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“...THE
CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK
- / BEING
"The Christian Movement in China"
(THIRD YEAR OF ISSUE)
EDITED BY
Rev. O. H. BONDFIELD
SHANGHAI
CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY FOR CHINA
19 12...”
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“...THE YEAR BOOK IS SOLD:
In Great Britain by
The Religious Tract Society, St. Paul's Churchyard, T,ondon, TvC.
Iu Canada by
Foreign Mission Committee, Presbyterian Church in Canada, Toronto.
or Young People's Forward Movement Dept. 33 Richmond Street, West,
Toronto.
In the United States by
Missionary Kducation Movement, Fifth Avenue, New York....”
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“...writers whose contributions, so willingly made, comprise
the greater part of the book. I must also express my
hearty appreciation of the services of Miss M. V. McNeely
and Mr. T. Leslie. The former has done all the drudgery
and the latter has read the proofs and made very valuable
suggestions. Both have placed me under deep obligation
by their willing help.
Next year Dr. MacGillivray expects to issue the Year
Book under his own supervision.
G. IT. B.
Editor pro ten)....”
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“...of the Early
Civilisation in China, ?>: Causes of the Ar-
rest of China's Civilization, 4 : Causes of
the Survival of China's Civilization, 8:
Causes of the Renaissance of China's
Civilization, 11: Chinese Institutions and
Recent History, 12: Clan Government, l!>:
Village Government, 14: Guild Govern-
ment, 15: Recent Political History, 17:
Dangers confronting China, 21 : Mission-
ary Polity, 24: Leading Events in 1911.
11. G O V ERNM EXT C H ANGES and N ATIONAL
MOVEMENTS. W. Sheldon Ridge
International Affairs, 35: National As-
sembly, JJ8: Cabinet, 41: Railways and
Loans, 42: Throne and National Assemb-
ly, 50: Reform Movements, 52: The Re-
volution, 01: Negotiations for Settlement,
70: Provisional Republican Gevernment,
74: Abdication, 76: Yuan Shih-k'ai, 78.
III. TITE REVOLUTION. Dr. Fong F. Sec.
History of Movement, 82: Yuan Shih-k'ai,
85: Peace Conference in Shanghai, 8S:
Dr. Sun Yat Sen, 89: Abdication, 90:
New Government, 91 : Christianity in
China, 94.
IV. THE OUTLOOK and OPPORTUNITY...”
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“...vi
CONTENTS.
Chapter ^ Pack
IN CENTRAL CHINA. Rev. A. J.
MacFarlane...... ......... 10.,
Effect of the Revolution 011 Missionary
Work, 103 : EfTect of Missions on the
Revolution, 10<>.
IN MID CHINA. Rev. A. P. Parker. 108
Changes and Reforms, 10S: New Education,
110': Prospects for Christian Work, I IT.
V. POPULATION OF CHINA Ex Custos 11?,
Early Statistics, 11:1: Census Taking, 114 :
Comparative Table, Ho : Census Figures
PUO, 117: Notes on Unreliable Character
of Figures, etc., by Editor 110.
VI. MISSION WORK AND RECENT DE-
VELOPMENTS IN CHINA'S DEPEN-
DENCIES ......... ... ... 122
TIBET..........Rev. John R. Muir 122
Independence, 122: British Expedition,
122: Government 123: Chinese Govern-
ment, 125: Missionary Prospects, 120.
TIBET....... ...... Editor 127
Missions at Work, and What has been done.
STNKIANG, OR CHINESE TURKES-
TAN.......... ... ...Editor 131
Position, 1:11: Area. 132: Government. 1:12:
Missions and Work .133:
MONGOLIA. ... .........Editor 1:1-1
Area and Population...”
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“...and Aims, loo : Courses oL' Study,
.150: Plans lor Religious and Moral
Teaching, 157: Missionary Opportunity,
158.
IX. OCCUPIED FIELDS: What Constitutes
Occupation ...... ...... ... 15U
HWANGYEN IISTEN. Rev. C. Thomson 151)
Area and Population, 101: C. I. M. Work,
1.01: C. M. S. Work, 1(53: Map.
NINGPO, City and Prefecture. Rev. G. W.
Sheppard ............... 1(35
Area and Population; 163: Missionary
Pioneers 1(3(3: American Board Mission,
1(37 : American Presbyterian Mission 1.07 :
Church Missionary Society 107: China
Inland .Mission 108: United Methodist
Mission, 108.
PROVINCE OF CHE Iv IA NG. Rev. Alex.
Miller.................. 170
Missions at Work, 170: Missionaries 171:
Chinese Workers, 171: Church Members,
172: Chapels, 172: Map 17:5....”
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“...viii
CONTENTS.
Chapter* Pace.
X. A YEAR'S WORK IN A MISSION DIS-
TRICT....................................174
SINMINFU DISTRICT.
Rev. J. On id von a 175
Plague, 'Revolution and Famine, 174;
Student Evangelists 175: Educational
AVork 170: Classes untouched 177.
XI. PREACHING AS A MISSION AGENCY. 178
Replies from, (1) Rev. Hope Monerieii',
178: (2) Rev. A. A. Fulton, 181: (3)
Rev. H. R. A Yells 182: (4) Rev. G. (J.
Warren, 183: v5) Rev. C. N. Caldwell,
185: ((>) Rev. T. N. Thompson, l8(j: (7)
Rev. Hunter Corbett. 187: (8) Rev. F.
Harmon, 188: (9) Rev. J. Goforth, li.ll:
(10) Rev. A. King, 192: (11) Rev. A-
Lutley, 193: (12) Rev. J. Carson, ISM:
(13) Rev. T. 0. Fulton, 1<>7: (14) Rev. A.
R. Crawford, 198: (15) Rev. J. Keers,
199: (10) Rev. AY. II. Gillespie, 200.
The training of a Preacher, 179: Value of
direct Evangelism, 180: Joint AVork for
Foreign and Chinese Evangelists, 180:
Effective Open-air Preaching, 181: A'il-
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“...Rev. Bishop White 208
Work in Hunan. Establishment, 208:
Policy, 209: Staff, 209: Stations, 209.
AMERICAN CHURCH MISSION.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Graves 210
History, 210: Territory, 210: Division into
Districts, 21.1: Methods, 211: Work in
Shanghai District, 212: Work in Han-
kow District, 213: Work in Wuhu Dis-
trict, 213: Statistics, 214,
XIII. CHINESE INDEPENDENT AND SELF-
SUPPORTING CHURCHES. Editor 21(i
CHINESE CHRISTIAN UNION. 210
Purpose 210: Establishment and Progress.
210: Independent Church of Shanghai,
217: Constitution, 217: Self-supporting
Chinese Church and Self-governing
Church: Difference between. 219.
TO TSAI INDEPENDENT CHURCH,
HONGKONG ............ 220
Beginnings 220: London Mission. 220:
Officers and Management 221: Sunday
Schools and Young People's Societies,
221: Membership and Attendance, 222:
Outside Interests 222.
XIV. THE ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN HAKKA
MISSION. Rev. M. C. MacKenzie 224
Stations. Work, and Workers....”
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“...MISSIONS IN
11)11....... Dr. C. J. Davenport 200
Plague, 200: Dr. Arthur Jackson, 201:
Flood and Famine in Central China, 201:
Revolution and Red Cross hospitals, 201:
Some figures on Medical work done, 202:
Survey, 202: Lack of workers, 203:
Extension, 203: Distance travelled by
patients, 204: Nursing, 204: Private
Ward accomodation, 204: Medical Edu-
cation, 203: Translation Work, 205:
Losses, 200: Publication Committee's Re-
port, 207.
XVI11. UNION AND FEDERATION..................270
GENERAL PROGRESS OF THE MOVE-
MENT. ...... Dr. T. Cochrane 270
Union in Manchuria, 270: Chilili : North
China Educational Union, 270: Shan-
tung: Union in Higher Education,Shan-
tung Christian University, 27L: Reports
from other provinces, 272/3. Co-opera-
tion of E.B.M. and A. P. M. in Shan-
tung, 274: Chinese Union Churches, 274:
Proposals for Church Union, 275:
CHURCH UNION IN WEST CHINA.
Rev. J. Beech, D.D. ......... 270...”
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“...THE IDEAL TRANSLATION.
Rev. John "Wherry 279
AVhat a translation is, 279: Care needed to
preserve the spirit and character of the
Scri ptu res, 280: AI an d ari n o r Weill i ?
282: Difficulties of various readings must
be eliminated, 28:>: Style to be used in
Ideal translation, 284: Extreme Literalism
must be avoided, 285: Differences in
Language Construction 280: Can style of
Chinese Classics be adopted? 288:
CHINESE VERNACULAR SCRIPTURES.
Rev. T. W. Pearce 26\)
The place of the Scriptures in China, 289:
Bible reading among non-Christians, 290:
Need for Vernacular Scriptures 290:
Notes on existing Vernacular Versions,
291 : Hints as to language may be
gathered from periodical press. 292:
TRANSLATION AND REVISION. Editor. 2\)o
AVenli version, 295: Mandarin Union ver-
sion, 296: Taichow 290: Wenchow, 297:
Kienning, 297: Swatow, 297: Hakka,
297 Mongolian, 297. Hwa Miao and
Nosu, 297:
BRITISH & FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.
Editor 298
A summary of the work done given in
figures.
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY...”
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“... Miller 308
Places and number of schools, 308: Daily
Programme 300: Courses of Study, 309.
NANKING BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL.
Rev. J. C. Garritt 309
Establishment, Accomodation, and Ma-
nagement, 310: Students, 310: Courses
of Study 310.
Y. M. C. A. BIBLF STUDY Literature.
W. B. Pettus 311
Prepared to meet the. needs of Association
men, 310: Training for Leadership, 311:
Study of World's needs an important
part of work, 311: List of books, 312.
XXL CHRISTIAN LITERATURE...... ... 316
C. L. S. FOR CHINA. Rev. E. Morgan 316
Year's work has been preparatory, 310:
Distribution alfected by general unrest,
310: Support, 310: Staff, 310: Magazines,
317: Aim of Society, 317: Publications
318-9....”
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“...R. T. S. ORGANIZATIONS.
Rev. John Darroch 319
AVest Chinti, AVork .suspended 011 account
of Revolution, ... ...... 320
Central China, The new building at Han-
kow not damaged during hostilities, 320:
Prospects, 320: Secretary needed 321.
Chinese R. T. S. New Editorial Secretary,
321: Work of year, 321: Grants for Red
Cross hospitals, and Soldiers, 321: Reli-
gious Liberty in China, 322: Effect of
.Distribution Fund on Tract Societies, 322.
DISTRIBUTION FUND.
Rev. AV. E. Black stone 323
Foundation, AVorking arrangements, Com-
mittee, Works prepared and distributed.
NEW RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS.
Rev John Darroch 325
R. T. S. Marked New Testament, 325:
Traveller's Guide 320: Calendar, 32(3.
C. L. S. A large and varied list maintains
the Society's high Standard, 32(5: States-
men Series and Tracts for the Times 32/ :
Notes 011 P. M. Press, C. T. Society and
West China R. T. S. books.
XXII. CHINESE SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.
Rev. E. G. Tewksbury 328
Executive Council, 32S: Auxiliary Local
Union, 328:...”
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“...OCIA-
TION....... From Annual Report
Great Advance during year, 330: Buil-
dings-Funds from America call forth
liberal Chinese support, 336: Advance in
( ity religious work, 337: Setting men to
bring in others, 338: Prominent Chinese
as members, 338: Bible Study, 338:
Mr. Eddy's Mission, 338 : S. V. M. calls
men for the Ministry, 339: Student Con-
ferences for Christians and non-Christi-
ans, 339: Science Lectures open the door,
339: Work amongst Chinese Students ab-
road, 339: Physical Education, 340: In-
dustrial Education, 340 : Progressthe
new magazine, 340: Publications of the
year, 341: Co-operation, 341.
XXV. SECULAR CHINESE PRESS... ......
CHINESE PRESS IN SOUTH CHINA.
Rev. C. Bone
Early papers were regarded as curiosities,
342: Hongkong's ten papers, 342: Tone
and Popularity, 343: Canton papers and
the difficulty of meeting popular require-
ments and official demands, 343: Style,
343: Scope, 344: Influence, 3-15: In
China readers rule, 346.
LEADING POLITICAL NEWSPAPERS.
Yr. T. Tsur...”
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“...CTIEFOO INDUSTRIAL MISSION.
James McMullen 353
Various activities, 353: Publications, 354.
INDUSTRIAL WORK FOR WOMEN.
Mrs. S. K. McCartney ......... 354
Reasons for starting, Object, Accomoda-
tion, and Work done.
XXVII. PHYSICAL TRAINING IN CHINA. .
Hugh A. Moran 350
Introduction, 350: Popularity in North
China, 357: Work of training West China
students, 357 ; Progress in Central China,
357: Government Schools taking up
athletics 357: Lack of opportunity in
Tokyo, 358: National Sports at Nankins,
35S: Chinese Athletic! records, 350: How-
to reach young men, 300: Importance of
Physical Culture in Christian work, 300:
Chinese Y. M. C. A. work of encouraging
sports, 301 : Policy 301.
XXVIII. INTERNATIONAL REFORM BUREAU.
Rev. E. W. Tlnving. 303
Establishment and efforts, 303: Anti-Opium
Movement, 304: New Plans of work, 304:
Co-operation with all other Soeioties,
304: Publication Department, 305:
XXIX. EVANGELISTIC WORK COMMITTEE-
REPORT. Rev. A. R. Saunders 300
XXX. MISSION REPORTS AND STATISTICS...”
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“...Administrative Functions)
Announcement of Abdication: Reply: Re-
signation of First Provisional President:
Provisional Republican Constitution:
D List of Officials of the Chinese Republic............32
E. The Abolition of Religious Disabilities ............33
F. Obituaries ...... ......... 34
G* Books on China and Chinese affairs ............43
H. Magazine Articles on China............ 48...”
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“...Blind ......... 72
L. International Plague Conferences ... ...... 74
Plague outbreak in Manchuria: Prompt action
by Officials: Nations invited to meet in Con-
ference in Mukden: Notes on the meetings:
Preparations made to cope, with any futures
out-break.
M. The Famine .................. 77
Losses in Central China, Wului disaster, Fa-
mine Committee ; Foreign support; Program :
Relief Works; Difficulties; Work of Relief;
Work accomplished: Prof. Bailie's Scheme,
Mr. Jamieson's plans for preventive works,
G o ve r n n le nt respon si bi 1 i ty.
N. Shanghai Public School for Chinese ...... 84
O- Open Ports ... .........
Statistics from Mission Reports.
Directory of Missionaries in China, with Hong-
kong and Formosa.
Index....”
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“...CHAPTER L
GENERAL SURVEY, 191U
(A) Review and Outlook. (B) Leading Events in 1911.
By the Rt Rev* Bishop J. W. Bashford, D-D-, LL.D.
A* Review and Outlooks
IT is impossible for us to duplicate for the China Mission
Year Book of 1912 the brilliant review of Chinese events
which characterized Dr. Arthur Smith's introduction to the
opening volume, or the full and detailed information which
characterized Dr. MacGillivray's review in that of 1911.
Indeed we have deliberately abandoned the effort to char-
acterize in detail the movements now taking place because
these movements are not yet sufficiently developed to reveal
their final outcome. Placing as a supplement to our paper,
therefore, the barest outline of the events of the year, we
aim in the present review to put hope into the hearts of
helpers. But times of danger like the present demand well
grounded hope, not mere illusion. In order, therefore, to
strengthen our hearts for the struggles which are before us,
let us attempt to discover...”
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Egypt. This fact alone makes China notable among the
nations of the earth. (2) We have in China the strange
phenomenon of an arrested civilization. Chinese civiliza-
tion, beginning before the founding of Greece or Rome,
advanced until it reached substantially its present stage
about 500 B.C. and then halted until 1900 A.D. Sub-
stantially the same type of tools for hoeing, digging and
plowing, substantially the same methods of irrigating the
soil, substantially the same method of making roads and
building bridges, substantially the same style of boats and
houses as prevailed in 500 B.C. prevailed in 1900 A.D.
Families were organized on the old basis of complete
parental authority down to as late as the present generation.
The government was theoretically a pure despotism from
2,000 B.C. down to the death of the late Empress Dowager.
Slavery and polygamy have existed in China during all
these years. The compass was known twenty-six hundred
years before Christ...”
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“...this long sweep of
Chinese history perhaps they will furnish some ground for
hope amidst the uncertainties which now surround us.
Let us, therefore, study in detail each of these four facts.
I. Cause of the Early Civilization of China.
Civilization, like every other movement on earth, is
subject to the law of cause and effect. Life from life is as
true of mental and spiritual progress as of material ad-
vances. The attempt to demonstrate the emergence of a
lasting and progressive civilization out of sheer barbarism,
with no contact with any higher source of life, is as vain as
was the attempt to demonstrate the origination of physical
life from dead matter.
Applying this principle to China, a study of the Tem-
ple of Heaven at Peking leads many sinologues to the belief
that this worship originally was connected with a knowledge
of the true God, and possibly connected with His original
revelation to peoples in western Asia. According to Chinese
tradition, the race originally came from western...”
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“...1()
CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.
According to many competent western writers, there are
traces of a connection between early Chinese civilization
and the civilization of western Asia. Other writers,
however, hold that China's civilization is indigenous.
While the weight of authority is decidedly in favour' of the
earlier view, it matters little which theory we adopt as to
the proximate cause of Chinese civilization. Either there
is an historical connection between the Chinese and those
receiving God's original revelation, or else the Chinese
learned the invisible things of God from the things which
were seen, even His eternal power and godhead. The cause
of China's early civilization, therefore, was communion
with God and the reception of life and light from Him
either through her early connection with the nations of
western Asia, or else, through Him who is the true light
which lighteth every man coming into the world.
II. Causes of the Arrest of China's Civilization.
But a second and more...”
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