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NARROW-MINDEDNESS OF TRIVILIATY.

GOD'S COMMANDMENT AND · MEN'S TRADITION.

MORAL COWARDICE.

CHAPLAIN'S SERMON AT THE CATHEDRAL..

The Rev. H. Copley Moyle, wo must be sure that our own per pronching at the Cathedral on sonal ideals are high and noble and Sunday morning dealt with the that we are making a real and con- subject of God's Commandment and tinunus effort to live up to them. Men's Tradition. He took as his Too many Christians content them text the words in St. Mark VII. 8. selves with an ideal which is very Laying aside the Commandment far below the ideal of the Gospels of God yo hold the tradition of and excuse themselves by saying men."

they must do ns others dos

That was our blessed Lord's in- dictment of the Pharisees, said the

Moral Jowardice.

1927.

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BY HONG KONG, GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The fortnightly price current and market report, published by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, dealing with imports, statos.: ---

COTTON PIECE GOODS AND FANCY CoTTON GOODS-Market very quiet with no business doing. Another sharp advance has taken place in the cost of the raw material and there is every indication at the time of writing that it will go still higher. The latest quotations are those of the 12th inst., Eg, Sukel. is.Ged, and Mid. Amér B. sid.

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COTTON YARN. During the for- night a better fueling has prevailed in our market and a fair amount of business has been put through. Prices have advanced 34/5 per bale for certain chopa.

203.

Moral cowardice is terribly com- preacher. Now the Pharisees weromon, and it does need the inspira- the religious party amongst the tion of a high ideal and the con- Jews at that time. The whole partingal help of God to live n truth pose of their rules and regulationsful, pare, honest, unselfish and Nominal quotations are as fol. was to honour God, but the actual helpful life. But though we may lows:--No. 108. $150/175; No. 128. result was to dishonour Him. They have failed many times in the effort 8185/172; No. 168. 8175/185; No.

Arrivals: #185/190.

NU. and made a very great number of we must brace ourselves to try Shipments: Nil. Sale: 1,000 balea rules in order that a man's religion again. We are helped in the Unsold stooks: 7,000 bales. Bar- might be continually in evidence in effort by the knowledge that we

goins: 13,000 bales.

WOOLENS.-Market very quiet- his daily life, which was a right belong to a great society and that and fresh business practically nil idea for if religion is to be any the failure of one member brings Some enquiry for Camlets and light good at all it must be something disgrace on the whole and the vic-weight Serges but in the main offers. for every day. use.

tory of one encourages all the are very low.

RAWCOTTONE-No-business-to others.

METALS.-Market dull,

report.

doing.

nothing

In order that I may not be bent- ing the air let me take one point.

FLOCK MARKET REPORT Stock: in the matter of honesty, do we American 450,000 bags, Canadian always strive after the ideal of 150,000 baga, Australian 40,000 bags, total 640,000 bags. Market: Selling perfect honesty ? I once heard a very small. Quotations: American young man who was the grandson Patent, $4.30-4.40 per sack; Ameri- a millionaire recount with evident can Straight, $3.22-3.45 per sack; American Cut off, 83.25-3.70. per pride this incident. He went in toaack; Australian No. 1, 83.40-3.65 a tobacconist's to buy a pipe and the salesman handed him a tray in

per sack; Canadian Cut off, 83.15- B3.24 per sack; Canadian Straight,. 3.12-3.15 per suck, Canadian Mig ture, $3.08 por sack; Canadian and Clear, $3 per sack.

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS. -- Kerosene prices-reduced 50 cents per unit on

30/6/27. Benzine prices reduced $1.65 per unit on 13th inst.

SUNDRIES-Market steady. SUGAR.Market steadf. SALTPETRE. Stocks: 12,500. bags. Market remains steady since last report..

But the Pharisaca had become so occupied in keeping the countless rules which had been made that they had not time to realise the presence of God which was the grest truth behind all their rules. Take for instance the matter of washing the bands. When we rend of the Pharisees finding fault with the disciples of Our Lord for not washing their hands before eating, we might feel some sympathy with which were many pipes in separate the Pharisees thinking they meant compartments marked from is, up the name thing by hand washing to os. While the shopman turned that we do. But that was far from to serve another customer the being the case. The washing of young man took a pipe from the hands by the Pharisees was a most 58.. compartment and placed it in elaborate ceremony which had to be a compartment marked 28. 6d. When "carried out with the greatest care, the man came back.be-picked up the It was laid down that the hands pipe and asked the price, the sales were first to be washed clean. The man said. “Half a crown," and the tips of the ten fingers were then young man bought it. I told hún joined and lifted up so that the IT considered bi po better thari a water run down to the elbows, then common thief, and he seemed quite turned down so that it might run surprised. There are some people off to the ground. Fresh water was

who seem to think that to rob a.K. poured on them as they were lifted company is rather clever and quite up and twice again as they hung different-from-robbing an individual down. The washing. itself was to be-done-by-rubbing-the-fist-of-one-

I once heard a husband find freult hand in the hollow of the other. with his wife in the Peak Tram for When the banda were washed before paying their small child's fure and eating they must be held upwards; say that the ticket collector would when after eating, they must be have thought she was under age held downwards, but so that the water should not run below the so she need not have paid. Yet I knuckles. The vessel used nust be suppose he would have been sur held first in the right hand then inprised had he been told he was

the left; the water must be poured

first on the right hand then on the left and at every third time the words repeated "Blessed Art Thou who hast given us the command to wash the hands." This anxious trifling over the infinitely little was part of the whole system of the Pharisees teaching. The whole ob- ject of their rules was to separate then off from the common people, and the word Pharisee means one who was separated. Their narrow mindedness and triviality became so extreme that the whole ecet died out not long after our Lord's time.

·Consolidation not Separation.

This attitude of the Pharisees aiming at separation was the direct opposite of Our Lord's teaching

On the Peak Tram.

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dishonest. In this country where "squeeze" is so common we have need to see to it that we maintain the highest ideal of honesty not Star only in our personal dealings but Waterboats.. in all matters in which we have quy Chins: part.

Another field in which Christian is bound to stand up for the highest ideals is in the matter of inter. national dealings. There are some people who maintain that the high standard of truth and honesty and. unselfishness which they recognise as obligatory in private life cannot even expected in be maintained International dealings, You may remember that some four hundred years ago Nicolo Machiavelli wrota a book called "The Prince," in

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aimed at the consolidation of the humaa race, and time and again He chose for commendation people who were not of the Jewish race, thereby emphasising the brother- hood of all mankind. The Jewish

of God in order that they might must always insist that such teach- hand on that knowledge to othering is falso. There must be no nations, but instead of doing so they double cade of morality for nations. regarded themselves as the chosen What would be wrong in an in- people and all others as outside the dividual is wrong in a Government. bounds of God's and care. Jesus Thero is but one standard of truth Christ came to found a great king, and honesty and justice whether dom which should

include all for individuals or for nations, and nations and races and should over- we are bound to do our utmost not ride all the divisions of family and only to maintain that high standard class and nation which had done so for our nation but to show that we much to weaken the solidarity of expect it in others. To regard the human race. In the kingdom treaties between nations as mere of God all were to exercise brother-

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paper which may be dis- ly love and there was to be no regarded when it suits either party selfish assortion of self-interest is to undermine the whole founda against the common good. That is tion of International friendship and the great ideal which was founded security. We are bound as Chris on the beatitudes given in the tians to insist that the highest code sermon on the mount, and it is to of truth and honesty and justice wards the attainment of that ideal shall be observed in all dealings be that Christian people are bound to tween nations. struggle. There is a great tempta The standard of God's command- tion to give up the struggle andments is a very high one. And men say that Christ's ideal is too hard to day like the Pharisees of old are Lo be attained. To take that constantly endeavouring to sub attitude scems to me to be one of stitute their own traditions for it. disloyalty to our master, and it But we are bound each in his own shows a want of faith in the final sphere to see that all the induene United Asbestos..... victory of good over evil, I we we possoss is put on the side of Watson (old), profess the Christian faith we are truth, honesty purity and justice, W. Fowell bound to aim at, and to help to so we shall be doing our part in Telephones extend the Kingdom of God in advancing the Kingdom of God on bay-bayor el-eller; every way we can. And first of all earth,

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