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Notes of a sermon presched on behalf of the London Missionary Society by the Rev. J. Kirk Laconichie, at Union Church, ca Sunday morning :~~

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20,~ 1817-

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clever and wholërly Greeks about

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person, that, being a Christian A Change Little Noticed by the preacher, we know you must be, Tamah silk at Antang con-

you would be aware that certain of } tinnen firm and ranges from Y650

their own poeta have written about to Y800 per baie for goods of fine

their being God's off-pring." The Although the old-style white quality, ways a Taires report of

more superficial the scquaintance brand was still being sold yester- February 3. Even goods of

of the eritie with both the gospel day by some bakers and in some ordinary quality are quoted at

and the poets, the more superci London tes shop, says a Home Banks / about Y640. The prices at Chefoo "As certain even of your own lions his strictures would be, and paper of January 2, many bakers

BTO about T50 bigher ell

poeta too have said, Fer we slao yet they seem to get about and have been selling war bread for Cantons Lound.

This * difference

are Bis capring."Acta 17/28. it flaenes people who might know days and people have been eating North Chinas seems more ascribable to the gcod“

A fellow-sindent of my own, better. It does seem to be it without noticing any particu-Unions reputation the Chefoo goods here thinking to adore this discourse surprising discovery to many lar change in the four. earned than superiority in quality in his little church in South people that there ia any As soon as the milling of the The majority of trash silk pro Caron with a duced at Antong and Chefco quotation, was interrupted by a the bounds of Christendom, and obligatory traders were keen to H.K. Fires

Shakesperean moral light whatever outside

straight ren" flour Leing shipped to Japan, the idea soice from the pew: "Where did the discovery apposts to upset experiment with it; and they of founding a tuwab silk flaturen get that out.cf? Tisn't in my their whole sense of proportion.found it more satisfactory for at Antang, which is one of the Bible."

I well remember hearing a worthy loaves of bread iban for smaller Steamboats

Douglases 'greatest wild · cocoon centres in

"P.S.A." gcoda. soul would have made of the meeting in Manchester almost

One wonders what the good men addressing a

Indos (Def.) The new milling contains a Indos (Pref.). Apostle Paul, quoting Arstus or reduced to

incoherence

by trifling percentage of what the Shells Oleanther in his address on Han's what he had just been read-trade calls "offal"-grain by pro. Ferries Hill. He has had his critica. ing in a sixpenny Bible class ducts hitherto used for stock. It

It has been freely stid he was handbook

on Comparative tints the bread only slightly, and Sugars in erree in thinking to approach Religion. From that he had bra no appreciable effect on the Malabons The final <fficial report on the those Athenisse on their own learnt, 10 his amezement, flavour. There are enthusiasts season's rice crops will be pub-ground, and that he would have that there were good and wise who welcome it, and critics who Kailans liabad bp the Japanese Depart. net with more Fuccess had been among the ancient Greeks, bordemo. Already the follow- Langkats ment of Agriculture and Com-proclaimed directly and solely and that Confucius, Baddha, ing names have been bestowed Raubs meroe in a few days' time though the "timple gospel."

Mahomet had something to teach on the new loaf:- the reports from local authorities,

We may believe, however, their generations, and were not, concerned, which were to reach that the great missionary knows he had opposed, wilful de- Tokyo by Wednesday, January his own busirers best, and that caivers sent out by Satan to keep 31, hive bren mach delayed his vast and varied experience did mea from the trib. I remember on account of the heavy scow not mislead him. And as for being as much amazed at the falla in various districts. Pending

access, be did succeed in "gain. good min's amazement sa te sp the publication of the cficial ing ecme," which was all he ever peared to be at his discovery. figure to exsot result of the expected through becoming "all One had not thought it posible terday made from the straight harvest can be known at present, things to all mes," Greek to the that

вду ordinary manrag four were distinctly. brown but it is understood that there Greeks, Jew among Jewe,

in the 20th Century in England in colour. It was the same with H.K. Hotels will tea slight decrease in the

could be in such a state of mind. some amples of cake. It was fitting that the great setual resclie se compared with Apostle of the Gentiles ebould The case is extreme, but one has

The bons and scones taste all H'phreys Est.

Land Invest. the last ficial estimate at have been a man of knowledge wondered at it less since meeting right, but the cake is a trife Kloon Lands 57,000.000 koku because in the and caliare, able to stand or with others not wholly unlike it heavy," was the verdict of Shai Lands North-Eastern Provinces there termsof recognisible equality within the Fast.

baker.

West Points Leary deterioration in the educated clauses of his time.

The bread facts about China The altered methods of milling quality owing to the delay in

It is only reasonable that any and its people are open to intelli-will not affect the price of bread. Ewos harvesting, while in ether dis-Christian missionary should be in gent people the world over, bat But there are suggestions that Kung Yiks tricts adverse weather conditions

s position to appreciate the train-yet it seems to surprise a good the war loaf may go farther as a S'hai Coltons $. eflected badly the crops before ing, the culture, the whole point day to find heres civilisation, natritions article of diet, and the Yangtszepoos the barvest.

of view, of those he seeks to literature, and an abundance of bint is given that if kept for s icflaence. It used to be thought highly moral maxime. From day it improves in digestive Borneos

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b. * China Light & P. b. good enough to make a mission-zot to be discoveries, a leap is The weekly cotton market re-ry. The leavinge of the home made to the conclusion that Order, the milling of regulation Dairy Farms

Under the Flour and Bread Providents port of easra, J. Spant & Co., ministry, so to speak, were held Obristian missions are a mistake four has been compulsory since Groen Islands dated February 8, states:-We to be adigaste to the foreign or have had acother week of small work. I am not certain that would almost seem that Christantial margin of time before the

an impertinence. It November 27, which gave a cube- H. K. Electrics markets with practically nothing that delusion has wholly disap-tainity is confused in the popular next step was reached. Now, Steet Foundries

H. K. Ice Co., Ropes doing, the general range of prices peared, but what is certain is that mind with civilisation, so that white flour may not be used-Trams, Low Level n. being about Tle. 0.50 to Tle. 1 per it has never been generally acted where a civilisation exists it is except in Scotland, where a week's Trams, Peak, old a. pical lower then last week's upon. The average of attainment thought to quotations, cloring steady. Fol- and ability among the secredited although admitted to be useful is given by the Food Controller. Laundries

be unnecessary, grace is allowed-unless authority Trams, Peak, new n. lowing upon the rupture of foreign misionaries of the British for, say, Africa and New Gaines. the diplomatic aituation between Churches is nowise inferior to And yet a glance at history America and Germany, there was that of their brethren in the bows reminds us that the first great considerable excitement both in work.

advances of the gospel were not the New York and Liverpol ex- The early Charch did not cor-made in the barbarian world at therefore rouse resentment rather changes, resulting in a decline of sider that anybody was good all, but in the highly civilised than win a bearing. Bat whoever from two to three cents per pound, enough to be sent cut on prope world of the old Roman Empire, takes the trouble to erquire will aponing grave anxiety to the genda work. None were good which was at the least not inferior find that the spirit of our British trade generally, and while enough but the best they could to the civilisation of modern Indis missions as a whole is a spirit of slight reactions

bare taken fiad, so they selected Barnabas or Chins. Confucian morala are courtesy and respect, like that place within the Jart two and Saul to go to Selacia not disparaged by being rauhod of Paul, based upon knowledge days, opinions are as much at and Cyprus and Salamis, and the with those of Plato or Marens and asmpathy, and, so far se pity variance as ever, both balle sad Church lost nothing by parting Aurelius. As for religion, enters in, on a pity which is akin bears having strong points in with its best, for God never fails properly. so-called, Obrist die to love and has no sfinitien support of their views. Under to bless the Church which mares placed, not by disparaging whatever with contempt. saph conditione, prognosticatione propaganda work a first interest. but by fulfilling, even the pare

I should like to quots, in clos are futile, as the situation is Can you conceive a more savers and holy faith taught by Jewish ing, part of the remarkable tosti- unparalleled in the history of the test of staying-power and single-law givers and prophets, not to mony of the late Sir Wm. Hanter, T/T trede, and the watchful, waiting mindedness than the demand on mention the anciens classical or a member of the Viceroy's Legis- Demand policy adopted by spinners seems faith and oharacter and beart and the modern Rindu pantheons, lative Council in India. He mid: 30 dis. most desirable for the present, intellect made on the life of a Chris The first Christian missionaries"To a man like myself who, 60 d/s........ Tone of the market: Quiet to tian missionary, year after year were themselves Jows, yet they during a quarter of a century, steady,

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FEBRUARY, 20, 1917..

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thrown on his own resources, with gave their lives, some of them has walobed the missionaries T/T Shanghai.... sometimes little but neglect and literally, to bring to. their actually st their work, the statis. T/T Singapore criticism from many who ought brethren the better faith. Among tics of conversions seems to form T/T Japan Textually amended in only one to back him up? Men who the other natione, Paal, the bat small part of the IT India unimportant particular, the Bill come well through that test representative missionary, always evidence.......I shall speak only

Demand, India ...... providing for the creation of a are men who would here done spoke with respect of whitever of facts

T/T San Francis-} National Coal Mining company,

well it home had they light and knowledge those nations knowledge. Bat I know of no T/T Java.............. 136.

co & New York! with a spital of P3,000,000, a remained there, and who are might posses, as is seen here in class of Englishmen who have T/T Marks....... Nom. approved by the Fhilippins Senate quite capable of making money his address at Athens. The done a mach to render the name T/T Francs 3.2814 last week, and, this change having abroad, were that the object of Christian propaganda does not of England, apart from the power Demand, Paris... 3.29 been agreed to by the lower their exile. But the missionary of depend on any total absence of of England, respected among the

people's

BUYING, bcuss, was ensoled. As passed | many

imagination truth among the peoples of the people of India. I know of no the measure provides that the p288 to be a sort

of modern East any mors that it did class of Englishmen who have

< m/s. L/C 4 m/s. D/P....

...inmin 2/5 3/16 government shall invest in 51 per narrow-minded, under-educated in the ancient West. To show done so much to make the better

2/5 5/16 6 m/s. L/O cent, of the

the fanatic, who is what he is becsuss that men and women need Jesus rise of the English character 30 d/a. Sydney &

2/5 7/16 company. with a

VIEW to be in incapable of being any-Christ it is nowise necessary to underatord. I know of no class

2/5 7/16 Melbourne............ encouraging the coal indes thing else, and yet takde upon assume that they are der who have done so much toawaken 30 dis. San Franc try in the Philippine islande and him to instruct people who know titute of moral instincte, kindly the

Indian intellect, And, isco New York f 5714 for the purpose of lowering, the more than he does himself, and feelings, noble desires. All at the

Nom. same time, to leason 4 m/s, Marks present exorbitant prices charged is out on the fool's erraad of these beloog, in germ at any rate, the dangers of the transition

4 m/s, France. ......

3.4014 for that commodity in the local trying to convert others from to Qor make-up as human from the old state of things to the male. France...... 3.4541⁄2 markete. The remainder of the religions which are better suited areatores, and it is just because now. The missionaries have bad Demand, New York. 56%

Demand, Germany. - stock is to be disposed of to the to them than anything Obristianity men are men, and not something their reward. No class of Eng. T/T Bombay... general pablio, but arrangements has to offer,"

lower, that they are expable at 11 fishmen receive so mach na Demand, Bombay... Nom. are also made whereby the gor

I do not happen to be a m. of cuting to the stature of perfect, brught kindness from the Indian T/T Calcutta erament in time may cease to sionary, but did zot someone noi menbeta in Christ, Who is the people while they live; no in Demand, Calcutta... Nom.. exercise any interest in the very long ago inform me, theen, hij Son of Man, and not of white man. dividas! Englishmen

are so Demand, Manila 1124 company, if the development the Press, that if I would angaira The missionary fat of the honestly regretted when they die. Demand, Singapore, 2005% of the industry shows that I would find the Chipets Led Church in not, as seems often to If I were asked to name the two On Haiphong....... 24%, prem governmental aid is no longer sacred writings of their own? Alba uxamed, the expression of men who, during my service in On Saigon 24% prem. necessary. In this event the Ga. if the portrait ol the translator of Pharisaio self-complacency nor India,

have exercised the On Bangkok vernment is empowered to die the Chinese Classica were not even of ignorant patronage, greatest influence

Sovereign nekairuar, 8.40 Nom. оп maliva pese of its stock boldings at their hanging in yonder vestry as the It is an expression of human development and native opinion Bar Silver, per or..... 8918

Gold Leaf, per oz.... 47.90. market vaïne, which, onder the first minister of this very charch. !, respect and the spirit of in Madras, I should name, not a circumstances, would be consider. Similar enquiry would doubtless: brotherhood, fired by the governor, aor any departmental SUBSIDIARY COINS. sbly above par. It is understood reveal bo existence of an divinely implanted hope of bring-head, bat a missionary Bishop of that steps looking toward the oral habet and a multiplicationjing all men into one in Him the Church of England, and ganization of the company will be table. That type of crisis can whose right it is to reign over missionary educator of the Esote takin just nu soon as the measure easily be imagined giring gra- them. There may be forms of sish Froo Kirk." That is high has been wigued by the governor taitous information to Paul there, mietionary set which are based test mony; there is more Lika 45,

Athena :--" What need have considerably upon ignorador, and for those who are to see.

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