Fifty Year's Work in China Celebrated in Peking Cathedral:
The Bishop Unfortunately Il in Hospital:
Review of a Great Work Sunday, October 26, was chosen: by the Poking Cathedral for its annual dedication service and for the observance of the jubilee of Bishop C. P. Scott's work in China, On the previous evenings special addresses had been given by the Rev. Li Trun-lan, priest in charge of the Chuchow' district. Mr. Li also preached at the. Sunday, Eucharist at which special thanksgiving was offered. The offertory was for the Diocesan Hospitals.
Tt was arranged that at 3 p.m. an inscription should be presented by the congregation to Bishop Scott, who was to give the address at an evensong to follow the presentation. An unfortunate ailment which detained the Bishop in hospital made this impossible, Rev. M. H. Lei of the Cathedral staff was] deputed to take to him in hospital the framed inscription written by Chinese caligraphist connected ith the church; " the words were How beautiful are the feet of him that bringeth ood tidings of peace." At the same time there was presented to the Bishop a letter of congratulation sent by, Bishop' Graves of Shanghai in the name of, the House of Bishops and the whole: clergy and people of the Chung Hun Sheng Kung Hui, recording the debt owed, to him, not only by! Lis old Diocese, but by the whole Chinese communion of which he England on Jone 27, 1847. His father, grandfather and, great-grandfather were all clergy of the Church of England. His great~ grandfather, Thomas Scott, was well known in England and America for! his Commentary on the Old and New Testaments; he was also one of the founders and the first general secretary of the Church Missionary Society, which has done so much. work in China and other lands.
P. Scott was educated at!
Charterhouse and Cambridge, where The won distinction as a scholar and jan athlete. In 1867 he was ordained in London and served at St, Peter's, Eaton Square, under Dr. Wilkinson, who afterwards became Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. In 1872 Dr. Wilkinson helped _to start the annual Day of Intercesjon for Foreign Missions, which is now widely observed throughout, the Church of England. On that first Day of Intercession, Mr. Scott decided to offer himself as a foreign missionary. Tu 1874 he and one friend staried for Chefoo as the representatives of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel China. There he first lived in the home of Dr. Nevius of the American Presbyterian Mission, learning the Aangunge and methods of work. In the winter of 1878 he went to Shansi to help in relieving the great three years' famine. done so much to create the} General Synod, which is the symbol and organ of its unity.
'A special number of the "Chinese Churchman," with Bishop Seott's portrait and a biographical notice: was to have been distributed to the congregation, but the war delayed its arrival from Shanghai, Further Tributes The Diocesan Standing Committee sending a Chinese letter thanks for its constant and growing} support to the North China and Shantung Mission Association in Eigland, Bishop T. A. Scott of tung had been present at meeting of the staff of]
jon aries in Peking, and sent to the annual meeting of the Associ tion in London a telegram gratitude on behalf of the missionaries in the Diocoses of both Shantung and North China.
'A presentation from the North China missionaries was arranged to be made in St. Faith's Home, Poking, on $8. Simon and Jude'
the consecration to the episcopate, 'The offerings had to be presented informally as he was still in Hospital Bishop Scott himself, ax'a thank-offering to God for His preservation of him through 60 years in China, had presented to the Chung To Boys' School, in whose compound he' resides, @ long desired Porter's Lodge and gateway. On the day he went into hospital, he formally opened it, using in a simple ceremony the words of the Psalmist "The Lord preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this day forth for evermore."
"At Chung Te School prayers on 88. Simon and Jude's Day, a review of the history of the Diocone was given by one of the Peking staff. It will be remembered that this Chapel wus erected as a memorial of Bishop Scott's episcopate by the then British Minister and his other foreign friends. in China. Like the Cathedral, the Chapel was designed by Bishop Scott himself. The dey ended with choral evensong and the singing of "For all Thy saints" in the Ransome Meniorial Chapel of the Cathedral.
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