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“...wees eit} A Great Cave ... ite es is cea eeeee Pi SOUTH-EAST CHINA. Mino Sthooligiris i, 8 eae ae as ee Ningpo Boy Scout Movement. 4H. S. - Two Miao Preachers ... ... +. ws 136 ae Redfern se. kee es 6 Ko Kurei Yee es ashy aia Ng ~ Boa ieee ' he Training of Ministers. T. W.Chapmam 17 Miao Scholars ... Ne he ey .. 185 Fd Reena Voyage to Wenchow. W. R. Stopie .. 32 A Homestead ... as yee aes eo ka eX eh Letter from the Field. T. W. Chapman... 43 mb tea A New Opium-trade. T. W. Chapman ... -49 . at Oo Ko-seng, Wenchow. T. M. Gauge... ship 39S EAST AFRICA. ; 2 Funeral Customs. T. W. Chapman ..._133 Kikuyu, 1918, R. T. Worthington .:. 5a : boas Sunshine and Shadow in Wenchow. W. R. Africa and the League of Nations ... 53, 159 meg ben Stobie Fr Sis aes te e740 Aiaisti ; z iS Hea Armistice Day at Ribe. A. J. Hopkins ... 55 ASEM X-Rays. R. Swallow (the late)... sei MOTH Ge Opportunity in East Africa, 'T. H. Pe La The Wenchow Mission ess os Vat ‘Meheltorde x: Ms as 2 ga Bc Bata A Visit to. Mazeras...”
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“...thatthe mie = Bee a Fanen in i i i i is “a splendid church at it we have raee of Yunnan: ther ae ae ee : and race.invest ave a mis Bert : there a | | ieee att ee invest- courage and d sionary of magnificent Ha Hh ‘1 |e are full of music ; we read ihe stations C. E. Hicks le nee a : 5 we rez - s . : k Pane Ea iL : , Fara! Hi Ee of musies we ead the wi ie ae y Suis to superintend the ant ih if! a igs whieh classial eee eee co » acting. as Sank Aaa i i} E ner’s cat ir traini = principal Snel In North China our ae cree missionary une school, and travelling ae TE a BZ sessed by disastrous fede es is ob- land. Yet sithioy Rios ae oS i) i '). evitably by famint s followed in- he su vithout murmur or 4 Ea a | A - e, povert : e sums up the str i a ca Besides wrestling »?P y and disease. © in : strenuous voi or ¢ we : j one plain é of the year 1a ee vik dauntless missi g with these foes our f ee oy ra ‘missionaries launch ments of work previous antcheane i i Hl 3 missionaries launch ne ven eae eo ee here...”
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“...Scout Movement i S immense Methodist circuits in Wenchow in our eyes.” ‘These widely scattered : ei is perhaps partly explained by the college mission stations have been drawn into a mam iil Principal’s statement: “We have sup- nearer spiritual comradeship this year by 3 plied several of our country schools with our triple band of sorrow. Dr. Baxter, ei wilt ! men of good Christian character and a the devoted surgeon, gave his life for — eS Lan fair standard of scholarship.” ~With this the Chinese in the North of China. Dr. ae work we connect Dr. Candlin’s influence Savin, that shy, deep-hearted medical — ey. evan at the Theological School at the Peking missionary in Yunnan, just burnt out in ) ee a University. Of the middle year students’ ‘the Master’s service among the peoples — = J class six out of eighteen men are United of South-West China. While in East | Methodists. " Africa, the Rev. W. Udy Bassett, who Our very able general secretary of the is remembered by many as overflowing...”
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“...7 ae elt Turning to Ningpo, the United Metho- marched to our Settlement church for a { | dist Mission has had the honour of being Special service at which two students, one Dt pioneer in this direction. In December, 0f them a scout, was received into church. d aia 1917, after several months of preparation, Membership. We hope to make these +‘ Be te ea ae the “First Ningpo Troop,” with head- half-yearly parades our regular practice, Be eae quarters at the College, was inaugurated. aS symbolizing the value of the Boy a _ On this most interesting occasion, in the Scout Movement as a gateway into Chris- : Raa "presence of the British Consul and other an service. , guests, the first batch of twenty boys P.S.—Should there be any Boy Scout Ce ast solemnly took the three-fold pledge and . enthusiasts who after reading’ this article Pa were enrolled as “tenderfeet.” desire to forward the work in China which me ey The College is fortunate in having an it describes they may best do so; by send- i...”
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“...Wu Ting a | IcCtures. MissARMITT. Bible C i Ht Se e Class. a OW would you. lik : g Ht ik Marton tos ere By the Rev. WI RA ATS B Dee house, with a mud ae a I i loor, and lie on a mud-brick b E hav i i Oot! ed? have been holding ; i cal 8 | : eee hen eee rain descended to have W Winter Bible Class Stee ay Hy s PP. ngs rom the roof, which make the men stayed with ‘46 for tl me tn vet Hy 2 - oor damp and the bed miserable. If weeks’ Bible study. - They are a ee ae i ea itiave aoe! boy or girl in China you ates lot, and it is a great piereieenes a vl i ave to go out every day with a teach them. Two or thr eA f ‘ aN ee are ex ~ a ek enon back gathering firewood ingly diligent, and have the cone He il 3 a with not the slightest chance making good local preachers. One spok Aenean ao to school or improving, your at our open-air service last Sunda ee ih mt i | the aie r if you -were a poor girl, all Christ healing the man with the ois ai | Hi : : ay you would have to weave braid, and spoke with such...”
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“...is wishful for 7 si May every member of our W.M.A. Satis ae ERIS thinsorae Bae il ae eu Rac glorious share in this work. CeO ee OE Oe Reet OW Sil Sado e K iia ae Boros as boys. She is grateful for a gift of i: 2 Hail Juria B. i little frocks from London, and will be a he % * glad to have others sent. Any useful 7 BS CUT at Stand by me. thing's for boys or girls will be welcomed; - ae Bas By Mrs. POLLARD. also washing soap, etc. hy Peace !—the seas swept—the mission- Please send direct to Mrs. Worthing- j a aie! aries returning to China, What a jour- ton, Airdrie House, Dresden, Longton, ; ; tt ney of delight for Mr. Hudspeth! Such Stoke-on-Trent. , t i 45 < 1 CPE NEES NO TAN 527 CIES SSe ER a eee ey HAN Nt a good tidings for the Miao! He BOK? * The Monthly aud Sunday Schoo} letters are sent for one ~ ol AM bess ba a ~with his hands well filled. Happy Mr. year to any address on receipt of Is. stamps. 4 San 12 4 = os ee ee sa ae...”
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“...me as ; 3 ve ee ATG EN a Hi fl tH i | ah i A Bm EH Al _ Through the By the a | Hae GM AEE Secretary’s Field-glasses. rev. c. srepEFeRD a The Ordination Our Conference last July, Influenza The influenza scourge, i HI Hi | of Principal on the recommendation of | in China. which has wrought such al iq i qT, W. Chapman, the Wenchow Executive havoc throughout — the ey i MSc. and the Foreign Missions Western world has been hardly less. pre- Puen | vk Committee, heartily re- valent in China. aa i F ecived Principal T. W. Chapman, M.Sc., In Wenchow a great number of people ay Hh A for “non-ministerial ordination as a were affected, and at one time Principal ah i i foreign missionary.”” This status is given Chapman had about one-third of the Col- ta ae oe to approved laymen who, after a period lege students down with it. Bea uy of missionary service, solemnly declare Mr. Sheppard says the epidemic\was SH rf il themselves resolved, in obedience to the — rife throughout his district. In some places...”
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“...brings richer life to all who |THE word “reconstruction” is in the el | | I ie | Pant ue TG ee aire a eue may be a parrot-cry ; it may ex- BEER | Hi | ristians are indeed few in China in _ press sincerity. a an | 8 | comparison wit ion: : ay Ce omparison with the vast population ; but From the American religious papers we eG the Christian life is now recognised by 2 : fay tay aie i ee learn how , vastly and splendidly the ey Ce Ra Le non-Christians as having’ a richer content . : & ee a te ieee ; Sis A 3 Churches are enlarging their programmes + |) /)))|)) ik than anything which China has hitherto i 2 Ae 1 Bhawan and budgets: Five-year programmes CE LE (3) He will convict our people of their and million-dollar es a proiceene A | 1 Ny Sins. , We are filled with admiration as we aii et ag No richer life can come to China with- contemplate such enterprise and organiza- He i i | out the first step of penitence. There are tion. We may be reminded that America Hi Fee 1 | || oe many things which our...”
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“...My Wieaan a ae 4 Foreign Missions, or to put it another way, house of prayer': . . . for My house Hid re ae ee |} __‘that one church gives in one year nearly half shall be called a house of prayer for all a i} ca BS; of the whole of the annual subscriptions of people.—Isa._ 56, 7. Ve a our Church. ; Te a oe ~ At the close of this service, one of_ the Hymns : Ha aa lee Trust Secretaries of the Methodist Episcopal “The heavens declare Thy glory.” a Ut ys 1 Mission Board who. had seen service in India «To Th Oued et) EL a | and China, told us that their Board was 0 ce; ear dear oayrour. ‘ i} an ai} working to raise forty million dollars (equal “Our blest Redeemer . . .” Haag = i to 48,000,000) in five years, for missionary Uarah Aon ae achel SN Chea Tea a ; ' work abroad, and.a like sum for Home Mis- R Ww. Sh i P eae 30 te : Wala deal qi a sion work. “The Presbyterians told them it- ‘S©Y- G. V. Sheppard. Ds goa e enna dV aan aay! ie could. not be done, but having seen the 99, 8-13. Weevil...”
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“...ity is to read _ this Ebenezer Elliott’s unforgettable hymn, book and welcome its convictions—and ht aut and applied such lines as these to the pay for the said convictions not in money 2 ra Miao : alone, but in prayer and tears for needy, te aint Flowers of Thy heart, O God, are they, : suffering, West China. S: rail Let them not pass, like weeds, away— The illustrations are excellent, and, if z net Their heritage a sunless day : we mistake not, are entirely from Mr. Liana Wediea ve ce DOR _ Pollard’s own photographs. | ae The Rev. Henry Smith gives us a
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“...yet seen the limit of Movement. started in China which ee what is possible in this field if our Church has special interest for us. 2 | will put her best into it. Mr. Pollard because it relates to the province of Yun- ei had. a vision of a United Methodist nan. It is nothing less than an organized me i) Ha Mission in. Yunnan, numbering 500,000 effort for the evangelization of that Faas Ava souls, We hope to see that vision province, emanating from the Chinese mK : realized, and’it will be realized if we use Churches themselves. The idea of a oe | | all the opportunities which now present mission to Yunnan was first mooted last a | themselves. August at a leaders’ conference at Ku- i The scheme includes the re-opening of ‘ling. Christian Chinese women first pro-- Pe our work in the capital of the province, posed the mission, and it was so. effec-- S| Yunnan Fu, making it the headquarters tively urged by these cultured ladies that ee i of the Mission, as it is already the centre it gripped the...”
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“...was the result of the desire of cul- sion in East Afri T OU AS at WAH | tured Chinese women to help Yunnan, has opened in Af ica. That a new age ah H), one of the neediest provinces in China » and i t: in Africa is beyond question, ae ely. t “Already many thousands of dollars . the conditi ee Ee iS edu Oe LW 1 a i : : $ ua:t8 aa itions 0: e new age i Pe Et EE eo have been subscribed by Chinese to the certain. When our Missi ge is equally ad Hi | fund,” says Mr. Dymond, “and the whole _ the coast line was th aly Me ane a i is creati : : ! eon ; eG | movement is creating no little excitement known to Europeans e part of Africa ii Ha Hi 4 | throughout the Churches as the first our missi P . or sixty years Gy | attempt of the Chinese Church to cone ee has been maintained in the (aa i Hi | Ee t < re Y Ee 1 mission of its own to her own people.’’ ah peo and wi cannot admire too tH hy | HH) \ M é Peet en and wi wnt ara Pe hk was able to help the Com- risked health and life ace b pe i] any | Veen...”
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“...novels 18. The Tientsin Press. IE ae of China and dips into each series—his- It is well known that we have a share ener ay: i i torical, personal, mythical, and senti- in this University and that Dr. Candlin inte ani be | mental. He soon leaves us behind when is on the Faculty, being’ Professor of Pee LEILA, ats he reveals how conversant he is with Systematic, Theology. There are nine aaa i Chinese literature ; yet while we have fol- other professors. Dr. Candlin is also a east { lowed dubiously we have enjoyed the trustee. The general ‘supervision is by CE ae Di perusal of the lecture. One quotation the several missionary boards thus. nie ct ie . touches home. ; federated in the university. It contains ie i a as q “Phere is no one publishing centre in the roll of students, and in its preliminary al ia a f China that corresponds to London: its historical sketch gives nearly a page to = 44) | ts Paternoster Row is distributed loosely our mission in China, carrying us back ee through the Empire...”
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“...which have not completed 4 ypeal for size the urgent need for Hi i ae their £250 endowment, will be moved tO Missionary more. workers’ on our ae i i do so forthwith. A well-trained ministry Workers, foreign mission stations. TA | ee is the most urgent need of our Missions in Ministers, doctors and | wi China today. (See p. 57. Ep.). “ educationists are required both in China AM i th Hi and in East Africa. We appeal to our ve mal - China’s Worst) Wohiie China is making younger ministers to give this pressing nt Vi Foes. heroic efforts to free her- and repeated call for missionaries their i i ii self from the curse of Most prayerful consideration. While it is a i | opium she is being invaded by a deadly foe the one Divinely called who should give ! Pe | i | in the form of morphia. China achieved himself to this work, it is also true that | Bua a i | a great moral victory in her decision to We may miss the definite call for the lack Ci } | | destroy, stocks of opium rather than per- of the...”
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“...give more attention to the train- plete change of mental outlook. There g fait i i ing’ of native Christian leaders. Native is indeed a mighty revolution. China is i nace Hy Christians have had more than a sus- the most populous country of the world. ia th i el picion that the missions have sought to It is inhabited by one of the most in- ae il keep them in the swaddling bands of in- genious people of the world. It is likely Ht 4 i fancy. At the World Missionary Con- to become one of the most progressive. He i i ne | ference in 1910, Bishop Roots of Han- It is assimilating with extraordinary Ae AL kow declared—*The bitterest complaint rapidity ideas which it has borrowed i Hi We which I ever-heard against the mission- from Western races. Japan is travelling’ if a qe a ary cause was that of a young Chinaman _ this road ahead of China. It has managed ae j H q : 57 ae ae We | ett ul es EE i Di i af “= HS added...”
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“...and of Religion and Religious Education.”’ Be thus of the world. Be sure of this that It is very interesting to note that Pro- | io Teese £1,000 spent on Christian education in fessor Lew, who on his return to China | ; i He Ht China at the present time, will count ten will become a leading force in the church | Bae times as much as the same sum spent in and in Chinese life generally, was at one Be ge England, for the uplift and salvation of time closely associated with the United mil ea i the world. Methodist College, Wenchow. As a SNEWS URE at at But if before his duty man with listless Youth, Liu Ding Ioa—as he was known isa spirit stands i in Wenchow—came to study at the Col- Meee a Ere long the Great Avenger takes the work lege from the China Inland Mission, and | f Ee Ue tilt from out his hands. after graduating, remained a short time as J E UH Tea an assistant teacher.’ It is wonderful that | ea at :
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“...sun- vest is greater than our missionaries can Br a light ; and to-day’s extra hour (?) has set reap, and the most must be made of every ‘i ye » me thinking. ‘ opportunity. Economy of sunshine, day- iq i i | Summer-time in our Women’s Mission- light saving, because the night cometh if eet i: a | | ary Auxiliary— what does it mean? when no man can work. How well Sam i a i | Schedules filled, moneys sent to treasurer, Pollard, Dr. Savin and Dr. Baxter under- i Hd ! en | District meetings held, new. officers ap- stood this, and they used their daylight ne ni i pointed. What then? Boxes put aside, well. What a number of our. brave, ea meetings closed for summer, thoughtless- earnest missionaries have done the same, en ness, apathy—until late autumn comes? for China, for Africa to be won for Christ. ae Ve i All our missionary work and interest in Daylight-saving at home. What does. Hl i na He i ae abeyance for at least six months? Why? it mean to us? Surely it should mean an 4 i ih ; “Say not ye:...”
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“...Christian sympathy and Ha I ee Miao far exceeded our service. cai ) gravest fears. Even the brethren on the ce Hi | field failed to realize how terrible would A Courageous Only few men possess the day vi | be the distress as month succeeded month: Pioneer. courage and the disposi- He | i. before another harvest could appear. And tion to do the kind of ie ti || ie no wonder, for this is said to be the worst work that is being done by Mr. Evans in a va ti famine in living memry. ‘This calamity West China. He must rank with the HBr i Wi | has been a crushing burden to Mr. Par- foremost of the bold and consecrated mis- Pas i sons, and both he and the native preacher sionaries who have carried the Gospel into ae He ae wept as they tried to relate to the District remote and inhospitable regions. Happily Ha it ee meeting the frightful scenes they had wit- he knows how to combine discretion with - a | nessed. ‘Local mandarins sent large quan- daring, or we should have much concern aN 4s tities of food...”
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“...of our mission. They were not ad- sulted at every step. My faith is that | eR mitted into full membership until their you will not tie our hands. It is for the me tt ah period of probation had extended over Kingdom of God we are here, not even China. of the missionaries in Birmingham.—Ep. | pH } China. There is an un- | Si Pees defined feeling that they are upon the eve > me iii of great developments. There is a rising : : 3 ata tide which will be able to float great A Message in Time | & Pout schemes. All the workers in China feel of...”
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“...church a side- in the spirit of missions at home, and the Hk show,” as Neville Talbot put it, “or did financial advance was 30 per cent on % it stand as a pillar of fire, showing the 1914. There had been dreadful famines in a Teta way and supplying the dynamic?’’ The West China and East ‘Africa. Money had . Bl word “mission ” was full of romance, for een cabled for relief. They were aiming my it brought them face to face with Jesus a4 reconstruction, and two booklets had ws ea aes —risen, living, triumphant. Easter and been prepared, for advance in West Missions were linked,. for after -His Ching and BaeecA frie They were ask- ; ee resurrection every word Jesus spoke was ing for £15,000 as a special fund, and a mission word. “As the Father hath ¢79 000, a year increase in ordinary in- me it sent, even so send I you!” That was an come. It was an enterprise worthy of - Pit eo ee ee a our Church. Men, women, and money, — / y gi are all needed to fulfil our visions, ‘s ; 4 the old world, and...”