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TO ALL TO WHOM IT

MAY CONCERN.

"OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Trustees of the HOP YAT

NOTICE

TỌNG CHURCH 98 CHRIST IN HONG KONG intend at an early -date to apply to the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong for the enactment of a Bill intituled “An Oridinance to provide for the incorporation of the Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ in Hong Kong.

A Copy of the proposed Bill is printed hereunder.

Duted this 4th day of May, 1831.

D'ALMADA & MASON,

Solicitors for the

Hor. YAT Toya Chunen or Chner is Hoya Kosp.

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Hop Yat

Tong Church of Christ in Hong Kong.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: --

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hop Yat Tong Church Short title, of Christ Hong Kong Incorporation Ordinance, 1931.

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2. The Trustees for the time being of the Hop Ynt Tong Inorpeces. Church of Christ of Hong Kong shall be a corporation aole (here on. inafter called the corporation) and shall have the name of The Trusteos of the Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ Hong Kong" and in that name shall have propetual succession and shall and may aue and be aned in all Courts in the Colony and shall and way hava and use a common sen].

3.-(1) The Corporation shall have power to acquire, accopt Powers of lease of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any landa, buildings corporation,

messungen or tonements of what nature or kind soever and where- soever situated and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any. lands buildinga messunges or tenements, or upon the mortgages, delwenturos, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any Goverment, municipality, corporation, company or person, and also to purchase Require and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of what nuture and kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power by dood under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messunges, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds phares or securition, or vessels or other goods and chattola, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.

4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever transferred to Property to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall in the event masterred to

corporation

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of the death of any of the Trustees for the time being or in the top to event of any Trustou ceasing to hold office as such Trustee pass to his succossor in auch office when appointed.

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5.-(1) Ng Man Hin (A) of No. 144, Des Vieux Road Trunters: Central General Inspector of the National Commercial and Savings Bank, Ltd., and An 8s Cham (H) of No. 31, Dos Voux Road Centrál Doctor of Medicine and Fung Tu Cheung (C) of No. 4, Des Vaux Rowl Central Assistant Accountant of Bank of Canton, Ltd., having furnished to the Governor satisfactory evidence of their appointment as Trustees shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to be the Trustees in Hong Kong of the Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ until the appointment in their stead of some other persons as such Trustees.

(2) When any other persons are appointed to the Office of Trustees of the Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ auch persons shalf within three weeks after their appointment or within a ch further time na may be allowed by the Governor furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of their appointment

(3) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Colonial Secretary tlust such evidence has been furnished to the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment.

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the corporate Extation of seal of the Corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the documen Trustees and shall be signed by them.

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7. All that piece or parcel of ground registered in the Land Vertlur of Ofice as Section 1 of Inland Lot No. 500 together with all rights, properties. easements and appurtenances thereto belonging or usually held occupied or enjoyed therewith, are hereby transferred to and residues of the terms

of years created by the Crown

vested in the Corporation for tease thereof, subject to the par ment of the rents and the performance and observance of the convenants and conditions therein contained and subject to all mortgages and charges in respect thereof..

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1931.

CHURCHMEN AND

REUNION.

INTERPRETING THE THIRTY. NINE ARTICLES.

FELLOWSHIP WITH FREE CHURCHES,

The position of the bishops ro garding reunion with the Orthodox Church of the Enes and a demand the Free Churches of the West were rather for closer fellowship with

the outstanding points advanced by various speakers at the Oxford Conference of Evangelical Chur- rhea.

LESSON SERMON. 4

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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.

Adam and Fallen Man " was the subject of the desson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, May 10.

"If a

The Gollen Text was: maa think himself to be something, when he is nothing, „he, deceiveth

himself." (Gaintians 0; 3.)

Among the citations which com- following from the Bible: "And prised the Lesson-Sennon was the

because ye are, sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying. Alba, Father. Wherefore then art no more a ser vant, but a son; and if a son then an heir of God through" Christ," (Galatinas 4; 4, 7.).

The Leason-Sermon also includ.

Pripcipal C, S. Carter, of the Bible Churchnen's and Training College; Clifton, challenged and condemned as both erroneous and seriously misleading a statement in the Lainboth Report on the discus.ed the following passage from sion with the Patriarch of Alex the Christian Science Textbook, "Sefence and Health, with Key to andria and other Orthodox repre- sentatives that Anglican bishops the Scriptures," by Mary Baker have declared that the doctrine of Eddy: "Through diseçmment nl the Anglican Church is authorita-the spiritual opposite of material tively expressed in the Book of ity, even the way through Christ, Common Prayer, and that the Truth, man will reopen with the meaning of the Thirty-nine Articles Key of divine Science the gates of must be interpreted in accordanz Paradise which human beliefs have with the Book of Common Prayer, closed, and will find himself un fallen, apright, pure, and free." (p. 171.)

Reformed Theology,

This, said Principal Carter, was an amazing statement, and certain- ly unsupported by any historien or legal evidence, for a manual of devotion was one thing and a con- fession of faith was another. "To get an authoritative statement of our Church's faith we must," he declared, "go to the clearly defined and concise doânitions of the ar ticles. It is the articles and not the Prayer-book which have historically and traditionally been accepted as the recognised stand- ard and expression of Anglican re- formed theology." Principal Car- ter also referred to "the seriously disturbing suggestion mude recent- ly in the report of the Commission of the Church Assembly, on 'staffing of parishes' where it is urged that some relief would be given if as- sent to the articles was no longer required as a condition of ordina tion." On this he observed: "I

is quite likely that we could easily our paristies and pulpits with Unitarians and Romanists by much

a simple device, but we should at one blowdestroy the,, roformed character of our Church and alter its historical, distinctive doctrinal Insis.

"History seems to be once again about to repeat itself, for a similar determined attempt was made in the eighteenth century by Archden con Binckburne's party in the Feathers Tavern petition' of 1772. It was then decisively injected by Parliament, and I believe another attempt would meet with a similar result to-day. A modern Edmund Burke would tell auch petitioners, even if they were bishops, that 'they want to be teachers in a church to which they did not be- long and to receive emoluments ap- propriated for teaching one set of doctrines while they are teaching another.' Should the Thirty-nine Articles be seriously tampered with or clorica 'assent to them waived," concluded Principal Car- ter, "the most critical and precari. ous situation would at once he created, which might easily result in disruption.".

The Rev. F. S. Cragg, organis.

8. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to Balog of the affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or Succes. rights of this

Crown Aut sors, or the rights of any Body politic or corporata or of any of certain other person except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and other personing secretary Evangelical Church- those claiming by from or under theru..

Objects and Reasons.

1. The Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ in Hong Kong was form by Chinese members of certain Christian Congregations under the management of the trustees of the said church.

2. For this purpose the trustees purchased the leasehold pro porty known and registered in the Land Offloo as Bection D of faland Lot No. 600 and erected a church thereon.

3. The Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ in Hong Kong is lu dependent of other churches bearing the same name in South China.

4. In order to secure perpetual succession it is proposed that the church shall be incorporated as a corporation sole under the management of Trustees and the Bill now proposed follows in it's main lines other incorporating ordinances which have been passed from time to time.

men's Ordination Council, reviewing the negotiations with the Orthodox representatives, said: "The situa tion is very plain To abolish the Thirty-nine Articles, interpret the Book of Common Prayer according to Anglo-Catholicism, and the resul it an Anglicanism which is beliov. ed to enter into dograatio union with orthodoxy." There would shortly be a synod of all the Or thodox churches. Its déclaration as to Anglican orders would no doubt be forthcoming and inter- communion would be possible, But it would not rounion, "There is far too much misconception and misrepresentation, however uninten tional they may be, in the making of this reunion movement. Unity must have stronger links than there,"

Bounion with Kith and Kin. The Rev, Dr. Macdonald, vicar of St. Dunstan's in the West, Flact Street, London, EC., said that a -zuord-corscut-and prácticable policy- was reunion with the churches of our kith and kin, of our own langu- (Continued on nez! Colunin.)

age, and of our own race, Ho meant with the Pree Churches. Let them not confuse the issues by has- tening the policy with regard to the Eastern churches, but onean- trate as far as possible on reunion with the Free Churches.

The Rev. Dodgson, the 'vien prio- cipal. St. John's. Highbury, said that it the proposal to dispense with assent to the Thirty-nine Articlves were expressed, it would raise the whole problem of the at titude of the Church of England towards the, great questions at is sue between Rome and England, and tend to rob her of hor historia, acknowledged place among the Re formed Churches. Reunion of the stater churches of the Reformation was one of the first possibilities of to-day...

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