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“...THE
CHINA MISSION
YEAR BOOK
1918
(NINTH ANNUAL ISSUE)
Issued under arrangement between the Christian Literature
Society for China and the China Continuation Committee
under direction of the following Editorial Committee
appointed by the China Continuation Committee
Rev. C. Y. Cheng, D.D.
Rev. F. D. Gamewclf, LL.D.
D. E. Hoste, Esq,
Rev. E. G. Lobenstine
Rev. J. W. Lowrre, D.D.
Rev. D. MicGilIivray, D.D.
Rev. G. F. Moshcr
Rev. Frank Rawlinson, D.D.
Rev. W. li^^FrT^ReQS, D.D.
TuLt ^
-Rorts^TXD;:,
EDITORS
E* C Lobenstine"
A* L* Warnshtfis
Secretaries, China Cgij+inuation Committee
SHANGHAI
KWANG HSUEH PUBLISHING HOUSE
\ 918...”
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“...famine and a world war, the
Christian missionary work in China has continued and increased.
This is the reason for another issue of the China Mission Year
Book.
The Book aims to give some description of the background of the
missionary effort, and therefore the articles on the political and
economical development of the country have a place. Moreover,
the facts described in these articles are also a help or hindrance
to the progress of the missionary work. So also it was necessary that
the Book should this year contain chapters on the great floods in
North China and 011 the plague epidemic.
Each year it is planned that the Book shall contain one section
which will be the distinctive feature of that issue. This year Part II
is noteworthy as describing recent developments in ecclesiastical
organization. Special mention might also be made of Part IV, which
is a summary of the present situation as regards Christian Literature
in China, and an indication of the large development anticipated in...”
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“...iv
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 boolc arc the expression of the
policies or the views of the China Continuation Committee, this fact is
made clear; in all other cases, the ivriter of the paper is alone respon-
sible for the opinion expressed.
To all the forty-two writers of these chapters, the editors would
express their genuine appreciation of all their work. Many of these
chapters contain the results of much research, and some of them of
years of careful observation. It is the hearty cooperation of many
busy workers that makes possible the publication of the Year Book.
It would be invidious to mention a few where all have given of their
best. Special acknowledgment, however, is due to the Rev. C. L.
Boynton, who, as in previous years, has read all the proofs and is
responsible for the typographical appearance of the book, as well as
for-the statistical...”
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“...guided through its early growtlrby the common
action of different missions, with its inherent autonomy
fully recognized and safe-guarded.
But the same spirit has been acting elsewhere with
growing definiteness and persistency.
*For details see History of the Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches
of the Presbyterian Order at A moy, by the Rev. J. V. N. Talmage; New
York, 1863. This pamphlet of 74 pp. 8vo., is now difficult to procure,
but it is of great value and importance. See also China Mission Year
Book 1914, pp. 272-8, which contains an article based partly upon
Dr. Talmage's pamphlet....”
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“...CHURCH FOR CHINA
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a A f witliin the missions representing
European churches which officially accept the Augsburg
Missions Confession, one may also trace some diver-
gencies of faith and polity. Perhaps it
might be said that, as a general rule, the European missions
represent the freer, the American missions the more strict
confessional attitude. As a spokesman of the freer attitude
we may quote a writer in the 1916 Year Book {(page 91)
who, speaking for the Danish mission, says: ''The con-
ference of Danish missionaries has accepted the term, 'The
Christian Church of China,' and the principle of oneness as
the ultimate goal at which we are aiming. The general
tendency does not go in the direction of emphasizing the
special doctrines of the Lutheran Church; at the same time
we believe that as the spiritual life developed in the Church
of our homeland differs in several respects from that
developed in the Protestant churches of Scotland and
Ireland, so will a Lutheran mission working in...”
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“...in recent years, and this justifies the recording of
this fact in this Year Book. No justification of any efforts
to unify plans and work is needed in these days when on
every battle front even pride of nationality and of race have
been sacrificed to obtain that unity of action which is
deemed indispensable. These unifying results in missionary
work are seen along at least six lines as described below.
The Fukien Christian Educational Associa-
GlveTand11 tion wl,ich> through its work of unifying and
Experience standardizing the day schools, influences over
Exchanged twenty thousand boys and girls in Fukien
province, was organized at Kuliang and has
ever since held its annual meetings there. The Secretary of
the China Christian Educational Association declares that
three of-the provincial or district educational associations
would have been impossible without the summer resorts at
Kuling, Peitaiho and Kuliang. Each year women workers
ot' the various missions hold a conference in Kuling and...”
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“...the province with forty-seven
outstations, and the Swedish Mission in China has four
stations with thirty-one outstations (leaving no city in the
area occupied by this Mission -unopened), making in all
twenty-six stations and ninety-nine outstations.
The China Inland Mission stands first of
Evangelistic ^ for evangelism, and some of the mission-
aries and the 235 Chinese workers, of whom
seventy-two are voluntary, itinerate over large areas both on
the plain and in the mountainous districts of the South,
*This article, which has-been kindly supplied through the head-
quarters of the China Inland Mission in Shanghai, is supplementary
to the chapter on Shensi in the series of provincial articles "A
Decade of Progress of China," which appeared as Chapter XXIII of
the China Mission Yeak Book 1917.Editor....”
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“...to initiate mis-
Misslonary sionary work among all the Tai people of
Occupation China, literate and illiterate. The China
Inland Mission has already established work
among the Tai in northern Yunnan. The Christian and
Missionary Alliance has declared its intention to initiate
work as soon as possible among the Tai and other aboriginal
tribes in Kwangsi province. The Baptist Mission in Burma
plans very soon to open a station some distance west of the
Mekong in southwestern Yunnan. The North Siam Mission
of the Presbyterian Board has this year opened a station at
Chieng-rung (Chieng-hung), on the Mekong not far above
the southern border of Yunnan. It is because Chieng-hung
is the first station in Yunnan to be opened exclusively for
work among the Tai that space has here been given in this
Year Book for this article. The Baptist and Presbyterian
missions have a peculiar responsibility for the Tai people of
China, first, because their work in Burma and Siam has
always been largely among the...”
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“...the foreign staff: so far as may
be shown by an annotated list of new stations opened,
stations previously occupied by some mission now entered
residentially by others, and stations hitherto occupied
which have been vacated, at least temporarily, since the
publication of a similar summary in the Year Book of
1917. The facts are complete so far as data have been
reported by mission and station secretaries, for publication
in connection with the Directory of Protectant Missions in
China, to appear early in 1919.
In this list stations opened or newly entered by the
allocation of missionaries for permanent residence are
printed in Roman type; those vacated in Italic type. In
the few cases where the occupation began before the period
under review this is indicated by the symbol with the
year, where known. The same of the mission occupying is
given in parenthesis, following the name of the place....”
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“...of administration and distribution. Much valuable infor-
mation was gained by the president of the Association,
the Rev. W. Hopkyn Rees, D.D., who with the Rev. C. Y.
Cheng, D.D., made a tour in North, Central and South
China in the interests of Christian literature.
A Visit to la an -Another tour from which the Association
s o japan much 'benefit, was undertaken in
October of 1917, by Mr. J. W. Dovey, manager of the
Mission Book Company, and also the convener of the
Christian Publishers' Association special committee on
distribution. Mr. Dovey visited the principal publishing
centers in Japan, not forgetting some humbler spheres, for
the purpose of studying the present position of Christian
literature in Japan in relation to the general book trade
and to ascertain the methods employed ip distributioji. As
A 31...”
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“...understand
BooksQCe China the pa;st year has been especially
noteworthy for an accelerated accumulation
of valuable data about things Chinese, in a number of
valuable books of reference. Of these three stand out. The
two volumes of the Encyclopedia, Sinica, by Samuel Coul-
ing, M.A., constitute a compendium of vital facts about
China. This work represents an amount of research that
will lighten the labor and save the time of many. Strictly
speaking, it is an encyclopaedia covering the period of
Western impact upon China, written from the point of
view of what the Westerner wants to know! It is a work
which one may pick up at any time and browse in profit-
ably. Next comes China Mission Year Book, which shows
the results of the impact of the West upon China from the
Christian standpoint alone. It indicates the wide range
of Christian activity and influence, and, in the improved
accuracy of its facts, marks another step forward in the
science of missions. It is an indispensable book to all
who would...”
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“...shown in
Chinese Students Then and Now. The literary activity of
these students is shown by Mr. T. T. Lew in an article
entitled The Voice of the Chinese Student, wherein lie treats of
seven publications" issued by them. We might note that
there has been published for several years in China a
magazine called The Chinese Social and Political Science
Review. Unfortunately we have been unable to get hold of
copies for the current year.
Education Only one book on education in China has
come under our notice that is worth serious
attention, and that is a reprint of Dr. P. W. Kuo's The
Chinese System of Education. It is true that Chap. IV of
Mr. D; E. Cloyd's Modern Education in Europe and the Orient
deals with China, but this is entirely too condensed, is
unbalanced, and already out of date. It appears to be a
study at second-hand and of a type not to be reckoned
with. The articles on education are not numerous, but
suggestive.. An appreciation of the relation of education to
political life is...”
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“...CHAPTER XXXIX
THE SALVATION ARMY IN CHINA
ITS PLANS, PROSPECTS AND POLICY
Charles H Jeffries
I readily respond to the request of the Editor of the
China Mission Year Book to contribute to its pages some
account of the present position of the Salvation Army in
China, and its future policy.
It has been a matter of considerable
ChinaDS t0 surprise to many friends of the Salvation
Deferred Army that it should have left China amongst
the last of the countries in which to com-
mence its work. International headquarters for years
have been urged to commence operations in the 4 'Flowery
Kingdom"; again and again missionaries and others plead-
4'come over and help us." The question of opening China
was continually before our revered Founder, General
William Booth, and during the past twelve years no less
than seven officers were specially commissioned by head-
quarters to visit China and reconnoitre with a view to
commencing operations. Some of them travelled thousands
of miles into the interior...”
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“...PART VIII
MISCELLANEOUS
CHAPTER XL
THE TRAINING OF MISSIONARIES IN CHINA
Frank K. Sanders
At the request of the Editor of the China.
aTisit810 Mission Year Book I am putting into a
brief summary the impressions regarding
the training of missionaries in China gained during my
stay from April to July inclusive of the current year.
They express only my personal opinion, yet may justify
publication on the ground that I have covered nearly all
the activities in China incident to missionary training, and
all but one of the schools organized for the purpose. I
have also discussed the questions involved with a great
variety of missionaries who have taken every conceivable
position regarding them. The result in my own thinking
is virtually as follows:
Principles Three general principles emerge as a
cs basis on which fruitful contributions to the
clarification of the subject must rest.
Training is a lengthy process beginning
Tracing01*8*1 at hnie base some -Years in advance of
Essential reaching...”
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“...in
addition to large bonuses paid to employees. What are the
industries doing for the workers? In general it can be said
that very little is done for the employees without reference
to the demands of efficiency in production. Interest in the
worker as a rule goes as far as what is necessary in order to
secure high profits. In other words, welfare features for
the sake oT the human factor in production alone, have not
yet secured a foothold. Be it a part of program of efficiency
*See China Mission Year Book, 1916, pp. 474-8....”
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“...PART X
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A
CHINA IN RECENT BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Bibliography
i
L Books
A, "Works of Reference
Alias of China, CompleteEdward Stanford. China Inland Mission.
21/- net.
China and the GospelChina Inland Mission Report. 1/- post free.
China Mission Year Boole, 1917E. C. Lobenstine, Editor. Christian
Literature Society. In China, Mex. $2.20. Abroad, Mex. $2.44.
Christian Literature for Protestant Churches in China, A Classified
Index ofG. A. ClaytoK. China Christian Publishers' Associa-
tion. In English, Mex. $1.00. In Chinese, Mex. $0.30.
Educational Directory and Year Book, The, 1918G. S. F. Kemp,
A. C. P. Edw. Evans & Sons, Agents, Shanghai. Mex. $3.00 net.
Encyclopaedia Sinica, Thef Parts I and IISamuel Couling, M.A.
Kelly & Walsh Ltd., Shanghai. 2 Vols. Cloth, Mex. $17.00.
Paper, Mex. $15.00.
English-Chinese Dictionaries, AnK. Hemmeling, Ph.D., Author and
publisher. Mex. $25.00.
Islam (in Chinese and Chinese Arabic), A Classified Bibliography of
Books onC. L. Ogilvie and...”
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“...PART XI
STATISTICS AND CHARTS
C. L. Boynton
For the fourth year the statistics of mis-
Statistics sions in China have been collected on uniform
blanks' in accordance with the schedules
suggested by the Committee on Statistics appointed by the
Continuation Committee of the World Missionary Con-
ference, 1910, with slight adaptation to conditions in China.
The results are presented on four sheets enclosed in the
pocket at the back of the Year Book. They will be found
superior to similar previous compilations in their greater
accuracy and completeness, and in the inclusion of the
totals of previous years for comparison.
The collecting may now properly be termed
StathHcaint a an(^ the %ures reflect the experience
Secretaries the increasing number of statistical secre-
taries who may be considered "permanent. "
Their critical faculties are being trained and all students of
missions, as well as the Statistical Secretary of the China
Continuation Committee, are profiting by this. If all
societies...”
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“...343.
China-Baptist Publication Society,
publications, 227-9.
China Bookman, 243.
China Christian Educational As-
sociation, 115.
China code book, 248.
China Christian Literature Coun-
cil, 221-3, 242, 270; constitu-
tion, 384-6.
China Continuation Committee,
work during year, 266-75;
increasing fellowship, 266-7;
Annual Meeting, 267; official
recognition, 267-9; permanent
building, 269-70; growing spirit
of cooperation, 270-1; comity
report, 271; work for Moslems,
271-2 ? training of missionaries,
272-3; missionary survey, 273;
cooperation of Educational and
Medical Associations, 273-4;
special educational commission,
274; a literate church mem-
bership, 274-5.
China Continuation Committee,
appeal for flood relief, 45;
protest against opium revival,
67-8, great service in promoting
unity, 75-6; other activities,
221, 241, 251-2, 312; publica-
tions, 229; relation to Sunday
school work, 294-5.
China Continuation Committee,
work in connection with pho-
netic script, 142-3; 175.
China Council...”
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“...226-40; Association Press,
226-7; Boone University, 227;
Broadcast Press, 227; China
Baptist Publication Society,
227-9; China Continuation
Committee, 229; China Inland
Mission, 230; Chinese Tract
Society, 230; Christian Litera-
ture Society, 230-1; Church
Literature Committee, 231;
Evangel Press, 231; Friends
Mission, 232; Kwang Hsueh
Publishing House, 232-3;
Methodist Publishing House,
233; Metropolitan Tract Socie-
ty, 233; Mission Book Co.,
233-4; Nanking University,
234; Religious Tract Society,
234: Religions Tract Society of
North and Central China, 234-
7; Salvation Army, 237: Signs
of the Times Publishing House,
237-8; South China Alliance
Press, 238; Trinity College
Press, 238; West China Reli-
gious Tract Society, 238-9;
Women's Christian Temper-
ance Union, 239.
Publishers' Association of China,
241-4. (See Christian Pub-
lishers' Association.)
Publishing House of Salvation
Army, 309.
Railroads in China, 17-18.
Rainbow Club, Y. W. C. A.,
281-2.
Rawlinson, Frank, 248-65.
Recommendations...”
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