DREAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1927, Page 3

DREAMS.

Dreams are best kept as dreams, within the heart of the man who sees beautiful pictures that never can quite pome true. Romance, on its highest level, lies almost beyond the realm of speech. Liike the vision that tlie prophet gets and cannot convey to n stolid world without ridicule, so the man of letters, who finds in his mind perfect love or beauty cannot often reveal his inner self without laughter from phose who hear him. Sometimes

the writer fails ill words that ought to he as beautiful as his thoughts, and are not; sometimes the vulgarity of the men he writes for marks him for disaster; sometimes the glare of the sun is too bright for that which is conceived in moonlight. —F. I’. Alayer, in the “Virginia Quarterly Review.’’

FOR THE CHINESE, CHRISTIAN -MISSIONS.

“A medical graduate of Edinburgh l nivarsity. Dr Ahmed Falimv, has re- < ently retired, after 34 years of excellent service in connection with the London Alissiomiry Society at Chung-'s-how, China.. This missionary doctor's work included, as the result of much zeal, coupled with practical business ahiltv, and also through the goodwill which he had evoked on the part oi the native population, the success- ! fill establishing and maintaining of a hospital, which did admirable work and became entirely self-supporting. I lie Po-Tni of Chang-Chow presented a tablet ol praise to the hospital in its early days, and when the doctor was about to retire, tho chief official of the city gave land for a new mission hospital, while every official sent gilts, and spoke, at a farewell meeting, hogging the doctor to return. At present new* buildings are to he erected by the Chinese themselves, with a preaching hall for Christianity, named alter the doctor. The internal management of this hospital is to he with the missionary body and Chinese Christians ol Chang-Chow. Phis is a (hine.se verdict, not a foreigners.’ on the worth to themselves of Christian missions,”—-The Marquis of Aberdeen. LYNCHING FIGURES. It is with profound shame and a deep sense of disgrace that decent Americans learn that lynching is again °n tin- increase. Six more people have been lynched in this country 111 the first ten months of 15)2ti than in the whole ol 1025. For a time it had seemed that this hideous blot on our good name was fading and dwindling away. During 1021, sixty-four persons were lynched; in 1022. sixty-one; 111 1923, twenty-eight; in 1924, sixteen; but In 1925, eighteen; and in 1925. twentyfour. prior to November I. For whatever reasons, this miserable and filthy crime is once more becoming prevalent.”—’Pile ‘•lndependent.” of New York.