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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST – 28, 1933.
THE LIFE STORY OF A
CHINESE CHRISTIAN
Bishop Hall's Sermon At St. Andrew's
Church
VIVID SIDELIGHT ON MODERN
CHINA
The Biship of Hong Kong, the Rt. Rev. Ronald Hall, "wha 1o arrived back in the Colony on Saturday preshed his first sermou Nice his return yesterday morning at St. Andrew's Church befurr 4 lavye congregation. The Vicar, "the Ree, W. Walten Boyers, con- " ducted the service."
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Bishop Hall courteously "Ment our representative::chin” masin- script, which we give in full.
The Bishop sald;
I am going to speak to you this morning in the person of a Chinese Christian. It is a true story of a man's life, but not of anyone who is known in South Ching Indeed. it is only very lately that I have; come to know him. I shall speak in the first person and make no comments. I ask you to remember that you are not listening to "met as. I but to another's life story myself recently listened to it.
"My Father,
I am the only child of my par ents' old age. You cannot under- stand my life unless I tell you first about my father. He was a farmer in a small country village. flood, My
known province has famine, and war. These things make deep impression on the farmers, though they cannot speak of them. They made a deep im- pression on my father. He was a Confucianist of the old school. He listened for a long time to the Christian teaching. before he ac- cepted it. It came to him as the fulfilment of his Confucian teach ing. There was for him no choice between Confucius and Christ, as for Jewish Christians there was no choice between Moses and Christ, Christ fulfills all the teachings of China's scholars,
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a great impression on me He was very like my father in outlook and He was one of the best method.
old school, missionaries of the and that is saying a great deal. He too made me learn a great deal by heart: many of the Psalms, the whole Gospel of St. Mark," and some of St. Paul's most beautiful But my learning by passages. heart was now in English and so was much harder for me-though I have always been grateful for the grounding I then received in the English language. My teacher had plainly, from the first, destin- ed me for the University. I was made to do extra work in every subject, and consequently did not get all the physical exercise which was of such advantage to my fel-
students.
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FIRE IN LEIGHTON HILL ROAD
A small outbreak of fre accur- red about 5.30 on Saturday night at No. 78 Leighton Hill Road, 2nd! floor.
It was very soon extinguished by the accupants of the house be- for the re-engines arrived.
A defective electric wire is
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outset in a chain of falsehood.
However, I taught for two years with great success both education- ally and financially. and had made a very sure position for myself in all the leading schools of the City. I had been offered a post as Prin-' cipal when my next temptation came."
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In time I found myself in a Christian University in the capital City of my province. And here,
One of our old colleagues who though I had great admiration and affection for many of the mis-had entered the service at the sionaries, my greatest friends were same time as myself was leaving. a group of like minded fellow- We others were to entertain him students. We were always toge to a farewell dinner. In his pre- ther; our minds were continually sence it was suggested by the active on every subject that came Principal that two famous singing to us from our old Chinese train- girls in the City should be invited
to entertain us at the dinner. ing, and from the books we.read
I was fortunate was greatly embarrassed, for our from the west. too that my College days coincid- Colleague who was leaving was the In my father's life Christianityed with the most vigorous period kind of man who enjoyed that of the Chinese Rennaissance led kind of thing more than the rest meant two things for him:-
First it meant that he became by Dr. Hushik and his friends in of us, the head-man of the village not Pelping. only in name but in fact. Christ brought to him an inventiveness and eagerness in public service which supplemented the more re- served Confucian way. He started a village fund with 40 cash from the sale of fish caught in the village pond when he died that fund after being much used was 400 dollars. He started a, village school where the boys learned by heart the Confucian classics and sections of the Bible. You will guess what this Christian leader meant to the village when I tell you what happened at his death
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It was to please him the suggestion had been made. At At this time I thought I had last I found the courage to ask it ceased to be Christian. My I might be excused from the din friends and 1 were determined ner
In the end, however, they to be free to live without rules, were unanimous that they would without religion, without dogma. rather have my company than the We believed China had been too singing girls. Naturally the din- long imprisoned in the cast-iron ner was not a success. I was un- moulds of Confucius' teaching, "ana comfortable and restrained and so that the religion of Jesus Christ were they.
But from that moment I knew was merely transferring her to a new bondage of superstition and that Christ meant more to me than fear. This was in part due to the freedom. I was now convinced way in which we were taught to that I could only and happiness accept the Bible; and in part also in the service of the Church. to the neo-legalism of the younger I went back to my old University missionaries, who taught as a new as a teacher, clear at least that
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that Christ was real-more real to the City where I was then ing of Jesus Christ.
Every one of that little group me than the Chinese Renaissance teaching. I had to take the coffin. several days overland and then by except myself has distinguished or successful educational work.: ...
Martyrdom. himself in medicine, in teaching, boat. Imagine how moved, I was when the boat reached the small and in commerce. One was even- One day during the next year a communist. 1'in the old University town I met town where I was to start the last tually shot as three days by land to our old vil- alone am still a Christian. to-day.. the member of our Student Group In A Far Country.
who had become a communist. He lage, to find every able-bodied man.
But I did not at that time call was indeed a leader of the com- from our village waiting for me.
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ing my Father's body on his last passion for freedom led me to leave a price was on his head. I asked. teaching work in a Mission School him to come and spend the night journey. Moreover, when We reached the village they watched and take up Government teaching with me that we might talk again COMING to the CENTRAL
three hours all night insisting that I should work in a large city in a neigh- together. He came
bouring province. I was afraid of later to our evening meal The The second great thing that my motives. I wanted to prove to man I had recognised in the clo- Christianity meant in my father's myself that I was not a Rice- thes of a beggar, was now the im- Christian-that in my livelihood maculate city gentleman. He told fe was my birth, when my par- ents were both getting on in years.as in my thought, I could be free me he changed his clothes some- Whether or not he connected my from dependence, on other. I do times four or five times a day.
not think you missionaries can We talked about Christ. I can coming with his new faith I do not know. But you can imagine realise how acute this conflict is never forget what he said, "Christ Be what a deep impression it made in the minds of young Chinese cannot teach me any more.
women to-day. Often has taught me to love the poor, upon him, and how glad he was men and that a son had been denied him they are driven to refuse work in and to feel their sufferings as my until he was able to give him a the ministry or in the mission by own. Greater love hath no man Christian home, and from the their anxiety to test whether their than this, that he lay down his beginning a Christian education religion is real or an unconscious life for his friends. While we all This fact made the bond between wish to please those who can en-slept he left us as unnoticed as my father and myself much closer, sure them employment and livell- he had come. Three days after- wards he was arrested, and a year even than the very close bond" hood. which is common between - fathers On my first day in my Govern- later after many attempts by his and sons in China. There was ment appointment the Principal friendship and understanding be knowing that I came from a tween us which has given me for Christian University, asked me be life. a deep sympathy with and fore the rest of the Stan, "Do understanding of the ufe of the you believe in God? This was my Chinese" farmerad
first temptation. I compromised. I asked him "How do you think the world was made? He said, "Ne- I said," Your Nature and ture." age my father's school, where ne my God are the same thing."
But from that moment I was employed a teacher very like him- self in his Confucian background. Dever happy I knew my God and At 10 years old I moved on to a his Nature were not the same, Central Missionary School Here thing. Setting out to live a free the missionary head master made life I had fastened myself at the
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Do you wonder that young China to-day is moved to its depths by the readiness of commimists, to die for, their faith? It Communism wins in China, it will be because the Spirit of Christ has - passed from us who are called Christians to the Communiste
I made one comment. Im make no more to you It is this The same is true in my country”
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