FROM THE PULPIT.
Thoughts for the Year-Ead.
EXCHEQUER BONDS,
The 6 Per Cent. Jason Stopped.
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1917,
GOLF.
Competition Results.
The Bagay Competition, played The local office of the Chartered Notes of a sermon by the Rev.
Droember 30 and 31 and J. Kirk Maponachio at Union Bank is this morning in receipt of on Charob ca Barday morning the following telegram of yester-January 1, over the Fanling
coures, resulted as follows :- "And this, knowing the scaron, day's date from London :-
Hon. Mr A. M. ¿hat now it is high time to awaks Treasury announce that no
Thomson ... nt of sleep, for now is salvation further applications will be re- nearer to me" then when we first caived 6 per cent. Exchequer Mr E. Golland believed."Romans 18/11.
Bonds or War Expenditure Corti-M1 F. H. Kalen
Classical Dance.
At the close of the year even foates". the least refective take conscious mote of the passage of time. We all panes for a moment to look bick on the course of the rolling
At the Bijou Theatre, Miss stream down which we are being carried, and to consider what Sonia Halansi will gives classical point wa may have arrived at, barefoot dance to the "Valse lenta" "Knowing the meason," most of from "Coppelis" on Wednesday, un probably way to ourselves the 3rd inst. something whose parpart is that,
in some dirtation or other, "it i high time to awake out of sleep."
Mr H. Est cook Dr. Woodman Mr W. D. Kraft Mr F. Maitland · Mr A Ritobie Mr O. E. Antoa Ospt. 8. Puwell
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One can well imagine those to Austin in the replay In the still moment between the whom the stirring call of the Capt. J. Dewar years we reslice the value of the Apostle came in the first instance Hon. Mr. A. M Thom- time which is passing by and having to think twice before which will not return. But let acquie cing in it falls. We see Mr. G. C. Moxon as not, overlook the supporting from the context that these people Mr. P. P. J. Wode- resson which follows the season were exposed in grave and grost honse able exhortation of the text. It temptations in the course of
is high time to awake, says the working out the salvation for Apostle to his readers, because which they locked, and that they "now is calvation nearer at hand did not at all times saccenfally then when we first believed.” resist them. Like ourselves, they The good resolutions made at needed to by roased out of the year-end are broken becuase those slumbers to which Chris so often they are made under tiang
Ere (00 prone on the the lash of reproach rather than Hills of Difficulty or in the the inspiration of bope. The Enchanted Grounde they meet effect of the lash is soon over, with on the road to Zan. Arone-
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Life under lash is a series of ed thas, a man may well feel that, MY Firm hitherto carried on spasmodia chute, exhausting in instead of having come nearer, as JOHN MANNERS has themselves and depressing in his salvation is farther than this day been formed into a after-effects. If my lexi locks book when be at first believed." At limited company under the style ward in reprost it more clearly the cutest he dwelt in a new world of Manners & Backhouse, Ltd. JOHN MANNERS. looks forward in encouragemett. and felt himself a new o ́esture, Redemption, it seems to say, ie berrt was aglow, bis mind We have this day taken over is drawing daar, the reward of the
was charme, his wil eermed the firm of JOHN MANNERS faith and patience is approach steadfast. The energies of grace which will be carried on under ing. Another stage ie pasmed, not in a weary, hopeless jarney, bat ere keenly felt, and the Christian the style of
beginner thought he could never: in the pilgrimage which leads to find charm or meduction in the old heaven. The night is far spent, lifesny more. Then he fell a-leep. the day is at hand, and His roll slipped from his bead, cometh with the morning. God's and he was benighted and no- purposes are moving on. His love directed apen an unknown road. lasts. He is the "reward" of So far from being nearer at hand, His people no less than their salvation seemed to be reading ospicin who leads the into the sphere of the impossible. This year now nearly gone The man felt out of touch with
daring which more
bis Lord, bis last state appeared He has been working all thing worse than bis first, and nothing haired FOX-TERRIER DOG, together for good to them that remained ears catain fearful aged four months.
is one
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Answers to love Him, one loss between looking for and expectation of White body, black head. Liberal name of Pup." Marking:- the beginning of His good work judgment." Truly it was high reward given for return. Tele- in their hearts and its completion; time he should be awakend. Bat phone 2161, Sawyer.
Therefore lift up your hearts.
It has frequently been remark ad that whereas the golden age of heathen speculation was placed in the past, the golden age of Obristianity line is the fature Certainly the spirit of the gospe is one which looks forward an prompts movement onward
not
to
mere discouragement.
Eshort one another," says the Scripture, "and so much the more
ye see the day drawing nigh." bat if our exhortings and arouS- ings are sách as only to cast others into despondent, they differ wholly from God's. You do not wake a sleeper to tell him toward the noblest corceptions he is hopelessly lost; you tell him both of general and of personal he may be saved if he bestir him life which bare dawned on the self. And even to the man who horizon of human thought. Christ
may bags fallen asleep during deme to work for ca a complete redemptior, and the very slow zes of the process is a guarantee of ita thoroughness, A work which will stand is not done in a day, nor in a thousand years, which is but one of God's daye, Men look back over these two days of God since the beginning of the gospel of Obrist," and describe year by year.
them as.
a past year his salvation is nearer at hand if he will address
himself now to his work with a
now urgency....
"Nearer than when we first be- lieved," there are those to whom the thought has been growing more familiar and more welcome:
Age, weaknes
heavy sufferinge, repeated be- reavements, these pat a colour of "Twice a thousand years of their own into the reflection of
wrong,
"Of conflict and of sin.”
some among us on the passing. The "desire to depart years. Bat it is wrong which has and to be with Christ, which been getting put right, conf otie Iar better," is. of a kind expression moring to victory, ein whose which had little ating has been antidoted and nowadaye, perhaps. Yet it exists, whose fell grip is being slowly and welcome is its fulfilment loosened.
when the final "come unto Me" And now olosea one mora year, is spoken to the weary and heavy- a thousandth part of one of God's laden. And as we think of enob WA think of we are reminded that not one of
days. Shall
it deepondently,
s farther
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This only is almost a certainty SUZUKI & CO. gard it ne, but increasing the and a very nolemo certainty it Kanari-sickness of hope deferred, is that of the assembly gathered an added trial of endurance to here this morning not all will them that watch for the morning, still be in this mortal probation a fightening strain on the courage on the closing Bunday of and devotion of all who pray and another year. Someone will be work for God and for their kind? mining, and whether the missing Comosive it rather as one year shall be be who spooke or one between der Saviour God and of you who listen, whether chosen the blémed rawaits of His love so from the hale be the sick, from gun, ona day userer to the the aged, the naildran, or those downing day which is sewing now in their prime, is what mone “wins find bgaya mionte, a second cas aven surmise. May we all of closer approach to the close of then be awake and vigilant, that tbe Jear of Time, at whose when we open our eyes from the d will begin the Arno divine last sleep which awaits os all it
hen“ the Worker of
may be to fuluem of salvation in
from Bi 11m who is the same yesterday, se of the trevail of to-day and farver. “The night
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