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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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“...THE YEAR BOOK IS SOLD In Great Britain by The Religions Tract Society, 4 Bouverie St., London, E. C. In the United States by Missionary Education Movement, 156 Fifth Ave., New York City...”
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“...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. The Execu- tive of the China Continuation Committee passed the following minute regarding the Book: When articles in this Year Book are the expression of the policy or...”
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“...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 this volume...”
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“...kindly consented at the last moment to write the article on Constitu- tional Development which Prof. L. R. O. Bevan was prevented by illnessfrom writing. Other articles such a3 those furnished by Rev. C. Y. Cheng, Dr. Fong F. Sec, Rev, F.L. Hawks Pott, D.D., and Rev. W. H. Gleysteen have involved a considerable amount of investiga- tion and should prove of special value. The article on 11A Brief Survey of Church Activities as seen in Christian Periodicals is based on records kept throughout the year of some thirty Chinese Christian periodicals. The Editor will greatly value any suggestions as to how the next issue may be made more useful. E. C. Lobenstine. Ruling, July 14, 1916....”
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“...some other Missions A Symposium.................... A. L. Warnshuis 205 XIV. Evangelism Among Students i. Evangelistic Movements Among Students in China W. E. Taylor 226 ii. The Responsibility of the Young Mens Christian Associa- tion as a Religious Force in the Community............. 210 XV. Development in a few of the Provinces, and in SOME OF THE LARGER ClTIES i. Developments of Evangelistic Work in Manchuria W. MacNaughtan 241 ii. Report of the Foochow Evangelistic Committee for the Year 1915.................................... 246 iii. Shantung City Evangelization...........R. M. Mateer 248 iv. The Tientsin Christian Union........Robert E. Chandler 249 v. The Sunday Service League, Shanghai.W. W. Lockwood 252 PART IV. GENERAL AND RELIGICUS EDUCATION XVI. Missionary Educational Work.......F. L. Hawks Pott 253 XVII. The Present Status of Government Education in China.............................Fong F. Sec 262 XVIII. The Work of the China Christian Educational As- sociation...”
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“...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 ............................Roger S. Greene XXIX. Development at the Hunan-Yale College of Medicine, Changsha ..................Edward H. Hume XXX. Training of Men and Women Nurses in China Alice Clark XXXI. Council on Public Health of the China Medical Missionary Association.................H. S. Houghton PART VI* CHRISTIAN LITERATURE XXXII. A Brief Survey of Church Activities as seen in Christian Periodicals.........................C. Y. Cheng XXXIII. Present-Day Problems in the Production and Distribution of Christian Literature W. Hopkyn Rees XXXIV. Findings Regarding Chinese Evangelistic Lit- erature ......................................C. Y. Cheng XXXV. Publications of the Literature and Tract Societies which have Sold Best During the Past Year ........................Donald...”
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“...X CONTENTS Chapter PART VII. INTERDENOMINATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Page XXXVII. XXXVIII. XXXIX. XL. i. ii. Hl. iv. v. vi. 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................................. 376 401 406 412 412 418 119 420 421 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...”
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“...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. Rev. J. P* Bruce, M.A. (1886). The Baftist Missionary Society. Prolessor in Union Theological Seminary, Tsingchowfu, Sung. Rev. Robert E. Chancier (1911). The Tientsin Christian Union. Foreign Secretary of Tientsin Christian Union...”
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“...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 of the 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...”
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“...CONTRIBUTORS xvii 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...”
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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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“...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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“...4 GENERAL REVIEW OP THE YEAR build and can never hope to be productive in a financial sense.) The deadly automobile (to the registered number of more than an hundred) now honks its swift and relentless way through the wide streets and even in the narrowT and often crooked alleys of Peking. Many Chinese cities have adopted electric lighting, though in some instances the current is so weak that not infrequently a diffused dimness is the most conspicuous feature. Even then it is an im- provement on the old Cimmerian midnight. C't Im rove- The Occidental conception of what con- ment mP stitutes convenience in the matter of ingress to and egress from Chinese cities, has at last struck inward upon the Chinese themselves. Many city walls have been wholly or in part levelled, as in Tientsin. Canton, Shanghai, Hangchow, &c. Convenience gates have also been opened, particularly in Peking, where one city lies enclosed in another like a nest of lacquered boxes. Parks and pleasure grounds have...”
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“...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 significant changes in the modern China is the all-perva- sive newspaper, sold in the streets and on trains as in the West. More than a year ago it was reported that in twenty cities there were about three hundred and thirty Chinese and Japanese journals, and forty-four foreign ones. Many of these are outspoken in their editorials whenever it is safe to be so, but under existing conditions caution is necessary for many newspaper offices have been closed with little or no warning. In this connection is to be mentioned the universal new Chinese language supplementing the former inadequate speech with a wilderness of new terms for new...”
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“...6 GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR While in these troublous times the education of women makes but little headway, the Chinese Government has definitely adopted the principle. This adoption is unques- tionably one of the greatest revolutions in the intellectual history of mankind. Lectures The lecture habit is one of the 'most im- portant of the many recent innovations. From being unknown (and taboo where it was knowrn) it is now generally accepted as a matter of course. The Government increasingly depends upon it for educating the people in its new departures in Agriculture, Forestry, or River Conser- vationthe last at present unhappily largely a mirage. Women speak in public as well as men, and, if they have anything to say, can address a mixed audience. M j. . When the pneumonic plague prevailed in e icme Manchuria in 1911, the hand of the Chinese Government wras forced to adopt Western methods of dealing with it, lest in the potent name of Civilization other powers should step in...”
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“...8 GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR sums for Young Mens Christian Association buildings, for various public enterprises, and for the support of church work. Mr. Yung Tao* (not a baptized member of any church) is an example of this class. It was he who many months ago bought more than live thousand copies of the New Testament to give to his friends, a folded letter of his own accompanying each copy, explaining his views of the importance of the study of this book. The social service idea, especially as expounded from the Christian standpoint, has entered deep into the inner consciousness of very many educated Chinese, and will inevitably more and more produce fruits after its kind. It is precisely this conception, carried into execution, which will one day completely revolutionize the social and not less the political life of China, and it is a conception for which China is wholly indebted to Christianity. The new Chinese education has provided an immense potential outlet for every form of activity...”
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“...10 GENERAL REVIEW OP THE YEAR shoulders to those of the Chinese. The Chinese Church is at present subject to sharp growing pains due to the wide difference between more or less clearly perceived responsibi- lity, and more or less clearly recognized lack of capacity. This condition can not, however, be permanent. The Chris- tian Church, in China must go forward into its new oppor- tunity, or must confess itself a tested and a proved failure. cwt t this delicate transition stage it is not e difficult for the Candid Critic to point out that nothing is right and that everything is wrong. The numbers of the church grow but slowly, and its activities do not proportionately expand. There is everywhere a lack of large results, commensurate with opportunities. There is a general unwillingness to arrive at self-support, which in some missions is no further advanced now than it was twenty years ago. There are in missionary educa- tion serious defects, and in every stage from the primary school...”
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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...”