Inspiring Address at Union Church Service "We are here in the House of God this morning to" remind ourselves that the earthly citizenship of which, Wke Paul, we boast, is a vain thing it we acknowledge' and treasure 18 cur souls no higher allegiance. 'The commemoration of St. Andrew's Day. the celebration of a Burns' night or even the reading of his works, do not set you In the great stream of your country's heritage. For the true glory of Scotland has been the profound. sense of her people that they were but pilgrims amongst her lochs and hills sand burns, dishonoured if ever they abandoned themselves to. merely worldly. suc cess, if ever they forgot the infinite seriousness behind the parts, when ther great or trivial, we are' called to play in life." with these appealing sentences, uttered to a large congregation of Scotsmen and their friends assembled in Union Church on Sunday morning on the occasion of St. Andrew's Day commemoration, "the Rev. i, G. Newsham, placed a seal upon a ser. vice which by reason of its impressiveness seemed to grip. the whole gathering, and made the sex vice undoubledly one of the most memorable of its kind ever held In Shanghai, The character of service, with its. wel psalms and hymns Yeminded many present of similar services held in churches familiar to them among the hills of Scotland of whose traditions they were being 30, forcibly reminded, and whose honour: they were being urged to guard.
Before the service the Shanghai Scottish. paraded. on the Ewo Foreshore, where they were inspected by Then, marched along. the Bund Soochow "Road to the Union Church, An Impressive Service The Standard of Scotland and the Union Jack were crossed over the choir stalls, the St. Andrew's Cross was draped over the pulpit, blue and white formed the decoration of the Choir stalls, with a large bow! of heather resting on the Communion, Table, 'The President' and Committee of St. Andrew's Soclely were Joined by the members of the Shanghai Scot-th, S.V.C. and by representative of the other national societies, while among the invited quests was noticed the: Commanding Ameer of the re. cently arrived Inniskilling Fustliers Lt.-Col, Hammond-Smith, 'The service, conducted by the Minister, the 'Rev. "H. G. Newsham, included' Jackson's "Fe Deum," and the familiar Hymns "O Lord," Thou art my Lord and King," "I to the ils will lift mine eyes," "Tesus calls us," and "Come, Tet us to the Lord our Goa" and at the close the National Anthem. Inv. Donald Macdonald, who was responsible. for initiating the service eleven years go, presided at the organ, " and played a number of Scottish airs the congregation assembled and dispersed, 'The first Lesson (Tsalah 551 was read by Mr. "James Macbeth President of St. Andrew's Society. fond the second (Philippians 2, 1-16) by Capt. T. W. R. Wilson, Commanding the Shanghai' Scottish,
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