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“...Al | Kos Oh... as LCD & f a Se a eee ED ir, 2 A CTS Th SS Sie | i rah Oey | (es ss 2 LAE les) e JN : A ID Ey | ecu™ Jecal NN iP AV Ry ay yea 4 \ ti e ee Bes e a an / sy | CU INNS ike ees nc tiee tins w A/V, | f xy GEO (For C.S., see p. 4). 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...”
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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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“...From the Mission House the hope of the race is in the missionary. prove once more the fidelity of our ; Mankind is on the march. Men hunger Church to her missionary obligations. after righteousness and truth. World- The O : wide movements are being accelerated. Filate : ur college at Ningpo | The dawn may break before we discern es continues to grow in “Tn front the sun climbs slow—how slowly ! . The Paincipal res REA But westward, look, the land is bright! ” fern, has every reason to reioiee an tHe The Alarming The greatest concern is Shee of his work. Some of his. earlier ’ : Rate of caused throughout the students now occupy good positions in Exchange. missionary world by. the the district, and they realize how much soaring price of silver. \It mee. owe to the training received in the has passed all records and exceeded the ae cee ges ies ee sub- worst anticipations. In 1915 the Chinese ‘i ‘i ee ee 24 et sie ease Tae tael was 2s, 4d. ; when I wrote upon the oe ile Sewer on ee ane ee subject...”
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“...y oti 4 ml From the Mission House =f way along the roads towards places close friends‘all the time. I saw him last at where they can beg for bread.’”’’ Mr. at our’ quarterly meeting in September. ed | Eddon says the crops were ruined by He asked me then if he might have a | | three things—drought, caterpillars and few days at home after the meetings and mt locusts, and he adds: “Thelast have been I willingly gave consent. It was the last amt | simply enormous, in numbers. [I saw a_ time any of-us saw him alive, for soon me) cloud so thick it almost hid the sky flying’ after getting to his home, which is in the ae over this city, and it took over an hour centre of a badly infected district, he took SC to pass by. [Further West the crops have _ the dread disease and next day was gone,” : | been much better, and the Laoling Cir- . oe 1 cuit. is in a much easier condition than Personalia. Rev. J. B. Griffiths em- Ss this one. All this poverty, pain and loss barked. on vithe {. S@arth Read...”
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“...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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“...The success which has bers are eager to press forward towards K ala attended the work cannot complete self-support, though they are 1 5 i be, better summarised than by the follow- not yet able to attain it fully.” The 4 ing quotation from the admirable intro- Sierra Leone Peninsula Churches are en- ; Rae NN duction readers of the Annual Reports . tirely self-supporting and contribute at a | Ea have learned to expect from our devoted much higher rate per member than do the oH ete hae Foreign Mission Secretary, who writes Home Churches towards Foreign Mis- ee ae that during the past few years sions. - i : Fi { ee x 10 oe }...”
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“...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 thrilling appeal, says: “We hs te Nor is this all. The last Conference sanc- have to win the world for Jesus Christ. pes) ai tioned an appeal being made for a sum ‘The World for Christ ’—nothing less a { of £30,000 to meet extraordinary...”
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“...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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“...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. They mr the sooner the better; separated from bring sanctified business sense to beat. Se i wife, or children, or both; out of reach . They mean business. Trained men are a ii of libraries and little time to read if within — sent out to explore and ‘report...”
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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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“...a if a - From the | Mi Brag u By the Rev. a Mission House. : C. STEDEFORD. a e : el emporary One of the immediate due. The war i | . prevented his return oH Li Retirement effects of the astounding earlier and, in addition to the extended. mt from : rate of silver exchange is term he has had to grapple with all the a Yunnan Fu. the temporary retirement problems and distress created by the = He _. >, Of our missionary from recent famine, so that his furlough is tl tH the capital city of the Yunnan province. most urgently needed. - In furtherance of the policy outlined for Rytra as ant : me i the consolidation of our work in Yunnan, — tg Meet h Hee Hon ea ONG. 04 ml our missionary, Rey. A, Evans, was the Tires a umber ange that me i, stationed at Yunnan Fu in 1919, nineteen Exchange h rer no. apolopy. fot es Hh years after the city was vacated by our : fists oe oe a ee | aa hme ag Shona enne Boxer inational effort, in which every church and yl | Hi fie aes De rough a ore Te Sunday School...”
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“...From the Mission House income would gradually rise to the new cover entirely the cost of maintenance, but level of exchange, but that, during the nevertheless it has been a pleasure to transition period, money would be needed promote the particular interest and the in- ; to cover the immediate demands of the come so derived has been very valuable. exchange. Most of the new buildings to But it is obvious that with the present rate | be provided are not such as will increase of exchange the same contributions are annual expenditure, but will greatly in- totally inadequate for their purpose. Each crease efficiency. A doctor costs the same cot, each preacher, each scholar, each whether he has charge of a ‘small and ill- Bible-woman, costs three times as much equipped hospital or one that is adequate as before the war. This additional cost and well-equipped. A teacher costs the falls now entirely upon the general in- same whether his work is cramped in a come, and it will be a great relief if...”
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“...two daughters Peal : John Li, B.A., is one of our oldest and expect to sail on March 7th to join the ett most esteemed Chinese ministers in Yun- Rev. W. R. Stobie at Wenchow. | i nan.» It would be a fine investment for mission to prepare his two daughters ~ eee epee Ie oe for different spheres of work. The International Review : | Hi German The advance of peace is of Missions. mo Missions. bringing’ once more into Mr. OLpHAM continues his survey of mi ‘ clearer view some mission- the ‘Effects of the War on Missions,” . \° Be Ht ary principles which for a time were par- and deals with Christian Education, and I Hh tially obscured by the clouds of war. The’ Miss Gollock writes on ‘‘The Church in - e Hi - Standing Committee which acts for the the Mission Field.” Equally pertinent is SS | i Conference of British Missionary societies |.“ Religious Education under neutral a is giving careful attention to the relation government,” by the Bishop of Bombay. iH of missions to governments...”
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“...Reel him ; the day-schools under his charge devoted and gracious wife, and the son, es sa were carefully superintended,'and many a above referred to, to mourn his loss. ‘ i young man and woman owe their reli- I have only glimpsed at some of the Toe AL gious training and their aspirations to phases of “T.T.’s” career, but I lovingly Pika the work of “T.T.” pay this tribute to his memory, and wish — Bley tt hae In 1914 he was appointed to the Mendi I could convey to others the faith I had Ne Ht Mission. _He had long wanted to go to in this man, for he was a prophecy of = bles that field, and had previously offered for Africa’s redemption. oxen 28...”
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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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“...most gracious soul, corresponded with All we are and have we gladly give to mee Me me about the circumstances of his offer- Him. Our joy is to spread the glad mi ing himself for foreign service. All the tidings. To love Him is heaven ; to obey eS information he desired was given, and Him is blessedness; and the thought of = more than he could utilise in his bio- some day seeing His face is rapture in- a: graphic appreciation. describable. Devotion will create and eA Thus thinking of the younger mission- foster within us His spirit of love and Pe Nt ary, I passed to larger considerations, compassion. With His eyes we shall see er which I knew were shared and experi- the spiritual need of men; and with His = j enced by him ; truths which exalt and in-, cross we shall see His all-sufficiency for Ba ier spire all thinkers who cherish them. the widest boundaries of human life and SS : What is worthy of justification is ulti- . the remotest ages of creation, in past and mt mately justified. Men and...”
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“...he ‘The reading of this fine poem calls to NDER this felicitous title the Rev. mi mind many and many a valley in the F. W. Macdonald has issued the hese country over which our Wenchow mis- story of his useful life. It has | sionaries have constantly to travel, which peen a delight to browse in its woods a might well be the scene of the poet’s and pastures,. with a sort of sympathy mi theme. Happily that theme is not so fre- \hich can only be felt by a minister. | ee quently reproduced in our mission work. It is not a review book—these have <<] However, I remember sharing to some ajmost ceased to come our way since the aC extent the poignant feeling expressed in war—even in normal times we never these lines whilst climbing up a valley wish to receive anything but missionary 0 away inside the Inner West Brook Cir- ‘hooks. But while reading this book for S cuit RTE es en tae Bo eee one’s own inspiration, we have found a Rh old friend, Pastor Lu—Go ess fim. rich missionary flavour in our author’s...”
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“...of the Army. room, and to this we attached a smaller : me The men who came to us were Inter- sleeping room (happily rarely required) mi ih preters between the British officers and for use in case 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...”