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FROM THE PULPIT.

A Lesson for Lean Year's

Notes of a sermon by the Ber. J. Kirk Maconachis at Union Church on Sunday morning (Harvest Festival):-

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„while and · be forced to wrest car bare living direct from the soil, like our fors- fathers. Three years of war, and words such as these have come | nearer actuality then would have

been thoughs posible.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1917.

CANTON, NEWS.

Dr. Suà and Admiral Check Disagree.

Our Canton correspondent writes under date of the 19th instant as follows:-

A new invention in navigation, with an ansuruplons enemy to Cheng Pik kwong have come to Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Admiral exploit it in unrestricted puscy disagreement owing to the latter and we are pat on the strain. So refusing to carry out the Gener "And now, carmedast thou from people everywhere are rising alimimo's order to fire on the city. the ground, which bath opened their list of necessities, and patton the night of the 15th ir plant. her mouth to rceive thy brother'a ing back into that of laxuri On the contrary Admiral Obeng blood from thy hand; when thon good many things which had ordered bis fire boste to leave the tillest the ground it eball not leaked into it, & always happera Canton river. It is stated that in henceforth yield unto theeber in fat year. Thousands of strength."-Gen. 41.

acres of land also have been from Dr. Sun, Admiral Cherg replying to a letter of reprimend transferred from game runs and stated that his object in coming ornamental parts for purposes South was to protect and not to of tillage, and small householders destroy the nativer. is their own garden patches. Best bave taken to spade and trowel. of sil, labour on the land has been restored to its right place, ar neater it. No-one ever ought to have been ashamed, and no one with pretensions to good citizen-

Let the people praise Thee, O God; let all the peoples praise Thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase."-Pa. 07/5,

Man in disobedieres to God; this is the penalty-"When thou tillest the ground it shall not yield unto thee ber strength." Man in harmony with God; this is the result-"Then shall the earth yield. ber increase."

the Provincial Authority that the Many districts have reported to citizen soldiers in their localities that military assistance is argent- are terrorising the inhabitants and

ly needed.

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The first is from the story of atsine "of soil on bands or garterviewing Lak Wing-ting.

ship now can be shamed, of the has returned to Canton after in- Li Ia-boo, the Civil Governor, Cain, who slew his brother. The mente. Townsmen and girls have j broad isets of life confirm the e- taken to farm work, and it will military and official held a large All the principal officials, citil, sential verity of these so sacient do them good to discover their meeting at Dutch Folly, when it words which form my text. The abysmal ignorance of the elements was decided that all parties must very earth resents man's in- of life

at elare humanity to mar, bat refuses to swart

quarters, disclose their intentione, so as to 18 they may bova. yield her strength to the wrong been at bridge or tango. In

prevent misunderstandings; that doer. This is expressed poetically, the general breaking down of

means be devised for peacefully perhaps mystically, in the early elses distinctions, the divisions that the military commandere er settling the present situation; sad story of Genesis, but we can see between town and country seems to be responsible for peace and it working out through secondary also to be wearing thin, sa indeed order in the respective places causes all through bistory, mark was high time, for the commer-within the scope of their activities. edly at the present time. When ois half of the world scarcely the ploughshare is best into knew how the agricultural Tired, swords, the land must go astilled, in this age of industrialiem. wbo do When spears are comandeer-

not provide La many parts of the world wines ed for pruning books, the there is severe soarcity, and guests.. though the provision is and spirits for their harvest may rol in the everywhere restriction more or against their principles. field. When the nation's men lese. Practically all Europe is really might lays

We band apon are out campaigning, tome work rationed, and often the ratione car habite in some of these, has to offer. Some of them never are Foanty. Even come home again at all, and the is

Americs matters with much advantage, baring ite mea:lise and in the circumstances women tive to do the work as days. The food reformers are ought to do it. The best thanke beat they may in the lone land having their contention that we giving for the many blessings we left in the wake of war,

est too much, and eat the wrong here enjoy would be a few simple Do any of you recall the thinge. Many people have made ordinances of self-denial in the ancient ballad of the day after the wholesome discovery that intereste of the war lands. Flodder, when the Flowers of smaller and simpler supplies | the Forest were."a" rede away" mean happier and healthier lives. sespects, but still thanksgiving The times are dark in many from many a fair valley of the I think it was Sidney Smith who well becomes us, and it is right| border? Not the sophisticated) who made a calculation that in to observe this day in the lesa, version heard in concert rooms the course of a long life he must year as we bare done in years writes as follows:-A train for but the real folk ballad of the have confumed some 70 cartloads which brought a larger share only in fragments, but aighing obeerrant doctors have it that we just seen the noble and inspiring Shek Tan slation, some 34 miks time itself, existing now, I fear, more than was good for him, and of material blessing. We have Kowloon left here at 4.10 p.m. on THE Undersigned has received

the 18th instant, but on reaching out the very sorrow of the coun-all do the same, unless we are summoni tryside dennded of its braw lade, abjectly poor and can't afford to.

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the and none left bat the women to

American people by their Presid distant, the driver was informed Lean years bring their coment in view of their Thanksgiving by the incoming train that a fight get in the harvest their strong pensations, and perhaps an e-Day at the end of this month, I between two parties of soldiers banda had sOWN for in the forced regimen of plain living well remainde as that "ia apite was taking place rear Shek spring:

may help mankind to do some of of the darknees which has gather. Lang station, and it Lasses to cut and lassee to the high thinking which will be ed around as we can see the great Several enquiries were made by be inadvisable to proceed. getber,

needed for the right rebuilding blessings God has bestowed upon Laseee to bind and lassss to of the shattered structure of ue, blessings greater than mere slook;

society when the war ende and peace of mind and prosperity of My memory siera me "but the time of restoration is enterprise." If you or I pity that the line had been torn up poorly, but that is something of Touchsafed ne..

careelves that our lot has been for about a third of a mile, near the pitiful strain. Ab, it is a It is true that we'here are com-cast in this time of great trial, we wasteful business, this game of paratively ausffected. We have surely go fur wrong. For times Shek Lik Kon station, and stones wer, and to-day the watefalases had some rise in prices locally, of great trial .are times of heaped up on the track. The train then returned to Canton,

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for husbeding stores and gather-systhies, and they are keenly which will tell for all time Railway anshorities, we learn that ing up figmente se never pre-enlisted, let a. trast, for viously. In total places in the the Here lacda in their many ed to master and debase mec rupted yesterday, but that it is sgainst a tyrsony that shresten- the service to Canton wae inter- Old Country, harvest than kegiv. dificulties, and for the lands everywhere." Heavy as may be now quite sormal again. ing day was a very real beer actually laid weate in their bitter our personal and public sorrows, vence, but in the towne, for all distreas. And while we are it is not a thing to mourn the display that used to be made, sheltered here and so far amply that we belong to a generation one wondered Lometimes jaat provided, it is well we should whose daty it is to confirm and how much it meant to most realise there general resulte of the extend the heritage of the fres people. in the country it was a world-wide upheaval, and take peoples of the world. If we falfil man's own year's results that bad what part we can in bearing out our duty WE shall bring been "red" as they signi- share of the common trials. There nearer the time when the eman- ficantly put it, sod stored is no doubt I don't think any cipated nations shall unitedly dry against the winter. But in one disputes i:that in East the praise the God who has "appoint. towne people supply themselves European does fall islo laxariansted the bounds of their habitstions, from the rarest shop, and are ways of living, and the war and filled their hearts with food, apt to thick co more about it, for will do good if is put some and gladness, if the crop in one part of the check upon it.'

Thes, and not Whether it has eooner, will the earth yield her world were poor it would easily actually done so to any serious increase. When the sword does be plentiful in some other quare extent it is really hard to tell indeed give plece to the plough- ler. The timing millione drew Signs of economy arasre not very share, and the familie of man, their smetensi ce from the prairie perceptible, in dress, in household delivered from their inveterate lende of the Americas, from the management, or in the pursuit of entail of fears and jealousies,con- plains of Barsia and Indis, the each expensive amatements and sent to dwell together in botheriy rice fields of India or China, the laxories as remain within our co-operation, there will begini an bancna groves of Jamsics or the reneb. When Bishop Brent era of true and unspoilt prosperity Caperice, Australasia and the addressed a men's weeting here such as our brightest dreams have tre pics feat their quotes, and sil lately, be gave it on the sathority not imagined, Blur, we bare the lande of Europe and all of Mr. Hoover, I think, that we only scratched the surface of the the seas which girdle them may have to face grain famine immense resources of the won WETO drawn upon for their by next spring, and he added derful world in which God Las exprcial products. I used to tell something to the fact that be placed ne. The qaration for the my city congregation that there would rather die of thirst then future is whether to anbounded was all the more peed we should consume liquory which used up stores of wealth and power are to have a Harvest Sunday is our necessary corn for the production, go on being exploited for pur huge manufacturing centres I am told that the rounds of poses of conquest and destruction, where one would not see a corn applause might have come from or whether & now turning altoge ́field without going miles to look an audience of teststallers, bat ther is to be taken, and men, for it, but where we did see cas sees no diminution in the living in harmony with their God, enormous grain elevators on the number and prominence of are to seek each others' good and damal decks emptying ships from whisky advertisemente, and it is enjoy His gifts in common. There Canada of the Argentine, or coast still a matter of diffentty to get is no other question when we get The tracks in traicload, of soything cheaper than shum in the bottom of things, and Barih rice or Spanish cranges, pagde at certain of our social though iu fali and Goal sover I remember saying it might be functions. Families are still may be still delayed, the travai] good no hire to stop making considered meinand how masa of this time is bringing it usarer, and buying and sailing - goods

to regard them... as we fruit pod pray §.

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