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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1919.

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ESCAPING INTO DIFFICULTYA

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

"Most of our real difficulties come from trying to avoid what seems difficult." So it has been said and the opigram contains at anyrate a great deal of truth. The history in the 42nd chapter of Jeremiah is an instance of determining to escapa from difficulty by a course which would only have led to greater frouble. I take it as the Biblical basis of our thoughts this morning, and by way of special text will read at Verse 13" If ye say, we will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the Lord your God, saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there. will we dwell..... Then it shall come to pass, that the sword which re feared shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine whereof ya were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt, and there shall ye die."

These people were the rem- Dant left in Judea after Nebuchadnezzar bad overrun the land and deported its treasures and also much of its population. They came to Jeremiah and besought that he would pray for them and enquire what Was God's will as to their future course, pledging themselves sol- emnly to act in accordance with it. What they really wanted, however, was not God's guidance as to what they should do but God's authority for doing what. they had already made up their minds to. This is very common, everywhere and always. Per- haps it is particularly so in what is called national religion. I am not castinga slur open national religion; I only wish we had more of it of the right kind. But I do not think it be disproved that national religion is always, especially liable to this particular form of unreality. Communities of men desire the favour of heaven upon their trade, their treaties, their wars; and just where the patriotism ends and the religion begins, or which of the two is leading con- sideration, and how the two over- lap and interface are questions it would puzzle the wiseer to Every nation that is 'or even was betakes itself to its altars, be those Jewish, pagan or Christian, when emergercies arise." But can it be honestly claimed that the object is really to get light upon its course? Is not the object rather to justify the course, and to win for it the support of the Powers Above?

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Do not class me as a cynic for that suggestior.. Tell me of cases in which nations have ever been turned from intended enterprises by the prayers, sacrificings and enquiring of the Lord about them. Such cases are few, but of the opposite there is a super abundance.

The identical danger besets, of course, our individual lives. The more you learn of the art of prayer the more you understand the subtlety of the danger.

We ask for light on our pro blems, but do we want it? Do we always follow it when we get it? Is cur frequent reluctance to follow it a revelation that what we really wanted was leave to go a way of our own?

The scoffer says that all our religion is only a scheme to clothe our inclinations with a camouflage of piety. He is wrong, but who that knows much of his own heart does not af times almost despair of its deceptions in this very regard? Of all the things we need to pray for we need most a pure heart in our very prayers.,

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In this piece of history from old fronted by the choice Israel failed Judea we see that there was, as to rise to the height of its destiny. always much to be said in favour Such failure is always tragic. of the course to which the people It is the only real failure, were inclined. They were war and it blights many a career weary for one thing, always a which seems to the wor'd a severe test Their country had success. Suppose these people been ill-guided and ill-governed had found in Egypt the safety and and now lay in the dust at the plenty which they sought: what fame at the Ting 6. Dagl

they world have. poverished - depopulated, dis-made the discovery that there are trought. Nebuchadnezzar had worse things than. sword and appointed a Governor, one Ged- famine, that conscience can blow aliah, who had gathered what was louder alarms than the trumpet left of the people around hiro, and of war and that whenever we be- assured them that Babylon meant take ourselves to escape from our well by the province and would difficulties comancanescape from leave them in safety. But himself.. No man with the soul treachery had broken out, led, as of a patriot can get any lasting so commonly in such cases, by a comfort from peace and plenty in member of the lately ruling a foreign country when his native household. The Governor bad land requires his service. These been assassinated, and though the people would only have been conspirators had fled the country deserters, and the deserter soon the remaining leaders feared the becomes the most miserable as he anger of Nebuchadnezzar and is the most despicable of men.. had assembled at a spot near Did not many of us here during Bethlehem with the intention of those long and dreadful years of escaping into Egypt This was war feel almost ashamed of our the juncture at which Jeremiah peace and safety? It was hard was appealed to. "Pray for us," at times to resist the impulse to they besought him, unto the Lord rush off into the thick of things: thy God, that the Lord thy God only the knowledge that we had may show us the way wherein not come here to escape the war we may walk, and the thing that and that we could do no good by we may do." The answer was that rushing into it restrained us. If if they would remain in the landwe bad really been deserters if God would build it up again for we had really slunk away when them; that they were not to be the deadly danger came on, to afraid of the King of Babylon. escape the peril and privation- because God would favour them well, we should soon have come and cause him to favour them to know what hell is, with its If however they persisted in worm that does not die and its fire fleeing into Egypt the sword and which cannot be quenched.. famine from which they fled would overtake them there.

Peace of mind is never to be had by running away from duty, It was the old alternative of the and without peace of mind a man noble-or the expedient, the right scon finds out that fullness of or the easy, the line of least bread is a curse rather than s resistance or the path of faith and blessing. The late war gives us duty. The tragedy of Jewish an obvious and striking class of history is that so often when con- (Continued on Face 3.)

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