The South clan knows admirably the secret of how to exploit power to its profit. The Sun Yat-sen dynasty has cut for itself a preponderating part in the Cantonese government. Dr. Kung Hsiang-his, Sun Yatsen's brother in-law, and married to Mrs, Sun's sister, is Deputy Commissioner of Finances, His chief is Mr. Soong, the Minister of Finance, who is Mrs. Sun's brother. Mrs. Sun is a member of the Executive Committee of the Kuomintaeg. Sun-Fo, Sun Yat-en's son, is Minister of Communic. ations. Mr. Lee Luek-chin, Sun Yat-sen's, adopted son, is Commiesioner of Industry in Canton, His son-inlaw, Dr, Tai En-sai, is General Director of the River Conservancy Board, Sun Fo's brother-in-law and other relatives occupy important situations. Thus the Sun family occupies or has occupied till lately all the avenues leading to power in Canton, So Sun Yat-sen develop-the national spirit in the interts of his family. We are permitted to come to the following conclusion: If the Chinese revolution has impoverished the'country, it has not diminished the fortune of the great "animatcur" of the integral Fevolution. His family has been endowed with large prebends.
"Wait and See"
The policy of. the allied Powers towards China can be defined in the words "wait and sec". As they! have not found the way to save China from the peril which threatens her—a very easy thing to nccomplish two or three years a but much more complicated actual ly-—they are going to remain spectators of the total disorg tion of this great country, although they occupy. military the three big ports of Canton, Shanghai, and Tientsin, Te is the policy of the lesser effort, a policy which has} numerous adherents.
often have heard people, formulating this objection:—"You maintain that 90 per cent. of the:
se are not interested in polities, and that the actual re-elution is conducted by a few! thougund Chinese, but what counts in a eouuntry is not the quantity, but is the source of our life, that God and man are essentially akin; that ther is a deep affinity which is best expressed fin that way.
Human Fatherhood Of course there are diffeulties about using a word like that. You cannot, for instance, make a promiscuous choice of riy human father and then "God is like] that." In that way, you would be grievously misled," for human fathers differ very much from each other and are all very imperfect. gree it is exceeding' abundantly above anything that has been known among men. If you provide, and, care, and plan, and bear, and suffer, that' things may go well with your child, "how much more shall your Heavenly Father?"
Need I apolopt for speaking to a highly intelligent congregation in this simple way? My excuse is this:—Simple and elementary as. this truth is, we do not really be-Hieve it. If we really did believe it, the whole of life would be, transformed. Our unbelief is not! altogether without justification, be-
Moreover, "even where human|eause there are so many things in fatherhood attains its highest life which appear to prove the standard, it is still human and,|contrary.
The love of a human therefore, limited. Yet, in spite of father for his child is obvious; that these difficulties, here is a concep-of God for men is not so clear. It tion that will not lead us astray. would be an easy matter for any main drawback is that it will one of us to recall many experiences not go far enouizh, but it is accurate that seem utterly incom. as far es it goes. How, then, may patible with the doctrine of His we use a term like this so as to Toving, tender care. May we part-help us in our understanding of culty if we reali a God?
Here is the way suggested by 8 our text:—Take the most perfect example, of human fatherhood can discover and then mult imperfections. Sct imagination to work in the right direction and then give it free rein. Human imagina tion still will be unequal to the task; when its utmost powers have been stretched, it still will only have made a beginning; but as far as it goo, it will lead you aright.
Let us make two simple statements that no one will doubt, and the potency of and in China as elsewhere, the mass ig passive." To that I reply "Actually all the Tuchuns, what even may be their colours, do not, organize, but simply work for them-_ selves. "They are the spoliators of, order in the interior of the country.
ince ten years ago, we have not seen one who followd a policy of salvation and of reconstruction. put some hopes in Chang Kin-chok, but he still is too much under the Soviet's influence to enable us to gauge his personal merits. If he does not come to an entente with Chang Ten-lin. the fratricidal fight will rage in the North. It is still the threat of more direct action from the part of Russia, and, as Tong as she haz some influence in China, that influence shall be directed against the interests of the Western Powers."
The Healthy Life A father trains his child It is only a small proportion of a healthy child's life that is'spent in the cradle. For him, coddled, and nobody d should be. When there are instances of stunted growth, when children fail to grow up, we rightly regard them as objects of pity and pathos, and not of envy. What can. be more pitiable than a person who. has the years of an adult but the} body and mind of an infant? For normal children, there comes school. with its rules and set programme. and. its various curtailments of liberty. There are, indeed, some People who, by the accident of cir~ cumstances, ded these usual parts of life's training, but you have only to meet them, to notice that they are the losers. They are subnormal, underdeveloped, uncultured. What they have attained is something very much less than full Now, although we all admit the: necessity of training and discipline for youth, can we not recall that, fat the time, much of it was not uunder.tood? Its reasons were not!
[sways obvious and often were challenged? We live in a very' {up-to-date time, and those of ya! who have reached mid ie age spec: [(eetigve m=} ith Bie Tien but there are certain years when parents actually know more than their children, and during those years they must direct their actions according to that fuller knowledge not limit them too mush to the inexperience of youth. In human relations, those years pass very rapidly and children soon catch up and often overtake their parents in the matter of knowledge. Then the parents' attitude and actions also mast be influenced by that fact, but it remains true that there are years when children have to take certain experiences on trust, without grasping the full reason for them.
Does not this reflection help us to believe that the Fatherhood of God yet may be compatible with those hard experiences of life that, often lead us to doubt His loving' care? May it not be that this lite] is a school for souls; that we cannot. afford to miss ite training and discipline. Let us again apply the: principle of our text. If we, im-Perfect human parents, justify our actions by the assumption that we Know more than our children, how! much more must this be true of.
God? Is it incredible that part of His plan is beyond our understand ing? We have assumed the superior wisdom of a. father compared with his child. "Then, multiply that superiority by the highest imaginable figure, and apply it to our Heavenly Father. This reflection may not dispose of every difficulty; it is even part of our argument that difficulties remain; we do not claim to have solved the! problem of suffering and sorrow; Dut does it not shed at least a ray' of light upon our path? Is it not Tikely that, in His inscrutable:
min, part of His plan is withheld from us?
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