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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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“...necessary for him to go to Peking for a thorough examination and probably to undergo an operation for the removal of gall stones. Our friends will deeply sym- pathise with Mr. and Mrs. Eddon and earnestly pray for his complete recovery. A Call for Our Committee is very Missionaries. desirous to hear of a suit- able candidate for educa- tional missionary work in China. A man is needed who is fully qualified to 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...”
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“...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 of the most salient and dominant facts. Seen with missionary eyes, this China which between then and now has passed through such great crises : war with France, war with Japan, encroach- ments by the nations, threatened dismem- bership, the coup d’etat, Boxer outbreak ; revolution, the oldest existing empire suddenly become the youngest of the republics ; ■stormy, troubled...”
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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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“...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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“...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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“...morning. The poor parents were greatly upset, but bravely determined to' devote them- selves to their other 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...”
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“...seven o’clock prayer-meeting this morning 193 people were present, and at the mid-day service there were 607. At the close of this meeting we observed the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. Over four hundred members partook of it. We used common, inexpensive earthenware cups, tea (in place of wine), and buck- wheat cake ; nevertheless men realized that the buckwheat meant 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...”
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“...From the Mission House. Rev. C. STEDEFORD. The Rev. W. Last month I stated that Eddon. Mr. Eddon had been ob- liged to go to Peking for medical examination and probably for an operation. He was found to be in a critical condition and an immediate opera- tion was necessary. This was performed on Thursday, November 22nd. He came through the operation very well, and for a few days appeared to be making satis- factory progress. Then came a set-back, and for some days his condition was most critical, and the doctors were very anxious. Still more anxious were his watching wife and his colleagues. For- tunately, Mr. Eddon was in the hands of experts, and by God’s good grace he was brought safely through the period of ex- treme weakness and reaction. Both. Mr. and Mrs. Eddon testify to being wonder- fully sustained as they passed through this furnace of affliction. Mr. Eddon has never been too’ robust, but until recent years he has not been hampered by ill health, and could steadily pursue his...”
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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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“...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, observed and wisely en- couraged by foreign missionaries and boards. The task is indeed gi,antic, of transforming the many differently-pat- terned samples of Christian fellowship which have been formed...”
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“...not particularly interested in nor familiar with mission work. They have not inves- tigated, and they draw conclusions from misinformation. When I hear a man express such an opinion, I want to be a lawyer again and have the privilege of asking him ques- tions. I shall mention some of them. I want to ask him : 1. What do you really know about the work of Christian missions in China? 2. How many of their 24 Y.M.C. A. city centres, of their 12 Y.W.C.A. centres and 80 student associations ; how many of their many schools, academies, col- leges and universities, workshops and hospitals, churches and Sunday Schools and other places of activity have you in- vestigated or even visited? ’From a paper read before the Faculty and Students of the 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...”
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“...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 non-missionary origin? 12. Do you know that the building up of the nursing profession in China is at the present time almost entirely in the hands of missionaries and of Christianized Chinese? 13. Do you know that although leprosy has...”