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SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION,

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HISTORIC CHURCH ÅT

· MACAO,

[TO THE EDITOR OF "THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

the

ADDRESS BY DR. H. T. HODGKIN, "Depend upon it, sir," said Dr. John- when a mar knows he is to be

Dr. H. T. Hodgkin, who has been

SIE,I have spent the past week-and hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his travelling in China for some time lectur in Macho. When I was there in February mind wonderfully.”

ing to Chinese students on modern pro- last, the old Ghurch, built in 1816 by the With the above quotation as introduoblems, and who is continuing this work in Honourable East India Company, was in tion, Mr. H. Wilson Harris writes as Hougkong and Canton, has arranged to ruina. Now, thanks to the munificence of follows in the Daily News. Studying a give four addresses on the general theme an nasnymous donor and to the hoenness

to the of local residents interested in good map has much the same effect wad of The Christian Revolution" on the whole it is a more comfortable European community in Hongkong. The Church, a substantial building bas been method than the other. Tako the Pacific rst of these addresses was given, yester-erected, for which Messrs. Leigh and problan, for example. Le can be dis

If the work is to be carried to its com cussed era l'air, so to speak. That indeed evening, at the City Hall, when a Orange have generously given the design. large audience assembled, under the is what has been happening to it pretty chairmanship of H.E. Lieut.-General Sir pletion, $1,500 are still needed for the furnishing and lighting of the Church generally for the past week. Or it can be G. M. Kirkpatrick. discussed, with the assistance of un ade- The Chairman mentioned that Dr. and for the repairs to the Churchyard.

It has been suggested to ine shot there quate map, in some relation to hard facts. Hodgkin was the secretary to the Friends' It is worth while going that way to work Foreign Missionary Association and for may be those in Hongkong, Canton and years tad made a special study of pro elsewhere who would feel it a privilege But one word first. President Hard blems of social reconstruction. He had to contribute towards this object; and as ing, who, perhaps by accident, perhaps ni political motive, but sought directions one of the Trustees of the Church I am. with commendable wisdom, phrased his in which, oy the application of Christian therefore, venturing to bring this matter official preliminary statement a little principles, the condition of mankind to public notice, raguely, is clearly out for a double event, I'might be improved.

here.

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The spot is. une of greas historie a general disarmament conference and a Dr. Hodgkin, who has an excellent pre-interest Not only is the Church the conference on the Far East, and the sense and a good platform manner, cover-oldess Protestant Church in the Far Bast, Pacific in particular. Which of these ised much ground in the course of but in the graveyard lie buried Robert the more immediately hopeful! Qu that address which lasted for more than an Morrison, the pioneer Missionary and epinions may, and certainly do, differ. It hour, and the dificulty is, within the translator of the Bible (in whose memory it is hoped an East window may later be all depends which of the two the mind limits of the space at our disposal, to Axes on frst. Whichever it may be, the give a summary of his remarks which placed). Chinnery, the poet and painter, difficulties took a obvious that it seeRALI

shall be more than a mere 'catalogue of also distinguished Naval and Military more elementary wisdom to begin with his points."

officers, including two former Comaland- the other.

r-in-Chief of the China, Station.

A who have stood in this graveyard must have been reminded both of the romance and of the cost of the work of the early pioneers; and in re-erecting this tribute to their memory both Free- Churchman and Anglican con unite,

The date for the Dedication of the Church has been tentatively axed for Sunday, January 8th, 1999.

Donations may be sent to the Inter.

· Macao national Banking Corporation Church and Cemetery Fund." Yours | faithfully,

C. R. VICTORIA (HONGKONG.) St. Paula College, Hongkong..

October 5th, 1921.

Dr. Hodgkin's purpose was to enforce But on balance there cannot be much the urgency of modern problems and to doubt that what matters is the Pacific urge that the New Testament contained There you have an issue limited, though a philosophy of human life relevant to vast, where much of the preliminary the needs of to-day. And, first, as to the thinking has already been done in con-urgency of the problem. Although Hoag nection with the Anglo-Japanese Alliance kong might see little of the more menze and other problems. Everyone, more-ing features of the social and political over, who has seriously studied the ques- situation in Europe, and elsewhere, to tion of disarmament since the war has day- the economic effects of the great been driven back to the conclusion that events of the last few years had not been the one possible line of advance at the so deeply felt here still, everyone who that the present moment is a naval reduction as kept his eyes open must see the result of understandings between rather overworked word crisis ap America, Britain and Japan in. theplied to the condition of things to-day. Pacific.

Tea year ago the structure of society seemed fairly stable; why did it seem less THE PACIFIO" POWERS." The Pacific, then, is the immediate stable nowi Dr. Hodgkin found the an- issue. And at this point let us get the swer to the question in the ill-distribu-i map on the table-or, rather, the facts to tion of wealth, whereby so many lived as be gleaned from the tap. Mr. Harding's or below the poverty line; the materialis statement speaks of calling into conferte standards of modern civilisation, ence the Powers especially interested in which led to neglect of the highest values Pacific and Far Eastern problems." human life; and lack of purpose." "Powers" is, of course, a polite synonym Dr. Hodgkin placed in effective contrast for "States. If you are mere paralytic the building, of beautiful cathedrals by weakness in the diplomatic sense you the craftsman of the Middle Ages and pean expoct everyone who calls you anything the feverish rash and bustle of modern much alarmed. on Tuesday afternoon, New York and London. There had been to hear sounds of loud explosions and-- to call you a Power," all the same.

But who are these Powers? Clearly the lack of purpose in the industrial Revolu- are case, at least to find that dubcis States bordering on or situate in the tion that had swept through Europe and from explosions had descended within the Pacific Ocean. Now the Pacific Ocean was beginning to affect the great nations has two shores, which lie roughly 5,000 of the East; luck of purpose laud civilisa- miles apart-a strategic fact on which tion open to the great risks of the war, of hope to be able to say something another strikes and the Bussian Revolution. The day. Down the Asiatic shere, and ad-driving power of a great purpose jacent to it, there is one row of States; strikingly manifested in the early days down the American shore there is another of the war when, for once, everyone felt! row of States. Like this:

AMERICA. Alaska (USA). Canada. United States.

Indo-China (Frener). Mexico.

ABIA.

Siberia (Russiau).

Japan.

China,

Siam.

Struita Settlements

(British), Dilch East Indies.

Colombia, Ecuador, Péru. Chile.

that his life was related to one supreme object. It was the first duty of statesmen and religions leaders to fill the lives of the people with a sense of purpose so that they would move forward towards something worthy of attainment.

Dr.

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Some, to whom life offered little, Central American passionately desired revolution; others,

Republics.who had no great grievance against the was being cut away, near the Dock, to social order, felt that any changes must provide a site for building new residences be made slowly. Somewhere between for the Dock staff. He added that some the right view might lie; the comfortable of the stone went on board a ship and classes might need more of the spirit of some fell into the back of the European And down in the South another two. resolution and the others less.

quarters and was found in a cookhouse. Like that:

Hodgkin sought.to apply Christian stand- The defendant: I covered the holes ards to the Russian Revolution and traced with gunny bags and other weights.

the fact that it

was The Magistrato: How do you account its failures to

The philosophy of Karl for the accident1 materialistic.

Defendant: The force was too great. Marx, on which it was based, was a materialistic philosophy. The Revolution. The Magistrato: That means that you DAIRY FARM NEWS made the mistake, too, of breaking with did not a sufficient weights.

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So that if tickets are to be issued to every qualified applicant, and it is hard to see how they can be refused, the idea of a comfortable little four handed at Great Britain, America, China and Japan, each with a side of the table to itself-goes pretty clearly by the board.

Some difficulties will no doubt prove

The Magistrate (to the defendant): less formidable when it comes to the

Dr. Hodgkin deprecated the tendency You nearly filled one man. If you had point than they look in advance. It is to be hoped so, at any rate, for the list of to blame statesmen because the world in killed him you would have been liable to possible Conference members is a little 1991 "was not what-in August, 1914-we be tried for manslaughter.

The mass of men, The maximum penalty under the Ordin- disturbing. It will, of cours, bo shorter hoped it would be, at Washington than it is in this column. everywhere, had left to statesmen their ance,-100-was imposed, There is no prospect, for example, of thinking and their responsibilities and Russia being represented; but will the then, when statesmen failed, would turn Statesmen could not absence of the Power which theoretically and rend them.

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at least speaks for nearly half the Asiatic legislate in advance of public opinion, seaboard of the Pacific inspire confidence. which was the sum of the opinion of in

(ASIATIC NEWS AGENCY.] in decisions taken without her? Siam, dividuals. Human stateanmaship needed, too, is likely to be content to stay out from some quarter, assistance in the pro blam of making a new world; he would

PERING, September 24th. sida.

The director.and members of the Paci "France will ad doubt take part in the suggest a source in his next lecture. He Conference. She is anxious to assert her would try to show that the philosophy Ee Conference Discussion Association, And Hol of Jesus Christ was amazing in its under the presidency of Mr. Yah Kung- position as a Pacific Power. land, as was to be expected, is expressing modernity and in its close relationship cho, held their sixth ordinary meeting Sbe to the problems of today; it supplied a this afternoon and the following resolu a lively interest in coming events. has a better claim than anyone, except driving force, a purpose and a goal for Great Britain, to be regarded as a human society. colonising Power, and all ber colonies' of any consequence (Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Dutch New Guinea) fic in the Pacific.

The audience, which had followed the address with close attention, warmly applauded Dr. Hodgkin at the close. The lecturer speaks again to-morrow night.

tion was passed by a majority:

"In view of the position of the Chi nose Republic in the Far East and the fact that the reorganization of the Chi- China But also the weal of the world. nese army concerns not only the peace of especially the future tranquility of the Pacific Ocean region, the oficial delegates of the Chinese Republic should be ad- mitted to the main disarmament confer- ence of the Powers, in addition to the cónferences dealing with Far Eastern questions."

No trouble is likely to arise there. On the American side it is another matter. The United States, Canada, and Chile inust all be passed in if they apply. There

All these are facts worth digesting it can hardly be any question about that. But, apart from Chile, Latin America may good time. Even between the four Pow be distinctly an embarrassment. What ers most immediately concerned, Britain about Mexico, for instance i Her Go and America, China and Japan, situs crament is not recognised by the United tions are bound to arise which only a

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