Dr. Christie, of Mukden, in his address, said our Government seemed to be too busy with things nearer our own shores to give any serious attention to China. though many of the difficult problems of the world could never be permanently settled until] the grave national and international questions arising in the Far East were dealt with. He held that we could not afford, either as a nation or as a Church, to ignore a country like China, and to remain mere spectators when she had come to the parting of the ways. The fundamental character of her national life and the direction of For future development were now being decided, and much depended on her choice. Unfortunately, there were many influences operating—_ in China to-day calculated to steer the course of her development into dangerous channels. The old religious had been found wanting, and nothing had been put in their place. any of the thinking men of China were now departing from the traditional pacific attitude: they were beginning to feel that the only way in which their country could hold her owh against foreign aggression was by becoming a strong military nation. China, however, was not naturally, and never had been, a militarisé nation. The philosophy of her ancient sages despised the idea of applying brute force to the settlement of disputes between individuals or nations, and these principles were deeply rooted in the national life. But China was smarting under a sense of injustice over commercial treaties forced upon her, over the aclion of recent years of one strong nation after another taking advantage of China's weakness, demanding special privileges, and taking forcible possession. of territory. When China entered the war she was promised much. President Wilson's famous speech was joyfully received, translated into Chinese, and widely read by all classes, and the expectation was general that all this exploitation of their country would cease and that justice would prevail. In this confident hope a memorandum was drawn up, embodying these and other grievances, and presented at Versailles, where it met with but little response. The decisions of the Peace Conference dashed to the ground China's hopes, and caused a general conviction that Western nations were untrustworthy and false. The award of Shantung to Japan greatly stirred the students and business classes all over the country, and set in motion forces before unknown.- It was true that the Washington Conference accomplished much, but it had not re-established her confidence in. the fairness and justice of the so-called people there was an extraordinary: Christian nations. Now it seemed to him that we could not expect missionary work to make satisfactory progress till we brought our relations with China more into harmony with the Christian principles which we professed. China would not receive us to-day except on the plane of absolute equality, but she would gladly welcome and any help we could give if offered not with selfish aims, but in sympathetic and friendly spirit of ce-operation, A NATIVE CHURCH IN CHINA, Sir Donald Macalister, of Glasgow, has a wide knowledge of the Far East, and takes a great ingerest in all its problems. Speaking at a meeting in support of the China Mission, he strongly urged the establishment and consolidation of an indigenous church of China, and the creation of an indigenous medical profession. Al] their. efforts, however partial, should have these objectives in view. So long as they kept these in sight they were sure that they were in the right way, however slow the progress. The day of sporadic, unco-ordinated, self-cen-fred, guerilla enterprises was over, {bt was only by striving shoulder to shoulder, under @ common impulse, a common plan, and a common leader, the one Head who was over all, that they could hope to win. He was happy to think that their own battalions of the English Presbyterian Mission were strong in this connexion, and that within their means they were ever ready to act loyally upon it. They realized that "'the mission of the missionary in China was to help, select, train, place, and inspire native leaders. And the record of the part they took in the great Shanghai conference, described in their 67th annual report, showed how actively and zealously they are advancing'in the way of ce-operation, ARISING out of a protest register. ed by Sir E. F. Crowe, H.M. Commercial Attache in Japan, an interesting case has just been decided by the Japanese Patent Office. The trade mark to which exception was taken on the part of the British authorities was one containing the words "Royal Royce" as the name of a bicycle, and the grounds for the protest were the similarity between this and that of the well-known car manufacturers, Rolls Royce. It was admitted that Messrs. Rolls Royce do not manufacture bicycles, but it*was pointed out that certain parts of a cycle might possibly be used in a car and that accordingly the public might be misled. The applicant for the patent stated that he. chose the English word "royal" in. the sense of splendid, and the word Royce he obtained from the capital letters of the Japanese expression "Rinkaini Omi Yuhi-sum Cycle" (a cycle pre-eminent in the world of bicycles) and so coined the expression Royal Royce. The Japanese Patents Bureau held that the protest yas well founded and delivered judgement accordingly.
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