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“...CHINA MISSION
YEAR BOOK
1916...”
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“...THE
CHINA MISSION
YEAR BOOK
1916
(SEVENTH ANNUAL ISSUE)
Edited By
THE CHINA CONTINUATION COMMITTEE
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
AN EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Rev, D, MacGillivray, D.D., Chairman.
Rev. C. Y. Cheng
Rev. F. D. Gamewell, Ph.D., LL.D.
D. E. Hoste, Esq.
Rev. E. C. Lobenstine
Rev. J. Walter Lowrie, D.D.
Rev. G. F. Mosher
Rev. Frank Rawlinson
Rev. W. Hopkyn Rees, D.D.
Rt. Rev. L. H, Roots, D.D.
Rev. Otto Schultze
Rev. Arthur H. Smith, D.D.
EDITOR
E. C. LOBENSTINE
Foreign Secretary, China Continuation Committee
SHANGHAI
THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY FOR CHINA
1916...”
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“...PREFACE
THE Missionary body in China and students of missions abroad
are under a debt of gratitude to the Christian Literature
Society for the annual publication since 1910, of editions of the
China Mission Year Book. That Society freely offered its services
for this purpose at a time when there was no other organ in
existence to bring out such a book.
Since one of the main functions of the China Continuation
Committee is to study the development of the Christian Move-
ment in China, the Christian Literature Society, in January of
this year, requested it to assume full editorial responsibility for the
series in the future, and the Committee agreed to do so. The
Christian Literature Society continues to act as the publisher and
in the event of the China Continuation Committee ceasing at any
future date to edit the book, all right in the serieswill revert to
the publisher.
The responsibility for the general character of the book rests
with the Editor and with the Editorial Committee....”
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“...reports of the Special Committees of
the China Continuation Committee are given than last year, as all
these reports are printed in full in the Proceedings of the Fourth
Annual Meeting of the Committee and have been widely circulated
amongst missionaries in China, and the Secretaries of the Mission-
ary Societies in Europe and America.*
The policy of previous issues has been followed in not attempt-
ing to report on the w7ork of the missions of the Roman Catholic
and Greek Churches, beyond merely giving the statistics of the
work of the Roman Catholic Missions, which are available in
printed form. Those who desire fuller information regarding the
present work of the Roman Catholic Church in China are referred
to a book which has recently been published in French by the
Imprimerie des Lazaristes in Peking. The title of the book is
Le Christi anisine de Chine et du Japon and is the first of a series of
Roman Catholic Church Year Books to be published in China.
Several changes have been made in...”
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“...figures, the vitality of the work and
healthfulness of its growth. No Church or Society is likely to
understand how its own work is developing, nor to adopt and
follow, during a period of years, a wise and consistent policy, with-
out a careful study of the numerical growth of its several depart-
ments. The figures given at the back of the book have been
kindly furnished by the missions in China. If studied along with
the histories of these societies the statistics and charts will raise
many questions, the correct answers to which are of the utmost
importance to the progress of the Kingdom of God in China.
The Editor desires to express his thanks to all those who have
assisted in making this book possible. The response to requests to
supply articles was so cordial and general as to make it evident
that the value of such a yearly review of the work is being re-
cognized by an increasingly large number of people. His special
thanks are due to the writers of the articles which appear in Part...”
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“...viii
CONTENTS
Chapter Page
Friends Foreign Mission Association...... R. J. Davidson 156
Young Mens Christian Associations of China-..C. W. Harvey 160
YoungWomensChristianAssociations of China ...G.L.Coppock 171
PART IIL EVANGELISM
XII. Resolutions and Findings of Committees, Con-
ferences and Councils
i. Extracts from the Report of the Special Committee on a
Forward Evangelistic Campaign (China Continuation
Committee) ...................................... 176
ii. Report on Evangelism adopted by the East Asia Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church................ 185
iii. Extracts from the Report of the Evangelistic Committee of
the China Council of the American Presbyterian
Mission, (North)........................ 187
XIII. Evangelism in Country Districts
i. The Plan of the Mission of the Presbyterian Church of
New Zealand, in Kwangtung .*. George H. MacNeur 192
ii. The Plan of the Kochow Station of the American Pres-
byterian Mission, Kwangtung....Charles E. Patton...”
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“...XIX. The Comparative Law School of China
Charles W. Rankin
XX. Manual and Industrial Education in Mission
Schools in China.................. Wm. H. Gleysleen
XXI. Trade School of the Young Mens Christian
Association, Peking .............Dwight W. Edwards
XXII. Extracts from the Report of the Committee
Appointed by the East China Educational
Association to Investigate Conditions in
Middle Schools ....................................
XXIII. Boys Education in Fukien..........Lewis Hodous
XXIV. The China Sunday School Union and its Re-
lation to the Chinese Churches and the
Missionary............................E. G. Tewksbury
XXV. The Bible School Connected with the Shang-
hai Young Mens Christian Association
J. H. Geldart
PART V- MEDICAL AND PHILANTHROPIC WORK
XXVI. A Review of Medical Missionary Work During
the Past Year .........................Robert C. Beebe
XXVII. The National Medical Association of China
Way Sung New
XXVIII. The China Medical Board of the Rockefeller
Foundation...”
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Third Year of the China Continuation Com-
mittee .............................L. H. Roots
Union Movements Amongst Methodists in
China ..............................W. S. Lewis
A Years Progress in the Training of Mis-
sionaries ......................Frank Rawlinson
Schools for Missionaries Children
Chefoo Schools................................
Shanghai American School...........J. W. Paxton
North China American School...................
The Nanking Foreign School ...................
School for Children of Missionaries at Chengtu .
Other Schools.................................
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418
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XLI. Student Volunteer Movement for the Ministry
VV. B. Pettus
XLII. United Society of Christian Endeavor For
China...................................G. F. Fitch
XLIII. Training Schools for Missionaries
i. The University of Nanking Department of Mis-
sionary Training................W. B. Pettus
ii. The North China Union Language School...........”
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“...CONTENTS
XI
Chapter Page
XLVII. Other Movements for Social Betterment
i. Womens Christian Temperence Union of China
Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich 488
ii. Film Censoring for China..............G. H. Cole 492
iii. Boy Scouts Association of China....G. S. F. Kemp 494
PART IX. OBITUARIES C. L. Boynton 496
PART X. APPENDICES 500
APPENDICES
A. Recent Treaties Between China and Japan
B. The Demand of the Japanese Government for the
Right of Propagating Buddhism in China and
Chinas Reply....................... 505
C. Constitutions and Agreements of Interdenomina-
tional Bodies
i. Constitution of the China Continuation Committee. 506
ii. Constitution of the China Christian Educational Asso-
ciation ....................................... 508
iii. Constitution of the China Medical Missionary Association 509
iv. The Establishment and Canon of the Board of Missions
of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui ............... 511
D. Constitutions of Recently Organized union Insti-
tutions
i. Mo...”
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“...The Tientsin Christian Union.
Foreign Secretary of Tientsin Christian Union.
Rev. C* Y. Cheng. A Brief Survey of Church Activities as seen in
Christian Periodicals; Fin dings Regarding Chinese Evange-
listic Literature.
Chinese Secretary, China Continuation Committee.
Miss Alice Clark (1909). Training of Men and Women Nursis in
China.
Secretary, The Nurses Association of China.
Rev. George A. Clayton (1895). The Wesleyan Methodist Mis-
sionary Society.
Missionary of Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in Hanyang,
Hupeh. Honorary Secretary, Religious Tract Society of North
and Central China.
G. H. Cole, M.Sc. (1903). Film Censoring for China.
Executive Secretary, Lecture Department, National Committee
Young Mens Christian Associations of China....”
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“...Present Status of Government
Education in China.
Head of English Translation Department, Commercial Press, Ltd.,
Shanghai; member of Executive Committee, The China Christian
Educational Association.
Rev.G. F. Fitch, D.D. (1870). United Society of Christian En-
deavor for China.
President, United Society of Christian Endeavor for China.
Rev. Frank Garrett (1S93). Foreign Christian Missionary Society.
Missionary of Foreign Christian Missionary Society, Professor in
Union Theological Seminary, Nanking.
Rev. F. D. Gamewell, M A., Ph.D., L.L.D., (1881), The Work of
the China Christian Educational Association,
General Secretary, China Christian Educational Association.
J. H. Geldart, Fsq. (1911). The Bible School connected with the
Shanghai Young Mens Christian Association.
Secretary, Religious Work Department, Shanghai Young Mens
Christian Association.
Rev. Wm, H. Gleysteen (1905). Manual and Industrial Education
in Mission Schools in China.
Missionary of American Presbyterian Mission...”
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“...Society, Changsha, Hunan.
Rt. Rev. F. R. Graves, D.D. (1881) Domestic and Foreign Mission-
ary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Bishop of Shanghai.
Roger S. Greene, Esq. China Medical Board of the Rockefeller
Foundation.
Resident Director in China, China Medical Board.
Charles W. Harvey, Fsq. (1902). Young Mens Christian Associa-
tions of China.
Associate General Secretary, National Committee Young Mens
Christian Associations of China.
Rev. Lewis Hodous, B.D. (1901). American Board of Commission-
ers for Foreign Missions; Boys Education in Fukien.
Missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, Professor in Union Theological School, Foochow.
H. S. Houghton, M.D. Council on Public Health of the China
Medical Missionary Association.
Dean, Harvard Medical School of China, Shanghai.
Rev. S. C. Huang, Missionary Work of the Chung Hua Sheng
Kung Hui.
First General Secretary, Missionary Society of the Chung Hua Sheng
Kung Hui.
E. H. Hume, M.D. (1905)...”
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“...Association of China.
Chief Scout Master Boy Scouts Association of China. Headmaster
Public School for Chinese, Shanghai.
D. H. Kulp II (1913). A survey of Industrial Conditions in the
Cotton Mills of Shanghai.
Professor in Shanghai Baptist College.
Rev* Bishop W. S* Lewis, LL.D. (1909). Union Movements among
Methodists tn China.
Bishop of Methodist Episcopal Mission in China, Foochow.
Rev* W. Leuschner (1888), Berlin Missionary Society.
Missionary of Berlin Missionary Society in Shiuchow, Kwangtung.
W. W. Lockwood, Pb.B* (1903). The Sunday Service League; The
Present Status of Churches in Shanghai.
General Secretary Young Mens Christian Association, Shanghai,
President Shanghai Missionary Association.
Rev* J. Walter Lowrie, D.D. (1883). Board of Foreign Missions of
the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.
Chairman of the China Council of the American Presbyterian Mis-
sion, North.
Rev* Donald MacGilllvray, M.A., D.D* (1888). Effect of the War on
Missions in China; Publications...”
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“...Department National Committee
Young Mens Christian Associations of China, Director-elect of
the North China Union Language School. .
Rev* F. L* Hawks Pott, D.D. (1886). Missionary Educational Work.
Chairman of the China Christian Educational Association; President
St. Johns University, Shanghai.
F. Lionel Pratt, Esq* Constitutional Development, 1915.
Journalist, Special Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian.
Rev* P. F* Price, D*D. (1888). Executive Committee of Foreign
Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.
Missionary of the American Presbyterian Mission, South ; Professor
in Nanking Theological Seminary.
Rev. J. T* Proctor, D.D. (1897). American Baptist Foreign Mission
Society; The Baptist Survey in Chekiang.
Secretary, East China Mission, American Baptist Foreign Mission-
ary Society.
Charles W. Rankin, Esq* (1912). The Comparative Law School of
China.
Dean of the Comparative Law School of China, Shanghai.
Rev. Frank Rawlinson (1902). A Years Progress in the...”
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“...CONTRIBUTORS
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Rt* Rev. Logan H* Roots, D* D* (1896). Third Year of the China
Continuation Committee.
Chairman of the China Continuation Committee.
Rev* O. M. Sama (1892). Norwegian Lutheran Christian Mission-
ary Association.
Missionary of American Lutheran Mission, Laohokow, Hupeh.
Rev* Otto Schulke (1881). Basel Missionary Society.
Missionary of Basel Missionary Society, Engaged in Bible Transla-
tion Work.
Rev* Arthur H* Smith, D. D. (1872) Two Decades of Changes in
China.
Missionary-at-large, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions; American Chairman, Clrna Centenary Missionary
Conference, 1907.
James Stark, Esq* (1889). China Inland Mission and Associate
Missions.
Secretary of China CounciChina Inland Mission.
Rev. W. E. Taylor, Ph. D* (1905). Evangelistic Movements
amongst Students in China.
Religious Work Secretary, National Committee, Young Mens Christian
Associations of China. Formerly Acting-Secretary, Special
Committee on a Forward Evangelistic Movement...”
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“...PART I
GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR
CHAPTER I
TWO DECADES OF CHANGES IN CHINA
A* H. Smith
It is a gracious provision of Nature that we are able to
adapt ourselves so readily to changing circumstances that
after a greater or less interval we frequently find-it hard to
visualize the former status.
The editor of the Year Book wishes a brief presentation
of the altered conditions (other than political) of the past
two decades or more, in China, especially from the point of
view of a missionary. It is in response to this request that
the following article has been prepared.
£ nzr. First, then, we are struck by the great
sionaryBody increase in the size or the missionary body.
At the Missionary Conference of 1890 the
statistics of the preceding year showed that in all there were
1,296 missionaries. In 1913 the number had grown to 5,565,
or 4.3 times as many as before. During the past three years
the increase appears to have been steady. It is said that a
visitor to Shanghai once inquired...”
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“...boards, at least, not
more than one out of twenty-five applicants reaches the
field. Of these many have been active in the Young Mens
Christian Associations or Young Womens Christian
Associations of their institutions. Many have come from
Student Volunteer Bands, and have studiedperhaps have
taughtsome of the many mission study textbooks now so
widely used. Some have specialized in sociological or other
lines. Among them the degree of Ph.D. is too common to
attract special notice.
Upon reaching China these capable, earnest, and eager
young people are more and more gathered in language
schools, which are increasing in size and importance and
meeting an evident demand. The range of study and the
rapidity of acquirement by the students greatly out-distance
anything possible under the old system, unless with
exceptional teachers. The opportunity for acquaintance
with a wide circle of workers from other missions and other
fields will come to be valued more and more as years
elapse.
Smatf Another...”
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“...sometimes unstable steam-
launch.
The remoter mission stations in China are still remote,
and for long will be so; yet one after another they will be
overtaken by the development of railways, till China has a
network of them north, south, east, and west, together with
many diagonals. Their economic effects upon the nation
are, and in the future are yet more to be, immeasurable.
This is the true Money-Shaking Tree of Chinese legend.
From the ports jinrikshas have spread to the interior cities,
and one may now bump more or less joyfully over the
stones of such capitals as Tsinan, Paotingfu, Taiyiianfu,
Kaifengfu, Wuchang, Changsha, Hangchow, and even
Foochow, and also in many market-towns as well. In the
larger places the rubber-tired vehicles (euphemistically
termed glue-skin chiao p'i) are a great improvement
on their rattling predecessors. Electric trams have been
introduced into Shanghai since 1907, and also into Tientsin.
In the former city the confident prophecies of riots were not...”
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“...to climb upon lofty
pedestals to be seen of mena new enterprise in China.
The species of locust tree introduced by the Germans at
Tsingtau, has made that port a forestry exhibit. The
energetic activities in similar lines of the University of Nan-
king, has attracted the attention and won the favour of the
Central Government, as well as that of the provinces. That
the ancient Spring Festival should be now also celebrated as
an Arbor Day by official command, shows (in case Ihe
order is obeyed) what great possibilities lie just before China.
A reduction in telegraphic rates throughout China, is
a welcome sign of progress. So is the general and growing
use of the telephone, which even to the Chinese has become
indispensable. The Chinese postal system which in 1914
handled more than 692 million articles (as compared wTith
113 million in 1906) is of increasing importance in the
political, commercial, and social life of China, and its future
seems certain to be even greater in proportion....”
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“...TWO DECADES OF CHANGES IN CHINA
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Currency Of currency reform we see no signs, for the
Chinese Government still sits shivering on
the brink, and fears to launch away, although it is now
fourteen years since in the British treaty of 1902 this
advance step was definitely promised. We are therefore
obliged to content ourselves with the finely engraved notes of
the variousGovernment Banks, displaying busts of wise old
Chinese, vistas of water, city, pagoda, railway, steamer, city-
wall, and ornamental portal, but each bill bearing a vicious
little word in English and in Chinese which is the name of
the town, city, or province where this token of value is ex-
pected to circulate. This makes each bill an article of
commerce, and is useful to perpetuate exchange, by which
means immense sums are extracted from everybody recipro-
cally, the bankers enriching themselves by the process of
taking dollars out of one bag and putting them into
another!
Newspapers
One of the most far-reaching and...”
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