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THE NATIONAL MISSION MESSAGE FROM BISHOP NORRIS TO HONGKONG.
The following address from Bishop
PERING, November 1917, To all who shared in the National Mission's" beginning in 1918. My dear Friends, For many of us made friends Last year, thanks to the generous warmth of your welcome to a stranger, and your forbearance towards a messenger most un worthy of this mesanga
I cannot let the amiversary of these happy meetings come round and pads by us without an effort to recall to you as well as to myself atosthing of what God
dungeon of our con thit
turned to
bin
How do we stand to
CANTON NEWS.
BY COURTESY OF THE CHURA NGOI⠀
that
other!
CANTON, December 11th. GENERAL LUK AND THE PRESIDENT.
General Luk Wing-ting has again wired
Norris, of Peking, was read by the Bishop Outside the sermona which I was allow. of Victoria in St. John's Cathedral med to preach to you in the Cathedral on the anniversary of the commencement of the Sundays of the Mission, my work to the Acting President requesting I him the National Mission.
fell, mainly along three lines: the Mens to convoke the former Senate, so that he meeting in the Public Hall, the addresses | may be appointed Li Yuen-bung's succes- to women in the afternoons and the three sor evening meetings in the Theatre. I do DR. WE TING-FAKO. not wish to attempt to go over again the Dr. Wu Ting-fang and Tong Shaiye ground covered then. But as I recall have requested the President to state to myself the substance of what I tried whether he intends to use force against to say, one or two pointa stand out with the South-West, as they learn that the sufficient clearness to encourage met
to encourage me to Tientsin meeting has decided to fight, remind you of them, as a help, to naswer-
and, if the President approves that And first, the attendance at these men's decision, they will not undertake peace ing the question, How do we stand to day meetings I shall never forget it be cause it WER such
about me, It is reported that Dr Wu Ting-fang to hear a say to be ideal, something of what we well-known orator or famous preacher has decided to return to Shanghai, as hoped would be possible. For such recol you came because you were interested in his efforts at mediation are not likely to the questions Thised I think I may dare lection will deed to reflectio and as we even to say you came because
be accepted. Tong Bhiu-yu will accom you were look back we shall fed cause for thank-in earnest then You really wished to pany him
not stop the Fulness which spell encouragement know why God did
and some of did no wholly approve and for heart panrchings which may the hot you
gave Well, He has not stopped it yet and I believe more firmly than ever to day in the truth of what said then, that God will only stop the war when it has done its work when we have learnt our lessons, yes, and when we have forsaken our sing, selfishness,
d the
showed us then, something of what we Bement, you kneeu encour negotiations.
Enline us into fresh effort
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drawn
war
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This competition was continued on Monday night, two very even games being witnessed. Mr. L. W. Black, of the Dockyard D.C. team made a break..of
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A message from Swatów states that
This league match was played at Happy General Mok King-ya has personally led his troops to the fighting zone at Chiu Valley, yesterday afternoon, and ende chow. The gentry and merchants of Chiu- in & draw, Scoring was low, the car how have jointly requested the Canton tremely bad state of the ground prch- play Jenders not to be on the city
ably being responsible for this. The
God forbid
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I want you once more to stand with me by the side of my favourite "bottom- tarn and look into its depths for
how far in the year that has elapsed you have “filled your water pots up to the we refuse to learn, unless through our gram from various Tuchung requesting fewer than three chances being missed in
wolf-willed brim." I want to ask you where you wild pride we make all the sacri them to stop their nitack upon Chiu-chow the early stages of the Engineers' innings.
@the. sufferings of God and man have been throwing your nets. Have of nom elicer. But that will not prove and Fukien,
The Artillerymen would probably hav wat n vidory if time hac permitted,
vision. want you to ask yourselves Carele moich ought The authorities have received a tele- Gelding of the gunners was faulty, no
to be
played
out: it will And
you launched out with the deep 1 Or Christianity to be Phristians.
have you gone back to the old shallows which proved barren before! In a word, have you been in earnest, and what like
has been your faith
And then I want to ask how far we
only prove we are not God forbid that this should be true
If we want to know how we stand let us take once more of our private prayers, of the part we take in our com-
mon prayers in Church, of our business dealings, u
of our efforts to carry the our daily
if the men encouraged me
have tried to keep God's purpose before 5QIouances of God int
Becondo work and their recreations..-
The authorities have offered a large reward for the arrest of Mok King yu.
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our minds. Some of you will remember their attendance at the Theatre Bovni above fund have been received by the
perhaps my reference to Richard Fur long, the engraver, and his friend, Mr. Tubbs, the pisture-frame maker and perhaps you have for a while forgotten
Parikanern the moral of the story Let me remind you then God is always printing proofs: We zien stand by. It is always possible deal to set before us, of how we found Y. J. Stabb we shall catch sight of the perfect thing, it in the Blessed Mother of Our Lord... G. Coppin. God's purpose: and then it will be worthYou women as my friend in India A. J. W. Losser
had said
seid, are, nad always muel
Dowle
I am not unlikely to forget the earnest Treasures daring the week ending Decem ness of the
women who came who the Cathedral evening after evening,
to the ber 10th, and are gratefully acknowledg thronged the big room at the Helena May ed Institute on the Wednesday, I would fain remind those who listened then how we traced together t the dangers of thoughtlessness of carelessness of the
of fashion,
of how we sought for
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are to obtain it for our own." Have you Wa saw the need of discipline to
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make it your own?
Because only so far as each one of us
does that can we said to be working
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the hosewelt on the memory of who shall for ever be blessed among women, wo say the need of holiness
the sense of God's touch upon bar of God's presence with her
seeming
Greg pervade
in which She
must reflect the W. G
AHHarris remember what that jel
Holiness of God ANN PTD. (N
Where do we stand as "regerds these England, my Engend, turn to thy God things What signs are there a com J. M. Gordon
Than'rt Christian in namé," be Christian pared if not
ngo, of greater disci Mrs. I.A. Anderab
for God's purpose to our Nation. You shemere atmosphere
in deed.
Vain wore the victory, thy shed blood,
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Gid neel the 199 200 na thou wast in Thirdip and I have deliberately: Put S DIVISTUSS
pline aim at nothing less tal effort to A Monthly
than goodness Of Friends in office of E. Exten constant seeking the
the face of God and of sion Telegraph Co. and Con-
If thou fallet thy God in the hour of His Son Jesus Christ, that so we may
thy pride!
Tis His world not shine neath the Ce tyrant's rud Repent, be converted, and fight on God's
Lose the world for thyself but win it for Sara God,
catch the reflection of His Holiness?
last the recollection of those mare meet- ings in the Thents, because they seemed
to express so clearly_ the National Mission, I would carnestly
sense of a
Amos, of Malachi, of Isaiah, which soomed then
n, which are still _80__wonder- fully, appropriate to our needs. We are and Amos reminds us that if we would ep fighting for freedom to live, nationally
Lord. Why
A Christian England | "Only possible if personal religion becomes an ethical force in the nation? If it was true a year ago that events were forcing upon us the conviction that God matters, is it not a hundredfold more true to day
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ROYAL HONGKONG COLF CLUBA
The Captano's Cup competition for December was won by Mr. I. J. Birbeck, and the tie for the play-off is as follows:- By E. J. Grist and M. A. Murray. EJ Bicheek and A, B. Purvia.
(Military Secretary and Treasurer). J. Hooper or C. C. Stark and F. J.
the Bama
while all
all cles caanges, passe
rock remains
amid. refuge in the storm, a friend is the hour
the waves, of national need. Where? Not on the Cross, where the Son of God hang for
murs, probably true
of power where He lives for ever strong all those who seek Him! How! is desperately anxious for a separate pence.
He is where with some of her enemice at last if she to be found, by being ready to recognise cannot force a general peace with all. I Him when He meets us Christ told His
disciples they would find Him think of our disappointed hopes, of the of these little ones Christ bids us 23. strong probability that the war may yet a nation to day seek Him in succouring the smaller nations that have been too last for years, that the strain of the past long aid too fiercely
oppressed by their years may be inteified to a degree stronger neighbourn To fight for Bel- that seemed imposible a year ago. old then a thought of audional
Workinm, for Servia for Montenegro, Think of the children of whom
whom we said prout for ourselves is in truth to seek **Thank God they are too young and the Loril, and so socking we shall live-
let us Snot who are hurrying on to the age when we as I have loved son, he loved
you
be Lord shall have to let them go with the bravest That is the ground looks and words we can summon to hide Malach. And we have been in dang
to as to day
was in
days Dar anguished hearts?
of forgetting that love, becauso we allowed our family life to be imper our God-given Day of remembrance to be treated like any other day, our 20,000,000 pour to be oppressed, our men to
the joy of rea geperonity Lorget the
As a nation we are called to Beck the Lord that we may live are reininded that God has loved us a shout 25 hours.
nation is proposed to run a through service in over the Relief Course from Satur
December End; until Wouesdayz De nation, we
Do not all these things confront us in irresistible array to force upon us again the conviction that God matters: that it is fred alone that matters for that
hod who can give peace on eart Fit not drive un
in God's
one oppo
history
And fr
the world'
World
of the call
to the young Jewish no
the
yard of the
Something
TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY
COMPLETED,
two ends of the Transcontinental in October, and the first trial
gher lign transcontinental railway Augusts in South Alstr porlie in Western Australi
of 1,061 miles It was
A. Ritchie and R. M. Fenderson. Eldon Potter and J. C. Fletcher- Bye, W. D. Kraft and L. J. Blackburn. The rounds must be played of on follows: First before Monday, Jan- uary 14th, second, January 21st, semi- final, January 28th, and final, February 4th
tember 1912, and cost over For the Christmas Holidays there
expected that when the
ballasting of the line is completed the will be an Eclectic Competition for men Journey from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta | over the 18-hole course, and for ladie
will be made in 24 hours, Until then it
pr any
mity at all, the aupren will draw
rever! orland goen wherever
ber 28th -Boger Pool Competition for men over the 18 Lole course for the KAINE Competition for
ladies over the Relief Course of 9. helen
hes the world that knows not God on Saturday and Sunday, December 224
or in Africa, in China, on the and ord
Infands of the ben, let her preach The
Igend with one or two word of God, let her carry it in her band In addition to the above there will be on from the words I spoke to a gift let her prove it for what it is a mixed foursome comp
that last Sunday evening, words by her set sow, it world wide scatter hich I tried to sum un what I had on
Relic Cov aters of the sea and reap It
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myself
of the essons of the vet
leadershin rayon
which nons can rest
Chave!
rvest of God
should
ead bfgber