MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1924,
CHURCH NOTES.
FIRST.' SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY.
THE EPISTLE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
the gorms of a very luxians anxious that his joy might be alsred development. But St. Luka waan "There He stands, Ha has a veil historian seeking to troca out, as on His head and a part of cord accurately as he could the course of fastening it round and His eyes ata In Fred's voice there events. It is difficult to believe that's kind. the facte could have come to his was no wonderment or surprise, knowledge from any other soures only quiet certainty and joy as be "His than the Virgin Mary. The note repeated over and over again with which this episode closes Bugoyee are so kind,
A Priest who stayed with him the The Epistle is taken from the gests a passonal contact: "hia first verses of St. Paul's twelfth Mother kept all these sayings in her whole of one night when his death chapter to the Romans. The heart." To some the story may was expected any minute said, "All Apostle has finished his explana-perhaps seem to be without signi- that night the vision of our Lord tion of the history of Israel, and ficance, a premature opening that remained with him and his mother has endeavoured to show the led on to no sequel. To others it was afraid to be in the room. It Roman Converts how the purposes throws a flood of light on the boy was very hot, she spent it in the of God were being accomplished, hood of Jesus, both in what it street and watched us with some In spite of the fact that Israel had reveals and in what it hidos. To the neighbours through the window. not responded to the call. Now hevangelist it was a stage in a true The father was drunk in the next turns to his readers with his development of the perfect human room. a brother was asleep under personal exhortation, Since God,haracter. "And Joats increased in the table; part of my job was to so he says to them in effect, has wisdom and stature, and in favour keep the vecmi which swamed, revealed to you Gentiles this with God and man."
fre attacking the boy. The sordid wonderful programme
and the heavenly were very noer Salvation, you must respond with
together." the only reasonable sacrifice of which you are capable, that is the sacrifice not of slaughtered beasts, but of your living selves, of your minds and bodles pure and free from blemish,
of
Human nature is not condemned by Christianity as something bad:
in itself. It is accepted as a fact
"And so the Word had breath,
and wrought With human hands the Creed of
creeds
In loveliness of perfect deeds, "More strong than all poetic
thought."
A Martyr of our Buglish Mines
The night before he died. Frod performed his last ministry with a last flicker of strength he crept into the room where his drunken father lay cursing and kneeling beside him, ontreated him to change and become a good man.
Christianis more non est mors
of life from which there is no A beautiful and trus story is told Byfed dormitä. reasonable escape. Hamlet when, Father Mackay of a pitbuy whoth
he was oppressed by many troubles
ho knew and loved in the early days
and difficulties is made to exclaim; his ministry at Bristol. He
O that this too too-solid flesh
would melt,
noticed at one of the evening clasecs
"
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
SUNKEN BRITISH SUBMARINE.
LONDON, January 12.
It is hoped that moderation of
divers to descend and inspect the the heavy seas running will enable wreckage of the Lz4 this morning, though the prospect of saving lives is most remote,
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MOTEMENT OF STEAMERS.
The A.0... "West Hanabaw" which is dos at this port on or about Feb. 11 led from Seattle on Jan. 4.
The OP.S. RM8. Empress of Australia" from Hongkong on Dec. 1 Devanhe arrived arrived at Vancouver on Jan. 9. at Marseilles on Jan. 12.
The P&O 6.5.
The U.P.8, R.M.S." Empress of Asia arrived at Shanghai on Jan, 12 at 8 pm left lungbai on Jan. 19 at 1 p.m. and
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ing at 8.30 am. leaves Nagasaki this afternoon at 4 p.m. and is due at Shang- leaving that part on Wednesday at 3pm.
The . I.-5. "Talmy" left Singapor for this port on Jan. 8 at p.. and is doo here to-morrow at about á. m.
The D. L.B.5. Warisa "left Bangkok for this port on Jan. 7 at a.m. and is duo here to-morrow at about a..
The B. F. 1. "Tyndareus" tma Pacifio Ports left Nagasaki daylight on Jan. 19 for this part and is due bare to
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The B. F... Poleus" for New York
On Jan. 1
16.
and Boston will be despatched at 4 pm
The 1.0.L 8.8. Pros. Madison" is das here at 7 am, to-morrow will wil for Vistoria and Beattle vin Shanghal and Japan at 10a.m. on Jan. 17.
for rough la, one who seemed to Reuter's Service to the China Mail. hai to-morrow at 4 p Thaw and resolve itself with a stand apart from the others, a boy
dew!
with very dark eyes set in a white But there is the cry of a mind face. This was Fred, the eldest of that has not yet reached the seven children in a working class Christian point of view. The lesh tarily whose father was a bad that so often presses upon man so character and a drunkard, and had heavily, and appears to drag him it not been for Fred who earned down, is none the less the Temple good wages in the mines, the poor of the Holy Spirit And it is just mother would have been obliged to because of this indwelling spirit go to the work house. A year before that the body can be offered Father Mackay met Fred, the boy as a sacrifice holy and ac developed consuruption and was told ceptable to God. Its holiness is by the doctor that recovery was the result of the spirit's Possible if he got work above presence, for the Spirit purifies. ground, but that if he stayed in the strengthens and forgives. Two its he could not live more than factors, however, spoil our offer another two years. So Fred tried ing. There is the innate selfish hard to get work above ground, but ness of each one of us, whichiled, and for the little family only allows passion to wreck the parity one thing remained, the work house. of the body and to dim the clear- then Fred realized that in two ness of the mind. And there is the world outside us and around years time, his brother who was us, that would ever drag us strong, would be big enough to take down to its false and ridiculous bis place in the pits and so be standards, its paltry aims, so he chose to die for his
returned to the underground work. heartless conventions. So the apostle bids us strive against family, Fred had no iden that he the fashion of the world. St. was doing anything heroic. Until he Chrysostom commenting on this came to the evening classes he knew passage uses words that we might nothing of Christianity except the hazy ideas he may have gathered from a picture that hung in the cottage called The Broad and Narrow Way
well take to hear!:
"St. Paul says, not change the fashion, but be transformed, to show that the world's ways are a fashion, but virtue's ways are not,
but on the contrary a real form, with a natural beauty of its own, not meeding the trickerics and fashions of outward things, which no sooner appear than they go to naught. For all these things, even before they come to light, are dissolving. If then thou thro- west the fashion aside, thou wilt speedily come to the form.".
THE GOSPEL.
Here down in Brad Way walked worldlings, Priests, Sisters of Mercy and Miks and up the Narrow Way undetioninational Chris- walked tians!
When Fred was told of our Lord he gave himself utterly and entirely to Him, and as the two years and close, the boy learnt more and more his own physical strength drew to a how to be Christ's companion on the Way of Sorrows.
Heavy seas all day long have rendered impossible further oper ations on the L24 Hope of saving the lives of those aboard has been definitely abandoned by the Ad- miralty. It is understood that no attempt will be made to raise the submarine, but it is hoped that the divers' report will in due course throw further light on the cause of the disaster.
SWIMMING PERFORMANCE.
SYDNEY, January 12. In the New South Wales Swim-
ming Championship, a sixteen year old lad, Alan Charlton, won the 440 yards
The B. P. 5.5. Agapenor "left Liver- pool on Dec. 16 for Singapore, Hongkong, Shanghai and Kobe sad is doo here on or about Jan. 17.
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J. Batton Hongkong Club, from Shanghai,
Paint, from Tiantain.
Yim Yip Chang Ching Street, Wont
Wan Ching 231 Queen's Road, from Marseilles.
Uylipkes, from Amoy.
Tin Lee 283 Qamen's Road, from Shanghai.
0569, from Shangbai.
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CONSIGNEEB' NOTICE.
Cargo arrived per s.s. "City of Canter
The A.O. 6.6. "Pres. McKinley" which is due at this port on Jan. 18, sailed from Seattle on Dec. 38. cnbury not cleared by to-morrow will be Echedule.
Tro AO.L. ..Capram" sailed from Vaconter on Dec. 10 and is expected hare on or about Jan. 99.
The E. F. 1.5.Phemius" left Liver pool on Dec. 12 for Peaspg, Port Swet Chemains and Dainy and is dus hore cn enham, Singapore, Hongkong, banghai, event in 5mins.or about Jan. 25. 11.4-5 secs., defeating the Swede, Arneborg by twenty yards.
The time ties with Borg's world's record at Stockholm în 1922.
DAVIS CUP CHALLENGE.
NEW YORK, January 12. Switzerland has issued Challenge for the Davis Cup.
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WHAT TO DO FOR CHILDREN'S COLDS. Colds are dangerous because they of ton' lay the seeds of consumption azd other forms of lung trouble.
The time came when his brother
When the Brateymptoms of a cold are was able to take his place in the noticed give the child a hot bath and pits and Fred lay on his bed in the day carefully. Put it to bed. Redube It is a good thing for anyone squalid cottage over to leave it the quantity of food a little and give who feels some misgivings as to
again. One incident murred the Baby's Own Tablets to move the bowels. the value of the historical records happiness of his last days, and this Grase the nose is de and out with pure vasoline. If the weather is bad keep the concerning Jesus Christ, which was only for one terrible moment child indoors, in a woll-ventilated room have come down to us, to compare his mother who was preparing a well better, the legends, which in India have meal in the next room heard a
Not only do Baly's Own Tablets, the gathered round the carly life of
And bat they reduce fever, curo Buddha, with the one simple, sober piercing stick and running to the Canadian children's remedy, relievs colds boy found in sitting up in bed, the indigestion and colic, dispel constipa story of the boyhood of our Lord, sweet, pouring from him and his tion, chuck dinstboes, ar pel worm, allay which is read at the Gospel for fuce convulsed with terror. At last teething pains, quiet the nerves and this Sunday.
The great German theologian, as she tried to soothe him he gusped quietly induce natural health-giving the devil,e hos sleep in catmal way. Gosmateed "I have seen and critic, Hamack, brought up,
She tried to convince pure and harmless oven to the youngest
infort. as he had been, to regard the been here."
Chemists sell them, or post fro, 60 Gospels as unhistorical works, him that he had been dreaming but
Dr Williams' has borne his unbiased witness, the boy shook his head "No, no, I cents the vial, from after forty years of unremitting saw him so distinctly, he was like, Melicine Co., 80 Klangse Road, Shang-
Day study,
of he was like Black Light." the character these early chapters of St. by day his strength woned and his Luke's Gospel, Nothing," he greatest happiness came each time
· writes,
"that is mythological the Iloly Communion was brought
Bronchitis leaves a bad cough, 80 doe, or to him, and as he said Jesus is induenza and la grippe, but these hards Greek Oriental myth is to be found in my room to-day," but his work here lingering coughs yield easily to the hesi these accounts." Above all he was not quite dono. He had a great ing and curative qualities of Climber. abundantly vindicates the honesty friend, a big burly marry who broke lala's Cough Remedy. Good for trouble. of St. Luke's character as an his- his leg and was unable to work and sous night coughs too. For asle every- torian. "St. Luke," he writes in starvation threatened his family too. where.
in the
to
sense
of
the same work, "regarded these Fred could not go to bùn and very stories as proceeding from St. distressed lay wondering how he Mary; for his practice elsewhere as could help. For a time he cried an historian proves that he himself bitterly and then brightened and could not have jovented a fiction asked for a penny exercise book. like this."
In this he made is little brother The story, that forms our Gospel write at the head of each page, one for to-day, is indeed an example sentence of the Lord's Prayer and of an episode that could not have underneath these, very laboriously, been invented. Which is, indeed, Fred wrote lúmself in pencil all be the more amazing feature of the knew of our Lord and His love.. tale, the unsuspecting parents Then the book was sent to the going off home quite cheerfully, navvy who received it with great imagining that the boy Jesus was reverence and read it with care. A some where in the company, or the few days Inter, since recovery was surprise of Jesus that his parents impossible. Fred was wrapped in should not know where to find him blankets and carried down the sun- if they really wanted him?
shiny street and laid on the bed beside his friend and together they
And what could be more unlike
fiction thau. the climax to the story? talked of the Friend of man and the
navy wept silently as he listened
"And he went down with thear and came to Nazareth and was subject to the dying child. unto them." Up to this point) Some of the boys from a wealthier everything anggests that we are to part of Clifton used to go down and
ses the opening of the ministry, or visit Fred and take him a magazine at least that the final acens of our and tell him the latest football news. Lord's boyhood is reached, and that One day he seemed a little taxious de will take his place, prematurely, and asked Father Mackay why Our 09 a Man among men.
Lord did not also come and visit But exactly, the opposite is the him. When he was answered he said ense Jesus roognises the parental wistfully "Yes I know he does not authority; and he submite without a come in that way now, but I -word or sign of surprise. Ho goes thought perhape He would have back to the shop house of Nazareth. come to see me.
To the writer of fiction there cold But just beloos Fred died Qur havily be a támer or low ultrako, Lostly did come
infito: mneneods that contamed: bok" he would say to be f
bat.
Lingering Coughs
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