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A crowded congregation at Vaisa Church on Sunday morning heard with surprise that the Church during the past week had become the recipient of an endowment fund of $50,000 through the munißrence of Sir Paul Chater.

The Rar. J. Kirk Macmachis. was the preacher and he asked for a thank cffaring in the shape of a generous collection for à New Territories Evangelisation Society. In response some $820 was con- -tributed. Mr. Maconachis took for bis tëxa 5th Chapter of Nebamish, 10th versa: "Go your way, nai tha fat and drink the sweet, and seed | portions unto them for whom Bothing has been prepared" When good King Wencelas, be said. succoured a poor man on the feast of Stepban be did what the Jews were here exhorted to do on the revival of the Feast of Trumpets, Blessed is he that considereth the poor 14 337 time, but dry rol is in the soul which doe not think of the less fortunate when it own rup is running He himself had spent last Christmas day at ses, and bad no wish to repeat the experience. The passengers readily subscribed $23) for toys for the chidren on board, most of whom bad more than they kaew what to do with already, but

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be failed to get more than quarter] fact that, when a congregation bas also chat they have the goodwill of that amount from them at the everything done for it, it ceases to the other Churches and I beliers Christmas service for the "Save help itself. The offertories of many the good word of magistrates and the Children Fuad." and the worst sorelled fashionable congregation police officers who have come is cf it was they thought they had bear imprevare, not to say ludi-contact with it. done well, several engratulating erous testimony to the danger. One bin on the result of the ft. All might remark, however, that this this village and mural work of direct the mall papers Wete made not consued to Churches. happy but the happiest was one heard of dead-alive Coiversities credit to this

We evangelism, but I do regard it as quarapriced with wacoping cough for instance, set an one expects a likely to

Church and A anay from the dentations, who College to pay the whole cf its way the long run than some other

be more fruitful insisted that the content of bjsimple from peur to gest. money sex should be put into the To be sure it is better to be ball ter knows and far more lavishly kinds of work which are much bet jcollection He had the g of starved that to go to sleep. And supported. But all are good it the f.rd. which the text peaks if we here were to go to sleep. if their own ways, and may they all lot for 254

IS the ny ofwe wera to become meso, selfish, brise greatly. It is satcient for ivic rather tasa receiting jungenerous because someone has you to know that the now before us Christmas day we cannot but "readone as commcaly generous sider the graze of our Lord Jesus thing to us, then indeed what God quite & special sense

is good is itself and is yours in Christ, Whothough He was rivayet sends a 1 a blessing would be for our Takes He becsor poor. perverted into a bace

You will see in the good new It should which it has been my privilege to bat we through His pwenty ght be remembered, however be made rieb."

that That is the hunger as well as crer-ieeding cao challenge to do something werth da psas on to you to-day. a welcome transendent truth na which the occasion apathy, and many a Churching for the work of Godeming those whole of our Christianity is hunt up, would achieve more wider, more whose privileges have been so must and if it comes boms at all to our generous treatment, the fact that less

that bearts we are inspired to pass on the manage to produce so much generous portion to those for

pur awa Send. something of what we have re-good brick while allowed so little whom cothing has been prepared." caired.

-tran is one of the mineles of "Freely ye have received, freely To prioriple, the preacher con, bistors tinued, would presently be seen to

give.Ye koow the grace of our I think and believe we shall takej Lord Jesus Christ." apply strongly to Union Church at this Christmas surprise gift as a the moment sad to bear on the stimulant rather than a sedatise, a first Christmas Day, day's collections. A remarkable responsibility as much as a relief. and wholly spontaneous grit had It would be fatal to imagine that not take: been made to the Church, in a very we have suddenly become rich generous moner and on a scale and in reased which opened upesteaded possibili have need of nothing."

in gols, and not devour: ties of usefuloses in the future.

To help, act crush: if need. to in the material sense. When I add." Mr. Maconschie of uses could be suggested for

Plenty die. not live.". continued. tbat this kindness all we posseSS

I am not going to

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Who taught mankind on that What' was to be a man: togTM8,"

To serve, not rule; to sourish,

PEACE.

A Fervent Personality.

US by спе who make suggestions on that line AN ADVOCATE OF WORLD bas Dever belonged to cur the moment, but I do suggest that communion you will see additional we shew ourselves worthy of the Cause to appreciste and reciprocate Christmas gift to our Church by his broad-minded goodwill. A few ourselves making days ago he informed me, to my oering to-day to the evangelis- generous

In the interest of world peace, grest surprise, that it was his wish stion work of our Church is the Mr. F. B. Smith, one of the best. to give the Church an endowment New Territory and Islands. fund of $30,000, and this generoua

if not the best, speakers and a This, as most of you know, we close personal friend of President offer, on being reported to your cang on in conjunction with the Harding, left San Francisco on managing committer, was accepted Chinese To Taai Church at some Nov. 6 for China, Japan and the with grateful appreciation. Our nine ten stations through the Far Esit generally. The follow- friend bas since written that it has agency of preachers, teachers and ing description of the personality been a great pleasure to make this bible womasa under the oversight of and eloquence of this powerful gift to the Church, whose work in Mr. Wells, of the London Mission. advocate of world peace, has been. the Colony he has watched with There is an adult membership in extracted from leading American interest, partialarly of recent all of ovez 500, and about papers for the information of

Our generous benefactor is the year.

100 baptisms have taken place this your Far Easterners-

Many interesting things) Hon. Sir. C. P. Chater, whose could be told about these village by biaself. So magnetic is his Mr. Fred. B. Smith is in a class public-spirited disposition has been Churches and adherents: in some personality, housed in so power- abowo in many directions, and who points the recital might make us ful a body, that before he has said in looking to the future of the feel a little ashamed of ourselves. a ward his audience is his. Hia Colony 13 impressed by the These folk, mostly poor and tum two hundred pounds of rounded Decity that its Churches should ble. are but beginners in Cbristian flesh is maamular, his face is rnd- be adequately supported. It is life and have still things to learn, dy bronze, his irongray hair add well for Hongkong that it has alike the rest of us, but in proportion coal black brows are all bristle citizen who takes that unusual view to their light and experiance they between them a narrow slant of and is able to give effect to it. shew upon the whole a spirit which forehead like a steel plate. His Great funds ate raised educational and other institutions, have

for) might be emulated by many who chest is deep and rounded and but there seems kind of tradition privilege bebiad them. 3fany bave His voice is full and heavy and generations of Christian powerful like a turbine engine. that the Churues, especially the come through fests such as we are easy, but flares into a siren striek Protestant Free Churches, ought never exposed to, and come through under passionate emphasia His } to live from band to mouth. them well. Rarely is there anything frequent smile is winsome sad I do not refer to Hongkong to gaio ́io in particular but to general tan- becoming a Christian in thes. prising, original, sudden, sort- & worldly sense fatherly, his humour of the sur- dency and practice. Teas of thou- places, and often there is much to he tells no funny stories. His rands are given or bequeathed by lose. members of our Churches for pic village Churches are made up, of that of a man with a mission, a 1 sagone imaginea these whole mien on the platform is ture galleries, museums, insti. "rice Christians" he may take it man sent, a mea under comput tutes, libraries, and trifling sums, from me that it is not so, or better sion who will permit himself no or nothing at all, to organisations still and

go which are purely sad specifically for himself.

make enquiriertrifling. A man like that can ride religious,

Many Christiaar over his audience by bis own have gone from these places te sheer force. But Smith did not. And yet where would your hus other parts of Chins, the Straite His appeal was to the rational, itals, Y.M.C.A.'s, and so forth and elsewhere, and have spread not the emotional. He carries , sud what would be the value of the light where they have none of the regular evangelist's

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is mother, no death bed stories, no those tremendous hours? Pro at the pinnacle of history, but day and all the time?

Book social scandal, no hell fire threats pheay was reborn and revelation sees her soul slipping toward of Acts being written within, ne Few of these institutions would were, satone's throw of us. I may coerced no one's mind, offended is, this incessant traveller, meh who knows that neither God or lazy heaven promises. He came to life again. This ma of abyss, thig compassionate lover of outlast the generation, and many add that this is 'pmetieally the only no one's self-rospect. of them would be closed in siz missionary work being done in those seamed to assume that he was whom God denne pissrurs of militant

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