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REV. J. KIRK MACONACHIE ON
"NATIONALISM."
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
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THE DIRECTORY
AND CHRONICLE
1926.
The instance just given may be ok- HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE IN COURSE OF COMPILATION treme, having behind it what my corres pondent calls "the glorious Soviet Government of Moscow," from which ex
Nov 28¤, 1923. tremes are to be expected. But on quite
Hongkong Bank
..$1,090 .. Do., Members of the Scottish Company of another plane it is the easiest thing in
London.. £131 nom... the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, the world to give, unintended offence Chartered Bank.......
Mercantile Bank, A. & B......£29 nom. numbering nearly 100, held their annual when anything has to be said in connec
Do,
O....£18 nom. Bank church parade yesterday morning. Under tion with a St. George's, St. Andrew's P&0.
East Asia Bank Capt. JH. Ross, the Company marched for suchlike celebrat, as some of us Canton Insurance. from Headquarters to the Union Church have found. I think in Hongkong we
Okins Underwriters. North China Insuranco, Tia, 140 nom in Kennedy Road. During the service) understand each other pretty well by Baion Inruranos......inte $349 buy, 2,8/150.8.
24 special old Scottish hymas ware sung. now and go through our national dancer China Fire Insurance......$160 nom.
Yanglaze Insurancă.............. 335 buy. The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie in his without much treading on toes, letting Hongkong Fire Insuranos....$600 nem-
Danglase "Nationalism and Inter-our local patriotisms bring variety into HE, C. & M. Steamboat25 buy. address on
340 nom.
nationalism," said :—
the common life, which is as it should Hongkong Taga...
34) nom." Indo-Chinas (Fret.)
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Hongkong$70 nom. ..93/- buy. 3551 buy. $16 buy. $250
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He hath made of one every nation of men for to dwell on the face of the earth, having determined their appointed sea sans, and the bounds of their hahita- tions; that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us! For in Him we live, and move, and have our being."Acts 17/26-99.
On this occasion a year ago, as scme,
bo.
Kaube
Local patriotisms are extraordinarily Shell Transports. persistent everywhere, and in right mea- Star Ferries sure it is good that they should persist.
Waterboats you have lived in the north of Eng-China Sugate
Oriental Navigation ........... land you will have learnt that the Wars Malabon Bugars... of the Roses are by no
means dead,Kailan Mining Aa.
Benguet......... though happily they are waged only in Langkats (combined). the healthful emulation of sport and ((angle)
plorations. commerce. Down in Cornwall the visitor
Low may still be called a "foreigner," but Tronoh Mines [120 || possibly, may remember, the subject of he is hospitably received though from
my address was "Citizen Soldiership.'
the wrong side, that is the east side of HK & K. Wharfa.. the Tamar. When Beot meets Scot the Having then lately been in Shanghai, where war was at the "very gates, the first question is what part of the old land do you come from, and a perceptible advantages, indeed the necessity of a Valunteer Defence Corps had been vivid-rise in temperature occurs if both hail y brought home to me, and I remarked from the same quarter.-being myself that in a Colony situated like ours here from a remote and thinly peopled region volunteering is no more game, but a serious business which might at any time
I have to disappoint most of my friends become very serious.
in that respect, but they are very good about it: we can't all be born in Greenock!'
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Since then, unhappily, that has been proved but too true. Both the great northern ports and our Colony here have had need of all the strength at their There was a time-and not so very far command. Thank God, violence had not back as history counts-when neighbour actually to be met with violence, but disorder and rapine were kept in checking parishes were more or less in a state. by the knowledge that strength was at of constant feud, not to mention the hand, if need were, to suppress them. strife between Highland and Lowland, It is not for those of us who were far York and Lancaster, Scottish and Eag away during the severe troubles of recent
months to enlarge on what was owinglish. China to this day is torn by pro- to the Defence Corps in security and vincial jealousies, sub-divided further by to the sense of security, and also as a de- the feuds of village with village, clan monstration that you colonists were abla with clan, and summing up into the and determined to help yourselves. The immemorial antagonisms between North work of the volunteers is kaowa and and South. In every part of the world honoured; it seems fitting on the present these divergences exist, sometimes only occasion to make mention of it, and just emulative and innocent, but too often to add that the demands of these times still in the primitive phase when they must have invested the business of the are poisonous and disruptive. citizen soldier with an oven sharper sense of reality in his own mind, and stirred him up to take his duties even mort keenly than before.
TREACHEROUSNESS OF WORDS.
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Now, last year, it may revert again to that occasion, something else was brought home to me, That was the treacherousness of words,-not a discovery by any means. I found that in speaking encouragingly of our citizen soldiery I was taken by some to have in some way,-I can't imagine how, slighted or even disparaged the regular forces, military and naval of the Crown. Anything of the sort is, of course, as remote as possible from the mins of Any of us. The trouble in all such cases is that the last thing in one's own mind is apt to be the very first in someone else's. Try as you may you can never be sure that your words will convey your thoughts to everyone else."
We are all supersensitive when some one aspect of a subject is to the fore,
THE WAR'S LEGACY."
The Great War has left us legacy in this respect, of mixed quality, a large 83 we have too much cause to know. The principle of self-determination was laid down in the interests especially of the smaller and weaker peoples, intend ed to further them in liberty and sell respect. The intention was sincere and we must believe the results will ultimate prove to be wholesome, but for the present the world is sadly disturbed in the process of readjustment. For the ex- clusive and aggressive aspects of self- determination are for the moment the
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A RAUB DIVIDEND.
conspicuous. National self-con- sciousness has been stimulated, and naturally at first its touchy and thorny SINGAPORE SHARE QUOTATIONS. manifestacions are accentuated. All this combines with the economic pressures which always result from war, and so, instead of the world which was to have been so much better worth living in, we have a world beclouded by misunderstandings, torment- ed by suspicions, separated by tariff walls and restrictions upon migrations,
...
Medars Carroll Bros. are in receipt of a cable from their Singapore friends notifying that the Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ltd, have declared a divid-
and invidious comparisons are surmised where they do not exist. So once for all world in which you can go nowhere end of 5 per cent. which Messrs. Carroll let it be said that we should be ungrate-without a passport and are callel upon believe is the first they have paid since
fal indeed if we forget for a moment what our Colony owes to its garrison and i fleet, as also, one might add, to its regular police. They are, our security in the last resort, as we all know. There is also a place, and an important one, for the Volunteer companies, and on behalf of this Church, representing, I am sure, the spirit of the whole Colony, I will give myself the pleasure of saying
that no man is more welcome here at any time than the man who wears the King's uniform, whether it marks his chosen profession or shews, what he does with
His spare time.
Now there is another risky subject liable to come up on these occasoins. That is the subject of nationality, "one
scripture text.
at every border to prove that you are 1910. These shares, they add, have jump- Dot a criminal, an anarchist, a pauper, ed. from 84 to 20.50 buyers with no
sellers at present.
BUBBERS.
or something else which is objected to.
For the time being thin is so: we have right to bope and a duty to labour that it be not so for ever. For after all the The Rubber market is still a little easy) world is one, mankind is one, the God and the following sales have been report- who made them for each other is one, ed to Hongkong: and things simply cannot go on for ever
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bottoms facts which the existing condition the denial of these unescapealle of camity tempered by self-interest be- tokens Here in our text those, three great unities, God, the world, mankind- were laid down by the great Christian & great audience in the Apostle lo capital of ancient Greece.
It was new to them, for, like the ancient world at large, they worshipped many Gods, be places, races, countries, with divergent
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"Internationalism" is a good word which has fallen on evil daye, like "Com- munism" and some others. In the name
phase of which is the concern of our lieved to protect or patronise different of it, specialised and restricted as it has
AN ABUSIVE LETIKE.
interests.
Laat mai brought me from London
WHAT HISTORY, PROVES, the most deplorable production in the
Clean against the popular prejudico way even of anonymous letters that "1 have ever seen. It is signed A China Was the teaching that God had made of man in Great Britain," and I appear to face of the earth. The Greeks regarded one every nation of men to dwell on the have incurred his unmeasured hatred for themselves as at the acme of culture and protesting against the treatment which civilisation and the rest of mankind as
our country and in particular this
been, we are asked to root out some of the deepest and mightiest of the im pulses and affections which belong to our very make-up as men and women.
"You cannot drive. out nature with a
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fork," says the old Latin proverb, and from the heart of a man who is s man you cannot expel the love of country without disintegrating his very soul.
Nationalism is a thing which can be Colony has been receiving out here. I barbarians and any nation which takes travestiod, abused, debased distorted am characterised in terms quite unquot that attitude prepares for itself a fall and exaggerated it is subject of easy able-not that I want to quote them from pride into coafasion and humilia ridicule; wrongly directed it becomes a the mildest though to a good Scot "the tion, as bistory has often proved. fruitful cause of offence. But it is one most unkindest cut of all" being that fast and irremovable.
Now these three great unities stand of the fundamental elements in the mo I am classed as an "English swine"!
They have been tives and the actions of men, and vast My name, says the writer, has been for perceived with less or greater clearness would be the blank in the tale of sil warded to Canton withfull parti- by men of insight and genius in every which humanity has rightly delighted to culars, and I am to be handled," he go they are confirmed increasingly by bonour were its noble record expunged declares, something pleasant with bayo the advancing science and philosophy from the memory of our race. nets being hinted at. I read this com- and no weapon formed against them has can be perverted or abused it is hard of our own time. If they hold good- If wo are to abandon everything which munication with real distress thata fellow
no place creature should be in such a horrible prospered-they leave
Past for to see what would remain to relieve the atate of mind. Only pity is to be felt for nationalism of the vulgar, contemptuous nausea, of a stale, Bat and profitless exist- such a case, but it would be interesting type, based upon narrow ignorance and ence Mr. B. G. Wells, at a dinner given to know what the man would think if self-conceit, and producing a crop of six weeks ago by a Chinese students' he were told that the object of his abase poison weed to spoil our harvests of good organisation in London, spoke of national has heard himself characterised as " grain.
pro
spirit as a disease, which he hoped would Chinese, whatever that may mean, be
That is so, but nationalism of the right not spread to China. Whatever his fore now, and has had it biated by some kind is not thereby destroyed or even hopes a new national spirit is certainly whom he is addressing at this moment deprecated. In reaction from nation arising in China, and though for the that he did too much for his non-British alism overdone we are being urged to moment it seems fanatical and unreason- neighbours. Truly it would seem that accept a nebulous cosmopolitanism which ing some of us regard it as a healthier patriotism, which is among the noblest promises much but it is to be feared symptom than the ancient racial variety may easily become the most degraded of would perform little for sasuaging the which has done China so much harm. human sentiments, pervertible at a
troubles and dogmenting the dignity of tounded as it was, on an ignorance due touch into the sourest and ugliest feel-human life.
to isolation from the rest of the world. ings that can desolate a soul,
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