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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MARCH 20th, 1928,
THE OPEN DOOR
THE APPEAL OF CHRIST'S SINCERITY AND TRUTH.
OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PASS ON THE GOSPEL
MESSAGE.
The Very Reverend the Dean preached in the Cathedral last Sunday morning the fourth of a series of Lentera sermons designed to show the application of the Book of Revelations to the present needs of the Church. The test was Revelations III v. 7 and 8.
The Open Door. Behold I have set before thee
good news of Christ must mean to those who hear it for the first time To realise for the first time the love of God, through Christ's teaching is to realise the wonderful attractive ness of God
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His presence during that life time, felt that He was utterly genuine, straightforward, and trustworthy Both His friends and His enemies felt that. More than once His enemies tried to trap Him into fa- sincerity or inconsistancy and they went away each time defented by His truth, and were made conscious of their own insincerity. Christ's friends knew that under no circum stances would He betray their trust in Him, and for that reason honest men and women flocked to Him, and dishonourable people wished to
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St. John's message to the Church of Sardis on which he spoke last Sunday, summed up the Dean said, an open door, ant no man can ing the Boy Courts of Justice in the pitiful state of the Church which shub It says the message to the that few of the tens of thousands the Strand--so. inconspicuously is, apparently, alive but in reality Church of Philadelphia. What does dead, and of so-called Christian this mena? It means that this people whose Christianity is but a Church bad some special opportu hollow shall of a past reputation nity and had received some special for piety. But the message which benefits. The Church of Philadel St. John sent to the Church of phin had the good news brought to Philadelphis begins by reminding it in a particularly pure form by emment, Laboratory, his readers from whom comes the keen Christ hen, and so had had trained team of 200 men and message. It comes from Him a good start Ye most of it find women guards every chemical in that is true”. Sardis was an it hard to understand what the example of the opposite of truth, but this message comes from the source of all truth, of absolute truth, from Him who could say with perfect truth "I know thy works" Infinitèly Attractive Because True. The message comes from Hun who is infinitely attractive because He is so true. Truth was "one of the the good news brought in all its senec," he said to a Daily Hats Bhat. Uottoms (okt) W
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There would be fewer cases of of Philadelphia, that the Church of the skill and reroures of these vegi the warning to the Christians arson if the enlprits were aware there will die too unless it hands chemists. After suspicious fres on the good things which it has they ate presented with pieces of received
debris or paper found in the bura- ed building, and by steam distill- One of the principal characteris tics of an earnest Christian is his lives energetically and fully if it evaporated or has been absorbed in Any Christian community lives, ing, even if the spirit has mainly desire to be genuine. It is not easy is passing on the good news the materials, they can say whether to be genuine but it is the first to other We British people petrol, was used to stimulate the necessity of a Christian life, any especially hate a tremendous re-flamce. A triumph of their deter pretence, shiftiness, or crookedness sponsibility to pass on the good tive work was the discovery of a as incompatible with the service of things we have received. As a case of arsen from the evidence of Him who is true.
nation we are scattered all over the a few minute fragments of what Mercy and truth are met to earth and as a church. No other proved to be burned celluloid. Al- gether" said the psalmist, and race bas such an opportunity, or though the premises in which the Christian truths is always tempered ever has had, to open the door to particles were found were gutted, with mercy. When we set out to people of every race under every the Government chemists were able be true, to speak the absolute truth, climate. Now that the world is in to declare that the celluloid had ve sometimes do so without love a state of flux and change, and been in contact with petrol and mercy, and the result is worse everyone in all parts of the earth. They thus revealed the most in- than if we had been insincere is seeking light and guidance, the genious fire-raising device, ever Christ's eye was always true yet responsibility laid on the British used. The owner of the building, He looked with mercy even on those race is greater than ever before. before setting it alight, had strown who judged and sew Him. It is Upon the Church of England is the floors with celluloid balls, each because we forget sometimes that laid a terrific responsibility greater filled with petrol, but the rase by mercy and truth are one, that we than that which has been laid on which the fare was intended to have been led into having a wrong any Church in history. Bom destroy the evidence of the fuel it idea of God We have used the Need For Guidance Today. fear of punishment as an urge to
had led on was not so cushing as goodness.
It is by giving that we live as the ability of the Government In primitive life”, this
Christians. The open door is be chemists. fore us and we must make use of Tracking The Fish, it now. The whole world is wait
From an array of soda water my for guidance at once. It is for bottles on the shelves of the labors. the Christian Church to give to the tories a visitor would judge that | world the guidance which it asks the chemists have a prodigious now, at once To give the world thirst. But these bottles contain nows of the wonderful beauty and salt water from the seven seas, and attractiveness of Him that is true from the salinity found by the and merciful. For mercy and truth | chemists. deductions are made are met together and it is our, re- which show whether or not fish will sponsibility dur trust, to pass on be found at different parts of the the good news to those who need occans af, say, this time next year. Day by day the bottles arrive from the seas, marked with the exact latitude and ipagitude of the areas from which their contenta were taken. The Government chemist York, however, brought him under determines the quantity of salt in the eye of the American film direc the water, and somebody else from tor, Mr. Henry King, who thought this knowledge determines the him promiring and signed him up drift of the currents, how far and His first picture was “The White fast the spawn of the fish is being Bitter" with Ms Lilian Cash, Fearried.
put Him to death.
may be useful but fear of punish ment never wins people from evil. To be able to say to them I know your works and yet my love for you is infinite is the only way to win people from evil.
This loving kindly manner of ad dress is all the more wonderful when we realise that He who speaks bas abiolute authority. The final authority in all things tempers truth with wonderful mercy, and it is this attribute which makes God so extraordinarily attractive.
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MR. RONALD COLMAN'S RETURN HOME.
BRITISH ACTOR WHO WON „FAME IN UISA
LONDON, February 17th. Mr. Ronald Colman, the Biah mond, Surrey, boy, who has become famous as a flm actor in the United States, was mobbed by a lange crowd of well-dressed women young, middle-aged and elderly when be reached Waterloo Station last night on his return from the United States.
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To-day he is regarded as first Official Secrets Act among screen lending men, and is probably the most popular male film actor in the world
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Fortune has been very kind to me and I am now back to see my relatives and friends, I expect One achievement of the staff of to be home from three to siz
the Government laboratory has weeks, but must then return to been to recover much of the radium complete my contract witäzir, Bamuel Goldwyn which ends in during the war. At comparative- that wasted by Great Britain about three years' time. Then I
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