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“...i el INDEX | 2 \ va : PAGE PAGE SS NORTH CHINA. WEST: AFRICA. iv fe d Baxter, Death of Dr. Dr. Packer ... _. 50. Additions to Staff... fs ay abe 7 i iy 2 Editor, 7 -§1,'80° HOME AND GENERAL. } ! ce & pa aRe eae Abercrombie, Mrs. Miss Webster... Savant Oe A i uy ; : é G: Ee Fao NG @ Apocalypse, of To-day, J. Wright preg alg 7 i ee oe oes Come acca Church in the House. J. E. Mackintosh... 30 oH. “i ‘ eee eee uns ae aS? Conference, Missions at. J. A. Thompson 105 | ‘ China’s Womanhood. Mary Gaunt Berea HGdbee Query Boxes Me a 60, 72 if ei Scholarships at Peking. Dr. Candlin ... 90 iiema, AnvOtE as = a 197 ti a ee reat: eS SEG Aes Home Mission Treasurers ... ae sesanagllit, | i os t Bins os me Hymns, Soldiers’ Favourite... Sh hee 45 1 xe Tong Shan, The Daily Round at. J. Hinds 126 Levacy A Poos Man's 2 WER) Cats uh age : ( oS SOUTH-EAST CHINA. London Meetings. James Ellis ... 48, 61 : ij “30 Literature Association, Editor ... Boe BOO a TP S ee Lee Cee uCHE clang 57 Merlin, On the Onward March...”
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“...Nac oa Aa INE AN SNe RT Pe OP 2 | : | | | eae PAGE PAGE BOOKLAND. Theatre, An Open-air ake we TN ge RE i THe Goal oficial ios oe an fe 9 Tientsin, Floods in... oy 14, 15, 28, 41 iss International Review... .... 33, 60, 94, 132 A Movable Bridgeat| ... —... 133 i Mera Hymns and Catechism, |.) 94" > SOUITHIRAST CHINA: ; ; ILLUSTRATIONS. Ningpo Woman, A. 1892 and 1915... Ql \ PORTRAITS. Wenchow, Canal at ... ss 8 RS is Abercrombie, Mrs. Ralph ... a TIO Street Scene in .... . ... ee ee ‘| ; Bassett, Rev. Udy (the late) ake ... 109 Summer School ... te oe 5 oe Bassett, Mr. and Mrs. we ae 97, 100° X-ray Apparatus ey, 86 | { Beda bisa RES 50, 52 : | Baxter, the late Dr 0, 5 SOUTH-WEST. CHINA. | ‘ Beckly, Esq., J. H. ... a ne eo OW po : cS ripest Req) Joseph's. oe a uAVOn Aborigines in ee ae ye Sten dO | ¢ iyobeon: Mra Fe Awe ay o Says Chao Tong Dispensary v3 se SOS ee | Hh Godfrey, Esq., J. ae ae oh ee AT, eter at a ay 5S iene i Hopkins, Rev. and Mrs. A. J. ... eG ee se hog a i 6 ; | ih Hudspeth...”
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“...Payne). ' The President’s : Wanted— : Students. Messaée for 1918. 2 HE Editor has asked me to send Have you made a study of our col- \ 7 him a short message for the New leges and hospitals in China? Our edu- Year, and I willingly comply with cational and medical work is invaluable his request. My message is—Familiarise there. It is an open door to the Chinese yourself with. our foreign missionary _ heart. work. It will surprise you, it will be a Of course, everything is subservient to liberal education, it will fill yourimagin- the Evangel, but there are various ways ation with glowing visions, and it will of preaching. We are putting the spirit fill your heart with noble enthusiasms. © 0f Christ into China and Africa through & The mere geography of our missions, @ variety of methods. And the people in China and Africa, is a study.’ What te responding. Christ is beimg recei- “countries they are!. with their mount. ved. He will work as leaven both in the ains and rivers and rich valleys and dusky...”
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“...Bie | Through the By the ae ’ q Secretary’s Field-glass. rev. c. STEDEFoRD. x ea oo. not For the fourth time the The scanty reports given SS a nor a s New Year begins in the Floods in in English papers have ee econeaeed: midst of the war which North China. not enabled us to form-any - pBLOWS more distressing and desolating idea of the distress and devastation = = the months pass by. The strain of caused by the floods in North China last x a Dom every heart and home. The September. Around Tientsin 15,000 Pe ot peace is still remote. The square miles were covered with water | AW Oo ney is most sorely tried and to an average depth of eight feet. Part 3 re oe the New Year with anxious of the city was inundated and the greater ee ieee mid such a tossing sea, itis well part of the British and Japanese con-. Z : ES Rie or our souls by faith in the eter- cessions. This inevitably occasioned eo nal promises of God. Christian workers very wide distress and it is estimated eS Th entitled to a quenchless...”
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“...the place will‘certainly be taxed to and at last found ourselves on terra firma, the utmost, and we must take special to our great relief. From that point measures for the relief of our own people. rickshaws took us and our baggage [ hope that you will authorize help ona : along the French main street and the small scale at once from Mission Funds, oe Victoria Road'to the highest part of the and I suggest that you should ask for British concession, where we had se- special contrbiutons for the purpose.” ; cured quarters.” We shall be glad to forward any Mr. Turner secured a boat in order to . money received in response to this keep in touch with the mission house appeal of Mr. Turner. 3 t ug Bika,...”
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“...story told by. our Medical Se vellous in our eyes.” Missionaries, but the Z oe Piles tiry to eather |) Se ee ee manner, of its telling. 1me Se up, for the reader of presses the reader. Day 5 the EcHo, some of its “The war may have after day, needy suffer- a striking features. reduced our numbers ers. present themselves, SC Fae a ie i and the-unwearied healers eS JHB PREVAILING: GOSPEL. diminished our mission- eae ere. ere oe a b Preaching must be a ety Cet es Cauren which the Udeat cases ae delightful privilege out on pUnic lt BOM enact ie are watched and tended. ee ' the Mission Field, because econ yaa Spine peas <] the people are eager to Panes tie nae re There is a glow on our a hear the messa f th ee pce eee Doctors’ stories that can * Soe S x t from the Secre- é x Cross. Chapels and other tape preface to the be felt at this distance. : > preaching) places become || 7? : But what must be the ~ © a the centre of waiting, ex- ———————---—_—__—__ gladness of those relieved ...”
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“...sta- “The Churches in take notice that the tistics are mot the Sierra Leone ‘are self- missionary’s path is not ' sole gauge of Missionary supporting. We main- by any means clear of progress. But there | is fai only ther wore in obstacles, and that he e something big and im- ; . has to face many diffi- pressive in the figures the hinterland. culties. c given in the Report. The Secretary. We have regular preach- New workers are on : ‘ ing sustained in 620" the field, and others ese centres in China, and are ‘quite ready to go our Missionary Staff consists of 16 | when the conditions permit; and ministers, 5 doctors, 2 college princi- | yet there is still a need for men pals, and 3 and women; . unmarried eee gifts also; ladies ! There “Let us follow in the glorious train of and above ' 8 reported, a those who toil in faith and hope, and we shall everything membership of discover that God’s perfected plan has far else, the ear- - 13,782 adults, surpassed our brightest visions and dreams.”...”
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“...¢ eee | Hl 4 | 5 1k 5 Our Chao-Toné e e | Training School. WEST CHINA. ie . _ a HILE the preachers and teach- training. We are most desirous for a e ers who issue from this ‘more efficient native ministry.” Thus ; | Institute will not be perfect the Rev. F. J. Dymond when in charge i | any more than are those men who come of the School in 1916. ~ ‘ =S | from similar institutions _ elsewhere, Mr. Dymond describes the photo- ° a . yet it as certain that they will be oraph below in his characteristic “s far superior to any workers we have at fashion ssc : ee and indeed to any men who “ The tall man at the back of the third in eine. ne forth from & ene on the right, died of consumption. He e te te ere P a et ethe Rev.C.E. died trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ 4
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“...same eee a —— ae ae year, having won a scholarship, I entered ar | the Wesleyan High School for a second- ae rey. Suu? te eae 0 ary training. On leaving school I ac- a Ca heaee cepted a post’ as an elementary teacher Bese i ee in connection with our Jehovah day- te. school. I became a local preacher in a Re Wee a as 1910, and was appointed a divinity student fo 2 ee See Bs in 1914. A year of experience in church 2 ee work was granted me in Freetown South Ra Mee Oc ier he Circuit, followed by a mission to England BRYN eee, aa Si for training for the native ministry. SA eae en : | Born at Murray Town, January 11th, 1886, ‘ ’ ay 3 3 Began te preach, 1904. } A Is Seta ee Seas. It is with real pleasure we present the ! Nata nes a? oats : photographs of the two young men who ll re have been for two years in training for ._ bo oe a ak the ministry in our Ranmoor College, and Bt oo aa es — 2 have now returned to their native land. [hg ee ee ia ae These brethren have commended them- OO a a 5 selves...”
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“...fruition a ; work of missionaries there had been no of the work of British missionaries, and =e road for me, I still refused to.own the of the’ prayers of missionary-hearted i mission few fragrant thoughts flutter for a ES hospitals. bor gold was my god. My moment over these consolations of what . ay whole energies were set on trade. I itis to minister and to die for the sake ES might mm common fairness have recog- and in the service of the King of Kings. : nised who prepared the way for mar- That will never be my part. I do not . <§ kets which I found so profitable. But. complain. I am not worthy of the high © Be I did not. honour involyed. But perhaps I ae Re When the call...”
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“...safety of those The old song, and the new, my soul, who may be travelling by land or sea to Thy joy be felt and seen: or from distant spheres of labour. Acts Ebenezer ! XX. 22+38. invavery tadd: thee sound: of war, January 27th. For Tientsin Circuit. aliaeitcn cs : = Rev. F. B. Turner (14 and 103"). E:phe- Death mowing down his holocausts, sians iii. 14—21. (See page 2.) a Mid bitter, cruel strife : , : Ebenezer ! China. : In sackéloth, and with sullen speech, We are greatly indebted to the Editor of With ashes for a crown: “China’s Millions” for giving us such a Ebenezer! graphic account of the burning of Chengtu a fay (one of the centres of the C.I.M. work), WwW » i restrict ; in the fighting between the provinces of | we Hep OE teeee a nue Yunnan, Kweichow and Szechwan. -It) is To swing with every Bectarnecand contributed by the late Mr. W. E. Hampson, And sigh with’ every breeze: ; who fell a victim to the...”
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“...their Lord. o HE present moment for our mis- Our women at home, and especially cS sions, as in so many other branches those of our W.M.A. will realize. how | i of service, is a testing time of faith much responsibility is thrown upon ee and fortitude. It is a moment of arrest them. It is the very virtues in which SS of movement, when in some sense we woman has always, excelled which are Ee must learn to “stand still and see the now in demand. Their steadfast con- aS salvation of God.” Our young mission- tinuance in quiet, useful work, their ee ; aries, longing to go to their work on the quenchless enthusiasm, and above all & field abroad must stay at home fora sea- their constant and trustful prayers are } son longer. Our veteran missionaries, the best possible preparation for the | . néeding the recuperation of a visit to the | joyful time which will surely come when ) homeland must still stand at their the way will again be open, and when oe post. There is an arrest of our plans. | God will...”
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“...flood in. 24th, Mr. Turner could in operation; the main Japanese street 3 North China. not report any great had been freed from water and business Se f improvement. The there resumed. The utmost effort was : water had not subsided more than-six being made to get the water out of ae inches: the various municipalities had the inhabited districts before the frost il : : : S found it necessary to construct dykes should come and add its destructive < iH and to pump out the water in order to effect to the other damages. . ta! free their respective areas. The. British Meanwhile, Mr. Turner and his Concession which occupies the higher family occupied a small house in the 5 | ground and had less depth of water was _ French’ concession. He was rendering ie the first to be delivered in this way. all the help possible in connection with af In the Japanese concession, where our the British relief camp where nearly | se mission house is situated, there was a a thousand destitute people were shel- mA depth...”
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“...will follow. sionary service and upon having won According to the reports received such a high place in the esteem of his from Mr. Eddon the floods, though very fellow workers on the foreign field and serious, had not affected the regions we — of the churches at home. We pray that occupy in Shantung as much as was he may be spared for many years to . feared. Journeying between Chu Chia devote his great abilities to the building and. Wuting Fu Mr. Eddon had great up of the Church of Christ in China. difficulty in getting through. He had physical Die G “Purves oSaik three mules attached to his buggy and and spiritual has settled down very in several places he had to stand on _ yision imparted. happily to his work at : the seat to keep out of ie Water aa our Chu Chia hospital, the animals were up to their shoulders py, says:—“ Your missionaries have in water. been very near neighbours for a number Rey. F. B. In a letter dated Oc- of years and are old and valued friends. : Turner’s tober 25th...”
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“...At about 3.30 we broke out of the Mr. and Mrs. Parsons gave me a SS gorge and began the ascent of a rugged hearty welcome, and that evening I spent Se hill: up and up we went, past miserable in getting to know the twins—Kenneth eS | farm hovels and barren rocks, till we and Keith—and allowing Elsie to get were nearly in sight of our destination, over her shyness, for visitors are rare. three miles away. Soon after I saw the I entered the house with very mixed feel- _» white buildings of our mission standing ings, and especially in the room in which ee ' out amidst the snow. We seemed to be Sam Pollard breathed his last, I slept =f { quite close, but it took another hour to at length with a sense of being on Se arrive. On a day free from snow { sacred ground. SS should have been The next day a i able to make ff Mr. Parsons me out distinctly a oh W/W took me round, ae grave and tomb VA 7) and everywhere Ke which, — situated ~ ri the women and aa above the houses Hy children chatted yo on...”
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“...different prompts and points the way. Yet if any times. The pictures offer a remarkable should require an answer, let them look confirmation of the photographer’s ver- . again at the photographs’ and find it dict. What a wonderful power that must there. To what purpose? For this; to ‘ be which has wrought such a change! work such changes as are ‘here depicted. Surely we shall wish to have a share in But let me tell you the whole of this : the work which produces such trans- story! This lady went to China as she formations! For the sake of our sisters! had purposed, and gathered about her a t It is now some years ago since there band of women and girls,’ who clung to lived in Birmingham a lady, greatly es- their teacher with an increasing affection . teemed, and’exercising a wide influence and devotion, also she won the respect EET Meg, 3 mM 3 Hae fi ae i y - r % 7 - pale: iu : : *\ ee 4 ee | : é ‘ eR aa A ‘ Bes it 3 ‘ 4 Be ia |) i / Se uae en ht i i ees ie si) oe es i i EA) Re # ‘ F oa Se ae eae...”
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“...” . ro ay ; The Death of the the end. Heenjoyed the fullest con- 2 s fidence and the unqualified affection i Rev. Dr. Savin. of his colleagues; for several years ‘ § ys Another most : they have given ON . | serious loss has “| SG] evidence of this . by our mission ‘| | ae ee him as their in Yunnan by | SN ea District Chair- ~ x } Pages ch yircer ty 5 ENN emanate rf. ea the death of the ie Pe ee i) )=6 man, \ : beloved phy- es eee lag a sl We all deep- a sician, —_ Rev. Pee Be - ee! §6ly sympathise | Lewis Savin, bee as ee, )«Clwith) 6Mrs. ae I RR CyPr os Eye ee eee ap) Fee § = that the Divine. Se : died of typhus | | (gies cae ig ees grace, . which Le i ee a Pay aes “oa } on January 30. [ee es bis: ® Sa AD alone can sus- : The mission _ eee Ps tain and com- a ; has never had |) 99) Siem Se: ee fort in such 2 r a more faithful (ae es te ~=gteat sorrows, na and conscien- [ij . 7 aa TE eg Oh oreo: = may be magni- y .. tious worker [alas Se S/n fied in her. ia i than Dr.Savin. (i ss es ' There...”
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“..._ Ht \ Ree | sy i ss 66 : ee 99 | “The Beloved Physician. ; Hy T was with unutterable pain we heard, By the Rev. F. J. DYMOND. = on February 4th, the sad news of HE greatness of the loss sustained oh the death of Dr. Savin. Other pens, by the Mission in Yunnan can “ei Y used by those who knew him in- hardly be realized by our friends 4 3 timately, shall speak of his consistent and at home, but we who have been ‘“‘com- beneficial work in West China. Hisdeath +adeés-in-arms”’ at that far-distant out- : Hi is a terrific blow to our Mission, for two post of missionary service are deeply SE H reasons: it follows so soon. the decease pained to hear of the blow that has be- 3 vA of Sam Pollard: it comes at atime when fajjen us. Born in Faversham, the son i no doctor can be spared from the weary ‘of one of the oldest members of the ex- war, to fill his place. _ Bible Christian Church, previous to enter- ey lt He came for his last furlough in ing the ministry he was for ten years a mie January,...”
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“...District. How the mystic about him, how he loved to greatly we sympathise with his wife and take family prayer with his children family and his aged father and his sisters. around him, how our members in Chao- The Yunnan mission is greatly impover- tong Church enjoyed his expositions of ished by the loss of this, another leader.. Scripture! For many years he was the The Sunday before leaving Chaotong we superintendent of the Sunday School and : were in his home, enjoying its hospitality. Bible Class leader, for whilst being a How strange to think that now he is medical man _ he~ loved preaching = su- 3 gone; but of this we are confident, he premely. Reserved, extremely diffident ‘ ‘ rendered magnificent service, for no man among strangers, it took time to know could serve our Mission more loyally or him, \but those of us who really more whole-heartedly. (Another gap in knew him, had great admiration and the ranks! Who will step into it? It respect for him. Our loss is very «— must be a sacrificial...”
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“...driving the water proof reed-and-mud huts capable of being i beyond the dykes which were constructed warmed and of housing about a thousand 2 hepa to. protect the Tientsin city and the people; and it is good to know as I am nce suburban concessions: ‘The flood had re- doing it how comfortable these poor 3 il ceded from our mission house in the - homeless folk will be when in another ; ye i Japanese concession before the severe three weeks I have got these huts, and a Wc frost set in. On November 26th, by the accessory hospital, dispensary, kit- ee if he patient baling, Mr. Turner has got the chens, wash-houses, etc., completed. In i me i foundations and cellar of the mission the midst of all this worry I have been 3 be house free from water and was about to heavily distressed by the severe illness, - a clear away the deposit of germinous mud culminating in the death yesterday, of = . . . t } and to have the place thoroughly dis- my young preacher, Mr. Pien Hsi ; ; pa infected. He had the prospect...”