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LATE SIR-ALEXANDER HOSIE:
. EASTER COMMUNION.
HIS CAREER IN CHINA, ADDRESS IN THE CATHEDRAL.
In an obituary notice published in a After the First Exhortation in the map regarding the late. Sir Commauion Service had been rend, the Alexander Honie, a great authority on the trade and industry of China, who following address was given in Stuid oa the evening of March 10th at John's Cathedral on Palm Sunday by the his residence at Sandown, IW.. nt the age of 79. The following account is give Rev. T. B. Powell:
of his career:
Next Sunday throughout the length and breadth of the British Empire a change will comas over the majority of those who owe allegiance to the Anglican Church." -This Colony will be no exception to the rule, for on Easter Day many, both sol- diers and civilians, will be gathered to- gether in that great net of worship which has bound the Catholic Church together ia all ages. We profess our belief in that Church, Sunday by Sunday, when we say the Apostles' Creed, but some of us habitually disassociate ourselves from its prineipal service of worship. Now this fairly common attitude is astonishing, for it implies that the Sacraments are for special occasions Ansi apparently for
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Born in January, 1833, at Inverurie, Scotland, he entered the British Consular A student-inter- Service in China as preter in 1870, and served as Consul от Consul-General successively at Wu- etow, at Kiukiang, in Szechen, and
He was Commercial 'Tientsin."
Attachs to the British Legation in China from 1903 to 1000, was British delegate to the Shanghai International Opium Commis sion in the latter year. aud was appoint ed persoonily to investigate the produe
in 1910. He retired in tion of opium 1919, but acted as Special Attache to the British
Peking Legation LY
from Nov., 1919, to Feb., 1920, at which time he made a trip round the world. back with his health very consequence of much impaired, and as a his illness his right foot bad to be am-
slnes putated.
He had been confined to his bed for some months with heart failure was author of some and debility, well-known
own works on the Far East, in- Three Years in Western China' and Recent Historyeople. Resources, and his last work was the compiling
new
of the map Chiness Empire, which has been particu larly valuable in commercial circles,
He came
special people. But even, a casual cauciucuri
sideration ought to convince us that this easily accepted opinion is wrong, for, os a famous writer has said, "The Satta ments are for the night and got for the day, and most of us in our religious life have not reached the full light of day.
and
He
Sir Alexander Hosie, possessed pro bably a more intimate knowledge of the interior of China than any other member of the British Consiglishmen associated Service, past or PROVISION FOR INMOST NEEDS.
present, and few
finer record of un- For when we consider we realise that with China have left what we require as normal. men and tiring devotion to the public interest. had an observant mind, a special women is something definite, authoritative and simple in our religion, something knowledge of economic botany and which is not too theoretical, not too ab- passionate love of travel. Stationed in he travelled stract, far-fetched-and fanciful; and we Chungking from 1832 to 1894, take this view becauses we know that far and wide through Western China, and
the valuable official
of his reports the big things of life are after and journeys, containing much original in simple things,so simple "that a child
formation
including the first account can understand them, and yet at the same form time perhaps so deep and significant that ever published of the white war
travelled in Manchuria, studied we cannot probe their full significance the country, the resources of which are as So, in the spiritual life, God has made varied as those of Canada, and embodied provision for these inmost needs. If we his researches in a book which still holds possessed the genius of Sewton we could its place as a standard authority in Eag perhaps understand as he did the mean-lish on the subject. ing of the Psalmist's words; "The hea- vens declare the glory of God," and we might say with him that an astronomer who could be indercut must also be in It we had the knowledge of "a Kepler we might say, My God, I am thinking Toy thoughts after Thee; but the average man or woman is utterly in. capable of this unbroken touch with God. And so God in His infinite wisdom has provided us with definite meeting places, anthorised points of contact with Him self. My visible presence." He would BA,
'has been removed. but there shall This be a memorial-contact-between us - service of Holy Communion is my part ing legacy, my last blessing, my hand Perform this grasp out of the Infinite:
And by act as a memorial of myself." the memory of that life of unrivalled self- sacrifice, by the memory of taat last night of sorrow, by the memory of the agony and sweat of blood, the millions of Christendom have heen constrained to show forth hefore heaven and earth His precious death tit. He coine
sane.
AVERAUT MAN A SINNER.
sense,
in the year after the Boxer insurrec tion Mt. Hosic, at Newchwang, by his
and Krmness,
urbanity, good smoothed away dificulties, gaining the respect of the Russians and the complete confidence of his own countrymen. When Provitice of Consul-General for the Szechwan, with headquarters at Chengtu, energies to an elaborate be devoted his study of the conditions of trade of this the richest province in the Empire.
him to the eastern crossed the province in every direction, one journey bringing borders of Tibet. Once more he gave to the world
considered accounts researches and his in- timate account of his journey to the
f-bis-stud elulle. Tibetan border is perhaps the most im pertant British contribution of recent years to an exact knowledge of inland China.
When he was appointed Acting Com- mercial Attaché in China, the choice was universally approved. His knowledge of China's vegetable products-grains, hores, vegetable oils in their infinite variety has never bra
bren rivalled. He was the
of introducing huskless outs and, later, huskless barley into Great Britain. Moreover, the great reason that the His knowledge and experience were al- average man should come to this service ways ungrudgingly placed at the service of Holy Communion is because the aver of British merchants, who learned with age man is a sinner. This often prevents indignation that
combination of both, would not that red inge, or parsimony. the Englishman from attendance, not be or it comb cause he does not believe, but because permait our Government to retain him in a post for which he was so exceptionally cf bis eins. But we should come, not
tied. It would be incredible, if it were because we are good, but hecause we are bad, and we need the forgiveness which not true, that rather than pay an ad- ditional £200 a year, the British Govern. we get in the Holy Communion. But were willing to lose his services aa we te
1907.
The
you
want Him, and our spirits shall find no trade of China, 1904-5, 1906, 1507, will real rest until they find rest in Him. ra often think that we spend far too much long continue to be the standard of what Buch work should be. All that they time in trying to understand just exact earned bin was a knighthood, in Junë, in what manner God is present in that Service. Surely this is sufficient.
When, at the end of 1908, arrangements greatest thing in the world which you
were being made for the assembling of an can give to anyone is yourself. This is Opium Conference in Shanghai, it was at the special request of the American the real meaning of Love. God is Love, and just because He is God He gives us linister,
that Sir story Hosie is included among the His paper on opium over again. God so loved the world that British delegates. Hegre His only begotten Son. We to the Conference know that He is there it The Lord is was considered to be the most incrtant
Pcontributed in His Holy Temple. Let all the earth end of the Conference he came home on furlough, but returned a year later nd keep silence before Him."
So we shall come next Sunday and, to
At the
the
use the thoughts of a recent, writer, Pecial Commissioner to investiga
of
shall with
ness he
and Him waiting for us. The silent wait of his ing Jesus How we have mocked Him, forgotten Him, denied Him, cast Him out.
Curric
of
production in
duties
out the Arduoivei
But still He waits. What does He wait une
toiletion and con-
Vifices
of miles, under
the most distant pre-
for? There is nothing that anyone can of the Empire. In 1915 be publish.
nothing but a load of shume, theed a narrative of these journeyn. giver og body spent by passionate days, the kiss of traitor line. But still He waits and offers Himself for us all And if our eyes were opened we would see as it were an ocean, of love stresor
Bir, Alexander married frst, in 1887, Florence Landany; she died in 1900, leav inga Bon; and, secondly. W. E. in 1913, daughter of the Dorothea, Boothill, Professor of
ing from the altar enclosing men of every Lady Hosie, who was born at Oxfords
kind, even you and even me.
MOST BACRED WEEK OF THE YEAR." Finally we have entered upon the most sacred week of the year. I heseccts you by the Passion of Christ not, to waste it, but to use what you can of it in prayer, and" in comparing the motives which govern your ille with those laid down by the Master.
You remember the story of how the
orn in China, pu blished about 'a year ago a book called
Two Gentlemen of China," in which she drew a 'charming picture of the happy domestic life to which she had been ad- mitted on terms of the fullest intimacy.
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Institute,
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Ealt, and
and in a number of mstances they its breast, and ever afterwards it was are said to: have annihilated the allowed to bear on its body the mark of tuberculosia bacilli in
less than two the Lord Jesus, we my friends, this mouths." The salt is used
used every fourth fourth Holy Week, by renewed efforts, by pray day in small doses. er, by true repentance, draw but one About forty-six different metals, includ thorn out of His sacred brow we, shall in jng aluminium, are used in the salt Dr. no wise lose our reward, for we shall be Walbum states that the treatment is ab partakers of His Easter joy, which no solutely free from danger and much map can take away from us
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