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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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“...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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“...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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“...“ 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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“...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...”
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“...a sphere. Mr. Sheppard set sail again for Ningpo •on January 6th, to which mission he first went in 1898. He anticipates continuing there for about a year and taking' up the new appointment in 192.3. It is our hope that Conference, recommended by the Missionary and Connexional Committees, will so arrange that he may remain iden- tified with us as a minister and passion- ary, set apart for . this great and respon- sible position. We cull the following from “The Bible in the World ” for January, from the pen •of the Rev. T. H. Darlow, M.A., Editor. “The Committee has unanimously ap- pointed the Rev. G. W. Sheppard to suc- ceed the Rev. G. H. Bondfield, D.D., in •charge of the Society’s China agency. Mr. Sheppard is a missionary of the United Methodist Church. . . It is now 23 years since he went out to Ningpo He served as one of the revisers of the Ningpo version of the Old Testa- ment, and is a member of the China Con- tinuation Committee. . . Very warm testimonies of Mr. Sheppard’s exceptional...”
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“...A Protestant Mission in Laoling, North China this opportunity to the full. They would therefore beg earnestly for the sympathy and prayers of the readers of this maga- zine for their work. In particular, they would ask that on Sunday, February 26th, special prayer should be offered in Church and at home for the winning of students for Christ and His service. This day, in accordance with the practice of many years, has been set apart by the World’s Student Christian Federation as a Universal Day of Prayer for Students, and will be observed throughout the world. Copies of the official Call to Prayer, and further information will gladly be sent to anyone who will apply for it, to the General Secretary, “ Annan- dale,” North End Road, London, M.W.ll. Let us Pray— O Thou who dost call men and women to carry the good news of Jesus Christ to' all nations, grant Thy strengthening grace to all who have responded to Thy call. Give us vision to see the greatness of our service, and humility to see...”
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“...Chuan. A Chinese medical student who has just finished his course, is appointed to this city for next year, to commence work for the mission.* Our problem is to find equipment and supplies, so that he may have as encouraging a start as we can give him. Of course, he will not be on new ground, as a tremendous lot of medi- cal work has been done by Mrs. Evans, and others, but it will be new to him. Modesty is doubtless a very beautiful virtue, but it frequently gets left out in the cold, on the score that those who don’t ask don’t get. Having seen occasional notices that the W. M.A. sometimes deals in hospital supplies, I thought that I would speak for Tong Chuan. A parcel of bandages, etc., from home would not only be mightily useful, but would let our young doctor see that there are friends prepared to back him up. The terrible understaffing of West China has badly mangled the work here. Where there have been upwards of sixty- girls, I cannot now muster half a dozen. J8 * See Jan., p. 16...”
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“...He then proceeds, “ I wonder if you can tell me who the lady was who at the Con- ference in Newcastle in 1907, sang “Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord is * November last. king. ’ ’ Many many times have I thought of that hymn and the wonderful voice that brought it so close to us that evening only just a short time before Bassett and I left for Africa.” We are glad to send the information. The singer was Miss Cluly Alderson. If the lady should see this we shall be glad. Famine in West China. As we go to press we have sad tidings from Yunnan of a serious outbreak of famine. It is too late to give details here, so we refer our readers to the “United Methodist.” The position is so grave that the Committee has asked the Treasurer to cable £100 for immediate use. Ere this appears the situation will be known to our readers, for, of course, every United Methodist reads the “ United Methodist ” ! Dr. E. T. A. Stedeford. We hear from his esteemed father, the Rev. J. B. Stedeford, that this...”
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“...modern scientific standards. Sixteen buildings, with sweeping green tile roofs and great overhanging eaves, house the laboratories, hospital wards and auxiliary structures of the institution proper. These are situated on the Yu Wang Fu, the ancient palace grounds of Prince Yu. Its Policy. It was recognized when plans for China were first considered, that neither this in- stitution nor any number of schools which one agency might maintain would be able to train the great body of medical prac- titioners needed by the Chinese. The pur- pose therefore in establishing the college was to set standards, to train leaders, to demonstrate what an adequate medical college in China might represent. Thus by a single institution it was hoped to in- fluence an entire nation. The expense of constructing the build- ings has been great. The war, loss in exchange, and the difficulty of erecting Western laboratories and wards and in in- stalling power-driven machinery in the 48...”
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“...March 26. W.M.A. Miss Ashworth’s Report. Pp. 64, 65. 1 Cor. 12 : 1-13. NOTABLE DATES. 1. Hudson Taylor 1854. arrived in China, 7. British and Foreign Bible Society founded 1S04. 12. Dr. A. K. Baxter died, 1918. 19. David Livingstone born, 1813. 20. William Carey appointed a mission- ary, 1793. This feature commenced to appear in April last, and will now cease.—Ed. The Stamp Bureau. Our thanks are due to the following friends who have responded to the appeal for Stamps which appeared last month : Rev. J. D. Crosland, Durham ; Master Geo. Howe, Gateshead ; Mrs. Monteith, Herne Hill ; Mrs. Barber, Barkston ; Mr. Hempstock, Oldham ; An Institute Mem- ber, Walkerville. Will others please fol- low their example? We ask for stamps of any description : British and Colonial, as well as foreign ; in fact, the former arc of greater value. All the money received will go into the Mission Funds. Send your stamps to the Secretary, Rev. F. Cooper, 62 Park Hill, Carshalton, Surrey. 49...”
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“...Father’s will that our honoured brother and sisters have been led to volunteer to return to China after a materially shortened furlough. The severance from sweet companionship and the loss of many home comforts are almost forgotten, and are certainly not considered worthy to be compared with the joy of responding to the call of duty. They are animated by the same spirit which led Pollard to write : “We ” (F. J. Dymond and himself) “ have lost a good bit of our wish for many of our English ideas and comforts. One thing, the people must be saved, and we are here to do it.” ^Delivered on September 28th, 1921, at Packington Street. Islington, at a meeting to bid Farewell to the Rev. W. and Mrs. Eddon and Miss A. J. Turner. (Unavoidably delayed.) Yet there must be times when it is difficult not to be discouraged. It is" not that God fails, but we fail, His workers. The greatest tragedy of the mission field is the disheartenment of the missionaries. They tell us about the successes, and truly...”
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“...himself to become open to the suspicion of a breach of trust.” Yet we are terribly short of mission- aries : and our Foreign Mission Secretary has said that “ nine-tenths of our mission- ary subscriptions come from one-tenth of our members.” Shall we not say to Mr. Eddon, that, so far as in us lies, our Church shall be not merely a missionary Church, but an intensely missionary Church, and that we will strive to fulfil his expectation that “our people at home are going to see and realise the importance of the work that is being done abroad in their name ”? May I say in a few words that I am increasingly convinced of the importance of developing our educational work in China, in which Miss Turner occupies so important and useful a place? There is no time to dwell upon this, but I am absolutely certain that it is essential in order to build up a stable, self-reliant and expanding Church, especially in China, where g-reat importance has always been attached to education, and where the State has...”
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“...the Churches, to know many friends, and to see your wonderful love. Now you are sending my dear friend Miss Squire back to China with me. The Mother Church has given all happiness to me. I don’t know what to say, only God bless you all. With very much love, From your Chinese girl, Shuang-mei Lee. A Notable Record. The sale of shampoo powders for our fund's was commenced by Mrs. H. J. Barker in September 1910. The first year’s income was just over £&; in three years the income was nearly three times that amount; and before the war a steady income rose to ^35 per annum. During the war years, with their many difficulties, business somewhat declined, but only reduced the profits to ^25 per annum. In addition to this handsome sum, the branches and friends retailing the powders made a yearly profit of about ^j25. In eleven years just over £550 was raised for our Mission funds by the sale of these powders. The work involved was great; the exact preparation of the prescription, the packing and...”