TUESDAY JULY 8 1924
MISS PITTS O.B.E.
AN APPRECIATION.,
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kong stairs have you tried it?), the family was too busy gossiping| or gambling to hear a message: from the Almighty Pather. This) might happen again and again in Writing in St. Jolin's Cathedral one morning. And no one but "Chorch Notes," mider the caption those who have, trained and worked! of Hus it Ben Worth While?" with them can have any idea how G. L. B, has the following appre-contrary and dense and ignorant ciation of the work of Miss Pitts. Chinese can be. With amazing O.B.B., who is shortly retiring patience, which fortunately some after 4 years mission work times brake into a storm, ali among the Chinese..
Pitta tanght and explained, on Nearly twenty four years ngo, couraged and rebuked, in the thero landed in Hongkong, bright, study of our house or in the vigorous and determined, a hidy Women's, Seloof, Close on four from Devon, She should have hindeed. workers lave passer gone to Persia, but conditions them through her hands, Rible-women were too unsettled; so the "Church do a three years' course, teacher: Missionary Society for Africa and for country veratenkir schools, two, the Fast sent her to South China. In later years many husbands She was authorized to work among brought their wives to her to have women and girls, to prepare them theri" taught some of the many for baptism and fontiquution, to things they should have learned as preach and teach in the homes, and girls bad there bean schools for them. In this way, the family har been brought to Christ, trained many meses too, for the secular education was in broad and sound basis.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
GOEBEN REPAIRS.
ENGLISH AND GERMAN
FIRMS COMPETÈ.
Keen competition between the shipbuilding firm of Philander, of Lubeck, and the British Company of Vickers is reported by the Temps correspondent at Constan- tinoplo in connection with the Turkish, plan for reconditioning the German battleship "Goeben," transferred to the Turkish flag just before Turkey' entered the war..
The "Goeben, damaged by striking a mine, has for six your been lying as a hulk in Stenia Bay (on the Bosphorus, 8 miles from Constantinople).
The British firm, it is stated. offered to bring a floating dock from Malto. The Germans who built
Skethe
"Goeben"!
asserted theb
ability to provide the same thing brit asked for 10 days extension of time to make a definite tonder. which was accorded,
that the work of repairing the The German engineers estimate "Goeben" would take 18 month: and employ 1,500 inen. «
for her to return to China to every out these plans.
At Causeway Bay and Quarry Bay she has opened schools, now crowded to the limit allowed by the Education Department, for the children excluded by the Children's Charter from the factories. This is another scheme which needs developing, but naturally we desir that the foundation of all should be the knowledge of "the love of Christ which constraineth us."
MACLAREN AT SHANGHAI,
A MODEST MEAL OF TWO CHOCOLATES.
Fi
MECHANIC GETS SUNSTROKE.
Foochow at 100 miles an hour, After winging his way from Squadron Leader MacLaren with his two companions reached Shanghai on Thursday, landing the graceful amphibian on the Whang- poo near the Standard Oil Com- pany's installation just before mid-days to
MacLaren was the first to step on board the official tender. He was met by Mr. Sidney Burton, C.M.G. H. M. Consul-General, who welcomed hire, and in turn he introduced Plenderleith and, Andrews to the Consul General. That was the beginning of their reception, says The Shanghai Press An international party kept busy shaking hands and were surrounded them, "and they were
Andrews, the mechanic, was taken overwhelmed with congratulations.
off the machine feeling ill, and had kung he worked a long time on the to be helped ashore." In Itong. Blying bons in the blazing sun, and that together with the brilliant sunshine which prevailed during their whole flight up to Shanghai, affected him:
MEN-BURNT, BUT BAPPI. Maclaren and Plenderleith were all sides and Andrews tried to bear up under his illness, but ho was taken to the saloon where he lay down. All the men burnt red by the sun, Plenderleith's lips being cracked and sore. Their faces resembled ripe tomatoes, but they laughed and joked.
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to train Bible women and workers. Of course language work enine first, Among the curliest phrases Required and most constantly used "was "Shi pit"certainly; sti her Bagish mine was flanged for her
Saturday afternoon was devoted Aud-trusted (hinese one Pit Ka to the Clanese Y.ALCIA, (which Nemg" How many thousands Bourished in those days), "to the have, in this quarter of a century, Mothers' Union and to the Chinese learned to pluce implicit confidence Dorcas Society. One half-holiday in. that determination which got in the month was uit she allowedl things done, eternity alone will res herself. Sunday was filled with val. No que came to seek ber three different Sunday Schools, all help, her sympathy, her teaching, Chinese Morting Service; vish and found her unteady or unwilling.ing in three or four wards of the During those early days, when fovernment Civil Hospital; and Hongkong was so very, very dif- the evening was devoted to the ferent, Miss Its fony umplere Reluge, out at Causeway Bay Beope for her energies! The We can home tied but happy mornings and evenings were der | about 100p.m. „ voted to hard study, but the after- The Refuge, has been her great noona were filled with classes fur joy and recreation ever since she Holdiers and sailors at Pairlen"
und MissEyre began the resone School (now St. John's Hall), work in 1917 or 90s. One has lectures at the Sailors' Home to need the help of Government visiting in the prison and hospitals, officials to find out how immensely classes in the English_YAV.C.A kind and sympathetic they are. At the foot of the hill at Cause (she had been head of the West of Ence it became known that a safe way Bay, on which stands the old England branch op til 1880 and Christian home, had beer Refuge, ia St. Mary's Church, Mother's Union work; and when opened for the fallen, for those in another tributs to the determim. everything else failed there were danger of failing, for those sold into tion of Miss Pitts. It was built the girls of two CATS, schools to lives of sin, every girl on whom the originally for the use of the Refuge detectives could lawfully place girls: They could quickly be As soon as her first langeage their hands was brought to the brought that short distance without examination had been passed, shed Refuge. Those were exciting danger of kidnapping. It is now began visiting with the Bible times. The house rented at West the centre of a strong, healthy, up woinen. In those days it was only Point was in too crowded a to-date Chinese Christian com the homes of the poor into which locality; rescues were effected down munity. Two Bible-women are at one could gain admittance; the bamboo-poles. The Government work in the district. Each week wealthy held proudly aloof from the offered the Reformatory at Cause Miss Pitts bas had classes for Lore of Christ, they had not way Bay, and a safe retnoval was enquiries, for candidates for bap cealized that they were weary and carried through. Those who were tism and confirmation, and a heavy-laden, though they know physically fit were taught laundry very special one for over two only too well that fear hath torwork, others sewing, As a reward hundred and fifty little waifs and wist. But, inch by inel, never they were taught books" after strays from the factories. Very out with one, but during the early Still no body out! Then Leung, yielding a fraction of anything evening rice. On Sundays, with gained, Miss. Pitts wou all along all their warders off duty, we had the line. Now it would be a night those unforgettable sing-songs, and spin watching over uplague heart to heart talks. That is Miss stricken poor relation, or help given Pitts' way. Do you wonder such to a coolie in trouble with an an enormous percentage came to Indian policeman; or again, live pure, true, honest lives, and family of destitute children af are now happily married in almost mitted through her inflience to every hand whore Cantonese are scine school-cach case linked in found? some mysterious Chinese way with
be taken out for walks.
A CHINESE VICTORY.
'On the Hongkong Football Club ground, on Sunday afternoon, the South China A. A. nine proved retired defeated by II-2. South too fast for the Filipino team, who China scored 5 runs in the first 4
We had a fine trip all the way from Hongkong," said MacLuren to the idolizers around him. He was introduced to everybody on the ship everybody insisted on it. When we left Rangoon we ran into a monsoon, and we didn't get out of it until somewhere between Haiphong and Hongkong. The innings. we had a nice breeze that helped For the winners, S. L. Lee us along. We flow to Foochow pitched a fine game with no error, overland, but from Foochow we and struck out I men. R. Shim, first followed the coast, and then who usually pitchés, played a turned inland at Hangchow Bay."wonderful game at 3rd base. Cruz. MacLaren, who is an Oxford-and Sancho of the Filipino Club shire man, is a typical Englishman made runs for the losers, and un- Dressed in khaki shirt, khaki doubtedly they are the Club's best shorts, stockings and low shoes he players. During the 5th innings everybody hit. Charles Chin, laughed with joy when someone June and Kwong started the ball asked if he had a wardrobe. "I set SL,Lee, Chang and Shim followed my of the women, in their rice part of the flight, over the side Choy and He kept things moving bour, are attracted to listen to the it went," he said.
like a merry go-round., South ever-new "old, old story of Jesus "OUR LUCK'S CHANGED."'
China played their usual steady and His love."
Our luck's changed. Every-
game.
FILIPINOS. thing has been going well. The
Rutl machine is in excellent condition. Angeles p. There is nothing wrong with it--Sancho-b That breeze, we bad with us was Malig zb. a big help."
Leonardo 3h. Crux Silos Francisco 1.f. Garcia c.f.
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With all this mass of varied work, upon which it is barely possible to touch What has Alias Pitts done or tried to do to prevent it all falling to pieces for whit of her presence and personaline 2
What has happened to Mar- She has often said that se con maduke, the inascot," a Shanghai sidered the test of all her work to Times reporter asked him, referring be her Tuesday afternoon class for to the mascot which has occupied Christian women. The members a prominent place--in front of the rumber about sixty. They are wind shield-on all MacLaren's! well-educated and, most of them, trips. "Did you loss bit in your mothers of families. Few of them crash at Akyab?" ure leisured women, though some
""'Oh, no,' MacLaren replied. of them are wealthys All of them "He's still there, in the same old are of matured judgment and ex-place. We rescued him from the perienco. These women, week by old machine and put him on the week, for several years past, Miss new one?"
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£25,000 PORTRAIT.
BIG PRICES AT PARIS
ART SALE.
From a woman's portrait by Fraaz Hals, £25,000 at present exchange rates was paid in Paris at a sale of the do Ridder art collection."
Two Rembrandts were sold for between £6,000 and £8,000. The whole collection, confiscated by the French Government as former enemy property, brought in more than £183,000.
After Miss Eyre's death in 1012, the rich and powerful.-and a door it was impossible to carry on so would be opened to her," upver many intereste single-handed. So again to be shut. That is the the great work was closed down. wonder of it. How dogs news and only the most helpless cases apvad? Do a kind action, speak a kept. In Kowloon City in a home word of sympathy, smule happily if built for them by the Chinese in the other two are impossible, and memory of Miss Eyre, the little you will, in China, comine reap band, in the care of a Chinese lady ing your reward for all time. and mothered by one of our lead Miss Pitts lived in St. Stephen's ing community ladies, works hard House, West Point, for yearly at sewing and urotchet to earn twenty years. The women's train their rice.
Pitts has gathered round her. She Captain d'Olay established a ing school was on the ground floor. With a heart even open to all has taught them their Bibles, from record for meugra "chowing The Victoria Home and Orplan, who are in sorrow, destitute, belp the simpless' truths to the deep en route by saying that he only ate age, now in Kowloon, was nextless or oppressed, Miss Pitts sought] things of God. She has taught a banana. MacLaren beat him. door. "Fairica," the School for for long years for some way of thein compare and to balance, just ate two chocolates," he English Girls and Chinese Chris-dealing righteously with the muito find in the New Testament the said. tians, completed the group." As tent problem. For years she had Key to the old, to follow up the Talking with newspaper reporters the years passed and the work a class for them every Monday in individual and the nation as He and others while the tender was grew in the masterful bands of the the C.M.S. High School. Their Himself has revealed them. She approaching Shanghai, MacLaren pioneer group whose names are little mistresses brought then and has not shirked the burning pro said he left Foochow at 7 a.m. on still fresh in the memories of those helped them to read and recite.blems and questions of the day, nor Thursday and as they arrived at they came to serve (Misses Baxter, What a jolly little class! What shrunk from social evils with which 11.25 they did 100 miles an hour ing every possible means of assist- Johnson, Hamper, Eyre and Flet- true liberty,. fraternity and women must deal. Every year na the distance from the southernance, and were sending complete cher), there came a demand for equality! The trouble was that they have spent months in prayer, port was about 430 miles. The plane and meteorological informa wider education. By the wise some mistresses were not dis- preparing for the Welk of weather was fine all the way from tion which were expected to reach advics and guidance of Miss Eyre ciplinarians, and the big mui-tear's Evangelism" when China's Chris- Hongkong, but on the way from him, on Thursday afternoon and Miss Pitts, St. Stephen's were insubordinate, vain and lazy. tians give themselves to win their Foochow they encountered some The Harbour Master and Cua- Girls' College was opened and the
land for their Saviour. The very low-lying clouds. On an toma kept the river clear from children of the wealthy were
together with willing helpers from avarage, they few at a height of traffic, and River Police launches cessed out of their narrow lives.
our schools, they have been trained between 9,000 and 4,000-feet. He spurred on lingering junks that The mothers followed, unable to cruelty. If the girls had rights, so in soul-winning, in crowds, and was full of praise for the landing meandered across the river.
had their owners. It is well- one by one. They have learned arrangements and expressed his R.A.F. Association had forwarded known in the Colony what has methods of following-up, of helping thanks for them. He said the landing instructions to MacLaren. been done. It is a delicate matter the careless to care, the undecided: Shanghai landing was very good, Strange to say, on communicating Song," when our pupils crowded to and requires most tactful handling to cotos to decision, the convicteil and he was able to pick out the with him at Hongkong they were help us with their singing a Miss Pitts greatly wished to open to turn from darkness to light and and the other landmarks informed that he had been fur- their recitation. The Atle was an industrial settlement and teach from the power of Satan to God. without any difficulty, despite the niabed with information and would won. Wo just had to follow up. them some marketable way of It is to their sho in looking to fact that the machine was flying, land opposite the British Bund! earning their living. Another plan carry on, out of weakness to be very high. He was anxious about The Association immediately wired was a home where those of a suit be made strong, strong in the Lord the next "leg" to Kagoshima, and him advising him to cancel these able age conld pass through and in the power of His night.
Pas re-assured by officials of the instructions and await further] course enabling them to become Twenty-four years of such work R.A.F. Association, who attended information at Foochow They certificated servants of various for Christ in China !
to the arrangements, that the then sent him cable instructions kinds. We trust the way will open
Japanese Government was provid- which ha received at Foochow."
resist the wonders of the hours
Miss Pitts devoted to thein with
her magic-lantern, or a "Service of
It sounds easier than it was. Sometimes it took ten, fifteen. twenty years of week in, week out, patient teaching, to win one soul for Christ. Bometimes after toil- ing up five or six flights of Hong:
They refused to be married.
Others run through the whole gamut of prosperity, neglect. and
Has it been worth while?
!
Karsa
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