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“...Evangelist - - 154
Letters from China, No. 1. By W.E.Soothill 7
5 i No, 2. By Lucy Soothill 189
Literary Sketches. By the Editor 26, 59, 164, 190
PAGE
Memorable Meeting. By the Hditor - - 129
Miscellaneous = = 22, 86, 108, 185, 154
Missionaries, Arrival of
6, 37, 101, 115, 152, 168, 182
Missionaries, Departure of 56, 115, 152, 162, 181,182
Missionary Expansion of the Reformed
Churches. By the Editor - - - 120
Mr. Yoa; or, Garnered Grain. By Lucy
Soothill ~- » = = E - 170
Mutterings of the Storm. By James Proud-
foot - s = - - - - 108
My Voyage to Jamaica. By Francis Bavin - 177
Our Foreign Field: Editorial Notes
Bocas del Toro - es = = AEs)
China 2, 18, 36, 52, 68, 82, 99, 114, 132,148,180
Hastern Africa - 87, 51, 68, 138, 150, 180
Jamaica - = = - 20, 58, 68, 179
Western Africa - 4, 20, 37, 58, 101, 116
Our Missions in Ningpo. By Frederick Galpin
23, 49, 81, 118, 165, 188
Our West African Missions, By William
Codling - = B = s = 87
Pentecost in China. By Lucy Soothill - 8
Plantation...”
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“...t of our
Jamaica Mission entered into rest, our minister in
Bocas del Toro, Rev. Thos. Halliwell, fell asleep
in Jesus. Mr. Halliwell was little known in most
of our English Circuits. He had not itinerated
here. He was received into the ministry when
appointed to Bocas. But in Wigan where he was
best known he was highly respected, and had he
been spared to labour in the foreign field his name
would soon have been better known in the Con-
nexion, for “he was every inch a Missionary of
the noblest type.” Mentally and spiritually, he
was far above the average Christian man, and he
had a grand ambition to spread the gospel in the
regions beyond. But “the Lord had need of
him,” and said “Come up higher.” We can only
say “Thy will be done.”
Painful to us, and doubly painful to him, was
the enforced return through illness of our dear
young friend, Richards Woulfenden. Had his own
ardent wishes been realised, he would now have
been getting ready for his return voyage to China.
But medical knowledge...”
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“...ano‘ her
« Q]d companion in distress”
Rev. George Turner, retired but recently from the
Secretarysbip of our Missions. None thought. he
had so soon to hasten his escape from the windy
storm and tempest. What may be the divine
purpose as to us who are alive and remain at the
present, we cannot say.
day. We can all do something to promote the
Mission Cause and extend the Kingdom of God.
Let us live soas to deserve the epitaph or eulogium
« He hath done what he could.”
Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice,
For work comes rest, for exile home;
Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom’s voice,
The midnight peal, “ Behold I come.”
EDITORIAL NOTES.
CHINA,
a communication from Mrs. Soothill to
the Editor, an interesting account is
given of an old convert, whom she de-
scribes as the patriarch of our Wenchow
society. She writes :—
* * *
“When Mr. Soothill came in from the
Saturday evening prayer meeting a little time ago
he remarked, ‘ Old Sing Fuh prayed very nicely
to-night.’ Some may remember...”
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“...OUR FOREIGN FIELD, 3
should be. The grief of his life had been that, of
all his family, he wag the only one who trusted
Christ. His sons were confirmed idolaters,
and turned a deaf ear to all their father’s en-
treaties and prayers. This was the only fault
he had to find with them. During my first
years in China he would frequently come
along to Mr, Soothill in search of a sympa-
thetic ear, into which he could pour his distresses
and self-accusings, for he always took the blame
on to his own shoulders. ‘ Pray tell me what my
sins are,’ he would cry; ‘they must be heavy
mises have been Sing Fuh’s refuge, and ‘the
place whereunto he did continually resort.’ No
small amount of grace is required from the mis-
sionary’s wife when she finds she cannot even
call her kitchen her own, because of its being in-
variably occupied by half-a-dozen Chinese, each
one of them anxious to search as diligently as pos-
sible into the mysteries of our foreign food, and
with no qualms of conscience about either...”
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“...time of the year, but it having been
necessary for Mr. Proudfoot to go to Paitafoo, he
thought it best to proceed to Tikonkoh.,
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Mr. Prouproot was delighted to see the cor-
diality with which the mission children at
Paitafoo welcomed back Mr. Micklethwaite. He
proceeds :—
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“Tae Mission eileen are fed and clothed,
the former mainly at the expense of Messrs. Good-
man and Micklethwaite, the latter through the
kindly labours of Samaria Dorcas Society. But the
mothers and fathers consider that they should
make a little profit out of the residence on the
Mission of their children, and frequently visit the
Mission House for begging purposes. A refusal
now and again leads to the loss of a child.
4 OUR FOREIGN FIELD.
“Mr. Mickuetawaire had acquainted me
with the losses the Mission had sustained, and
we endeavoured all the way from Waterloo to
Tikonkoh to get children. By getting them from
a distance they are less likely to be enticed away.
I was much pleased with the manner in which...”
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“...seems
to be full confidence reposed in the Mission, and
all connected with it were always received with
evident pleasure.
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“ Turorompus Ruperts, the steward, is a faith-
ful, good man, and has been so long connected
with the Mission House as to be thoroughly known
and trusted. He could easily overtake more work,
and, indeed, gives promise of becoming a very
useful agent soon.
* * *
“ Avrur being a week at Tikonkoh, Mr. Mickle-
thwaite and Mr. Johnson accompanied ineto Gpan-
gumah. This town, in addition to 100 frontier
policemen, and many Freetown people, has a
population of about 38,000. I should ad-
vise the Committee to empower us to put
down an agent there at once. One of the largest
towns between Tikonkoh and Gpangumah is Boho,
or Bo. From the chief of that town I got his
favourite grandson, and have him with me now
in Freetown. He isa bright, intelligent boy of
eight or nine years of age, and I hope he will be
of service to the Mission in Mendi Country one
day.
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“On our...”
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“...6 GENERAL MISSIONARY SECRETARY’S NOTES,
CHINA,
Just as we were preparing these notes for the
Editor we received several interesting letters from
China. Mrs. Soothill says:—“I am much con-
cerned for our woman’s work here (Wenchow).
Witt our Churches at home take these things
to heart.
WEST AFRICA.
Our honoured Missionary, Rev. J. Proudfoot,
reports himself well in health. I trust our friends
At present there is only Mrs. Hogg and myself. do not forget to pray for our friends in Sierra
. . If you get your ladies’ Missionary Leone.
Auxiliary Society, they should see to it that we get * * *
some lady workers sent out.”
Ir will be welcome news to all to know that
Mr. Goodman arrived safely at Sierra Leone on
Saturday, October 9th, he was in good health and
received a very hearty welcome.
* * *
Dr. Alf. Hogg says :—“ Iam very full of work,
having from seventy to ninety in attendance on
Jomeru.
Mission Chapel,
our dispensary day. Being now in our new dis-
pensary...”
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“... Do our
Sunday Schools and Young Peoples’ Endeavour
Societies know that our Book Room, London, has
four sets of slides, sixty in a set, illustrating, (1)
Our East African Mission, (2) West African
Mission, (3) China Mission, and (4) Missions in
Mendiland, with a prepared lecture on each
Mission. The charge made for the use of these
slides is very moderate. Rev. A. Crombie, 119,
Salisbury Square, will be pleased to furnish all
information respecting them. Every one knows
how pictures not only give pleasure, but aid the
memory in remembering a subject.
a * #
4. Hymns ror Missionary Servioxs. The
Book Room has also prepared a sheet of fourteen
hymns, all of a distinctive Missionary character.
The type is good, and the sheets form a most
excellent little hymnal for Missionary Anniver-
saries. The price is Is. per 100. A good Mis-
sionary hymn gives tone and spirit to an Anni-
versary. Let this sheet-hymnal be borne in mind
especially on the occasion of United Missionary
Demonstrations.
REV...”
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“...looking for the three men.
For Christ and his work’s sake don’t disappoint us.
Wenchow, Oct. 8th, 1897.
PENTECOST IN CHINA.
BY LUCY SOOTHILL.
E have seen the Chinese weep on
account of their sorrow; we have
even known them moved to tears
at the recital of the sorrows of
others, but to see them weep on
account of their sins—that, we felt,
could only be the hope of some distant future.
Before we could reasonably expect them either
“to weep for themselves or their children,” suffi-
cient time must be allowed for the lessons of Chris-
goat
8 PENTECOST IN CHINA.
tianity to rouse their stolid natures, and quicken
their lethargic spirits.
Such were our thoughts. Like the fulfilment of
some wondrous dream, then, has come to us the
record of meetings recently held in the neigh-
bouring province of Fuh-Kien among the Chinese,
and in connection with the A.K.M. Mission of |
Foochow. The temptation to send an account of ~
these meetings for the Ecuo is too great to be re-
sisted. May the...”
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“...at impos-
sibilities, and cries ‘it shall be done!’”’
Now, it was in the steps of these heroic men,
that, three years after the first establishment of
the mission, John Hunt was called to tread. As
previously intimated, the call came to him whilst
yet a student in the Hoxton Training College, and
just at a time when the hearts of the students
were melted and moved by a gracious visitation of
the Spirit, touching them to a tenderness, and toa
fellow-feeling with Christ in His great redemp-
tive work that made them ready to accept as their
own the famous motto on the seal, “ For service, or
for sacrifice !”’
“In the beginning of February, 1838,” says
Hunt’s biographer,-in a passage descriptive of this
_ vulsed by some intense feeling.
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momentous crisis of his religious history, “he
received a summons to the mission-house, where
he was asked if he would go to Fiji. Startled at
such an unexpected request, he returned to Hoxton
much troubled, and making his way to the room...”
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“...Christ to the people !”
The last prayer which John Hunt himself put
up was a characteristic one, and shewed the ruling
passion strong in death. ‘Lord, bless Fiji! Save
Fiji! Thou knowest my soul has loved Fiji! My
heart has travailed in pain for Fiji!” And has not
that prayer been answered? Has not. the sub-
sequent history of Fiji—with its thousands of
Churck members and upwards of a hundred
thousand of interested and constant hearers of the
preached word, demonstrated to a certainty, that
the mission, from its commencement until now,
has had upon it the broad seal of the divine bless-
ing and approval? If so, then it is no mere figure
of speech—no mere flash of fine rhetoric—but the
statement of a sober truth, when we give to John
Hunt, and the bright brotherhood of his co-
labourers—Cargill, Cross, Lyth, Malvern, Williams,
Lawry, and last, but not least, the venerable
James Calvert—the designation of “Knights of
the Holy Ghost,” for such in deed and in truth
they undoubtedly were.
In the...”
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“...perfect silence; jokes were passed from one to
another, the younger missionary giving and taking
as well as the rest, while his friend silently
enjoyed the sight of the children’s happiness.
Before the meal was ended a slight noise, like
that of a naked foot upon cemented pavement,
attracted the attention of the lads nearest to the
door which Jed into the large mission yard. The
next instant a part of the darkness (as it were)
stepped out of the night and waited hesitatingly
upon the threshold. It was an asikari—a native
who had been trained by the Hast African trading
company at Mombasa to perform the various duties
of soldier, policeman and messenger. He was
dressed in the uniform provided for him by his
English employers—a sandy coloured pair of
breeches and a tunic of the same material; a
leathern belt with a pouch fastened round his
waist and a short unsheathed sword hanging from
the belt. He held his polo cap in his hand as he
deferentially waited to be accosted by the white
men...”
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“...funds may be
raised for definite missionary purposes. An
increasing number of societies are now directing
their zeal and liberality towards the support of
Bible Women and native agents in some part of
the foreign field.
Iv may be information to some, and perhaps
encouragement to know that a Bible Woman in
China can be supported for £8 to £10 per year,
native preachers in several countries for £6 per
year. A certain Christian Endeavour Society in
London with 45 subscribers and seven collecting
boxes, raises about £25 per year towards the sup-
port of a Medical Missionary. These are instances
of what can be done by our societies for Foreign
Missions. What can be done for our own mission
should be done, and done at once for the glory
of God, and tho increased prosperity of our
Missions.
Tue highest level of duty is to do what we can
and if that appears small it may be serviceable,
and if serviceable, eligible for the Master’s
approval, I read a single but beautiful story of a
poor woman...”
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“...pangs to see his people losing their
hold of Christianity, and it was a great relief to
him when the work was declared finished.
This may give the friends in England a slight
idea of my friend, but I should like them to
know him personally. Could he spend a vaca-
tion in England, it would give him and his de-"
voted wife a well-earned rest, and would impart
a stimulus to the Missionary fervour of our
churches that would be of lasting benefit.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
CHINA.
z==ioyy N a letter to the Hditor, dated Wen-
chow, China, November 21st, 1897,
Mrs. Soothill writes :—
* . * *
“The work progresses. Like
Galileo we are compelled to say,
‘Tt moves still.’
“The walls of our Nyoh-ts’ing Chapel arerapidly
rising from the ground, aud it will, we hope, soon
be ready for opening. The building will be as
large as our present Wenchow Church, but unfor-
tunately the state of the funds necessitates some
portion of it being partitioned off to provide rooms
for preacher, chapel-keeper, etc...”
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“...or anointed
my forehead; next she took a comb (a new one,
Rev. R. H. McLaughlin. See Page 17.
x hills for them! But,
i. iat thank God it had not
, been ‘love’s labour
lost,’ for our eyes had
been gladdened, and our faith strengthened, by
much ‘fine gold’ found in these mountain fast-
nesses.”
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In a letter of an earlier date Rev. Ww. H.
Soothill writes to the Editor as follows :—
“My wife has spent some weeks at ‘The
Cottage,’ a charming retreat, built by Mrs. Stott,
of the China Inland Mission, and Mrs. Hogg,
while still Miss Bardsley. It is on a hill at the
mouth of the river, overlooking the Wenchow
Bay. And what a difference between there and
here. Though only twenty miles off, the ther-
mometer is from six to ten degrees lower, the air
fresh and ozoney, and the difference from this
steamy swamp almost incredible. I, too, have...”
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“...communication from Rev. James
Proudfoot appeared in a recent issue of the Free
Methodist. I think it ot sufficient importance to
reproduce it here.
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“Tx West Africa, as well as in England,
measures are being taken to increase both the
local circuit income and that raised for foreign
mission work. ‘The year closes in this district with
the end of September instead of the end of April,
as in England, so the result of recent efforts will
not be known for nearly twelve months yet.
Still, it may not be out of place if I put a few
facts and figures before the readers of the ree
Methodist.
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“Tux local circuit income under the head of
class, ticket, and light collections (exclusive of
the Mendi Mission) amounts to £658 12s. 8d.,
an average of 4s. 9id. per member. Trust
revenue, poor fund, and special efforts amount to
nearly £260, and the missionary income is £409,
The Mendi returns will probably bring it up to
£440, which was the amount raised in 1896, an
average of 2s. 1lid. per member...”
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“...towards the £15,000, with the brief sentence,
“ More to follow.” We heartily thank our unknown
friend.
WEST AFRICA,
Rev. J. Proudfoot writes in a most cheerful
strain in reference to our West African
Mission generally. In one of his last letters
he says, “On Friday, December 38rd, I am to
preach in connection with a new venture in a
rapidly increasing quarter of Freetown, called
Kissy Road. We have been losing members
through the trend of the population in that
direction, and during April, May, and June, in
company with Mr. Nichols, of Murray Town, and
afew Leaders in the Tabernacle Society, I was
looking out for a suitable opening. As it was
only a venture I decided to “say nothing until I
could say something.” Now, having succeeded
beyond our expectations, the Truscott Memorial
Mission is to be inaugurated on the date named
above. On Sunday, the 5th of December, the
Wesleyan General Superintendent has promised
to conduct one of the services. Land is dear, and
is rapidly increasing in...”
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“...that
Mr. Bavin has very cordially accepted the appoint-
ment. Itis an arduous as well as honourable posi-
tion, and it is felt the appointment is an admirable
one. May God bless the Superintendent elect.
of the sons of our ministers and laymen. Mr,
Moore would be glad to give all needful informa-
tion to any who desire it. His residence is Rich-
mond Village, Harrogate. The College is recognised
by the West Riding County Council and the grant
earned this year is the highest possible.
GIFTS TO CHINA.
Rev. W. Kaye Dunn writes :—“I read a letter
from Miss Hornby to my congregation, and in res-
ponse to her suggestions we dispatched a large
box containing 5,000 Christmas cards, rolls of linen
for bandages, pieces of warm woollen stuffs for
“ crazies,’ and two very large and warm quilts,
These latter were made by some of the young
women here, in time squeezed out of their tea half-
MISCELLANEOUS.
ASHVILLE COLLEGE, HARROGATE.
HHROUGH the kindness of the...”
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“...OUR
OUR MISSION IN NINGPO
BY FREDERICK GALPIN.
No. I.
CHINA A HOTBED OF SCANDALOUS RUMOURS.
SSGHE year 1870 opened out in its first
74 months with several signs of peace
4] and progress. On the first Sunday
of the new year I baptized seven
new Chinese members at our preach-
ing room in the city, and met with
many indications of encouragement as I travelled
MISSION IN NINGPO. 23:
Buteven amongst such good tempered audiences,
there were always a few who gave clear signs of
their sullen and hostile attitude towards foreign-
ers! And if we had paused to enquire into the
meaning of such marks of hatred and ill-will, we
should have discovered that they represented most
‘truly, the feelings of the ruling classes in China ;
and that their strong prejudice against us, made it
impossible for them to believe that any good men
came from the West. This anti-foreign feeling
usually gave expression to its thoughts in words
not addressed to us, but to the people who seemed
disposed to regard...”
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“...did the
Missionaries well consider that for every one China-
man who believed in the goodness of a Christian,
there were thousands who strongly believed the
lie. The summer came, a time when in China the
ignorant people can as easily be excited to deeds
of mad brutality, as dogs in this land by the ex-
cessive summer heat are quickly affected by mad-
ness.
The plot to murder all foreigners had been well
organised by the secret societies which exist be-
neath the surface of the social and political life in
China. The men of the north being most daring,
-struck the first blow at Tientsin; a band of wild
conspirators declared that they had discovered a
large quantity of infant bones just outside the
Catholic school, and that a native kidnapper who
was caught child stealing, confessed under torture
that the priests and nuns had hired him. This was
a sufficient excitement to a city full of angry
people, and the end soon came to all Mission work
in the district.
All the priests and nuns were...”
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