Notes of a Sermon Preached at Union Church, Shanghai, by the!
Rey. F. L, Hawks Pott, D.D., on Sunday, October 23 satisfied, Tt seems appropriate on a harvest festival to speak of the God the Open Hand. One of our strongest impressions of nature is of her bounteousness. Nature is. prodigal of her gifts and seems to fact almost like a spendthrift, Many more seeds and many more members of the species are Droduced than seem to be necessary.
Of course, there is another side to Nature, the one on which the pessimists like to dwell. There are Aestructive forces: the voleano, the earthquake, the cyclone, the flood, the drought, the blight, the pesti-Tone, but yet the general consensus of opinion of the human race is that God is the God of the Open Hand.
Tt is for this reason that have always set aside certain ind. seasons, especially the wring and at the harvest, for offering sacrifices to their gods or the spirits of the earth.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.