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The Call to Repentance.
Notes of sermos by Bar, J. Kirk Moonachie at Union Church on 8ınday morning:-
Text: Lake 13/2 "Think ye that these Galileans were sinner abort all the Galileanu because they offered these things? I tell you, Nay, but except we repent ye shall all likewise perish."
THE HONGKONG
ELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
Wost of all is suspicion that it is the talk of man-minded religioniste, who think they have made sure of their Fawra eternal salvation... and rather enjoy denouncing the rest of wankind. The call to repen. tance, instead of a loving warning!
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Mr. Montagu, the Minister of and gracious invitation, is taken Munitions, has written to Mr. W. to be a threst, proceeding mot Hichens, chairman of Meara, from deep love to man bat from Cammell, Laird and Co., in reply lack of symathy with them. If you to that gentleman's letter, which Banks
was recently published, denying sex about the work of trying to win souls for Christ, your drsi atatement made by Mr. S. E. and most difficult business will be Lover, of the Ministry of Mani- Cantons to persuade them you are neither tions, before the Committee of North Chinas The Master had been speaking patronising them nor aondemning
Public Accounts. The Minister savs in his raply :- about judgment upon aufaithful them, but that you love them. serviate, sad had gone on to
Now here is this "Mission of express surprise that the people;|
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The Baak of China. Bays the ghi-G. Dada Betes :- Our Peking Correspondat laat week alluded to “a story, current in Peking that the reemption of the specie payment by the Bark of Uhina was preceded by the formation of a syndicate to par- chabe noten, at a discount, the
$400 syndicats including officials of the
t. 132 bank and members of the Cabinet
$950 having inside knowledge of the
Yangtzes
1. ex 75 $265 intention to resume specie pay. mont." It was further sileged that
FIRE INSURANCES. "I have now made careful in- the syndicate cashed notes of the
quiry into the points raised Mr. China Fires: Be valas of four millions which it bad
know how to discern Repentance and Hope" just upon in your letter, and I have road H. K. Fires ssoured at a heavy discount." On who this question the Peking Gasets the sign of coming storms from us, and one finds that demure and Lever evidence before the Public
The sub- Douglases saysInquiries in the proper the state of the atmosphere, difficulties arise out of its very Accounts Committee. quarter hare elicited complete were blind to the presages of title. The title was not chosen stance of it was that the informs Steamboats and emphatic denial of the fore-Divine judgment in the then con here, but in England, and the tinn which bis department had Indos (Del.) going report in so far as it im-dition of their nation. The news difculties grow out of the fact been able to obtain by the system Indos (Pref.) plicates any responsible officials of Pilate's bratal vengeance upon that it specialises at a special of cost accounting which he ie-Shells of the Bank of China and dafual pertain Galileans is reported to time the common and central stituted, coupled with the power contradicăon does not apply to with the impression that it in a
central to all gospel teaching, and
by private firms, had enabled the Malabona any official of the Kao Wa Yuan cam in point.
The popular mind always the specialising of the title for a Ministry of Munitions to sepure a who knew or might have known of the date on which the Bank tends to see connections between astional mission under present very anbatantial reduction in the Kallans would resume its penis payment." condos and catrophe, and vircumstances procents the #current prices for shell paid to the Langkats
Raubs armament firma.” The italics in the above are those the Lord's answer here does pearance of being a summone to
Mr. Montagu outlines the Tronohs of our contemporary and their not deny that the incidenta national acknowledgement of emphosis significant. Are we to of human life are the outcome of culpability in respect of the war, negotiations which took place, Urals dedaos is that there was at any rate human conduct. Bat the law and many fail therefore to under
whatever that the general attitude some syndicate which managed works out upon God's souls, and stand it. They any in Foot-and declares that there is no doubt to get wind of the resumption of popular rough and ready infer "You tell us that the cause of of the armament firme was that H. K. Wharves b. specie payment and so feathered ences as to its incidence in detail the Allies is not only just but the indicated by Mr. Lever in his Kowloon Docks B
vary cause of justice in the world. their nesta? The story on any are very apt to be erroneous,
God rules, and rules justly, but You affirm that we are defending
He adds:- count is a disgraceful one calling
"The experience of the Minis- for the most searching investiga in ways which leaves a largs the very foundations of liberty tion.
sphere open to human liberty, and right dealing and good faith Ele seeks in mass develop among the nations of the earth, try abundantly justifies the co ment in moral since which la a word, the cause is God's, and fidence which my predecessor and Trade in depressed at Tsingtao, could never be reached if His we are making great sacrifion 1 have reposed in the Finance writes Mr. Yoshida, commercial fatherly oversight took the form for it; why call us to repent?" Department, presided over by Mr. Another thought in many minds Lever, and in their methods. commissioner for Japan who is of continus] interference and cor- travelling in Shantung. He say reolion, distributing recognisable is, I think, that the Church's Oarefal and scientific examina of este, applied as "The reasons of the slackness in rewards and punishment at every calls to prayer and piety at pre- tions
sought always export trade of Tsingtao are point according to individual went are open to the suspicion of they have chiefly on account of the loss of deserts. Some of the best people being just one means amongst to apply them, with serupa.
alous consideration and fairness. S'hal Gottons b. the straw-braid and peanat mar in the country may have been others of winning the war. ket. Other significant cases are involved in that Galileau catas has sympathy with the man who have tended to promote efficiency Yangtszepoos en account of the outbreak of the trophe; many of the worst have says that he didn't pray before and economy in works manage the war, and ho feels ment, to the undoubted benefit in Isvolution in Shantung and the sped. poor agricultural production. The If we are to have, morally it to be hypocritiosl to take to many ouees of the contractors
Providents. textile industry on the shore line speaking, a world of adulte, and his knees on the supposition that themselves, and hate certainly
Dairy Farms of the Shantang Esilway, and not a mere kindergarten, it must if we humiliate ourselves suffici caved the State very many mil
Green Islands glass ware around this district, be a world in which both san ently before God we may bring lions of pounda.
"May I add that I greatly re- H.K. Electrics . received the whock as the and atorm will fall upon both the God over to our side. If that revolutionary army onplared the evil and
the good. were the truth of the matter, thers gret that you should have thought H.K. Ice Co., surrounding country. That lies in the training would be no more to be said, in it necessary to publish your letter Ropes The poor extton crops also added appointed by the Father for the view of some of us at any rate. to me without waiting for Steel Foundries b. to the decline of trade. Fariter, Ef children; in object is But we totally misconceive Chris reply, for the Ministry of Moni-Trams, Low Level n the limitations on the foreign that they may grow out of sinn repentance if we think of it tione in the discharge of its duly Trams, Peak, old b. steamern touching at the port may childishness and go from strength as a temporary expedient for some to the Army and to the cruntry Trams, Peak, new b. be given as another
to strength until at length they temporary object, Repentance is has consistently, and, I think, an Those goods which have enjoyed each appear before God in not that, but is the better stats of the whole successfully, endeav. U. Waterboats n.
mind to which God would fain oured to work in friendly co- a boom are stual, leather, and Z:00," complete in Christ. wool. Recently, met has been Our Lord's warning hers sounds] win us; not temporarily, bat operation with manufacturers, exported to Manila and Ruestesters, but it comes from a mighty altogether. There is nothing and I am always apxious to try and but the attempt to export mest to companion, not
censorions mean, nothing to be ashamed of, find methods of improving car re- Japan has failed. The import quickasss to condemn. It was in letting the solemn svents of lationship as it grows in length.
I am sorry, therefore, to have trade, tor, also lackened, al- unheeded and therefore failed to life lead us to a changed outlock though there is an increase in the vert from the Jewish nation the upon life, and an amended way to appear to enter into a cou- trade of Japanese goods since the eslamity which threatened, and of living. The war, for example, troversy of this kind with such stoppage of the import of foreign which, when at length it fell; has brought thousands in sil firm as Cammell, Laird, for I products. Even the German firms lighted upon all in common, in countries to an altogether more fully appreciate, and willingly in this province deal in Japan-valving the more and the less serious view of life and duly and take this opportunity of saying, made goods. The chief importe blameless and blameworthy in the destiny, quite apart from the how generously your firm ha from Japan are colton yarn, cottonational destraation. God's jalg-question of winning or losing it. acted in godertaking, without fae There can be but few thinking or reward, the difficult work of cloth, matches mod sugar: The meata may appearindiscriminate, trade in patroleam shows a bright but they are les so than they men and women who have not managing and bringing into future."
seem even upon our limited human felt rebuked, more or lees, under successful operation one of the TIT estimate. We human creatures the sense of having lived for littls largest and most efficient of the Demand Calcutta, October 27-la re- are not mere individual anite, ends, underva'ned their privileges, national projectile factories plan- 30 die. gard to suggestions that the pre-but, as regards a very large part taken the blessings of liberty and ned by Mr. Lloyd George." sent prices of jate shares are con- of life, are linked together for citizenship and Christianity very siderably inflated, it is pointed good and ill. It is no mark of a sarily for granted, of having failed
Anarchy in Shantung, out that on a dividend basis sloze saint to be over-eager about in da'g, and oɔms abort in sal the shares are well worth the separating timeli from the for the great common cause of
Tainanfa, November quoted prices and a better specula. judgments which come upon humanity. For all these things Marauding bande, are harassing
Rather he feels like it does become us to repent, the country. Fighting in com tion than tea and coal. For ie. alonere. stance White Kennison Rs. 100 Mense, who did not want his own personally and nationally, and if tinuous at Chontann and Teing: shares stand at Ba, 680, and name to be in the book of life if we fail to amend, it is hard to chowfu.-N. O. Daily News. dividend of Rs. 100 per cent is his stiff-necked fellow-country-see how God can save us from about to be paid. Badge Badge, men had to be left out. And ourselves and our children from *-*-*-*-*-* Delta, Kamarhatty, and Union when the call to repentance the rain which is being laid an appointments, and the prospeos are paying 60 per cent. Fork comes in Christ's name it must for their future. As for the war; of its indefinite prolongation doss
4 m/s. L/C Gouter 80, while Kanhunurrah coms in Christ's way, above all its causes are complicated and have just paid 65 per cent, for the things needing to be in the spirit reach indefinitely far back into certainly suggest ralloction so to
whether, whilst we may be fight-4 m/s. D/P 6 m/s. L/C half year alone. Besides in the of the Son of Man, Who came not history. God slous can amige ing in God's osure, we are worthy so dia. Sydney &Į, case of fate companies all have to condamn the world, but that blameworthiness for is with per- to be Bis insteammate.
Melbourne) soured enormous reserves, and it the world through Him might be foot exactitude. We believe, vory It is in these wayo, m I undez- 30 ¿/s. San Franc-1
armly, that we are substantially stand the matter, that the war must not be forgotten that it is saved.
isco& New York/ monopoly trade.
All things Mr. D. L. Hoody was naked in the right. But it ill becomes stands related to this prospective 4 m/s. Karks considered, it is not at all once why, during a visit to Bir- any of the nations involved to Mission, and that Christians to 4 mln. France astonishing that the prices of jate mingham, he had not once protest over-mach it absolute day invite their brethren to 6 m/s. Francs ......3.36 34 shares have reached the poins preached about hell. He answered blamelessness, when the oss is join them is hemble penitence Demand, Germany.. they have but that they are not a that he had not felt enough love taken into God's presenos.
and a real return to God. Demand, New York. 54 36 great deal higher. One of the to his fellow-catures at that Our nation has been told, Tibetanos: be put into the T-Bombay ******* leading Bombay financiers and time to be able to speak to them pot by "profesional posschers, conventional confessions last we Demand, Bombay
TT Calcutta' pillar of the Western city's Block about hall. That would pro- but by professional sailors and ory and go astray like lost sheep, Damad, Calcutta... 171 Exchange, who was over here the bably give a new ides to the soldiers and politicians and that we sin in doing and in fail Demand, Manila ... 10934 other day is reported to have average man as in the preaching commercial mes, that selling to do, that we treat on Demand, Singapore. 984 expromed it as his opinion that of repentance, which he is die win the war when we dessers to lightly God's holy laws, that won Haiphong....... inte mill shares (at the highest posed meually to resent. He looks win it, when our nations. point they had touched) ware by on it as the faul-Ending of oen in parged, our vises onl no mesas inflated, being on a ten sorious, self-righteous people, who ains forsaken. From «ppecans, basie, and that if they object so hie ana bisiefly because
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