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69094 三拜禮 號七十月三英港香

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1920.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

FROM THE PULPIT. themselves?

THE TURKISH SITUATION.

THE ALLIES TO PROTECT · MINORITIES.

London, March 11. The Supreme Council met yesterday and issued a communique announcing that it had considered the messures which are being taken to ensure protection of the Armenians and other rainorities in Turkey. It is significant that Mr. Churchill, Mr. Walter Long, Admiral Beatty. General Thwaites and M. Venezeios attended.

It is stated that the Council ordered the disciplinary occupation of Constantinople as well as a number of strategic points in Asiatic and European Terkey forthwith, while America has been urged to participate in the measures for the protection of the Armeniaus,

TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

ITALIAN ARMS CASE.

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Shanghai, March 16.

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BIBLE SOCIETY.

—— MEETING OF HONGKONG

AUXILIARY.

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CRICKET.

The late horrible answer is the leper hospital as those under Dr. war is barely over and we are our such enmities once more as of old. Fowler of the Lordon Mission A VOICE FROM DOUBTING The cry is for supremacy, naval, in North China or the C. M. S. There Pakhoi. commercial, industrial as though institution at CASTLE.

our tortured earth were. not what can be done is done to still reeking of recent blood. relieve disease, and better far the Notes of a sermon by the Rev. Christianity is still a dream to lepez is made to feel that be is

annual meeting of the J. Kirk Maconachie at Union contemplate, a supposition to be still a man and a brother and Hongkong Auxiliary of the British Church on Sunday morning- canvassed, questioned anything that for tim as much as any and Foreign Bible Society was held and died. The at the Helena May Institute yes. "Now when John heard in the but a method to be seriously Christ lived

There is "talk of disease also is being made the terday. A good attendance WES prison the works of the Christ, he attempted. sent by bis disciples, and aid brotherhood among the nations, subject of careful study with presided over by the Bishop of republic cross the a view to remedy and Dr. Fowler, Victoria (D- Laoder), who was unto Him: Art thou Ho tha: but the cometh, or look wo for another? Pacific which has boasted of who has done distinguished work supported on the platform by Rev. And Jesus answered and said initating their League looks like in that field, is now visiting Indis G. R. Lindsay, Dr. T. W. Pearce. unto them, Go your way and tell deserting it in aloofness and self-in connection with plans for co- Mr Shuhei Hsu sad Rer. H. E. ordinating all such effort. I have Anderson. The meeting was open. John the things which ye do hear assertion. and see: the blind receive their

There is no hope for mankind, een leper villages on the East ed by the singing of a hymn, and

The following will represent River near the London Mission | prayer.

the Civil Service "A" on the sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf one whatever, unless the Name station at Polko founded from in which middle walls of partition Hongkongby Dr.Legge. There the

The annual Report and State-Navy ground at 2 p.m. against bear, and the dead are raised ur

broken down and the poor have good tidings

outcasts are segregated, but the ment of Accounts, both of which the Navy 2nd X1 on Saturday Gentile and Jew of

nextR. T. Taylor (Captain), old missionaries visit them, teach have been published, were read by S. E. Alderman, F. Bacon, F. S. preached anto them." Mat

overcome the

barriers them comfort and help them in Dr. Pearce and Mr W. Sykes re- Burden, Clay, E T. Crocker, E. C. caz 11/2-5.

of race and selfish interest all ways possible, and in other spectively.

Fincher, G. H. Haskett, V. M. Here is a voice from Doubting which divide the world to-day places much similar work goes on Castle, and it has been thought The question of my text is at that we scarcely hear of.

In proposing that the Report Hast, G. T. Kuight and H. W, strango it should come from one bottom the question of the hour,

and Statement of Accounts be whom we first hear of as the voice and there is no need to think it. Or again, take the case of the

adopted and that copies be for- The Italiar ammunition traffic case, after many secret con- crying in the wilderness, Prepare sin that it should come into the lunatic. A few weeks ago I was warded to the Bible Society in Lon hows over one of the most redon and to the Society's Agent in ferences between the representative of the Premier and the Italian Ye the way of the Lord. Yes mind.

markableinstitutions in the world, Minister, has been settled. The private transaction will be regarded how natural in the circumstances

We doubt our Master most, not the only asyalum, with perhaps one that was the 13th annual meeting Shanghai, the Chairman said that as official, the Italian merchant concerned will pay one-tenth of the it is. This last and greatest of

st price to the Government, and the delivery order will be issued prophets lay in the gloomy prison, when we doubt, but when we are small exception, for the mentally he had the honour of presiding over

John the Baptist flicted in China. It was known even then as "the black afraid to. by the War Department.

tower." the remote and rocky trusted his Lord well enough by Dr. John Kerr of the American and he was sorry it would be the last. He had always appre fortress where Herod had entren to express his doubt with frank-Presbyterian Board and has been cinted the work of the British and ched himself from his own people, ness, and it was frankly met, as sustained during the last 30 years Foreign Bible Society and he and where he held the hols our questions always are when by the present superintendent was thankful there was a flourish Shanghai, March 16.

to faith seeks refreshment at its with his labour and his means. dared his wicked life. primal fount. There is no re- The 600 immates are made as Auxiliary in Hongkong. The Although no date has been officially announced for the con- rebuke

Truth was what pagation of truth. ference on the Foochow incident, commissioners of both parties are There, at the mercy of the tyrant proach in the Master's reply, happy as possible under kind Society existed mainly for the pro-

the neither does it take the form ofdog-treatment and useful occup- It is said that Japan will and his heartless queen,

was wanted nowadays. To-day constantly conferring with each other,

Thirty per cent. sre hereid of the Saviour lay, denied matic assertion. It is simply anlation. yield some concession.

the freedom of desert and riverside, invitation to the questioner to cured, and it is safe to say nearly people had rather different views of. shut out from the open heavens reconsider the facts he already all of them would but have gone the Bible than they had some years in "Penelope-9.15 pm. beneath which he had loved to knew-how the lame, the blind, from bad to worse under the go, and furthermore the Bible

was never needed more than it wasp.. wander, cut off from light and air the deaf were being healed, the terrible treatment, at best utter to-day. There was unrest through- and sunshine. There he heard dead raised up, the poor enheart-neglect, accorded them in their

out the world; men were seeking- native places. The Chinese of the works of the Christ, and ened with glad tidings.

Christ always sought to win authorities rend their cases there, for what, they knew Dot. Mr well right he wonder why, if

Peace Conference in the summer, this were the true Messiah, his the judgment and conscience of our Hongkong Government also Lloyd George, on his return from the prophet and servant should be honest men, and we depart from sende many. suffering such a fate; why if this His way if we do anything else. Work of devoted missionaries, but gave a short address to his fellow succeeded in bringing about the

tained a real message were indeed the Saviour of the And it is by its fruits that His what does the man in the Club townsmen at Criccieth. which con Christianising of the world. It to the war unfortunate that work of this world, should the horn of the gospel is still to becommended, or the woman at the bridge party Church. He had asked whether the kind could not be told by wicked De exalted, God's Apart from living evidences of know or care about it, when, in people oppressed, the heathen helpfulness and Charity, faith R. L. Stevenson's phrase, they great sacrifice made by our men statistics. If they dared to en "deblatterate about missions was to end it nothing: and he courage the beginning of religious in possession of the

holy can

but fade inte a wan

answered the question in the life of many people they would find with idle words of which they place.

at this

If wise and and futile ghost.

way. I that the Bible Society had done will give but expoor account in

following remarkable time came within sight of despair practical brotherly love and

speak as one standing high on the very much good. He was told it is what many another just human kindness and Christlike the day of judgment!

watch tower, and I know that the that morning that one of the most man had done before, and has sympathy are not found in us The Chinese themselves know need of the land is not material prominent Chinese of the Colony done since. Faith was the watch-who pass as Christ's followers the better. It was an unanswerable but is spiritual. Get the spiritual, became, a Christian because ha

THE FOOCHOW INCIDENT.

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

Peking, March 16.

It has been decided to recommence the building of the Pukow and Shunyang Railway, and a superintendent has been appointed to

• control the work.

(Other Late and Special Telegrams on Page 3)

EMPRESS BOAT'S -

ROUGH PASSAGE.

MERCANTILE MARINE.

JAPAN LOSES LIFEBOAT

IN A STORM.

CHINA COAST CHANGES.

A Vancouver paper of February 19 has the following:-

and she took two days longer than usual to log the run.

man

who

If

had

John

It is zil the

DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAY..

Coronet Theatre-5.15 and 9.15

D.D.

Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m.

TO-MORROW.

Theatre Royal-Mario Tempest

Coronet Theatre-5.15 and 5.15

Victoria Theatre--2.15 p.m.

Captain A. J. N. Wood, of the word of Luther's strenuous life.world cannot be expected to puzzle to them why people should and the material will follow. The happened to read a certain pass-

Tatung is on leave.

The Japan backed a series of heavy northeast and southeast gales right across the Pacific. The second day out from Yoko- Mr. W. Moure, from leave, has second supernumerary hama the ship ran into a terrific gone northeaster. For two days it officer, Luenho.

Mr. R. Tully. chief officer, raged. A very heavy sea was shipped up and the ship laboured Hopsang. is on reserve.

Mr. W. Ryden, from reserve, heavily. Progress was very slow, the vessel having to cut down has gone chief officer, Hopsang.

Mr. J. S. MacDonald, third ber speed in order to make better

great combers engineer, Suiwo, has gone acting weather. The swept right over the ship and the second engineer, same ship. water found its way into the corridors. One huge sea lifted a lifeboat and wrenched it

other

R. Lindsay

yet we find him writing, "Having believe that He came forth from come from distant countries to wounds of the world are bleeding,age of the Bible. He had now Shinon, is on leave.

all but lost my Christ I was God and has any special mission give their lives to such work, and and material things will not heal become a great Christian. The Captain J. Jamieson, from re-beaten by the waves and tem-to manifest God's nature and it so impressed them that when them. That is why I tail any work of the Society was certainly pests of despair." It would be achieve His purposes. Indeed wathe Boxers were planning the movement which brings out and not only confined to religion. With one lifeboat missing, part serve, has gone master, Shinon.

to ratch that from of the Churches could not our destruction of all foreign institu- strengthens the great spirit of The work not only brought men Mr. H. Brewer, second officer, easy of her port rail carried away

the selves go on believing if the spirit tions orders were given that the brotherhood. among

The one- need of to Christ but it also raised and considerable minor damage Pakhoi, has gone second officer, many

We beroes of the faith, but we have of our Master were denied ex-sylum for the insane was to be England and France to day is the the moral tone of Chins. done to her superstructure, the Kaifong.

spared.

healing scd brotherhood of the knew how the Bible had worked C.P.OS. liner Empress of Japan, Mr. J. V. Hunter, acting chief no need to go farther than our pression in our lives.

A short distance from the same Cross. There WAS not

In the for Europe. and America. Capt. A. J. Holland, reached port officer, Hsin Peking. has gone own human hearts.

To-day is our missionary an- this afternoon from Oriental ports. second officer, Fengtien.

What earnest soul has not niversary here, and we are re-spot are the blind homes where slightest doubt, the Chairman said China it was difficult to tell what "The passage from Yokohama was

Mr. T. A. Nicholas, second seen the inside of Doubting minded that in the missionary hundreds of boys and girls are that the one need of the world it had done. The civilising of -one of the roughest the old liner has ever experienced during ber officer. Fengtien, has gone second Castle, and been in a mood to enterprise the Churches have the rescued from the misery and the to-day was a spiritual one. There China must, no doubt, be due to echo the cry which came from opportunity par excellence of ex-moral dangers which beset them was the League of Nations and the Bible Society and the work officer. Hsin Peking. thirty odd years on the Pacific Mr. P. Lewis, third engineer, even this strong and believing pressing the diffusive and philan in China, and trained into healthy, what was wanted now was a League of the missionaries. The work of of Churches. The Colony ought the Society had a great prospect beart," Art thou He that cometh, thropic nature of the faith. It happy citizenship. Ichang, is on leave.

Then there are the other hos- not to be satisfied with its donation in future. In China they had, a Mr. D. Warden, from reserve, or look we for another?" Yet may be a platitude to say that a

One Becular form of religion. China has gone chief engineer, Tatung. black though things looked, John Church devoid of the missionary pitals, the training Colleges, and of $2,000 to the Society.

is сп the way to the great schools, where I had ought to aim for $20,000 at least.needed a new centre of religida Mr. J. Grant, chief engineer, had not abandoned the hope that spirit

some Divine deliverer

was to decay, but in any case it is a fact the opportunity of speaking to He valued the Bible Society be and it was not easy to make her At least we appear, a hope stared at that The gospel at the heart of it many hundred of the choice cause it afforded a great number a Christian nation. time of extreme moral need by is love, and the very nature of youth of the province, of both of other different denominations must try to raise the moral tone good men in many lands, as love is to spread itself, and take sexes, entrusted by good class of Christian people an opportunity of China, and in this connection, students of history have often thought for such as are in any families to the missionaries" care. of meeting together. When he he thought the Bible Society pointed out..

kind of need. Cheerful, diligent These are the hope of China, and returned he hoped that he would would have a great part to play, There have been many periods love-lighted mission enterprise is I do not believe there is any find that the auxiliary had gone and certainly it had a great

future. since when the signs of the times the best of Christian evidences, other hope for that vast but up by leaps and bounds.

The resolution was carried. have been heavily charged with (toth in our own hearts and to all helpless people.

ask for

Mr Shuhei Hsu, in seconding the minded to

The same work goes on in all resolution, said that the Bible The Rev. G. mingled hope and apprehension, who are when the heart of humanity has proofs.. It is such a spirit in Mr. J. M. McNaught, second seemed to cry in its distress, Christians which is the ultimate non-Christian lands, and it is an Society was worthy of the greatest proposed, that Dr T. W. Fearch How long. O Lord, till Thou evidence that Christ in the Sar, unqualified and undeniable fact, support, because it attentions were and Me Arnott be asked to fil The works however you account for it, that directed to one of the most import the offices of Hon. Sec. anl engineer, Suiwo, has resigned.

Mr. G. Wilson has been ap-comest?" We live now in aliour of the world.

the God-given Saviour The Society had done very great he had been connected with the clear from the davits as though it pointed second officer, Kianghsin. period when none know what to done in His name may not be all nothing but faith in Jesus Christ ant phases in Christian setivity. Inn, Treas, respectively. He said

Mr. A. Lang, chief engineer. expect, and hope and fear that we could wish; they are as

of mankind sends men and work in China, not only by translat Bible Society for many years and to human agency

the Bible into different fully realized im-women to give their lives to the ing Kianghsin, has gone chief en alternately fill the horizon. The committed

the great work must most stable institutions seem and

carry human gineer, Kiangfoo.

faw people of other races in any such languages but also by helping to which it was doing. The "secret" there are Mr. W. Davis, from leave, has insecure, the longest accepted perfection;

uplift the people. and

If anything feature of the Society's works theni

small way.

I am passing no reflections on was going to help China in the was its method of uplifting and re- one chief engineer, Kianghsic.principles seem threatened, as to

very standards Mr. D. Campbell, chief en-if the

of means to do them with,compared right and wrong were chang with the members and wealth of the activities of the diplomatists, future it was the dissemination of building the national life. Hong- secular the Bible. Cooperation and union kong was at the doors of a great gineer, Kiangfoo, is on leave.

merchants, the Mr. N. Icherich, third engineer, jag.

that Christian congregations. I could the the condition of the times is a tell you something about the educators, nor discounting the would help to bring about a true country with a great future before Toonan, has resigned.

bave for Christian world. The praise-it, and the Society had ample scope Mr. M. Silice, chief officer, Tin-challenge to the Church. It is and shortcomings of missionaries, and influence they may

their own worthy work was not only con-for its activities. good mid sing, bes gone chief officer, San fit atirs in the mind once again the much more about my own: progress

the old enquiry of Herod's could even drop a hint or two ways. But there is a difference fined to the workers of the Society. The Rev. E.E. Anderson second- Pacific, when உ. second Nam Hoi.

Mr. R. Adamson, chief officer, prisoner, is this indeed the about departures from the ideal between all that and work which There was a big staff of Bible storm of even greater violence

But the you and I as Christians are either sellers. These people peretrate ed the resolution, which was our- than the first was encountered. Hoisang, has gone chief officer, Christ, the Saviour of the world? among yourselves.

Tinsing.

Is He sufficient for the vast works in question are not done helping or hindering as the case into every corner of the Empire.

The Committee for 1920 is as The wind set in from the north-

Mr. W. R. Elders, chief officer, and overwhelming "needs of in any other name that is given may be. That work is wholly They reach any corner of the east and a wicked sea worked up San Nam Hoi has gone chief the

present day, with among men. Who, for example, disinterested except as the spirit world with a limited amount of follows.Major A. T. Walmsley, which buffeted the ship. The

the world so much larger yet in cares anything for the leper of Christ makes it an interest to energy and with no protection. Dr. J. Herbert Sanders, Mr W. M. Japan ploughed ahead until the officer, Sintai.

Mr. J. Wilson, acting master, other ways smaller than of old, except men and women whose as to bring our brethren to He was told that stations were Humphreys, Mr J. L. Macpherson, the knowledge founded when these Bible sellers Rev. H. B. Wells, Mrs. Dowbiggin, Hoisang, has gone chief officer, its wants so manifold, its errors hearts Christ holds and whose the light of

Him. inspires?

There succeeded in interesting people Miss Woolley. Mrs Bonner, Mex so manifest, its lack of guidance devotion He

nothing else like it of the various localities in the Arnott, Miss Storr, Mrs Ling, Miss same ship.

Caplain J. H. Woollocott has so conspicuous? Is it indeed in very word makes our flesh creep. is

Jesus Christ that God will yet We shrink from the leper with in the world, and whilet it con- Christian religion. In a way the K. Wo. Miss Hollis, the Clergy signed on master. Hoisang.

are tinues we have no need to "look Society resembled the Y. M.C. A. and Ministers of contributing Captain H. P. Robinson, of the reconcile the wayward, clamorous instinctive horror. There Hong Wan I, has signed off. world to Himself, and reconcile materialists who say that as these for another." Take the work to As the Chairman had told them, it churches and the Naval and Male Captain H. J. Willsher has men to one another? The latter people cannot be sured they your hearts and you will not fail has made it possible for Christian tary Chaplains Serving in Hong- signed on master, Hong Wan I. is the prior if not the harder task, should be put painlessly out of to find it the best of restorers for people and missionary man to come kong

Mr. T. Brown, chief officer, for how can men be at one with existence. In the West that is only your faith, the broadest and 'together." Innarincka, bas signed off their God while they remain, as whispered, but in Chias it hes brightest of its from Shipping and Engineering. still they do, on ill terms among been proposed, but the Christian dungeons of Doubting Castle.

were

match. Another sea

crashed against the port side dur. ing the night and carried away a section of the rail. As the waves continued to sweep over, all her equipment that was not well secured was carried over the side into the raging sea.

made The Empress weather until ebout

sea became so heavy that she Her speed was buried herself. reduced. For a day and a half the ship was a plaything of the storm.

The Empress brought in a light list of passengers. She had on board a number of British army officers en route to England after conducting, the Chinese coolies from France to China,

We

aze

told

do

in

The of

God in

This was certainly an

ried.

the important phase. Ja its full co-

operation and union many have

Votes of thanks to the speaker concluded the meeting.