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SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1929.

OUR WEEKLY SERMON

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XXV-YOUR CARES AND WORRIES

[By Irwin H. Evans, Shanghai, in "Signs of the Times"]

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(Continued from Page 6.) by, the tomb of the unknown war- rior. "It is finished." Soldiers of France, advance! Your bugles` have sounded his victories. In his still silence, your leader himself walls TO LET "Norman Cottage" East, for you to sound his defeat, falen house, Garage for Austin "7" "Early Seth's Corner, Furnished roomed at the Last Post:"

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Shanghai, To-day." The Committee appointed to re port on offers for the purchase of the Municipal Electric Depart- No, my brethren, these things ment has recommended accept-cannot be A life of real triumph ance of the bid of the American cannot end In gloom, nor can sorrow and Foreign Power Co., Inc., be the shroud of glory. He alone is Like Paul, who alone of from itself," enjoys true restful which is a subsidiary of the a true goldier who has squarely FANLING HUNT

And this is our privilege as Electric Bond Share Co. of New Sought the battle of life, and for him six souls on board the doom-Christians when we cast all our care York.-Reuter

[Note: The highest bid was by That Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of "death is swallowed up in victory:" ed ship was fearless and upon Him.

the American and Foreign Power calm, so the Christian, amid the

"You Don't Care" sorrows, misfortunes, and. trials How often the nagging wife or Co., namely, of 81,000,000 taels France, was never defeated in bat- tle array may be glorious entry in that come alike to all, is the one the fretful husband incriminate 'under the terms and conditions the annals of war, but that he knew each other with the stinging words, of the memorandum of franno real failure in the perfection of "You don't care!"

the two hundred and seventy-ness:

who in the testing hour has sweat peace and serenity,. Of all peoples he is the most contented, happy, and worry free. Why? Because he

chise."

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has learned to cast all his care upon ence of one by the other, and the

God, and experiences in his daily

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Two Brothers

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Marshal Foch's brother not only as my guide but as my friend. The brothers had, much in common. They both were marked leaders of

words may be literally true; but life the joy that comes from a how many a heart has been forever realization of the sublime truth allenated by such words of con- that God cares for him. This is demnation! Then, too, such words, a lesson that often seems hard for may be spoken under irritation; us" to work into our personal ex- and while seeming to express what H.M.S. "Foxglove" (a sloop) men. They were both teachers of perience: yet the promise, with the speaker thinks at the time, yet and H.M.'s troopship "Somerset-men. The heat, well set on strong

shire" (with the 1st Bn. Queen's which we are all familiar, has little they may be far from the truth. comfort in it for us unless we our I knew a home where the father Royal Regiment and other units shoulders, suggested the physical selves learn how to appropriate it was

a fretter. He was a church on board) left Hong Kong yester vigour of men who were born in the Pyrenees, but it suggests still in our daily living.

member, but he

day for Singapore and Britain. a scold, a

HMS. "Bluebell (another more by its confident poise the blamer of wife and children. Once Homebound sloop) arrived at spiritual energy of a soul which the son said to me, when being Singapore on Thursday.

looked at you, through keen, pone- urged to surrender his heart to the Lord, "I want to be a Christian; but I can not while I live at home Wait till I leave, when father can no longer scold and fret, and then I'll be a Christian."

Must Pe Enten

are like The premises of God good food; they must be eaten, digested, and absorbed if we are to derive strength from them. They are pleasant to read and helpful to meditate upon; but unless we digest and assimilate them, making them very blood and sinew and bone and muscle of our moral

fibre in Christian living, they can not make us strong.

The word "casting" in the ex-

hortation and promise, "casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you," has the meaning of hur- ling, throwing from one with force or violence.. The reason given for hurling our cares on the Lord 1s that He cares for us. Surely that is reason enough. The Lord, strong and mighty, the God who declares that nothing is too hard for Him, who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, this wonder- ful Helper is with us, and cares for us; therefore we are urged to burl, to throw, our burden: 013 Him.

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Oh, what a pity that Christian fathers and mothers can hot come to their senses, cease this fratful living, and east all their "care upon Him"! Where in such lives is the promised peace, the abounding joy,

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fort," coming out with reliefs, eyes seemed to go through you, like

H.M.S, "Cleopatra" and "Carys.trating eyes. The glance arrived at Colombo on Thursday, a steel blade, and would have made

you comfortable if their penetra-instructions to sell by Public en route to Hong Kong."

H.M.S. "Dartmouth," "Cleopa- tion was not all suffused with the tra," and "Carysfort" are due light of kindliness and, sympathy. here from Home on April 8 with

Both were men of striking per-: reliefs for the China Station. sonality; in both was to be found a "Cleopatra" will

proceed to will which would not acknowledge Shanghai to effect relief of crews defeat; a will which was ardent ba of H.M.S. "Magnolia" and "Corn-cause it was animated by genuine flower*** (sloops in Northern patriotism, but which owed its real. waters) and "Carysfort will go strength to the earnestness of a on to Hankow with reliefs for lively faith in God, and a deter gunboats on the Yangtze River. mination to be guided before-ail Approximate dates for these things by the will of God. three cruisers to leave Hong Foch was a teacher. In two works, Kong, Homeward bound, are "The Conduct of War" and the "Dartmouth" April 18, "Cleopa- "Principles of War," he proved the tra" April 30, and "Carysfort" originality of a genius which, years May 12....

before the war, Won from Lord On reaching Home, "Cleopa-Roberts the tribute that a big Euro- tra" and "Carysfort," together pean war in the future would most with H.M.S. "Concord," will come probably be won by the brilliant out again, with relicf crews for professor of the War College. units in the 8th Destroyer Flotilla, China Station,

At best a teacher is one who has a greater power than his fellows to reflect God's truth. If he uses it of an altogether hypothetical to-jaright, the wold is indebted to him. morrow? God will take care of our But if he distorts God's truth--and to-morrow. All our worry about the world has suffered and is suffer- the futero, much of it imaginary ing much from such teachers--be and all of it useless, serves only to may help to kill souls that should make us unhappy and depressed, never die. and to shed gloom upon those whose lives are bound up with ours.

Foch was a leader. At best a leader is one to whom God seems to have given a greater share in He His own strength. The use of this

Truly, the Christian must learn to cast his care upon the Lord."

Sometimes it seems hard to leave our cares with the Lord. Not that we would not willingly be rid of them, but we do not know how to cease our fretting and worrying.... su long have these characteristics Leen a part of us. To lay saide our corroding cares; to be calm'and peaceful, with work to do and

can not bear the load alone, and strength will lift up the feeble and children to tend, with nerves taut.

hope to get into the kingdom of encourage and temples throbbing, through

the faint-hearted. But God; for bearing our own burdens the misuse of it may make deserts breathless days and fevered nights,

deadens hope itself. is indeed difficult, especially if we

of flourishing cities. No! real think no one is at hand to sympa-

So many Christians are like an greatness does not, finally rest with immigrant who once came to the the mere teacher nor is it to be thize. But the Christian hàg

United States to work in the mines measured by Some One near who does care. The

a man's power of near Pittsburgh, promise is, "He careth for« you.”

Pennsylvania. domination. God's light may be Landing in New York, and unable sadly diffracted by the prism of Because of this, we are exhorted to cast all our "care upon Him."

to speak English, he was taken in man's mind; God's power, imitated We are not told to ask God to do

charge by a policeman, conveyed to by men, may be distorted into the railway station, and told our work, but to carry our cares,

to tyranny by a proud and selfish will. buy a ticket at a certain window, our regret for the past,

He alone deserves the lasting our of which we read so much in the He paid his money, received the gratitude of mankind who, be he worry for

the present, and our Good Book? Let us ever remember printed bit of cardboard, and care teacher foreboding anxiety for the future. that fretting is a sin. It separates fully put it away.

or leader, seeks to show God wants to carry all this for us, families, blights lives, ruins homes, justed his bundle on his back, took God, by the use which he makes of

Then he ad- forth the greatness of the Giver,† and leave us free to work for Him and aends more souls to perdition his satchel in his hand, and started the gifte. When a man does this in with peace in our hearts and joy than many so-called greater sins to walk to Pittsburgh! in our lives.

One night, an heroic degree, we call him a saint. often those which the fretful one as he way, boming into a large We honour him in a special way, Get Joy from Work prides himself on nat committing place, he was Sometimes people complain be-

warned to get off because by honouring him we feel A-Sorry Preacher,

the track. He stubbornly refused, that we are honouring God. cause they have to work. They compare their condition with that

Born 10 Greatness of those who have more

poor It is not ours to judge the sanc- money, growing into manhood and woman fellow reached into his pocket tity of the great Leader and great more leisure, and more pleasant as hood. One of the children, a son, and drew out the little card. Teacher, who has passed to God. sosiations than they, and feel that married againat his father's advice One seeing the ticket, one But this we do know. Foch was a their lot by hard. They do not and without his consent or know of the guards took the man into the inan. To-day soldier and civilian realise that work to do, and strength ledge, and the father refused to station, and when the train for alike honour hi to do it, is among the greatest forgive him and was in a great raga Pittsburgh arrived, put him and his statesmen will how to greatness, es Rulers and blessings ever betowed upon man. against him. One of the children bundles on board, and told the con- the coffin passes. They will do more He who has work to do that needs told me that they were all praying ductor to put him off at Pittsburgh. than bow to to be done, and that he

the remains of can do for the father, that he might for How many professed Christians Ferdinand Foch, they will respect in should be happy indeed.

Idleness is a curse, indolence is give, and that the family might be are like that poor man! After their heart of hearts, a man who

the Lord's Every nerve, muscle, and reconciled. I asked why the father entering a sin."

service, never, sacrificed his convictions to held out

so bitterly. The answer and fibre of our being is made for ser-

professing to accept all expediency, who never stifled the vice. Happiness is found in came. "That is father's way. He that

promises they at voice of conscience when to do so is quick-tempered. We all know he tempt to carry all their load all the would have meant a temporary gain. activity, not in sloth. -Joy in work, jay in the finished product has that passion to overcome, so we way, when all the time the Lord is

(Continued on Page 15.) ready to carry not only the load but of hand and brain, is a joy akir. to pray for him every day":" that of God Himself, who looked I thought, as I heard this inci- themselves. upon His work and saw that it was dent, "Oh, what a pity for a father, All good things, earthly and- good. Not often does work kill, a man of God, preaching the way of spiritual, come from our heavenly He sends the rain and even hard work; but worry, bor-reconciliation to sinners, to deal Father.. rowing trouble, envy, and all its thus with his own flesh and blood! the sunshine, the day and the night, sisterhood of evils break the spirit east our burdens on the Lord? We laws that He has established guide Can we Christians never learn, to the seedtime and the harvest. The and destroy the body.

To follow the exhortation of the sing it, we preach it, we pray for text dues not mean that one who it, but how far short we come of has a great work to do, for which living it

he is held responsible, will not look

worker for the Lord, has a family to

A brother of my acquaintance, a till the watchmen were about

use force; then the

Our Tomorrons

after it with all diligence; but it What meaning does this scripture does mean that he will do his part have to you, dear reader to your faithfully, and cast his burden on own soul? Does it tell you that it the Lord, so that he will not worry is better not to worry and-frezcand and fret and be pressed down by be over-anxious about to-morrow? anxiety over it.

Never think that you areita admira

'it

uncounted suns in His great universe, and they operate in the life that we see all about us. His word i filled with assurances of His love and tender care for His children. How often we sing "Cast thy burden on the Lord, And He will sustain thee, and strengthen thee, and comfort thee,

Poverty is no disgrace. Our tion or sympathy by worrying No; and yet fail to do what He com- Lord was poor. The Creator of the the world will leave you to carry manda, and cast all our care upon earth, who made the gold and silver your own burdens if you persist in Him! When we go beyond mere and all the wealth of nature, walk tears and fretting. "Laugh, and essent In our experience, when ed up and down in the field of His the world laughs with you weep, we realise in our own hearts creation with no place to lay His and you weep alone," ought to bring that the great and mighty head: Countless millions of His to us the message that all our God, our heavenly Father, cores for followers have been poor in the fretting and worrying can not win us, and stands ready and waiting perishing things of earth, but rich friends or love for us,

not dalyste carry de hut our every burden, worry will be vanquished and driven from the field, Try it dear fellow "Christian. ・ God can

in faith. The possession of Some people fret over the future, material things-never yet brought when they have not a single pro permanent happiness. But a con- mise that they will live another day, tented spirit, at peace with Its en---Why, than, darker the present by and will do great things for you, vironment, and a heart "at leisure pressing into the imaginary Jlls ki you wil trust Him.

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