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The following is a true story of money made rapidly in the Colony of Hongkong. A certain European had a sum of £800 remitted to him three or four years ago.
The dollar was then at about two shillings and so omitting fractions for the sake of simplicity, the European had about 86,000. He decided to build a house and be persuaded someone-probably a local bank to advance him $10,000. He had a very good knowledge of local contractors, and it is therefore possible that he was ¡fortunate in persuading a contractor so build his house for the inclusive sum of No sooner had the contract been
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Recently an important in vation in direction of Chinese syndicates A few operating has been in evidence days ago I accompanied no English engineer to the new reclamation works near Kowloan old sity. About the engi neering details of this important scheme issue.
shall have more to mention in a future All Chat need be said just now is thug the scheme is remarkable because of its financial details, all of the capital necessary as brut raised among the Chinese An English architect suggested the scheme to some of his Chinese friends, formed and syndicate wi
promptly is no wild-ent scheine, but a definite and most important piece of reclamation wo work Alaut ten million square feet of level ground will be available for a wort of garden city. Most of the aren was, a couple of years ago, washed by the tide. At present a long sea wall is being built across the bay and behind that sea
thousands of coolies are throwing thou
CHRIST'S CHARACTER AND those in want, I have compassion on THE WORLD'S NEED. the multitude"-and if we are Christ- ings we, too, must have compassion, and CHRIST'S COMPASSION
must be ready to do our utmost to alle
It The Rev. H. Copley Moyle delivered vinto the needs of the multitude. the third of his addresses on Christ's seems as if we are often easily coased to character and the world's aved" at St
compassion for some sudden case of want. John's Cathedral on Sunday morning, as in the case of refugees in the Ureat |His subject on this occasion wag "Christ's War, but the cases of permanent want Compassion, and was based on the text are apt to be taken for granted as th And Jesus said I have compassion ou necessary part of our social fabric, and the multitude (St. Matthew, c.16, v.32). ↑ they are allowed to continue without an The rev. gentleman said: We are think effort to relieve them. When we took out ing on these Sunday mornings in Advent at the grinding poverty in which so many of some aspects of the Character of Jesus people live in this country, Christ which need special emphasis in the see that something is wrong with the con world of to-day. We have thought of the ditious of life. When we see uten gladness of Christ, by which He claims women working long hours for seven days to reign over our times of mirth and
n week, with no holidays and no rational let than the cost of building, especially
Amusement.
recreations, we see a state of things which of all wood-work, increased, and simul cries aloud for change and improvement.taneously the value of household property In addition, largely owing to How dare we call ourselves Christians, increased. and be willing that su
of our the unrest in South China, the infux fellow men and women should live a of Chinese citizens and Chinese money
oilsome life of perpetual labour, while into
Hongkong became greater and we have our weekly holidays and half. greater. And then, when the dollar had holidays? We must realize that a state risen in value to 3/3d, the European of society which condemns vast multi
had an offer from a Chinese gentleman
Angiber picer of evidence which reveals tudes to a dreary monotonous life, a life who wished to live in a modern house the increnaung
confidence of 'hiner built according to European ideas. He, capitalists in the Colóny of Hongkong 14
market therefore, sold his property for 27,000 supplied by the local share
British investors have had two incentives Having paid back to the mortgaged the
In the borrowed $10,000, he converted the re-causing them to sell local shares Christ's compassion for those
maining $17.000 into sterling at 3/3d.. first place the many appeals to their bereavement was shown by His three obtaining £2.637.
Thus in about four patriotism have eased them to invest in miracles of raising the dead. in cach of years his original £800 had been multi-
war loans. In the second place, ali of the three recorded cases of Christ callingplied more than four-fold,
them have one eye fixed in the day when the dead back to life, Hia reason for
they can retire, and when they can settle well-earned rest The exceptionally high rate of exchange dollar shares and has tempted many of them to sell twis securities.
We have seen that He was bitterly scornfui of all hypocrisy, hard- heartedness, worldiness, and that special work of the Devil tempting others to Bin
Against these sink and the people who committed them Christ poured out the bitterest seort.
To-day we ate to think of another side. of His character-His compassion. That, surely, is an aspect of His character which the world always neoda, and, never nore than now, for the world lies bruised and bleeding from the Great War which. thank God, is
over. We know that in countless honics the joy of victory is darkened by the loss of loved ones who have laid down their lives for the cause of Right, and though we know that they ar in a better world yet the heart thai loves them frels dreary and forlorn without then, and the prospect of the years that should have been lived in glad alone, fills many a fwart with sadness.
Never again"
so sponks the sudden silence, When round the hearth gathers each well.
known face,
w
many
ch leaves no time or opportunity for self-improvement, such a state of society as wrong, and we ought not to rest con tent till it is changed,
Of course, the European was lucky
tion, but even without that he would the reason is quite simple; it is the old have made a very handsome profit. And law of supply and demand. For in recent years the Chinese have demanded
annds of tons of earth from the hill side into the space where the sea-water spod for centuries. Locomotives and railway
Frac trucks bring some of the filling a more distant hill
More than a million dollars will br spent on the scheme before the present contract is completed and it is very prob able that the Chinese shareholders will spend three or four million dollars un that site during the next few years
down to
LOCAL INDUSTRIES
to invest a sterling
A natural result would be a
company with them, now to be traveden we have brought it to Christ, and European residences in the Colony of of dollar shares, and yet quite the reverse
But one is xng, and no fature pre-
However dear can fill that varunt place, For ever skull the burning thought ro
Nover, beloved, again, never again." And there are others who, though they may speak no word of complaint, have pressing need of the compussion of Jesus,
enemy,
He feels for us.
so doing was evidently compassion for obtain such beneficial exchange fluctua the bereaved, and so we know that in our times of bereavement we have the compas. ion of Jesus. He can to day, and He does,
bind
up the broken-hearted." Our bitterest grief becomes endurable realised that He knows all about it and The perfection of Christ's compassion shown by the wideness of its action Nothing was too small to call forth His help. On two occasions, you remember. He showed it by helping the disciples to catch 6sh. They were fishermen and they had toiled all night and taken nothing No doubt they had often had similarly unsuccessful nights before, but Christ felt for them and helped them.
Hongkong and they have also desired to has happened. The reasons are that all invest their money in the place. It is of the local dollar companies have good both of these facts which is so important years and good Inlaper shouts to show. for the prosperity of Hongkong. It is and, more important still, the Chinese one more piece of evidence that we are have demanded the shares at the commencement of a period of extraordinary industrial activity in the Colony. For the Chinese have discovered that their capital is safe and they can obtain food interest.
Alt
Let us take, merely as an example of a local industry, the shares of the Hong kong Electric Supply Company. eighteen months ago, when the leat dollar was at about 2/6d, it was possible It should be remembered that the days to buy those shares (originally issued at of the limited liability company Great 10 and at a time quoted at $2.50 for
Now that th A lesser man might have overlooked Britain are comparatively recent
Be something less than 50 their disappointment but Jesus saw it fore those days the savings of people who local dollar stands at 3/4ld the sur
Thus in abouk and removed it. Again, on another were not interested in a businces of their are more than $00. occasion they were tailing and rowing own
almost automatically went into eighteen months the sterling value of than against the wind when Jesus used His house property. It was the era of build. shares have increased From £6 38 4
£10. Bd., or even more. divine power to go to them that He might ing societies. In Hongkong we do out
If cheer them with His presence. Christ have building societies, but there are never
disregarded the importance of small things as we are so apt to do. Italic companies which own properties would not have been
and the shares may be, and are bought
vital matter
if the
wine had failed at the wedding at Caney, Chiness.
At the beginning of the loeal "boom" but it would have reflected on the hospita in property the Chinese from Canton lity of the giver of the feast, so Jesus thought mostly of their own places of re-
that were an isolated case it would, of course, be accounted for by some pecu far circumstance or the sagacity of tho directors. The concern is, of course. financially very sound; but the point of the illustration is that it is an indication
of the fact that the Chinc are anxious
used His power to furnish a fresh supply sidence in the Colony, although some to invest their money in local industrial of wine, and no one but the servants and bought property as an investment. They the Blessed Virgin Mary knew how had probably heard something of the story nearly the host had been put the shame.
concerns.
The
commencing. A next phase is of how the ex-compradore, who is now fourishing tobacco factory is flooding What a lesson Christ taught us by that Sir Robert Ho Tung, laid the founda. South China with cigarettes, costing miracle! He showed us how to be self-tions of his fortane -be
sup successfully with the largest European effacing in our good deeds.
posed to be a sterling millionaire-by 1 tobacco trust, and 'making handsar pro There are local knitting factorica buying up property in Hongkong from fita. British owners who had retired. The run entirely by Chinese and millions of absentee landlords were probably not as pairs of socks are made in the factories, of thing must mes stably well aware as he was of the increasing That sort demand for rooms, shops and tenements. spread. Hongkong attracting, not Whatever the reason, the fact remains only Chinese mones, but Chinese enter prise. The Cantonese know of the larger fortunes amassed by their relative in that during the last ten years enormous Chinese in property in Hongkong. Bums of money have been invested by the Singapore and the Straits Bettlements.
Most of the available building sites under the protection of the British flag. In- near the city of Victoria are already They appreciate the value of that protec occupied. There is, et course, the motion in the Colony of Hongkong.
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men who have to face the future crippled and maimed or wrecked in health, or shut out for ever from the joys of sight, Others there are, in those countries which huve been under the rule of the who have lost all their worldly wealth, their houses have been demolished, their farms mined, and they have to begin life anew. Surely, then, there is need of the compassion of Christ in the world to-day, a compassion which must be reflected in the lives of all who profess to be His followers.
St. Peter describes the life of Christ in the words:" He went about doing good." Wherever He went men know that in all trouble and sorrow as well as in all joy He cared for them. There is nothing in the world so saddening as the thought that no one carce. How many
Again, Christ abounded in compassion a man has given way to evil because he for penitent simers. He could be hard thought that no one cared! Christ and stern with the self-righteous and in always cared. And He is same penitent, but Bo was all compassion for wel
the and today and for ever." those who were sorry for their sin. Think yesterday. Whatever your trouble or your load of of the story of the woman who was a sorrow, be sure that Christ feels for you sinner washing Christ's feel with her and cares for you; and remember that tears in the house of Simon the Phariste, every Christian is meant to be a reflection Christ saw the sorrow of her heart, and in the world of the character of Christ; He was all compassion. He looked per therefore, each of us must be ready to chance back on her past life and saw its care for those who aced our care. We pitiful story, and He forgave her sins. must be ready to take such a real in-r think again of the penitent robber on ject of further reclamation at West Point, disputable evidence of that corr terest in the well-being of othere as to be the Cross beside Jesus as He hung but that will take some years There is furnished by the many local enterprises ready to put their interests before burring. He had lived a sinful life, and practically nothing left on the sea-level in which they invest their money and own. You may make all the difference event on the Cross he bad joined in the and anywhere the cost of preparing the ouergy-Far Eastern Review in someone's life by letting the person jeers and taunts against the Christ,
A GAOL BIRD CAGED be for there is much out- know that you care, and the knowledge as he hung there and marked the noble sites is now very much greater than it to be done. And the joy into that life and keep it from much Cross, his mind changed, he thought authorities of the Public Works Depart that someone cares may bring a ray of bearing of the suffer on the central ting and filing
At the Hongkong Magistracy, yester- there
might be some truth in the mes evil.
mens of the Government are much more day, before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, a It has been pointed out by Bishop sinnic claims of bis fellow sufferer and difficult to pleass. That is an advantage Chinese was charged with stealing a bird Westcott that of the events in Christ's he said" Jesus, remember me when Thou to the community, perhaps, but it is also and a cage. life which indicate supernatural power comest in thy Kingdom,"
," and at
Once a reason why buildings are now more the answer.
-day shalt To- there are about thirty-ve. Of theso re- corded miracles the great majority were thou be with me in Paradise." There is costly to orect. performed from compassion. Twenty-one no sinner, however deeply sunk in sin, of these miracles were accomplished for who is outside the compassion of Christ, There must be, also, very great apeou the relief of sickness of mind or body. if only he turns and repents of his sin. lation on the part of the local Chinese. And these miracles which are recorded Bin always brings its own punishment, The following story is true us to facts
Defendant stated that the bird and the are only a small portion of what Christ sooner or later, and as Jesus sees the even though it may be unwise to mention performed, for we are constantly told of sinner groaning under that punishment names. A rather isolated house was built cage belonged to him. He lost them a His besling all manner of sickness and He longs to fold him in the arms of His for a worker in a missionary society some month ago, sad he had on in search of
Come unto Me all ye that time ago. It is said that fifteen years his property for a long time. all manner of diecase among the people. compassion.
Mr. Melbourne sente iced defendant, By His attitude towards sickness our labour and are heavy laden, and I will since a sum of $20,000 would have been who had a previous do viction against
gratefully accepted for it, and the story Lord has taught us that it is not God's give, you' rest,' will that we should be sick, but He wishes, Wherever there is need or pain or gains credence from the fact that less him, to six weeks' hard labour and four us to have good health.
sorrow in the world to-day there the than ten years ago the writer was offered hours' stocks Two of our Lord's miracles were per stream of compassion flows from the a larger and nearer detached house with formed in compassion for the hunger of sacred Heart of Jesus bringing joy and in the metropolitan area of the County the
At the Hongkong Magistracy, yester multitudes the feeding of five peace and comfort. And we, who are of London for £1,200. However, the house thousand and the feeding of four thou- Christians have to bring that compassion in Hongkong was in the market last year, day, before Mr. J. R. Wood, a Chinese sand, and by those miracles He has to bear on the lives about us, We have and several Chinese buyers were en keun was charged with stealing a quantity of taught us that He feels for all who are to interpret the life of Christ to the to obtain it that the missionary or his gunay bags belonging to the Taikoo Dock- in want and good. It is noticeable that World. Can you ask for a higher task friends who owned it obtained nearly yard. Christ refused to use his divine power than that? Does it not demand every to supply His own bodily needs when power of mind and spirit and body if it tempted to do so, but He used His power is to be done worthily May God who to relieve the necessities of others. He has called us to so high a task give to has shown us that He has compassion for each one of us grace to do it!
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SPECULATION HAMPANT.
Complainant stated that the value of the bird and cage was 80. Defendant came to his house in Holly rood Road and carried away the cage, which was hanging Defendant was up in the verandah, subsequently arrested by a district watch-
man.
FEELING THE COLD.
Defendant stated that he took the baga 90,000 for the property; and many other cases could be quoted to show that from the Docks as he was fooling very Chinese will pay what Europeans son cold. rider to be exorbitant figures for house property....
Indian
"Count the Indians on the road"
Mr. Wood sentenced defendant to a month's hard labour.
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