The October issue of the "Reorder" is an architectural number. Missionary Societies have spent, and are spending, large sums money in China on the construction of churches, colleges, hospitals and Homes for' workers: Until quite recently these structures were erected in a haphazard manner by the Chinese builder on the spot superintended by the missionary for Whose use the house was intended. Now there are "mission architects and the trained man comes. along Jand looks at the products of his untrained predecessor and to his credit, concedes handsomely. there ""were surprisingly few failures." Nevertheless the work was, all amateur work, both expen-Jsive and clumsy, One of the writers, Mr. Bergamini, demands seathingly, "What shrewd business man at home, contemplating begin building operations, would say to his pastor: "I know that interested in art and that ing would be using: reereution for you: here are $200,000; have a little amusement and build me a new factory." If Mr. Bergamini hax ever met with a missionary [skilled fin ehitecture, who' has built a house, as son Jeho built his rabbit hutch," out of his own head and had as' much wood left over as would build another." he has met a humble und chastened individual who has no longer hope for the salvation of the heathen and very Hittle hope of his own, The super-tendence of house building water in the interior is a little "amusing" than having teeth extracted. It is Tike liming Fojiyama. The man who does it fence ix a fool, but he who does it twice i—an adjective fool. And x0 the mission architect ix a welcome apparition on the mission field, broad-beamed _jests.
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for God's sake, go home and get a clean shirt!" was Mr. Jones's retort, which put the hairy heckler out. Since he pays such deference to what is written in this haps perpend tha iv really a Cone Servative who hax eaten his ticket—ike the puppy doy: in the guard' van who thereby missed his desti-and perhaps in the end fell among dox-thieves. Nobody qu fons his honesty, and that ix striking proof of his exsenti of the three writers are convinced that mission building should conform to Chinese ideas of vite him to take his seat on design. One says, "We have built Treasury Bench. Ho ix not, ashaminion stations of grey brick some ed of having a drink or backing hi two or three stories high stic choice for the 3.30, as up like sore thumbs about the Chin-to lady Prohibitionists and other exe landscape," and they each adin the House of Commons clearly vise that wide use be made of the show; he is not Chinese style which Dr. Arthur Smith describes as "the compendislang), who want to secure indus: ous principle of laying one horizonence for their own sins by punish-tal stick on two uprights." Hr. ug other people's peccadilloes. That Walter A. Taylor says, "In farther why there is a Hudibrastic tang consideration of this subject treaty his best humour, which does not ports may be disregarded because always boar setting down in chaste the foreigners will continue to do vote lidings in the classic Greek or anveyed in the Itatian Renaissance manner, as deschoolbos's reply (it. is our story, signed by European or American not his) to a question as to the architects and executed in Japanese products of Silvertown: "Golf-halle, stucco by Chinese craftsmen." So explosions, and a chap named Jack that is how our magnificent Bund Jones." But communications with impresses the observant architect! the sanctimonious will corrupt even To an untrained eye the buildings the stoutest opponent of humbug, and one is not surprised to find him seem to be distinguished chiefly by the solidity of the material of saying (in a debate on the Army (Annual) Bill last year) that: "We which they are constructed. How-(the Labour Party) hope that when fever, we are sure the "mission architect" has not made his debut get the opportunity the priniples in that Book (the Bible on Cun a minute too soon. The Missions the Table) will be acted on." As Building in Yuen-ming-yuen Road time goes on he will ripen no daub: is a proof of his skill and those who and grow more mellow in his man-use it are unstinting in the ner and here charitable in his praise of its design and construc matter, and confess that even those tion. who table with the accent of Oxford Another article of note is that. rather than Hoxton may be just in which Dr. Timothy Lew gives fas sincere and sagacious in their much good advice to graduates desire for the betterment of the about to commence the work of the masses as any of his Clyde-side Christian ministry. Those who are comrades. It is more likely to be not graduates and who are not com-se because he really represents the mencing their ministry, but are be-British working man, having earned ginning to think of laying it down, his living as a builder's labourer will also find much to interest them (hence the resemblance of his te-in this article. The same may be partes to brickbats) and not as an said of that on "The training of LIP. intellectual with a pen behind church members" by Mr. J. H. his- ear in liew of a gasper. We Geldart, and on' the "Huchow schoo! hope and believe he will. advance in of Mothererafi statesmanship even at the cost of There Heaving slapstick in th "Recorder." Fs, Yor meditation in this issue of the
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