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Tragedy has been described as the conflict between two rights. This has been mournfully = true of many human experiences as Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 1937 between individuals, such as are

SHANGHAI AND,

JAPAN

recorded in literature and in drama, from

the age of the Greek tragedians down to the present day out in actual re ligious experience nothing has Shanghai's International Set-been more cruel than the con- tlement represents in miniature flict among Christian sects and the complication of foreign in their leaders. Church history terests in China, as well as that abounds in this sad form of common cause which, in the last tragedy, and Gibbon makes great resort, keeps the "Open Door play with it in his "Decline and by force. The Shanghai Munici- Fall To-day we have in our pal Council, an international re-midst in a small way an example presentative body, has in the of the spirit which has so often past sought to establish, through led to misunderstanding and dis- consular representations, that ruption. Men and women of the International Settlement is fine character look at the needs in some sort a nentral State of a community from the stand- not so created, or legally admis point of Christianity, but from sible, perhaps, but in treatment different angles, the one is in- and in behaviour The Powers spired with the spirit of youth, there represented maintain and enthusiasm, and a readiness troops and naval vessels for pro- for service, and the other is tection of vast financial and trad-almost solely conscious of the ing interests, Chinese among Church's position in the com- them. Japan is, next to Britain,munity. This is, of course, so the foreign Power with heaviest much commonplace, but it has an commitments, material and obvious moral The student of other, in the Settlement. It is church history finds in the early part of the incongruity of the quarrellings on matters of faith present conflict, as in 1932, that and con act an illustration of the Japan is supposed to be one of futility of human reason. But the international defenders of it is as well to bear in mind that ⠀ the Settlement as well as a com-out of the controversies of the batant against China: In these past has arisen a Church which circumstances, her military have, for all its faults has made our for weeks since hostilities in the present civilisation possible. area ended, refused to allow the There is, however, a region in nationals of other countries ac-which human reason fails, and cess to their own properties in the mind with its arguments and the Settlement, and have now clever evasions is a real obstacle added consternation by proclaim-to progress. There must be ing a system of martial law, and emotion and enthusiasm on a denying, ostensibly, the extrater-level which cold reason - may ritorial rights of foreigners. The condemn or ignore. The Church regulations issued include pro-again and agam has been revive vision for the death penalty, and and shaken into renewed activity it appears that the right by preachers incandescent of arrest and trial is claim-their faith and fortitude. ed even in areas where the S.MP. Grurch of Rome has contin are entitled to function The thrown up men of powe attitude of the Japanese spokes-multitudes followed them man is that no violation of ex-as heads of new orders. trality is involved since the reva rant preachers were brought gulations concern only alleged into the formal offences against the Japanese Christianity. So the Ch army. What comfort this may Scotland and the Church be intended to convey, however, land using the terms is likely to challenged, in broadest sense have foreign runds, by evidences on pudiated those who have stras all hands of the degree of respon from the

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