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“...General Missionary Secretary’s Notes, 5, 24, 35, 53, 69, 84, 102, 113, In the Land of Darkness. By William Yates, Chapter 1. The Brooding Storm - Fire and Sword - a - N ») te 3. The Governor’s Yamen = - » » 4 A Timely Rescue ~- - 5 5. A Strange Coincidence - 3 6. A Happy Reunion - - Ivydene. By Nellie Lupton - - - - Ladies’ Missionary Auxiliaries - ‘23, 67, 133, Leigh, The Late W. J. - - = - e Letter from China. By W. R. Stobie - - Literary Notices - By Aly OSjub24, eb 545 “Jamaica United Methodist Magazine” - ~ Maple Grove: A True Story of Christian ‘Persecution in China. By J. W. Heywood. Chapter 1. Fung Ling - - = is 2. An Anonymous Placard - nS 3. An Epoch = pone Pro- clamation - - 5 4. The Second Persecution - AA 5. Modes of Chinese Official Investigation = ns 6. A Peep Inside a Chinese Court of Justice = - - 5 7. The Release and Re-arrest of Ding Ngoe - - = 8. Settlement of the Case - 9. Faith and Works - - Marks of priate: in the Days of Good Queen Victoria. By John...”
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“...A Somali Man - - - - Bazaar, Mombasa -- - - Bridge of Boats, Ningpo - - Christian Natives, East Africa China Missionaries and their Wives China Missionaries and Circuit tendents - = = - Fetching Water, Ribe- - - Galla Woman - - - - Grave of the Houghtons - - Group of Pokomo Girls - “ In the Land of Darkness, 10, Kinyika Hut - - - - Ladies’ Missionary Picnic 1 Lamu - - - - - Mission Group, Ribe - = Missionaries in Jewish Russia - New Church, Mazeras- - - Superin- , 40, 146 58 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Ningpo Preachers’ - - - Pokomo Woman - - if 5 Portraits : J. H. Phillipson Wm. E. Soothill - 5 - - Mrs. Stobie - - - - Mr. and Mrs. Ormerod - - Matthew Shakala - - - Yasamine - - - - Mrs. R. M. Ormerod — - - W. H.C: Harris” - Me = John Watson, D.D. - - Harold Halliday = - - - Miss Bushell - - = i Rev. T. J. Cope - - The Martyr Crown of White Lily, 110, 120, 140, 156, 170, PAGE. nN nN “...”
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“...2 which, we pray God, may result in many conver- sions and great accessions to all branches of the Church of Christ. In the midst of all these mighty movements we must not overlook the interests of our Missions in foreign lands. In the Muisstonary EcHo we shall still have early reports of the work done in all our Mission fields, and this should prove our greatest incentive to zeal and prayer and liberality on their behalf. All the contents. of every number, fact or fiction, prose or’ poetry, are intended to bear upon this. One or two changes I must notice. Rev. Edward Abbott has for several years contributed the “ Christian En- deavour Page” month by month. He now retires from that department ; but it will be continued by his successor in ofice—Rey. J. J. Martin—a minis- ter who, like Mr. Abbott himself, is an expert in “ Christian Endeavour” affairs. Mr. Abbott, at my request, continues his connection with the Ecuo, and will contribute some “ Counsels to - Young Men and Maidens.” A...”
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“...of the Spirit in the hearts of the natives are most gratifying and inspiring. Recently we have enrolled many candidates for baptism and church membership. My heart has indeed been rejoiced of late by seeing some of the natives, after earnest appeals made by Mr. Howe in the church services, come up to the rostrum, and before the congregation make open confession of conviction of sin, and express a desire to accept the Christ as their Saviour. Others have come privately, during the week, to the mission house for the same purpose. May IJ ask you to join with us in prayer to God that the new life thus begun may indeed be strengthened and deepened by Him. Pray for us also that we may have power against the existing evils and darkness of this land.” EASTERN AFRICA. I have been favoured with a letter dated Octo- ber 15th, 1900, from Rey. J. B. Griffiths to Rev. W. Williams, of Trydden. Its contents are so interesting that I insert it almost verbatim. * * * “T was accompanied on my return by...”
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“...GENERAL MISSIONARY . JAMAICA. The following account is taken from the first number of the “ Jamaica United Methodist Maga- Zines ST. ANN’S. St. Ann’s is now one of the brightest and most promising of our Circuits. The Claremont church and mission premises present a, most attractive aspect. ‘The mission house has been repaired, premises fenced in by substantial stone walls with pillars of solid masonry, and gates that have been formed by the hands and tools of the minister himself. In place of the broken-down wooden b steps at the front door of the church, a handsome porch has been erected, with solid steps and landing finished in Portland cement. The whole property and mission house, in- stead of being broken down and overgrown with bush, is now one of the most attractive properties in Claremont, a credit alike to the minister’s | energy and enterprise, to the people’s earnestness and toil, and to our church in the district. Brittonville ‘Church, the walls and roof of which have been...”
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“...make Missionary Sunday a real and glorious occasion—a day of the Lord! CHINA DISTRESS FUND. We thank most sincerely all the friends who have responded to our appeal for £500. This sum has been contributed, and every penny of it will be needed. Not a few of our native con- verts have lost all, and will have to make-an absolutely new start in life, and but for the help which this special fund will give that new start would have been impossible. The blessing of those that were ready to perish will fall on those SECRETARY’S- NOTES. who have given to this fund; many have given, we have fullest proof, not out of their abundance, . but out of straitened means. What has been done has greatly cheered the heart both of Mr. Soothill and Mr. Stobie. DR. SWALLOW. In a letter to hand, our good friend says: “The American unmarried ladies are not allowed to return to their Mission work until conditions of peace between China and the Allied Powers are signed. Our ladies keep to their work, and are...”
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“...important event has been the raising of a new mission church “in the west end of the city. The foundation stones of “ New- town Mission” were laid on July 14th, 1900, amid the great rejoicings of the people in the district, and the erection of the building has since been proceeded with. The tall roof of a fine looking building; lifting itself above the surrounding dwell-. ings, is a conspicuous object, and the friends are proud to point to it as an evidence of the success of their work. The dedication service was held on Friday, October roth, and services in continua- tion of the opening were conducted by the Rev. T. G, Somers, of Spanish Town, on Sunday, Octo- ber 21st, morning and evening, in East Strest Church, and in the afternoon in the mission build- ing. The new church in the Hope Road district, where so many of our friends from Gordon Town have settled themselves, and which has been so long projected, will be commenced in a few weeks, mission work has already been begun, and services...”
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“..., took part in the meetings, the contributions towards the mission. fund being nearly double those of the previous year. MizPpaH CircuiT, Sv... CATHERINE.—-All | the stations on this Circuit are making steady progress under the care and direction of Rev. J. Ivan Karschmann. Over £40 has been accumulated towards the new mission house which will shortly be commenced. A new organ has been purchased at Allman Hill, ENFIELD Circuit, St. MARY’s.— This Circuit, at the time of the appointment of the present minis- ter, Rev. S.i1E. Williams, was almost at the point of extinction, Devon being closed and Enfield in a state of confusion. It has now made a most pro- mising start, and the church and school work is moving forward at all the stations. A handsome new school has been built at Juno Pen, where the Sunday services are at present being conducted, until the completion of the new church. At Devon the work of erecting a new mission church, with teacher’s rooms, is proceeding rapidly, and we...”
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“...ee SS SSS nee Se Seer: ay PRIZE COMPETITION, } 9 with Sunday, November 25th. Rev. F. Bavin will preach at Unity and Frankfield, Rev. W. B. Services will also be con- ducted at Desire and Santa Hill., The missionary meetings will be held during the following week. Consecration services will be held in the fou | churches by the General Superintendent during the coming quarter. Due notice will be given of dates and final arrangements. Mount REGALE CiRcuI?.—F oundation stones for a new mission chapel were laid at Richmond in this Circuit on Sunday evening, August 26th, by Mrs. McDonald, wife of the late Custos of St! Mary, Mrs. Lockett, of Kendal, Mrs. McLaughlin and Miss Eva Bavin. The collections in aid of the new building amounted to £14. The ceremony was conducted by the minister, Rey. R.. H. McLaughlin, and an address given by the General Superintendent, Rev. Francis Bavin. The mis- sioh house at Richmond is being enlarged. An additional room and verandah are being added. This...”
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“.... THE LAND OF DARKNESS, THE LAND OF DARKNESS. lunch, he had gone the rounds of his hospital, and now, at the last, when the day’s work was finally done, he was enjoying a well-earned rest. L ih A Story of Missionary Peril in China. BY WILLIAM YATES. Ten.years before, he had left his dear old ances- tral home, in a quiet midland town in far-away aH CHAPTER 1 “THE BROODING STORM.” England, at the call of the Christ, in order that AE ¥ £ iN care: ty + BAY Le he might carry healing to the bodies and _salva- tion to the souls of the teeming’ thousands: who crowded together in this busy city of Woosung, and, as. he lounged there in the cool of that summer a] RANK MARTYN lazily sat in his little evening, his thoughts, as they often did, went ‘l- “dén.? as he loved to call it, tired out back along the vista of the past, and, for the with a heavy day’s work, and quietly thousandth time, he pictured in his mind’s eye the ruminating ‘over the strange details days of his childhood ; the...”
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“...hard at the language and literature, living his life almost exclusively among the people, visiting their afflicted homes, passing thousands cf patients through his hands in the course of the year, and making himself conversant with the lives and views of the multitude, and speaking the local vernacular like a native. So absorbed had he been in these studies, that, year by year, that growing likeness to the Oriental, so observable in the features of those who have long lived and ‘laboured in China, grew upon him, much to his amusement, so that, at times, just for a welcome break in the monotony of his life, he would sally forth among the people, and everywhere be taken as one of themselves. To mix thus with the people upon equal terms, to discuss provincial politics with them in the streets or tea-houses, and to listen to their strange and childish views regarding the outside world, was almost the only amusement he allowed himself, in which he was ever ably assisted by his clever and devoted...”
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“...post of danger were on that account to refuse to go, it would be an act of cowardice, and I should be disgraced in the eyes of men. Being a soldier of the cross, I cannot refuse what is now offered to me because it exposes me to danger. I know it does, and therefore I must go. Were I offered a bishopric in England I might feel at liberty to decline it ; one in Sierra Leone I mst accept.” Similarly brave and rematkable were the words spoken by young Henry Craven, of the Living- stone Inland Mission, at a farewell meeting be- fore he left for the scene of his missionary labour on the Congo. As the reader may perhaps...”
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“...14 know, the story of both the Baptist Missionary Society and the Livingstone Inland Mission on the Congo, in the interior of Africa, is one of the most thrilling and painful in the history of modern missions; a story, nevertheless, of as brave and devoted a band of consecrated men as ever put hand to the Gospel plough, and of whose: spirit the words uttered by Henry Craven at the meeting just referred to may be taken as a fair sample and expression. “I go gladly on this mission,” he said, in tones that produced a deep and powerful effect upon the audience that heard them, “and shall rejoice if only I may give my body as one of the stones to pave the road into interior Africa and my blood to cement the stones together, so that others may pass on into Congo-land.” The last stirring instance we shall adduce. of the ready willingness with which men whose hearts the Lord hath touched have volunteered to carry out the Master’s mandate to go and evangelize all nations will be taken from the...”
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“...whole or in part—seed for harvests that shall be reaped. during the first haif of the coming century. Among those who reap in all parts of the world are Christian Endeavourers. Most pathetic and inspiring is the story of the heroine. Edith A. Coombs, a member at Carrs Lane, Birmingham, who went out to. China in 1897. Verv arduous she found the work. In on¢ of her last letters, says the Christian Endeavourer, these words occur: “I am glad I am where I am: the’ difficulties are greater than. I could have realized) but He that sent me is with me.” And now she is with Him, for on June 27th the mission premises were burned, and Miss Coombs perished in the burning building. Her associates in the mission were massacred next day. A native Christian who escaped says that she died in the effort to save a crippled Chinese boy who had been left in the building. She had herself emerged from the blazing pile, but, remem- bering this lad, turned back in search of him and was seen no more. INDEAVOUR PAGE...”
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“...| FEBRUARY. While the daffodils still waver Ere the jonquil gets its savour. —Alfred Austin. MAPLE GROVE. A True Story of Christian Persecution in China. BY J. W. HEYWOOD. CuHapteR [.—FuNG-LING. UNG-LING is the name of a Chinese village, with which every Free Methodist ought to be acquainted ; for, within its walls, a battle was fought between Truth and False- hood, with the result that Chris- tianity proved yictorious over the forces of heathenism. © On the side of Christianity were ranged a few illiterate farmers, members of the United Metho- dist Free Church Mission, Wenchow. On the oppressor’s side was power—literati and man- darins being allied in the cause of idolatry. But the cause of the lowly Galilean triumphed over the haughty bitterness and cunningly-devised schemes of the Scribes and Pharisees. “We are more than conquerors through Him who hath loved us.” For who that leans on His right arm, Was ever yet forsaken? What righteous cause can suffer...”
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“...magistracy, and of having more literati than any village which is under the jurisdiction of the Wenchow Hsien. Another but rather doubtful distinction is, that it is situated in the most unruly and independent district which the Wenchow Hsien has to govern. The people are of that type with whom #o determine a thing is equivalent zo doing it. The importance of most Chinese villages is generally estimated by the number of “ scholars ” that live within their boundaries. The literati are the gentry of China; and when it is known that Fung-Ling boasts of having over 200 of these gentry its importance will at once be manifest. Only sixty or seventy hold their degrees through having purchased them. The rest have, so far as is known, fairly won their honours in the examination hall. Fung-Ling has some reason for her pride, in that she has a Tsang Z—or advanced scholar—a. graduate of the third, or doctor’s, degree. This entitles the scholar to hold a government appointment. There are six M.A.’s and fifteen...”
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“...n of peace and prosperity in the whole of the No Ch’ district.” Thus ended the first persecution of Christians at Fung-Ling. During this trying time the Chris- tians had given many proofs, by their general behaviour, that they had become sincere followers of Him who said, “In the world ye shall have tribulation. But be of good cheer, I have over- -come che world.” EDITORIAL NOTES. JAMAICA. me an extract from a letter written by the Rey. Thomas Pennock, the founder of the Jamaican Mission. It is dated May 13th, 1839, and will explain why a liturgy is in use in our Churches in Jamaica. The extract is as follows :— “Our people here have, from the first estab- lishment of Methodism in this island (Jamaica), been accustomed to the public use of Mr. Wesley’s abridged form of the Church of England service ; they ate very much attached to it, and it would be difficult to break them off from it, if we were so disposed. We are much in want of these prayer-books. If you could procure...”
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“...OUR THE SITUATION IN CHINA. It is difficult to write of the political situation in China, which seems to resemble the condition depicted in the first chapter of Genesis, “ without form, and void, and darkness on the face of the deep.” One day we learn that the foreign Powers are in concord, and on another that a deadlock has occurred. But, “as the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters,” and brought primeval chaos to an end,'so we trust that God, in his good FOREIGN FIELD. story from the pen of the Rev. J. W. Heywood, of a bitter persecution in China. The events detailed occurred a few years ago, and were noticed at the time in the pages of the Missionary EcHo. But the story is so illustrative of the wrongs which native Christians have to endure in China that it was worthy of a fuller narration than has hitherto been given. As “there were heroes before Agamemnon,” so there were perse- cutors before the cruel “ Boxers ” commenced their NinGpo Pat aAchErs. ...”
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“...received the-following letter from Mrs. Grimshaw, corresponding secre- tary of the Leeds District Ladies’: Missionary Auxiliary :— Rev. and Dear Sir,—At the District meeting of the above Auxiliary, held in Leeds, Lady Lane, the following resolution was passed. May I ask you to consider it kindly, and open your columns for news of our branches. Our work is at one with yours, and we continually try to increase the circulation of the ECHO, and spread missionary news, thereby increasing interest in mission work. Faithfully yours, MARGARET GRIMSHAW. Proposed : “That we ask the Editor of the Connexional missionary magazine, the ECHO, to insert L.M.A. news every three months, to the extent not exceed- ing one page.” It gives me much pleasure to comply with the request. A page, and, if necessary, more, will be set apart for reports that may be sent me of the proceedings of the different Ladies’ Missionary Auxiliaries. * * x Mrs. Grimshaw has informed me that Ladies’ Auxiliaries have. been established...”
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“...24 GENERAL MISSIONARY of the Openshaw branch, of which she is presi- dent. Mrs. Galpin having been kept at home by illness, Mrs. Swallow kindly spoke in her stead, and read to the audience thrilling passages from recent letters of Dr. Swallow. Miss Phythian read a paper, written by Mrs. Heywood, of China, on “Some urgent needs, and how they may be supplied.” She drew special attention to the need of native Bible women, and a training college for them. Mrs. Truscott Wood gave a brief report of the District L.M.A. work, and referred to the state of affairs in our mission field. Much in- terest was added to the meeting by songs and pianoforte music, contributed by members of the Openshaw branch. The collection was £2 ros. * * * = MANCHESTER SECOND, OXFORD STREET L.M.A. A meeting was held at Oxford SECRETARY’S NOTES. GENERAL MISSIONARY SECRETARY’S NOTES. EAST AFRICA. EV. W. G. HOWE.—Mr_ Howe re- ports himself in good health, and speaks cheerfully of the work on the Ribe station...”