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GOD'S SUFFICIENCY AND MAN'S MISTRUST.
Notes of a sermon by the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie at Union Church en Sunday morning. Text: Psalm 78/20.
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yet, confess that there have been
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bance, and we have had a great deal to say as to the splendid qualities which are exercised when the call to arms gives a chance to the inherent heroism of human nature. Still the fact remains that war in itself is the essence of unreason, that within limits at the best, and at worse with little hait at all, it repeals the moral law, making it right! for the time being to lie and steal and kill, to deceive and distress and euslare one's neighbour, whom it is que's duty to love. This moral anarchy is supposed to last only for the duration of a war, but there was never war yet which did not prove with miser-, able completeness that it is easier to repeal the ten Com- mandments than to get them re-enacted. Wars not only dislo- cate trade and break up institu- tions, they break down men's moral standards and confuse their consciences. The late war we believe to have been at bottom
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IS YOUR FACE DISFIGURED.
so many occasions to repeat to by pimples or blotches? Is so it ourselves our Saviour's timely is a sure sign that words "Oye of little faith, where- fore did ye doubt?"
Wel, the war is over now, and perhaps we are tired of hearing about it. Unfortunately its effects are by no means over, and we have got to hear about it from hard facts; if every human voice were silent it will be long yet ere its echoes cease to reverberate among the bills of time.
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In the vast majority of cases Lumbago is the cause of the back- pain, but it also arises from nerve) debility, and in women from ail- ments peculiar to their sex.
We are at another of those way marks on this last Sunday of one more year; shall we make it a pointer or a boundary Every
And if I am to say anything to stage of our life brings this alter- native with it, and so in especial the purpose to my fellow pupils do the marked emergencies and in God's school on this last Sun- crises of life. Are we to draw day of the first year after the war quiet hope from our retrospect of I must not ignore the circum- the past, or only a sense of having stances in which the war has reached the end of all resources? left us. That those circumstances There is always temptation to are critical in a high degree take the latter view, and it is is but the barest truism. If the generally possible to marshal an situation to-day appears to some array of facts and circumstances one of almost unmitigated gloom we must admit they can at least supporting it.
make out a case for their view. The mind
а selective power, and some of us choose out The world appears to have come the hopeful and cheering items in such a pass that even expecta- tions of its speedy winding the mingled
before us, mass
We while others bring together all up are freely suggested.
seem to them to have reached the be may
discouraging. "Optimists" and "pessimists" we time which they say was spoken have taken to calling these classes of by the prophet Daniel, when respectively. I remember the iniquity should so abound, when time when anyone making use of these two words bad to stop and explain them, but they are in every mouth now, and some. times one could wish they had bring the world to an end, and cured tens of thousands of cases never been coined. If you think start the New Jerusalem with that anything in our times and the 144,000 elect who are all that tendencies is Feriously amiss, Can be rescued of our sinful race. and say so, you are dubbed Those who hold auch views would pessimist, and classed
object, I presume, to their being Cassandra, Jeremiah and others described as gloomy. To them of that ilk, of whom it is still the the prospect seems bright, but to fashion to speak with contempt, some of us I confess it is about although all the world knows the ghastliest panorama of cosmic that they were right and those failure that over arose in the who refused to listen to them minds of pious men. But such speculations apart, thereis enough
that
were wrong.
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With women back-pains usually arise from Anemia (bloodlessness) and in any rese prove that that delicate machinery regulating the On the other hand, every to give occasion for anxious functions needs the stimulant self-satisfied chattermonger who thought, and lend colour to dire which only pure rich blood can can spin a flattering tale and forebodings. The war indeed has give. Women everywhere tell blindly point the blind to a fool's been won, but at what a cost, in one another that Dr. Williams' paradise, poses as an optimist, precious life, in wounds, disease, Pink Pills give just the help need-OTICE is hereby given that
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Now the study of history has
Obtainable from medicine v. been rightly said to be a great
We can read and perhaps try dors everywhere, Dr. Williams' cure for pessimism. It is the
to reckon the cost in millions of Pink Pills ein al o be had from case also that history pots check uponfacile, shallow optim- rounds, but we deal there with the Dr. Wam Medicine LowE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS ism, which its away with its figures which can no more be real- 96 Sz chun Road Shanghai, $1.50 everlasting "Don't
ised than the distances of the the bottle, 88 for 6 boks, pest worry" though Rome may be burning, stellar spaces. We only know that free. and will keep it up I suppose :ill never was a tenth so much money the day of judgment. History in the world, and that all the does not answer all our ques-warring nations have done is to tions, but it does show that inere pledge their future and lay a their children's "don't worry" runs upon the burden 1pcks, and, on the other hand, children for generations, as the that brave and believing hearts Napoleonic wars waged by our Iring many an argosy into port great-grandfathers are a burden when the chances seemed all for on our shoulders still, shipwreck.
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But there are other costs, even Men have seen During the dark days of the more sericus. war I found myself reflecting that thrones topple and Governments- life had been to me a succession overthrown. They have seen the of reproofs for unbelief. I do not mighty pulled violently from their mean unbelief wilful and indul-seats; great ones who were all ged, but just that besetting but gods in the earth have been tendency which I suppose most
of the mystery end shorn
surrounded of us experience more or less glory which had strongly if we take things at all them, to beart. We have seen many all
pus-
exhibited in the -poverty of their a mountain of difficulty shrink personal pettiness. Reverence away; many a seemingly impass-for institutions and authority able river has been forded; many he's been subjected to what in a human extremity has shown many cases has proved a break- itself before our eyes to be a ing strain, and though it may be Divine opportunity. Yet next well that most of these old bonds time our faithless hearts are much should have been broken it is where they used to be, until we doubtful whether the time for call to mind the enheartening the severance was ripe, and in past, luminous with the track of any case it is always easier to Las footsteps whose way at time break bonds then to replace them was in the sea, moring in ways by better sanctions. Even in the mysterious Happy are the souls more advanced nations unrest is ho find in God's successive rampant and disorder threatens, vidences successive confirm whilst over vast regions anarchy στα ar-reigns, and in others rational Many of us, government is hard put to is to
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