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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

FROM THE PULPIT. music of humanity in its Maker's

STRUGGLE AND SONG.

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

ear.

Yet, take it in all, the song of life is pure and brave and cheery, a marching measure, voicing the valour and hope and severance which lie in the heart of the common man and cheer him on his way.

not

per-

other

"And he said: It is not the 3. Chearing he often needs, voice of them that strive for for the struggle is often hard. All bas its casualties, mastery, neither is it the voice warfare

amid the songs of of them that cry for being over-and come; bat the voice of them that victory and the shouts of festival sing do I hear."-Exodus 32-18. we may not close our ears to that Moses and his young attendant, other element in the hum of our Joshua, coming down from-the mingled life, the voice of them Count where many days have that cry for being overcome. been spent in communion with Our Saviour Christ took thought mere passing the unseen, are arrested by the-and stir arising in their ears from thought-for the conquered, for bolow. "There is a noise of war," the failures, for the braised and says Joshus, in the Camp." beaten and, fallen. Many have Nay replies. the older man, laid themselves out to accomplish "not strife, but festival, is afoot. It some or other great achievement, is not the voice of them that strive to wrest one or other of the great for mastery; neither is it the prizes, so regarded, from life. But voice of them that cry for being only the Lord Jesus Christ came overcome; but the voice of them into the world for no that sing do I hear."

purpose but just to "seek and to 1. Struggle and Song--these two save that which is loat," to gather make up in large part the hum up the fragments, so to speak, of that would enter the ear of any our poor humanity, that nothing i listener looking down on this be lost. And when the Word world of

Struggle became flesh and dwelt among us too often in the form of He went about listening for the of them were being as Joshua so naturally) cry

Deliberately and in thought it, but even were every overcome. sword turned into a ploughshare every point he set himself in op- there wouldst Il remain the war position to the whole tendency of of fare appointed to man upon the any merely blind process earth." Life is a struggle, and to selection and development, hold- call it so is not to condemn it, ing cut His hand to the crippled bit rather to glorify it, for and the halt, bodily or morally could anything be called disabled. Everyone who has been life which did ΠΟΥ call worsted and beaten down ever for courage, never involved us in since has known a friend in venture, never put our powers Jesus Christ, if he has known upon the stretch, never demanded Him at all. faith and endurance? For many- too true the fight is harder than it should be, unduly weighted as they seem to be or unfairly pitted against odds. Still when all ie said the sound of striving from our busy camp of men is chiely neither a groan nor a murinur.

It is like the hum of the Live, the symphony of steady and healthful toil.

war,

ours.

It is a striving for the mastery of life, each of us buckling to his task, conquering it, and therein conquering ourselves.

Always, therefore, at seasons of festivity we owe a thought, and if possible a helpful deed, to those whom life has gone with adversely. It is a poor sort of soul which remains untouched by

what has come to be called the Christmas spirit. The old Christmas ballads put it in the homeliest form-good King Wenceslas looking out on the feast of Stephen and taking pity on the poor man gathering sticks in the snow for his bit of aring. Dickens in the Christmas Carol The whole life of man upon this gives the thewe his charac- earth has been a process of sub-teristic touch, and a favourite düing the world he is given to theme in Christmas stories al

to relate how some rule. His task has been to make ways is

humanised, churlish soul was some cynical creature sweetened, some hardened wretch given again the heart of a little child.

to

of

is

a peaceful conquest of the soil he tills, to lay strong hands on the wealth it Covers, control the forces

No wonder. Our own instincts nature by learning to under- Biand them, and so bend his tell us that festivity is very well in its place, but must never environment to his dominion.

2. Besides the struggle there is deaden our ear to the voice of also the song, and of that too! them that cry for being over. Whatever humanity may we shall make a suggestive come. rather than a literal application be in us' comes out better in con- than of the text. "The noise of sideration for others them that sing," as Moses heard just in enjoying ourselves. That it was indeed a sound of ill omen is human feeling at its

the It is also

Divine -festival round a golden calf, so best." coarse in its expression that lesson at its plainest. For our Joshua

whose could mistake it

coming for Saviour, the din of war. Nu sharper con- commemorated at this season, trast could there be to the music of identified Himself intimately our Christian festival for the with those who were down

The birth of the Prince of Peace, the end

Out."

mystery "music of the gospel" which has of Love

that is

He. been cheering men's pilgrimage poor, lowly without advantages, from its first hearing until now. and, suffering Himself, He is able If there is striving in our life to be the helper of every sufferer. there is also singing, in every. That is what really holds our life something to be glad about, hearts and our consciences. For and for our race Д new song" of thanks unto God for Нів unspeakable gift. True, "the noise of them that >ing is of mingled qualit* in a world like this. It may be mere

these tell us that we ourselves are among those He came to seek and save, the wanderer, the foolish, the blind.

"In due time, when we were without strength, Christ died." lightheartedness-and who would He was a man of sorrows and grudge that a place-like the acquainted with grief and He

men to bird in the bush or child by the taught

suffer, to i and 10 love, in the doorstep. It may be mere empty-Lope, mindedness, i

that children of a way

not cron death larger growth, who skim through can conquer, so that even on the life on its surface and pipe away stricken field, when the song its hours in a style which brings would, seem quite smothered by to mind the country-man's com- the cry, the Christian psalm can plaint to Jupiter of his night still arise: "Thanks be to God, jugale, ror et porteren nibil, who giveth us the victory through We bare

our irresponsibles, our Lord Jesus Christ."

and oddly out of place they ap-1

pear in a struggling world, who

toil not neither do they spin, nor

UNDERGRADUATE'S SUICIDE.

yet take thought for those who At an inquest recently at do. Do not envy them: pray for Oxford on J. A. Dugdale, 26 (an them. Besides, if we are to undergraduate of Jesus College) complete the catalogue, we who was found shot in a field have 'those of

whom it near the University town, it was has to be said as of old that "the stated that, while in the Army, harp, and the viol, and the tabret, he had suffered from sunstroke and the pipe are in their feasts; in Mesopotamia, and the fact but they regard not the work of that he was unable to pursue his the Lord, neither consider the studies preyed on his mind. A operation of His hands, and only' verdict of suicide during tempor- add a note of degradation to the ary insanity was returned.

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PROFESSIONAL GOLD CUP

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XMAS HOLIDAY.

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By Order,

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