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HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS. HOW TO AVOID UNHAPPY MARRIAGES

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Preaching at St. John's Cathedral on Sunday evening from the text Has handa love your wives" (Eph. cV. v.95), the Rev. H. Copley Moyle said:-

acquaintance that a marriage is not likely to be a happy one, instead of "being thankful that this has been found!

CHINESE MERCHANTS ·AT VARIANCE.

A COCK'S HEAD.

JUDGMENT AGAINST THE

out beforehand, the law attempts to make DEFENDANT REFUSES TO CUT OFF the parties marry or else inflicts" heavy costs on the one who is reluctant to do se. That, of course, is absolutely wrong. Such law should never have been allowed. No doubt it was intended to check one wrong, but it has produced

DEFENDANT.

The civil cause, in which it was sought

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accepted. Therefore, submitted Mr. Jenkia, the ceremony for these two men must be gone through first. If there is “a counter-challenge against the defendant," on the circumstances of the case, that could be dealt with separately; but 'first the improper proposals which Hui Chik

a was supposed to have made to Fung

to name a Chinese named Chan II Mon uk Nam should be gone into sq that the

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On the recent Sunday evenings we have been reading is the second lesson a part of the Epistle to the Ephesians. The wrong a thousand-fold worse. It has of Kwong Hing Cheung, so as to render a partner in the now defunct firm Epistle, as we have seen is a burst of tended to frighten people into marriage him liable for the debts of the firm, exuberant praise to Almighty God: Ingainst their better judgment, and to to an abrupt termination yesterday nor

spchks in tones of rapture of the great Joy which the Christian religion brings, bat St. Paul is always careful to pa the practical moral of his i

create the false impression that it is

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wrong to change one's mind about marrying at the Supreme Court, His Honour person whom you have once desired the Chief Justice (Sir William Rees Davies, K.C.) deciding against the defen to marry. It would be just as sensible, so he concludes the epistle with a numb to insist on everyone remaining in any of general exhortations

profession which he had once thought of adopting, though he saw on further ae quaintance that it was a profession which did not suit him, and in which he would be extremely unhappy..

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the Fung was to be believed or not. Court might be able to determine whe

and Hui took the oath, then he would His Lordship said that if both Fung have to decide the case on the outside

circumstances.

Mr. Jenkin put it that if his Lordship believed Fung he would not believe the

other side

His Lordship uhserved that he did not„ claim to have any knowledge of Chinese

Mr. Jenkin again submitted that thera If these were

The Court adjourned on Thursday, ia order that three of the Chinese concerned might each take the Chinese oath in a Temple by cutting off a cock's head. This customs. He understood that, as a mat- procedure was rendered necessary because ter of course, Hui had asked whether one of the witnesses for the defence. Fung Chan C. Man was willing to take the It is only reasonable to suppose that there are many persons who find each

Yuk Nam, had made vary serious oath as to whether he was a partner or other most desirable at first sight, who, charges against Hui Chik Wa, the chief not. further acquaintance, and faults withess for the plaintiff, and had offered | proceeding which render a marriage a most perilous to back up his statement by taking the had been two challenges

A compulsory term of engagement would be likely to diminish Chinese cath. This offer led to challenges accepted, then the ceremony should be very largely the number of unhappy by the counsel on either side that Hui gone rough to see who would pay the marriages. The State might well take the matter up, or, failing that, the Chik Wa and Chan U Man should also piper.

His Lordship said that, in other words, action and make such an engagement and, the challenges having been accepted, Mr. Jenkin wanted Hui Chik Wa to ako authorities of the Church might take take the oath in the Chinese fashion.

the Court Interpreter and the Registrar the oth If both took the oath then

arrangements for the ceremony. were directed to take charge of the he would have to decide on the other

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In the verses that have been read this evening he deals with human relation ships in the light of Christianity. There was nothing new in these relations. There had been husbands and wives, parents and children, if not masters and servants, since the world began, but St. Paul sees all these human relationships raised and transformed and glorified by Christianity!

the Christian power of love giving a new life to all these "different relations. He sees them all viewed from the standpoint of fellow-necessary preliminary for the bestowal of ship in Christ.

the blessing of the Church. He speaks first to husbands and wives, it for granted that our Anglo-Saxon In saying this I am, of course, taking and be sees in love the key to married

custom of a man and woman choosing

Mr. Alabaster replied that Hai WILN happiness. And he seems to regard love their partners for life is the best one. It might, of course, he said that in many

prepared to do so according to the Chinese. as something which can be cultivated.

nations the choice is not left to the

custom. It was the defendant that would The ideal Christian marriage is. begun parties themselves but is arranged by the

not do so. He characterised the witness in love, and tbe love grows and parents, and it could be agreed that the

parents, with their knowledge of the journed, read extracts from the Hong- Fung as a perjurer, who had been trembl strengthens as the years go by; it is children's tempers and characters, are bang Daily Press report of the proceeding in the box all the time, and had even strengthened by sorrows and joys shared more likely to choose wisely that heings at the previous hearing.

fainted through fear. He said that Fung In doing

was paid to say all that he did say. by busband and wife. It is a life lived young people themselves, and are not in the light of Christian truth and so liable to be easily deceived. St. Paul cemented by faith and prayer and sacra-in writing about a father giving his inent. That is the ideal, and when we daughter ia marriage never seems to have see it we acknowledge that it is the thought for a moment that the father would consult the daughter's likes or dia highest conception of married life.

likes in the matter.

But the ideal is not always found. Can anything take the place of love where A marriage to be really happy must love seems impossible i No, we can hard. be made according to God's will, and it ly suppose that anything can really take is of the highest importance that husband the place of love. Nothing else can come and wife should hold similar religious up to the ideal, but there are many things views. Where this is not the case, there in life "Where we cannot have the idea, is a natural tendency to find that re- Lin and serviceable. It is so in mat-30, in order to avoid disagreement, yet find a substitute which proves prae- ligious talk leads to disagreement, and, ried life, and often a scase of duty proves the substitute fog love, which nables man and wife to live a comfort able and comparatively happy married life, and, perhaps, leads them ultimately to a real and abiding love.

When the hearing was resumed yester day morning, Mr. F. C. Jenkin, for the defendant, in explaining the circual stances under which the Court had ad

30, he stated that he thought the news-] paper report was very accurate.

Mr. Jenkin said that the position now was that nobody had performed the cere mony of cutting off a cock's head, because the defendant, Chau U Man, had refused to take part in the ceremony.

He reminded the Court that the defen dant's witness, Fung Yuk Nam, had made

Wa, a former managing partner of the most serious charges against Hui Chik

defunct 'Erm. His Lordship then said that he thought this witness' statement If he believed it, was most important."

religion is avoided as a subject of con- versation between husband and wife, and so religion gradually loses its hold on those people and cases to be a power in their lives, and their children are

he (his Lordship) would not believe a word brought up without the religious atmo

of what Hai Chik Wa had said" Phere which is the best guarantee of

This statement, Mr. Jenkin now strong, upright, and manly characters.

St. Paul not only sees marriage glori-tended, referred solely to the allegations Bed by love, but he also sees the relation made by Fung Yuk Now against Hai of parents and childreh similarly trans-

Chik Wa in regard to the request that formed by the power of love. There are

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no more sacred relations in the world he should make a new chop of Kwang than the relation of parents and child. thing Cheung, and in regard to the Some of Christ's most bitter condem- pation was lavished upon the Pharisees. for making little of a son's duty to his Yuk parents,

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charges of attempted bribery which Fung Nam had levelled against Hai Chik Wa

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His Lordship observed that what im- pressed him was that it seemed as it this witness had-made the same state- ven't before. He had to believe one witness or the other.

Witness insisted that all he had said was true. He had not exaggerated. If what he had said was not true, he was willing that every calamity should befall him and his family. Further he was willing to go to a Temple, and take the oath by cutting off a cock's head.

Mr. Alabaster said that witness would probably be called upon to do

this. Christianity is above all things the Are there any religion of the home. mothers here, who, for the sake of enjoy- ing the fecting amusements of the hour, are robbing their children of that most precious of all possessions, the memory of a mother's loving care}

evidence.

Mr. Jenkin submitted that as long as the challenge vas out, he thought the should be asked to take the oath. Court should order that Fung, and Bui It might be that Hui would refuse to take it, and that would end his game of buff.

His Lordship, after conferring with the Court Interpreter and the Registrar, who had been in charge of the arrangements said he understood that, although the for the ceremony that did not take place, challenge had been thrown out and ac

oath as regards the allegations made by the witness, it had been agreed, after cepted that the two men would take the

defendant had accepted the offer to take the oath, that all the three men would take the oath as regards all the circam- stances of the case..

Mr. Jenkin pointed out that the onus of establishing the partnership lay on the plaintiff. It was all very well to say that the defendant would not take the oath it would not take it.

might be that Hui Chik We also

His Lordship observed that he had been told that Fung, Yuk Nam was willing to take the oath both for himself and for the defendant.

Mr. Alabaster said that no doubt the witness had been paid for that, too,

Mr. Jenkin once again asked that the Court should order Fung and Hui to take the oath.

After some further discussion. his Lord. ship intimated that he wished to speak to counsel in his chambers on the matter. had an opportunity of conferring with On resuming, his Lordship said he had counsel and expressing his views on the. that all the parties had met in the Inets of the case In regard to the fact. sence of the Registrar and agreed that all should take the oath on the circam- stances of the case, his opinion was that, as the defendant had refused to take the oath agreed on, the matter should be wiped out. He had, therefore, to decide the case on the evidence of the witnesses.

His Lordship went on to say that he had the gravest doubts in believing the defendant's story that his sister, and not

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There are many cases where people have thought themselves in love with one another before marriage, but bave soon found that they are not in love when they have been married. What are they to do! Are they to give themselves up to life of misery because they have missed the ideal? By no means. Duty may be less romantic than love, but it is leas mistakeable, and duty will often prove a working motive for married life, Bet with a sense of duty there must go a fixed resolve to see the best and not It is the parents who have first to do the worst in each other, and there must

their duty to their children. They have His Lordship observed that Fung Yuk so different be a careful avoidance of the society of not only to support them, but have to give Nam's statement had been anyone who seems likely to kindle in them as example of patience, love and from that of Hui Chik Wa that if he the heart the fire of love which one's self-control. There are

women who have achieved greatness, who believed one he had to disbelieve the other. husband or wife has ceased to inspire.

Mr. Jenkin read further extracts from Of course, there are some people who have not looked back to the ennobling

The the Daily Press, as follows:-- would dissolve marriage in such cases, example of a father or mother. which would, no doubt, be an excellent legacy of a noble example is the best den, if it could be done. But marriage legacy any parent can leave his children, is a fact which cannot be done away the poorest. How often we see man and it is a legacy which can be left by with. Once you are married you can notciling hard that he may pile up money more become unmarried than you can become unborn. Some people would to leave to his family, and how, cften prefer not to have been born. They find that money proves. a curse? life unbearable, but birth is a fact which legacy of a noble example must always be a blessing. I suppose there are few they cannot do away with, and even if

stronger incentives to a good life than

was a partner in the firm. The sister they commit suicide they do not put an

had not been called and there was nothing end to themselves; they only plunge un- the thought of a loving father and mother, And there are no lessons so

to substantiate the defendant's story. prepared into another life. So, there are deeply impressed upon men's nature as

It was extremely improbable that the de some people who would prefer not to

fendant should have attended the meet- be married, but marringe is a moral and the lessons they learned at their mother's

ing of partners and taken the active part physical fact and cannot be done away

which he did

take, if

he was only acting with. At Mr. G. K Chesterton wrote

Some time later, Mr. Alabaster ask.for his sister. in one of his books: The family is

ed if Chan U Man was willing to join doubt as to the truth of the defendant's His Lordship said he had the greatest a fact even when it is not an agreeable

the witness and Bui Chik Wa in taking statement to the effect that he had no fact, and a man is part of his wife

the oath in the temple. Chan U Maa The even when he wishes he wasn't.

said he was quite willing to do so."

Tong name. His experience of ten years in these Courts had shown him that there Itwain are one fleah, yes, even when the

Continuing, Mr. Jenkin said that the were very few respectable Chinese, who are not one spirit." Matrimony is not a contract that can be dissolved, but the South African war and the writer in the box, offered to substantiate his

I was reading recently a book about position was that the defendant's witness, had no Tong name.

As regards the defendant's state of life.

The remedy for unhappy marriages is said that one of the strongest influences story by cutting off a cock's head. This that a photographic reproductionation not to pretend to disolve them high on the soldiers' lives and one of the offer was accepted, as was also the chal document, embodying various toolntices is an open attempt to do what God has subjects which was always sure to aroused by him (Mr. Jenkin) that passed by the partnera, had been faked?" forbidden when He said, "What God enthusiasm at a concert was the subject whim W should also take the oath so that his name appeared as a signatory

It was important, Mr Jenkia continued, without the hath joined together let not man put of mother." asunder. The remedy is to make it more heard men murmur the word "mother" difficult for people to get married To their sleep, and how one poor fellow, prevent as far as possible those rash and shot through the heart, died with the hasty marriages of people of incompat word "mother" on his lips. That is, ible dispositions would be to do much indeed, a hard heart that is unmoved to prevent unhappy marriages. We of by the thought of "mother.

Bat St. Paul goes further. It is not the Anglo-Saxon race have been so afraid of anything which looked like interfer- only in the relation of husband and wife, ence with the liberty of the subject that the need of love. He would find in and parents and children that he seek we have been afraid to do anything to prevent two people making themselves Christian love the solvent of all the dif- infatuation: It would seem reasonable Before this virtue all the difficulties of for the State to insist that the solema Capital and Labour pass away. Not the be preceded by a period of engagement and Labour in recent years has been the and irrevocable step of marriage, should least of reasons which bave led to the growing estrangement between Capital during which the man and woman should hase a real opportunity of seeing that fact that Capital has become more im- acquaintance, and during that period. .it personal interest in his workmen has Continuing. Mr. Jenkin said that because dant was a man of substance, and held their desire to marry grew on further personal, the private employer with his ought to be considered quite reasonable Biven place to the Company.with its his client had not performed the cere shares in numerous Hongkong companies. His Lordship, in giving judgment for for either of the parties to change his absent shareholders. There must be mony be assumed that the point might

more of the Christian spirit of love and be made that his whole case was die plaintiff (Li Man Kai) with costs, said

He submitted that this would he would issue the ordinary order. or her mind. And it should be recog-unselishness if trade disputes are to be credited nised that such a change of mind did no less frequent in the future.

he wrong. He considered that the circum

Another cause was mentioned in which discredit to either party.

And we may hope that as the war has stances of the whole offer must be gone the We Loong firm, of Hongkong, anked Our law, as it stands at present, is brought all classes together in a common had made a statement against Hui Chik in the firm of Kwong Hing Cheung, and through. The witness, Fang Yuk Nam, that Chan U Man be declared a partner excellently calculated to promote an- peril and a common sorrow, so it will Wa and had offered to take the oath as as such liable for the sum of $2,916, for happy marriages, for it is ready to inflict lead to permanent improvement in the hacking his statements. damages for breach of promise of relations between the different classes in asked whether Hui Chik Wa was also the arm.

Counsel, had which they had obtained judgment against marriage." That is to say, if one of the the community-to a greater spirit of willing to take the oath, denying Fung's parties to an engagement sees on further Christian love.

allegations, and that challenge had been no opposition being offered.

Judgment was given for the plaintiffs,

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He tells how be bad that both the people who had offered to he acted on being words stating that

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miserable for life because of a temporary ficulties of employers and employed, that Mr. Alabaster "would take the point, fendant was a partner in the firm.

of his sister, his Lord- cut off the cock's head were witnesses.

said he had Mr. Jenkin read again from the news-ther the words appeared on the original.

great doubts as to whe paper report

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Jenkin said that, in view of what "His Lordship said he should have his Lordship had intimated in chambers thought that these men were of superior and had stated in Court, he would refrain education and would not attach much from addressing the Court on behalf of importance to the old superstition of the defendant. cutting off a cock's head."

His Lordship observed that Mr. Jen- He said that now that the defendant kon had alrendy said all that had to be His Lordship then decided that the de.. bad refused to take the onth, he assumed said on behalf of the defendant.

that by this refusal of the defendant, to execution.

Alabaster asked for immediate and that the Court would agree with tim,

His Lordship inquired the reason for" this request. go through what his Lordship had terin- His Lordship interjected that he did

Mr. Alabaster replied that the defen- bithself a forger and a perjurer.

Mr. Jenkin submitted that the defen-

ed an old superstition

Mr.

not mean to be tied down to this state- dant lived in Canton and had proved"

ment..

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Mr. Jenkin said he quite understood.