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“...Trip to. J. H. Phillipson, 16, 41 RS Sik i ee : Jamaica, An Appreciation from - = 174 | C.E. Convention in China. J. W. Hey- : 3 rot i a : a z “: -s, 38 Jamaica, Impressions of. Thomas Fish 134 C.E. Page. T. Pointon Dale, 23, 47 Jamaica, Recollections of. J. W. Mold 70 71, 95, 119, 143, 167, 192, 215, 263, 283 Jews, Mission Work Among the. J. Ellis 165 ] | Chalmers, James. R. Brewin — - - 189 John, Rev. Griffith % 5 = = 191 : ; China, Recollections of. R. Woolfen- Jubilee of our Missions, and Present j den - - - - - 63, 116, 159 Crisis, The - - . - ao cols China, Our Mission in. W. E. Soothill Jungle, A Tale of the. Lucy I, Tonge 164 \ , 2, 25, 78, 97, 129, 151, 177, 205 Juvenile Addresses. J. Truscott, 86, 117, China, Recollections of. F. Galpin - 73 183, 261 China, The Mission of Education in. Ladies’ Missionary Auxiliary, 14, 35, 82, F. Galpin - - - - - 248 94,136, 163, 254 ; China and the Opium Edict - - 255, 269 Literary Notices, 32, 85, 114, 141, 214, 262 j Confucian Temple, The. G...”
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“...i i | } i] i | ° e | Our Mission iy in China W. E. SOOTHILL. ; e Chapter I.—The First Five Years.—‘ For Believers Suffering.’ be m oe is forty years since our against the West and all that the West , ZA2\), first missionary set foot represented, Northern Asia remained | ? in China, but nowadays walled in behind vast mountains and Is forty years cannot be ice-bound coasts, and China, with its EDsX adequately expressed in immense population, ancient culture, ! OPA NS ~ te : ; 2 existing terms; they and amazing resources, was chiefly n3 demand a new notation. Forty known to us as a land most strange, CS years in these strenuous days ccntaining a people grotesque, of spirit SS cover more than the mere pas- supremely arrogant, and well-nigh as sage of time, for, living in impossible to convert as the Turk or the “the ends of the ages,’ we pass a Saracen. 3 | century in a decade, and compass Then, China was a country, to all in- : the world in the time our fathers tents and purposes, closed to...”
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“...of | of the dependencies of ; Ningpo is a great and i China. Hence, when ca fe i busy city, overflowing a | our fathers decided to a> ae | the circumference of send a mission to so ee ed ees its strong, lofty wall, it great a country, it be- #99 fe 0 and with its suburbs, came a matter of no | (a iag a a eae containing a popula- | small moment that #9 9 “9m fm tion of _ nearly they should limit #4. = aa 300,000. Here in this i themselves within the We oos ’ is town and county of : possibility of success; | Cy = Ningpo, with its. i} consequently, the pro- 1,500,000 of people, ) vince of Chekiang, the ae fh were already settled, il smallest, but propor- oe ae ‘ before our arrival, HI) tionately wealthiest, of oe fee missionaries represent- 1 the provinces of China _ ee ing the Church of | ah became their objec- Maes cs ee : England, the United’ | tive. Here again, how- a Presbyterians, the WH ever, the same diffi- Be China Inland Mission, i culty of size faced the American Presby- i them, for...”
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“...oI | | | } Our Mission in China matured; in disposition he is a low- removed to the bleakness and cold of lander, preferring to gain his end by the Northumbrian coast. Spring is ‘diplomacy rather than by the hillman’s lovely but wet, while autumn is an In- force. A true son of Israel, he will not qian summer, beautiful, dry and crisp, | object to your calling a shoe a hat, or byt, in order that the ennui of perfec- | himself any name you can think of, so tion may be avoided, autumn is also the long as he gets your money for his F lari d eal moos. Peis quite prepared tO,admity set eee ePrice. and even to proclaim, with sounding Twenty miles away, On three sides of | voice and vigorous gesture, that your the plain, mountains rise to a height of Christianity is the finest religion in the two thousand feet, among which scenery world, and then go straight from his to enchant the heart of man is to be enthusiasm for Creaity to offer found; on the fourth side rolls the incense and candles before...”
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“...eee se eres i Convention Committees, Ningpo. =: } i] HT} tical object which, in some cases, has In China there are not wanting signs | i already been attained, and which, in that Union between missionary societies H others, presents an enlarged field of is both a desirable and a possible object . pa Christian enterprise which arouses de- within certain bounds. Shangtung pro- |) sires for the fusion of different Chris- vince has solved the matter in part, in \ tian organizations. that the English Baptist Mission and | What the Free Church Council is the American Presbyterian Mission yj accomplishing in Great Britain, viz, have united in educational work ; one { creating interdenominational sympathy college teaching the theological | and respect, Christian Endeavour is_ students, and another the purely secular i effecting in the Great mission field of subjects to the students of both 1] China. Denominations. a 5 iy j...”
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“...English Episco- Welsh, and Irish delegates being pre- ant palians, American Episcopalians, Pres- sent. America was well represented. F || byterians, Baptists, Congregationalists, There were also delegates from Canada, i Methodists, Friends, Advent Mission- Australia, Germany, Honolulu, and i aries, etc. During the time of the Con- Japan. vention these various Church names China, of course, had its hundreds; i were practically put on one side, and to the roll-call showing delegates from i both Christian and heathen the name every coast province, and from every i Yie-su Kyiao” (“Jesus Religion”) open port, from Chefoo to Canton. Was. ae one used to describe the great The Convention Hall was a specially- SD ee ee erected building, none of the mission As one saw the congregation of fully churches being large enough to seat the | 1,300 people reverently joining in de- members of the united society. Exter- 300° people: x ae ne: yy : votional worship, and heard the singing nally, the building was...”
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“...Endeavour Convention i e 3) Many of these banners were splendid leading missionaries in China. The ii examples of Chinese art and craftsman- Rev. A. H. Smith, D.D. (author of Hf ship. One, which was very much ad- “Chinese Characteristics,” etc.) ; Bishop | mired, was from the three local Bashford; Archdeacon Moule; the I Churches of the Methodist Free Church Rey. Gilbert Reid, D.D. (president of Hi Mission. The material was pale blue the International Institute); the Rev. | satin, with a dark blue border beauti- J. Darroch (Shansi University Transla- i fully embroidered. In the centre was tion Department); the Rev. G F. the C.E. monogram, while on either side Fitch, D.D.; the Rev. G. H. Hubbard of these Roman letters were four (president U.S.C.E. for China); the | Chinese characters, worked in gold Rev. Geo. W. Hinman, M.A. (general “a thread—eight in all—having the mean- secretary U.S.C.E. for China); the ing “Glory to God.” “Goodwill to- Rey. C. E. Darwent, M.A. (Union i wards men.” (Here...”
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“...revelation of a force which not, and never have been, such things. can only be scientifically explained on Just consider. During the last years of the supposition that Christianity is the previous Ming dynasty there first ; true.” It might be hyperbolical to say came to China the Jesuits, Nan Huai- | that here we have jén and Li Ma-tou, and others on a visit ayiEa to this country. While here they taught | isdom to advantage drest, . : What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed, us the highest mathematics and astro- : nomy, thereby making for themselves a | but we have, at least, a delightful truth name among us. Then came the open- | skilfully set forth. ing up of China by treaty, and on its footsteps came numerous other mission- aries, and in such numbers that one may | : say that there is no province among the | The following extract from a procla- twenty odd provinces of this Empire I mation, made by Chao, Governor of where these missionaries have not | | Hu-nan, shows how some Chinese...”
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“...- | OF THE United Methodist Free Churches. | i 7 ois ee , } e e i Our Mission By : 1 Cc 4 W. E. SOOTHILL. i Chapter I.—The First Five Years.—“ For Believers Suffering.” (Continued). i i HE Rev. W. R. Fuller, the man protected by two British officers 4 ee chosen to be our pioneer, being and a division of Chinese troops. | already possessed of some know-. The inhabitants were still occupied re- ledge of medicine, was sent before building the houses, shops, and temples, | his voyage to one of the London’ which had been destroyed by the rebels hospitals for further training. Thus in previous years. Mr. Fuller was | early did our authorities re- cognize the importance of [% aes ; wa healing as well as preaching. [© ) © a a Mr. and Mrs. Fuller landed: in | OO ORE Ae caiman 1) China in October, 1864.. In |e Bae ae, : | his admirable, but all too brief, fe Ee Say ae : Hi “sketch,? Mr. Galpin has ee Se : described the condition of | 9). —iee came es . things when our messenger ae = CANCE a nats...”
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“...af } | Our Mission in China ' engaged in the midst of his difficult ailing man does inferior work, and if a ordeal as a pioneer missionary, when, in missionary would have the epitaph, 1865, Mr. Mara was sent to co-operate “though dead, yet speaketh,” written with him.” over his grave, he must make every | Both Mr. Fuller and Mr. Mara were right effort to keep out of it! Early men of ability, but ill-health fell to their deaths usually appeal to native senti- lot. Much of the ill-health and mor- ment in inverse ratio to the quality and tality among missionaries has hitherto extent of their appeal to home senti- | been due, not so much to a hot and ment; to the native early death is indi- enervating climate, bad though such cative rather of Heaven’s displeasure | may be, as to conditions often within than of Christlike devotion. the skill of man to modify. Inferior In the case of Ningpo, the Fullers, satis fia es ni being: apioneers,» hag: everything, Baek ee pa 75) to learn,:and there ‘is...”
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“...the form of a mis- agricultural—and, at the same time, i! B Ghary Bader an social evening. Miss brings us into closer touch with one 4 Philip Ashton opened the missionary . another, linking us in sympathy with f i basket, and the meeting was addressed those who are far away on the mission | by Miss Swallow, of Manchester, who field. i spoke on the relation of our Churches The secretary (Mrs. Temporal) gave i } ; to the mission field. Mrs. Bowker pre- @ very interesting report, in which she I } sided, and also gave an _ effective regretted the absence, through tem- i } address. The report was presented by porary indisposition, of their beloved | i Miss Lily Armitt. Proceeds for the president, Mrs. Baxter. \ mission fynds, over 44. Mrs. Thornley que eee Hettie | Green took part in the proceedings. ei SHEFFIELD (HA Before the- sale commenced a very Th joa aslcet important ceremony took place, under HTT held Savile Schacloomt on Deccaber the management of va Bags a 7 {| is : Soe Wendlandt. A number...”
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“...Protestant missionaries; the occasion Hi prisoners by the Y.M.C.A. A resolu- being a reception to the Chinese and tion was also enthusiastically passed ex- foreign delegates. They stayed on for pressing the hope that the Japanese the evening meeting to hear the Rev. Fi Endeavourers would realize the time A. H. Smith, D.D., give his address on ; il had come for them to consider the “The Duty of Native Christians to desirability of dzrect missionary work. their Emperor and Country.” After Dr. in China. Smith’s address, the Prefect arose and If this resolution be acted upon, who’ addressed the congregation. Then fol- iH can tell its effects upon the Christian lowed addresses from the Taotai and 38...”
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“...the work in weekly, with a circulation of four hun- | | China, of its wonderful growth, of the dred copies, sufficed for four hundred i | splendid men who have represented our million people; a people who discovered Hi | Churches in that far-off land, and done the mariner’s compass, the arts of print- Hi | such a great and an abiding work, we ing and making gunpowder, but who li i ‘| need not speak, but refer our readers to were wholly ignorant of the use of Wii i the history of that mission by the Rev. modern arts and inventions until they | i W. E. Soothill, commenced in these were taught them by the Christian Hit | pages in January last. world; a people working twelve to i 1] To enable our Churches to realize fourteen hours a day for a bare living Hi more vividly the profound significance from the age of seven until they drop Hi | to the whole world of Christian mission into the grave; a people too unreliable i! | work in China, we quote a fewsentences to gather statistics, whose condition...”
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“...the whole of China. active and distinctive missionary history. | This is manifest everywhere. The THE TESTIMONY OF STATISTICS. Chinese ming is being opened to. the rhe following table shows the num- i fe fhe eek See AK : pecia"'Y ber of members in our Home Churches, ij o the significance o esternsscience... Sae"thaccikcome vokethe: Home. and i Following this will come the self-know- “Ro-éisn Mission Fund. in decades: | ledge of the full significance of her 2 eee : H power from mere numbers. Ninibesnot: Members cintstiome li (6) The next fact is the undoubted Churches. Stoke unease ahs ie 18,699 | part she is destined to play in the life Missionary Income of Home i of nations. Is she to come into the Churches, Ordinary and Special 42,099 11°11 | world’s corporate national life as Chris- yyimber of ee ue | tian or pagan, as friend or foe? Churches e422" Sires oti 65,689 ii (c) The next and last fact is: Have Missionary Income of Home | we not a solemn responsibility to China Churches, Ordinary...”
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“...School neglected ; it is the millions beyond that i i Scholars in Home Churches ... 193,362 are being neglected. Just one single i] | One farthing per week from each illustration of the terrible disproportion i Scholes ea mel ee £9,668 2 0 there is in the Church’s supreme work i| Total aIvOunE So Seer aes es et as many Christian ] | TWENTIETH: CENTURY, FONDA SIGNIFICANT workers in China as there are in the one i I . . s i} i Of the splendid service done in the ey, of Manchester ; and all the Chris- li raising of this: fund by Dr David tian buildings of every sort in China— | Brook and our honoured Connexional mission houses, hospitals, schools and i) Rees cqee Ma Roker Brdey Po and churches—have not cost as much as the Hl the noble generosity.of our friends, we churches and. chapels of Manchester. | | i need (not speak: iit as worthy of all: (ee 2UBINEE ere gee ed i ih raise. But when we are told, as we ‘ a 3 Hi | ot infrequently are, “ That our friends re ee ieee eo oe a i 1 haye been overstrained...”
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“...aside, and taking my arm in his for a_ the son of another kind of missionary. Hi | short stroll together, he confided to me I refer to Mr. Neville Chamberlain, i i the news of his acceptance of the in- whose visit, he told me, was in connec-—* i i] vitation to the Superintendency of the tion with sugar plantations in those i Lady Lane Mission. islands. The first exciting experience it | Alas, for the uncertainty of human on board was that of a great storm, i ik hopes! In less than two years’ time his which lasted three days and_ three i | great heart was stilled, and when the nights, sweeping with all the fury of J ii ih news of his death reached us in China the equinoctial gale. For a couple of / i } I felt that, not only as a student, but days I was content to take it lying down, ih | as a missionary also, I had lost one of enjoying all the luxury of life in a i Hy the best friends God had given. It was bunk, attended hand and foot by a most Hi it Mr. Holliday who first put it into my obliging...”
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“.... The Missionary’s Prayer. iH! il Since then I have experienced many _panions to China heard a grand mission- H a storm at sea, but never yet lost the ary sermon by Dr. Sutherland, at that | sense of exhilaration which came with time the General Missionary Secretary | my experience of the first one. Per- of the Methodist Episcopal Church of |) haps it has helped me, to some extent, Canada, and still, I believe, holding that | to weather the shock of other storms, office in the United Church, of which | and so to find deep meaning in the he was a powerful advocate. My later troubles that meet us from other experience has been that all mission- | quarters. It is well that all intending aries are advocates of Union, and, there- ij missionaries should be able to face the fore, I_am prompted more strongly to storm. I have always been glad that cry: “God speed the day of Methodist I went out to China by way of the Union in England.” After this evening | United States and Canada. It was my _ service...”
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“...hands, has a | ! nexional Treasurer—than whom thereis teached the noble sum of over 2,300 Hit } I no worthier—who has consented to take Ollars, averaging over a dollar a mem- i Hh the chair at the evening meeting. ber, which in China is a very good Mf Hf average indeed. Two of our pastors li} HN} EAST AFRICA: Mr. J. J. LORY. spoke most encouragingly about their Wi i We have received just recently a attempts at raising annual contributions | | | | deeply interesting letter from our agri- towards a permanent fund for self-sup- A | cultural missionary, Mr. J. J. Lory. port, and roused the attention and , The letter was from Golbanti, where he intention of the delegates. Hi | had gone in order to become acquainted “Had excellent speaking on Sunday I | 1 with our mission estate, with a view to afternoon; a great testimony meeting, Hy WH its further and fuller development. which will live in the memory of many.” i | | 69 ! i | 16 : fi | i Ny S...”
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“...examine the houses and : Ce shops too carefully. A Street Plant=Seller, China. [Photo supplied by Miss E. M. Lee. But the town left to | Chinese control (?) is 1 and a quick walker. They are not in simply uncovered uncleanness. ; a hurry, time is no object, and they will Dirty cooks and greasy waiters, un- ia not make haste. washed hawkers and unclean shopmen, i | The Britisher represents haste, rush, streets choked with refuse and stuffed i i and hurry, and he is compelled to dodge with unpleasant garbage, houses and | | one man, push aside another, and make shops wanting paint, and _ tawdry il a slow coach give way. Perhaps there temples to match the common custom. i i is a mission for the active Britisher in But all this is outside the walled city, ia China, to quicken the pace of the aver- and after a mile or so of the fore-men- ti) age Chinaman; but the work will be tioned, we arrive at the city gate. iia) very unpopular, and will arouse hatred, How horrible! over the entrance is i scorn...”
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“...| ‘ail if } i || , i} : | e e | Our Mission By i 4 C 4 . E. SOOTHILL. | in in A. W. E OO LL | Chapter ll.—Ningpo.—‘‘ For Believers Workiné.”’ é | NE name must ever top the list alone. After that he held the fort with- ! eC of our workers in China. Others out a colleague to cheer or help him may see more fruit to their from 1869 to 1874, five long yet useful | labour, none will do more manful ser- years. Then, at last, the Committee | vice. To the Rev. Frederick Galpin our sent out the Rev. Robert Swallow. It mission owes what it can never owe to was during those five years that the another. In its darkest hour he stood foundation of our Ningpo work was faithfully to his post, and neither physi- laid. Mr. Galpin was ever an earnest cal suffering nor mental anguish shook student, and he soon became an excel- i} BSN lent speaker of the Ningpo if ae ui a eee bina BA lapeuege If any pare equaled Pr kk Of ee none have surpassed him in his i oe ae Ce : q 2 te By Ae knowledge a use of that | AS...”