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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

thought, fidelity

sacrifice, our resord

ment, would have been

to the end of the aroster) that it is but ano

oning

daring this past year, have “It osme to pass that Joahna, the

| left undone those things which wa son of Nun died, being a hundred Hermon by the Bar, ought to have done, and done those and ten years old. And they "Maconsobia at- Union | things" which we ought not to buried him in bis inheritance in Church on Sunday morning :—- have done"-how lightly the Timnath Sarah,”...⠀ So far they *Now Joshua »su old, and well words trip overour lips! Int they followed him, thole stern old stricken in years, and the Lord are tine. And they ought not to Torselities whom he had led to re- sad unto him? : Behold them art be as time as they are, nor would pested victory, old, and well stricken in years, they be if you and I did what we * Faithful to the end he was, and and there temsinth ye: very much might and could. "Vary much" | Obristian ▼tion may trace, bim land to be possented.”—Joshus there is in these past months to further, scross the final Jordan bear witness to our dullness and to the still better ocantry, where John Wesley woorded on his unfaithfulness, enemies anub on the shore the Shining Oner 81st birthday that he was a deed, territories unconquered, gave him gresting, and said as strong 24 at 21. “ and abundantly promises undlaimed, while the they showed him the side ex- more healthy." Iwo years later night cometh. Suck is the view, panse of the Kingdom which the be wrote that it was twelve years a trub one, which humbles, but heavenly Joshua lays open to all since he had felt such a sensation there is also a view which heart believers, "The whole land is as weariness. Such a record fillaene, and that indeed is the one before thee, walk through the ordinary folk with smisement mainly suggested by the text. The land in the length thereof and in There is but one account to be landscape viened under cloud pre- the breadth thereof; there is very given

of it:

they that wait upon conta a very different appearance in much to be possessed.” the Lord shall renew their the sunshine, and in the light of further daty life is ever opening #strength.

According to Jewish reckoning, and widening, Canaan is greater person should to be "atricken than was thenght at the first cross- in years" at four score, but not ing Jordan. If no life is long til much Ister did this old warrior ntagh to overtake every labour, need to lay aside his armour, and neither is any of a duration to ex begin to gather in the lines which haust all posibilities.

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The following is the approxi Our mate statement of the Hong- would scan to have pats into achievements may be poor enough, kong Tramway Company's traffic other hards. We find him here baisuch as they are they prove to receipts for the week ending realising in counsel with his God be kays of ever-opening doors. In December 29th, 1917 that the end of his term was ap- every department of human motiv proaching. "Old and stricken inity there is always more absað, ♦nd years"the bare feet is the text better. There is no finality in

for endless moralising and too knowledge, no end to invention. This Year: ... often remising about the bravity Thought keeps advancing; every Last Year:... of file. There are few purer science is reaching out constantly Increase: signs of a wrong silitude toward toward anexplored territory. Decrence: life than 10 find corselves Certainly not less in the same arne resenting the approach of age of the spiritual life of man. The and waxing miserable about the mark before us remains to the

march of time. Why should we last above and shead.

it

Receipts Aggregate for week. Receipte for

- 53 weeks. $12,193 8696,729 12,797 728,110

604 39,381

BER EYES AND COMPLEXION

ва cature.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Of

THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Publia. Auction

(For Account of the Concerned).

be ashamed of our birthdays as It was "such an one is Faul FOOD as we turn thirty, or treat a the aged" who wrote above for friend as an enemy becaure he wetting what was behind and should add to every woman's hints ons is getting on" or pressing on. The whole-con quest cherm. Pinkettes clear the skip intipastes one in "still" looking of Canian was really designed of pimples and blatabes, dispel young? Only because we grow to point to something far be Constipation, Biliousness, Sick old in the wrong way. It is beyond itself. The nation came Beadaches, ill emelting breath. true, a La Rocheforcsald says, to know was impresible Give the bright eye of bealth. that few people know how to be that Joshus could give them rest. old, it can only be because neither If every acre of its soil had beru

PINKETTES do they know how to be young, fully won, the old warrior would Madame de Steel said it is difficult have been first to teaob that not a gentle to grow old gracefalls, but it is in milk and honey and safe poeses chemists, or post free, 60 cente not, provided one grows in grace, sion lay satisfaction for a people the phial. from Dr. Williams without which it is impossible. worthy to be the people of God. Medicins Oc., 96 Szobuen Road, Growing old gracefully means Similarly, by a sound instinct, Shanghai. growing to the last in grace, and thoughtful minds have always here is Joshus, his boary bead tended to find in the incomplete found in the way of righteousness, neas of life at large the promise able quietly to take account of of a beyond: Responding to this, the work of life near its expected the gospel of our Lord bringehfe close, in a way which it becomes and immortality to light for ue. It na all, whatever our age, to do, in the becond and greater Josbus especially when another year is Who can esy with sarety, "I nearly over and the calendar will give you rest," Who slone itself is speaking to us.

could say of Bis own life wok at As years pass, we are bound to the end. It is finished," and of feel more keenly that, no matter Whose Work in its entirety the how strenuously life may be lived, arqualified verdict is, "Hs hath nor Low late it may be prolonged, done all things well.”- there is always more ahead than We, like the parlier Joshua, than there is behind as have done many things far from very much land yet to be well. But we serve One Who possessed." There is a pagsu gracious and full of compassion, way of taking this great common considerate of the frailty of our place of the incompleteness of frame. He appointed to Joebus human achievement and the an eventide task calling not for

·limitation of endeavour which is the strength of the warrior but

FURNITURE. Etc.. Etc., confined to geographical rather the wisdom of the states-

Etc. bestbendom." The working man, vis. the careful arrange

Comprising :- creed of many is in one form or ment of the settlement of the

Superior Blackwood Furniture, another "Let us eat and drink, various triber, not dismissing Large Plain Sideboard, Cabinets. for to-morrow we die." It is not His servant tecaure of age and suitable for Glass or Silver,

Chairs," Overmantles, etc) always expressed in open waste weariness, but suiting the barden and riot, by say means. Quite to the back. And these failures of steads, Wardrobes, Washstands, White Enamelled Twin Bed- apart from that, the debilitating, our own, the falling short of early Chests of Drawers, etc. Dinner deadening notion can creep in promise, of our own hopes per Service and Crockery Ware, that life is too short and opporhaps, and the expectations of Pantry and Kitchen Utensils, unity too small for high others-well, it is better to fall in including Large American Ice or noble effort;

let us the bands of God than those of chest, and two White Enamelled then slip through it as easily and man in respect of them.

Baths. pleasantly as may be. But the.

The above furniture, etc., has It is about impossible they say, man who makes nothing of bie for a man to find employment after for convenience of Sale.

been removed to the Sale Rooms years would make nothing of cans he has turned fifty, but God has Full Particulars from Catalogue) taries if he had them. Before you work for you should you live Terma :-As usual. envy our friend Metbasalah you to be five hundred. There is in- HUGHES & HOUGH, ̈would need means which we have [spiration in the reminder when it │-s.

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WORCESTER, LAMMERT-S

& SILVA. Hongkong, 1st January, 1918.

NOTICE.

WE have this day authorized Mr. CHARLES BERNARD BROWN, A. O. A to sign cur firm name at a partner,

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WE received a telegram ou A Head Office in Montreal that "All records again broken.“

LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

Acting Managere. Hongkong, Znč January, 1918.

KONINKLYKE PAKET- VAART » MAATSCHAPPY. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

From SINGAPORE. THE Steamship

van WAERWYCK," having arrived from the above ports Consignees of Cargo by her are notified that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or

extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

A Goods not cleared by the 9th

not of knowing what he did with comes from Him, "Behold thon Hongkong, 24th December, 1917. bia reputed millennium; as far as art old and well striokon.in yeurr, the record tells us, he did noth- and there remaineth yet very ing in particolar. But aesuming much land to be possessed.” In we all desire to make the right my text it is God who says this use of the passing years, there to Joshus, not a committee wait- are two ways, both profitable, in ing upon him to break it gently, TO BE LEF-Comfortably! which we may reflect upon life's and God says, nes summons and FURNISHED ROOMS with January, 1918, wilt be sibject to necessary-inc:mpleteness..

excell at Cusine and Attend-, rent,

Godowas, where they will be examined on the 8h January 1918, at 10:8 m

commission to further daty ance, in the hill district. Apply packages are to be left in the

· All broken ch fe’and damaged First, the way that humbler ns. "Work while it is day, not legs 1717 Hongkong Telegraph.. "! There remaineth yet very much that the day is on its declination.” jazd to be possessed." Joshus, "If I grow old isis time to live,” being a húman creature like the said Anscreon of old. We baye rak of us, was bound to be aware spoken of Wesley nearer our time, that the conquest would have but take the Tiring voice of John been more completion if his Clifford, turned to score, and FOR SALE. — TUSCULUM,in ten days after arrival of

work bad bean done better. He describing bimself the other day.

FOR SALE.

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steamer, otherwise they will not

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had done bis duly; he might as “a man of the future," which Apply Duncan

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had gained many victories; we all are men of the future, and

he might have gained more, must be. The past 18 past, for As for hum and bis hcare, they the youngest no-

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bid serred the Lord, but they oldest, and the future unrely be 109 The Peak six rooms. might have done it with grester, longs not lemet to those who have Apply C. H. Gale, P. W Depart Mauhininess, greater courage. longest lived to make preparati ment, Hongkong.

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