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“...INDEX. PAGE CHINA. Bible Society ... ••• ••• 53, 180 Concerning China. F. B. Turner ... 161 Feng. Marshal. D. E. Hoste ... 73 Hosie. Sir Alexander .........................91 Sun Yat-Sen. H. S. Redfern ..................101 Transformation. J. Hinds .................... 50 War-horrors. W. T. Slater ... ... 94 Woman of China, The new. J. Hinds 234 NORTH CHINA. Cracking-up China. D. V. Godfrey ... 35 China, New. G. T. Candlin .................... 7 District Meeting. E. Richards................134 Robson, Dr. J. K. J. Hinds ... ... 130 Wayfaring. E. Richards ......... 88 SOUTH-EAST CHINA. Christmas. A. A. Conibear ................... 75 Penryn Spier, B.A. H. S. Redfern ... 41 Wedding at Ningpo ........................... 48 SOUTH-WEST CHINA. Austin, Dr. C. J.............................148 Chao Tong Hospital. C. E. Hicks ... 1 Dartmoor, A grave on. L. H. Court ... 28 Dingle, The late Dr. Lilian. C. Stedeford 3 Eastern Lutist. Hudspeth .................... 77 Finally, farewell! F. J. Dymond...”
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“...Missions. H. J. Watts .............................207 Wedding in Japan ... ... ... ... 189 Washington Convention ... ... ... 85 “Wembley.” Miss Shann........... ... 36 ILLUSTRATIONS. CHINA, Buddha in West China ................164 Christian Army, The ... ... ... 73 Gateway, Fukien .....................161 Gateway, Suichow...................... 5 Gorge at Ruling .....................110 Hororific Vase ... ... ... ... 35 Lao Joe, C.I.M.......................110 Manchurian Woman ....................236 Sun Yat-Sen (Funeral) ...............101 Tongshan Colliery ... ... ... ... 50 NORTH CHINA. Fishing Net...........................14 Group Outside Church ... 88 Patients at Lao-ling ................193 Peking, 1919 ................ 9 Reminiscent of 1909 ... ... ... 7 Tongshan College ... ... .......134 SOUTH-EAST CHINA. Bathing Pool, Ningpo ... ... ... 144 High Street, Ningpo ... ... ... 75 Ningpo Woman ... ... ... ... 235 Paih-sa River ... ... ... ... 98 Penryn Spier, B.A. ... ... ... 41 Tree Temple...”
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“...The Hospital in Chao-t’ong-fu ties had come from the West to the East. In China religion and medicine are in- separably connected. There is a universal belief that invisible demons control disease so that when the body is suffering with pain it is a special time to offer incense, prayers and sacrifices. It is right, there- fore, not only from our point of view, but also from that of the Chinese, that with Christian missions religion and medicine should be closely related. Many doors are ■open to the doctor which are not open to the minister, but our medical staff has always worked to show to the Chinese that the motive power of all their work is the constraining influence of Christ’s love. Medical work opens doors to< the preacher which can be opened in no other way. It is one of the most powerful evan- gelistic agencies in China. I don’t think that our friends in the homeland realize that this hospital is the ■only one in an area as large as the North of England. It is a thousand miles...”
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“...Dingle fell a victim to that . scourge which has laid so many missionaries low in China. We had received no intimation of Dr. Dingle being in poor health. In the last letter received from her, written on October 3rd, she speaks of the health of her colleagues but says nothing about her own. She was very conscious of her responsibility in caring for the health of the mis- sionaries. She had decided that^ Nurse Raine who had suffered much from malaria and wffiose recovery was slow, must go to Yunnanfu for a change and to consult the doctors there. In this last letter she concludes with a review of the existing situation in the following words : “ Our autumn weather, with its damp mists and chilly nights is upon us. The maize har- vest is poor, but the rice seems fairly good. The late Dr. Lilian M. Dingle It will be a hard winter for many in this province. With the floods in North China, and civil war in S.E. China, the outlook is not too promising. We need courage and grace to carry on the work...”
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“...The year calls for greater liberality on behalf of our Missions. Our special £30,000 Fund, upon which we are de- pendent for the new buildings required in all our Districts in China and in Africa, will be closed this year. No Church should allow it to close without making a worthy contribution. Our ordinary missionary income also, both for work at home as well as for work abroad, urgently needs to be augmented. We trust that the next few months will find all our missionary secretaries and committees busy with Rev. C. STEDEFORD. methods and organization which will secure triumphant results. Flood and Rev. F. B. Turner is Famine in facing the herculean task N. China. of organizing relief for 1,500,000 people rendered destitute by the extensive flood which occurred last September. In response to the appeal of the China International Famine Relief Commission he has been loaned for this very important work. He is assisted by all the missionaries through- out the affected area, both Catholic and...”
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“...are undermined. The poor native is left without any power to curb the wild pas- sions raging within and around him. The last state of the man is worse than the first. If such is the effect produced by the white man he cannot escape the duty and responsibility of communicating to the African that true religion which his very presence has made even more neces- sary for the native than it was before the white man met him. In China likewise the contact with Western enlightenment has produced a marked effect upon the popular estimate of A natural gateway at Sinchow, China. [Favoured by Ed. of Herald, B.M.S. 5...”
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“...Confucius does not serve the purpose of the ambitious youth. The autocratic and dynastic conceptions characteristic of Confucianism cannot suit the views of a democratic age. Professor Sarvis further says : " The leaders of China are indifferent, contemptuous, or actively opposed to Confucianism. These new attitudes affect chiefly the educated classes, and particularly those living in cities, but they are by no means confined to these. Testimony from rural districts confirms the opinion of those from urban centres, that Confucianism is gradually losing its hold upon the common people of China as well as upon the educated.” Everyone must admit that it will be a calamity for China to forsake Confucianism unless a superior religion takes its place. If Western contact divorces China from her ancient allegiance, the same Western contact should communicate the truth of God revealed in Jesus Christ. Unhappily, the Westerner does not always exemplify the Christianity he is supposed to represent. All the...”
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“...New China. By the late Rev. G. T. CANDLIN, D.D. IN spite of the fact that since the Proclamation of the Republic four- teen years ago, the West has taken very much more interest in China, it still remains true that we are far from fully appreciating the meaning of New China. From the time of our first con- tact with her, we have been accustomed to speak so invariably of her inveterate conservatism, her stubborn resistance to all progress, that it is no wonder we cannot at once gauge completely and adequately the astonishing volte -face she has accomplished. Changeless China has suddenly become changeful China. Perhaps it would not, be too much to say that, apart from positive revolutionary events, China is to-day undergoing more and more important changes than she has ever passed through in all her long his- tory. With the Boxer outbreak began a wonderful' era of new life. Apart! alto- gether from politics, the spread of edu- cation, the phenomenal increase in the power of the press, the...”
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“...Renaissance of Europe borrowed from Greece and Rome. These enormous changes, in the Chi- nese language are an effective measure of the new life which is awakening, surging, coming to birth in the mind of China to-day. It is veritably a New China which has come upon us, and thoughtful minds will be more anxious to hold back than to hurry the passion for the new which possesses the present generation. Whether we wish it or not, the Chinese are rushing into what we know as civilization with a fierce ardour which is much more likely to land in agnosticism than to leave them in the grasp of their ancient faiths, or even to predispose them to Christianity. It is a New China, new with hope, but also new with new dangers, new fears and new solicitudes. When we pass in review the history of missions in China since Morrison came in 1807, and have regard to the religious and political conditions, not forgetting in ■our survey the unfortunate incidents which marked our first contact with the Celestial Empire...”
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“...New China question of our day, the abolition of war- fare between nations and the establish- ment of the peace of Christ throughout the world, the importance of China be- comes more and more evident. On the question of preparedness, China is at the turning of the ways. The temptation to embark upon a career which seeks mili- tary strength is very strong. Not only are we having a notable development of Tuchunism, but the mind of China’s leaders is firmly convinced that she will never have equal treatment from the great Powers until she is prepared to speak to them in their own terms of military strength. “A large army, a strong navy ; only by the possession of these shall we have due weight in the councils of nations.” Could we imagine anything more deplorable than that China, to whose abiding honour it has been that she was always a peace-loving nation, should launch herself on a career of military preparation. What would an adequate army for China, according to modern con- ceptions, mean...”
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“...Con- ciliatory method. He carefully studied the other faiths of China with a view to understanding their true relation to his own. Fie welcomed the truth in them as a furtherance to his work. He did not say, “The virtues of the heathen are but splendid vices.” He said, “Here is some- thing I can build on : through this I can lead them to Christ.” It earned him the opprobrium of some of his. brother mis- sionaries ; it won him the love of the Chinese people wherever he went. “There are in all religions earnest men, devotees, men who take their faith earnestly. Cor- rect their errors : do not destroy their reverence. Convert them : they will con- vert the rest. New China calls for a new attitude, a new conciliatory method of evangelism which does not forget the words of the Lord Christ, ‘ I came not to destroy but to fulfil. ’ ” 3. Then I would recommend a new policy, a new organizing policy. We have reached the stage in China when it is high time to bring to the front the question —Where...”
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“...but cost of living has increased. Still, for £20, any church can have a pastor. If therefore you have a sum of £4,000, or an annual grant of £200 per year devoted in perpetuity to this object, you have, as I conceive, the means of generously helping churches to get on their feet. This money will circulate auto- matically. Each year a twentieth of it will come back to you and be available to meet new appeals. By this means you can found as many churches as you have effective openings, until all China is pro- vided for. By our present methods we are getting nowhere, are pauperizing our members and are rapidly congregationali- zing ourselves. By our present method we cannot reach the goal. Not all the missionaries we can sent from England and America, with all the money we can send after them will suffice. It can only be done by the living faith of Chinese con- verts. We as a mission have spent sixty- five years in forming supported churches. Those churches are the very reason why we cannot...”
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“...during his stay in hospital he learned to be a Christian. When his father, a fierce Moslem, knew of this change of faith, he killed his son, and then stabbed Dr. Starr to death in the night. Thus he took his revenge. What did Mrs. Starr do ? Did she leave her work for this ? No; she stayed, motion. These pages only serve to show what the Home Mission Committee might set about doing if only it had an adequate income. And what shall we more say ? For the space would fail us to tell— Of churches in China moving slowly but surely in the direction of self-support; Of the conviction being formed in the Chinese mind in favour of an indigenous Church, in which the theological concep- tions and modes of worship and order shall be such as shall fit most naturally the mould of the native mind, because they are the product of that mind ; Of long journeys undertaken on foot ; of souls who are g'reat in prayer, and par- ticularly of the man who recovered from a fever, and the chapel that was built, all of...”
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“...is always the case, what we gaze upon with admiration be- comes reflected in us, and we are uplifted towards their level. “ The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.” And here we touch another great gain, springing from the widening of our out- look on life, which comes from a living interest in Missions. Often life seems nothing but a dull round of petty cares. Then we lift our eyes to the far horizons, we look at Africa, India, China, and the isles of the sea, and we remember the brave men and women who are working there under difficulties and limitations graver than any we know. So life is seen from a right viewpoint, and we are no longer the centre of the universe, and love for God’s children afar sets us free from this blinding self-engrossment. “ Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul, Love is the only angel that can bid the gates unroll : And when he comes to call thee, arise, and follow fast; His way may...”
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“...hope they will learn and then teach their parents. When we go to Stone Gateway for the Bible School they want me to tell them about England. I hope you all keep very well. Thank you for your kind thoughts. God bless you all! With big love, your Chinese girl, Shuang-Mei-Li. Life in China. WE have been greatly interested in reading an account of a very informative book on the lives and habits of the Chinese, written with an inner knowledge and with a deep affection for a people among whom the writer was bom and lived for many years. We refer to “Two Gentlemen of China,” by Lady Hosie.* For most of us the price is probably prohibitive, but the book should be obtainable through the libraries, and all interested in China should avail themselves of any opportunity to read it. United Methodists will be much pleased * Seeley. Service & Co. 21/- net. 19...”
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“...Chinese gentleman could do such a thing. I saw that my countrywomen were nearly crying with distress. So I took my leave almost immediately. It was most dis- appointing, since I can never go there again to learn about America. And, of course, they will never be able to go again, either.’ ” Thus we can see how important it is that those who desire to help China should learn the acceptable method of approach, lest their blundering cut them off from those they seek to serve. We, in England, sometimes get impatient of what we call “red tape,” but we have very little con- ception of the binding force of traditional custom in a country like China. It has often been observed that some Chinese ways are the very opposite of ours. Their mourning colour is white, ours is black ; they read a page back- wards, according to our idea., The follow- ing provides another illustration of this : “The Kung girls had to do each other’s hair as well as their mother’s, for the amahs (serving women) were not con-...”
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“...complications. Mrs. Hicks had not been well for several months, and not long before her fatal ill- ness she had suffered an attack of mumps which had further reduced her strength. Dr. Dingle, in a letter written only five • weeks before she herself was destined to be numbered among those who have laid down their lives in China,*writes of Mrs. Hicks: “She leaves a fragrant memory in Chaotong where she was greatly be- loved. For twenty-eight years she has loved and served the women and children of Chaotong, and they will never forget her. Neither will her fellow missionaries, who are indebted to her for many a kind- ness and help along the way. It was my privilege to come to China with her in 1906 and to profit by her thoughtful ways and kindness to all about her. Her beau- tiful influence has been a benediction and an inspiration. We miss her very much, and this makes us realize, a little how great is the loss sustained by her husband and children. We can thank God that Mrs. Hicks came to Yunnan...”
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“... 1898 Aged 47 years He was one of our first missionaries to China, and for nearly four years Pastor of the Chagford Circuit. I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith.” A simple memorial, but it com- memorates a great soul, and our Chag- ford Circuit is honoured indeed to have the keeping- of his ashes. It was a great chapter in our denominational history that closed with that quiet g-rave on the Dartmoor hillside. There are thousands of souls in far-off Yunnan, in the great cities and the M’iao and Nosu villages who can trace their new era of blessing to the little man of whom we write. He, and Samuel Thomas Thorne, were the torch-bearers who first carried the Gospel light into the heart of the great province which holds our West China mission field, and time can never rob him of the glory which belongs to pioneer souls of the Faith. Their enterprise has borne wonderful fruit, and when the story of the Church in China is written, Thomas Grills Vanstone is a name that will shine...”
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“...and pastor. He was at the memorable Exeter Conference in 1884, when Dr. Hudson Taylor made his great appeal to the Bible Christians to take up the work in West China ; and there, with S. T. Thorne, he offered and was accepted. On July 9th, 1885, they entered the city of Yunnan Fu. There for some few years he wrought, laying the foundations of our work in the province, during which period he was joined by Miss Stewardson from England, who became his wife. She is still, happily, spared to tus. His constitution, never of the •strongest, gave way however to the fre- quent attacks of malaria, and he was -obliged to leave Yunnan Fu, and open up work in the more invigorating climate of Chao Tong. The change was bene- ficial to him, but only for a while ; and in 1893, eight years after his departure for Rev. Samuel Thomas Thorne. China he was back in England again— a broken man. In enfeebled health he served home circuits, cherishing always the hope of a return to the land whose name and needs...”
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“...Missionary Wen Tsi-ch’ien: A Chinese Boy. THERE is an old story about an ex- ceptionally filial boy who lived in a city in far-away China. His name was Wen Tsi-ch’ien. When he was a babe his mother died. His father married again, and this second wife became the mother of two boys. The three children grew up together, but, unfortunately, Wen Tsi-ch’ien’s new mother was not kind to him. She was good only to her own two boys and unkind to the other. 'She showed this in a great number of ways, but Wen Tsi-ch’ien was a manly little fellow and never complained. When the boys were old enough to go to school their father took an extra lot of money and gave it to their mother saying that the boys were to be provided with neat, warm clothes. The mother took the money and used nearly all of it to make thickly padded gowns for her own boys. For Wen Tsi-ch’ien she made a padded gown which looked the same as that worn by her own boys, but instead of filling it with good, warm cotton-wool, such as she...”