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THE

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REV. JOHN FOSTER AT THE

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

AUGUST

26.

1935.

only a poor little ordinary child with CRIME IN THE COLONY none of the advantages of belonging to your family. Anit In the New Testament as well as the Old it is true that "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth,"

PAST YEAR DESCRIBED AS BEING QUIET

The annual report on the Hongkong Polles Force states:

UNION CHURCH Frenching on the parable off the

Do We Stand There? man who stayed at home, the Rev. John Foster ni the Union Church yes-

Am I not right in saying that we terday morning look as the text for should stand among them? These his sermon Luke XV; 29, 31, "were the people of whom He expected these many years do serve the most. Think of the start in life you

**Child!" He ankl: We are

are all

the habit of applung-yoursel? have, hnd. Do you stand times, there in

These were the respectable ing most generously the conuent people as contrasted with the sinners, tlen of other people's sins. I heard the religious people as compared with of a minister. who was preaching the worldly and materialist Sadducees. against self-righteousness. He took Do

you, stand there? True, those his text from the parable about sexing

were the people whoso religion did the mate in your brother's eye avu

not rise to the occasion; but I am not not considering the beam in your own. In the vestry afterwards one of there your will. We had better pro-

credi, pillars of the church expressed is

We are not wandering, lost, pro- a splendi appreciation: "That was sermon, Sir, Just the sort of home-gal. What is wrong with respect

able us who stay at home? truth that Brother Standse needs to be told."

You and I belive that men can be. .Other need to be, «loru.. end in't. The heathen needs to be con- verted. The flagrant sinner needs to be reformed. In short, "Ye must be Intro ngain" is just the sort of home truth Brother Sonting needs ' to be Tuld:

a quiet year. Though a few serious The year 1934 may be described as crimes held public attention at certain were 110 important economic, political,

industrial agitutions which celled for serious Police intervention. The depressed inte of trade and industry mention- ed in the report for 1933, continued throughout 1931. This state affairs induced still more of the m employed native population to return ta their homes in the country. It may also be regarded as the cause serious cakes Of of the number of crime remaining high, although the figure was eighty-one below that for 1933.

of

The depression made it more dith-

cult for casual workers to obtain a livelihood, and a certain part of the increase in the number of murders 1933) may be ascribed to the general (an increaKE of eight cares over

depression. The report of the Direc economic conditions arising from this

tor of Criminal Investigation,

and

Now the point of this story lies in tae sharpness of its contrasts. And these are especially signifierat in that final exchange of words between the Father and his elder son: "Lo, these many years do serve Thee, and I never transgresseil a commandment of thine; and yet thou never gavext me

But when this thy non came..." "Child, thut art ever with me, and all that is mine

thine. But, this thy brother.... If you miss the word-by-word contrast of these two that the speeches you may think Father is merely justifying himself

It is satisfactory, and at the same or smoothing down his son's ruffled Criminal lavestigation Department, Tute tribute to the work of the feelings. He is

In doing more than that: He is,

very little activity by Com theat by a tailed correction of ble every phrase gear legislation for the registration.

munists was manifested. During the pointing out

change that

Loof ullens lust come, not in his words alone, worked but in his heart. If this is a mea-

de- a dellcate anıl

tho

Table I give a summary of the figures of serious crime.

The same was true in our Lord's ministry. The fifteenth chapter of St. Luke's Gospel begins by telling un that the Pharisees and the scribes murmured saying "This man receiveth sinners." They were used to the quiet company

respectable worshippers at the synagogue listening to their awn orderly instruction. about the Law, Here they found Jesus in the

grudican

rabble marketplace with hanging on His words. Men whose Bfe was merely n scramble for 30- gotten gain had left their counters to of US, the words are worth a detailed

r of the change our Lord requires great value in checking the influx of Aster Women had crept out of the stre back door of brothels. "All the publ. Let me repeat them, net con cans at the sumers were drawing interrupting to correct ench phrase: currently this time but with the Father ar unto Him for to hear Him."L, these nisny years do I Tal

respectable citizens the "Child" "And I never trans- Kroup stond on the fring of the crowd, is-gressed a comb

a commandment.... ."--"Thou tring

art ever with me!"

apart.

厲

Their fira tho ht bad been that

it was a strang erowd: "Ile re-! iveth Planers" As they 1stern Their thought ebammi: it wION right crowd. It was simpers, mot pegel pectable folk like themselves that this Prophet ought to prceive, menge was about the lost, the fallen, 1 piniligal,

butuh behould hent

wind who,

The Parables

Let us join them ou the fringe of the crowd. The most regular church- guers have the hide of sitting at the Fuck. And here in the marketplace we should find our; cives most intura)-

....

ar

norve

"And yet thou never Envest + ..." "Ali that is mine

thine." But when this thy sou....

"This 1hy brother."

was introduced. It has and has been of *1eཝནྟི¥h}y»

tinde inalte persons.

Property Affected

The estimated value of property stolen during the year 1934 was $363,486 m agninst $781,499 in 1933,| n, decrease of 3401,057 or 52%. The Avぃ years in For the last average $761,219. • The value of property re- revered during the year was $89,551 13% of the property reported stolen nenguinst $67,480 or 8Ã5% of the property stolen in 1983,

***

The decrènse in the value of pro- perly stolen is mostly accounted for in false pretences, embezzlement and Inreeny cases,

Measure of Change What message did you expect, when i that reproving gaze rested on you? You think of your service for Him, your obedience to Him, and then you

Dealing with Communists recall the blessings received at s hands. You know on which side the

During the year renewed L'on- shortcoming tics. So in this story of

munist Retivity in the Colony came one who said "Long service, absolute to notice in May, but during Septem- obedience, no

no present," one might beg and October eight responsible ex expect the returt,

turt, "You lle: you have

communists wt!རྗ* arrested and not served enough; you have not kept banished. Following these

commandment; every

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were dis.

There

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by with them. Pur they were theceived more than you deserve," But organised contanunism for the re- regular, compostable, religious seethano: le protests against the kien of mainder of the year, ut His henTOTAL

your being a servant--"Child,”

Communist pamphlets A FEESTI

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hundred sheep. Our weeps away all thought of com-tributed on only two arensions and www got lust.... A tos-gatherer leans

inandments-"You

to then on a very small scale. forward to listen, We at the berk gether." Ile sears the conception of were no communist disturbances and watch. him and read, “1881, so h

no strikes or labour troubles arising this reward and that "It's all yours, "A woman hat ich silver coins." A all there is!! That is the measure of from communist agitation. girl at the front looks up. She too the change. We shall during these ornaments in her hair. "One fell next few talks continue to explore its down." We at the back

take

stole meaning for ourselves. Here we cân

June 1, the Registration of A murmur, "Teilen, yes she

to "thr beyon the first word, i стнойя "A certain man had two sons....

Ordinance, No. 3 of 1934, came into force and from that date One took his journey into a a for coun- The Father does not begin by men: up to December 31, a total of 6,837 try, and there he wanted his substance suring the amount of service, how persons registered. Eight of these with riotou fiving." Man and girl

start many years, how many dels how persons died during the period under TO-MORROW are listening now. He is almost many furrows, and are they sirnight.review und 1,852 left the Colony, ing in his fort when he hears of the His care is for son

something deeper than There were nine convictions for prodigal's resoly. There are tears in that. The Father does not hange you breaches of the Ordinance. the girl's cy* UR He tells how the for lack of effort but for lack of 190- The Deportation Offee dealt with Father ran to welcome the wanderer":

Live. It

persons last year as against return. We at the back aru moved enough-you don't love enough. You

at Keneral A far country! Ristous

increase of GOR

TAMI

10 915

is not that you don't do OP in 1931, showing

en brought up to he in the Fatherhood uf

and some ane's heart is breaking in

A large number of destitute

Hay "Our Fourer taught you to soldiers of the 18th. Chinese Route

Yes

But our Lord goes on: "There was ever since another son, the elder one.

He titl

But is that the

not go to a far country; he was in all-determining factor in your life?

by field. He came and drew nigh to Have you yet ventured on such in

never

Army were collected and repatriated doring the early part of the year,

CHINESE WEDDING

MISS WONG YUET-LAN WEDS MR. JACOB Y. WOO

the other three, the Parable of the Schools. "Thou walis of Sunday at the St. Paul's Church on Satur-j

Man who Stayed it Home.

Point May Be Missed

Profit and Los

The bride, who was given away by her brother, Dr. T. C. Wong,

the

the halang he did not draw very near timacy in religion?

You to the Father. He beard musle and

not realise how insuffici- may dancing: but humecoming hud never five behind your innocent, slay-at- and even un-Christian is the mo- filled his heart with joy." linck are silenced. No longer ure wę home life. heard of

one man who, spectators, no longer complacent when asked how he ima

0.5

imaginede

ned God, we watch another's smart.

The mat

sgid "I think of one huge who did not wander away has fallen didn't know where he'd got the iden. xliori. We most listen to that fourth did: from the atrocious things they A charming wedding took place story, which is crown and climax of used to

nint un

всек me,"

and day afternoon, when Miss Wong underneath the text a picture which Yuet-lan, the daughter of the late, would have made a good reculist's This point about these most fami- lesson: the eye of the taskmaster bride of Mr. Jaco, Y. Woo, the son sign but made a bad Sunday Schoolr, Wong Chak-man, became the liar parables is easily missed. Ac- These many years I am slaving for of the late Rey. Won Yee-blu. cording to St. Luke our Lord told Ther" "Child!" them, the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coln the Prodigal Son, with an occanlona! glance at the murmuring group at the lenst Christian) religious ideas is of lace with a lace train, and carried One of the most prevalent (and wore a bridal dress of white French Buck. He was first justifying to these respectable folk is preoccupation where most men have a debit balance tube roses.

these heavenly profit and loss Becount a bouquet of ginger les and with "he lost." Don't they need and for which there will be B

Attending the bride were day of Anding? But finally He must have reckoning. This er mes from a Fixed fis

vision Misses Isabel, Lulu and Gloria Woo, Raze full on them: "Now in the

the Book of the Revelation, "looks elder

as flower girls, and Master Kó Wai-; the field." That HON WAR

were opened.

were hung you! Public

...and the dend And sinners, judged out of

an page-boy. The brides- the things which were money-grubbers

libertines.

NK Kong-sheung abound. Your business life knows no written in the books. It could never maits, Misses shady ways, your little pleasures are one's religion this heavenly account attired in dresses of brocaded white be Christian to make the centre of and Woo Lal-wah, were charmingly no path of dalliance. You have not sold your birthright of respectability. Notice that the writer of the Revela.

ant Instead of the Heavenly Father.georgette trimmed with organdle.

The bride's mother added colouri You are guilty of nothing which notion adds, "Another book was opened," to the wedding by ciety condemns. There is even little (the account book doesn't apply to the Chinese ceremonial dress.

wearing of which your own heart condemns family), "which is the book of life." you. But is Kaze is fixed on you, That is not an account

Mr. Francis II. Woo undertook the man who stay at home.

book but the duties of best man, while Mr. We nity

not feel comfortabloister of births? Religion is not Ivan F. Woo acted as groomsmani. standing so near the Pharinen. Wantter of subtraction so much bad-Following the ceremony, at which From so much good and writing up may think His gaze does not include the balance: Are you, or are you not the Rev. Paul Tso officiated, re- ourselves. Pharised in our common a child? usage bus enme to mean hypocrite.

ception was held at the Gloucester Perhans I may seem But they were not all, nor altogether,

to be ex- Hotel and was attended by about

A dinner was hypocrites. They represented the rating the importance of this one 300 guests. most real and living part of Judaism word "Chilli." Our Lord elsewhere held at the Kam Lung Restaurant. In our Lord's day. We think of them vants

has much to ray of servants,ser- The bridegroom, who an, the sect when leaders opposed stewards being good and faithful, or is the superintendent of several watching for their Lord, graduate of the Hawal! University, Itim and workert for His undoing. wieked and slothful, servants. Our

hin

13

and

But this sect too was the back Lord, like all good teachers, changes sugar factories in. Kwangtung.

ground of His vn upbringing: is the picture according to the lesson. parents, lis friends, those from whom But that which has always been the

A

later

is t

sublime

he chose Ils followers, belonged to most distinctive Christian picture le of the most beautiful phrases in the this tradition and regarded the Father and child. When He gets to English language in that Pharisees as their leaders in public is deepest lessons He begins "No paradox of the Prayerbook "Whose

We recall the terrible donunela-

more do I call you servants" St. service is perfect freedom." Lions which cams from His lips, "Woe unto you, Pharisees!" But He had himself the servant, the slave,

Paul in almost every epistle calls Do you know what it means? Are of you grubbing along in a dull routine gentler words to say. The the Youn Jesus Christ. But ask him to ruler, whom at first glance He

ux- of humuruin harmless living, or are plain his cantivity: "I was appre- you daily entering further into the Was from these same leaders. honded was captivated by Christ romance of being a child of God? Nicodemas was another. There were Joaun." "The love of many among them who were not far ralneth has got hold of me." And Thee." I repeat, 1 is not lack

Christ cons- "Thoso many years I am slaving for from the Kingdom of God. With re- St. Paul's in that triumphant word,

of offart, it is lack of motive. It is not received not the spirit of that you don't do enough-you don't bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption. We are children of God: and if chil dren than heirs, heirs of God and faint hairs with Christ."

gard to His most severe reproofs we need to remember that a schoolmaster is most strict towards the boys of his own form; a marent expects most from his own children. If it is. Mr. Blank's little boy who has forgotten his mangers you say, "Well, what can you expect." Mrs. Blank's boy is

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