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This is the Lenten season. At this time for spiritual stock-taking JAMES DOUGLAS asks:

Have your

prayers

been answered?

L

ORD HALIFAX is a man of prayer. Guy Eden tells us in an article about him that "he prays before he makes important decision.”

any

But the essential condition must be present. The soul must believe in God. It must obey God. It must humble itself be- fore Him and purify its life. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

Prayer is not the monopoly of any creed or any meet. I am ready to pray with any believer in God. I felt the presence of God in the Mosque of Omar in Jerusniem-the Dome of the Rock.

I felt it in the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem. I wish I could way I fell it in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jeru- salem, where the warring sects hale each other.

I felt the true awe of holy

licat story in the world. It is that the cynics are wrong. They power in the Parthenon. It was

told in I. Samuel. i.:-

are always wrong.

maty

not merely the classical tradition which I felt. It was religious

It was the presence God.

of

"...why weepest thou? and

I COULD give Why eatest thou not? And why is thy hart grieved? Am not

other proofs that God awe. better to thee than ten sons ?" nswers prayer, proofs out of

I felt it even as I gazed at the band, to his childless wife.

Thus spake Elkanah, her hus- my own life, proofs so strom ruin of the Temple of Eleusis.

that they would be accepted in

"So Hannah rose up after a court of law as circumstantial God was there. The Eleusinian they had eaten in Shiloh, and evidence beyond all question. mysteries were a religious re- The House of Commons after they had drunk. Now Eli

velation, In prayer the soul, even with-

In Nature the presence of God Stubbs naprays every day before it the priest sat up on a stat by a out the use of human language is felt by the religious vision.

but solely by faith, can enter the starts its business, although Post of the temple of the Lord.

"And she was in bitterness of presence of God and be trans- He is everywhere, in everything. William Barkley tells us soul, and prayed unto the Lord, figured by His power and His

and wept sore.

pity, by His tender mercy and

I CANNOT explain the that most of its members

"And she vowed a vow, and loving-kindness.

mystery of prayer or process lay" which said, O Lord of hosts, if thou

God are absenters.

This is an experience and an answers prayer. But for me the wilt indeed look on the affliction experiment which cannot of thine handmaid...but wilt shared or even understood by

be proof is more than sufficient. give unto thine handmaid a man the cynic or the materialist. It seerets of the electrons and pro- Science is groping after the child, then I will give him unto is, nevertheless, as real as any tons and neutrons and photons the Lord all the days of his life." laboratory experiment conduct- which constitute the microcosmic

My mother, like Hannah, ed by men of science. "vowed a Vow." Her prayer

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, Makor 30, 1938.

EDUCATION FOR HEALTH

There

are signs that Hong- kong is officially aware of the continuing danger of epidemic here. Dr. S. N. Chau's penetrating questions in the

They pray only in order to make sure of their seats on a

day of crisis.

the

I wish we could get the whole

universe of the atom. It is nation on its knees in a passion was

startled by the discovery that answered. My eyesight THE scientific test of a there is an unforeseeable and of prayer for 'peace. I wish we was restored. The doctor was

scientific experiment unpredictable behaviour in the could get all the other nations on believe his own eyes.

astounded. He could hardly is that it can be repeated under secret heart of Nature.

He told the same conditions. their knees beside us. There my mother that it was a miracle.

Prayer brings new forces into Prayer endures this test. It play. It is the play of these would be no danger of another

Of course, the cynics will is a spiritual experiment that new forces that we call answers world war if the world could sneer. They will also jeer. can be repeated by anybody who to prayer. If we could gather They will ridicule my belief that chooses. It has, in fact, been evidence of answers to prayer unite in praying for peace.

ove my eyesight to my repeated by millions century from all believers in prayer the mother's prayers. But I know after century.

world would be astonished.

Urban Council and Dr. P. S. I would rule out all public Selwyn-Clarke's recent appeal prayer and put my trust in pri- for public co-operation are in-vate prayer.

I am sure that God answers prayer. I learned to pray at my mother's knees. Let me tel! how God answered my mother's

prayers.

I

Each Year We Use

5,000

Million Pins

A little later, with the spread of and her customers use each year.

pin, very few people manu-machinery, the safety-pin, degraded Sales last year were well over £400,- EVERYBODY uses the simple; facture it-two facts that equal-em of brooch, came into prominence 000.

George

with

Goodman.

needlemaker's

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Gloucestershire, for long the home of the industry. They were

all hand- made and expensive, although by benten down to Is. for 300. Then, Charles II's reign they had been early in the nineteenth century, came the inevitable anchine, and the con- William Prym, with his huge solidation of three firms, which still

station, his own smelting works, was

mukters.

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are the

dicative of the public and I would ask for private and professional interest in the silent prayer in all countries at situation. This newspaper has noon every day.. discussed the problem of com- munity safeguards and has xiven the widest publicity to reports on the progress of the fight against smallpox, which

ly delight the cheerful pin in-apprentice, who had run away to sea, Ingly sticks into her dress, or the The pin that the housewife unthink- has been waged tirelessly by

dustry that has flourished in came back to start his own needle banker into a pile of papers, has a WHEN I was a child England, on family doctors and nurses for the past

lines, for factory, switched over to these new history longer than that of almost was blind for sixthrer centuries.

fangled safety-pins, and founded the any domestic article. When th which to-day specialises in them emerged from prehistory to the state many months, in the hope of months. I was led about the!

There are few upstarts in the and uses 600 miles of wire a week.

of having something to pin together, impressing upon the public the house with a veil before my eyes. pin world, for the total British

he plucked a thorn from a bush necessity for co-operation in remember those months of industry is worth only little Unit four years ago, the pin in-bronze pins are frequent relies of the

dustry of Britain was having a slump. bronze age more than £400,000 a year, em- Shingled hair had hit the hairpin suficiently important in England to

By 1483 they

were precaution. And although the blindness,

ploying some 3,000 people, and trade badly, although permanent become protected industry, but for subject may be distasteful to A circus was parading in the would-be industrial emperors waves brought in a big new trade more than a century they still came many who feel that it is being street. My nurse carried me in aim at greater trades. So most were the days when it took two cles for which rich merchants have hairdressers themselves. Gone ally from France, expensive arth-

their wives over-emphasised, it is submitted her arms to see the elephants. Iof the pin firms have historics mouthfuls of ping to make a a woman's

a special allowance, remember how that preparedness in this con-

I strained my e Press-cuttings and daguerro-ed by process that needs few John Tilaby started making pinsan

at least a century old, and fadd-dress, for most women to-day boy thereafter called "pin money."

dresses ready-made, mass-manu- Three centuries ago, enterprising eye-sight to catch a glimpse of) nection is one thing which can the elephants. All I could see cluster the walls of their sedate cent. for that reason alone.

types of worthy Victorians pins at all. Sales dropped by 20 per not be too often or too greatly were great din shadows. The offices. stressed. Possibly by repeti-elephants were invisible.

But that was not the true cause of Nevertheless, pins have founded the slump, Sales of £332,000 in 1922 tion of warnings in one form or

several fortunes. The pin king of fell to £207,000 in 1927 because of The ophthalmic surgeon told Britain, Mr. Charles Beard, now in tinent. The pin king of the

flood of foreign pins from the Con- another the proper attitude to my mother that nothing could be and almost sole proprietor of Kirby, as pin- his eventy-ninth year, chairman discase generally may be done to restore my eyesight. Beard and Co.,

Lid, spent his youth the remember how my mother wept hunting and travelling the world, invading the English market. By erented. Smallpox is not

and lives in a pleasant house with only thing this community has when she heard his verdict.

come 100 acres near Leamington. descent he is English himself. the There are three materials to-day His brother William, who died on his twelfth generation of a William Pryn for pins-brass, steel and fron. Brass. to guard against. The condi-

way to Egypt several years ago, had who emigrated in 1550, and started rustproof and expensive, tions in which the bulk of the DID she lose her faith in been for 38 years one of the stau-making pins by hand in Aachen. closs plas, manufactured in one pro- God? No. I remem-cheat winter residents of Shepheard's, On the Continent, Prym was havies have sharper points, but, from soft

cess, and

then acid-whitened. Steel population lives are such that] ber how she led me

in Cairo, and a pillar of Eryptian trouble with Waldes, originally a wire, they take four processes, form- into our

snapfastener mun, disense can and will spread parkour. She closed the door Pony-racing.

post-war choslovakian venturer into pin maring. It takes Ave day: to

Czeng, hardising, tempering colour- The brothers inherited rapidly unless everything possi-and she made me ineel beside

ket

with factories at Prague and sterl busi- their

make her as she prayed.

ness at Birmingham, the centre of the Drezden. Dut

and it costs more DIR,

than industry, from their father, George differences, and, helped by

le England they

they sank

kham Cheaper steel pins are made She dedicated me to the sur-Beard, who lived in a huge country ieman Government subsidy, sys-thorp. Iron phis

blt from hard wire direct, but are not co vice of God as she poured out hour nt Thickhorn, near Kenil-tematically undercut the Brands.

cheapest, plat- isher supplications for the restora-the war worth about £60,000 after desperation. Englih pin-makers bi-

worth, and died some years before Goudmans, the Taylers and such.

although no Ju body here can discover a process to tion of my eyesight.

having made ever the business to his on to undercut too.

tal Prym's Premises lt this in- sons. Before him there was another formed an ascociation to stabill are made in private work shops, and Twhen they dustry are dead everely, machines My mother based her prayer George Beard, who joined the Kirby: prices, and twice, owing to Prym and Admittedly, it is not among upon the story of Hannah and 1810--the Kirbys had disappeared Waldes, it was abandoned in favour copied.

and not

even patented, test they br the English-reading population the child Samuel. It in the love by 1834. The big store of Kirby, of more price-cutting In 1937 Beard in Parm, founded to sell pins English unters sold nearly half their

Pina rante through long catalogue that the need for enlightenment

after the Napoleonle wars, now has produets abroad, while the country to the tiny nickel pins that entomolo- sheets from the 316in. blanket pins a capital of 4,000,000 frames, and still imported £0.00 worth of German, at stick through butterflies. These jenntributes to the family forties. Czech and other plus. ignorant people can be renched viser to draw up a programma

cost 12s. an ounce, a lot of money for There are no more Beards to carry English pin-makers asked for pro-an ounce of pins, but a lot of pins to through servants and employeen for the assistance of those who on the name, but their rangesers are tection. A Board of Trade

the ounce, about 4,500. A few ounces ready. willing to talk to Chinese of a school near Birmingham, noticed too small to get a tart. Prym and

Old George Bend, governor uittre sat, and reported the industry furnish #LI), Home extent; and if every are

Who new all the plus? Every- householder and employer of workers, with the idea of en- that young Walter Villers came up Waldes sent mare plas, and by 1930, body, Railways and the Government

for a prize three years in surension. | Imports totaled £95,000 in value.

e he contracts. Banks and in- Jabour were to disseminate in-listing the latter in the scheme. He ave him a job, and now Mr. Then came the general tariff bar-surance companies, who ment

Walter Villers, business man in the lers of 1932, and pins put an im- many formation on this vital subject The extensive use of posters grand old tradition, is

papers together, con order Gowl, at a time, So can rome pawn- director of the firm, with his crashed to £13,000 in 1932, £12,000 brokers, who

port duty of 33 1-3 per cent. Inaporl

50 many

to pin of health, the knowledge would might be a valuable adjunct. Cecil, on the board. Their prorlucts

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Waldes was practieally pledge tickets on, that a special pin make many things now; Lessons in hygiene so taught beside pingo all over the word out of it: Prym gol about £5.000 hears their name. This trade bagia Christmas. is one method of campaign. It would be of immense value to The Beards are the biggest of the worth of trade, which, with his sub-every year just before

Thee-makers buy lent, thin plus, on is suggested that it is as neces- the general health of the Colony, Daniel Fradle Tayler are invented pla families, but Bere are others,

which to twist hand-inade lare, fure ries ure huge quantities to phí furs Hary. A the precautionary without a doubt, and might do a pinching, and his name, but not But since 1934 the eight principal out to dry. Pin-makers are the his family, still trades. About the English plu manufacturers, excluding people who would like finn-days teaching against air raids, and something

lessening some time, Robert Charlton started safety-pin specialists, re-formed their every day, for to each flag, a pin.

to make plus, A Churles Lambertasoviation to stabilise prices. Now As the pin-makers point out, from every bit as much a duty of the the terrible toll which tuber-bought lifm out, and was bought out they make most of the five thousand the pin in the baby napkin to the public. Perhaps the medical culosis takes annually among] in turn by the prracnt firm, Tubbs millkon selld-head pha, the six mil-pin in the burial throud, their pro- Lewis und Co., Ltd, elastic monu-Hoa 1hs, of enfety pins and the 370ducts go right through a man's life. authorities would be well ad- the Chinese.

facturers of to-day.

million hairpins whitch Great Britain it in a small, but n vital trade.

ble is done to prevent and con- trol it. And prevention should comic before control, and more to be desired than cure,

in most evident. But the

to

reach many thousands.

This

towards

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