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“...take the
principalship of a Middle School. Above
all, he needs to possess the true mission-
ary spirit, whose supreme desire is to im-
part a knowledge of God through faith in
Jesus Christ. We trust that among our
young men one will find in this oppor-
tunity a call to combine high educational
qualifications with the highest spiritual
vocation.
Our Committee also calls for a minister
who is willing to exercise his ministry in
West Africa. He would need a sound
constitution and aptitudes for leadership.
It is said that one volunteer is better than
ten pressed men, and we pray that the
hand of God may be laid upon one quali-
fied for this important work.
Dr. C. J. Dr. C. J Austin has been
Austin. appointed to serve as the
colleague of Dr. E. T. A.
Stedeford in our Wenchow hospital. After
completing his course in tropical medicine,
he will sail for Wenchow per the P. and
O. ss. “China,” on February 1st.
BOOKS TO HAND.
Dr. Donald Fraser’s “African Idylls ” ;
Mrs. Dobson’s “Miss Laburnum and
other...”
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“...Then and
Now.
ORTY-FIVE years ! A large slice
out of a man’s life. I went to China
in 1878 : I return for this fourth
time, and forty-five years have fled.
Forty-five years of almost unique life,
amongst a quite unique people, and now,
at this advanced stage of my missionary
experience, what message can I bring you
which can strengthen and encourage your
zeal for the great work? How enlarge
your sense of its greatness ? How indi-
cate to you without discouragement the
.extreme difficulties of the task? How
paint on the canvas of your imagination
in sundawn colours of redly glowing light
the beauty of ultimate triumph ?
Forty-five years! The briefest sketch
•of the history of the nation during the
period would take more time than is at
our disposal. A sketch of the general
development of missionary work would be
equally impossible. Even the story of
■our own mission for the period would be
all too long.
So I attempt no more than a few con-
trasts by which I hope to bring into light
some...”
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“...Then and Now
work in Shantung ; we had hardly any
schools, our Churches were few and scat-
tered but enthusiastic; the Mission was
almost without organization, no1 quarterly
meetings, no Chinese representatives in
District Meeting, not one ordained pastor,
no definite source of local income, no col-
lections. By far the largest contribution
made by our members to the finances of
the Mission were the rooms lent to us
free of cost for religious services, a
generosity which continues in no lessened
deg'ree until now. We had no, settled rules
in China, no scale of payments tO’ either
preachers or teachers, all was indefinite,
hand to mouth inchoate, unformed.
Now we are a well-organized Mission
of five Circuits, which ought to be called
Districts, themselves grouped intoi sub-
Circuits, which ought to be called Cir-
cuits, each in charge of a trained preacher
or a catechist. We have six ordained
Chinese Pastors, three self-supporting
Churches and a number of Churches ap-
proaching self-support;...”
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“...Then and Now
included, should divert too large a por-
tion of our slender finances into these
channels, to the impoverishment of our
Evangelistic work. It is a significant fact
that to-day throughout China no boy,
however poor, perhaps no girl, need go
untaught. There are Lower, Primary
and higher Primary schools everywhere
supported by Government, to which ad-
mission is free, and all our Mission schools
are simply auxiliary to these. We still
continue to speak of only one boy in ten
or one girl in a hundred being taught, but
in another generation this will be a thing
of the past. If you remember that the
Chinese people are per se the intellectual
equals of any nation, that the Chinese
brain and heart have long ago produced
masterpieces in religious classics, in his-
torical, poetic, biographical and critical
literature, and that in the ancient world
there was no more inventive and self-
sufficient nation than theirs, the illimitable
possibilities of this intellectual awakening
will startle...”
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“...three children, and
try not to grieve too much about the little
one, who had gone to' be with Jesus, the
Friend of little children.
The next day I went to* Stone Gateway,
and was absent three days. On my re-
turn I learned that Mrs. Yang’s next
youngest child—a boy of two—was now
dangerously ill. I hurried across and
scarcely left his side again. Everything
possible was done by doctor and mission-
aries, and the little patient himself, but
on the third night he too> passed away,
exactly a week after his brother. How
were the parents to stand this shock?
Two boys in one week? Sons are very
precious in China. Mr. Yang had always
been a happy Christian, his smiling face
brightening up our Sunday School, which
he conducted every Sunday—and we all
wondered how he would behave. For a
few days he did not smile. He did SO'
miss the little fellow who' used to call
him from school when his meals were
Mrs. Brooks. Publication Secretary (wife of the
Rev. J. B. Brooks). Elected June. 1923.
19...”
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“...that His body
was broken for them and the cup meant
that the new covenant was ratified by His
blood.
A woman has come to ask the mission-
ary to pray for her. Three of her kid-
dies have died, and she is sorely troubled.
Prayer is offered, and the woman goes
away with a new hope, a strengthened
faith, a peace which only our religion
gives. We have explained to her that
her little ones will be all right, as they are
with the Father, whose heart is so tender
that He feeds the sparrow and clothes the
lily.
We turn up and read that strong Psalm
—the 46th.
God is our refuge and strength.
A very present help in trouble.
Therefore will we not fear,, though the
earth do change,
And though the mountains be moved in
the heart of the seas.
There is a river, the streams whereof make
glad the city of God.
That river has flowed to the ends of the
earth, it has flowed to West China .
a pure river of water of life . . and
on either side of the river, was there the
tree of life . . and the leaves of the
tree...”
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“...have
made him a tower of strength among our
churches there. His record is one of
which any minister in England or in
Africa might well be proud, with that
pride which gives all the glory to God.
When the superintendent has been on fur-
lough he has acted as his deputy. We
pray for our brother complete restoration
to health, and that he may live long to
see the fruit of faithful labours. Mr.
Nichols returned to Sierra Leone per the
s.s. “Aba” on January 9th.
Leprosy in Few people realize to what
China. an extent leprosy still
scourges mankind. It is
computed that one in every 800 persons
in the world is a leper. It is particularly
prevalent in the Far East, where poverty,
dirt and ignorance of the elementary prin-
ciples of hygiene produce conditions most
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“...dictated by the Christian spirit.
In the year 1874 the Mission to Lepers
was established for the special purpose
of alleviating the lot of these sufferers
and of conveying to them the consola-
tions of the Gospel. This mission does
not send out missionaries. It supplies
the funds for the establishment and main-
tenance of leper asylums, and relies upon
various missionary societies to provide
the missionary superintendence and the
means of imparting Christian instruc-
tion. More than one hundred such
centres have been formed in India, China
and the Far East generally.
' Through the medium of our mission in
Yunnan, the Mission to Lepers has pro-
vided accommodation and sustenance for
about 40 lepers in a settlement situated
near Stone Gateway. It is now pro-
posed to give more permanence to this
institution. A large piece of land has
been purchased on a hillside within sight
of our Stone Gateway centre, but so in-
accessible that there is no risk arising
from proximity. It will be possible for...”
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“...trained,
on the duties and responsibilities of the
Christian ministry. We are proud of our
Methodist general.*
Christianity.—The fact of most hopeful
significance just now is the formation of
the all-China Church Council, which took
place last year. Its avowed object is the
establishment of an autonomous Chris-
tian Church. A council has already been
formed on which the representation is
predominantly Chinese. It is being pro-
moted by a section of very ardent and,
withal, very ambitious young Christians,
and has the whole strength of educated
Chinese Christian thought behind it, and
the enthusiastic support of the Y. M.C.A.
It is restive under the control, not
always wise, which the foreign mission-
aries exercise over the development of the
Church. It is anxious for the Christian
Church in China to develop in accordance
* See pp. 121, 2, July last.-Ed.
InSTientsin Cemetery. [T. Butler. Esq.,J.P.
The Grave of Rev. J. and Mrs. Robinson.
with Chinese ideals. It should be care-
fully studied...”
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“...Peking Union Medical College, and published in the
" Peking Express.”
A Street in Wenchow.
By Mr. F. W. STEVENS,
Director in China of the
International Banking Consortium.
3. With how. many Christian mission-
aries themselves have you talked seriously
about their work? Or with how many
Chinese who know about such activities ?
4. Have you read any issue of the
China Mission Year Book that tells about
them ?
5. Do you know what is being' done in
the cities of China through Homes for
Boys and Homes for Girls, and otherwise,
by the Salvation Army, a great and
worthy Christian missionary organization.
6. Do you know even a little about the
many fine activities long continued among
the very poor of China by the Roman
Catholic Church?
7. Do> you know of anything more re-
pulsive in human form than Chinese
beggar-women, and do you know that it
is educated, genteel Christian mission-
ary women who are little by little getting
them and their children off the streets,
cleaning them and getting them intoi...”
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“... as they relate
to Christian missionary efforts in China?
Do you know of missionary work in
sanitation and health promotion, or in
helping to rid China of the awful
narcotic curse?
10. Do you know that there are about
236,000 Chinese children in missionary
day schools, and 100,000 in Roman
Catholic schools, and that most of them
would have no schooling but for these.
11. Do you know that the Chinese
modern system of education in China
began with the work of the Chinese mis-
sion teachers and that modern medicine
was mediated to China by the Christian
medical missionaries? Do you know
that China was devoid of anything re-
sembling modern hospitals and trained
nurses until they resulted from mission-
ary effort; and that now there are over
three hundred mission hospitals in China,
nearly one hundred of which are con-
ducted on approximately-modern stan-
dards with up-to-date equipment and
nursing ; and that there are few cities in
China having even one such Chinese hos-
pital which is of...”
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“...Mrs. J. B. BROOKS, B.Litt.
West China. From a Woman’s
Standpoint.
By Miss Barwick.
ISN’T the scenery wonderful 1 ” These
words, spoken by Mrs. Parsons, were
more an exclamation than a question.
We were on our way to visit some Miao
villages, and had dismounted at the com-
mencement of a steep decline, where we
stood gazing at the hills, which never
cease to fill our hearts with awe and
admiration. Many voices spoke to us
as we stood thus. There were cicadas,
piping their shrill song ; there was the
bleat of sheep and goats grazing upon the
hillside, the chirp of birds, the sound of
rushing water ; yet, despite this music
of Nature, a silence seemed to brood over
all, and with the quiet rapture of our
hearts, came the sense of an Infinite
Presence. I looked across at the hills,
and idly noticed their ever-changing
lights and shadows, yet it was not of
those things that I thought as much as
of their strength and steadfastness. “T
will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from
whence cometh my...”
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“...This is the title chosen for
I saw them.” the book in which Mrs. T.
Butler relates in graphic
style the travels and experiences of the
Deputation while touring around our
stations in China and East Africa. Other
writers will properly appraise the merits
of this work, but as a member of the
deputation I wish to congratulate the
authoress, and to express my high appre-
ciation of the service she has rendered in
giving such an excellent record of a very
memorable tour. Perhaps I know better
than anyone else the amount of labour this
task entailed throughout the journey, as
well as in weaving the story when the
journey was completed. Mrs. Butler was
always most diligent in her inquiries and
in recording information and impressions
received, and her great desire has been to
enable those who cannot visit the mission
fields to understand fully the nature and
extent of the work that is being done. In
this volume she has rendered a crowning
service to thecause she has always served
with unstinted...”
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“...Why I Go
to China.
IN attempting to write a few lines under
the above title, I find it noi easy task.
It is never altogether simple to ex-
plain any decision, for one’s motives
themselves are so rarely simple, but the
cardinal fact stands out that I am going
because I must—“I can no other.” The
statement o>f this inner compulsion,
though, is merely the statement of an un-
explained fact, and carries us little farther.
The two great factors underlying it
are, so far as I can see, the true mission-
ary atmosphere of both home and church
life. While still living at home, my
youthful enthusiasm was kindled by the
visits of various missionaries on furlough,
but especially bv those of Sam Pollard,
whom we regarded as particularly our
own,* for was it not from our Providence
Church, Exeter, that he and Frank
Dymond were sent forth for the first time
to their great pioneer work ?
In spite of this, it was not with the mis-
sionary field in view that I commenced
medical study, but as time went on...”
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“...ciated with the name of Soothill, and still
revealing his prescience and energy.
Only lack of means and men hinder the
developments and extensions which he
foresaw. Mrs. Butler pleads with
pathetic earnestness for a re-enforcement
to those who are heroically holding the
fort.
North China comes next. With a fine
unconscious impartiality, Mrs. Butler
says of. Shantung: “It is the most com-
plete mission we have in China.” She
tells the story of a dreamer coming to
Peking more than fifty years ago and
asking for a missionary to be sent to Chi
Chia Tsai, 130 miles away, and of the
phenomenal successes there, as inspiring
as those in Yunnan to-dav, and creating
ft sensation through all the missionary
world of China. The thrilling story is
told in a few paragraphs, but it will fire
the spirit of everyone who reads it. The
great pioneers again stand out—Innocent
and Hall; and the 44 and 46 years' dis-
tinguished service of Dr. Candlin and
John Hinds is not forgotten.
We have no- space left to tell...”
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“...The Gratitude of a Chinese
these two are just such as, by the grace
of God, any two of us might be. Knowing
nothing of a “colour line” we recognise
them, as we do our beloved native
workers in China and Africa, as one with
us, in Christ Jesus.
The Gratitude of a
Chinese.
The Rev. Frederick Galpin has received
the following letter from Ningpo :
Dear Mr. Galpin,
Perhaps a little news of the above-
named College, which is so, closely asso-
ciated with your name* may not be un-
welcome to you.
Frequently as I move about among the
older members of our Mission in Ningpo,
I hear your name mentioned with respect
and love'. Mr. Zi, pastor of our Settle-
ment Church and Chinese teacher in the
College, is very fond of referring to you
as “his dear teacher.”
About six months ago a beautifully
framed portrait of yourself was presented
to the College by Mr. Tsiu Cong Liang,
with suitable inscription appended there-
to. Mr. Tsiu, a former student of the Col-
lege, has become one of the richest
* The Chinese...”
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“...parts
of the world the spiritual forces
which have contributed to its
up-building and expansion.
When we hear the word “ Ex-
hibition ” there springs to the mind
at once a vision of the world ; for
Britain forms so great a part
of it. We must narrow the vista ;
there are empires and empires.
We must think of the mission-
ary impact which has been felt
on the great countries of the
world which are beneath the
sway of His Majesty King
George, aided by his alert and
sagacious peoples.
We possess one-fifth of the
habitable globe. In our domin-
ions there are
Hindus !
Mohammedans
Christians
B u d d-
hists
Pagans
a total of 397,000,000
—nearly as many as
the great continent
of China. And of
course w h e n we
speak of Britain, we
mean Australia, New
208 millions.
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60
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(
April, 1924....”
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“...Rev. C. STEDEFORD.
Rev. G. T. The return of Dr. Cand-
Candlin, D.D. lin to China calls for
more than ordinary notice.
It is 46 years ago that he first sailed for
China* and he has been permitted to
spend a longer period in active missionary
service than any one of our missionaries.
As he has moved among our churches,
many hearts have kindled while hearing
again from his lips of the wonderful
changes he has seen in China during his
long" missionary career. The years have
intensified his ardour, and he hopes to
complete half a century of missionary toil.
As tutor in the Theological College in
Peking he is preparing preachers who
will bear on the torch of truth they receive
from his hand.
Dr. Candlin came home a year ago
under the shadow of a great loss. His
house and his library had been totally
destroyed by fire. He will return to find
his house has been rebuilt, and as an ex-
pression of their personal esteem and
affection his friends in England have pre-
sented him with £200 with which...”
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“...profit to the native.
“We have also secured through the kind
offices of the District Commissioner a -
generous water supply for all the planta-
tions round the mission by means of a
furrow, and this will enable the natives to
plant at almost any season and will render
them immune from famine as the source
of the supply is independent of rainfall.
“All this does not mean that I contem-
plate the mission engaging in commercial
enterprise for profit. My idea is to form
a purely native company. The members
of this company, who will of course be
Christians, will repay the capital ad-
vanced, but it is necessary to assist them
in the early stages as they have no cash.”
There is much to commend this scheme,
and we shall watch its development with
the deepest
For
Educational
Missionary
Work.
interest.
In connection with our
Middle Schools in China
another qualified educa-
tionist is required as early
as possible. The Com-
mittee hopes that one of the young men
connected with our Church will hear in
this...”
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“...indebtedness to
St. Stephen Street Church and Mount
Street School. This spirit has been im-
parted to their children.
The call to China has reached Dr.
Rothwell because she has learned the need
of medical missions. God has used the
ministries of home, church, school and
university to prepare her for the work.
By the light of present events we can
read the purpose of a Higher Mind in her
decision of ten years ago to become a
doctor. The Student Christian Movement,
with which she was actively associated in
her University days, was a factor in the
development of her purpose, and another
factor is the missionary atmosphere of
the Sunday School in which she has spent
her life.
The explanation of her appointment,
under the auspices of the Wesleyan Mis-
sionary Society is simple and natural.
Her fiance is the Rev. Max Gratton,
B.A., Wesleyan missionary in Central
China. It is expected they will be mar-
ried in July, 1925, when Mr. Gratton com-
pletes his probation. In the meantime
they serve in...”
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