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“...REV. H. T. CHAPMAN, GENERAL MISSION SECRETARY. o feeling tliat he owes nearly everything to her. She was of sweet, affectionate disposition, tender, womanly, and true. Her piety was deep, and her faith was strong. Mr. Chapman was fortunate in his schoolmasters. Tliey were stern disciplinarians, understanding literally the dictum of Solomon, “ he that spareth the rod hateth the child.” Despite of this, Mr. Chapman revered them. They were good scholars and excellent men, with great force of character. They kindled in young Henry’s mind a desire to be like them. Some of his relatives were local preachers. His grandfather especially attained to “a good degree ” in this honourable vocation, his name, for many years, being as ointment poured forth. Converted at an early age, Henry soon began to hold forth the word of life, and once, the superin- tendent minister being ill, the quarterly meeting accepted him as locum tenens, so that for a month the young local preacher was circuit superin- tendent...”
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“...horseback, he was obliged to discard the idea. The people were showing great hearti- ness in the proposed erection of a Chapel at Cricamola. The land has been given, and Messrs. Snyder are conveying the materials to the spot,, free of charge. About £40 in money has also been promised. A specially interesting fact is, that it will be the first Free Methodist Church erected on the Continent of South America. The other Chapels are on the islands. « «■ * Mr. Proudfoot has now been ten years in the Mission field. He is staying on at considerable risk to himself, till he can be relieved. Through the appointment of Mr. Halliwell, I hope that his- foot will soon be on his native heath. He looks forward to spending some pleasant summer days- in the heather, on the Ochil Hills in Scotland. W'N a letter to j, ■ the Mis- si on ary y Secretary, dated Sep- tember 1 8 9 5, 10th, R e v. James Proud- foot describes the condition of affairs at Bocas del Toro. The excessive rains had caused quite an epidemic...”
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“...OUR FOREIGN FIELD. work, and will be a very material assistance towards our hospital, when we secure that much ■desired aid to our work. -%■ & In a letter to the Editor, dated Wenchow, Sep- tember 27tli, 1895, Rev. W. E. Soothill refers to the outrages perpetrated on Christian Missions in China, specifying those in Sz-chuan, Fo-kien, and elsewhere. He continues “Coming to this district three months ago, the China Inland Mission suffered a re- verse at Ping- Yang, 30 miles .from here. Twenty or thirty houses were wrecked, their occu- pants driven forth, a n d though com- pensation has been made in part, they have not been able to re-build, and Christians have to put up with great ■opposition. * * * * to “As to our ■o w n w o r k, F u n g -L i n g was going on splendidly, till the Mandarins putoutanotice forbidding the sale of land to foreigners. "These officials have enormous power, and whilespeaking suavely as man can speak, are all the time doing their ut- most against us. They are at...”
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“...officers of our Circuits, the officers and teachers of our Sunday Schools, would take this question up, the circula- tion of the Echo would double, and our income would be greatly increased.” Will our friends help us in this enterprise ? I trust our young friends will do their very best, the same prizes will be given for the largest amounts as in other years. * * * The £200 that we want extra for the New Medical Hospital at Wenchow, are not yet to hand. Will our friends take this great need of our Mission at Wenchow seriously to heart! I do not doubt getting the money, and that, apart from our ordinary income. But it is a case of urgency. There is an old saying, “That he who gives early gives double.” It will hold good in the case of our Medical Hospital. We must not discredit the faith of our own Missionaries; they are confident that if only the friends at home knew how great, urgent, and blessed the Medical work of our Mis?ion is, the money would be given at once I After we have the money, it...”
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“...well-attended and deeply interesting meeting was held in Hamilton Road Chapel on the 3rd to take leave of our two friends. The chair was taken by Mr. Bate. The meeting will long be remembered by those present for its deep spiritual tone. I be- speak for our dear friends the prayers of our Churches. 7^ * Just as these “ Notes ” were being sent to the Press, we received a telegram saying, Mr. Galpin would sail for England on the follow- ing Saturday. This is sad. (HOP MAPLES, of the Universities Mission, has been drowned in Lake Nyassa, just as he was reaching the centre of his work. He had been a Missionary for twenty years. Rev. Jos. V illiams was drowned with him. No particulars of the sad occurrence had come to hand at the time of this writing. * * * Rev. Hugh Goldte, who laboured at old Calabar for nearly fifty years, has entered into rest. He was connected with the United Presbyterians. * * * A most interesting Babylonian tablet has just been deciphered. It is inscribed on both sides with...”
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“... yielded to our delighted vision scenes of ever varying beauty. It was part of Mr. Galpin’s mission to secure a number of these views, to be reproduced on lantern slides, to illustrate a lecture which you may have the pleasure of listening to, and I can assure you, beforehand, that there is a treat in store. Each day our morning prayers were made the occasion of a little service, which was generally well attended, more interest being taken in them this year than has been known before. The hill people made up their minds to have nothing to do with the “ foreigner’s religion.” But they cannot resist the “joyful sound,” and already the Gospel is “ half-way ” to many of their hearts. After prayers came medicines, at times there was quite a rush. Cases of ulcer, abscess, cancer, etc., were brought for treatment, keeping Mr. Galpin busy sometimes all morning. Dr. Grant, of the American Baptist Mission, who was staying in our house, had his hands full of interesting cases. One was the case of...”
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“...committing them all to the Lord in prayer, we set out on our homeward way.” * * * Reference has been made in previous numbers of the Echo to the projected Mission Hospital in Wenchow. Its erection is an absolute necessity, if Dr. Hogg is not to be hindered in his important work. Contributions for this special object will be thankfully received by the Secretary, Rev. H. T. Chapman, Harehills Lane, Leeds, or the Treasurer. * * * In a letter to the Missionary Secretary, dated September 25th, Rev. F. Galpin (Ningpo), writes: “ Yesterday, we had our Quarterly Meeting. The reports were varied. Sickness has been busy in our midst, but happily, up to the present, we have only lost one by death. Several reports given yesterday speak of encouragement, some of dis- turbances. In some places the officials have sent to gather particulars of the Mission property, and the names of those in charge. One assistant re- ported that the people were much opposed to Christianity, because it is a foreign religion...”
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“...years. The Mission is now too large for the present staff, and I seem to be needed in several places at once.” * * * Mr. Proudfoot then details what is being done towards the erection of a chapel at Cricamola, and another on a small island called Nancy’s Cay. » « * Mr. Proudfoot continues, Bogue’s Mouth Station has a very pretty chapel, but the popula- lation is small, and will continue so until the land across the channel (or mouth), is taken up. A Vanilla firm has got a concession of eleven miles of coast line there, and there is a good prospect of a large village on the mainland, and of the de- velopment of Bogue’s Mouth too. I have been j promised all the land I' need for a Chapel and I Burying ground, whenever the prospects are such as to justify settling a Chapel there.” CHAPEL AT RIBE. Mission House in which Mrs. Wakefield died, on left hand. A'/?./ So JVCIjSlSIOJ'^y £Ee^E'l'£]Sy> HE past month has been one of very great anxiety. The news from several of our Mission Stations...”
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“...Bocas is rapidly growing, and if we are to maintain our position there, we must send out more agents. * * * Will our friends in all our Circuits lay our Mission work to heart. Doors are opening, the ! work is growing; if we are to enter in and do our work, we must have larger funds. * * * Mr. W. Lancaster, Roundhay Road, Leeds, has sent through Rev. W. Vivian, two valuable books to our friends in West Africa. * * * “ A Friend ” at Baillie Street has prepared a case of dolls and other toys for our West African Mission, and two parcels have also been sent in from Rochdale friends for Mr. and Mrs. Howe. To all these friends we are deeply indebted, and beg to tender to them our heartiest thanks. * * * Will all our Churches set apart some Sunday in February for addresses on Missionary subjects, . and for earnest prayer for our several Mission Stations and all our Missionaries ? Will the schools also take the subject up, and the Y. P. C. E. Societies. We never had a graver crisis in the history...”
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“...the Plymouth Mercury contains the following paragraph :—“ Canon Jacob, the new Bishop of Newcastle, sets a good example to his brother Prelates by his warm espousal of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He spoke at the South Kensington auxiliary meeting the other night, and told the audience he had become a sup- porter of the society. As a young clergyman his attention had not been directed to it at all, but in 1872 he went to India as Chaplain to the Bishop of Calcutta. In visiting the mission stations in company with the Bishop, he was struck with the fact that wherever he went the people seemed to have a Bible, and no matter what the language there was, the Word of God in the vernacular, and in all cases from the British and Foreign Bible Society. He asked his Bishop whether, when in England, he had been a supporter of the society ? He replied he was sorry to say he had not been, but he was now, and he took the chair each year at the Calcutta meeting. ‘ So,’ said Bishop Jacob to...”
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“...schooner which occupied four- teen days in the course covered by the “Harold” in an equal number of hours! It is awful work beat- ing up this coast in a schooner in the months of July and August, when winds are light; the cur- rent being so very strong and adverse. We had, I remember to go about forty miles N.W. of Bocas and then try to cut across the coastal current so as to make one of the two entrances to the port of Bocas, and we drifted past the first, and only by COCOANUT GABLE END OF BAPTIST MISSION HOUSE, BOCAS-DEL-TORO, WITH YOUNG TREES. the skin of our teeth, as it were, managed to make the second. Now, in fourteen hours from the time of leaving Colon I was at Bocas-del-Toro. I may here say that I find this plural form of the name, meaning “ Mouths of the Bull,” is the one generally used at the place itself, and it is not inappropriate, as there are two mouths or channels adjacent to each other leading directly to the port, though one is very shallow and little used. These are in addition...”
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“...BO CAS REVISITED. 25 the people are not quite capable of coping with. They have a mission-field in the literal, earthly sense of the word —a small banana farm, which they cultivate in the interests of the church, and which has helped them very considerably in their church finance. So they are quite easy about the small burden of debt which rests, not on the shoulders of the minister, but on those of a few of the sturdy, independent men of the place. I brought out copies of a service of song, “ Golden Deeds,” which I hoped to get up at this place and Bocas during my stay, and I had a first practice with a few of the choir on Saturday night, but it was wet and we only had a few, besides which they were getting up a Sunday School Anniversary, which was to have been held on that first Sunday (the 28th July), but which had to be postponed on account of the unreadiness of the children, and was fixed for the 11th August. Sunday morning, 28th July, proved very wet, the rain continuing till nearly...”
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“...The quarrel is a political, not a religious one, but there is no doubt that our missionary aggressiveness is one cause of deep-seated hatred. It so happens, too, that the only blow the rebels can deal the Government, is an attack upon some Mission station. They are not strong enough to attack Mombasa or any of the other garrisoned coast towns, and the Mission stations are the only outlying European settlements anywhere near the coast. They might make an attack upon some caravan passing into the interior, but the Govern- ment have now taken the precaution of keeping back all small caravans, until a large number of men are ready to start for the interior, and then they send them up a certain distance under a mili- tary escort. It is because the Mission stations are the vulnerable points that, for the time being, military garrisons have been placed in each. In this district, Rabai is the depot, where there are about one hundred native asikaris under an English officer. At Ribe, there were...”
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“...us. We have not yet supplied his place, but it is proposed to send there Fundi Thomas Mwavale, the native teacher now stationed at Jomvu, and to place half-a-dozen lads, under special instruction here at Jomvu, with a view to making them fundis. Mwavale, himself, is but a very young man, but I have tried to teach him a little during his two years’ work here. He is by no means a bad preacher, and I think his life gives evidence of the workings of Divine grace in his own heart. Our work on the Mission Station has been going- on as usual—day school, daily morning prayers, Sabbath preaching services—but outside work has been much interfered with during the troublous times through which we have been passing. The open-air services in Mohammedan Jomvu have been discontinued, but none are more anxious (ap- parently) than the people themselves, that they should be resumed. They are continually urging upon me—“ Come again and preach to us.” “ When are you coming to read to us again.” We hope that...”
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“... Committee on this hospital question : “ It may encourage you to still more earnest effort to know that we think we see our way clear to making its support independent of our Mission funds............It is amazing to see what a difference the medical work has made in the attitude of the people towards us. A large anti-foreign city, to the south, from which we were driven some years ago, is now sending up numbers of patients, and even its literary men are beginning to visit us.” Can we, in the face of such testimony as this, fail to “ rise and build ” ? We feel confident the money needed will come! * The Secretary was in the pleasing position of being able to report that several honoured friends of our Church had, before passing to the Church triumphant, provided that certain legacies should be paid to our Mission Fund. Our honoured ex-Treasurer had paid a legacy, on behalf of his father, of £100; Mr. Kirkham, Stockport, on behalf of his father, £100; and Mr. T. Church, Leeds, on behalf...”
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“...this care. “ I find, upon examina- tion, that Reader Harris and myself are closely agreed upon the doctrine of holiness, and I hope also, experimentally united in that which results from a hunger and thirst after the same.” In his strictures on the Christian lawyer, Mr. Robertson Nicoll implies that he himself is not perfect. I believe him fully. •t" # The two Methodist newspaper editors are at war. It is all about a circular issued by Mr. Price Hughes asking sympathisers with the West London Mission to contribute one shilling, and induce other two friends to do the same. I cannot see the enormity of this, but it appears that this “ snowball ” method has often been adopted for fraudulent purposes. Mr. Curnock calls it “ a dodge,” and thinks it a discreditable one. Mr. Labouchere, in Truth, supports the views of Mr. Curnock. There must then, I think, be reasons against this method which do not appear on the surface. But when I find two columns and a half of the Methodist Times occupied in...”
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“...friendly to our work. Monkey Cay is a small island close by the main, where they have fixed their home. There is a wharf, a store, a machine shop, and a few dwellings for labourers, for the white overseers and clerks, and for the family. The Snyders are creating quite a model community on their plantation. They will not have any drink, nor any quarrelsome people. A man who drinks or quarrels is warned once, and if that does not suffice, he is paid off straightway. They are extremely anxious for Mission work to be taken up on theii’ plantation here, and in another place, and we cannot guiltlessly close our ears to these demands. I made a brief stay for breakfast in this most delightful spot. It is a kind of paradise, with the serpent not wanting, for poisonous snakes are not entirely eradicated even from this ! beautiful islet. We left and got to Bocas about five o’clock, where a boat was in readiness to take me over to Old Bank for the School Anniversary on the morrow. £ RE]VI£I^{£BI1E ^ERtflGE...”
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“...do their best to attend, and as God has prospered them, to sustain the Presi- dent’s list for the Collection, THE WAY IT WAS DONE. Two little friends in a northern city put their wise little heads together, swayed by a kind heart, and decided to hold a Missionary Bazaar on a small scale. They thought they might raise at least £1. They were encouraged by their parents, and worked cheerfully on. The time was fixed for the Bazaar, and was held, and the result was the splendid sum of £5 for the Mission Funds. We are very much obliged to our young friends M. and A. Many other young friends might greatly help the Missionary cause by following the example of these two Missionary enthusiasts. EAST AFRICA. Two letters are just to hand from East Africa. Both, alas, tell the same story—that the condition of things is much what it has been since November. Ribe has to be protected by the “ Blue-jackets ” almost continually, and our friend, Rev. T. H. Carthew, is living a life of daily strain of the...”
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“...beginning of next July. I remember the formation of this organization, from which was expected greater things than have been realized. I think its best use has been in the influence it has brought to bear in favour of religious liberty. While Jews are baited abroad and Stundists are treated with intolerant injustice by Russia, there is still work to be done in this direction. I do not think, however, that the Alliance will ever regain its early prestige. * * * Tiie last report of the China Inland Mission gives its receipts as £33,775 5s. Od. For a society which has no particular church on which to rest as a basis for its financial operations, these figures are certainly remarkable. * * * The publication of the life of Cardinal Manning by his authorised biographer, Mr. Purcell, has given rise to as much remark as was caused by the issue of Mr. Froude’s reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle. The ultra frankness of the biographer has exhibited the Cardinal in very unpleasing lights. ♦ * * What interests...”
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“...THE ‘RELIGIOUS' LIFE OF WENCIIOW. 55 The Mission World gives, from, the American Board Almanac of Missions for 1896, the following summary of Protestant Foreign Missions :— Principal Stations ... ... ... 5,055 Out Stations ... 17,813 Missionaries: Male ... 6,355 Female ... 5,219 Total ... 11,574 Native Laborers 70,033 Communicants 1,157,668 Income, in dollars ... 14,441,807 The figures are presented as the nearest approxi- mation to the truth that can be secured at present. Some of the returns did not supply all the data needful to a perfectly accurate statement. itr A farmer in Denmark, who recently died, has bequeathed to Missionary objects and to small churches in Copenhagen, what amounts in English money to £5,500. I am delighted to find that Danish farmers can make so much money, and that one of them at least felt a deep interest in Missionary affairs. * The choice of the Irish Episcopalians, for the vacant Archbishopric of Armagh and primacy of all Ireland, has fallen...”