1918-07-30 — Page 5

FROM THE PULPIT,

The Value of a 'Man.

Notse of a sermon by the Rev. J. Kirk Moonachie st Union Charch on Sunday morning:-

"I will msks · s more precious than gold; even a man shan the golden wedge of Ophir," -Isaiah 13/12.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1918,

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

JUNKET

Cannot be excelled with tinned

or fresh stewed fruit.

good conscience, their real com fort. To get money they will sacrifice health, leisure, home life. Gold in their pocketa ie allowed to outweigh the culture of the mind, and satisfrotions of friendship, the pleasure of making others happy. Rather than leare s few thousandalem bebind them when they die they will forego the trus happiness of life and the joy of doing good, cramped and starved as regards life's worthy! interests and honours both, in a word prepared to sell their souls COULOMMIER CHEESE. COTTAGE CHEESE. for such portion of the world si they can manage to lay hands apon. Many a man succeeds in this unhappy pursuit, and the savy which his success arestes shows that for some who succeed are thousands who fail; in other words who pay the price without obtaining the thing, worthless though it is.

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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMents.

R.

-TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

CHINA MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

From SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU, YOKOHAMA

AND SHANGHAL

THE Steamship

** NANKING,”.

Having arrived from abora- mentioned porta, consignees of cargo are hereby notifi- ed that their cargo being landed stored their Yisk in

the "Hongkong

AL

are

& Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co.'s hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns whence de- livery is to be obtained from Goods not released on and after Monday, 5th August 1918, will be subject to rent-

All broken, chafed and dam- ared packages are to be left in the Godowa, where they will be examined on Monday 5th Aug., 1918, at 10 s

Ages ago, when you and I were young and read "Uncle Tom's Cabin," your heart was hot within you at the account of fellow creatures being put up to auction, You burnt with shame and anger that a man should ever be put one scale and money in the other,

Bat suppose you let God have for the sake of the money the

His way in this matter. Then WE manhood outraged, home and happiness treated as naught, shall have a transformation. For,

creatures in abstractions insterd heart stringe snapped as if they let me repeat it, He has just this sets us thinking of our fellow were fiddle strings, justice denied 908 thing to say about it all, of their sentient humanity. The enamy bes his "osunon fodder," and derided. You were right in manhood more precious than that shame and indigestion. Yon money; nothing to be set over and thank God we have not sunk were on God's eide, for whenever against character, nothing for to that; bat we have our own God's voice is heard in the matter which it is worth while to fool "manpower," and are under rink it is always in substance to say with one's conscience, no material of forgetting that man-power

PARTICULARS AND CON. means mother's sons, one thing-man more precious gain for which it will pay any

Of course it is not only war DITIONS of the letting by Public than gold. In His role of values child of Adam to surrender his there is no common mesɛure be. Joheerfulness, to neglect bis home, which produces this type of Auction Sale, to be held on tween these two, men and money. to starve bie mind, begger his results. The industrial machine Tuesday, the 6th day of August,

hesrt, tarn his personality into a

countersignature equally with the military can be 1918, at 3 pm, at the Offices It is not possible to equate them,

deprived of a soul, made to grind of the Public Works Department, possible. and every calculation attempting coining preas,

Mea, it is esid, with an em-out gold at the cost of blood. To by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of Oae Lot of Crown it gives a false result.

phasia on the word, are always underpay a servant, to rackrente Land at Battery Street, in the ecarce, and we wax cynical with Diogenes, searching the streets of sensat. to grow rich on anim- Colony of Hongkong for a term Athens with bis lamp in daylight proved slams, or public house of 75 years, with the option of property, or Indian opium, or renewal at a Crown Rent to be to find one. Better, Miss Night slave-goi rabber-all that sad fixed by the Surveyor of His of a baby! Extraordinary occur ingale, the lady with the lamp much like it just works out at Majesty the King, for one further rence." Extraordinary indeed in seeking among the cots of the that happy land where even maimed and wounded for the valuing gold more than men. Yet term of 75 years."

Since coming to. Obins I hare recalled many times a newspaper headline which caught my eye on the last day in Englandale

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sinning against God."

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Upses "Price."

the amillest frail morael trokes and spent who may get you remain your brother's keeper PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

when all is said, and cannot in of humanity would cerer babe helped back to strengib.acy way exploit him without weighed against gold by the There is a man with the em poorest family, but, ales, common phasia-inside your cost, brother, anongh here, where human being maimed perhaps and spent, bat are even more plentiful and gold still there. Beneath your hat, even more scarce than anywhere eister, there is such a woman in Christendom.

Are they getting a chance from

people

There is only one real wealth in any country in the last analysis,

viz... the who make up the country. their comfort, Their welfare,

It ared to be argued that you, that man, that woman their health, their character

are just everything, and no wide dominion or expanding commeros could conceivably make up for

them.

I'll fares the land, to hastening,

ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and

men decay,

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- elavery must be right because it fair, reasonable obance? Or is was allowed in Bible times." the strength of life just being It is true that Moses permitted frittered, broken, sold, for the love many things, 38 our Saviour of the world? pointed out, because of the Believe in the manhood inside hardness of men's bearta, But it your own cost and you will have is quite remarkable how the respect also for that which is asciant law asisguarded the covered by the garments of other rights of the bond-esrvant, opened men, in every one of them "more

No, we cannot afford in soy out many possibilities of his precious than gold." If you or attaining freedom, and finally I care less for our fellowmen than way whatever or on any pretext ordained the jubilee year in for what we can get out of them, to set man scoond to gold. And which he mast be freed. we are weighing with the wrong ahcald we wish to do so wa Also the distinctive ory scales; we are going against should first at anyrate have to of the prophets was always God, though we have never own alesr the decks of our Christianity. ITIONS of the letting by Public for the rights of human beings as ed a slave nor wanted to own one. For so long as the gospel is Auction Sale, to be held on ach against all oppressors Bad Our modern ways are an advance regarded it will make a bad con- Tuesday, the 6th day of August. exploitera: Te bave sold the on the old feudal arrangements, Boience for all offences against ila 1918, at 3 p.m., at the Offices righteous for silver, aid the needy but they have not changed human first principle, which is that God of the Public Works Department,

ATO nature, and we for yet sets each a value on man-all men by Order of His Excellency the for a pair of shoe

fram realising that

allthat He gave His only begotten Governor of One Lot of Crown the Colony of Hongkong, for a ment pronounced on Babylon.) The prophet, aiming to show the deadly sin, and that the persons in Him ehcold not perish, but term of 75 years, with the option extent of its dererved disaster ality of every man or woman is to have everlasting life. The Son of of renewal at a Crown Rent to the oppressor of humanity, pre- be considered before the gain or Man came to seek and to save that be fixed by the Surveyor of His dicta a slaughter at the hands of convenienes of say other. That is which was lost-the andervalued, Majesty the King, for one further Medea and Persians which would why it is a sin, eg, to boy goods anregarded, too often exploited term of 75 years. reduce the haughty city's teeming made by sweated labour or sold fragments of the social fabric PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. population till the rarest of its at starvation profit, if you know They put thirty pieces of silver possessions would be wen. So it. It is long since Tom Hood in the scale against the Lord reduced would it be that a man wrote "Song of the Shirt," but it Jeans, and let the metal tara the would be more precious thane by no means yet out of date:

No claims will be recognised after the goods have left the Godown, and all claims must be presented within one month of ship's arrival.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.

in their Bills of Lading for

Consignees are requested to

28 early as

O. H. RITTER.

Agent. Prince's Building. Ground Floor. Hongkong, 30th July, 1918,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

AND

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

Consignees per Co.'s Steamer

*** PRIAM"

are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon where, it will The Heat Consignee's risk. Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 29th July.

Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.

All broken, chafed, and damag- ed goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they" will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 am, sad noon within.the free storage period. after the Goods have left the steamer's Godowns and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 5th August, will be subject to

No claims will be admitted

rent.

All Claims against the Steamer signed on or before the 19th

My text comes from the juxploitation of human beinge is Son, that whoever believeth Land at Babington Path, in must be presented to the under

O men with sisters and wives; It is not linen you're wearing

pat,

But Laman creatures' lives.

beam. But Jesus tasted death for gold, yes, a man than the golden O men with mother and scas, every man because He saw in wedge of Ophir." What a

every man an immortal soul which might be won to eternal glory, change in say great commercial

when the world and all the trifies city, with its innumerable crowde,

for which those souls ere bartered men, women and children, seem

Oynics have always said that in it shall have passed away, and ingly no end of them. But gold!! tast is another story. It is just the law oares more for property it is shown beyond all possibility as scarea se people seem plentiful.than it does for life, and who can of denial that in the final account more precions You don't find money getting any the view is wholly groundless? 8 man is indeed “ among your feet and crowding A men taking out an insurance than gold, even man then the you off the pavement. But let policy ie examined with doable, golden wedge of Ophir," war or pestilence sweep the place, treble, perhaps ten times the care and you get that enddest right of which is bestowed on bim if he is its kind, an under-populated town. to enlist for military service. In The desert itself is more cheerful the one cass shareholders' money than a town, or countryside either, is at stake, but in the other only with ball the bosses empty. the man's own health and future. The astounding thing is the You expect silence and lonelines

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT,

Intant Lot

Keglay No

Adjoining Inlani

LOCALITY.

Babington Palb

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Boundary Measurement,

(Approximais.)

fres feet feel feet

Content

Annual Sent}

Upset Prise.

As per sale plan 2.52

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HE Undersigned bas received instractions to sell by Public

FRIDAY, the 2nd. August 1918% commencing at II am.

at his Sales Rooms, Daddell

Street,

August, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance, will be effected.

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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.

Hongkong, 28th July, 1918.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LIMITED. AND

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

Consignees per Co.'s Steamer NINGCHOW “*.

常情

are hereby notified that the

Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignée's risk, The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Gedown on and after 29th July...

Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.

All broken, chafed, and dameg· ed goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 am. and noon within the free storage period.

THE HONGKONG ROPE in the Saburo, bot to find them in lack of correspondence between London or Johannesburg or here the elaborate machinery for decid. MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. | Auction on in Victoria would be a nightmare, ing upon indispensability and the The nightmare, however, would inadequacy of the enquiry about bring home the incomparable fitness. I know we ought not to "AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR ($1,-) per value of bamsa lifa. Nuggete! hold our lives dear to use in this why the biggest ever sent to the world-emergency. But neither share for account 1918, will be Mint is nothing to the lamp of ought we to hold any other man's payable on THURSDAY. the preciousness inside the cost of life cheap, and we who know that 15th August, 1918. Shareholdera every man you meet. Your own we would not be conscripted are requested to apply for Divid- cost for example. You may not, might well have shown more and Warrants at the Company's Office St. George's Buildings, possibly, think you are worth solicitade in this respect on Hong Kong.

who "were

All Claims against the Steamer} every much, but you are worth behalf of these

The TRANSFER BOOKS of But this is a place the Company will be CLOSED lis blo indefinitely mOTE

1-5 H.P. Pope Motor Cycle must be presented to the under- where paino opinion has little from BATURDAY, the 10th Aux- and Side-car

signed on or before the 19th weight in gold.

August or they will not be There is a common notion to ecope, and I am afraid we con gast, 1918, to THURSDAY, 15th

recognised. the effect that most people think tract a correspondingly feeble August, 1918, both days. in far too much of themselves, but sence of responsibility. The clusive,

then

Jour

in point of fact they think far too worst thing about war is ite little, vast numbers of them. They cheapening of hamsa life. In et more value on money than un epite of our best efforts it does their own peace of mind, their and must have that effect.

CHEWAN TOMES & CO.

General Managers.. Hongkong, 30th July, 1918,

(For account of the concerned)

1-4 cylinder 7 passenger Marathon" Motor Car (2nd hand).

And

On view from Thursday the

1st August, 1918.

Terms

Cash on delivery. GEO. P. LAMMEET,

Auctioneer.

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No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods zemaining undelivered after the 5th August, will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. Hongkong, 28th July, 1918,

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