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was started in 1926. The build- By Order.
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By. Order of the For! Hong Kong, 25th May. 1925.
FIVE YEARS
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THE NATIONAL CHRISTIAN COUNCIL'S CAMPAIGN
DISCUSSIONS AT MEETING
an opportunity for
Shanghai, May 25. annual meeting of the National The fourth day of the seventh
Christian Council of China was one of special interest and signi- ficance. Incidentally, there were occasional lively debates arising out of the keen literary sense of The subscriptions received up the Chinese and their desire for to date amount to $380,000 odd. apt and satisfactory expressions. THE UNDERSIGNED is prepar-
This sum will be almost entirely These served to break up the absorbed by the total cost of the staid decorum of the meeting and ed to consider offers to pur- WANTED-Yung Chinese mak
construction and "extras," and provided chase the following properties:--- stenographer for English correspon-
S FROM 22nd May, 1929. Mr. the amount necessary to be ex-friendly ills. dence in Tourane. Reply Secretary. Section C of Marine Lot 243 (Nos. E. D. SHANK has been a ponded for equipment.
The an- The interest and imagination of 5 and 6. Traya. Kennedy phinted Managing Director of nual expenses of this new hes the Council both struck fire over the Kowloon Tong and New Ter-pital are estimated to amount to the report of the Commission on. over $90,000. In order to provide the Extensive Evangelistic Move- Reply Kowloon Matine Lu 55 (ship-ritories Development Co., Ltd.
an, endowment fund to producement. One of the Evely debates the necessary anual expenditure, centered in the question whether a capital sum of $1,200,000 is re-or not the Council. should decide quired. Even if we are to content at this meeting the name for this ourselves with an andowment movement. The matter was for fund producing only half of the the time being left unsettled. It annual expenditure, leaving the
WAS decided by unanmious be subscribed an- standing vote
that the ERIOTONIANS - To enable other half to
National HJLNE DAY to be celebrated nually, a capital sum of $600,000 Christian Council and all cha in the traditional way it has been will have to be raised. Subscriptian bodies and organisations in decided to hold a dinner at the tions are therefore urgently need-China co-operate in carrying out Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden ed.
the five-year programme of evangel- on Monday, June 3, at 8 p.m.
The insufficiency of the present ism, beginning January 1, 1980. Tung Wah Hospital buildings to At this point the delegates were All HERIOTONIANS are recope with the ever increasing de thinking in terme Colonial Treasurer.quested to communicate with mands upon
of using the that institution is entire Protestant forces in China' Hong Kong, 21st May, 1929. A. N. Braude, c/o H.K. Telephone perhaps too well known to ba em-
[Co., C.-606, or K. 388.
in the making of an appeal to phasised. But the following eom China through the more than ten; parative figures for the years thousand Christian centres there. 1898 and 1928 will show the tre- in. Perhaps never before was it mendous growth of the hospital's proposed that all the Protestant activities within even the last forces in any country should co-
couple
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H.E. the Governor's Speech
His Excellency the Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, in the course of his speech at the Ceremony of Laving the Foundation Stone of the new Hospital, on May 4, 1928 said:-
operato ja one movement.
comprehensive Since the campaign
most populous nation in the world, is planned to take place in the
it has a significance all its own. and, inasmuch as the Council is directly representative, it is evi- the Protestant forces dent that are seeking to re-align themselves in an advanced movement.
The Objectives The objectives of the five-year advance are:
1. "The cultivation among
Chris-
tians of a deeper knowledge of Christ, of a more intimate fel- lowship with Him, and of a more courageous following of Him in all the relationships of life. 2. "Carrying out of vigorous
in the evangelistic programme hope that within the next ve years the number of Christians will at least be doubled."
were
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"The foundation stour of the Tung Wat Hospital was laid on April 9, 1870, by Governor Sir Richard Macdonnell. Fifty-eight years have passed since then and the Tung Wah
a household Hospital is now a
name not only in Hong Kong, but in China and among the Chinese overseas. It is known and respected *verywhere for the charitable activities and it has lived up to the ful spirit of the FORTY-EIGHTH ORDIN-Words inscribed over its gateway:
Do good with all you heart!"
"Now we find in Hong Kong Island of the Company will be held at itse she existing buildings
of the the Offices of the General Mana- Tung Wah Hospital do not suffice. gers, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Moreover, the City of Victoria covera Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong so great an area that an institution Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 19th serve the needs of the eastern end
in the west of the town will not A number of special steps were
taken for June, 1929, at Noon for the pur- of the town.
the launching of this Accordingly in 1925, pose of receiving
campaign. AM delegates present the Report of Mr. Tam Wun-t'ong, then a Director A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF the Directors, passing the Ac- of the Tung Wab Hospital, found a
urged to present it to the
they counts, and electing Directors and suitable site for an Eastern Branch groups
represent. Debate pf the Hospital in September. It is the Gine site on which. We stand and showed, furthermore, that the meet- the Tung Wah Iospital Committee ing expects the members of the was well satisfied with it.
"There can be no question that tional Christian Council to make this new institution is badly needed this campaign at the Eastern End of Victoria City.tive. It was decided that Dr. C. Y. a governing objee- The long experience and the high traditions of
Cheng, its
the parent, the Tung
General Secretary, ments along this line and to push | BEST COAL & CHEAPEST PRICE Wah Hospital, ате а guarantee of should be released from routine forward all forms of religious good management. The support and duty, to give as much time as pos-educational work in the churches. KWONG HANG & Co. advice of the Hong Kong Government
sible to prompting the campaign; a in order to conserve the home, the will always be available to the hos pital authorities, And its enduring special standing committee is to be Executive Committee of the Na foundation is the goodwill of the created for that purpose also. Intional Christian Council-is-to-pro- whole community of Hong Kong. I addition was voted to urge the mote special attention to the wish the venture which begins to churches
I trust that be Council in the campaign by allocat- suitable literature thereon, and en- to co-operate with the problems of family life, publish day every success. fore long the full scheme, and Ing this campaign such workers as courage theological seminaries and a portion only, will be completed: and I that in years to come
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FURNITURE
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the human viewpoint, ever. If the support of the Pro- Tung Wah, and to the estimated impossibilities. He urged that attestant forces for this five year annual expenditure of the Eastern tacking impossibilities is the way to campaign are secured to the degree Hospital, it would be imprudent to achieve great things. He urged anticipated, fhe end of the campaign open the latter until a further also that each member of the should find Christianity in China in substantial amount has been ob- Council must be willing individually different position from what it is tained. The accommodation avail- to pay the cost of such a campaign, now. One could not help but feel able at the Eastern Hospital is each identifying himself with it: that this campaign denotes urgently required. The Directors each must lend himself with cornewal of Christian determination therefore earnestly appeal for sub-viction to this movement. In short, and a moverment of Christian ag seriptions so that the Eastern he urged that this movement shouldgressiveness to make good along Hospital may shortly be in a post-have the primary place. "We now and wider lines than ever, be- tion to commence. its career of inust," he said, "discover and enlist fore. It is especially significant charitable work. All sums, what-prophetic voices and hands for this that on the first occasion when the ever the amount, will be grateful movement." "To secure the funds Council is directly representative of ly received and acknowledged, and and men necessary," he said, "is a over seventy per cent. of the Pro- the Directors venture to hope that test of faith." He urged also the testant forces on this occasion of urgent need, their appeal will not be made in
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initiate a campaign to correlate these forces in one advanced move- In preparation for this five-year ment. The Council is not discuss- The appeal is signed by the campaign, around which the whole ing Christian Unity per se this time, following Directors: Mesars. M. K. thinking of this Council meeting but it is initiating a general move. Lo (Chairman), Chan Chi-hang, revolves, the Committee on Re-ment which should have an import- Ho K, Ho Yee-cheong, Julio Chanligious Education recommended the ant hearing on that problem and Pin, Kwan Wan-pak, Kwik Siang-use of "methods and materials should go far to prove the essential go, Kwok Lum-shing. Lam Kou-which are in harmony with educa- unity of spirit of the Protestant mow, Leung Yow-sang, Leung tional and psychological principles" forces in China Yuk-kee, Lo Chock-chai, Ma Shi- in the. attainment of evangelistic At the close of the session a large and a visit to Lin Ying monastery chuen, Ma Wai-noon, Mok Tat- ends. The National Christian Coun- group of the delegates took buses and other points of interest- huen, and U Cheuk-sing.
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