the Union Church on Sunday. morning to 'A very large congregation assembled at
hear Bishop J. W. Joyce, D.D. This is the fourth time within two years that the Bishop has occupied that pulpit, and his Reel by the increasing number of Shang-popularity as a. speaker is aufiiciently evihai residents who desire to hear him. His text was from 1 John IV, 7. ' Every one that lovett is born of God and knoweth God."
The greatness of Christian teaching is shown by its effects upon the problems of human lil Man is a moral being and religion is necessary to him for the development of his moral nature. There are three great facts which are common to all mankind—conseience, character and dlestiny. As conscience is enlightened, the moral nature is broadened, and character is developed. Character is bounded by the
life. One can never be larger nor better idea that controls and dominates man's than the idea by which he is controlled. Destiny la that from which none escape, and must be reckoned with as a moral problem. In order that mankind should ave ® religion which will give proper wa of conscience, character and destiny it must come from some source beyond and outside of man. If man were the source of his own religion he never could rise higher or be better than his own first conception of religion, and thus his religion would be of no uplifting value to him. But the Holy Scriptures profess to have been given by God. who is over and beyond man. They look upon man just he is, and over againat the sinfulness of man place the provision of complete delivery from sin. The source of such truth is God who understands the whole nature of man. It cannot be rightly said tha man is all intellectuality or that is bounded by the capacity of think ere are other powers of man outs of his intellect, and religion must provide for them. We acquire knowledge not simply by mental processes but also by what we ourselves are. Saul of Tarsus was as strong intellectually as the Apostle Paul, but after conversion he interpreted facts in the light of the new life he was leading. Man has a moral or affectionate nature as well as a mental one, and this must also be the subject of God's roving, The flavour of an apple might be tested by the alow processes of chemical examination, but the easier process is to taste it. God intends that we shall not only know him through our intellectual conceptions of His character, but that we shall him with our hearts. The whole isto be held in equipoise. It would be hard to discover God by the human intel scanning His works and reasoning to fact of His existence, but when millions of human be With all the sorrows and sins of their lives which have always a tendency to go downward are concerned God must be posited, as a very real fact. In making the revelation of himself to us He uses human eae and meta-hors. He comes to the level of mand and uses such methods of express ion as are easily understood. Hunger is spoken of and men are hidden to "'taste and see that the Lord is good." Weariness is a common experience, and God in presented asa Great rock in a weary land" to relieve this feeling. We love the associations of home, and Christ taught qs to call God "Qur Father," All of these are_ more than intellectual conceptions Kiangsu, Wang Hsien-chien and to Ex-of God and touch the heart. The affecpectant Taotai Li. You asked me to give tions cannot grasp mental abstractions these books and I have done so. No but demand actualities. Neither is man additional letter came from you and I did most controlled by his mental conceptions not wait for your further authority. They but by the impulses of his heart. Mon all praised the book most warmly." are never ruined by their intellectual con-"Wang Hsien-chien, your former Literary ceptions but by the desires of their hearts.
Examiner (formerly Examiner for Kiangsu) It is the power of love which most controls wished much that you should come to be men, and makes us into demons or into angels. Hence piilorophy as compared in charge of the Hunan Journal. He urged
with religion fails because it takes no ever, that you have decided not to come. tue to persuade you tocome: Thnow, how. account of the heart-life. The two must be This I told him but he still wishes it. Is contrasted not by what they propose to do it possible that in the chrysanthomuns but by what they have the power to do, month, (Oct,) you em come and seo him, and by what ly geo have done. The your former instructor? Things are moving world can only be lifted out of the quag-in Hunan. The new Western instruction mire of ruin and despair by the inter-is beginning to be much thought of.
tion of God and never without it.
The schools do not suffer for want of ce God desires to bring man's mental funds but only for want of instructors. power and his heart-life to their high-Letters are constantly coming asking for est level. In this way man comes to teachers of foreign languages, Have you have control of himself and to hai any suitable persons in your circle who an actual knowledge of God, just as would be willing to come here? Just now the child knows "ud trusts the parent the college in Ch'angté prefecture is in whom it loves. Mon ought to allow God want of an instructor in English. He will to work upon their natures and not to shut be paid probably & year or more. him out of their lives. Tt often happens Can you recommend any one? Other cities that we only think of God in the midst of are in the same way looking for teachers our troubles, but His purpose is that He should enter into all the concerns of our of English. Foreign learning is in demand. Instructors in various branches life. Woe must look upon him as our loving are asked for; the posts are ready but men Father, interested in all that concerns us. to fill them are wanted. No one could Then he will take all the scattered and have foreseen how rapid & change is taking disordered portions of our lives and make place in the public mind here. This year them into one harmonious whole, which in the M. A. Examination Hall electric will be pleasing to Himself and will be the lumps were used. In the other capitals of artist rset had his first thoughts of be-best expression of our highest hopes. As the the provinces they have not this improvement. It is all the result of the influence coming painter stritted in him by the of Wang Hsien-chien in this city, The sight of a great master-piece, so if we can railway it is proposed to construct without behold Christ as a present image before further delay. The setting up of telegraph us the best impulses of our hearts will be wires between ell the prefectural cities is inspired to the attempt to be like Him. on the point of being completed. My Our love to God will be tested by our scrawl is aten end. Farewell." relationship to His Sor "P.S,—The account given in your journal of the difficulties met by ithe The
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