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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHL MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1985.

SUCCESS BORN OF FAILURE

PARADOXICAL OCCASIONS IN LIFE OF MAN

By OLIVER BALDWIN

There are occasions in the lives acis, and that each of us in our

have such

of most men and women when they own small circle enn aro forced, perhaps by unemploy-power of doing good. ment, or dissatisfaction, or oven by There are many people alive to- overhearing some chance remark, day who would have called Christ to ask themselves whether or not a failure had He lived in their time, they are what is termed a "fallure." St. Francis of Assisi mont certain. If they are in poor health they ly would have received their con- will generally decide that they are. demnation; and there is not an in- Growing more and more depressed, venter who died poor who is not) they end by becoming a burden to called a failure by such people for themselves and a pest to their not having profited materially from friends, or even an object of plty his Invention. at a coroner's inquest.

There

rarely any need for such a tragedy, for the trouble in- variably starts with a wrong under standing of what failure in. Of course, if you set yourself some high standard such as to be Prime Minister; or вото unnecessary set on the obfect of these short standard, such as to be made years of life. knight; or some difficult standard, such as to write articles for a liv

Yet men whose whole lives have been spent training to kill their fellow-men are hailed, when that training is put into practice, as greater successes than almost any other follower of a profession. Such are the values some people

MIGHT HAVE DEENS Perhaps the people most truly

Ing, and do not succeed in attain-worthy of being called failures are ing it, you may well call yourself

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falluro in that one direction.

the might-have-beens. Those who, gifted above the ordinary, have AS. D. POINT OF VIEW wasted their talents, have shirked The mistake is to consider that responsibility, or have never found failure in attaining one's profes-their right niche in life.. alonal objective necessarily entalla Here, again, how much of that failure in life. It is only lately has been due to the temperament that success or failure has become with which they were born or the bound up with materialism, for socircumstances over which they have hard is the struggle to-day for na control? To-day we are learn- economic existence that we bringing how much a man's nature in all things town to a question of dependent upon internal glandular pounds, shillings, and pence. secretions, and we are certainly hard to please if we condeman man as "failure" because of n deficiency or a surplus of such

Yet even materially success is only relative; for a successful agri- cultural labourer at 80. a week is as far removed from material |w.erstions. failure as y auccessful business man at £6,000 a year.

Therefore, We Dist beware

for of thoughtless condemnation, Failure must never be measured health has more to do with success in terms of money, for that way or failive than in generally re- lics completely false conceptionalised.

of existence. It is generally the There are men who have thrown materially-minded who appraise away glorious opportunities of auch things, and the false values success for conscienes sake. How they create are on a par with do we appraise' such people? In jealousy of another's pew einthes or many cases such an action has of another's social connections. proved spiritual success and a There can be no failure where material failure and it, therefore, honest work is concerned. The do-deptnda upon which we place higher ing of one's best nuty not bring the spirit or the matter-as to success, but it is n definite contri- how we judge. diction of failure in any sense but the most cruel.

Again, there are others who have turned their hand to a new mode" In appraising such a thing, con- of life at middle age, unable to sideration must be made for your finish the task they enjoyed, for natural capability and the suit-economic reasons. Such people ability of the life's work under- have no cause for calling thems taken. It is only when that is selves failures, though disappoint- understood that failure or success ment often makes them self- can truly be judged.

critical.

There are greater things than material success, and no man can

Success and failure are both im- pastors, are both relative, and are be called a failure who has made analysed deeply. Therefore, those the life of a fellow-creature or of people who are in despair and wor- a dumb animal happler. The crim-ried over their position in life inal who is sentenced for a solitary should take heart and realise that offence against society could only such self-analysis is unnecessary. e truly a failure-in-life if that Generally-it-is-the-result-of-over- one action of his outweighed all work or a bal digestion. his past; and there are very few people of whom that could ever be said.

OBJECT OF EXISTENCE

I have known many people who have been called failures by more fortunate people, but compared with several mitch-admired success- ful people these fallures become people for whom to be thankful. Apart from judging a failure.in some speclat occupation, general judgment cannot be made unless you define the object of ex- istener,

Each one of us has some particu lar, furrow to hoe, and as long as we keep at our job it is not for mankind to judge us. That furrow is not necessarily a definite job of work, but is far more often our. general conduct of life;

THE MEASURE

It is the way we treat others and the happiness we spread that Is the gauge of our life with which to measure success or failure.

Once and for all wo should refuse to acknowledge materialism in our appraiserment unless we definitely If it be to make money or to at refer to pecuniary access. We tain a high social position, then the should realise that to snuge failure failures in life can be counted in by anything other than a man's their millions. If, on the other treatment of his fellow-men is to hand, it be to make the world adeny the Christian purpose of exis- happier or saner place for the vast tence and to deny the basis of majority of its inhabitants, then ethics. are "failures" often "successes."

Man was not put upon this earth. In this connection we must not to make a fortune or to wear better forget that the world Is made hap clothes than his neighbour or, to pier and saner by little individual wear metals on his breast. Such

·Otto Krion (left) and Severin Roffie, who will laave Shanghai shortly in the Wotan, a 28 fest con- verted fsbost, for America vis the South Sea Islands. Insat ie skown the Wotan, the third of her

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Much interest was shown in the pretty Shanghai wedding which took place at Holy Trinity Cathedral between Mr. Eric G. Gardner, of the Shanghai Land Investment Co., and Miss Marjorie Strike, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Strike. There was a large attendance both at the church and At the reception which was later held at the Masonic Hall.

The huge new pontoon of the City Government Kerry moored off the Peking Road jalty was officially opened last week, a reception being held in the spacious and beautifully arranged restaurant on the promenade deck. Many high officials of the City Government and the S.M.C, attended. The above picture shows a view of the restaurant which is expected to prove very popular especially in the summer months, when Shanghailandera will be making extensive use of the City Government'i boats. The cuisine is under supervision of a former chief cook of Marcel's.

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