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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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“...Literature and Tract
SOCIETIFS WHICH HAVE SOLD BEST DURING THE YEAR.
Editorial Secretary, Christian Literature Society for China; Editor
China Mission Year. Book, 1910-1915.
Rev. W. MacNaughtan (1S87). Development of Evangelistic work
in Manchuria.
Missionary of United Free Church of Scotland.
Rev. J. D. MacRae, M.A., B.D. (1909). Presbyterian Church of
Canada.
Missionary, Presbyterian Church of Canada, in Honan.
Rev. Harry S* Martin* Missionary Work in PekingA Survey.
Missionary of American Board Mission in Peking.
Rev. R* M. Mateer, B*A*, D.D* (1881). Shantung City Evangelism.
Missionary of American Presbj terian Mission, North, Weihsieu, Sung.
Rev* George H. MacNeur '1901). Evangelism in the Mission of the
Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Missionary of Presbyterian Church of New Zealand in Canton.
Rt. Rev* Frank L. Norris, D.D* Society for the Propagat on of
the GospelDiocese of North China.
Bishop in North China.
Rev* A* P. Parker, D.D. (1875). Board of Missions of the Methodist...”
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“...inquired of a resident whether there
were any missionaries there. The reply was given with
deep feeling: The suburbs are simply infested with
them. In the 1915 Year Book it was shown that there
are six cities in China with more than one hundred mission-
aries apiece, Shanghai leading with 358, and ten others
having more than fifty each. These surprising figures show
wliat an incentive and what an opportunity there is for a
redistribution of our forces.
If the number of workers has increased, so also have
their qualifications risen. A large proportion of the present
recruits are college or university men and women, of these a
goodly number are decorated with the golden key of the Phi
A 1...”
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“...CHAPTER II
EFFECT OF THE WAR ON MISSIONS IN CHINA
D. MacGilflvray
The Year Book of 1915 contained no papeY on this sub-
ject, as it was thought to be too early to make it advisable, but
the editor in the preface briefly recorded some facts and im-
pressions. This paper will form an amplification and
corroboration of the forecast. The European war has now
been running its disastrous course for almost two years. Its
material effects are increasingly evident. li Only the long
years will show the far-reaching ramifications of its baleful
influence and the full measure of its legacy of woe. Waste
of money and material, serious as it is, is infinitely out-
weighed by the destruction of the best young life of the
churches. Inevitable gaps for a generation will mark all
kinds of services requiring recruits. The spiritual and
psychological effects of the war cannot fail to be enormous,
both in Western countries and in countries where Western
people are at work. Historians of the next generation...”
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“...Chinese churches as
revealed in the China Mission Year Book
of 1915. The volume of work in all departments seemed to
have suffered no diminution. The Bible Societies reported
a great increase in circulation. The Eddy Campaign in
twelve great cities was successfully carried out after the war
broke out, and also the Fukien Province-Wide Campaign.
The Honan campaign on a smaller scale was carried through
in October, 1915. The China Continuation Committee has
held two annual meetings since the war began and its work
has gone on as usual. In fact a Statistical and a National
Evangelistic Secretary have been added to the staff. The
great campaign in the United States for property and
equipment of the schools and colleges of China, foreshadowed
by Bishop Bashford in the Year Book of 1914, p. 39, has of
course been postponed. But more time is thus given to the
study of co-ordination and efficiency. The Rockefeller
Medical Foundation also has entered China at the very time
when medical work was...”
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“...declared policy. The recent decision
to open the doors more widely for admission of non-
Christian pupils and to formulate a definite policy with
regard to country day schools indicate the present attitude
toward these questions.
The Chinese Church has twenty-eight congregations
organized with elders and deacons. Three congregations
have their own pastors and are entirely self-supporting,
being subject to the control of a Chinese presbytery. The
policy outlined (Ci-iina Mission Year Book, 1914, p. 365)
has met with a cordial reception and sixteen evangelists
have been called. Thus the first steps have been taken
toward a larger measure of financial responsibility and
self-support in the Chinese church.
New Departures
1. Efforts to reach Educated Classes. Following on
many months of preparation, an evangelistic campaign was
undertaken during the autumn. Officials and gentry...”
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“...(American Presbyterian Mission, South) (1867)
P. F. Price
Stations with dates of occupation:Chekiang: Hangchow (1867),
Hashing (1895), Tunghianglisien (1892); Kiangsu: Changchow
(1911), Chinkiang (1883), Haicliow (1908), Hwaianfu (1904),
Kiangyin (1895), Nanking (1905), Shanghai (1902), Soochow
(1892), Suchowfu (1896), Sutsien (1894), Taichow (1908), Tsing-
kiangpu (1887), Yencheng (1911).
Missionaries 137, Employed Chinese Staff 474, Communicants
3,601 (1915).
Field of Work
There are two missions, the Mid-China
Mission in Chekiang and Kiangsu between
Hangchow and the Yangtze River, and the North Kiangsu
Mission between the Yangtze River and the old bed of the
Yrellow River. The Mid-China Mission has eight stations ;
five in cities occupied also by other missions and three in
centres where it alone occupies the field. The North
Kiangsu Mission occupies seven centres, six of which it
occupies alone. The Southern Presbyterian Church, largely
through the Mid-China Mission, is working conjointly...”
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“...MISSIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS
171
1,083 students are known to have been baptized and joined
the churches during the year in addition to the 693 already
reported from the city Associations, or a total of 1,776
young men. almost wholly from the student classes.
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS OF CHINA
Grace L. Coppock
Organized City Associations : Chihli: Tientsin ; Kiangsu:
Shanghai; Kwanqtung : Canton.
Student Associations in fifty-five schools.
Foreign secretaries 24, Chinese secretaries 9, total membership
4,195.
Reinforcements Nothing brings greater encouragement to
an organization than a large reinforcement
of workers; especially is this true in such an organization as
the Young Womens Christian Association, where we are
having, almost daily, to definitely refuse to undertake
different pieces of work because of being under-staffed.
Entering only those centres where mission work is already
well developed, we have not had to wait for openings, as do
other agencies wdiich have entered...”
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“...CHAPTER XIII
EVANGELISM IN COUNTRY DISTRICTS
The purpose of the Year Book is to record experience,
not to advocate theories. The purpose of the articles that
follow in this chapter is to exhibit some of the plans that
are being used in different parts of China to bring the
gospel to a district for which a mission has accepted respon-
sibility. These articles are not full and adequate descrip-
tions of the evangelistic work that is being done in these
various districts, but they give glimpses of how some of the
work is actually undertaken. The articles do not include
all the plans that are successfully employed in evangelistic
work in China to-day, but they are written by men in
widely separated provinces, and they describe a sufficient
variety of plans to be suggestive to workers in all parts of
the country.
I. THE PLAN OF THE MISSION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH OF NEW ZEALAND, IN KWANGTUNG
George H. MacNeur
The Field The PPu^a^on is estimated at 800,000, all
in villages and market...”
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“...trade to learn in a school
would be one which contributes largely to all
three. The more educational it is in its processes, the more
value will it have as a part of the curriculum. In the
degree to which it has social value, will it benefit the com-
munity; and it will be profitable financially in accordance
with its economic merits. Candy-making may be profitable
on the economic side, but its educational value is very slight
*Eor list of orphanages with kinds of work done in each see
China Mission Year Book 1910, pp. 385,387....”
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“...special points of view on many
subjects relating to the Chinese Church.
The China
Mission
Year Book
A good deal of work was done by the
China Continuation Committee in preparing
the China Mission Year Book for 1915.
The statistics and maps, together with the Missionary
Directory, were prepared in the offices of the Continuation
Committee. More than one-fourtli of the other material
of the Book was furnished by the Committee. During
the year, a communication was received from the Acting
General Secretary of the Christian Literature Society, Rev.
W. Hopkyn Rees, D.D., recognizing the great help the China
Continuation Committee had already been to the Christian
Literature Society, in the preparation of the Year Book
for 1915, and seeking some more definite scheme of co-
operation in the future. On January 12 th a plan of
co-operation, proposed by the Christian Literature Society,
was approved by the Executive of the China Continuation
Committee in a circular letter. The principal terms were
as...”
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“...purpose and the nature
and scope of a general missionary survey of China, and the best way
of securing the same.
3. That the committee keep in touch with the committee on
Survey and Occupation of the Edinburgh Continuation Committee
and with similar committees on the mission field, especially the
Committee on Survey of the National Missionary Council in India.
4. That the Executive Committee make provision in this years
budget for additional clerical assistance without which the 'China
Continuation Committee staff will not be able to handle the additional
work involved in the above recommendations.
This special committee is engaged in Study-
Business and jng problems which can hardly be studied
Efficiency under other agencies to advantage, The
report of the committee as presented to the
Annual Meeting of 1915 was widely circulated in pamphlet
form, as well as being reproduced in full in last years
China Mission Year Book and bids fair to become a classic
in its field. The following r...”
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“...words being divided into the time
categories of and JK (even and deflected). This is frequently
ignored by foreigners in the translation of hymns, though never by
intelligent Chinese in the original composition of them. Generally
speaking, a hymn falls short of standard excellence, if this essential
be overlooked.
Again, Chinese poetry, no less than Western, has its regularly
recurring caesural pauses, inattention to which mars the symmetry
of otherwise admirable hymn translation.
*See China Mission Year Book 1915. pp. 333-6....”
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“...the past year in China,
making a careful study of certain aspects of mission
education. Some of the results of this study are to be found
in Chapter XXII of this Year Book. While here Dr. Sailer
was invited to join the committee appointed by the East
China Educational Association, to make a survey of the
mission middle schools in this section of China, and he
presented the report* of this committee at the Annual
Meeting of the Association.
The importance of the matter is recognized in the first
of the resolutions quotedf as passed by the Continuation
Committee at the instance of the chairman of the China
Christian Educational Association. Such a knowledge of
the situation as a survey of the present condition of Chris-
tian educational work in China will provide, is necessary
before any comprehensive co-ordination of forces can be
seriously undertaken. It is hoped that while Dr. Gamewell
is in the United States he willbe able to make arrangements
for the commission to come to China.
The ...”
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“...statisticians are all at sea.
It is the hope of the China Continuation
Committee through its statistical department
to bring together such facts regarding mis-
sionary work in China as are capable of statistical enumera-
tion; to assist the local and denominational statisticians in
attaining a reasonable degree of uniformity in their
records; to present such of these returns as may be of the
most value in determining mission policy, or in giving
encouragement and suggestion, and in preparing for those
who may have occasion to use them such studies of material
in hand as will enable them to employ most wisely the
resources at command. In collaboration with the China
Christian Educational and China Medical Missionary
Associations these studies will range over the whole field of
missionary endeavour. During the past year it has been
necessary to gain local experience, study the schedules for
securing information, correspond with statistical and mission
A 67...”
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“...evangelistic secretary,
396; travel of secretaries, 397;
finances, 397; annual meet-
ing, 398-400; constitution of,
505-8.
China Inland Mission and Associate
Missions, Review of the year's
work, 144-lc 3.
China Medical Board of the Rocke-
feller Foundation, 7, 259-260,
325, 328, 393, 470; its relation
to mission work, 260; grants to
Yale Medical School and Shan-
tung Christian University, 312-
313; the schools in Peking and
Shanghai, 312; Mission Medical
Schools, 313; report of resident
director, 320-323; history of
formation of China Medical
Board, 320; members, 320; visit
of commission from America,
321; plans for a medical school
in Shanghai, 322; grants to
mission schools and hospitals,
322 323; fellowship, 323; co-
operation 323.
China Medical Missionary Associa-
tion, 328-330; 331, 392; con-
stitution of, 509-511.
China Mission Year Book, 378-
379.
China Sunday School Union, 303-
308; organization and finance,
303-4; adult Bible class de-
partment, 304-5.
Chinese Church, 7, 9...”
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