Opium and Aborigines Debate at Canton Meeting
A London gathering debated British opium policy and Canton atrocities, condemning the opium trade, urging end to English aggression in Asia, and urging protection for aboriginal peoples in Canada. Speakers linked China violence to imperial greed, urging moral action and a responsible government in overseas affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Hudson’s Bay Company
Hudson’s Bay Territory
Henry Prast
Aborigines Protection Society
Henry Richard
John Bowring
Canton
China
Pacific
General Thompson
House of Commons
Thames
London
Pine
Nations must obey great laws of moral right, speaker warns
The speaker asserts that nations, like individuals, must follow moral laws and rejects libertine state actions. Hearers cheer as the resolution is supported by Malcolm Lewin, former judge in Madras, and Cuamerovzow moves to thank the chairman before proceedings end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Trans-Vaal
India
East India Company
England
China
John Bowring
W. Weirton
Church Missionary Society
Fow Chow
Canton
Tompson
M.P
Malcolm Lewin
Madras
Cuamerovzow
The Cotonian Missionary Society Annual Meeting Notes
The annual meeting at Poultry Chapel, May 1, presided by Kidward Ball MP, reported the twenty second anniversary with Canadian churches contributing 867, missionary work expanding in Canada, Australia, and South Africa. Poore outlined plans for sixteen ministers, aided by 2400 remitted by colonists, free passages from shipowners, and new appointments amid rising receipts of 6067 12s 8d against 6005 18s 4d in expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotonian Missionary Society
Poultry Chapel
Kidward Ball
Thos. James
Canada
Theological Institute
Toronto
Lillie
A. Wickson
Gorham College
Liverpool
Halifax
Poore
Australia
Victoria
New South Wales
South Australia
L'Asmania
Britain
William E. Robinson
Malden
F. W. Cox
Market Weighton
East Riding of
Yorkshire
J. Spicer
Colonias
Missionary Society
George Smith
H. Madgin
Tiverton
D. Arthur
J. Burnet
J. L. Poore
W. Robinson
W. ¥. Thompson
Graham’s
South Africa
Hear
Port Elizabeth
Graham’s Town
Bible Society
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Zimes
the Times
America
France
East
Texas
New Granada
Nicolay
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