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1 Services in celebration of Union Church's attaining its 75 h, your were held on Bundy, when large congregations were in evid- ence both morning `and evening. The service yesterday morning was attended by H. E. he to ernor. Sie Reginald Stubbe, .C1.0, and many other well- kuown citiz-ne; of Hongkong. Specil sermons were preached by the Pastor, Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie.

At the morning service Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie took as his text, "Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets do they live for ever?" Zechariah 15.

"Jesus Christ is the same yes terday, and to-day, yea and for ever." (Heb. c. 13 v..) He said: -In the little English Churchyard at Macao is the grave of Dr. Robert Morrison. the last-maker's apprentice who did not stick to his last, but became the pioneer Pro- testant Missionary to China. The spot is a place of pious pilgrimage to such as reverence the heroes of the faith, for Morrison had the beart of a hero, and prayed to be sent where difficulties were to all human appearance insurmount- able. He had his wish when the London Missionary Society sent him to Canton, alone, and seeming- 34 almost forlorn hope. That was in 1807, when no British subject with the single exception of Sir G. F. Staunton was believed

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drst to offer prayer or sing a hymnon this Island опе knows. Doubtless the Army" or "Navy brought Chap- Iains here, and services must have been held at Stanley or else- where. It may also be taken for certain that other meetings for worship were held here or there. But the Churches in the Colony as we know them to-day must be pre- sumed to date from the time the Government record assigns them -the point is one of sentimental interest rather than material im- portance, and if we have, natural- ly, mentioned it at this time it is by no means as casting any sort of reflection on any of our neigh- bours.

I need not follow in detail the story of those early years. It is given in the History which has been issued, and outlined in the press.

But this occasion should not pass without some recognition of the faith and fine fealing of the fathers as seen in the Catholic foundation on which they estad lished work, free from deno minational bias and in the inter ests of evangelical truth in the broadest sense. To-day this. would scarcely be remarkable. Union is in the air-in many places has come to solid earth, and in certain Jathers Butters timid yet nöt un- hopeful, in search of a safe slight- ing place, upon uncertain wings. It was otherwise in 1843, the very year of the Great Disruption of the Scottish Church, which shook thatcountry to its roots, with echoes, says the historian, which

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to have any acquaintance with the to others of the European Com- reverberated around the civilised Chinese language, and the natives munits. This led in the most world. Many, possibly most, of were jealous of any foreigner ac-natural way to the building of the the first members of this Church quiring their speech. For years first Union Chapel. The Govern were Scots and Presbyterians. and Morrison had to lead 2 furtivement Blue Book gives the date as among the other existence in Canton or not less so 1844, and that, confirmed by our bodies also doctrinal and adminis- evangelical in Macao, sometimes for days own records, fixes the present es trative difes counted for without necessary food, his the 75th during which the Church r

they do now. Yet here teachers and servants being com has had a local habitation and the hem cable, in a reason. pelled to leave him. It was made name it still is known by...

veerd b't spirit, to let capital crime to print his trans-j The next date

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mmon ground ned, but in spite of all he suc- the Blue Book 1047 bis blir full liberty of ceeded in producing a grammar, would seex! ast triste preference. From that catechism, translation of the Church is then the somar der onward this good spirit has whole Bible, and finally a Chinese Who may have en us

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the East Indres, centering at Malacca, where was established an institution on which Morrison had set his heart, viz. an Anglo- Chinese School. A rast amoun of press work was also carried on, books and periodicals being cir- culated in Chinese both on re- ligious and general subjects. Dr. Milne died after only nine years' work, but in that brief time hel linked his same imperishably with the history of Christian influence in China.

In 1834 Morrison himself pass- ed away.

His life of extraordin-) ary* devotion had laid Western knowledge open to China in its own tongue, and six years later arrived the man who in turn was to open the treasures of Chinese literature to the West. That was James Legge, who began his long career in charge of the College in Malacca and closed it as the first Professor of Chinese at Oxford, having in the course of it carried on abundant missionary labours. mastered Chinese as it had not been mastered before; produced the monumental version which is still the standard "European edition of the Confucian classics, and incidentally founded this Unien Church in Hongkong and ministered to it for quarter of a century. Like Dr. Milne his pre- decessor, Legge came from the Congregational Church at Huntly in Aberdeenshire. His fellow- townsmen called him "Chinese Legge," and were justly proud of him. Among my earliest recollec-| tions is that of a framed engrav ing in the house of an uncle" in that little town, representing Legge and his Chinese students, all of them looking like learned Professors, in their long robes, hatted, pig-tailed, serious of aspect. At this I used to gaze in

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Hongkong became British possession in 1841, and two years later, or perhaps less, the Malacca Mission was transferred here on account of the greater proximity to China.

Its first institution was, I be lieve, a hospital under Dr. Ben- jamin Hobson, a devoted physician and- evangelist, a. work which is continued in the Alice Memorial group of hospitals to-day. A few months later came the College, which remained for some years a main part of Mr. Legge's work.

From the first the members of the Mission held meetings, open'

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AIR FORCE.

London, Nov. 12 Lubbyists state that Major General Seely's resignation is due to friction with the Cabinet on the subject of cutting- down the Air Force estimates and reorganisation of the relations between the Army and the Air Force. The "Times" says Major General Seely crosses the floor and explains the reasong for his resignation from the front Opposition bench on Nov. 12

In the House of Commons Major General Secly explained that his resignation was not hasty. It was due to the un- . workableness of the system of dual control whereby he, instead of the Secretary for War, who was also Secretary for the Air, presided over the Air Council, although the only man who could preside over the Council effectively was the Air Minis- ter. He emphasised that no personal question was involved, but the whole thing was impossible. The War Office and Air Ministry were each whole-time jobs: The present system involved inefficiency, delay and

It excluded the Admiralty and made the Air Ministry an annexe of the War Office. which would be inimical to the country and mean waste of commercial" possibilities and neglect of the powers which the air bad given us.

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Mr. Bonar Law regretted Major General Seely's resigna- tion, which was due to a difference of opinion with the Goy. ernment. He promised discussion of the whole subject if the House desired.

COLONIAL GOVERNORSHIPS.

London, Nov. 11. *

In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Stewart, Capt. Amery stated that in the opinion of Lord Milner and previous Secretaries of State for the Colonies, it would not be possible without grave injustice to officers of still larger services of other Colonies and without unduly carrowing the field of selection, to lay down that the Civil Service Cadets of Ceylon, Straits Settlements, Malay States and Hongkong to had good prospects in the Civil Services of their own Colonies should also have a preferential claim to governorships and similar senior appointments there and elsewhere. He pointed out that apart from the self-governing Dominions and the three military governorships the number of governorships and ad- ministratorships in the Colonial Service was 35, some of which.. would afford no financial advantage to officers from eastern Colonies. Four of these posts. namely the governorships of Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Leeward Islands and Weinaiwei were filled by officers who originally entered the public service as Junior officers in eastern dependencies, while of the remaining 31, 25 were held by officers selected from other branches of the Colonial Service outside the castern dependencies men +ioned.

THE PRINCE OF WALES,

Washington, Nov. 12. The Prince of Wales, in a speech at the official banquet, very sympathetically referred to the illness of President Wi- son who was revered far beyond the shares of America. He dwell upon the similarity in sentiments of the democratic ideals of the five sister nations forming the British Empire and the United States. Referring to the identity aims of the Canadian and United States systems of government, he emphasised that the epirit, af, harmony wherein these nations" had lived side by side was a living example of the great principles for which, the Allies sacrificed their best in the war. The Prince of Wales called at the White House and had a conversation with Mrs. and Miss Wilson. He expects to sce President Wilson to-morrow, a

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The Prince, addressing the National Press Club, greeted the American people and expressed his pleasure at visiting the United States, particularly after meeting the American forces in Europe and realising America's efforts during the

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