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The following sermon preached by Rev. A. Baxter in the new Assembly Hall, Cheung Chiau, in connection with the opening services yesterday. The text was They that wait upon the Lord "Isa shati renew their strength, 40.31 These words familiar to us ail give, beautiful expression to the meaning of our presence in this new hal! tulay. We are met not as an organized Church nor in the interests of any denomination: we are met simply in the exercise of an instinct, which is both native and natural to our bunian spirit-

the instinct of worship-we are met to "wait upon the Lord."

We are met also in recognition of a need out less vital to living, than worship, and inseparable from wership; though perhaps less widly recognited-the renewal of spiritual strength, They that wait upon, the Lord shall renew their strength.

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"In the last bock of our Bible John the Seer gives us a striking picture of what he terms the Holy Jerusalem, and one of the glories that mystic city is its symmetry the height of it are equal.

of the length and the breadth and

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that much harder for my neighbour to realise Him.

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The increasing variety and in-loss of worship? Thus all things terests of our varied pursuits is go to decay. Genius leaves the providing us with a sequence of minor satisfactions which dull that deeper longing of the spirit of the Living God.

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We are doing so much to help' ourselves that we do not feel very keenly the need for God to help us. In a word since the earth has been given to the sons of men, the glorious length and breadth of it, the Creator's judgment without the the recognition of It as his work "it is good."

To quote a last century sceptic "the heavens have moved far off and have become astronomical " Now it may be argued that for this state of affairs the Church is in a great measure responsible. The charge in part must be admitted,

Organized religion has at any rate too often compromised height for length and breadth, and lost this scuse of God in the pursuit of wider territory..

temple to launt the senate or the market, literature becomes frivol- aus, Science is cold. the eye of! youth is not lighted by the hope of other worlds, and age is without honour. Scelety lives to trifles and when men die we do not men- tion them." Is it toward this we tend? "Be still and know that am God."

Finally worship is hot only al place of calm and vision but a school for strength. Look back if you will on the experiences of the man who wrote my text.

They that wait upon the Lord' shall renew their strength."

Time was when as a young man of astocratic family Isalah was a friend of King Uzziah in Jeru-

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The close organization of life so characteristic of our time, its social Again it has sometimes been out emphasis and the fuller inter of touch with the thought form of salem and life was good. The country was prosperous and Jeru- change of our thoughts and its day and has sought to keepalem beautiful for the situation" staniards, make it inevitable alive. by authority whether of that the life of society should Church,creed or Bible--conceptions seemed to this young man the joy register our individual negations which in their symbolism at least, of the whole earth. The King was almost as vividly as our affirma- instead of throwing light about the Isaiah's hero and through him the tions and reflecton all hands in ways of Gnd, have cast clouds and glory of Solomon's time seemed have returned. But king growing moral impotence, the fact, darkness about His throne. if it be a fact, that God is not in our thoughts.

Writing in the first century of our gra Plutarch expressed in eloquent words a truth which I for one believe to be not less pertinent for our world than it was for his He says You may travel over the world, and you may find cities without walls, without king, without Saint, without theatre or gymnasium, but you will not find a city without God, without prayer. without

oracle, with out sacrifice. Sooner may a city stand without foundations than a state without belief in the gods. This is the bond of all society and

The City of Weichow, Chen If a thing is scientificallyUzziah die:-smitten with leprosy Chiung-ming's stronghold, now false, no authority can make it which to the jews was a sign of being besieged by Dr. Sun Yat- reports religiously true, and it is the Divine displeasure. "God smote sen's East River Expeditionary business of his Church as well as him."

This to this young man Forces, according to

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of science and philosophy to seemed to be the reversal of all reaching Canton, is inundated to

was won.

think Gol's thoughts after Him he had been taught to believe. as these are being increasingly It seemed that God had forsaken revented to us in the advancing his people and left them to despair, achievements of our modern world. In Jerusalem the throne was

The Hou Cheong Native Bank at Once more the church has some-

and the Sing Loong Native Bank times, erred in tending to make empty and in Isaiah's heart hope Sup Sam Hong Street in Canton religion a kind of specialized had been, dethroned.

Yet it was in the year that on Ta Tung Kaj Street were last living, the concern of a sou! as distinct from a life, a special the prophet was born. And it was Saturday fined $100 each by the faculty instead of the whole of in the Temple where his new faith Capton Police. for refusing to accept the new 13th Year of Re- life's activities.

We can picture him there-in public 20 Cent subsidiary coins Government Mint. According to front of the doors leading to the now being issued by the Canton inner shrine with its emblem of the Canton Government, the new Is it not so still? There is

Good-the Ark. and near it the coins are of a fineness up to 70 per nothing either in the physical, the

altar of sacrifice, and the brazen cent. as required by law, while intellectual or the moral world to be found and felt, only in some serpent-symbols of God's help and many native bankers have reasons times and places, some moods and healing. The choirs pealed forth to believe that the new ones are supremely in only some callings, their music and the smoke of the inferior to the oid.. is it to be wondered that much of ordinary life is being lived with-sacrifice ascended to Heaven. And then as Isaiah meditated, the out- out Him?.

all civilisation."

which can take the place of this supremely religious thing, the sense of God.

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One result of this has been tendency to mark of human life into the sacred and the secular, with all this sad effect of that unfortunate distinction. If God is

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Man's growing mastery of the physical forces around him, as evidenced in the West to-day, is This is all wrong If there be a ward symbols seemed to vanish placing great power within his secular side it is not in things but and he found himself in the pre- hands but the right direction of it only in men. Net in what man sence of God. He had come to bust how he does it mourn a dead king: a lost hero, an and of life through it still waits on does, the spiritual man, the man who in And wheresoever by the will empty throne. He saw the LORD these discoveries realizes he is of God we find ourselves God is high and lifted up "dominating thinking God's thoughts after there, to be found of these who all His train filled the temple Him" with all the responsibility diligently seek after him. Cave His influence everywhere. And child," said Mr. E. W. Hamilton which this involves to use them the wood and here you find Him. the end of it all we know-uplift-

CASE THAT PERISHED WITH A CHIT.D)".

"Your case perishes with the

Strange architecture truly, but of under the eyes of God with His Raise the stone and He is there.ed. purified confident, he left the to Mr. Remedios who defended a

profound insight, when we catch its meaning. The Holy City repesents hursanity glorified, Humanity when God has complet ed for it his perfect work, a Humanity of Length. Breadth, Height, and all are equal.

Now if I understand our modern world aright, in two of these dimensions we have gone far beyond the third.

Humanity has length. We are able to reach on and out in the line of activity and self-development,

the ends of the earth mark the scope of our ambition.

strength and for His purposes.

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And as it is with physical forces places. Turn but a stone ye touch Temple to be the prophet of Holi woman at the Yauurai Court this so it is with intellectual and even wing Tis you with your estrangedness, a master of literature, a poct, morning charged with stealing moral. The Chinese schoolboy used face, That miss the many splen- but above all else, as one has said money and clothes to the value of

a prophet "whose every sentence $90 from the occupant of

adjoining cubicle. to begin his education by repeating doured King,"

"Three But having said all there is to was like the blow of a battle axe

Mr. Remedios had pude an the first sentence of his. Character Classic" Man's original be said about the shortcomings of aimed straight at its goal and nature is good" furtheron Mencius the Church or organised religion, hewing aside all opposition." appeal that the woman should be taught him that the tendency of and having acknowledged that From-experience he wrote the distirarged as the complainant was is to be neltter words "They that wait upon the not particularly anxious to prose human nature to goodness was as religion the tendency of water to flow obscurantist, nor specialized but Lord shall renew their strength" the case and the defendant hud

We are living to-day in a world recently given birth to a child. downwards, and on this idea of to consist essentially in the sublim-

When defendent was questioned native human goodness, Chinese ationof all life to a spiritual mean of much disillusionment, of stern merality has been largely based. ing, something more remains to be conflicts and of wavering hopes, on this latter point she denied

Educate your sons and your indicated. We have spoken of

The phrase We are living in a land of lost that she had any children but com. younger brothers" said an old this sense of God.

requires closer roads, lost leaders and lost faith. plainant volunteered the informa- so however Humanity has breadth,That moralizing Emperor,

does it May it be ours in personal life tion that the woman's child had definition. What difusive tendency which draws us keep them from doing wrong.”

involve and influence to bring them some died." The result is that in China to mean? what does it.

Mr. Hamilton said that he outward in sympathy with our

To my mind it means essentially thing of the vision which Isaiah

would not be doing his duty to the fellow men, which moves us to day we have a world of fine moral

much this:-The consciusness that in saw and the strength he won.. share with others in activity and maxims, self-reliance,.

To this end may the assembly public if he discharged the defen- We are at least dignity and some moral rectitude, our doings we are not our own but achievement. learning that we need one another, but that it lacks something is a God's people. To have this sense hall we are opening contribute aut and she would be sent to

of God life not simply as the amid the greater symbolism of prison for a month. although we may still have a long fact patent to any close observer.

It is a world morally at heart choice b. our own will but as the God which lies around us as we way to go.

In the ideat well ordered and dignified, but a assignment of God for us, our worship here; may we, as in the All this is good. humanity there is no disparage- world without a sky. For good relations to our fellow men are Temple of old find in this place the ment the outreaching of man's ness purely native is man's only, not simply thought and effort, and the and has no height to it. It measured our impulsive feelings, but the grent laver where we may wash achievement of a career Length is only by the goodness of other men, concern of brother for brother and be clean, the place where the It takes its direction from my within the family of God; the lights of the Spirit burn, and the as Breadth and Helght.

nature and therefore because it is desire of a greater good as the bread of life is broken to our need and finding this in waiting upon the Lord may we renew our strength, mount up with wings as eagles, to run and not be weary, to walk and not faint.

But the ideal Humanity has another Dimension. Its height is as the length and breadth. It has a reach not only onward and out- ward but upward, Godward, and without this it remains fat and earthly-a world without a sky.

the 'result of

so little divine it is so flat and prompting of the Great Spirit and every thought of holiness as God weakly human and impotent.

within the soul.

"Be ye therefore perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect" has a height and life to it which the human level can never give.

learnt to forgive.

I do not mean that in detail of life the Divine meaning is con- sciously realized but that its ac- knowledgement has become the native attitude of the Soul,

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In giving evidence at the Yau- mati Court this morning regarding an alleged theft of coal from his house complainant made an has been declared and will be having arrived from above ports, allegation regarding the treatment payable on and and after Wednes- CONSIGNEES are requested to pro day the 20th August, when sent their Bills of Lading in exchange of the defendant when he was Dividend Warrants may befor Delivery Orders, and take taken to the Police Station. In saving that our Western life

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All cargo not taken delivery from The Share Registers of the uergeant ill-treated the defendant. jected the criticism' that we are in similar level, I have no idea of

The sergeant was called and Company will be closed from steamer by 21st July, 1924. will danger of losing Height, in our minimising the fine qualities it to life is not a thing easily to be

CASE REMANDED. '

6th August, to be landed into the hazardous and/or with achieving exhibits.

achieved. "It is a great Art" says

said that all he did was to push Wednesday, pre-occupation

We have been brought up with Thomas A Kempisto walk with

Tuesday, 19th August, 1924, both non-hazardous godown of the Hong- the defendant. Length and Breadth, is perhaps

kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown the most disquieting, and worthy no such confidence in our human God" an art not an accident-an

A quarrel between two chanf

After bearing the evidence re- days inclusive.

By Order of the Board, the testo. It means that we are nature as Chinese have. This very effort not an aptitude, and for this fours and an alleged attack by one garding the alleged theft, Mr.

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delivery may be obtained. in danger of losing the sense of fact however has given us a large reason it requires cultivation and

Secretary. charity and tolerance and perhaps it requiries strength. "They that on the other with a chopper was Hamilton said that it was not God,

Hongkong, 21st July. 1924. Beside this, criticism of Churches a tendency to be easy going to wait upon the Lord shall renew described at the Central Magistracy suficient for conviction and the their strength" Herein lies the this morning. The complainant man would be discharged. The of worship, of religious and even expect less the will for the deed.

To exr is human and we have justification-yes the necessity of said that he and the defendant deposition with the compainant's of social practices, is of secondary

the seasons of quiet; that and quarrelled on Thursday morning statement regarding the alleged importance, because in this final

But the effect of this attitude max meditation, of worship and about a game of ma chenks and assault would be sent to the C.S.P. analysis these things are not ends

Church in the evening defendant came up In themselves, but either means to be, and often is the same as the fellowship, which the ends, or symptoms of a deeper one I have just been describing whatever its faults, has striven to and aimed two biowa at him with

We are becoming Humanized

maintain. And in this connection, chopper. He warded off one

New York, July 20.-Mr. need.

To lose this sense of God how-levelled at the expense of our granting as one gladly regras but the second cut his wrist but Charles Hall, president of the

sanctuaries are not ever, is to condemn ourselves to a divine possibilities. world of moral and intellectual flat- Nor do our achievements in the phical, and that these seasons of his watch saved him from serious

on the "Majestic" bearing an mess, which sooner or later its very realm of thought and discovery quiet and culture are to be found injury. The case was remanded. Philadelphia City Council, sailed

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LAMMERT BROS., -to leave us to a human endeavour too often otherwise.

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Auctioneers. it andlive spiritually but again and cmft and remove the cargous at agath men have confessed that the the pistol's point, and the in- neglect of the Sanctuary has led to creased efficiency of prohibition the neglect of all worship, and the Jose of desire for spiritual things. "gonts, reinforced by coastguards Social worship is the great equipped with speedy motorboats, school for the realization of God: the-ram-runners.outlook.is noti

We have thought of Thy loving promising

The kindness in the midst of Thy Templo."

states that the Government is pre- It localizes the Divine for us, paring to take vigorous steps to and in shutting out the Intrusive control the situation by the for world for a time it helps us to find feiture of vessels engaged in the keep the living God., "What business and the prosecution of all greater says

effort, is

for a better good, where we are The expanding sense of what is Intended to be fellow-workers with possible to human God, under His guidance and with resulting lu a narrowing of the His Strength and benediction: field in which we realize our need

text of God. „And further if, as our

as experience suggests, and bears witness to wait upon God-is- the condition of spiritual strength and well being, then the losing of the sense of God will mean the general weakness of man's moral and spiritual resources, and will have very wide spread results.

There are many who sea stephewidences of these results today, Talez titto kimself For me

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