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FROM THE PULPIT.

(THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 21: 1919.

thinking about wages at that, momani. "We have left all and followed thes,** "What shall we WORK AND WAGES,

I have therefore?" is their question. The Master does not attribute it Notes of a sermon by the Rav. to sordid motives but He adds on J. Kirk Macanachie, at Union this parable to His answer as a Church They murmured warning against sordid motives against the householder, say-The Kingdom of Heaven is not a ing. these have spent matter of work and wages. It is but one hour and thou the realm of grace and goodwill hast made them equal unto us who and if you set about bargaining have borne the burden and heat of for your place in it the day. But he answered and put yourself out of its very said to one of them, friend I do element and the wrong.-Mat. 20/12.

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will" and

the

you

that

the shattered health, the loss and shame in a hundred farms which would never cease to be falt by the ill-doer who had now "Come to himself" and begun to see how many kinds of fool he had been.

No man need covet the plea- aures of sin, yet such is the deceitfulness of the heart that a man may be tempted to covet even while he refrains, from indulging. That is one point to remember if ever you find your- self grudging God's forgiveness of the simmer. It is complained that he has got of Not so, for remember he has

Do man

come to himself, and come to his right mind can let himself off lightly.

am

man

last

many that are last shall be first I used to know public man, and first shall be last" So far one of the political evangelical as our thoughts are fired upon lights of Victorian daya, who ages, we are forgetting, in fact confessed to a strong sympathy denying, that virtue is its own with the dissatisfied labourers in reward. What is the payment for

Christ's this parable and also with the elder baring been

A case has been put to me on a fellow brother in the parable of the labourer through a score, two subject which none of us can Prodigal Son. He has long since score, three score years? Why touch without the utmost sol- passed to the sphere in which we surely, the reward in the life enunity. It is on a line of some- trust greater puzzles than these itself the privilege of doing thing I let fall a few Sundays ago are cleared up and where it will good in His companionship, respecting our views of the future enter no man's mind to dream happiness of a place in the destiny of men fallen in the war, men brave and devoted to the that God is unjust to him by succession of faithful souls who being generous to his neigh have served

of making the their generation length bours. My friend

a according to God's will and sacrifice possible for the good worthy and well disposed man toiled cheerily to forward His cause, yet of whom it could not be said that ordinarily they had bat the gospel, as he understood work the world. "But," says it, did not seem to take enough someone, you have said nothing lived the "godly, righteous and "You say in effect", account of men's individual about the life everlasting and sober life".

I deservings; rather on the contrary,

expected

told, "that there is no difference between it appeared to favour most those reward of a Godly, righteous and who merited least. One man does sober life we are taught to pray

of that type and a full day's work and at the end for ?" If I were to answer that

one who has consistently held a of it gets his penny fee. Another enquiry with an unqualified Christian course and witnessed a called in at the eleventh hour negative I should certainly be good confession through all the gets just the same, The elder misunderstood but it would not be dangers, temptations, often alas, brother stays at home and does far from the truth. Eternal life the ugly opposition of the barrack all his duty, but it is for the in all the fulness of the meaning room or the officers' mess". Now, troublesome never-do-well the it has in the Gospel is the gift of that I did not say. What I did household goes into transports of God and not something we are to

It seems hardly

part I fair, carn by our toil in the vineyard joy. indeed, vastly unfair, from one and claim as our due at the close point of view, and that a common of the day. The longer you do one. Let us look for another life and labour and the more you view to which the Lord's well come to know of your own heart, known parable will guide us. It the less inclined will you be to is a vivid picture which he rest your eternal hopes upon your sketches here, but there is a own execution and the more eager pathos in it also which we always to confide them whole and solely seem to overlook. A market place to the unbargained grace of God and men standing in it waiting to in our Saviour Christ. That is be hired. If they are lucky men pretty much what theologians of they are in the eyes of the good former generation meant by householder whose proceedings renouncing our own righteous- are used here to set forth theness. The phrase may sound principles of the Kingdom of formal, but the thing remains Heaven,

hard, true, mere

not

economic material, industrial! When it comes to the real items, but men every one of them point, say in the hour of death or as much as the householder him- in the day of judgment, will either self, though adrift on the stream you or I go to meet our Master of casual labour which is very putting forward a claim of right, apt to land its human burden or making a demand for earnings? the rocks and shallows. Waiting I think not. Who was for work and the looking for a job used to pray. "Lord. save me it that standing about to see if you hap gratis?" The quaint expression pen to be wanted next, meal and shows where you and I will find night's lodging depending on is ourselves when it comes to the how would you or I like it whose point. complaint is rather that we have too much to do? Then comes the householder looking for workers, round

I cannot feel that I am at all fit for heaven if I am looking and assessing other

Say was that

for

OWN willing to take my chance of salvation by the side of the man who has freely laid down his life in God's cause. Both of us need His mercy, and which of us may need I have been asked, what is the it most only He can judge. But,

use of some of us striving and toiling to be soldiers of Christ i it makes no difference in the end? Might we not as well let things drop, and go with the crowd in its libertinism and unrestraint? Well, the reply to that is once again that a Christian life is worth living for its own sake, that a blameness character is in itself worth all the effort and self-denial which may be needed to cultivate

i

the possession of it constitutes Virtue is its own reward, and beyond all doubt a deep difference between a man who strives to keep a clean sheet and a pure

ually allows himself to kick conscience and one who habit-

over

the traces. "Son, thou art ever with me "-is not that

and the more we reflect on it the difference enough? It surely is, better we shall be able to share angels feel when a sinner finds whole-heartedly in the joy which himself, perhaps not until the fatal bullet finds him, and he arises, it may be in the moment when as far as this life goes he falls to rise no more and goes to his Father. At the close of the day, it is but twelve hours at the longest, the Master will be able I do thee no wrong." to say to everyone of us,." Friend, |

a bargain is soon struck and the people's unfitness, or even at the fortunate ones go off to earn very back of the mind taking their pay.

Later the good man upon me to criticise the Lord's returns and engages others, mak-way of doing His own business ing no bargain this time, but with other men's souls, whether promising to give whatsoever is they entered His earthly service right "which in his own mind is a at a later hour or an earlier of full day's wage". Some broad life's little day. The Christian life scheme of industrial adjustment is worth attempting for its own and general social regeneration sake,heaven or no heaven. Follow- may be needed, but a good citizen ing Christ is the noblest ideal does what he can at the moment, that has dawned on our human out of the human sympathy which horizon, and I am bound to aim is in him. Even as late as the at it, irrespective of what may lie eleventh hour, some still stand at the farther side of it. Work idle because no man had hired in His vineyard is the purest them. Hard times." The title of and most deeply fruitful employ the only picture of the whole ment of the hours before night- Manchester Art Galleries which fall, and if my neighbour only remains clear before my mind's enters on it at his eleventh hour ore. It is a workman on the what can I do but commiserate weary tramp between two towns, him for his idle or ill spent ton? his tool bag on his back and a Hereabouts lies the inveterate small two year, old on his and constantly repeated error as shoulder, in company is the brave between the elder brother and the young wife with another little prodigal in that other parable. one at her knee. The faces haunt Somewhere in the hidden subtle Oдe. There is a courage and ties of the older man's heart is a your brethren at the sixth, the endurance in them equal to that worse thing than anger at never ninth, even the eleventh hour.

the

of the fields of battle. Hard times having been given a kid to make it is for those who have to stand merry to his friends. I am afraid all day idle and if some good his mind is haunted, it may be but man, in defiance of rigid economic in a shadowy way, by a secret rule, gives them a day's wage for envy of the prodigal's experiences. only an hour's work, it is surely He has a lurking notion that the an ignoble spirit that would grudge other is unfairly allowed to enjoy it. "That we have born the both the reward of righteousness burden of the day and the and the excitements of iniquity. scorching heat". But you The prodigal has had his fling, have

not had to bear but for the other life has been gnawing misery of many years"

of unbroken hope deferred, stand hour after dutifulness. He is angry, and hour eating your heart out, feel will not go in where there" are ing your self-respect slipping music and dancing over the re- away, wondering whether you turn of one who wilfully broke could raise the price of a bed, or, bounds and misspent the years. worst of all, how you were to go Natural enough is this feeling, home to wife and bairns without and the Lord deals with it in a a crust or a copper. It seems to way which show He allows for me, when one looks into it, that that. But it comes of a two-fold this so "natural" complaint of error. For one thing the man men who have worked all day, is quite fails to appreciate the based, to no small extent, on the blessing of his unbroken home habit of regarding work itself as life and filial relationship. "Son, an evil, instead of the number thou one blessing which it is. The is the father's affectionate re- harvester envies the idler in his monstrance. Is it not satisfaction secret heart. He thinks of the enough never to have broken wages AS compensation for away, never to have become having to exert himself and unworthy to be called a son getting hot and tired. The idler That was what the prodigal had seems to have had the best brought himself to, and it had of it, having got the wages yet not never to be made up to him by had to do the work. The context feasting and kindness. The elder that the Lord's disciples were self-reproach, the waste years,

art ever with me"

God's ways are just. He will and patience of hope, and labour not forget your "work of faith,

He will certainly give you. But of love". Whatsoever is right." in what is it unjust to the loftiest saint that ever breathed if His infinite grace finds ways beyond our dreaming to magnify His mercy to the veriest sinnert You have borne the heat and burden of the day? Then thank God for the chance and the strength to do it. And thank Him still more if He is able to call in

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1919. commencing at 2.30 p.m.

be certified to without the prothese tender mercies we are duction of import licence num-grateful. It has been the lot of bers for admission into the Mr. P. C. Potts, the uncrowned at her residence, No. 52 The Peak United States of all commodities King of the Hongkong Stock- except the following:-

| brokers, Wheat, wheat flour, feathers, performing peanuts, ferro-inanganese, spiege-turtle" trick. leisen, Egyptian cotton, emery him and the insurance Teak hall seat, tea and card ore, jute and manufactures there company who insured the car, tables, Teak bookosse, Brass of, pig tin and tin ore and con- this pleasant action did not lead mounted curi, cabinet, Raw silk

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and while safely,

being munity plated "ware (unused), Under present regulations the taken out from

the

cradle electric kettle, toaster etc. approval of shipping orders by the driver accidentally put the Double and single Iron and

bedateada, this Consulate General will no machine over the Praya. The Teak

Wardrobes, longer be required for any com-car turned turtle and the chauff Dressing tables. Marble top modities errept those in

jeur luckily succeeded in Washstands, Consol table with above Inst.. Shipping orders, extricating himself and long mirror, chest of drawers,

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out the import licence numbers. Chinese merchandise, rice, and While the above list includes in short, the entire mase of the

a namber of items of importance, trade is hereafter free of licence to Hongkong particularly tin, and completely without restrict feathers, and peanuta it should ion! be understood that ship ments of these goods are still to be licensed in the usual way, while, on the other hand all the vast mass of ordinary exports from Hongkong to the United States, particularly of

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