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people and soldiership has died with them, it is another story. 1 do not know a more unchristian habit than the way which not a fow acem to drop into of depress- ing and discouraging those upon whom falls the brunt of the battle of life or who are about to enter The annual Church parade of it. The veteran may see errors.

but why the Scottish Company of

the due to inexpirience, Hongkong Volunteer Defence harp on them? Here or there a Corps yesterday morning was an touch of conceit or cocksureness impressive affair, There was a may crop up, but should raise a good turn out and forming up at smile rather than resentment. It headquarters under the command is all so misleading and mlachie- of Capt. K. S. Morrison and headod vous, so absolutely futile, this by pipers, the Company marched habit of invidious comparison be- to Union Church in Kennedy Road tween the generations. "There where the Rev. Kirk were giants in the land in those Maconachic delivered an appro-days," so runs a scrap of prehis- priate address. Members of the toric tradition in the oarly chan- K.O.S.B. and pipers were also preters of the Bible, and it lasts on sent together with the Chieftain, up to this moment. There were Mr. D. Templeton, vice-Chieftain, giants, it is true. They lived in Mr. A. K. Henderson, and mem-caves, rolled in dirt, clubbed their bers of St. Andrew's Society and wives, fought one another, and their ladies. Major Wolfe- Murray was also present together lung boastful defiances in all with Lieuts. T. Mackenzie and G. directions. Duncan M.B.E. of the Scottish Company. After the service the company marched back to head- quarters where Capt. Morrison welcomed the Chieftain who, in reply, said he looked forward to seeing them all at St. Andrew's Ball where he could assure them of having a good time.

No Great Man.

Thank God there were also young Davids quietly minding their father's sheep, and more than a match for the old boasters when the day came.

past? Let us rather understand}spurt, Historians speak of a "Ude high that he has always some better of victory," and tidni motion is up thing in store, if we cannot take and down, forward and backward.

that inference from our book of No advance at all occurs in the Confidence records we had better close it. eyes of the passing onlooker, but But the saying that tho study If you watch a bit longer you see of history is the best cure for the current creeps onward, the pessimism is true:

balance and the onward move is

The Christian Apostle puts it Irresistible, in the personal sphere that "ex- Well, comparing the present time perlenco worketh hope:" which is with times I can well remember, I to say that Christian faith works, can see the tide has been rising in 43 every man who sincerely tests many respects in spite of many a it will find, for it will not, only set-back. Not at every point or bring him personally through, but in all directions. Not in any way will furnish him with the Hope or design which would justify which sheds a shining ray far down resting on our cars, the fature's broadening way,long way to Tipperary or and that is a fine equipment for other outpost of the Golden Age. the battle of life.

Anybody so minded might easily

It is still a плу

Those of you who have been a long fill out an imposing schedule of time in the ranke should know failures, drawbacks and short- these things and tell of them. If comings the world around, while out of our experience we can only here on the edge of chaotic China speak discouragement we ought we may seem to be in a sheer to hold our peace. Boasting of backwater for the time. Yet oven our own achievements is, as I about that one should not make said, excluded, but we are free to too sure: echo the Psalmist when he cries, It is when waters are troubled "My soul" shall boast herself in that their healing virtues are liberated, and one of the things the Lord,"

foxperience has taught some of us is not to make a bogey of mere it to subside into, stagnation, ` unrest; much more dangerous is

The Rising Tide... Looking back over the length of years which some few. of us here can recall, there are defeats and disappointments in the record no! doubt. The armour soon to be laid aside da dinted and battered in many a spot; here or there per haps pierced right through. But it is "the campaign" have to count by, not a season's

Take all the savagery out of] that ancient parable and let us The Rev. J. Kirk | Maconachie admit that there are always giants preached from the text:

in the epoch that is passing away. "And the King of Israel answer-Geniuses, fine-talented servants, ed and said, tell him, let not him citizens of renown, character, that girdeth on his armour beast capacity-yes, there are always himack as he that putteth it off."such, though often we scarcely (1 Kings, 20/11). He said:

know it till they are taken from us.

But I must also believe there are always Davids growing | ́: BM up, who will corne forward in due time to fight our battles and God's battles.

We have here a pithy" saying which may or may not have been current ns 13 common proverb when Ahab sent it as his reply to Benhadad, the King of Syria's demands for a submission too ab- ject to be endured.

Like other tyrants the Syrian went farther and farther in his exactions until at length even the

forced was

turn. Brought to desperation, Ahab throws out a detiance, whereupon the Syrian kwears by all his gods that he will reduce Samaria to dust, as, with his overwhelming forces, he could easily do.

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You may, perhaps, have seen a much-advertised recent article by well-known journalist on the new world we are said to be living in since the war. One of the headlines reads: "Is there one great man in the world to-day?" The writer appears to think not.

He says that with the doubtful| exception of Woodrow Wilson, the war threw up no outstanding per- sonality.

or one

This is the reply: "Let not him He goes on to ask if there is that girdeth on his armour heast Lone great preacher in the country. himself as he that putteth it off." or one great statesman, Overwhelming force or no, the great poet; and he adds that there battle was yet to be fought; and has been no giant in literature history has repeatedly proved that since Thomas Hardy. [boastfulness is no preparation for As I read all that," I found a

victory. This ancient chapter sense of familiarity creeping over! from the annals of Isract is, then, me Presently memory awoke A striking illustration of the in-and took a leap back over nearly disputable fact that pride goes 40 years to a long-forgotten ever- Lefore destruction.

ing at a hall in Devonport where

1 make my bow to that obvious, a young student, had been put implication" of my text, and having in the chair at a public debate! I done so will hasten to explain that forget the precise resolution · put I do not propose to read you a before the meeting, but it was sermon from it as a cautionary something about the decadence of i proverb, though cautionary pro-the times, on which subject a very verby are believed, I fancy, to butrenchant speaker hammered congenial nourishment for the home views that seemed to meet Scottish soul."

with much acceptance. The only great statesman left was Glad- The Seventh Year.

stone, and he a septuagenarian. Somehow the circumstances of Fiction had died with Dickens. the day put this saying into my poetry only survived in Tennyson, mind, and I fell I must use it the pulpit had but Spurgeon and even if not in strictly logical fashion. To-day marks the seventh year in succession on which it has fallen to me to welcome the Scot- tah Company of the Defence Corps to. this Church,

It is not impossible that it may be my lat to do it once again, but I suppose it is unlikely, and the fact bulks somewhat in one's mind.

Parker. Carlyle had "gone from literature; in rational philosophy fyndall and Huxley were approach- ing the term of years. In short, all the glory, was past or passing: a poor lot with a poor never a Moses prospect, and among. us to lead toward lands of promise.

we were

How the vote went eventually I can't remember, but I do recall

that the young chairman got ex-

The preacher this morning is

eited and asked leave to take the somewhat in the position of one floor and reply to all the pes- who is about to lay aside hissimism, and we had a great set-te! armour, for the present purpose

at any rate.

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A Cure for Pessimism.

Not that the time has come to boast. That time will never To-day, 40 years on. I should come.. If any typé among us calls want to do the same. How any can be a pessimist is for painless extinction it is the re- Christian miniscent boaster.

past my understanding. If I he No one would want to preventieve la God, I am bound also to our scarred veterans from ex believe in man, whom God has changing memories of past ex-made, and not made to be a pericnees in the club or the chim- failure. Are we to despair of ney corner, recalling anecdote and the world for which Christ died? incident from the adventures and Are we give up the fight because achievements of days gone by. it is long and toilsome? Are we But when the past is praised by to bear ourselves. as if God's re- way of reflection on the present, sources for bringing his purposes when the veterans give the world to pass were exhausted yesterday, to understand that they were the last century, at any period in the'

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