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"Notes of a sermon by the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie at Union Church on Sunday morning:

"Whom have I in heaven but Thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee."

--Psalm 73/25.

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I have wondered of late whether we are in need of a clear lesson on this very danger at the present time. We had all been looking forward after the war to life being made safer, ampler, happier than ever it had been before. That time is slow, not in coming, we could not expect it to have come yet but in beginning to

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EXPORT OF RICE.

The export of fice and meat from Saigon has been entirely stopped, as from September 1st, axcept by special permit from what is called the Board of Pro- visions. It is stated that if the present conditions continue, that it will not be worth while steamers calling at Saigon.

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The rigour with which the new regulation is being enforced is exemplified in the case of a local steamer which, on ita last trip to Saigon

held because a Chinese bad taken on board a few piculs of rice. A Customs House official went aboard and seized the rice and the owners of the vessel were fined several hundred dollars, off hand, without any attempt to have the case heard in Court. -

With regard to the granting of permits, it is stated that it is almost useless for a British ship to call at the port of Saigon since the armistice was signed. It is also stated that there is plenty of rice and meal in Saigon, but it is being held back by the Annamites.

tions. From such existence after death as they suggest He seems farther removed than ever from our experience and hopes in this present life with all its drawbacks if we will look to Him în Christ. My scpeticism as to the reality of the alleged communications from the other side is increased by their utter contemporariness. They seem too much of the moment to have come out of the eternal world, and read very like the floating resultant of what may

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of the medium of the hour. instance, one of the departed, according to Sir A. Conan Doyle's account, reports that over there she knows no more of Christ than

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she did here. She does, however, These words occur in one of the cold shadow of a great disappoint claim to know about the planets, Testament passages ment were beginning to threaten. and reports that Mars is inhabit- which appear to, contemplate a Far be it from me to say it is so, ed by a race superior to ours and that its canals" are artificial. future life with any distinctness.but I think it a fair question for Perturbed by life's perplexities consideration. So many big dis-I have no wish to carp at a detail, until his faith had almost left appointments we have had dar. but it is impossible to believe that him, the Psalmist finds himself in ing recent generations. Political such a message is from the other the end more sure than ever that reforms were to have brought world at all.

It is not science, but the there is a just and wise God who happiness, for instance,

strove and suffered pseudo-scientific sumisings rules the lives of men. He be-men lieves he is being led on a course get the vote, and what great which were current in uninforru- which will find its completion things they hoped for from it, ed circles of magazine writers beyond the present life, where, as yet now so little has been gained and readers some time ago. Now here, he will be able to say "I that in despair they are looking that Lowell is gone it will be Thee. toward Bolshevism. Then what hard to produce an astronomer &# continually with That is what makes a continuity was not expected from the ad-of repute who gives it a moment's between here and the hereafter: vances of physical science credence.. The medium may be as St. Paul put it," To me to live whole new heaven and earth perfectly sincere but has only is Christ," adding, "and to die is seemed to be in prospect, yet to claimed the authority of a gain," because it would be more day who will be over-confident"spirit" for his own notions at Christ.

that humanity and the world are the moment. In other respects!

I am assailed by the same Perhaps to the ordinary man of so greatly the better for it? ordinary moods. feelings like We have now this supreme suspicion. The kind of existence those of the Psalmist seem over-deliverance from the enemy and said to be led by the departed is altogether 100 like the wrought. He seems to be remote the political, intellectual and from our state of mind, concerned commercial yoke he threatened life as we have to be with very us with. Are we to be disap-identical, in fact, except that it is The be- mundane affairs. And yet this pointed once again? If so it will vaguely etherealised. longing of the soul for God may only be for the old reason, which yond is little but a sort of de- be the deepest and truest thing is our atheism. Persistently we materialised earth where satis- in ta average men after all. We try to do without God, to build faction comes from such sources are not to call ourselves hypocrites without a corner-stone, to civilise as tobacco and golf-playing-quite for joining in "Nearer my God and content ourselves on a plane too suggestively like the ideal original in pointing out that

occupation would We which is popular at present with the to Thee in the Sunday hour which is only material.

be is a frequent cause of sickness at A single passage this time of year. Therefore although much in our weekday know better, yet so behave. many, happiness with no God in it monotonous. experiences seems most unlike Except as a source of supplies or very little, centred on oneself or two in the most figurative keep your liver active, your it. When it comes to the pinch, vast numbers seem to have no and one's little circle and one's book in the whole Bible contains system clean and your body the aspiration of the hymn is use for God at all. They may not very exalted pursuits and all that is said anywhere about healthy by the occasional use of truer than anything else for us. Iturn to Him in emergencies, not enjoyments. There is a terrible jasper walls and harps of gold. When the Titanic was going in real faith but as a despairing drop from the atmosphere of the But that is always fastened upon, down on that first and final chance, but what they really want New Testament. "Let not your sometimes in sport, sometimes in voyage, the bandmaster's instinct is to be left alone to go their heart be troubled; ye believe in earnest, to discredit the noble thus avoiding chills and colda, In my Christian conception of eternal constipation, bilious attacks, sick was to strike up the familiar ways. We are setting out on a God, believe also in me. strain, and the very mited period of reconstruction. Pray Father's house are many abiding life, which is spotless holiness

Pinkettes are tiny but thorough,' multitude of men and women that it be not just pretty much places: I go to prepare a place and perfected service in realised

act as gently as nature. awaiting the end felt it was right. with the old materials and the tor you. And if I go to prepare a fellowship with Christ. One is The close of life was upon them, old objects to build a temple of place for you, I come again and sick to death of such infantile chemists, or post free, 60 cents the vial from the Dr. Williams" the only interpretation happiness rather than a temple of receive you unto myself, that ignorance and unfairness.

The golf ball, says our new Medicine Co., 96 Szechuen Road, of life from begincing God, which is the surest way to where I am there ye may be also."

£ recent ex Shanghai. to end is that it is a journey miss the happiness we seek It That is what the gospel has to school through

я symbol, and whose goal is God. There is no is quite certain that the world say to us about the future life of ponent, is other way of investing life with after the war will be better than the redeemed; you will make a its symbolism is much superior speak, the inexhaustible abd in- rational meaning, or of finding the world before it just by how poor exchange if you part with to that of the barp. It symbolises dispensable refrain, "Nearer my in death anything but the cul- much, and no more, it gives ait for anything the mediums have the pursuit of perfection, the. God, to Thee." Without that you ever-receding ideal of the keen can have no heaven, you can build of disappointments. fuller place to God. The prin- to tell you. God has made us for Himself, ciple involved applies not only I see that smart young writers player. It might fairly be retort happiness on no weaker found- contrasting the heavened that musical skill might be ation. You may, conceivably, and there is that in the human to the life which now is but also are

say we believed in held to symbolise the pursuit of by means of the seence or the like heart which feels this, little to that which is to come. I pass they though our lives may look like therefore to the first clause of up to 1914 with the superior con- perfection also, and that of higher of it, convince yourself that there it on the surface. God's claim my text, taking it second inception of this age of reconstruc range than any game and capable is a life beyond the grave, and upon our hearts is the first and order: "Whom have I in heavention. The old heaven, they say, of giving more refined pleasure that it does contain the loved and final claim and only in meeting but Thee?" Hitherto it has been was that of the golden harp, the which others might share with temporarily lost. But if you stop it can we find our good.

held that whatever might be the up-to-date one is that of the golf the player. But what the harp with that, though it may be com- Not that ordinary human case here, in the hereafter every-ball. It will be much more inter- does simply and certainly stand forting for a while you will find the in Christian imagery is main thing has been left out. It claims are to be slighted. Rather thing would centre" upon the esting, it is said, to pursue a ball for

And praise may sound a hard thing to say, through them would God lead us realised presence of God, His from star to star than to sit all the life of praise.

not the * pursuit of but really it is not so, and I say into an understanding of His nobler worship and better service day playing a harp. Smart, is it is own supreme claim. There is in a state redeemed from sin. We not? I can imagine the chuckle perfection to develop and glorify it, if our only use for a future none upon the earth that I desire are now, however offered what of the type of mind which has oneself; it signifies aspiration life is as a means of reunion with beside Thee "this is not the purports to be new revelation, been trained from time immemor toward the perfect as that is our beloved, we are off the mark ery of one who thinks to get Since the war a quickened atten- iaf on the harp joke and the enshrined and revealed in God. and should not find happiness nearer to God by repudiating duty tion has been paid to the problems mother-in-law joke and similar I say that that is the higher any more than it is found here if and love to fellow-men. "Let us of the life beyond the grave, in-pabolum for tenth-class intellects. thing, that indeed it is the highest, we have no use for God but - provide it for us. love one another," says the evitably, seeing how many of our Still there is a serious side to it, and that it is time fools had to

have God Christian Apostle," for love is of hopeful and well beloved were Last week I found it necessary stopped thinking to be smart You must-

or you have nothing, neither & God, and through the human rapt from us untimely. Books on to make some protest against the about it. It should not be neces-

• happy love y which has its source in the subject are devoured, mess notion of a material sulphuroussary to explain to sane, grown-up tolerable earth nor Himself God finds His readiest ages purporting to come from the hell; it seems not yet superfluous citizens that a life of praise does heaven. The pure Christain faith access to our hearts. It is unseen are. wistfully examined, to protest that neither does the not mean a monotonous eternity on the matter is summed up in perpetual hymn the lines, One family we dwell no doubt possible to let the As you know, I have never taken gospel point to-a material golden passed in human love come between the upon me fo censure such enquiries heaven. Yet everybody who singing. But, it does mean in Him. Never drop out those

the loves last two words Whom have In heart and God instead of drawing when seriously conducted. But doubts Christianity, belittles it, that through it to Him as He designs, Every I become impressed increasingly pours scorn on it seems to fix and joys, the enlarged knowledge a ood gift may be thus perverted, by what I can only call the dearth upon those golden harps and to and glorious employinants of the athfife beyond, there runs, so to Codetam denge of of God in these allegad naval">simagine

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