THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1929.
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VANDALISM IN SHANSI.
THE COLONY'S FINANCES.
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BEHEADED.
A story of wanton vandalism dis- PROSPECT OF $10,000 DEBT ON tressing alike to lovers of art and
1029 ACCOUNTS.
students, both Chinese and foreign, is told in the Canton Gazette of last Saturday. Ninety-eix stone Bad- dhas of the Stone Buddhas Temple, at Tatungfu, in Shanel, have been "beheaded."
The St. John's Cathedral body are making a special appeal to the generosity of the congregation in view of the fact that at a meeting of catholders and subscribers, which is being held on Thursday, the abolition of pow rente, ar proved last year will he brought up for confirmation.
It is expected, however, that there will be a deficiency of $10,000 this year when new rents have been in force,
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Several of these heads appeared in a local showroom in Peping, and it was soon discovered that an officer of a certain corps, with the co-operation of a curio dealer and the local policemen of Yunkang, were the culprits.
Cries of indignation have come from the educational eireles, from Members of the congregation are Dr. Chiang Mo Lin, Minister of arked to join a Good Will Offering Education, Mr. Chang Chi, Chair Scheme, and to contribute by ene man of the Peping Association for of three methods: (0) Hy Monthly the preservation of Ancient Relics, Bankers' Order, (b) by weekly en
and from Mr. Yeh Kung Cho, velope and (c) by annual cheque.
former Minister of Communica The Dean (the Very Rev. Ations, voicing indignation at what Swang) in the course of a special they termed an unprecedented act. appeal states:
of vandalism, and demanding that the offenders he severely punished.
Chinese records state that these stone Ruddhaa at Funkang were carved about 1,400 years ago, and represent the oldest example of Buddhist art in this country. The Yukang eliffe in which the temple is situated is covered with thousands of stone Buddhas, Among them stands one 70 feet high.
The Present Need. With the abolition of new rents
we shall gain much in the spirit of open hospitality, but we shall lose something in income. This, we can very ill afford to do at the present time, as may be seen from the following figures. The Honor ary. Treasurer reports that he ex- pects our total expenditure in 1929 to be approximately $44,200,000. To meet this Sir Paul Chater's En dowment yields $20,000.00, and fees for Government Services 81,700.000. Our regular income is therefore 821,700.00, leaving 822,500.00 to be provided by donations, offertories It is estimated and pew rents.
that in 1925 these sources will pro- vide only $12,400.00 leaving a defeit of over $30,000.00,
Although we have a Reserve Fund capable of meeting this deficit, it is obvious that immediate steps must be taken to remedy such a condition.
It is for this reason, and "not only because in future we shall have na income from pew rents, which is a comparatively small matter. that we are introducing in January 1930, a New Finance" Scheme. The present work of the Cathedral can. not be maintained unless a new and large source of income is found.
For regular Churchmen the ques tion to be decided is whether their normal contributions to the offer- Lory represents a reasonable pro- portion of their income. Does a dollar per week, or ten or fifty cents, really represent the extent of your willingness.to help forward the Church's work? If not, how
The romance of travel would be much can and ought you to give? dulled without well
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Having honestly faced and ans- polishedwered this question the next ques
tion is how each person's share is to be paid. "We think that the new scheme for regular giving which we now propose, will provide" all Church people, whatever their in- come, with the most business-like and satisfactory method. It is straightforward, systematic and
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For those who are not regular worshippers the question is "Do I feel that the Church, is doing a work which needs doing? If the answer (with whatever qualifien- tion) is yes then the same ques tion as for regular worshippers arises. "How much of my manth- ly income represents my goodwill towards the Church For such
Mr. Chang Hui, official repre sentative of the Peping Association
for the Preservation of Ancient Relice, who was sens recently to Yankang to make an investigation,
has found that, these 90 Buddhas were decapitated, some time he tween April and August. He also discovered that an officer of a cer- tain corps posed as a tourist. and engaged a gang of workers to cut the beads from the stone Baddhas. At present there are ten men held in custody who are suspected of being connected with the crime.
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name
for
Sundays of the current year, will be sent to any who choose this. me- thod:. It is hoped that those who use these envelopes will date what weekly entribution they will make, and will endeavour to maintain The this throughout the year. Subscriber will then pet his weekly. quoi into, the envelope, bring it
Church and place it in the alms bag. Each envelope user will have his number, which will be printed on his envelopes. If he cannot at- tend the Cathedral on any Sunday or Sundays it is hoped that he will bring with him, when next he comes, the envelopes for the inter- vening period, The, name of 'rach
to the "Envelope Treasurer."
wall-wishers the new scheme pro-envelope user will be known only vides a convenient and reasonable method for subscribing.
It has now been decided to in- clude these two sections in one General Fund, and to ask people to become Subscribers to their in-
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al collections on Sundays.
This
(3) By annual cheque to the Cathedral Treasurer. This method will be suitable only for those to whom it is convenient to give a large amount at one time.
It is hoped that all regular wor shippers at the Cathedral will adopt one of these methods.
is a risk. and the success, of the CENEROSITY-OR ECONOMY.- venture will entirely depend on the number, regularity, and amount of subscriptions received.
If the HOW THE POSITION STANDS
amount' received from regular sub- scriptions should be seen to be in- adequate the Cathedral Council would have resort again to col- lections for special objects, but it is hoped that this will not be ne CeRRATY..
TO-DAY.
The Rev. HVKoop, in-the- course of his sermon at Evensong in the Cathedrai yesterday, said that in, these days we seem to have Jest the munificent epirit of earlier A comprehensive Budget will be days. Thus of the Cathedral's cur Issued at the beginning of each year rent expenses of $40,000 a year. which will show all known and $20,000 came from the generosity of estimated Cathedral Expenses," one man, the late Sir Paul Chater. and also all amounts which it is The present-congregation had only desired to give to Christian Philan to supply half of what in due, but thropy and Church Extension, such instead of doing that easily, and As Hospitals, Schools, Diocesan and having money to extend the church Missionary funds, etc. On the beyond the Colony, they were only ather hand the Budget will show all giving a quarter of this minimum. known sources of Income and also.Only two coutɛes the total amount which it will he necessary to receive from subserip tions and offertories in order to meet all commitments.
The New Method, Contributions may be made in the following way's - 'n
(1) By signing an order to you, bankers to pay a given amount, monthly in St John Cathedral Goodwill Account,
(2) By using a weekly envelops. Packets of 32 specially made en velones, bearing the dates of the (Continued on next Colúmn.)
were
open-
greater generosity or cutting down expenses. The latter course meant ending some of the clergy home and being content with third-rate "music.
They relied mainly on collections pew rents were to be abolished-- but collections were most uncer tain. The envelope scheme had bees applied all over England-with the greatest success and it was n appeal which everyone, young and old, from phoir boys upwards, could bélp, and the preacher asked his congregation to give the echeme a chance in Hong Kong-
JULY 31.
Financial returns up to the end of July show that out of extimustes
the "year
1929 totalling for $24,500,000 the expenditure wai $11,500,000, compared with 811,470,000 during the same period, last year,
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This includes close upon $500,000 interest on public debt, a liability this year and, presumably, the money needed for water emerg ency measures. This can be regarded as satisfactory evidence of official Leonomy.
The
month's révenus totalled $1,578,754, as against 82,180,443 far July of last year, the most bote. worthy decline being in and sales, which produced only 895,787 as compared with $235,049 in the same. month of 1828.
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CORRESPONDENCE. John Review, to be out of date for the Church to discuss the pro- priety of Sunday golf from the point of view of Sabbath-breaking." To my kind that is the whole crux of the matter is the playing of.. golf on Sunday an infraction of Command-
SUNDAY GOLF:
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Expenditure during July totalled $1,030,151, against $1,608,704 last year. The biggest increase was [TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG the original Fourth under the heading of Public Works Department, which accounted for $417,625, compared with $110,818 in July, 1928. There were also con siderable increases in Junior Cleri, cal Staff. Fire Brigade, Military Contribution and Miscellaneous Ser.
vices.
The Financial Statement for the month of July, 1929, is ns follows;
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE, Balance of Assets and Liabilities on June 30, 1929 Revenue from July
1 to 31, 1929
Expenditure
July 1 to 41, 1929
$10,017,615.81
S18,-For how long has it been "out of date for a Christien to regard the Ten Commandments as being of no particular consequence I am astonished to learn that it is considered by the Editor of the St. (Continued on ñest Column.)
ASSETS.
52,937.0 1,403,773.59 55,201.54
1,878,754,03
811,896,360. SÜ
1,930,151.27
Balance ... $ 9,008,218.59
Assets and Liabilities on July 31, 1929.
LIABILITIES.
from
Subsidiary Coins..... $1,834,012.10 Advances Building Loans '........ Imprest House Service Ac
count
tJoint
count
Deposits not Avail
able
$1,272,199.72
Coloniai Ac
Unallocated Stores . (P.W.D.)
Unallocated
(Railway)
Stores
Investment Account
Lorry Haulage Ac-
count
Fixed Deposit
Postal Agencies ....... Coal Accoun
$171.44
7,360.9.1
Suepensé Account Suspense Trade Loan Overdrait Bank Trade
Loan, Adjustment of Ex-
change
532,163.46
*Count
802,289,67
Balance at Banks
Trade
9,791,110.03
**
340,698.71
$5.751,209.86
Total Liabilities
Balance ... 0,904,213.60
Total $15.720,428.59
(Continued on next Column.),
Ar
Loan Out. standing Crown Agents Cur
rent Account
Total
ment If one of the Ten may be lightly disregarded as out of date, why not the other aine! There can be no possible question that the man who neglects attendance at Church for the sake of a game of golf is neglecting his spiritual wel- fare, and I can see no reason for the doubt that is in the mind of the writer of the article in the... Review Yours, etc.
CONSISTENT." Hong Kong, November 17,
518-Surely it is rather late in the day to raise this issue of Sun- day games, even in Hong Kong, so far behind the times in so many 20.803.47 ways. The great majority of men are simply not interested in Church 4,108,387.09 services, and it is no use pretend- ing otherwise. They prefer to play 453.305.00 golf, go sailing, motoring, walk. ing, or do anything else that takes 144.623.9 them out into the open air on a 1,464.410.22 Sunday rather than listen to ser
mons.
8,334.78, But it is not fair to suggest that because men prefer to do these 1,600,000.00 things they do not contribute gener. 900,687.81 ously to deserving causes. I know there are financial saxieties up at 3,596,206.72, St. John's, where a deficit of about ten thousand dollars is expected 95.157.63 this year, but it is simply untrue lo suggest that the men who stay away from Church on Sundays do not contribute most liberally to worthy charities-and, at times, to sanses less. deserving.-Yours, etc.,
$15.720.429.55
+ Joint Colonial Account £198,000.
M. J. BREEN,, Treasurer.
November 7, 1929.
Hong Kong, November 17.
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