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“...THE CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK 1917 (EIGHTH 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 Lcwrie, D.D. Rev. G. F. Mosher Rev. Frank Rawlinson Rev. W. Hopfcyn Rees, D.D. Rt. Rev. l. H. Roots, D.D. Rev. Otto jScSMftze _ Rev. Arffrurl>i^Smith, P.D, /v ....."..... ' /&/ s editor E. C. Ix>benstftfe\ V' / , vAV!1^ y/cv Foreign Secretary, China ContinuattoQ i^otnqiittf^e ...'' SHANGHAI THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY FOR CHINA 19 17...”
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“...THE YEAR BOOK IS SOLD In Great Britain fay The Religious 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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“...sections of the field in which that work is located, but of the movement as a whole. The articles presented in this volume were written by sixty different persons, living in all parts of China, and connected with many different societies. While each chapter is complete in itself, that comprehensive view of the work of the past year as a whole, which it is the object of this book to present, will hardly be gained except by reading the book through. The China Continuation Committee is responsible for the China Mission Year Book only in that it appoints the Editorial Committee and the Editor. When articles in the book are the expression of the policies or the views of the China Continuation Committee, this fact is made clear; in all other cases, the writer of the paper is alone responsible for the opinions expressed. The arrangement of the material is in the main the same as last year. The distinctive feature of this issue is a series of provincial articles, which give a brief review of the...”
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“... Y. Y. Tsu's article on "Native Charities of Shanghai." The Editor desires to take this- occasion of thanking most, heartily all those who have contributed articles to this book, and the large number of others, including the Statistical Secretaries of the Missions, without whose painstaking work and sympathetic co-operation, the facts here presented could not have been secured. He also acknowledges his indebt- edness to the members of the office staff of the China Continuation Committee, to- the Rev. M. T. Stauffer and Miss M. Yerne McNeely for assistance in checking statistics, preparing tables and indexing the book, and especially to the Rev. C. L. Boynton, who this year as last, in addition to supplying the statistics and editing che Directory of Protestant Missions in China, has seen the China Mission Year Book through the press. E. C. Lobenstine. July 23rd, 1917....”
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“...ERRATA Page 48, Year of opening Yunnan, 1881. Foot-note, Read China Mission Year Book, 1915, Chapter VIII. ,, 98, Chihli: Missionary societies at work, 25. ,, 110, Fukien: Total Chinese workers 3077. ,, 149, Kansu: Tota missionaries, 68. ,, 216, Shantung: missionaries societies at work in the province, 18. Total missionaries, 453. Total Chinese workers, 2,002. Communicant members, 32,129. ,, 258, Yunnan: Communicant members, 7,413....”
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“...to pass the danger- ous clause on Confucianism later. The cause of the society is still in great danger. The society is seeking to protect the principles of liberty for all citizens, and it does not know whether it will succeed. Much support and influence will still be needed before the goal is reached.* Nothing has been said in this report about Fea\urcsfthy arouments use(l by the society in the e campaign. The daily papers have already told much. It is proposed later to issue a full report in book form. Two things should, however, be added before this report of the work done by the society closes: (1) it has taught wide circles of people to consider and study the question of the nation's constitution, and (2) it has brought religious men of all schools to meet and act together. One further effect of this has been to lead wide circles of thoughtful men outside the different religious bodies, which took part in the movement, to consider the question of the importance of religion. *Editor's...”
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“...CHAPTER VI THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE PROTESTANT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN CHINA IN X9J5 The Editor In the Chinta Mission Year Book for 1915 appeared an article on The Distribution of Missionaries in China. It was an analysis of the Directory of Protestant Missionaries published in 1914, and gave certain information regarding, the growth of the missionary body, and its distribution by societies, by denominational affiliation and by provinces, for the year 1913. It led to many requests for similar inform mation regarding the other Christian forces in China; but it has not previously been possible to secure such information. Through the decision of the China Continua- Valueof12 Committee to undertake an annual Statistics gathering of statistics, and the appointment of the Rev. C. L. Boynton as Statistical Secretary, we are now able for the first time to furnish provincial statistics covering the Christian community as a whole. Missionary committees in a few provinces have, for some...”
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“...harbouring to the utmost her resources and by careful and united planning. The leaders of the missionary movement must study with increasing care the location of every new mission station, of every school and hospital, and of every worker. The Church's resources, while adequate to the task, if rightly 'used, are inadequate to allow for any avoidable mistakes, due to overlapping or to the unnecessary duplication of institutions. The time is past when any society is justified *In pocket at back of this book will be found a series of charts setting forth graphically some of the data contained in these tables....”
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“...Szechwan.. 1877 51 8 71 *336 195 149 Kweichow. 1877 13 4 13 57 50 16 Yunnan.... 1877 10 6 12 *155 86 2 Total............61S 111 938 5519 3471 3607 II. Ths Foreign Missionary Forces This aspect of our subject was treated at some length in the article already referred to.t It may, therefore, be sufficient to call attention here merely to the denominational distribution of the missionaries by provinces. This can best be done in table. The denominational grouping is that incomplete. IChina Mission Year Book, 1914, Chapter VI'll....”
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“...each doubled their membership in the period. Three of the socie- ties studied showed a falling off in members, in one case 33%. Losses in connection with the work of certain missions is explained by the migratory character of the people, and in other cases by the large amount of emigration. Such losses however, may well prove the means of extending the influence of Christianity to other parts of China and to other lands. One church reports in 1905 a total baptized *See charts in pocket at back of book....”
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“...retrenchments have in some cases been necessary, and the work has undoubtedly suffered seriously in some regards. Nevertheless they have thus far been allowed to remain at their stations and to continue in their work. Recent The decade has seen the passing of many of Losses the most notable leaders of the missionary forces, men of exceptional force of character who were able to serve long years in the land of their adoption. This is emphasized by the decease since the publication of the last Year Book of three men whose terms of residence in China exceeded one hundred and eighty years. Of these Dr. W. A. P. Martin reached China in 1850, Archdeacon E. IT. Thomson in 1859, and Dr. J. M. W. Farnham in 1860. It was their privilege to pioneer in evangelistic and educational work which has prospered and borne large fruitage, and to pass on to their successors a glorious heritage of goodwill won and leadership trained under their influence....”
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“... to look to the Church or mission for help in lawsuits or similar difficulties. Chekiang being the first province in which Missfonar work in the interior was extensively under- Force *Y taken, it is not surprising that it is relatively well supplied with missionaries. The develop- ment in this connection during the past ten years has not been very marked. In 1906, according to Broomhall's Chine.Empire, the total number of missionaries was 244. By 1911 the Rev. Alex. Miller (China Mission Year Book 1912), reported a total of 313. This increase, which amounts to about six per cent per year, would perhaps be about that of other sections of the country. But when we compare the figures of 1916 with those of 1911, we find an unusual and significant fact, namely, that the net increase in foreign missionaries in the province during the five years was only twenty-five, making the total, according to the latest figures available, 338. This lack of reinforcement does not, I think, indicate waning...”
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“...standard for Chinese workers of all classes. When all allowances have been made, however, we are forced to admit that our Chinese force is not growing as the conditions demand. This is particularly true with reference to the better trained men. The available statistics give for 1911 a total church membership of 18,708 and for 1916 a total of 24,228. In each case the figures are really for the year previous.* *It is a rather sad commentary on our business methods that the figures for a Mission Year Book which will be in the hands of reader* by the middle of 1917 will, so far as this province is concerned, contain statistics collected at dates varying from March to December 1915. The easy remedy for such a condition would be for the mission! :to collect promptly, on the blanks prepared by the Continuation Com- mittee, statistics terminating at a fixed date each year....”
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“...receiving better supervision. They are better equipped and located. The higher primary schools for boys and girls are well managed institutions. The Anglo-Chinese colleges formerly unrelated to the general mission education have -become middle schools. The Fukien Christian University has a broad base upon which to build. There are 104,830 boys in the lower and higher primary schools and 3,838 in the middle schools. Experiments are being made in introducing a little vocational education. Agriculture, book-keeping, typewriting and manual training have been introduced into several schools....”
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“...hospital fifty miles away. Again Yale crowns a department of work. Medical The Siang-Ya Medical School is unique. School remarkable document given in last year's china mission year book (p. 528) is worthy of study. As we liave said, the new hospital, which is the property of Yale, is nearing completion. The school buildings, which are to be the property of the Hunan gentry, have not yet been begun. A concluding word must be said as to the thafpa*!* twofold help given to all the churches by the s Bible Institute of Los Angeles work that is described more fully by Dr. Keller in another chapter. As a close observer of this work from its earliest beginnings, I should like to bear my testimony. I do not know that I can point to a single case in which I have found the ordinary method of sending out single colporteurs on book-selling journeys to have resulted in the deepening of the man's spiritual character. I have found more than once, that it has destroyed whatever spirituality the man may have had...”
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“...which is worked at a profit. Leading missionaries of all the missions have given of their best for the upbuild- ing of this society, and to-day are working as directors for its development. The depot in the Poyang Road, Hankow, is known as the Griffith John Jubilee Building, and was opened in the year 1912. It involved an initial expenditure for land and building of over Taels 40,000. The Arthing- ton Press involved in addition the expenditure of over Taels 17,000. On the ground floor are the book rooms, press, editorial and general offices, etc. On the two upper floors are the residence of the general secretary, board room, translators' room, etc. The society commenced work in 1876 and in the first forty years, i.e., to the end of 1915, it had put into circulation over 31,000,000 of its own books and tracts; and had also handled some 15,000,000 books and tracts for the Distribution Fund. During the year 1915 an amalgamation was effected with the North China Tract Society. Hankow became...”
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“...redoubtable Tsin-shi-Hwang-ti. Coming down the centuries there has been a good deal of fighting with the tribes on the borders. And in the end the Chinese proved themselves the victors, eventually pushing their way until they claimed and took possession of the New Domi- nion. Yeaiiy there is a long procession of officials, exiles, merchants, farmers, labourers, to that great province, along the main north-western road. And along that road for some distance travelled Marco Polo, who in the pages of his book, describes the cities he visited. To-day the Chinese in Kansu numbering Consf/va/ive 7>000>00'> are a slow> conservative people. They like the old ways. Even now the offi- cials issue their proclamations saying the people must cut off the queue and that girls' feet must not be bound, but they make no difference. The Kansuite is also independent. Education is at a discount, save in the Education large cities. The officials, however, are plodding away, trying to arouse the people to a sense of the...”
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“...encouraging to justify more effort in that line." The method seems to be instilling in the minds of many students a growing whole- some respect for manual labour, but there is great need of additional light in regard to industrial education, in order that it may best meet the needs of mission work. Schools for business training are found at ScWs Weihaiwei (forty pupils) and at Chefoo (one c 00 s hundred and eighty pupils). In the latter school the aim is to give a good general education, together with book-keeping, typewriting and stenography. The graduates are filling acceptably positions in various parts, of China. One of the most significant changes in the of English educational work in Shantung during recent s years has been in the attitude toward the teaching of the English language. Until 1908, outside of the Anglo-Chinese School in Chefoo, the English language had no place in the educational scheme. In that year it was introduced in the upper classes of the School of Arts and Science in the...”
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“...Stations, 7. ^Missionary Societies at work in the province, 4. §TotaI Missionaries, 117. Total Chinese Workers, 334. Communicant members, 3,825. # The year 1907 was in Shensi one of ^Mission*0*11* ecclesiastical stock-taking. It was a time of Work* reviewing and consolidating the past, and of preparing for expansion. A more or less definite stage had been reached, and the turning point was marked by the visit from England of the Revs. W. Y. Fullerton and C. E. Wilson, the Shensi section of whose book New China should be consulted with regard to the progress registered up to that point. They actually wit- nessed the baptism of the thousandth member received into the Baptist Church. Until 1900 entrance into cities had been extremely difficult; the work had, therefore, been al- most entirely in villages, with a Gospel village as the centre, ^Richard. fMinchengpu Census, 1910. iAll Missionary Statistics, 1915. § Including wives....”
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“...Societies at work in the province, 0. §Total Missionaries, 170. Total Chinese workers, 926. Communicant members, 20,236. I. **Historical Sketch For the last thirty years mission work in Manchuria has been punctuated at intervals of about five years by such natural or political events as floods, famines, wars, and *Ricliard. f Minchengpu Census, 1910. iAll Missionary Statistics, 1915. § Including wives. **Chief references to conditions and work in Manchuria in earlier issues of the China Mission Year Book : 1911, pp. 215-222; 1914, 416-428,232-239; 1915 45-47, 253-256; 1916, 90-92, 128-129, 14M43, 244-246....”