men who used the Shelters was of his own family, his is per-Cecil Bernard Asher generally mising up a strong rival in the public money without account-687

The greatest drawback to the

cinnatus,

used

the

Easy While It Lasted

BUT NOT PERMANENT

Easy Money!

haps the most enlightened of all found that sums from 56. to £2

West, sold this and other rich auts or auditors, aim at taking territory to the young Remoney from the rich to put it As St Peter's Church was races but the Scandinavians. eventually rested in his pocket.

into their own pockets.

found unable to accommodate all In Jerusalem His sense of This was very grand while it public of the United States.

cases presenting themselves for humour might conquer His des lasted, but unfortunately for Asher, admission the Society rented pair for there he would find the police found him out and three-storey house in Po Yan the priests and the Churches Old-street Police Court recently he sepers Street from the Tang Wah Hos who call themselves His follow was sent to prison for obtaining

on pital

ng many destitute ers in open hostility the one to money by false pretences. the persons, sleeping in the open in the other, exhibiting relics and Asher, who is 34, lives at Albion

this neighbourhood

insisting that their particular Build rs-Back-Ent

system of slavery is its, effect}

on the slave-owning class It A meeting may sometimes have a good effect in teaching discipline to Tues la-backward race

through ser- Cathed