Sermon Preached by the Rev.
Darlington in the Union Church Shanghai, on Sunday Evening, June 19
St. Mark 12; 1, 2 °One of his awhet manner of stones and what answering raid unto hin.—Seest hall rik be Left one stone upon down".
St Math, 10; 18. "Amd upon and the gater of ell shall wot prevail diveiples saith wata him, Muster sce mildings are hovel 'And' Jesus then there great buildings?—There another thet shall not be throws this rock will 1 build my ekurch; against 1 want to-night to bring _biefore! yon the obvious contrasts suggested by these passages which I have chosen as our text.
Both veter to buildings of a different nature, and the statement of the Lord Jesus in exch case was called forth by words of admiration from his disciples. Thix unknown ciple looking. was the cent of the nation could not avoid thi expression of admiration for the material and workmanship of that! fane which meant xo much to all the dwellers in and around Jerusalem, The Devotion of Peter Peter on the other hand came, perhaps by slow degrees to recognize The Master, and in one outburst of heart devotion, remarked, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living Goa" His devotion for the person Christ was the occasion which gave rise to this remarkable statement] concerning the security and perman-nce of the Church.
That unknown disciple manifested no unique trait: when lhe showed his love for the. spectacular—the outward henuty of the temple. It ap-JHears to be the common lot of all. We love to bulk things together in fitch a way as to appear fascinating, We love to look with wonder upon the tangible and material. We stil pride oteselves. in the strength and beauty of our buildings. This novel of the spectacular La an old universal, and manifests itself varying: ways,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.