Intolerable Conditions Shown up by Bishop Roots: Man's Daty to Man In accordance with the suggestion lof the Industrial Commission of the National Christian Council that the lchurehes in China should follow the feustom widely observed in England and take as a sermon theme on the first Sunday, of May, following "Labour Day," "The Aprtication of Christian Principles 10 Industry," the Rt. Reverend L. 31. Roots, Db, shop of Hankow, was asked to speak on this subject on Sunday morning in Holy Trinity Cathedral. Bishop Roots is also one of the four secretaries of the National Chris Council of China.
In his address Bishop Roots out-ined the Christian principles involve ed in industry, their application ferent industries and to domestic, fice and publi service. The ideal fof the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man involve recognition of the value of every human being, and a realization that they fare not bits of machinery to be exploited.
In. applying these principles to great industry the National Christ Jun Conference in its meeting in Shanghai two years ago formulated the following demands: That no children under 12. should be.cin-ployed in power-driven industries; that one day's rest in. seven should be given to workers; that hours of Inbour should not be over-strenuous; that sanitary demands. should be met, and that dangerous machinery should be safeguarded.—Modern machinery, the speaker' continued, was often installed without any guards and in consequence shocking feeidents bad occurred, especially the ease of little children employ ed at night, who became sleepy and fell into the machines, one child being Titerally scalped Bishop Roots stated that in the Jeotton weaving industry in Hankow tone weaving thed is known model because in it the women work only from 445° am, 8 pam, whereas the usual hours are from. 4.15 am. to 9pm. In cotton spinning around Shanghai two. shifts per. day are generally employed, each group working 12 hours. In Wuchang, he added, there is a mill where there fare approximately 20,000 employees, men, women und children, and of these some vix to eight thousand re children. mort of them under 12 yours of ge.
These conditions are not due to pidity or brutality of em-foreign or Chinese, the speaker held, but are partly caused by ignorance of actual conditions Jand partly by the necessity of meet ing competition. No employer can hhandicay himself by adopting men sures which will give his competitors an unfair advantage over him, find in the world family no man can do right unless others will age to act rightly us well In. the application of Christ's principles to domestic service, the over-worked chauffeurs, the clerks, or public servants with Tong how, the typist who is never shown th principles of the work he is doing, but is simply regarded as a machin to turn out. so much copy, the under paid riesha-runner or the bullied domestic, the speaker brought. hon to all his. hearers their personal responsibility. for exemplifying: these ideals of brotherhood and for showing Labour that the church is, [sympathetic to its movement, AN appreciation of "Pereira"? appears in the "Empire Review" from the pen of Lady: Hosie. She writes that debonair was the word that that best described Pereira, He was tall and dark and th but, despite his lean looks, he was a hearty man, always good-hum-ured, and with the faculty of find. ing every one he met worth meet ing. He was badly wounded during the war. Althbugh he was for some tine on the Staff, he spent much more of his time in the front trenches than was strictly needful. He loved the welcome he received in the mud there from his old China Jintances. His was a way and he had the power of not only with men of his own race but with those of very different.
He had a habit of chiefs and Chinese magistrates that was Elizabethan its jollity. English people in China had a great pride in Pereira.
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