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[SPædian" ARTICLE]

· CHINA'S COMING REVOLUTION.

THE SON OF HEAVEN DISOWNED IN THE EYES

OF HIS PEOPLE.

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MILLSOP AND THE MOSQUITOES.

[By Violet Petongell.]

Tho mosquitoes had boon troub ling Millsop terribly.

"Tam not going to sleep under. those nets," he declarou, Why, they are positively unhealthy Give me plenty of fresh air."

and dispensed with the nets.

When he came down to braak fast he looked as if he were catel- ing some skin disease. chuldron giggled."

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SATURDAY -- APRIL 15 1911

evil smell. Mre. Millsop declared

Josus unto good works, which WHY PEOPLE DON'T GO infinitoly more real necessity that

corner-stone?"

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TO CHURCH.

Whothor the roal reason for the

the intending teachers should bo mon who live themselves learned the lessona of life. Surely it is

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a little absurd to suppose that a young man who has passed from eido the churches or in dofioien- school vin college to church can cies within them will no doubt possibly know the needs of the debate; but the groat fact romains ho is appointed to touch. If the continue to offer a wide fiold for world-experienced bearers whom churches, thon, are, to be filled with the mon and women who spond their week-days amidst all the subtle succession of a0- onulatod trials and temptations

TangThe Revolutionists by the

crown to wash the pillow case and not to toll Mrs. Millsop. God hath before ordained Grace of God." Translated litor ally we are told that it means" the

Whon Digby heard of the that we should walk in them." party having a divino mission to

failure of this plan he gave Millsop Brethren, is this the fashion and upsotthe Governinent." Canone

some stuff of his own invention. pattern of the house, with trom wonder now'nt the anti-dynastic

Try it, Millsop, and you will bling and oft discomfitted lands falling off in church attendance and anti-foreign outbreaks. Tho

never have an insect near you" you are building day by day is to be found in inflnoncos out

upon the foundation of tho first has boon clearly enjoined on the people by Honvon 80 Boon as

And Millsop did try it. It was Apostles and prophets, Jesus Wo have been fortunate in their miseries prove too great for

a sticky-locking fluid, with an Christ himself being the chief The second, we

it was poison. In the night hohen, verily, God, Whom the btaining a copy of the January forbaarduco. umber of the "Suddont cho think, is nothing more than an

So ho slept out on the balcone woke up, and felt as if his face Heuvon of Heavens cannot that people don't go to church as fonatshofte "in which appoors unreasoning wish to hurt those

woro covered with gluo. Ho

contain, shall in very dood most interesting and instructive who have, oven by thoir own

got up article ontitled Tho. Revolu virtues, disproved tho inherent

couldn't stand it. So he

FULL CHURCHES. tionary Party in China.". It is virtuo" of the Emperor. Then,

and groped his way to the bath dwell with man upon the they used to do. room to wash off all traces of earth. Thon in this house thy The

While opinions may differ from the pon of Horr Wolf von says you. Duwall, cano the war

Digby's invention. But alcope soul shall sit secure and sing do- Duwall, and at this moment with Japan, with the people who

was in vain,

Again, the un- fience to the gates of holl. And howevor, ns to the proportion of which fall to the lot of most, and "What are you laughing at? when we have to regrat a cruch since the dawn of civilisation hind

happy Millsop rose, and after thought in thio vory drencli and polition assassination at our very novor boon classed as barbarians, demanded Mr. Millsop sharply..

nubbing his big toe against delugo-of-hor-daily-sorrows-the- doors is most opportuno,,

but merely tributaries of tho

"Honry,

nid Mrs. Millsop, the wardrobe, and using words The author, somewhat apolo Mings. "When," he says, "in severely; "I'd bo aliamed to be such as he would never have dared come, and the winds blow and ranks of non-church-goors, thero getically, as bofits the enormous 1894 the picked troops of China scen cut with you.".....

"No more ashamed than I to be to use before Mrs Millsop, he bent upon that house, it shall not is quo fact which brooks of no, rango oflibject, wore routed by the Dwaris' a

fumbled in the dark, and procured fall, for it is founded upon a rock! disputo, and that is that there the Teslandder of horror ran through the sean with you in that tallat and what he believed to be eucalyptus, these pillars, because I fear there are in our midst churches in

I am pronchiug to you about attempts to analyso volutionary trait in the Chinese whole land. The hurt to the hobble skirt," retortod Millsop.

In the morning he discovered his But it was a rash remark, and, charactor, and we cannot attract pride of the great mass of the

Honch used Mrs. are those who have passed through which the accommodation is in care whether they slip or noif

the Temple's porch without adequate for the desiring wor was allowed to forget it.

Home scem not only to have missed particular churchies are so crowd the gate of the Temple called

Tinistako,

truth in the various views regard-

with especial reality and menning

rain dostends, and the floods ing the ever-widoning of the to those whom necessity or ambi-

tipn has takon far away from tho old influences of hoine and friends: and placed in'spheres whore it so ofton soems that there is, no one to

́ our rondørs' nitention more quick people did not long romain] during the rest of the moal is Millsop's hair stain. He looked noticing the lily work. Indeed, aliippora. Why is it that those the churches, then there must be

von

On his way to business he mot his friend; Jones, who, as 2001 as ho got eyes on Millsop's face, be- gan to odgo away.

like an Arab, and Mrs. Millsop shrieked at the sight of him.

Millsop's final attempt to baffle his trouble some onomies created It's all right, Jones. Musa mild sonsation. Sooing smoke coming from the balcony, some ed as incondiaries, and the lot-quitoes. Not smallpox."

small boys instantly cried "Fire" heads at once formed the Ko "Ah, so you hivo fallen a

and dashed off down the street. Ming Tang. It is to-day a dun- | victim."

That I have," criod Mill-In vain Millsop called to them to gerous secret society trying by every means to join itself with the sop: "they are ruining ino, body, stop. But the oral had to

given, and soon, to the constor- others, the White Lotus, the spirit, and soul! Jones, can youtution of the whole street the fire Trinds, the Vegetarians, and, it suggest a. romedy?

mes took off his hat, and ongine clattored up to Millsop's is succeeding. Its leader is Dr. Sun Yat Sen and its secretary scratched his honil, until 1907 at least was Chang Ping Lin, whose teachings are regarded as gospel.

ly than by saying at the outset onto, but it romained soin ho finds it born of the meaning the hourts of the clear-sighted." of the principal title of the Em-They were told when they ad- peror of Chinn himself, the "Son vised reform through Kang Yn of Houron." Tien Tzu is the Wei, that they were mentally main sub-title of the autocrit of dorange and were to be arrest Poking, who, however, Duwall shows, is far from being An autocrat at all. The for oignor generally reads this Son of flonven but, in reality it means "Hic, whom Hoavon croats as a Sou." lo.hus, the writer explains, boon picked out by Heaven to guide the destiny of the world. He has boon given his high soat as head of the Ming dynasty--and "Ming" means mission: "His virtue and Behind this society are all the ability are expected to bo restless spirits of the nation. It is reflected in the welfare of the to it that the people look for proof people. Do the latter suffer, the fault is the Emperor's, and history tonchos thom that thon they can help themselves. A revointion is only condemned if the Emperor bo overthrown, thon it is clour (from his titles) that the "Ming has been withdrawn and that the powers above protect the revolu- tion. The Emperor in his own titles preaching a Jehad! Here is food for thought for those who write on China. No wonder that the gifted author we quote says that the principle of revolution In "revognised and accepted in China; it has the sanction of Chinese history: dynastics have fopoly been overthrown and popular leaders made Emperora. All this sooms' natural to, thỏ Chinoso, To thou Emperors aro only human not sacred, as aro. the Mikados to the Japanese."

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Thoro is a little child on the Throne in Peking on whom this terrible responsibility rosts. Not only is ho answomble to his sub- jects for his doods but in their oyes is answerable to Heaven for their happiness. The principle is Bound, but what a pathetic light its workings past and present throw on the humanity of Ching's rulers. Failing, bocause they are human, to lond the huge nation into its Promised Land, they are and have boon the hinted of the people, the butt of sacret societies innumerable, the, target of us5- assins, the captivos of a now “He, whom lenvou treats as a Son."

"How about ammonia?" he suggested.

Millsop anid he would try it. So he took a bottle home with him, and before retiring that nightrub- bod the liquid well on his face and hands. But the stuff gol into

residence.

But in futuro Millsop has announced his intention of sleep- the mosquitoes alone... •. ing under the nets, and leaving

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thuse people are to bo drawn to

in

the pulpits men who have them- solves felt the throb of life, and known what it is to be alone.

GIVE US MEN.

beautiful," but by some strange ed every Sunday? We are sono montal obliquity they have stum times told that it is due to some blod ncross the gulf of twenty-special "craze," and that tho eight hundred years to the lying poopla go in the expectation of

Surely it should be possibla Temple of Mahomet, which stands

routing which at present on upon the ruins of Solomon's ring some now and startling to alter or modify the prescribed glorious house, and whore, now,

viows propounded; bitt mostables individuals who so fro instead of the beautiful gato, is narrow door through which it is belioved.... ovory Maliommodan must squeeze himself, or lo can-

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tolerant thinkers will prefer to quently are quite ignorant of dismiss this suggestion as being the realities of life to proach to The more just, explanation would and varied experiences, while na untrue na -it-is uncharitable. congregations of mixed types. not enter Houven.- "Bloss me," criod Millsop, "I So luas it sometimes seemed as if seem to be that it is because it debars other mon who, al- though they may not luvo pass- was only burning song insect certain mistaken souls have shri- there is a man in the pulpited the old stipulated examina powder to keep away the mos-velled the generous proportions of What is the real reason for going tions, aro yet because of their quitoes."

the Oliristian character into tho to church at all? Church-going, intimate knowledge of, al con bony skeleton-form of uncon-after all, is based on religion-(it soquent deep sympathy with, the promising narrowness, which, doos not, as some would have us actual daily trials of their follow- spanking after the float, the-can-boligro, constitute religion and boings-much more qualified to didate to the falso Heaven of the religion has its origin in the give roal help and choor. Word Korean might envy.

necessity for satisfying the long-wo to give the mon who havó Among the many meanings of ings of the human heart. this undorstanding knowledge the toxt I can..soo this one vory WHAT WE NEED.

freer access to the pulpita would plainly, that beauty is not alien

wo not find thuit the great human And what is it that we as hu-people, with their great humun to strength. These columns wore no puny things, they wore forty man boings do nood? is it the food, would go in to hear and feet high, soven feet in diameter, subtle distinction of meaning be satisfied? and twenty-eight lons in weight. which may be traced between tho of the ouk, with its century We speak with national prido original Hebrew rendering of somo pasange of Scripture and the

to us in the authorised version of growth and its granite strongth, translation of the same as given and while it is the strongest the Bible? This, no doubt, may

it is full of beauty.

A SHORT SERMON.

BEAUTY AND STRENGTH.

of their belief that the "Minghis-eyes-somehow, and he roared

as departod-from-him in Power on the Dragon Throne, and with ont so lolly that Mrs. Millsop the Chinese proper who support and the children thought it was the Ko are the Mohammedans of nothing short of murdor. Their Shensi, Kaasu, Turkostan and astonishment at sight of their Yunnan. Truly that childish father dancing about on the ruler in Poking his troublous balcony in his pyjamas was un-Upon the top of the pillars was times before him. Will sound!

bounded. logislation loading to the hap said Mrs. Mills, when he had

lily work.-I. Kings, vii., 22, "I hope to goodness, Honry," piness of his people confirm his right to the "Ming, or will Sungrown calin again, "you will sleep Yat Sen you wield the vermilion under the mosquito curtains." pencil as tho new recipient of the Heavenly Mission to make China content? That is the question we must ask our bulvos seriously we day. In a little while it will be answered.

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OUR DIARY.

Saturday, 15th April. Bijou Sconic Theatre, 9.15 P.ui.

Empire Cinematograph, 9.15

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tree,

48 "the flower."

expositions are therefore useful.

D. COLVILLE STEWART My text is taken from the fos

RUSSIA AND CHINA. cinating story of Solomon's Tom- But Millsop was not to be deplo. Fearless of the charge of Ho mysticism, I purpose to regard torre from sleeping out.

The diplomatic friction be thought of sleeping in gloves, and the items mentioned in it as devising sonic kind of a mask for symbolical, and not in an his- Cut its massivo trunk length go for to clear up some long-mie-tween Russia and China, which

I want to break ways, and you see its full-understood because misinter- in fao. He didnt wa a pair torical sound. of glovon.

So, unbeknown to

walls of formed beauty, which we prosaic proted-promise or injunction, seemed to have been ended by Mrs. Millsop he tried to force is the material, und arrivo at the moderns call "grain," but which and quite certainly such explain the conciliatory Chineso Note of hand into her best kid ones. imprisoned glory of the other pekmun spoke ions are often the tears of bring a short time back, has again be-- proviolations and peace to many como neuto. It would appear that But they split-all up, and when sido the oral and spiritual facts of with almost tendor Mrs. Millsop found then she which they contain for God's thought Jane, the maid, had been saints and pilgrims. Isseinthem trying them on. Not caring to the embodiment of two great go to the expense of buying a pair, principles which were written all

that palace-sanctuary Millsop drew his tan socks over over his hands. His face he protected beauty and strength. That, in- with a paper mask, his bald head dead, is the spiritual ront from with one of the childron's sun which the order of the universo bonnets. Then he waited for the springs. mosquitoes.

In every temple of the living And they came in dozens, in God this law asserts and vindi- scores. It seemed as if all the cates itself. Nature's temple, mosquitoes in the neighbourhood roofed with ethereal blue and had come to feast. off Millsop. fretted with golden stars, has its Round and round him they walls of granite and its crags of sober grey frescoed with tho P1t's that paper ask that's living grace of leaf and flower, its worrying thom, murmured Millstones painted in fair colours, and on the top of its rocky pillars the finishings of lily work.

Club

Monday, 17th April, Public Holiday, Lusitano Recreation. Sports, at Happy Valloy, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, 18th April. Criminal Sossions.

Crown Land Salo, 3 pan., at W-D

Wednesday, 19th April. A. S. Watson and Co. Ltil, Extraordinary General meeting,

11.30 a.m.

furiously buzzed.

soj).

to baffle thom, only seemed the His tormentors, at this attempt more spiteful. Finding the tip of Milleop's woso uncovered, they

Upon this almost imperishable To the ordinary man or woman waste a little time, and the aus material art has put its quaint outin the world, whose knowledge picion that they are guilty of devices and classic forms, and of the Scriptures is not so intimate, purely obstructive tactica has for- these articles of carved oak have these things while they may be feited them most of the sympathy been heirlooms of many genera- interesting are not likely to ap tions. So strength is essential to pear vital. No; it is something which was thoirs a fortnight ago. the highest order of moral beauty, much more human that those Of course, the Chinese have a case. A weak character never fulfils people out in the world need, and The, provisions of the treaty of the highest sense of beauty,itis the all-too-common absence of 1881 were very stringent and and however passive it is only any straightforward, strong, and, tame and feeble. It has been above all, understanding message very far-reaching, and as we have my experience to see an ardout on the difficulties and problems already pointed out, can be so in- man, who lived under the govern of the everyday life of troubled terpreted as to give Russia almost out of passion, begin to attend and tempted humanity that can protectorial rights over lage the House of God and become stitutes perlups the most widely tracts of Chinese territory. It is affection began to govern passion. ance at church. Why is it, thon, natural, too, that questions of onlightened and converted. Then applicable cause of non-attend- In place of rude selfishness there that the clergy so frequently interpretation should arise at a was developed magnanimity and make this error? When we seo time when the treaty is about to a workman handling his tools in come up for renewal. But the generousness, londornose, gentle- visos us to rond Naturo; Nature child might lave led him.

Dr. Young in his Night IV, ad-ness, and solf-sacrifice, so that a somo evidently unsuitable way, very fact that China can secure

we naturally ask "Who taught is a friend to truth. Nature is I call that the highest moral

we were to make a round of those hence makes it all the more ad- kind.

instance of the beauty of holiness. churches which are most poorly visable for her to act sensibly Lot the pillar be broad as the attended we would probably find now. If she is reluctant to renew base and on the top thereof the ourselves prompted to mon-

tally ask the preacher the same the treaty, she ought so to behave. lily work.

We often meet with a strong homely question. Is not thone to secure. European support prejudice against beauty, but I answer to be found in the fact for her diplomacy. Unfortunate find God always on the side of that those men in the pulpite liave ly, us Sir Francia Younghusband for Ife is the fount of beauty, of ather than from their fellow the Chinese have got wholly beauty. As, indeed, He must be learned their lessons, from books points out in to-day's "Times," which the Irish melodist so swoot men? They are more intimate perverted view of the facts of ly sings

with the chapter and verso of any the international situation. Tho given quotation from the Borip victories of Japan have inflamed turos than they are with dry-oyed | Chinose chauvinism to such an hauntings of their tempted extent that there is a tendency brothers and sisters. And why to treat European Powera 08 is it so? How have they been ignorant barbarians, precisely trained. for their work? In in the spirit of a hundred upst cases they love passed from yours. That sort of policy. school to college, and from college can only embarrass Chin both to church, without having evonat home and abroad. Neither the remotest acquaintance with Russin nor any other Power can life as it is.

Billiard Match "Telegraph" simply wont for it with fiendish Christian, and preaches to man-beauty-a simple and supreme/ou to do it like that?" and herself a free hand a few months

Trophy 9 pm.

Thursday, 20th April.

Course, Noon..

School Sports (Heats) at Race

Saturday, 22nd April. Y.M.C.A:(Chinese Department) Annual Sports.

Volunteers' Dinner. Hongkong Jockey Club, Half Yourly Mooling, 12.30 p.m.

The question will be asko at onco: How can a Muncha obtain a "Ming"? Herg again a sur- prise is in store for the superficial student of China's history: The Manchus never defented the Mings by force. Heaven had withdrawn its mission to the last Emperor of the lattor by allowing him to die without adequate heirs; China was in open turanil and the "low born Tartara" took charge, calmed the country,and protected

··trado and industry. But it was never forgotton that they wore foreignore and the great insurrec- tions were always on bolalf of the real Ming dynasty. The White Lotus and

the Triad Societies and one yo mention be- low are the great 'leaders of the Ming party. Thoy are vividly alive, they are at work and they await their payment. The strong- est factor in their strength is the gradual recognition by the Wednesday, 20th April. people that the foreigners' in-

Union Insurance Company fluence is for good, flow, can, they ask unconsciously perhaps, Meeting, Noon. those barbarous innovations be of China Traders' Company Moot- value to a pooplo guarded by one ing, 12.30 pm "Whom Houyou treats as a son"?

How can he havo a "Ming" if-

outer barbarians can touch him?

Monday, 24th April, School Sports, Finals, at Race Course.

Tuesday, 25th April, Hongkong Electric Company Annual Mooting, Noon.

Sanitary Board Meeting, 3.15 m

Friday, 28th April.

Stockbrokers' Association's Bot-

It is a logical thought in their thing Day for April.

minds. Herr von Duvall tolls us

That because of this complaint.

Philharmonie Consort.

Saturday, 20th April. union has come into existenos Departure of Coronation Cou- which line for its ono, object tingent

modern political national

the overthrow of the exisling Entries close for Lawn Bowls Cynasty. This in the Ko Ming Open Giugles Ohampionship

delight. In the morning his nose looked as if it had broken out into a violent eruption.

"The wratches!" growled Mill- sop, as he surveyed himself in the glass.

"But I'll defout them yet."

So he made another mask, and this time he took the precaution to cover up his nose, leaving a slit for his mouth, Millsop smiled. Ilo would defeat then to-night, Again the mosquitoes came in body; again they held a vocal concort round Millsop's bod.

The leaf-tongues of the forest,

the flower-lips of the sod., Tho happy birds that hymn their raptures in the ear of God; The summer wind that bringoth

musio over land and sea..

Havo onch a voice that singeth this sweat song of songs to me.

This world is full of beauty, like

other-worlds above......... And if wo did our duty it would

bo full of love.

Thou art, O Ged, the life

and light Of all this wondrous world

'wo 500-

Its glow by day, its smile

by night,

And in the moral realin, the Happy in the possible security spiritual temple of man's inner of a good night's rest, Millsoplife, the "house not made with dropped off to sleep. Unfortunato hands," is the glory that-excelleth,

Are but reflections caught ly he began to snore, his mouth paling the splendour of princes

from Tlice, open like a trap. Ono inquisitive and the golden crowns of kings.

Where'er wo tuin Thy mosquito walked in, and bogan Yes, the greatest glory of hum-

glorios shine,. to explore the roof of Millsop'sanity is the bonuty of holiness." . Itoligion, at its bost, is n re-

And all things fair and mouth. Then another walked in,

bright are Thino. and another, and another. Mill-ligion of bounty. It is not a grim,

THE LESSON OF LIFE... Therefore, I say, love tho benn sop woke up, coughing and hueless, architectural monotony,

This would scom to point to the hawking, and altogether making like the pyramids of Egypt. Itisa tiful! Let every reader's 50ul bo such a noise that Mrs. Millsop house of air and beautiful propora temple of the beautiful! Let conclusion that there is at present rushed out, thinking he was tions; its windows of agate flood- every saint's life have its gato far too much emphasis placed choking.

od with the shining light of grace, beautiful; and in the porch the upon the exclusivo rule which Henry, you are ill.”

and on the generous, threshold of strong, broad-based columns of holde it to be primarily essential Mos-mosquitoes," spluttered its toasolated floors the shining integrity, whiter than spotless that all those who desire to be in Millsop.

word "Welcome." Its porch, as marble, costlier than purest gold position to help their follow-men Noxt day he met his friend, of olden time, two pillars, and firmer than Liram's pillars of on the vital issues of their lives, Digly, who suggested smoaring on the top of the pillars lily bronzo, and on the top of the from the pulpits of the churches, guv'ner" his face with coconut oil. The works, not the cunning work pillars the fair lily work of that should fret have passed car poverishe result was that he got his pillow of Elram, the ancient anan of exceeding grace last suffers long, tala stereotyped examinations, replied the

what sounds in such a greasy sinto that he Tyre, but His workmanship, seeks not her own, and is always and that correspondingly in-

suficient heed it paid to the let 'e sen had to bribe Jane with Inlie Who hath greated us in Christkind,

possibly acquiesce in importin- onces from Peking. Asa matter of Saot, China is weak, and had. better realise it. If she adopte to lussis the tone which she has adopted to the British in Thibotan affairs she will almost certainly get hurt.The Globo

Give me fourpence

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