Sermon preached by the Rev.
Walker in the Chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge: Honour thy Father and thy: Mother, which is the first command. ment with promise, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. Eph. VI. 2.
When a men has spent many years in a foreign country, and at Jength purposes to return to his own people, he is not free from all anxiety. He may find himself out of touch with the old society, or the old society may have no particular use for him. You will see, therefore, brethren, how highly I ought, and indeed do, value the welcome of the College, and the op-; portunity so kindly given me of preaching this morning in Chapel. Not that I have been without links with St. John's. Among the first to welcome me to China 22 years ago, two were Johnians. The one was Hodges, my predecessor at the English Cathedral in Shanghai, the other was Symons, who succeeded me last Easter, The present. organist and choirmaster, a most valued friend and colleague was at one time a boy-chorister in this choir, and the Cathedral itself was built from designs by the architect who planned our own Chapel. I have therefore many reasons for remembering the College, and being grateful to it, and I now will offer to you something (as the Chinese would say, a very little thing) about the strange people in whose Tand I have been living.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.