Jan. 17.
The real interest in Dr, Norwood's stimulating addi various audiences, dui brief visit to Shanghai, 80 much in their actual contribution to study of present-day problems—although that, of Course, has been most valuablo—but rather in the fact that tay give a point of view which has, for fourteen years, captured the large and ever-changing con-/gregations who have listened the preacher's eloquence at the City Temple, Thereby the British exile here can gauge the trend of thought in his or her own country. Dr. Norwood, like is, predecessors, is not content with the allusive note which some religious teachers adopt in the pulpit. He deals directly and tinashamedly with concrete Political issues in recognition of the plain fact that, if religion is to justify itself to the modern world, it must help in fashioning the world's plans for mankind's salvation. Yet no one political school of thought can claim Dr. Norwood for its own. It was characteristic of him' that, on Monday evening, while displaying a profound faith in British ideals, he was able to recognise ity that national from one great nation for another.
The British Minister emphasised his reliance on the personal contact for the solution of international problems, in the sense that thereby focus was secured for examination of those problems. Mr, Quo Tai-chi was Present and thus, for the first time, the Chinese Minfster of the day was the guest at the annual meeting of the China Association. That event, coupled with Sir Alexander's "indication of the ne cepted basis of to-day's considerably affected cessation of postal communic tion with the Three Eastern Provinces and also Jehol, the disturbed condition of Szech and Shantung, communist activi. fies in Kiangsi, drought and bandits in Shansi and the advance of invading forces into the region around Pek Despite all this, domestic remit tances only dropped from $188,000,000 to $170,000,000 and remittance fees from $3,699,000 to $3,058,000 decreases of 10 and 6 per cent, respectively. How which it is holding its own, despite the troubles through which the country is still passing, is perhaps the best indication "of its healthy constitution. But in view of the satisfactory results obtained thus far—especially havi gard to the promise. for the future which may be inferred from them—it seems desirable that the Government at as early a moment as possible should consider the advisability of protecting the Directorate from the vicissitudes of political changes.
Presents the underlying thought of other comment. Yet it should not be forgotten that President Roosevelt's advisers have been well warned of the danger of the slippery slope of controlled inflation. They have shown themselves by no means unskilful in averting the neriis lurking i their path. Their principal asset, apart from the splendid morale now restored by the President's personality, to which Mr. 8. P. B. Mais has' just paid special tribute, is in the general reliance of the world on American powers of recovery. It! diverse as those in Japan, Germany, Russia and the United States of America were helping to worry out the solution of the baffling enigma now confronting a frightened civilisation to-day. In strict loyalty te the international principle of peace-construction, Dr. Norwoud displayed none of that inverted nationalism which, to prove its cosmopolitan impartiality, mistakenly asserts a confirmed "is-trust of its own people, He neither maintained the divine lit of Great Britain to lay the Me to others por
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