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J. Kirk Maconachis af Union Notes of a sermon by the Rev. Church on Sunday morning :-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1917.
end is to be burned ? He will examine sud assure Himself. »I!! reporta lose nothing in the tell- ing, either in" earth or hell: Possibly, in the light of heaven, the thing may not be "alto-
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THE RETURN OF THE QUEUE.
And of What Else ?
We do not venture to prophesy,
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New Serendah's Year. Penang, February 12 -New Serendah Rubber Co.. reports net profit of $151,724 making with the balance $176,312. A final dividend of 15 per cent, is recon- "And the Lord said. Because mended making 25 rur coat. in the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah all and leaving $18,656 to carry is great, and because their sin is forward. The outpat was 250,534 grievous, I will go down now, and Ib, against 195,000 lb, estimated. FOO whether they have done I am not putting in a ples fo. cost 404 cents, and gross price sitogether according to the cry of charity, at tais stage anyhow 24. 6d. The estimate for 1817 it which is come anto me, and if There is a previous question, jast is 300,00 lb, at Lo.b. cost, of 43 not, I will know,"Gen. 18/20. ice, and we all owe justice to our have themselves to thank. They For all this the reform party cents. The directors have invest- We should not use language followmen before a word about have entirely lost credit with the ed £25,000 in the F.M.S. War like this in a literal way to-day, charity can be listened to. If you general public and deservedly so. and there is no need to suppose are to avoid the sin of slander, you The name of Dr. Sun Yat-sen is that thinking men-did so 4,000 will have to be more particolar Last year the output of the years ago. Men like Abraham than the majority of peopls are no longer one to conjure with; copper mines at Tangchuan, and Melchizedek did not imagine about the bare truth. After that were he to appear in Hankow Douglases
again, i more than 7,000 that the Lord needed to “go down" kan boon discovered there may or , instead of being the popular Steamboats tous, and it is likely that the and inform Himself as to what was may not be a case for charity. Is hero se last time, there are few Indos (Def.) quantity will be greatly increased going on in Sodom or Gomorrah. it 100 much to say that few who would pay him the least Indos (Pref.)
attention. The heroes who died Shells in this year. The Ministry of Language of this kind is used of Agriculture and Commerce has much later by psalmists and inform ourselves before admitting ang Hsing, are already for
as taken proper pains to
the other day, Teni Ao and Ferries telegraphed to General Tang, prophete who were certainly detractstory rumours to our minde Tuchun of that province, pointing aware that all things are naked and even passing them on 7 gotten, and the official honours | Sugers out the necessity for the Govern- and open to the eyes of Him with Endless bitterness and misunder conferred on them interest no. Malabons ment to take over these mines whom we have to de.
The Kaomia Teng bas bcdy. etanding aries everyday just from in order to develop them to meet
to find cat its own throat.
Kailans We use such language ourselves want of taking care
The events which happened Langkats the urgent needs of the country, in hymn and prayer; indeed it is out what the other man really did
hera daring the fow works before Raubs has been sent to the Cabinet/possible to dispense with it. Tay or do, under what citom Yasu died sud immediately after. Tronohs
we think of God at all we cannot stances he said or did it, and
warde, afford a full explanation, Urals bat do so in human terme, but what he really intended by it.
How many minde are blinded more especially as the Kuomin DOCKS, WHARVES, when we ask that He aball" come by prejodice, how many bearia Tang, the Kolao Hai, and other Chinese Cotton.
|down" or "behold" we know The weekly cotton
well that it ia in figurative are corroded with hatred, how malcontents were carrying on H. K. Wharves` n. z. d. report of Kesera. J. Spont & Co., and not literal speech,
very
in similar way elsewhere. Kowloon Docks #.... | meny rancorus` thoughts are re- dated February 15., states:-The The Biblical records of early volved, and revengeful designs They had bands of men cat S'hai Docks market during the past week has times ara
in all directions compelling the aberished between persone who naturally cast in bad a weak undertoor, following primitive mould. But that is would have little difficulty in wealthy to subacribe for a so-called the prolonged dullesse to which | we have alluded so frequently. It and antrustworthy, and many of would simply apply themselves although it was done in the house Land Invest.
not to say that they are debated shaking friendly hands if they People's Army. It was aheer Centrals
highway robbery ander eras, H. K. Hotels in usnccessary to look for any be common difficulties with to getting at the truth.
potent
and not on the highway. The H'phreys Est. b. As for public life is anything headquarters of the party in the Kloon Lands for regard to them arise because we the decline than the tightness are in the habit of ascribing to
more mischievone than the money
market the fathers a literal-mirdedos spreading and Lelieving of fales foreign concessions were the scene which is accentuated by the whose ascription to ourselves we bottom of most wara,there is race their chist delights. Lastly, as a Ewos
or ill-grounded reports? At the of constant marders; bomb West Points ccationed rise in silver. Specule-should resent.
throwing and assesination were tive commitments appear to be
The story bere expresses divine hatred or at least antipathy, and emall and principally on the bear ection in very human terms, bat we are far too ready to accept gentle hint to the authorities that Kung Yiks
their side, while trade engagements for it also gives us a divine pattern
there sulipathies as laws of na
bad not been S'hai Cottons b. sufficiently roognize i they Yangtszepoos epot cotton have been made with for human action which would are whereas they are mainly the
burned down the Hwa Ching Kai, greater moderation than for many make this world a happier place rotulla of ignorance. Every race weeke. In the circumstance, we were it oftener imitated. The or nation in the world believes destroying an immense amount Borneos do not look for more than scalping wickedness of the Cities of the that ite jealous neighbours would of property of innocent people China Light & P. b. markete in the near future. Tone Plain, having become a byword judge it more kindly if it kas it and not a few liver. Not much Providents
in the earth, draws the attention better. We ourselves are used to as raid but a great deal was Dairy Farms Sheffield And The Chins Market. of heaven. Their cry is great, being held up to the popular thought. One of the results in the Green Islands
An examination of the past says the Lord, and their sin imagination in cther countries reversed to a type which we now H.K. Electrics b. year's trading at Sheffield reveals grievous.
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the fact that China has purchased Bat He is not swift to mark considerably more steel mine iniquity. The death of a sinner factares then in former years, is no pleasure to Him, but the
non-Britisb world | There are evils in the world to be Large quantities of aleel goods singer's repentance does give are more sweeping than accarrate condemned, falsities to be ex have been bought for engar Him.
often enough. If we ourselves posed, ill-doers to be registed, refining plant in Chins, but the The Bible may speak of God are misjudged we partly have without reservation. About that greatest development of all has in human terme, but it never ourselves to thank for is, from there is no dispute. Still, let no Wat Powells been in the orders for agricultural sscribes to Him soy affinity with the habit of pouring abuse upon man in his zoal for right forget to Morning Posts mobirey. Hitherto one of the that mean, malicious side of the public mes who represent us reckon with
bis ignoranco, obstacles to the introduction of human. mature which listens in the eyes of other nations,
toko
bim Dрon miobanical power into the great eagerly to ill reporte. Is anything
Professor Gilbert Marray, in think or pronounce the judgment Eastern Empiro hes been the more contemptible? Does anything hie remarkable address
ra of finality, which belongs only to BENJAMIN & POTTS, extremely cheap cost of mareal do more harm? Yet is anything cently to the Teachere Guild God. In your hatred of ein bear Share and General Brokers.] labour, but it is stated that this more common?
gives a striking instance. Be in mind that even Sodom cin bo Princes Building. bas risen no less than 100 per Why should it be so common, bes been visiting various slandered, that you must be just cent, in the past ten years; hence this proneness to spread ill re-acutral countries and seeking to even to Gomorrah, and that our the growing demand for labour-ports and to believe them? Ispat our case with regard to the Christianity i. doing lintlo saving machinery and the is because people at heart are so present war before their educated for as if we Consequent bear fit in
manu-doubtful of their own goodness, classes. He found those in ing from it to be lovers of facturers in Sheffield.
yet so wishful to get credit for it, Scandinavia alightly pro-German, the truth, scrupulously fair Shanghai Coal.
that they are eager to make out though they admit that Germany to all, from the best to the worst. Mesure. Wheelock & Co.'s Coal
someone else to be worse than deliberately brought on the war, Neither beat nor worse is immune. T/T Market Report, (Shangbai, 15th themselves?
the reason being that they thought It the devil pervades this world in Demand February) Baye-Japan Coal:-)
oivlisation In contrast we are here shewn German
vastly one way more snugly than another 30 dfs........... There is not much change to God in His perfect goodness, in better than Russian and some it is as a lying spirit which in- 60 d/s. report in this market since last the radient beauty of His infinite has better than
ours. Their repte, and an ill-conditioned, T/T Shanghai..... writing-Native dealera are only holiness, unmitigatedly grieved evidence WBS gather-anloving spirit which believes T/T Singapore ... 9936 operating in a very "band-to-by His creatures sin anwilled from newspapera, on the worse than is tras about both the T/T Japan ............ moub" faebion and will only ing to believe it, slow to take strength of which they said to wickedest and the saintliest. buy for immediate requirements notice of it, reluctant to visit Professor Murray, "You have the The Son of Min Himealf was Demand, India ....... whilst the market in Japan keeps it with wrath. Be hears the symptoms which are characteristics'andered as "a glastoncus man T/T San Francis- steady and ebows no sign of "ery" about those cities of of corrupt and decadout societies, and a wine-bibber." To sum up, co & New York! any decline-this, added to the the Plain, the common, andenied We gather that your political there are one or two things we T/T Java................... 134% high freights ruling,, gives our report. And what does He do? leaders are all men of the lowest can all do and should do. T/T Marks... Nam. local market a much stronger"I will go down," He says, "end- tendency. Some of the large see whether they have done al-
1. Examine whether the facts T/T Francs
Demand, Paris
...... 3.24 Wo receive that sort of thing are or are not altogether according consumers who have not as yet together according to the cry with a smile, but it really is no to the report.
BUYING. contracted for this year's suppl- of it, which is come unto Me, and laughing matter that we should
2/4 13/16 2. Making ourselves insulating & m/s. L/C iss mast expect to pay bigber if not, I will know.”
be judged by the overflow of party points for damaging ramours, 4 m/s. D/P ............ 2/4 15/16 prices than those who had the
In the drama of Zoresight to make cont-nots at the the
Job, spirit and the habit of a portion tempting as it may be to pass 6 m/s. LIC. 2/5 1/16 Adversary and Tompter of the Press of pandering to s
them os.
30 d/s. Sydney & end of last year. At Hankowa of
"ratbericw-minded, rather vulgar,
Melbourne....... also аррете
3. Believe the best so long as regular coal-famine is in pro- the Accuser of men. grene; owing to the very low himself into the Divine Presence the words of the speaker already Sedom, for sinners rather than
He thrusts and ill-educated publio," to take wa aso, and pray, like Abram for 30 die. Ban Franc
isco New York] water in the rivers and creeks and with a stander in his mouth, and quoted.
4 m/s. Marka the extremely severe winter weit is the Lord who takes on Him-
4 m/s. Franca ...... have been having, bost and rail-self the role of man's advocate is possible to be unjust even to love for our fellow-mortale, which Demand, Germany.
We learn from my text that it) 4. Ask God to give us more 6 m/s. Francs way traffic has been serionaly in and defender. That is on behalf Sadom: The Lord, who knows is the one thing needed beyond Demand, New York. 555% terfered with and consequently a of Job, the upright man who the human hearts and its tireless all others in this world.
TT Bombay considerable stock has had to be feared God and ecolowed evil. agent the human tongue, know be transbipped from Shanghai-Bat in this other case He is will that even the cities of the Pisin rejoiceth not
Love, eays the great Apostle, Demand, Bombay... Nom. ia inquity, bat T/T Calcutta Fushun CoalWe regret to ing, if possible, to cast the robe might not be as black as they rejoiceth in the truth.
Love Demand, Calcutta... Nem. have to report another explosion of heavenly charity round even mere painted.
Jesus Himself is not eager for ill reporta. Demand, Singapore, 9934
Demand, Manila... 111 at these mines, sccompanied by the places which were a proverb showed later that a worse on-It was love, in the interests of seriona loss of life to a recone for their sins.
On Raiphong ... 274 DROIL party, which will will farther
dition was possible than those trath, which said, even of the On Baigon
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66 mine and arrivals will therefore compared with what we know of though pose-bat Capernaum
Plain: "I will go down now and Sovereign bestill further delayed.-Kaiping it in Christ, in those old days have
Ha would see whether they have done Gold Leaf, per ca. 48.60 Chal:-The market shows when Abram moved, his tent to Chomsin and Bethsaida ware of it, which is some wate Me;
or said it. altogether socording to the ory | Bar Silver, par uz........ 3734 firmer tendecor and the influence Mars and Lot pitched his to worse, though they held their and if not, I will know." of the increasing freight rates is ward Sodom. bound to be felt. Deliveries aTD
beads high and were wall reputed. But they know that the great improving bat owing to the los
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