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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAKUH VIR,' 192.

DIOCESAN CONFERENCE.

CHURCH ACTIVITIES REVIEWED,

PRESERVATION OF MACAO'S HISTORIC CHAPEL.

CHRIST CHURCH, CANTON, Archileacon BARNETT gave an account of the work at Christ Church, Canton. He said that was a small but loyal body of Church men and women there, and the Navy was represented Sunday by Sunday, The earthquake, two years ago, had greatly damaged the parsonage, the rent from which was the principal income of the Church. When the present tenant went, in a few months' time, considerable nuflay must be undertaken.---

Archdeacon BARNETT said he had a The second annual Diocesan Conference government of the Church in order to of the D'ocese of Victoria, Hongkong, make use to the fullest degree of the practical suggestion to make as to a way Inin which the Church of England. could took place yesterday. The proceedings capacity for service of its members. began with

an early celebration of days like these no live Church must be help the Church of China." A new Church Holy Communion at St. John's Cathe¡ afraid of the risk of movement. dral, after which the Bishop of Victoria entertained the members of the Confer to breakfast at Bishop's House. murning and afternoon sessions were held and the members were entertained to lunch at the Hongkong Hotel by Mrs, P. H. Holyoak.

ence Protracted

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The was being built by the Chinese at Canton, high mission of Christianity could not be as to two-thirds of the cost, with Chinese fulfilled by the isolated exertions of in- money. A bell, which would be the best dividuals. The promotion of a corporate in any Anglican Church in China-pot spirit was the big problem in the work excepting the Cathedral-(laughter) of the diocese; there was so much change; could be obtained for £30. He invited people were here for only a short time; anyone who wished his name to be per- there was not a great deal of natural cober-petuated to give such a bell; it would be ence in the diocese, all these difficulties the first Church bell to be sounded in

that part of Canton. only made it more urgent to seek for right guidance and for strength to

persevere.

REPORTS ON CHURCH ACTIVITIES.

THE CATHEDRAL.

The great variety of subjects that canie belove the Conference emphasized the great extent of the Diocese and the extraordinary amount of work to which the Church stands committed, handi- capped as it is by the comparatively small "numbers and ever-changing personnel of The morning

The CATHEDRAL CHAPLAIN (Rev. V. H. the European community. session was devoted "to consideration of COPLEY MOYLE) then gave an account of reports from many felds of work; the the work at the Cathedral during the interesting account of Mr. Waldegrave's year. This covered much of the ground traversed in the roport presented at the efforts on behalf of seamen, admirably annual meeting recently and fully report prepared by Mr. Forster, is given ated at the time

ST. PETER'S CHURCH, length; it was very heartily received by the Conference. Other reports occupy Jess space because their subject matter has already appeared in our pages in re ports of prize distributions and other "gatherings.

Some discussion took place as to the desirability of having a resident Chaplain in Canton.

Mr.. STANTON, the lay representative from Canton, said there were about 50 British communicants.

MISS SKIPTON'S IMPENDING DEPARTURE,

On the impending departure of Mias E. S. Skipton, headmistress of the Dioce- san Girls' School, Mr. LINDSAT spoke of the the great loss to the school and

How Colony which this event entailed. much the school owed to the indefatigable and self-sacrificing labours, for the past si'years, of Miss Skipton, would never be known. He moved:

**That this Conference, in view of the pending departure of Miss E. S. Skipton places on record its high appreciation of her able and self-less service during the 21 years of her head-ship of the. Diocesan Girls' School,''

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Archdeacon BARNETT, seconded. said that those who knew the difficulties of the work appreciated what Miss Skip- ton had accomplished: she had been the inspiration of the school.

He contem-

"We

plated her departure with great regret, but she had earned her rest for she had spent herself, day and night, in holidays and in work-time for the school. accord to Miss Skipton," said the Arch- deacon, our grateful thanks for the impulse she has given to education in the diocese of Hongkong; her monument stands in Kowloon, which will ever keep. her in memory."-(Applause),

The resolution

carried with

The Bishop said that unless a man had acclamation.

full scope for work, he, and his work, suffered.

He did not think there was

scope for the full-time service of one man

in Canton.

A HISTORIC CHURCH. After THE PROTESTANT CHURCH, MACAO.

The Rev. A. J. S. STEAR presented a

St. Peter's Church. report on reviewing the work done nad thanking those who had contributed towards its accomplishment, the report discussed the relations of St. Peter's Church with the Cathedral It would be a pity (said the report) to allow the evils of parochialism to creep in; Honkong was not very large, and Churchmen should see that the weak nesses of the Church at home were not Now was the time to make it copied. in Flongkong, with one head, so that all clear that there should be only one parish churches and districts that might arise in the future should belong to one uni: Ged whole. Thus would the Church avoid The afternoon session was devoted to working in watertight compartments, questions of organisation and administra-which had caused real harm at home. All tion.

Col. Hailey Bell's account of the early history of the Pretestant Church at. Macas provided interesting interlude, and the Conference heartily supported his appeal for funds to preserve this memorial of the early history of European associa tion with China,

Col.. HAILEY BEL, greatly aroused the interest of the Conference by an account of the Protestant Church at Macao and an appeal for the preservation of this historic building, associated with early days of European trade with China. He

said :-

ዓቢይ

MISSION TO SEAMEN. Mr. L. FORSTER that read the following report:

Mr. Waldegrave, 1 regret to say, is at present in hospital suffering from an attack of tovor. 1 am i try he is unable to be present to give us a full account of the magnificent work he is doing in connection with the Merchant Service. The few facts which I have to present to and give, I fear, an imperfect idea of the you form a very inadequate, summary 1. gleaned chaplain's many activities.

Finance. The mission on the year's working has, a credit balance of 7,000 them from him in hospital. dollare. The chief extraordinary item of expenditure has been a sum of 89,300 on the Dayspring, the motor launch used in the chaplain's work. This, however, is now recurrent. It is estimated that the annual running expenses of the launch is now $2,000. This is partly due to the generosity of the iceal firms doing work gratis which hitherto has been paid for.

Visita-About 1,800 visits have been paid to ships or an average of 3 per day. If the chaplain emphasises any particular part of his work it is in vising those ships which carry apprentices, and those of which the crew are not likely to have social connections in Hongkong."

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There lies over at Macao a little chapel or church, in ruins. It has been there for Church in China, It was actually built 100 years and it is the first Protestant as a mortuary chapel and it is not, strictly speaking, even within the diocese It was built by the East Indis Company in or about the year 1814, first as

The first to be graveyard Church. Church people in Hongkong would be buried there was the wife of the great The BISHOP OF Vicronia presided at the members of the one parish of Hongkong, pioneer missionary, Dr. Morrison. Dr. with its centre at the Cathedral, but each torrison himself lies there, and that fact Conterence, and there were also present:

member would feel at liberty to use the alone should constitute a claim for help Archdeacon Barnett, the Reva V. H.

Church most convenient. Many were Copley Moyle, C. 1. Blanchett, H. 15.

anxious to see definite relations estab and consideration from the Church. Cidle foes, W. T. Featherstone, H. W.

lished between the Cathedral and St. There are other well-known men buried Hewitt, J. T. Holman, P. Jenkins, Peter's Church; in the meantime, it was

there: Chinnery, the artist and writer:

Rogers, A Shewell, and A. J. S. Stearn, look upon each of the two churches as at B. Lizumy, b. W. 4. Martin, Fyner, J. to be hoped that both congregations would Lord Spencer Churchill and a great num- ber of naval and military, officers who fell in the fighting round Canton. In fact the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.U. and

the disposal of the other. Pollock, Mrs Knight, Mr.L.

anyone, in the early days, who died any THE REMOVAL OF ST PETER'S..

Services.-The attendance at the Sun- where in China was taken to Macao and Forater, Dr. Sanders, Mr. W. L. Fatten-

The Hon. Mr. POLLOCK asked if any buried there; some of those buried at day Evening service shows an average of don, Major Walmsley, Mr. A. W. Smith,

Visits Mr. B. Packham, Miss Skipton, Mr. E. further information was available as to Macho came from Tientsin and Peking about 25. The number of course depends A. Stanton (Canton), Mr. E. Thomas, the statement made at last year's Dioce Captains and officers of the old tea clip-on the ships in the harbour.

san Conference that St. Peter's Church and Col. Halloy Bell (Bacao).

pers and men connected with the old during the week may produce meagre was to be moved.

The BISHOP OF VICTORIA remarked, that factories in Canton are buried in the little results as owners make a point of getting this was one of the problems Mr. Pollock Brave-yard at Macao. The oldest graves the ships out of harbour before Sunday and Mr. Hastings, as hon. legal advisers, are dated 1748 or 1760; Sir John Jordan comes round. This is in order to avoid

bour in a characteristic of Sunday. would be asked to go into, as to whom of the British East India Company is demurrage The empty state of the bar.

The whole place is so buried there.

Social. The most noteworthy incident,. St. Peter's belonged to, as Church pro bistoric, so much a relic of the earliest perty.

Mr. POLLOCK said he was referring to days of intercourse with China and of the and the most hopeful, was the entertain the suggestion that the Government was birth of this great Colony, that we, who ment organised by the Council of the are a very small community, in Macao Helena May on December 28th, 1930, moving the Church.

when H.E. and Lady Stubbs received The Rev. W. T. FEATHERSTONE said about a dozen British and perhaps two over 80 merchant scamen. The object of that in 1915 it was found that there were dezen Protestants--ask the "Diocessan this was to destroy that isolation in which no title deeds or record of ownership Conference to give ita support to the the scarcen find tactoselves in this Colony. of any kind. The sum of £300 was given re-building of the Church in Macao. The Only on Sunday an officer of a Blue Missions trustees of the Church consist of the Funnel boat informed me that he spent by ladies in Macao to start

IMTE.

On the proposition of Archdeacon BARNETT, BECOnded by Mr. STANTON, the Bev. V. B. Copley Moyle was appointed secretary of the Conference.

APPOINTMENTS.

The Bissop announced that the follow-

ing appointments had been made. Ex amining Chaplains (for three years) Archdeacon Barnett, the Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle, the Rov. H. W. Hewitt and the Hev. P. Jenkins; honorary domestic Chaplain, Rev. J. T. Helman; honorary legal advisors, the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pol- lock, K. C. and Mr. G. Hastings; registrar and secretary, Capt. H. Fogg The Bishop referred to the valuable services of Mr. Bowley as legal adviser and said that his departure would be a loss to the Church life of the Colony.

ADDRESS BY THE BISHOP.

The Rov. H. W. HEWITT thought the question whether a new site should be in the Wert Point district, or elsewhere, should be left open.

care to

Mrs. Edkin is

to Seamen at St. Peter's, and the only British Consul-General, the United States 5 months in a hotel in this Colony with claim of the Missions to Seamen Society Consul, and there should be one member out getting to know a single British was to an equivalent of that au

representing each of the following coun-resident. It was the most miserable time Archdeacon BARNETT said Bishop Lander tries: Germany, Holland, Sweden, or he ever spent. As a result of the Helena had negotiated with the Director Denmark, making five nations represent Hay reception, various invitations were The re-building will cost extended to the mem Lady Stubbs for of Public Works for another site for the ed in all. Church, but no decision was reached, and 81.500; towards which $1,880 is collected, instance provides tennis once a fortnight

The whole place is going to rack and 'ruin for any inerchant seamen who the matter was in abeyance.

two years ago the roof fell in and all take advantage of it.

Thursday. These opportunities for services are now held in varions residente at home to the men at the H.3.1. every houses.

social intercourse are very deeply appre cinted, though an incurable shyness. frequently prevents individuals taking advantage of these offers,

In connection with this I should like to draw attention to the telegram which appeared in the C.M. on Saturday, to the effect that the British organising themselves into an association at Shanghai and that one of their chief activities will be the entertainment of Merchant Seamen.

In further discussion it was mentioned that the Praya East Roclamation scheme provided for the allotment of a site for

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Col. HAILEY BELL concluded his speech by moving the following resolution :--

"That this Church of England Diocesan Conference is heartily in favour of the appeal being made by the trustees on behalf of the Protestant Chapel, Macao."

The BISHOP said it was hard in Hong. kong to feel the throb of world life; one felt at the extreme end of things, but it must be apparent to everybody that this was an hour of extraordinary change and upheaval in human life. He believed it was a time of far greater change than was commonly realised. Most people comed to have not the slightest concep-

Church, and it was also pointed out tion of the vastness of the changes in that seamen now find their way generally progress in all directions, greater than to the east and not to the west end of ever before in the history of mankind. Hongkong. Such a tiine could not be an ago of.

The following resolution, proposed by The Rev. G. R. LINDSAY seconded. easy conservatism. As men and women the Hon. Mr. Poztock, was adopted: The BISHOP anid the preservation of who, believed that "Christ was the answer to overy human acod, they must face the That it be referred to the Standing this Church, whch was the oldest-except

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Committee of the Conference to consider for Roman Catholic Churches in the problems of the day fearlessly. problem was that of Church unity; the the question of the constitution and the whole of South China, should be taken Lambeth Conference had faced it and the title to property of St. Peter's Church; in hand without delay. There were many Church here must regard it as one of the and that the Committee be empowered people in the United Kingdom and in the living issues of the day. He looked with to confer with the Government on the United States who, if they knew who were hops to the valuable work being done by question of the removal of St. Peter's lying in the cemetery, would any that so the World Commission on Faith and Church from the present site, and as to historic a place must not be neglected.

sito for a new Church for seamen on Archdeacon BARNETT recalled his cop. Order.

nection with Macao twenty years ago and A problem which must be felt here was the Praya East Reclamation."

ST. ANDREW'S, KOWLOON.

said it was a great grief to him to see that of international comity, and at the Lambeth Conference, the Bishops urged The Rev. G. R. LINDSAY gave an the Church in ruins. It was not only the that stops should be taken immediately account of the work of St. Andrew's oldest Protestant Church in South Thing, whereby the whole Church of Christ might Church, Kowloon. He mentioned the but the oldest Church cast of India. To bo enabled to urge on the peoples of the great increase of numbers there and meet Portuguese susceptibilities at the world, with one voice, the principles of added that Presbyterians came very time it was built two conditions were the League of Nations It was felt that happily to St. Andrew's. To illustrate observed: (1) that it must not be visible the League of Nations or the principle the difficulty caused by constant changes from the road and (2) that no bell should for which it stood was hovering on the in the personnel of the Church, Mr. Lind-ever ring to announce a service.

The resolution was carried unanimously very edge of existence, and Church people say mentioned that 370 changes in the should" give it moral support.

THE CHURCH AT SWATOW. The problem of industrial unrest was roll of St. Andrew's were made during the

year. The district was constantly extend- The Rev. W. T. FEATHERSTONE gavo a -not-one-which-only affected people at home. The forces that made for unrest 6-173-dals were built-and-filled-in-11-brief-account-of-the work of the Church would not suddenly and easily subside, months-and the church had an acute in Swatow and suggested, incidentally, unless there was a real change in the problem in keeping pace with fresh de that there should be two Missions to spirit and working of economic life mands, and the extension of its district. Senmen Chaplains instead of one and Other problems confronting the Church He needed more help, and felt inclined that they should be responsible for the ware its attitude towards present-day to envy St. Peter's, which had the staff work on ships at Canton, Swatow, and standards of sexual morality, and the of the Diocesan Boys' School to rely upon. Macno. fact that so many sought comfort and The enlargement of the Church and the inspiration outside the Church, in provision of additional accommodation at

An account of the work of the Diocesan theosophy, Christian science, and spirit the Church Hall would soon be pressing Boys School was given by the Rev. WT. ualism Nor could their eyes be closed needs..

In reply to a question by Mr. POLLOCK, FEATHERSTONE, and of the Diocesan Girls to the changes taking place in the posi tion of women," The formation of a Mr. LINDSAY haid St. Andrew's Church School by the Rev. G. L. LANDSAY, The Hoard of Women's Work for the diocess would begin next month to subscribe $700 ground has been covered in the reports, should be considered, also the improve a month towards the exchange equalisa recently published, of the annual prize

givings of these schools. ment and development of constitutional tion of the Bishop's stipend.

THE DIOCESAN SCHOOLS,

women

from

Are

The Chaplain himself asked me to make an appeal for women's committes in can- nection with the Seamen's Institute to cert and entertainment there. make itself responsible for a weekly.con- The object is to provide that feminine atmosphere which is so lacking in the life of the average sea-faring man and the absence of which makes him lose

These men neither want charity nor touch with the more refined side of life. patronage, they simply desire to meet on equal terms with residents of this Colony in a social kind of way. They me quite willing to pay any cost that

may be involved.

The Chaplain appreciates very much the opportunities granted him by the naval authorities,of coming into contact with the naval men on their own ships. The visit to Weihaiwei attached an act. Chaplain to one of M.H.M. light cruisers helped him very much in his work-as- the naval men make considerable use of

the institute.

An Adsistant Chaplain.—The appoint

ment of an assistant to Ray G. T. Walde grave is a matter of importance. There I sufficient work for two in much an important commercial port as this.

At

the present moment the need is apparent for unless the visiting and work is con- tinuous it loses its effectivenessi

There is great scope, however, fo

for ex- pansion which can only come about if an

(Continued on page 6.) assistant Chaplain is appointed.

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