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CHURCH

YESTERDAY'S ANNIVERSARY

SERVICES.

of evangelical truth in the broadest sense- Today this would scarcely be remarkable, but lightly, or not to form them at all.

This is an error,,, and its consequences I'nion is in the air; in many places it has come to suid earth, and, in certain others are more serious to personal character cipated by those who incur them, though The Diamond Jubilee of l'aion Church Butters, timid yet not, unhapetul. in and to family life than was ever anti- of safe alighting placy poncften they are not perceived until it is was celebrated, yesterday, by the bolding

too late to repair the damage.. wings The sacred edifice. af special services,

It was otherwise in 1943, the every

Ruskin says somewhere that he made schaately decorated for the occasion year of the grant disruption of the and was crowded- The congregation:

Scottish Charch, which shook that burit a rule, however short might be his the morning included II. E. the Governor, Major-General Ventris. Cummodore Gar try to its roots, with echoes, way the stay in nay one place. to conduct himself few historian, which reverberated round as though he were going to be there always to refrain from re kind act, to er, the Colonial Secretary,,

and s

the civilised world. Many possibly mostra duts, neglect 80 opportunity awthers of the Executive and Legislativa of the first members of this churstiere though his sojourn were but temporary tuneris.

commences with the hynn

Presbyterians and among the

God

other

Hallowed by an

matters.

pre-expect

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GIBB, LIVINGSTÜN & Ou Agente

1507 Hongkong. November 10th, 1913.

INDO-CHINA.

The service was impressive. Scots celical bodies "also doctrinal It is a wholesome rule and it would Godown of the Hongkong and Kowloo W kour help in ages paThe Te Drum was an administrative differences counter have been well for many in this place Yer here had they unde it their rule in church introductory prayer.

for more than they do now.

No Claims will de admitted after the Good chantede after which the Sith. Psalm was

the fathers were able, in reasonable" read. The Anthem Break forth into and tolerant spei, tó let, these distinc The point of fairness to the churches are left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining acdelivered after the 17th inst, will be subjec was well rendered by the choir.

tions lapse. and stand together a broad themselves I do not care to labour, yet

to rout People After

The Church's on 汽 {ul!{kVRE !

can hardly quite overlook it. foundation was sung.

The Rev. Jommon ground whose baving to all Bul Kirk Maconachie then delivered an elo liberty në private prelence. From thescue to these colonial settlements and

churches. to find

maintain day onward this good spirit has quent sermon at the end of which the railed withous interruption. The records worship and sacraments, ready at Fyn Through the night of doubt and

of the

church indicate considerable call to meet their needs na ccasion arises. .. was sung.

Fuctuations in strength and prosperity, They would think it strange were there The rey gentleman, took as his text, but these never arose from internal dino churches available, yes if all were to

but Your fathers, where are they? and the

After the withdrawal of Dr.treat the

churches many do. the ordia. 2chsion. prophets. do they live for ever? (Zechariah c. 1 v. 5). "Jesus Christ is the Laggis fustering rare and the retirement ances of the gospe would rease out of his first successor, the land. If I may be permitted part same yesterday and today, sea

is scarcely cricket, and time in to have been entered upots. At one time, having said so much for the first t

eit. The without a minister or any immediate my seven years here I will leave prospect of one, the Sunday services had white community in Hongkong would Chetually to be intermitted for a couple get much more out of their churches

of months. The fact appears to be that they put a little more into the little there was not enough enthusiasm in the more loyalty, enthusiasm, and. I will addi̟, Colony at that time to maintain a church Justice. on a self-supporting basis, and we can imagine the soreness of heart with which

anounced the the responsible f inability to carry ou

But the Bonco

ever

for

For full discouragement seemsing language this

8). He said period of no

is.

However, it is much more congenial to acknowledge, indeed to proclaim that in this place not a little of faithful send

hrist's cause.

(Hel 13. the little English churchyard as Macaoj the grase of Be. Robert Murrison, the last-maker's apprentice who did not stick to his last but rame the pioneer Protestant Missionary to China Tha spot is a place of pious pilgrimage to such as reverence the heroes of the faith, for Morrison had the heart of a hero, and prayed to be sent where difficuities were, to all human appearance, insur-

He had his wish, when the ion and its able agents came one and sitacere devotinn have been shewn in mountable. London Missionary Society, sent him to Canton, alone, and semingly on an forlorn hope. That was in 1807.. when no Kritish subject, with the single exerption of Sir F. Staunton, was believed to have any acquaintance with Chinese language, and the natives were jealous of any foreigner their speech.

the

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Rood

In this we here stand in

for there has never failed succession,

line of devout and earnest souls to whom God's Kingdom in Sest considera tion and who are always eager to extend

more to the rescue, and tron that time the story on the whole has been one of progress, acknowledged to-day by many grateful hearts. At no time, has the charcha nad the Government Treasury behind it; at a tine has some munificent individual carried it on his shoulders, though it has

But tu For years Hurring had had many generous helpers.

and charity in which the enterprise

K fathers initiated the work have been justi hed by events, and as we reall their efforts their often discouragementa we can but pray to be worthy to enter into their labours.

con

and

China or even Minission to settle in day afternoons.

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Goods not cleared by sov. 19th, will be subject to rent.

All brokan, chafed, and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined. Claims against the steamer must be presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insurace will be effected by us in any case whatever..

Billa of Lading will be countersigned by JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,

General Managers.. Hongkong, November 13th, 1919. (1823

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEFS.

I have been going through the records of these past decades, so far as records tu lead a furtive existence in Canton, ur.

exist, and find much that is touching and not less so in Mineno, sometimes for days

not a little inspiring in what they tell without peressary food, bis teachers and

of the desires and doings of good and servants being compelled to leave him. It

devoted men before us. was made a capital crime to print his

One entry on August stb.. 1940, I should translations or teach what they

no sectarian line was drawn here tained, but in spite of all. he sudegi

like to quote in closing. It is of a meet- neither was any distinction of race or

As it was called producing grammar. Tatechism.

nationality set up.

Cher trust deeding of the Session. translation of the whole Bible, and. finally,

Chinese dictionary, which the East Specifies that services may be conducted in Presbyterian phraseology, and the both in the English and the Chinese subject of consideration was entitled, Caleuita.

How wa may best serve our countrymen India Company produced in

languages, and up to 1580 a Chinese con-

in this place. Such is our question After a few years Morrison had the gregation did meet in, the tharch

Milne

By that date how still. The church, like its Divine master. of a likeminded colleaga Wm. He. being refused

is unens men as one that serveth. Its the Chinese cougregation had become worked among the

one permissible ambition is to be of use. Chinese settlements in the East Indies, strong enough to build it. W

modious church in Hollywood Road. The fathers, having served their genera centering at Mainera, where was estab

That is occupied today by an overflowing tion cording to the will of God, have lished an institution on which Morrison

AND had set his heart, viz, an Anglo Chine congregation, which not only is entirely entered into rest, But we believe in the CEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY, LTD CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION work

independent and self-supporting, but is communion of the saints, and know that, school. A

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COMPANY, LTD. " was also carried on bons and theriodicals responsible als for the maintenance of prebend, they in the realm of glory may a great deal of evangelistic work, such as being circulated in Chinese both on

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FROM NEW YORK. religious and general subjects. Dr. Milps the harbour mission, a church in Macao.

and, in conjunction with ourselves here. to our pledges here today as we come the church unto Mount Zion, and to died after only nine yours work, but in

the extending mission work at nine or that Erief time te linked his name im-

the living God. New Territory and the

and the generalONSIGNEES per Company's Steuer perishably with the history of christian ten stations in the new rat the Holly assembly of the Firstbora which of

"EURYRATES" Indence in China-

written in heaven, and to the spirits

are hereby notified that the Cargo will be. just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, that we discharged into Holt's Waart, Kowloon,

life to may consecrate ourselves and our church where it will lie at Consignee's risk To

the service. in our own time, of Cargo will be ready for delivery from fellow men and women, of our own day, Godown on and after Nov 14th. through the one all-sufficing savisar who

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will be landed, unless notice. car prior to

steamer's arrival. abides the same resterday today. yes has been given

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are and for ever.

to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between tho hours of 10.45 am, and Noon within the free storage period.

Hix Efe of exledge devotion "had

faid westero

In 1831 Morrison himself passed away. upen to China in its own tongue." and six years later arrived the man who, in turn, was to open the treasures of Chinese literature to the west. That was Janes Legge, who bana his long career in charge of the college in Malacca and closed it as the art Professor of Chinese at Oxford, having. in the course of it. carried on abundant missionary labours, mastered Chinese as

wood Road church is finding it necessary to contemplate putting up still larger cannot let this meeting-pince. and We occasion pass without offering sincere congratulations to

neighbours as Out they go from strength to strength.

In this church.

may add we gen rally bave a few Chinese members to when worship in English is congenial: the building is used occasionally for the solemnisation of marriages, and, if need would be freely available for ether

ATOM

had not been mastered before, proved purposes, as is but Steing. in a church

the monumental version which is still whose origin is so intimately carnected with the first effort to bring the evange of edition the standard Europian

lical faith within the knowledge of the incidentally, Chinese race. Confucian classics,

the

founded this Union Church in Hongkong Less gratifying is it to refer to

"Church at Huntly in Aberdeenshire. His

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AT THE EVENING SERVICE.

Arc

There was another crowded congrega.

A

No claim will be admitted after the Gooda tion at the evening service, which, also was bave left the steamer's Cociown and all og undelivered after Nov. remaining of a special character. The hymns sung goods

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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

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place. O Lord." Pealm 100 was chanted, and the anthem The Badiant morn, was rendered by the choir. The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachia again occupied the

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FROM SINGAPORE, FENANG AND BELAWAN DELL

the and ministered to it for quarter of a century. Like Dr. Milne, his predecessor, extensive use made of the church by the Legge came from the Congregational Uarman community before the war for His weddings and special services. We do not fellow-townsmen called "him. Chinese regret ear past, hospitality, and only pulpit." Legat." and were justly proud of him.plore the grievous happenings which Among my earliest recollections is that a sudden end to courtesies of that of framed engraving in the house of nature. The last such cecasion nore of an uncle

in that little town. representing us who were present can, alas, ever för- It was on Christmas morning ci Legge and his Chinese students all of ket. them looking like learned Professors, in 1912, when this building was crowded in their long robes batted. pig-tailed, every corner by a congregation from the serious of aspect. At this I used to guze crew of the Scharnhorst, which was then in harbour. The carols, led by their own ir phildish fascination, with dreams of Far Cathay which come nearer to realist band. ring in one's memory still, and than most early it is a melancholy reflection that re tion at this moment imaginings: I trust the circumstances will another Christmas came round the great ship and its whole company lay at the the personal reference. Hongkong became a British possesion bottom of the sea. after having inflicted rice are reported to have been book for

good January and February shipment. in 1841, and two years later. or perhaps the like destruction on our own

rice crǝji less, the Malacca mission was transferred cruiser Monmouth, which also had been

Prospects of the new here on account of the greater proximity

Japan are said to be satisfactory, as th to China.

Its first institution was. I believe, a The war is won, but the more difficult weather far has been favourable. A hospital under Dr. Benjamin Hobson, a victories of peace have still to be achieved rice expert estimates an increase of about devoted physician and evangelist, a work There lie before the churches of Jesus 5,000 to 100,000 tons, «r which is continued in the Alice Memorial Christ, be, e'as elsewhere, the opportunities group of hospitals to-day. A few months and responsibilities of a new time. Tater came the College, which remained will not be an easy time-no great

some years the main part of Mrt ever is, nor ought "one to wish it rice (siderable improvement has been effect are to be left in the Godowns, where they

excuse

work.

| Legge "the first the members of the mission held meetings open to others of the European community. This led, in the most natural way, to the building of the first Union Chapel.

stationed here and many of whose com PAY worshipped with us.

The Government Blue Book gives the date as 1944, and that, confirmed by our own records, fixes the present as the 75th. year

the Church during which

has had local.

Д babitation and the name it still is known == by. The next date of a Church fuunda tion in the Colony given. in the Blue Book kis 1847, which would seem to show that this Church is the oldest in the Colony. Who may have been absolutely the first to offer a prayer or sinx u hymn on this island no one knows. Doubtless, the army or navy, brought chaplains here, and services perform its

In

Ritz-Prices in Saigon have advanced sharply in view of large purchases made fur account of Straits and Java gers. There is again a fair demand from Cuba, and a few good-sized lots of new cror

The estimated crop of rice in South Manchuria is about 46,000 tons: Lo in irrigation there, and it is confident hoped that the annual rice crop wil be doubled in the sear future,

Our closing rates are as follows:-- Siam straight rice; $15.75 (nominal, not

stock).

Siam garden rice, 818.50 (nominal, not

"stock).

easy times are perilous to the world at large, they Bre

to the church.

We are spheres alike civil and religious moving toward larger integrations, more comprehensive fellowships, wider all ances, tending in all to that federation of mankind in reason and goodwill which is the far-off but, surely, not impossible Пареж ideal which holds the heart and

Siam usual rice, 14.75 (small stock). of well-disposed and thinking citizens of

Saigon long rice, $14.50. every creed and kind. May the Christian

Saigon round rice, $14.25. Churches of every order by whatever name

White pakling, $16.50 (No. 1 extra). known among men, full their divinely

White pakling, 1 (ordinary). destined office of leading on the path which

La-There is nothing doing. "New tends toward that transcendent goal, in a growing of the spirit amid all tirs" can be had at 8:57.75, wodold needed diversity of ministration And tips" at 827 per picul, fo.b. lighter." may this Union Church bere in this place, PEANUTS Prices have been fully main-

of men to God, apart place in the not distant future.

generation, SAIGON where It may also be taken for certain from which the hopes of thir

CASSIA-Tbo. 4/10/4 will be but us before it ICTO that other meetings for worship were held like

ment can now be had at 848 per piçul. bere or there. But the churches in the the basics fabric bid will

Ons generally, are very quiet, and Colony as we know them to-day must be Easy the tasks of the churches never is,quotations remain practically unchanged. presumed to deterd nas gns then the remark that they, could be better accom from the time the but at this time it may not be amiss to point is one of sentimental interest rather plished if the Buid goodwill which many than material importance, and if we have, bear toward them were crystallised into This is ao capeei- naturally, mentioned it at this tire it is definite co-operation.

casting by no means ar

any sort of reflec-ally, in some respects, in such a place as Hongkong. There is not a church in our tion on any of our neighbours.

need not follow in detail the story of Colony" which does not deserve « more those each years. Is in given in the support than it gets from many who history which has been issued, and out- reckon in the Homelands to be of its lined in the press, But this occasion should communion.

picul. not pass without some recognition of the Men and women come out here with. ERSENTIAL OILa. There is little doing faith and fine feeling of the fathers as no intention of making this place their in these, and last week's quotations may Ingen in the Catholic foundation on which home, usually quite the contrary,,, and" be taken as the prypt valves,

must have been held at Stanley or else in that reconciliand appointed parttained and an advance is likely to take]

aaort.

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Goods

will

not cleared by Nov. 18th, at 4 p.. be subject te real. All broken, chafed and damaged packages will be xrmined on Nov. 19th, at 10 AML, by Mesara. Goddard & Douglas.

Claims against the Biemmer must be present. o in writing within 10 days after arrival of Steamer, otherwise they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by the- andersigned in any case whatever,

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