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THURSDAY AUGUST

MIXED ORIGIN.

EVOLUTION AND RELIGION

IN HARMONY!

The Reverend C. Clouston Porri, taking as bis text: "Jesus (as was supposed the son of Joseph the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.'' Like 3, 23, 38, preached the following sermen last | Sunday:

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which man was originally made.

The simplicity of the in- ference waited the revealing of the sons of God in Christ Jesus. Man is like to God as the son is like to the failior!

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St. Pani and both had learnt of Jeans the truth concerning man. Man is the you of God, even Adam belongs to that sonship. "Who was

on of God."

la tracing the descent of des back to Adam and to God, St. Inke indirectly traces back the descent of unity, do which desus be

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INTERPORT BOWLS.,

SELECTION OF TEAM.

At a meeting of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Association, last. evening, the Hongkong players to the Colony against represent Shanghai next month were chosen. The proceedings were conducted by the Chairman of the Associa- tion, M tion, Mr. S. Hamilton, and there were present Mr. B. W. Bradbury (the Vice-President), Mr. G..J. Tacchi (the Hon. Setretary)' and representatives from the various clubs in the League.

Science my trace man's origin buck to a stage of development in which he was not a son, but only in the process of becoming. When toan thaily arrived, made in the

Man's unrestry is thus dual, he inage and after the likeness of Gnd prograss mental, moral und originates in man and in God.

The account of mug's beginnings spiritul legan, and history and

possible. contain in the opening chapters Descent from the gods, was curly religion were believed to be the exclusive pri- Man's insatiable emosity made of miesis have been supple- vilege of royalty, Later when him the anwenried explorer of all mented by the later teaching of such descent was deemed dubious reais, his unrest revealed his riigion and of science but if bus divine right was conceled to kings, erigins and urged his quest to lind never been superseded. anti facts destroyed this fiction. Butisinetion in the God after whose story, holds elements of eternal Hirth of which aff later development Democracy has succeded to the likeness he right, the voice of the people is thought, his dreams, his aspirations is but the unfolding.

Before commencing the business the voice of God, inets have after larmony, order, beauty.

of the evening, the Chairman re- yet to prove that this is not also a truch and God are, mistakeable

find, in whose image man was ferred to the great loss the fiction.

signs to those who will understand An the opinion of

modern them of the ever-widening distance treated, became the supreme quest Association had sustained by the

Trom the the progress of which we ty theology and science, royalty and which separates maa dency descent atike. Front to be at a role, tage sure in many ways in the death of Mr. A. R. Lowe, Much final tost of adyatice is to be found had been said lately with regard in the gradual upproximation of to the many sterling qualities of the hunt to the divine and the their lute President, and the Chair- walisation of personal and unqual man felt sure that all present telationship between Gind an would agree that the Association had lost a very generous friend. He proposed that a letter be sent

was made.

confion ancestors, which were not he may have been allied. gods, or even men, but something Religion and sienre are thus in much, tower, akin to man hut also to way, antagonistic,, akin to the brute,

We should resent as an imper- fineness this epant of que mean and bentisfy origin were We not convinged But, however ignoble wore the beginnings of the ne, und however slow is progess, the end towards which it is moving is high and de.

"Science." sdd "Canon Barnes the other day. Was enabling us to realise the significence of those

With man began history and with history religion,

Tirologians Tave found a fruitful

The resolution was carried in silence.

At a subsequent stage of the proceedings, the question arose as to the election of a new President,' and on the proposition of Mr. W. The Goldenberg, seconded by Mr. C. Sara, Mr. R. E.. Lindsell was the unanimous choice of the meeting.

oral and spiritumi qualities by which huuuuity was drengively topic in the earliest doctrine of to the widow and family sym- FLIN The full of Adam and farpathising with them in their sad somated from the lower animals. They were ginning to under-aching consequences: it involved bereavement. stand that the Christian fail was Poingy as well as humanity!

The image of God in man want- stronger and, more reasonable We proudly claim to the when viewed in the new light thever it may have been, or is and

Use, ulder woven defaced it may become Kings of creation, who have was when played in

pay have even becomté a grotesque achieved royalty. The Hebrewing

The meanness, of cun's bratish uritur must be as indestruc- palmist expresses man's innate! cousinsess of that sovereignty origin is forgotten in the height of us find Himsel

We humbly claim to be the Sons be moral and spiritual progress sibily of its restoration Ims never of tipid, who' muy attain to "near to which he was attained. Mann lost.

Our interest is in the New ness, likmess to Heir libgd, their looks forward, and whore « science overeling great reward.“ and fails hins le tors religion Testament development of the destiny.

"What he asks, is neu's goal string of aan, and the teaching

'The The results of scientific invessant destiny?

swererning its roenvery.

The Old Testament anticipates tigation world depress as we the of religion harmonises, with the scientists or sale teachers: ex-earliest revelation we une New; man descends from plover- in the realm of the spirit concerning himself, Man's gold from oun plus all that is in tuan nature which KHYU HS, They have also rude dis and destiny is likeness to ind. the coded in coveries en erning beginnings and likeness of sa to faller. In whats the divine.

St. Luke, as we luve seen, uses

giving the pedigree of Jem. If

Genesis he would have descrile

e direction, They are the scers to likeness, consists in unanger |

whom fa been revealed the dissery. The Father is awwn to gatherly with his sources in tank gou towards which humanity, those Who know His Son. is inwe had followed the aergunt with sters that are dich uncertain and slow, is moving.

The Hebrew with his gonths for religin at his instinel for the divine traced Mmek min's desrout 1er-Front-

man

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Tine ovangelist umy i ideju fied the two, and thus has given what is at once the simplesi ruut intelsatural meaning of

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leading generally répted by Christian thinkers that man's Adam, the best of the list, as bring remote atestors Were akin to thee in the image of God, instead of which he naines him "Son of brute enation, Science maty say dations The creation epic in Flerose re- weligion and the Prs word to say remints the labours of the sixth day and it is

to that word in which God ayude fish, birds and non cair thoughts, beasts and trully min. Man Hix!

Our tes is one of these noblest work and His turast neeily delightful "surprises which make "erature for whom He makes this the Cospels perquially fresh, and

adequite provisium. Manis deathctive. cribed as the being who was erested A genealogical series, although, it'"

m the age and after the like may begin with Jesus, is aur j Jigs of God, F

expected place in which to find We may marvel at the spiritual sich a surprise. insight of dur earliest religious St. Matthew traces back the teuliers. While their antem-dasent of Jesus to David and poraries, unde gous in the lifteness Abraham. The genealogy given of men and included their, frailties. in the first this interesting The Hebrews made man in the un cent At the inclusion of image of God in spite of his coval usus omitted from the

Christian thought expresses itself frailty!

table in the third Gospel, Hebrew thougin watchi, its ebay. The intention of St. Matthew.isin terms of relation. We may and the nason why St. Luke departed acteristic ** contribuiou. 14

fren The old sore in constructing his gegree of Jesus in the newer eling of Jesus.

bielly, Jesus tughe that 's approximation to flod is not merely resemblance between

The Interport Team. The Hon. Secretary mentioned that an invitation had been receiv et from the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Association to send a team to Shanghai on the 1st September. The clubs had been circulated ask- ing them to send in the names of three representatives each who would be prepared to go if chosen. Some thirteen names had been submitted.

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FLOODS' AWFUL TOLL IN CHINA.

FIFTY THOUSAND DEAD.

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Shanghai-August-1-1-

During the course of the dis. cussion, it was mentioned that owing to the precarious state of the Association's finances, the Association was unable this year to tay the fares of the players to

It is estimated that 50,000 per- Shangnai and that those who were so have perished in the foods, selected would have to foot their which submerged enormous tracts own bill.

in Chihli, Honan, Hunan and

Flood Relief Drive,

A Peking message of August 6 fully bears out the foregoing tele-

A ballot was taken on the thir-Kwangtung. A famine is feared. teen names submitted, with the result that the following six were chosen in the order named:-

W. Wotherspoon (Taikoo R.C.).ram. A. S. Mill (Civil Service C.C.): J. Clark (Police R.C.). C. Atkinson (Kowloon Dock

Hebrew religious thought rendily" és pressed itself in terms of "ppearance. The mind asi- reenghisus differehes, and semblances.

Familiar are the examples. Te u shep- shall feed: Bis flock like herd, "Tike as a father pitieth His children

To whom will ye fiken God, or | R.C.).. what likeness will ye cupare unto

A Gourlay (Kowloon Dock R.C.).

The China International Famine Relief Commission and the Chinese

organising Red Cross are Nutiona: Flood Relief Drive. The Peking message continues:-

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* Reports, are arriving from all parts of Chihli Province, Hunan

U. Omar (Indian R.C). For the position of reserve, R. Province and Kwangtung Province Basa (Craigengower C.C.) and as to the conditions there, and thevidem, desus is used with

Maclachlan (Taikoo R.C.) receive these statistics give every indica thetrine at mate's origin, but the royal pestigree. He is the der

ed un equal number of votes, and tion that the situation is more ides remained without a content day of kings His birth in the and what the writers unit by roval stression stablistes. His

Mr. Basu announced his desire to serious than was at first realised. imge and likeness' was left right to the throne and rule of unexplained.....

awaken the Chinese public as to Messiah-King

retire in favour of Mr. Mac-Great efforts are being made to Lachlan. Man's detaiinment from the Jesus of Nazareth, was, of royal

On the proposition of Mr. P. the necessity for concerted action, animals which approximated, to descent and belongs to the line of original and the image. but the Farrell, seconded by Mr. W. Kent, and it is to be hoped that they will hi was pleurfy defined bit history | kings.

elected give their best support to the shows that his self-detachment was St. Laike, also, fences back the When exists a mutual relationship. Mr. Wotherspoon was the stud of a slow process, He descent of disus in Davis, but not, The doctrine of man reaches its Captain of the team, an amend-activities of the Chinese Red Cross existed is one of a family, or tribe Farough the throne sucesionigliest development in the tescisment in favour of Mr. Mill being and the China International or nation but as individual he then back to Abrahan, but he doesing of Master-Teacher Proof is defeated.

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takness of Father and son between

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not stop there like St. Matthew.adly aceded to-day of what has Progress in the direction of self but to our surprise he continues entered or is fast entering inta knowledge was made by the until he reached Adam"! Grbek, but by the Hebrew it was The intention of St. Luke is also

the goblinon consciousness of man-

Famine Relief Commission, both

of which are organizing to cope with the possibility of widespread famine in the provinces referred to during the winter months. The int. vix de Ceeing of kinship to Him to recover and to save,

Our intentions in this to em-China International Famine Relief in Cue dizertion of the owledge evident. Jesus is given a pedigrees and of atual relationship. of Goily Dod was bis first, and which goes ·Bark to Mfari. who The point of departure from the phasise the fact of man's dual Commission is receiving daily re- supr. he quest; the God, who re- stands for the root ancestor of Het may be found in the co-ancestry and his descerit froin ports from sources all over the

sciousness of desas Himself." "Na Adam and from God."

afflicted arcus, and they have. to His servant? the human race. wealed Himself

Important consequences follow instituted a Publicity and Statis- The prophets, and taught them Jesus, was of royal descent the Hon. The maid, "weth the

tics Department to handle the cerning His elameter, will and son of David. He was of lowish Father save the Son." His self this double relationship..

It enables us to understand how same. They have invited Mr.

· purpuses, Ti tiod who hud stork the Son of Abrahani, but Heuwledge of His own sonship was chosen Iswed as His people and was also a son of Aduan, the failer signe as was also His knowledge man life toust be conflict if the Lawrence Impey; formerly. Engi- divine and human in us should neer to the American Red Cross bend them to us by covenante of the mee, the comunen areastor of the Father. of lainnut,

Wo think of God" not in that become, as they actually have China Famine Relief and to the Jesus helongs by birth to humanity

fergus of agpurince but of relation, bene active rivals mther than China International Famine Relief St. Take was a neck, his wathink of His no: "ike us peaceful partners, sympathies were wide as luminity, futher pitieth his children" but as We understand, further, that we Commission, to act as Director of and, his Gospel, is 'n universal the Father - who loves, as as His inturit through our ancestry Publicity and Statisties. It is felt

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find rame to be known as the Sovereign, Who directed and con-

tmbled the history of the people of His cluse, and as the Father of

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