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186
Martyrs and Confessors. By J. EH. Swallow 118
169, 184
Medical Missions. 5 : % : : ea O lt
MisstonarRy Trip to Boca-psL-Toro. By James
Roberts.
Chap. I. Colon . : ; ; ; jae 24
es II. A boat! a boat! : é meter All
is III. Panama. 5 : : OS
+ IV. On board the “Amoy” . a0)
i Y. Landing at Old Bank ‘ 87,
ie VI. Sunday at Old Bank . 104.
= VII. Boca and Bogue’s Mouth . 138 |
» WII. Second Sunday . ; : pel 7
PAGE,
Our ForREIGN FIELD.
Boca-del-Toro . 36, 52, 116, 180, 14:7
China . 2, 20,35, 66, 83, 98, 116, 148, 161, 177
HKastern Africa 4,19,35,51,83, 130,131, 147, 162,178
Jamaica ; 5 20, 36, 51, 116
New Zealand . ; : ; ‘ A . 116
Western Africa 4, 67, 84, 101, 114, 178
Opium Traffic, The . : ; : i ello
Setting Out ; ; : : ; : : 1
SoME Misstonary HERogs.
No. 1.—Dr. J. G. Paton . 6 $ 5 Sea
» 2—Dyr. Robert Moffat . ; : 08
» 93—Rev. Henry Martyn . 145
Some Missionary Hymns.
No. 1.—From Greenland’s Iey Mountains . 10
» 2.—Jesus shall Reign where’er the Sun. 33
5 »0.—Hail...”
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“...whose
acknowledged qualifications warrant the belief
that the contents of Tum Missionary Ecuo will
be found worthy the attention and support of
the friends of Free Methodist Missions. That
the new publication may tend to the develop-
ment and increase of the Missionary spirit
amongst us 1s our sincere wish and our earnest
prayer. Jos. Krrsop.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
CHINA.
HY. W. EH. SOOTHILL, during his
temporary residence in Hngland,
is doing excellent service to the
Mission cause. His services as
preacher and speaker at Missionary
anniversaries are highly appreci-
ated. He and his devoted wife return
to China about September, 1894.
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Rey. J. W. Heywoop writes in a cheering
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district there are at least 200 inquirers, and
other districts in proportion are being similarly
blessed. He is not without his disappoint-
ments and griefs. He has had in several
cases to insist very strenuously on the apostle
James’ doctrine, that faith has to be shown by
works...”
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“...afflicted
with severe disease of the eyes. He had been
under treatment in Canton, but without success.
Hearing of the medical work in connection with
our Mission here, he came one day and asked
me if I would see the lad. When the lad came
[ saw that I could do nothing in the case; I
also got Dr. Lowry—attached to the Customs—
to see the youth, and he gave the same verdict.
The father was very much troubled, but he saw
our willing-
ness to do our
Missionary. In another case, a mandarin came
from a distance to seek advice, and asked if I
could do anything for him in his affliction.
This case was one which I could successfully
treat, and so another opportunity arose of speak-
ing to another of the class who are so exclusive.
I mention these cases to show that Medical
Mission work is far-reaching, and may be of
immense service to our Mission.”
THE appoint-
ment of Dr.
best, and since
then he has
called upon me
several times,
and this has
given me an
opportunity of
telling him the
Gospel...”
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“...the Missionary
Committee is giving help, but the people, though
liberal, are poor. Mr. Vivian appeals for sub-
scriptions, and adds: “Our African friends
when they want immediate effect given to their
wishes say : ‘ Do it one time.’ We humbly sub-
mit that the quotation is to the point.” No
donbt we shall interpret our excellent Mis-
sionary correctly if we say: ‘“‘He gives twice
* : wo
who gives qian
*
In a letter to Rev. Robt. Brewin Mr. Vivian
BETHESDA CHAPEL, FREETOWN.
— | Mission Sta-
tion. With
this intent
he visited a
town of
Gallas at
Kittum bini,
an hour’s
walk from
Kao. All
the way he
was knee-
deep in
water and
mud. There
were twelve
houses with
a popula-
tion of fifty-
two persons.
“T asked
the elder,”
says Mr.
Ormerod, “if they would not migrate to
Golbanti. He said ‘No.’ I asked ‘Why?’
He replied: ‘ Because at Golbanti there are no
men having riches from whom we can -beg.
Here, near Kao, we can beg from the rich
Swahilis, but there are none at Golbanti.’...”
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“...needed for
China and East Africa, and suitable young men
are earnestly entreated to correspond with the
Secretary.
We offered special prizes last year to the
collectors, under a certain age, of the two
highest amounts for our Missions. The first
prize was won
and is very helpful in spreading the Gospel
amongst the Chinese.
* * *
Tur Rev. T. H. Carthew reports that after a
considerable period of probation, and evidence
of the grace of God in the hearts and lives of
the people, he has received into the member-
ship of the Mission at Jomvu, by baptism, 84:
adults and 38 young people.
¥ * *
In a letter, dated October 28, 1893, Mr.
Carthew gives an account of the interesting
service: “It will interest you to know that for
nearly twelve months | have been calling our
people’s attention to the subject of baptism,
and my visit to Jomvu a month ago was to
gather up in this respect the results of my six
years’ labour there among the people. Jama
slow believer in quick returns in Mission work,...”
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“... Treasurer, or to the General
Missionary Secretary.
PREACHING FROM THE ‘ JUBILEE
MISSION CAR.
HE Evangelistic Mission Scheme of
the Connexion is being vigorously
prosecuted, under the auspices of
its able Secretary, Rev. Robert
Brewin, of Loughborough, whose
sympathy with all forms of aggres-
es sive work is well known. ‘Ten evan-
“Pp gelists are employed, who, during the
pr esent month, will be engaged as follows:
—Mr. G. Hooper, at Peterborough and Grimsby ;
Mr. G. Hane at Market Rasen and New Rad-
ford; Mr. J. Weedon, at Lincoln and Gosforth ;
Mr. A. Clegg, at Ashton-under-Lyne; Mr. F.
Shaw, at Prescott (Lanc.) ; Mr. S. Lumley, at
Gainsborough; Mr. EH. S. Marshall, in Overton
Circuit ; Mr. G. Whedon, in Downham Circuit ;
Mr. A. H. Hulse, in the same Circuit; and Mr.
D. Varcoe, at Tunbridge.
ai
Durtne the winter months the Mission Cars
are unavoidably laid aside. Their itinerancy
will be resumed on February 15th. Messrs.
Whedon...”
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“...THE GENERAL OUTLOOK.
“I
Brewin, Secretary. This Committee reports
to the Connexional Committee, which has a
general control of the operations.
* * *
Ty a recent issue of The Free Methodist, Rev.
Geo. Lowndes, in an article on the needs of
London, gives some interesting particulars as to
the operations of our Metropolitan Mission
Extension Committee. He says that the
earliest years of the organisation were devoted
to the employment of Scripture readers and
Bible women. This policy was changed about
sixteen years ago, and then the work of
chapel extension fairly began. There are now
connected with the scheme chapel properties to
the value of £23,670, with a membership of
864, Sunday school teachers 188, and Sunday
scholars 2,406. These are very encouraging
facts. % es x“
Mr. Lownpes gives particulars of the gift of
a spendid site in Harlesden, fronting the main
Harrow Road. At present Christian work is
carried on in a school chapel at the rear of the
site. If the front is covered...”
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8 DR. ALFRED HOGG, OF WENCHOIF.
mentioned, rising in his or her place. There
were over a hundred names on the list. Of
these, thirty-three are appointed to different
parts of Africa, seventy-three to Asia, and two
to Australasia. Besides these, five Missionaries
recently left for Hastern Equatorial Africa, one
for the Punjab, three for South China, and three
for the North Pacific Mission. By the time
our readers see this paragraph it is probable
all these Gospel labourers will have left our
shores.
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Tur London Missionary Society employs 248
European Missionaries, with a total of 96,118
Church members under their care. The most
fruitful soil is Madagascar. It will surprise
many to learn that two-thirds of the Church
members are found in that island. North India
is exceptionally sterile. The Society has thirty-
four Missionaries there, and has. been at work
for sixty-three years, yet the Church members
only amount to 739. The income of the Society
for last...”
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“...came from
India, a Methodist, had for some time had a
mission of his own in one of the slums, paying
the expenses himself, and he was very glad of
a new recruit.
The question of the heathen and their claims
on the Church at home was brought to his
mind by an incident that occurred one day in
class. One of the students, a Parsee, was
being teased by some of his thoughtless
class-fellows, and twitted about his ‘ hea-
then’ opinions. Alfred took his part, and
this led to an intimacy. between them, and
some talks in the pri-
vacy of their own rooms,
on India, its customs and
religions, and on Chris-
tianity with its universal
claims and powers.
The needs of the great
heathen world were thus
forced upon his attention,
and he began to hear a
voice from afar crying,
““Come over and help us.”
Happening also to come
across a book published
by the China Inland Mis-
sion, entitled, The Evan-
gelization of the World,
the awful state of China
and the other nations which
were sitting in darkness
was...”
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“...After graduating in medicine, Dr. Hogg was
appointed to the charge of the St. Pancras
Medical Mission, in the heart of London, as a
fitting preparation for the work abroad, and
had sufficient time left to attend special in-
struction on the eye and throat. After minis-
tering to the spiritual and bodily necessities
of the London poor, and working as: clinical
assistant at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital for
a year, the attention of our Medical Missionary
was drawn to the opening in Wenchow, and he
was led to offer for the onerous and responsible
position in foreign service, trusting that he
might be used of God to further the knowledge
of the Lord Jesus Christ in that dark corner
of the earth.
SOME MISSIONARY HYMNS.
BY THE EDITOR.
No. 1, “From Greennann’s Icy
Movnrains.”
VESZONE :
cy 5 EN HIS is the most popular
2\ Missionary hymn ever
UD) written. In preparing
ox) his work on Anglican
x”
wy
Hymnology,
Rev. James
King examined
fifty-one hymnals
used by...”
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“...Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row )
Alexina Ruthquist, ée Mackay, was cousin to
the well-known Uganda Missionary, Alexander
Mackay, and was worthy of the relationship.
Brought up in the pious and intelligent atmo-
sphere of a Scottish manse, she came very early
under the power of divine grace, and ere her
school life was completed she received the call
of God to Mission work. She was prepared to
obey it, but in deference to her mother’s wishes
she consented to wait till she received an outer
call, without herself taking any steps to secure
it. To her joy this came when she was twenty-
eight years of age, and she soon entered on
Zenana Mission work at Nagpoor, in Central
India. She displayed great tact and met with
considerable success, being much aided in her
made way for her teaching.. ‘After nine years
of devoted labour, she married Rev. Johan
Ruthquist, a Swedish Missionary, who laboured
amongst the Gonds, one of the hill tribes. She
died four years after, on shipboard on the Red
Sea. This...”
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“...to give one of its number a
college education, and it is quite affecting to
know what self-denial brothers and sisters will
practise to furnish the necessary means. Young
Paton, however, seems to have battled his own
way by labours asa City Missionary and school-
master ; not from want of affection on the part
of the old folks at home, but from sheer
inability on their part to help him, and on his
own, from his noble desire not to be burden-
some to anybody.
When engaged by the Glasgow City Mission,
the scene of his labours was a chapel that had
originally been built as a Lancasterian school,
but had for many years afterwards been a
Wesleyan chapel. The place is endeared to
the present writer by many hallowed associa-
tions. There he first listened to the word of
life, and for many years he worshipped under
its humble roof. Mr. Paton was remarkably
successful, and the good men who knew and
valued his work could hardly part with him,
even for the benefit of the heathen world. His
worthy...”
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“...which we
read, incredulously,
in ancient histories
of the persecuted
Covenanters, or, be-
levingly, in the
inspired accounts of
holy writ. God has
not left Himself
without witness in
our own day. It is
true at present, as
it bas been always,
“ He delivereth and
rescueth, and He worketh signs and wonders in
heaven and in earth.”
Forced from Tanna he joined his Missionary
brethren for a time in another island of the
group, and then at their urgent request went
to Australia in the interests of the Mission. He
also visited his native land, raising money and
marrying a wife. His first wife had died in
Tanna. He also succeeded in procuring addi-
tional Missionaries. He then proceeded to
Australia once again, where a Missionary ship,
the ‘‘ Dayspring,” was built and paid for, and its
future maintenance secured by his successful
efforts.
PATON,...”
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“...straight line I was probably
never more than fifty miles from Golbanti.
The river winds and doubles back upon itself
in extraordinary fashion. I visited nineteen
Galla towns, situated in seven districts, and
exchanged presents with the elders of the four
largest districts. The towns are all away from
the river, some an hour’s walk or more. I
camped at night on the river bank, and thence
visited the towns on foot.
Leaving Golbanti on Tuesday, the 30th ult.,
I spent the night at Ngao, the German Mission
Station; my advice being sought by the
German brethren in regard to a murder case
in the town. Next day I visited Dibe, a Galla
district on the north bank of the river. I
walked to four out of the five towns in the
district. The towns are far apart, the first and
the last being quite an hour and a half’s walk
apart. And during the wet season most of the
land, including that on which three of the towns
stand, is under water, and inter-communication
is by canoe. I had a long conversation with
the...”
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“...who is a daughter of our
senior Missionary in the island, Rev. W.
Griffiths, of Kingston.
CHINA.
In a letter to the Missionary Secretary, under
date October 27, 1893, Rev. J. W. Heywood
writes :—
“For twelve months past and more I have
been able to write that all was at peace on all
our Stations. I am sorry that I cannot still
report the same in this present letter. Just
now our ‘Ts’ing Die’ church is being tried by
the fire of persecution. T’sing Die is a walled
city some 120 li above Wenchow, on the north
side of the river. It has become a very impor-
tant Station, and the work in that district: has
been wonderfully blessed these last two or three
years. At the present time some five or six
hundred students are assembled in the city for
the literary examinations. On Sunday night
last, whilst the usual service was being held in
the hall which is rented by the Mission, some
five or six scholars walked in, and, after listen-
ing to the preaching for a very short...”
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“...Sunday
morning Mr. Leigh preached in the same chapel
to about 1,000 persons. In the evening Mr.
Goodman conducted the service, and there was
alarge congregation.
The new Mission House for Tikonko had
arrived, and Mr. Goodman: was proceeding at
once to the Mendi country to superintend its
erection.
# * *
Tue Rev. James Proudfoot, writing from
Boca-del-Toro, on the 14th of November. 1893,
reports, that through the kindness of a mem-
ber of the Roman Catholic Church, he was
living rent free. When he took charge of the
Mission, the Church at Boca numbered twenty-
seven members; to these have been added
thirty-three At Old Bank several conversions
have taken place, and new members are added
week by week. Along with this increase in
membership there is also an increase in the
income of the Church for the support of the
Mission. There is great need of better chapels,
and at Boca Mr. Proudfoot has begun to collect
for a new chapel. Generous contributions are
coming in, and he is hoping to raise...”
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“..., the larger and
more permanent structures having yet to be
erected. The Walthamstow Mission has been
a very signal success, mainly through the
splendid generosity of Captain King. Our
seventeen years’ record is the possession of
Chapel properties, now worth £28,000; a mem-
bership of 864; scholars, 2,406; and teachers,
188. Thank God! But this is only the thres-
hold! Grorce Lownpgs.
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BOWRON HOUSE.
Tuer lady evangelists connected with this
Institution have during the past few months
been actively engaged in different departments
of Christian work. Some have held revival
services, others have engaged in house-to-house
invitation, and one has rendered useful service
amongst soldiers in London. Many testimonies
to the value of the services of these deaconesses
have been received by the Secretary, Rey. T. J.
Cope. Writing from Leeds, Rey. A. Chadwick
says of one of them: ‘‘ Her three weeks’ Mission
at Park Lane has been a very great blessing
and an unqualified success.” Of another Rey...”
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“...THE GENERAL OUTLOOK. 22
CONNEXIONAL EVANGELISM.
Mr. Hoorer has visited Burnley, and held a
ten days’ Mission there. The weather proved
unfavourable, but there were about thirty or
forty inquirers. He has also been to Hull, and
the stewards testify that the number who
sought and professed to find salvation were of
a class likely to become useful members. Mr.
J. Weedon has held a month’s Mission at Cow-
ling, with encouraging results. Mr. F. Shaw
has visited Sowerby, and his services have been
much blessed; and Mr. G. Harris has laboured
at Radstock, and the secretary says his services
were a blessing to the town.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
LarcGe chapel debts are such a hindrance to
ageressive work that it is pleasant to hear of
them being grappled with. A debt of £1,000 is
a crushing burden to the Church at Canning
Town, London. It has to be sweptaway. Four
brethren have promised £100 each, and in all
£700 is promised. The greatest difficulty, no
doubt, will be to raise the remainder...”
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“... of the C.M.S.), reports that
while nine converts were the fruits of nine
years’ work, this year there have been 171
baptisms, and there are, in addition, 200 cate-
chumens. ‘‘Hvery woman in Piratori has
accepted Christ as her Saviour.’’ Hitherto the
women were not allowed to have any religion,
the men only have worshipped God !
* * *
A Misstonary of the London Missionary
Society, Rev. D. Carnegie, writes, in the
Chronicle of that organization, a very interest-
ing account of the Matabele Mission. We do
not think that Mr. Carnegie would justify all
that has been done on the English side in the
war with Lobengula, but he rejoices heartily in
that tyrant’s downfall. He has been the great
hindrance to the work of God, and now that
his hateful reign has come to an end, Mr.
Carnegie is looking for great things. He says,
“The people now will not point any more to
Bae. with their fingers as their final
argument to silence their tongue from con-
fessing Christ; they will no longer be in fear...”
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“...by.
JHE STORY OF THE WENGHOW
MISSION,
BY MRS. W. E. SOOTHILL.
Cuaprer I.—How ir Buoay.
LG Xr was in the year 1878 that our
Missionary Committee first sent
out a Missionary to Wenchow.
Mr. Galpin had paid it more than
*@ one visit, and had been impressed
7 with the importance of this district
as a Mission centre. His representa-
tions to the Committee induced them to
enter this field, and in 1878 they sent out
Robert Inkermann Exley, our first Missionary
to Wenchow.
Never physically strong, Mr. Exley did what
few men could have done in the same time.
In the course of three years he bought land
and buildings in the heart of the city—a task
by no means easy of accomplishment amongst a
suspicious people; built a small chapel, a day
school, and altered some native buildings, mak-
ing them suitable for European occupation.
Best of all, he left behind him the nucleus
of a Church in a membership of ten. Such
was his affection for the place that when the
illness. which ended in death...”
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