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“...e if hl Fd ee : = — —— ss mia} } | il | f ma ‘ me \ my ey a | i [IN DEX: ‘ SS i bees. PAGE PAGE i a NORTH CHINA. WEST AFRICA. , 1) Bi { } — ae Armitt; A letter from Miss - - 91 Drawbacks to Mission work in Africa. ef China Continuation Committee. F. B. oF Padus K cL yee - Lt Turner <: 3 x % © 447 Fakai Mission, A A. E. Greensmith 17 : Se i Christmas at Tong Shan. J. Hinds - 48 Greensmith, Bevan OSE ees a y IH Christmas-at Chu: Chia. - . -> 159 Sec eral Rev. W. W.S: Mickle- i ee Hl i Robson, A letter from Mrs. - - 115 eae > Mig tee ' NS i | Turner, A letter from Miss Sica wheas-eQ) HOME AND GENERAL. , Bee iT a Wu Ting Fu, A story from Mrs. Apocalypse of today - - - ~—- 160 SSI ‘ i Eddon = s 5 = - 81 Buddhist Prayers - - i - - 74 4 mei dy | ; Central America: A story of. J. Proud- vA 3S || L | SOUTH-EAST CHINA. foot eh ene sa) or ee oe ; we 1 | h Nhe Chaplain in India. A A. E. Bowyer 49 ee HI i} + Chapman, Principal T. W. - - 158 Chinese walls, What they tell us - 186 PEL. Heywood, Rev....”
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“...tobe ( m. Meru, Medicine man. - ~ ce 82 i be : Trial by fire Sere ee 67 : fi ILLUSTRATIONS, BO ofthe simiet ROR eat ai : 4 NORTH CHINA: Women, (group) - - 10t | & Girl’s School, Two Seniors See On Wats | ASN Sse ae eo | Godfrey, Rev. D. V. 232093 491 Worthington, Rev. R.. T: - - 102 & » Peking, A city gate - = -~ =. 58 ” » au notes i bat re Peking, Great bell at : 4! Bees Worthington and Mimmack among boys 131 ri) i i Yung Ping Hospital:— - : c tl Inside the wards. - - - 36, 96 WEST AFRICA. i i eB ee SDiAnCh oe Ae cee ae ee nae Church, and Members eee ale \ \ | i ead assistant and family -/ we! 52 - i Z ‘ ‘ 7 i é . . reetown, Sierra Leone - 72 al it te Assistants’ quarters - — - - - 84 Grdenanith Rw CAPES: : ( - lage a j 7; 4 r % . . * . i Hb ES ee eae spent y : ee Mendiland musician. - ates - 56 hi i ‘5 Mgomba, John Sp ERA Oe here saree OU i co SOUTH_EAST CHINA. , Micklethwaite, The late Rev. W. - 145' bu 5, Chapman, Principal, M.Sc. - - 158 Miprtayiows. Wa ME a BOS : 5 : Heywood, Rev...”
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“...| | SPECIMEN OF OUR ILLUSTRATED HANDBILL. S } | f } } s ges ly SPE SEES NE SES. ES antes hse sk = s ‘s r. _ - ————__——- ‘ Hn ¢ Bark nea i bit bastfaaii ia ey ae pS ee gee | : Ln | f te i mo) et | : | | T i | t Ree ek iS peg, ohare ie q Wee he United Methodist Church as s i hy Ea, REE 8 ES | || FOREIGN MISSIONS fe ma | oe ae SO Ss ol a a oe OO a it ORs Pe MM egies cea 2 a ae eS 4 Bees od ae What i: intained ! a ee a TE : at 18 maintained ! eS fa a Bsa Jolt ee : WH | a : oe } Be ae iy HE et IN CHINA: 27 Missionaries, 414 Churches, fous Don sae } is a ES We phe : : need CF amc Ra, ce, Rae Se i ia 5 Hospitals, 2 Colleges, 131 Day Schools, | | OS SE me || \ i § ‘ R Pee Me ale ‘ ho RAE acc. ae aa + RT| | and Chinese Agents, including 6 ordained 4 i ~ y at peer BF ae ee ie a il Bb 14 Biblewomen. | Raed PS SMM Riel | eed Bl . eh oe “ | { ites : Be AR oe eo ee aS Hu | IN AFRICA: 5 Missionaries...”
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“...the Master: Ht ql 1 : Commission, Blessing, Reward. | hee | : ' 1 : Opi ie — The United Methodist ay Hl ; e 4 i a | aa A _ Gibraltar, Rev. C. N. MYLNE. He : (Or Verb. sap.) HT i PER A. ‘ *.° . al 4 ‘ O the British ocean-traveller there organised, thoroughly eguipped to do Fi , comes a feeling of pardonable the service for which it was obtained. ae ; : pride when he arrives ~ within Here are two photographs of “ Uni- i | g& view of the famous old Gibraltar Rock. versal Spring,” Nosu-land, West China. | A tiny piece of territory, seized from an It is the United Methodist centre for Hae enemy country, it is valuable, not so work among the Nosu and allied races, ail much for its actual worth, as for its and is our “Gibraltar.” Note the Bl + i position, and because of what Britain parallels! In each case a heavy price Bink can do by its possession. has been paid for possession. The one ad _We paid a price which, for a little taken from the enemies of England; the Aa | piece of rock, was rather...”
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“...Ig Se cont, NN of . this heresy? Well! Mr. Sky Pilot [iam i ae se SM goes to Nosu-land, and, among other [ee irs a es ib ie things, he finds that : se if ee | ii (a) Nosu and Chinese “no lovee oe, So ee ih muchee well.” ee Sag ees. ee PEL (6) The Nosu swagger “some,” be- |Raaaamemn - pe fe ei Ns | i A cause the Conference has sent a man Adele Ese niaicgate ts One { : ip eM’ cts. aa earner uy 4 for them. : 1 ie. FEE Hin chats a : i Phe : (c) Most of the time must be spent; ev: © N. Mylne, West China, 1908. | Hy 5 | Vy MA dee : j ae | Hild : i...”
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“...| but rather that, for us, it is @ short cut fluences as the direct result of the Nosu me, to our Eastern Empire! work. And this can be extended in- hy So then, “ Universal Spring,” is not definitely. “Universal Spring” is your ih \y only our “Gibraltar,” but our “Suez” “short cut to Empire”! ZL as well! The paramount interest of But Gibraltar and Suez are what they 4 S Missions in China is to convert the are only by virtue of their organisation fi os Chinese to Christianity, and this:must and equipment. * it if be the ultimate aim of all our policy. So. not to further weary you, we i ii “3 Go to West China, and there you yemark: a i will find that already many hundreds i pees i} | 8 nis of Chinese are under Christian in- VERB. SAP.! i i Wa sJe Se Se : i ‘ | Hit a z Through the By the Go al r e : ‘ h i if want | Secretary’s Field-glass, Rev. C. STEDEFoRD. A “More than Let us begin the New Year hath prepared: His throne in the : | BS Conquerors.”” with a triumphant note. heavens, and...”
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“...well-defined and clearly places of prayer that are being erected — | printed “sketch map of our East Africa jin China, it seems to be a suitable and { ||| Protectorate,” shewing very clearly our commodious building and harmonizes aia several mission stations; there is also a completely with its Chinese environ- eee | a ment. || Bs tiene Am “A general survey,” by the Rev. C. Ss ut = SO Stedeford, introduces the reports from ei a 7 We. rN - the Foreign Mission field. ‘Che salient Se | eal fo =e ee facts and figures are presented in a ee) | id . Be. 5 Bek lucid and spirited manner. The Rev. a il i fee i eh, John Moore, the Home Missionary me eee a a eee Secretary, gives a summary of our is Hl h. Ce i ee aggressive work at Home, more par- me BG. gaa Re remem ee ticularly of our extension in the Leigh ri i if ; ea ee —s and Hindley Circuit and in the South ‘ CES: 8 SE Yorkshire Mission; the work done by | Ail ne ee =~ ~SOsCourr “ Deaconess Institute,” and also our OMT e 2" ee eae ee “Work in the...”
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“...ancestral temple, used as a chapel, tions; it is means to carry on the work. | Be | Mr. Whu took his place side by side At one time the demand is “Give us a with six very humble and illiterate men more Bible women, and we will save i t 3 and women, and in the presence of a the womanhood of China and Africa”; A large gathering, including some of his at another time it is, “Give us more i i wh » own non-Christian scholars, he received scholarships to train native preachers, |), . a | the rite of baptism and partook of the and the future is ours”; and, again, i fe i Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. “Send out more teachers to save the | } : x What is the value of medical work in children of Africa and China from the Bi! s % the conversion of the heathen? The back wash of heathenism.” We are face An | P reports provide us with abundant evi- to face to-day with the problem of our | ate | dence of the Christian influence of the success; we must go forward, or give : f Hest ministry of healing. Here...”
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“...unto harvest. The The Christian Church cannot, dare not | -_ great peoples of the East are alive and relax her efforts in the spiritual con- ie awake, stirred by new aspirations and flict. The genius of the Gospel, the cin : desires. Throughout Asia there is in teaching of history would convict her of Ss process a complete transformation of folly and of faithlessness if she did. “It hs social institutions, habits, standards and. may well seem that the tasks imposed. — | beliefs. In Japan and China and India, on us by modern conditions are beyond ee i ; and even in Africa, and throughout the our strength. . . . There is nothing a Moslem world, this evolutionary process in the Christian revelation which war- we is so patent that whoever runs may _ rants us in hoping that we shall be given | read, ae The movement is unceasing: tasks | within our powers. What is aS it will as little wait on our convenience promised is that power will be available see i . as the tides of the sea. . . . If ina...”
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“...| "i | ae ‘ te | , LM fee |) ; —- Our Women’s Auxiliary i | ii | their hands clasped and eyes closed as must not catch my face,” said a terrified , il the chairman of the Mission, the Rev. little girl, who rushed out of the gate iS] i i G. W. Sheppard, gave thanks to the followed by a few others ere the deed was i children’s Friend for favourable weather done. | | and a!l good things. Then each one was Just before 6.0 they all left for their . presented with a coloured paper bag con- homes very happily ; for the treat meant 1 taining pea-nuts, melon seeds, sweets very much to them, as the majority came a and biscuits, kindly provided by members from poor crowded hovels- where space a |. and friends of the Mission. They were is indeed a luxury. “Thank you, Teacher, aoe then set free for races and other games Good-bye! May we come again? may | until the photographer arrived. “They we come every Monday?” x a } | | ae 1 _
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“...mips Be ne —————SS———— A r a — | oT “eh : | iB cs Ae yy : : |. 4 = eee OK i CC DORWS— SEE ER ys SS te Ae CHU) = Wwe A Ree ma / Le (HISSIOMAIRY “ex ))) i) AMP cr oN ay We ° SCHIO ° Koy, OOO Sees st | ENS eK ES SOS) AA Ze | @ SS ~ Jf ; COT Ne A We 5 if — FS) MNS iz | AO, \ (o) For Missionary Secretaries :— C X 7 a LAG SEM» oy een AS yo ee t Tes u District, Circuit, Church, Sunday School, LT re ee ** Plan your work and work your plan.” i i eh ie Sierra | Sa A A Sierra Leone "By the a | Ee. Fakai Mission. Rev. A. E. GREENSMITH. | ie 3 : ah ey , UB Bee HAT is a fakai? It is a term commodious structure was ventured at 5 for a collection of huts that upon. Great was the joy of the fakai | . & does not merit the term village dwellers and workers of the W.M.A. | ‘Il or town. There are many of these when a corrugated iron structure was i | ae fakais scattered’ over the hillsides in the completed. From Freetown and the Wi Sierra Leone peninsula, mostly occupied villages upwards of three hundred I P|...”
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“...women-folk who had so | | _ of the fakai, in very broken English, faithfully laboured amongst this people. t = | spoke to us of their spiritual experi- : j ce ee ences. They told us, in most simple _, 1he cole at the opening ser- Se and telling speech, of the great bless- VCS vee es and the place was ma on ing the mission had been to them, and OPENEG tree of dept. SS i ens | thanked the visitors for helping to make A. few years ago travellers along the mei, | that day a great success. One of the lonely Lumley Road were sometimes : q ee _ converts stood up, and moved us.deeply molested and robbed, but it is said that . Vi | yo Be by his words, although, instead of ad- since the Mission has been established Rey i as | dressing us, it took the form of address- such occurrences are things of the past. i i S| 1 a s ; pes ! ; ge na Pe ih i | : : ee ot a ime Si ¢ : a) tt | | . fr A iy ' im. ) e x / Ai |) | ; 5 A VS ht Ls eg te ; i 1 BS “Sl he ee kee ; TERS Dh cate ei Set : a | | i Pepin, 0 MMR OE EEL...”
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“...Fe || cae “ x t ey He. | | | , | | : Mh ra He 4 i i 4 | Through the Bs nl? ‘ aa ‘ > : ay | secretary’s Field-slass. Rev. C. STEDEForD. i 7 A / : 3 ah 4 Missionary Missionary work among the riding a mule which had not the courage | Adventures. ‘ wild hills, and still wilder of my horse. Then I had to return four at people of Western China, times more to take over the coolies with i i : | offers scope enough for the most adven- their loads. These I conveyed across one i | i i turous spirit. There are always new ata time clinging to my stirrup leathers. i) ie Be regions to be explored, new types of folk We were drying our clothes on the further , Hy to be encountered, new risks to be faced. bank when some local people found two Hy ae : Mr. Evans relates some rough experi- bundles of iron utensils and a bag of | : [ ences in travelling over the wide Nosu beans: these had been lost in the morning: wey + field. One tour through a part of his cir-- by a man who attempted to cross the ie cuit will...”
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“...be soft earth as debasing as it is powerful. Its evils ii. was really hard rock. I shouted to the are frequently denounced in the Old ; Bart, others not to come. The teacher got Testament, and its degrading effects ex- es | down as I did, but the rest of the party posed. Wizards. abound in China, es- er had to find another way round. At the pecially in West China, and they wield ||. i bottom of the rock was a bamboo grove. almost supreme influence. Some of their : i The horse had fallen down some forty performances are most remarkable and eS i feet and, crashing into the bamboos, had calculated to impress the people deeply | ey | slid over them into the middle of what with their magic powers. Our mission- t me \ was a perfect jungle. I stumbled over aries in Yunnan are in constant contact aS Bl | the creepers in the gathering darkness with these necromancers, whose spell | me i and almost despaired of finding the horse, must be broken before the Gospel can ES Wt Bel and feared. to leave it...”
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“...in the Christian Church of ; | i me tional institutions. x -China. | eNO I hold mission- ‘ < Bee, oe ee tag a ary work in high : i i i : fe ee We Ee ey ae ; aL. ee fF regard, as do | a pF omany of my fee Cie |] ON. gas Ge Se ae) low - countrymen. ai ae i= oe eee ee The Christian eit a ne A as a ©) «Church has not ie A Be pees ole (eee ae ee only rendered ei ee ae ee Ae. Bn weet giaee | & Chri stian doc- s ae ee A Ba a a trines, but she has h <—e t ie AM ie te he i OR eee «(by her various ma i ul: ‘jie iin | eS ee activities contribu- | a — a!) gt oe: Se t (on | ae ro Yd ‘¢ ee j ted to the modern- ‘ el ee ef countrys and un- oe ee ee cer the new re. | We hf a. Lo! no gime of republic- OG) \eah ee Ee oS 4 '] (2 anism, Christian- } ; ‘ ns : 5 5: ; a oe bi eae . 2 ; bt As L, a aro a feet =. a Beh teh ee! ity, too, is bound | ca | es. a. i | oe to make even | i ! i } Mr,and Mrs, H,S. Redfern. Qunrignt Mrs, Redfern’s tather, ‘ in China than she i Be ee ae Fe Sores raed Cairne tacctoasey sete _...”
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“...was given free, and the income A I success. Each visit involved a thirty must have been considerable, for the ae | #5 miles’ sail (or row) across the Lagoon, annual cost of the mission sometimes me | then a tedious and arduous journey of exceeded 4100. One Indian widow be- I ve | fifteen miles up the river. Time was longing to the Settlement also gave her wa | 1 | not of such great importance then as husband’s farm to the mission, and ie 1 | it is in England to-day, and the visiting this was cultivated by the Indians; so Pi (ll i Mission Bands were always much larger that the work was carried on at no cost a We | | than the original plan of five. I have to the English Mission Board. : HI aA g sometimes headed quite a small fleet of Just before I left Central America, Fe ie canoes to visit the Settlement. the Mission Band returned one day with I a ‘ I am not altogether correct in writing bad news. An outbreak of smallpox Hi a i about the “Settlement,” as in the early had caused so many deaths...”
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“... fl fi “ Tesus Christ and the World’s Religions.” : | Messaége. By William Paton, M.A. | United i | 48 Council for Missionary Education, | " (A Parable for -Missionaries. ) 1916. Sevenpence. net. : nt “This little book is intended for those FT } A 1 who desire a brief statement of the prin- A L/ i ie O grace too great to understand ; cipal features of the non-Christian reli- Big | Whipped, yet, by the snow-wind’s stroke, = gions,” and the successive chapters deal nig with Mohammedans, India, China, and i iia | On a stark fleid, in a lone land Japan, concluding with a chapter show- i i | Snowdrops woke ! ing that Christianity is the universal |) religion. ‘For Christianity, then, it is Fi i all or nothing. The only safe task for rl Ue How long, through all the wintry wood, the Christian Church to undertake is the > © : ) & by Trees were bare and flowers were not! task that seems impossible.” |) \ pas hourhgod A most. helpful treatise, and the ii Voog Now, In Spring’s soft neighbourhood,...”
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“...Ming, the preacher’s wife, Gi i then gave a short address indicative of were girls in the same village before i og the purpose of our mission, and the faith both were married. In September, 1915, i iy a for which we stand. Then Mr. Dymond Mrs. Han was at the place where Mrs. a Hes read the list of donors, and after that I Shih lives—at a fair, I suppose—and Ou 4 offered the dedicatory prayer. After this called to see Mrs. Shih. They received A | we had speeches from the chief magis- her very kindly, and spoke to her of the wi trate, the head of the schools, the head doctrine, and finding she knew nothing BS of the’ business houses of the city and about it, pressed her to stay over the iy the head of the military. These were next day, Sunday, their worship day, and i} followed by Mr. Kiu (formerly employed hear more. She agreed, although she A le | by our mission as a school] teacher) who | had no idea what ‘a worship day” was. | I | has recently returned from America. She learned’ a little...”
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“...pour, a | bo here again to this class and is working One aiits otal 4 | : gifts of love. | hard and doing well. She hopes now to ae 1 ee be baptized and next to go to Chu Chia : a | Si fed to train as a Bible woman. I think our One motive pure SDE es tS all | 3 i Liverpool friends will like to know that _1is to fulfil our Lord’s command, mal God has used Mr. Shih Feng Ming in The glorious gospel to declare, | a | leading this woman to Jesus. Prayers In every land. A Nee | in Liverpool reach China, as we well : coy bot know. These native shores we may not leave ; oe i ce : pany Sa The spirit knoweth no such bond, a. In sending this encouraging story, the Jp earnest prayer doth oft traverse =e eet Rey. C. F. Hill reminds us that Mr. Shih Regions beyond. | a f Feng Ning is the native pastor whose | ae | | € / i St Somingo Church and School,” The Master whispers, “Inasmuch”; | a | Ae Ee What holy joy it doth afford, : Ne hoa | To know that we have ministered Se i Women Missionaries: An Unto...”
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“...conceals her identity under the Consequently the money: we send to the ae hoe} y i . . (5 A A | tf designation “A Disciple,” regularly con- missions is of far less value locally than Mi [heal tributes 8s. 4d. a month, making £5 for it was formerly. For example, in 1914, — i} the year, for the education of a Chinese £100 exchanged into Chinese currency ie Christian girl in North China, who after would produce 790 taels, this year it pro- : i | | her education is completed will be quali- duces only 524 taels. This means that : ay | | fied for service in connection with the for making payments in China a ' ee | -f mission. —_ sovereign has lost about one-third of the 2S i ed} We know of another woman worker valueit had prior to the war. The gravity ; a | } a f TEE . bist ae i t ‘ agit) z : iene EPIRA + ?. Es . f mii ea 2 ee Bere ea ae Ree tia | i hire Y ' Se Be | eer | | 5 | a ee = : a i ee ~~ a ee. pes: wi | << tbe 4 ee 22-h Asa SS ee ae | se ih | } Serene oe - er 4 saved : a i : : — oe A ee...”