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“...Tagore. mission stations. It oe | the joys of recollection, and fer- is not the failure we have to face, but ~ oF vently pray for your increased suc- success ; not contraction, but expansion ;, ° cess. We ate confronted by difficulties not indifference on the part of the people, ; 4 at home and abroad. To meet them suc- . but the restless cry of the multitude that | cessfully will tax to the utmost our re- awakens in the heart of our’ church the sources. But difficulties make men, and bewildering cry of weakness and re- ke bigger the difficulties and bigger the men. source. For twenty years our first mis- Ms The true test of every living: organism sionaries in China laboured hard without . | lies in its power to adapt itself to an ever- making any impression. Walled cities _ i changing’ environment—it must either and hostile...”
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“...increase their con- gifts to the value the school has been to tributions and make all possible advance themselves or others in whom they are toward self-support. They will respond, interested. Altogether it has cost $4,500 put the relief afforded in that way cannot (£1,000), and we hope to raise another be great. Our income last year would be . $500 to connect it, by means of a two- j only sufficient to purchase the requisite Storied covered way, with the main ‘build- numbed of taels for our work in-China ing.’’ The entire cost of this new struc- provided the tael were not more than.4s. ture has been met by the local contribu- What then are we to do now that it is tions. : 7s. 4d.?. It means that we shall require : : : £10,000 more than the income of last Distress in Mr. Eddon reports wide- |, year in order to meet our expenditure. Shantung. spread distress in the : ‘This is an increase of 40 per cent. Can 3 province of Shantung, re- | it be done? That is the question for our Sulting from a bad...”
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“...GAstle® for omact® Attica ton eNover ber | pale 21st. He suffered acutely during the cold | Cholera We are exceedingly sorry . eae ae a oe ane ee s oe) in China. to hear that the cholerais SU SUM: Meo) py Seaton a pater leas | 3 aes as soon as domestic arrangements per- Re ea spreading, it Chtaa: last mit her to..do so... The Master has. = month we reported the outbreak of the eu rad Nios Gatiet with ena edes ae epidemic at Wenchow, and since then Pah eee age: i yy me Gimilar news’ comes, from, Ningpo and) <2. Ee ease Almca, and, we Diay meee tot Rae : ; fy Bee - that his next term may be abundantly ey vl _ North China. Mr. Sheppard says : “This Binceed Se district, in common with a large part of Ec E : SSN i SS China, is suffering from a severe epidemic Miss Florence Holt sailed for é West ee i of cholera. Our churches have lost very China by the “Kamo Maru,” on Novem- | heavily ; each day that passes \brings ber 22nd. ‘ a | tidings of one and another being taken. Mrs. Hicks reports her safe...”
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“...“From all that- dwell below the ms of the dawn they are—with light in their skies . . .” A ; eyes, with hope in their breasts, with Jan. 4.—The task for 1920. Rev. C. : aa passion and fire in their hearts, and they Stedeford, pp. 5, 6.* Hag. 2, 1-9. it must be kept there with their hope un- Jan. 11.—North China. Tientsin Cir- t t ee ay diminished and with their fires un- cuit. Rev. F.\.B. Turner, p. 14. Psa. a Pa quenched. 50, 1-15. Have? In Laurence Binyon’s ‘Dead to the Jan. 18.—South-East China. Ningpo Sa Living,” we have these strong, vigorous, circuits. Rev. G. W. Sheppard, pp. 27- Me heartening lines—lines which might well 29.) Micah 2. Wit Ee come from the lips of our dead mission- Jan, 25.—West Africa. \ Rev. A. E. (eu aties, Sam Pollard, Lewis Savin, and Greensmith, pp. 50 to centre of 51. ° se ss Udy Bassett, to the youth of our Churches Isa. 35. i . Oe | at this hour: Reni * Current Report. 4 NS i 5 8 | whit si Behe 1 { we...”
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“...Straitened f i i | ; ® || | | ener traitened tor H. LLOYD SNAPE, si Lack of Funds. ; DSc. Ph.D. China, Ningpo, Wenchow, they are to-day. ‘This progress is mani- a } iH] Yunnan, East ‘Africa and West Africa, fested in the addition of 5,905 to our mem- SS Lit as chronicled in the (62 closely-printed bership on the foreign fields, an addition, a | Hi pages (apart from statistics) of our Mis- after meeting all losses caused by death, . | sionary Report for 1918-19: and the re- etc., of a number equal to one-third of the a 4| ‘viewer, after a third careful perusal of Care, PERI Chao aC ate, hte cae...”
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“...ch which are required to carry on our work course, that half-yearly dividend warrants eee in China, and without providing for any for cash will reach contributors, but be- extension or for meeting increased cost cause the whole history of missions ie ely of materials and labour, £24,500 will be demonstrates that fhe churches which | Re ins needed, where £8,166 formerly sufficed, ate foremost in foreign missionary endea- Ss Pal and the rise in exchange since the Bristol _ vour are the most prosperous in every a He Conference has augmented our mission-. respect. There is a glorious reflex action Been ary expenditure by £7,000. Hence, in- from foreign missions on _ the home Bee aed stead of an increase, as earlier estimated, churches. The aim is ‘the same: as the Rae of £6,000, an increase of £13,000 will be President, writing in the Report as i Fi required, which will involve an addition Home Mission Secretary, in his charac- Bea WN of over 50 per cent to last year’s income. _ teristically...”
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“...Missionary Committee (and ten months is a long’ time.” 3 | of the United Methodist Church desires I know Ty Ae YOHE Ne figure. | to place on record its deep sense of loss At this the warrior, with a cunning in the death of the Rev. Robt. Swallow. gleam in his eyes, as if he were demand- ; | No words can adequately express the ing a king’s ransom, named a sum which | value of his work in China. By a devo- i Our money amounted to a little: less a . _ tion that was unwearied, and abilities of than three pounds. a high order, he made for himself a posi- “ And he nearly fainted,” said the agent tion on the Mission Field that has sel= in conclusion, “‘when I told him he could ; dom, if ever, been surpassed. He early have it!” 3 ; 13 4 BS Bie a...”
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“...Labour Movement | ii} It is the great agency to-day for raising “a new creature,” they put behind him 1 ii} the educational standard of the peoples of _ the supernatural power of the ages. They | i the East. Through the mission school, elevaté him, raising him to the level of a | the Chinese, the Indian and the African son of God; and they do this consciously, ee bai makes his way to the’ University; he giving -him the power of service in Sof a learns character, independence, man- ~ humility for his fellow men. , iy | ri hood; he becomes a leader of his own The future of Labour in England and oe Vii people. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the first America is fraught with both perils and ol | socialist leader of China, was a product opportunities. Its perils are that it may teal of the mission school. Mr. C. T. Wang, become selfish, self-centred, nationalistic, ; a | one of the Chinese representatives at the that lust for combat may wither _ its ee Plt internationalism, its comprehensiveness, SS Lao a bro...”
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“...never have been any- ~-sion of its size so understaffed in China. SJ tN thing but totally inadequate to the ever- In reality the work is a disgrace to ) es i present need. a : United Methodism—not to United Metho- ‘ ! HN _ Over-worked men in an enemy climate, dism in China, but to United Methodism e ! i living below par in an unhygienic en- in England. They out there have room a ih vironment, struggling with a language for boasting. We here certainly have not — never fully their own, harassed with per- much, for we have had a magnificent field a | secution of their converts—and by their to plough and sow and reap, and we have a. x He converts, worried by sheep-stealers (form- employed “sweated labour.” . 1 | oy oo ae eee ‘dis- If the Wenchow Mission had belonged — a eee cane t oe ays - over-eager to an American Society—what shall I mh rot eae independents,” whose admirable say? _ Well, the business men of America mi cry is “China for the Chinese ”—verily — see Missions through business eyes...”
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“...purchased ee Fe ebinent of Our, beatanarters im. in 19ib' fos £100, How requires £8400 We ot eta ee eos Si ecel uee Ge Le are so much fettered by tradition that it of fo give the mission a strong position in fT nary income, But we have to coe Sa € province. -Is therefore with the . ft AG i % me . deepest regret that we have to yield to the See oe Bas nae peveleuion _ a a) necessity for even a temporary retirement. bese, cae eee ae ae ey fas sf ‘ since the completion of the railway which old fae There Sie i A coeepon 4. Se ne 1 ce ee pete Mek eae ing revolution in giving’ or missions will . eee Wilh prices have risen enormously, especially ee Se yes ae ne ee Schools mete ae ve an and, ae ee ce ay cauidtieln Leesopen Sundey Schoolegs i i : ver exchange now at /s. . per inese : ce ; : i lene made them almost prohibitive. China Dy making a grant tothe foreign RSS r. Evans foun at to rent a house SA : Soe : B50 was reulred as deposit and £380 Methods of augmenting missonary in me : a ae ae a Meas eal...”
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“...medicine, the other in evangelistic work labours, it is absolutely necessary inmany for women. We want efficient teachers, ; Places to provide better buildings and purses, Bible-women, etc., and the ma- equipment, and that is the chief object of terial is all about us had we only the ‘ the £30,000 appeal. The exchange has wherewithal.” Perhaps some readers will risen so enormously that the £10,000 first computed would only meet the demand of i a single year. At least £20,000 of the COST OF SILVER IN CHINA special appeal must be reserved for the ; special objects for which it is ear-marked DURING LAST TEN YEARS and contributed. It would be poor policy to use special appeals to meet ordinary ex- PO eee st tag penditure excepting in an emergency. 5 Oo Ordinary income should cover ordinary ple bay ea oy expenditure. Therefore we urge the neces- | 6°64 } sity of raising the income to meet the ex- | i be ed Ges penditure due to exchange, rather than 6:0 eH a augmenting the Special Fund for that pur-...”
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“...the whole. About purpose. It began with student move- 2,300 members of the Union have sailed ments in America and Canada, Great for the mission field, and to this may be Britain, Germany and Scandinavia, and added the even larger number of Student in the 25 years of its growth has now Volunteers who have sailed from ‘America, : extended to France, Switzerland, Hol- and the contribution also from the con- - land; Belgium, Italy, Russia, Austria and _ tinent of Europe. Hungary, the Balkan. States, India, During the war the number of students China, Japan, and to Australia, South volunteering from our own universities . Africa and South America. In some of and colleges for foreign work was neces- these countries the Movement is still in sarily very small. _ Now that the colleges its infancy, m others it is vigorous, are full again the re-birth of the mission- highly organised and influential. Itneeds ary movement is being seen. Since the no pains to demonstrate that the prob- Summer Conference...”
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“...of sickness. A large bath- s the ninety thousand coolies, and therefore room adjoined, containing’ two baths and me lh spoke English, some fluently, others half a dozen lavatory basins, all of which SS ped ; haltingly. . A considerable number of were put in for the occasion. es ith them had been in mission colleges and As it was impossible for us both to run é RS | schools, and we found these, as a whole, the home and act as guides to the places my superior to the rest. But to the lasting and things we wished the men to see, oH credit of all be it said that, out of the one Mr. Soothill enlisted the services of J. P. ERG ae hundred and eighty-five only about five Donovan, Esq., a friend of China, and a 4 aA gave cause for anxiety. The rest were retired high official in the Chinese Postal mine thoughtful and well-behaved to a gratify- Service. But taking’ the men about from eS ing extent. day to day was exceedingly hard work, < a he Each party arrived on alternate Tues- and: after meeting’...”
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“...twelve months before, we ventured to take the reasonable step of : K returning almost to pre-war size. This meant that the loss on the ensu- x va j ‘ ing half-year was three times more than the previous six months. So that GH to secure a, magazine worthy of the extent of our Missionary operations e i there is no alternative but to raise the price to fe a NS TWOPENCE. | < tii This step was taken at the beginning of the present year by the Wes- sre Nt 9K leyan Missionary Society, and the China Inland Mission—and it is fore- x | j ee shadowed in all other cases. Our increase of price will commence with : ! Re i next month. teeter et os We still desire as large or a larger circulation: our readers. will not Be Yea a : hesitate to continue, for the increase is only 6d. per year. | iy ih ; x EDITOR. . SS Le $< = SS S38 98 2 RR eet : 44 j md | , ~ i i Gl a i i %...”
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“...timidity and have most other missionary societies whose come forward for examination and baptism. operations extend to various parts of the ~A most pleasing feature has been the large — world. Since pre-war exchange alone in number of young people baptised. We have China has added £20,000 to our annual been anxious to secure them. Now we have expenditure. During the same period the to see to it that we keep them. | We can do : > ; it if we can get our normal staff of workers. ’ BIC OMe has advanced £9,000. So. the The present arrangement—and I do not x question remains whether our churches attach blame to the Committee or. any person will raise £11,000 still more per annum to —js really too ridiculous for words. I write maintain our China missions. Even that soberly, without one fota of exaggeration, figure leaves no margin for developments when I say that six men would find more i and_the filling of vacancies in the mis- than ample work to do in this one circuit. sionary staff. If it is asked...”
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“...for many years his valuable life : | iat voyage. Soon after leaving Marseilles ™@Y be spared to bless and save the dark ae | fie he contracted a severe chill which later Sons of Africa. ee = developed into pneumonia. He only came me co init : 4 . 5 The New O f tl erful a clung i out of the ship’s hospital the day before Coane ne of the most powertul Me nD le reaching Mombasa, Mr. Hopkins was Chinese factors for the uplift and ee tee nursing him with affectionate care and Script. regeneration of China has i was glad to be able to report a distinct __ been provided in the new ie | Ai improvement after -the first night in system of writing the language. The old Si Ha Mazeras. Mr. Hopkins says : system was so difhcult that few people os ot “TY think that the fact of having reached could read and fewer ee could wo me : Mazeras, which is really his home, will do The new phonetic script, first invented by Pat s as much toward his complete recovery as all 4 missionary and after some modifications...”
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“...From the Mission. House phonetic system enables the poorest empire. She is charmed with the magni- coolie, in the course of a month or so, to ficent scenery in Yunnan, She says : read the Bible for himself.”* As might “No description can do justice to. the be expected, the British and Foreign gtories of the mountains of Yunnan. They Bible Society is pressing forward the pre- must be seen, yes, and scaled, to be appre- parations for the issue of the Bible in this ciated. What wondrous vistas, when after new. form. ‘The first edition of Mark’s toiling up spur after spur of some iofty moun- Gospel was soon sold out. Some of the tain we finally gained the summit, and > more enlightened provincial Governors Dreatiless but ay eee gazed spell- are actively promoting the phonetic sys- sound around as! Net, E you piCud 0a eh san aen Oe ~ 92°. China!” I cried again and again to the tem of writing. The Governor of Shansi jyembers of our party.” = has issued an order commanding’ every Spe eae ...”
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“...Yunnan, ELIzABETH TAYLOR. —_ 22 Sep., 1919: February, 1920. 5 se fe fo || t | The Prayer Union. iC ear in all the world. Luke 24, } “And it shall come to pass in the last a Sy i days saith God, I will Sou out my Spirit — , ape athe he Meng ean oo | : upon all flesh: your sons and your A he Rev. T..B. Campbell. Pp. 52, a daughters shall prophesy, your young °°: Hosea 2, 14-29. ~ 1] men shall see visions, and your old: men April 18.—Lao Ling Circuit, North ; y shall dream dreams” (Acts 2, 17). China. Rev. W. Eddon. P.16.* Eph. 1 Hymns. 2501-18. : | “Hail the day that sees Him rise.” April 25. Our London Demonstration ay) “Crown Him with many crowns.” and Foreign Missions Committee. Rom. i _ “Lord, speak to me that I may speak.” 10, 10-18. See y April 4 (Easter'Day).—The Church of = FMisciGuam Report (ae : 65 ni aoe 1" : : Ba Bs a “x Pb yes : ‘ . Pee...”
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“...nt i = } . i ie Ai Eom th 7 mt rom th e By the Rev. el Mission Flouse. C. STEDEFORD. fee The ‘Arrival The arrival of Mr. God- course, all the assistance in the world | j of Rey. D.Y. — frey in North China was would have been quite unavailing, with- heed Godfrey. a most welcome event. out the excellent teaching which Mr. God- S He is the first minister to frey had been receiving: from Professor { join our missionary staff there since the Parker at Manchester University.” = union in 1907, oe the Union is empha- : least sized by the fact that he was reared in ss fl a different section of our Church from Me Address. Mr. Turner sends the fol- ae ; the one which founded the mission in . lowing translation ot the oy : North China, Already-he has approved first address given by Mr. Godfrey in = : himself to the Chairman of the District Chinese. ee as “a very promising young man_ in “To be able to-day to meet with you, meee every respect, and at the present juncture my brethren, face to face gives...”
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“...— io — ee oe ee = ia ' ma From the Mission House RESTS Sica ae Hee School in North China. A member of- which they breathe the name of Carthew, i ee the University staff has been sent to I should be prepared to say, ‘ Lord, now Pale Em S| America to secure ‘a manager and other lettest Thou Thy servant depart in a ek workers, and he has to take back with - peace.’ It is at once a privilege and a i ed him a collection of horses, cattle, domes- responsibility to be in a succession. of eel tic fowl, sheep, etc., etc., together with this quality.” Nie lee all kinds of farming implements, anvils, Mr. Hopkins specially desires to have 5 | Weed blacksmith shop, and other requisites, so a set of coloured slides illustrative of the fan ee | that his ship will be, as Dr. Candlin de- Life of our Lord, another set of Scrip- my ie scribes it, ““a combination. of Noah’s ark ture subjects .of such a character that mt He | and Tubal-cain’s stithy.” A company has. they would be understood by the natives,...”