CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9] — Page 362

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very seriously interfere with other agencies that are kept afloat with difficulty. It will be a hard and up-hill struggle, and perhaps, unless there are a few enthusiastic souls ready to work for the Church when its time is uncertain one of Commer... I have great faith in the vitality of the Church of England, but many things here will conspire against it at first. We have no Baroness Burdett Coutts to fall back upon. The Body of united conformists find it next to impossible to maintain one solitary Church. Would the Government think it a good thing to see the Catholic Church in the same straits?

16. No one has been injured by the small Ecclesiastical grant to the Church of England in this place. I see from the papers brought by last Mail that Lord Derby stated in his place in the House of Lords that they give nothing towards the religion of the heathen majority in Hong Kong. This is not exactly correct. Their temples in the town, outskirts, and villages stand on favorable sites and are exempt from taxes. The annual total thus remitted would make a very respectable grant.

It should also be remembered that immense sums are spent annually on the education of the Chinese in Hong Kong, and that, in Chinese estimations, the most important part of that education consists in the teaching of the Chinese "Sacred Scriptures", the source whence...

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very seriously interfere with other agencies that are kept afloat with difficulty. It will be a hard and up-hill struggle, and perhaps, unless there are a few enthusiastic souls ready to work for the Church when its time is uncertain one of Commer... I have great faith in the vitality of the Church of England, but many things here will conspire against it at first. We have no Baroness Burdett Coutts to fall back upon. The Body of united conformists find it next to impossible to maintain one solitary Church. Would the Government think it a good thing to see the Catholic Church in the same straits? 16. No one has been injured by the small Ecclesiastical grant to the Church of England in this place. I see from the papers brought by last Mail that Lord Derby stated in his place in the House of Lords that they give nothing towards the religion of the heathen majority in Hong Kong. This is not exactly correct. Their temples in the town, outskirts, and villages stand on favorable sites and are exempt from taxes. The annual total thus remitted would make a very respectable grant. It should also be remembered that immense sums are spent annually on the education of the Chinese in Hong Kong, and that, in Chinese estimations, the most important part of that education consists in the teaching of the Chinese "Sacred Scriptures", the source whence...
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very seriously interfere with other

that

are uFLE

kept

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good agencies

afloat with difficulty.

it will he

years a hard and up-hill

struggle, and perhaps, unless there are a few enthusiastic souls

ready to work for the Church

when its time

aw

uncertain one

of

Commer

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I have

great faith in the vitality of the Church of England, but many things here will conspire aganistenecies at first. We have no Baroness Burdet"; Coutts to fall back upon. The Body of united now. conformiels

find it next to impossible seantity to maintain one solitary. Church. Would the Government

think it a

good thing to sec

the Cath A

in the same straits?

16. No one has been injured

by

the small Ecclesiastical grant the Church of Eng.

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to

place

place. I see from the

356

the re rape s

brought

by last Mail that Lord Derby stated in his place in the stouse of Lords that m give nothing towards the

religion of the heather majority in stongstong. This is not exactly numerous temples.

correct. Their.

in the town, outskirts anx

villages

stand

on face

sites and

are exempt from from

taxes. The annual

arid

Total thus remitted would

make a very respectable grant.

It should also be remembered that are spena immense

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on the educa=

sums annally -tion of the Chinese instongsong, and that, in Chinese estinations the most important port of that

education conciels in

teaching of

the

the Chinese "Sacred

Scripturres" the source whence

che

!

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