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“...INDEX. CHINA. PAGE New Movements. W. A. Grist ... 87 China’s Christian Army. G. T. B. Davis ..............................221 CHINA NORTH. Candlin, the late Dir. G. T. J. Hinds 1C2 Ditto ditto. C. Stedeford ... 163 Ditto ditto. Editor ... ... 166 Ditto ditto. T. Bryson..........167 Ditto ditto. F. B. Turner ... 168 Candlin, G. T. : Then and Now ... 5, 27 Chang Tsun Shih. D. V. Godfrey ... 80 Gratitude of Scholar ....................80 District Meeting. E. Richards..........110 Hospitals, Two. W. E. Plummer ... 92 Lao Ling Hospital ... ... ... ... 233 New Year in Shantung. D. V. Godfrey 76 Patients, Five. W. E. Plummer ... 153 Smith, B. D. D. Howard ... ... 187 CHINA SOUTH-EAST. Austin, Dr. C. J.................. ... 46 Chaos in China. W. Tremberth... ... 197 Doidge, B.A., Dorothy M.................198 Fifth Term. J. W. Heywood ... ... 208 Fortune, B.A., Mabel ............. ... 198 Gratitude, Chinese. W. P. Bates ... 56 Industrial Ningpo. H. S. Redfern 111, 128, 149 Night-watch at Ningpo...”
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“...W.M.A............. 18, 38, 57, 78, 97, 118 136, 158, 178, 198, 218, 234 World-prayer Cycle ... ... 136, 210 ILLUSTRATIONS. CHINA. Confucius ... ... ... ... ... 181 Feng’s Army. General ... ... ... 221 Heavy Load, A .................. ... 183 Home Industry .......................130 Han-yeh-ping Works ... ... 112, 113 Kiangnan Works ... ... 149, 150, 151 Peking Medical College....... 91, 93 Petroleum Works......................128 Shanghai, the Creek .................124 ,, busy scene ..................129 Whitewright Exhibition................ 7 CHINA NORTH. Chaff from the Wheat ........... ... 83 Five Patients........................153 Lao-ling Hospital ... ... ... ... 92 ,, Staff ..................... 5 ,, Men’s Ward............. ... 27 New Year Band ........................76 Robinsons, Grave of the ... ... ... 28 Turner’s School. Miss ............... 39 CHINA SOUTH-EAST. Children at Wenchow ................. 98 Chinese, Some Typical ................97 College, Ningpo ................”
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“...The President’s Message for 1924. HAPPY NEW YEAR to all readers of the “Missionary Echo,” and may their number be largely increased. This magazine sets forth our missionary operations and keeps us in touch with our brothers and sisters who have gone forth to make known the Gospel in all its social and spiritual implications. The past successes of our mission- ary work are making great demands upon us for a larger income and greater enthusiasm. There cannot be adequate individual co-operation in our great overseas’ work unless we are constantly gaining informa- tion, and this necessity is met by the magazine in which I am now empha- sising the clamant call for continued and increasing missionary zeal. We are all extremely thankful for the devoted labours of Mr. and Mrs. T. Butler and the Secretary, and it is a real joy to hearthem describe their wonderful journeyings. Their pre- sentation of the case for our missions has deepened the zeal of those Rev. CHARLES PYE. already on fire, and aroused...”
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“...From the Mission House. Rev. C. STEDEFORD. “ The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.” These words are recorded in 2 Chron. xxv. 9 as the assurance the “man of God ” gave to king Ama- ziah in order to encour- age him to put his whole trust in the Lord rather than to employ hired soldiers. I suggest them now as a suitable text for the New Year, for the encouragement of all missionary workers, including those abroad as well as those at home. To our missionaries they are a reminder that the attainment of the past •should not be the measure of our hope for the future. Whatever the result already gained, it may be said, “the Lord is able to give thee much more than this.” We talk sometimes of having come to the limit of our resources. So it may ap- pear, but we can never come to the limit of Divine resources. Let us learn to' look beyond the human medium to the Divine ■source, and our hopes will expand like the broadening day. This assurance should come also as a stimulus and encouragement...”
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“...From the Mission House of a dance in progress provided the cer- tainty of a large audience, and the dance was stopped while the Word was preached.” In this way Mr. Hopkins sows beside all waters, and friends at home may share his ministry in praying that the seed sown may bring forth abundant fruit. News from the Rev. B. J. Ratcliffe re- Tana River. ports having recently visited every one of the stations on the Tana river, from Fetina, our first station from the coast, to Hola, the farthest up the river. Hola is a station where one of the German mission- aries resided. Mr. Ratcliffe says>: “ It is nine years since these people had a white missionary permanently resident among them. During the whole of that time the teachers and church elders “have fought a good fight and have kept the faith.” Amid the ravages of war, the scourge of pestilence and famine, they have main- tained an organization which has exploded the notion that our native converts cannot stand the test of loneliness.” Mr...”
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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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“...on the life of a nation. When I went to China there was not a single newspaper circulating in the Empire. There was the “Ching Pao,’’ the “Peking Gazette” only. This, I am well aware, has been spoken of as the oldest newspaper in the world. Well, the statement was true enough, just as the Great Wall may claim to be the longest wall in the world. But the Great Wall kept nothing out : and the “Peking Gazette ” had nothing in. It certainly was the hoary parent, like the Neander- thal man, of Chinese journalism. In relation to Chinese newspapers, it was like the beginning of the “London Times,” a Court Circular. It gave a meagre list of official appointments or Imperial Decrees. Its only circulation was among officials. Now China is almost snowed under with Chinese newspapers. All the prin- cipal cities have their own organs, many have several, of differing shades of politi- Nosu Rock! PETER WANG is a Nosu. The Nosu tribe are to be found in S.W. < China. Some of them have come under Chinese ...”
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“...and if the slave was not there to- do it, he would know the reason why, and the slave would probably be there the next time he was wanted. Several years after these people had joined the church, your missionary was among them for a Bible School. A hundred o-r so of the men had come, some of them several days’ jc-urney, bringing their food and bedding with them, for a twelve days’ Bible School. And towards the close of the school it was suggested that a photo- graph should be taken, and your mission- ary was very busy carrying the forms out- side the church preparatory to the photo- graph being taken outside the church doors, when he awakened to the fact that he was the only one carrying a form ! All the others were contentedly looking on. And then I said to them, “ Look here ! if you are Nosu, so am I ! Come and help me carry these forms I ” And they did, willingly, cheerfully, laughingly ! But the natural thing for them to do, the thing they did without thinking—was to let someone else...”
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“...house under your abuse? ” “No,” said the man, “what did you say?” And Wang re- plied, “As you were cursing me whilst I walked down the garden path, I said, ‘ Look out! I’ll get you yet! ’ And you see,” said he, “I got you ! didn’t I?” It was twelve years work, but he got him ! He was a follower of Jesus Christ, of whom he had read, “He sought until he found him ” ! Jesus had made him a fisher of men, and he is still serving, under very trying circumstances, during these troublesome days, in S.W China. I wonder how this man—this impas- sionate, reckless, rugged, obstinate, sometimes foolish but often wise, man—I wonder how this man came to be called “ Peter ” ? a Rock ! He has seen the vision. The “serving-man” Jesus has heard him cry, “Thou art Christ, the Son of God, “And to whom else shall we go ; Thou hast the words of Life,” and upon this rock Jesus is building His Church. Can you help Him ? 10...”
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“...wonder what some of our organists at home would have thought of it. But we weren’t singing for them. “You pray, sah,” he said. Very natur- ally he remained in charge. I did as I was told. Then he started to chant the Lord’s Prayer. I joined in as best I could. “Now the grace,” he said, and I pronounced the benediction. Then he told me he had been a car- penter, had been to Nigeria with a British officer, had come home to his native land to end his days. He lived quite alone. I asked him what mission he belonged to. He said the “United Methodist.” “What you, sah? ” I told him “Wesleyan Meth- odist.” “Why, that’s all the same, sah,” he said triumphantly, and the handshake I got was about fifty times as hearty as the average handshake of a Salleonian. “Me a Local Preacher, sah,” he said, and fumbled for a plan. Adding regret- fully : “Too old now to take appoint- ments.” “Very glad I am you came in, sah. . . We shall meet again, sah. . . When our day’s work is done.” This followed me as I went...”
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“...certificate of the good temper and generous appreciation of our readers that in all the latter'period there have been only three complaints ; while what we call “unsolicited tributes” have been wonderfully numerous. These are not permitted to occupy our precious space, but are placed at the foot of the monthly advertisement in our ever- helpful contemporary, the “ United Methodist. ” When, in 1906, we commenced our edi- torial work, the late Henry T. Chapman was writing the monthly notes from the Mission House. With the beginning of 1908 our present Secretary commenced his contributions, and with the exception of a few months when away as Deputa- tion to the field, they have been continued without intermission. His writings have ever been marked by fitness, variety, and vitality. Our comradeship has been in- spirational and unalloyed for these sixteen years. To know him is to trust and esteem him. Expectation. We do not wonder that the Secretary should eagerly phrase his desire for a great increase...”
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“...Kenya Government is anxious to continue its present railway to the Uganda frontier, while the Uganda Government is equally desirous of completing the proposed ex- tension to Jinja, which is situated on the Nile at the point where it issues from the Victoria Nyanza. It will give a direct rail-route between Uganda and Mombasa, and also open up undeveloped cotton fields and native reserves. We have made enquiries, and reg'ret to find that the proposed extension will not go anywhere near our Meru Mission. 14...”
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“...claim that “it is the modern repre- sentative of the first missionary magazine for children published in Great Britain.” Perhaps our historians will g'et busy. This book is not the bound volume of “Won- derlands,” but the best of the monthly issues is retained in the volume, the purely ephemeral references being omitted. It is a handsome well-illustrated volume of 190 pp., and owes much to the editor- ship of Mr. W. E. Cule, as in the case above the editor of the missionary monthly issued by the Mission House. It is also, under obligation to' the Carey Press for its embellishment and produc- tion. It is just splendid for a prize. By the by, the title trespasses a little on the Bible Society’s children’s monthly, “For Every Land.” To their missionary books for young people Messrs. Seely, Service and Co., have added— * By David Chamber ain ; Is, net. I Edited by Mr. W. E. Cule ; 3s. 6d. net. “Hannington of Africa.” “Pennell of the Indian Frontier.” “Judson of Burma.” Nigel B. M. Graham writes...”
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“...of all, and afterwards among the Barotse. We can understand the pride of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in the ser- vant it was their honour to train. We cannot recount the story of the book in a review—it would not be honest jour- nalism. Readers must not fail to secure the volume for themselves. The pub- lishers—to whom, as to the author, we are sincerely grateful—disappoint us in one matter. The only portrait they present is of Coillard, taken after forty years’ ser- vice on the mission field. We should like to have seen other portraits and scenes too—the face of “Mother Kindness,” as she stepped out of her cottage home at Asni&res to go to labour for her fatherless Francois among the vines, and the por- traits of M. Arnie Bost, the minister of the French Protestant Church of the village and his daughter Marie — es- pecially the photo of Marie. Every- body adored Marie. They called her “Mademoiselle le pasteur.” Yet the things she did seem hardly worth talking about. She arranged...”
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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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“...if it is right for a Church to teach men the wrongness of their ways, to destroy their belief, and not to put anything in its place, or, rather, not to lay firmly the foundation of a new belief. Our inability as a Church to do' this is an intense disappointment. In Yunnan we have a field of tremendous opportunities and of extraordinary poten- tialities, but I fear our Church has not the courage to- develop it. This is true of North, East and West China. I blame myself for failing to make the people at home see the vision which brought me to' China. If we missionaries could give you the vision, our workers would be doubled, and the sheep would be shepherded. “ My sheep wandered through all the moun- tains, and upon every high hill : yea, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth ; and there was none that did search or seek after them.” Two' sacred trees were pointed out to me. There was little to' distinguish them from other trees, though I noticed that they were the best and...”
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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...”