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“...INDEX. Page NORTH CHINA. Famine Relief. J. Hinds... ... ... 15 ,, „ F. B. Turner........... 21 A Mission in Lading. J. Hinds... ... 27 Washermen’s Circular ... ... ... 32 Story of Chu Chia. Jessie Esam ... 33 Peking Medical College. E. R. Embree 48 Brigands in Shantung. D. V. Godfrey 74 Our Continued Call. W. O. Smith ... 8(5 Christmas in Tong Shan. J. Hinds ... 94 Education. J. Hinds ......... ... 115 A Message from Chu Chia. D. V. Godfrey ... ... ... ... ... 132 Annual Meeting. D. V. Godfrey ... 133 The Menace of Unsaved China. F. B. Turner ... ... ... ... ... 143 S O U T11 -E A ST CIII NA. The Rev. G. W. Sheppard. J. E. S. ... 24 Precious Seed. T. M. Gauge ... ... 149 Farewell Message. F. B. Turner ... 226 Typhoon in Wenchow. J.E.S. 209, 230 SOUTH-WEST CHINA. First native doctor. F. J. Dymond ... 1(5 Miao-land, 1921. W. FI. Hudspeth ... 29 Miss Squire and Miss Lee... ... ... 46 Wild Doings in Tong Chuan. C. N. Mylne ... ... ... ... ... 47 Meeting the Deputation. C. N. Mylne 81 A Visit...”
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“...Sports ... ... 219 Miao Hut and Children ... ... ... 227 EAST AFRICA. Our Church at Meru ............. ... 45 Teaching Staff at Ribe ......... ... 65 Ex-slaves at Ribe ... ... ... ... 93 Teacher and Children at Meru ... ... 99 The Long Day Closes ... ... ... 171 Scholars-at Ribe ... ... ... ... 185 Mission House, Mazeras ... ... ... 221 ,, ,, Ribe ... ... ... 223 ,, ,, Tofiki ................224 WEST AFRICA. Murray Town W.M.A...................235 HOME AND GENERAL. Niagara ... ... ... ... ... 3 Henrv Martin’s House ... ... ... 9 The Primitive Methodist Deputation ... 71 Wesleyan Hospital at Mysore........... 89 A Chinese Feast ... ... ... ... 133 Conference General Meeting ...........166 China Conference ... ... ... ... 168 Confucian Temple at Chu Fu............190 Tomb of Confucius... ... ... ... 191 Chinese Interpreters ... .......196...”
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“...moment in our history are critical. Shall we falter in our reply to the call from China and from Africa, or shall we seek to overtake our task with renewed energy? The success of yesterday intensifies the obligations of to-day on every field. We dare not turn back. God has entrusted us with this solemn but glorious mission. The Master’s command is in the call of the multitude. The Master’s command is urgent, for the opportunity passes and will pass. The conversion of the world' is the business of His Church. Whatever else we do, if we fail in this, we fail in the one thing that can justify our exist- ence. Let us consecrate ourselves. “Those who have talent give talent ; those who have wealth give wealth ; those who have both give both,” that our Church may render the best service pos- sible at home and abroad to the noblest 'cause that ever called for the help of man. Our work in the world. I.—North China. In the provinces of Chihli and hantung, in what we may call the hinese continent...”
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“...in our Wen- chow mission our church remembers with much gratitude, and whose home is now in Vancouver. It has long been the desire of our Committee for Dr. and Mrs. Plummer to return to the service of our mission in China. We were glad to find that the same desire dwelt in their hearts, and that the improved health of Dr. Plum- mer made it possible for him to entertain the proposal. While the attachments of the doctor are with Wenchow, where he would be happy to associate himself with Dr. Stedeford in conducting our exten- sive medical mission, he listened very sympathetically to the special need for a doctor in North China to take up the work which fell from the hands of Dr. Smith. Ultimately he consented to serve in either of these fields, and to go to China as soon as he can dispose of his present practice and settle up his affairs at Vancouver. We are deeply gratified with this result and anticipate with much pleasure the return of Dr. Plummer to our China Mission. A School of In Vancouver...”
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“...dawning. My times are in Thy hand. God bless our native land. Jan. 1. New Year with the deputation in China. In Yunnan province.* Acts 17 : 14-30. Jan. 8. The task for 1922. The Presi- dent. Home, Rev. T. Sunderland. P. 15 in report. Psalm 92. ’ We are thankful to learn, from a cablegram received in Bristol from Mr. and Mrs. Butler, that the Deputation reached Yunnan Fu on December 10th. Jan. 15. The task for 1922. The Presi- dent, see p. 1. Foreign. Rev. C. Stede- ford, p. fi. Mai. 1, 11 : 3, 1—3 ; 3, 10. Jan. 22. Peking Theological work. Rev. G. T. Candlin, D.D. P. 18, 19. John 8 : 12-27 Jan. 29. East Africa—Meru district. Rev. R. T. Worthington. Pp. 56, 57. Psalm 80. NOTABLE DATES. Jan. 3. China Inland Mission founded 1860. Jan. 5. Robert Morrison born, 1782. Jan. 15. Robert Morrison died, 1872. Jan. 29. James Chalmers sailed for the South Seas, 1866. Jan. 31. Robert Morrison sailed for China, 1807. 5...”
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“...Heywood hints that he might name it “The Banner of the King.” But apart from its. title, what a book it is ! A kind of continuation of the Acts of the Apostles. The very names kindle the imagination. Who that reads does not wish to see Cedar Creek and Jade Ring Island, and spend melodious days making the rounds of Clear Music Circuit until he comes at last to the circuit of Auspicious Peace? The light of romance and adven- ture g'leams on page after page ; it flashes Rev. F. B. Turner. North China, 1887-- Rev. R. H. B. SHAPLAND. on you in a tale of a midnight attack or a house, the kidnapping of a girl, the dis- guised soldiers, the robbers’ haunt, the attack at dawn, the rescue. What would not R.L.S. have made of it! Or there is the graphic picture from a lady’s pen of a mountain side at close of day with a stretch high up of level land and along- the edge thirteen “tables ” set. Each was a circle of wild looking men sit- ting on the ground with a fire in their midst, and hunched up under...”
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“...miserable lack of pence and the more serious lack of volunteers. The fewness of recruits from the home church pains them. United Methodism is generous in its gifts of money, but where are its men? Never in the history of the East African Mission were men more urgently and immediately neces- sary than at this moment. And, again, from Yunnan : A glorious, a wonderful opportunity is ours to evangelise a whole tribe. If the work is not undertaken by us we scarcely know by whom it can be done. We have the trained Miao helpers, but we need the money and missionary to superintend the work. A second Miao movement is at our door; it is insistently calling to us, nay more, it is press- ing right in upon us, it is literally taking us by storm. Or listen to this from North China from the midst of a great famine area : The people see what is being done for the destitute villages at our chapel premises crowd the compound for worship Sunday by Sunday. The 150 candidates reported there are but a fraction of those...”
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“...anxious that “the fields white unto harvest ” should command a more adequate response both of workers and Christ-honouring supporters. Let our response to the call be imme- diate and effective in the name of Christ, and in the spirit of the lines which head these paragraphs. [Mr. Welch’s address is : 24 Lewiston Place, London, N.16. Verb. sap.—Ed.] -J- “ On Eagle’s Wings.” Robert Louis Stevenson thus wrote to a lady friend who was entering work as a missionary : “ So at last you are going into mission work, where I think your heart always was. You will like it in a way, but re- member it is dreary long. Do you know the story of the American tramp who was offered meals and a day’s wage to chop with the back of an axe on a fallen trunk. “ How can I go on chopping when I can’t see the chips fly 1 ’ You will never see the chips fly, never, and be sure you know it beforehand. The work is one long dull disappointment, varied by acute revul- sions ; and those who are by nature coura- geous and cheerful...”
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“...ultimately admits practically that other people have an anxiety equal to his own. Stimulating ! As a set-off let us note “The Moving of the Waters in China,” in “The Con- temporary Review ” for the same month. This remarkable article is by a Chinaman —M. T. Z. Tyau. As a finger-point to other progress, let us see what he says about Education. “ Eleven years ago one out of every 400 people in the Empire received public education.: there were 42,000 schools, and 1,000,000 students. At the end of 1919 the proportion has been reduced to 1 in 80, viz., 41 millions of pupils in 134,000 schools. There are also 740 libraries, 2,700 lecture-halls, 1,727 reading rooms, 10 museums, 81 schools for backward students, 1,242 half-day schools for the poor and desti- tute, 37 open-air schools, and 4,593 elementary schools. If the pupils of government schools, mission schools, 11...”
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“...also to its greater agricultural, industrial, and scientific development.” Pokomo (German) Mission. In a further communication to the- Neukirchen Mission from Gudina, the excellent native leader of the work amongst the Pokomo, he records good progress and a glorious awakening’ throughout their country on the Tana in British East Africa. In many places scarcely any heathen remain. The editor of the Mission Journal adds : “Our neighbours the missionaries of the United Methodist Church of Eng- land, have since last year undertaken with vigour and in brotherly spirit the- supervision of the Churches which our missionaries had to, leave.” It is stated that the work in Urundi, in what was formerly German East Africa but is now under the administra- tion of the Belgian Government, has been similarly undertaken by the Belgian Evan- gelical Mission, but that in that country German representatives of the mission of the {Catholic'} White Fathers have been permitted to continue their labours. Attention...”
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“...anthropology, economics, sociology, psychology, pedagogy and moral hygiene—a group of ungainly words, dull and repellent in their text-book connotation, but full of vivid interest to the missionary who finds in them allies who can multiply his power to serve.” Of course other specialised studies are necessary for one who is to be a doctor or nurse or industrial worker. Experts still differ on the vexed ques- tion as to whether the out-going mission- ary should, before he leaves tfie home- land, study the language of the people to whom he is to minister. “Some mission boards make the study of phonetics compulsory; provision is made for it in all training centres which work on modern lines. Some who are well entitled to an opinion hold that actual study of a living African or Asiatic language should not begin in the West; others, and their num- ber augments rapidly, hold that under proper auspices and with teachers trained scientific- ally to instruct in their mother tongue, a thoroughly satisfactory...”
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“...workers at home as well as abroad, in that it points to the source of our only sure hope and strength and reminds us that “the greatest service we can render to the world is to keep our hearts open to God,” that “we must renew our souls in communion with God who is our life,” and then “return to the world to apply to all its life the new knowledge we have gained of God.” The book closes with a helpful series of short but instructive appendices on such subjects as the religions of India, Africa and China, the study of language, the preservation of health, and even the prosaic but important matter of account keeping and business method, each being written by one specially qualified to deal with his own subject. A useful biblio- graphy is given in connection with each chapter, and with most of the appendices, and a list of selected articles from the “International Review of Missions” is added. Altogether a wonderfully large amount of extremely valuable information is compressed into the 164 pages...”
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“...and some of the woodwork of their houses had been pulled down and dis- posed of. Some little relief had been given by the local officials, but not enough to benefit the starving- people to any appreciable extent. In some cases only a few coppers were given or a few pounds of grain. One village which is mentioned, with a population of 140 families, received 128 copper cents, not quite one dollar. Our Famine Relief. distribution band consisted of six from the Roman Catholic Mission and six from the English Methodist Mission, with Rev. Father Scherjon and Rev. J. Hinds. The work was principally carried out by Father Scherjon and Rev. J. H. Su, Mr. Hinds taking the principal charge of arrange- ments at Tongshan and of finances. The Kailan Mining Administration placed their skating rink at our disposal for storing the grain, and took free discharge of the same. We are much indebted to the engineer- in-chief, A. Docquier, Esq., and to Mr. P. W. Sinnott, and other members of-the staff, for their...”
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“...“ A Man that Hath Friends . . Our first Native Doctor in West China. Rev. F. J. DYMOND. We have just had the great pleasure of welcoming Dr. Wang, the first student from Chaotong to take his medical degree at the Union University, Ch’eng-tu. I enclose his photo ; we hope we may see it in the Echo. I will make a few extracts from a letter, and the West China Missionary news. The Rev. J. L. Stewart, D.D., of the Canadian Methodist Church, writes : " Allow me to congratulate you and your mission on young Dr. Wang. He is a splendid Chrstian chap. Hope he reaches you safely to serve long. ’ ’ “The Christian doctor ” was well repre- sented by Dr. Wang-K’ai-chee, who has just graduated in medicine, and brought to his subject a great enthusiasm that was certainly contagious. Many students wanted to be doctors, after hearing this address. ” Dr. Wang K’ai-chee gave four splendid talks on health problems. He was many years under Rev. C. E. Hicks’ tuition. His success is most gratifying to us all....”
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“...my health, it was necessary for me to retire. Mrs. IV Wood took up the task which I was obliged to lay down, and during the suc- ceeding years in which she carried on that work she won the admiration of the Coun- cil for her tact, close attention to busi- ness, and clearness of judgment on all knotty questions. Mrs. Wood has a very intimate relation to our missionary his- tory, through her late uncle, the Rev. Thomas Truscott, who was for seven years general superintendent of our Sierra Leone Mission. Her father, the Rev. John Truscott, was a delightful man, and, A. DOBSON. like his brother Thomas, held in deep, regard in his circuits. Mrs. Wood carries with her the good wishes of a large circle of old friends for her Presidential year, and they will watch with interest accounts of her visits to the various Districts for propaganda work, which, we are informed, she has already begun. Our President’s Message for 1922. Mrs. Dobson has asked me to write a New Year’s message for the members of...”
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“...the medium of the Echo or “U.M.” I think if all our requests were so quickly answered, we should be always asking for something. Would the response for workers and finance be as ready? Is there a probability of a doctor coming? The mere thought makes me almost beside myself with joy. At the same time, if a doctor comes along, more money will be needed. I, being a mere nurse, just manage, but, of course, I cannot do things as they should be done. I am always having to remember that I am on the mission field and not in an English hospital.” Our President writes : "I want to appeal to all our branches to pray especially for a doctor for Meru. It is almost a scandal that such a mis- sion station should be without a doctor. It is on our hearts and in our minds all the time ; but are we really praying about * Mr. Edward Snowball, of Hesliam.—Ed. it? If every member of our Auxiliary made this a special matter of prayer for the New Year, I am sure that a doctor and adequate means for his support...”
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“...An Incident from “ China and Modern Medicine ” Poe Chi' has recently been sent to the American Baptist Training School at Ningpo—staffed by lady graduates from American colleges—to take her diploma as a teacher, and also to study English and music. Funds are in hand to carry her through perhaps two years, but £50 more is required for her to complete the full course. Mrs. Stobie, writing to Mrs. Butler, makes an urgent appeal for this sum, to be given by some of our wealthier workers at home, so that the general working funds of the school may not be hampered, nor the girls’ educational course shortened. Some mother, perhaps, has lost her daughter, whom God has called to the Home land, where college fees are un- necessary. Will you give Poe Chi' a chance in memory of your own precious pearl? Or perhaps your daughter is hap- pily settled in her own home or in some congenial sphere of work. Will you give £50, or a part, as a special thank-offer- ing? If ten mothers give £5 each, we have the...”
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“...Flood and Famine Rev in North. China. F. B. TURNER. GHINA suffers constantly from severe and widespread floods : these are not to be regarded, as some would have it, as the visitation of Heaven ; they are rather to be attributed to the indiffer- ence of the rulers, and their determination to fill their private purses : for Govern- ment funds have constantly been allotted for measures towards prevention of floods, but a mere fraction has been spent by local officials in conservation of rivers, the balance going to enrich these mandarins. Rivers must travel far to reach the sea : through the denudation of hillsides of their forests and undergrowth by the people, under the venial connivance of officials, the very soil of mountain sides is 1 carried down by heavy rains : whole ranges of hills are reduced to bare rock, and river beds have filled with silt. In- stead of honestly dredging these, the offi- cials have allowed the beds to rise ; and have merely piled up low mud banks, which in normal...”
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“...resulted in the loss of the wheat harvest in May and June, and of the great harvest in the autumn of last year. The result was the most appalling destitution—a famine such as has not been known in the history of China—over twenty millions of people being affected. But for the wide floods already referred to, these people would have had something to fall back upon : but with nothing laid by, and no harvest reaped, the destitution was extreme. *See Echo, 1918, pp. 14 and 28. . Benevolent Chinese and Europeans in Tientsin united in forming the North China International Society for Famine Relief; and while issuing appeals for funds to all the world, we conducted a thorough investigation of conditions over the entire stricken area. Information was sought and obtained from every mission station, Catholic and Protestant, in the five provinces, and on the basis of condi- tions thus ascertained schemes of relief were arranged. Geographically the destitute area was so vast and unwieldy that relief...”
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“...Flood and Famine in North China •writer in the work of the Distribution Board or in the local relief schemes which it furthered, four have lately passed away, Rev. Pere Duquesne, S.J., of the Catholic Mission, Tientsin ; Mr. Frank Fearon, of Tientsin; Dr. Norman P.rescott, of the L.M.S., and our own Dr. G. Purves Smith. They gave themselves : “their works do follow them ” : it was worth while dying in so great a cause. It is something to have lived for—to have had a leading hand in saving a million people from death. Alas, many were beyond our reach, and one could tell heart-rending tales of homes swept bare, of scattered families, of wives and daugh- ters sold to a life of shame, even of can- nibalism, to such straits were these wretched people •driven. One’s correspond- ence in several lan- guages was im- mense, and was daily so full of sad- ness that, had one not steeled oneself to go through with this task, one would have been broken up with overwhelming emo- tion as appeals were received...”