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FROM THE PULPIT. either good or bad on the farther side of death. The whole mosaic law is based it, and the history DOES IT PAY TO BE GOOD:[which we can "sacred" tells the same tale. 1 ings and peoples do right, and it well with then Notes of a serm by the Rev. they sir, and suffer had harvests, J. Kirk Maconachie at Union linvasion, p.stilence.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14. 1920.
the pure beart which comes forth
as gold, like Job's, from the furnace of srial.
I am anxious not to over state. the matter, for one might easily be misunderstood.
But I do suggest that we scrutinise this so common as- sumption that prosperity and hap- piness are the dus and appro- priate reward of an uprigh; life. That godliness is profitable for the life that now is I am not dis- puting, though there are large exceptions to the rule, so far as it is a role. But if it were cot, what then? If the world were so arranged that all ts good things went to the selfish who try top seize them. and witbed from the men and women who strive to do the right, what then? Would you and I stop striving? Should we say that there is no profit in virtue we may as well sin? If so, what would the quality of our goodness be shown to be?
Cannot you bear the chuckle of the old adversary and ali his little emissaries in the clubs and at the stroot cugners as they are proved right? "Doth Job serve God for nought?"-it is the cynical challenge of the spirit of ill against all real good-
ress.
"I told you so!" I don't grudge my opponent the gratification of the delectable phrase when I am proved wrong about some matter of politics or opinion. But I do not want to hear it from the devil about my very care, of character. the bottom life.
motives
of
Church on Sunday morning | All this seems to us Now the world dus sometimes "That thou sayest. what as it ought to be. A universe appear to let all its prizes go, as advantage will it be to thee? Andjin which health and wealth and we should say, the wrong way what profit shall I have, more success should follow automati- while its troubles fall heavicon than if I had sinnel?” -Job 35,3.cally in the train of right doing, those who least des rve. them.'
Elitu here ascribes this question while falsehood and
dis- The first Christians that ever to Job, and not for the first time, honesty lear
infallibly were found things shape that which is hardly fair, for Julto misery, is just the way, and so it has been repeated- Jumselt puts the same sentimp Jeind of universe that any of us ly.
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into the mouths of the godless wholtunk we would make it the work St. Paul might write about demand, what is the Almighty were left to us. It seems to usgodliness being profitable, but it that we should serve Hin and that so things ought to be, and a certainly had not been so to him, wha: profit shall we have if we strong case can be made out to though the saying may pass with pray to Him? His companions show that so tidiggs netually do us as a commonplace to be taken would doubtless have argued, work out in the long run and on for granted. however, that though Au may notļi bod view at any rate. have put the question in so mang! Por Job was distressed and words it really formed the burdenpuzzled about his own case he of his many complaints that he causs, while he did not claim to was afflicted although all his lifelo facitless, ie could not honestly he had feared God and eschewedjebarge himself with faults suffici evil.
In this days it would have been hard to find the man or wo- man who was the tither, the more comfortable, the more honoured in the world for billowing Christ and constiente, while cases to ent to account for the discrepancy the contrary were legion. When That is. indeed, the standing between his life and his lot. One questioned about it these prople puzzle of human experience-day he is honoured, bappy, had an answer the Master had The seeming discrepancy between healthy, the next he is bereft, gone that way before them, and it men's lot and their characters diseased, a sorrow to his friends was honour enough to be as He and this drama of Job derives its and a scorn to his ill-wishers. was. unending interest from the depth is friends are in no doubt as to Things are diferent now it is and the frankness with which it what is amiss. To them it is said. True but a question often faces the problem.
f-evident. Their settled convic-in one's mind is. ought they to he The question, what does it on is that it is well with the so different? And another import profit? is as old as the Bible and righteous and ill with the wicked: aut and searching enquiry is, if as new as yesterday. We meet it has gone ill with Job, he must ther ceased to be different would i it constantly, and there are times, therefore be chargeable with sins you or I be found complaining when itands at least an echo in which he must repent." Let that the Lord hath broken faith. our own hearts. What is a man tim make his peace with the with us?
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the better for fearing God? Dus offended God, and "thereby good know, is the cotmon tendency. religion bring Him any shall come into him.'
Misfortune overtakes the good advantage: It is never difficult, That theory, however, isman, eal with one voice we begin to paint to some who give no too simple to fit the comm asking why, with heed to such things, yet get on, plex
accent fects of life. It which conveys that had he been very well. indeed seem to thrivejoroke down constantly before an indifferent character we should the more lustily without themimen's eyes, as the writer of this not have wandered. I say again while there are others who have wonderful drama of Job clearly is not that quite the wrong track? lived in piety and integrity, yet saw. The more mature books of Does it not show that for the are pursued by lack and the ald Testament recognise interpretation of life we are look- come in for more than their share fully that human affairs are noting rather to Canaan than to the of the blow of circumstance. jaranged un self-acting principles Cross?
"What protit have I more than of immediate and
The Captain of our as it would salvation Himself became per- if I had siined " it needs nofseem to us, ideal justice. hardened sceptic to speak so, if They see that when men are and can we expect to be shaped fected through His sufferings, but for a moment and under the choosing whether or not they to God's nses by the pleasant. breath. The doubt is Found to will serve God the decision must prosperous course of life which is rise in many a man's mind is not be made to depend on the assumed to be almost due from such a world as this we live in prospect of well-being and hap- God He let chances go by which piness one way or the other. You Him?
those who regard others less scrupulous have must embark on the pilgrimage The ancients had a notion that seized to advantage. He has whether leads to Bland it was dangerous to be too well kept a curb on his ambitions and of milk and hones Dot. placed in life and too well pleased his appetites, fought hard to keff the way is the world and the flesh at bay. it is right.and the rightness does in their dark ss, were jealous of
right with it. The trods, they thought consulted his conscience before not depend upon what at leads to. the furonate, happy man, and his pocket, considered his neigh-If wrong it does not become more soon or late would strike at him. bour's interests side by sile with wrong because it may end in There are occurrences in life his own.
misery, neither would it become which might well suggest the Yet for all there is to show right if it brought happiness. for 1: he might just us
superstition, and they should A world in which it always teach us, not to tremble at our well.. have gone with thepal to be virtuous would very happiness while we have it, but stream, troubled less about duty likely become a world in which to hold it with a light hand and and taken what life offered in theirtue would be impossible. At not way of indulgences with a freereny rate a succession of miracles in
it become our all all, For hand.
the Father would be needed to keep it from in Heaven has a higher gift than At the back of such feelings, so becoming the world of hypocrites happiness for the children of His natural in many circumstances, which the cynic is so ready to love, and that is the power to do there often lies a sepse cf say the religious world is. grievance for having beer misled
without happiness so long as 've Instead God has given us a are filling the place He appoints on the subject. In early life we world much
fitter to be are taught, incre or less distinctly, school
aus, learning the lessons He sets of irue instruction, us, preparing for that it pays to be good. Solomon, a
the better world whose happenings service He has in store for us. E.G., is among the master teach-lare very mixed, a world in which, And in whatsoever may befall ers in the young men's Bible while we can see right on the we know that His fatherly pity Class, and he lays it down that whole coming to its own there is is clos: around, and in the Crossficiently successful in his inter-tongue. a mean feeling in the years and riches and honour much to remind us that the true of His Son we see the path.
pretation of it.. He was the com- head, a sense of feverishness or are the reward of heeding "in-reward of virtue need not be through darkness to the eternal piece, and both, his acting and his
manding figure throughout the inefficiency, its time you took struction's warning voice." St. happiness and honour but on the light. Paul is cited in support, as he contrary something. which may
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