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FOR THE DURATION

Searching Questions Asked In Cathedral Sermon

DEVOTION TO GOD

Searching questions were asked by the Rev. H. W. Baines in the course of his sermon delivered at the morning service in St. John's Cathedral yesterday. His subject was.For the duration

, and asked on

what condition was their devotion to God.

Taking as his Text "Jesus an- swered and said unto him " is written "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. the preacher said:--- There is no time in a man's life more decisive than moments of decision. And there are no repor- tunities more ready to the,hand of evil to tempt uman than the hours after a decision has been made. It is as though a man ceing pursued by an enemy keeps close to cover and 20 hidden goes to

place where the road divides; he studies his map and his compass making comparison with every natural fea- ture that he can see and makes his decision to go опе way:" and then in the reaction of weariness following he relaxes his precaution. and pride and temerity lay him open to attack where before he had

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and full of all good things; but the entrance thereof is narrow, and it is set in a dangerous place to fall. having a fire on the right side and on the ler a deep water, and there is only one path between them both even between the fire and the water, so small that there can but one man go there at once."

THREE TEMPTATIONS

Take the three temptations that Jesus described in St. Luke's or- der. He and His followers must know that loyalty to their cal! would never make them rich por would the hard stones of life be- come rich brend because they worked for God. Never were they to use the power which God Him-

the

self gave for their own advantage. There would be nothing but white light of the Divine Presence speaking in the words of the Mouth of God. And second iheir loyalty would not make them powerful

We are often blinded by the pro portions of our four Gospels and forget how long a period of repeat-nor were they ever to expect that

ed and searching decision came be- for the dazzling moment when as Jesus stood by the side of the river of His fathers, the Jordan. He ac cepted His destiny, submitted to baptism and in the moment when His spirit offered Himself without hindrance and without reservation to the Father knew that Father's response in the words "Thou art the Son of My love, in thee I am well pleased:** The moment of decision had passed. The Christ stands adult and could, as

man

St. Mark tells us, proclaim the Gospel of God and say the time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God Is upon you."

be-

the disciples of Chris: would come as the rulers of the Gentiles who lorded it over them. Nover were they to exploit the power which God gave them to win one proselyte. Thirdly, their loyalty would never make them magically imniune from disaster: on typhoon would avoid their house and theirs alone because they were the Lord's men. Never were they to use God's gifts ur wisdom and loving kind- ness and power to dazzle the eye of the simple and win them to God All these supports and comforts as moths are drawn to a flame.

and assurances must be discarded for "thou shalt worship the Lord- thy God and Him only shalt thou serve" "and again "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." The service of God is not without its rewards except for those who seek

Then it was, as St. Mark supplies. "Straightway" that che young knigt of decision" went into the wildernes and that the sallow templation of reaction fell him. I am sure that St. Mark'shem. for those who exact a price words "the spirit driveth Him foreli

upon

into the wilderness" more faithfully

record the experience of Jesus than the easier style of St. Luke

who writes that "Jesus full of "the Holy Spirit returned from the Jordan and was led in the spirt in the wil derness. In the sunrise of His determination to dedicate Himself and the serenity that must have been His when He heard the voloc crowning and sealing His own de- ciston there fell upon His spirit the bleak mist of self doubt and doubl of God and the pricking uncer tainty about ways and means. It not an experience that every one af us in his own degree and fashion has known?

Is

MOST PRECIOUS PASSAGE The passage on which we are meditating is one of the most pre- elous in the Gospels ir as much as

tory.

for their devotion as though. love

could be exchanged at a tariff,

We may be sure that it was not without good reason that Jesus chose to give to the friends whom He loved enough to choose that they might be with Him throughout His temptations, so terrifying a warning. This is no purposeless self-revelation. He warned "them as He warned Himself and there was still time for them to go back. It is very unlikely that they under- stood Him, but we know how wise warning it was and so may take It to ourselves. Let me ask on what condition is your devotion to God? When you were confirmed, six months or twelve or forty years ago, you thought to yourself: what difference will this make to me: and it is possible that in your ar- rogance you made a secret com pact that you would continue your

and are

HONG

KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1936.

ON THE WINGS OF PROGRESS

CIVIL AVIATION DEVELOPMENT

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ANY WHERE-ANY TIME

IN THE OPERATION OF AN AIRWAY THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING OF INTEREST TO DISCUSS OR OBSERVE EACH DEPARTMENT FITS LIKE A COG-WHEEL IN A SMOOTH. WORKING MACHINE. BUT, EVEN SO, THERE IS ONE DEPARTMENT IN WHICH, AS A RULE, ONE IS APT TO LINGER MORE THAN IN ANY OTHER. THAT 18 THE SPECIAL- CHARTER DEPARTMENT. FOR IT IS HERE, WITH TELEPHONES RINGING AND MAPS AND TIME-SCHEDULES BEFORE THEM, THAT EXPERTS CAN BE SEEN SOLVING PROB- LEMS OF TIME. AND DISTANCE WHICH WOULD BE INSOLUBLE WERE IT NOT FOR THE SPEED OF THE FLYING MACHINE.

The other afternoon, for exam- Department of Imperial Airways ple, a visit to the Special-Charter foreign revealed the fact that a consulta- tion was in progress at that parti- cular moment between officials of the department and some of the representatives of a big American film corporation. The firm folk

Some of the chiefs of an associated within the purview of the Special- through London with only a day a woman

company were passing Charter Department. Not long ago found herself passing or so at their disposal Yet in this through England during the course brief period the sales manager ni a journey half across the world. Wanted to seize the opportunity of Only for quite a short time could showing these visitors a number of she stay in London. Yet during centres in the Provinces at which

this brief halt she had made up her technical processes were in opera

mind to slip across and, with her. York to obtain special photo-terested. To carry out such a pro- bronce on a certain war grave on had, it appeared, crossed from New tion in which they were jointly in own hands, lay a wreath of remem- graphic backgrounds for a number gramme by road or rail was im the other side of the Channel. It of impending pictures, and what possible in the limited time avall was here as in so many other chartering of a blg saloon-plane That they were discussing was the able. Could it be managed by air? cases-that the chartering of an in its original form it must have loyalty so long as God gave you cameramen, and equipment on a notes of all essential details. Then the cabin, and flying alone on he

Was the which would

question. The "air tax!" solved her problem. come from the lips of Jesus Him-what you expected. You may have night from England to Egypt and some

take producers, Special-Charter official made rapid Taking her wreath with her into selt although it may have been given to others to hear the volce

thought then or since that you then on down into various parts were made, and in a very short crossed the Channel so quickly that equally rapid calculations, sad mission, she crossed and re- and to know the certainty which Him so larig as He makes His way

will serve Him and be loyal to df Africa. fell upon Him at His baptism none plain to you, so long as it is not information they required, these manager,

After obtaining from time that official was able to ring he found herelt with ample time the Special-Charter experts all the through to other could have shared the ex- you who have to endure incompre-am men hurried off to telephone chartering of a fast aircraft, with pects of special air charters which the barassed sales for the resumption of her journey perience of desolation and tempta-hensible disappointment and cruel to their head office on the other

telling him that the It is such essentially "human" as- tion through which He fought His bereavement and crushing limita side of the Atlantic, with a view to party indicated. would enable them hear, for example of the schoolboy way then and thereafter to vic- tion and frustration; so long as it

ample accommodation for the make the work so interesting. You The three synaptic Gospels is not "you who have to go down making final arrangements for the not only to carry out the whole who missed a train that was to have given us, each in its own way into the market place and dirty a picture of what Jesus Himself your hands among people you don't

flights proposed.

Itinerary, but also to have time for take him to an examination. The must privately have revealed. Such like

DIFFICULTIES REMOVED. a conference on their return to boy's father was at his wit's end private, and to us precious revela- and

can't understand While that particular discussion London before the visitors from until they remembered that it was tions are rare plants in the gar

perhaps afraid of; was in progress, another Special- abroad hurried, off to catch their possible to charter an air-taxi. An den "of the Gospels. Why did Jesus reveal this experience of

urgent appeal to Imperial Airways, and the boy was flown to his des- His own in such a way as to make

tination just in the nick of time. ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE Glancing through the records o' of limit to the work of our depart- the Special-Obarter Department, ment. We help film companies in one comes across many cases, in and to throw over belief in your rewards and recognition and reas- common phrase, to lose your faith, knows no it's. If God gives you tting special scenes. Then, as which relatives, summoned urgent- It was in order to warn them. We destiny. Is this or any of this surance. He gives you happy rushing Anished aims to different complish in a matter of hours, by often as not. we have the job of ly to the bedsides of sick folk, ac- may even dare to think that in the true of you? act of forming His experience into

feeling and intellectual light and points by air. We pick up passen- sir, difficult journeys which might words with which to shield and

confirmation of the will, if you love gers from incoming liners and y occupy days if made by surface strengthen His disciples Jesus

your prayers and your worship then them to urgent appointments; and made its meaning live more clearly

Jesus Himself made no claim al- dashing with some "eleventh tasks which fall to the pilots choset! thank Him but remember that quite often too, we have the task tal-charter dying is reflected in the travel And all the drama of spec- for Himself.

though He above all might justly do hour passenger to catch a vessel to handle these "special trains o Of what did He wish to them? In a single sentence I be-

the dead bury their own dead, fol- that our tasks change with great rushing a business man up to Beot- so and that it was He who said "let outward-bound. And we also find the air." One day they may be lieve it is of the singleness with

low thou me." which His and their ministry had other

rapidity from grave to gay. One land. The next they may be high got to be lived, and of its emp chance to dazzle and deceive with believe that Jesus gave this terrible surgeon to ny to perform some cri- or steering for the south of France; One final word is of comfort. I minute we may be arranging for a above northern or central Europe. tiness. His men-He told them the show of what you appear to waming to His disciples in which tical operation. Then a moment o that they would need to become as be? Do yon? To so far as any of He would face it with them. It so later, when our telephone rings. (tob of dying big-game hunters while sometimes they may have the naked and unprotected moving us does so, the Church and the must have brought solace and ap- along an undeviating and narrow. apostles and our Lord Himself call peasement to their hungry, per newly-wedded

we find ourselves fixing up for a path into the dazzling light that us to attend to this warning that plexed spirits when as we are told their braneymoon trip by air " blinded them from the end of it: the claim of God upon our service in the same Gospel of St. Luke, just He told them what you will find in is absolute. Whatever your present at the end He said "Ye are they II Esdras v.7. that "There is a elty vocation, as a profession, in mar-which have continued with.me in builded and set in a plain country,riage, in service, in religion, it my temptations,"

so long as it is not you who find Charter official' was listening on yourself in the wrong job or in the the telephone to the story of the wrong home or bound together sales manager of a big manufac with a country whose policy you turing Arm. This executive's prob-

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"Nowadays it is becoming diff.

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accounts of it at the very cutset of the Gospel story as though it were a sign post, almost a map, describe Ing to us the character of the le which is to follow? I believe that

wart

tian whose achievements accent- words as you have no cause, in a uate Its shame; so long in other

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