T see that you are asked to take aay with you the form of prayer which we have used this evening, and to take it away with the intention of using it. It contains two of] the finest prayers ever written "for thave at sea". One of these you may not have recognized as a Prayer because we have just sung it to music and some of our hymns contain so many absurdities that we do not think of a hymn being @ prayer, And yet I think that hymn "Eternal Father" contains not only the simplicity of the Innguage of the Old Vestament but the experience of the New. We have become so clever in modern times—or think we have—that we have lost x great deal of the simple faith of our ancestors. We have almost forgotten that Christianity is not faith in certain doctrines but is faith in a person, and that person the greatest personality the world has ever seen—Jesus Christ. What might it not mean to us if, ashore ar afloat, we could re-capt tire some of the simple faith in a personal God which the author of this hymn possessed. Written in 1860 by William Whiting it soon became a favourite and is probably the bert known of all the hymns for those at sea. Tt is curious to notice that though we think of ourselves a maritime people there are so few of these hymns and this one, though indeed it is a hymn, yet it is al earnest, passionate prayer to the Three Perions of the Blessed Trin-
Conetuding points in the sermon retained to prayer and its strengthening influence in the life of every. seaman.
Pollos hymn by the conzrezation, the blessing and the National Anthem con. eluded the devotions.—No general collection was taken at the service, boat plates were held at the door for] 3 contributions towards the fund for building: the War Memorial Institute] for the Missions to Seamen. was killed and five person: were injured in a fire which scourred in Boulevard des deux Republiques, Shanghai, on Friday) Is H.MS. Wild Swan and HAMS. Wishart arrived at Shanghai on Monday frum Swatow. The oiler Belgoln left Shanghai the same day for Nanking. a shore without a port. One can hardly count Joppa, of which the Diewonary of the Bible says it became the port of Jerusalem when! Jerusalem became the metropolis of the kingdom of the house of David, and certainly never did port and metropolis more strikingly resemble each other in difficulty vf approach Both by sea and land.
In the New Testament of course we find that the aca enters much more closely into the lives of the! characters of whom we read, while the appropriateness of the call of the "Fisher Disciples" has often! been commented upon.
When the time came therefore for ON Monday Nationalist army officers were detailed to the Bou: leverd des Dewx Republiques, Chin Hoo Rond, and other places, to re-emit soldiers for the 65th regiment of the 22nd division.. The recruits will be sent to Tainyang to be train-
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