ilot ws take one of our problems the existence of suffering on earth. No amount of pious statements that itis the will of God wil satiety the Why should one "pare son valuer for no fault of his own and another" yo. seat-free who has done evil all his life? The promis, cal heaven snd hell axe not sulicient. Why should the evil-doer be given the opportunity to do evil when the Creator knows he will suffer, and that his evil deeds oftener than not the result of up-bringing and influences? We axe constantly asking this eternal "why" and instead. of bel on and our sense of justice, we are {eld not to probe into the mysteries of the Creator.
From the standpoint of one who believes in Reincarnat ferences in life become apparent, the sufferings we go through are understood and made the best of, because the Reinearnationist under: stands that all men do not stand on the same rung of the ladder of solution. He knows thet the mvage is only a younger brother with less experience behind him; the saint un elder brother who has Farsed on the road to perfection. Where we stand the savage wil some day stand, and where the saint of to-day' stands we. shall ome day stand. The sufferings ud the joys of life instead of being an inexplicable middle are accepted as the result of evil and good one in the past and the present.
he words of our Lord Jesus: "As you rr <0. shall you reap. alto, income intelligible. Our sense antic is vatinfed and not offended, We learn to lock upon the Creator 5 fist, and man comes to realise that the suffering he is going throvgl ix only: a lesson whereby the has to yrow until he attains the knowledge how to live in accordance swith the moral and spiritual laws which he has violated in the past Expected: May Precipitate Military, Outbreak [liable source that an urgent and Siiwen of Brig-Gen. secret meeting way held at Chang Tae the Ying, Commissioner of Shanghai End Woosung Police, shortly after the local situation and the a stean 08
Quty in Chinese. territory. ""the reason for this action, it is understood, is' because important. Sadesstons se bessmen, Sevecient Tocal"oficials are concerned, Gen. are concerned," Goa, Yang Yusting, the new Tupan Kane, having make a decided, 1 i aid Present ofts and replace them with his own men, Chief among the contemplated changes are the removal of Gen, Shing Shi-lien, Brig-Gen. Chang. Tz-ying and. the Shanghai Taoyin, Mr. Chang Shou-yung, t that Mr. Hsu Yuan, are unwilling to leave Shanghai in said that the Toeal Lee one cee Sauteed Sten ea tion PRESENTATION TO MR. L. A, At the Customs Club on Wednes+ day Mr. Golding, chief tidesurveyor of the Chinese Maritime Customs, presented Mr. H. A. Lyall, come missioner, with a pair of binoculars with "a gold. shield on the case suitably engraved, on behalf of the Gutdoor staff, on the occasion of "his going home on leave at the and of this month, and his probable retirement at the end utter having served about 40° years in the Custom Mr. Golding on presenting the souvenir' congratulated Mr. Lyall lon his friendship towards—his \Juniors. Mr. Lyall suitably replied, and subsequently his health was Felix" led up tu the feitaro forbidden cooke-fighting. o practise
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