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FROM THE PULPIT.

CHARACTER JUDGING.

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

"With me it is a very small thing I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: Yes, I judge not mine own self.

For I know nothing against myself: yet I am "not thereby justined but he that judgeth me

from

being puffed

up

by

it, a true man is sent to his knees, with the resolve to come nearer to the good opinion which has been formed of him, and

Do

remembering always that he has to satisfy a higher court. not stint right al encouragement

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STRUGGLE WITH ARMED CHINESE.

POLICE RAID AT WANCHAI.

An exciting struggle between members of the Wanchai Police

the

TUESDAY. JANUARY 27, 1920.

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is wrong to withold the meed of praise. Do not undervalue and them when they come your own the execution of a search warrant

armed Chinese followedOUR BUTCHERY DEPARTMENT. #35. But be "independent of on No. 174, Praya East, on Sunday of independence, but in the wise them, not in the poor, proud way night.

On entering and humble fashion

ground which belongs to the soul that looks loot--which-was-used-a5-37 finally not unto man but unto God. opium divan, the leaders of the raiding expedition, Sergeants estimates which are formed reTea. I judge not mine own tackled two men who attempted

personal estimate.

Cockle and McFall. promptly specting every human life and character. These are the general self." There is a change of tone

to draw their revolvers. Sergt. that the

Cockle's man had all but suceed· estimate, the more intimate, the there which shows

writer recognises that A man personal and the Divine

ed in firing his revolver, and a

ie the Lord."-1 Cor. 4.3-4.

St. Paul mentions here the four

Man's judgment." "judged of you," judge not myself," "He that judgeth me is the Lord." 1. The general estimate. This is being formed as to each of us from day to day, an ordeal from which none of us can escape. Evet: if a

man tries to hedge himself round from his fellow creatures he cannot prevent their forming some impression about him. Or let him try the other method of concealment, which is, while moving about freely, to keep behind a mask, he still carno: escape.

There is no degree of rough brusqueness nor yet of frigid politeness which can entirely hide a man away from his fellows. or even perpetually give them a wholly false impress. ion of what he is. Sooner or later. in part if not altogether, what is within comes out, and we become known with at any rate some approximation to what we are, whether or not that may be consistent with what we wish to

appear.

3.-The

knows himself as no other man furiors struggle ensund in whic

There is an can know him.

each man wrestled for the pos- intimate, sacred region. in

session of the weapon. It broke the simplest soul. known only to the soul itself. Burns in the middle part and two out of the four round s with which it WAS advises us always to keep some- thing to purselves we do not tell to any, but we could not tell all fell out. Eventually the gun man was overpowered and 1. and even if we would, if only for the

cuffed. A reservo store of reason that language always lags behind life.

There is a man known to you who is different from the man known in the market, the class room, the office: different even from him who is familiar in the household, the Church, the bosom friendship. There might be some eye-opening if you were to tell all you know of that man, past and present--surprises both for the People better and the worse. whose deaths have been premat

rely announced have sometimes the privilege of reling their own biographical notices. They must he interesting in such circum- -tarces, but every such reader must feel as he reads that if he had done it himself it would have been done differently.

True of all, this is particularly so of all who profess and cull

You and I will never read our themselves Christians. "Ye," said

own biographies, nor. I trust, the Master "are a city set on an, hill' You cannot be hid. and write them, but if we did read while you should not wear your them we should feel they were heart upon your sleeve, you records of events rather than should not try to be hid, for the portraits of ourselves. To see our manifestation of Christian char-selves as others sec us would acter is the revealing of Christ,doubitess be illuminating, but Who is the light of the world. Whet would not be the real man, ther one will or not, the bearing only one partial view of him

of the Christian name canses a Things лап to be observed. which would pass unnoticed in others are remarked in him, often in a captious spirit no doubt, but oftener than we may think in the wistful way in which men de look to see if there is balm in Gilead.

But the burden of my test is that one is not to

make

Who knoweth the mind of man." says St. Paul somewhere "save the spirit of a man which is in him?" Both the debit and credit accounts of mankind with each of us have not a few false entries:" i "we fairly examine shail the books curselves we know better than all outsiders how we really stand.

to have a mind conscious of

loade!

ammunition, amounting to four- teen rounds, was found tied to his back,

The struggle which Sergt. Me- Fall engaged in with his man was of a shorter duration and terminated in the latter being

His

likewise made prisoner.

loaded in five revolver was chambers.

Both the prisoners were to-day charged before Mr. J. R. Wood with being in unlawful possession of firearms. Sergt. Cockle's pro- soner

was. charged also with attempting to discharge his re- volver. Both prisoners were re- manded until Friday.

the

An outcome to this raiding incident was the arrest of a Chinese detective who took part in the raid. He was charged by of the keeper

opium divan with stealing two opium pipe bowls. During the raid it is alleged that the man took the opportunity, during the gener al panic which ensued, to steal the pipe-bowls..

Mr. Lyson, who was called upon to defend the prisoner, appeared in the Police Court to-day when his client was charged with the theft of the pipe-bowls. The case was remanded.

LORD DUNSANY.

In

At the beginning of the war, Lord Dunsany was Captain in But the point of my text is that

the 5th Royal Inniskilling this vague general estimate not the most careful self-estimate Fusiliers. He went at the head one's own standard. You your strikes the final balance. of his company to Gallipoli,. self are aware that if your neigh- know nothing against myself," bours knew you better they would writes the Apostle, Yet am I returning safely to Ireland only to be wounded in the Dublin riots. often judge you differently. They not thereby justified." It is good For a time, before returning to might withdraw the nickname in which they have failed to hit you right, but one's consciousness the front, he was in barracks

recovering from his wound. off: they might modify the of right depends on ore's con-Dunsany's company was Francis approval they have come togeption of right, which may be Ledwidge, the Irish poet whom far wrong; also on one's know- Darsany himself discovered. Led- There are people who knowledge of oneself. which is subject widge is of peasant stock, a poet themselves to be shams. but as life progresses both to increase of the soil, and the beauty of do not Care so long as and correction.

bis lyrics might perchance have public, opinion remains deluded.

been lost to the world There are others who know them-curselves, body, soul and spirit, had it not been for Dunsany's selves to be harshly condemned. than we did ten years ago.

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LEFT HALF BATTALION.

Beaver

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Murrant Pte. Turner, b Capt. Beaver... Major Culver, b Marrant Capt. Hooper, not out... Extras...

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Harris

Purton Legg Denne

1.

O. M. R. W. 7 1 29 4

70 31 4 3 0 13 1

3 114 1

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and either fret and fume about it saying that by the time he is forty who wrote the Introduction to or cultivate an inhuman indiffer-a man is either a fool or a physiLedwidge's first book of verse, cian is but a recognition of our and in this Introduction is a pas- ence. But whether humbled or exalted by the estimate which normal growth in self knowledge: the world may form of him, a yet one may be twice forty and age which in its summing up of Ledwidge sume up Ducsany wise man knows, that while he still not know all the workings of himself so well that we quote it should give reasonable heed to one's own mind, not to mention here. Of pure poetry there are the opinion, it is a small thing" the depths of one's own heart. "after all, because it is not the Our self-estimates are revised kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our finally decisive thing, to and altered so often that it is bodies are, and that which builds "judged of man's judgment."

The more intimate estimate expected from that quarter. Nor where geography ends and fairy: plain the last word is not to be the more mysterious kingdoms, of the inner circle. "Judged of need it.

land begins, with gods and heroes you." says St. Paul. referring to 4. The Divine estimate"He

at war, and the sirens singing Major Timmis, retired his friends in Corinth, who had that judgeth me is the Lord." been associated with him in the We are come unto God, the still and Alph going down to the Lieut. Beavan, b Capt. Beaver

darkness from Xanadu. Mr.

Beasant, b gospel. They knew of him what judge of all" and He makes no Ledwidge gives us the first kind." Pte. Purton, c Capt. Beaver... was not known, say by the city mistakes. The man you know And Lord Dunsany gives us the Lieut. Denne, b Capt. Beaver mob, by its magistrates, its may po be the real man, al scholars, its polite society. though much more like him that .never indifferent the man your neighbours) know, to the impression he made upon Your acquaintance with "hidden them es a Christian exemplar man of the hear" is very If we accept practically the and instructor. Still they could partial, but God has searched

truth that the last word lies only easily go wrong, divided into him and known him fully, and with God we shall not aim at the parties as they were, and boasting understands his thoughts even standard of conventional respec-

When tho stomach or bowels of their several adhesions to Paul afar off. The whole mysterious tability, or even religion, nor yet

are at fault all that is necessary, or Apollo or even Christ. Paul's region of the buried life, hidden just to be complacent with our Capt. Legg did not bat. words are

Total (for 7 wkts. declared)...221 usually, to set matters right is the weightier bere from the keenest self-analysis, is selves, even our higher selves,"

the administration of Baby's Own because he was not warding of an ppen book to Him, wherein to use the current expression.

pleasant-tasting O. M. R. W. Tablets, the criticism but rather depreciating are written as completed mem-Not to our neighbours, not to adulation, as the context shows. bers all the features of life and ourselves, but to our Master do

...15 0 77 5 Canadian remedy for little ones Members of inner circles not in- character which to us are but we stand or fall. He "knew what

...60 29 2 of all ages. No fear need be en- ...11 1 57 0tertained as to the wisdom of frequently think of one another unperfect substance. The last was in man," and is startling more highly than they ought, word lies with God, Who alone to note how much of His activity

51 18 0 giving these Tablets, because 4.0 19 0 they are guaranteed, under a Churchill and as my text points in that knows and comprehends com- amongst men was devoted to the

Government Analyst's certificate, direction, my remarke shall pletely.

RIGHT HALF BATTALION. reversal of human judgments, follow it.

What then are we to find in revealing men to themselves and Pte. Brown, b Purton... One of the advantages of having this which the Lord's Apostle to ore another as well as revealing L/C Beasant, c Lt. Denne, a large family circle is that in it found before us? A refuge from the Father to them all. If you individuals may be helped to find the misjudgments of our neigh- would know your brethren, know Pte. Reeves, b Harris... their true level. But the advant bours? A comfort when evil is Jesus Christ, for "if we walk in Capt. Beaver, l.b.w., b. Harris age is lost if the cousidhood spoken against us falsely, or even the light as He is in the light we Pte. Murrant, b Purton, developes into a mutual admira-if true unkindly? A support when have fellowship one with another,"

Capt. Bleckley, b-Harris tion society, as sometimes hap- our life is looked at in a Wrong If you would know yourself, Pte. Stansburg, e Turner, b

R.Q.M.B. Müller, b Purton pens. It is not enough that the light, our work falsely estimated, know Jesus Christ, of Whom one home circle thinks well of one,

motives miscónceived? said of old what many can say notwithstanding the saying that That may be all true in its to-day, "Come, see a man who Sgt. Gaskin, h. Purton Pte. Churchill, not out you never know a person till you place, but it is not the showed all things that ever I did. live with him. Neither is it point here. The point here is that Trust not in other men's good Pte. Woodward, c&b Capt. enough to be praised by friends while a good report is not to be conscience; trust only in the and fallow workers, whose praise, despised, and a good conscience Saviour Who is able to be the though quite sincere, may go is to be striven for, neither of justifier of all who come unto God, beront the mark. Во far these suffices as our final sim. by Him.

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