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CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNODI

FIRST LOCAL CONFERENCE.

INTERESTING HISTORICAL REVIEW BY THE BISHOP.

MANY CHURCH MATTERS DIBOUSSED,

The Lambeth Conference of 1867 COD- sidered this subject and the findings of Fits Special Committed may be of wome interest (The Bishop have read the find- ings referred to).In thia Diocese our Synce is apparently not enough. In 1913 a Chinese Diocesan Synod was form- ed of which every Chinese clergyman holding my licence a member Lay delegates are appointed. The conven- tions and canons were approved" first

then by the of all by the General Synod and

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The first conference of the local Syhod In 1871 there was a controversy between of the Church of England was held yoster-the Bishop. the Archbishop of Canterbury day at St. Paul's College The Bishop and others regarding the division of the of Victoria (Dr. Lander) presided and Diocese, with the result that when Bishop there were also present Archdeacon Russel was appointed as Bishop of North Barnett, the Reva, V. H. Copley Moyle, China, Bishop Alford felt it his duty to A. D. Stewart, G. R. Lindsay, C. Bresign. On his retirement, Bishop Alford Shaor, M. Shewell, P. Jenkins, W. Rod wrote to Mr. J. C. Sharpe (the chief sub- of a CMS missionary at Nanning. It is Kers. G. T. Waldegrave, W. H. Hewitt, scriber to the endowment fund of the building a handsome Church at Canton. E. W. Martin, J. S. Stearn, E. Blanchett, Bishoprie thirty years previous): "I It has given titles for ordination to 4 HOP in Nathan Rasd, Kowlogo.

priests and 4 deacons, and is proving a Dr. J. H. Sanders, Mrs. H. G. Earle,could not consent to be a party to an Mrs. P. L. Knight, Major Walasky, Mr. arrangement whereby in the same Mission.Vury strong and vigorous organisation.

A. H. Compton, Mr. W. Jackson, Mr. Tot excluding that in Hongkong, two There is almost no limit to the possibilities. Forster. Mr. E. Sykes, and others European Bishops should have Episcopal of such an organisation.

jurisdiction, the one over the European The Rer. V. E: COPLET MOYLE was ap Missionaries and the other over the pointed Hon. Secretary of the Conference. Native Converts among whom those Euro

which opened with prayer.

RISTORICAL REVIEW BY THE BISHOP. The Bishor of VICTORIA said: My Rev. Brethren and Lay Delegates, I think I will commence with a very brief review of the English Church in this diocese...

The earliest contact of the English Church with China seems to have been through the Chaplains and Jay Church

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Meanwhile the Church of England is left without a Synodical organisation. Personally I would have much preferred pean Missionaries minister. After this to have one organisation. I believe the Queen revoked the Letters Patent in it to be most in accordance with the which the Bishops of Victoria had been traditions of Church government.WNER leaving Colony, Substantially nominated: from thence they were to be But there is the unfortunate lang Large Veranda. Central Heating (Oil,

built seven-roomed House, Pear purely ecclesiastical officials without any age barrier-the Chinese Synod Fuel) making House dry and comfortable difect State connection.- Since then the raust be in Chinese and unfortunate Kicksha-house (Tram minutes), Bor all times of the year, Lawn, Gardens, Archbishop of Canterbury has appointedly the Church of England members room, Good Basement, Cool in Summer, the Bishops of Victoria.

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sanction to the C.H.S.K. Synod. I grated

members of the Naval ships and Military who had been for a while Legation Chap-Peak Chinese. When His Grace granted

certain places for graveyards and, as MS. was consecrated. In 1892 the my hope of organising somewhat on the at Macao, mortuary Chapels were cracked British Government disendowed the same lines, and this Synod is the result. which were used as Churches. There Colonial Chaplain at Hongkong: that is English Clergymen eent out by the were also Consular Churches with to say, they censed to pay his stipend as C.M.S. are, I think, all regarded as clergy Chaplains attached at Shanghai, Peking, they had done since the appointment of of the Chung Ha Shing Kung Hua. I

Rey Vincent Stanton in 1943. Liston, Foochow, amoy and Hankow,

And the take it their position is strictly speaking high rate of exchange has well nigh dia- that of being lent for the time being to After the cession of

the Island of Hong kong an 1842 to the British, stops were taken endowed the Bishopric.

the Chung Ha Shing Kung Hun: They to provide a Colonial Chaplaincy.

The recent history of the Anglicanait upon its Synod and for the time ars Colonial Chupam appointed was Church in China is fairly well-known. being have equal rights and privi the Rev. Vincent Stanton who had been Un the resignation of Bishop Burdon in leges with the Chinese clergy. But an unattached missionary previous to the 1875, the Rev. J. C. Hoare, principal they have not renounced their member- of the Training College at Ningpo, was ship of the Church of England any more. appointed fourth Bishop of Victoria than I have when they take confirmation Alter an episcopate of some eight years and ordination for the Chinese Church. I filled with strenuous activities, he was have, therefore, summoned such to this drowned, to ether with some Chinese students white on a preaching tour, in conference to-day, and I would have the typhoon of 1906 them remember that in almost all parts Cutil the beginning of the war the of the Diocese they have opportunities of number of English Churchman residentende

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Having curred the wrath of the authorities at Canton, as is said to have spent some weeks-in prison and in chains Stanton held the chaplaincy from Is to 1850 Then he went home an sig

ise, and was never able to return, and laid the foundation of much of Church work which subsequently was off ganised under the bisaop or victoria. His services were bola 10 a temporarapach China had steadily increased and serving their Mother Church of England. adjacent to the Aile of at. John's Catheditional Charch buildings, had been In Hongkong 1 am glad to notice a draw. drul. He also ostained the site for Ev, provided: notably the beautiful Church; Paul's College and collected a consider parsonage and Church Hall at Sting together of the English Community se have received a consignment the sum towards its erection. It was Andrews, Kowloon. And there has been Chaplains and the Missionarý clergy. A opened" as an Anglo Chiness School in also a manifest drawing together on the fortnightly Greek Testament Reading and

of both trimmed and unʻrimmed tue Spring of leik. Dung this period part of members of the Church of Eng- the hey. George smith was sent out by land and other branches of the Anglicana the Clutca missionary Society on a tour

Communion. It is also to be noted as vestigation or the missionary pros- satisfactory that members of the Church pects in alpa: his records in his journal of England resident in China are now carred in the English Churches, Mis- these are now being displayed at severa, instincés of services neid for increasingly interested in Missionary eionary clergy have readily stepped into querabers at the Chures of England in work of the Church so that the one body the breach. They have taken charge of the

LA FAVORITE. China in private houses and temples. of which Christ is the head, is becoming Cathedral many times in the past, the

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Steps were being taken to found a bishoprie of Victoria, Hongkong, though. the American Church had been before us antac appointment of Bishop Boone to superiniese their Mission in China. A Brother and sister [Mr. J. C. Sharpe and Lady smart), gave a sum of £20,000 which was divided between the endowment for the diaboprie of Victoria and the founding of St. Paul's College, Hong kong-

ur. Sharpe was then a young man and it is interesting to note that he lite to be considerably over ninety and died only a few years ago. Ona of his nets in 1913 was to send a contribution to the building of the Diocesan Girls School in Hong kong.

The Society for Promoting Christi Knowledge and the Society for Propagat ing the Gospel also gave grants towards the endowment of the Bishopric, which,

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Peak Church and St. Andrew's, Kowloom. into existence, it is the province of this At Canton the CM.S. Secretary in the boy to appoint the Chaplain of the Chaplain of Christ Church, Bhameen; Cathedral, to be trustees of the building,

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and generally to manage its affairs. To and the emoluments from that source DAIRY Bishop Burden and his helpers we owe at the disposal of the C.M.S. LG.B. the Diocesan Boys' School, and the Chinese Even without such oficial connection I prayer book is a lasting, memorial of am sure CMS clergy are all only too his faithful life. On the resignation of anxious to strengthen the hands of the Bishop Burden, the Rev. J. L. Hoare English Obaplains and they have many FINNAN was appointed 4th Bishop of this Diocese. opportunities of doing so and of further His episoopate of eight years, from 1888 ing the Church of England in this place. FILLET till 1900, was full of vigour for the Church On the other hand the English Chaplains of England as well as the growth of the and laity lose no opportunity of showing Chinese Church The Diocesan Girls' their sympathy with the missionary and School owed ita inception to him. St. the workers. It was a great pleasure to us Andrew's Church, Kowloon, was erected all to have the Chaplain of the Cathedral

in his time and be laid the foundation pent at the Chinese Synod at Canton SALT stone and it was practically ready for last month and to hear the excellent dedication at the time of his lamented address he gave to the delegates Chap

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they were careful to stipulate, was prim and tragic death in September, 1906. lains of St. Andrew's and the Army Chap New shipment just received. arily for the furtherance of missionary He maintained a treaty port Chaplain lain have also taught in St. Paul's work, though the endowment fund was who ministered to the scattered congre College, and a most striking instance of foerged into the General Colonial Bishop gation on the coast, until the Diocese this co-operation was given on January

Cathedral and St. Andrew's, Kowloon,

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rie rand The Rev George Smith was of Fukien was cut off. Then the English 11th when in response to my appeal the COULOMMIER CHEESE nominated by the Prime Minister and work at Amoy fell to that Diocese and consecrated by the Archbishop of Canter bury on Ascension Day 1849 on the Letters Patent from Queen Victoria

missionary priest was located at Canton. gave the magnificent combined collection DEVONSHIRE CREAM.

Since St. Peter's Day, 1907, it has been of 84,700 for the missionary work of tha my great honour and privilege to have Church. The Chinese Synod recorded its the oversight of the Church of England most grateful thanks.

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His Diocese was the Colony of Bong kong and his jurisdiction included the whole of China and Japan, so far as the in this diocese. I have confirmed thou- Church of England was concerned,

ands of Chinese and ordained nine He notes that in 1863 he confirmed 5 The great majority of my episcopal func Before the war the resident Naval and Europeans. He resigned his bishoptic in tions are naturally for the Chinese, but Military chuplains were in the habit of

and died in 1971 The second Bishop of Victoria was the raro confirmed the rope and one in the Diocess, and honorary chap I have 305 Europeaus and applying to me for a licence to officiato Right Rev. Richard Charles Alford (who Deacon, I have, like most of my pre laincies of the Cathedral were offer was born in 1816) Dr. Alford at the decessors, been privileged to see the ed to them. An honorary chaplaincy tims of his appointment was Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Islington, He was creation of the new Diocese of Kwangsi Bince the war, so far they have stood an Diocese subdivided. This was by the was accepted by the Military Chaplain. Consecrated at Canterbury Cathedral on

and Hunsa. I have also been permitted tirely outside my jurisdiction. This is a record of his holding a visita to take a small part in the formation of should, I think, be considered in connee- tion of the Clergy of the Diocese on the Chung Ha Shing King Hua as a new tion with the question of parochial boun- November 30th. of that year, and one of branch of the Anglican Communion. daries in Hongkong" There is consider-

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England which has separate presiding chaplains Children, also have, in some In 1868 he licensed

Chaplains Bishops and separate, Church discipline cases, regarded themselves as members of for Shanghai and Hankow and the Rez My position is analogous to that of the Military and of the Cathedral Sunday. W. R. Bench as Colonial Chaplain in an English. Bishop, if, we will say, he bad Schools. I am very glad the Mission to Hongkong. There are records of bis confor his Diocess the county of Lancashire Seamen has once more a whole-time secrat bg burial grounds at Stonecat erin England, and the province of Ulster chaplain, I rejoice that the long-felt Island Hongkong, Kuikiang and Yoro ham also dedicating the Church of St in Ireland. Half his dices being Church want of a Church Hall for the Cathedral Baviour Peking on October 17th of England and half Church of Ireland is about to be met and I should like to In 1869 the Cathedral of Hongkeng was he would have to swear allegiance to two again thank all the donors, especially the considerably enlarged by a spacipus Primates and bold two Diocesan Confer-anonymous contributor of $20,000. Chancel, the foundation stone of which ences The Church has ever been, in 1 wish to mention that an amistant was laid by HRH the Duke of Edin- theory at any rate, a democratio institu- chaplain has been chosen for the Cathe burgh The Beamen's Church of St. tion. Bishops, priests, and deacons have dral, and will arrive here in October. I

men's Chaplain appointed. That Church organization of the Church is not to be gards future action is likely to bo con- has ocdeed to be Beamen's Church and left, to any or all of them alone Every siderably hampered by the pending its fature use will come up for discussion province should have it General Synod vacancy in the Bishopric to day

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