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“... 117, (3) Missionary Volunteers - - 139 ee 140, 183, 209, 233, 419) el City Missions. The Editors. Mandarins’ Rank - fi : eee 200 : | Lady Lane, Leeds - 2 - 160 “Many Maysions”: A Story. Walter | King’s Cross - - - a7 Hall o 2 x ey - 187 | Critics, The Missionary and his - - 18s Mazeras, News from J. B. Griffiths - 223 | Curious Salutations - = x - 144 Mendiland, The Stone Idols of A. Bs Chinese, Things W. R. Stobie, 88, 105, 129 y Greensmith 3 5 2 ; 3 it | Christmas Day at Bo - - - = 267 Mission Fund, Our - = A - 280 ee Christmas, The Missionary’s - - 266 Missionary Ambition, The G. W. i ; | Darkness to Light, From Ethel Aber- Sheppard - - - = - 162 crombie - = . SiS - 169 Missionary Beehive H. C. R. - - iil Demonstration, Annual Missionary Missionary Boxes, The Adventures of | The | Editors - oe ieee eo) R. Brewin - = - 237, 253, 281 | ech (a) Ny ae ee Joe 225 Missionary Committee, With the - 81, 274 Dragon King, The G. W. Sheppard 84 Missionary Emblem, Our W. T. Earthquake in Jamaica...”
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“...Free Churches. Soe ——_—_—_____,, he Ston : of Mendiland. A. E. GREENSMITH. MONG the many objects of A few years ago these images, called interest in Mendiland are certain “nomolisia’ by the Mendies (possibly curious soapstone carvings, con- derived from nu—person, and muli— cerning which a few words may be of soapstone), were thought to be peculiar interest. They are interesting to the to a comparatively small area not far missionary because they have a place in distant from our Tikonkoh Mission | the pagan religious ritual of the Station, but it is now evident that they Mendies, and a little perplexing to are to be found in greater or less num- ethnologists inasmuch as no satisfactory bers throughout nearly the whole of conclusion has been arrived at as to the Mendi and Sherbro countries, and they origin and makers of them. Native oral are not unknown to the Kissy tribe over _ tradition can throw no light upon their the Liberian border, nor to those parts origin, nor do the artistic...”
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“...activity in savage =| | with their credulous minds, relate such Africa by reference to Egypt. While S| captures. Such behaviour on the part some of the carvings are clumsy and 2 | of “nomolisia” is the proof a Mendi- badly executed, others undoubtedly have pe man adduces to show these images are a real vein of art in them; but there is not simply man-made, but areconnected not much, if anything, to suggest ey with the invisible world. external influence, and there is more One morning, a mission boy reported likelihood that they are the products of =| to me that during the night one of these a lost local and indigenous art. Re- images, which [I had been fortunate membering the tribal migrations, and & | enough to secure, came out of my sara- the wars of extermination which have : toga trunk, and. wakened him by _ been going on for many centuries, it is | : gupping his arm, and thus severely not surprising that the art has not sur- rightening him. That was during my vived to the present...”
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“...Mendi 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 e e e 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...”
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“...2 || ie a a fact S| - : P Beis ih ee a 4 « dediaie ‘ ia Gah ee eg 4 Be) | ee aN sly Stak et | (eee aie a a 3 ee 5 | | ee ee ee eer ee | ee ll Re i ~ bs : Francis John Dymond and Samuel Pollard, in 1887. ee | ee | Bible Christian Mission in that region. the arrival of two young men, Samuel e Situated nearly 2,000 miles from Shang- Pollard and Francis John Dymond (sons a | hai, it was very difficult to reach, be- of two most respected ministers), who ie cause of the perilous rapids which have _ were destined by their gifts and conse- et | to be passed in the river journey. cration, and by long and faithful ser- Ba | Messrs. Vanstone and Thorne sailed on vice, to take a most prominent part in ee | November 4th, 1885; but they did not the development of the mission. Upon [a eS...”
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“...them all to ness, and sympathy, the lady mis- ‘be spent in such a noble work.” sionaries gained a great influence over The loss of labourers compelled the many of the women around them, and a ‘nissionaries to retire from Yunnan Fu good work was carried on among _ the in 1892, and to concentrate upon Chao children in the Sunday Schools. Edu- ‘Tong and Tong Chuan. cational work was commenced by open- But God was preparing reinforce- ing a day school especially for the ‘ments. The Bible Christian Mission in children of inquirers. 3 ‘New Zealand sent Miss Cannon in 1892, The work was seriously interrupted end the Bible Christian Church in South by the Boxer rising in 1900. _ Dr. and Australia sent the Rev. E. J. Piper in Mrs. Savin and Mr. and Mrs. Dymond, u 893, and in the same year Miss Baiey who were stationed at Yunnan Fu, were 5...”
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“...two estimate that thirty-three thousand of houses occupied by the missionaries them die every day. We pale and were destroyed by the mob, and the shudder at the thought. And yet they contents were looted. The missionaries, stay not. : = with their children, were taken into the Take your Bible and count every | city Yamen, and given shelter from the letter in every word from Genesis to | rioters until it was deemed safe to re- Revelation, not once but eighty times 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...”
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“...Holy Scripture shine with a cities, and the stranding of our central clearness and distinctness which nothing town and city Churches by the move- can obscure: ment of the population towards the “For the Lord God is a sun and suburbs. This twofold movement had shield: The Lord will give grace and ]gid a strain on our mission fund, which glory: No good thing will He withhold aq not been adequately met.” from them that walk uprightly.” : ar Sees Bene . Dealing with our foreign missions, & Mr. Hardy contended that, as a Denom- Dr. Henry Van Dyke says ination, we had played a noble part. missionary Of the great missionary Still we needed to do more, else we MOTTO movement: “ The mission- should have to retrench, and retrench- FoR Wier. ary enterprise is not the ment wasa positive lowering of the flag Church’s afterthought. It before the world, and could not be is Christ’s forethought. . . . Christ thought of without shame and pain. It has put it into the very heart of was forcibly urged that we...”
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“...daughter on the | ev. O. arpley (the late as Bec iSS1 Mr. W. Start... ee ty mission telde Tielegindley.--cse ee e 010-6 & & & a | Mr. D. Straw y 303 oe te .. 010 0 © : S re Ba | Mr, R. Bailey .. ... s. ... 0 5 0, New sus- The diffusion of' mission- A Me Ee Brettle ... aoe ee .. 0 5 0 SCRIBERS. ary information would not wy, Geee tee So ee only: be ac elp “tothe “missionary. MSW oH Smith 6 ee causes itself, but. would-be: the cause A Mr: T. G: Rolfe... =. es OG) SCOF =«Cdefinite spiritual quickening and I Collected on Tennis Court .. .. 212 6 enlargement. The late Dean Vaughan | £20 18 6 said: “Know and you will feel; ae | ee ~SClkknow and you will pray; know B and you will help.” During the past year aie letters we Hale eae on | a When attending mission- Many arections, we have been deeply | OUR YouNG ary services in a large town pute ee : ee we. ance : @) Oe | Se ee 8 ee Weel 280, we wets Fics toad ceealenly the Mission | ee ee young inend who had col- ary ECHO; (8) The gieat need there =...”
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“...Hy ie The above is the Rev. G. W. Shep- | S cakmmumiiiiiiieiees (0590) Gee pard’s description of this wonderful |_agieeeemene 3 a a Chinese “Complimentary Banner.” He |i | SMe has placed one, we are pleased to say, 7,. myriad NamewUmbrelia at our disposal, and we propose to use : Be se it as follows: : (1) To offer it to the Sunday School FOLDING. | which shall raise the highest sum of eee money, in proportion to its numbers, for YES, He said, “ Feed My lambs,” those any one year, for the Mission Fund, the He sought when He died, minimum amount to be £50. So the Shepherd will count them at (2) The school winning the umbrella evening tide. in this way shall hold it for a year. If Some are thirsty, some lame, I may help: the same school shall raise the highest Hoe thy ‘ amount as set forth in No. 1 for three But I’m puzzled to know just how many consecutive years, and shall not raise go by. less in the three years than £125, that : : Bioce school shall have the privilege of hold- Does...”
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“.... lantern slides, and the Rev. Alfred : T The idea 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...”
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“...body : : | is speedily burned. Ultimately the & & | matter comes to the ears of the mission- INDIAN MUSIC. ary, who tries to secure justice: but An unusually interesting article ap- =| subtle threats and bribes—and official pears in the “ Missionary Herald,’ by S inertia—block the way, and one more the Rev. Leonard Tucker, M.A, on | victim is unavenged. The district in- “Indian Music.” Starting with the spector seems to be worthy of a post on statement “that no race of men, how- | the Congo, for he could adequately ever barbarian, but has its musicians and | carry out the mandates of the “Sultan” its songs,” the writer says many shrewd of Belgium. and wise things concerning the moral Z| influence of Indian music. “An Indian el choir sings ever in unison. I remember / : A DEFICIT, BUT NEW WORK. playing an ordinary four-part hymn E In spite of an accumulated deficit of tune on the piano at an Indian mission £59,000, the Church Missionary Society house in the presence of some Hindu Ba is u...”
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“...will be the scene of instruction, about 50,000; missionaries the most brilliant cantos.? And we and native ministers, 111; paid agents, venture to add that even more lustrous 530; unpaid helpers, 3,853; scholars, than those brilliant cantos would be the 36,000. “There are” says the Report, rehearsal of the story of the patient and “including members, about 350,000 per- persistent efforts of Christian mission- sons under Christian instruction”; that aries to evangelize the group of islands is, in the whole of the Western Hemi- now known as the West Indies. sphere. The Baptists also have mission Perhaps one of the greatest difficulties stations on several of the West India with which the early missionaries had to islands; and we, as Methodist Free grapple arose from the withering pre- Churches, are contributing our quota of sence of slavery. As Montgomery Mar- 3,074 members in the island of Jamaica, tin has so eloquently said: “Slavery, towards swelling the numerical and both Indian and negro...”
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“...“instead of the thorn came up the fir- American Indians, are to-day dotted tree, and instead of the briar came up with hundreds of Christian Churches, the myrtle-tree; and it will be to the and containing many thousands of Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign devout, God-fearing and consistent that shall not be cut off.” So great, disciples of Jesus Christ. indeed, is the contrast between the ace a eae present and the early past of the Di eae BOS attempted Christianization of the The story of mission work on “Green- Eskimos of Labrador, in civilization, land’s icy mountains” is as familiar as morality, Christian character and virtue, “household words.” That on the island that in speaking of it the editor of the of Labrador—which lies on the north- “Conquests of the Cross,” says: “At east coast of the North American con- the present day, Labrador, ‘the land tinent, and is therefore geographically which cannot be built upon,’ and upon gcges in the map of the Western whose coast the mariner...”
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“...right with the world”? | Se So Jo e ° | 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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“...each): 1. The Primitive Methodist Report is Miss Gertrude Wasley, Leeds, and Miss a bulky volume of 240 pages, and we M. Wiggins, Lowestoft. The paper by note is sold at eightpence. The General Mr. Aldis will be found in this number Missionary Committee is composed of (see page 10); the others will appear 6 officers, 41 ministers, and 19 laymen, in subsequent issues. and this huge body meets four times a EGERTON YOUNG. year, at a cost of over £300. Their Apropos of Mr. Cuttell’s article (see Mission Fund embraces London and page 13) on “ Missions in the Western Provincial Missions—Income, £19,978, World,” it may be noted_that a well- expenditure, 42,035 Jess; and the illustrated article by the Rev. Egerton African Fund—Income, $9,014; ex- 19...”
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“...but. there A member of the F oreign Missionary | is satisfaction in this after all. They Committee placed in our hands Nos. 26 have a bold programme, and they trust and 27 of the “Quarterly Paper of In- the people, as the Wesleyan and C.M. -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...”
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“...mitt || : 4 tH t i | tt | Wi at | “Griffith John” | | 1850. Three years afterwards’ he received. So he went up to the minister tH offered himself for foreign missionary and said: “How do you do?” “None I work. He 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|...”
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“...Bible Christian Missions the highest 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...”