FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1925.
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Mr. Charles Mason who appears with Madame Rossiter's Company at the Theatre Royal to-morrow, was for some time associated with the famous H. G. Pelissier's "Follies" Co. "He is a comedian of exceptional ability, who adapta himself well to the humorous element in the burlesques and provokes plenty of laughter, in individual effort, He is an extremely clever writer and has contributed many funny sketches to the company's repertoire and to several well-known London Revues, besides writing most of his own songs.
A NEW WORLD.
VISIONS OF NEW SOCIAL ORDER
Preaching at the Wesleyan Methodist Church last Sunday, the Rev. C. Clouston Porri, H.CF, took as his text :-
STOP PRESS.
TEST CRICKET.
AUSTRALIA WINS. (Rexter's Service.)
"Jesus went into Galilee pro-
Adelaide, January 28. claiming the Good-news of God-
Australia won the Test match The time may come and the Kingdom of God is at hand, by 11 runs, England being all out repent and believe the good for 363 in the second innings. news.Mark 1. 14. 15.
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interested into something nobles, which is social, cosmic and dis Interested. If we must think of re- pentance as sorrow for; sin. then it is for the sin which defeats the fulfilment of God's purpose in UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY, and ja His family of which we are members, "we delay the coming of the Kingdom, and the extension of Kingly rule of our
The further preliminary condition. He required was a turning from the old to the new in faith and hope. was good news. "Believe" cried The Coming of the Kingdom Jesus, believe the Gospel, the glad tidlogs. Jesus Himself believed H. G. Wolls entities an early
it and He called His brethren study in social reconstruction,"
to share His faith and hope. New World for Old."
We asked ourselves to-day, we prophet-novelist belleves in the for such inwardness. coming of a new World-order; imagination had. pictured the who are catching glimpses of the World such as Jesus must have of the present order is bad but it is glory and passing, and writes with the a Divine Sovereignty which would caught from the elevation of the confidence of a soer whose vision astonish. the World. Jesus saw Cross, a World la revolt; full of of the future is bright with hope. the Kingdom coming where God unrest, and full of selfishness-
distracted and We may agree or disagree with was known as He revealed Him, family divided, the Gospel according to H. G. and where God's will was under distraught, we ask ourselves, is Wells, but we welcome a gospel stood as he taught and embodied not the good-news which Jesus The good news, which Jesus proclaimed the Gospel for which which turns our attention from the it weary old World to the freshness published, was as St. Mark writes, our world is wailing? We are offered to day the Gospel accord- Good news of God." and splendour of a new, 1925. is
allow us to What the Kingdom, of Gading to Karl Marx and the to young enough
meant to Jesus is the Sovereign Gospel, according to Jesus. Which
hopeful more
and rule of the God, Whom He knew as "My Father" and whose King dom He described as "My Father's
dream dreams, see visions, and believe, the good news that a day will dawn when all men shall love and follow goodness, beauty and truth.
Kingdom,"
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Our Lord's conception of God as Father adds distinctiveness to His idea of the Kingdom as being Divine and Paternal,
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The good news which Jesus THE brought was. God's news, News
We began the New Year with a
about God, the one solvent of the resolution to pepare ourselves, that
World's unrest. "O God, Thou we might be ready to take our
hast made us for Thyself and our heart cannot be at rest till it part in the new order which is to be, The old order will change The God and Father of our Lord find rest in Thee. Abstractions
that Creditors of the above. Fielding place to new but the Jesus Christ has come to be as and theological definitions of God. God will not satisfy our soul-hunger, former will not pass unperceived definite a conception of and unchallenged. We must among Christians as Jehovah, the that satisfaction, we feel, can named Company, which is being the belief of the wound up by the Court, are! ping out the old" before we can God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, be found alone ring in the new." The interval was among the Jews. The God good news of the Divine Father required. on or before the 28th day of February 1925, to send their between the muffled bells that toll whom Jesus knew, whom He loved hood.
The good news which Jesus names and addresses, and the the passing and the happy belts whose will He obeyed and whose Ming Lona kuwton —.....
that announce the birth must be Kingdom He established among announced concerned man and particulars of their debts or claims, rule and humanity He taught men their and the nanies and addresses of devoted to preparation-self-premen, this God must
family relationships and their Solicitors if any, to the Official Miss Lena Lawton is another paration.
extend His divinely paternal
mutual duties. He made the brother-Receiver, the Provisional Liquis. member of Madeline Rossiter's
Jesus, the Prophet of Nazareth, sway over all the nations.
If we could only comprehend hood of man depend upon a higher dator of the said Company, and required by their Company. She will always be who proclaimed with the certainty
coming of God as Jesus knew Him. we principle than any community of Solicitors,. or personally, to come signed by remembered for her remarkable of knowledge the
interest and purpose. He made it nature
in and prove their said.debts or lintiness. Her duucing is delight-the
announced should understand
depend upon the unity of the human ful and she is a genuine little as a preliminary condition of its of His rule and seek at once to be family. When ye pray say "Our claims at the Office of the Official Receiver, Supreme Court, between comedienne. Her child impersona- į advent such self-preparation. He included among the citizen-sons Father" and when from our he-rts the hours of 10 am. and 4 p.m., or tions are extremely clever.
taught men that they must turn of his Kingdom.
What the Kingdom of God
in default thereof they will be Jack Bennetts is the popular from the old in penitence and turn pianist and whistler of the Com-to the new in faith and hope. meant to Jesus is the Soverciga
excluded from the benefit of any distribution. made before such pany. He has a taking way about "The Kingdom of God is at hand, rule of the God, Whom He re
debts are proved. him and always wins the heart of repent and believe the good-vealed to men as "Your Father." Fear not litte flock; it is your his audience. His whistling has news."
St. Mark describes the opening Father's good pleasure to give you been described in the press as of our Lord's ministry in Galilee the Kingdom." "Unusually Sweet." In his vocal."He went," he tells us, proclaim- This adds further distinctiveness duets, humorous and otherwise ing the goood news of God." The to the idea of the kingdom. with Billy Iredale. he scores proclamation stands at the fore rale of God is not alien or arbitrary heavily. Billy Iredale excels in the front of the earliest Gospel.but the rule of the Heavenly Father art of duet singing. He possesses The beginning of the good-over the members of his family. news about Jesus Christ." Good-"Our Father.....Thy Kingdom news" is given as the keynote come. Thy will be done."
new order,
the
The
we thus pray, we must also say,
our brother."
The good news according to Jesus contained the principle of order, which alone can bring about harmonious relationship between God and man and man and men. "Thy will be done on earth as in heaven" would unit the family of mankind' and introduce on earth the peace and joy which reigns in heaven.
We may view as remote such felicitous consummation of our
of the Marcan record. of the The Kingdom of God which hopes for a new world but Jesus
our Lord announced as approaching the new order of humanity which is to be, appears as a family order, the extent of which is as wide as mankind?
labour to spread the good news of saw in the individual glorious the Kingdom and contribute our possibilities of harmonious filia part, however insignificant it may relations with the God, Whom He he, towards the coming of the true brotherhood of the Sons of God, revealed as "Our Father."
We conceive the new World. (the brotherhood of men in which is to be as es- the will of the Heavenly Father
will be the supreme rule. among men made of their filial to God, accepting
a pleasant mellow tenor voice and Bing delightfui duets with Madeline Rossifer and Elsie May. "He also excels in Iris own light Christ's Ministry and continues as
saw it near and rejoiced. His love
comedy songs,
the theme of our Lord's message.
of God and of humanity raised Don Gemmel, another member of In any interpretation of the
the veil and He saw beyond the The Corypany is a clever comedian mission of Jesus this element of
day when He should gather to- The prophets of gether in one family the scattered and an excellent cancer. His good news must be kept in mind. dancing is wonderfat, so quick, so He came to bring to mankind a Israel had risen to the conception children of God. He calls us to He calls us to feel His great Beat, find so sure and he has joyous evange!, "which is God's of the Roly nation as the son of share His vision, His hope and His
god but Jesus, who was supremely love. pleasing style of comedy. Madge good-news.
It is essential to observe that conscious of His own Sonship, charity, our brothers may resist "Father for. Abertare possesses a plensing Jesus related His evangel to the taught the Sonship of His through ignorance. voice and is a clever dancer. Joan Kingdom of God. St. Luke brethren, regarding every indivi. give them, they know not what Norman, the musical director and describes it as the "good news of dual child of man
us poten- they do." We must learn His accompanist at the piano is a the Kingdom," that is, of its tially a child of God and a member patience and with confident hope brilliant exponent of her art. In approach. The good news of God, of His family. Jesus, it was, who her cheerful manner she proves "The time has come, the Kingdom herself the "back-bone" of the of God is at hand." party.
The public ministry of Jesus began with the announcement of the coming Kingdo n... In sermon and parable He explained the idea order that and ideals of that Divine order tablishe MY AMERICAN WIFE."
and characterised the citizen-sons conscious of the Kingdom. He called an ex-relagship LAST DAY AT THE CORONET pectant nation to make ready for the privileges and responsibi- door World records for the 234 and to seek as its carliest and most litjes and living in trustful and 24 miles were broken to-day to their
by P. Nurmi, the "phenomenal Heavenly
Finn." His time was 13 minutes, With the China New Year holi-urgent guest the Kingdom of obedience day spirit at home and abroad God. He chose twelve disciples Father.
whom He instructed and sent What the Kingdom of God 3 seconds for the 234 miles and 10 there should be a crowded house forth to publish the Gospel of the meant to Jesus was further the mints 42 seconds for the 214 at the Coronet Lo-day for the final Kingdom. He taught men to pray Fatherly rule of God over those miles. servening of the fine Paramount"Thy Kingdom come." The whom He knew as "My brethren."
"Readers of the Gospels will be Paris, January 21.-In the Cham- picture "My American Wife" nation, privileged to hear first which features Gloria Swanson of all the good news, rejected the familiar with the incident in her, during a discussion on the and Antonio Moreno.
Messenger and His message which Jesus claimed such as His Budget on foreign affairs, M. With the news that the Prince Crucified as a pretender to King brethren," "Who is My Mother Herriot, Finance Minister, eulogis- Heed, the activity of the French re- of Wales, is to visit the Argentine ship, the good news' did not be- and who are My brethren?"
ligious missionaries, particularly Republic in the not far distant come tess good, or the vision of the had asked and replied to His own the Lizarists, who, in the Eastern future, there is sure to be a kingdom less hopeful. The loyalty question, "Whosoever shall do the general public thirst, for informa-of the Christ to the ideal of the will of My Father which is in countries had tion about the Argentine, its Kingdom in the face of the Cross, heaven, the same is My brother, services to France.-Havas.
its suffering and shame, inspired sister and mother."
Further distinctiveness is given
capital, its people, and its customs faith in the ideal and created
Newark, NJ, January 21-In-
rendered great
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It seems more than a mere coin: loyalties. Messengers hearing the to the idea of the Kingdom. In cidence that the management of Gospel of the Kingdom multiplied the family order where all are the Coronet should have secured and published far and wide the brothers, race problems will be
My American, Wife," with its
solvéd, and other problems, which good news.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND glorious Argentine scenes, at the Jesus believed that the best have arisen. will vanish in the very moment when the public are news He could give the world measure that we live in mutual and FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED, beginning to talk of that pretty concerned the Kingdom of God harmonious relationship with our Republic in connection with the The nation wisich reigeted Him brothers, and in obedience to the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY ANNUAL Prince's coming visit.
was anxiously awaiting is coming, law of the familly of God. The "My American Wife" is a the nations of to-day may be less simplicity of the domestic legisla- GENERAL MEETING of SHARE romance and something-more-than-expectant--but reformers and tion of the Heavenly Father will HOLDERS in this Company will be romance; Scenes are shown in the dreamers look forward to brighter be understood. "Thou shall love held at the Hongkong Hotel, Hong. on SATURDAY, the 7th Argentine Chamber of Deputies, days, to the advent of a new the Lord, thy God with all thy kong in a low-class cafe dive, in an industrial, economic, and social heart, and thou shalt love thy heigh February 1924, at 11 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of aristocratic yet Bohemian studio, order "New Worlds for Old."bour as thyself."
Directors together with a Jesus opened His ministry by the in the Hippodrome, and on the race Jesus, believed the good news! track it Buenos Aires. Informa- He announced was the news for prociniming the nearness of that, Statement of Accounts for the year tion on all these will be doubly which the World waits, but His Kingdom and calling upon men ended 31st December 1924.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the welcomed on account of the Prince own people were as uncomprehend to prepare themselves for its come)
ing as many of our people are ing. He required as necessary pre- Company will be closed from the 2nd nineteen centuries later. The news liminary condition repentance, a February to the 9th February (both But to-day is the last opper-is still good and signs are not turning from the old, in order to daya inclusive), during which period tunity for seeing "My American
In our Lord's idea ino transfer of Shares can..be Wife" at the Coronet.
To-morrow (Saturday) has been Kingdoms of the World and their of repentance, there was nothing Registered. reserved for that wonderful his splendour is fading into the morbid, but a healthy discontent a sane dis- glorious vision of the Kingdom of with the past and torical film, "When Knighthood God, and that modern heralds and satisfaction with ourselves. Such an was in Flower," a story of the apostles will take up the cry. Idea creates the feeling Iam wrong days of King Henry VIII.
The time has come, the Kingdom with God and with my brothers; of God is at hand, turn and believe present conditions are bad and I the good news.
share the responsibility for them.I What the Kingdom of God -am nor contributing to the welfare meant to Jesus was something of the great World-family to which FOR SALE-For immediate sale very different on wheelbelang Imost sincerely.repent.Kelett Manor" being No 185, meant to His contemporaries." My Readily do I break with the past Mount Kellett, in excellent, order Kingdom said Jesus is not of which must go before the World Also steel beam 18ft. 8 in, by 8 in. this World." The Jew expected can be made new unto the by 9 in Please Apply Mr. H. it to be of this, and His World. scheme of God." Jesus raises Percy Smith, 6 Des Voeux Road The Kingdom of God is within the idea of repentance, from Central No hours should be with- You' The Jow was unprepared what is merely personal and self-out a spare steel beam, ve
of Wales's coming visit.
RC OR
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JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & BON, General Managers. Hongkong, 23rd January, 1925.
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