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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
HONGKONG.
SERMON PREACHED AT THE
PATRONAL FESTIVAL
The following sermon was preached by the Chaplain (the Rev. T. B. Powell St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on the occasion of the Patronal Festival last Sunday:
prayers. The broad stream of bounty has come down to us. We have received without exprase this Cathedral, this monument of love divins, rich with the living thoughts, the lingering prayers of bygone times, Freely we have received the tradition of revealed truth: the sacraments and services of the Church are at our daily disposal-we are not even called upon to pay the wages of We do well those who minister to us. to thank God for our benefactors and for those who have built up a spiritual temple of Prayer within this Cathedral. thd our "Freely we have received; Saviour teaches us how to show our gratitude for this ungrudged and uneon- ditional liberality. We in our time must freely give, without looking for.requital, without, making bargains, without any thought of recognition or gratitude.
My brethren, this is no ordinary neca- sion in the life of this Cathedral, for we are gauered here on the day of our Patron Saint, St. John, to thank God for His blessings to us in the years that are past, and to seek His help in furthering that work which was near to the hair of the disciple whom Jesus loved. The We must bear our part in that great. Message of Christmas is still fresh in out minds and on our hips: Christmas which chain of giving which binds age to age, links us with our kinsfolk at home and that tradition of generosity which looks in all places, gives us that sense of family like the sunny side of the road in the life and goodwill which has always been.course of human affairs.". Ours is the privilege of helping on the work of our bound up with our Christian religion The Christmas hells have rung cut along own Church in this colony and diocese; the waters of Cumberland, among the and how unmindful sometimes we are of limestone dales of Derbyshire, and in the folds of Wessex Downs, and there sa nothing that comes so near to being the very, authentic voice of England, as the hells of her churches. A.
And the bells of cur own Cathedral have rung out with them in thankfulness to Gou who came amongst ren...
Himself to dwell
Its work for the outcasts, for the aged poor, for the orphans, for the lepers, for the sick, for the blind, for all those who need a helping hand in life. Freely" wo have received the tradition of revedled truth. What are we doing.for the proffer of that truth to those who are living, sinning, suffering and dying without any knowledge of the love of Gol made manifest in the Incarnate Son? How are we helping on the work of our own Church for the poor and needy who have been left destitute of the wealth that has so freely come to us? In far more than we can wider ways we owe ever tell to the large-heartedness of our forefathers.
He sent no angel to our race Of higher or of lower place, But wore the robe of human frame Himself, and to our lost world came. And though it may be that in the difficult and serious times we are living it requires a special effort to be thankful
And in conclusion I appeal to you to we do well to remember that Thanks giving is the primary ingredient of that support your own church, not only now, elixir of life which turas all it touches. but while you are in this colony, by
prayers, your alms, your en into gold. We cannot always in sheee your critical days of the colony control or cir.thusiaam, your time, your labours. Ite cumstances, but we cad control what they task is not an easy one, God knows. It are to mean in our lives. We cannot cannot do withous that help and support help seeing the cloud, let us rather look which you owe to it by virtue of your for the silver lining Human nature, baptism and your loyalty to Christ, Ita thank God, refuses to believe that Eow patron Saint would at this time seck over bad things are to-day, they will net our aid in the extension of Christ's be better to-morrow. It insists with kingdom among men. He wrote that Christina Rosetti, "To-morrow shall be most wonderful and inspiring book, the like today, but much more sweet;" and Gospel according to St. John. But the Seca with Keats a budding morrow in Gospel was written first upon the hearts of men, and it has ever since been pro- midnight.
pagated in the same way, by the influence of goodness upon character. It is a very slow way of moving the world: very slow and difficult and secret, But there. is no way of making the world better than by making the men and women who live in it hotter. Sa pray that God may richly bless this His house of Prayer, and that by our, untiring efforts we may hand to others that rich heritage which we have so freely received,
So letres, he thankful for God's bless ings to us and ours: fet is remember that He has richly blessed us as a colour that under a sane co-operation of English and Chinese goodwill we have turned this barren island into a pleasant pla, and that this is a colony where justies and equity can flourish and where all men can live at peace. The growth of the colony is a it subject for our pride; it future. please God, will be greate even than our hopes.
untry is Now the history of our country masure the history of our English Church. There was a time when men hardly thought of distinguishing between Church and State, when the Earl and the Bishop sat side by side, when the interests of social and moral and re
After the Blessing there was a proces- sion to the High Altar where thoufestal Drum was sung as a special act of thanksgiving.
TREACHEROUS COLDS! wEAKEN CHEST, & LUNGS. UNLESS
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Colds.come quickly and develop rapidly. Unless promptly checked, even an ordinary cold, may settle on the cheat and pave the way for those grave lung troublee-plearisy and
pneumonia.
ligious order was equally the care of the great lord and the great prelate. And car own Church of England has dis- played that peculiar genius of the Eng- lish race, its comprehensiveness; its powers of assimilation; its love of liberty; its zeal for freedom, allied to the principle that order is heaven's first law. To quote one who is not in Englishman, She is most precious, wrote De Maistry, for like a chemical medium she" possesses the power of harmonizing natures otherwise incapable of union. On the one hand, she reaches
mouth, to the Protestant on the other tothe
The soothing infection-killing fumes given Rotuan Catholic. She has gained this power for she has never lost sight the off by Peps are instantly breathed through the throst iuto all the vital inner parts of the two great principles sanctioned breathing passages and langs They Lootze scripture, endorsed by experience and dear to the English-speaking Tutes head repair sy inflared membrane, end the loved freedom and she reverenced offer In this spirit she has led and grown,
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expanding with the expansion of the very Pepe-laden kreath strengthens your
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defence against chest and lung dangers, and if you be subject to bronchial asthma or other old-standing chest weakness, Peps will cut the stubbara plugs of phlegm, free your breathing, put an end to the exhausting coughing
Christendom before her, open doors. Sovide the siff; mational and speedy
which the providence of God seems to Church of England have set wide. The Ched and slarious years
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And if we turn to our own Cathedral of THE UCBAN ACCIDENT AND
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timately connected with all those ties which link us with home. In it, we have mourned the death of our kings, and queene and the great men of the last eighty years. We have rajoiced: in it; and been linked with our kindsfolk when they were gathered in atheroöld sulg Cathedrals and churches of England! "ACCIDENT AND ILLNESS
On its walls, in marble and bram, wè tan learn something of our own colony - m its services are modelled on the our parish churches; it te sacred to his by many human ties and affections And qurely the words of Scripture ap ply to us,Freely have re ceived." We are directly or indirectly debtors to the splendid generosity":"of those who long ago, and even, recently. deveted their wealth to the glory of God in the advancement of religion. The
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