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FROM THE PULPIT.

Saving by Life or by Death.

Notes of a sermon by the Bay. J. Kuk Maconsobie at Union Church on Sunday morning :- ***None of us liveth unto him

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1918.

This is one of the great texta/ideal- far. Leyond sell-home;

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at the stars, an God bade Abra- | future?"

The man ham, for the bus perspective of anyrate learns to live who has his destiny. Now that is the star { learnt not to count him...·lifa measure of your destiny, that you | dear in comparison with such a see the Lord's for Eis uses. It call. And the man who has learnti awaria avery other, but you to live is one to whom the end of accept any smaller at your peril, life when it comes in the course of And it give the right perspec-daty osnnot be untimely. We tive in which to view all there mourn the young and brave, yet

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self, and none disth unto himself. demands to think of others as well we might rather envy them. They HOUSE FED CAPONS

For whether we live we live onto the Lord, or whether we diewe die unto the Lord; whether therefore we live or die we are the Lord's." -Rom. 14/7.

a self, which, truth to tell, grow at least have lived the giving of bit dull and tiresome through their lives is the infrsgible proof | iteration from every quarter as of it. They have given their we get them now too often on the lives to make the world what it line of mere bumanism. For was not and apparently never These inspring sentences occur, instance: "Ye are not your own," would have becoms without this in truly Apostolic style, in the we are told elsewhere, Ye are" rude awakening from the-com- course of an appeal for mataal members of a community? units placral materialism which had consideration among Chärch

in the social organism? No: enmeshed it." Ayman had better members on such troublesome "Bought with a price." Or die in the struggle against wrong subjects as the keeping of days again: "Rear ye one another's than go on living while acquieec and eating of meats. The point burdene, and so"-make life ing, or still worse, participating of the whole argument turns upon a little easier, brighter, less in-in it, and there seem to have been the, common responsibility to tolerable? No: "Falfl the law the alternatives which Christ, the "strong" being told of Christ." Or again: "We facing us.

to remember that the "weak "that are strong ought to bear the belong to Christ, while the "wesk" burdens of the weak, and not to is also to remember that the same please ourselves." Sound advice,

is tras of his brother. The way familiar in the very nursery. Bat to live helpfully toward our see what a point the Apostle pate follows is to live sacredly toward on the arrow, sending it home the Lord, "Who died and rose, infailingly: "For even Ohriet and lived again, that He might be pleseed Himself" the Lord both of the dead and of it at is your business, act just to the living."

be rather kindly and helpful, bat to manifest Christ-always the

"None of us liveth to himself "

dom

not

And

life

-the statement by itself has stay line, the in Enite per almost become a proverb, and and witbeat it the inspiration is it receives extraordinary em- apt to ebb away from our altruism. phasis and extension from Let as follow the text in its the condition of the modern second alese, And none dieth world. The controlling fact to himself." This, like the earlier, of modern life is that the whole also states a fact more or less 10- world has become inter-depend- cepted in all organised acciety- ent amongst ita constitutent Human law rightly demands an parts. That we are members one account of every daaib, as well as of another, as St. Paal says else making claims on every where, does not admit of doubt among us. Not a single life ander in the widest possible application. civilised government is to be cast The course of the world war, se rabbish to the void, nor is any drawing one pation after another individual permitted so to cast into it and now profoundly affect himself. Dying being one of the ing every nation under the most important note of life is a wan, is a startling "demonstra-matter which is never allowed to tion of the fact that what be the concern of the individual

are and

do concerne alone in any advanced community, not only themselves but their This matter also the Apostle sets neighbours in an ever-widening here in the bighest light. "Wheth- circle. Bat the Apostle here is er we die, we dia unto the not just atating an abatrant-in- Lord;" "Living or dying, we are | evitable fact to be taken or left. the Lord's" These references to He is setting out a Christian dying do not come in quite principle, which is that we freely obviously. Why, it is asked, and lovingly accept the necessary should the writer introduce them relation of inter-dependence, and at all in the course of his advice in the light of it take mindful, about some simple affairs of daily kindly thought for one another.life? Possibly because the idea No man can live to himself, and they express was to a large extent no Christian would try to. Self one of the grapel'e new introduo- lab, inconsiderate living and tions to pagar thought. Early Christian living are simply Christianity_bad_to_set_ila. face. incompatibles. To the extent against a great deal of contrary that the one is up, the other is teaching and custom

on this down. The Christian who seeks subjor. There were good and to live to himself excommunicates wise men in those dark days who himself, not it may be technically held the taking of one's life to be: or ecclesiastically, but actually, a legitimate means of escape O.her circles may have their from intolerable situations, and own way and standarde, the they are followed in the Christian rule is the law of new-paganism of to-day by brotherhood, In love serve one many who are neither con- another."

epicuously good nor wise. Christ-

Now the catatanding fact fan teaching, of course, endorses about the modern world is that all that is to be said about the it had become a neighbourhood. cowardlines and selfishness of Goodwill plas proximity is the that desperate method of throwing inner meaning of civilisation worth one's load upon other people's calling sach. What we had been shoulders. Bot, mere to the calling civilisation has been point, the gospel teaches that there bitterly disappointing.

We do sre

no intolerable situations. not use the word in the tone Obrist is so much greater than current, before" 1914, we bate circumstances that no possible our breath and halt, because of distress or sorrow is beyond Hi the hideous doubt which the war retrieving and working into the has cast on the whole thing. It training of immortal souIH. is perfectly clear that something Neither does the despera's ex- will have to be added to any pedient end the situation, for oivilisation we have known if life Obrist is Lord "both of the ded for the future is to be made and the living," and account. tolerable or indeed possible oa ability to Him outlasts mere mor this planet. Not till the rale of tality. This special application good will incumbent on Christians of the text is, however, incidental. becomes the general rule of The general bearing is that our lite

there be, lasting dying equally with our living in in the world, and not and cannot be to self alone. pesce then civilisation will be some "Not one sparrow" falls to the thing more than a veneer of ground without our Father, and wealth and culture over fand. He may be served and glorified amentally unregenerate instincts. by the end of a human life no

Will

Adige indeed, not to say, larid,les then by its rourse, not seldom

are the letters in which this indeed supremely. We do not epistle is being written before learn to live until we reach the eyes of man, "None of us the point at which we are liveth unto himself." Oh that the willing either to go on living world may have eyes to see ! For to give life up for reasons

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But, reverting to the sphere of which are far broader than our individual life, let us look at the own personal wish for life or perspective, so to speak, in which weariness of it. The world is The matter is put before us here. learning something more of this "None of us liveth to himself," endless lesson in a very costly Should the Resolution be pass writes the Apostle, but he takes way; which is also unspeakably ed by the qued majority, it care to add something which impressive, through the self- will be submitted furconfirmation makes all the difference For forgetfulness so highly demand. 21 special resolution to a second whether we live, we live unto the ed and so freely forthcoming will be subsequently convened.

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