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THE PURPOSE OF THE
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Yesterday's Sermon At The Cathedral
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EXAMINATION
The half yearly examination was heid- In-January 1935 and the The Fourth Annual Prise Dis-In both examinations the pass annual examination, in July 1935. tribution of the Chung Nan College percentages of all classes were not lower than those of the previous
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The Rev. H. W. Baines deliver shocked by the triviality, as he ed the following sermon entitled | thinks, of things which the clergy "The, Purpose of the Church at are apt to think terribly import- the St John' Cathedral yesterday.ant and over which they will break It is right at the time of year each others heads, After all, he when the New Church Council is says, is not Christianity a matter | Corp. taking office and the Cathedral of personal loyalty and devotion to as a whole is setting satt on the ad- Jesus, is not the discipline of renture of another twelve months į Christ found most truly in my own to ask ourselves what it is all obedience to His Spirit and sear- about. I particularly do not want † ching of His teaching? to ask the question "What is the I don't think that I have over- Church?" because I think that panned this picture of the per- that leads to a great deal of bar- 'Plexed and sometimes the reluct-. ren controversy. The querstanatit opposition of many of the that matters is "What is the best and most adventurous spirits Church far?"
of our day to the Churen. I have We who are here to-day feel met with personas loyalty to that each of us is a member of
Christ and steadfast obedience society which however loose its to His way such as puts my own to own association may be has been shame in life and in death on the in history most intimately con- part of many men and women nected with the life of our people. | who scarcely ever darken the doors You cannot write English Church history without writing about English, you cannot write English history and.. noc give a lending part to the Church. And when we come to think of it we know that this blood brother of the state as it has grown to be is a, love of people. massive organisation with a rigid | THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH frame, work of legal precedent and immensely strong social tra- dition. It is a great institutional system working through the com- plex machinery of financial and administrative routine. And this Service in which we are taxing part which is the peculiar crea-, tion of Anglicanism is a link which hinds us to the whole of the rest of the Church of England in the British Isles and scattered over the Seven Seas. What is it
of a Church, So no doubt have, you and I hope that you have rea used, as I think I am realising, that the bond which units these Ene but lonely spirits with the Church of God, and in our case. the Church of England. is simply
The purpose of the Church, the answer to the question what the Church is for cannot be heard from any except the lips of Jesus. For He is the eternal Word and mouth piece of God. And if it be true that God. 50 loved the Would that He gave Hig San for It. it it be true that it. Christ were iifted up He would draw all men to Himself, If it be true that the Son of man came
not to be ministered unto but to all for? There is no use in deny-minister, then the purpose of the ing the pressure of tradition with- Church, what the Church is for, in it nor the rigid strength that is to love men as God loved them draws from what is generally call-ur. Christ, to lift them up to Him ed the Establishment but at the and to minister to them In same time we must be candid Christ's name. On that we must enough to understand that what all be agreed. There is no church the average man finds is hard to apart from the will of God, there swallow about the Church is ex-s no Church now at this moment actly this established institution- al organized society. "What is all that for?" they say and they cruel- ly contrast the Church as it now is with the creative act which gave It birth.
TO THE OPEN MINDED
apart from the act of God. No doubt fu la possible to point the finger of scorn at the contrast be tween the Church as it is to-day and God's creative act in Christ which gave it birth but that doesn't alter the fact that the
Church's Justification lies only in its fulfilment of God's purpose: 1 may have gone away into a far country but at least it knows its way back to the place where it can say "Father, I have sinned no- fore heaven and before thee."
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For to such open minded peo- ie-and many of them are within the Church-the, one "really for- midable argument within the Church-the one really formidable argument against the truth of the Christian religion is the record of the Christian Church. That is no
The Spirt of God had to fashion doubt partly due to the English-
for Himself a body which we know man's inveterate morbid delight and which men could handle in In veristicising what you might Jesus. So again all that Jesus call the Daily Mall Mind, a men-
came to teach and to do and that tality that has often been blamed
we call His Spirit must fashion for being ready to run down out for Himself body of peo- selves but nobody else. The or-
ple who live together and share dinary Englishman who has rece-His spirit. There is no fear incon ived a secondary education will sistency between that spiritual know much more about the doubt love for men that we all recog- "I cannot put it more simply than ful or disreputable episodes a these in Jesus and organised effe to say that Christ is God's word Church's history such as the Cruency: the spirit must always fasor instrument and the Church is sades of the Inquisition the Re-hion itself a body however great Christ's body or instrument. “| We igious Ware or the Test Acts, the risk of being stifled by organ- began by asking what li is for and than he will of the social achieve isation. It was BO when the ments of the Church in education, Christian movement started.
spread of knowledge, NOT A VOLUNTARY. SOCIETY
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in bealth, and the championing of the downtrodden. It is no good kicking against that dispropor- tion. The Church, including the Church of England, is on the whole as had at showing itself in
often associated.
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land's Church, the Church, is Eng- land's Church because God loves England, and China's Church be- cause God loves China, and your Churches because God loves you.
GOD'S INSTRUMENT AN
I believe there is no other final answer than that it is to embody the spirit of Christ wherever- Ho would be.
The Church as the New Testa- ment presents it to us was nut a' And just one wore the people voluntary Society which a man | who think that to belong to a night or might not decide to join, Church puts personal loyalty to it was God's act through Jesus Christ in a second place. There is Christ. Within it men and women no vitally developed religion which
a good light as the Conservative knew each other and were recon, is not personal and certainly there party in England with which it isciled to each other and when te no Christianity; but remember
they saw the evidence that Godthis, that men only become per This blackened historical record was at work in the world; here sons in relationship with other goes along with its present divi was the eternal purpose of God's men. Personality itself is social sions and consequent ineffective-love working itself out through | You'd simply he a sort of stick of ness in the mind of the open-schools, through hospitals, through humanity unless you lived with minded observer. I am not saying artists through friendship, above people. Whenever the Church is that all those who attribute their all through
homes, Within it true to her Master she is a home
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own luke-warm loyalty to Christ the barriers were down and mut- and a sciety where Individua) to their disgust with His Church ual trust and forgiveness were the people grow in their own person-
being really honest, but it schoolmasters that men had to the auty. If you want to find societies. seems to me to need no proof, and meaning of divine love. And that which steam-roller personality. I indeed I know that this is true ought to be true of it now, Za would not point you fist of all to all too well, that the Church's re- there not as much allenation and the Christian Church to-day, cord and the Church's present antagonism in the world to-day as. But again anybody does poor divisions furnish even kindly cri- there was in the world of St. Paul? service to the Christian Church tica with a very large and vulner. Is it any less the will of God that who for a moment discusses what able target.
His love for men should reach 15 is instead of what it is for, The WHAT WILL KEEP PEOPLE OUT them with a home in which they Church will not be saved by con
When you add to this the foot may know conviction and hope ferences and committees which that many theologians in the past and be reconciled to each other discuss its nature, it will be saved. lo expounding the doctrines of the and live in peace?
by the people who go, out and Christian Chirch seem to have I am not wishing to contrast adventure for it for the Church is dwelt on what will keep people out the derivation of the Church not in the world for Its own sake of it instead of seeking how many from an act of God with its de- but in order to redeem the world. te can include (rather after the rivation from the mysterious ways. If we turn in upon ourselves and fashion of the London bus conduce of English history. I believe my introvertendly scrutinise our in- for on a wet day). It can readily self, that certainly for a time the wards we shall die of self smother-, be sten thất such an idea will seem structure of the English Church | tog Bon of God has called to an Englishman very different from what he has learnt of of the Gospels. Christ's Church he reala, and Ted's righty, is a home not only for sainis but also for sinners. Buch a man too, is
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is God's way of answering the need is to live for Him as His body in
of the English character, I am the orld, therefore psylock drawing no contrast, and making out upon the world claiming the no invidious distinctions, What I love that is in His and the
am saying is that, the Church is : power that is in His touch and the God's Church before 11s Tag endurance that is in His steps
large gathering of students, parents and friends at the King's Theatre yesterday morning.
Professor C. A. Middleton Smith, M.Sc., etc., Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the Hong Kong University distributed the prizes to the successful candidates, and complimented the college on the success of the year's work. :
After the distribution of prizes, the pupils of the college rendered an excellent and enjoyable musical concert, which was well received by the audience.
THE REPORT
In addressing the gathering on the activities and progress of the college during the year, the Prin- dipal, Mr. Chung Wat San said:
Professor Smith, Ladies and Gentlemen,- EU
Before I present the report for the school year (September 1934- July 1935). I wish, on behalf of the school, to extend a hearty welcome to Prof. C. A. Middleton Smith, whose scientific achievements and Literary attainments are, well known throughout the length and breadth of the Colony. He is in-". srumental in the growth and ex- pansion of the engineering faculty i
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However, I am pleased to an- nounce the successes of our students in passing the entrance examinations conducted by London University and other Universities in China. Wong Kim Kwok is now at London University." studying His success reflects credit on the four hundred successful candidates college. Li Bui Ling was one of out of a total of five thousand who sat for the entrance examination of the National Central University, Nanking The college took much pride in his triumph.
LABORATORY
The laboratory was installed. In 1931 As many lots of instruments: had arrived from England', and Shanghal, the old room was too small for the purpose. The pre- sent laboratory occupies a spacious, room with all necessary fittings. In physics, students could do ex- perimental work on Heat, Light. Sound, and Electricity; whereas, in. Chemistry, they could carry out all the practical course required for E.K.U. School Leaving certificate Examination."
HOSTEL
The college spared no pains in
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of the University of Hong Kong. It improving the hostel. After its is very kind of him to honour us repaoral to. No. 47, Caine Road in with his presence and to distribute the last summer, the boarders en- Frizes to our successful candidates.lored living in an alry house with
I am glad to report that the windows on three sides. The hos-. school had quite a successful year tel commands a fine view of the In spite of the fact that the Colony quietest and most beautiful part of was badly hit by depression. Al- Caine Road, west of the Botanical
Gardens. though the attendance fell off a bft, yet the college was maintained
*_CONCLUSION-- throughout the year with the same emciency, the same staff, and even with some improvements in the matter of equipment. I destre to tank the staff for their whole hearted co-operation and arduous labour.
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In conclusion I wish to say that.: while other institutions groaning under the baneful effects' of the depression, the college was fortunate enough to be able to maintatu itself under unfavourable circumstances, to make some im provements in equipment and other directions, and, at the end of the In September 1834, the atten- school year, to find itself in a sound dance registers of all classes open-condition ready to commence the ed with a total figure of 243 which work of the coming year. (Ap- kept on increasing until it reached plause.)
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