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THE OLD TESTAMENT

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Isaiah-Statesman

Statesman And Visionary

BISHOP HALL AT ST. JOHN'S

CATHEDRAL

Bishop Hall preached the ofth of his series of Sermons on "How to read the Old Testament" ät St John's Cathedral on Sunday:-

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who was caught up into Paradise

unspeakable and heard

Be Practical

words.

HOW TO Siapngs of the eleck LOW VITALITY

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London, Nov. 23. When will you wake up? When e Nazis are in Vienna?-M. Franklin-Bouilion.

The Insidious Detroyers of "appiness and Health

Thomas erled. "My Lord and my God." There is a wonderful tradition that Thomas went to India, that the Christian Indian Church at Malabar, which is cạr- talaly fve hundred years older than English Christianity and may be older still, goes right back to Thomas The tradition is that Altieriam, which began with to get to India he sold himself violence at home, will, "unless as slave. There is no picture more something is done, sooner or later complete than that of the dif- and in violence abroad.-M. Tarfully

Good taste in Art is not a gift of the senses; it is a reward of the mind.-Professor P. C. Buck.

ference it makes to a man when i dieu,

he sees the vision of God as He There are many people that look is. Whether or not God would

down on the fetish-worship of help the Jews and restore again gavages who as a matter of fact are making a fetish of the Bible, with extremely similar results on their mental and spiritual out- look-Mr. Julian Huxley.

the Kingdom to Israel, whether or not. He would help Thomas to 'be a good man or brave, mattered not to him after that vision. He had touched the heart of Reality at the moment when he under- stood the meaning of the wounds in the heart of God. Life for him a glave, hereafter is the life of but in that slavery such, freedom as most of us know not. It is the freedom of those to whom. God Is God, their Friend, their Saviour, their Lord. India to Thomas was God's India. What happened.. to him mattered not if he could but

Isalah saw God in the Temple; schemes, their fears, before God; that vision changed his life. His co look God in the face, and when lips were seared by the coal taken į you look God in the face you from the altar in the very heart I know the meanness of your own of heaven. "Here am I said he, stature as well, as the majesty of

"The "send me." This of course is His.

lord has spoken," picture language. When God lays they say, "I cannot keep silent" His hand upon a human soul it is "I know a inan" says St. Paul, an experience that is wordless and timeless... "I know a man", says St. Paul, in Christ, fourteen years) On behalf of such a one will ago, (whether in the body, I know i glory: but en mine own behalf I

bring India to God as God had not; or whether out of the body, will not glory, save in my own

spoken to him. So it must have I know not; God knoweth); such weakness."

been with Jerus himself, "Iƒ a one caught up to the third hea-

Thou art the Son of God," says ven. And I know auch & man

́à divine voice to him.... “Neverthe- (whether in the body, or apart

less, not my will but Thine be from the body, I know not; God But you, my brothers, are prac

done," says "the Son's voice back knoweth), how that he was caught tical men. You are concerned

to the Divine. He had no visions up into Paradise, and heard un- with the daily problems of life.

of the future of what he might speakable words which it is not What is this talk of God to you?

do for the world, only an abiding lawful for a man to utter." (Cor, You want to know what to do

You Vision of God. Because of that 12 v. 2, 3, and 4). "Whether in about this and about that,

vision He did for the world day the body, or apart from the body, look for men of vision who will

by day more than any man. I know not God knoweth." The abolish slums, and abolish war. touch of God is so real, so inten-You look for help to make your se. so transforming, that the man does not know whether in the bo- .dy. ör out of the body, he only knows that it is God. All time, all visible things fall away, he is alone wrapped in the beauty and the majesty of God. I body or out of the body, I know not; but God knoweth. It is not yet eleven years ago, but since that time God has been real, and all else only real because God is réal

too know a man whether in the

Statesman and Visionary

names

Isalah saw the Lord high and ufted up. His heart was kindled and cleansed, seared as it were by the living flame of the heart of God. "Rejoice," says Jesus Our Lord, "not that the splits are subject unto you, but that your are written in heaven." Isaiah matters to is because of his witness to the reality of God, not because of the great practical things He achieved. First the Assyrians enticed the weak king to be on their side; within a year or two he was carrying on. a flirtation with Egypt. Isalah saw clearly how it would end. Again and again by his steadfast con- centrated conviction he saved the xing from his own weakness and the corruption of his court Ee stands out like a rock. The waves of corruption, of policy, of fear, and expediency, beat against the tiny kingdom: Isaiah was immov- ed. Whenever the king sends to him he gets but one answer, ""Trust God, Hve for God, serve God: have nothing to do with ex- pediency."

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There will be a great decline, think, in the supply of what Icall totay-wotay news.-Mr. St. John Ervine.

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People are happiest, and there- fore more agreeable, more enlight- ened, and more tolerant when

they are not being worried, by cranks, reformers, and upliftera. Sir Thomas Beecham.

God placed Luther in a manas- tery, and Adolf Hitler in a fort- resa-Bishop Rossenfelder.

BRITISH MINISTER IS DECORATED

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Sir Miles Lampson Receives Order Of Brilliant Jade

Nanking, Dec. 8-Sir Miles Lamp-survival of the attest." sou, the retiring British Minister to China, was officially notified yesterday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government's decision to confer the Tsai Yu Hsuan Chang (Order of the Brilliant Jade) on him. The formal ceremony, however, will take place after the retara of Sir Miles to England when Mr. Quo Tai chi, Mito ister in London, vil present the T

behalf of the Chinese Government. decoration to the British diplomat on

LOW VITALITY is the ever-present." menace to every happiness and plea- sure which a healthy life can hold.

This is indeed the age of the

Dare to be Alone Christianity is the only religion where men worship in crowds. I have seen the bathing mela at Allahabad. I have seen over half a million folk packed on a narrow strip of river shore, in a way that red' down to do the things that would make surdines faint. you would not. What does the have never seen such a crowd at prophet Isalah and the word of worship" before and am not like- God in the Old Testament say to ly to again. But each person in you? I think it says this quite that crowd

WAS an individual. emphatically, "The goal and end There was no corporate singing, of a man's life is not what he | no corporate äcts, merely a crowd 3 does, but what God does. That of individual acts. We call our the goal and end of a man's life worship 'corporate worship.' We Is not "even' what he is but what

are fight to do so. Our Lord God is" We are so made "that we quite plainly shared in corporate cannot be satisfled, with ourselves worship. But it was not in cor- ven if we are successful in the porate worship that He and God business of being ourselves. We were made One as Father and are made for something - beyond ourselves.

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It is learnt that Sir Miles is, in fact, the first recipient of the newly creat ed Order.-Kuo Min.

IF GOSSIP WE MUST

(fontinued from Paje 1) -

CHINESE WEDDINGS.

When I first came to Hong

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| Son, in life and thought. You Kong I felt that a Chinese wed-life opens up before you.

must be alone if you would bring yourself face to face with God. Isaiah and the other 'prophets, were men who dared to be alone. It is a great weakness of our church that we tend to drive out those who dare to be alone. Then go with Him to the mountain top. Go with Isalah into the Temple. Let them leave you there alone with God. Seek God where He is to be found: but you must seek You must be alone if He Him

ding must necessarily be a rather picturesque, affair with the bride in her long embroidered robes and other members of the family in their ceremonial dresses. I soon found, however, that those days are now almost all over for the Chinese weddings to-day are no different from our own.

Now the." mistake.we so often 'make' is to imagine that that something beyond is made for us, that the vision of the prophet is of no use unless it can achieve results in practice. But after all, what are results? If you make a fortune to-day you have only get money to spend, and what use is It cannot really ake you happy. If you become the talpan of your firm, what use is that to you unless you are also is to come to you Himself. Per-daughter Mr. and Mrs. Li Tse talpan of

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can do it. You can let all the mah can only be captain of his own souloise of hymus, the mutter of as he loses himself in devotion to prayers, the shift and shuttle of God, as he is able to say "Here your neighbours, you can let all am I; send me," or with Bt. Paul that fall from you and be alone whether in the body or out of with God Himself. More often the body, I know not; God you may have to come to church. knows." "God knows" because by yourself: climb the hill-top by when you touch reality you know yourself: alt alone that it is God, you know that God or sitting room, and dare to stand alone before the whole of things knows and God is. That you only

and wait for God to come and know and only are because God

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knowledge of Ets presence and I have called this address on send you back no longer alone, Isalah "Visions and Reality. I but one with God, and so' One want you to understand what has with all men. With yourself.no happened. have not shown you | longer bothering you, obsessing a man who because of great you, temptesting you, with its way- dreams and great visions of Godwardness, its clemancy and its succeeds in being a great man. I terrible animal freaks and often have tried to show you rather "a senseless fancies. You will come man's visions leading him to the back with all those things second- heart of reality which is God. ary, conquered, because you have Practical matters are in compari- found the centre of the universe

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The last wedding I attended was a "double when Miss Ivy Kan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kan Tang Po, and, Miss Doris L1,

Fong became the brides of Messrs. Fung Ping Fau and Fung Ping Wah," respectively. The bride- grooms are the sons of the late Mr. Fung Ping Shan, the well- known Chinese philanthrophist who took such a great interest in education.

The reception was held in the Chinese Emporium and what a crowd there was too! Bir William Hornell, the popular Vice-Chan- cellor of the University, proposed the toast of the couples while the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall inade a "short speech in Chinese. Sir Shou-son Chow was there look ing very young and it after his trip to Shanghal, The Secretary for Chinese Aralis, the Hon. Mr. A. E., Wood was there and I also noticed the following:-Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Lo. Mr. and Mrs. Ho "Leung, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Tape, Miss Julia Lam, the Misses Tami, winson, D. J. Lewis, the Hon. Mr. Messrs. F. C. Jenkin, G.. G. N. TN Chau, Professor Gerrard and Professor C. A. Middleton-Smith.

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"Rejoice" says Jesus, not be- cause you are successful, not be cause evil wilts away before the fire of your wrath or the eager- ness of your reforming passion." All that 18 nothing compared with the eternal verities of a soul whose name is written in heaven, of a human personality made one with the living God, cleansed by the Are of His live, constant and faithful, walking with God in con- fidence and peace and strength, The Old Testament men of vision were not men like Cecil Rhodes son unreal or rather only real in God, Then you know yourself who dream of empires, or even with the determined imagination God is real the vision has taken great circumference.

because God is real. But because as only one tiny fragment of His Then you of a Florence Nightingale, or a

you to the heart of God.. These will tread the way of lie with Charles James Gordon. They had

men of God saw the world as real Him with a new awareness of life, ho" scheme which it was their apart from its effect upon them- a new conviction that this or that were of God. In the presence of mind to impose upon the world selves. Their desires, their am cannot look God in the face and God all their plans faded, melted Their dreams were not of what bition, their fears, their hopes, live. There will be times when as it were in the light of His love. they might do if God were on

are all of no account. On the you cannot keep silence." Times to be remade in His handa. His. their side: Buch vistons have other hand, the world is real to when you wil know not to mesage to us and God's message their place: They may perhaps, their, the sons of men are real to speak. But in all things you will is, "Do not dream dreams of what come from God: The visions of

men, because they matter to God know that the world is God's, so you may do or what God may do the Old Testament are different. The prophets saw this so clearly real, so tremendous in its claims for you. Dare to be alone with They are visions of God Himself,

own. Ilves

mattered upon you that you can no longer | God with your visions.” Those It is in God, in the glory of God, not, popularity was of no account. Live save for God and His world. visions will take you to the heart that Man finds the meaning of

Their schemes and plans fade God will give you a passion for of reality. You cannot reach it self, the meaning of life, "Jeho-

away: God the supremely real is reform, but you will not be a re- in any other way. TOKYO

vah says the book of Deuterone the centre of their thought and former. He will give you a social

Thon Has Not Come To You: ICAL BOTEL my, is your life."

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conscious socialist. You will know

You, why should it ever come to St. Thomas of India that there are no ways and no isms you this vision of God? I do not. Fort

but God's ways. God has no isms: believe you when you say that, OMORI HOTEL

The prophets of Israel were Now I want to bring this down. He supremely is. And as you It may not have come as it came ONZEN --

great statesmen not because they to something, at first sight, very walk in the truth your hand from to Isalah or Paul, but I do not be- could see what might be done: different. There is a man on his day to day, and your heart from leve that God has left Himself KYUSHU HOTAL not because they had a policy knees in an upper room crying day to day, will grapple with evil, without a witness in the heart of YUKAI HOTAL which they imposed upon the out of the depth of his neart "My will see where it may begin to be any man. There have been mo- ments of vision in your life when king; but because they were men Lord and my God. No temple overcome, of God. If their word is diare- you see, only an upper room, no

Vision of God

the Real the Truth, which God have been very near to you. But garded they weep for the sins of seraphim crying out "Holy, Hely?"

Isaiah, the Jewish prophet, saw you have let them go you have their people, but they are not no fourd twenty elders or shaken they will not scheme or strange beasts only ten frighten-God in the Temple high and lift forgottest them; you have thought plot. In the darkness gathering ed meninari upper room for feared up. Thomas in the upper room they did not matter. Attend, to IN UHOSEN -

Thomas had, cone saw God in a human body broken these things: they mater most im IN - MANURURIA

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