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UNITY OF THE ALLIES. LORD CURZON AND PEACE. JAPANESE AMBASSADOR ON THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.

Earl Curzon, the Japaness Ambassador, and many members of the Diplomatic Corps were the guests of the Foreign Press Association at luncheon recently in the Criterion Restaurant.

TAR SIONGRONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 22ND. 1819.

CHURCH REFORM. IMPORTANT PROPOSALS.

That the Church of England stands in need of roform, and that the reform should he radical, and almost drastic in its scope, is the view obviously taken by possible

the Archbishop's Committee, which has The most recently issued its report. salient of the recommedations are as fol

low

scandal, and a serious hindrance to the spirit) work of the Church in many parishes, and continues

The first necessity is to secure for every clergyman a living wage, and fur ther (a) that the minimum stipend for for the unbeneficed elergy who have and an incumbent should be £400 per annum,

orders, $200;

; (b) that, heen five years in able union of beneficca should be effected, with a view to securing this consider and that to attain such union of benefices

thas to the sume end a large measure compulsory powers should be given; (e) redistribution of endowments be effected; (d) that this living wage cannot be secur. tions from the laity on an organised svs- tem

dynastic agreements, and all the para- phernalia which recalls the obsolete diplo macy of the eighteenth century. Yours in the duty to remember that the cause for which we are fighting is the cause of na tions--that the issues must be determined by the voice of the peoples themselves, the discussions must be free, open, and public, and that no solution is until the German Government and the German people are prepared recognize world, both the principles for which of Allies and neutrals, is contending and will contend to the end. (Cheers.)

There is yet another function which

(1)-Instead of a lifelong incumbency, 1. Coudurier de Chassaigne presides. the Pros of the Allied and neutral coun Earl Curzon, who was heartily cheeredtries can discharge that of maintaining it is now suggested that a parson shoulded without greatly increased contribu on rising to reply to the toast of "Our the unity of interest, the harmony of only have a limited tenure.

action, and the closeness of co-operation

(2.)-Parishioners have a right to be Guests," said :-We who have fought and which have sprung up from the most not-consulted with regard to the appointment bled and suffered for nearly four years stances of the war,

of war? It is of an incumbent, and therefore the Paro in the most just of wars, in a war notable outcome of our

unity provoked by us, but forced upon us by of peoples (Cheers.) This is due partly chial-Church Council should have a voice the insensate ambitions of others, do not no doubt to the action of the enemy, but in the matter.

it is also due to the justice of our cause. wish to to all those sacrifices thrown Unity of aim there always has been from away and expended in vain. An unjust the commencement of bostilities. Unity

new concluded, could of action has only been slowly reached the unbenéficed clergy who have been five endowments, liowever, the difficulty

We hear a great has come but it pence, if it were only be the precursor of new and worse about the possibility of creating a League wars in the future." It would not only of Nations in the future. Do not ignore be the victory of crime now, but the just the fact--for it is a fact that a League

een constituted, is already in exist fication of renewed crime in the future of Nations, the most powerful that has

ever been

the

progressive attent of the

circum-

(3.) The minimum stipend for an in- cumbent should be £500 a year, and for

years in orders £200.

Those who from outside criticise the Church for having a parish with virtuale y no population richly endowed, close by thickly populated parishes are starving, do not generally realise that there is at present no means of effecting a redistribution. The great mass of the Church's endowments are the property of cumbencies. In the case of 'the' the several bishoprics, chapters, and in

been

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LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF TOPEES

HAS JUST COME TO HAND.

has by the establishment of the got over by the

We desire Ecclesiastical Commission. and the same principles applied with re- that the same precedent be now followed, gard to the whole of the Church's LADIES TOPEES.

Consequently we go so far as fo ing to the Church tithe and houses belonging should be vested in the eclesiastical ConIN A RANGE OF should be a representative beard of man- agement which should submit schemes of arrangement to the Commission

(Chears) It would be setting up un-ence. (Cheers.)Unity of command has Prime Minister should have the help of pemend that the whole of the land

bridled force as the new criterion and standard in international affairs,

And,

been attained during the last few months, it has been born amid the thunders of the battlefields, but it is complete, it working well, and it is loyally and gladly but by the armies and the commanders of all the States concerned. (Cheers.)

(4.)In order to bring the laity into the work of the Church, statutory Parish (5.) In the selection of bishops, the Councils should be establi

an advisory committee

(8.) The houses assigned to bishops should

no longer called “ be

palaces castles, (7.)-Women should have the right to vote for and serve on all councils of the Church which include representatives of the laity

above all, it would not mean the settling, recepted not merely by the Governments, modifier and their size and importance missioners, and that in every diocese there

But the unsettling, of all the great world problems which we are looking to solve On a peaceful basis when this horror

comes to an end. (Cheers.). Only yester day I was reading in the papers a list of the countries which, since August, 1914, have declared war upon Germans There are nineteen States in all, and, in addition, nine countries have broken off diplomatic relations with Germany. 1 is a great achievement on the part of the German Emperor to have aniled against himself this great aggregation of the civilised States of the world. There was a maa in carly Grecian history who thought to attam immortalite by burning down the Temple of Diana at Ephesus The secured his end; and the German E- it is an inglorious and ignoble form of peror, i daresay, will secure his also, but immortality which he will achieve." (Свестн.)

ENDURING UNITY:

It will be remembered that five com

TE

NEW SHADES.

GREEN

SMART

a view to bringing the laity more into the work of the Church, the report ALL ARE COVERED WITH gives a general support to the proposal

But it suggests that in the WHITE DRILL AND LINED to establish statutory Parochial Church Councils. incantine voluntary councils of the kind should be set up, and that they should the and ornamenta be fed with to cervices que ominous In case of disagreement between the incumbent and the majority.

appoint of the council, the bishop should decide The passage dealing with the ment bishops is in these terms:

The method by which bishops of the

"There is something greater than unity of atin, auity of action, or unity of committees of the Church of England were and that is the unity of heart and appointed some two years ago to examine spirit of all the nations who have thus into subjects in the life of Church and been brought together. That unity way gation which, in the words of the Pri have epfung, out of the necessities of the out with obvious claim hor, reparten stood

The report makes many recommenda of the church. battlefield, but it must not perish when for the war is over. It must go on and en-

tions designed to free the Church from dure.. To it we must look to build the shattered finguents of the world historie encumbrances and endow her with new force and vitality and, as the "fore Cheers)

word" points out, these have. the high which belongs to the opinions.

of

Look at the foundations from which specially qualised men and women who Church of England are chosen is admit.

It is a unity, cemented by

has sprung. commen action and in suffering battlefield When we read of the blood of Englishusen und Frenchmen trickling into the same trenches on the slopes

of earth, when

look in Italy

of

the

Crown.

that

the power of the Crown h has largely passed. The Bishop of Southwell and his col to the Prime Minister, and the Prime longues deal with a variety of matters.

Minister may be of any religion or nane, the Mant hemmel, of their bodies being The proposals which they make concern it cannot be regarded as natural or apprn. laid side by side under the rate mothe vesting of ownership of all tithe land printe that he should be entrusted with

French, at

the undivided recognise gindly

responsibility of advising sinstical Commissioners; the distribute

the existing method has led

to the against the common enemy, when we gtion of cadewments; extension of British, and Italians fighting side by side and houses of the Church in the cele to Salonika and see French, British, to the fate on the extension of Chach vantage of the Church through the in- Italians, Serbians, Greeks together, when to

Affairs retirement

of the clergy (includ clusion in the Episcopate of many men we see the millions of India flocking to ing bishops), at 70; an advisory council of outstanding qualities who would prob- the standard and the action of the states bishops, clergy, and laity for consulta ably not have been selected by any methad system leaves men of Japan and Chin, does anybody tion by the Prime Minister in regard to of election. But the present

miere

and the appointment of bishops; the abolition the Prime Minister to cheese his own

advisors, and it is sy for mean to tell me that all that is

abelict zon went on to say, played a most import. Ipassing evanescent-symptom of war, of the sale of advowsons, except to certain existence of ceret influences to arise that when the war is over all this wihurch bodies; the desirability of reduc

Wa ant part in the progres of the present die down and leave no impression? That in episcopal incomes; the abandonment and to create anxiety and discontent,

and that

an Advisory therefore They were the artists who

recommend paned from day to day, for the benefit is a unity consecrated by suffering repre-of certain episcopal residences.

Coencil, consistir the Episcopate, the in equal parts of re of foreign audiences, the aims, the policy, gail that is best in the brother TEN YEARS' INCUMBENCY.

presentatives the character, and the war effort of those bond of man, a unity destined to endure.

and the laity, be elected by the Church Council to advise the

the Minister with reference to

TAMANNASSADORS OF PUBLIC SPIXION," These who presented the Press of Allied and neutral countries, Lord Cur

struggle.

After the war there is going to be an the question of the appointment of tntive (ur Inter on the Statutory

of the Allies who resided in this country; grouping of the forces of the natio From their easels went out to the world

and in this moral and the world, the picture upon which the opinion of

lics. future foreign countries was formed. The chairty the hope of the

tinit alone, can we hops man ud spoken of hein as the ambas

establisk the world from the rum in which sadors of public opinio in foreign count

It now lies broken, to which alone can we but they were rather inore than that,

once and security. This genera They were

of a tribunalick for pence in the position which was in daily and weekly session on

price. The next generation must reap the reward. Chears. It is for the united our conduct. The foreign Pressmen, coworld to see that that reward is obtained, bined the advantages of intimacy with us and detachment of mind. They resided and for a powerful, able, honest, impar, here, but they were free froin our insular tial Press to assist in the consummation

of this great purpose. (Cheers.) and prepossessions. prejudices

They could imagine, therefore, what weight the world must attach to the verdict they

heter.)

to whose judgment we had to refer, and ion has borne the burden and paid the

A

an menant the committee Bay

*We feel that the parishioners have a right to be consulted with regard

appointment of an incumbered to the

bishop should have power to refuse in

two

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commendation of bishops to the Crayn

of one do not favour a system of election by the cach case of parishioners. We also consider that the tires of the diocese

Commit: a man whom he thinks ill-

bee for consultativ purposes, the and que ins; thould be appointed by the MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI,

appoint stitution to a man suited to the parish, though this powerment, however, to rest with the Crown. should be constitutional and not Further, the committee wish to retain the arbitrary. We therefore recommend that realities underlying congé d'élire and the Parochial Church Council should have the procedure incidental to the confirma a voice in the appointment of incumbents: and in the case of an appointment by tion of the election of bishops.". PIPLOMATS "AND CORRESPONDENTS.

the proposed Patronage Board two repre The Japanese Ambassador (Viscount sentatives of the Parochial Church Coun prouinced, we were engaged work of diplommey and the Press.

Sutemi Chinda), dealt with the associated cil concerned should sit with the Diocesan In the task in

He Board for that occasion; and that where and here he was speaking more especi- believed strongly, he said, in the mutually the opinion of the bishop it is un- ally to the representatives of the Allied bencheinl result of creating very friendly desirable that a clergyman presented by nations--they ind to

should be instituted, or confront

an and sympathetic relations between diplo. the antagonist whose Press campaign was by mary and correspondents. If there was the Parochial Church Council objects to no moans the least of his efforts. It was any need to prove these good relations in the person nominated, the bishop shall conducted with all the kulated fore

London they would not have far to go refer the

a Board of Asses nomination to a thought, the scientific organisation, the to seck it it was there in that gathering.sors, who shall be the Patronage Board, mathematical, and almost brutal, pie (Cheers) Between diplomats and the and such nominee shall not be entitled to cision which characterised the chief efforts foreign Press representatives there was institution without their concurrence. of the German mind. His Press cam- more community of interest than was gou. Failing such concurrence a patron will paign was not confined to his own counerally supposed. They had a cominion have the right to nominate again. In the

the cultiva

event of further disagreement the nomína try. It permeated the line countries pond promotion of good feeling be

the Allied tion

tion for that turn shall, after six months, This should apply jection is made by the bishop and is not to all parochial benefices. Where the ou- supported by the Parochial Council, there shall be an appeal to the Archbishop against refusal to institute.

and no money in his under-tween the two nations, and their effort lapse to the bishop.

king.

to

Proceeding

aise. He

was to resource of intri- should be the talk in these days of gue or ingenuity of which he was not a he referred to

"The chief perit seemed to him master.

open diplomacy. They had, he said, he that when the enemy was affecting to had an example of its application and the discuss peace conditions would find disastrous result in the Eastern part of

They that he was almost invariably more con-Europe, had been very much to their cerned about sowing dissension between edification. (Hear, hear.) the Allies than he was about prosecuting peace. He endeavoured to entice away

JAPAN AND ENGLAND.

of

the Allies-what

term the

that an

is

to

(a)That it would remove misconce tion, if it is practically possible, to dis tinguish between the official administra tive outgoings and the personal income of the bishop;

How dar

Tho

(6)-In this connection would arise the desirability of reducing certain episcopal incomes, the standard adopted for the new dioceses being followed. the value of money after the gar this could be done must depend (1) upon in the quainey whether the larger episcopal residences are retained. committee are of opinion that soon after As things stand, a parson, once pre, the conclusion of the war the question of sented and instituted, is here for life if these houses should be seriously consid he so plenses, unless he bring himself ered with reference to the circumstances the different members of the Allianec zon referred to the attempt on the part

His Excellency proceeded-Lord Cur- under the action of the lay by scandalous each particular diocese, and that it conduct. The parson's freehold "is

the larger houses are abandoned tho from their persistent prosecution of the of the Central Powers to sow the seeds one of the objects of English institutions larger income should be reduced with due common end.

Di dissension and suspicion in the ranks and we recognise the advantages secured regard to the real value of money at the "We have all of us to defeat this cana

11 · said paige,

may call for want by it in the way of freedom from either time; Lord Curzon, and you

(c)-That episcopal residences which are of A better

disruption offen arbitrary action by the bishop or the

neither close to the cathedral nor in a gentlemen who represent the Pressive" According to the last report. the gitation of parisuoners. It is not desir should be dismis foreign countries have to try to keep the German Foreign Office at the Wilhelm.ible at the pleasure of either the bishop abandoned, but houses of historic interest chief centre of population should be truth clear in the midst of all this atmos

pamphlet phere of artificial fog which is continually strasse is said to have issued

The or the parishioners. But we hold that should be retained, if possible, for some discharged at It is essential in a very cheap

you.

In this Japan the advantage is purchased at too high purpose connected with the life of the

cost. Very often a man remains in Church :** in lurid colours as fighting

resi- depicted to meet a united front, have they

one parish for very many years to his That the name of bishops' only of the Armies, the Navica, and the against England. That is one means of

own and the people's loss. The best men dences deserves consideration, and that Another thing I their propaganda. Governments, but also of the peoples hear is that, according to a late report, the knowledge that they are not irrevocably

will be encouraged in their ministry by use of the words castle" and (Cheers.) They must be convinced

That

palace" be discontinued there is no single party in any one of some of the Press in Berlin are taking fixed in one place. We are not now deal. (e)That the real scandal consists in the Allied countries which would be pre up and discussing the question of

future alliance. between Germany and ing with questions of discipline, to which the disparity between the large incomes, pared to condone the unutterable ignon-men". You can see through all these we shall refer later, but to the dangerhot only of some bishops but also of som iry of purchasing an ignoble itself while sacrificing the objects for machinations. They are meant, of course, which the others are contending, for in to alienate Japanese feeling, and to 50w

identical. The mistrust in the minds of the Allies. truth these objects are snccess of one can only be obtained by I do not think it necessary for me to Belgium, France, refute these allegations, because they are the success of all. Italy, Serbia, Roumania, cach desire the so monstrous, so preposterous, that they same thing the integrity of their national carry in them their own refutation territory, security against aggression and (Cheers.) But I want to state that, as a right to be won by their united forces, and protected in the future by the common law of Europe. (Cheers.)

heing

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to incumbents in-

in- They also urge that, in order that the These incumbents cathedral may become truly the centre one of then. (Cheers) We have shown the instituted for ten years, and the diocese, it should be more closelv as that already by our deeds. You remem- her the reason why we went into this would at the termination of that period sacinted with the bishop, and that there war-Japan was one of the earliest be in the same position as a nominee to should be a rearrangement of cathedral Powers outside Europe to enter. What benefice after he has been

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by no relation to the work done, is a Laity would be undeniable." stairs influence, by family intrigues, by refutation. (Cheers.)

was

the

“Day by day we see the power of Ger many being extended with ruthless per sistence over enemy and friend alike. Any illusions there might bave been in the past are now swept away, and the since the beginning of the war. In these

the Press maintain your guarantee as to the neu perty, and also a properly organised sys circumstances the part

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