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THE DEAN'S SERMON ON TRUE AND FALSE CHRISTIANITY.
The Very Reverend the Dean of the Church of Sardis, the Chris Hong Kong, preached last Sunday tians there had an example of what morning the third of a couras of he meant before their eyes, in the Lenten sermons in which he is er state of their own city.. plaining how the messages of St. John to the Churches under his
-A Reputation For Piety. This teeble attitude of allowing a charge, embodied in the book of reputation to continue when all Revelations, may be applied to the energy, life, and power, has gone Church to-day.""
is not unseldom, found among the The text was from Rev. III. v. 1, Christians of to-day. The preacher said that many times be had heard Last Sunday, the Dean said, be people say that they used to be was considering the Church of Per regular communicants, or sang in gamos, this Sunday that of Sardis, the choir, or neted as sidesmen; For Sardis the Apostle has very there, people were like the Chris little praise I know thy works, tions of Sardis trying to live on that thou hast a pame that then their past reputations. This was, livest, and art dead." No message. he said, an extraordinarily dishonest said the preacher, could be sterner attitude of mind; and he pointed The Church of Sardis was said to out the case with which the Church be alive, was thought to be alive, man might relapse into a state of but all the while it was dead. To contentment with the outward signs be dead in fact, implied no diaguise of Christian life, and thus enjoy the or hypocrisy, but to keep up an reputation of being Christian after appearance of life after life had all fire and geal had died in the departed was more terrible than heart. It was easy to be content with a respectable shell and to for get the all-seeing eye of God from whom there can be no disguise.
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The Ulty Of Sardis. The Church of Sardis had once been full of zeal and prayer but it A Poor Thing To Die With was now existing on its past reputa- Nominal Christianity is a poor tion. The Church had copied the thing to live with; brings no City in its decline. Sardis had once comfort in sorrow or sickness; no been the capital of a great empire peace, olimind the heart; no and the scene of commercial pro-strength in time of temptation; and sperity. It
had been a centre of it is a very poor thing to die with. The Royal Procesion to Backing. Telephon
hara Palace will give thousands an China Enses trade; the art of dyeing was in- Christ's mission was to establish
opportunity of seeing King Amanul Singapore Tractions.....11/9 nom. vented there; it was as famous for a true and living relationship belah and his Queen, who will later Chine Bugars its rugs and carpets as Tientsia is tween humanity and God. Unless in the day visit the Cenotaph and Malabon Sugars to-day. Gold and silver coins were religion is a pearl of such price that the grave of the Unknowa Warrior Cantan Ices
Westminster Abbey turning Ooments (combined) first minted in Sardis, and Croesus, nothing is second to it, it is nothing vid St. James Palace where Civic the wealthy king, whose name is a Unless it is strong enough to bring Addresses of welcome will be pre- household word, was its king. But us to church even when weather sented to them.
At night, there willi
State HK, Bapes (cid) beyond this amazing prosperity, Sar-editions are hard or we do. of Banquet in their honour at Bucking-Dow dis seemed impregnable in its post-feel liko it it is nothing but a
ham tion. It was a fortzes city sur. respectable shell.
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The Cathedral Fan Amanullah will receive the Ambas What would we think of an athe-sadors and Ministers accredited to tous cliffs, the only connection with the plain behind the city being a lete who deserted his team as soon the Court of St. James at Bucking Darrow Causeway which a handful as he felt tired or of a business ham Palace. of men could hold against thou man who went home on leave de On Wednesday, the City of Lon-
The Fall Of Sardis,
Boon as there was a slump in trado 1. Qapen i entertain the King and H. Amusements 2 bay,
luncheon at the Guildhall -But in the height of its prosperity To leave off church going as soon and in the evening, there will be awise man bad foretold its ruin, 4s the fans are turned on is an act & dinner at the Foreign Office. for this sage distrusted a security in the same spirit. A real religion Queen Sonriya will not attend, which was built aclely on material is strong enough to put up with in- but with Queen Mary, will be pre- wealth. In 600 B.O. the city was convenience: God wants us to have sent at a performance at Drury Lane. taken. The army of Croesus was a religion which is ready to make Theatre.vn: defeated in the plain below the sacrifices, No easy religion is of Naval Entertainment.
the inhabitants the slightest, valus in the world to Some of the most interesting ex- felt no fear. The causeway was day, the world needs a religion well guarded and Croesus and his power and energy, and only those Periences awaiting King Amanullah people slept in peace. When they who have such a religion can be will be provided by the Royal Navy. awoke in the morning they found of any use in the world. The world When he motors from London to Portsmouth on March 19th, he will the enemy in command of the city, needs spiritual guidance as never embark on the submarine L.22, The army of Cyrus, the Persian, had before and anly those whose reli catered like a thief in the night, gion is strong and alive can give which will convey bim to Southamp having found a way up the steep that guidance.jpg unguarded cliffs.
Thus the name of the citySar- dis" became a proverb for foolish self-confidence an
Two Essentials,
of
It is absurd to keep up a religion which is only a respectable shell, it is better to make no pretences at
ton
FLOOD TRAPS 200 PEOPLE.
En route the submarine will dive and do torpedo practice, King Amanullah himself fring torpedoes. Later, when he visits the Atlantic Fleet at Portsmouth on April 3rd, A City Of The Dead. all than to live for appearances. he will see an impressive spectacle For some time previous to the We are required to show God we of target practice with great gune writing of this letter of Bt. John, are in earnest, not to try to deceive as well as a realistic paral attack the city had been sinking and her each other that we are. True reli trade leaving her. She presented gion means complete devotion to the and spectacle of a city which God in private, and in public wor had lost prosperity but which was ship; and self-sacrifiring spirit still pretentious and self-satisfed towards others. These two things Sardis was like a town which was cannot be separated. Love for God marked large on the map, but when must come first, and it sliews in the traveller reached it he found everything connected with our treat
GLASGOW, Feb. 5th. only two or three buts. The city ment of our fellow men. It makes
More than 200 people in omni- which had justified the big print of homes happier, gives peace and the map-maker was represented by strength and endurance justice in buses and motor-cars were trapped the wide cemetary where those who our dealings, power in time of in a flood during the might when had seen its greatness lay. When temptation; and is the power by the River Avon burst its banks be- St. John wrote "Thou hast a name which we can spread the kingdom tween Motherwell and Hamilton. that thou livest but, art desd. to of God wherever we may be.
SINGAPORE TRACTION.
EFFECT OF THE BOYCOTT.
tions of traffic revenue would be falsified by a boyent of the coin pany's vehicles by a large section of the Chinese public
The boycott had continued in a severe form for a considerable period, but to the best of their in The Second Annmal General formation it no longer existed. Meeting of the Singapore Traction The company had alwage endes- Company, Limited was held on voured to deserve well of the public February 8th at Winchester House, and had done nothing to merit hos SMA tility. There were good grounds Mr. W. Hawkins, who presid for believing, however, that Com ed, aaid that, under such condi munistic infcences, working upon tions we had prevailed, there was religious prejudice and racial some antisfaction in having been animosity, were at the root of the able to meet the year's Debenture trouble. The fact that the average stock interest out of profits and in weekly trafic receipts for the fast having a balance available towards six months showed a steady in provision for depreciation and recycase gave some measure of en newala. A year ago he had said couragerent. For August the that profits would undergo s redue ceipts were $16,818, while for tion as the supply of electrical January exchiding the last week energy to the Commissioners, which in which the Chins New Year o ainenated to more than $10,000 incurred they were 890,908. The the preceding year, would be redirectors did not, however, regarű duced almost to vanilang pojat, khem, as completely satisfactor and the limitation of the power since they did not reflect a full station load to the current require measure the increased service whic cil for traction purposes would had been provided in the form of mean that their own requirements a larger number of
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OROWDED GLASGOW OMNIBUSES MAROONED,
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All were rescued alive, but only after a long ordent in driving rain and darkness. About fifty were suffering from shock and injuries of various kinds
Ten omnibuses filled with mon women, and children on their way home from theatres and cinemas were struck by the flood shortly be fore 11 p.m. The shrieks of the women and children as the water rosa above, the floor could be heard above the rost of the water as if rushed four feet deep along the Hamilton-Motherwell road t
The water fell somewhat just be fare. midnight, and numbers of other home-going travellers tried to go through the food. Twenty moru omnibuses and motor-esia bad started, when another sudden rush of water came, and these vehicles too, were marooned
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