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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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“...effort, and it is essential, to the success of the missionary movement in China that those who>are in it, either as missionaries on the field, or as directors of the movement abroad, should understand not only the work of their own society and of the 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...”
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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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“...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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“...evangelistic fervour." Few, if any, students of missions, will disagree with liim. The Church is just at the beginning of the evangel- ization of China. Much has already been accomplished, but the more one studies the work remaining to be done the more one is convinced that if the Church is ever to accom- plish her God-given task, it will be by 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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“...48 GENERAL. SITUATION Itf CHINA has been most marked in the provinces of Shansi, Honan, Hunan and Kwangtung. Shantung reports 18 out-stations to each mission station and 26 to each centre with resident missionaries, while Kansu, with 16 centres, reports 20 stations and only 18 out-stations. The total number of centres where regular Christian worship is carried on is given here at 7078, which is about 600 more than the total number of stations and out-stations. Year of Centres Centres oc- n^n;-** n#7,,,. opening to with re- citpied with- Mission Out- J ' Joreign sident in the pan stations stations Zd>nl\ v-m'hi resideme missies 10 years gallons itoisiup Manchuria. 1867 27 5 34 297 71 263 Chihli ............1861 33 7 53 312 237 61 Shantung .. 1860 37' 7 54 963 195 S99 Honan1884 50 18 60 269 90 156 Shansi............1876 48 13 53 180 127 80 Shensi............1876 2S 3 30 9S 113 11 Iviangsu____ 1S43 24 5 96 263 119 276 Chekiang.. 1864 29 2 47 555 397 427 Anhwei .... 1869 22 2 33 118 90 67...”
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“...intercourse exists. It is not unlikely that the improvement referred to is in large part due to the lessening tendency on the part of members of the Catholic Church, as well as of Protestants, 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...”
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“...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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“...IN" CHINA the province. There are separate men's and women's hospitals in some cities; but no city has two men's hospitals. Excluding the Yale staff, which now (1917) numbers five doctors with American qualification, there would seem to be fewer doctors than there ought to be. At any rate, three societies return a total of seven hospitals worked by six doctors. There are many difficulties in the problem of knowing whether to extend hospital work or to strengthen existing establishments. The China Medical Missionary Association opposes the former; we laymen urge the crying need of cities which have no hospital work. It would be difficult to prove to the men who live with a solitary medical colleague that his work would have been made better use of had he been appointed with another medical worker at a 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....”
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“...232 A decade of progress in china works, to secure G$12,000 for additional buildings and equipment. A good deal of experience has been gained in the Pingtu Industrial School under the Southern Baptist Mission in manufacturing hardware, in canning and the like and the result has -been sufficiently 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...”
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“...especially those passing through Sianfu in E. to W. direction. Railroads, None in operation. ProposedPukow (Ku)-Sianfu. Post Offices, 27. Postal Agencies, 170. Telegraph 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...”
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“...Tsitsihar on the N., with Port Arthur and Dalny on the S., and with Antung on the S. E. Post Offices, 147. Postal Agencies, 317. Telegraph Stations, 132. jMissionffry 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....”
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“...former Honorary , Secretary of the West China Religious Tract Society, at Chungking, and no longer has workers there. The residence of a professor (of the London Mission) in the North China Union College has been changed from Tungchow to Peking. New Societies ac^ition to the Federal Foreign Mission ew oceies Qornmj^ee 0f the Churches of Christ in Australia, already mentioned, two new societies have been reported for the first time. Officers of the Salvation Army arrived in China in time to be included in the 1916 Directory, but were merely engaged in language study. Within fifteen months their numbers have increased rapidly till there are now thirty-seven in China, mostly in language study at Peking, but also now opening work in Chefoo. The Free Evangelical Missionary Union of Norway (Norges Frie Evangeliske Missionsforbund) begun work at Sinpaoan, Chihli, taking over two missionaries from the North Chihli Mission who had been six years in China, and receiving two new recruits from abroad...”
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“...our higher education to the needs of the Chinese women. It should contribute to raise the entire economic, social and religious life of China. Mrs. Thurston writes, Science work, to be vocational, needs to be treated from the point of view of woman's needs.'' The great demand for college graduates to teach in high schools suggests that they should be specially trained for this, rather than in methods for primary teaching. *To those interested in this subject we recommend the following articles in the Educational Review. October, 1935, Knby Sia, B. A., "Higher Education for Girls." October, 1914, "Christian Education of Women," Pages 17,18, 19,22-24. April, 1916, page 95, Mrs. Thurston,'''Higher Education of Chinese Women, Aims and Problems." Also, in the Year Book 1913, page 303, "Woman's Education in China", Laura M. White. In the China Mission Year Book, 1910, page 228, "Medical Education for Women"....”
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“...CHAPTER XLII CHINESE RETURNED STUDENTS Y. T, Tsur I have much pleasure in accepting the invitation of the Editor of the China Mission Year Book to contribute a paper on the work of Chinese returned students. For this purpose I propose to treat the subject under the following headings: a history of the returned student movement, the priucipal characteristics of each period, a comparison of the students from Japan with those from Europe and America, their achievements and their dif- ficulties. In 1872, the late Dr. Yung Wing, the WWs^uca- "Fatlier of the Chinese Returned Students, tiona^Misslon took over to the United States a band of thirty young boys under the auspices of: the Peking Government. Including subsequent arrivals there were altogether' one hundred and twenty men in this unique educational mission. Indeed this may be called the first period of the movement to send out students to be educated abroad, although we read that even as early as the eighties of the eighteenth century...”
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“...conditional loans, already amount to $15,100, besides travelling expenses. No additional appointments have been made to the scholarships in pharmacy and nursing since the last Year Book was published. The appropriations for these scholarships, eight in all, amount to $7,100. Two scholar- ships for nurses are still vacant, as the number of women who possess the necessary qualifications, that is, at least one year of actual experience in nursing and a good knowledge of English, is still very small. Up to the end of the year 1916, appropria- Hospitals tions had been made for the support of twenty additional foreign doctors, twenty-three for- eign nurses and three business managers for mission hospitals, and a few grants had been made towards other current expenses. Most of these appropriations have been...”
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“...topics touched upon during the past year have been: 14 The New Home as illustrated by the American Home.,, 4'The Spirit of Social Service," The American Youth," "Mon- tessori Theories and Methods of Training Children,'' "The Conversion to the Christian Religion of Mme. Nieh," daughter of Marquis Tseng. As yet the time does not seem to have stitucncv as arrived for the successful sale of a woman's yct^Small s magazine. The Woman's World, published by the Chung Hwa Book Company, was dis- continued after a year and four months' trial. The Ladies' Journal had four thousand regular subscribers in the first year, and about seven thousand in the second year, with over one thousand copies circulating in the city of Shanghai, but when we think of the immense number of Chinese women, roughly speaking, two hundred millions, four thousand are but as a drop in the sea. Since the close of The Woman's World, The Ladies* Journal has been left as the only non-mission Chinese magazine for women. It is like...”
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“...460 CHRISTIAN LITERATURE From the catalogue of the Chung Hwa Book Company I learn that their issues last year were 232 titles and the year before 313. Bearing in mind that there is a vast number GrwtLherafv Polishing houses in China, though none Activity Cf them approach the two firms named in the magnitude of their operations, we note as an indubitable fact that this is a period of great literary activity. In all China's history there never was a time when so many books were being printed or so much reading indulged in by the people. We turn now to inquire what this multitude of books is written about; what kind of pabulum is the nation feeding its intellect on? First, then, two-thirds of the titles are o^Schoo?Books scho1 They are good school books, too, and are used in every mission school, so need not be further described. But one is compelled to pay a tribute to the eagerness with which the Chinese people seek for education. Attendance is voluntary, and fees are high, relative to the...”
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“...first year on the field, and a study of the whole question as to what part of their preparation can best be obtained at home. Technical matters related to educational or medical missionary work do not come within the purview of this Committee; these belong naturally to the China Christian Educational Association and the China Medical Missionary Association, and other organizations with which the China Continuation Committee is in closest co-operation. From this brief review it will be seen that the Com- mittee is at least succeeding in keeping before not only its own members, but also a larger constituency, questions which have a vital bearing upon the future of the Christian movement in China. Copies of its Proceedings were sent last year to every missionary family in China, and steps are being taken to reach a larger proportion of the Chinese Christian leaders. One mission places a copy of the China Church Year Book in the hands of every one of its Chinese staff, and is convinced that...”