【電子書】STRONG TO SAVE:Maritime Mission in Hong Kong from Whampoa Reach to the Mariners’ Club
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- 作者: Stephen DAVIES 追蹤
- 出版社: 城市大學 追蹤 ? 追蹤出版社後,您會在第一時間收到出版社新書通知。
- 出版日:2017/07/01
內容簡介
Tracing its origins back to 1822 in Whampoa, the Mariners’ Club in Hong Kong was established to meet a specific need for an Anglo-Chinese society defined by that most dubious of activities, seafaring. Its creation was anything but straightforward, and in this can be seen the mutable and often tortuous relations between the various religious bodies, the local population, the transient sailors, the emerging captains of industry, and the growing regulatory reach of the colonial government. The club evolved through many embodiments and witnessed the growth of Hong Kong from a collection of mat-sheds on the foreshore, through colony to its current status. Throughout its turbulent past it has been occasionally marginalized but has always served as an important base for the key actors in the main commercial activity in Hong Kong: seafarers.
This is a history of one of the most enduring institutions of Hong Kong, and the first of its kind. Using the Club’s own records as well as a wide range of sources both from within Hong Kong and from the seafaring world at large, this is a comprehensive account of the life of the Missions, the tenancy of the different chaplains, managers, and stewards, the changes in seafaring practices and shipping, and the transformation of Hong Kong itself.
目錄
Part I: Making a Departure
1 From Whampoa to Hong Kong
2 The View from the Harbour Master’s Office
3 A Snug Harbour in West Point
Part II: Church and Mission
4 A Seamen’s Church
5 Uneasy Berth and the Demon Drink
6 Parting Brass Rags
7 Meanwhile Down on the Waterfront
8 Separate Moorings
9 Headwinds and Adverse Currents
10 One Ship, but Still Two Cap Tallies
11 An Interesting Launching on the Wan Chai Waterfront
12 Threatening Times
Part III: War and Recovery
13 Destruction and Occupation
14 Recovery and the Dawning of a New World
Part IV: Adapting to a New World
15 The New World Dawns
16 Cross-Currents
17 Sea Changes
18 Passage Planning Part V: Definitive Moves
19 The Mariners’ Club: Laying the Foundations
20 Who is Captain?
21 The Mariners’ Club: Ironing Out the Wrinkles
22 Many Shepherds, One Flock
23 On Course for the Future Epilogue
序/導讀
It is a great pleasure to commend Strong to Save, a history of the first 150 years or so of the workings and deliberations of first the Sailors Home, with the addition in 1884, of the Missions to Seamen. These two organizations joined to form what was to become the Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen (the Mission), the sole operator of the home away from home for the sailors and seamen who come to Hong Kong. Stephen Davies has been able to pull together a myriad of sources to describe in great detail the many characters who brought both organizations into being in Hong Kong.
Much has changed in the way we support the pastoral, spiritual, and physical needs of seafarers whose ships call at the terminals and anchorages of Hong Kong harbour. However, I believe we can learn a lot from the history of any organization, in particular how it has responded to the changing patterns of life in Hong Kong both at sea and ashore. What seems to stand out is that on many occasions the Mission was just a bit behind the curve (I will let the reader uncover these facts for themselves without giving away too much of the story) but in spite of this the Mission has continued to survive and to work amongst seafarers today, providing a pastoral and spiritual home away from home in Tsim Sha Tsui and Kwai Chung.
It is however, refreshing to understand that the chaplains and staff of the organization have one thing in common throughout: that is the need to constantly keep up with the changing face of the shipping industry. Changes from sail to steam, from general cargo to container, from mid-stream to terminal have all affected the way in which the Mission has operated. Whether ship visiting by launch or on land, this history shows the remarkable perseverance of Mission chaplains and staff to accommodate whatever was thrown at them. Problems of location (as the Hong Kong shoreline developed), along with limited finances, war, dealings with the Royal Navy, the proximity of the red light district, and pressure from expected and unexpected competition would have been a heavy burden for many of the chaplains. Alongside these challenges were the constant health issues of malaria and a far from fit water supply that caused many a chaplain to exit Hong Kong earlier than expected.
In part, this endurance has only been possible with the help of the many who served on the Mission’s General Council, who as volunteers have given up much time and resources to serve the needs of seafarers who found themselves in Hong Kong. Particular thanks through the course of time must be extended to many of the prominent members of the Hong Kong business community whose donations made the first Sailors Home possible.
Standing out above the crowd are Messrs Jardine Matheson who have been connected with the Mission almost from day one and who were instrumental by means of the first significant donation in enabling the construction of the first Sailors Home. Much praise should also go to the many and sometimes extraordinary chaplains who served in Hong Kong, often to the detriment of health and well-being.
One might wonder what the early chaplains who made the long sea journey from the United Kingdom made of the early Mission in Hong Kong. Many of the first Mission chaplains would have come from the Christian Socialist school of thought with a definite temperance background, seeking to save the wayward seafarer from the demon drink, determined to meet him at the place of work and bring some of the good news of the Gospel to his downtrodden and torrid life. In many cases they would have been much more at home with their fellow British seafarers and to a greater extent would have seen their calling to that nationality alone.
For the chaplains arriving before World War II there was of course the unexpected hardship of internment; life under the Japanese brought much pain and suffe
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