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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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“...elsew'here are given here again. This has been done only
where it was thought that they would help furnish a correct
understanding of the.years wTork, or where they are not readily
accessible elsewhere. Fewer 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 ...”
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“...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 196
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“...CONTENTS
IX
Chapter
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...”
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“...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..........
PART VIIL MISCELLANEOUS
XLIV. Provincial Surveys
i. The Baptist Survey in Chekiang......J. T. Proctor
ii. Survey of the North Kiangsu Mission of the Ameri-
can Presbyterian Mission, South
D. W. Richardson, J. B. Woods, 0. V. Armstrong
XLV. City Surveys
i. Present Status of Churches in Shanghai
W. W. Lockwood
ii. A Study of the Communicant Membership of Hang-
chow ...........................E. E. Barnett
iii. Missionary Work in PekingA Survey
Harry S. Martin
XLVI. Social and Industrial Conditions
i. A Survey of Industrial Conditions in the Cotton
Mills of Shanghai...............D. H. Kulp
ii. Social and Industrial Conditions in Chengtu. Ex-...”
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“...Insti-
tutions
i. Modification of the Charter Granted by the Board
Regents of the State of Ne w York to Peking Univer-
sity, making it a Union University.. 516
ii. Constitution of Ginling College, Nanking ....... 521
E. Other Constitutions and Agreements
i. Charter and Organization of the Rockefeller Foundat ion 524
ii. Constitution of the National Medical Association of
China.......................................... 526
iii. The Draft of the Agreement between the Hunan Gentry
and Yale Mission for Co-operation in Medical School
and Hospital Work.......;........... 52S
F. Roman Catholic Missions in China ................ 531
PART XI. STATISTICS C. L. Boynton 533
INDEX
CHARTS (in pocket)...”
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“...CONTRIBUTORS
(The figure in parenthesis represents the date of first arrival in China)
Jolean Arnold, Esq* Economic and Commercial Conditions in china
during 1915.
Commercial Attache, American Legation, Peking.
Rev* O. V* Armstrong (1908). A Survey of the North Kiangsu Mis-
sion of the American Presbyterian Mission, South (Joint
Author).
Missionary of Southern Presbyterian Mission in Suchowfu, Kiangsu.
Rt. Rev* W. Banister, D.D. (1880). Church Missionary Society.
Anglican Bishop in Bunan.
E* E* Barnett, M.A. (1910). A Study of the Communicant Member-
ship of Hangchow.
General Secretary, Hangchow Young Mens Christian Association.
Rev* Robert C. Beebe, M.D. (1884). A Review of Medical Missionary
Work During the Past Year.
Executive Secretary, China Medical Missionary Association.
T. D* Begg, Esq* (3888). The Bible Societiis.
Acting Agent, British and Foreign Bible Society.
Rev* C. L* Eoyrton (39C6). Obituaries ; Statistics.
Statistical Secretary, China Continuation Committee...”
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“...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, North, in charge of
Boys School, Peking.
Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich (1865). Womans Christian Temperance
Union of China.
General Secretary, Womans Christian Temperance Union of China....”
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“...xiv
CONTRIBUTORS
Rev. J. A. O. Gottefaerg (1896). Norwegian Missionary Society.
Missionary of Norwegian Missionary 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...”
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“...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
Episcopal Church, South.
Editor of Publications, Methodist Episcopal Mission, South,
Shanghai....”
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“...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 Training
of Missionaries on the Field.
Chairman of the Special Committee on the Training of Missionaries
of the China Continuation Committee (1915-16).
Rev. W* Hopkyn Rees, D.D* (1883). London Missionary Society;
Present Day Problems in the Production and Distribution
of Christian Literature.
Missionary of the London Missionary Society; General Secretary,
Christian Literature Society of China, 1915
Rev. Donald W. Richardson (1910). The Survey of the North
Kiangsu Mission of the American Presbyterian Mission,
South. (Joint Author).
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“...Union and
its Relation to the Chinese Churches and the Missionary.
General Secretary, The China Sunday School Union.
Rev. F* B. Turner (1887). United Meti-iodist Church Mission.
Missionary of United Methodist Church Mission, in Tientsin, Chi.
Rev* G. M* Wales (1890). Presbyterian Church of England.
Missionary of Presbyterian Church of England in Amoy, Fukien.
Rev* A* L. Warnshuis (1900). Plans of Some Other Missions: A
Symposium; Part III', Evangelism (sub-editor).
National Evangelistic Secretary, China Continuation Committee.
Way Sung New, B*A*, M* D. The National Medical Association of
China.
English Secretary, National Medical Association of China.
Rev. James B* Woods (189-1). A Survey of the North Kiangsu
Mission of the American Presbyterian Mission, South. (Joint
Author).
Missionary of American Presbyterian Mission in Tsingkiangpu,
Kiangsu....”
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“...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 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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“...2
GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR
Beta Kappa society (implying high rank in scholarship).
The missionary has often, perhaps commonly, enjoyed a
selective preparation. Under some 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...”
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“...be.
Shanghai is much less than forty-eight hours distant from
Peking. On the Upper Yangtze steam is now at last reducing
by some weeks the long voyage to Chungking. This is the
precursor of the coming rail line to Chengtu, the far away
capital of Szechwan, a line still, however, on the dim horizon.
The effacement of the houseboat has been in part accom-
plished, yet one may still ride in it with comfort, tugged
along by the puffy, wheezing, and 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...”
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“...permanent. In China
it was the efficient cause of the sectional conferences held
early in 1913 in six important centres, and folipwing them
the National Conference in Shanghai. The comprehensive
and intelligent survey of existing missionary conditions
looked at from every point of view, helped to dig deep the
channels along which so many spiritual streams were soon
to flow. It was at the request of the Continuation Com-
mittee of the Edinburgh Conference that Dr. John ft.
Mott visited many of the mission fields of the world, which
led to the surprising development in this Empire. Out of
the conferences just mentioned grew the China Continuation
Committee, perhaps the most important application of
missionary experience to missionary needs that has ever
been seen in China.
Out of the China Continuation Committee
gelXic Move- ^eeu ev0^ve(^ ^ie Forward Evangelistic
ment Movement in many provinces, and a co-ordinat-
ed activity in other directions as well. The
meetings led by Dr. Mott, Mr. Sherwood...”
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“...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 may
probably be better able to canvass the gains and losses. The
object of this paper is not so ambitious. We have consulted
many correspondents, and all we can hope to do is to state
some effects on mission work and workers up to the present
writing. Even if we could know all, it might only lead to
pessimism.
Bishop Roots writes.:
As to the effects of the war on mission work I do not see that
there has been any very obvious effect on the work with which I
am connected. We have not had to make any reductions in our
estimates for our work thus far, although we have not made such
large increases in expenditures as we have in most recent years.
There have been no changes of policy due to the war, nor has any
forward movement or new work been checked in any very de-
finite way. I...”
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“...friends in China and America
responded nobly to the appeal of the China Continuation
Committee in their behalf, and the sum of Mex $25,414.21
has during the past year, in addition to Mex. $28,933.52
the year preceding, been carefully disbursed to the most'
necessitous cases. This action has done something to
ameliorate the bad effects of the war on these missions.
Conditions in Before giving details it is well to recall the
X9X5 state of the missions and 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...”
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