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‘SA Christianity of merely individual believers can never / } {]
become the agency of world-regeneration. It is quite clear | |
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“...Brighter Skies in Wenchow. Rev, I. Will Spirituality Survive the Impact
rt Scott a a Se ie ee Ais of the West? ... s a eo ae
1 Men’s Christian Endeavour, Wenchow. Our Missions on the East African ‘
i Reval Scotts ee ee ee 105 Coast. Rev. W. HH. Grist =... 2. 2034
j i | Ningpo District Meeting. Rev. H. Our Mission at Meru. Rev. W. A.
j Tomlinson ae 2 es .. 114 Grist oo ae ee oe ... 228
H Ningpo Re-visited. Principal H.. S. “The eye cannot say to the hand, I
| | / Redfern oe ES et ae TA: have no need of thee,’?’ Mr. H. Clay 48
4 ' Stobie, Rev. W, R. Letter from Ob
hit Wenchow, Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Hey- » WEST AFRICA.
Be wood and Others. Mrs. Soothill ... 44 a Day on the Mende Mission. Rev.
| | Wong Mei Dzing, The Passing of. Rev. Cas ee ie
i W. P. Bates... ee St - 81 An Adventurous Journey. Rev. E.
h i Work Among the Ningpo Churches. Cocker zs ie a ae 110i
| i Rey. H. Tomlinson... tee - 29 Letter From Sierra Leone, Rev. E.
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1" 1 Mohammedanism and the Mendes.
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“...78 Back ts an ses <3 SAG | | Ze
Hospital Work in Wenchow. Nurse Hi} | i
B. P. Smith Be oe pee ... 98 i oS
Girls’ Schools in S.E. China, Miss BOOKS REVIEWED. li | i
Doidge and Miss Coombs __... ... 99 Report of Jerusalem Council 9 i 15
Visit to Bing-Yei. Nurse Raine ...119 “Chinese Realities” ... ae 90) it
Miss Armitt’s Circular Letters... ... 119 “Prums of Fate”? a Oe AG nl | .
Annual Council _ Meeting sod fe acres 1387 “Alfred Saker of the Cameroons” ... 53 HI |
| Primitive Methodist Women’s Mission- “A Faith for the World” ae a BB li} |
ary Federation... oe tee - 158 “Purpose of God in the Life of the ay :
Conference Meeting hs me BoD World” et se ae fee 65 i |
Miss Ethel Simpson ne oe --- 180 “Pioneering for Christ in the Sudan’ 74 i | :
he pee Wotiap and Her Great fe “On the Edge of the Primeval Forest”? 75 ; i} ;
Need. rs. FlopKins ... see see “Tales of God’s Packmen”’... ... 90 Wii | |e
West African Women’s Auxiliary .. 219 “Tn Mary Slessor’s Country” 5 ... 107 i :
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“...and Family, Mrs, wee .. 144
| i | Family Group at Ribe ... = ... 67 Conference Missionary Group ... oe LD
ee Girls’ Choir at Mazeras ... EAS ... 199: Dale; Rev. A. .T.-... ae Oe ... 191
eS Industrial Buildings =... 48, 49 Dymond, Dr. F.S. ... =~ 64, 84
S || Kikuyu Church... cS oe _.. 228 Eddon, Rev. and Mrs. ... re 9, 103
| Mazeras Women 2 ae ... 197. Faulkner, Rev. H. oan te ... 162
Si Meru Market Ber ane ae ... 229 Griffiths, Rev. J. B. oe ... 169, 204
|| Mission House at Ribe ... ae ... $1 Grist, Rev. W. A. Ses oe ... 109
ee || Mission Plot at Kaigoi ... Bs ... 52 Hadden, Dr. es me os ... 233
= || Ready for the Prince of Wales ... 150 Hamon, Mrs. ae ee oe OTA: |
ea ||| School at Kaigoi... oo aes ... 46 Heywood, Rev, and Mrs. J. W. 44, 90, 161
Se || Tana_ River Go So Le ... 221 Hopkins, Rev. A. J. ... me ... 104
| | Mofikivee wVallagen = et SS. King, Mr Awd, ee ee LO
it Lamb, Rev.-A. C., in his Study ... 26
||) WEST AFRICA Laughton, Mr. W. H. ... ae Seale
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“...huis, in America, and Mr, J. H. Oldham, not hopelessly entangled in creeds and
i M.A., and Rev. W. Paton, M.A., in dogmas; China needs a Christ who is
} England. natural and not foreign ; China needs a
A still greater achievement at Jeru- Christ who is united and not divided ;
I salem, which more definitely marks the China needs a Christ who is constructive
) opening’ of a new epoch in the mission- and not destructive ; China needs a Christ
i i ary enterprise, was the formulation of who will save and who will be her friend
| ’ the Christian Message in a form which unto the end. : ° Christian mission-
obtained the assent of the assembled aries and Chinese Church workers who
{ representatives. | Those representatives can introduce men and women to the real
i “were gathered from the ancient churches Jesus are needed in China now more than
Hi | -of the West and the new churches of the ever before. Our people are rubbing
| | i East, people of various nationalities and their eyes, they are standing...”
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early Mission with this latest effort of ours. us and cheer. } Hi :
I am obliged to depend upon books for First there is the memory of the medical i i} se
my knowledge of the earlier days, but work done by Mr. Goodman. Simple and Hi Teel
perhaps I can indicate some of the in- unpretentious as it was, it was the means Wee
fluences which still remain, some of the of saving Mr. Goodman’s life in a critical HY 1 Hl
changes for the better, and some of the hour, and still it remains as a gracious ih Hi ig
changes which, from our point of view, memory in the hearts of many folk in this i ; | |
are for the worse. town. It is my regret that at present I Hawt Ue
ee am unable to do practically anything in Wa
What Remains of the First Mission. this direction. Neither time, nor resources, iil a ue
When I came to Tikonko first, there nor skill, I must confess, enable me to do i f i
were perhaps three visible signs of the old much, yet I am sure that in this work ii it
Mission left. One was the...”
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“...i — Soa Pea ie Ae has suffered, the
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| i} Ea ae Bs Soa Pm a aS Bey sense of the true
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training institute bears thenameof Vercoe— The Christian Forces. Hi | ‘cs
another gracious memory coming into play. Let me briefly state the Christian forces | i] oe
Onecouldmultiplyinstancesofhowthegood in the Protectorate at the present time. i
influences of that early work are coming in- United: Breth a Chifiat il i) ;
to the light after thirty years have passed. te A ee ats | ||
: Easily the leading place is taken by the HH
The Memorial Well. ; United Brethren in Christ Mission, an byt) || ee
There are, however, darker influences at_ American body which concentrates the I | |
work, born of those days. The rebellion {yj} missionary force of a Church of lI | oe
was not directed against English people, 450,000 members on to this field, and who ti} | ||
but against English-speaking people, and jaye made no mistake in concentrating HH | |
the majority of the thousand British on the work among the pagan peoples in ii | Se
subjects who were killed by the native )\ende country...”
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“...not been uprooted. The Hii (|)
Churches have not remained where they i i} Sy
Return of A week ago the Rev. leftthem: there is a deepened self-conscious- | | Hh &
Mission Frank Turner sent fus ness; they have probably been touched tH ii +
Property. the cheering news that with nationalist pride and super-sensitive- I | i) | | oe
Dr. C. T. Wang, Foreign ness ;_but they have been glad to welcome i |) |
Minister at Nanking, “desired to return at their missionaries as elder brothers in the HH | ||
once to the Missions all property, situated faith. Mr. and Mrs. Hudspeth took risks Hl | ie
in all parts of China, under control of the which the Consul refused to share, when if i) || Bs
Nationalist Government.’’ This message they resolved to proceed to Chaotong, and vt a
came through the Foreign Minister’s as they reached our several mission eel pe
secretary, Mr. Samuel Shen, who, says ‘ Ht | |
Mr. Turner, is ‘‘an earnest Christian man, HH iil ae
well known to members of the Church in il Hi fs
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“...=H and announcing that the new term of the Sheppard, B.Sc., the son of the Rev. G. W.
oe Girls’ School had begun with ninety pupils. Sheppard, now of the B. & F. Bible Society
i } at Shanghai, will sail from this country on
| Joy in The Rev. J. W. Heywood the S.S. Khiva,”’ January roth, to supply
a Wenchow. writes: “Monday, Oct. for Mr. Redfern at the Tongshan College.
a 29th, was a_red-letter ;
se || day in the history of our Educational In view of the needs of
Hi Wenchow Mission. The s.s. ‘Hae-an’ Work in our Mission in East Africa,
| arrived, with five British missionaries— ast Africa. Mr. W. H. Laughton,
: i Mr. and Mrs. Stobie, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, M.Sc.,ason of the manse,
ee || and Miss Petrie Smith. Mr. Chapman is leaves London on January 18th. By this
i soon to follow... . The welcome they appointment we are trying to meet the
oh a received will long be a pleasant memory, Clamant need in Kenya for the efficient
5 and augurs well for the future. education of the Africans.
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E are all world citizens to-day. reality of the universe; in Him we find | 1} fe
\W The Christian Church in any land God incarnate, the final, yet ever un- I oo
has a world mission : it has always folding, revelation of the God in whom we Hi i i en
had, but during the last hundred years live and move and have our being. | Wit | iS a
there has been a steady growth in the con- There is an illuminating discussion, by i} | Zs
sciousness of the world-task of the Church. recognised authorities, of the distinctive if itt cc
In this the Church and the capitalist jom character of the Christian message in iH} i || Be
hands ; one seeks the evangelisation of relation to non-Christian systems. Thus Hil | af
the world, and the other seeks the trade of we have chapters on Christianity and i Hl
the world. But the motives and ideals of Hinduism; Christianity and Confucianism ; | 1
the two may differ in many respects. We...”
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“...of them. The fifth book Wong passed away after a brief illness on
I of the New Testament is entitled “The Acts | November 8th.
Si of the Missionaries.” The final chapter of Rev. H. Tomlinson writes: “As a |
il that, book has not yet been written: The Mission we feel that we have suffered a
Si | missionary magazines of the world all tremendous loss. Mr. Wong was only
ae | make their contribution to that undying twenty-nine, and was the first Chinese
SH | book. x e = 3 secretary of the Mission. He carried out
( his duties with unswerving loyalty and
“J : Rey. Frank Dymond. tireless energy ; indeed, we had come to
| Rev. Frank Dymond sends us an in- feel that he was one of the mainstays of
| teresting letter from Yunnanfu. He says the Mission. Intellectually endowed above
| i the evangelistic work is most encouraging ; the average, and well trained, he placed
\ the anti-foreign spirit has practically his whole resources at the service of his
at disappeared. There is a wonderful change Master...”
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A. B. Lloyd has written a continuation of and it beamed on us brightly as we entered AV iy Mission was HET AEH ‘
should visit England. He said he would 0? the landing stage to greet us as well as ii} it ae
dearly love to see the wonders of this land; 4 large number of Chinese: the Chinese | hi) |Z
but before he consented he must seek Chairman, Mr. T’oa, friends from the city Hh tH pus
God’s will about it. Next morning he church, boys, ahmahs, coolies, a bouquet | i} ts
came.to Mr. Lloyd and said, “Last night of familiar faces. How glad they were and i iH p
I prayed very much to God about what...”
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“...make the further sacrifice, “and go’ the
| field of Overseas ‘Missionary second mile,” to enable their Church to
| i Work. send the Gospel to lands afar off, and to
| i | The Union of 1907 found each section people who have not heard of the
i | of the Uniting Churches occupying dif- Saviour’s love, or the coming of God's
i i i ferent spheres.in China and Africa, far Kingdom in the world. So with intense
ee | | | i removed, but all touching vitally the reli- interest, news of the work of our mission-
| gious life of the districts that had been aries is followed by young and old ; hearts
i | given us of God for the promulgation of are warmed by contact with them ; souls
t Hi the Gospel, go out in prayer. for them, and Christ’s
| There is a mystic wonderment in the followers long. for the time when all
| ’ great commission Christ gave His dis- nations shall love and serve Him. Sup-
: HW} | ciples that is to bind all people and ported by such loving gifts and prayers,
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were hot in spite of having the port-hole, villagers; and we saw them stamping, iH i} i
ventilators, and door open and the electric rolling, and cutting rubber. iit i i
fan working !| We experienced the roughest “ At Singapore a friend met us and took | ii a
seas after leaving Singapore; in spite of us to a mission bungalow some fourteen Hy ii SS
the fact that it didn’t agree with many miles out where ‘he and his sister were Hi i ies
people, I can’t say that I am sorry Isaw staying. Here we had real curry. It | Hi a
the glory and grandeur of the heaving would be difficult to say what wasn’t in i il Zs
ocean when it was in a rage ! it. From what I can remember there was ii Hi eS
“We enjoyed the whole journey, but ™eat, potato and various vegetables, Han a
the visits to the ports en route were perhaps peanuts, pineapple and banana, besides ii | | :
of chief interest to those of us who were UMerous tasty spices. We had a fine any
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“...According to what plan
ce | Mission Home. After visiting the post and on what foundations ? This is China’s
a office and the shipping offices about our great testing time. A vague Christian
H | tickets for Ningpo, and changing our idealism, which it was once the fashion to
Ss money at the bank, we had to see to our welcome, is insufficient. A Chinese re-
‘ i | luggage being placed on the Hsin Pekin cently said to Mr. Foster: “The Revolu-
SH which was to take us the last stage of our tion will never be complete until we have. |
journey. We said good-bye to our friends had a revolution in the hearts of men.” _
Sf who were leaving for Wenchow the follow- Here is the missionary’s tremendous _
ing day, and then off we set, Miss Coombs opportunity.
SH and I, knowing that new friends would be = —————$—$—$——_______
i i awaiting us the next morning. We hada Fhe United Methodist Church
i i: good trip and were up early on Saturday. aca f
The chief engineer pointed out our Mission Missionary Society.
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Yunnan Church. Rev. W. H. HUDSPETH, M.A. i a
ANG CHENG HSING, a compara- amazed to discover that many people did i i)
y tively young man of thirty-nine not know there was a Middle School in iW it) :
years of age, may be described as_ this part of our Mission. We have no i} i) a
the Chinese educationist of our West elaborate buildings, and the equipment is A iti sie
China work. A man of sterling charac- most meagre, but each year boys pass i i | ies
ter, of keen intellect and great foresight, through the School and take an honour- | i Og
he is, I think, one of the few in the world able place in the preparatory University Hl i} ze
who has discovered the truth of an old course at Chengtu. ue) |
Chinese. proverb : - Chiien-ts’ai_ ru fen- Mr. Yang is not only a trained teacher, Hy i
tu, reni chih ch’ien chin. “Wealth is he jis also an ordained minister and a Wi ee “3
as dross, righteousness is worth untold gifted preacher. Some...”
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Dr. E. W. Wallace, who [RRR Se ee fe Heme 1
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for forming a sound |MRMRA OMG elena We ae
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expectant of generous Reet eee or eS Pe eee oe Wa wt
treatment of missionary {Mii ee
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the new Nationalist The New Mission Houseat Tikonko, © (Photo: Rev. E. Cocker. i ik j Hy
Government. The higher West Africa. ° ~~ A H Al
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“...six young men.
| a missionary? ‘Ah teacher!’ he said, “T got back to Dublin in the after-
| ‘You are our father and mother, and I noon: I took the evening service with
could do no other but come to see over a hundred present.
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“...| «". Had two nasty bites from an is always ‘“‘at hand,” and ready to emerge Wil tt ye
acid-fly. Whales at one end of the scale as shining fact and realized experience tT ees
| and flies and the like at the other!” when we have sufficient faith. We are | | if us
committed to big tasks ; but we have the i Hii 1} Be
Our Great Haphazard as these Heavenly Father’s limitless resources to tH
Adventure. glimpses from our draw upon in our attempt to carry out Hi i 3
Watch-Tower may seem, our Divine mission. Hi | Hi ;
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