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The husband and wife shown above take a keeni erestin Chinese political affairs in the North. Ther belong to the so- called modern school.
"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1919.
The s.s. Great Northern, which recently visited Hong- kong with US troops aboard, and her Comniander, Capt. H. Porta.
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The youngest prisoner of U. S. troops maintaining the wat ah on the banks of the Rio Grande, is Juan de la Cruz, age 13. Dragged into camp, he was found possessed of an old single shot rifle. Around his baby chest was slung an anmunition-belt, heavy with cartridges.
The above picture shows Fanchon Wolff, the famous dancer, as an aviatrix. She is the first aerial post-woman, and is seen above delivering a mail.
THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.
о
THE CHURCHES AND LABOUR.
CLERGY TRADE UNION.
THE UNDERPAID CURATE.
Why not a trade union for the clergy? The question was ask- ed in the Daily Chevirle, as long as last March, when an account was given of the newly-formed Clergy Association in the Wake- field diocese.
The clergy who formed the association were subjected to criticism on the ground that such an association savoured too much of trade union propaganda.
The Hon. and Rev. J. G Adderley, rector of St Paul's Covent Garden, is entirely favour able to 'the trade union idea.
"By all means let them form a trade union." he said to a Dully Chronicle representative. But Mr. Adderley was careful to point out the difficulties that would be encountered.
"I fear." he suggested, "that. in the event of such an organisa- tion being formed, the members might find themselves compelled o do things that, for a clergy- man. would be altogether wrong. They could not, for instance. ing his short stay in England he be disappointed that there is no refuse to conduct services for has manifest da warm desire to evidence to support this view. their people on Sundays, or carry help the churches of his order On the other hand proof is suppli on their duties on other occasions. and to show sympathy with ed of women being admitted to If they combine. they must devise Christian some definite form of Holy Orders 8ome means of forcing things on goodwill. Coming as he did and taking part in the formal without doing anything contrary from the Southern States, he has liturgical services of the Church to Christian principles. experienced some of
"In any case. I do not see how the dis- In the past the diaconate of comforts of our climate. He has women had a very real existence, curates are going to live on the f naturally met difficulties in creat- and women administered baptism salaries at present paid to them. ing an organised church life at and took the reserved Eucharist We have tried to alter the coa- This emphasises the attempt of the City Temple, which has for a to the sick. Facts are also sup it is to be done unless more funde [ditions, but it is not clear how far-sighted groups of inen and long period been regarded simply plied concerning the duties of women, both in the Anglican and
as a preaching station.
abbesses in great religious houses, are made available." Free Churches, to bridge the gulf.
Our knowledge of the whole sub-
One of the most serious pro- blems for organised Churches is the growing estrangement of the Labour movement from their regular activities.
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Mr. Adderley is not the kind ing the whole income, I believe you that were done the salaries could
There is also the Clergy in It explains also the increasing The report of a committee 20ject benefits by this report.
of spiritual leader who leaves would in many cases get enough be pooled, and the surplus could Parliament' movement, in rela- power and vitality of the Brother-pointed by the Archbishop of
matters as he finds them because to give incumbents about £400
tion to which we have a Bill there are difficulties in the way. à
about go towards paying the clergy of ready, which we hops. soon to year and curates hood movement, whose Interna Canterbury on the ministry of
And so he immediately brought £200.
poorer parishes. No business is introduce through the House of tional Congress recently proved women, and recently issued by singularly successful both in its the S.P.C.K. at 12s. 6d.. contains
up suggestions for remedying the "I worked it out oace. in so badly conducted as that of the Lords, as the House of Commens FREE BEER!
wrongs.
to be Birmingham, and that was what Church; in fact, no business could seems
impossible at programme and its appeal. Whe-valuable information
Sheffield. Free beer ther the movement, now some-much-debated subject. Men like
** I believe," he declared, "that I found. ́And, if it were done be conducted on those lines, and present. Robinson
whole and served in Sheffield when
athe what loosely organised kan evolve Dr.
That Bill, if passed into law, of the through the whole Church of prosper. We believe our Enabling a permanent and co-related ma-Dr. A. T. Mason have brewery wagon was smashed in Church ought to be redistributed. England I believe it would come Bill will give us power to do what would enable clergy to go on chinery, in some alliance with made contributions.. and its a collision. Women and children on the lines of action taken when out at something like those is necessary, and I do not think municipal councils, and to sit in- the Churches, is still under con-appendices and illustrations add ran with jugs and jars to catch the affairs of the Ecclesiastical figures. At any rate it would be Parliament is unwilling to give us Parliament. The only classes"
were rearranged. à fairer system.
the, powers we require if we remaining disqualified are the sideration. Its success rests interest to the volume. Those what they could of the contents Commission
clear Case before clergy and criminals who have largely upon the action of the who claim to-day women should flowing from the broken casks Taking any diocese, even, under "Then many parishes ought to put a
been found out" be admitted to the priesthood willland down the gutters.
present arrangements. and divid-be merged one in another. Iflit.
Churches themselves.
Less known, but equally vital, are the efforts of men' in the Student Christian movement to make the Labour movement) acquainted with the East. Recent publications by Mr. William Paton and the Rev. Frank Len- wood draw attention to the bear- ing of the world-wide missionary work of Christianity upon this! question, Mr. Basil Mathews tells me that some references be made recently at Browning Hall, which appeared in the Daily News| have brought him correspondence. from all parts of the country.
Since the war the whole world has realised its unity to an extent never before appreciated. The workers as a whole, however, seem at present unaware of the influence of the missionary appeal for idéal social conditions in the East.
A well-informed opinion in dicates that Dr. Fort Newton is about to settle in America. This will involve a period of unsettle ment at the City Temple, and re move a preacher possessed of fine sympathy and lofty ideals. Dur-
Armitage
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