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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1924.

AN INTERESTING LOCAL WEDDING.

Group taken at the wedding, at the Peak Church on Wednesday last, of, Mr. S. H. Hower and Miss Etheredge. (Photo: Ming Yuen).

BE

CONTENT.

HOW ?

By the Rev. G. R. Lindsay. M. A,

TERRIBLE

EXPLOSION

AT BUCHAREST..

Vienna, May 30,

A thousand wngon loads of manitions, containing .... twolve thousand shall which wore recently received from the Soda H+++ works and also a quantity of old;

• =1lllllllll Few will question that the life St. Paul was too busy to be dismoņitious, were involved in the andicaporieneo of St. Paut were contentod. The lazy and indolent explosion at Bucharest. It is varied and strenuous above the are always the most dissatisfied, festinated that two billion let average, The persecution to, but the apostle in "sponding and worth of damage has been cansad which he was subjected, the being speut" had not the time to by the explosions, which con- bodily infirmity which iniabled worry and fri. The key to continue. A fearful panie prevailed} him continually and the mental tontment is survice, not selfish-¡ for two hours among the popula strain involved in "the care of all nosS.

tion of the threatened area, who the Churches" were enough to But there nowo to many, ex-od to the centre of the city. make the noblest character dis periences with nothing to Many honsos have failen und an contented, if not moroșu. Nover Brighton them, which puzzle and inonse unsuber of windows has theloss, he writes and from a bewilder even a saint. "Why heon shattered. King Ferdinand Roman prison: have learned hast thou forsaken. Me?" What narrowly, escuped. us sholl to be content under all circum is to content him now? The exploded on the spot he had just stances." He at once proceeds moral advira to "pack up your vacātad Renter.

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to give the secret Chriat troubles and smile" ay enables me." This, then, is the good op occasions of petty dis- secret of how we may be content comfort incidental to common

·Christ. -"

life. but such a human.antidoto j fails to meet the deep needs of a man's spirit. when he is living inį a shadow and peers out only into darkness.

First, Christ brings peace to the conscience, it was Paul who once had cried "3.wrotehod man that I am," but now

"All was peice and light

His soul within."

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COLONIAL PARLIAMENT IN DANCE HALL.

Opening of South Rhodesian Legislature.

Salisbury, South Africa,

May 30,

In

It may be a bodily aliction which renders him apparently, fur the Lord had had morey and useless in the world. It may be a now, being justified by faith in sorrow caused through the sing Jesus Christ, he has pure with of another which crushes his

The First Southern Rhodesian { Gud. And not only peace with spirit. It may be a borvavaiment

Legislature was opened to-day: God, but the ponce of God is of which cannot see the "why" der unique conditions, the huge garrisoning his heart and mind. It may be a disappointment in attendance including mung sat He is changed. Circumstances one on whom he has lavished alters from remate districts, assumo a different aspect. Ho his hopes. Be content?" he tho absence of a Parliament. different cries, "Oh, I can't. any burden is building the assambly is being angle. What seemed misfortune greater than I enn bear." Yoa, held in the dancing hall of a local and loss are now soon to be, truly, "Without_Me_ye_taunot hotel, probably the first time in aternal gain. He knows how to do anything," hit fear St. Paul's history, even in Colonial legisla turn the clouds 'about," Even secret "ean through Christ fures that such an assembly has temptation may be a joy, and giving me the power At such deliberated in licensed premises.. death has lost its sting.

tus trust God. 1s the summitj

Nevertheless the dignity of the Secondly-Christ producescons 100 High toruach? "A mount occasion is well being maintain- tentment by giving us a new con, whose top to climb i cartait d. though the wailing crowd ception of life. Our love is falling." Wall, contentment door have been entertained to orches generated from a new centre to a not come in a moment. "I have attended by the usual pop and tral music. The opening was

now object others. Plato said earned to be content." that "inseoking the good of "I live, yet not I. Christ lives uthers we find our owa.“ Christ in me.

I live by faith in said "Tis more blessed to give Him." A life so surrendered can than to receive,"

weather every storm that blows.

GIVE YOUR SKIN A CHANCE.

Some people take their haths by the calendar and got by neccessity,

Mr. Mann, had he been of an inquiring turn of mind, would have learned that, for cunturies, the bath was u luxuriant pastime among the Egyptians, Romans and Greeks.

In fact great works of art were erented about the baths, and such state of luxuriance did it achieve that Saneca, the Roman philosopher, once wrote, "To such a. pitch of luxury have we come that we are dissatisfied unless we trod ou gome in our battre."

Mr. Mann might go more frequently to the tub and with grouter koenuose, did he know he was indulging in a sport of kings.

But, on the more scientific side: Skin. becomes enveloped to à varying layer of perspiration, dust, dirt and grime; becomes clogged and cries for air and an opening of the pores; is swathod in tight clothes and compressed. "By bathing we may awaken the skin to activity.

Bathe havo varying effects upon individuals, dopend. ing chiefly on duration of time in the tub and heat of wator. They inay be either tonic or suffocating,

A bath of about 102 to 105 degrees can be continued for two or three minutes, filling surface blood vessels, atimulat ing functions of the brain, heart and nervous system. A short bath may be takon dally, particularly at night before retiring,

Batho oftenor and give your skin a chanco.

BATHS

ceremony, --Reuter,

FRENCH ECONOMIES.

Paris, May 30.

The Cabinet has decided to issue, decrees, giving effuet to economies in various public ser- vices, totalling 410 million Tranes. Wenter.

Amongst those who were invited to bepresented on the Royal dais at the opening ceremony of the Em- pire Exhibition were the Chinese) Charge d'Affaires and Mmo. Chu, the Japaness Ambassador, Siam- ess Minister, Mr. A. Caldecott (Malaya), Mr. 1. F: Deshon (Sarawak), Sir Newton Stabb (Hongkong), and Lady Stobb, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. P. Huy, Mr. Elang

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