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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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“...affected ; thou- sands of houses have collapsed, and many thousands of the people are homeless. This is a terrible condition in which to face the bitterly cold winter of N. China. The method of relief adopted is thus stated by Mr. Turner in an address he de- livered to the Tientsin Rotary Club : “You will ask how we propose to relieve these destitute people. The Commission has given the most careful consideration to this problem, and has formed the opinion that direct relief by free gifts of food is, at least upon any large scale, beyond the bounds of possibility : that, except in the case of the very old, and those of the most destitute who have no one to work for them were work available, relief should be given by providing work which will at once support the workers and those dependent upon them. The Com- mission has therefore formulated a scheme which will not only provide work and sup- port for the starving, but will directly and largely help in reducing the menace of flood in the...”
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“...per- happy naturally that we should think of our mission as an invasion of heathen darkness. We undertook a great Cru- sade. Our methods were exclusively polemical, and the odium Theologicum was far more malodorous than at home. Every vestige of every other faith than Christianity must be extirpated root and branch. There were perhaps parts of the mission field, Africa, Polynesia, Micro- nesia, where this would not be glaringlv unfit. But missionary experience itself has taught us how grossly unfit it is as a policy in India and in China,, and, we must say, in Arabia. Faiths like Confu- cianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Moham- medanism, have too much in them that is excellent, that is strictly consonant with our own faith, for this method of pro- cedure. In their case, the Gospel is not the condemnation indiscriminately of all they hold precious, but the message of Christ to the other faiths of the world. We have provoked a great storm of need- less antagonism. There is loud call for the conciliatory...”
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“...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 form self-supporting churches. A new motive will put our work on a more practical and business-like founda- tion, giving us an incentive of our own for pursuingi it : a new method will bring us...”
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“...riors often come. One day an Afridi boy was brought in for treatment, and 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...”
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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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“...Women’s Missionary Auxiliary about it, for, as many will know, the author is the daughter of Professor W. E. Soothill, M.A., of Oxford, formerly Pre- sident of the Shansi Imperial University and for thirty years the Missionary in charge of our Wenchow Mission. As the wife of Sir Alexander Hosie, who has spent many strenuous years in China in the service of the British Government and the Chinese people, Lady Hosie has had a varied experience of Chinese life and thought. Thus her real qualifications for writing this book are, as the brief introduction suggests, that she has lived in Chinese homes, rich and poor, and has been on intimate terms with mothers, wives, and daughters, entering fully into their joys and sorrows. What better equipment can there be ? Native manners, customs, dress and family life are shown in striking detail. Indeed, it is doubtful if any more intimate description of the private life of the Chinese has hitherto been published. The following incident from the book re-...”
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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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“...Cracking Up China: A Protest.* Rev. D. V. GODFREY. HERE seems to be a general im- pression abroad that the Chinese have taken the place of our trans- Atlantic cousins as “the intellect and virtue of the airth, the cream Of human natur’, and the flower Of moral force,” and that they must be “cracked up” in consequence. Mr. Bertrand Russell has been telling us that their civilization is in many ways su- perior to ours, and naturally the mission- aries report to all their journals startling news about an Awakened China. Naturally, be- cause a missionary is always something' of a prophet, and usually something of a poet! too. Where the matter-of-fact see but the first cold streak of dawn, your missionary feels the warmth of the mid-day sun that shall be. His rejoicing is so great over one sheep found that for a moment he forgets the nine hundred ninety and nine. Thank God that those who search so diligently can rejoice with their friends when their pains are rewarded, even though they g'ain...”
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“...increase our numbers and therefore our income. Will you, with the same beautiful spirit that has animated the whole of Christen- dom during Christmastide, enter into such a league of prayer and service with me? “Prove me now, herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough, to receive it.” Lovingly yours, Laura Rounsefell. Mrs. C. E. Hicks. The Bible Christians of New Zealand gave to the infant West China Mission one worker, Mrs. Dymond, nee Cannon. The Australian Churches gave two, the Rev. E. Piper, who returned when union was cemented there, and Miss Bush, who 38...”
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“...Women’s Missionary Auxiliary remained in the mission. After her ar- rival in Chao-t’ong-, her mother wrote : *•' She is all that a daughter could possibly be.” At that time the missionaries, were few, and Miss Bush was the only single lady worker in the far-distant field of Yunnan, so she experienced at the outset considerable loneliness. She was a g'entle spirit, absolutely de- voted to God. She commenced work in 'Chao-t’ong amongst girls who owing to national custom were considered too old to be seen out of doors. She visited ex- tensively, had meeting's in the homes, and had a class regularly for those who were sufficiently near to steal through the early shades of evening to the mission. The lessons were a great treat to the girls, and the spiritual influence lasting-. “Gentle ’Marie,” as we used to call her, was in *China during the Boxer rising. Immediately after this event, the great work amongst the tribespeople com- menced, which necessitated an extra man to carry on the educational...”
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“...double the period promised. He is now the right-hand man of Mr. Bates, who has taken my place at the College. He is a Boy Scout enthusiast, a local preacher, a Sunday School superintend- ent, a trustee of the City Y.M.C.A., and one of the most trusted leaders of the religious life of the city. And now another bright-eyed little boy has appeared in the bottom class of the College ; it is his son, Peter Spier. May he follow in his father’s footsteps and become a leader in the Christian Church of China. “The Haunted House at Huxtable.”* This is the latest addition to the “Won- derlands ” series, a series produced with the specific aim of interesting girls and boysl in missionary work. The present story tells of a seaside house which is certainly haunted, but not in the usual time-honoured sense. It is haunted by the last message of an old sea-captain—“Carry on.” How the chil- dren did carry on, and ultimately carried out Captain Peter Faraday’s noble ambi- tion, makes a splendid story, that...”
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“...China in Transformation 6REAT changes have taken place in China during the past twenty years. The upheaval in 1900 was a vigor- ous, attempt to stem the rising tide. The reformers were ruthlessly hunted out, and cut down without mercy. But it has ever been true that “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again ” ; for the changes made . in the years following have been almost without exception along the lines sug- gested by these pioneers. But reforms cannot be forced upon a people. They must come from within. And some of the foreign implements in- troduced have not succeeded in weaning the people from their old ways' of doing- things. There is a legend at our Chu Chia station of a foreign plough being in the village, but no one ever sees it. It was tried once or twice and then quietly put away, and no blessings were called down upon the head of the person who introduced it. At the London Mission Hospital in Tientsin, the Doctor fresh from home was much dissatis- fied with the brick beds in...”
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“...that story is the glory of the Baptist Church, for it tells of William Carey and his work in India, how he translated por- tions of the Scriptures into 33 languages and the whole Bible into, seven, built col- leges, started a printing press there, and founded a mission that has spread far and wide in that great land. The story tells, too, of Thomas Knibb and his brother William who founded the mission in West Africa ; of the heroic Comber family and their work on the Congo, a country sixteen times as large as England, and of Holman Bentley, who was the first to deal with the two hundred languages and dialects of that land, and reduce them to writing and to construct a grammar, a dictionary and a literature ; of Timothy Richard and China; and James Walls, through whose courageous ministry in Italy, four Protestant Churches have been founded in Florence, Genoa, Turin and in Rome itself. T. W. Slater. §Tbe Story of the Baptist Missionary Society. By Rev John Macbeath. M.A. The Carey Press, 19...”
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“...order. But the chief value of the book is in the fact that it truly answers to its title, and that throughout its pages one can see and feel the full play of The Forces of the Spirit of the living God, striving together for the salvation of the world. T. W. Slater. “ Africa and Her Peoples.”! Some readers will be startled by a dia- gram on an early page of this useful book which illustrates the astounding fact that Africa is equal in area with Europe, India, China and the U.S.A. Following this we may hazard the statement that either China or India has received more mis- sionary attention than the great continent of Africa. It is penetrating- the conviction of our folk—and there is being gradually discerned a change. It is discovered that no country needs us more, and propor- tionately no country will so well repay our effort. This is an able book, which is not sur- prising when we find it is by the Editor of “The Foreign Field.” Mr. Walker has travelled in Africa recently, and we have seen...”
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“...known by sight to very few United Methodists. She had done a great piece of missionary work in S.W. China, but it was unappreciated by all but a few intimate friends. There were reasons for this. Mrs. Hicks seldom talked about her work. She shrank from public notice of any kind. The idea of attending a con- ference where she might become the ob- ject of curious, though sympathetic, gazers was distressful to her. It was not that she had no gift for platform service. Whenever her natural reluctance was •overcome by the gentle persuasion of understanding friends she would give herself to prayerful preparation, with such result that her quiet, persuasive, -clear, unassuming speech would make deep impressions upon her hearers. Then, too, Mrs. Hicks did not come to the mission field through our English Church. She was a product of Australian Methodism and received the mystic call to serve God in China, while she was a mem- ber of the Bible Christian community in a bush district of Victoria, where...”
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“...Women’s Missionary Auxiliary arv work but rather widened its scope by the added dignity, in the Chinese view, which wifehood and motherhood gave to her. Moreover, for a long period the mission provided no lady evangelist, and the privilege and duty of teaching and shepherding' the needy Chinese women and children became her responsibility. This service Mrs. Hicks gave lovingly and eagerly for many years. Large numbers of women attended the weekly class, and tiny children were delighted to be taught by her. In 1921, she went to England on furlough with her husband, and on their return to China it was found that grave changes had been made in stationing. Undaunted, Mrs. Hicks found her own work and gathered again a new weekly class of women and children ; she orga- nized also a special meeting for little (otherwise untaught) heathen children. She shared, too, in her husband’s work among the Nosu. She would not be con- tent to let him always go alone on his journeys,* and the need of the Nosu...”
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“...ex- hibited towards persecutors—two qualities alone in which Christ-likeness is evidenced in highest degree—and the charm of these lives raises his own aspirations for more real Christian living. How wonderful are their spiritual experiences, and how heart-searching are they to those who read about them ! Who would not desire honestly to breathe, e.g., the prayer offered by Dr. R. H. A. Schofield, a man of the highest academical attainments, who died at 32 years of age a medical mis- sionary in China : “Enable me at least to aim at nothing less than walking in this world as Christ Himself walked. Save me from the subtle snare of lowering my standard, bit by bit, to meet my miserable attainments. Do so reveal Thy beauty to me that to testify of Thee may be no effort, but spontaneous.” Is it not the experience of most, if not all of us that our hearts have never been so deeply stirred to self-reproach and to desire to render nobler and more faithful service, as when we have read the memoirs...”
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“...attendances throughout the year. Reports continue to come in from the country churches telling of Christmas Ser- vices followed by a communal feast among the members. Altogether we had a thoroughly happy and enjoyable Christmas. The thoughts of the Mission staff, particularly those of the new-comers, were directed longingly towards England and home, but it was a great pleasure to us to see growing up here in China a kindred spirit of Christmastide. A casual observer in all probability would have found it difficult to find in the general life of the city any indication that a great and significant Christian festival was in progress, but to those of us who knew where to look, namely, in the hearts of those who help to constitute the Church of Christ in China, the spirit of Christmas was easily preceptible. Wherever Jesus lives in the hearts of His people, His birth- day is celebrated with joy and gladness, and the spirit of peace and goodwill is to be found. I am Debtor.* Rom. i. 14. Oh how shall...”
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“...Foreign Secretary’s Notes. The Shadows The Annual Executive at Chaotong. Meeting of our mission- aries in Yunnan was over- shadowed by the deep sorrow and heavy loss sustained in the recent death of two .of their most valued and beloved colleagues, Mrs. Hicks and Dr. Lilian Dingle. They recorded their grief in the following reso- lutions :— (1) It is with the deepest sorrow that we record the death of Mrs. C. E. Hicks, which took place on October 25th, 1924, from typhoid, which she probably contracted whilst going on her errands of mercy. Mrs. Hicks came to China in 1897, and during all these years she has loved the Chinese and aborigines with a wonderful love. She was always willing and ready to respond to need, and in this way she com- mended the Gospel to large numbers of women and children who would have been reached in no other way. We wish to place on record the deep love which the Chinese gave to her. Mrs. Hicks’ work amongst the women and children was one which will long be remembered...”