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“...INDEX.
CHINA. PAGE
An Emperor’s Throne 10
Buddhism. J. S. Clemens , D.D. ... 50
,, Prof. Soothiil, M.A. ... 70
Christian Education. Dr. Snape 101, 130, 150
General Feng 121
Medical Missions ... 15
National Conference 8, 29
Twelve Greatest Chinese. B. Mathews 125
NORTH CHINA.
Beyond the City Gate. Mrs. Eddon... 120
Christmas at Tientsin. Mrs. Eddon ... 99
District Meeting. D. V. Godfrey ... 133
Farewell. E. Richards ... ... ... 186
Hinds, Rev. J. W. Bainbridge ... 110
Impressions of North China. Mrs.
Plummer ... ... ... ... ... 39
It Wins Its Widening Way. F. B.
Turner ......... ... ... ... 170
Lao Sung. D. V. Godfrey ... ... 148
Lu Mrs. Mrs. Plummer ... ... 119
Tong Shan. F. B. Turner ... 48, 146
Tranquil Goodness Church. Miss
Armitt .........................198
Turner’s School, Miss ......... ... 79
Women Workers Wanted. Miss
Armitt .........................120
SOUTH-EAST CHINA'.
Farewell. W. Tremberth ........... 12
,, Miss Smith ... ... ... 47
,, Miss Simpson ... ... 198
,, H...”
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“...Richards, Rev. Ernest ... 41
165, 186
Smith, Miss P. B. ... 47
Simpson, Miss E. ... 165, 198
Tremberth, Rev. W. ... 12
Truelove, Rev. FI. ... 165, 187
Smith, Rev. E. W. ... 107
OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.
NORTH CHINA.
Emperor’s Throne ... ... 10
Chu Chia, Journey to ... 40
,, Near ... 48
,, Preaching Shed ... 104
,, On the Road to ... ... 207
,, Scene ... ... 112
Farewell to Rev. J. Hinds ... Ill
Lao Sung ... ... 149
Shantung, Travelling in ... ... 84
Tongshan Church and Congregation... 8
,, Market Place... ... 146
SOUTH-EAST CHINA.
Consulting Room, Wenchow ... Rice Milling, Wenchow ... Temple View, Wenchow... ... 205
... 185
... 141
Typhoon Ruins, Wenchow 88, 105, 124, 144
Wenchow, Hospital ... 101
,, Ward ... 159
Wenchow College ... Young China ... 131 ... 33
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
An, of Tseh Chitoh, Mr. ... ... 138
Chair. A Four-man ... 89
Chair. A Little Girl’s ... ... 90
Chao-tong, Group at ... 99
Chinese School Boys ... 137
Chuan-Miao Women ... 21
Explanation, A Word of ... 66...”
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“...return to our Church in England
bearing to her the fervent greetings of
her daughter-churches in China and
Africa. We bring also the deepened con-
viction that the Church of Christ is ful-
filling the supreme purpose of her Lord
in the mission field, and that our own
United Methodist Church in particular
has been greatly honoured in being en-
trusted with vast missionary oppor-
tunities.
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Prayer Union.
Remember your leaders, the men who
spake the word of God to you ; and, con-
sidering the issue of their life, imitate
their faith. Heb xiii. 7. (Moffatt and
Westcott),
So live with men as if God saw you :
so speak with God as if men heard you.
Seneca.
Hymnsi:
Come, let us anew.
Jesus, be endless praise to Thee.
Saviour, sprinkle many nations.
Jan. 7.—Our new missionaries and
those who have returned to the far field.
Report, p. 3. Heb. 13 : 5-21.
Jan. 14.—The official welcome to the
Deputation to China and Africa. Bristol,
Jan. 17-19. Pp. 3-5, also Echo for
December, 228, 229. Romans 16.
Jan...”
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“...personal friends. Here are the
reports of the work among women and
girls : in China at Laoling and Ningpo and
Wenchow and Yunnan ; in Africa at
Meru. Here is the summary of the
W.M.A. circuit contributions for the mis-
sion fund—a fascinating record. Here
also the totals of the circuit contributions
to the Home and Foreign mission funds.
May the day soon come when we can have
the detailed lists printed again ! Here are
the names of the members of the two
Mission Committees ; for whom the
denomination should continually pray.
Here, the stations of the missionaries ;
the names of the Chinese agents that are
specially supported ; the list of the mis-
sionaries and their postal addresses. This
last piece of information often wanted,
and not always known where to be found.
The reader of the Report will travel in
At Meru. Mr. & Mrs. Ratcliffe and family (Bernard, Bert, & Leslie).
imagination through vast provinces of
China, from the remotest north to the
mighty mountain masses of the south-
west...”
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“...tals. At one hospital alone there have
been no fewer than 189 in-patients, while
4,121 outpatients have made 8,225 visits.
There is work amongst the children.
Swiftly do the generations come and go,
and the boys and girls of to-day will be
the men and women of to-morrow. There
is work amongst the women. “ Much de-
pends on the women,” wrote “A Student
in Arms,” when visualizing" nobler condi-
tions in his native land. The same may
be said, and with equal force, in regard
to the Christianizing of China and Africa.
Then there is that which lies at the centre
of all these activities and toward which all
these activities converge, the pure work of
evangelism, the bringing of the souls of.'
the people into contact and communion,
with Christ.
An integral part of the Mission. Report
is that which relates to the Home Mis-
sions. There is as much romance in Eng-
land as in Asia or Africa, and the evan-
gelization of the world includes both.
■"=9"
“ A Manual for Preachers.”*
This book is presumably sent...”
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“...leadership.
Some thought it was theology ;
some wished it were a practical pro-
gramme for meeting China’s tremendous
social needs ; but the keys of the Church
had to be given into Chinese hands be-
fore any other great forward steps could
be taken.
The one great act of the Conference,
then, was the forming of the National
Christian Council, upon the foundations
laid by the China Continuation Com-
mittee, which in this Conference to which
all its work has led, acted upon the
fundamental principle of Christianity and
lost its own life to save it. The new
Council is directly representative of all
the Christian forces in China, and is to
have 100 members. The suggestion was
made by some delegates that in personnel
the new Council be all Chinese. A later
foreign speaker made the significant sug-
gestion that this question be left to the
Chinese delegates themselves to settle.
■It was decided that the time has not yet
come for such a venture of faith. Of the
new Council, 51 are Chinese and 43
foreign...”
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“...time of the forming of
the Interchurch Movement, were of the
utmost value for comparative study.
There has recently been, as everyone
familiar with current religious develop-
ments in China knows, a sharp aligning
into conservative and liberal theological
camps, probably corresponding to what
has happened in several other countries
following the war. In China this has
been almost wholly an imported matter,
that is, the lead in the controversy, in so
far as there has been one, has been taken
by the missionaries. There was great
fear lest it should cause an open break in
the Conference. It was a rebuke to that
fear, and an averting of what would have
been a terrible blot on Christian history
in the Orient, that this did not happen.
Pleas were ma.de from the platform,
chiefly by Mr. D. M. Hoste, of the China
Inland Mission and by Miss Ruth Paxson,
for the inclusion in the constitution of the
new Council of a statement affirming
belief in “the deity of Christ, in salvation
by His atonement...”
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“...under his inscription of
good wishes he had written Psalm 91. I
opened and read, and the words began to
live, and especially the phrase, “ It shall
not come nigh thee,” seemed to burn itself
into the mind. During many painful and
fearful and lonely experiences since, those
words have been strength and support. I
would humbly and gratefully testify to
the good hand of my God upon me .during
all the past.
During these nearly thirty years
one has seen the Church in China
grow from tiny groups of despised and
Rev C. E Hicks.
West China, 1895---
11...”
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“...China for the Third Time
hated men and women who were supposed
to have betrayed their own country by
attaching themselves to the alien from the
West, to a community with recognized
standing in the country as a force making
for personal integrity and national
righteousness.
It is to serve this Church that I return
to China recognizing that the day has
come when the missionary must obscure
himself that the glory of God may be more
truly revealed through that new member
of the mystic Body of Christ which is
being formed in the Far East.
China for the Third Time. w' TREMBERTH.
ESUS said unto him the third time,
“Lovest thou me? ”
Peter said, ‘' Lord, Thou knowest
all things, Thou knowest that I love
Thee.”
Jesus saith unto him,“ Feed My sheep.”
Mine is the great privilege, at the call
of the Master, to be facing China now for
the third time. One scarcely expected
such a development, at my time of life,
but I am not surprised. The need is very
pressing, and mv experience and know-
ledge of the...”
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“...Principal Redfern and Mr.
Bates, and the Hospital in charge of Dr.
C. P. Yang.
There is a specific thrill in returning to
China in this year of grace marked by the
■epoch-making event—the establishing of
the Christian Church of China. This is a
marvellous result of just over a century of
reformed missionary work in the land.
The new consciousness of a separate
■entity is bound to react with salutary effect
upon the Christians. It cannot mean for
years to come a withdrawal of foreign
friends and workers ; the need will be
■even greater—but it will mean the begin-
ning of a new effort towards complete
self-support and a better-qualified Chinese
ministry. China is a huge country, and
it is still true that there remains very
much land to be possessed. In 1914, there
were 552 occupied and organized centres
of work, i.e., in the Provinces and Depen-
dencies, whereas China has 1,300 coun-
ties, each with its great central city, and
populous townships and villages ad lib.
The outstations numbered...”
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“...in the grounds of Nottingham
Castle the figure of a young airman. He
is only young, but the poise, the tense
earnestness of the face, and the eyes
strained to the skies, always seeking,
denote the intensity of life and of life’s
demands, and the response of the soul.
The dawning of 1923 presents to us the
same demand. Life is intense, life’s
demands are enormous,' and the soul
sometimes shrinks in its response. God
is calling us, our own land calls us, all
lands call. Away there in Africa and
China they cry the cry of ages, “Come
over and help us ! ” Here, they who
hear, and stand waiting—“Here am I,
Lord, send me.” And God, over all—to
us—“Send them forth in My Name.”
For many years the prayer ascended
from an anxious church to a longing
God. Open doors, raise up those who
will go for us. The answer came. Doors
have been widely flung. Opportunities
glorious, and terrible in their glory, have
come ; doctors, nurses, teachers, evan-
gelists, anxious to go, are rising in our
midst, and God...”
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“...tribal movement amongst these
River Miao. Ten per cent of their
language is the same as Flowery Miao
ninety per cent is different,
though related. Before Mr. Parsons took
February, 1923.
his furlough* he translated a Gospel for
these people, and we are hoping to have
this in the hands of the River Miao at an
early date. This and a hymn book will
be the first books ever possessed by the
River Miao.
The first day of our journey was for-
midably hot, but the next day we had
* He returned to West China on October 13th —Ed.
Ch’uan (or River) Miao women.
(See chapel in background).
[Rev. W. H Hudspeth, B.A....”
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“...Prayer Union
gathering of the harvest, when labour
will be considerably cheaper. There are
post-war labour troubles in China as well
as in England.
The opening .services were thrilling.
They started with a seven a.m. prayer-
meeting, at which nearly a hundred people
were present. After breakfast Miao and
Chinese gathered from many villages, and
in this un-walled chapel old Methodist
hymns were sung with a fervour and sin-
cerity that would have gladdened the
hearts of the fathers of Methodism. The
way these children of the hills have
learned to sing our hymns and psalms is
most astonishing. Prayers were offered
by a number of deacons and three of us
preached. The first preacher was one of
our Flowery Miao workers, who has
studied River Miao, and now can preach
fluently in that language. James was the
second preacher. He and I, not having
studied River Miao, spoke in Chinese, and
never have we had a more attentive
audience. My pulpit was a table from
which we told as clearly as we could...”
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“...From the Mission House
Travel by The great regret of the
Picture. Deputation recently re-
turned from our missions
in China and East Africa is that all o-ur
people cannot see what they have seen,
and be stirred, as they have been, by wit-
nessing the fruit of missionary labour,
as well as the appalling need amid which
missions are like streams in the desert.
We could multiply the channels through
which the stream of life would flow if we
could multiply our agencies. The best
substitute for actually visiting our mis-
sion fields is to' travel there by picture.
Provision for doing soi is supplied by one
member of the Deputation, Mr. T. Butler,
who in all our travels kept constantly
before him the purpose of bringing home
as many scenes as possible for the in-
terest and education, of our churches.
Long before kodaks and films were in-
vented, Mr. Butler was an enthusiastic
amateur photographer, and perhaps un-
known to himself he was graduating, for
the important service he has rendered in...”
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“...uther and his great work, and Britain
would admit they owed a debt to Ger-
many. The war had been destructive of
much, but it could never destroy this, ancf
they would join with all societies there
represented in the effort to pay the debt
we all owe to the world—to spread the
tidings of a great eternal Gospel.
Monsieur AJlegray spoke of the obliga-
tion of France in the present perplexing
times and that his country would do all
she could to help. J. E. S.
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Broadcasting.
The Deputation to China and Africa:
reached London on November 21st. Our
editorial welcome appeared in December
in the form of a poem: by Miss Ford and
an article by Mr. Cosson. These were
timely beyond our hopes, for the best-laid
schemes of Deputation “gang aft a-gley.”
Then, as was fitting, Bristol took its-
opportunity in December, and an excellent
greeting was tendered to Mr. and Mrs.
Butler in Milk Street Chapel, in. which
reception the W.M.A. was prominent, as
was suitable.
The welcome of the Committee was-
also’...”
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“...co-operative efforts of the Federation as
European Student Relief, the mission-
aries of the future are already learning to
understand the outlook and aspirations of
the peoples among whom they hope to
work; they’ are learning to see the
problems of Christianity and Christian
By R. O. HALL,
Sunday, Missionary Secretary
February 25th. of the student
Christian Movement.
citizenship as they present themselves to
Christian nationals of those countries.
Above all, they will go to India and Africa
and China and Japan in search of a
greater Christ than Western Christianity
alone could ever hope to show the world.
And East and West will find Him
together.
Sunday, February 25th, is to be ob-
served in this country as the Day of
Prayer for this mig'hty Federation and
for all students throughout the world.
All those who care for Christ and for the
coming of His Kingdom are asked to pray
to God for this great Fellowship of youth
that it may go forward from strength to
strength, and that it may be greatly...”
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“...to be done in this
field by any committee of the Conference
itself, for the China Educational Com-
mission has, as is so well known, just com-
pleted its masterly survey of the whole
China field, and its report came from the
press just as the Conference opened. The
Conference simply provided the stage set-
ting from which it could be most effec-
tively presented to the Christian Church
in China and at the same time to the
home boards through their representatives
who were at the Conference in full force.
This report, like the Survey volume on
‘■'The Christian Occupation of China,”
should be read by all westerners who are
interested in the progress of education in
so-called mission countries. It is called
“Christian Education in China.”*
China is not yet through with you.
The National Christian Council is just
struggling to its feet ; as we write, it has
not yet found its leaders. The greatest
Conference in China has been held, and
* May be obtained at 7s. £d. from Edinburgh House.—Ed.
29...”
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“...thinkers and your greatest spirits
will be needed to work shoulder to
shoulder with the Chinese leaders of the
new Church. In fact, it chose, through
the Conference, to send the following- mes-
sage on the closing day of the conference :
“To Christians of other lands.” There
could be no more fitting way in which to
close this account of the founding- of the
Church of China, written to you who have
helped to give it birth :
“ An overpowering sense, of the joy and
strength of fellowship in Christ has come
to us who are gathered in a national con-
ference representing more than one hun-
dred and thirty Christian bodies in China.
It has been given to us to catch the vision
of a wonderful united Chinese Church
bound together in the service of the Master
in this great land where the labourers are
all too few and the harvest so plenteous.
Yet we find how this desire of our
Our Veteran
Missionary.
JT was a beautiful day on. the first of
November, 1882, that I first met him.
He had travelled all...”
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“...scholars. It is nothing to
preach for one hour, and, somehow, it is
most enjoyable to myself. Yesterday “the
penitent thief ” was the subject. This,
week the Gospel was never sweeter to my
own taste. Can you dear people at home
help us to pray for a great revival all
through Yunnan?
I am a great believer in open-air preach-
ing for China. Then, too, I have been
reading John Wesley’s Journal and the
History of Methodism ! If only fine ser-
mons could be heard on the streets, I won-
der if they would get more hearers ? Do
you think ministers at home preach
enough? Wesley would preach three
times a day five days in succession. A
man could easily do that in China and get
a good hearing every time ; but it wouldn’t
answer in England, would it?
The great tiling is to have the yearning
for the salvation of men that our fathers
had. It is a horrible business when we
do not much care whether men get saved
or not.
I have visions of a day when a good
chapel, with nice frontage, will appear on
the main...”
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“...race, will ever be an inspiration to our
spirits when the light burns low, or the
embers die down, or discouragements sur-
round us.
I want in closing to thank you per-
sonally for all the support you have given
to our beloved work in my absence. It
has touched me greatly.
With all loving wishes,.
Yours very truly,
Rosa Kate Butler.
First Impressions of
North China.
Mrs. Plummer, writing from Chu-
Chia ■*
“ It is now three weeks since our
arrival here, and we are feeling quite at
home in our new surrounding's. Every-
thing" is very different here from what it
is in the south, except the people, and
they seem to be the same all over China.
Instead of living inside a densely popu-
lated city, we are now just outside a vil-
lage of about two thousand inhabitants,
with fields of wheat almost surrounding
us. The wheatl is, reaped in June, and
then other cereals are sown, and these are
* Previously in Wenchow, 1900-13.—J.B.-.-. •
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