THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1924,
MAN 'AND HUMANITY'
"
HIS UNWORTHINESS WELL,
TAUGHT.
Taking as his text; "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul. Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" The Rev. C. Clouston Porni, C.F..
Sunday:-
Any re-valuation of man must begin at the Cross...
Whatever may be our unworthi- ness, and of that the Cross makes us most conscious, we learn our worth-to-God; even-though.we.be. fallen, guilty corrupt. and con. demned, "God so loved the world," He commendeth His love in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us."
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WASHINGTON, September 3. The State Department is publishing the correspondence with the League of Nations in which It declined to be represented at the Geneva discussions for a con vention for the control of the
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An example at unce of the value of China's hicklen archeological wealth and the danger to which i is constintly exposed by irrespon sible and careless excavation, has been afforded recently by Mr. G States Government
The Department says that United, Bishop, associate prutor of the that it was improbable that the Institution, Washington, who is understood Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsoniup
committee would attempt to more colleague, Mr. A. G. Wenisy. League Assembly's arms-control-now working in Chine-with-bis than consider whether the draft of Some time ago he was in Honan the Convention afforded a satisfac Province, at Chengehow, when he tory basis for calling an interna was told of the dissovery of valu- tional conference in order to conable relics about 27 miles away, at clude a convention, and as the place called. Hsin-cheng, He United States Government's posi hastened to the village, and found tlon on every point is well under that a tomb of the highest value, stood it is not thought that any intrinsically and archeologically, useful purpose would be served by was being rudely exhumed by calling a meeting of the com- gangs of the focal soldiery, They tee, but the United States had taken temsion of the site Government will be disposed to when it became known that the consider favourably participation
We make the Cross our start. frenched the following sermon lasting-point because in the act of Supreme Self-Sacrifice there are gathered together as in one Man's consciousness of his un- glorious illustration all the lessons worthiness provided us with of the life labours, passion and topic-last-Sunday. We remarked death of the Christ. his willingness to believe the The Gospels contain the separate worst of himself, his neighbours lessons to which we now turn for and his race. Investigation into guidance de our attempt at a re the origin of our humble self-aluation of man and humanity. estimation would be interesting. Many of the stories about Jesus Eastern philosophy and the reflect His judgments of value, Hebrew and Christian Scriptures from these we select a few which together with experience and we believe will enable us to correct observation confirm our lowest our low estimate of ourselves and judgments of value. Religious our race. teaching for centuries past has insisted that muin is fallen corrupt and condemned; and as such he is as unit for goodness in an evil We have read somewhere that the in-an-appropriate intemational / tenant land naéarthed some bronzos |
beyond.
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The greatest benefactors of the race are those who discover and utilise values previously unknown.
SUDAN PROBLEM.
BRITISH PREMIER EXPLAINS.
world as he is unprepared for foundation of our commercial conference to negotiate and conexovation had brought to light a while diggins well-Pantie happiness in 1L better world prosperity is coul. The values clude a convention.
discoverable in coal have been a The lesson of man's unworthi- slow discovery and comparative ness has indeed been well taught recent. and learnt. The present time; Jesus is humanity's · greatest however, shows signs of unensi- benefactor, we shall find that He ness und reaction. We are becom-discovered moral and spiritual ing aware of a growing protest values where they were' lenst against the old, values which can- | suspected and most ignored. The not be ignored. A new-science is present century, is beginning to creating the belief that a man's accept children and women: the well-being depends upon his think-crowd and the outcast at the ing himself to be better than he Christ valuation.
"Between
(Reuter's Service)
duzzling army" of bronzes "und, pot- tery, Arvording to Mr. Bishop, the tomb proböbly dates from thei latter part of thể Chow dynasty. roughly between 400 1,4, and 260
· B.C, -The chimber was filled with pottery, jade, qud inher precious ornaments, vasse, a chariot, a LONDON, September. 3.
wonderful collection of bronĪZES, ent of the "Dally Express" in th
Interviewed by the correspond. and animal bones of all descrip
There were over 100 Paris, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald bruizes in the collection, many of i declared that Zighlul had Ignored them sheeted in gold, as was the his last invitation to
come to hariot. B. when Mr. Bishop London. At the same time he reached the omab must of the gold. was convinced that the recent leat had been taken away, the disturbances in the Sudan were bronzes had been buscked with pick- engineered by members of the axes, the animal and human bones Egyptian Government. He added | hud been, scattered, and the orna- that despite the original intentionments, vises, astud pottery were to maintain the status que pending mimus many essential parts, the discussions, he was obliged to strengthen and determine the British position in the Sudan,
The very plentiful fragments ol pottery, said Mr. Bisligi, were of various shapes and types, most of them new to me. I found pieces intuet in either of the trenches; but on the dump I saw a well-modelled little vase
receive the Kingdom of God like enter it. Let the little children decorated ware, and in perfect con- come to Me; do not hinder them,ision. Before I could pick it up for to those who are childlike the it had been wantonly smashed by Kingdom of God belongs."
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is, rather than upon thinking that We referred last Sunday,to the he in worse than he is. Religious | two-fold, impression the Gospels opinion is already reacting to the give of Jesus. teaching of the Nancy Schoci. In the one He appears as the The time has most certainly Supreme Critic, who came "to find arrived for a re-valuation of man out the worst in those who by and humanity. Already there their religiousness stood to the has been a marked rise in aan's common people for the embodi- social economic and moral values: ment of righteousness and the
Jesus de but has there been a correspond-realisation of best. ing rise in what we believe to be rounced them as vulgar shams. the higher values of the Spirit? their fair appearance was. as A pertinent question of Jesus deceptive as their hearts were found in the oldest Gospel and clean, their desire ignoble and unanswered bears on our inquiry, their motives base.
Launches will leave-Blake Pler "What shall it profit a man if he Jesus and the Pharisees existed an
at 2 p.m., and 2.30 pm. Admission gain the whole world and lose his irreconcilable misunderstanding
by member's ticket. Visitor's own soul" or "what shall a nian and hostility.
tickets, price 50 cents, may be give in exchange for his soul?”
In the other impression Jesus
obtained from members, the Hon: The unanswered question wit- appears as the gracious seeker,
To the babe and to the childlike
Sec., or, at Blake Pier before nesses to the conviction, that who came to find" and to recover belongs the Kingdom. To those
embarking. Tea will be served Jesus held, that man possessed a what was best in those who who have retained the simple judge in these that a good on the beach. spiritual valute, and that as a possessed the least claim to trust, the loving obedience, and intues in the course of excavation. be, Giris under 10, 25 yards: Boys munny.vessels nijst have been found Open events for children will spiritual being he is of greater righteousness and piety. worth than the universe.
the heart of a little child, and to the Good Shepherd who seeks lost those the twice-born who haver esses quite fresh.
for the fretures were in a number | under 10, 25 yards; Girls between 10 and 15, 50 yards; Boys-between In our extimate of values this lambs and wandering sheep. He recovered child likeness and have spiritual factor must be dominant, is the Son Whom the Father, God, by a new birth entered into the bad been placed inside the lunger will be duplicated for the children Luckily megylof the small pierex 10 and 15, 50 yards: These events Browning felt that it was so: "A has sent to "bring home prodigal
Kingdom.
pivres, and Sso éœaped the pick-of members only that. I desired to be." All tintsons, restore fallen daughters, and
Our first impressions of Jesusuxes of the diggers, However, the man ignored in me. This: I was to gather into the unity of the as the Lover of little children un- finest specimens were the larger their families only will be 25 yards Races open to members and family of God the scattered families of men.
happily were early corrected. | vessels, and agony of these were for ladies and 50 yards for men.
In addition there will a Ladies' We admit the contradiction, but Lessons in the Sunday School, irretrievably ruined, I was parti- the difficulty is felt by those only sermons in the Church, and cularly interested in two purs of and Gentlemen's Relay Race, and who mistake in the Scriptures the Jesus we loved into some-one we tins and beautifully decorated. items in the way of musical life- childrens-hyun-changed-the--great-brona-vures-of-line-propoira water polo match-Comedy form for the substance. Attention to the "letter" alone is fatal. St.
One.rested on square incses sup buoys, walking the greasy pole, the The re-valuation of child values ported on the backs of two etc., also have a place on Paul warns us "that the letter
illeth, but the Spirit gives life." Proceeds; the child no longer seint minimis, apparently con programme. A good afternoon's The Scribes, whose knowledge of but the Church does not appear
belongs to the Kingdom of Labour ventionalised tigers, while the sport is expected." Bundles appeured. the old Scriptures was exact and to succeed in saving the child for We may anticipate the objection literary, were blind to their that the one test of man's worth spiritual significance. "Ye do err the Kingdom of Heaven. There, are no more depressing statistics
worth to God." -
The ultimate test of man's value!
is that; what is his worth to God" As Christians, we believe that in the teaching of Jesus und the Gospels we shall discover in what consist man's true worth. We are convinced that Christ and the Gospels must provide the material for our re-valuation.
He is
feared.
10 represent bulls. Hams with spiral horses. most happily rendered, were repre- sented at the four corners. This USH of conventionalised * aninil
done to the
SWISS. CYCLONE. is his service to the community: Jesus told them "not knowing the than those of the Sunday Schools! figures for handles, supports, and that he is to be judged by the Scriptures.", A little child may contribution he makes to the understand them in their simpli-children to come unto Me"......
Jesus said "Suffer the little derative elements, by the way, is
Territet. July 22:-A cyclone material, intellectual or moral city. From a child thou has perchance mothers of the 20th uralleled. Both of these agni-wind estimated at 80 miles an 180st striking and, I think. un-swept over the Lake of Geneva at well-being and progress of man-known the holy Scriptures" wrote century are different from those feent
5 o'clock this afternoon with a kind. Our preference is most the veteran Apostle to his young of the Ist, who, though hindered, damaged by the diggers, one even Vessels were frightfully
hour. naturally for spirituality Lo colleagite Timothy. utility. We neither explain nor
brought their little ones to Jesus. Imaving its phelian tiger base coni-
Huge waves were hurled over Our earliest impressions of
promenades and filled the streets defend our preference; we are as Jesus were happily tree from all a problem and a menace to-day.
The outcast and the fallen are pletely, konaked off,
of many towns with several feet of conscious of it as an artist is of contradictions.
Another beæátiful piece, à cuil- | water. Hundreds of trees were his preference for beauty rather but not unfelt, orice Himself a There are two ways of dealing feet in diameter, was completely were suck or damaged.
He was unseen Hongkong knows them as both. arim of tripod form, nearly three uprooted and boats in harbours than for usefulness.
Babe, He continues the Children's with them--the way of We may give our reason for Jesus, the Friend of little chil- Pharisee; who despises and curses buried his pickaxe in order
the shell in here af digger Ind At Clarens there were showers seeking in the teachings of Jesus dren" gentle, tender and loving.
to of the largest hailstones ever seen and the Gospels our material for
them; the way of Jesus, who sees wrench the vessel out of its there, some weighing an ounce. re-valuation. We have yet to dis-and the Sunday School. "When gain; sees them outcast and and gave I saw nothing to un- badly cut on the head.
We.sang about Him in the home them as actual loss but possible earthen entris. For sheer beauty. Several workers in the Acids were cover a teacher, who knew more mothers of Salem their children shameless but sons and daughters are with two cranes, highly of God and of man than ile who brought to Jesus;, we knew all still, sees them trampled under tinalisti suve for certain con-able damage was
In less than ten minutes incalcul in obedience to the Will of God about the "stern disciples" and the feet of men, unrecognisable ventional squaring of the wing. vineyards and fruit crops. died for us men and our salvation. the "Suffer little children to come gems for which He was sent to tips, and so ebuemingly executed
The Cross arrests us at the be- unto Me" Jesus. "ginning of our inquiry with its
seek and restore.
that one could almost faney them We imagined the happy little questioning.
Unfortunately, The salvation of the outenst car | in-netinil Hight. We cannot view ones in the arms of Jesus, "folded be achieved only by those who both Ind been broken into a num
Although intrinsically, the collec it as the memorial to an idealist. in Ifis bosom and we knew that accept them at Christ's valuation ber of pieces, the smaller of which tion that and murdulison The Gospels state clearly that He loves the Lover of the childworthless in the sight of men, had been lost, or perhaps included result of the thefts and vandalism Jesus died not for ideals but for and we were happy too in the but of value to the Father; foolish, in the innumerable baskets of of the soldier-diggers, and a great | men. He who claimed to be the simple love of Jesus. Truth suffered for sinners,, Was
wilful, prodigal and rebellious, but fragments which a hall eal of its archeological value, the, then the flock of such value that children we heard, but did not circos esence from tar mile afterwards taken, was almost filled interest in American archnological Other stories of Jesus and the whose absence from the family Chengchow, where the pieces were femains have excited considerable the Good Shepherd should die for quite understand them. We knew sorrow.
melancholy monuments to the circles. It is still premature to the sheep? Was man, and He took a little child in His arms'
manner in which the excavation of base any definite conclusion on the humanity of such worth that the end taught His ambitious disciples ber of "Tit Bits" provides us with had been cundacted.
A paragraph from a recent nam- this superlatively wonderful site bronzes, but even superficial, Christ should be sacrificed for about being humble and useful.lesson and conclusion. A poor; int the diggers deliberately broke types, while the group as th I was told examination reveals quite known' We feel there must be He told them that the chief among wretched. some correspondence between the them must be the lowest of all appeared before the mugistrates that they might turn out to be the unient Chinese culture lands | drunken woman up numbers of objects in the hope gests contacts not merely with
price and the purchase to use Himself One with the little ones.proved powerless to reform her. It seems to be established that liver but also with the art of the If this is so; the Cross which tle child in My Name receiveth find her employment as a means large amount of sheet gold stripped dominated the Yangtze Valley "Who so shull receive one such Permission was given to try and the warlang made away with a
old kingdom of Ch'u, which during. has been interpreted as proof of
I part of the Chow dynasty Me." man's unworthiness,
of rescue. In answer to an adver- from the bronze, surfares.
Purte Ju the light of this deplorable divine and desperate means of He appeared as the champion tsement, over 300 replies were of the chariot, were also heavily securing the release of the con- of little children. The harshest received, offering her home and couted in gold, as could be umised experience Mr. Bishop strongly demned, the raising of the fallen words He uttered were in con-employment!
from the true that remained
supports 4 suggestion which has and the recovering of the lost.demnation of those who despise
Jesus came to the world seeking after the depredations of the.exy times been advanced. In the past, that Chinese and foreigners must be re-interpreted as the or harm a little child. It were hit which was lost but not value autore, the demolition of dould combine in the establish- crowning evidence of man's worth better" he said of such that less, He taught the worth to God this fine piece of work, Mr. "Bishopment School of Clinese to God
millstone were hangod-about-hir of those whom the religiotis spoke witli kærperegret Archaology to train-u force of cotht We read its message of value-neck and he were drowned in the Leachers of the day despised as Evidently, the interment was patent, field-workers and undertake that mankind was worth saving douth of the sen
worfhloss-the-common-people,
Bronze Ago,charioz, aburial.""and"
* systematic study of the traces of even at the cost of infinite sacri- Jesus in the Lover of little the outcast and the prodigal. We there appears to have been scary man's early existence in Chini. five. That there is in man some children-He was one of a rogain our sense of value when we deviation from similar burials In Mr. Bishop's opinion it is not which, have been unearthed in too much to say that a properly unknown quantity and some family of children as a Lover he realise at what an infinite cost we western untrice, It should conducted excavation at Hin- ignored potentiality, which gives understands them and knows their are recovered to God, to righteous Mr. Bishop, have been poss-cheng, would have doubled our him worth in the divine estima value. He taught as none otherness and to service, when we see ble to secure practically perfect knowledge of the material culture we ever did the lesion of child values: in the light of the Cross-what we reproduction of the ancient and perhaps of the religious beliefs, That All T desired to be. All. To the childlike the Kingdom of fare worth to God
Chinese clariat, as well, perhaps, of a paned of the highest import heaven belongs. In solemn truth? All that men ignored in Me, as a knowledge of the uses of the anes in the development
bronze fittings that now puzzle tie Chinees tavilisationib
them?
loss and the gain; between the and the servant of all. He made for the nineteenth time. Prison gold, terms of the market.
the
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I tell you that no one who does not This I was worth to God.
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