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“...REV. H. T. CHAPMAN, GENERAL MISSION SECRETARY.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What interests...”
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“...THE ‘RELIGIOUS' LIFE OF WENCIIOW.
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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.
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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.
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The choice of the Irish Episcopalians, for the
vacant Archbishopric of Armagh and primacy of
all Ireland, has fallen...”
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