REV. A.D. STEWART'S DEPARTURE
LEAVING HONGKONG AFTER 25-YEARS' SERVICE
ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE HEAD
901
The Rev. A.D. Stewart, Headmaster of St. Paul's College, will shortly be leaving the Colony, and in view of his close connexion with many religious and educational institutions in Hongkong and elsewhere during the past 25 years, the following account, contributed by a reader who has known him for many years, will be of exceptional interest. His many friends will wish him many more years in the old country. Already preparations are afoot, headed by the Old Boys and present students of St. Paul's College, to give him farewell parties and presentations.
The Reverend Arthur Didley Stewart, born in Foochow, China, in October 1877, was educated in Haileybury College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his M.A. degree. In 1901 he was ordained deacon, and afterwards appointed Curate to St. Paul's Church, N. Islington, London. In 1902 he became a priest. Three years later, serving under the Church Missionary Society, London, he joined St. Stephen's Bay's College in Hongkong (now occupying a prominent site at Stanley). Here he distinguished himself as an able and efficient instructor, patient, sympathetic and kindly, much loved and respected by all his students.
He is fully entitled to claim to be a worthy son of two martyrs, Robert and Louisa Stewart. At a place known as Hwasang Mountain Village
Some from Kucheng, a Church Missionary Society Centre at the North of Foochow - in the days of the Great Chinese Empire, some thirty years ago, there sprang up a host of ignorant farm-rebels, defying law and order. They challenged the Church, persecuted and massacred the missionaries and believers, and among the killed were the late Reverend Robert Stewart (a well-known lawyer in Ireland who gave up his profession to preach the word of God), his wife, Louisa, and two of their children, Hilda and Herbert. That happened on the 1st day of August 1895.
STERLING CHARACTER
That the Rev. A.D. Stewart is certainly no less eminent than his father is an undeniable fact. He is ever generous, warm-hearted, ingenious, far-seeing and enterprising, displaying a singularly lovable character and a remarkably indomitable spirit. To all who know him, he has always been an object of admiration and envy, a man of courage and decision, with a vigorous mind and a blameless life. To portray him, the following quotation translated from the Confucian Analects respecting a "Superior Man" (Kwun Tze) would perhaps be most appropriate:
"Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided."
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REV. A.D. STEWART'S DEPARTURE
LEAVING HONGKONG AFTER 25-YEARS' SERVICE
ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE HEAD
901
The Rev. A.D. Stewart, Headmaster of St. Paul's College, will shortly be leaving the Colony, and in view of his close connexion with many religious and educational institutions in Hongkong and elsewhere during the past 25 years, the following account, contributed by a reader who has known him for many years, will be of exceptional interest. His many friends will wish him many more years in the old country. Already preperations are afoot, headed by the Old Boys and present students of St. Paul's College, to give him farewell parties and presentations.
The Reverend Arthur Didley Stewart, born in Foochow, China, in October 1877, was educated in Haileybury College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his M.A. degree. In 1901 he was ordained deacon, and afterwards appointed Curate to St. Paul's Church, N. Islington, London. In 1902 he became a priest. Three years later, serving under the Church Missionary Society, London, he joined St. Stephen's Bays' College in Hongkong (now occupying a prominent site at Stanley). Here he distinguished himself as an able and efficient instructor, patient, sympathetic and kindly,much loved and respected by all his students.
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He is fully entitled to claim to be a worthy son of two martyrs, Robert and Louisa Stewart. At a place known as Hwasang Mountain Village - 14
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Some from Kucheng, a Church Missionary
Society Centre at the North of Foochow - in the days of the Great Chinese Empire, some thirty years ago, there sprang up a host of ignorant farm-rebels, defying law and order. They challenged the Church, perseouted and massacred the missionaries and believers, and among the killed were the late Reverend Robert Stewart (a well-known lawyer in Ireland who gave up his profession to preach the word of God), his wife, Louisa, and two of their children, Hilda and Herbert. That happened on the 1st day of August 1895.
STERLING CHARACTER
That the Rev. A.D. Stewart is certainly no less eminent than his father is an undeniable fact. He is ever generous,' warm-hearted, ingenious, far-seeing and enterprising, displaying a singularly lovable character and a remarkably indomitable spirit. To all who know him, he has always been an object of admiration and envy, a man of courage and decision, with a vigorous mind and a blameless life. To portray him, the following quotation translated from the Confucian Analects respecting a "Superior Man" (Kwun Tze) would perhaps be most appropriate:
"Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided."
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