\V.D.M.A. MEETING
PAST AND, PRESENT WORK REVIEWED
The annual meeting of the Vic« ; torla Diocesan Missionary assoctu- tion was held yesteritay at the Cathedral Hall, when the Bishop of Hongkong, (Bishop R.O. fall) gave the presidential addrekя.
The Bishop of Hongkong suid? .
I was reading the other day some extracts from a letter written by the Rev. Vincent Stanton, the frat English clergyman in Hong- kong. In it ho aaid that "his frat scheme was to Join the English Church with the School for Chinese"
which he established at st. Paul's College. He says that from the first he had In,view "such.
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a church as might sorve for a small Cathedral. He goes on to way that he offered himself to the Church Missionary Society for work in China in 1836 whic ho was still in his second year at St. John's Collage, Cambridge. From August to December 1840 be was a prisoner in chains in the Canton prison. After that he says he was a missionary on his own resources, apparently acting necessity of rebuilding, Chaplain at Macao. He sailed in Government is removing, the hil June 1841 for New York and on which it stands. The Gavern- thence returned to England. Ament have kindly given us a new year inter in June 18-12 he was alte and compensation, but as the ordained by Bishop Blomfeld to, a compensation is less than half the London curacy which he held for total cost of rebuilding we are only eight months as he was very anxious to raise more money for this church. Mr. Xavier has appointed Colonial Chaplain of Hongkong in 1843. He married prepared a plan reminiscent of in
March
of that year and sailed the simple architecture of North for Hongkong in June 1848, two China, the kind of church building years after leaving Macao.
we want.
From the start, therefore, the
St. John's, Yunnanfu will have Cathedral and English work in ten feet taken off the whole length Hongkong has been closely nasaof the church as the road widening elated with the missionary work work of the city is pushed for of the Church Missionary Society, ward. They are also faced with The Victoria Diocesan Missionary the necessity of making plans for Association exists. to keep this a new church. link very strong,
Technically the English work
In the Lim Pak aren the situa tion R little different. The j In Hongkong is an extension of congregations meet In reated the work of the Church of England shops which are used aa Gospel whereas the Chinese work is part Halls. This form of meeting of the independent Chinese An-house is becoming too small for gilean Church called Chung Hoa Sheng Kung Hui. It was, there- fare, particularly appropriate that In January of this year. 99 years after the Rev. Vincent Stanton first applied to be sent to Chinn, that the Archblahop the Chinese Anglican Church (Bishop Norris of Peiping) should have held in St. John's Cathedral the consecration service for the first Cantonese Bishop in our Church.
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The Chinese Work The Chinese work falls into four main sections. There is the
the congregations and though admirably adapted for evangelis- tic work the problem of worship for a Christian congregation in a long, narrow, white wished shop opened to the street is a very real one. It is not onsy, for example, to--administer Communion verently under Alich cireum- stances. The generosity of pre- vious missionaries And their Friends have provided Pak Hai and Lim Chow with churches which, though simple, are both spacious and architecturally, beautiful, but in the course of the next twenty
work of the Hongkong Church years or so churches will have to Body which comprises the five be built in the other market elties! churches in Hongkong and Kow-in that area,
loon. Secondly there is the work of the Kwang Shiu District Council centering in Canton, and reaching the big cities of the della such as Shek Kei and
The Ministry of Women Church as backward in the right As was to be expected from a
10 of women as the Church of Kong Moon and England
our development of the country of Tanng Shing, lying between Shek Church compares very unfavour- Women workers in the Chinese Lung and Canton. The third
the development by area is covered by the Lim Pakably with. District Council and the stations have been little more than inter- other missions. Our Bible women running up 160 miles from Pakhol preters for women missionarica.
to Ling Shan, and the fourth arenWe look forward in the future to a Is the Province of Yunnan where great improvement in this direc at present we
have only one on. Anyone with any knowledge church.in the city of Yunnanfu of the Chinese people will know itaolf.
Bishop Mok's work will very of China is in the hands of women how much of the real leadership largely lie in Kwang Shiu district. and it is not by any means sur- He is of course Assistant Bishop prising that the first Christian in for the whole Diocese, while he remains Chairman of the Kwong Shin District Council and resides degree is a woman.
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groups.
The weddings Blustrated will be those of Dr. Ernest To and Mia Hertmine Long, Mr. Ng Wai-leung and Mina Lai Wal-bon, Mr. Harry Wong And Miss Ruby Man, and n double wedding in which two brothers, Mr. Luk Kong- leung and Mr. Luk Chung- leung, figured as bridegroomis..
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the diocese to receive an Honorary EMINENTIN
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it Canton. He is, therefore, in There is in Peiping a special the centre of the work in the school for advanced teaching of Kwong Shiu District.
women workers with special quall- For this meeting I have beenfications which will equip them in considering what factors
Bort of way special interest emerge from the Chinese pastors are now equipped life of the Chinese Church at the in the Union Theological College. present time. I would mention We hope to send two very promis two. First the building of ing women Christinus to this Churches and the second the school in the coming Autumu. aninistry of women.
This we believe means the opening of a very rich seam of life and work for the service of the Chinese
Building of Churches. During the year St. Paul's Church. -Church, Gleneally, standing where the first Colonial Chaplain ori- ginally planned the Cathedral for the Diocese, has been considerably enlarged and beautified and the Arst modern Chinese Vicarage has been built beside it
Plans are on foot for entirely rebuilding the little church at Causeway Bay opposite the French Hospital. Messrs. Chau and Lee have prepared a really fine pian for the church to hold 600. This has became neccesary by the great 'development of Chinese work that area of the city and the prospects of the church being built in the immediate future are very real because of a generous prortise from Mr. Kaan Tat-choy. St. Stephen's Church, just below the University, has also to face rebuilding in the near future owing to the sale of part. of the site on which it stands,
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The remainder of the site has been given to the church by the Church Missionary Society with the ad joining plece of land which links the church up with Bonham Road. This makes possible the building of the church with frontage on Bonham Road which will be con- siderably less noisy than the present site on Pokfulum Roed.
Rebuilding, of Churches Holy Trinity Church, Kowloon, which adjoins the Victoria Home, Is also faced by the immediate.
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