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industries and improvement of her commercial relations with foreign countries is seen in the Industrial Mission which the Peking Government about a year ago sont to Europe to study the conditions of trade and industries there. Mr. Yeh Kung-cho for Yip Yu-fu as he is more often called), a former Vice-Minister of the Chinese Board of Communic- ations, is the Read of the Mission which has just returned from Europe and which is now in the Colony awaiting the departure of a steamer to return to the North.
The Mission is composed of half-a-dozen members who are experts on the various branches of trade and industries which come under their respective views. Mr. Yeh himself had been for many years engaged in var ious native industrial, railway and banking enterprises in the North, and by deputing him to the leadership of the Mission the Chinese Government has acquir-
SUNDAY'S SERMON likes it in the Church it is only ed the services of an experienced because all that the world wants of the Church is to say man who will not fail to furnish very valuable suggestions, the out- prayers over its coffins, and forcome of his own experience and the knowledge he has acquited fronia year's practical study of the conditions of the trade and chief industries of England, France. Sweden, etc. and the relations which these trade and industries
Notes of a sermon by the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie at Union Church on Sunday morning -
People will not put up with half where anything serious is afoot. Thousands who could not say were or what Laodicea was know what "Laodicean" means,
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: 1 and apply it freely to the half-bear to China.
would thou wert cold or hot. So.hearted politician, or in general A complete report will be pre- because thou art lukewarm, and to whoever will neither be one sented by Mr. Yeh to the Govern neither cold nor het. I will spew thing nor the other.
ment on his arrival in Peking. can Coldness you
endure, thee out of my mouth."- Rev.
containing comments and suggest- warmth you would reciprocate:ions on commerce and industries 3 15-10.
but not to know where you are which will be for the mutual amid people's hesitancies and benefit of China and the countries half heartedness is unendurable, with which she has commercial
I would than wert cold or hot!" relations. What wish more natural in the Yet it is thought month.of man?
"Behold I stand at the door and knock. v. 19.
Some 200 years B.C. Antiochus II of Syria founded or rebuilt city which he named after his wife Laodice, by whom, after having put her away and again restored range in the mouth of the Lord. her, he was eventually poisoned People often puzzle over it as it a sadly familiar type of tale in stands here, as if the thing which those dines. Through the found is n to be put up with in daily ing in the days of St. Paul of airs is less nauseating
Christian Church in the religion. Surely, it seems to he eity the name of that thought, a little religion is better injured 'and Prime-stained than none at all. Surely it is wonan has become. proverb. better to be lukewarm than posi- though not one in a million who lively cold. Yes and no. Yes, if use it ever think of its origin. the lukewarmness is a stage in But origins leave traces, and the passing from death to life perhaps it is not wholly fanciful no, if on the way from life to to see in the characteristics death. which earned for Laodicea the name of "the city of compromise" some natural outworking of the tendencies betokened by the Eastern autocrat's fancies.
How eagerly the rescue party by the river's brink toils to restore circulation to the chill frame, and what a cry of triumph rises at the first faint flush But how In any case. the city was a fof returning life! great and wealthy emporium in diferent when the same stage is its time. and the Christian passed, as passed it must be on commmunity appears to have the last of earth of earthly jour- had its share in the general pro-ney's when the vital glow is not sperity, unlike the Church in reviving but dying down. Smyrna, which was poverty- But my text deals rather with stricken in the midst of riches, lukewarmness as a state than as The contrast between these two a stage, and as
a state it is is,tec marked to be passed by. loathed both by God and man. ays Sickly it is and repugnant, still it To Smyrna the Lord "I know thy poverty (but than artis common, and not least so in Laodicea He warns be religion. The number of people
be.
Mr. Yeh arrived in the Colony last Friday by the M.M. steamer Sphinx, and he immediately put himself in touch with the local Chinese businessmen, who were glad to avail themselves of the information which he was able to offer for the improvement of their trade with foreign countries. Members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, under the Chair- manship of Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak yesterday afternoon tained the distinguished visitor to tea at the Chamber of Com- merce Rooms. Speeches were made bearing on China's mercial relations with foreign countries, for the improvement of which hopeful expectations were expressed.
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Re-the promise which is the crown the wretched one and miserable. therefore to be corrected.
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in freedom from of all made to any of these seven and poor, and blind and naked:"-
We expect condemnation after self-reproach; rejoice when con- Churches.-"He that overcometh, this, as with Capernaum, which,
scienca stings and self-satisfact- I will give to him to sit down with jon is shaken to its roots. Cast me in My throne, as I also over- exalting itself to Heaven was thrust down to Hades. But of the half-heartedness, "become, and sat down in My Father's
we find counsel.
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throne." The Eard's final effort instead
Another word is added which to win Laodicea from its half- counsel thee buy of me gold reined by fire, that thou mayest if it touch not Laodicea would heartedness is to bid it look to its become rich, and white garments,
Christ, who might have redeeming purpo. e. The end for hope. rich).
that thou mayest clothe thyself Prove that Laodicea is beyond destiny as that exists in His own ...... and eye salve to anoint come in anger, presents Himself which immortal souls are made! cause it claims to be rich" and is enormous who would resent
.mayest as a suppliant, under one of the God's image is something more! does not know that it is miser-being denied the name of Chris thine eyes that thou
The Lord' speaks
to tenderest figures of the whole than just to live decently and able and poor and blind and tian yet have no vital interest in
Behold," He says. "I escape damnation. It is to reign: naked." To be sure the Church the Kingdom of Christ or any- the traffickers of Laodicea in gospel.
with stand at the door and knock." with Christ, to share His glory, to which is poor materially way tting that has to do with it. It their own tongue, and
allusions which would pointedly You or I would cry to the half-fght and conquer, and, having also be poor spiritually, and rice never gives them a generous
"Behold the Judge overcome. to dwell as God's rens. In these cases it was in thrill: never stirs a strong emo- recall their thriving trade in hearted, fact otherwise, as it is very apt totion of either fear or hope. Their woollen stuffs and their famous standeth at the door!" It would children in the Kingdom which religion is negative: they have no medical school with its ointment be true--but who is the Judge rules over all and knows no end. Richard Baxter once wrote vices, also no enthusiasms. They made from local minerals for the Ile who knocks, who will knock it is impossible that Laodicea down 29 reasons for the success are in peril because they do not eyesight. Let them do business again, who will plead for admis- can have lifted up her eyes thus of his ministry in Kidderminster. know
sion where it is is very right. high-no Church with aspirations it. for the lukewarm with God, for His goods and on One of these was "the absence of character is essentially
"Buy of me there And who will condemn, if con- can possibly conceive of itself as self. His terms. rich men from his congregation.satisfied. He comes up to his the emphasis lies. See your demn at last he must! Who but "rich, and increased in goods and there being nobody in it who had own standard more closely than treasures beside Hist see. with He who stood without the door in need of nothing." None of us more than £40 a year. Baxter if his religion had real warmth anointed eyes, your character of the Church, whose very exist-look high enough, nor far enough Him. Compare your ence means nothing if not that it ahead. Our hopes are two low, puts that down in no spirit of, and aspiration. He judges him- beside cynicism, but simply records itself by the conventional level of aims with His: set your sacrifices is His home. His rightful dwell our wishes too limited. We for- Let the anointed get what we were made for, what and shows how in the given what will pass muster, and by the side of His Cross and going-place?
The circumstances it worked out. 1:sees nothing amiss, especially on calling them sacrifices if you eyes be opened to see this sight Christ redeemed us for.
to lukewarmness is very striking, and the direct if his way in life is prosperous. can. The Queen of the South came the Lord who can scarce but antidote
aspiration. Our souls opposite of the common way of "Rich and increased in, goods, to behold the glories of Solomon reject the Church pleading is
came with state and circum to be taken in! We tell this cleave unto the dust. We are con- and having need of nothing," he It is certainly hard for those is stagnant and satisfied, believing stance worthy of a queen. Bat moving parable to the sinner, and tent, or try to be, with mean and
when she had seen that which we do well. But it is really ad-little things. who trust in riches to enter the it is well with his soul, and com-
"I counsel thec," says Christ, Kingdom of God and that is paring bimself to advantage with she came for "there was no more dressed to the half-hearted saint. because it is so hard if one has the positively cold on the one spirit left in her," we are told. That picture so familiar on our to buy of Me," and His Spirit Well, a greater than Solomon is walls. portraying the visitor of strives to make as value what riches not to trust in them. That hand and the zealously hot on Lacdicea's lukewarmness and the other. Happy medium; gold- here. If a man is satisfied with the night, thorn-crowned, sad- He has to offer. For this He itsjen mean; state above others to himself it is because he is far visaged, in one hand bearing the waits and knocks, warns, and complacency erose from
If a Church is lamp of life, and with the other pleads, rebukes when need is, and opulence is clear from the extra-be desired, in which a man may from Christ. ordinarily abarp terms in which have the advantages of religion Laodicean it is because it is knocking on the heavy, weed-chastene.
Behold He has set before us an its real poverty is laid bare and without its high demands, deriv- ceasing to be an abiding place of grown door-let us not read it for its rejection threatened. The ing outward reputation and in the Redeemer, "in whom are all others, but for ourselves. For it open door; can we keep the door
the treasures of wisdom and is the Saviour coming to His own, closed against Him? Church possesses no outstanding ward complacency from an un-
and they that were His own slow virtue which Christ can commend, exacting acquiescence with what knowledge hid." as in the case of nearly all the is generally recognised as the others. Neither has it any crying proper thing! It is a fool's sin, like Sardis or Thyatira. paradise. Unlike its sister Congregations Now what shall be said to Laodicea does not need to contend Laodiced? Shall we overwhelm either with poverty or persecution her with reproofs, pouring out wards that burn and sting? Will or error or immorality.
But it is ill with the religion whip and goad avail to rouse to which is described by negatives effort and earnestness this self-
self-satisfied Without enough conviction to deceived, stir up an enemy, or enough munity?
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