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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. -J- 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. -J- 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.-.-. • 39...”