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“...NORTH CHINA. First Fruits in Meru. Rev. Rew i Ga AG adc Chine” Rev Pee e ramnee ie 170... Worthington ni ot Ae ee Hee a iit Bates, Rev:.W. P. Se: vs e108 Future Ministers of Meru Church ... 28 He Hibs China Famine pe. a a . 47 Human Leopards --. oa Di Wee aN “Church in their house.” Rev. H. T. Jomvu. Rev. A. G. V. Cozens vs 02 He ee Cook ge Or gk Mera Hospital : Waitt | Getting Back to Work. Revo hee: At Work in. Dr. H. W. Brassington 162 DAE Cook ne ee ES Se aed: Departure of Nurses Brassington and ne i} Gratitude to the Doctor. Rev. Dr. _ Tate. oo sidiege ees nue -+ 88 nite Craddock ee Ee pe S166 First Thousand Patients. Dr. H. W. wt New Plan of Campaign. Rey. D. H. Brassington —-.: va au oe Heys | Smith Be ae er nee LET Meru New Central School See soe SLD HERE i Wuting Medical Work. Rev. Dr. Primitive Methodist Missions. Rev. G. MR: | Craddock ... ea oS So eo On Ayre see oes eee oe 54, 93 Wh i i| Wave om Godsbhow: Reve whe =G.aNe Pe : ae Bayne bia : Saxe a 201 Wa SOUTH-EAST CHINA. ay Be...”
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“...and a Challenge. Rev. C. Chu Chia Testament League ... SL DO Hl | Stedeford ... a as eS «. @l- “Near Ta Tung, ‘China < ae 2 281 i | i Galpin, Mrs. Ee we bite ... 183 Open-air Theatre ... “3 ae ess O9. a “Hark the glad sound! the Saviour Passenger Cart... a soe Ses00 i| i comes!’ Rey. Ernest R. Squire ... 221 Returning From a Study Class ... ecloe | Hit “How many loaves have ye?” ... .. 217 Scoring a Goal as is as 62 | | | Kevern Stafford aa i BAe ... LOO Tientsin District Meeting ua 222196 iW Hi London Meetings. Rev. R. Key ...110 Tientsin Shipping ... ae a Seat) i | Hi | Mission House, From the. Rev. C. Tongku Group aes ess Aes 170 if | Stedeford ... 7, 25, 45, G4, 84, 105, Wuting Hospital. Oct. (cover)... 186-7-8 ie ie 126, 144, 167, 184, 205, 226 Wu Yun Chiang .... ee & e162 Hi 1 \} Missionary Hymn ... we = Selo m BRS | Missions and the B.B.C..,. 8 eS Te SOUTH-EAST (CHINA. Ne tl Ree ks Satta ia SS as Oa en - Crisis a = ee a Baby Tower, Bing-yiew 5. se, 2599 i] Baa | : ze fae ae emcee...”
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“...wor le ee NE Ae Wah EAL f ie iat | nee ty Hate ; Wek ; PAGE PAGE Wie AR First Hospital Patient ... oes ... 162 Dzang Chang Sae 355 Se oe LTA NUE ee Future pastors of Meru ... rs .. 28 Dzing Djiae Loa ... ri a ... 136 att Bi Mazeras Mission-house ... ies (e025. Blhin; ee oe es Sc ie se anOM leita Meru Hospital Staff os ... .161, 168 Emery, Miss Bs se se Secale Wi if Meru Preachers... ae ae ... 101. Fairhurst, Miss... as oes ee Wyte One of the First Thousand... Me nO isettlOOKir Isct aes a ais Sh eo Wie i Ordination of Rev. J. Jara Bhs ... 201 Gandhi ae a et ma vee OLD Me Dl aR Primitive Methodist Mission Scenes Goldsworthy, Rev. R. H. ras o- Lal Ha aKa pa OBy. “Creséty MSS ee eee Wa iD ii A Group of Meru Scholars owe ... 225 Griffiths, Rev. J. B. i ee ... 149 We a Village in Ribe. March (cover). Harman; Ps-:: ee oS ois Pere all} DWN ELAR es Henderson, Mrs. ... he ae eed) Ty it | WEST AFRICA. Hicks, Miss G. ee i eh Rae (7 HA ae Na 88 907. Hooker, Dr. A. W. mc ees vee oh) ee a NS ASC ee ee...”
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“...in the Mission Cause, i ! : ! For many years it has been the custom for the President of the Conference to give a i i i ! | | NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE. This year he begs to be excused. He says he is in peril of il Hii H| | | becoming one of ‘‘those fellows of infinite tongue,’”’ and has already given more messages t Hil Wh | than he can in reason justify. | | i } It is left for me, therefore, as Editor, to write this page, and I do so gladly. I have i | | much to say concerning the cause in which we are all so vitally interested. i Hii In the first place I thank those who have contributed to this magazine during another i} | ) year. They are all busy people. Most are missionaries with great tasks on hand, and with i Wl | little opportunity to find the leisure for writing. Their work saps their strength, and I am: ii i | sure that nothing but a sense of compulsion has led them to write those articles which have i Hit HW given such unfaltering testimony to the power of the Gospel in China and Africa...”
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“...hi = — ee eee pe << — : - a A i Hi | | \ {i i | f Hy e | ae it iF ‘The First Thousand Dr. H. W. BRASSINGTON. Se gn) ° me of the Meru Hospital. | Nite : i i BOUT twenty years ago, when a me say right away that very few have i A CHa |e A certain Mission had just been seen anything in the way of white robes. nal ne opened, a dream appeared to some They are the first thousand people in at va missionaries who were in toils oft. They, North Meru to pass through the doors a ai ie and those who joined or followed them, of the Memorial Hospital, Some were { Hit wa whe: had visions of a place where the sick ones sick, some thought they were; there is i a ee of a benighted and oft stricken people not a great difference in many cases. Nh ai could find solace and healing. Not long Most of them were miserable, and not a Hie oe after, in the homeland, one who saved a_ few thought they were going to die, until Hah i} certain sum of money for Christian work they tasted the white man’s witch-...”
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“...until they have had a | Me ioe RES oe PN se WE | bath and shed their filthy and meagre |Memadmeen ice if ie ry Pen a We i : clothing. I wish you could see how |RgyeA Pattie Wad} nett re hagettab Ms Si WH | j loath they are to part with these filthy PSG OT. WW rags. There would be a terrible row if |i ibe. 20° 9, WA | Girard eh Sviarioma Tus WHHL | | they could not see their beloved rags , ~ WW whenever they think about them; they Another of the first thousand. i are very suspicious lest the Mission cee vena: [Phofo: (Dr. Brassington. WE i | I 1 Ha Hy Hl Pe ; Y...”
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“...Ft } Wi | A Wy From the ei : 2 ae » Mission House. oe ee PELORD. a i The New Year The New Year opens with mise great things for the cause of Christ | Outlook. brightening prospects on in China, but the hopes which centred in | eel) our mission fields, For him have not been fulfilled. Outstanding i ff | some years storm, cloud and gloom chased Christian leadership is the great need of i] | each other across the sky; to-day follow China to-day, and we may joyously recog- il i| | calmer air, rifted clouds and rising light. nise the hand of God in placing avowed i | i | ! This applies to China, where our largest disciples of Christ in positions of supreme i} a | fields are found. There the civil war, power and responsibility. i i which wrought untold havoc, has come to He ; an end, and there is a chance for con- The Outlook In Africa our missions: Vee structive statesmanship to rebuild the | in Africa. ‘share in the brighter out- ane | waste places. Even amid the distractions look. The brighter...”
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“...the 1 regation, ch larg We } al > > Heaver ir work. nt In 2 congreg much S Wine a | May 1 thei xO. sndid cons rstand, fi the Wie el | Nie rses and : a © a splen lers a : In i yt 4h i +] the nurses can imagine Oe aE yen to und ntinues : his first ne rh eB} little we can anxiety Teens Dees Ee a i paid us hi ce We be ie 3 How suo tee ae he SU ale Same a s to Hine Feb Lit tress : by t han f Ke g ith us rele Miart ‘ | di dis a by th Chie - wit he we Weak i The Ban ; the in China by ple -noon vent at the | Hi nae ie att Th in China. 1 in s peop afterno en W eRanGeel or- RRA if ror in sec The I 3 a . . the Irma ss st se Ha Terror pvaseeece | ae ee visits an Horns ae the riche ae NY aD it . Se Pe Es ‘ [oO 2 oe : : then, ¢ : nu at | t bandi larms and ApiisSeS Chan rvice there. E ning wl al ser- na | -constan ily amid ala n give gli of ‘his ome servic ino the eve acramenta fram ae + J a 5 5 > x r] = c ai | dwell eae ee pte ve are eae was dui t of the ne sent out ich Hit i sionaries sing’ scenes. ‘“*...”
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“...other vividly coloured flowers. As Prayers being answered? It is more Bai | | I sat on my verandah, for it was Satur-. thrilling than anything I can think of. ee | day afternoon, I watched the girls walk- Let me tell you another incident which i i ing about, arm in arm, enjoying the happened recently. At the beginning of ii wil companionship and freedom natural ina term two girls met every morning at WBN | girls’ school. They are the ‘‘ flowers’’ 7.15 a.m. in the Guest Room for Bible 1 | mt | of China. reading. This is called the ‘‘ Morning ee Some were in long bright blue gowns, Watch.’’ Gradually a few more joined an others in white or pink, or other gay them, till the Guest Room was full. So ul colours. Some had long black plaits, they moved to the Hall, and there are il iii | of which they were proud, while others now about seventy girls. One morning ie had shorn their locks, Some were small Mrs. Wang went in and spoke to these i I and dainty, while others were tall and _ girls about the...”
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“...Hee a ae al i al rt ‘a et My Sunday School at Tikonko ENE fi 8 | naa Rhy She said she was glad to see the Christian ated last year by the united churches of Wists i girls leading other Christian girls to study China to deepen the spiritual life of the nat i their Bibles. The next step should be to. Christian Church, and so to double the We EE bring a Christian girl in one hand and a membership within five years. And so ii HI Hy a non-Christian girl in the other. The the good news is spreading. a a ‘‘ Five Year Movement ’’ was inaugur- FLORENCE ROTHWELL. a Ad a my ie Wey ii || My Sunday School | a Hi y. : unday scnoo What My Boys Want to Know. Haan a at Tikonko. Rev. A. C. LAMB, B.Sc. it | HE bell for Sunday School has just When our lesson is over I ask the Whe rung, and I must get up from the boys, “Is there any question you would We little siesta, so necessary here, to like*to ask me?” For a time there is it Wik meet the five boys who compose my Sun- 4 halting and stammering...”
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“...| ee Charted by ancient seameén and forgot, WM : : <— Watches the familiar pageant of lighted | HE — ce star ; 1 i | | | Mase i | Insutter silence.<.2 2.3 1 Wii : uo .) Beyond the village wall ii ii) ! ; = Dogs bark. A bugle blows uncertainly. wel 5) ~~ In the darkness village after village Hh | | ' ‘ ae sleeps. Wan } ' te, ae No light, | | | , Principal H. S. Redfern. As in familiar English valley and by li | s s a hedged lane aE : Late into the night, marks the myriad We The Unsettlement in China. ways . : WW | The following is an extract from a Through the kaoliang and the maize. HI letter addressed to Mr. Kenneth Mac- the night is full of stars, and the iil pall | lennan, of the Conference of Missionary Great deeps of darkness betwixt star and A, | } | Societies, by the Foreign Secretary, Mr. _ St" + +: E | Meal { Hendersons== Phe bugle blows uncertainly beyond the Wh | ii | “Consular Officers will continue, asin , Village wall . WAV atl the past, to offer such advice to all !hat—and...”
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“...difficulties is the question of food. Baker, or any of the arsenic prepara- at Tie) He cannot afford to keep his patients, tons of Messrs. Burroughs and Well- i un ae and has to insist upon their friends bring- COMe- These drugs are for yaws, which Hu Ga eet ing food for them. The trouble is that ‘8 @ terrible scourge in Africa, Gener- en Het the people are all extremely poor and thie po oe = eo in Waa Bie Bt = : errs yay u o Dr. assing- i Hilt Re mee ee ere ace ton, United Methodist Church Mission, Hee Reel In the matter of medicines Dr. Bras- Berresford Memorial Hospital, Maua, ih alt sington would be grateful to anyone who P.O. Meru, Kenya Colony, Africa. ai heal Wy Se fe Se wa hee ‘6 ” may Banana-Land. ii \ B ANANA-LAND is, of course, don’t be too shocked.” All the same, WA Jamaica, called by a visitor in the the people’s chief interest is in religion Wie ae old slave days, ‘the suburbs of and in their churches, and they see no We ae | hell.” But things have changed. Prin- reason for...”
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“...filled with ripening grain, lay on eS aa sends weal aun Wi aii | : either side, broken occasionally by fields Ras Oeil aROULOES) aud gS ca Buae i Hill of beans. Here and there the fields were PY 1t Seems 2 though the water flows HW j being prepared for rice planting; oxen gleaming silver from the boats them- Wa pulled rude wooden ploughs through S°Y°: : : WA | | . water and mud, goaded on by shouts or On the tow-paths either side of the a i | curses of their drivers, who sank at each Canal all China seems to pass by in the Wea | step up to the knee in slush, At frequent Persons of representative classes. Here HAN | | intervals men and children plodded We Pass one of the scholarly class with Aa Ul | patiently and merrily at the tread-wheels his hands folded within his broad sleeves. Wea | wherewith they flood the fields with Next a band of armed policemen with a WH Hi water, and patches of bright green, like ™@0 bound in ropes and stumbling pain- Wi Hl Wi ¢ “the green of deep sea-water over...”
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“...little merriment by riding cool water and solve the problem once Ae i them (for even the toddlers find some for all! Many did that to escape, but i) eet work to do); while here and there one most swallowed the dregs of salt-wash- i it Wi sees ‘‘ big ’’ sister, aged seven or eight, ings and died painfully. The Chinese a eae nursing ‘‘ little ’? brother, like some little are not over fond of water yet. a ae anh old mother—one of the commonest sights Then, too, bands of beggars, profes- Hae a in China. sional and amateur (the latter vastly in- HM ca ae bt By chance one glimpses tiny maidens creased by the months of dearth) pass Wii et at work at the hulling stone. This along‘ by the canal, their few necessaries— ee stone is fixed in the end of a long pole. mats, a bit of bedding, a can or two and HTN at The stone fits a large hollowed stone into a basket, strapped on the backs of the i | which the rice is poured, the pole passes man and the bigger children, while on na over a cross-beam to...”
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“...Day of the Feast; and I have known charged the Conference with glowing MH | some remarkable seasons of spiritual enthusiasm and hope. ‘‘ My brethren,’’ i | i) power and emotion on such occasions. said he, ‘‘ what’s the matter with us? Wa Hil Once, in the Central. Church at Exeter, Are we here celebrating the burial of Mi i || ‘ when at the Conference certain leaders Jesus Christ? Why, He is not even MAE il) were opposing an advance on the West dead yet! No: He’s alive, gloriously | Hh | | China Mission Field because of the alive, and liveth for evermore! And we 1 | | extreme poverty of the tribe concerned, are here to celebrate His victory, and to 1 Hii) the late Rev. John Dymond, a man of enlarge the borders of His Kingdom.”’ aii | | remarkable personality and evangelical It was a never-to-be-forgotten experience iM i) | | | , fervour, rose up and rang such a _ for those who were present, and it did ae i ' challenge to the faint-hearted economists much to establish the Union and to con-...”
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“... wa ey ey Collectors. i is ; RH IB i mah EE ; per ceag eon . : Hy a ie WELLHOUSE, in the Lindley Circuit, is Street Church was closed. He is a real Wie cat ) ; , : was fi We aah a a real live missionary church. Though worker in the mission cause. CAG: i i i I Wellhouse is only a village, the church About forty years ago, the eldest iit d 1 st and school raise £60 per year for foreign daughter (then a child of five years) of ul i i I missions. This is largely due to a keen Mr, and Mrs. John Green, of Gerard Hi i | at W.M.A. society and splendid work by Road Church, Rotherham, commenced Wwe seal the Juvenile Missionary Society. collecting weekly for the Home and We Gh | ) y cng ae eo ; He Seen ic The following are some particulars of Foreign Mission Funds. When she be- iN il i three juvenile collectors : came too old to continue as a_ juvenile WE Lilli Genin oo En oh yu (sistern collector, her book was taken over by i i i . =f el aaa : a eee ice SS) her younger brothers, and later by...”
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“...just the kind of lj Hh) | | aot SS “eee =yarns to interest boys—and girls too. OB ee ; Gaerne, 366,000 have now been issued. Bn | | a ane Np 1 See ererae an é ¥t AS ame 2 i oe “Tur ALABASTER Box,” by Dr. T. B. a Wt | rhs | 2 a ‘Adam (Carey Press, Is.) is the story of Bl : r % : ‘ a brief but beautiful life. A young girl iN Hh ! : i of great gifts, Dr. Janet Ireland Hoare, Bl Dorothy Green, Betty Newsome, Marjorie Green. daughter of a Harrow minister, went to HOB India last January as a medical mission- Hh) -Miss Liz1an Simmonps, of Brane, St. ary. In a few months she passed away. Da Just Circuit, has been a very zealous col- This brief, moving story cannot but thrill i i vi lector since 1914. The area she covers young Christian men and women wher- ei i in her collecting is very sparse, and it is ever it reaches. Dr, Hoare confessed 1 estimated that she has walked a hundred Christ when she was eleven, and was ii | ie miles each year in her efforts to get baptized at fifteen: a fact to ponder...”
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“...and its sixteen Europeans, R ae SN SE \\ i has had no English doctor Lar een tnsis 4 \ as bs WE i and only one English nurse YS TAN \ is 4% | Li since the death of the Pt a AN “Wh He UH much lamented Dr. Had- 4 y Bs \ jee ii iY | den. Yunnan has_ been ; e re Be Fa : | Hi | promised two doctors, a ; wr Wea very necessary provision Be 1 We alll | in the light of past history. We id All attempts to find even WH | one have failed, and a kind | i} | | | h doctor is also needed for BaP | He | North China. Commenting 1 i on these failures in a re- . TB cent Committee, the Presi- ‘ i We \ dent, Rev. A. E. J. Cos- 1 lH, | | son, said: “We have not Mrs. J. E. Henderson (President of W.M.A.) | i i Wl a 1 = | I 1] i atm Re »...”
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“...help. | Hae some W. M. A. homes comes the bright L. SUNMAN. i iit r solution: ‘‘ Send them to Mrs. Sunman ; =e an Ba she’ll put them in one of the boxes she iil) Pa ea sends to China or to Africa.’’ Please Phe Missionary Message i i ean eR don’t. Or, at any rate, don’t send them f the N Test t a a just as they are, because they are of no 0 € New lestament. Ti i use for sending out as gifts; but if you Two books were recently issued by the i Wik il will remove the inner leaves of the card, Carey Press, 19 Furnival Street, E.C.4, He it and substitute leaves of flannel, the re- under the general title of “The Mission- Ht } ad sult will be a pretty and useful needle- ary Message of the New Testament.” Hh} i Hee case, which will greatly please the They are the “Epistle to the Romans,” | i ky. children in our Mission schools, and will by Rev. Henry Cook, M.A., and the } qt il make an acceptable gift for the Christmas Acts of the Apostles,” by Rev. 1, | } F parcels. Townley Lord, D.D. They are...”
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“...urgency of their cient. The merry crowd, squatting on a | Hi message, they publish it in no uncertain the planks and filling the room from end i HUA tones. With a wealth of illustration,. to end (not having forgotten the window f | 5 drawn from Chinese thought, belief and ledges), is tense with expectation. What Ht i practice, they hold even that turbulent an uproar this swarm of youngsters qe congregation. And all heard some, and ‘would have made in the chapel! | some heard all. i | | Young China also Astute. I, i | An Astute Move. The entertainment begins. Every re- i | th | Had you peeped at that dense ¢rowd cord provides the topic for a brief talk. i I i i while the meeting was in progress you. There is a record of the songs of birds, | tH would have asked, ‘But where are’ which is made the basis of a talk on the We China’s omnipresent children?” And we providence of God. There is an anti- 1 wi | would unfold to you our strategy. Each opium song and there are hymns. There 1 ei aight...”