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“...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. eae Buddhist Temple Scenes ... re 154-5 Old-time Missionary Meetings. © Rev. Gonibear...”
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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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“...? ia r | ii Hl ON | WO | Al DADAROAN RNR ODE RORRRERRORRERORERREON | [5] iS au BI THE (ol Mi : | [6] | Hl | _ #MISSIONARY ECHO: _ ||) a OR | a a | ie 3 “The time of business does not with me differ from the time || wan) E of prayer.” —BROTHER LAWRENCE. By Hh i| | i ; {i | DETER RRASE DODO RESSSSSESSSSEET Vi | Bi 1] | A Personal Letter to our Readers. | Hi | DAS mae ai i H | Dear Co-Workers 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...”
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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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“...; ; | — 7 nit Uh a se é t his a Mission Hou lad to know tha ti mt Hi om the r will be gla 1 Wage i} Fr ‘The donor \ nely useful. ij i H ill be their eift was so tir g eatly appre- il i WAG & iene. it wi care for g Stott gr veleOme nin i BF hygiene, > to car pie = Mr. < warm v ae Hal ite and hyg =m how Is. The Sunday iated the his arriv nit my | of health < teach ther their souls. ion First deland. ciate eived on hi: hen he Tae ASE Ole : s for : n1ss deland. e rec ‘yw 2 igi out siness to vell as lical n in Men he ntly Hl ie: busine x swe : medica and in I bsequently re in Neh j : 1es as tt of ar ire, < 3 subst - sphe hee 1 their ee part ei eae the Preciouras and particular reed by i} Wee iN st es : pr rill ca in Fr 1s h in ae ae Wile mos = is of a inistry wi ildren. ll ipon as muc ; t Tilo Whe ie stry child ered up was vice a WO Be in Africa See minist s and : On ente He ine servic t Bo We in 1 j prey Cou to infant ing rest up Mendeland. ay evening reached a : | it i » iB ia that I t benefits...”
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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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“...that period had had toast very reason which the opposition had i | for tea in Sammy’s homely cottage.’’ made the point of their objection. ‘‘ Not i al The littlke man was quite hilarious and go to the Miao because they are so desti- | | | seemed to enjoy the joke of cutting down tute!’’ exclaimed the speaker, with | Hil, the rations for us; but at night the withering irony. ‘“And did not the Hl | i| sovereign went into the plate for the Master state as the very climax of His i nuh missionaries. mission to men that ‘ the poor have the Wl I | Once I attended as deputation the Gospel preached to them °?” After one We i | missionary meeting in the little Methodist Of the ace ee beets oe i 1 Church at Prawle, on the rugged Devon- ference ever listened to it threw itself ee shire coast, near- Bole: Heads A. little unreservedly into the new enterprise, and | i il | ‘ company of weather-beaten fishermen and aS sonnei ee re 2 on ie ae a a their wives were the audience, and their 870'0US TE COR eC Perey...”
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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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“...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 published HH Don’t throw away those pieces of silk a half-a-crown, and are remarkably | i i ' , or velvet or cloth that you will discover CoeeD: | i i| | tn eaten ite VOuE de f The contents of both books are a great WH...”
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“...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 WG ‘ i Hl Aa ee one why they come? They will all answer ‘ 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. Miss Gemmell was released after Ge ae a ea merrymaking. They come dressed in eleven days of captivity, but Mr. and ie Deen their best. They mean to enjoy them- Mrs. Porteous were kept in captivity...”
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“...show- very striking. The Mission House is an {| | | ete ing to us since you started this Mission excellent building and very convenient for ee ae on the 13th April, 1928. Other Missions its purpose. Mr. Lamb has surely built neh | | have come and failed, and for many years well not only here, but throughout the | | we have been left alone, before it pleased whole area.” i God to put it into the hearts of you good | il Hh people in England to send our friend, The Retirement On Christmas Eve Mr. ii ‘| I Rev. A. C. Lamb, to come and open the of Rey. A. ©. Lamb arrived in England Hi | | Mission here again. Every one of us Lamb, B.Sc. after completing his se- i here feels very glad to have the Mission cond term of service in wih | here, to teach us and our children. Al- Sjerra Leone. To him belongs the imper- Wi | though we are Mohammedans, yet we ishable distinction of having’ made the Nil | feel that there is one God who is both new start in our Mende Mission. After al i for white and...”
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“...Hg i mn sion House | Hy Wl From the Mission Christ at theemeat a ee ‘reat country for her history. ia ae be t that his re- Bee aie period in i ray ve have pointed Se to his own a have issued a es, ti n HI course, ae the field hi : whatever to Who Will Catch We es an apres 5 a : t ir thing 5 n ment a i urely Te eS tiremen and no 5 has_ beer rw? E rches. he i, family toEe Committees. st affection the Glo our ae in each oe Wve WEE ae th very © 5 persons LOW aR HH do with te the very ga -e will be some | ision and the g HN ae leasant to no ways for him. ffection there wil atch the vision nthusiaeneee Hh if ee wn in various ion of this a Mr. who will ae dle sufficient e \ campaign Ha a ane tive expressi yell address Mr. shich will kin lesired. A c 4 we at ad A na ren in a farewe Bandajuma_ sw see Hie results g hard work, an a Eh De ke om Si the follow- ie nora piso aa oe cet mr ee Lamb 1 1ote from ce sorry 1s re will be many s business tH ee | 2 sentences : t we sha : win this : of Chris Wane...”
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“...to bark of a tree fifty or sixty feet, clasping | | South? Mr. W. J. Roome has accom- with fingers and toes very like a cat. i i fl | Fe plished this feat, surely one of the most When up aloft they run along the level Ba remarkable in the annals of African branches with bow and arrow ready. i: o | travel. He has covered 110,000 miles in These little people, most of whom could a his journeyings. Serving the British and walk under Mr. Roome’s arm, “have iW Hi | Foreign Bible Society and other mission- lived for millenniums in the eternal gloom: 1 Baa | ary organizations he has been in places of these primeval forests, and have sunk HA , never before visited by white men, And in character and physique almost as low 1 mi | nowhere, however savage the people, has. as the wild animals themselves. They 1 Bai | he carried firearms, nor, as he says, has range through the forest in search of i ! | he ever felt the need of them. prey, finding their way back for miles by Bi Mr. Roome’s recently published...”
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“...[ lea” pf 1. 7) Pass s that he was a_ strong Hi ! a ig Pee eet cp Ns man.” Stepharo “is un- Hi yeh ea Vettel i Ce i ae | like the burly Philip, and Hh rae RR Vie Tee See ean i ss is small and slight. He Hat a: We eee een had formerly worked in Wn ge ce poe i oh Re an Indian Show, or shop.” Wa Fe an ee r iesh ee a Mr. Grist said that his HF 2 ae ‘Z fee interviews with these Hp Lee ek Cee See ne young men warmed his Mh aay ae aie eeseees| = heart, and that our Meru THA: he 88 Sie oes Gan Sy ee mission was justified if we Hi rh tel eae cf ar es had only produced these SWNT i : Hee Boek Tevet, young fellows who were | (| Hi eee ad te ae z Sue aspiring’ to a life of high Hi ek er Sa as tee pan ge Pe purpose. | | Hi | ' oe — We are indebted to Mr. | ih H He Reading from left to right: : (Photo: Mr, H. Clay is oy for this interest: i HAT | i Cornelius. Rev. W. A. Grist, Philip, Stephano, ing photograph. i | tt ite 28 1 =e Soe i...”
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“...church faithfully, being honoured in to his witness. : : 1 mee | 1927 by public ordination. In this ser- He is not a scholar, and his reading 1 i i t vice his fighting qualities: devotion to does not extend beyond his New Testa- | Hh the cause, impetuosity and boldness, ment, but he is a willing and humble Meat have shown to good advantage. I have learner, even now in his sixties, and he i) H| heard him burst out in a meeting where believes in the value of scholarship. He yaa men hostile to the Mission were setting once said to me, “I should like to taste k Hi) | forth a case, “Why are you deceiving the grape-wine, so that I could explain what i Mel foreign pastor.” He has shown the same _ the wine Jesus talks about was like,” and eal "qualities at other critical times. Once 1! have heard him urgently recommending 1 nl when travelling with a foreigner (the late j | mi Rev. T. M. Gauge, I believe) he saw a [ee Hii) ii} ’ footpad waiting by the mountain path. ee : Bil iI - The robber had his...”
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“...F. B. Hil a HE result of last year’s Derby Turner reminded those present that the Wen a il T reached 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...”
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“...plucky action on the Vi iH i ‘ : : : 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...”