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Bishop Ramalho with Colonel Cota Morass Colonel Cabrita on Army Day, 13th Sept. 1950.

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Macao by night, showing the new lighting.

Bulidings for Government employees.

Offices, in auction.

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single locked gata and, over the top, the heads of old trees. There churches on whose fronts familiar saints and angels perch in niches, each caught apparently in their own private and per- petual galo of heavenly wind. There they stand, these foreign holy ones, forever pointing madly in stone the 'way towards the Chinese skies or bran- . dishing great crosses or books as if they threatened to batter the coolies into salvation."

Then British trade grew and expand- ed, and American competition began. Canton became the great centre of China's foreign trade, although it was controlled by the Chinese Court through the Co-hong, which they established. In Macao, nevertheless, there great deal of trade to be done, by the Portuguese as well as the British and other foreigner merchants.

BRITISH PRIONEERS

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Then it was that the Portuguese per- mitted the laying out of a graveyard for non-Catholics, and this may still be seen. It is closely walled and contains a little chapel where Protestant services were held. Here in this “Httle bit of England" in Macao may be seen the tombstones of British pioneers in China. In this requestered corner of Maçao one may read the names of many who embarked for Far Cathay in those old days, never to return home again. As you pace "the lonely aisles" you read the plain- tive inscriptions on the time-worn stones, mute reminders of an age of great romance. Here lie the bones of men, with their women and children, who looked towards the everbeckoning sea and sky, and went in search of their destiny. Some actuated by a divine Ideal, others in pursuit of commercial callings, more as sailors, others as sol- diers, most on duty bound. It Macao's privilego to save their names from oblivion.

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Here are the remains of Robert Mor- rison, England's first Protestant mission- ary to China, who lived in Macao and translated the English Bible into Chi- nese, and who compiled the Arst Eng- lish-Chinese dictionary, with his first -wife-and-their-son-John-Robert-Morri- son, Sir William Fraser, Chief of the British Factory in China,· Edmund Roberts, Special Diplomatic Agent of the United States, Andrew Ljungstedt, Chief of the Swedish Factory Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill, son of the 5th Duke of Marlborough, Slr Hum- phrey le Fleming Senhouse, Comman der in Chief of the British Fleet in China, George Chinnery, the celebrated--- painter and artist, and many others, ploneers of yesterday who gave rise tô all those great missionary, commercial, and cultural institutions which develop- ed in China in later years.

HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE Of their work and Macao's place in .it, Dr. Cadbury wrote:

"Macao's historical importance Iles in the fact that she was the bridge to the almost hermetically scaled city of Can- ton. Had Macao not belonged to a for- eign country, it is safe to say that Chris- tianity and Western medicine would not have come Into China until a much later date. Because Macao, had enjoyed the benefits of medicine for two centuries, Western doctors and dispensaries were permitted; Christianity was not stamped out as a barbarian religion and foreig ners were not treated as uncivilized creatures. Canton has proved to be the commercial gateway of China, but Macao has been the back door at which have stood Pearson, who introduced vaccination into China, Morrison who was the first Protestant missionary to the Chinese and the first translator of the Bible Into their language, and Col- ledge, who started an ophthalmic dis- pensary first in Macao and then in Can- tan, and who became president of the Medical Missionary Society in Canton, the first Medical Missionary Society in the world.

Commodore L. N. Brownfield, R.N., who visited Macao not long ago.