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“...PAGE f PAGE NORTH CHINA. Prayer Union ...8. 26, 60, 65, 88, 114, Tong Shan College. F. B. Turner... 71 122, 172, 200, 205, 231 Medical Work. Dr. G. P..Smith ... 75 . Review of Annual Report Dr. Snape 10 s The New Chinese Script. Dr. G. P. With the Committee. Editor... 115, 231 ; : Smith ... Ss ze be. ... 75 Resolution on Rev. H. T. Chapman... 138 < A Hospital Incident. Dr. G. P. Smith 121 Missions and Labour. S. J. Gee... 15 A , Women’s Auxiliary ...18, 38, 58, 77, iw i SOUTH-EAST CHINA. 98, 118, 138. 158, 177, 197, 217, 233 S The late Dr. Swallow. G. W. Sheppard 6 Students and the Call. W. Paton... 29 s Resolution on Dr. Swallow. Editor 18 The Observatory 31, 78, 91, 155, 178, 229 s The Cry from Wenchow. W. E. Soothill 21 Young People’s Pages :— Si Due-Oe, the Broken Altar. T. M. Gauge 36 A Penny, a Day... sak Pared : ks Wenchow Summer School. J. W. Hey- A Meal in Miao-land ee 37, 146 Mn os WOOK: © 12: rts Ses oe Sehee 00 John Chinaman’s Bamboo Seen 40) SS My Call to China. W.P. Bates, M...”
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“...928 | The Master’s Method... as 230 NORTH CHINA. . | i 5 7 Chinese Script... Se ee SEL + ‘ EOE ARY: Dr. Smiths. Pationt te oe ats dee { | The Messengers. H. J. Horn ue 8 Rev. J. Hind’s Ciass... ai ie ana | Miss S. Gertrude Ford :— River Scene Pi ere Seon The New Year ae ae ae 9 The Voice of the Winds ... Se RAOU, SOUTH-EAST CHINA. ; A lost Lamb in China... + 83 High Street, Ningpo ... ie ee 6 i In the Peace-field ... tee ». 172. Canal at Wenchow ae SE eA 3} Sy, The Song of a Nation (Mayflower) 207 City Chapel at Wenchow ee ae The late Miss Elizabeth Taylor :— Scene at Wenchow ny ae eee De New Year’s Song ... 7... see 9 Enlargement of Ningpo College ... 46 | Easter Song ... te toe --- 65 Wenchow Summer School ve Oe | : ‘My Dream... vote see -. 108 A Road-side Shrine in China ... Sa | . Your Father Knoweth ...—.... 167. Morning Prayers at College... ve L44o | The New Year. Laurence Binyon ... 9 é Life Sacrificial. Edward Shillito ... 20 WEST CHINA iS | | The Broken Altar. W. S. P. W. .....”
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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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“...= ERIE SESE ESS HRD OHSU HERE ene Oe DICK a EN LER Siege oe f ; a — From the Mission House multitude who are clamorous for the of long years of toil and waiting. It is od light, truth and exuberant joy of the the harvest. to be gleaned after years of eed Christian faith. What was deemed patient sowing. It is no human crea- : essential and necessary in the early days tion. It is the output of divine benedic- me) of our missions is to-day insignificant tion. It is the call of God. It is the | and inadequate. To the evangelist has hand of destiny. ae been added the educationist and with I have not the shadow of doubt as to a both must be provided the healing minis- what the response will be. Our people t try of the physician, with hospitals and only desire to know and become familiar S staff of medical men and women. with the situation to rise in the true spirit ae Are we to face the situation and meet of service and sacrifice, and the difficulty ee it, or to whine over our weakness and will...”
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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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“...‘ | will it be said : addition to the. names recorded, there Out Of the sullen stone, were “other fellow-labourers whose A glory blazed, his vision manifest, names are in the book of life.” His wonder captive. Any Church which can produce heroic, The man of affairs, the plodder, the’ daring, self-sacrificing personalities, is organizer, may undertake for the Church — destined for high tasks and honoured ser-, ‘ yi OF Christ in darkest Africa or in remote vice; and when a Church’s young and | China, but he will rear no edifice of mas- eager spirits are so influenced that they sive splendour to the glory of God. The come and ask to be sent to far-distant : Tick ; Ree...”
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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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“...Sk eh | i for essential commodities, they have been ae | ERA Gs) i. : ‘compelled to curtail expenditure in every ee fee ofa 7 i possible direction. The. difficulties have ae ae ofa Ge es been intensified by heavy death-rolls ae oe Se ete) occasioned by epidemics of influenza and Wey a Sy fo : | sa | also by terrible famines, both in China Saad fhe a ge Ps 1 ef and Africa, which have necessitated some ca: Fe yell gr ‘aes | | a deviation of funds to meet the emergency- Lee ser ee a H} needs of starving people, though special ee ie ae | contributions have been sent from home pote ae a ae ‘ and (a most encouraging fact) from other a a oe} bene Cae parts of China, for this purpose. No one Pie ae a | can read the numerous pathetic references C. P, Yang, M.D, (Peking). ERecniRenact ay _. to inability to continue to employ native [Doctor in charge of our Hospital at Ningpo.] hee Eben? 11 : a Po 3 a % ; y f 3 ( #...”
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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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“...assistant doctors to our own mission forth teaching the facts and preaching i hospitals or start in practice on’ their the Evangel. The issues are stupendous. 4 own; others will enter the ministry and They are war or peace, that in itself become missionaries to their own country- should be enough, because in that one men; whilst others will. become school- issue, as we all so well know, every other masters under their own state educational issue is inexorably involved. They need system or perhaps masters in the mission money. The rate of exchange in Peking’ schools; and others will enter. upon in India, as in New York, has been politicians or business men. Meanwhile, — steadily rising against our English £. a commercial career, becoming’ chemists, , The Chinese tael, which was worth five engineers, administrators, politicians ‘years ago 2s. 4d., is now worth 7s. 4d. or business men. Meanwhile, many Even in our dependency, India, the ex- of the other scholars of the mission change has been going...”
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“...prominence. A light ey life in China means to the Englishwoman. band which encompassed us has snapped Cee rotate She goes out with a fine spirit, her great asunder. A new world life has emerged : Bie, te desire is to help the Miao women and from its cell, humanity is bound together Bes children and to make their lives brighter. in thought and interest for a common A 4 We begged for a farewell message, but good. Great influences are to be felt | tee HN Miss Holt was too shy even for that. everywhere around us, sweeping us into | Pe Ne 0 She has, however, promised us “‘some- anew world. The air is full of magnet- | aa le thing” for our W.M.A. page, “some ism, and our lives may tell for good or mento time?!) © / ill as never before. The cause of pro- a ie While she is on the water our branches gress, and of peace, and of human good, : ne eel will pray for a safe and speedy voyage, rests upon the high ideals of the women. ~~ also that the long journey across China It is we who must carry on! Our...”
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“...message, one has problems facing us in our foreign mis- “just to wait for it to be given; it came sionary work. as rather a surprise to me when I found The War gave us one set of difficulties. a I had to write on “Are you prepared to Peace has given us another. We are y be a crank?” Enthusiastic in business, faced ‘by new openings and larger respon- : in politics, in sport, but how little enthu- sibilities both in Africa and China, and siasm we find for religion in these days. at a time_when money does not go half © Have we as Christians been going too as far as it did—in China, not one-third ; much with the tide; have we been afraid as far. | of being thought narrow, and in our The situation tests the stoutest heart broadening out left very little demarca-. and the strongest'faith. Are we suffi- tion between ourselves and the world? cient for these things? Left to ourselves Is anything like halfheartedness going to we are not. With the help of our God win the Kingdom for the Master?. we can do...”
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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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“... and so fell out of the each other to see it through. What could line of the Apostles. The imposition they. not do, if they. would take the true ; of the cold hands of an old and doctrine of the Apostolic Succession out tk i nerveless bishop may convey no magnet- of the dead hands of sacramentarians, and 1 ism, no. stimulating ‘power, but if . make it live in real life in our mission t the Church finally breaks with the true field. There is no financial reason why doctrine of the Apostolic Succession United Methodism should not have the oS through neglect of its missionary forces, most perfectly organised mission stations then it will not be the shrine of the im- in the world, and set the pace for the ; i manent Christ, but His tomb. What _ bigger societies. ; other rightful claimant. to the Apostolic Cambridge, December, 1919. Succession is there except the missionary ? , ’ / 4 a ¥ : : < fh Eh —\ Sea tf iets j j | A , een aft Re es exw { Ng ; : Sy AM alli lane i Pie i i il } x (Ce Ee Sia...”
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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-...”