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́ ́A REBUILT CHURC H.
Dedication Ceremony at Macao
Quite a number of Hangkong people went down to Macao yes- terday, to be present at the de dication by the Lord Bishop of Victoria, Hongkong, of the rebuilt Protestant Church in our neigh- baur colony. As has been recall- ed, the Church was built original- ly by the Haón. East India Com- pany in 1817, standing near the | Company's office, the ruins of (which are still to be seen in the vicinity of the Camoens garden. Behind the Charch Is the old cemetery, with graves of foreiga [early comers to China, including some notable Britishers. "Richard Oliver," in his interesting article: in our Saturday's issue, referred to them.
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Of the old Church nothing has been left bdthe foundations, so that it was prctically a new edifice in which yelerday's can gregation assezabled. It is * small building, of simple design, and for the dedication it was quite | filled. Among those present were Lady Stubbs, the Governor [of "Macao and Lady Correia da Silva, Admiral Sir A. L. Duff and Miss Duff. Commodore and Mrs. Bowden Smith, Sir Paul Chater. Lt-Col Hayley Bell (Commis- sioner of Customs at Macaç), Capt. Magalhaes Correia (Captain) of the port of Macao), Mr. G. Ai Potts. Capt. CE. W. Ricou, Mr. the pioneers of that colonial ex-William Medhurst issued an ap Wallace (U. S. Vice-Consul at pansion, which has done so much peal for the preservation of the Canton). Capt. Cloete and other to alter the face of the earth. It cemetery. Later again the Church officers of HMS. Tarantula, was the Portuguese who, at the fell into disrepair, and in 1898 which to the Admiral's party end of the fifteenth and the begin. Archdeacon Barnett reclaimed the across. Assisting the Bishop of ning of the sixteenth centuries Church for the service to God, Victoria were Rev. Dr. T. W. opened up the vast extent of the from being a cracker store-bouse. Pearce, Rev. C. B. Shann. and coast of Asia from the Red Sea
The Old Cemetery.
the
Rer, J. L. Galloway (S. Baptist to Macao to European trade and In all there were 172 graves in Mission), Mrs. Hayley Bell was at influence,
under leaders like the Churchyard and on the Mee- the organ.
Vasco da Gama and Albuquerque.senberg Hill. In addition there The Opening Ceremony.
For three hundred years Macaowers in the new Cemetery some 20 During the hymn "D God our was, for foreigners, the gateway of old graves, dating back to Help in Ages Past," the customary the Chinese Empire. Here, the latter part of the 18th Century, request to dedicate the Church first lighthouse in the East was that had been brought together was made to the Bishop outside erected the first printing press from the various bills outside the They were of people the Church. His Lardship knock-emp' wing movable type, instead old walls.
different lands, ed, was admitted by Rev. J. Lof the sterectyped wooden blocks who came from Galloway, and, fellowed by the used by the Chinese, was set up; from Denmark and Norway, from and France, from other clergy, proceeded to the here, also, the first foreign hos-Germany holy table. Psalm 122 "[ waspital in China was opened and America and from Great Britain. glad when they said unto me: Wefarcination was first practised. The oldest known grave was that will go into the house of the Lord Here Capt. Hall, on November of Wilhelm Meesberg, and went W23 390.
The Bishop asked a 25th, 1840, arrived in the Nemesis, back to 1767.
toachi "And for moment blessing on the building, and after the first iron steamer
said his Lordship. "I would ask you to the Collects formally dedicated it. these shores.
think of that world of 200 years Rev. Dr. Pearce read lesson
jago." Going back to Commodore
2
to
Rebuilding of the Church.
from 1 Chron, 29 (9 to 17). The "We are met to dedicate to the Anson's trip around the world in Te Drum was sung, and after the glory of God and, for the service the Centaur in 1741, the preacher Apostles' Creed, Rev. J. L. Gallo-of the Tittle group of English-reviewed world conditions then, way offered prayer. The hymn speaking people this restored and China's relation to them.
The Morrisons.
We love the place O God" was Church. This is a sacred spot to sung, preceding the Bishop's very all who love the past and who interesting serman, which appears reverence that spirit of the pioneereesenberg was buried render below. The byma "The King of through which progress' comes- Love my Shepherd is," and prayer Eleven months ago, when I paid Messenberg Hill," he contian- fed. "The first of which we have by Rev. Dr. Pearce concluded the my first visit to Macao, this
record to be buried in the Ceme service.
Church was 2 ruin. The next) month Colonel Hayley Bell spoke Charles Pattle, who died in the
tery adjoining this
Church was An Epitaph. The congregation then followed at our Diocesan Conference. His year of Waterloo, and among the the Clergy into the 'cld Cemetery, speech was reported and the next earliest to be buried was the first which has recently been put in morning I bad a letter saying that wife of the great pioneer Robert order again. Wreaths had been one who desired to remain anony Morrison, Mary Morrison, who with placed on all the graves; but on/mous would defray the balance ofher anborn child was laid to rest the cost of rebuilding. Since in that spot, where soon after her three of them bigger wreaths were laid, with a little ceremony, in-
then, the Church has been Te husband was also to be laid." cluding the reading of the lengthy built, the cemetery has been put
in thorough order, every tomb inscriptions. Dr. Pearce placed:
His Lordship compared world relations 1807, when Morrison
a wreath on the grave of Destone has been cleaned, a diagram landed, with thojsjef 1741. When
Robert Morrison, and the Admiral
laid tributes on the graves of the two Naval commanders. Sir H. le F. Serhouse and Lord H.
Spencer Churchill.
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has been drawn of the cemetery Morrison arrived b China, he showing every gravestone, and said, Chinese re book prepared from documents under pain of death to teach for Chuphill, of H. M. Frigate forbidden Right Hon. Lord John Spencer Colonial Government showing the persevered, and after 27 years he and fourth son of the obtained from the Portuguese eigners their language, Yet he Dr Senior Officer of the Can-
It was an interesting concidence legible as late as 1898. Twelve old lating the whole Old and New died in 1840. And to Sir Hum-
- COMMISSION ON LONDON added a wreath on the last named inscriptions of all those that were had been instrumental in trans-MiCooke of Marlborough. He
GOVERNMENT../ ste graves on the East Hill (called Testaments and in compiling the phrey le Fleming Senhouse, Senior that yesterday
Meetings of the Royal Come i Messenberg) have also been clean-first Chinese-English dictionary, Naval Officer of the China Sts-mission on London Government anniversary of the ceremony of; ed and four on Robert Morrison's consecration for Kyan, Kumsingman Harbour, 14 students of Chinese have drawn fever contracted in the capture of CONCERTS FOR EVERY VILLAGE.
the island of the fountain from which all tion, who died in June 1841 after opened on December 6. mission work.
miles up the coast. We, and since his time. The ceremonies over, the visi-
the heights of Canton.. In this Buckinghamshire & Education tors inspected with interest the many besides, are grateful to him
"When Morrison died he had Cemetery lle buried soldiers and Committee, with the co-operation who has given this Church and plain tombstones, reading the in-
also to those local friends who only six converts. But his faith sailors, merchants and civil ser- of the Carnegie United Kingdom |scriptions and conjuring up 2
have so ungrudgingly given their has been justified: the little one vants, doctors and inissionaries. Trust, is furthering the vill wealth of romance from the far services fer carrying through this has become a thousand, and it is, brave women and children not a and country town concert scheme back dates.
work. All will agree that we owe I think, interesting that in the few. True pioneers all of them by holding concerts in various Most of the Hongkong visitors a special debt to Colonel Hayley same week that 1 dedicate this who laid down their ihm for the parts of that county. Distin returned last night. On his ar-Bell for all that he has done.
Church here I am also to dedicate great future that is to rival at Macao yesterday, the Ad-
the Church of Our Saviour in miral was received on landing with that as they dedicated this res-laboured, a Church for the Chi- a guard of honour from the Portatored Church they thought, in- guese East African regiment, and evitably, of the original Church Chinese money and served by
nese built almost entirely by Hon.
Chinese clergy
téalls.
The Sermon
Continuing, the Bishop said Canton, the city where Morrison Their Example to Us.
The Pioneers.
Dwelling on their example of plodding, patient upbuilding, Hi Lardship concluded:
guished London artists are ap- pearing The scheme aims at raising funds to give concerts in every village in England.
6
WU PEI-FU AND THE ́ ́ NEW CABINET,
A message from Hankow
Dec. 26 By As
And for ourselves my brethren, a salute was fired from the Monte bailt on this site by the fort as the Tarantula entered the East India Company 100 years harbour. The Admiral and the ago. The rains of the Company's
many and great are the problemsdated that press upon us--the problem General Wa Fei-fur has extremely Governor of Macao exchanged offices were just opposite the Time fails me to do more than of the relation of race to ract opposed the formation - off the Church. It was impossible to refer to Sir Wmf Fraser, Bart, of Church to Church, of man to Liang Abib-yi Cabinet, General obtain information as to the chief of the British factory in man. I had almost said of man Tsao. Kun has wired to. General The Bishop of Victoria preach- original foundation of the Church, Canton, buried in 1827; to Ed to God. We live in a time Hsiao Yao-aan, the Tuckan of generation shall praise they work, it was built, together with the Agent of the U.S.A to several ever seen. The whole world. Is Pel-fu to support, the Cabinet - ed from Psalm 145-4 "Ore but the parcel of land on which
ward Roberts, Special Diplomatic strangely unlike the world has Hupeh, asking bim to, advile Wu - Cemetery attached; was granted unto another, and declare thri
Asiatic courts, who executed convulsed in the birth-throes of afander Lisna Shih-yi. But Gea to the Hon. East India Com- treaties with the Courts of Was new age Short are the days eral Hisiao Yao-nan has not been.. power." His Lordship said:
pany originally and later went and Siam, and who was buried given us in which to do our work, able to advise Wu Fet fu "Here we are, a little group of taken over by Her Britannic English-speaking people, far from Majesty's Government, who held Consul of the United States of labour in faith and courage and the message of Tamo Kun to a
in 1836; to Thomas Waldron, frst let us go forward unafraid and direct and has merely transmitter the places of our birth, gathered until 12th May, 1870, when America for Hongkong, buried in hope, so that at the end we may Fet-in asking Wil together in this historic spot, the was handed over to a Board of 1844 to the poet and painter my down our work and ourselves his consideration guests of this Colony of MacaoTrustees, representing · different
George Chinnery, some of whose inthase strong hands that guide if We Fo with all its long story and memor countries, America, Denmark,
erations and uphold the "face" to ables associations. Nor can we Germany, Great Britain and Hol-paintings are in the National Gallery: he lived in Macao front
of mercy, and (Fisiao) will forget that the Portuguese were land. Thirteen years later Sirl
1825 to his death in 1852; to the; justice aboys.
the meist
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