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MODERN MEDITATIONS SERMON ON SOME RECENT

[PSYCHOÍDGY.

The Rev. R. J. Northcott, C.F., preach ed the following sermon in St. John's Cathedral on Sunday morning on Some recent Psychology” "Every goat and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of Lights in whom is no vari ableness neither shadow of turning.

JAMES Y, 17. A

It is rather pretentious of me to any I am going to preach about."Recent Psychology because I know nothing. about recent psychology except what everybody else knows That is to say. I have read a few of the many booka pab lished in recent years on psychological subjects such as psycho-analysis, Coucism, ete. And I have glanced at a number of books and articles in which religion. theosophy and psychology are all jumbled up together. But these are just the kind of things I want to talk about The sort psychology which has become quite a normal topic of conversation, and which has been taken up by a great number of people with almost the enthusiator of religion.

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QUEEN'S COLLEGE OLD:

BOYS ASSOCIATION.

The fourth annual general meeting of the Queen's College Old Boys Associa- tion was held last evening in the Queen's College, Mr. L. Runjahn, a Vice-Presi- dent of the Association, presided and there were about, 20 members present.

Mr. ROMAN, în moving the adop tion of the report and accounts, said that in the absence of their worthy Presi dents Sir Robert Ho. Tung, who carried their best wishes with him in his mission of a "Round Table Conference view to the unification of the Republic of Chic, it devolved on him as Vice-Presi- dent to preside at the meeting.

with a

The Baancial position of the Associa tion, went on the Chairman, was quite sound, showing a balance of $5,966,67, an increase of about $9,000 over "the last year's-balance, The Chairman went on to thank the Hon. Secretary (Mr. Tang Sho-shaia) and the Hon. Treasurer (Mr.

He then moved the adoption of the report and accounts, which was seconded by Mr. Huso Chi-Levșa and carried,

The following are the officials elected for the ensuing year:

Chun) for their good work during the suppose one of the chief attractions Past year, speaking of their services in of this sort of psychology is that it is all glowing terms

After appealing to all pret pupils to about' ourselves, In the old days we join the Association the Chairman con- !! to think We knew something eluded by drawing attention to the Ainut ourselves. We used to say we kucsmestre attendance at the meeting saying our own minds at any rate. In the light chas members ought to regard it is no of the new learning we are told that is less duty to attend the annual meeting just what we do not know. The mind of Fas to attend the annual re-univa dinner. man, we are told, is like an iceberg 1st which only a small promontory appears | on the surface or in the conscious, but its whole strength and its danger lies fathoms deep in the submerged subcon- Selous, and there is a sure way of dise covering what forces are being added or what is melting away in the different

urrents of the ocean of life around. although our own mjuds appear quite simple things on the surface and we have certain definite opinions certain likes and dislikes for what we consider obvious rea- Thus, to take an idiotic example, we say I do not like Mr. So-and-So because he wears bowler hat." And we think that that is sufficient explanation. But the study and research of the mind shows us that although all our likes and dislikes, even the very tone and charac ter of every thought and word that sises

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President-Sir Robert Ho,Tung. Kt.,

LL.D.

Vice-Presidents.Mr. B. Tanner, J.P., ni Mr. U. Bamjahn. "

Bau. Secretary-Mr, H. C. Hunt. Hon.. Treasurer Mr. C. Chos. General Committee.--Messrs. A. H Ranijahn, II. C, Hunt, C. Choạ, Chow Ping En, S. 31 Churn, J. F. Grose, Ho Kwong, J. P.. Ho Leung, J.P., HK Hang, W. Kay, M.A., Lo Man Hin. Tang Shu Shum, Lo Tung Fan, Tse Ching Fung und Itung Hing Fat:

to the conscious, wells up from and is that beneath the gayest society there livs created in the subconscious in which are an underworld of private troubles and storect, all kinds of impressions and detragedies of sin and suffering and shame, talled memories of childhood and youth. And face to face with these things he together with very distinct form and realises it is not good enough just to flavour inherited from long generations. of take deep breaths, to think of the sun. ancestors. So when we say wo do not shine and say “Every day and in every po like Mr. So-and-So because he wears a way I am getting better and bitter and howler hat, it is quite possible that in better." He may be getting betler' and childhool's loppy days or perhaps years better, and what about the rest of the before we were born in some early Vic world. The weak point about; it all in torian, secpe a bowler hat figured in some that it makes people think too much way unfortunately, and has thus woven about themselves, their own healthy, their into our subconscious this distressing own happiness, their own success S complex which has given us an unfair when Mr. Jones gives up going to church bins against Mr. So-and-So. So, that in becomes an ardent discipline of a New these days particularly we realise things Thought Society, it may be true that he are not what they seem, and even quite is at last free from what he calls the simple minded people like ourselves, in- deed the more simple minded the more inliculous worship of God, t it is abo true that he has begen, to worship' some- terrily are we at the uterey of vast and thing ill more ridiculous and that is powerful forces conning from depths whimself Andiet Mr. Jones bow down to van never discover and carrying our

ininds whither we would not go whatever Gods he likes, be they wine or But what has fascinated. the geunden, hores or dollars, but when Mr. public is not so much the discovery of Jones worships Mr. Jones may heaven

preserve us from him! the hidden forces of the mind, so much Now the right faith is. thie, and let us as the discovery that all these forces ear be harnessed and controlled by one very with gratitude that recent psychology has helped to make it clearer, that simple thing the power of thought. Every good and perfect gift cometh What you think, it is said, that you be down from the Father of Light in whom come. What you fasten your attention

on good or evil, that you are inevitably is no variableness neither ahadow that is drawn towards. All the forces of the cast by turning." that "is to say God is mind, known and unknown, conscious and not variable; He does not turn about his hound to operate love and his loyalty, like we do, and subsconscious, re

throw shadows on the lives of those who along the line in which you direct your

God thoughts. The discovery of this truth and love him. God is always the same. its skilful application as a science has always light and in Him is no darkness been one of the greatest blessings of God is abrays love, and the volen modern times, and under the ministering the righteous. And, above all things, God of joy and health is in the dwellings of hands of mon like M. Coue miracles win our Father, and just as we being evil should find hard to believe if we read know how to give good gifts to our them in the Bible have Leguane almost daily occurrences. The lame have walk, children God can only give to those ed, the lepers have been cleansed, the who love Him good and perfect gifts, eyes of the blind have been gened, the That is the first point we want to be sick have recovered, and the fainthearted, clear about that God is our Father and the depressed, the ineffective, the useicas, can only give us good things. And the and the sinners, have had this Gospel kecond point is that we are His children preached to them, that if they will look and do not always know what is good. at what is good and true, happy and Indeed there are a good many things in healthy, powerful and useful, they will this world' we don't know anything about becoine, indeed they cannot help hedom at all, For instance the whole problem ing. every day and in every way more like of evil. But we do know, that the whole the things on which they keep their gaze of this, visible, world, and this flicker of But like every good thing you can get life which is ours, must be propelled too much of it, and like all truth it is from and belong to a much greater casily turned into a lie. Quite a number scheme of things, and he subject to lawn of people have swallowed down such of life and a sesle of values known only. quantities of this now thought that it has to Him in whose hands are all these gone to their heads and made them both stars.

do and say some very silly things. They Men think themselves blind trying to. have toga down the old texts about God Dazzle out these things where one thing Its love and stuck up new oues about only is mediul Thought Not the thought "Thoughts are things" and I am what of life's problems which only drives men think I am. And the old oak, which crazy, but the thought of God which alone metaphorically panelled their minds, they brings men peace. And a man gazes have distempered yellow because they say steadfastly with his whole mind upon the yellow reminds them of sunlight and keeps nature and the ways of God, his eyes are them cheerful And having for some opened and he notierg two things. First, years ridiculed "Excelsior they have that as a general rule God gives to those now published a new edition which in the who trust Him what all the world ctn American language reads something like see are good and perfcer gifts, health and Happy homes, love ru laughter, and enough to eat and drink. The second thing," with growing amazement, he notices in that when those who, trust God re really hard hit by all life's “crueltics 36 never seeing to hrvak them. It seems ng if God in his own wonderful way had explained it all to them, and they are well nan red that neither life or death nor thingy present nor things to, come can separate them from the love of God which. is in Christ Jesus Oar Lord."

this

"If you think you are beaten, you are,

If you think you dare not, you don't,

you like to win but you think you

can't

It's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost, For out in the world you'll find Success begins with a fellow's will It's all in the state of the mind.". It certainly is all in the state of the mind. and when the mind gets to this So, my, brothers, if we trust. God wo state it is time somebody looked into it ought not to go about the world looking There is a real danger in this kind of miserable, and expecting all kinds of mis- thought. It is turning cheap psychology fortunes and evils to call upon az We into a religion and it is, not good enough ought to go on our way cheerful and con for a religion. There comes a tiulo infident knowing full well that in any case every man's life when there breaks in upon God. by His very nature, cau bnly give in him some of the real things, the wonder what is good; and that in God's love and and the sorrows of love, the sicknew of kinwledge he will never, even ask us to Joy, the strangeness of desire, or his eyes bear the Cros with Christ until we have are open for the Arst time to the fact climbed towards Christ's confidence i

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