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“...E. Cocker 126 HOME AND- GENERAL. Ark upon the waters, The Rev. R. H. B. Shapiand ... ... ... ... ... 207 Can we not watch with Him one hour? 103 Charm of Missionary Idea Rev. C. Ellison ... ... ... ... ... 21 Christian World Mission Rev. W. Paton 211 Conference, Missionary Day at ... 161, 178 Editor’s Notes 10, 32, 50, 72, 90, 115, 132, 153, 175, 191, 214, 231 Enthusiastic Missionary Collectors 38, 92, 136 Gauge, Rev. T. M. ... ... ... ... 51 ,, ,, Rev. R. Strong ... 68 Gifts for Africa : What to send Mrs. Hopkins ... ... ... ... ... 198 "Hath God cast away His people?” Rev. Bruce White ... ... ... 233 “ He giveth power to the faint.” Rev. W. F. Newsam ... ... ... ... 117 Hill-top Vision, A Rev. J. Naylor ... 121 How Grenfell stopped a tribal quarrel... 78 Mission House, From the Rev. C. Stede- ford 4, 25, 45, 65, 85, 105, 124, 145, 167, 187, 208, 225 Missionary Anniversary ... ... ... 107 Missionary Harvest Festival, A ... 228 Missionary Test Questions ... 17l, 200 Missions and Youth....”
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“...Messenger ” ............218 “Everyland” ... ... ... ••• 218 International Review of Missions 33, 82, 176, 230 ILLUSTRATIONS. CHINA, Babies in Chinese Hospital ... ... 100 Blind Chinese Girls ... ... ••• 98 Buddhist Priests ... ... ......118 Chinese Mothers and Children ... 35 Confucian Temple ... ... ... 56 Model of Pagoda ... ... ... ... 23 Modern Chinese College Girls ... ... 101 Waiting for the Doctor ... ... ... 128 “Why not leave them alone?” ... ... 50 NORTH CHINA. Chu Chia Tsai, Outside of Mission Compound ..... ........... 53 Drawing water in Peking ...........201 Firewood Dealers ...... ... ... 185 Gateway in China’s Great Wall ... 42 Peking Cart ... ... ... ... 173 Tutors and Students : Peking Preachers Training School..................21 SOUTH-EAST CHINA. East and West ......... ... ... 5 Feather Dusters ... ... ... ... 179 Hangchow, Street scene in ... ... 66 Street in Shanghai ... ... ... ... 44 Walls of Wuchang...................32 Wenchow, Candidates of Women’s Training Institute...”
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“...are Rev. F. B. TURNER, O.E.C. popularly known as “pang p’iao ti,” literally “banknote binders,” ; i.e., they take a number of people whom they con- sider “good for” a certain sum, and tie them together on one rope as though they were a bundle of notes : and they art ■pre-pared to exchange them for cash only ! Where those who hear of their intended visit escape and leave their homes empty, the brigands, balked of their prey, burn the houses. Numbers of people have been thus seized.' An American mission station on the borders of our Yung Ping Circuit was thus raided a week or two ago, when two girl scholars were seized and had to be ransomed at the price of $500. The country on three sides of Yung Ping Fu is terrorised, and travel is im- possible. The only open way is that by road or river between the city and the railway at Lan Chow. The city itself, though occupied by soldiers, has been so threatened that the gates are shut day and night, and no one is admitted with- out a guarantor. To show...”
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“...v.t'!?•-, ’•rrTpJ’-?.'-"'"'-.''-v-71 From the Mission House ihem. He gave us a very vivid story of his experiences. One sympathises with the people of this district, harassed thus by evil men, and left without protection, though they are bled heavily to finance the militarists and their swarming armies. The effect of this state of things upon our work is calamitous. The circuit finances suffer : local contributions, though not large, were steadily increas- ing in response to our urging to greater effort towards self-support. But one needs to be almost heartless to press, for the maintenance of the level of contribu- tion, people who, like our Yung Ping members, in the spring, suffered so heavily from looting soldiers ; or those who now are victimised by bandits, and inordinately taxed by militarists whose special levies are almost continuous. The work of our preachers is also ham- pered. With such conditions obtaining th.e travel is impossible which is essential to the prosecution of our...”
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“...impending danger will be signalized by great deliver- ances. The case is not so desperate as was that of the Israelites in Egypt, and if it were ten times more so, the Great “I-will-be ” would prove the virtue of His name. Bolshevism The truth of the fore- in China. going paragraph is illus- trated by the mer- ciful deliverance of Wesleyan mission- aries. from an out- burst of Bolshevic frenzy at Liuyang. Situated in the re- gion occupied by the a d v a n c i n g Cantonese forces, Liuyang surrend- ered to the Bol- shevic principles of the invaders. A revolt began in the mission school, when the scholars presented to the Principal six Bol- shevistic demands, including one “to abolish the teach- ing of Scripture, and attendance at Divine worship and morning prayers.” Learning the state of feeling in the town the Chinese preachers begged the mis- sionaries to leave. A friendly representa- tive reported that a meeting had decided that on the following- Sunday they would “attack the foreigners, beat...”
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“...report Missionaries that the German mission- Return to tlie aries have now returned Tana River. to their mission on the Tana River from which the war separated them for twelve years. The intervening years have not diminished their devotion to the field where, through toil and sacrifice, they planted the Church of Christ. Herr Kraft, Herr and Frau Becher and Herr Mai sailed from Ham- burg in November, and have now reached the Tana. May God’s richest blessing rest upon their labours. Our Mr. Jackson has spent the greater part of last year on the Tana, and re- mained to welcome the returning mission- aries and to transfer the work to their hands. Ever since the withdrawal of the Germans we have given some care to the orphaned mission, but it was not until 1921 that our Conference assumed respon- sibility for its maintenance and oversight ; in doing so the Conference decided to re- transfer the Mission as soon as it became possible for the Neukirchen Mission authorities to resume their charge...”
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“...Mr. Swallow has rendered immense service to the missionary cause. Three must be mentioned, however briefly. (1) The maintenance of the “Missionaries’ Literature Association,” whereby our missionaries are supplied regularly with many welcome periodicals. (2) The meet- ing of missionaries and their families on their arrival at, and departure from, the homeland. (3) The conduct, with re- markable devotion, and without any re- muneration, of the largest share of the administration of the Foreign Mission Committee- work during Mr. Stedeford’s prolonged absence in China and Africa. The missionaries love Brother Swallow. So do we all. May God richly bless him in the eventide of life. By Mrs. MACLAURIN. President of the Women’s Missionary Auxiliary. It is with very great pleasure that 1 add my tribute to our dear friend, Rev. J. E. Swallow, on the occasion of his retirement from the Editorship of the Missionary Echo. His loyal service calls for the deepest gratitude, and we cannot but admire the...”
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“...chance of learning love, and thus of gaining happiness. This crude adapta- tion of some lines of Browning expresses my feeling as I begin my editorship, and I can only hope and pray that no interest, local or denominational, will suffer thereby. © ® ® © The Situation in China. The situation in China causes grave anxiety among all missionary societies. Though the anti-foreign movement has affected us less than the Wesleyan Mis- sionary Society, the Baptist Missionary Society, and the China Inland Mission, we have not been left unscathed by any means. Mr. Stedeford’s well-informed comments on another page should be care- fully read. We can trust the foreign Governments not to add any provocation to the already overheated state to which Chinese mis- government has brought the country. At the same time foreign residents must be given full protection, and we are glad to know that adequate measures have been taken. Our own Foreign Office is not likely to be backward on a matter of this sort. Those...”
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“...burning out of a home, the loss of the ploughing cow or distress caused by flood or hail, etc. There will probably be preachers calling to make arrangements for visits to the out-sta- tions, and there are always a score or two of “week-end ” visits waiting to be made by the foreigners, or school matters to be discussed. Rarely can any work be done in the study on Mondays. It is a fatiguing day. Market-day, one day in six, is worse. Our village and scholars’ market, a few minutes’ walk from the mission com- pound, is the centre to which Chinese, Mohammedan, and many a Miao and No- su aborigine come for barter and purchase of corn, cloth, salt and cattle from a wide area. The people take advantage of the market day to visit the teacher on any matter of business waiting to be settled.! In addition, it is the weekly pay day. The dining-room is rarely free of preachers, teachers and helpers needing cash for many purposes ; men offering goods for sale. Masons, carpenters, sawyers, tim- ber carriers...”
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“...other five boys in file moved so many packages on their heads down to King Jimmy. First went the bath, packed full with cooking utensils, held secure by a spe- cially made lid padlocked on either side (Micklethwaite’spatent), then the “chop” box trunks, camp-beds, etc. The next thing was to go to bed and hope for good weather in the morning. At sunrise we were up and busy with our final prepara- tions, and at a quarter past six we went, a party of four, down to King Jimmy. There was Willy, the Mission House general ; Santiggy, the cook, who, given a match, two sticks, a frying-pan and some lard, will cook you a meal anywhere on earth ; our guide, philosopher, and friend, the Rev. J. B. Nichols, and myself. It was half-past six when we went aboard, and we were punctual, though half an hour late. When Captain Slow said six o’clock sharp; we knew, of course, that he meant half-past—human nature is the same all the world over : how often have I been saying that since I came here? I suppose the...”
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“...destination. At the end of two hours we reached the grass hut in which the young man was lying. It was obvious that his femur was broken. The native in his crude way has some idea of what to do. They had se- cured two pieces of bark to act as splints, and had fastened these bv blades of grass. I immediately set the fracture, securing the necessary extension as best I could with poor materials, and having finished the job prepared to give them advice regarding the case. His home was too far from the mission for me to attend to him, so I suggested to the father that the very best thing he could do would be to take the young man to Mombasa Hospital, where he could secure the best treatment possible. This involved carrying the young man, on an improvised stretcher, to Mwakerungi, where they would secure a dhow to cross to Mombasa. This idea was accepted by the parents and relatives, and they swiftly 17...”
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“...succeeds her, is well known in the Council, having been a member nearly every year since 1915, and having often acted as minute secretary or scrutineer. In her the Bristol District has had a most capable and enthusiastic secretary for over thirteen years, during which the W.M.A. has made great pro- gress. She will give us of her best. Besides keeping in touch by cor- respondence with the women workers overseas, the Foreign Corresponding Secretary is responsible for despatching gift parcels to the mission stations. It is important that all should know that articles for this purpose should now be sent to Miss Weeks, Ashton House, Mrs. Knight. 19...”
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“...From the Mission House bed at night,.wearing the thinnest of cotton shorts, on a linen sheet, in the wide open doorway of an upstairs spacious verandah and be unable to sleep because, though thus uncovered, one may feel the moisture from one’s pores slowly exuding and making clammy the skin. No wonder that, hardy Highlander though he is, one of the four should burst into tears and cry out that his sufferings are beyond en- durance. One cannot improve on Mr. Heywood’s crisp and sharp-cut sentences : “Ding Ngoe with great difficulty turned his head towards him and began to com- fort him by saying, ‘ Don’t weep ! Don’t be disheartened ! We ought to be full of joy. You ought to think of Jesus ; how He was nailed to the cross, and be filled with grief at what was done to Him. We are bearing the cross now for Him, and we ought to be joyful and not sad ! ’ Zie Liae (the name of the other), hearing these words, was much comforted and streng- thened, and, in his own words, ‘was soon at peace.’ ”...”
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“...From the Mission House fully maintain the fight against the South. Canton imposed the surtax in defiance of international treaty, but the Cantonese Government is alarmed at the prospect of their opponents in the North gaining revenue from the same source. The North has the command of the most lucra- tive ports, including Shanghai and Tient- sin, and the Southerners may well feel apprehensive when the North profits by following their method. In inventing their weapon against the foreigner the Can- tonese did not imagine they were placing a more powerful one in the hands of their opponents in the North. Conquest After all, ideas are by Ideas. mightier than military force or financial power, and the chief strength of the Southerners in China consists in the fact that they proclaim a definite programme for the amelioration of China. They propagate a theory of national independence and social reconstruction as the remedy for China’s poverty and misery. It is not surprising that the distracted...”
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“...missionaries who labour amid such tragic and disheartening events need our utmost sympathy and most earnest prayers. A New Since the retirement of Doctor at Dr. Plummer in 1925 Chu Chia. our hospital at Chu Chia has been without an En- glish doctor, and has been dependent upon the Chinese assistants. We rejoice to learn that Rev. F. B. Turner has been able to secure the services of Dr. R. P. Hadden, a medical missionary with a re- cord of fourteen years’ service in connec- tion with the Wesleyan Mission in the Canton District. The present engagement is for one year only, but with the possi- bility of the period being extended. Dr. Hadden arrived at Chu Chia on Novem- ber 20th. When Mr. Turner met him, Dr. Hadden had gone to Peking with the desire to transfer his services to a Man- darin-speaking district. He served in the South1 as the Christian Endeavour repre- sentative of the Irish Methodist Confer- ence, and his retirement evoked the fol- lowing resolution from that Conference : “The Conference...”
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“...just as the bell was being rung for morning prayers—seven o’clock, and the boys who live at the mission, and the people who live ■ round about, went trooping down to the church, where Nelson, the head teacher, would conduct prayers, after which morning school would continue until ten o’clock. Imagine first of all the scene from out- house. Immense space, and practically all around us range after range of hills, much higher than one is accustomed to see in England. On our right we can see the peaks of Mount Kenya (17,040 feet) always snow-capped. On our left we can look away across desert. Be- tween the mountains—in the valleys—we look upon miles of forest. Dark green belts, the home of the elephant, rhino, leopard and lion. The nearest town is two- hundred and forty miles away, and the railway line, single, starts a hundred and ten miles from this mission station. We set off across the mission ground, taking one of the paths which led down into the first dip, across a stream, and up the...”
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“...an ornament, and little strings of beads suspended from it, and, of course, a* safety pin too. This is never used to fasten anything but kept for digging out a little creature known as a “jigger,” which is a source of great worry to them, and to us, from their toes. Having- made our way through this long line of man force, we arrived at Katheri. No sign post, or post office, or store even to announce the fact, but a Government Rest House built of mud and thatch in a great open space, and our mission school, and teacher’s house right beside it. Again, there were un- usual activities in the camp. At once we perceived the flag flying which de- noted the fact that the District Commis- sioner, a very important person, is in residence. Outside his tent stood his beautiful black pony in readiness for his departure, whilst he was seated inside at a table making up his accounts. All around were scenes of tremendous activity. In the twinkling of an eye, a kitchen, a stable, and a boy’s house would...”
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“...saw a very pretty and effective sight. Approaching were Major and Mrs. Buxton, the nurse, and three children, one behind the other, each mounted on a pony, then, following on, a long line of boys, carrying on their heads the equipment of the party. They had come as far as possible on the road by car, and the rest of the way by native path on ponies. (N.B.—Only the mis- sionary walks in Africa.) Major and Mrs. Buxton are genuine Christian people, and when the Commissioner is in sympathy with mission work, it is a great help and asset, naturally. We took leave of them and started on the home journey, nine miles to walk, which Mr. Cozens says are equivalent to twelve at home because of the steep climbs and streams to cross. At one stage we had to cross a crude kind of suspension bridge high up across a waterfall. As I looked a fear possessed me, my already heated blood ran cold. Not one step could I advance, until a helping hand in- stilled courage into me, and led me across. When nearly home...”
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“...sacrifice, must serve as an apology for this article. The occasion was the necessity of se- lecting a few lepers in the earlier stages of that disease, for treatment in our new Leper Home at Stonegateway. The treat- ment which has made such rapid strides recently, and of which such glowing reports have been published in the popular press as well as in medical circles, does undoubtedly offer a hope of cure that has never before been tenable. So far as we can, we are hoping, by the generous aid of the Mission to Lepers, to bring such a hope to some of the afflicted in our District. The first day from the city was over the well-known road to Stonegateway, where one is ever assured of a hearty welcome both from the Miao and from the resi- dent missionary. Early the following morning, Mr. Cottrell and I took to the road, well-equipped against rain, for Stonegateway was living up to its repu- tation and we were already among the clouds, as, indeed, we remained for the greater part of our journey. The...”
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“...at the most critical periods in the history of the Church.”—Dr. J. Rendel Harris. Missions and China. Professor W. E. SOOTHILL, M.A. TO write in February on the position of China in March is to don the mantle of the prophet. Whether I wear it or not, I cannot refuse the first call to write from our new editor, to whom I wish all the success of his predecessors. No one must ever dream of supposing that we have laboured in vain in China. “Labour in vain ” is unthinkable in connection with any mission field as a whole. Individuals and periods and stations may seem to fail. Some undoubtedly do fail, for it is true that “we have this treasure in earthern vessels,” sometimes indeed very earthen, but there can be no scrap of doubt that we have the “treasure.” And it is a treasure far more precious than rubies or diamonds : for our treasure is not dead matter, but the miracle of living seed, amazingly potent and reproductive. IN the present situation there is naturally much to cause anxiety. There...”