To the Editor of the "Non-Car Dany News"
Sin—Now that all is over but the shouting (for the very few who still have their voices left) shall we not fry to translate into reality the thousands of wishes received from our friends for a Happy New Year?
Let us make it a more religious, year for those of us who are rivileghave a - religion. The Bolsheviks say that religion is an opiate, What of it? Would not most of us enjoy daily pipe dreams ensconced in the sure" knowledge that the after-effect will be soul-satisfying and soul-preserving, and not soul-destroying?
'Material pleasures, only but recently found out, are transient and evanescent, and do even compensate for the upshot. A well-to-do man, if he had. stopped after the second cocktail (how few }do). would have enjoyed his turkey' and ham. The lowly coolie, after the tiniest cup of "Kaoliang", would equally have relished his cup of noodles and a Chinese equivalent of a twisted "doughnut, But these pleasures are fleeting and do not satisfy the soul.
Let us make a practice of visiting the house of God as often eas we can; let us make the infant year a hhappier_ one by instilling peace into our soul, by helping the less fortunate, for therein lies true happiness. It is not for us to attain ths Supreme peace and quietude of a nunnery. But we are able, before or after the daily uring, to "hold communion with the Lord, and thus and Shanghai, Jai
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.