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“...THE CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK BEING "The Christian Movement in China" 1911 ^ \ EDITED BY V D. MacGILL)VRAY, M.A., D.D., Editor of A Century of Missions in China," Author of a Mandarin=Romanized Dictionary of Chinese " etc. etc. fri wm it SHANGHAI CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY FOR CHINA 1911...”
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“...Chapter XIII. Unoccupied Fields ...... Editor 193-205 Chapter XIV. Work Among the Aboriginal Tribes S. Pollard 206-209 Work Among the Nosu ... ......C. E. Hicks 210-214 Chapter XV. Work in Manchuria ......J. W. Inglis 215-222 Chapter XVI. The Work in Formosa ..................223-232 The English Presbyterian Mission in South Formosa W. Campbell 223-227 The North Formosa Mission, by a Committee of Presby- tery ............ ...... ... 228-232 Chapter XVII. Work in the Kwangtung Province H. Y. Noyes 233-242 Chapter XVIII. The Jubilee of a Mission G. T. Candlin 243-256 Chapter XIX. The Work of German Missions in China H. Hermann 257-278 Chapter XX. The Work of The China Inland Mission M. Broomhall 279-286 Chapter XXI. Work of Scandinavian Missions in China Chapter XXII. Work of the Missions, Chiefly Evangelistic 295-352 Chapter XXIII. Work Among the Moslems in China ... 353-354 Chapter XXIV. The Opinions of Evangelistic Workers... 355-367 Supplement2nd Meeting of the Evangelistic Association...”
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“...2 china mission year book. will simply confirm previous opinions, though the wrath of of Mr. Ku Hung-ming and others burns fiercely against them and all their works. china's task. AVe would do well to recall again the weighty words of Professor Ernest D. Burton, of the University of Chicago, spoken at the Conference of Foreign Mission Boards in New York, 1910. 4'Having determined that she will emerge from the isolation which she has maintained for centuries, that she will not simply yield as she has for a hundred years to such pressure as she can not resist, bat will herself actively enter into the life of the nations and become one in the family of nations, China confronts to-day one of the greatest tasks that any nation ever faced. This is nothing less than the creation of a new civilization * * The task which China thus confronts is one of tremen- dous difficulty. Observe what is included in it. A new constitution, which means in reality a new political system; a new army, a new navjT...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. there were signs at one time that the present Empress Dowager, Lung Yu, would like to step into the shoes of her predecessor. The Regent has been too strong for her, and by the aid of his Grand Council, has at least avoided glaring- blunders. He recently proclaimed himself Generalissimo of the Army and Navy.- His various Edicts during 1910 indicate that he is doing his best, and under the circum- stances no one but a Kangsi or Chinshihhuang could have anything more to show than he has. There is much talk of welding together Manchu and Chinese, but several recent Edicts inopportunely emphasize the Manchu overlordship. During the year the Chinese Christians, as related in our Appendix, prepared four presentation copies of the New Testament, one for the Empress Dowager, one for the Prince Regent, one for the Empress Mother, and one for the Child Emperor. But as long as the eunuchs and con- cubines swarm and intrigue in the purlieus of the Palace, little improvement...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. Lord High Chancellor, £10,000; Lord President of the Council, £2,000; Lord Privy Seal, £2,000; First Lord of Treasury, £5,000; First Lord of the Admiralty, £4,500. Secretaries of State: Home Affairs, £5,000; Foreign Affairs, £5,000; Colonies, £5,000; War, £5,000; India, £5,000. Chancellor of the Exchequer, £5,000; Secretary for Scotland, £2,000; Chief Sec. to the Lord-Lieut, of Ireland, £4,425; Postmaster-General, £2,500. what is the new chinese constitution ? We are greatly indebted to Mr. L. R. O. Bevan, Pro- fessor of International Law, Shansi University, for his able resume of the new constitution in another chapter. As he says, there is a certain tentative element in this constitution, and doubtless changcs suggested by experience, or dictated by necessity may be made, but the general result of the strict carrying out of the constitution as it at present stands would be to centralise power in Peking, and greatly curtail the power of the provincial Governors...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. In Shantung, 119,549, members elected, 103. In Manchuria, 52,679, members elected, 50. In Hupeh, 113,233, members elected, 80. Of the 105 members elected in Szechuen, six only were elected under the property qualification. Christians voted freety, and in one instance the Vice-President of the Assembly is a Christian. The powers of these bodies are nominally advisory only, but with this they will not long be contented. The discus- sions were intelligent and dignified, and showed that the Government has set free an entirely unsuspected power in the land. The aim is not revolutionary, but to encourage patriotism, and strengthen the Empire. the national assembly. The first meeting of the National Assembly took place in Peking on October 4, 1910. One hundred of the mem- bers were appointed by the Government and one hundred from the various Provincial Assemblies. These bodies having tasted the new wine of power made haste to agitate for an earlier summoning of a real...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. official liabilities. The Provincial mints were forbidden to coin any save exactly like those issued at the central mint in Peking, but. it was discovered that to inaugurate this reform a large supply of ready cash must be available, and United States, Great Britain, Germany and France offered China a loan of £10,000,000 Sterling, which will probably be arranged. These loans though much detested are now seen to be inevitable. A National Debt Redemption Society which made such a stir at first soon fizzled out. Not only did the National Debt remain unpaid, but more was added to it. At the same time the Provinces were piling up foreign loans on their own account, notwithstanding the efforts of the Central Government to get a monopoly of the foreign loan business. Many authorities counselled China to adopt the Gold standard, but this would require such an immense reserve that it is practically impossible. courts of justice. The new penal code is at last nearly ready...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. The sensation of the year was Professor Ling's speech, which we give in extenso in Chapter V. It is well sum- marised by a leading Daily Paper as follows: " Mr. Ling inveighs primarily against the lack of moral and educational discipline in Chinese Government Schools. The students, he infers, have imbibed advanced ideas without ridding themselves of the irresponsibility of youth. Doctrincs of equality and liberty, culled, we are told, from Japanese sources, have been interpreted as authorizing a general lawlessness of conduct at home, in the school and in public. The most ardent reformers in China can scarcely wish that the new order, with its many untried innovations, should altogether supplant the old virtues that have held together for so long the component parts of this heterogeneous empire. Among these filial respect lias always occupied a prominent place; but even this is threatened, according to the lecturer who took the Foochow scholars to task. In the...”
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“...risen. The story of the Shansi University, which is in a class by itself, is authoritatively told in Chapter V. The ten years' period of foreign control is over, but most of the professors have been re-engaged. the publishing business. The Commercial Press, Shanghai, now a Limited Liability Company, still holds the lead. This press was started twelve years ago by Christian Chinese, who had learned the trade while employed by a Mission Press. After a time, these young and ambitious Chinese naturally wanted to go into business for themselves. They therefore left the Mission Press and opened a small job printing shop near by. By skill and diligence, their business soon increased. When the new government system of education was adopted and foreign text-books were called for, the managers were enterprising enough to foresee the opportunity. They enlarged their plant and began to turn out the desired books. To-day, this Press is the largest in all Asia, employing over one thousand hands, all of them...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. most of the text-books used in the Government Schools and a large proportion of the bank notes which are in circula- tion.5' It has the only three colour printing plant in China. It is said, however, that anti-foreignism has began to interfere somewhat with its business. The demand for its translations from foreign works is declining, though doubt- less the school book trade is bound to increase. Printing presses are, of course, found everywhere, but they are mainly occupied in publishing newspapers. the chinese press. A series of new press laws has been issued, the object of which is to secure official control of the papers similar to that exercised by the Government in Russia. An enter- prising Taotai in Shanghai with the approval of his superiors, bought up the Shanghai vernacular papers for the sum of Taels 183,096.82 together with Tacls 34,634.56 to meet current losses. Part of this sum was paid from the interest accuring on the Huangpu Conservancy Fund...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. appears that a large part of the funds for this line were lost in rubber speculation at the time of the boom in Shanghai, an accident likely to interfere with the company's operations. The Peking-Kalgan line is being extended to Tatungfu in Shansi. Some work is being clone on a line from Kiukiang to Changsha and on another from Wuhu southwards to Kuangtehchow. In Yunnan a number of surveys have been made for a line from Yunnanfu into Szechuen province. In Honan Province, the Railway from Kaifeng, which crosses the Peking-PIankow line at Chenchow, is opened to Honanfu, and work beyond the city is being pushed on. It is hoped to reach Tungchuan in the spring. The Canton-Iiankow Railway has made- some progress in Canton Province, but little is known about it. The Shangliai-Hangchow Railway, which is being built beyond Iiangchow towards Ningpo, had a bitter conflict with the Central Government during the year over loans, and Mr. Tang, the General Manager, was finally...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. By far the greater number of farm labourers in China are slaves. There is no evidence that the Edict has made any difference to those who are in servitude. At Canton the friends of progress rejoice at the recent abolition of licensed gambling, which for years has been a Government Monopoly farmed out to the highest bidder. Viceroy Chang Ming-chi deserves the greatest credit for this act. The revenue from this source is two million Taels, and taxes on wine, salt, etc., were to be increased to cover the deficit. The cigarette evil shows no sign of abatement, but the sale of patriotic tobacco is said to be gaining ground. Foreign liquors are being most persistently pressed upon the Chinese. The demand for beers and spirits is increasing in North China. The Imperial Maritime Cus- toms Returns show a most alarming increase in the import of wine, spirits, beer, etc. Comparing 1909 with 1908, the total net increase for the whole of China is Taels 815,186, but of this...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. GENERAL SURVEY OF MISSION WORK. The Year Book of 1910 devoted many chapters to a minute survey of all branches of mission work in China. That will not be attempted this year, but considerable knowledge of the work may be gathered by a perusal of Chapter XVI. of the present book. In the Recorder of November, 1910, Mr. Ewing has a valuable paper on The Development of the Chinese Christian Church." This will repay careful study. Dr. Gibson deals with Problems of the Chinese Church, in Chapter XI. New Missions.The Anglicans of-Canada, who formerly sent missionaries to work in Fukien under the C.M.S., have now appointed Bishop W. C. White with several clergy to Honan, at the capital of which they have located. They propose developing an educational work in co-operation with various missions in that province. Ultimately, the Honan Christian University may be the result. The National Holiness Association of America have a few missionaries in Chihli Province, while...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. School to Boone College has been erected by the Chinese in Wuchang, and another in Hankow. Mr. Ou-yang, a Tientsin Christian, gave 20,000 Taels to the Y.M.C.A. The Chinese also contributed a large part of the expense of the Christian Headquarters at the Nanking Exhibition. The Bao Memorial Hall, erected by Chinese, forms an important wing of the Lowrie High School, South Gate, Shanghai, while the same Chinese recently paid $4,000 for the purpose of building a new church at the same place. The Chinese Churches generally are contributing liberally to the Central China Famine Fund. A further evidence of the Spirit's power is the decline of trouble over lawsuits. Lawsuit enquirers are diminishing, although some of the oldest missions report their Christians as dissatisfied because the missionaries refuse to take up yam en cases. Education.Though the future of the Educational As- sociation of China is "all unknown," that does not mean that the schools are in a bad...”
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“...meeting held in the White House resulted in a 'phenomenal total of gifts, namely, about $1,500,000 Gold. Professor Robertson's scientific lectures to the higher classes are expected to be a new key to unlock the fast-closed door of the literati. Mr. Sherwood Eddy is visiting the Associations with blessed results. Riots and IndemnitiesThe riots of the year are fully noted in Chapter IV. The Wesleyan Missionary Society, and the London Missionary Society have adopted the practice of the China Inland Mission, and refused indemnity for the Changsha riots. Mr. J. Archibald in the Recorder " for November, 1910, strongly argues against such a course. Report VII. to the Edinburgh Conference is against Missions claiming or accepting such compensation. Plague and Famines.The death of Dr. Jackson and the work of Dr. Christie and his medical colleagues in Manchuria call attention anew to the importance of Medical work and education. Truly they had come to the kingdom for such a time as this....”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. The heroic work of missionaries in North Anhui and North Kiangsu famine relief once more shows that mis- sionaries are ready to care for the bodies as well as the souls of men. It is not yet known whether this difficult and dangerous work can be finished without a toll of mis- sionaries' lives. The Chinese Recorderand, China Mission Year Book.'n The Chinese Recorder under its editorial board continues to move forward at a high level of attainment, and the number of those in the home land who take it is satisfactorily increasing. The "China Mission Year Book" for 1910 filled "a long felt want" and is nearly all sold, and the prospects for a long life for the series; are distinctly bright. Distinguished Testimoni/. Dr. G. E. Morrison, the distinguished correspondent of "The London Times" at Peking, once so opposed to missions, lias recently delivered the following striking testimony: I think it only fair to say that the good name which Englishmen possess in China...”
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“...Councillor and President of the Board of Communications, a man with modern ideas and of consider- able official experience, was appointed to the vacancy in the Grand Secretariat caused by the death of H.E. Lu, and Prince Yu Lang, who had already shewn administrative gifts of a high order, became a Grand Councillor. The promotion of PI.E. Hsu Shih-chang to the Grand Secretariat opened the way for the recall to Peking of H.E. Tang Shao-yi, who had been practically shelved since his return from a mission abroad. H.E. Tang became President of the Board of Communications, whilst H.E. Sheng Hsuan- liuai, who had long held nominally the office of Vice- § President of the Board of Communications but had been kept out of Peking on one pretext or other, was called to undertake his duties in the Capital. H.E. Sheng had for a long time dabbled in currency questions, doing nobody any harm, and had on one occasion presented a memorial to the Throne upon this topic, and therefore when he reached Peking he...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. Ming-chun, who has managed to weather the storm and bring about a moral reform of considerable importance, of which we make note below. The middle of December saw still further changes, but in another direction. The return from Germany of H.E. Yin Chang to become head of the Board of War, and the return from abroad of Princes Tsai PIsun and Tsai Tao, who had been on missions of investigation in connexion with naval and military affairs respectively, suggested changes in the relation between the various bodies respon- sible for defence. Up to this date there had been the Board of War (literally, the Land Force Board) as supreme authority in naval and military affairs ; the Board of Navy, concerned with the Navy, but subordinate to the Board of War ; and the Army Advisory Council, a body of experts advising on army organization. The changes proposed in December and since carried into effect make the Board of War a purely Army Board, equal in rank with the Board...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. session of tlie National Assembly; and the demand, voiced by the National Assembly and finding a ready emphasis in the columns of the Chinese Press, for a responsible Cabinet. We noted in the "Year Book" of 1910 that from the inauguration of the Provincial Assemblies in October 1909 the Government had had not a moment's peace, for the Assemblies had headed a movement in favour of hastening the date for the opening of Parliament. This agitation proceeded very briskly and 'brought forth two Imperial Edicts declining to hasten the period at which parliamentary government should be inaugurated, but these did not suffice to damp the ardour of the leaders of the agitation. They took occasion to renew their demands shortly after an Imperial Edict in May had announced that the first session of the National Assembly would commence in October, the elections thereto taking place in the interval. The immediate outcome of this renewed demand was an emphatic Edict in the...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. residence until the 10th, an answer which did not satisfy them, so that they stayed at the Prince Regent's quarters until nearly midnight, and could only then with difficulty be persuaded to leave. The attendants refused to take charge of the petitions, and it was only when Prince Su undertook to receive and present them that the petitioners were persuaded to leave. This obstinacy led the Prince Regent to communicate with the provincial viceroys and governors, asking their opinion 011 the advisability of hastening the inauguration of a representative Parliament. The last week in October saw great impetus given to the parliamentary movement in the adoption by the National Assembly of a resolution in favour of an earlier Parliament. The pressure was ultimately so great that the Prince Regent gave way, and in the early days of November issued an Edict promising a Cabinet during the next year and a Parliament at the end of three years. This satisfied the moderates...”