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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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“...THE YEAR BOOK IS SOLD: In Groat Britain by The Religious Tract Society, Si. Paul's Churchyard, Loudon, E. C. In Canada by Foreign Mission Commit-too, Presbyterian Church in Canada, Toronlo. In the United States by Missionary Education Movement, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York,...”
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“...some of the usual appendices from lack of space. They may be used next year. Our apologies are due to the writers. Industrial Education. The Chinese Woman Doctor, by Dr. Tsao. Some aspects of Literary Work, by Dr. Speicher. YY'ork for the unlettered masses, by Professor Tung. Mission Presses in China, by C. M. Meyers. Among the Women of Peking, by Mrs. Anient. Chinese Students' Organisations Abroad, by David T. Yui. Chinese Christian Publications. We have the following promises for next year: The Jubilee Year of the China Inland Mission. Successful Village Missions, English, American and German. Work among Chinese Abroad. Survey of the Chinese Secular Press....”
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“...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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“.........................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 Presbyterian Mission ......................184 Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Soc..........188 London Missionary Society ....................................189 Church Missionary Society ....................................192 Southern Baptist Convention ..............................190 Methodist Episcopal Church, South ............197 XI. UNION AND CO-OPERATION 2UU ]. Institutions and Meetings, The Editor 200 2. The Kwangtung-Kwangsi Christian Council............................................. 207 0. The Third...”
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“...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 XXI. CANADIAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION 355 1. Semi-Jubilee Report, Rev. J. Menzies 355 3. Suggested Changes in Method of Em- ploying Evangelists......Rev. J.Griffith 305 XXII. THE WORK OF GERMAN MISSIONS IN CHINA.........Rev. C. J. Voskamp _ 371 1. The Basel Mission......................................................373 2. Rhenish Mission ......................................................37l> :). Liebenzeller Mission................................................379 4. The lvieler China Mission..............................382 5. The Pilgermission........................... 382 (). Mission for the Blind........................ <>83 7. Deutsche China Allianz Mission ...... 384 8. Berliner Missionsgesellschaft ......... 385 9. Weimar Mission.............................. 392 XXIII. THE WORK OF THE ANGLICAN COM- MUNION IN CHINA The Right Rev...”
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“... Stokstad 429 Union Work...........................................................................429 Finnish Missionary Society ....................................430 Norwegian Lutheran Mission ..............................4.31 The Norwegian Mission in China........................432 The Norwegian Missionary Society..................432 The Swedish Holiness Mission ........................433 Swedish Missionary Society....................................435 American Lutheran Mission...............................435 The Augustana Synod Mission..............................436 IT.auge's Synod Mission ...............................................438 The Lutheran Brethren Mission........................439 The Lutheran Synod Mission ..............................439 Scandinavian Alliance Mission ........................440 The Swedish American Missionary Co- venant ..............................................................................441 XXVII. CHRISTIAN LITERATURE............”
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“...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 happen, they would merely have to lead a "Punitive Expedition" to demonstrate the unconstitu- tional" nature of his rule, and their own obvious fitness to...”
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“...other, "The Lotus Scripture," written late in the second century. Dr. Richard holds that these two books gradually supplanted the teachings of Sakyamuni by presenting a higher type of religion. Indeed, Dr. Richard goes farther than the missionary body can follow him in comparing these two books to the writings of St. Paul and St. John and entitling his translation, The New Testament of Higher Buddhism." Dr. Richard has followed that book by another remarkable volume just published, entitled, "A Mission to Heaven." This book is a translation of a work written by a Taoist, Chm Ch'ang-ch'en, in the beginning of the 13th century. The author adopts the higher views contained in the two books mentioned above and other sacred writings of Higher Buddhism. Dr. Richard sums up the teachings of Sakyamuni on Primitive Buddhism in four articles of belief, viz: 1. The suffering of the world should he removed. 2. Suffering can he removed only by removing the cause. ?). The cause of suffering is desire. 4...”
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“...36 RELIGIOUS ASPECT AND CHURCH AFFAIR?'. 8. Partaking of the nature of God by a new birth which insures a sort of divinity or sonship to God and, in consequence, personal immortality. Dr. Richard holds that even the first two books which he translated and published in 1910 as, The New Testament of Higher Buddhism," contain some of the new wine of Christianity; he holds that the third book, "A Mission to Heaven," which he has just now translated and published for the Christian world, shows clear proofs of the influence of Nestorian Christianity. Dr. Richard therefore maintains that the Higher Buddhism is in a large measure Christianity done over into Buddhistic dress and that it has failed to produce its proper Christian fruit in China because 'k from the beginning of the Ming dynasty, A.D. 1368, to the present time, a period of over 500 years, the only religion patronized by the state has been Confucianism and all the fat posts of the government were given to its followers, while Buddhists...”
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“...fall out rat her for the progress of the Gospel;" but we must recognize that a reaction began in some Missions in 1918 following the second revolution or rebellion of Hwang Using and Sun Yat-sen. So far as we can infer from the meagre and insufficient statistics available at this writing, some of the Missions will report smaller gains for 3913 than for 1912, though the statistics do not indicate that any Mission has suffered an actual loss in membership. Moreover, the present uncertainty is full of discouragement to some of the missionaries. Add to this the fact that considerable Mission property in various parts of China has been destroyed by sporadic uprisings, that missionaries have been driven from their homes, sometimes with the greatest d-inger, and that in several cases missionaries have suffered martyrdom for our common faith, and we can well under- stand the profound sorrow and discouragement through which some Missions are passing. We are glad to record the fact that the martyrs...”
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“...upon a basis sufficiently high to meet the government requirements. Hence, in part possibly through jealousy of foreign teaching, but probably more largely through the failure of our higher institutions in scholastic thoroughness, not a single Christian college in Japan with the exception of Doshisha has secured recognition by the government ; and this university was only recognized in 1912. We ought not to repeat in China the mistake we have made in some Christian schools in America, and on mission fields. To offer education which demonstrates its Christian character by its high quality and its thorough- ness and which is so thoroughly Christian as to lead the overwhelming mass of its students into the Christian life and a goodly number of them into the ministry, we must im- mediately and largely increase the appropriations for Christian education. As to the cost of higher education: in the United States there are four universities, each of which is spending annually over two million dollars...”
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“...sufficient for the tasks which confront us, what shall we do with the limited means at our disposal? Is it not simply sinful with means so inadequate to our tasks for each single Mission without serious study of its tasks, without thought of the future and without effort to double or treble its efficiency by cooperation with other Missions simply to go forward launching enter- prises which are doomed to failure and which because they are doomed to failure will break the hopes of the Chinese who look to us for help, the spirit of our friends at home who entrust to us the expenditure of their funds, and above all the heart of Christ ? Providentially, the churches at home already are grasping the situation and all Protestant Christianity in America is planning for 1915 a campaign for Property and Equipment on mission fields. Can we not in the first place limit ourselves for the present to four or live Christian colleges or universities for China, and by properly placing these universities put...”
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“...high schools underlying the college, of intermediate schools underlying the high schools, and of Christian day schools underlying the intermediate schools, in order to furnish sufficient Christian material for the college each of the cooperating Missions ought to maintain at least one high school, two or three intermediate schools, and a score of day schools. In these schools pains should be taken not only,.to teach the Bible, but to teach all the doc- trines and the forms which each particular Mission believes to be essential or helpful to the spiritual life. These forms and doctrines will be filled with larger and larger meaning as the student advances in years and knowledge. Certainly there should be also an earnest effort to lead these children into a vital Christian experience which should be thoroughly genuine so far as it extends. This plan contemplates twelve years of separate denominational work, and if this W'Ork is done thoroughly, we believe that each Mission'will not only fully...”
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“...the different branches of Christendom are in them- selves sinful in the sight of God. But we are sure that these branches should be as vitally united as the different branches springing out of the same tree. This is the union for which Christ prayed in the seventeenth of John, and nothing short of such a union as this should be the aim of Christendom. Moreover, such a union can be set forward more rapidly 011 the mission field where Christian institutions are plastic than in the home lands where institutions are already crystallized. This is a specific service which the mission churches are to render the home churches in return for the great service which the home lands render the non-Christian world in bringing Christianity to it. If, therefore, our discussion helps in any measure, first, to the recognition of the weakness of the present movement for Confucianism as the state religion; second, to the recognition of the underlying desire of the noblest Chinese for ethical conduct and for...”
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“...CHAPTER IV POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE REPUBLIC By Professor Bevan, Peking University The companion chapter of the China Mission Year Book for 1913 closed with the sentence, "This question which raises the extremely difficult and delicate matters of National and State rights, and the equally important question of the relation between the executive and the legislature are the two great constitutional problems that will be before the new parliament." The first of these matters is slowly working itself out. A strong central government with power to control the different parts of the nation seems to be imperative, if China is to be strong enough to present a real front to foreign nations. Though little progress has been made, indications are not .wanting that the Peking author- ities are moving steadily in this direction; even the opinion of the late parliament was distinctly against the introduc- tion of any federal principle, though it was not able to declare itself authoritatively as to...”
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“...through harrowing experiences, vet the outcome has been for the strengthening of mission work, and for the wider dissemination of the inissionery appeal. The history of the strenuous weeks during which Nanking was under fire and of the subsequent days after the entrance of the government troops, when Chang IIsun and his men sacked the city at will, is a part of Chinese history that will be written by others. It only remains for us to note here the effect which this rebellion and its aftermath had on Mission work. Before General Chang and his men had entered the city the terror of his name And his previous reputation for looting and lawlessness struck terror into the hearts of the people. Despite assurances to the contrary, it was generally believed that on entrance into the city his men would be free to prey upon the people at will. A number of people fled from the city. Others sought refuge in the mission compounds which were believed to be havens of retreat from the depradation of Chang...”
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“...ti-ie consuls and missionaries- 111 various mission buildings or camped upon their grounds were some 2,000 people. The largest number were at the University of Nanking, at the Nanking School of Theology, and at the two hospitals, the hospital of the Christian Mission at the Drum Tower, and that of the Methodist Mission near the West Gate (Ilansimen). But there was hardly a mission institution of any sort (in which there was a missionary) that was not full of refugees. About a dozen missionaries remained in Nanking during the whole of the siege, each principal centre having at least one foreign representative on the ground. The gathering of so many refugees within mission walls gave an unparalleled opportunity for getting near to the people, and for giving them under most favourable circum- stances the gospel message. To anticipate in a word, not a few of those who found a retreat within these missionary institutions are now seeking as their personal Saviour the Christ in whose name they...”
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“...were let loose, the sold:ers being allowed, with- out restraint, to plunder, loot and shoot everywhere. Houses and shops were stripped clean. In many instances people were ruthlessly stabbed to death. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property were seen carried or hauled through the streets, to be piled up in huts on the out-skirts, or taken to boats for transport across the river. There were also unnameable crimes committed during those awful days. But the mission centres were unmolested, and those who were in the mission compounds escaped all personal violence, and were able to keep their belongings which they had with them though many of their homes were looted, as were all of the homes without exception throughout the city. When this sort of thing had been going on for a couple of days and the missionaries and others were filled with indignation at the treachery of Chang Hsun, to say nothing of his inhumanity, Dr. Maeklin went again to make a pro- test to him for his conduct. That...”
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“...CHAPTER VII WHAT ELEMENTS IN THE GOSPEL POSSESS THE GREATEST POWER OF APPEAL TO THE CHINESE? By Rev. Courtenay H* Fcnn, DD.t Peking It is hardly to be expected that any new treatment of one of the great themes of the Edinburgh Conference will be markedly original. Commission IV, in preparation for that great Conference, gathered opinions from scores of mission- aries in all parts of this land; and the Report of that Commission is, supposedly, on the shelves of every one of ns. Moreover, as the latest contribution to the discussion, we have almost the entire December 1.91.3' number of The Chinese Recorder given up to several strong papers, covering the ground with a good degree of thoroughness. It would be quite impossible for the present writer to treat the subject with any approach to completeness without trespass- ing upon the ground already thus covered by others, to whom a large indebtedness is hereby acknowledged. At the same time it seemed worth while to make a limited canvass of...”