Miss Rayden all this year has been engaged on an extensive tour of the world under the arrange ments of the Committees of the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Association, America was the first county visited and here on her leeture tour Miss Rayden dealt mainly with the friendly relations growing bet that country and Great Britain, Thence Miss Rayden travelled to Australia, and then on to New Zealand, in both of which countries she gave lectures at the various towns visited on subjects of a religious nature which she felt would be of most use to those she spoke before, Byrne, Chairman, introduced Miss Rayden to the large audience that had gathered, as a British woman who has done and is doing fine work among women, and expressed regret that her stay should be so short, Before she left England, Mi Rayden said in opening, a great speaker had told her that he believed the Great War had brought about a world consciousness which had not been before, that the war had made fan intellectual conception a reality. Tt was realized that everything that affected peoples on one side of the would affect them on the other. Tt had brought the people of the world closer together, given them fuller realization of each other.
Therefore, when she set out on her Journey, Miss Rayden was determined to see if this were so, and she believes that to-day there is a world consciousness, 'A Confusion of Ideas The Cigarette Question After the New Zealand portion of her tour, Miss Rayden decided to take a much needed holiday; lecture ing is harder work than me would imagine, and with thi idea it was that she paid her first visit to the Far East, While in Japan, Miss Rayden gave a few lectures and in Tokyo she expressed hor, straightforward views on the subject to which she has given more pubjielty than any of! is perfectly true that I smoke and that I do not believe it is a sin in the eyes of God," she doctored, "but the whole affair has been 99 dreadfully overdone. This was particularly true in the United States where a certain group of newspapers picked it up and made fa sensation of it from one end of the.country to the other. The res son for this, I believe, was that they did not approve of all T was saying about Anglo-American friend. ship."" Miss Rayden holds the same beliefs on the matter of drinking. "Tam not an absolute teetotal she said. "It is no sin to drink, Didn't Our Lord do ft? But when drinking becomes a terrible habit and a national vice, as I really think is the ease in the United States and England, then I think we should consider giving it up."
This is the first time Miss Rayden has visited China and her plans 80 far are more to meet the Chinese and Jearn something of the present spirit among students and others, rather than to giv or two she will delive Mins Rayden cannot say on what ines these will be, Miss Rayden will be the speaker at the next meeting of the Pan-Pacific Association, Miss Royden's Career Miss Rayden, who was born in England, was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, and went on to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Yor three years Miss Rayden then worked in the Victoria Women's Settlement in Liverpool, and in the country parish of Luffenham. She became lecturer in English titeratare to the Oxford University Ex-Delegacy, and then, in 1908, joined the National Union of We men's Suffrage Societies, of which she became a member of the Executive Committee the same year. Until 1914 Miss Rayden edited the "Common Cause," writing and speaking chiefly on the economic, heal and religious aspects of the Women's Movement. From 1917 until three ater Miss Rayden acted as assistant preacher at the City Temple, London, when she founded, with Dr. Perey Dearmer, the Fellowship Services at Kensington, now transferred to the Guild-house, Eccleston Square, of which Miss Rayden is now minister.
A. Reception A very successful reception was: given on September 20 by the ish Women's their Headquarters, 12 The Bund, to Miss Rayden.
After the offi open. meeting was held in the club rooms, at 5.30 p.m, when Miss Rayden gave 2 fine speech on "Patriotism and Internationalism."
Mrs, A. K, Craddock, Vice-chairman of the B.W: A,, in the absence of Birs.
But differences arise, she continued, through the confusion that. has been made between patriotism and internationalism, the belief that if you are a true internationalist you. cannot be a good patriot fare truly patriotic, then possible to be a good internationalist, Many good internationalists are to blame too, Miss Rayden said, for saying that one should love all countries as one's own. This was impossible, and furthermore not desirable. It is quite possible to love your own country more than any other, only natural and right to do 80, but this should not prevent you from being a good internationalist.
Through loving your own country, you would understand the more the patriotism of another of different nationality, and thus be more sympathy.
Children, the speaker said, she would have brought up in all the traditions of their country, for loss they truly understand nationalim, it is impossible to expect them ever to understand internationalism or how passionately the Chinese love their own country.
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