The Archive · 1924

British Women in China

A Sermon Preached by Bishop Molony in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on November 2, 1924, at the Annual Service of the British Women's Association "Your labour is not in vain in the Lo Cor. 15.58. we are. often told nowadays; that nationalism isthe cause of all the troubles in this distracted world, but if we look on our own nation as one of the family of nations, and if we are proud of it only as it ministers to the common good of humanity, and always honour the other members of the family, even the wayward ones, the backward ones, the poor afflicted ones, as being also within the family of God, to be associated with, helped, strengthened, loved, then' apr nationalism may prized and used as a God-given. thing. Anyhow we find ourselves agsocinted together in nations, and we shall be till the Kingdom of, God comes and the nations bring their glory and honour into the Heavenly City.

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