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"AN ADVENTURER FOR CHRIST” STIRRING ADDRESS BY

DR. E. L. ALLEN ·

JOHN WOOLMAN'S LIFE

A stirring address on "An Ad-year he resolved in all things to venturer for Christ," was deliver act on an inward principle of vir- ed by Dr. E. L. Allen, Minister of ue,' to take conscience as his guide.

The Cross of the Slaves the Union Church, Kowloon, at the Hop Yat Church, last evening, to a well-attended audience.

This was the second of the ser- ies of five lectures given under the auspicious of the Chinese Y.M.C.A.

Dr. Allen said:—

"The first test came just about this time. He was employed as as- sistant in a local shop, and his mas- ter one day instructed him to draw) up a bill of sale for the transfer of} a negro woman, the customer him- self standing by at the time. There' was no reason why Woolman should "If there is in this world any have had any scruples on this point, spring of progress other than the for slavery was universally accept- insight, the conscience and the ed.

"Even within the Society of of individual men and courage

Friends there were no stirrings of women, it is not easy to see where conscience on the subject, and the it is to be found. What we call would-be purchaser was himself an Friend. But something 'corporate action' turns out on an elderly alysis to be action which a major within told the young clerk that no human being should be bought and Ity of the individuals composing sold like this. Yet, could he refuse? society is persuaded to take at the After all, he was hired to obey or-

"One special protest he felt him- 5,900 12th June S'pore, Penang, Colombo & Bombay prompting of a few who are in ad-ders, and the responsibility was his

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"So he drew up the bill of sale. what he spoke of as 'superfluitics,' Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & the interplay of two Impulses.

"The one makes us .conserve But when it was finished, he laid any kind of needless and excessive His attitude here Bombay, Marseilles & London.

what is of value in the past, and his pen down on the counter and expenditure. creates soclety as its expression; called his master and the customer needs to be understood. Protestan- the other thrusts forward into the to witness that never again would tism stressed the virtues of Indus-

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Over the world are interested in the case of Anna Morano (above), so-called Luminous Woman, of Pirate, Italy. For some reason, an yet unexplained, a silver-toned light emanates from her body when she sleeps. Below is an artist's con- ception of the phenomenon.

"Superfluities"

Marseilles, Havre, London future, and makes use of the fadi-the have anything to do with such a try and thrift. Men save a part One who transaction. It was a little thing, of their income and invested it in Bombay Motterdam, Antwerpvidual as its servant.

was himself the pioneer in a social of course, when a clerk in a New business, so that capitalism may not movement said that 'when the Most England shop laid down his pen, but unfairly be described as an outcome Bombay, Marseilles & London.

"Woolman's point of view Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, High has something to be done, He as he did so, be took up the cross of the Protestant ethic.

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very different from this. As he dates from that moment, Hull.

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"Our Lord came to bring the The Voice of the True Shepherd saw it, the luxuries of the few are ap- "A few years later, Woolman set made possible only by the poverty Kingdom of Heaven, and his Bombayur, Rotterdam, Antwerp & peal was to a nation; but he knew up in business as a tailor, at the and want of the many.

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Pompeii In Massachusetts

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It

How

He was

Holl

that nothing could be achieved for same time opening a retail shop, especially distressed when on Marseilles & London.

either except as he was willing to Business then, as now, was a mat-journeys he was entertained in a Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Other dered possible by slave-labour. He Bombay, Marsellles, Havre, London, obey the voice that spoke to himter of competition, but Woolman style which he knew was only ren

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & at his baptism, though it might simply declined to compete. Holl.

Head him to the Cross. And the men were ambitious to get rich, he was only a plain workingman, "and 16,000 20th Oct. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

carthly Calvary has as its coun- dreaded such a result. He held that he had no theories as to how this terpart the heavenly Calvary. The a man has a right to earn enough wrong system might be righted. world's sin can only be redeemed for his own livelihood and for his But he knew that as far as he was concerned he must share the poverty as in each generation someone Is family, but nothing beyond that.

"He refused to sell intoxicants, of the many rather than the luxury found to take it to his own heart;

of of the few. This it was which travelling its future can be assured only as He would not deal in articles someone is willing to give himself clothing which could be considered, made him insist on to achieve It.

luxurious; he held that, beside be- steerage when he crossed to Eng Fidelity to Conscience, Ing. extravagant, they find an foland, and what he saw then of the "It is easy to speak of fidelity to jurious effect on the character of hardship of the scamun's lot lald

they cushioned the earth! conscience, but to pass from words those who wore them. He declined yet another cause upon his heart. "In his little book 'A Word of to deeds is by no means easy. The to follow the custom of the time and

to the Rich' he cone in the dusking heavens. Pom-they buried the ankles, the knees, best way in which we can nerve give credit-not for his own sake, Remembrance ourselves to it is by looking back but for his customers'. He wanted singles out for condemnation the pell was a garden of incense, a con-heaped up the roofs in odorous of Pompell till it was one enormous upon some of these who can stand no man to fall into debt on his ac-existence of great landed estates etellation of lights, an ocean of in-drifts, softened all the lineaments

words: "To struments. Now...... So he studied the incomes and closes with the count.

Pappenheim leaned forward over feather-bed of petals upon which in this matter as examples for us.

a perfect redemption "Yet it must be admitted that of those who came to his shop, and labour for

lads, might recline, like the sailors ward. Right again. Suddenly a the precedents we are usually of-advised them how they might get from this spirit of oppression is the controls. Right. Left. For those lovely ladies, those handsome the great business of the family of fered are of little value. Perhaps the best value for their outlay.

seeming jet of flame issued from of Odysseus pillowed on lotus. "But in spite of all his precau-Christ Jesus in this world."

The cool petals, cool as water. the cone of Vesuvius. All the hex- BL. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation' for the persons chosen were in an ex-

tions, his business continued to pros-

Infinite Wisdont

were illumined. Another Did you say cool? Cool? ceptional position or their VOCA

"Let me closo with one 1st and 2nd class passengers.

point vens

But what flower is this with the tion was to something quite dit-per, and he took the drastic step of

way. ceasing to stock certain goods and which shows the genuine great-switch, Forward, Half Right.

He refused to seemed that a great river of molten warm petals, warm as ash? What EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, ferent from what comes cur

Or it may be that the temptation sending elsewhere those who wantness of this man. to which they were exposed WAD ed to purchase them. Finally, sce-make the Light which shone in his lava lipped the cap of the crater, is this emell in the nostrils? What heart into a law by which Pompeil gasped. The world gasped, strange flower is this, the petals of so obvious and so public in its log he could earn enough as a tal-own

All along the crystal channels the which powder the hair like ashes character that even we, with all lor, he closed his shop altogether.athers were to be judged.

illumined, and amell like spot? successive bulbs were

Not like soot. This is no dead. Bed Aug. Manila, Babaul, Brisbane, Sydney & our weakness, would be able to "There was a care on my mind', he sees this meat clearly in an entry thousands upon thousands, of ginse

It is warm as coals. says, "so to pass my time that noth-in this Journal on

The substance. play the hero's part in it.

bulbs painted a fiery scarlet. referred to, when "If, for example, we were asked ing might hinder me from the most already

claders. hot cinders that crumble openly to deny our faith, some-steady attention to the voice of the broke out and Friends were per-phantom rivers of lava flowed down. There are no flowers. These are

plexed as to whether they should their ingenious courses. The lighta pay taxes or otherwise support a under the great cauldrons of blown and crunch when you tear thein out rise to meet the challenge. The Refused to Take Money

Risss beaved and winked and boiled of your hair. Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan thing within each one of us would true Shepherd."

political system which they aaw

in an incomparable, in an incom Those red rivers ravening towarde What joke is this, Pappenheim.T "How scrupulous he was and yet let to war.

"He came to the conclusion that Parably impertinent, imitation of The Union 9.9. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New passage of time, in the undermine with it all how sensible and how land, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

Ing of the will by the complexities kindly of heart, is shown by his at-Truth has two types of servants. the ferocious forces of Nature. All us down the slopes of the accused the the way down the riven alapes of mountain-are they no more than electric bulbs? No more than that, of business life and the thousand titude when war broke out between He goes to the history of

sind the pseudo-Vesuvius, towards the and and one considerations which fam-England and France, involving the Church for his illustrations,

colonies of the two Powers. War. singles out on the one hand Thomas fringes of Pompell in Massachusetts Pappenheim? Why does the moun ly ties bring with them."

*I want, therefore, to tell the taxes were levied, and drafts of A Kempis, who sought to fill with the rivers of lava ran, glared, broke tain-top pant and snarl? Where For God's sake, let us get out of· story of a man who had to meet young men were ordered for mill-the spirit of Jesus manastic disci-up in supremely engineered confu-are you, derling, where are you?

alon. John Woolman re-pline and Catholic ritual, and on! Just these problems, and yet who tary service.

Only in Naples, the veritable this! I can't breathel Where are those who the other hand John Husa, who)

you? Your face is hidden in a bed lived in simplicity and directness fused to countenance by the Light within. The Journal merely wished to shirk their duty, gave his life rather than acknow-Naples across the sea, were of John Woolman is the unaffected but he came forward as the spokes- ledge any authority other than aware how the light died suddenly of white cindera! Your face is it? record of the life of a tailor in a man of the young men who had con- conscience. Yet each of these was from the summit of the authentic New England country town, his scientious objections, to the draft, doing God's work. All true Chris-Vesuvius, the light that had searchings of heart and the work But he was somewhat perplexed tians are of the same spirit, but been quenched for two sons. Only to which he found himself called. when he heard that two soldiers their gifts are diverse, Jesus Christ in Naples were they aware how the He was born in New Jersey in were to be billeted in his house, appolating to each one his peculiar great volcano settled down upon its 1720, and was introduced from the What was he to do about it? uffice, agreeably, to his infinite wis bases in a collapse of dust.

Only in Naples. This was "A moment's silent considerationdom,' outset to the simplicity and plety

Of course, "What does this mean? It means/moment, in the new-old Pompell, to down than Pampeli in Italy. That of a Quaker household. He tells gave him the solution. us that he gave way for a time to be could not possibly refuse to open that in a world where there is so take an academic interest in geolo- fall of ashes mingled with mud, of

The eruption wantonness" but it is not likely his house to two fellow-men, but he much of which we cannot approve, gical phenomena. Amey, Shal, Mojl, Kobe & Onaks.

that that word covers anything we could decline to take the money! there are two ways by which evil proper had begun how over the which chroniclers tell in the earlier S'hal, Kobe Yokohama.

should be inclined to take serious Later se, one of the officers met him can be attacked and driven out. reaches of Prospect Water. S'hal, Mpil, Kobe & Yokohama.

impression which he tells us was his generous action. Woolman was political, economic and ecclesiastical ing petals, the cool petals of dowers managed to reach the further limit. 7. Much more Important was the in the street and thanked him for One is to work within the existing whole illumined air was full of fall. Vesuvius spared none of her left on him from his earliest years, silent. Returned home, it occurred system, nocking to bring into them As Pompell had been buried once in of the pumice shower found further the Impression that, as he puts it, to him that his silence might be more truth, more humanity, more shower of small pumicestones not

larger than damson plums, so. Pom-Progress barred by the rivers of there had been in past ager people misconstrued. Bo be sought out this Justice.

"The other is to challenge them pell was buried again in a shower that boiled and churned their fiery courses towards the pea who walked in uprightness before officer and explained from what God in a degree exceeding any motives he had acted. Nor was he openly and to take the consequences of petals not larger than ros These will never after be dian-

Who shall say that petals. All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without moties, that I knew or heard of how live attitude to war a purely negative for oneself."

But it is hoped that the body of ing As he thought over this, he one.

one of these methods is right to The air swooned with perfume. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans er Punka Louvre Syntace.

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days and in the alience of the and a fort was captured by the In- and go forth to do it, not falling odours and sd clogged with petals over his controls, at the centre of meeting for worship, heged to clans, he ventured unarmed into the back in the one case upon compro- Cool, cool petals! How cool they the stage of the old Florian, Theatre, follow where the ght might land interior and among the hostile tribes mise, not in the other taking refuge wore as they drifted upon hot cheek, under 15 feet of punice stones, not

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