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BEAUTIES OF THE FUH RIVER.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, NOVEMBER 24th, 1928.

Few people, in Hongkong know. On the left is seen the small mountain which rises sheer from

anything of the, beauties of the Fuh River, in Kwangsi, gel, as will be seen by the above phot a graphs, some striking scenery in

to be seen.

AND SYMPTOMS,

picturesque village of Niu Kung nestling at the foot of one of the heuatiful rocky hills which abound along the river banks.

At right is shown a lofty rácky

the water's edge. The river bouts are usually poled along under the- ver-hanging ledges of this old Deky hill.

.

VESUVIUS MAY ERUPT. and that is one of the difficulties in Vésuvine is "a very well-behaved dealing with a volcano, even when volcano, It can be a terrible is so carefully watched as is mienaer, but at least it generally GEOLOGIST EXPLAINS SIGNS conditions which are regarded by when serious trouble is brewing.

this one. But there are certain lats everybody know well ahead scientists who have specially Even the great eruptjonk the studied voleanic phenomena as first recorded historically, which giving definite warning.

Inverwhelmed Pampeli and Ier. High up in the observatory The first condition is that the eulaneum-did not come without which has been planted on theater should be full. Since 1926 eigns and omens.The eruption trembling cone of Vesuvius, Pro-the crater has been almost full, took place in A.D. 79 and for 16 fessor Mailadra, the great author-and at the present time there is a vents from A.3). 63 onwards there ity on that mountain and its hid-j light overflow of lava from the had been a 'series of earthquakes, den forces, has reported of late hnjbowest point of the wall surrmind-the first of which did immense increasing liveliness. The flow of it.

damage, and the last of which, just lava is considerable, and the lava! The other two conditions, pre-jon the eve of the eruption, rose itself is more fluid and less viscous monitory ・ af'. 'great diskurin intensity till the final entas. than it is normally.

hances are the failure of the trophe, Moreover in thai catas There is as yet, it is true, springs round the mountain and trophe the greater part of the indication that a great eruption is the recurrence of repented slight population of Pompeil escaped, small at hand. But the big disturbances earthquake shocks. Neither of Those killed worn only a come al intervals of about 20 or 36 these has ay yet been reported, so minority who stayed to collect years, and sind is work in 1906 that that the present spasm of activity valuables or were unable to get the last took place one is pretty may gradually die down, and wifi- away, like the prisoners and the nearly due.

ort them no very violent outburst Roman sentinel at his post.

They cannot be exactly timed, is probable. Taking it as a whole.. So safe is this volenne, when

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ENGLAND'S RETIRED PRIMATE. WORTHY OF GREAT TRADITION. By The Rovd. R. J. Campboil.)

PICTORIAL SUPFLEMENT,

has received a stamp and colour heard. The man who could do to which the English Church owes that is much more than an emi- more than it can computo?

nent ecclesiastical statesman; ho

Thero was a time when people is beföre all things a man of God. thought of him as more courtier That he has unrivalled natural than Christian, more conventional capacity for administrative detail than spiritually minded, more goes without saying, and ho Is careful to preserve the status quo never at a loss on a public occa- than to inspire or guide. That'sion. He has the rare gift of be-- belief has long passed away, Ing able to say the right thing at. though oven now it is only the fow the right time with due dignity who truly know the soul of Ran- and impressiveness, however short dall Davidson.

the opportunity for preparation. Elizabeth's Primates, Parker, The nation at large has learned

Generations to come will realise Grindal, and Whitgift, were able to appreciate his high qualities of better than we can at preacut how.

once heard men, but little more.

enormous and far-reaching the changes have been wherein the archbishop has played a command- ing part. A hundred years ago Anglicanism was almost confined to the British Isles.''

The same statesmanship.

might be said of the Caroline arch- Bishop Talbot of Winchester say bishops, Sheldon, Sancroft, and that he had never known him fall

into an error of judgment. Tillotson.

HE retirement of Dr. Randall Cranmer, whose greatest service Davidson from the Primacy is to us was the procious gift of the universally regarded as an beautiful language of the Prayer- event of more than national im- book. portance. It is an event which affects the whole of Christendom, and as such has been widely com mented upon in the foreign. Press. For the most part these refer ences have been kindly and res- pectful; In English-speaking countries, especially so. It is rightly felt that the relations" of the Church of England with other communions are now no close and constant that a change of spiritual leadership such as the withdrawal of our beloved archbishop. from the position he has held for a quarter of a century cannot, but be viewed with regret.

In addition to this the people of Great Britain have for so long been accustomed to look, to Dr. Davidson as a wise counsellor in matters of publie minent that men of all parties unite in the hope that the surrender of his official status may not for some time to come mean the end of his partici- pation in national affairs.

When a great figure passes from the centre of the stage of human interest it is natural to compare him with his predecessors, and to attempt some estimate of his place in history. We think of the 'off- ein, and we think of the man.

What impress has he left on"kis time, and what manner of man is be to whom immense responsibili- ties have been committed for more than a generation?

There have been great Arch- bishop of Canterbury in the past -Bot many, but still some-men of commanding Intellect and force of character, where tenure of the metropolitan see has exercised profound influeixe upon the des- tinies of the English race. Augus- tine himself, the Brat of the ling,! was not a great man; he was a rigid ecelesiastic of limited vision. Randall Davidson, a Scotsman,

is the ninety-third occupant of the chair of Augustine; and it is in- teresting to note that the first rendly great Archbishop of Can- terbury was a Greek-Theodore.

is was the hand that shaped not only the pattern of English irchmanship, but of English na tionality, for Church and State us organised by Theodore have con- Linned much the same to this day; the character of the small begin- nings of English religious and secin life is essentially the char- acter of English national institu- hions now.

A Precions Gift. We have had arrogant prelates like Thomas Becket, one or two saints like Anselm, statesmen like Stephen Langton, who wrung the People's Charter from King John.

At the shattering crisis of the Reformation we had the pliable

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Laul's forcefulness was unfor- This is a striking testimony from tunately opposed to the prevailing one who had been an intimate and Protestant sentiment of the nation, trusted colleague for the greater like that of the Tractarians in the part of a lifetime, and it is well nineteenth century, and belied his deserved: But I would any that, really devout and humble nature. if sound judgment be as much a

Not till we come to Queen Vic-matter of the heart as of the head, and toria's reign do we find 'men of the archbishop's humility outstanding ability at Lambeth spirituality have had more to do from the Revolution onward. with making him the man he is

In Tait, Benson, and Temple we than most people suspect, have had three archbishops worthy

A Man of God. to be named in the same breath

Let me here say publicly what with the best of any age or coun-I have often said privately, that try, and it was into this particular if I were in any trouble or per heritage that Randall Davidson

plexity of mind I should go entered. Do we err in saying that straight to the Archbishop of Can- formed in such a school, his mind terbury with my problem in pre- ference to any one else, and feel assured of a patient and sympia-- thetic hearing as well as of wise and friendly advice. One of the busiest workers of the world, and the holder of one of the most ex- acting positions, he has always been able to find time for render- ing such personal help to persona in need of it.

MEMORIALS.

IN MEMORY OF PAST MARINES.

Many years ago he revealed himself to a new light tô me by kneeling down on the heartkrug in his private room and offering Jone of the most earnest and simple

extempore prayers I live

ever

Move lo Reunion.

Now It is n Church with a world outlook, with provinces in almost every quarter of the globe, all of them looking to Canterbury as 'n visible centre. A generation ago self-government for the Church of England would have been unthink- able.

Now we have a democratically. dlested National Assembly over whose deliberations the arch- bishop has presided from the first. Further, the movement towards the reunion of Christendom has grown rapidly In recent years. and the archbishop has encourag- ed and fostereil it at every stage,

When one considers the vastness and complexity of the interests Dr. Davidson has been called to han- dle and direct almost for the span. of a human lifetime, and remem-, bers the devotion 'and conscion- tiousness wherewith he has talled 'n the service of Church and nation, no other verdiet seems pos- Bible than that a great servant of God is relinquishing a trust where- In few, if any, have ever excelled him.

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