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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH, 1926.

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To the strains of their bag-pipes and drums, the Scottish Company of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps marched from the Headquarters parade ground yesterday morning to Kennedy Road, where they attended the morning service at the Union Church.

The occasion was the annual Church Parade of the Company. Nearly one hundred members of the Company and the Reserve Section turned out, and they presented a smart appearance as they arched away with swinging kilts and burnished buttons, and brasses which gleamed in the sunlight

Capt. D. C. Logan, M.C., Officer Commanding the Company, was in charge of the parade, and Mr. M. Dyer (the Chieftain of the St. Andrew's Society) also attended the service. The parade this year was enlivened by the presence at the Church of a large contingent of the King's Own Scottish. Bordecern.

The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie (Pastor of the Union Church) preached a stirring sermon, and conducted the service, of which a feature was the hearty singing of the hymns "which were: Before Jehovah'a Awful Throne":"Forward be our Watchword"; "Ye Gates, lift up your heads on high and "Hail to the Lord's Anointed." The aging of the National Anthem, concluded the service.

Arrangements were made to have photographs taken of the Company, and of each platoon.

The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie, who preached, took his text from Genesis 31/47:

Laban called it Jegar-sahaduthar but Jacob called it Galeed.

He said: In the schoolbooks there used to be a tale about some men who quar relled rather badly over the colour of a chameleon. Whatever trouble may have arisen from the same creature shewing itself in diverse colours there is no deny ing that many a hot dispute has come from having different names for thing.

Here is this wayside cairn, for instance, at the spot where crafty Laban overtook Jacob on his fight with goods and gear, wives and children and cattle. Twenty years of partnership had made Jacob a rich man and enriched his uncle too, but they had been years of double-dealing and. over-reaching, ending at last in this furtive separation.

them then to disagree, it may be said, and we all know that family feuds are sometimes the worst, like can fights and provincial jealousies,

Picturesqueness of a Drab World.

Still, under the lapse of time, the pressure of circumstances and the urge of nature, even the most obstinate of these tend to pass away. The underlying kinship of blood and speech and common ancestry asserts itself, common interests also reveal themselves. In the course of Nature and Providence the antagonisms of clan and province die down. Nobody wants all the differences to disappear. Life will be a dull affair, and a sadly improverished one, if ever it is re- duced to a dead level of monotonous uniformity.

Let the clans keep their varied tartans by all means; they add to the pictures

A solemn compact was made. that forqueness of a drab world. Let north, the future neither party would do any various traditions, legends, customs and south, cast and west preserve their thing to the detriment of the other. The boundary line was fixed which neither ways of speech. Life is the richer and wus to cross save in friendship. A stone

the kindlier and the, more humorsome for the whole of it. We don't want pillar was set up to mark the spot, and then as we read, "they took stones and out of the dictionary, nor yet to see

*egar-sabadutha” to turn "Galeed " made an heap, and partook of a com- mon meat upon it to seal the undertaking. Jacob's short word win a fatal victory (A sacred spot it was, commemorating an

over its many-lettered equivalent.. important covenant; "And Laban called it Legar-sabadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed

Both of them are precious, and so is everything else that means a bond be tween human hearts

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A monument to friendship, as we see, this ancient pile, heaped up by men who saw it was time to drop their differences.

Yet it puts no strain on the possibilities to imagine their descendants panged in two opposing factions, the Läbanites and the Jacobites, each claimtng exclusive possession of the truth; "Jegar-saha- dutha" the heroic slogan of the one, * Galeed nailed to the mast, of the other

Before now mutual mistrustings have been reared upon no better ground than that, and even ex-communications. For tunate it is for all concerned when some "higher critic" with a bit of knowledge comes along and says: "Gentlemen, I have been looking into this matter, and I find that Jegar-sahadatha and Galeed mean one and the same thing."

The one is Aramaic and the other Hebrew. In English they mean heap of witness," or "The cairn of testi-

forcible (and "futile) attempts at ani- mony." A third name is given to it, formity have been at least as rife as in A word common to both the the ecclesiastcal. Conquerors have waged Mizpah, ancient languages and almost naturalised many a losing fight with human nature now in ours, Watch-tower" or "Bea-expressed in national spirit.

a reminder of fidelity pledged be Con,"

They have made it a crime to speak the tween two parties under the eye of God. mother tongue, to keep & national festival or wear a national costume. But the love of them is indestructible. they have not killed these things because A Dying Blogan.

f The true effort of anything rightly called civilisation is not to get rid of variety but to leave behind misconcep tions, hatreds and alienations with which the endless divergences. In speech, dress, custom and so forth become all too easily

The case of Ireland, of course, presents bound up. Troubled although our times peculiar difficulties, but we may reason are in the immediate present I think ably trust that now at length even these there is cause to believe that this great are well on the way to being finally sur principle is becoming better understood. mounted. Meanwhile the characteristic The days of ban and excommunication features of life and speech and tempera- for perfectly innocent or even laudablement among the various members of our divergencies of thought, expression and British household remain, and each con observances, are passing away. They tributes its share to the common strength are passing from the Church, as it is and counsel. indeed high time; but not from the

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Love of country remains and always will, a worthy element in the make up of every good citizen of the world. Mr. Lloyd George uttered a caution net un- needed in some quarters when he said lately, Don't imagine you can sub- stitute a sloppy internationalism for leve of country. We agree heartily if we did not agree there would be no Scottish Company of Volunteers mustered here this Sabbath morning. But, that exists as part of a larger corps, proud of its place in the general ranks of our citizen

The Church alone. In the political sphere can rally one another about our peculia soldiery and glad to offer its national

rities without drawing dirks as of old, spirif and traditions in the service of the which is a potent peace preserver. We

free fig which floats over us all and only raising wholesome laughter- tell our little stories about Englishman, Imperial Conference which has just If you have studied the reports of the

Scotsman and Irishman in a hundred closed in the Home Country you cannot forms, and I think it is the Scotsman, but have been impressed by the very wen- these efforts of imagination and who which so fully exista now between Eng- who generally comes off the worst in derful degree in which the same unity laughs the most heartily. John Bull ap- land and Scotland, once hereditary foes, pears as the exponent of stolid common is growing, to reality and strength sease; Pat O'Brien stands for quick throughout the whole Empire. That there witted good humour; and Donald aro differing views of the British Empire McTavish fakes 1 line of his own, goes without saying. inspired, shall we say Englightened self-interest! It is all to the good, and it means, if you think of it, a tremendous change for the better.

I see that one Rutherford, described as "Judge," has been studying Daniel and the book of Revelation, whence ho draws the conclusion that the British Empire the beast of Apocalypse, the number is ruled by Satan and is none other than whereof is 806.

Not very judical you will say, yet not

Promise of Brotherhood. Laban uses his mother tongue, at man are apt to do when uttering something final and sacred. Jacob does the same, and there the monument stands, double" I do not mean to say that oppressions titled but with one significance, the only of that sort do not exist anywhere in significance worth pledging between man the world to-day. Unhappily, they do, and man-a promise of brotherhood and But their day is really over. If any good will for time to come, the end of such policy, had been attempted within feud, the pledge of friendship.

the British empire there would be no I can see no object in this little san- British empire to-day. We are being

You may have read the other day of tence being in the narrative at all unless described as Imperialists" and ar- that Yarmouth citizen, of the ripe age it is meant to bring out how seriously rogant oppressors in China "at present, of sixty-five or so, who received medala there two men took their covenant, each but the slogan is against the realities of and a purse of gold" for saving the nathing the monument of it in his mother the case and for that reason it will die lives of two Scotsmen who nt different less so than the findings which have tongue which comes out when you are down in China as it is dying in Indiatimes fell into the river." I don't know identified the mystic number with the in earnest.

in spite of all that can be done by Mos- whether the quaint wording of the nows late Kaiser, Napoleon Bonaparte and About the dearest and best old Chris cow to keep it alive. tian man I ever knew-and certainly the

item is meant to suggest that our coun- very many more since the days of Nero, Through long and costly experience, minister as I was then confided to me share of failure and error, the growing haps it occurred to anybody to think that kindest and most helpful to a young marked like all things human by its trymen make a babit of falling into to whom it properly belongs.

rivers, neither can one say whether per-

The Chosen People: that though it was over 80 years since he British empira has acquired the difficult the gallant rescuer was old enough to containing hundreds of good people, The Ang"-Israel Congress last month, had left, Montgomeryshire, and all his art of enlarging without disputing

That is because no attempt has been business had been done in English, be

some of them distinguished, listened to always read his Bible and said his prayers made to mould the constituent parts of

solemn repadiation of the Rutherford in his native Welsh. With him could the empire into one uniform pattern, but

finding and reafirmed its view that the not but contrast a man in Merthyr Tydal rather to preserve to each all that is most

British Empire is in the racial and whom I asked eace to translate a bit of prized and characteristic in its special

spiritual succession to the Chosen People, Welsh for me.

culture. His reply was that he didn't know The Act of Union between the Crowns

God's designated instrument for accom plishing His purposes of grace in this world of men

much about the vernacular, and it filled me with unchristian impulses.

have known better.

Bat it did occur to me that times have changed in England since the days when it was counted meritorioan to diminish the number of stern and wild Caledoni- as father than to snatch them from destruction.

Lothes

ourselves in the aazy discussions of Without going that length or involving history and prophecy which it invalves lieve it is nearer the truth than the other. we may, sincerely and without pride, be- The star of Britain has by no means eet, though for the moment it shines, as often before, in but a cloudy sky

tribe and tongue on this terrestrial ball

God has a place to be filled and a work

ends to attain which none of them could to be done by every nation, kindred,

of England and Scotland in 1707 succeed- ed because it paid careful regard not

There was a time when big prices were I read tately about a couple who spoke only to the rights but the susceptibilities set upon the heads of William Wallace, different languages being married in of the smaller partner in the alliance. Robert Bruce and many another, but Esperanto, as to which one reflected that Like the covenant between Laban and now, if you want decoration and a it is good to ses romance as of old Jacob, that treaty was a definite-con- cumshaw" all you have to do it to lift triumphing over difficulties, but it is hard signment to the past of the many causes 40 odd Northener out of whatever to believe the courtship was conducted in of friction and strife between neighbours stream he may have slipped into in the Espéranto, and still more to think that and relations who had had more than course of his avocations or enjoyments an artificial language would meet the case enough of quarrelling. in the differences of opinion which we

They had come to see all mankind telegraphed in such curious terms around In all seriousness these gallant deeds, are told occur occasionally in even the will yet come to see that their common the earth, do remind us that when it best regulated partnerships

interests outweighed any sectional -ad- Yes, Laban called it Jegar-sabadutha vantages which the one could ever snatch

to the pinch that common because he meant it, and Jacob called it from the other, and had also realised humanity outweighs all surface differ- reach alone. To us it has been His will Galeed because no other word would have that human goodwill is a stronger brother's need you don't stop to ask if entails, as posts of honour do, that we ences. When your heart is stirred by assign & place at no small honour. It meant so much to hit nor pledged him | security than arms and fortifications. a deeply the man to whom his mother

carry no little share of the common bur Keep and, enstle still frown on one

ho can pronounce Shibboleth or whether den in a deeply troubled time. Let y he would call & cairn of stones Galeed or accept the task, humbly, hopefully, trust tongue is the vernacular is

another from opposite banks of the the man to be relied on

Solway, and the Tweed, but they are Jegar-Sabeduthern

ing for grace and fortitude to fulfil it Now you look into the subject you falling to ruin and never will be repair will and that the mother tongues of these ed. You may conceive the spirits of these. These, extremes of tribalism and portion still

to that God of Bethel who was the God of our fathers" and is our choice and two men were by no means so different: ancient fortresses bemoaning with each

d is our as these two words before us would other the passing away of the good eld | racialism have more than had their day,

times when fire and plunder used to rage They belong to the past, and the sooner scattered tribes of men will alone find around them,

they are Anally displaced by the rising their unity, May we be worthy of our tide of our common humanity coming place as one by one they move into the into its own in Jesus Christ its Head the light to pour their varied gifts upon better for all men's good' and God's | His altar and find their common utter-

ance in His praise --

Humanity Coming into ite Own,

Syrias and Hebrew-were indeed very closely related, especially in the early But of those old times we can say with stages, so there would be no great diff thankfulness that we are well free of culty in the two families understanding their viclence, and pray for the day when one another. So much the easier for it shall be the same the world around great glory.

In His Incarnate son, our Saviour the