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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 \}
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NUE ee Future pastors of Meru ... rs .. 28 Dzing Djiae Loa ... ri a ... 136
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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
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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}
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Ty it | WEST AFRICA. Hicks, Miss G. ee i eh Rae (7
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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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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
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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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“...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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“...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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“...most easily understood of the Church’s And furthermore, has not another
rn i special days. | Sometimes in past years measure been added to the sum total of
a i) eae we have had a magic lantern, sometimes _ living Christian influence, which is to-
Te it ee a gramophone, always gay lanterns, and day shaking China to her very depths?
HN Bin eu always a crowd. Ask the folk one by as
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a Area ee ‘a the came two words—two words which In Bandits’ Hands a Hundred Days.
il i / Ry sound like “How Shwa,” and which mean In the early part of last year three mis-
a i} | | literally “Good play,” or, more freely, sionaries of the China Inland Mission :
ae a Hea “It’s great fun.” The common folk of Rey, and Mrs. R. W. Porteous and Miss
Wal H || "| Tongchuan have almost adopted our Nina E. Gemmell, were captured by
at a Harvest Festival, making it as one of Communistic bandits in the Kiangsi pro-
it yi i their own religious festivals: a time of ince...”
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“...HA | 1 stations p rained pre much to reat thing interest In
Ra | u and : I trai ; acl Bae Eras : inte
it Mer region, with we the hospital ar - students, an f this quickened r educa-
i } le reg c e It o ou
PT j } who * We se 3 reachers r as the result rs among’
Ha and teachers. for training’ pr 5 our and as 1 religious matte
a Poe enti a Ween vie f our vita people.
EA | ired in Mendela rtment 0 ted young’
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“...India in twenty seconds first pastor of the church was the Rev.
Au HE el and China in thirty seconds. How ion Pee Hie PIOUEEL = ee
Hii oy ii | long does it take us to tell the triumphs Met gts Peano RON Sai Noth eo
He ell of the Gospel ? Speaking of the connection Mr. Richatds
ii i ill a i. e ‘ e had with mission work, Mr. I urner said,
WE ae oe “You can understand that his turning to
i ay cy “Tis But.” other work means a great loss to the
iN) a The “Missionary Herald” tells the Mission, and that it is at no little sacri-
| HH i} story of a lady ite has. put on Collect- fice the Conference has released him to
Ha j : ing Box the words “’Tis But.” This is serve Unien Church. This was only done
wal j what they mean. She had formerly been in recognition of the importance of Union
| H ig accustomed when she saw anything in a Church pulpit as an outpost of the Gospel
Wa il shop she desired, even if she did not par- 1n China.”
| | Hl ticularly need sa 2 say, odie pet a * * * * *
HME it sovereign...”
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‘ : : : 3 part of a “fresher” had its reward in ill 4 Hi}
; Dr. Guinness’s life has just been stopping such incidents. | Hi
| written by his sister, Mrs. Howard Tay- ‘ : ; i 5 Hi | |
lor, under the title “Guinness of Ho- After five years at the London Hospi- Hill | |
nan.” The book is published by the tal, doing medical and evangelistic work ri We |
China Inland Mission at five shillings. It at the same time, Dr. Guinness went to WAH |
is a book to read, to pray over, a book Honan as a medical missionary of the i He Al |
of great spiritual refreshment. Young China Inland Mission. Three years later i] til i
‘Guinness was baptized at the Tabernacle, the terrible Boxer rising, with the mas- vit I WH
Burdett Road, E., at the age of fourteen, sacre of missionaries and native Chris- |} {| |
‘on “confession of personal faith in our tians, took place, and Guinness and his HT
Lord Jesus Christ.” But the writer says: companions had remarkable escapes. The \\ i i i
“Before...”
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“...can see in China to- took us about three hours and a-half, and
HN | day things that are mentioned in the Old led us over winding roads that seemed
1H H | a Testament ; for example, the ox and the to be without plan or direction, among:
HI } ass yoked together, or cities built with villages each of which seemed the exact
| H | ny double gates, so that we can understand replica of the last, and all the way took
HH} } where it was that David sat to await us over dust, into dust and through dust.
Han | news of Absolom, ‘between the gates.” Soon after noon we reached the village
Hi It can be as truly said that when Christ of Yu Wang Chuang, the Village of the
i ij has come toa these people, we see things Yu and Wang families. We have two.
Hi i = | that are mentioned in the New Testa- Christian families in this village, the Liu
i Wf ment. I have been struck forcibly by and Yu families. Mrs. Liu was once a
Hn i | this by a recent visit to some village Pible woman employed by the mission,
| Hl churches...”
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“...Missionary Council
I eR : career Mr, Studd, one of the famous and Dr. Butterfield’s surveys. |
Hh Eb See ** Cambridge Seven,’’ went to China in The lecturers will be the skilled staff
aT Hi 1885 as a missionary of the China Inland of Avoncroft, together with Mrs. Parker
i t Mission. His health, and that of Mrs. Crane, lecturer in Education, and Miss
if a a] Studd, having suffered severely, he re- F. G. Garnham, of Carey Hall. Rev.
HH | ae turned to England in 1894. After a CC. P. Groves, of Kingsmead, and Rev.
Hii Ee Pee short rest at home he went to India, and -E. R. Morgan, of the College of the
i f | for seven years he was pastor of the Ascension, Selly Oak, will act as Chap-
} i i i Union Church at Ootacamund. Then lains.
HAN By GREY Africa called him. Ultimately he found- The total inclusive cost for the month
Hi ae ed the ‘‘ Heart of Africa Mission,’’? will be 410. Fuller details may be ob-
UHI BH which has developed into the ‘‘ World- tained from the Registrar, Rendel Hare ~
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J.P. the Foreign Missions supplying me with the 1 a ii
Committee has lost one of following pleasant reminiscence of Rev. HARI]
its most valued members. Since serving S. Pollard. During his recent tour in 1 ff |
as a member of the deputation which Canada Sir Walter met the Rev. Dr. En- | Be L |
visited our missions in China and in dicott, the Senior Foreign Missions | # i |
\ Kenya nine years ago, those missions Secretary of the United Church of A |
have commanded his keenest interest and Canada. As Dr. Endicott had laboured Hi .
freest service. A fire was kindled then in West China and had acquaintance with aa
which nothing could extinguish... He our Mission there, Sir Walter sent him ae |
knew missions, not only on the romantic a copy of the “Life of Samuel Pollard.” Bi i
and more thrilling side, but also on the In his letter acknowledging the receipt lp it
side of stubborn difficulties, baffling of the book Dr. Endicott bears the follow- Dt)
problems and sad disappointments. He...”
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“...i" i ie
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Ht aw rad
i‘ i} vie of miles away from Chaotong. When! not be. complied with. Soon after the
Nie aah peek returned from my visit to Yunnan in man died. The witch-doctor, and the
i We rae 1907, I stated in my report to the Cana- friends of the man, promptly gave it out
We a ate dian Board that in my judgment it would that the man died because the mission-
Me bay eee be difficult to find in the whole of China ary, who had some sheep, did not give
i AU BEER a more devoted and gifted body of mis- one to the witch-doctor. Therefore, of
it iad) RAED sionaries than those of the United Metho- course, the missionary was responsible
if weet ARE dist Mission, nor one where the mission- for the man’s death!”
ni i iH batt aries were carrying on their work on a : This incident illustrates the enormous.
i) ' | Ein more economical basis. To be frank with influence of the witch-doctor, and what
He q tk i you, it was frequently...”
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“...know present conditions in tie il
i is appeal for funds is welcomed China guarantee that money adminis- ' NY | |
| an its eS, confirmed by mission- tered through missionary societies and {| 1 Hi
( e les just home from China, such as Mr. Christian organizations really reaches Hl Hi Ht |
| ees C. Wood, ‘of the China Inland those in need. This is confirmed by Dr. ii Hi i
ission, who has been assisting Rev. Sidney Gulick, of the Committee on eg
George Findlay Andrew in relief work Mercy and Relief of the American | qh
o the Famine areas, which the latter Federal Council of the Churches. British | Pf j
Aaa described recently in ‘‘ The missionary societies which are helping Hl bi
imes.’’ Mr. Wood states that between in the China Famine Relief work are the | iH
oe and two million people perished in China Inland Mission, Newington Green, HH HH i
Sue f a i iS HERE HTH
ee two Doe of Shensi and Kansu London, N.16, and the Baptist Mission- | HH |
“ ee oe See Eas its aftermath. ary Society, 19, Furnival...”
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“...will ap- and fifty deaconesses, working in Ger- | a |
preciate in me!) and my Chinese must Many, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Switzer- eh
have seemed very crude, though they land, Norway and China. Through ane |
; said they understood some of it. But the Mother Eva the blind, the sick and the ae wih
| thought of declaring to these people the dying have been succoured and helped in aM
fresh and glorious. message of Jesus their thousands. Through her efforts |
| Christ was something almost overwhelm- and those of her many fellow-workers | WM th
ing.” countless converts have found life to be Ve | if
e s . " : a new and blessed thing in West China He |
The Mice in Png elsewhere, “A Story Without an i i |
e Missionary 's Faith. End” is published by the China Inland ] vit
\ Here are some words of this young Mission at two shillings. It is a beauti- i i Hl
missionary we might all lay to heart : ful record ef a selfless life, i) | i
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“... the Gospel earlier, there is so much more (AM |
he was able to produce sufficient maize I might have done.’’ i Hil | ;
| and buckwheat to meet all the needs of I wish the young people in our home | {| | Hl |
his family, and for a Miao he is now churches, those splendid young people | I | |
comparatively well to do. He has suff- whom I met when I was in England, | il Hil |
cient food to eat all the year round, and could have heard this, as in West China | i hl ii)
is not like many, who for from three to we very, very much need six new mission- | Hl Hi
| four months of the year are much under- aries toconserve the work of our pioneers, | iM
fed. His zeal has never flagged, and it is and to launch out on new lines. We need | Hl
> an inspiration to meet him and hear him two doctors, we haven’t a single medical i | {| Hi |
relate the details of those early years. missionary on our staff, an expert educa- i) | HH Hes
How his face lights up, and how he _ tionist and three ordained men, six in...”
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ul 4 i Hy CE. in While the Jubilee of the C.E. in Another recent letter from
a al ih i Chaotong. Christian Endeavour Wenchow. Rev. Irving Scott indi-
He an Movement is being cele- cates the development of
i Pa Ga brated in England, it is interesting to note the C.E. movement in Wenchow. He
Hi | Hie the place the movement holds in connec- says : “I am making preparations for our
Hh i 1 Re tion with our Missions in China. During District Meeting the first week in March,
i i the fifty years of its existence the Chris- With a view to stimulating interest in
il 1a tian Endeavour Society, which originated Young People’s work I have invited Mr.
ni 1 in the mind of the late Dr. F. E. Clark Chow, the Organizing’ Secretary of the
} i bal GARI | with no more ambitious aim than to de- China Christian Endeavour Union, to pay
ii Pa eae tl velop the spiritual life and activity of the usa visitat...”
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“...of the _ belittling city activities, I feel that rural
Wa 4 | Fane annual conference of the National Chris- work is the most important phase of
i i ai Hey tian Council of China, held at Hang- the task of the Christian Church in
Waa et Feed chow in 1929. At that conference it China, Dr. K. L. Butterfield pointed
Han Halk was felt that the various Christian out at the Jerusalem Conference that
H i Hi Fei bodies in China needed to unite in a two-thirds of the world’s population
tl i] | Hi definite programme of evangelical work. live on the land, and that all the great
iy AI i| BANE Such a programme was formulated, and mission fields are from seventy-five to
Mi i Hl embraces Forward Evangelism, Chris- eighty per cent. rural. Surely such
a tian Nurture in the Home, and the Care facts are sufficient to prove that the
an i i nen of our City and Rural Churches. The population of rural areas deserve the
uy Ht HiT main objectives of the Movement are special study and attention of the
Nt) eT two....”
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