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“...Ha ie eR SY SR EI EDT j it } ee AW) , | va | | : 1 Wi | ape Ni |i! |B MissION RY iE (|) 8 A Gs; H O yt) || oe qT) |i United Methodist Church WT) | i i HMI] i | WH) |i EDIToR, | | || Ba Rev. A. E. J. COSSON | zs ‘ | | & nH I Wt | | = a i it |e . VOLUME XXXVI UH | : il HT ei 1929. | | : a | Vi | | | ‘SA Christianity of merely individual believers can never / } {] become the agency of world-regeneration. It is quite clear | | that only the organised Church is carrying on this work, iy | 118 and without an organised Church it could not be carried Hy | ea on at all.”’—Dr. TEMPLE. : i i} | i : Wa | ie || ; Weil ie in| | | i LONDON: ii 5 HENRY HOOKS, 12 FARRINGDON AVENUE, E.C.4. | | Hea | EE eee ai | a mee i] | |...”
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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. i Cocker eel 1" 1 Mohammedanism and the Mendes. t SOUTH-WEST...”
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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 : Welcome to Rev....”
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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 i 5 : Lineham, Rev. Dr. a aa .....”
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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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“...hearten Wi Jie 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 = | Be Holy Sout ie Hi F a Soe re See = was the hearts of His | Bo er ee people, and awa. 4 | ; aa ea ors Bee oN kening in them a | i} Ea ae Bs Soa Pm a aS Bey sense of the true i Pain he cls. /~ as won tle obs our i BSS taba Se ; Soe ae Christian Mission. bs arcs | Ae I feel it true. I 44 cS } aime oe Se ee y En inns Seca | eS nk a | a ieee, do not think it a ee x ad a mere chance that | a eee : the son of Mr ' SEE a Be gin Goodman’s “boy” j | Ra is now one of | ee ; our teachers at Sie Sig op Jaen 4 Tikonko, and a | i Sag oI aa trusted and ca- ie —— eres pable worker. He | Nex ee ry 1s the grandson of ' ie east tin ae : 2 ct ce ) 4 a a who gave e€ i ark Set, Sa, Mission land. | ee Pee ane a Another grand- i es oi ucy iti ee 2 son isa teacher at i ee oe the neighbouring | || Ss a station of Bendu, | | | oe and developing into a_ reliable Gee Me and acceptable i> saps 3 worker. One of | “Will he never come?’: [Photo by Mr. Stanley Sowton, per favour of...”
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“...Years On. I Hit |e 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 China...”
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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. ee “ Our...”
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“...| \\3 | | vat ie ‘ . ai Does Christ Meet {| mi i it ay the Universal Need? MAN IE sy 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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“...i H| se 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, i 1 | nations to Him....”
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“...vn | Women’s Missionary Auxiliary i : Wa i 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 Pennine East for...”
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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. | Compound...”
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“...Wy : HT Hi AA : HH] | | i} Men of Note in the Yang Cheng Hsing. | | 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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“...Programme for Chris- | geassesseseeasmeseamceremecton LL i ait | tian Education in China, | iaeeaaaiee saee Ce ae AS ae = iH mt Dr. E. W. Wallace, who [RRR Se ee fe Heme 1 | has unique qualifications |fRtiaeeitiitteecsnss... . ----aeteeree eee ee for forming a sound |MRMRA OMG elena We ae judgment on the ques- | 2 0 0 392 = | ! || expectant of generous Reet eee or eS Pe eee oe Wa wt treatment of missionary {Mii ee schools and colleges under Regt ee pe eA eee |. ss We ea the new Nationalist The New Mission Houseat Tikonko, © (Photo: Rev. E. Cocker. i ik j Hy Government. The higher West Africa. ° ~~ A H Al : 25 | ae Hee || ie i j | WA EHTEL...”
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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. | i | yous! a5 “On Monday morning fourteen women i i fim 5 BRE r ree G pains 7 z 7 | fea. eS oe ' . i ee el cme i |, ie oe Cth) i Fae en cones : Bann ; yt | nic + See ana Beenie oe ae | | Rey. A. C. Lamb, B.Sc., at work in his ‘*Study’’ [Photo: Rev, E, Cocker. : q in the Mission House, Tikenko, West Africa. : i 26 | | it | aa} i...”
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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 ;