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“...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. W. Shep- “Manor Cot,” The. G. W. Sheppard - 253 / pard...”
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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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“...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 this province terians, and the Ame- it covers an area...”
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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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“...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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“...cs iy | | i i ‘ The Sixth Chinese National Christian 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...”
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“...a letter 42,500. It can easily be done if all our from one of our Sunday School super- friends will take the question up with i} intendents. He wrote to thank me for enthusiasm. We have reached a crisis, ; the maps I had sent him, which he said and we must face it with courage, and , they had “found very useful in giving in the fear and love of God! | missionary addresses in the school.” AN: APPEAL 80 “DUR SUNDAY SCHOOLS i) Every Sunday School should have a F co halt pias ] map of our own mission stations. We a we ee fe R wears oF Ih ak | have an excellent wall map of East he
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“...Scrip- to express here his opinion on this tures are systematically ignored. Hap- || debatable subject, yet he believes every pily, in our mission schools and colleges j reader will say with him that all children in the Flowery Land, no question of f | should, somewhere and somehow, be _ State functions arise ; and all are agreed taught the principles of the Christian that while education is the main thing faith. If it must not be done in the to be aimed at, the education must be ; | a elementary schools of the nation the religious, Christian. The Rev. eeWe . | Church of God must do it elsewhere. Heywood takes his stand with Mr. } i I cannot agree with an able writer, who Soothill and Miss Abercrombie. He will Y | says in the “Rochdale Observer”: “A have nothing to do with purely secular Hitt ‘godless education’ is a contradiction in teaching on the mission field. The aim f ai terms. . . . To teach a child his of our schools and Colleges is the salva- letters, to acquaint him with the highest...”
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“...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 penetrated. In which of these pro- rulers, who do not profess belief in vinces, and when, has there ever actually | i Christianity, have yet learned something occurred a case of eye-gouging or We of its benevolent character, and the...”
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“...unanimously 3. The work of the Auxiliary shall be adopted, the only changes made being carried on by its District organizations, | verbal ones, intended to bring out the as hitherto, each District reporting to } meaning more clearly. I have pleasure the central committee or council. in presenting the scheme as adopted by 4. The committee or council shall ' the Committee. I trust that, it will endeavour to bring into co-operative i greatly promote in its working the unity the work of the Ladies’ Mission- i) admirable object the ladies have in view. ary Auxiliary in the several Districts, in il I understand that the Methodist New order to extend their usefulness, and to 1] Connexion and the Bible Christians seek to establish branches in Districts have similar organizations, so, in view of where ‘they do not now exist. It shall the hoped-for Union of the three also promote conferences of Ladies’ Denominations, the adoption of this Missionary Auxiliary workers for the i scheme seems timely and...”
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“...in Churches, 4. The council, after all working like mercy, is “twice blessed.” There | expenses are provided for, shall vote its were, fifty women in connection with i credit balance to the Mission Fund. the Blackpool branch; who could tell I, 5. That all other funds raised by the what good will be done by their prayers . ) Ladies’ Missionary Auxiliary shall be and the efforts they made for missions? | forwarded to the Foreign Missionary Mrs. Wood likened the Ladies’ Mission- Secretary through the same channels as ary Auxiliary to seekers for metal i hertofore: one-third of such funds to be among the refuse left from the work- iM devoted to the Home Mission section, ings of amine: the gold and silver went i and the remaining two-thirds to the into the coffers of the General Fund, 1} Foreign Mission section: but the Ladies’ Missionary Auxiliary Hi (a) For the paying of the entire cost gathered up the remnants left behind H P of any lady or ladies who may be _ in the burrows. HH . employed...”
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“...those that seek Me early shall find Me” (Prov. i missionaries who have been put to viii. 17). death by savage tribes while they have He had been for some time a clergy- been in the midst of their work, so 1 man of the Church of England, and will begin with the story of Bishop aftera time he gave himself to the work Hannington, who was murdered in of a missionary in Africa. He sailed for | Eastern Africa in October, 1885, a few Zanzibar on May 17th, 1882, and from months before our own brave mission- Zanzibar soon set out on his first aries, John and Annie Houghton, of journey in Eastern Africa. The sun Golbanti. was very hot and the water was very James Hannington was born at a_ bad. He says, “You might cut the pretty little village in water with a knife. How- | Sussex, about eight miles rea ever, it boiled well, and | from the large seaside ie added body to our tea.” | town of Brighton. When Qi He tried to make coffee he was a boy he was fond (ee with it, and says, “I had | of fun of all...”
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“... as “the fathers of the ham, on May 31st, 1792, resulted in modern mission to the heathen.” The the formation of the Baptist Missionary Reformation period was almost entirely Society. India was selected as the first | lacking in missionary zeal, and not till sphere of his labours, and for fifty | the eighteenth century do we find the years he worked heroically and trium- modern Christian Church obeying in phantly as evangelist and scholar; and | earnest the last command of-her risen left a record unsurpassed in mis- Words. sionary annals. To-day, the Baptist | On February toth, 1728, Count Missionary Society has 124 mission- Zinzendorf and his brethren of the aries at work in India and Ceylon; Moravian while from | Church held a Ere all Protestant j prayer - con- cuanacron axegemea EAN sex #2 societies, an | ference, and ee | army number- decided upon < ee cee ing nearly \ a “forward” eee ea i 4,000 is pro- Hii mission- G a i Caer A nag claiming the | ary moves Se Nee ea ve ea ne ee ee...”
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“...Gospel i progress made, that one hundred years in Australia. Well might an English after Carey’s glorious enterprise, Chris- bishop Say, as he laid down the story of | tians in Europe and America have Williams’ life: “I have now been read- i representatives in heathendom to the 8 the twenty-ninth chapter of the Li] ber of 11,450; and with these are ‘cts of the Apostles. mu Cr 0 4505 : In 1875, Stanley sent word to Eng- i toiling about 47,000 native ee land that Mtesa, King of Uganda, was Vi The mission Churches contain nearly +h ful to learn something of the Chris- 1,000,000 members, with adherents three {jay religion. The Church Missionary | or four times the number; in the Society responded by sending a party | schools there must be at least 1,000,000 of missionaries in 1876. The initial i pupils—surely, no mean total. difficulties were great, for the journey The records of the various missionary from the coast to Uganda was toilsome \ societies are rich with stories of won- and dangerous...”
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“...Endea- this project their own by raising the vourers, but also of the members of needful funds. As, however, the Annual guilds and junior society classes Assembly has decided that one-third of | throughout our Denomination. our missionary income shall be directed In this respect we are left behind by © Home missions (a decision which it scme sister Churches. The Baptist Christian Endeavourers will admit to be | Christian Endeavourers have provided . Wise), it will be necessary, in order to i a mission steamer for work on the ‘élieve the Soe a anxiety with j Congo. The Primitive Methodist Chris- egatd to the cost of this institute, to i tian Endeavourers last year raised Mm at raising not less than £000. i] #1,000 for the erection of a training Is this too much for us? Surely not. Hi - Institute at Crow, West Africa. Tt could not be a heavy tax upon our He The tmeth as surely arrived when we _ esources, in addition to the little we are Hi may attempt something for our own 20W doing, to agree...”
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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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“...as yet | high appreciation. The Mis- taken the Missronary EcHo will at i sionary Secretaries and the “Free once ask to be supplied with it. We I Methodist” have publicly commended want a much larger circulation than Hl it highly, and in my own correspondence heretofore. | flattering testimony is borne. I give i brief extracts from letters: Hh “Merits a very large circulation The March number of the MIssIon- Hl among our people” ARY EcHOo will be a special jubilee Wh “T want to say how pleased I am number, and will deal with the jubilee |} with the change.” of our missions and the present mission- HY “Very much pleased with the new ary crisis. The three Missionary Secre- HT) | | aspect and contents of the ECHO.” taries will write on their respective de- “You have made a good start with partments. Mrs. Vivian will represent HI the new series of ECHO.” the Ladies’ Missionary Auxiliary move- | “Tt is splendid.” ment, and there will be a number of | “Tt is excellent, and I am proud of “Recollections”...”
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“...informed, broadened both in | yttle a period of service of great value | | outlook and sympathy, and inspired with arid distinction, both to himself and to Hei | genuine missionary sentiment. If every the mission. He ought not to be tor- mission field could have a book of a like gotten in our prayers. kind, it would be well for the missions S eae aug for the SST esi oF A NOBLE TRIBUTE. | | the young of a hristian urches. 2 aes Wt | We Aogemibne needed a book of the The Rev. J. W. Tod writing nature of “Tales from Jungle, City and about Mr. Railton, M.A, in his most Village.” * recent communication, says : In regard to Mr. Railton | desire to add a few ARRIVAE, OR REV LYRELE: words of appreciation uttered by a gen- We have received a short but deeply tleman altogether outside our mission, interesting letter from our friend Mr. who knows all the high officials and | Lyttle, announcing his safe and happy leading gentry of Ningpo as no other i arrival in Ningpo. He received a most foreigner...”