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NEED OF CHRISTIAN PROPAGANDA.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

AFTER THE HARFEST.

A DISCOURSE FOR PREACHERS.

A correspondent writes to the Times-

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1919.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

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Only those who have to preach harvest sermons year by year know how difficult they are to compose and write. If they do not actually deal with agricul- ture they must at least have an agricultural tincture about them. In a country village church they will be addressed to some ex-

Our present stock consists of specially selected birds ceedingly wise and shrewd folk.

should give every to men who have been farming which are io prime condition and all their lives, and who come of a satisfaction. long line of ancestors, nearly all

We are now able to supply our customers with own fed poultry and to meet all demands.

of whom have been connected with farming in the past. Be ex- ceedingly careful, therefore.

be

For instance, you may going to use that excellent text out of Hosea, "Break up your fallow ground." But before you do so you had better be quite. sure you know exactly what fallow ground is look the word "fallow up in a dictionary, and also ask some of your oldest farmers what it means, You will be quite surprised. What guur dictionary has to say will surprise you, and so will some of the answers of your farmers to |your query- One of them, a man of 80, once told me he never had rightly known the meaning of fallow." So when you explic that text and talk about fallow

The Bishop of Victoria. Hong-ground you will. I fancy, still

the Tung Wah Hospital was held kong. (Dr. Lander) preached have to hedge a bit.

dh Sunday to consider the ques-a very stirring serraon lasti Pray be careful.

It would

tion of hea to allocate the Sunday on behalf of the Bible never do for you to be convicted balance of the money collected Society at St. John's Cathedral. of not knowing the difference

z in aid of the recent rice shortage. In the course of it he urged the between rye and barley.

It will be remembered that over importance of a propaganda-happened recently in the case of $140,000 was raised among the the pen is mightier than the one of those youthful models of

To-day the Chinese during the recent rice sword."

Press omniscience whom a wise and troubles to feed the poor of the wields onormous influence; the beneficent Government sent to colony. Over $60,000 was spent stage and the moving pictures instruct our farmers in a certain in the distribution of congee and also. Bolshevism was mainly part of Yorkshire.

in the sale of cheap ric- to the spread by propaganda, and quot- Talk sense and use simple Ea- labouring classes of Hongkong.ing the Bishop of Peterborough,glish. Do not, for example, ask There is a surples in hand of he said "a Christian revival the of an amazed and, bewildered $83,000 which it was decided at world over is the only effective country congregation, such a the meeting on. Sunday to set cure for Bolshevism. I will go question as this:-"My brethren, aside as follows:-

further, and say that a world- I ask you, is there any finality in 1. A sam of $20.000 for the wide Christian propaganda is the a bee "And if you come and. building of an extension to the only hope for any reconstruction preach at our festival and make it Tong Wah Hospital. Owing to of society which will be worthy an opportunity for speaking about the large increase in the Chinese at once of the men who have foreign missions-Aha! You know population of the Colony the died, and of the unborn peoples what I mean: "The fields are capacity of this Hospital has been whose lives will be so largely white already to harveste taxed severely, thus making an ex-shaped by the world which we feel that we have been "had," tensionimperative. Theextension now create. In large measure taken in. brought to church under contemplated, will, it is expect, still the peoples of the world are false pretences. for to us the meet present and future needs. plastic. The very fact that noth- harvest is the harvest and not a 2 A sum of $10,000 to be used ing as yet is settled, that the foreign mission. And do not call for the building of a consumptive future is very uncertain, keeps the Harvest Festival "the glori ward in the Kwong Wah Hospital men's minds open to any domin-fication of Saint Cauliflower." It at Yaumati. This is also an ant impression which may come is nothing of the sort.

But if you can 'get farm urgent need as the neighbour- along. But the world-wide unrest, hood of the Tung Wah Hospital] deplorable though it may be from labourers to understand that their is at present too densely populat-, some points of view, is plain proof calling is one of the most ancient ed. It has been decided to give that the peoples of the world are and honourable of all callings, $10,000 to the Kwong Wah impression able to an extraordin. which it most certainly is, you Hospital for the erection of a ary degree at this time. They are will not have done so badly, will consumptive ward for the con- dissatisfied with the old state of you? venience of both the Hospitals.

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The site of this maternity hos-in history was the Christian Chur- Frenchman to say a thing like! pital is to be given by the Govern.ch more palpably called to a pro-that; and, of course, he was perago he helped te make two ponds ment and the hospital will be paganda which, in earnestness in fectly right. You can sow your at farms up on the top of the under the Public Dispensary. organisation, in skilful direction cabbages broadcast if you like, Hambleton Moors where there was West Point is one of the most and in co-operation between the the right way is to plant them in no water supply, and that there thickly populated parts of the various Churches, should surpass a row. But the man who first they were to this day. Island and there is a pressing anything either sacred or secular found that out, what of him? Of was how you made a poad. The need for amaternity hospital there. which bas yet been known" course, be was a genius. But weather had to be fine and dry- The surpluscf$33.000 will beset Bishop Lander urged members what is a genius is the that was a necessity. And first aside to meet future emergencies of the Church of England to arouse supreme gift of whom? The man you excavated your pond, shallow such as a possible rice famine, etc. themselves and do their share in who made the first plough was just at the sides and shelving down to this day of opportunity. The as much a genius as the man who the centre. On top of that you Church of Rome was doing her made the first violin. You know placed a layer of closely packed YELLOW FEVER.

part with great zeal, witness the way a stack is almost invariably straw. Over that a layer of well spacious and costly building her built with its sides tapering in-stamped in clay, being careful to members had crected at the very wards from the top towards the see that all your straw was comby costiveness. In many cases doors of the Anglican cathedral base. Yet, you know, human pletely covered. And lastly a when the constipation is dispelled The non-Episcopal Church in beings always follow the line of layer of carefully picked and by Pickettes the Piles dry up and dical Officer of Health) proposed Chine was raising millions of least resistance, and it would be chosen stones. And then your

Idisappear. that the Board make yellow fever dollars for their Church extension much easier to build a stack with pord filled; "twatter coomed." notifiable in order that the Hong-schemes. But the Anglican Church its

perpendicular.

What an idiot I was not to ask kong schedule of notifiable dis- has received instructions to re- what about the man who first him, "Why that straw?" eases might be rendered more duce their staff because of the found out the proper way to build Anyhow I did not, and I had complete and so that those people high dollar and the apparent a stack? Ob," say you, he completely forgotten all about who received from here weekly or inability of the English Church learned by experience, and be this until quite recently I read the dainty little gentle-as-nature monthly reports of the number of members in the East to help. If used his wits." Quite so, but how Neolithic man constructed laxatives, also cure Biliousness, cases of notifiable diseases might English Churchmen out here who provided him with brains his earthworks and camps, and sick headaches, torpid liver, foul- feel more assured than they were lived simply to make their pile of and wits?

how he dug his dewponds in smelling breath and skin erup- at present.

The farmer of to-day has an various parts of England on high tions. Of chemists or 60 cents a Although yellow money in order to live the rest of fever did not occur in this Colony, their lives in luxurious ease and accumulated fund of knowledge ground on the downs in Sussex, rist, from Dr. Williams' Medicine nevertheless they must bear in to make their children to live inherited from an enormously Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and else Co., 96 Szechuen Road, Shanghai. mind that there was a possibility without working, then, so far as long line of ancestors. Have you, where some 4.000 years B.C., and of its occurring, and also for the they were concerned, the sooner has he, any conception of the bow that he proceeded on exactly reason that should yellow fever the Church of England perished exceeding length of that line? the same lines as did my old be accidentally imported into and a more worthy Caurch took No doubt he is constantly adding friend the woodman. First the

to his store of wisdom and know-excavation, then the straw the Colony they should its place the better. bave the disease notified to

ledge, constantly making use of reeds, then the clay, and lastly them early. It was a disease to be frightened about it, but con- new inventions, And yet for all the carefully chosen stones. And. with a high mortality rate and it sidering the frequent communic- that there are certain things then your pond fills;

To be played on the Civil Ser- was extremely important that the ation between here and America which he does. and in the doing cooms." And why that straw?vica ground on Saturday, com- Board should get early informe- and particularly the inter- of which he will never make any Because straw is a non-conductor mencing at 2.15 p.m. The Civil tion of its outbreak or of the im-course between America and the alteration. He does them just as of heat. But Lam sure my old Service team ls-W. Hill (Capt.), portation of any case.. He was Canal Zone, it was a very wise did his remotest forefathers. He friend knew nothing about strawR. T. Taylor, S. E. Alderman, E. not at all anxious to create any precaution. The Canal Zone had needs, for instance, on his farm, as a non-conductor. All he knew T. Crocker, H. E. Strange, G. H. alarm on the subject. He did not at one time been a hotbed of water for his stock. And if there was no straw, no pond." And Haskett, H. W. Sandford, D. anticipate that yellow fever was yellow fever. The mortality is no convenient water supply, that is just what Neolithic man Lyon, R. Bearne, A. K. Mackenzie probably going to be introduced when

was beck or river, he must have, a knew, too. But how did he come and G. P. Knight. into the Colony, but they must made there was very bigh and it pond.

to know it? Ah! how?

LR.C. V. C.R.C. bear in mind that it might be and was only when the Americans About a year ago there died an

My dear, sir, did you think I that they had here the particular took the sanitation of the place in old friend of mine, a woodman was going to provide you with a The following will represent mosquito concerned in the trans-hand that the work was finally one of those truly delightful, wise, skeleton sermon? Of course not the LR.C. in their league match ference of the disease from one completed. While the disease had old "ancients" to whose accounts But if you can help the farmer against the C.HC., playing at Saturday at person to another. He would ask, been very much subdued they of bygone manners and customs and the farm labourer to realize home

p.m. A H Ramjahn therefore, if the members agreed must consider the possibility of a one could listen by the hour that there is no calling more an-12 that the disease be added to the mosquito being a passenger, in moreover he talked the broades: cient or more honourable than (Captain), G. C. Earde, N. M. Bux, schedule of notifiable diseases. fecting a human passenger, and of broad Yorkshire. One day he is, even if you take half an hour A el Arculli, D. Rumjahn, A. A.

Dr. Koch strongly seconded the introducing the fever here.

said to me, "Do you know how over the doing of it, your ball Rumjahn, & A. Ismail, S. D..

8. H. The recommendation was ap-to make a pond!" Of course I did hour will not have been spent in Ismail, Medical Officer's recommend-

Ismail, E. A. ation. He said there was no need proved.

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