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“...Nosuland. C. E. Hicks........................ 12 Nosu Tribute, A. John Nu ....................117 Ting Lan. W. FI. Hudspeth ................... 77 Wedding at FIong-Kong ... ... ... 48 Wen-Tsi-chien. W. H. Hudspeth ... 31 Yunnan Fu, Church. C. N. Mvlne... 222 EAST AFRICA. African Memories. J. Baxter .................141 Black Brothers. A. J. Hopkins 132, 156, 173, 194, 211, 227 Education. Hans Vischer .....................174 „ Dr. Snape 190, 213. 230 Mentality, African. A. J. Hopkins 21, 45 Pokomo Mission. Dr. Snape ...................131 Tana Happenings. B. J. Ratcliffe ... 61 WEST AFRICA. Deputation. Rev. W. S. M. 63, 128, 151 Problem, Our. Rev. W. Vivian... 146, 169 Reception of Ministers. A. E. Dymond 27 Shears. Rev. T. D. ............. ... Ill ■ POETRY. After Harvest. Miss S. Gertrude Ford 189 Autumn in China. ,, ,, 206 Easter Lilies. ,, ,, 68 Manger, At the ,, ,, 232 Rose of Sharon. ,, ,, 113 Woodrow Wilson. ,, ,, 26 Acts 16. W. H. Hamilton ... ... 145 PAGE Better Part. M. Arnold..........”
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“...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 future. The Commission’s engineers have projected a plan for the digging of a channel from the Grand Canal near Tu Lui (a Canal port some 15 miles from Tientsin) extending for 45 miles to the sea, with outlet about 20 miles south of Taku. The Channel to be 500 feet wide and 12 feet deep: to be effectively locked at the Grand...”
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“...preservation of civilization, menaced to-day as it never has been in. the history of man, we cannot do without them. 2. I would put in a plea for a. new method. Have we not, in the past con- ceived our task too indiscriminately in terms of battle. No matter what is on hand we must be fighting. It came 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...”
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“...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 to more kindly and cordial relations with the people : a new policy will define our task and help much to make clear our respective burden of responsibility. If vigorously and consistently followed...”
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“...other. This Report has, and will have in years A fishing; net of a kind much used in Wenchow. Note also a long bamboo raft. [JItss B. Petrie Smith. Rev. W. CANN. Our Mission Report for 1924. to come, this special value, in that, em- bodied in it, is the “ statement of policy ” adumbrated by the Foreign Missions Committee, and presented to and en- dorsed by the Conference of 1924. From this statement it will plainly appear that our missionary enterprise is not to be car- ried forward in any casual or haphazard manner, but that at its head are men and women with both foresight and farsight. Those readers of earlier reports, who fol- lowed the journeyings of Mr. and Mrs. Butler and the Secretary will see in this statement a definite outcome of their arduous itinerary. One of the special and piquant joys of our foreign mission work in recent times has been the number of young people who- have come forward offering themselves for service on the foreign field. Fine young men and women these,...”
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“...“ Good fori Evil ” to show what an increasing and living part the women of our Church are taking in missionary endeavour. If only they had free and full scope for their effort, in every church and circuit, their report would be still more ample. No less than twenty-nine pages are taken up with the doings of the Home Mission Department. Very possibly this Department, as far as reports go and also propaganda, has suffered by com- parison with the Foreign work in that a certain romance always clings about the work that is done in distant lands and among strange peoples. But there cer- tainly is romance in these pages, which tell how men “knelt down and prayed in the streets” of a midland town, “while the snowflakes fell softly on their heads. Or what shall be said of the “ Communion rail being filled from end to end with kneeling penitents at a Sunday morning service ”? Or of “thirty young men and women from our Bible class coming boldly out for Christ ” ? Or of “ a whole family, father, mother...”
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“...Missionary Investments really vital concern in all African matters is the development of the native character ; and on such a question missionaries are competent to bear a quite unique testi- mony. The Tana-River Mission has been the centre of many strange adventures, and Mr. Phillipson had his full share in such experiences, and with the collaboration of Mr. Shapland has given an excellent selection. It is possible to join him in his rides on Lado, the temperamental donkey, with Max as canine companion; or to drift down the Indian Ocean in an Arab dhow, the steel grey sky and low mainland coast giving a by no means conventional impression of tropical seas. Or we may sit in the Missionary’s judgment-hall and witness the settlement of the appeal of Abashaura, the old warrior, against the modernist movements of Galla youths. Such a session might convince us that a Justice’s Law Hand-book alone might not suffice to settle the problems involved in the chapter headed “A right of way.” For the...”
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“...thousands, we knew that God’s touch had still its ancient power, that His Spirit was still active, and that there- fore our little efforts were not futile. Such being some of the gains received, the interest accruing, what may we invest ? We can invest our thought, by read- ing, studying, hearing speeches ; our time and effort, by collecting, sewing, organizing, etc. ; our money ; our prayers, not perfunctory ones, but intel- ligent and heartfelt, based on our study ; our friends or our children as mission- aries, a big investment and calling for much self-sacrifice, but with the bigger interest attached ; perhaps ourselves, the biggest investment of all. We may not be like the child, greatly stirred at a mis- sionary meeting, who asked for the col- lection plate to be put lower, and lower still, till finally she stepped into it; but our investment of self, where possible, may be just as genuine. If we make these investments, we may find that the Company knows nothing of limited liability, and...”
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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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“...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 radiant on its pages. Though his body lies in English soil his heart was ever in the great Empire of the East : for China he lived, sacrificed all, and, as the result of his strenuous labours, died at the early age of 47. How well I remember him still ! He was...”
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“...say it is the white man’s medicine that has killed her? We are not really doctors.” He looked at Mr. Eastman, and said, “Let this be your gift of love to her, that you give her a chance of life.” That is. just what Livingstone Colleg'e enabled him to do, and the chance brought her through, and she recovered. To-day she and her hus- band are Christians. Rev. A. G. Mill (B.M.S.), Congo, told how the training received at Livingstone College had enabled him to be more useful in God’s work on the mission field. He spoke of the catholicity of Livingstone College : of the prejudices which were re- moved on account of the practical sym- pathy which a missionary trained there was able to show bv healing the sick : of the necessity for some, knowledge of how to deal with illnesses, so that one may look after one’s native helpers, and said that the Government had asked him to take charge of a district to combat sleeping- sickness. He said, Livingstone College would be of tremendous use in helping to...”
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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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“...Penryn Spier, B.A. Penryn Spier, an appellation which we shall now thankfully adopt. A short time after this first introduc- tion, in 1903, the writer took charge of the mission school, carried on in those early days in a Chinese house,17 and found that an elder brother (about whom another story could be written) was a teacher in the school; whilst Penryn himself was one of the smallest—though by no means the dullest—boys in the bottom class. A few years later, when the new College building was completed, he was transferred along with the other boys as a boarder in the enlarged insti- tution. Here he became a general favourite and gradually worked himself up to the top of the school. He was a real boy, and though no great athlete, was fond of football and tennis. One of his great ambitions was to win the mile race at the annual College sports. By dint of much training, and after a tremen- dous effort, he attained to this ambition, and I ' well remember how he was triumphantly borne off...”
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“...whether it be the murderer himself or any other member of his clan who is sacrificed. All the members of a family are equally responsible for the debt of any one of them. Most personal affairs, such as marriage, are arranged by the whole family. The individual never attains his majority ; he is always under the tutelage of his clan or tribe- This solidarity, this complete submer- sion of the individual in the community, makes the appeal of the Christian mis- sionary extremelv difficult. The mission- ary uses every effort to convert individuals. But as the native has never contemplated taking any step1 on his own initiative, how can he imagine that his personal destiny is dependent alone upon his faith and his action ? They may have some dim notion that death is followed by another existence, but they have not even the dimmest idea that each one of them mav be saved or damned on his own account. As with the Israelites under the Old Dispensation, the unit is the tribe and not the individual...”
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“...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 the wards, and introduced foreign ones with wire mattresses. Proud of his achievement he went into the wards late at night to see how; the patients were enjoying the luxury provided for them, and was greatly astonished to find the beds heaped up with cab- bages and other articles of food, and The men quietly sleeping on the floor. So methods from outside do not -always work out satisfactorily. There...”
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“...maidens for whom a Kingdom is waiting if they have the faith and courage to take possession. Mr. Macbeath calls his book the Story' of the Baptist Missionary Society, and 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...”
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“...self.” To that ring, its text and its asso- ciations, he traces the theme and origin of his book, and the use of its title. The author claims that his book does two things : first, it describes the con- ditions of service which affect students and others like them, rejoicing in the immeasurable opulence of youth; and secondly, that it answers the question, “ How should they use their riches, if they want to bring in the reign of God throughout all the world? ” In the first three chapters the mission- ary problem is looked at in the light of Christ’s dealings with individuals, social groups, and nations ; in the next three chapters he deals with the open vision of Gospel truth as the only specific for the world’s salvation ; then shows that the truth’s touch quickens the heathen into ’Published by the Student Christian Movement. 2s. 6d. new life ; but that only true and faithful citizens of the Kingdom of the Spirit can give that touch. The reading of this volume has been a literary feast...”
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“...their responsibility. They support and work two missions amongst the Mendis who are toilers on the land near by : the Fakai Mission and the Anne Micklethwaite Me- morial, so called in memory of the sainted mother of our esteemed General Superintendent, whose grave is here in Freetown. We recently saw these mis- sions when on our way to Lumley Beach. Not elaborate buildings but real centres of light in this needy area. Monday, 8th December, we left the Mission House, and were soon away through Kroo Town road to Murray Town, where we were cordially received by the Rev. G. O. Gabbidon, the minister, and a fine company of sisters of the W.M.A. and friends, whose “Kabo” (Welcome) made us feel a.t home at once. T. C. Fraser, Esq., J.P., presided, sup- ported by Mr. Jarrett and Mrs. Lydia Ashley, a keen W.M.A. worker, and the only woman local preacher in our West African Mission. The meeting' was most cordial, a happy feature being the presence of a group of Mendi converts who sang three hymns in...”