Judge Skinner Turner and Bishop Molony on the Need of Local Support The Rt. Rev. Bishop H. J. Molony, his Honour Judge Skinner Turner and the Rev. W. J. Wallace, at a drawing-room meeting held on Tuesday at Mrs. P. W.
Liddell's house in Avenue Haig, made eloquent appeals for funds for the Church Missionary Society.
The committee of the Society in London recently advised the mission that its income from home would be reduced by 25 per cent. Unless help is quickly forthcoming the mission will be faced with the necessity of closing many of its hospitals, village schools and other welfare centres where such excellent work is being done. Already a hospital at Taichow has had to close its doors for the want of a foreign doctor, and if assistance is not at once forthcoming, in the words of Bishop Molony, many centres of light in China will go out, and this will mean so much less enlightenment in this distressed land.
His Honour Judge Skinner Turner, who presided, in introducing the speakers, said he would appeal for support for the Society on business and national grounds. He would leave the other speakers to make.an appeal on_ higher grounds. The work of British mission societies had long been recognized as a valuable national asset as far as their activities in the educational field were concern-
Tae PHivosopHy oF THE CHINESE.
Bishop Molony said that Shanghai residents were living on the fringe of the most wonderful country in the world. They all ought seriously to take to heart their position here and all the responsibility it involved. Had the Chinese people had the advantages Britons had, the former would have been a much mightier people than they were at the present time. The Chinese had a philosophy which carried them up to a certain point in respect of morality and well-being and which fixed them there. They had no chance of greatly improving themselves. Theirs was a philosophy which did not take into account goodness and the nobility of human nature, which would turn them to better things. The ancient philosophy of the nation was not one of liberty but of bondage. Since the old Empress turned all the young people away from the classics, the people had shelved them and their old ideas. Everywhere nowadays the Chinese were starting companies, and generally adopting modern methods. But the great majority were not the least changed in their character.
"We see the country breaking up," declared his Lordship, the
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