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

Have your

prayers

been answered?

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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 sect. I am ready to pray with any believer in God. I felt the presence of God in the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem-the Dome of the

Rock.

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

I felt the true

ORD HALIFAX is a liest story in the world. It is that the cynics are wrong. They power in the Parthenon. It was

are always wrong.

told in I, Samuel. i.:—

man of prayer. Guy "...why weepest thou? and

Eden tells us in an why eatest thou not? And why I COULD give many

any

awe of holy

not merely the classical tradition which I felt. It was religious other proofs that God awe. It was the presence of

God. answers prayer, proofs out of

.I felt it even as I gazed at the my own life, proofs so strong that they would be accepted in ruin of the Temple of Eleusis. a court of law as circumstantial God was there. The Eleusinian evidence beyond all question. mysteries were a religious ré-

In prayer the soul, even with- velation.

In Nature the presence of God

is thy heart grieved? Am not article about him that "he I better to thee than ten sons?" prays before he makes band, to his childless wife.

Thus spake Elkanah, her hus- important decision."

"So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and The House of Commons after, they had drunk. Now El Stubbs Rd. Prays every day before it the priest sat up on a seat by a out the use of human language is felt by the religious vision.

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EDUCATION FOR HEALTH

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

starts its business, although William Barkley tells us that most of its members are absentees.

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

I wish we could get the whole nation on its knees in a passion

the

post of the temple of the Lord. but solely by faith, can enter the

"And she was in bitterness of presence of God and be trans- He is everywhere, in everything. 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 mystery of prayer or "And she vowed a vow, and loving-kindness.

which process by

God said, O Lord of hosts, if thou This is an experience and an answers prayer. But for me the wilt indeed look on the affliction experiment which cannot be proof is more than sufficient. of thine handmaid...but wilt shared or even understood by Science is groping after the give unto thine handmaid a man the cynic or the materialist. It secrets of the electrons and pro- 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." Iaboratory experiment conduct- which constitute the microcosmic

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

was answered. My eyesight

universe of the, atom. It is startled by the discovery that 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. He told the same conditions.

astounded. He could hardly is that it can be repeated under secret heart of Nature. their knees beside us. There my mother that it was a miracle.

Prayer brings new forces into would be no danger of another

Prayer endures this test. It play. It is the play of these 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. I owe 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.

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

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

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EVERYBODY uses the simple 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,-

form of brooch, came into prominence. 000. facture it-two facts that equal form of Goodman, needlemaker's 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- dustry that has flourished in came back to start his own needle banker into a pile of papers, has a doctors and nurses for the past WHEN I was a child I England, on family lines, for factory, switched over to these new-history longer than that of almost

for six three centuries.

fangled safety-pins, and founded the any domestic article. When firm 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,

he plucked a impressing upon the public the house with a veil before my eyes. pin world, for the total British

thorn from a bush; months of industry is worth only a little dustry of Britain was having a slump. sufficiently important in England to Uniti four years ago, the pin in-bronze pins are frequent relics of the necessity for co-operation in I remember those

bronze age. By 1483 more than £400,000 a year, em- Shlagled hair had hit the hairpin

they were precaution. And although the blindness.

ploying some 3,000 people, and trade badly, although permanent become a 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 gave with hairdressers themselves. Gone mostly from France, expensive arti- over-emphasised, it is submitted her arms to see the elephants. I of the pin firms have histories mouthfuls of pins to make a woman's their wives a special allowance, remember how I strained my ed Press-cuttings and daguerro-factured by a process that needs few John Tilsby started making pins in

at least a century old, and fadd- dress, for most women to-day buy thereafter called "pin money" that preparedness in this con-

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

Victorians pins at all. Sales dropped by 20 per Gloucestershire, for long the home of not be too often or too greatly were great dim shadows. The offices.

the industry. They were still hand- stressed. Possibly by repeti-elephants were invisible.

But that was not the true cause of made and expensive, although by Nevertheless, pins have founded the slump. Sales of £332,000 in 1922 beaten down to is, for 300. Then, Charles II's reign they had beca tion of warnings in one form or

several fortunes. The pin king of fell to £297,000 in 1927 because of a early in the nineteenth century, came The ophthalmic surgeon told Britain, Mr. Charles Beard, now, in food of foreign pins from the Con- the inevitable machine, and the con- another the proper attitude to my mother that nothing could be his seventy-ninth year, chairman won. The pin king of the world, solidation of three farms, which still

and almost sole proprietor of Kirby, Willam Prymi, with his huge factory disease generally may be done to restore my eyesight. I Beard and Co., Ltd., spent his youth tear Aachen, his private railway survive, with modern rivals, as pin-

hunting created. Smallpox is not the remember how my mother wept and lives in a pleasant

ord station, his own smelting works, was travelling the

invading the English market. By with only thing this community has when she heard his verdict. some 100 acres near descent he in English himself, the There are three materiais to-day

His brother William, who died on his who emigrated in 1559, and started rustproof and

twelfth generation of a William Prym for pins-brass, steel and iron. Brass, to guard against. The condi-

way to Egypt several years ago, had

expensive, are the tions in which the bulk of the DID she lose her faith in been for 30 years one of the staun-making pins by hand in Aachen.

class pins, manufactured in one pro- God? No. I remem-chest winter residents of Shepheard's, On the Continent, Prym was having

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

in Cairo, and a piller of Egyptian trouble with Waldes. originally have sharper points, but, from soft disease can and will spread parlour. She closed the door pony-racing.

man, post-war Cze wire, they take four processes, form-. choslovakian venturer into pin maring.

hardening, tempering and colour- rapidly unless everything possi-and she made me kneel beside

The brothers inherited their busi-kets, with factories at Prague and steel pin,

ing at takes five days to make a her as she prayed.

nees at Birmingham, the centre of the Dresden. But in England they sank brass. Cheaper steel pins are made and it costs more than ble is done to prevent and co

industry, from their father, George, differe

differences,

and, She dedicated me to the ser-Beard, who lived in a huge country German Government subsidy, sys-sharp. Iren pins are cheapest, plat

helped by trol it. And prevention should vice of God as

from hard wire direct, but are not co- she poured out house at Thickthorn, near Kenil-tematically undercut the Beards, the cd and rust-proofed, although come before. control, and is her supplications for the restora-worth, and died some years before Goodmans, the Taylers and such. In body here on discover process to the war worth about £60,000 after desperation, English pin-makers be equal Prym's. Processes in this in- more to be desired than cure.

tion of my eyesight.

having made over the business to his gan to undercut too. Twice

they My mother based her prayer George Beard, who joined the Kirbys prices, and twice, owing to Prym and not even patented, lest

sons. Before him there was another formed an association to the dustry are dead secrets, machines ore made in private work shops, and Admittedly, it is not among upon the story of Hannan and in 1810 the Kirbys had disappeared Waldes, it was abandoned in favour copied.

they be the English-reading population the child Samuel. It is the love-Beard in Paris, founded to sell pins English makers sold nearly half their sheets from the 31⁄2 in. blanket pins

by 1854. The big store of Kirby, of more

e price-cutting. In 1937 Pins range through long catalogue. that the need for enlightenment

after the Napoleonic wars, now has products abroad, while the country to the tiny nickel pins that entomolo a capital of 4,000,000 francs, and still imported 230.000 worth of German, gista sticks through butterflies. These contributes to the family fortunes. Czech and other pins. ignorant people can be reachedvised to draw up a programme

cost 12s. an qulice,

lol 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 employces for the assistance of those who on the name, but their successors are tection. A Board of Trade Com the ounce, about 4,500. A few ounces

ready. Old George Beard, governor mittec sat; and reported the industry furnish a museum. to some extent; and if every are willing to talk to Chinese of a school near Birmingham, noticed too small to get a turlff. Prym and

Who uses all these pins? Every- householder and employer of workers, with the idea of en-that young Walter Villers came up Waldes sent more pins, and by 1930, body. Railways and the Government Issue huge contracts. Banks and in- labour were to disseminate in-listing the latter in the schemeWalter Villers, business man in the riers of 1932, and pins got on im-many

He gave him job, and now Mr. Then came the general tariff bar-surance companies, who, must pin formation on this vital subject The extensive use of posters grand old tradition, is managing port duty of 33 1-3 per cent, Imports Bevt. at a time.

papers together, director of the firm, with his Bor, crashed to £13,000 in 1932, £12,000 brokers, who of health, the knowledge would might be a valuable adjunct.

use so many to pin Cecil, on the board. Their products in 1934. This Lessons in hygiene so taught beside pins-go all over the world.

Waldes was practically pledge tickets on, that a special pla reach many thousands.

for

many things now out of it; Frym got about they make

This trarle booma £6,000 bears their name. worth of trade, which, with his sub- every year just before Christmas. is one method of campaign. It would be of immense value to The Beards are the biggest of the

Laec-makers buy long, thin pins, on which to twist hand-made face, fur- Froote Tayler once invented is suggested that it is as neces- the general health of the Colony, pin families, but there are others, sidy, he continues to get.

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riers use huge quantities to pin furs but not But since 1932 the eight principal out to precautionary without a doubt, and might do a pinmachine, and his name,

dry. Pin-makers are the his family, still trades. About the English pin manufacturers, excluding peopte who would like fag-days teaching against air raids, and something towards lessening same time, Robert Charlton started safety-pin specialists, re-formed their every day, for to each flag, à pln.

to make pins. A Charles Lambert association, 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 him out, and was bought out they make most of the five thousand the pin in the baby's napkin to the public. Perhaps the medical culosis takes annually among in turn by the present firm, Tubbs million solid-head pins, the six mil-pin in the burial shroud, their pro Lewis and Co., Ltd, elastic manu- tion lbs. of, safety pins and the 370 ducts go right through a man's life. authorities would be well ad- the Chinese,

facturers of to-day.

million hairpins which Great Britain It is a small, but a vital trade.

is most evident. But

sary at the

the

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for a prize three years in succession Imports totalled £35,000 in value.

Daniel

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