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CHRIST'S SCORN/"
OLREMONY IN CHINA. toria, BC by a Chinese barber took AROUSED, BY HYPOCRISY, HARD-
TET A CHINESE)
[placé lately, and the son of an ex-Civil|||
Governor of Fukien province, at the form-
(1.)-Music
(2.)~Guests vinter.
(3.)-The go-betweens enter..
HEARTEDNESS AND
WORLDLINESS.
a matter of the beast, so Christ poured upon them the furiousness of His scorn. The Pharisees would account, a pad ro- ligious, however depraved and immoral he might be, if he were carefulsto carry Taking ns.big text St. Matthew cut the laws of the rabbis as to cutward 13.20, and 3, the Rev. H., Copley Moyle rumonial and purification. So they delivered the second of his 'Advent ser- stand for all time as a terrible warning (match-makers) | mons at St. Joba Cathedral en Sunday to religions people of the danger of Pride and self-antisfaction are common enough amongst ma to-day, and wherever they exist they merit, tho scorn of Christ.
It is a common saying among foreigner's residenco in Peking, at noon on last observers that love and romance, in the New Year's Day :- Wetan acceptation of the terms, ure unknown in Chins, for the simple reason that marriages are not supposed to be founded on love and consent. In a gen. eral way such a sweeping statement seems to be true, but most people are apt to forget another aspect of the question. A Western marriage is ropated to be established on love, after Cupid has dis
(F.)~-~~Tho henils of the two families enter (3.)—The bride and bridegroom bow taiva to each other.
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(6)-The bride and bridegroom exchange tokens and testimonials.
The bride and bridegrons face north
morning on "Christ's Character and the kypocrisy. World's need. "His subject on occasion WAS **Christ's Scorn." said:
this
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Whether it is the pride of the regular
The Advent genson is the beginning of the Christian year. As you know, the church-attender who looks down from the pinnacle of his own respectability upon
charged his darts, because matrimony is ward and thank the go-between Two bows first half of the year from Advent. till the irreligious crowd, or whether it is
an affair of individuals. Then why ir the tale of separations and divorces in foreign countries so frequent!
In China, however, marriage is not re garded as an affair of the individuals
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(8.)-The bride and bridegroom thank the any guess. One how,
Trinity Sunday is occupied with the
the man who, though baptised and con
(9.)The ride and bridegroom thank the facts of Christ's life and death, His frmed, will tell you that he does not
female guests. One baw.
Resurrection and Ascension. The Chris- (10.)The bride and bridegroom face tian religion is not a philosophy nor that by saying so he is freed from the profess to be a religious man, and thinks but as a vital concern of the family. They burn incense, offer wines, karel, make code of morals, but a devotion to a duty of fighting manfully under Christ's banner, the pride and self-satisfaction is alike in both cases and is abhorrent.
Chinese society the unit is the family, not the individual. The interests of the family come first, not those of the mem bers composing it, nor of the State itself These paramount family interests demand that the parental stock should be per petuated, for there can be no more heinous offener than to let the family disappear altogether. Hence it is the business ef
northward and honour the family ancestors.
three prostrations, and then rise.
(11)The bride and bridegroom offer
respects to their parents,
(12.) The parents formally acknowledge the presents already received. Three book.
(13.) The family elders, ditto, Three boirs
person-the person of Jesus Christ, who is God and man. It is because of that
that we are bidden to dwell on the facts of His life and death.
to Christ-
Or take the case of the philanthropic hypocrite-the man who pass as 'a loyer of mankind, who is conspicuous in all
In Jesus Christ we find the nature of man joined to the nature of God. He brought into the world a new power, schemes for the betterment of the race. power which man had always needed and whose name figures largely in all sub-
(14.)-Other relatives litto. One-box, (15.)—The ceremony is concluded. The above contracting parties were non-sought but had not found. The new scription-lists, but who makes his money
the parents to see to it that early provi-Christians and not, reputed as Westera-power which Jesus brought into the by grinding the faces of the poor, by In June of this year there world gave to mankind the ability to paying wages which hardly sufice to
sion should be made against such a seri-educated.
The bride
ons misfortune. Accordingly, "when two occurred another interesting example of wage a successful warfare against sin, keep body and soul together, or by trad young people in China enter upon matria modern Chinese wedding, also" in and that power is ours to-day. I am ing goods which bring moral ruin to mony. they "are generally unknown to Peking. The groom was a graduate of with you alway, even unto the end of those who use them, as in the case of. each other, and perhaps their arst meet an English university and a professor in the world" were the last recorded words alling spirits to native races.
of Jesus. That is the message of Advent, person of Jesus Christ and still wears that God has taken man's nature in the that, nature. He is the God-man. He can satisfy man's desire for God.
ing is at the nuptial ceremony itself. But having been yoked together for life, Becial customs what are they to do? enjoin that they should obey their parents and family interests demand that the aane of the family should be perpetuated. If they feel discontented, they will make life most misurable for themselves. They age powerless to change the customs, so the they have to resign themselves to situation and make the best of it. Do
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we wonder if love should then begin to grow between the two, especially after the arrival of an heir t
Now all this may sound intolerable to the Western lorer, accustomed as he is to his billets diaz, moonlight walks and sweet meetings; but let us remember that, bad na the system is, it has its virtues in being one of the chief factors contri- butory to the longevity of the Chinese race. For, it may be reiterated, if the maxim* Take care of the pence and the pounds will take of themselves" is sound, surely Take care of the family and the nation will take care of itself" ought to be equally unimpeachable.
the Government University, Was a student in a missionary college in mony took place in the Returned Stu- her native city and Japan. The care dents' Club at 230 p.m. By way of com Parison we subjoin the following pro-
gramme:~
(1.)--Music.
(2.)-The guests take their seats.
3.)The Witness to the solemnization takes his place (stand).
(4.)-The go-betweens take their place (stand)
groom before the Witness.
(5.)-The best man conducts the brido
(8.)-The bridesmaids conduct the bride before the Witness..
(7.)----Music. (8.)-The Witness reads the marriage certificate.
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(9)The bridegroom puts the ring on the bride's foger.
(10.)--The bride and bridegroom bow to each other. Then another bow.
(11.) The bride and bridegroom done ta the Witnes
(12.)-The bride and bridegroom bog to the go-betweens.
(13.)-The bride and bridegroom bow to the guests. (The guests stand and return the bow.)
(14.)The bride and bridegroom bow to their relatives. Altogether three bows,
(15.)--Music,
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We eas
imagine how such a gentleman would bo treated by Christ. His philanthropy would not impose on our Lord and be
would hear the same ringing denuncia- tion:
Woe unto you, hypocrites." But it was not only hypocrisy that
We were thinking last Sunday of the gladness of Christ. We tried to see that aroused the storn and anger of our Lord. tiia chácacter, which alone can satisfy He was moved in the same way by the the World's need, is many-sided. We
hard-heartedness of men. You remember are apt to be attracted by ong side of how we read in the 3rd Chapter of St. character, and to think so much of that Mark's Gospel that Christ was one day side that we forget the others. Let those
in a synagogue and there was there a who have found Christ as their comforter Pharisees watched to see if Christ would man with a withered hand, and the. in times of sorrow realise that He is heal him on the Sabbath day that they the best of friends in their times of
might accuse Him. They didn't care for the man's need, they didn't think of his rejoicing and mirth. If they do that affliction, they thought only of their their mirth will be in no way diminished,Petty rules and how ther might punish Christ for breaking them And Christ but it will be in no danger of usurping looked round about on them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their berets,
too large a place in their lives.
Were
To-day we are to think of another side
Christ's scorn for those who are bard of Christs' character-His scorn. Christ hearted was frequently expressed in His could be kind and gentle, but he could insistence on the need for personal for
giveness of injuries. He warned us that the. also be bitterly scornful to those who hard-hearted person who will not forgive deserved His condemnation. If you had personal injury will not be forgivers by God, and in one of His parables Ho not read the 3rd Chapter of St. dwelt entirely on this point. You re- Matthew's Gospel, you would have missmember the parable of the unforgiving It may be hard for the romantic West-
ed an essential aspect of our Lord's servant. The King, forgave him the deht of 10,000 talents, but he would not bo erner to conceive of conjugil love exist
character. Notice the cutting sarcasm patient to the "fellow-servant who owed Here we have the essence of marriage re- ing where it never had a chance to grow forms in China, namely the judicious with which He denounces the Scribes and him 100 peace, and so the King w or develop, but in view of the fact that blending of the East and the West. The Pharisees: They bind heavy burdensroth with the hard-hearted servant and
delivered him to the tormenters till bo separations and divorces ato practically groom, as well as the best man, was unknown in the unemotional East, it is arrayed in the orthodox European, evan- and grievous to be borne and lay them should pay all that was due unto him
ing dress. The organist played the usual not so impossible as is generally in Mendelssohn, bus when it came to the in-will not move them with their finger. denied, His scorn, was poured out upon wedding marches from Lohengria" and on men's shoulders, but they themselves When, through the bard-heartedness of
the Jews, the claims of Jesus agined. For has not somebody suggested dispensable rite of placing the ring on All their works they do to be seen of them: "Ye are of your father, the that if we put two people of the opposite the bride's finger the symbol slipped from
devil, and the lusts of your father ye men." Time after time Christ repeats will do." When that same hard-hearted- ser together alone, however unattractive the 700m's nervous Engers to the Boor. they both may be, in the end they will Instead of a priest, the ceremony was his taunting threat: Woe into you ness made them ignore the meaning of
solemnized by Witness, who was in this be mutually attracted to each other? Bir case the Chancellor of the University and Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites." He is miracles, Christ denounced them
with angry scorn:
"Woe unto thee, Chinese Hart, an ex-Minister of Education. The mar calls them "fools and blind," "blind Chorazin, Wie unto thee, Bethsaire. Robert Hart, or be is better known for his liity years' serriage certificate, in. Chinese, reads some
whited sepulchres," **ser- Another class of persons who aroused vices with the Chinese Goremment as the what as follows:
the scorn of Christ, were those who If and pents," the offspring of vipers." LKT., nó Chihli Province, Inspector-General of the Maritime Cus
tempted others to do wrong. His feront toms, has thus illustrated the contrast
S.J.B., of Chekiang Province, having ever people were cursed, Christ cursed scorn was poured out on St. Peter whee between Western and Chinese conjugal
agreed to be married to each other, are
he would have Jesus avoid the pain and lose: The former is like patting a kettle
to-day, the 28th day of June, 1918, united the Beribes and Pharisees.
hind me, Satan," were the words Christ. ignominy of the Cross. "Get thee be- of boiling water on the stove and then
dung at him. And, again, you remember how our Lord said it would be better for a man to have a millstone tied about him and to be cast into the sex rather than that be should make one little one to stumble. There are people who take a fendish, pleasure in leading
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water is cold but you apply fire to the keltle and then it gradually gets hotter marriage and hotter. In this matter of however, an awakened people is begin
in wedlock before the Witness T‚Y.P.. The affections of the two parties are over-
guides,"
And what was it that aroused His
Bowing and will continue though their scorn? It was their hypocrisy." They hairs may turn grey (Signed) T.Y.P., pretended to be what they were, not, LET, B.J.S., O.Y.I., and S.C.”
They made rules for others which they did
The whole ceremony lasted only ten
ning to feel the disadvantages of a syminates The company then adjourned not keep themselves. They were hard tem which subordinates every interest for light refreshments, and finally the and cruel. They robbed the widows and taining to the individual to the of the family. Naturally we find most happy couple
drove
an away in
changes in those who are, most susceptible automobile to the Western Hills for the the poor and truckled to the rich and innocent lives into sin. They are the
and
murderers of the souls of men. If ever
we find a man who is using his influences to lend others into evil then let us up and denounce him with all the scorn and indignation which Christ showed in such out of place at such times. Kind words must give place to scorn and rebuke, and it may be that scorn will have the desired effect, and the man will turn with shame from his evil way, AM
Another class of persons who enred
of honeymoon All this instead of the old powerful. They were villains who posed tempters of innocence. They are the to Western infuences, namely, students
to be as sinta. They were content the new as distinguished from the old fashioned formidable dinner party school, or in those returned from Western followed by the nerve racking ordeal of lands and universities, people in the being teased in the new bedroom by the pleased with themselves It was their treaty ports who come in daily contact guests until the early hours of the morn-hypocrisy that made them contemptible, with Europeans and cannot help noting ing—a practice often characterized by Villainy is bad enough, but when the circumstances Tenderness is their dissimilar modes of living, and off much vulgarity and brutality, imme cials who have much to do with things morial custom giving the teasers on this villain poses na a saint no language can
rare pecution every licence to devise way be too strong to denounce hin Εστάσει
And here, I think, a word of caution In the beginning it was inevitable that and means for the unfortunate couple's just as the caged bird, when released, will embarrassment and discomfiture!
Still another instructive example of ais neded. Many a man is frightened soar far and high so the young genera
in China, would go to extremes after modern Chinese wedding was witnessed away from religion by the thought that breaking loose from the old restraints une few weeks ago in a sere Christians and he cannot live up to the standard which
That was a natural stage capital. The parties
y,
the scorn of Christ, were those people
this night thy soul shall be required of
contempt for those who lived for this thee." Christ had nothing but scorninf world only. He never cxensed the worldly spirit, but denounced it without Let us learn, then, from Christ's scom that there are times when we, too, mut denounce evil. But let us remember that we cannot look into a man's heart as Christ could, so we must not be too ready
mercy.
who were allegether worldly, do yo restrictions
and tell that was introduction rocess of evolution and, fortunate the groom was a graduate from an Ame he thinks is required of a religious man, to His message to Herod, Again, in the the process,
The rites were rele- as did not last long. Today the picture rican university. 0.30 seems to be one of happy blending bebrated in a church, and the hero, as well and so, rather than be called a bypo parable of the rich fool, the man who 100tween the old and the new. In the more his best man, wore the orthodox morn-erite, be says he will make no profession had made his money and intended to have a good time was addressed by God aightened families the young people ing cost, the bride being attended by four of religion. A zeligious man is one who with contempt and acorn: Thou fool, will be allowed to choose for themselves, bridesmaids. But the religious ceremony so long as the parents are consulted in over, the couple turned round and bowed is conscious of his sinfulness and tries the matter. In the less progressive fun to the congregation. Then a friend of lies the parents will still exercise the the groom mounted the platform and read by God's help to overcome his síns, but 7,50 initiative and arrange for an alliance three congratulatory telegrams received a he is far from being perfect; time and hat the young people are also consulted few hours previously, after which the pro- again he falls into sin, but he sins
Among Western cession filed out of the church and photo- 200 in the final decision.
educated students the go-between, is still graphs were taken of the memorable against his will through the power of evil within him and around him, and an important functionary; social inter group- course between the sexes is still limited, Can there be a better method of combin- he is sorry for his sin and tries to do 100 but he is getting to be more and more ing the old and the new, the East and
an ornamental figure once the necessary the Westf: We have spoken of the best better. Along as he struggle against introduction is made
The marriage ceremony is also becom man, but it seems that in only one of his sin and abhors it he is not a hypo" to denounce. The history of religious us how easy it is to carry the Loing
less elaborste. If the parties are avail himself of his customary Western erre, The bypocrisy of the Pharisees wars, and of the Inquisition, warns 1.00 Christians, the ceremony may take place privilege. For example, it was confessed of such a nature that they did not spirit of denunciation too far. The 0.76 in place of wonhip, which may be either by one of these that he made bold enough see their own failings. They were not 076 a church or a YM.0.A. hall. Otherwise to claim the privilege simply because he 470 the rites may be celebrated at a private had known both the bride and groom long men striving after a higher standard of 1125 hots or public institution. But the pro before they were married; otherwise he life, but they were quite content with who was by nature kind and loving, 320 cedure is the programme observed at the would never have felt justified in his their own goodness With them, religion hut yet could reject the hypocrites, thy
Cfashionable wedding between the daugh action in the existing circumstances.--/
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Hard-hearted, the tempters, and the ter of the ex-Minister Tang Hua-lung New Bust.
was a matter of outward, show and not worldly from His Kingdom.
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scorn of the man who is perpetually - denouncing others ceases to move on, Christ's fierce acorn, was the scorn of
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