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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 771, 21 March 1910, Page 9

The' following Good Friday and Easter message is copied from .a card more than 100 years old. Licut.-Ueneral Chalmers had these cards printed for distribution amongst ,tlio men of his regiment:—Next Friday will.,be :-Good -Friday,:-,/the .-most solemn-day. in the whole year,: When ivo commemorate.-the death and sufferings 6f. our. Saviour. Jesus .Christ.' v. Let- .us spend ..the".day as it ought -to- be:-spent, so that our . minds may be directed -to our Crucified Redeemer. ■ Ho appeals to us by the agonies of His Cross.. He seems to.call to us, and to say.: "Is it nothing, to you, all yo who pass liy?" If we were only commemorating the death of somo dear friend who had done a great deal for us, we should think 'of him With lovo and gratitude; we should be thoughtful and serious. May we really love our God, and bo His soldiers and servants: and when , tho great Festival of Easter comes may we have truo Easter joy—not a shade of sadness. Oh, that wo were all right down, thoraigh-goiwr Christians, and what a happy world: this would be.—F.C.—Advt. Sir William Hartley, the well-known jam manufacturer, of Liverpool, recently handed to his . employees the sums accruing to them .'.3 tho result of the firm's profit-sharing scheme. Tho amount distributed amongst <150 members of the permanent staff was ,£IBOO. Sir William announced that he had decided'to.augment, the pensions fund, which, he started. a year ago, by. a further sum of ,£BOO, and the fund now stood at d£s-tys. It would rcmnin a non-contributory scliemc, and no deserving man or woman who had passed the best days of their life in his service lieed have any fear as to the comfort of thoir declining dajrs.