HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1936.
CHINA BAPTIST
BAPTIST CENTENNIAL OBSERVANCE HELD
Address On Protestant
Pioneers To China
MEETING AT GOSPEL
HALL
A meeting held at the Gospel Hall, on Saturday morning in Duddell Street, was the occas on of the observance of the China Baptist Centennial' in which about thirty five missionaries were present.
Miss Molle McNinn, of the Mission at Wuchow, who is the senior missionary-having arrived in China in, 1888-was asked to take charge of the meeting.
and that, all other religions were false and nought. If they could prove this. he and all under him would become Christians and the
daughters of converts, and that the eyes of the dead are taken by them to make medicine."
Another obstacle wach the pro- testant church continued to share with the Roman Catholic was its evident connection with foreign nations and particularly the ag gresive countries of Europe.
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The Chinese officials at Canton felt that to them had been' com- mitted the guarding of China's main door of communication with other nations. The Emperor and his advisors at the capital, for re- moved from contact with the outer barbarians, had little idea of the heavy responsibility their de- putled at Canton were carrying.
The value of foreign trade made | no appeal to the royal court. but the two viceroys of the two For maintenance, etc., of nullahs, Kwangs and his underlings realis- and the construction of additional ed the rich possibilities of this sewers, etc. source of income. But they rea- sed, too, that these were possibl- ties of another king and that they would be held answerable by the throne for any loss of face a
Miss MeNinn graciously accept ed the honour conferred upon her, and addressed the meeting saying that on that day they stood
the sacred milestone which 'Church's legemen.. Finally he territory. Contact with the out-
On
For the bullding of a new Mo- hammedan Mosque at the new gaol at Stanley;
LAID TO REST
marked the completion of a full charged the envoys to bring back side world had taught the Can- Funeral of The Late
century of work on the part cl the Baptist Mission ir South China.
It behaved them to walk softly and reverently, and to reflect hot on what they had accomplished during that time. but on what God had wrought
Their plans for the future. and the possibilities, were immense, and they had a stupendous task before them.
She had great pleasure in intro- ducing the Rev. Dr. Geo H. Mc- Neur. of the New Zealand Presby- terlan Mission, who would speak
the "Pre-treaty Protestan Pioneers in China."
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THE ADDRESS Dr. McNeur sald: By "pre-treaty" we mean pra vious Co
the treaty of Nanking which was signed by Chinese and, British plenipotentiaries on Au- gust 29, 1842, and rated on June
26. 1843.
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The
to him some ofl of the lamp which burns in the sepulchre of our Lord at Jerusalem."
CUNNING INSTRUMENT
ed in the Malay States and now The process was being continu-
knocking at the almost closed doors of South China, France was following suit. It is not strange that the Cantonese became
these Intruders were rudely
Mrs. N. M. Omar
MANY FLORAL TRIBUTES
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antë to amend further the Sun- mary Offences' Ordinance, 1932.
The Ordinance is cited as the Summary Offences (No. 2) Amend- ment Ordinance, 1936.
The objects and reasona state:—— Section 3 (17) of Ordinance No. 40 of 1932 provides that every per- son shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $250 who, without law- ful authority or excuse, in any public place posts up or exhibits, or causes to be posted up or ex- hibited, any notice or proclama- tion in the Chinese language with- out the permission of the Secret- ary, for Chinese Affairs or à Da- trict Oftoer... This paragraph is not to apply to Government no- Hices.
The paragraph in question was taken from paragraph (13D) of section 2 (b) of Ordinance No. 22 of 1930, which was repealed by sec- tlon 32 of the 1932 Ordinance.
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The funeral of the late Mr. Neesa Mohonimed
Omar, whose death was reported in our columns of Saturday, took place the same. evening at the Mohammedan Ce- metery and was largely attended. Maulvi Shah of the Mosque officlat- ed at the last rites.
The chief
at the funeral were the deceased's ve sons, U.M., R.M.. KM. Q.M., and A. M. Omar, besides other relatives. their respects were Messrs. A J. tribution of handbills again within The object of Clause 2 of this Among those present who paid amending Blil is to bring the dis-
A Goldenberg, R. Bass, Dr. V. Edgar, 8. E. Edgar, C. N. Tavares, the mischief against, which the N. Atienza, A, E. Coates, J. 8; Lan-
paragraph is aimed." dolt, L. A. R, Souza, M. A. R. Souza, the unauthorised
Clause 3 of this Bil prohibits
E. el Arculi, E Murphy, L. Souza, any pub ic place. The solt didnte- A. S. Gomes, Dr. H. el Arculli. N. rocks or road-cuttings in or near defacement of
F. Barretto, E. Marques, U. Rum- grating granite of
the Colony." Jahn, D. Rumjahn, C. L. Clarke, Ju- through which most of its beauti- man Khan, A. R. Abbas, Snr., and, fui hillside motor-roads and foot- many others.
paths Floral tributes were sent from with a knife or sharp stick with are cut. is easly carved the following:
the result that, in the absence of of these roads and paths has been a prohibition, much of the beauty marred by slogans, devices, names sion carred by idle loiterers. and other efforts at self-expres
tonese much about the unscrup- lous covetousness of European powers. Spain had occupied the The first Roman missionary to Philippine Island and in doing so tuspond to this friendly invitation had massacred many Chinese Im- was a Franciscan donk-John of migrants The Dutch had secur- Montecolvino-who came alone to ed a large territory In the East Peking in 1288. The work of John Indles and their trading vessels and those who foliowed him "was, | had long been frequent visitors to like that of the Nestor ans, so the coasts of China and Japan. bound up with the Mongol occu- The Protuguese had evidently come pations that it, too, ecased when to Macao to stay and they were the Mongols had to vacate China. using that centre as a base for a For some centuries there were wicked slave trade. The British only vague references to any Indian Company had followed Its Christian activity in China, but in establishment In India by the the middle of the sixteenth cen- gradual annexation of that great tury the greatest of the Jesuit mis- neighbour. sionarles. Francis Xavier came to Japan. On h's voyage he called at: Canton. That visit and his sub sequent experiences in Japan, led him to feel that the evangelizing of China was the most peremptory call of Christ to his church. He died on an island off the coast of South China without attaining his This treaty opened the first passionate desire to begin that treaty ports in China, including work Canton, and ceded Hong Kong to Britain We
EDICT PUBLISHED do not mean, 11.5 might be wrongfully interred, that fathers got entrance from Macao Later in the century the Jesuit China had no treaties with other into Canton and Shul Hing. From nations before that date, Jesult missionaries in Peking add-that base Rice moved northward ed to their prestige hy assisting placed his scholarship
overland to Peping. There he the Manchu rulers to negotiate a
and skill friendly treaty with Russia in
at the disposal of the Ming rulers. Others joined him and later under 1689.
the Manchu conquerors they con- The Portuguese nad reached an understanding of sorts regarding committees were formed in the tinued Lo come until Christian their occupation of Macao, local treaty had also been signed vinces. An edict permitting the
capital and throughout the pro- but it had also Chinese authorities teaching of Christianity anywhere greedy ambitions of the nations South China with the Commander ir China was published by of a British squadron in 1841, al great Manchu emperor. Kang Hsl along with the opposition already
the from which the missionaries cam lowing British th-ps the use of towards the end of the seven-directed Hong Kong Island and the bar teenth century.
against the
son, Mrs. Moses, Edith and Ernie. Two Deaths By Fall bour. The Arst treaty negotiated
Catholic church. With this dark and Mrs. A. Drummond and family. Mr. and Mrs. Chan Shlu Ng. Mr. between the United
The opportunity thus States
secured background in mind, let us now Mr. and Mrs. D. Rumjaho
From Roofs America and China was signed at spiritual methods and sectorian Protestant missions in China.
was lost through the use of un- very briefly trace the beginning of Wong Ka, near Macao on July 3, rivalry. The different Catholic or-
family, Mr. and Mrs. C. Silva. COOLIE BADLY HUKT 1844.
Messra. Tang Pak Yat, Leung Taze In Mr. Wylie's, "Memorials of It is necessary to limit the pre-selves over the
cers quarrelled amongst them-Protestant Missionaries
Ko. Chu Hing To and to
Chow the sent discussion to Protestant Mis name for God and the worship of the first place is given to the Eng- proper Chinese Chinese." published at Shanghal,
Cheung. Messrs. Leung Wan Hot, Three cases were reported to the slons because the whole subject of the emperor, ancestors and ages. lish Baptist missionary in India
Wan Tang Shin, Leung Pak Wing Police on Saturday of people fall- early Christian work in China is The Emperor Insisted
and Tang Wai Cheung.
ing from the roofs of houses. Two too wide a field for such a brief knew better than the Pope what
that he Joshua Marshman.
Cralgengower Cricket Club, Civil of these occurred in Lockhart Road, ..treatment. It is only just to re was good for his subjects and a
Two years before Morrison came Shroffs, Hong Kong Hotels, Ltd. sequences.
Service Cricket Club, Dick and and were attended with fatal con- mind ourselves. however,
to China. Marshman commenced that
period of gradual restriction was the study of Chinese at Singapore lege Football Club.
The other which oe- many centuries before Robert
Ellis and Edgar, St. Joseph's Cot curred in Hankow Road, Kowloon, Morrison arrived at
followed by open and violent per- Marshman. succeeded in producing Canton in
Li Fun Kee, was not fatal but the injured man's Becutions. 1807, the Church had made some
the first complete translation of Co. Ltd., Local
Aower man Hong Kong Electric condition is said to be very ser- Missionaries were tortured, bea-the entire Scriptures Into Chinese.office, Hong Kong Hotels, Ltd... attempt to fulfil the commission ten, strangled or beheaded, while the book being published at Seran.
Staff, Main Billious, of her Lord to preach the gospel
many were deported, in China.
Chinese
Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Kore in 1822. priests and converts suffered even
Ltd., and others. worse. many dying martyr's
by the
the stone tablet discovered
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picious, and specially so of foreign activities presented under friendly guise. They looked on Christian missions as a cunning instrument for the undermining of China's power and dignity.
Thus when the Protestant church began its task in China It was not only faced by the extra-F. ordinary dimculty of persuading a proud. ignorant and superstitious people vet to forsake the religious beliefs and custom had made second nature. practices which many centuries of
self-sufficient
and
the contradiction shown by the to contend with
Roman
ROBERT MORRISON On the centenary of Rebert Morrison's death the facts of his
a. Ford, M. McCarthy, Ng Fat Mesars. Cheung Kin Wai, Ip Kow, Shum, F. M. Ellis, I. J. Britge, J phy, E. C. Fincher, E. H. P. White, Middleton-Smith. E. Owen Mur
C. A. Goldenberg, Miss Betty Till- S. E. Edgar, A. J. Edgar, 1. Land
Chan Kwok Shi, Mr. and Mrs. W. man, Mrs. Chan Chack and family, Mr. and Mrs. Choy Hon Fun, MS POLICE REPORTS K. Way, Mr. and Mrs. A. Grimmitt and family, Mrs. and Miss Pater-
IN MEMORIAM
and
The Han. Treasurer of the 8o.
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Yeung Ling Ying, aged 13, fell from the roof of No. 111, Lockhart Road on Friday afternoon and died un the way to the Government Civil Hospital
The first Nestorian missionaries were in China by 635 A. D. as deaths, witnessed by the inscription On I have taken the time to outline life were brought afresh before the Slan-fu. in Shensi, during 1625 plain the attitude of the Chinese China. It was not surprising that
Fung Wun, a female aged 20, rell at these facts because they help ex-missionary community in Bouth
Irom the roof of No, 22, Lockhart There is a growing and illuminat-government and people carly, in in popular Christian estimation as
Road into the back yard and died. ing lterature on this subject. Protestant mission work. Superad-in actual use, Morrison's transis clety of St. Vincent de Paul ac-
This was a case of apparent suicide. NESTORIAN CHURCH' ded to the reasons mentioned al-tion of the bible should have made knowledges with gratitude
In Kowloon, Bo Bze, 40, an earth and coolle. received very severe injur- When the Mongola "occupied opposition aroused.
ready there was the suspicion and Marshman's tremendous achieve thanks the receipt of the following les to his legs and head when he China in the thirteenth and four-common people, by the religious
ment appear almost unnecessary, further donations towards the fell from the roof of No. 57, Han- teenth centuries, the Nestorian observances of the Roman church.
Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector Society's Funds in memory of the kow Road, which building was in Cauter, which had long been The more or less private obser- General of the then Imperial late Mr. C. A, da Roza
the course of demolition. driven out of China, but had con- vance of the rites of baptism and Maritime Customs, said of him: The Local Staff of the China tinued to exert a strong influence the eucharist, and specially, the missionaries, ministers owe him a Mr. and Mrs. S. Pinna ......... "on the countries lying to the west, custom of baytizing the dying and debt of gratitude."
"All who came after-merchants. Light & Power Co, Ltd. ...$15.00 again entered the northern pro-infants with the idea that their
The Choa Brothers ... vinces. But its activities were so salvation was thus secured, led to tunity of service at Canton. to his
Morrison owed his long oppor- Mr. and Mrs. E. J. de Figueire-
among the
WHARF ACCIDENT
2.00
2.00
2.00
Whlie loading apples from her Junk to the s.s. Fukien. Maru at the Kowloon wharf on Friday. Kwong Tai Kim, 19, a spinster off
closely related to its Mongo) off- the spread of all sorts of stories employment by the East India Mr. and Mrs, B. d'Aumpcao 1.00). cargo boat No. 7742 received severe
cial patrons that, when they had about human sacrifices, the taking Company as their offelal trans- Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Grace....... tu leave the churches which had put of eyes, and the doping of
been founded. It also disappeared. Chinese in order to give them toz- lator and interpreter,"
It was under the protection of eign hearts.
the same Mongol conquerors that
IMMORALITY CHARGED
1.00 injuries when a sling which was Mr. and Mrs. H. J. M. de holsting the apples aloft, broke and We are impressed with the fit- Figueiredo ......
1.00 precipitated a case of apples on ness of God's choice in this first Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Yvanovich 1.00 her head. The injured woman died missionary. As his blographer Mr. C. A. Lopes
1:00 at 1.40 am, on Saturday morning.
Total.
$28.00
FAR EAST HEALTH
The Health Bulletin of Eastern
the Roman Catholics found their Initial opening in China. Two The practise of individual and says. "He was precisely fitted to Italian merchants-brothers nam-secret confession lent itself to the position he was called to ful- ed Polo-reached Peking in 1285, charges of immorality. That such " The patience that refuses to and when they returned home,popular rumours made real diff-be conquered. the diligence that carried a letter from the Mongol culties" for Protestant M'ssions is never tires, the caution that al- Khan to the Pope. In this letter, evidenced by a letter written in ways trembles. and the studious partments. good common sense, Parts for the week Ending August The begged that the Pope would 187 by Liang-A-fa, and still pre-habit that spontaneously seeks re-pood temper, sincere love to the 8 states: Plague: Bassein à cases, send as many as a hundred mem-served in the archives of the Lon-tirement, were best adapted for bets of our Christian faith; intel, don Missionary Bociety in London the situation of the arst mission Saviour and a desire to promote Rangoon 1, Prom-Penh 2: Cholera: ligent men, acquainted with the "The orangelist says the door into ary in China,"
the glory of god in the salvation Calcutta 26 cases, Negapatam 4. seven arts. well qualified to enter the Protestant church has been into controversy, and able clearly closed for most Chinese by the to prove by force of argument to current stories that the pelesta in idolators and other kind of folk the Roman Church have improper that the law of Christ was best, relations
the wives and
What we require in all the mem-concerns to the cause of our Lord bay 6, Calcutta 13, Moulmein 3, of men, and that they subordinate Rangoon 1, Bangkok 1 death, Robert Morrison himself sald, all their personal and domestic small-Pox: Baghdad 1 case, Bom- bers of the missionary community is unfeigned plety, humility, edu amond the heathen "
Colombo 1, Pnom-Penh 1, Shang- hai 4. Ogaks 2.
cation or skill in their several de-
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