Price tell of his safe arrival H. M.S. Triumph, and the first. days of his work as Chaplain which he finds very congenial the necessity of "sowing wild oats, just to get lence of life."
Keep thyself pure," says Paul to by. That will tell you all you need to know of "wild nats" without The Choir Boys have volunteered to sing ar the Wi chit for the war." their poison, Read books that lift von up, the argument for Bible reading is irrefutable.
More than any other book it brings us to God, divine. Watch your friendships. You may have friends whose breath is a pestilence. "Be wise unto that which is good, simple unto that which is Again, notice particularly. There is no defence against the temptaus of life like this. Be filled with the Spirit, be wise unto good, be solidly based on Christ; then there ix not much can harm y% We are always being asked: is a young fellow to keep right when he goes out into life' Often churches are blamed for not "looking after men." But there is a limit to that. It was never intended that any of us should need a Y.M.C.A secretary or a church official to be always looking us up. Men won't have it. It is unworkable, impossible. God never intended us to need always watching. What then are we to do? Well, if a house has a peri roof and a rotten floor, What 3 is needed is putting the house ing the defects out is useless.
king it weather-with all good things is the best defence against temptation, just as sound health is the best defence against germs. Be well steeped in good things. That is our best defence. An extreme illustration will show Men like Spurgeon or Canon Liddon could not fall a prey to the ordinary temptations of a great city, because they lived so near God that things, that carry away thousands, could not touch them at all, Were there time I could, I think, further show that half the unbelief of our time has its in just here. There are plenty of people who read every book on the negative side, but none in the positive. They never give even the Gospels a chance to carry con: viction home, while they hail every apostle of unbelief as a genius.
What an all-round piece of wisdom is this of St. Paul. Dwell in the light: pray: read the story of Jesus Christ: "keep in touch," as we say. with Him; be wise unto that which The C and Port chwang ily said goody a very old friewt, the Rew. F. Sprent, who has been Chaplain there for more than fifteen year more than twenty years since Bishop Corfe, then Bishop in Kor sent Mr. Pownal to begin work amongst the British residents in Newchwang; his Inbours were cut short by his death, early indeed: he was succeeded by the Rev, F. W. Doxat whose great liberality has left its mark on Church and Parsonage. In his time the ground was bought whereon they stand, adjoining the foreign cemetery.
Mr. Sprent succeded Mr, Doxat, and neither Mr. Pownall nor Mr.
Voxat served the Church with more single-minded devotion than he has done. Year in, year out, the daily and weekly services have been maintained: the church is beantifully furnished and appointed, and the congregation are not only proud of it but fond of it us well they nay be. Through all these years the Parsonage has bren a happy meeting place for many, and not a few seafaring men whose homes are in Shanghai will miss the breezy welcome of the "Lao chiao tou" (as the Chinese loved to call him,) with his lively presence and rollicking laugh.
At the end of 1913 Mr. and Mrs.
Sprent decided that the time had come for their boy to go to school and they had to face the alternative of both going home or breaking up their home, And so it has come to pass that Newchwang, which, would gladly have kept them, has had to say goodbye. The year's been due to Mr. Sprent's king of the church tower and spire, built as a memorial to one of the best loved sons of Newchwang, Mr, Fred Farmer, who was drowned some eighteen months ago, This is almost finished, and Mr. Sprent has been able to confer this last boon on the Church for which he had already done <0 much, inal from
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