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“...| mer s z s 3 ie - 171 Girls’ School, Wenchow Mrs. Soot-
| Boxes, The Adventures of Missionary. bill = Bee ae a = i Gee
| R. Brewin - = 2 Ben 7, 65 Griffith John”: A Review. R. Bréwin 27
Boys’ School, Wenchow A. H. Shar- “Griffith John,” Gems from - - 260, 278
man Se - = = - 74 Heathen Temple, A Message from a
| Champness, Life of Thomas R. R. Brewin - - - - - 133
ss Brewin - - - - - - 210 Honour, A Point of - - - - - 229
/ China and the U.M.C. : 5 : - 229 Incidents from the Field - - - 273
China, Startling Facts about - - 6 «Jn Perils of Robbers.” G. W. Shep-
i China and the Opium Curse. G. W. pard = - - - - S72
| Sheppard = = Be - 40 John,” “Griffith: A Review. R.
| Chinese Anti-Opium Edict - - - 6 Brewin - * = 2 = Sey,
Chinese Woman, The Mrs. Shepnard 196 John,” “Griffith, Gems from -260, 278
| Chinese Constitution, The New § Liu Ka-Kung. W. E. Soothill - - - go
Ba Png chan gee z Z - 257 Keswick Convention. R. Brewin - 235
Ce ee q eae ae ae. 83 Kingston, Impressions of Walter Hall 52...”
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“...country to if it but lead them to Him “Who is the:
commerce and civilization and Chris- Way, the Truth, and the Life.”
Se Se Sse
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Bible Christian By
M e e Cc. STEDEFORD,
1 SSI Of) S ® Secretary.
HE origin of the Bible Christian was opening the way to China. This
China Mission may be traced to conviction deepened during the year,
the influence of the great apostle and was fully confirmed at the following
of the Chinese Empire, the Rev. J. Conference, which will be ever memor-
Hudson Taylor. In response to an in- able on account of the powerful in-
vitation he attended the Conference of fluence which swayed the Assembly
1884, and spoke on the needs and claims when it was decided to open a mission
of China. His words produced a pro- in China and two young ministers (the
found impression, and one young minis- Revs. T. G. Vanstone and S. T. Thorne)
ter (the Rev. T. G. Vanstone) was were set apart as the first missionaries.
moved to offer himself for the work. It In a few minutes the sum of...”
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“...province of Yunnan, ren toiled with wonderful devotion and
ie | in the south-west of China, was one of heroism amid darkness which had_ not
3 the least known and most destitute of been relieved by a single gleam of
el all the provinces in China, and, conse- Gospel truth.
a quently, it was decided to establish the In 1887 they were strengthened by
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“...pioneer colleague (the Rev. T. G. —_—_
Vanstone) was not permitted to remain ee
long after him. He was compelled to Be ee
return to England in 1892, on account a Gen base .
of broken health. After a period of PEE ae.
rest he was eager to return, and was SS rere
willing to do so at whatever risks; but _ a ee
medical opinion was decisive against it, ae oe he .
and after four years in one of the home e
orcas he was called to his reward in
1808.
In the meantime another life was laid Deans
‘down for China—that of the Rev. J. :
‘Carter, who, with the Rev. W. Trem- The work on all three stations was
‘berth, left these shores in 1890. While very successfully maintained, and many
at the training home at Ganking Mr. persons became eager listeners to the
‘Carter was seized with fatal illness. In truth; but only few, comparatively,
his last letter, written a few days before were ready to avow their faith by
‘his death, he said: “If I hada thousand baptism. By their kindness, gentle-
lives to give I would...”
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“...move them to the China Inland Mission over, and you will have counted the
| House. Here they remained, homeless living millions of that empire.
and bereft of all their possessions, until What will you do to save them?
July 18th. - An official escort was pro- —F rom“ Woman's Evangel.”
4 vided to accompany them to the coast, :
and they arrived at Hong Kong four &
4 weeks later. At Chao Tong, also, the =
Fl disturbances were so threatening that Chinese Anti-
1 | Mr. and Mrs. Pollard, with the other e ‘ %
ih. missionaries of that station, were com- Opium Edict.
| pelled to retire to the coast. But Mr. fated Sopteciher wih hd eisioted
a | and Mrs. Grist and Mr. Hicks, at Tong from the ‘* Pekin and Tientsin Times”’
Chuan, decided not to leave their sta- of September 22nd, 1906.
tion. They passed through some days Imperial Decree. Sanctioned by the
| and nights of terrible anxiety because Emperor, Empress Dowager, and
| of the mob sine surrounded the Government of China.
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Folding ;
the first and second -Sundays in the (3) Should a Sunday School win the |
New Year? To do this will be helpful, right to hold the umbrella for a second
and a source of blessing to all! term of five years it shall become the
property of the said school.
If any further particulars are needed,
ec “Tn China the most hon- Please write the Foreign Missionary
MISSIONARY ourable presentation of a Secretary, 4. Newton Grove, Leeds.
MYRIAD public character is what
CRUBELLAD they call a ‘myriad name ae eee ce Tae
FOR COM- umbrella.” It is really a : EL! Pee 4 RLS
PETITION IN complimentary banner in See Ga %
OUR SUNDAY the form of an umbrella Be feeee ese as) 3) BS ane eee
Score: fixed on a long bamboo aor oa a eb Ge:
pole. The umbrella is draped with oe ee ee A
curtains of scarlet satin upon which He a) Sea aed eer |
are written, in letters of gold, the ] Be ar oh fi
names of those who have made ees: \ BS ey oe " -
the presentation. It is also decorated | — | & (a ¥ oe
with...”
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“...occurred to Mr. French Soothill, B.A., and afterwards the Rev.
j through the consideration of the F. Galpin, have given lectures accom-
fact that trade societies and friendly panying them in the Gloucester Street
| ‘societies had their emblems; and at Circuit.
great outlay of time and skill he pre- Mr. French sends a full and accurate
pared a missionary emblem. He got description of the picture, but, really,
‘the pictures chiefly out of the MISSION- it is needless to have this printed, as it
| ARY ECHO, the volumes of which he — speaks for itself. China, Jamaica, East
thas for the last twelve years. Mr. and West Africa, are all included, and
French testifies that he has received a_ the scenes are familiar to our readers.
| great deal of help and inspiration from We thank our friend most heartily for
| the perusal of the ECHO during these placing the original at our disposal. It
years, which fact will be cheering to has been returned to him, and in
| the Rev. J. Kirsop in his retirement. ...”
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“...right with the world”?
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| Literary Notices. ,
Outline Studies on Syria. By Annie E. of the fathers fall upon the children,
| Leslie, B.Litt. Demy 8vo. (Lon- and the blood of their fathers flows in
| don: Friends’ Foreign Mission their veins. But there is an -antidote.
| Association, 15 Devonshire Street, Be strong in will, and when the blood
\| E.C. Price 4d. net.) of your father urges you to sin, let the
In Miss Leslie’s “ Outline Studies on remembrance of your mother’s love
fA Syria,” information is given of much keep you from committing it.”
| wider interest than would be judged by The story runs on brightly, but it is
| the title. Intended as a handbook for not well told. Its phrasing is not careful
| those who wish to understand mission- (as the above quotation shows), and it
| ary work in that country, it contains too often descends to the trivial. Yet
: most informing detail of the land of the one weuld not be hypercritical, for there
4 Bible. We know of no small book...”
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Literary Notices
son was enabled, throughout the tempta- MJethodism in Central China. By Rev.
tions of life, to stifle the tendency to GA. ¢ Clayton, “\(C.o Kelly-
sin, or whether he had the father’s Price Is. net.)
tastes. As it is admitted that “a bad This little book is a history of the
inheritance may be modified and im- Wesleyan Methodist Mission in and
proved by a good environment,” * it may around the three great cities, Hankow,
be happily true that the third Dr. Bad- Hanyang, and Wuchang, which are
mane received the necessary modifica- situated on the banks of the “Yang-tze
tion from the influence of his mother. River, in the very centre of China.
Early removed from his father’s baneful The work was begun there by the
influence and example, he grew under Rev. Josiah Cox at the time of the Tai-
the tender hand of a woman of beauti- Ping Rebellion, in the early sixties of
ful spirit, and for this thought we the last century; so it is almost
thank our author. The influence of his...”
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“...-tercession and Thanksgiving for the
societies do. The act of the Samaritan Church’s Work Abroad.” They en-
| is_a parable of missionary enthusiasm. shrine an excellent idea, and are pub-
aul “He took out twopence and gave them lished by the S.P -G.. On the mission
Bt to the host, and said unto him, ‘ Take field we know no distinction of Church,
| care of him, and whatsoever thou and these may be of interest to some of
Hi spendest more, when I come again I will our readers. They are supplied at 3d.
| repay thee’” (Luke x., 35). In the per dozen by the Rev. G. Bullock-
a Home account our M.N.C. friends spent Webster, . Ely. , Envelopes to be
| last year £2,101, and closed with a marked, O.EP:
atl balance due to Treasurer of £482. In @ @
‘| the China branch the income was
es Ut} 45,303, and the expenditure 41,194 OPIUM AND LIQUOR.
i more. “A fellow feeling makes one (See page 6).
ai wondrous kind.” From our standpoint OUR real position—and China’s—was
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“...first thought of Madagas- the better for seeing you,” he replied,
avi car, but afterwards consented to go to adding: “ Here’s a pretty kettle of fish:
Ail) China. He relates an amusing incident a parcel of d0ys going up and down the
Ht |] about his visit to the mission-house in country preaching, before their mother’s
BHT || London, as he was about to leave Eng- milk is well out of their mouths.” One
| iH} land, with Mr. Williamson as his col- wonders what these two great critics
il league. He says: “While I was short thought of their own wisdom in the
te and slender, Mr. Williamson was very years long afterwards. Let other critics
vt tall, and somewhat commanding in his of very young men beware!
i bearing. Mr. Williamson took the lead, When Mr. Griffith John arrived at
iil| and I followed. Just as I was entering, Shanghai, in China, on September
a | the beadle in charge’ of the door 24th, 1855, after a tedious voyage of
| Hi | eld me, and bade me stop. Mr. 127 days, only the five old...”
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“...department of missionary The Boxer movement of 1900 did not
work. What I feel at this moment is reach Hankow, and none of the London
that if I were back in China I would Missionary Society’s missionaries were
do nothing but preach, preach every- cyt off in -that terrible outbreak,
where and always. I would try and live aithough much mission property was
as intensely as possible in this one thing, Kee Pi hee eae
and care but little whether my life were “STS 27 De eee Hate
long or short.” Then he was a great As in the case of our own missions
missionary pioneer. He travelled thou- at Wenchow and Ningpo, the success
sands of miles in Inland China, where Of the London Society’s missions has,
no missionary had ever been, and he Of late, been astounding, and it is evi-
might almost correctly be called the dent to every student of Chinese mis-
first China Inland missionary. His cen- sions that the greatest things are yet
tral station was at the great city of to come. :
Hankow, on the fine Yang-tze river...”
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“...com-
hearing a lecture by Sir Charles Eliot, paratively easy matter to create and sus-
who has just returned from China, we tain the missionary spirit in the Church
are convinced that what Principal Chap- and congregation. The effect of this
man asks for is an urgent necessity, and on the general contributions of the
for two great reasons: (1) To liberate Churches towards Missions can . be
the mind from superstition; (2) to easily foreseen. Once an intelligent and
equip the native Chinaman for the work prayerful interest in the work is
of the ministry to his own, and, perhaps, generally awakened, there will be no
other countries! lack of means to carry it on.”
FoR Dee a er a pice writing the above
ERE ministers and to District. Glere * Notes another kind
and circuit and Church missionary secre- ellen, ut We Whelan ese
aa ae eka onal oe generously sent us £50 for our Mission
atIES OR edt Od eee oo onal ye -Runds= sir our rich and sicher inen wall
prayer-meeting. We have often re- only follow...”
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“...On the Watch-tower
ing with increasing rapidity. Out of JAMAICA.
the Boxer movement has come forth E h
good. The Chinese have learned they 3 ey ee ogee our ee as
- cannot drive out the foreigner or crush pe Re ea Sear a letter
Christianity, so now they are trying to <*0™ the ie er A ’ Ge
make the best of it. Once they thought ae Pre to his return ; : oe ( be
themselves perfect: now they doubt it. as is now stationed in the Bea i
Yes! China is changing. You can see orough Circuit, and we wish him al
it in the altering style of their clothes. success. )
Their sleeves are not so large, and thev He reports stonelaying ceremonies at
are beginning to wear leather boots—of Old Works and Mount Olive. The Old
awful quality! The girls’ feet are get- | Works Church has already 100 members
ting larger, through unbinding; andthe anda school of 150. The Rev. Walter
boys’ hair is getting shorter, through Hall preached the sermon, and the Rev.
the cutting of queues. Their educa- F. Bavin conducted the...”
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} | Other Fields. THE EDITORS.
| | NEW GROUND IN WEST CHINA. tury and the later interest of the
ii HE China Inland Mission is noted Crusades seem to have disappeared ;
| i T for its progressive work, and in and modern conditions of life in Syria
‘iF | : the January issue of “China’s are not wholly fascinating. It is, there-
iH Hi Millions” is a fascinating account of a fore, a pleasure to finda sane and hope-
iH i tour among the aborigines of West ful article on the “ Possibilities of the
al China. By means of medicines for the Syrian” in the magazine of the Friends’
i | sick and lantern services for the strong, Missionary Society. Not children like
Wy ANI prejudice was overcome, and the vari- the Africans, nor fully developed like
1 | ous Miao villages were made preaching the Europeans, the Syrians have enough
ih Hi centres. Gradually the old story of knowledge to hunger for more, and
Wh i Christ’s conquest was repeated; con- enough “character”...”
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“...work urgently needing to be done. oe ENG ve MG aes ‘daa OE gael
Surely there must be someone in our male an Loe aes ee wee eee ead
Churches with the needful training and *© ee eae Mrs SoothiPe ‘i a
knowledge to take up the important 8'@V© (ea , Pohow eeneue Forel at
work of our Training Institute. The Missiox =o Gaui ee ee
thirst for knowledge is not confined to pou Caeebals .
China, nor the need for trained and ee pS COPiHe oe aoneere ee
well-equipped native agents, teachers eee a Ne i fully?
and evangelists. the problem earnestly, prayerfully :
CHINA NinGcpo.—The report now our We are earnestly wishful
MISSION. to hand of the results of LONDON. oy that our friends keep their
Mr. Lyttle’s examination in the first engagement books clear
language course of study shows that for our London Missionary Anniver-
he has been not only a diligent student, sary. Missionary Sunday will be April
but an efficient one as well. He 28th, and the missionary meetings,
has done well. We very heartily con-...”
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“...where the (See page 59.)
tributing to his own Emperor of China makes his Ceremonial. offerings.
society. (From the article * The Man and the Message.” By F. A. McKenzie, ~
in the February ‘‘ Sunday Strand.’’)
WHAT AMERICA DOES. ‘ : a
The course outlined so well by Mr. respondence with the office. Crayons.
Hemmens is good. But commend us _ suitable for the drawing of pictures in
to the U.S.A. for thorough-going devo- the class will be provided—in fact,
tion to a scheme, however humble and_ everything but the brains and hearts,
trivial it may seem. The smallest detail lips and fingers of the expected students.
seems to take the combined attention —which, like many a missionary, they
of a whole staff. Nothing is small! see “coming in thousands.” We have
We make these remarks because we something to learn from our cousins as
have received an elaborate programme to “ push and enterprise.” We wonder if
issued by the Young People’s Mission- we can give them a wrinkle in “ tact,”
ary Movement of...”
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“...now occupied is North headquarters, and they were the first to
al China. Missions have been organize regular Christian work in that
started and carried on in Ireland, great city. Since then the work has
Australia and Canada, but are now spread north and south, and the area
united with the general Methodist work now occupied stretches from the Yellow
of these countries. The greatest suc- River to the Great Wall. The stations,
cess was achieved in the Dominion of where the missionaries reside, are:
Canada, and when surrendered in the Tientsin, Tang Shan, and Yung Ping
interests of Methodist Union, our mis- Fu, in the province of Chihli, and Chu
sion had 241 chapels, 86 ministers, 8,312 Chia Tsai and Wu Ting Fu in the
members and probationers, and congre- province of Shantung. There are 213
gations numbering in the last return centres of evangelistic work, and the
32,688. Gospel is regularly preached in more
The China Mission was founded in than 500 towns and villages. We have
1860 by the Revs...”
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i work is seen in the new China of to- of over £4,000 after all debts were paid.
i | day. There are new developments on ‘The property in China, missionary
Ht every hand, and China is awakening houses, Institute, hospitals, etc, is of
if from the torpor of ages. We have this’ the net value of dbout 416,000. This
| I information from statesmen, soldiers, will be speedily increased by develop-
Wi diplomats, merchants and_ travellers ments for which preparation is being
Hi I alike; but the new conditions could made.
HH never have arisen, or even if they had Our need to-day is as much men as
Hi arisen, they would certainly never have money. We have no longer to pray for
i | been tolerated, but for the faithful work “open doors” ; doors innumerable stand
ii} of missionaries. When China comes to invitingly open; we want consecrated
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“...and Mir; TRY Blumer, (Super-
if Geis whieh epee ati pape. Bo) intendent Men’s Institute, Sunderland) ;
| We can only repeat what is stated in Sloist, Miss Maud Kennedy.
ie || the appeal: that if the damaged and The chair at the evening meeting will
a ruined churches are to be rebuilt the be taken by Mr. John Godfrey, J.P.,
ia friends on the spot will have to be aided C.C., Nottingham. Speakers: the Revs.
1a by the friends in the home Churches. Dr. David Irving (President), G. W.
val Sheppard, China; Henry T. Chapman
HH ouR ihe amangement Ph Out 6 Aaa tcr Mion. peace ceat
ti LONDON London missionary anni & Yi y);
Vi ANNIVERSARY Vercary are about com- ~Underland.
He plete. The date is April 29th, and place The chair will be taken at half-past
A | of meeting, as last year, the City six. The organist of the City Temple
Temple. Missionary sermons through- will give a recital from six to half-past
| out London on Sunday the 28th, as_ six. The musical arrangements for the
i usual. In the afternoon...”
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