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“...TI-IE CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK BEING "THE CHRISTIAN ME1NT , i : 'I / :I (FIFTH YEAR OF ISSUE) EDITED BY Rev. D. MacOILLIVRAY, M.A., D.D. A Companion Volume,44 Survey of the Missionary Occupation of China" By Thos* Cochrane, M.Bt CM, Also an Atlas THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY FOR CHINA SHANGHAI 1914...”
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“...Christian Literature Society again returns thanks to all who have contributed to the contents of the China Mission Year Book for ]914. The number of topics to be handled is not likely to diminish, and the tendency of the book to become over-grown and unwieldy has all along been steadily resisted. In any event it was never intended to treat of every topic every year. Of course some subjects of outstanding importance and perennial interest must always find a place, but other subjects are to be found scattered over the previous Year Books where they can be looked up by those who wish. The following among other topics were described in the Year Book of 1913 and are omitted in this volume: Christian Endeavour. The Door of Hope. School for the deaf at Chefco The Tsinanfu Institute of the B.M.S. The International Institute. Work among Foreigners in China. Work of the Y.W.C.A. Leading Colleges of China. We have been compelled to reluctantly omit the follow- ing articles, and also some of the usual...”
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“...ii In the Statistical Table an attempt lias been made to make it more complete, and also to classify the returns according to the Report of the Committee on Missionary Statistics to the Edinburgh Continuation Committee at its meeting at The Hague, November, 1913. (See Notes on Statistics, following the Directory). Many thanks are due to the Secretary of the China Continuation Committee for very valuable suggestions in regard to the arrangement and classification of these Statistics and also for the instructive diagrams based on these figures. It is hoped that this may serve as the beginning of more uniformity and accuracy in Mission Statistical Returns. Some articles of the present Year Book have been with our permission reprinted elsewhere. The Year Book is glad to extend the circulation of such material by giving authors this privilege. D. MacGtlljvray....”
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“...CONTENTS PREFACE Chapter Paue I. GENERAL SURVEY. Rev. A. H, Smith, D.J), 1 II. RELIGIOUS ASPECT OF AFFAIRS AND THE CHURCH IN CHINA. Bishop J. W. Bashfoicl. 30 1. Confucianism ..................................................................30 2. Buddhism.,..........................................................................34 3. Christianity........................................................................37 4. Christian Education................................................39 5. Christian Federation ..........................................58 III. THE CONFUCIAN REVIVAL. Rev. H. K. Wright, 01 IV. POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE REPUBLIC. Professor L.R.O.Bevan 73 V. GOVERNMENT CHANGES. W. Sheldon Ridge 04 V!. NANKING, THE REBELLION AND THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. Rev. P. F. Price 110 VII. WHAT ELEMENTS IN THE GOSPEL POSSESS THE GREATEST POWER OF APPEAL TO THE CHINESE. Rev. C. I-I. Fenn 110 VIII. EVANGELISTIC WORK 127 1. The Need .....................P. F. Huale 127 2. A Journey...”
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“...ii CONTENTS. Chapter Page 8. Some Methods, Results, and Pro- blems in Connection with Special Meetings for Students, Dre W. E. Taylor 148 1). The Lecture Department of the National Department of the Y.M.C.A. of China............Prof. C. H. Robertson 150 10. Resolutions re New Policy in Using Evangelists....................................... 1(52 11. To Lead Men Unto the Lord One by One is a Good Plan for making the Church Prosperous, Rev. Ting Li-mei 1(34 12. Some Cood Tracts for Evangelistic Purposes..............................II. L. Xia 108 IX. THE CHINESE STUDENT VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT FOR THE MINIS- TRY ......................Rev. W. P. Mills 170 X. THE VARIED WORK OF THE CHURCHES (Extracts from the Reports.) ..............................................................................178 Baptist Missionary Society ....................................178 Presbyterian Church of England........................17!) Reformed Church of America..............................182 American P...”
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“...CONTENTS. Ill Chapter Pake ;-. Women's Work in Manchuria Mrs. Miskelly 232 4. What Chinese Women Have Done and are Doing for China Miss Mary Stone 239 XIII. WORK FOR THE CHILDREN....................................240 1. Sunday School..................................................................24(3 2. Orphanage Work in China - .J. W. Bovver 249 XIV, THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE CHIN- ESE CHURCH............................................................255 1. A Chinese View, Prof. Chen Kin-yung 255 2. The Independent Church in Ping- yuan..................Rev. A. B. De Haan 261 :>. Proposed Constitution of a Chinese Church.............Rev. W. J. Drumniond 205 4. The Independent Church in other Provinces.......................................... 270 XV. FIFTY YEARS OF CHURCH ORGANIZA- TION IN SOUTH FUK1EN Rev. A. L. Warnshuis 272 XVI. THE SOCIAL SERVICE MOVEMENT IN CHINA ........................................................................................281 1. The Chinese Church and Social...”
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“........................................3:51 Number of Students........J. B. Neal, M.D. 33 1 AVest China Union Medical School 0. L. Kilboni, M.D. 331 Need of Union.............T. Gillison, M.D. Hangchow and Union, D. ]). Main, M.D. 333 Medical Policy ..................Dr. Cochrane 333 Co-operation with the Chinese Dr. P. J. Todd 334 Publication Committee's Work..............................334 New Union Scheme in Chekiang, Kiang- su and Peking........................................................................335 Union Medical College for Women..................336 The Nurses' Association of China ..................338 Post-Mortem Examination ....................................338 Chinese or English ............................................................331) Public Health Service for China ........................339 Medical Education Dr. Wn's Memorandum 340 Medical Research in China II. E Eggers, M.D. 341 XX. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MISSION HELD..................Rev. C. E. Patton 344...”
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“...............................................................441 XXVII. CHRISTIAN LITERATURE....................................443 1. The Christian Literature Society for China..................Rev. W. II. Rees 443 2. The Work of the Tract Societies Rev. J. Darroch 445 3. Experiences of a Translator Rev. A. Nagel 449 4 Bible Translation and Revision Rev. G. H. Bond field 453 5. British and Foreign Bible Society Rev. G. H. Bond field 455 6. The American Bible Society............ 457 7. National Bible Society of Scotland ... 460 8. Scripture Commentaries in Chinese, Rev. G. A. Clayton 462 9. The Chinese Recorder Rev. F. Rawlinsun 468 XXVIII. THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN AS- SOCIATIONS OF CHINA IN 1913- F. S. Brockman. 472 XXIX. THE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHINA. Rev. F. D. Gamevvell. 478 XXX. THE FIRST YEAR OF THE CHINA CONTINUATION COMMITTEE. Rev. E. C. Lobenstine. 484...”
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“...vi CONTENTS. Chapter Pafe XXX!. LANGUAGE SCHOOLS AND CLASSES W. B. Pettns. 499 XXXII. RECENT ADVANCES IN SINOLOGY. Rev. S. Con ling. 502 XXXIII. HOW TWO GREAT LEGACIES HELP CHINA ..................................................................................507 1. The Arthington Bequest.................. 507 2. The Kennedy Bequest..................... 511 XXXIV. ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONS IN CHINA....................................................................................517 APPENDICES I. List of Important Events II. Missionary Officials III. Obituaries. Directory Statistics Index...”
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“...seems to the Occidental observer to be nearly or quite indistinguishable from a theatrical play. Especially has this been the case within the twenty years which have elapsed since the war between China and Japan. In a nonchalant manner China comes upon the stage for this epoch-making conflict for which no preparation had been made. There is the deadly defeat in Korea, the pictorial flight from Port Arthur, the peace adjustment in Japan, the astonishment and exasperation of the People of China when the news slowly filtered down among them; the spectacular Reform Decrees of the Emperor Kuang Hsu, his sudden extinction by his imperious Aunt, the Empress Dowager; the rapid incubation of the Boxer insanity, its sickly spring flowers and its acrid summer fruit; the dramatic Siege of the Legation, China Against the World," the Relief Expeditions, the flight of the Court to distant Sianfu in bitterness and in sorrow andeighteen months laterits imposing return with a renewed and more decisive lease...”
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“...Assembly of 1910 had displayed on the part of the participants however casually chosen and however little qualified by experience, an unanticipated capacity for cautious attention, for biding their time, for prudent and cogent interrogation of the government officials, and also for co-operation with one another. All of that was under "the former Manchu dynasty," this first Parliamentary meeting was under "a Republic," where "equality" was a presupposition, and at a time when the actual domination of China by means of a Constitution which a large Committee of Parliament was to form appeared an object of certain and of comparatively easy attainment Upon a calm review of its sessions by an impartial outsider several prominent features attract attention. First its unwieldy size. A Senate of 300 members, more or less, and a House more than twice as numerous would under almost any imaginable conditions have rendered effective work impossible. Second, its irrational rules, requiring a majority for a quorum...”
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“...administer the govern- ment, and how hopeless it was to expect anything from that body. The assassination in March at a railway station in Shanghai of Mr. Sung Chiao-jen, the young Hunanese leader of the Kuo Min Tang had thrown much of China into a condition of dangerous political excitement almost amounting to frenzy. Nothing would convince those who wished it to be true that the government had not instigated or even ordered this crime, and doubtless this belief still remains and will remain, although so far as is generally known there is nothing in favor of this theory which a Western Court would admit as evidence. The Kuo Ming Tang was itself a coalition of different elements, all of them bitterly dissatisfied with Yuan as President. In central China the more radical wing led by Huang Using, Chen Chi-mei and others, planned for an uprising announced as a "Second Revolution," which was elaborately organized and equipped throughout the Yangtze valley by the mis- appropriation of public...”
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“...Settlement to be misused as a basis of attack upon China. The telegraph lines were defended from rebel seizure, a waspish Shanghai journal printed in English called the China Republican," devoted to attacking the President and the government, was suppressed and its editor deported. Those who are familiar with the outlines of Chinese history know how great a part of it consists of insurrections and bloody wars. Notwithstanding the frightful expenditure of human life in this rebellion, the horrible sufferings of pillaged and repillaged Nanking, the worst experiences of 19.13 certainly bear no comparison to those which marked the downfall of the Mings and the advent of the Ch'ings. Several groups of foreigners were caught in the vicious swirl of the revolutionary eddies, and much mission work was hindered, or stopped altogether. The rebellion was snulfed out. Had it succeeded it would probably have been tantamount to the Mexicanization" of China. Whenever a president had enemies, which would always...”
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“...to his soldiers only, but to the President and to China.a country just entering the sisterhood of Ncitions as a Republic. For months later the presence of this bird of ill omen in Nanking as Governor, was a cause of terror to the city, to the great province of which it is the capital, and of unrest to a large part of China. At length Gen. Chang was "promoted" to a post which he never took. lie then sullenly retired to his former quarters at Siichowfu, perhaps at some future crisis again to emerge to work further devastation. The career of sueh a man is to be studied as an aid to comprehending the inherent difficulties of governing a country in the' stage of evolution of China. During the progress of the rebellion it was well known that many members of the Parliament were not only in complete sympathy with the object of the insurrection and expecting its success, but were actually in communication with the insurgents....”
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“...reluctantly, for Yuan as a mere choice of evils. The foreign powers promptly availed themselves of this opportunity to recognize the Republic, which had already been done (May 2nd) by the United States, and in April by Brazil and Mexico. Towards the end of October the Com- mittee engaged in drafting the new Constitution produced a document, the obvious intention of which was to make the President subordinate to the Parliament, a body which had produced no other evidence of its ability to govern China, than (as the President shrewdly remarked) its complete incapacity to govern itself. -The inauguration of the President (the Vice-President being still in command at Wuchang) took place with great ceremony on October 10th, the anniversary of the revolution against the Manchus two years before, but the general public, Chinese and foreign, were carefully excluded; and something of a gloom was thrown over the proceedings by the discovery at the last moment of a plot under the lead of a police officer...”
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“...8 GENERAL SURVEY. of politics in Western Europe was changed by a pistol shot from behind a hedge. Such a distance has China already travelled since December 1905 when the abortive attempt was made to blow up the Imperial Constitutional Commissioners on their leaving Peking that it is at present quite possible that the liberation of the chemical forces imprisoned within one tiny bomb might reduce China to a wild welter of chaos. On the 4th of November, not only Peking, but all China, and indeed the World was electrified by the issue of an extended presidential Mandate summarily dissolving the Kuo Min Tang, on the ground (amply sustained by incriminating telegrams incorporated in the order) of the treasonable complicity of its leaders in the late rebellion. Its members were incapacitated for acting as officials of any sort, and for membership in the National Parliament, which, by the lack of a quorum, was thus reduced to non-existence. For this far reaching and drastic Mandate it wa.s understood...”
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“...OR THE PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM. 9 by Parliament. Instead of this, however, as an intermediate step there was appointed a Political Council of seventy or eighty members, representing merely the government. This body had advisory functions only, find began its sessions December 29tli, discussing with great deliberation a wide variety of topics. In these months everything has been sent to the melting-pot. The Cabinet system is pitted against the "Presidential system," and is found to be unsuited to China. The plan of inquiry adopted is a replica of that of the Grand Empress Dowager under "the late Manchus." Orders were issued, for example, to the Political Council that the two systems just mentioned should be analyzed as to their feasibility. Then follows the discussion in the Council. They at length decide that upon the whole the Presidential system seems the better (for assigned reasons) upon which the various Military Governors, or Tutuhs, are instructed to telegraph their opinions upon this...”
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“...10 GENERAL SURVEY. around him of such exceptional capacity that it appeared that no better choices could have been made. The Premier began his official career by issuing a long and elaborate "Policy," a state paper of a kind hitherto unknown in China, in which lie dealt with existing evils with a refresh- ing not to say an amazing frankness. But before it had had time to effect anything of importance this widely adver- tised collection of All-the-Talents" began to fall to pieces. In February the Premier resigned, mentioning in his letter to the President that' he was a man of an obstinate disposition and did not find it easy to adapt himself to the views of others! The sudden death of Cliao Ping-chun, a former Premier, Tutuh of Ohihli, an official of ability and experience, was a distinct loss to the Government. When Mr. Liang Ch'i-ch'ao joined the Cabinet it was recognized that his learning, especially in law affairs, would be a powerful support to the President. But he, too, abandoned...”
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“...rendered excellent service to educated Chinese by publishing essays and lectures in English newspapers in Peking upon themes relating to the principles of government and of re- form in China. The existence of an armed rebellion during a consider- able part of the past year, was not favorable to the exercise of popular right,s, which day by day visibly diminished. Martial Law was proclaimed over a large part of China, and this meant arbitrary arrests, trialif such it could be termedwith no regard to forms of law, and in secret, and ex- ecutions continuously and upon a large scale all over China, particularly in the great centers, such as Peking, and the leading provincial capitals. To inquire into the aggregate of the wholly unreported executions is vain, but there is reason to suppose that for all China the total must have been many tens of thousands. In the single province of Szechwan it was said, upon what authority can not be affirmed, that there must have been between twenty and thirty...”
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“...obscurity out of which they had recently emerged. The Magistrates were delighted, and so, too, were the people, for with ail the corruption of the Ch'ing period no such flagrant and promiscuous bribery had ever been known. In some of the large cities, however, where new ideas and methods have obtained a foothold, the change is a distinct loss in efficiency and perhaps in integrity. When Mr. Liang Ch'i-ch'ao became a member of the Cabinet it was with the avowed aim of introducing legal reform into China upon a wide and a thorough scale. Even before his premature retirement, however, it began to be bruited about that with some exceptions the higher Law Courts were to be abolished, most of the lower ones, how- ever, not having any objective existence, escaped this fate. This was said to be due (a) to the lack of suitable men for judges, and (b) to lack of funds to pay them. As the "law schools" are crowded with students (some being-"for women only") it is an interesting inquiry what is to become...”