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He had taught and trained them, Galatians were of the Gallic origin be saved."

the we may understand the unfinished Jews and bear the sign of Hebrew passed them through

and practices of the Hebrew gymnasium and had rejoiced to course and the uncrowned com- nationality and receive the beliefs see them competing In the Stadium petitors.

The Apostle however, traces the religion, there is no salvation. The а renegade of the world.

The epistle recalls that training failure to other racial character apostle Paul is

theistics. The Galatians began well, pharisee, he is not one of the

At the Chinese General Cham- and the initial success of

Paul restates his in the true spirit of the game, twelve apostles-not even competitora.

"Jesus

having begun in the Spirit, with thirteenth he is a perverter of ber of Commerce yesterday, a Gospel; he "placarded "

teacher of a false met to discuss questions arising The Rey G. Clouston Porri Christ Crucified" and proclaimed the confidence of faith;. they had the truth, an enemy of the Law, number of local Chinese merchants The Hon. H.C.F., taking as his text, you the message of the Cross as the run-in the hope of winning and were running the race nobly. Who news of deliverance. He preached righteousness, gaining Christ, and Gospel! The great game "served out of participation in the Briush has hindered you from obeying the faith in Christ as the way of Salva- receiving the victor's crown, but to inflame animosities rather than Empire Exhibition. truth?" Gal 5.7 (Wey, M.E.V.V.)tion and the condition of receiving they had failed tragically. They allay them." The attack on the "Mr." Chaw Shou-son, one of the that power of the Spirit, which had lost their faith, and with that Apostle revealed the bitterness of Associate Commissioners who has

Jewish animosity.

returned, presided. His had perished their enthusiasm.

The Galations listened to the With reference to

sum of "Ye were running gallantly! The "Times" Special Correspon makes for righteousness. dent at the Olympic games in converts had been released from

See the bondage of the Law and re- Who has hindered you from obey emissaries of the circumcision as $50,000 promised by members of ing the truth?" The second part they had listened to the Apostle of the Chamber to be added, if Paris judges the world unfit, the opinion of our Special correjoiced in the freedom of faith.

As freedmen and citizen's of the of our text contains an element of the Cross. Their teaching attracted necessary spondent who has described the games, they have shown that the Kingdom and men of Christian surprise. The expected causes of them, the older Jewish religion £100,000 allocated by the Gov world is not yet ripe for the ideal character they had qualified after failure, In contests where the test bore resemblance to that of Galatia ermment,, the Hon. Mr Chow which was the basic object of their the manner of the Greek athletes is endurance and the prizes are and Phyrgia in which rites of un- predicted that both amounts wou

for the Christian contest. Ahead on by those whose strength of exampled cruelty were enforced, have to be called upon. It revival."

The heathen $50,000 from the guarantors till the The ideal which inspired the and ever shead stretched the will is as great as their strength of circumcision was therefore a small agreed to defray collection of the

demanded a

slavish return of the Hon. Mr. E R. Halli- rebirth of the games was a high course which they were called to body, are not attributed to the matter to them,

to their authority; fax O.B.E, the other Associate The failure of the Olympic obedience one-namely by friendly rivalry run. The example of the apostle Galatian athletes by the apostle. of all the nations in a brotherhood them to run gallantly and win the games at Paris may help us to obedience to the Jewish law and Commissioner and Sir Robert Ho and sport to bind together the youth when they had loved, challenged

understand the early tragedy in ritual offered no difficulty. The Tang, the assistant Commissioner Galatia.

Galatians changed their religion; Following a report of dissatisfac

to follow so close and loving that would

"Ye did run nobly!" The im-

"The events have shown that the they

the tion at the proposed return of the form a bulwark against the outbreak of all, international animosities. agery of the Olymple games fails The events have shown that the to convey the idea of the length of world is not yet ripe for a brother course they had been running; the Chinese assistants and exhibitors world is not yet ripe for such a the fourse, which the Christian/hood of sport. There has for a track was broken and the path by a certain ship, Mr. Hallifax was long time been profound and wide- destroyed by the preachers of communicated with and it was! since learned that the Hongkong athlète must cover.

whether the circumcision-and-the-Law spread misgiving been had

at Wembley "Ye did nin wall!" "but the section brotherhood."

would Galatians The An earlier correspondent and

the

ancient running the course, but two or games, had not in practice served. contemporary of Olympic games-judge the religious three years, the apostle had already to infame animosities rather than agents of the apostles of the besed a world of his day unfit for sports Tuo twenty years and was still to allay them. The fact is that it circumcision have hindered you than the other Colonies.. Agitation has once more been demonstrated exacerbate international Kameş bitterness instead of soothing them." (Times)

prize.

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The ideal which inspired the Roman prison.and on the ove of with dreadful clearness thar the foolish-Galatians who hath be-ship had been traced to the

'manship labours of the apostle Paul was the highest-namely the creation of a spiritual family or brotherhood in

"to win Christ," and the inperish. abic wreath."

The article in the "Times" on .the Olympic Games at Paris provides the best commentary Do St. Paul's letter to the Galatians from which our text is taken. "Ye

'We have no did run well" . . · ·. reason to be dissatisfied with the honours we have won" writes the Correspondent..

contests

going: ten years later from ai "I have martyrloin he wrote finished the course."

The course is to be measured

by the length of the life of the competitor the race is for life, and death holds the tape.

e-may judge our Christian life by the length of our cn- thesim and the strength of our

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enthusiasm for

"Who has hindered?" inquires Paul. Who has made the Galatian games to cease? Ye were ran

ning nobly!"

in

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which all national and religious animosity should be extinguished; So which there should he neither

Werecall an epitaph in a coun

The Apostle has changed the Jew nor Greek, bond inor free but all should be one in Christ Jesus try churchyard Inscribed on the

battlefield, that of the contest for The ideal which farmed itself in Tonone of a jockey once well-taphor of the Stadium for the

known. "It is the pace that

'hindere" is "a metaphor derived the Apostles' mind,. St. Paul skills. The epitaph would the conflict. The word translated | tians and were making theworld! pressed in the attractive Imagery besicularly unsuitable in the from military operations. It of the Olympic Games.

case of most professing Christians.

The Apostle reminds them of He viewed the Christian life as it not the pace that kills but the signifies "to break up a road," (by

destroying bridges etc.) so his message-the Gospel of the

A pleasant gathering, although the must glorions of all contests.

render it impassable."

Crucified Christ and of their re- The Christian was the trained man, lengh of the course, The test of

(Lightfoot)sponse. They had believed and it was not without pathos, took approved and entered as a com- endance is found to be more

morning when Lady Severn petitor.

Enemy action had broken the had received the. Spirit; they had place in the Cathedral Hall this The Church was the starting than the test of speed. brotherhood of spiritual, athletes. A short swift race raises excite-

athletes into contest and The goal was truth, freedon and mentand enthusiasm to the highest course along which the Galatians entered into the Christian life as ed a sale of work in ved opene rightcousness, and the prize was pitch, but an apparently unending were running in a way similar 19 | ronning nobly and, striving after C.M.S. Blind School, which is at

which international

City road. race ethausts even the interest of that the pectators. "Let us run with animosities threaten to end the righteousness, the goal of Christian present in quarters in Kowloon

achievement.

The proceedings opened with a Judaezers had stopped hymn very sweetly rendered by patience the race that is set before recent Olympic games and have

the writer of made future international con- The us counsels

tests for the present impossible. their Games in order to circum: sixteen of the forty-three blind girl Howws.

them detained them by inmates, after which Lady Severn We remember a football field in cise

of Moses responsible for arranging the sale the Tilloy sector of the Arras requiring them to learn and congratulated the girls and those front. The posts stood and a large practice the laws roller remained...but no games and the accentuation of tradition on the magnificent display of silk were played on the field. The at customs, and had burned them and knitted goods, all of which Liebig enthusiasm belong to but "To writer sience. literature, politics, trenches adjoining supplied the with a yoke of bondage which had were made by the girls of the Strangely Paul, the one pharisee Miss Beswick, the principal of this article" he begins, is teateles etc., but not less great reason. Digging operations brought broken the Spirit of the Jew delivering the funeral oration of the enthusiasm of the Aniente to light buttons, and pieces of the Olympic Games, stut of these Gets for the Games was the tartan...Enemy action had among the earliest apostles, be the School, was in charge of ar the made games impossible in that came the champion of the liberty rangements and other helpers were Chrian contest. Religion, when most fiercely contested part of the of the Spirit against the bondage Mrs. Remington, the Misses Har- particular games only which will Anode's

of organised and standardised re-ston, Mrs. Arnott, Mrs. Gerken, come to a natural end.

., but of the

The Galatian athletes played ligion. He fought the battle for. Mrs. Lindsay and Miss Patterson. whole Olympic movement. Paul had obeyed the herald's line.

The Rev. R. H. Copley Moyle, Who has hindered you, inquires, sumcons and become a spiritual the Apostle, of the Galatians who the, was transformed into the the game in the face of enemy the emancipation of Christianity

monabsorbing of all interests, the action. They run the race amidst from Jewish nationalism. lega chaplain, St. John's Cathedral, was

They lion and ritualism. He alone ap- among those present. had abandoned the games?

most exciting of all experience trials and persecutions.

Inpeared to understand that the Enthusiasm for Athletic games and he most glorions of all pro- ran...but did not run away. and

lurks

martyr roll of a later date Galatian demand for circumcision as a behind

fessins.

names are found inscribed. The condition of personal salvation metaphors used by the Apostle

the Gentiles. His letters Pharises whose religion to

of the Cross and all it stood for as betray what was at that period accepted in a truly stoical spirit, athletes won the martyrs' immortal was the denial of the all sufficiency

PARIS, October 2. in resembled yoke and a burden, crown and glory. interest

The most cruel persecutions by the way of deliverance and life. ann-apostolic

Negotiations for Franco- boxing and racing. Jewish anti rejled in his, deliverance and as'

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that Here Is Evidence From. Negri

Sembilan

German commercial agreement pathy and antagonism to the an ostle viewed the religion of pagan enemies rarely ended the

opened yesterday. M. Herrior Greek games were not shared by Jesu as the noblest of all games great game; they shortened the if ye be circumcised, Christ shall

LONDON, October z.

delegates em addressing the St. Paul, the cosmopolitan, who into which he entered in the spirit Christian athletes course by shor-profit you nothing... everyman

tening his life. The race was swift, that is circumcised is a debtor to The fance of Baby's Own Tablets-ths

Ominous clouds are gathering in phasized the importance of the knew Athens and Corinth and of the Greek athlete.

and Ethusiasm for games of football glorious and tremendously excit the whole law. Christ is become Canadian remedy for infants and little of no effect unto you, whosoever children-aprenda space and parents sympathetically reacted excitement caused by the Greek and cricket and athletic sports is ing.

It was not through persecution comion to-day and quite intelligi.

from the help of mactical experts and forecasting general elections in the future of the two nations. The National Athletic contests.

The Apostle to the Gentiles a corrective to

oity hospitals. And them of ospecial value

near future as a result of the latest negotiations must re-establish a continuous, current of exchanges Paul was too human and too ble but a similar enthusiasm for that the Galatian Christians failed of you are justified by the law, ye ring in remote parts of the world, far the political sky. The papers are results of the pourparlers for the

for their little ones' to finish the course along which are fallen from grace,"

developments. There is much talk between France and Germany so sane not to enter into the prevail- religion and the Christian contos they were running gallantly and alone among the Apostles seemed every day e

will render the other ing spirit of healthy athleticism and is bss general and much less

fearlessly. The apostle attributes

what Mr. E. de Costa, of the of the possibility of the Govern- that each

Rusia Pilah. Negri he was likewise, not too unworldly understood.

the want of success to the broken to understand the inwardness of difference and apathy arc to interpret in the terms of the

to the Gospel of Salvation through Sembilan, says about them:"I have ment resigning next week if the immense services. Weare going to

my wed Baby's Own Tablets for gymnasium, and stadium his ideals ford within the churches as much course which had been destroyed the Hebrew Christian antagonism Land Ofice of the Christian life, its aims and asutside of them. The faith and as by enemy action,

placarded he proclaimed and St. Paul's world was not ripe for faith in Christ Crucified, whomhildren for over a yeat and have found vote of censure, tabled by the write a new chapter of peace and Entusiasmofone Chistian

then most satisfactory, I have also Conservatives yesterday in con- civilization. goal.

carried with the help of Liberals, The Apostle himself was an old potle and athlete was directed portsmanship-not even the relig competitor but he writes. "I have lourds the saving of the world ious world. The destroyers of the up Jewish nationalism, tradition- given the Tablets to trinnda for their nection with the Campbell case, is Baby's Own Tablets should be kept who are advised by Mr. Asquith to But for Christian athleticism. St. Paul game, the course-breakers' whom alism, ritualism, pride of re- children with very good results, already won the race.

greatest of all the apostle exposes and condemnsligious prerogatives and spiritual I am pressing on, striving to lay induced the

thrown if Gentile Christianity there aro infants, and young children. hold of the prize for which also es into the Roman Empire and were to be found within the Church pre-eminence would be over ready at hand in every home where support the motion if" reasonable." policy in regard to the treaty in

and not without. History repeats

cheek tinued existence of the Govern- but the rejection of the treaty carly. ennstipation, colic. wind. Christ has laid hold of me .... where that Empire extended..

hibited the Greek Athletic contests accept the badge of the proselyte diarrhoea and vomiting. expid worms, ment, however, arises from the in November, if the Government forgetting every thing that is past me leamed to play the Chrisilan itself-a" Christian emperor-pro-were freed from the obligation to for they corrost fantile indigestion. The greatest danger to the con order to conciliate the Liberals, The tragedy of and the yoke of the Law. Hence make toethis sy, niet the nerves action of the Liberal party tabling survive till then, is now considered and stretching forward to what he and we are still playing.

What the world needs today are and coded them.

aleep in natural way. They are

Russian treaty owing to lies in front of me, with eyes fixed

even to the wuaranteed harmless Paul fought out the battle in prest and most delicate babe guaranteed loan proposal. fa who view their office as that a Chapter of Church history not Judaezers showed.

It is still possible, though unlike prize,"

last Olymple games...

Jerusalem, and Corinth, Galatia and Chemiste sell theta, or post free, 60 cents He took upon his office and of heralds and their message a less painful than the story of the

The Apostle had created an en- his triumph in the providence of the vial. from Dr Williams Medicine ly, the Government will modify its ministry as part of the gieat game. to the contest

I have been appointed a herald Enthusiastic athletes of the type and an apostle." The Greek heralds of Eric Liddell, who won the final thusiasm for the games in Galatia. God saved the world for faith, Co., 60 Kiangao Houdt, Shanghai. passed through the Country sum of the 400 metres race at the Success had attended his proclama- liberty, righteousness and brother Circumcision, the Mosaic law and moning the youth to compete in Cympic games in the world's tion. The Galatians had entered hood. the Olympic games, the Christianord time of 47.3-5 seconds and whole-heartedly into the contest. apostle passed through the Roman comes out to China next year They had believed the Apostle's Jewish ritual and rites as instru- Empire summoning all to compete a missionary, are aceded to message and Gospel, they had monts and means of Salvation be- in a nobler game for more endurethuse men and capture them for gained freedom through faith in long to an age that has long Christian religion, which is Christ Jesus, they had entered since passed. The Christian life ing prizes and honours.

and The sacrifices he had made, and the most glorious of all the games, into the Spirit of the contest is a life of faith a life of the hardships and losses he had Tey are less common in the and were striving after righteous spiritual. freedom, an exciting

ness and perfection. Christ had contest for righteousness suffered, he held lightly. "It will Cristian religion.

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on the goal I push on to secure thepachers full of enthusiasm and the earliest Christian games forms the zeal and bitterness which the and quickly bring restful health giving the motion for the rejection of the 1 by most people to be a foregone;

MALINI.

be my glory on the day of Christ Of how many promising com-won, them and they were racing truth, a race for the prize of per- Blessed are they who share the tho that I did not run my race in valo,itors may not the churches to win Christ and be found in Him fection and the crown of life., nor toll in vain." "For His sake to the words of the apostle.not having their own righteous-

ness, which is of the Law, but Apostle's enthusiast for I have suffered the loss of every"Ye did run well." thing, and reckon it all as mere Paul writes as an old athlete to that which is through the faith of greatest of all games and, when refuse, in order that I may win ringer competitors who have Christ, the righteousness which is the goal is sighted can cry in Paul hvd "placarded" Galatia fight, I have finished the course, I Christ and be found in Him, no appointed his hopes and falled of God by faith" (Phil. 3.9) triumph. "I have fought a good

and have kept the faith" having a righteousness of my own the contest. They had run derived from the Law, but that plantly, but they had never with Christ Crucified," which ariads from faith in Christ-ached the goal, they had finished preached: faith in the Christ of the righteousness which comes bfore they had completed their the Cross as God's way of saving from God through faith.

urse They were starters only, men from unrighteousness and the beginning of the contest for Ye did run well wrote St. Paul tey could not be winners. to the Galatians.

The greatest of all contests calls righteousness, perfection.

Op walking into the Hongkong The herald of the Gospel had kerstrenuous and sustained effort eternal life. Falth is Christ, the catered Galatia a sick man and ler herioc endurance and for an Indwelling spirit of Christ, and remained a convalescent He had mending enthusiasm. The enthusiasm for the Christ-life were Hotel last night, the writer saw being such an unusual sight, "be "been received wear angel from wareme-contest, fecus man's the conditions of success in the Malini siting all by himself! That heaven as Jesus Christ; a wel it, his spiritual resources and rester of all games

Emissaries from the Judean, askedra Wiara" the trouble, pro«. comedy messenger. Nothwith Christian character.you

Training and chracter, some Churches, and enemies of the Lessor?," and the magician said, standing his sicknces Paul ha

placarded Galatia with Jesu would add both, are the things that apostle appeared "la - Galatians I'm just wondering where we will Christ Crucified; He had set fort wil the tale. An inquiry into the they did in Corinth and placarded put them can or Saturday night. Are and 3 days to go yet. There are,

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