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FIFTY YEARS IN CHINA. WORK OF BISHOP C. P.

· SCOTT, D.D," Celebrations were held on October 28th to mark Bishop Scott's 30th year in China. A large meeting was to be held in London of Church people interested in the work of the Mission in North China and Shantung at which the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Norris, and Bishop Iliff were to be the speakers.

The article below is reproduced from

the Chinese Churchman.

ARMS MENACE. BILAVEC POLICE CONSTABLE, SHOT

DEAD AT SINGAPORE SENSATIONAL ARREST EFFECTED.

The police at Singapore have beeit: kcoping a sharp look-out for arms, on vessels arriving from Europe. Soon after the German steamer Cablenz, which arrived from Hamburg on November 2nd. bad taken up her moorings at Tanjong Pagar, Inspector S. C Kessler, of the Singapore Harbour Board police, with a number of constables were on the watch. That was about 10 11.45 am a Chinese was noticed to come off the ship looking rather bulky about

am. At

BRITISH IMPERIALISH IN CHINA. STATEMENT OF PACTE

A REPLY TO MR, BERTRAND

VRUSSELJA...

TIN VOLUNTEER- MAARMENT".

The sooned Fásčiat Multia, na mont misleading descriptlung ist an organisation of volunteer units formed by the mor chants and Chambers of Commerce on. much the same linor as similar organisa tion in other parts of China, and with. Following is the letter that Sin Charles the samo purpose, namely,, to provide a handita, the other pre-occupations of the. Addis wrote to the London Morning Post means of protection against pirates and in criticism of an article written by MrCanton Governament not allowing them Bertrand Russell's

to deal effectively with this problem. The SB-I do not propose here. to discuss movement grew very rapidly, and alarma- the spirit animating, Mr. Bertrand Russed Sun, who was perfectly aware of the very widespread dissatisfaction with bis sell's article on "British Imperialism in re, not feared lest the volunteers China," in the New Leader, of September might eventually ally themselves with Chen Chiung-ming and make an effort to Charles Perry Scott was born in Eng

18th. My purpose is rather to test, by supersede his (loverement.. This was the land on Junu 27th, 1847. His father.

an examination of the facts on which, he cause of the confiscation of the arms. grandfather and great-grandfather were

Norwegian ship Har.. Chen is in alliance all clergy of the Church of England the waist, and as P.C. 130, Abdul Jal relics, the competence of Mr. Russell, to which arrived for the volunteers on the His great-grandfather. Thomas Scott, of the Harbour Board police, hadi Ais pass judgment on the objects and methods with the Peking Government, and his advent to power would. aean the end of of British policy in the Fat East.. was well-known in England and America suspicions concerning this he jumped into

The Tuchuns, who are a product of the the independent Canton Government for his Commentary on the Old and New ear, which the Chinese, whose tame is present circumstances of China, are not The Hungkong and Shanghai Bank and Testaments; he was also one of the found. Lee Chang Li, had got into. The Chin all entirely self-seeking; many of them their manager at Canton are not con ers and the Arst general secretary of these was brought to the West Wharf police are working for the reunification of China, nected with the valuateenmovement. In- Church Missionary Society, which has station, and on being searched was found ssibly along mistaken lines, and several deed, it would be most unwise for a far- of them bave succeeded in ovolving order sign commercial institution to meddle in done so much work in China and other to be in possession of four Mauser pis-out of chaos, and giving their provinces Chinese politics. It appears, however, tols, and another weapon of a larger calia comparatively stable and tranquil ad-that their Cantor compradore, a Chinese C. P, Scott was educated at Charter-bre, all of which were tied round his ministration; the best examples arc,, per intermediary in the Bank's native busi- haps, to be found is. Shansi and, until ness, was involved, but. Purely in a pri house and Cambridge, where he won dis waist.

the present civil war, in Manchuria and Yate capacity, as wert, many other pr Kiangau. It is a mistake to suppose that minent Chiuese..

Canton cannot be described as being tinction as a scholar and an athlete." In

While the search was proceeding the their rivalries are at all advantagedus to 1870 he was ordained in London and served at St. Peter's, Eaton Square under Chinese suddenly pulled out a revolver the foreign. Powers, whose nationals, divided into a foreign and native quarter. Dr. Wilkinson who afterwards became from his pocket, and fired in succession being mostly in Ching for trade, have At one end of the city, however, or rather it is difheuts to point to any concessions island known as Shameen, which has been Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, at a corporal and the policeman who had everything to lose through disorder, and of the suburbs, there is a small artificial In 1872 Dr. Wilkinson helped to start the arrested him, and then dashed out of the which may have been wrung from them set upart for foreign residence, and ik station. The corporal on duty at once It may be rouacked that, in the present divided into two Concessions, British and sandbank in, 1880, o as to avoid hurting annual Day of Intercession for Foreign gare the alarm by blowing his whistle, temper of the Chinese, it is sufficiently French. This island was built up on a Missions, which is now widely observed and in response to it a young Pathan difficult to obtain from them concessions the susceptibilities of the Chinese by using part of Canton for, this purpose. throughout the Church of England. On named Sulaman Khan, and who was off by any means, and to talk of "wringing?

duty at the time, along with Inspectors them is ridiculous.

It is separated from the mainland by a that arst Day of Intercession, Mr. Scott B. W. Swyny, S. C. Kessler and a num- Sun Yat-sen is an idealist, who pays narrow creek,, which, is spanned by two.. decided to offer as a foreign missionary. ber of constables, gave chase. An excit

certain number of has been responsible for much. blood-have always been. ism In 1874 he and one friend started for ing pursuit then took place. The prison little attention to facts, and his ideal bridges, kept locked at night There er proved himsell an expert sprinter, and shed and misery Eis attempts to en-

Chinese, and it is, unfortunate that the Society for the Propagation of the and fired at his pursuers This went on Chefoo as the representatives, of thejas, he ran turned round time after time force on the neighbouring province of restrictions on the use of the island by Kwangsi, for instance, a government in municipal council of the British Conces Gospel in China. There he first lived in during about half a mile chase.

accordance with his ideas have been bition rather unwisely imposed certain fur- the Home of Dr. Nevius of the American

At a swamp off Neison Road, the con terly resented by its inhabitants, and her restrictions. These were not pro Presbyterian Mission, learning the langstable Sulaman Khan hit the escaped have led to the most complete disorder. posed by the British. Consul-General, who aage and methods of work. In the winter prisoner on the nape of the neek with a Many of the Cantonese strongly desire of 1878 he went to Shansi to help in re brick, knocking him over. He then fell his overthrow,, and; to maintain himant would have been. well advised to veto,

lands.

A DASH FOR LIBERTY.

lieving the great three years' famine.

on the Chinese in order to hold him In 1880 Mr. Scott went honte to Eng down. While in that position he was land for a rest. At that time a new Dio- shot in the forehead, just over the left cese of North China was cut off from

eye, the unfortunate man's brains com- the jurisdiction of the Bishop in Ningpo, ing out from the back of his bead. The Dr. Russell, under whom Mr. Scott had brave constable, who bore az unblemished served, and Mr. Scott was consecrated as record, was found by his comrades dead. the first bishop of the new diocese. The Just after this the man was captured. new Liocese of North China included

A Mohamedan Malabari policeman, Chihli, Shansi. Kansu. Manchuria (added who participated in the chase and even- later). Shantung and Honan, which have tnal capture of the man, was also shot by since become separate dioceses, and the latter through the thumb of his right Shensi, which was at the General the heart, while Bynod of 1024 as a Missionary District hand was blown off by one of the shots Awaiting a new bishop, who is expected Ered by the Chinese. It was found, after to be a Chinese. Though the territory the man had been captured, that he had was large, the staff and work were for a about 1,000 rounds of munition in his long time small, and never spread to possession, and all those who took part the provinces west of Chihli till the in the pursuit of the desperib tnd har Chinese Church Mission was founded in row escapes from death. Shens in 1917, and the Tatunglu Hos! pital in North Shansi in 1922.

DLOCKSAN WORK.

The prisoner was taken to the Sepoy Lines station. in charge of Inspector Smith.

"THE “ COBLENZ RAIDED.

there...

It is quite a mistake to suppose that, San has the support of all public-spirited · Chinese, though his undoubted sincerity and his resolution command their respect. Not only in his own province has he many opponents, but in the northern provinces. there is very little sentiment in favour of hi

in power, he has to depend largely on the support of mercenaries from Hunan and other provinces, who have not the slight est interest in the principles at stake, and have to be allowed, as the price of their loyalty to Sun, to prey on the Can toneso. It may be noted that, whatever may be Sun's ideas with regard to opium and "gambling, he has not been able to Feng Yunsiang is not the "pet of the suppress the opiur: trade in Canton, and British and Americans in China. He is that the profits from gambling houses are well known, outside missionary circles, to be overbearing and anti-foreign but it one of the perquisites of his mercenaries.

Sun is not even in complete contral of must be conceded that his troops are well Kwangtung; for his rival, General Chea trained and well disciplined, and, further, Chiung-ming, rules part of it, and main in pleasing contrast to the troops of some talos himself with an army at Waichow. other generals, well conducted." Chea, who was one of the leaders of the revolution at Canton in 1911, is still in hopes of returning there, god his return would be welcome to a large part of the population.

it is not correct to say that the British in Hongkong regard Sun with enmity, or to accuse them of carrying on propaganda

"suitable conditions" similar to those

THE WEI-HAI WEI POSITION. With regard to Wei-hai-wei, Mr. Russell his again at fault. It is surprising that he should say that Earl Balfuur promised at

A YO- the Washington Conference that it shoul be restored to China" at once. ference to the White Paper (Miscellane- The work of Bishop Scott's Diocese As the result of the incidents the Cub was not very large before 1900, and in was raided by Mr. Sheedy, A.S.P. against him or of fomenting rebellion. ous. No. 1, 1922) would have.. shown him Sun. has before now been a refugee in that what Earl Bulfour said was that that year it was all broken up; three and a number of police officers, both of Hongkong, and it is felt that his intri. Great Britain proposed to hand this foreign clergy and many Chinese were the Straits Settlements and Harbour killed, and much property was destroyed Board Police, and Asiatic constables gues there amongst the Chinese show leased territory back to China under in Peking and the country. Bishop Scott plain clothes, thief revenue officer Mr. ingratitude, but there is no such thing as under which Japan had banded Back hex

enmity against him. refused to take indemnities for the pro- Listerman and two Asiatic revenue perty destroyed. But since then the work officers also participated in the raid at the country and in the Peking schools and the sharp eyes of one of the latter of the mission has been steadily growing were attracted by the shifty movements But the true greatness of Bishop Scotts of a German stoker on board, named work as Bishop in North China was its Willi Tisma, who was arrested as he was quality rather than its quantity. He walking with a pillow slip in his hand, strove to meet his responsibilities to both which was found to contula pistols China and the English-speaking com and cartridge boxes. The German was munities in his sphere. He early made promptly arrested. The Chineso, necus- plans for the development of work for ed of murder and other charges, was women and girls in Peking when it was taken on board, and declared that he not easy to reach the women's world had purchased the arms and ammunition And the wisdom he showed in planning from the stoker. the whole policy of the Church, both in matters of Reunion, and with a view to the setting up of a true Chinese Church, can never be forgotten. It was fitting that he should have become the first chairman of the House of Bishops when the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui opened its first General Synod at Shanghai in

1912

The reference to slavery is misleading. leased terntory in the province of Shan- The so-called slave girls, known as Mui tung, and that be invited the Chinese Taai, are bought, when young, from poor Government to enter into consultation justment of these suitable condition." peasants. They are almost invariably with the British Government for the ad- kindly treated, and, when grows up, ore The invitation was accepted, and the pro- discharged with a dowry to enable them to marry suitably. Their status is not tracted negotiations that followed result- assert, as Ar. Russell does, that the legally recognised, but depends entirely ed in a deadlock. It is a mistake to on conscat and custom. Their lot com Lahour Government have never heard of pares favourably with that of children this question, or that they have failed employed in Chinese factories.

KWASGTUNG RAILWAY AND CABBEL AGREEMENT.

to take it up again, let us hope with bet ter prospects of success, than their pre- decessors.

The conclusion would appear to be that. Mr. Russell has been betrayed into dis- torting the facts in order to sit bis pre- conceived theories of what British policy

L. S. ADDIs.. in China ought to be Yours, etc.,

October 8th.

"faction.

A

He is being charged with attempted The Cassel Agreement of 1021 45 murder of Corporal Buser at the West negotiated by a group of British and Whart police station, with the murder Chinese capitalists with the Government of Sulaman Khan and the attempted mar- then in power at Canton, on whom no der of the Mohamedan Malabari police pressure was brought to assent to it. In man whose dying declaration was taken point of fact, it was not favoured by British officials in China. In accordance down at the General Hospital...

Willi Tisma, the German stoker, was with the terms of the concession, a large convicted of dealing in arms on the number of collieries were to be handed Ou Bishop Scott's policy as regards the evidence of the Chinese prisoner Lee over to the compasy which was to be HOLLAND'S UMA INDUSTRIES-FAIR. reunion of Christendom we may refer to Chung Li and sentenced to two years' formed, and the company were to be

Holland's th Industries Fair, held articles which he wrote in 1901 and rigorous imprisonment and to receive two allowed to construct any railways they

found necessary in connection with their from September 8th to 18th inelusive at earlier in English Church papers, and strokes of the cat.

work. There was no idea of handing Utrecht, was in every respect successful to the sermon which he preached at

over to them the existing railways in A lively Lous prevailed, good bus.Bea Shanghai to the Anglican Conference

Kwangtung, or of establishing a railway held immediately before the Centenary Conference of Reformed Church Missions Bishap Booae; in his sermon he rejoiced monopoly there. The concession provid. was done, and there was considerable of 1907. He wanted reunion; he was will that the ceremony was performed ined that the Chinese shareholders should satisfaction in regard to new business booked for U.S.A., Scandinavia and the willing to make the sacrifice of risking desire of the Church to build up an in- ate, and that $2,000,000 worth of shares Balkans. Foreign participation, qualita ing to make sacrifices for it; he was China, not abroad, testifying to the be strongly represented on the director connections. Several large orders were being misunderstood by others who were digenous Church, which should have the should be allotted without payment to the tively as well as quantitatively was better equally keen in other Christian bodies. same liberty to decron rites and care Canton Government, the dividends to be than hitherto and gave all round satis, Two of his great principles were what monics as the English Church claims for used for educational and other purposes

At this Fair, 768 participators took part. the Lambeth Conference has put before itself in the prefaces to its Prayer Book beneficial to the inhabitants of Kwang, the world. One was that the Anglican in his own North China Prayer Book he tang. Shortly afterwards, however, the Communion should be faithful to its own added a preface to explain why he had Canton Government was overthrown by against 75% in the Autujan Fair of experience, not as to remain separate made a translation for the Chinese of an Sun,, who insisted on such drastic modi. last year, while the number of visitors from other Christians, but in such a way English book: it was not because he fication of the terms of the concession as x 34,372 co against 25,056 for the pre- it must be borne in mind that the busi- na to be able to make its own defnite thought the English forms were easen would, if accepted, have rendered it ceding Autumn Fair in this connection Pro nes character of the Fair is strictly contribution to the fulness of the life til; on the contrary he only offered them valueless to the concessionaries. of the future Church of China and other as one model for Chinese to study till tracted negotiations ensued, but, as there maintained and care is taker by means lands; it could not look China in the face they were ready to make their own; a was no hope of obtaining better terms of a special system for the distribution if it did not offer her the best of all it a foreigner he did not dare to attempt they were dropped. The suggestion that had learnt from the past. The other himself to make a new book for the the failure of these negotiations was the of tickets for admission through the great principle, which he declared fally Chinese. And in all matters of work and cause of British enmity towards Sun Yat- intermediately of business associats, so Of the 768 participatora, 400 wern in Shanghai at the time of the 1907 Con- Government, the records of the meetings sen is extirely baseless. In fact, though that only businessinen visited the Fair. ference, was that in seeking onion with which he held in his diocese to reorganise difficulties have arisen from time to time, other Reformed Churches no one should the work after 1000 show plainly how in the colony of Hongkong has been remark Dutch firms. The remaining 272 foreiga make it hard for the ancient Churches those days of small things he was planning ably successful in maintaining good neigh participators, were divided as follows

France 24 Belgium 20, Switzerland 13, of Bome and of the Near East to bring for the work to become self-governing bourly relations with the present Canton Germany, 185, England 36, America 24. O£ their contributions in due time into the and self-propagating

Bishop Scott continued bis episcopacy The great shipping, strike was to a great Austrin 5 and Czecho-Slovakis common life of the future Church we winb to see rising..

till 1912, when he resigned, to be succeed extent due to the uncompromising atti- very great interest was the participation ed the following year by his former right tude of the three, shipping companies (two of the Dutch East Indies, whilst, with hand man, Dr. F. L. Norris Though he British and one Chinese), which refused regard to the Dutch West Indies, the On the establishment of a true Chinese has rougned, he still lives on in his old to meet the seamen's representatives. exhibits of Curacao attracted specist Church, Bishop Scott held clear views, diocese and helps in its work Those Sun interfered in a most unwarrantable attention. In his old Diocese there is no distinction who know him, the spiritual basis on fashion, and his agents in Hongkong There were no exhibits from China, between the Mission and the Chinese which he built his life and his mission's stirred up & general strike, which the Hongkong and Japan, and the Nether Church; foreign missionaries are only work, and the patience with which be re- Chinese, for the most part, through inland Consul General in Hongkong enter members of the general diocesan organi- turned to rebuild a life's work after 1900, timidation, were foduced to join. Even tains hopes that the local Chines sation. In 1884 Bishop Scott preached will always remember one text of Beriptually the dipping strike was settled Chamber of Commerce may approach him at the consetration of the first Anglican tare ng expressing his faith: "Not by through the good offices of the British with a view to exhibiting at the 12th Bishop to be consecrated on Chinese soil, might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, Consul General at: Canton, who was per,Fair nex March, Barapler exhibited a

Ethis year's Wembley Exhibition.. saith the Lord.

soho grate with both sides to it. {Continued on next column.):

AN INDIGENOUS CHUICH...

authorities.

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