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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6th, 1927.

ARE MISSIONS ANY GOOD?

WHAT A VISIT TO THE CHURCH'S OUTPOSTS OF THE WORLD REVEALED.

END OF THE GUNBOAT GIBE.

[BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON.]

The question, Are Missions any good? is really a very silly one, and if it was not so often asked by people who ought to know better,

AMERICAN CAPTAIN HELD TO RANSOM.

COMMANDER OF YANGTSZE RAPIDS STEAMER SEIZED

BY PIRATES.

POSITION OF THE "CHI. CHUEN" ON THE ROCKS.

SHANGHAI, July 2nd. result of education, and a growing

Telegraphic advices received in knowledge of the world rather than

Shanghai yesterday brought news the teaching which they would learn from the lips of the Christian of a sensational occurrence in the it would not be worth answering. missionaries, most of whom have apper reaches of the Yangtze been led by sad experience in the Briefly stated, the information is

I say it ie a silly question because is,

it to be supposed that the Colonial, Past not to mix themselves up in that the cominanding officer of the str. Chichten, has been carried off Conference would adjourn for the politics at all. afternoon, as they did the other a number of Gov- day, and that ernors and ex-Governors would as- semble at the Guildhall to support | the Bishop of Salisbury and the Archbishop of Canterbury on the platform and to hear a report on the Missionary work of the Church, if they thought that Missions were doing no good!

On the contrary, Christianity by pirates along with his No. 2 are being brings in just the touch of charity compradore, and they and Christian love which, softens held to ransom in a sua of $20,000.

The str. Chichurn, which belonga the asperitics of more nationalism. The people love: the missionarios to the Yangleze Rapids Steamship who have lived among them for so Co., was one of three vessels which many years. They respect the busi. left Shanghai between June 9th and

anen of Shanghai and Hong 14th for Chungking, the other being Kong, but they are the mission-the ing and the Iping. About the aries. I was myself, though not same time the stra. Chiping, Chilai worthy to be called a missionary, and Chin, belonging to the same were despatched for overloaded with presents by the Company, Chinese Christians, who, insisted Ichang, with instructions that pas upon entertaining me by themselves sengers and cargo were to be trans- (chopsticks and all); and gave me ferred to the first three naned a beautiful present after dinner steamers at Tchang. Fifteen miles and the ivory chopsticks which below Ichang the Chilai was fired have in my drawing-room here. Ijon from the bank, one Chinese was escorted, though in a Japanese passengers being killed and two boat, to the entrance of the har- wounded."

In fact, nothing has been more remarkable in the last twenty-five years than the completo change of opinion among public men with re- gard to this very question. I ca remember twenty-five years ago discussing this with one of the most prominent men in England and his argument was this, "First the Missionary, then the gunboat, Take away your Missionary and we shan't have to send the gua-

It is an absolute delusion that it│24th, and the day. the Chichen boat." Now no man of the world

is the missionaries who are stirring struck a rock, at Mincho-30 miles who knows anything about the anat-

up strife in China; the enlighten- above Ichrang. Further information ter ever takes that line now; those men who bear the white roan's bur-ed policy of our own Government concerning the Chichen, has now will find its best, support in the reached Shanghai, a Chinese mes- den all over the world find the

missionaries. They, if anyone can, senger having returned from the Missionarica their best friends.

will get the Chinese to ace that our ship by junk. He states that They it is--and often only they-

troops are sent out there solely for Captain Fisher, who commanded who know the language of the the protection of our people and the ship, and the No. 2 compradore Datives have their confidence and

our property, and that we are most have been carried off by pirates and can take them do things which

anxious to be fair to China and that a ransom of $20,000 has been no official could make them do.

to meet its nationalist aspirations demanded. Practically all the crow Gandhi's Tribute,

in a reasonable way.

returned to Icbang after the seizure of the captain,

bour of Hong Kong by cheering The upper-river, steamers were bands of Chinese scholars.

despatched from Ichang on June

"

Freeing From Superstition. But perhaps the greatest boon

When the Commission on African Education, appointed by the Gov-

The message received in Shang- ernment, returasd froin Africa they appealed to the Christian that Christianity brings to the hai states, that salvage work has Church: to help them to educate the ordinary Chinese, as also to the ben discontinued on the Chicharn, African. "We cannot do it with-inhabitants of the islands in and that her upper deck, is now out you; you have nine-tenths of Melanesia, is the freedom from only four feet above the present the schools and are in the place supersition.

level of the water. It is feared that already." Gandhi himself, though not a Christian, stood up before 15,000 Bengalis and said, I owe, and India owes, more to One who never set His foot in it, than to anyone else; that is to Jesus Christ, and sat down. That was the whole of his speech.

But, naturally, I have something to say on this matter from what I have seen with my own eyes in different quarters of the world. Take British Columbia. Is it no use to have sent out a quarter of

total

SAIGON RICE MARKET.

As we were steaming along to. Macao, a Portuguese settlement at should a rise in the water occur the a corner of China, I noticed the Chichuen will become boats of the Chinese passing dan-

wreck. gerously near in front of the steamer." Why do they come

The other steamers of the Yang- near?" I asked the captain. taro Rapids Co. have arrived safely "Because," he said, "if we cut at Chungking.North China Daily across their stern near enough we

News. cut off the devil who is supposed to bo following them." The date of the New Year is carefully conceal- ed, for fear an evil spirit should get to know it. If it is privately a million of money and thereby to fixed for February and the evil have founded the Bishoprics there spirit thinks it is in January, he and built churches in isolated is scored off, and his plots to do places where the new settlers would them harm, have been defeated. otherwise have had no ministration | What a glorious change when they at all? Even in the rich United are brought out of all this super do Navigation d'Extrême-Orient, States I found that some of the sitition into the glorious light of most flourishing churches to-day had sprung from the seed planted with great effort 200 years ago by the gallant old S.P.G.

But I dare say people will say, "Oh, yes, we quite agree that churches and lergy must be sent out to our own people, but it is

missions

SLIGHT DOWNWARD

TENDENCY.

The Compagnie de Commerce &

object to other nations, that we and visitor would have had a dency.

your

the Gospel, and look up trustfully in their report dated Saigon, June into the face of a good God who 30th, state: There has been a desires their happiness!

oderate enquiry from Shanghai But perhaps the most remarkable for July shipment but the business proof of whether Missions do any are very diflicult on account of the good may be found among the lack of available tonnage. Maoria in New Zealand. A hun. At time of writing the market: is dred years ago they were cannibals, quiet with a slight downward ten- very warm, and, indeed; ton hearty The total amount of rice export- Then let us come on to Japan. a reception. Now, owing to the ed from January 1st to June 16th, Let us look at a Mission Hospital, splendid labours of Samuel Mare 1927, is 823,742,348 tons against kept by an English lady who has den, and our owu Bishop Selwyn. 752,801,862 tons in 1926. worked there for 30 years. There the Maoris are nearly all happy

We quote to-day white Saigon are 75 lepers in I am baptising and believing Christians.

it.

Thoy before I leave Japan; the rest are sometimes spoilt by the tourists, round grain: Hong Kong $7.60 per rice No. 25 per cent. brokens are singing the service. If but it is not their Christianity that picul of 134 lbs. 1o.h. Saigon; readers had, seen the happiness spoils them. In the main they are 13s. Od. per cwt. f.o.b.. Saigon; brought into the lives of those quiet, self-respecting people, very Yen 15 per picul of 134 lbs. f.o.b. lepers by the ministrations of that anxious now to have a Bishop of Saigon. devoted woman, they would have their own; and completely changed no doubt whatever about "Missions doing any good!" Why, the very aight of the good that has been done bas atirred up the Japanese Gov- ernment to start other hospitals for lepers, and so far from the And so I might go on round the | Saigon, Japanese resenting what is being world, if I bad more time, but this done, they begged us not to take is clear:" Christianity," as Mr. away our Christian Missions, as

Gladstone once said, "is the une they valued their influence very central hope of our poor wayward much in Japan.

race"; Christianity also seems to have the power parmanently, to up. lift a whole race, as also it has the Then we come to China, looking power to bring peace and light to in to Corea on the way. No one the individual heart.

What we

The Cass of China.

White Saigon rice No. 2 sifted

by the Mission work which has been Japan quality: Hong Kong 97.15 carried on for so many years in per picul of 134 lbs. 1o.b. Saigon; their midst.

1a. Id. per cwt fo.b, Saigon; Yen 7.60 per picul of 134 lbs, fo.b.

For July/August shipment.

The One Central Hope."

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LADY DIANA COOPER.

MADONNA IN “THE MIRACLE AT BUDAPEST.

BUDAPEST.

...

can doubt the good of the Missions want is to double, and even to in Coren, They are very, popular treble our Missionary efforts in all with the Coreans themselves. They parts of the world. As the late appreciate the beautiful cathedral Bishop of Madras said: "If with Vollmoeller's Miracle,” stuged built by us Angheans, the fine col the help of two men and a boy wa by Reinhardt, has been presented lege carried on by the Preahy have been able to do so mud among in Budapest, with Lady Diana forians (I addressed their students the mass movements in India, what Cooper as the Madonna, and the on my visit), and the devoted work might we not do with an adequate firet performance attended by the of the Roman Catholics. But in staff?"

Premier, Count Bethlen, and most

China there is, of course, maro case Our real needs as a Nation, as other members of the Government, to be made out for the assertion also our real duty as a Church, is was a scene of immense enthusiasm. that the Missions have led to un-ta redouble our efforts adequately There were only four performances reat Education does lead to self- to man the Mission Stations in Budapest, and thou, the whole respect, and no doubt the educated throughout the world, to ensure company went to Prague for two Chinese who have come back from that those who represent us in Civil performances. Europe to China, or been eduested and Military posts shall be them- Herr Reinhardt is personally Ré universities in China for in selves devout and reverent Chris supervising each performance, as stance, at the American University

in Shanghai, do feel humiliated at, and so work towards the day at Salzburg last year. ·

when the kingdoms of this world

Budapest has never seen any

Diana before.

the position in which their coun- will become the Kingdom of our thing like the performance of Lady try la to-day. One could hardly Lord and His Christ. Evening expect it to be otherwise; it is the Standard.

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