A Sermon Preached by the Rt.
Rev. John Curtiss, M.A, B.D., Bishop-Elect in Chekiany, in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai i, at Mattins on Sunday, November 18, 1928
"Meet to be partatsers of the heritance of the Saivts Our Epistle for to-day closed with those striking word:
iki and then, in the Gospel, we read of our Lord's attitude towanis two persons of very little account in the eyes of the people of that place and time. There was a poor diseased woman, suffer ing from a complaint that for many years had proved incurable, and a ini whose distracted father ad sought out Jesus and appealed Who less likely to n Eastern town, hopelessly sick woman and a tittle girl at the point of death? of Heaven rth, pauses in his work and es them of His words to the woman:—"Daughter, be of the disgrace that attached to his ame as a thief and a. runaway. He, too, delivered from the power of darkness and translated into fof the dear Son of God, is "meet to be partaker Saints In light Take Mark, who also appears tie pages of this Epistle. We met him first when, a keen disciple, he mowed his master en the sad night of His betrayed and, leaving his Fines wrapper in the hands of those would have seized him, barely escaped with hiy life, We. saw him later, the chosen member that first missionary 30 fraught sing fore Smashing and Shooting The ceremony passed off quietly, but, after M. Herriot and the other Fane og the Fepresentatives of A sovxt eumfort," and to the Me, tomes] ay tte Lam, arse." attitude western lan Paul set." out westward the Gospel of the love speakers had left, a group of young men carrying a wreath approached the monument with the expressed intention of laying the wreath in the usual place. When they reachced the steps in front of the monument, the bearer of the wreath took out of it a hammer, which had been concealed by the flowers, and attacked the bust of M. Combes, smashing the nose and chin. The handful of gendarmes and guardsmen tried to arrest the offender, whose companions protected him, and a sharp struggle followed. One of the guardsmen, apparently thinking his life was danger, drew his pistol, and, after firing twice in the air, turned his weapon against the assailants, killing one habit as though anxious to keep] abreast of the times. The fact is, that young men do not walk as! walking was understood years azo, and the growing verne of motoring fs all against the stick. Englishmen, used to be very practical in their use of walking-sticks, generally choosing simple ash or cherrywood, which did not cost much t1 replace if lost. An ebony or some more fanciful wood might he kept in reserve in the rack at home for special occasions. As for the Parsian, he used to indulge his taste mostly in ornamental walking-sticks of which the handles were generally elaborately silver mounted,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.