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TEST OF RELIGION, WHY MANY PEOPLE USE THEIR RELIGION. EAST OF SUEZ,
Taking as his taxt" Philip saith unto hika Come and see ***
(St. John. c. 1 v. 46), the Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle de 14 interesting sermot at St John's Cathedral, yesterday morning. on personal experience as the test of religion.
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Today in St Bartholomew's Day. He ien Saint of whom we know very little No incident of his career is mentioned in the first three Gospels. But Bartholo new is not properly speaking but patronymic like Bag Jona
meaning son of, Bartholomew means son of Tholmas. In the list of Apostles he is coupled with Philip. In St. John's Gospel we have no mention of Barthola new under that name, but we have men tion of Nathannel whose call to Jesus is given at sáda length and who appears after the resurrection with other of the Apostles. It has therefore boen supposed that the Nathanael mentioned by St. John is the same person as Barthola, mew. "St. Jubn tells us of the way "in which he was brought to Jesus Christ.
Philip had been called by our Lord
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THE STORIES OF GENESIS.
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PERSONAL EXPERIENCE THE is anamored. la preparing canilidates for confirmation I always advise them to Anke a praction of praying regularly for fone person who às entirely unconnected: with them, perhaps someone who is sick
A Chinese detective was ordered on Thursday last to escort 1 deporte 広い or in need, of is living a sinful be The British church, Shamer, fanten prisoner
Shum Chun. The detective took the godless life, so that their intercessiona
the Kowloon railway was reopened on Sunday after renova-"station may be anselfish. Ch one occasion there tion and repainting. The Emon Presud
before
even Che WARN could be
and explained was in the class a girl whose sister ing seios will begin du September and, ordering him to get into the train
A Murchased a
couple of tickets. had prepared for confirmation some two | 14th, thi Sunday hearty services were Chur, retumed to Hongkong and parti. and not to slight, til be renched Shunr years before, and, when I urged them to held. Mr. Fl. S. Smith presiding at the pated in the Fink La festival in Welling selvet some persia and prag regularly and Rev. E. Martin prenching alon Street. for that person is said "Yate told my
11 am from the text: The invisible on a charge of neglect of duty and pror. The detective was arrested by the Folies sister that and she told us, and we agreed things of Him since the creation of the diced before Air. R. E. Eindell, at the
pray for certain people, and our
world are clously seen, ixing undersened.
Magistracy. on Saturday morning prayor have been wonderfully answer.
hy the things that are made, even His said he decompanied the" prisioner
In answer to the charge, détendaft It is because prayer produces praeternal power and divinity (Rous 120)." Shun Chun.
thisf Bar tical results that it is essential to the
The preacher quoted Chapt A. prosecuting stated that defendant was Detective Inspector Murison, Christian life,
Mlahan : • The exceptional aurrection an old constable who had performed simi- Or take another example the case of of a haman body from physical death is lar duties on previous gensions and was not more improbable than the conception flowed in regard to deportation. Defen therefore cognisant of the procedure fol- modern criticism of the Bible. It bus
of the wriverse. Either is unparalleled dant went to the railway-station with the won and is winning its way day by aught else known to us.
aured warrant and the deporte, and amongst many who we took a different
fast the obtained two-third-eins tickets for the vers exist fact intrinsically view, because there have been some
journey to Shum Chan, and one railway warrant for the return journey. Some harvellous than even the Resurrection an among its advocates who have made their appeal to actual
of Jesus t'hrist.
time after defendant had left, the Betise Well might St. Pantive Other discovered that the experience.
ask: Why should it be thought in had not been read out and explained
warrant "Come and see" has been their, mostu.
credible to you that tiod should raise the therefore sent to bring the couple back
banisher. Another detective: Read carefully the mit two chapters of
dendi causis, and you will see that they con-
from the railway station. He found the WIND two aimerent and in some ins contradictory steras or read the story
All anerent nations have their prin departee sitting in a railway carriage all The second detective brought him tive explanations of the Universe and its back to the Central Police-station, and of the two and put wih, mand, the" st
mysteries. The stories of Genesis were there the deportee made a statement to tning, or again read the loin and vital
originally primitive traditions of this the effect that the delendant had given
at the him the ticket
rallwas to follow
Him, and Philip went 6 you will bud two dinerede mur inconsika
but reputedly
station and Hebrew seers, they now convey to us the until he reached Shum Chun.
by told him not to night from the train Nathannel, who was his friend, and said at counts Davis, introduction La
We Save found Him of whom. Muses contradicus, nová un
most persant revelation of religious Ineu are the consistencies and
Mr. N. Smith: What did defendant uruth ever given to the inspired minds
with his 34:13.
on ticket and rail- | in the Law, and the prophets did write," painoti Modern criticism has an ans Ene Babylonian inscriptions of
warrant Witness:
He told Jesus of Nazareth. Nazareth, of Galilee, swer to sliggest which seems to meet the Freation story, discovered by G.
the D. S. P that when he pulled out. was a poor little village and Nathanaelensis Bad 0 it 1 being increasingly
Smith at Aveh in 1872, errespond in
handkerchief to wipe his face the ruit- answered "Can any good thing come out accepted and believed.
nute details with Cïenesis,
way ticket and warrant, fell out of his of Nazareth in reply Philip did not Or take suuliner example, the modern When the heavens above and the heft the deportes at the railway- pocket and were lost. The reason why g into ecstasies about his newly-found-health moveinent. Des progress earth below did not exist, Apsu and station was that he was feeling ill and teacher, he did not try to argue with because it appeals to the test of actuali
Tramat (The Abyrs and Waters) were the wes Nathanael as to the place whence the experience. at bids as curn to Christ beginning. The darkness was not lifted eine. On the way he had to sit on the went to Jordan Hoad to get some medi- Christ should come. but he asked him and sees actions with regard to sick.
rom the waters. Then follows the rise rondside, as his malady grew to see for himself, to come and bi intre, and jugwa read agama carefully
ds, who Tiamal.
ith Evidence, bowerer, could be brought to dacad to Christ and put Him to the through the story is lite as given i
One of them, Merodach, "killed test. Philip was perfectly sure that the the Gospels wo cannot help noticing that
the latter and breke his dragon-skinn
prove that defendant returned to Hong kong and accompanied his relatives two to make the earth and the firma best and quickest way to convince he always cured sickness and drove itant. Then Mardaich made the stars
a Hok to festival in Wellington Street. friend of the wonderful power and par away.
Defendant: No, I was very sick and He never und told men that it and rained the years and months, up, sonality of this newly-found. Leacher was was a good thing for thein to me sick. He pouting the sun to rule the day and
to get some medicine. When to bring his to Christ, and so he simply never told them that tied sent sickness; the mun to rule the night, finally creat, had gene.
I came back I found that the deportes replied Come and see." And as Jesus but he always drove it away.
all living creatures. Genexis is. saw him coming He paid, Behold in Aud today there are Christians, men clearly of Babylonian origin, but Israelite indeed in whom is no guile." bers of our Church,, whe declare that they significant difference is its pare mont Nathanae, amazed at such a speech, said have witnessed, and in some cases been ledged Zeus
Even treece, which acknow theism. Whunce knowest thou mol In the means of the, beding of people
as All-ruler, worshipped answered and said unto him "Before suffering from various disenses, and that
many subordinate gods. The Hebrew Philip called thee when thou wast under they have done it through the power of goodness and the personality of liad. narrative alone teaches the unity, the the fig-tree 1 saw thee, “and in answer Jesus Christ. In the case of sickness The God who makes all things good must, Nathanuel made a reply which showed ne in many other things Prevention by implication; be Himself perfectly how wonderfully the personality of Jesus is better than cure. And if people good. Personality is the conjunction of had impressed itself upon him, Rabbi, claim that they can live healthy lives bought, will and reeling, and a little thou art Son of God thou art the King and be free from sickness, and if they collection will show how in the creation of Israel So the wisdom of Philip was set on the motto come and vee, fry narrative find this, determines and instified. The practical test of meeting it for yourself," it do not seem to me approves. Christ "proved a specdy means of con- to be a Wise thing to say they are wrong
ind of
of man it is said that us God is vincing Nathanael that He wan. the till at any rate
oney, too,, is 4 Spirit we have put their stor he is made in the image of God and Messiah for whom all pious Jews were there to an impartial test. The will after is likeness
a personal spirit,
then looking.
to be healthy and the belief that God like God in in way the animals canot So man can grow And so to day we believe that actual wishes us to be healthy, "ean prevent grow; and he is fulfilling the laws of experience is the best proof of the truth very much of the sickness which we see evolution when he cultivates the four religion. If you want to know in the world,·
Divine communion and is being alled what Christianity is you must come to Let us remember the words of the with grace to all the Jesus and sex. You must test the claims text, "Come and se." They bid us to of our religion by your own experience.put things to the tra of personal ex-
In the British Musefulness of God is
may be seen a Babylonian
At the Magistracy, on Saturday...” a Teylinder "inscribed, with It is not enough to argue about Christian rerience. We men and women are very human couple seated on either side of a two pairs of silk rousers.
Chinese ainah was charged with stealing degrun, or to discuss Christian ethics; if much like sheep. We follow where tree, their hands stretched out for the you want to understand. Christianity you others lead. We take things for granted,ging fruit, and serpent standing
Inspector Grant stated that defendant The Real Burley Cigarette must live the Ubristian life. That is instead of testing, then for ourselves.
was employed at No. 18, Cook's Street erect bebind the woman as if whispering where so many of us Christians fail. We That is why so many people seem to lose allegory to teach three truths-that it to her. The Hebrew narrative uses this
as an amah to a Chinese lady, It content ourselves with some knowledge of their religion when they come east of
peared that a little Chinese servant giri, Christian belief and of Christian rules Suez
Is who has disturbed the good rela- disappeared some time ago, and had not who was employed at the same house, of conduct but we stop skirt of low Their religion has been the result of that much humaan suffering can be tracedamas of either assisting the child in tions between the Almighty and himself. been found. The mistress suspected the ege of Jesus Christ himself. and training and enviroment only, it has to sin, that succeeding generations were escaping or of kidnapping her for some fail to grasp what Christianity really never been pat to the test of experience. involved in the sin of the first human is and can do for us, for our religion It is not really a part of their life. The beings. Why did God permit the first is devotin to the Christ. In Him we believe we find the them. And so amidst uncongenial aur flet revelation of God to man and in roundings they drop their religion. Let act break his own image in us.
tall Just because God forces no man's about the child the amah denied that she of the amah. When er asked Him is the source of all power and a look at our own hearts and see whether allegory of Paradise showe not only that questioned her..
free-will, else would He by that very know anything of her whereabouts, and purity and low. In the revelation of
The the mistress sent for a fiod which Jesus Christ has given us a do we should no more think of dropping differentiates us from the animals is the detective seized it and found it con
ve really know and love our Lord. If we our sense of shame and sin, which
detective, who The woman attempted truth is contained. When men think our religion than a mother would think due to rebellion against God," but that tained
again
to hide a purse underneath her coat, but they have discovered some new religious of forsaking her son. Let us try to have we are in consequent need of power, if they go back to the life of Jesus more reality in our religion. Let Christ
pawn tickets-two in the redemption. little With regard
name and one in the amah's to the Deluge
has taken shop place since man has lived on the earth.
resulted in the
discovery of two pairs of silk t
trousers. which the mistress Secondly, the bousing of all kinds of
had given to the girl. xisting animals in à Ark and for mary month involves improbability
Defendant denied stealing the trousCTE, She added that she had found the pawn Thirdly, aceda no enlargement Hebrew narrative is composed of two
tickets underneath a bed and had in- tended handing them over to her mistress, ancient accounts, like the Creation story; Burely, the Police did not expect. & per- but in this ease the two strands have sun who stole clothing to pawn it in been contradictions.
interwoven,
presumably because of her own name! their
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Inspector Murison: He could base jeft the deportes at the Water Pelicestation.
Mr. Smith: Could not the man havas been dealt with departmentally To the Police, consider this very serious! has admitted that he left the man and that is gross neglect of duty. Do the will be dismissd the service?--Inspector Police want him fined! Marison: The maximum Ene is 8200, or suppose he
six months tard labout. If the deporter had escaped and been arrested for 1't- turning from banishment, the case would have failed
Mr. Smith: #100 on three months.
GIRL'S
MYSTERIOUS
DISAPPEARANCE. THEFT OF SILK TROUSERS.
CHINESE AMAH IMPRISONED.
improper purposs. Her
person of Jesus love of Christ has never constrained, as soon as he became conscious, tout by the sh
bree
ap-
Que
they will find it there. Some four or five have a large share in our life. So shall tell us that no universal Blood ologists for some clothing. A visit to the pawn-
JAPAN AND KOREA.
AN IMPERIAL RESCRIPT,
which
our
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Mr. N. L. Smith fined defendant 50. with the alternative of a month's im-. prisenmurnt.
ALLEGED HIGHWAY KOBB
CHINESE MERCHANT
VICTIMISED.
years ago a learned lady who is a great
we be better, happier, healthier, for arthority on Greek religion sang the praises of a new world religion which the Christ is the source of all goodness el nod to have discovered.
happiness and health. This new ren is called "Unanimim." Accord
to discoverer it is the new religion ing t for which all the world is waiting Its in- spiration is the strange new joy, and even ecstasy, that cones of human sympathy." But that ought not to anything new to a Christian who hai The Japanese Consul-General sends us The numbers of each animal in the rend and tried to follow the life of the following translation of the Imperial Ark, and the numbers of the days of Christ. To love our neighbour as our. Rescript issed lately regarding admin- the food and other details are contradic- selves is one of the first lessons which istrative reforms in Korea:
tory in our two Bible accounts when we our religion teaches us, and, if we have
We have ever made it our aim to
them. All this militates promote the
security
and welfare of our against the "historicity of the story. The failed and Melrow that Christianity has failed to teach it,native population of that territory, as seers were inspired may be re though perhaps the Christian teachers our beloved subjects, lair and impartial cognised by a mere glance at the Baby. may have made too little of it
treatment in All respects, to the end that lonian criginal.
Early on Saturday morning, while Mr. In these days of many new religions. it they
without instruction of may,
The Deluge is brought about by four feeding in a ricksha towards Des Vœux
Ho Wing, a Chinese merchant, was p will be found that whatever truth they persons,
"load their lives in contain and emphasize is to be found in suaded that the stage of development at
pouce gods, angry at the rebellion of men, the Road West, he was stopped by a and in contentment. We are per- rest of the gods are so terrified by the Christ and his teaching, and if they con- tain and emphasise something which He which the general situation has now ar a" dog kennel."
in &
another The chief charac
snatched his Kold did not tench about God and the soul rived calls for certain reforms in the ter, Hasiedra, is ordered to prepare from his pockets.
watch and chain, while a third took $23 and our duty to our neighbour, then they ment General of Korea, and we issue our
mini
nistrative organization of the Govern the ark and cover it with pitch.
When the men He prove short-lived and false.
takes in the animals and shuts the door off, Mr. Ho Wing blew his police-whistle and gave chase. The men fled in different The appeal of religious truth to-day Imperial Command that such reforms be
Eventually the ark grounds on the top directions, but Mr. Ho Wing managed to is not to authority hut to experience. thus, taken are solely
put)
into operation The measures of a mountain. Three birds are sent keep up with one, who, in attempting to Take for example the subject of aortate the working of the administration and a raven-and the raven does not re- by, a side lane, ran into the Arms.
lely designed to
out in succession-a dove, a swallow, Men may argue against the power and and to secure good and enlightened turn. The hero builds an altar, offer: Magistracy, on Saturday, and the case of a constable. He was produced at the fail to appeal to the Christianba bovernment, in
and inauance of our settle the sweet savour and swarm like was remanded for a week.
ing sacrifice; whereupon the gods smell of the altered
Then the rainbow
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aficacy of prayer but all such arguments
fncili-
floods that they croach in a heap like him,.
of rowdies. One of the men assaulted
the practical experience in his own life roquirements of the country. Especially, around the sacrifice." and in the lives of others that prayer in view of the termination of the war appears and the beru is translated to RICE FROM AN UNDISCOVERABLE" is answered, and most of us are con in Europe and of
SOURCE. vinced that the only limit to the answers 9nditions of the rapid changes in the heaven,
we consider it
The stories of Genesie I.-XI. are based which God grants to prayer is the small-
bighly
desirable that every effort should on Babylonian myths, bat, revised by
A. Chinese coolic was carrying some nes of the fail of those who pray I bemade for the advancement of the na-generations of Hebrew seers from Abra-rice along the Praya West when he was
tional resources we pray regularly and humbly, not at the people. We call upon all the public teach. a pure religious truth revealed to came by it.
and the well-being of ham 2,500 B.C. to Exra 444 B.C., they questioned by a constable as to how he desiring to put God to the text (that is functionaries concerned to exercise their no other nation. Through the Jowa and had performed some domestic work for The man replied that he a form of prayer we need not expect God best endeavours in obedience to cur the long history of their pre-historic a man, who gave him the rice in payment to answer), we are sure to receive anwarz wishes, in order that a rule may be ne traditions we now see God's age-long he he had no money.
Come and see." If there is anyone here sured to Kosen that the people, diligent purpose, not by one man Moses, but point out the man the coolie.
When naked to who doubts the power of prayer, let him and happy in attending to their respec przy regularly, hambly and with what live vocations, may enjoy the blessings of portione and in divers manners, train-tracy, he was sentenced to fourteen days.
speaking into the fathers by divers to do so, and, on Saturday, at the Ha little faith be bad, and he will have an peace and contribute to the growing prosing-the world in religion and righteous hard labour for being in unlawful poe sim that will convince him that prayer perity of the country.
sion of rice.
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