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MAN'S READINESS TO
BELIEVE WORST.
A LOCAL SERMON.
Taking as his text: "There is not one righteous man... They have everyone of them become corrupt" (Rom. 5.10.123, the Rev. C. Clouston Porri. C.F preached the following sermon last Sun- day:
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All men are under condemnation and against the race the just anger of God burns.
The judgment is retrospective: "Through the disobedience of one individual the mass of mankind was constituted sinners; sin and guilt reign from Adam to his latest descendant.
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The history of man, according perhaps the most attractive light. to the Hebrew Scriptures, begins We can feel, however, that He who with the fall and outside Paradise.brought out what was worst in the The dreams of the race antedate worst of men will bring out what! all records.. The Golden Age is best in the humble, sincore and stretches back Into the past and honest. always beginn as a memory.. Later it is continued into the future and exists as vision splendid with the promise of a glorious Inherit
unce,
The Gospels reveal Jesus soek- ing and finding the best, in men. This is surely what we want to know about to-day. A lesson needed to-day when mea are not worrying about their sins at all, when men have a mission if they are good for anything, a mission which is to be up and doing, according to Sir Oliver Lodge.
The book of Genesis which describes the loss of the old and golden, inheritance passes on to the story of a new inheritance Abraham, the friend of God, be comes the father of a new people,
The worst in us drives us to to whom is made the promise of despair or leaves us fatalistically heritage, which if it were not a acquiescing in the worst, the beat a Garden of the Lord was to be an us leads us to the Cross, the goodly land in which-the-wander Christ and the Saviour of man- ing tribes of the desert would find kind. a home. If in Adam all the sons of men are accurat, in Abraham according to the promise, "all the families of the earth are blest."
The lawyer-apostle and public prosecutor of humanity won his case. St. Paul had put himself in the dock before he placed mankind on trial.
The Pharisee in Paul was innocent: in respect of law The Gospels also contain and he was-blameless but desus came news about man and are an addi-into his experience and it was tional confirmation of the worst after that crisis of the Spirit that we can believe of ourselves and the self-righteous sectarian wrote of our unfortunate-race...
his own.condemnation of sinners John the Baptist), the herald the chief," and indicted the race. and Jesus (the Christ), open their The apostle's doctrine of maris to Man shows a-stane willing mission by sounding an urgent be interpreted through his ness to belive the worst-about-call to repentancer for which-there-doctrine of God in Christ Jesus. himself his righbour and his
must, have been
There is not one righteous race.
desperate need. How great that man" is not the verdict of despair need was we learn! · When, the but the foundation of hope, the most pious, most respected and justification of the Gospel and the most influential of the Jews vindication of the cross sought baptism in the waters of We have quoted from the Jordan. John asked fiercely, of Gospels the most damning indict- Sadducees and Pharisees. "Oment again man. Both the generation of vipers: who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" The popular judgment and the prophetic were poles apart!
the most
Baptist and his Master begin their mission with a call to repentance, "There is not one righteous" not even in the nation of God's choice to which He has sent His Son!
The Gospel for the day is the Gospel of hope. The Church with its doctrines of original sin and Lotal depravity and our own bitter experience have left us without any illusions about the offence of our sinful nature the extent of our ruin and the depth' of our shame.
The Christ of the Gospels came to seek that which was lost in the far country of the world and to turn again home the son, who might be unworthy to be called a son, but for whom the father is. waiting and for whom the feast will be prepared. "For this my son was dead, and is alive, he was Host and is found. And they began
to be merry."
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In the matter of the Companies : Ordinances 1911-1921
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVER
In pursuance to Section 181 of the Companies, Ordinazoon 1911-1921, that, a meeting of the Creditors of the Ying Lee Co. Ltd. (in liquidation) will be held at the registered office of the Company, No. 82 Des Voeur Road West Victoria; in the Colony of Hongkong on SATURDAY 20th September,
1924 300 p.m. for the purposes provided in such section.
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Hongkong 25th August, 1924.
NOTICE.
In the matter of the Companies Ordinances 1911 to 1915..."
Mand
In the matter of the Ying. Lea Company, Limited,
(In liquidation)
At an Extraordinary General Meet ing of Ying Lee Company Limited, duly convened and held at No. 82, Des Voeux-Road-West, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong on the 2nd, day of August, 1924, the samé Resolution was duly passed and at s. rubaequant
·COMPLAINANT MISSING. Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company also duly convened and held at the same place on the 18th day of August, 1924, the same Resolution was duly confirmed a Special Resolution :
Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Chan Sang appeared on remand with maliciously wounding Li Hing on board the ss. Hong Hwa" on August 4.
As the complainant did not put in an appearance, the accused was discharged.
That the Company be wound up that Moara. voluntarily and Wong Mow-lam and Tai Pak-Loi be appointed Liquidstore for the purpose of such winding up.
Some relie may be found in knowing the worst, and becoming accustomed to it: "As a matter of Inet." writes Sir Oliver Lodge. "the higher man of to-day is not worrying about his sins at all, still less about their punishment."
There is much in the history of mankind and in our personal experience and observation, to justify the lowest estimate we may form of Human nature, and
The amazement of the Pharisees An impression is left on our conduct and the gravest fears we was heightened when Jesus, in minds by the Gospels that Jesus may entertain of the degeneration terms no less picturesque and came to find out" men. He and decay of the human race. The hope that a catastrophic interven- scathing, denounced them as "the appears as the supreme critic
By the unfortunate Substitution tion may arrest the moral and pers" bread, and as "whitened reversing any favourable judg-
sépulchres." He characterised ments of character formed by His of "n" for "r" in the report of his spiritual desire of humanity those models of respectability and contemporaries. We saw Himmarriage in a country newspaper, proves how read are those feurs.
He pierce through the insincerities of a certain clergyman was styled the HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
"Neverend Mr.-----." The great The conflict propriety as "play-actors."
"found out" the proud Pharisee, the Pharisees-sound the hollow- between Capital aunt Labour and the clash of creeds are among the exposed the vulgarity of his ness of their pretensions and strip question has a reputation for being. parade of righteousness, and off their fair disguises. We saw stripped from him the cloak of Him expose to the crowd the saintliness beneath which he con sepulchre-like impurity of their cented his vileness.
hearts full of the dead bones of foul thoughts, desires and motives.
things that correct any tendency to be optimistic about man or his future.
Eastern religions know the worst about us. Existence itself is sorrow and possesses eternal possibilities of greater sorrow Birth introduces to a world of greater suffering.
The Hebrew Scriptures confirm the worst opinions we may hold about man and mankind.
"There is not one, righteous man." The Pharisees who passed in their own estimation and that of the public for the exceptions and were respected as the just and righteous failed to pass the scrutiny of Ilim, "who knew what was in man."
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J. M. WONG, Chairman of the Masting of the Company above mentioned,
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We-confess our initial surprise that Jesus should make public his condemnation of men of reputed piety and religiousness and that He-should destroy in-the eyes of the common people those who stood to them for the embodiment We may, therefore, believe the of all they could not be.. Some correspondents to the local worst of ourselves and the race We understand from our own Press might find it helpful to read to which we belong. The Scrip- | experience how that when we are what the Scriptures have to say tures will increase that faith and brought face to face with the about human nature, its limita- enlarge its content. They will Jesus of the Gospels, we find our tions and its imperfections. They provide abundant reasons for selves out and like the Apostle NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN might then understand the earthi- | believing that human nature is Paul we have to acknowledge how | that the First Ordinary Yearly ness of the vessels in which the fallen. corrupt and corrupting. free from exaggeration are the Meeting of Shareholders of HONG- divinest treasures are preserved! That mankind is adjudged guiltyseverities of His judgment. But KONG REALTY AND TRUST The first and second chapters of before God and condemned. That the Pharisees were blind and their | COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held Genesis describe the creation of man's habits are sinful and his hearts hardened, they drew the at the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder the world and man, and the mak-natural bias is towards evil. Eden lightning shafts of His anger in Street, Bongkong, on WEDNESDAY. ing of woman. The third chapter was closed against, our first the vividness of which they were
the 10th day of September, 1924, at contains the story of man's shame, parents and its batred gates have seen of all.,
12 o'clock noor, for the purpose of ful fall! The first thing we know never been opened. Man the out-- Human nature is full of un-receiving a Statement of Accounts about our first parents is of their cast wanders in an alien world, reconciled antitheses, in this fact failure. History began with it. forfeited the privileges of his we find an explanation of the and what was an experience in birth and vanished his inheritance.. attitude of Jesus towards men and Eden became a habit outside
We may thus understand how His teaching concerning their Paradise. Sia remains the com- from Seriptures and experience, worth to God. monplace of human existence; and material has accumulated and Man at his worst cruciñed the the fall the direction in which theologians have been able to con- Christ, the Cross was the judg mankind continues with gathering struct doctrines of original sin ment and the condemnation of the momentum, Scripture history and total depravity. We can world. Man at his worst makes describes a fallen world punished almost understand how the bar Calvary a permanent gibbet and by the Deluge. A people chosen sinister attaches itself to every the Crucified a perpetual victim. by God to ben righteous nation infant born of woman and how it He "Crucifies the Son of God and to enjoy a divine inheritance has come to be regarded at least afresh and puts Him to open Tapse into idolatry and immorality | theologically, as a “child of sin!" shame!" and are carried away captive from When at last we have discovered Man at his best is Crucified with the land of promise to suffer in the worst there is to be known Christ; the Cross is where his old exile for their fall.
about human nature and life ends and the new life of con- The final chapter of their his-humanity; when we are fully conscious sonship begins. tory in the Scriptures is oven more vinced of the extent of man's ruin, The final test of man's worth is tragic. The Messiah, who for long physical, mental, social, and his worth to God; the Cross is centuries they bad awaited spiritual; then we are prepared, the mysterious judgment of love, appeared, and was unrecognised, protected and placed in a position of God's love to man; man the ER viering van den verjaardag With shame and ignominy they to learn some additional truths sinner, the son prodigal, and the KONINGIN, zal de Consul General by de
Tun HARE MAJESTEIT DE in their blindness crucified Him. about ourselves, about our neigh-child fallen.
den 30sten: A., Augustus [ri, ka garna The Christian Scriptures add bours and our race.
"All I could never be;
tusschen 11 en 12 uur des voormid- their confirmation to the worst we Further facts. gathered from All men ignored in me,
dags ter Kanselarij ontvangen --- know of mankind.
Scripture and, experience, may This, I was worth to God, whose St. Paul, whose knowledge of enable us to reach a full and wheel the pitcher shaped,"
Hongkong, 29 Augusttis-1924. Asiatic Building. the Hebrew Scriptures was pro-faithfui estimate of our real worth We have said that the Gospels. found, and whose-natural abilities or unworth..
give a two-fold impression of and training made him an excel- We have quoted Scripture, but Jesus in His attitude to men; an ent lawyer, appears in his great quotations may be often mislead-attitude which appears to be con- letter to the Romans as the public ing. Satan was taught that lesson tradictory.. prosecutor of humanity. The by the Master of the Word. Scrip The manner in which Jesus of HER MAJESTY, THE IN commemoration of the birthday Apostle's knowledge of human ture teaching about man appears judged and condemned, those who QUEEN the Consul General will nature was no less deep, an un- to share the inconsistency of passed for the most religious beat home at the Chancery; on wearied traveller in many coun-human nature itselt. The con- people of His day has caused us Saturday the 30th August between Tries and a keen student of life tradictions, however, are found to some surprise and questionings; 11 am and 12 ngon, and customs, he knew enough of be as necessary to the portraiture further surprise and questionings Hongkong, 29th Auguity1924 humanity to handle successfully of man as light and shade are in swait us when we consider His bis case, Hebrew, Greek and any other portraiture
Judgment of little children, the
Asiatic Building... Roman, Jew and Gentile, believer We find as we study the Scrip common and ignorant people, the and unbeliever, are on trial fon tures that, by means of dramatic outcast and the prodigal Capital offences...
situations, vivid contrasts and Our intention has been to pre- The prosecutor marshals his startling paradoxes they show uspare the way for such considera facts-with-deadly skilt from min at his weret but always with tion. We have seen Jesus in universal history, from wide possibilities of the "best-man as experience and from careful fallen but always with the promise observation he produces evidence of recovery, man as guilty and in abundance to prove that all men condemned but with a recom have sinned, sinned against know mendation to mercy, human ledge and against God. The nature as corrupt, but with powers defence breaks down utterly, of recuperation. Man may, be The apostle gains his verdict of outcast but only because he is an gulity against all humanity. heir with visions of an inherit.
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