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The following is the substance of an admirable lecture, delivered recently by Mr. Lochr of Shanghai--
HEAVEN.
lora, 1923
SERMON BY THE REY. H.
COPLEY MOYLE,
The following serman was preached in St John's Cathedral en Sunday morning by the Rev. H. Copley Moyle, the Senior Chaplain :-
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These thoughts suggest themselves THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMEBOK: us when "wo direct our attention to the great event which was commemorated by our Church last Thursday, vix: the our Blessed Lord into. Ascension of Hraven. We have just rupeated these} {* heaven, and sitteth on the right band of } familiar words. "He ascetided into
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Acts 1,9, und when He had said this thrill for men of an adventurous spirit, things, as they were looking. He was in the varied contacts it gives with other takes up; and a clond" revived, Kim out peoples and the gume of bringing goods of of their sight.
A writer of an article in The Times What do we mean by Heaven 1. In the cne country to another, ant the consequent paper some months ago, in the course theory of the ancient world it was sup- Inquiries are welcome. watch for the best and most valuable of his argument wrote as follows: The posed that Heaven was a place above is articles of the other to carry back to one'tuse of conventional terms beecies dan and Hell a place below 25.
wal. Insurmountable hardship, in erous when it tempts mon te adopt travel by land or sen have been overenme,
phrases whose rent meaning they has that infinite space is above us and the antipodes would be reached if we went Inver stopped to examine. Every pro-down far enough beneath while capture by brigands or pirates have fession has its own jargen; it is found so writer of the article on Heaven in Hast- CAPITAL (FULLY-PAIN)
1. The not daanted merchants who are after rich onvenient that it becomes habitual: but ings Dictionary of the Bible, tells us that HZSERVE FUND prizes gained by trade.
the speech of those who habitually use |"there, have been various attempts to CAPITAL CONTRIBUTED BY THE China, the land of the Seres or it foars its vigoar and often fails of its pur locate Heaven, us for example in Serius | CHINESE GOVERNMENT
pose. Its true meaning has been lost, as the central weaving people, has always been a namens to become sound, if not without Similarly there have been innumerable
aystery. RESERVE FUND to conjure with in attracting fearless mess without thought. Words are inis speculations ndeavouring to set forth in of trade to coips and deal with her taken for idens and truth ja hidden rather sensuous form the sort of life which is to merchants for her many valuable raw than expressed by what is spoken. Nbe fed in Heaven. All such speculation where else is jargon so easily practised as however lie outside the region of positive Bamerei gion, nowhere else does it so con knowledge, and rest ultimately in the pletely disregard realitics..... If our cosinegy of prescientific time-the religions langung is to be real. it must Bibi demptions of Heaven are not reinfused with fe, constantly quicken scientific but symbolical-the prevailing by experience, and made operative by tendency at the present among theclogians, living conviction.
to regard Heaven as a state of the soul rather than a place belongs to the region
and manufactured goods." "The above all others rich is romance and Attraction is the serica extra-duely woven silk or cotton guous and as it is unly the most highly civilized people of the world who can afford luxuries and will organize-commerce so as 10 securo them, wo bear at the beginning of the Christian era of commerce between the two greatest civilizations of the East and of the West of that time-China and the
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It is certain that there is much truth in these words. There is a very real danger of opinion."
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our uttering words with our lips, while Wo cannot define Heaven. We speak of do not really mean them, and there it as the place of God's special presence is the constant likelihood of our using because, as I was saying last Sunday phrases whose real meaning we have never we cannot imagine existence apart from ANCIENT FRONTIER 'FAIRS,'
taken the trouble to discover, it is not space, but as we use the words we know of the good for us to sing Hymns which express that God is not in some distant place but Prior to the commencement Christian era, even as far back as the feelings which are entirely foreign to us is within us aid about us. When Christ beginning of the Chow Dynasty (B.C. For n congregation which numbers many ascended He did not go up and up til! 11240) we read of the merchants of eight young people, who are full of the joy of He could be no longer seen, but a cloud, neighbouring nations trading with the living and have no desire to die, to be the symbol of the Divine presence and of Changebun Hankow Manchouli Tinala Chinse at Canton. In the second centary expected to join in such words as
mystery, hid H ́m_from view, so teaching wo kuow of frontier "fairs", with Korea
O Paradise, O Paradise
us to think of Him not as in a far dis where horses, sables, pearls and other
tant Heaven but as near as though bidden Tis weary waiting here," articles were exchanged. Chang Kien in seems to me to be a farer. We ought to from our eight. Our Blessed Lord spoke. BC 120 Art wld his emperor, Wot be ready at any time to pass into the with great reserve about the future," but of the Han dynasty, of the countries of next world, and we ought not to regard He said enough to assure us that we may Western Asia, he had been as far as leath with morbid horror, but most confidently look forward to having per Bactria where he saw Chinese articles in people want to live, and it is not true to sonal experience of Hewen some day if the markets, which had come through say they are yearning for the next world we love Him and follow in His stops. inl.a.
and if it is not true we ought not to The Bible is not a scutife handbook in Twenty years later, atributs" bearing it
is a religious guide. ' Is tries to guide mi sion arrived from Japan at the Chineso, Anything that is not true is to be us to spiritual outlook upon the Cour, and from then on, until especially avoided even more scrupulously in our Universe. Where science sees £xed lay's during the early part of the Ming dynasty religious life than elsewhere. And it is Religion sees only the expression of the (A.D." 1368-1044) auch missions continued essential that our intellect should be given Will of God. While Science speaks of the " to come, even from as far away Ceylon, | full play in all matters of faith. The laws of the living organism which control Arabia and Persia. It must not be up- use of our intellect is a duty laid upon its birth and development and death. poeed that these "tribute" missions in any us by God, and is not inconsistent with Religion tells us that not a sparrow falls way implied suzerainty on the part of faith, as some people would have as he to the ground without God's knowledge. China or the vasalage of rulers of other eve. We must bring our intellect to There is no contradiction here, Things nations: they were merely forms of ex bear upon our religion. That is aces are simply viewed from a different point. change of goods and courtesies betwersary at all times, but perhaps more sa And tg-day we have so come to live under: friendly nations. This exchange became than ever in our day, because the sphere the scientific rule that we are in danger highly profitable and led to grave abuses, of knowledge has been so enlarged lately of attempting to interpret scientifically so that foreign embassies had to be care that many ideas once common have com- the language of religion. But that is in fully imported as they entered Chinn, for pletely altered. We need constant intel- possible. Far language has a different a umber of Persian merchants especially, lectual vigilance if our religion is to be meaning when used by science to the represented themselves as coming directly real power in our lives, and we must meaning which it has in religion. Science from their ruler. Why was this so Juera-be prepared for the mental exertion which deals with material phenomena, it is con- tive? Because, in order to uphold his is needed to understand, as far as we can, red with things we know, Religion dignity, the Chinese emperor was expected what we mean by the words we atter deals with spiritual realities, it is con- and did give in return, three or four times here It has often struck me what an cerned with things beyond our present COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT. the value of the presents which were excellent thing it is for us when we are knowledge. So when we say that Christ DEPOSIT AND CURRENT ACCOUNIA brought to him.
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We may not always like the pro epiritual reality.
LETTERS OF CREDIT. We are told to regard the Ascension. worse for several hundred years with
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LETTERS OF CREDIT. nady knew of Ta Ts in which was the child's insistant "Why" is apt to make As we live our lives in this world we are Reman Orient, consisting of Egypt, Syria
STEAMSHIP PASSAGES. and Asia Minor and a very lively trades examine things which we had taken bidden to live them with the constant
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for granted, and the process is a salutary thought of Heaven. The Ascended Christ one for us. Our religion will stand has won a great victory atid we as miem. -BAGGAGE INSURANCE. This silk was brought overland fromxamination and it is our duty to make bers of Christ are sharers in His Victory. CABLE AND POSTAL REMITTANCES. le Chinese capital, through the
the mental effort necessary to understand (As sharers in that victory we need to Pass, down into the plains of Turkestan, homage of our mind.
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In these cities of Syria the silk was dyed Faith and we too often find Christians our soulst the incessant din and with the famous Tyrian purple and was rather inclined to be apologetic about the meaningless chatter of the world, giving ako uuwoven leaving only the finest intellectual aspect of the Faith, as if the us at times a brief foretrate of the joy breads, making thereby a kind of gauze, Creed were something upon which it of Heaven. The peace in believing needs which was then embroidered with gold, is unavesary to exercise our mental quiet cultivation it comes, not as the No wonder the aristocrats of that day Powers,
grenter result of feverish activity but of silent were willing to pay its weight in gold for o
not mistake mental thought, and it is permanent possession, HONGKONG CIGAR STORE, LTD.. such a fabric. Strange to say, some of slath for faith, nor must we do anything which cannot be torn away from us by this material found its way back to China to discourage the full use of men's intel- an envious world nor crushed by the out. to be sold. Besides silk, the Chinese sentiretual powers on the study of the Faith, rages of unkind fortune. May that joy iron, and, fure or sking, while the pricutal provided that they are guided by a and peace grow in your live, and mine? part of the Roman Empire gave in ex genuine desire to follow the truth and are change metals, drugs, dyes, nebestos, woven undertaken in a reverent spirit.” fabrics, embroideries, precious Atones
(Continued on next column.) fragrant woods and glass-ware of all kinds.
All this trade cams overland by way of Parthia, whose merchants monopolized the silk trafie in the West, caused the Romans to attempt direct intercourse with China. So for the first time by sea in A.D. 168, a mission of merchants from Syria, representing themselves as sent by the Emperor Marcus Aureilus Antoninus rea hed the Chinese capital by way of Tongking, bringing prents of ivory, binoceros horne, and tortoise shells. The mission was received with great ceremony nad kindzesa buc failed to pave a way for a more intimate contact between these two | grat empires,
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FROM NOTRE DAME TO A DOMINICAN CELL fired the imaginations of the adventurous spirits of Southern Europe and Western relations were very friendly and foreigners preached the Lenten sermon at Notra During all of this period, commercial
Father Janvier who for 21 years has Asia, who were allured to come and secure a share of this profitable trade. The were allowed to freely rettle down or travel Dame Cathedral, climbed the pulpit for Goks, the Romana, the Persians, the auad. Up to the sixth century there the last time, recently. He is Domizican Arabe, and the Turke Billed the ships and over arose any important question with whose reputation as a probber has spread caravan routes journeying to the Middle transit charges The Nestorian tablet pulpit for sometic bell at the bidding regard to tonnage dues, customs duties or far and wide. He is abandoning the Kingdom,
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(Continued at foot of next column.)
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side by side with to some 120,000.
Such, in outline, are the main features stirred to tears his oratory.
up to the end of the Tang Dynasty (618- the seal-publia life of the pulpit is in of trade and trade routes of sacient China The withdrawal of Father Janvier from w07), showing the great desire of the Westanqordance with custom Dominicans for what China bad, especially silk, and after winning great succem are wont to bo the peaceful and friendly character of sent to some minor post as a lesson of commercial relationa
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