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“...: : PAGE PAGE NORTH CHINA. District Annual Meeting ... as 5.9298 Annual Meetings. F. H. ois ... 118 For the Young People. Rev. E. Cocker 13 a L “On the Road in the Mission Buggy.” Methodist Union in Sierra Leone and ec REV: H. T. Cook. ... i ocak Gambia ... Bi 2 SSE eo Aok Smith, Rev. D. Howard... ae ... 174 Mendeland Summer School aos Sen Station Visiting. Rev. F. Heslop _. 141 + Tikonko Dialogues -.. 12, 51, 170, 216 Study of History. Mathew S. H. Wang 76 Thoughts on Work. Rev. Alan T. Dale 146 . cV shares: Rev. F. B., Retirement of. WOMEN S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY. ‘ Rev. C. Stedeford — ... Se _.. 107 Bristol Conference Meetings .-- sa Aj Turner, Rev. F. B., Tribute to ... ... 157. China Flood Relief Fund ne ~.. 220 Turner, Rev. and Mrs. F. B. A. E.J. C. 211 Christian Wedding in Meru. Sister Wutingfu Hospital ... ee ne ... 229 Muriel ... ee a ae ws 219 2 Dorcas Society at Wenchow. Mrs, Irv- SOUTH-EAST CHINA. ing Scott Bes aes tee lO. A : sues 1 _ Final Word, A -.- aa see ... 236 ' Se ae...”
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“...298 Disused Temple... vee as ... 143 Wesleyan Missions in China ... ... 21 Dwelling-house in Yunnan Fu What Changed My Mind. Stanley High 118 : : October cover Flying Over Western China... seal (i( BOOKS REVIEWED. Rostrum in Yunnan Be ee er92 Black Trek” 16 Street Scenes, Yunnan Fu... eae OU. és Black Wind Sarees bit oa Be 15 T’ao Ming Hsuen and Family ... ek oe Dawn Wine ne Wrens 5) ean ge Where: strange ‘Lales Are Told .:. e230 International Review of Missions Ba 204 ev nbive “ane 26 <* Methodism and the Mountain Sum- VR Re Rina EAR: Se = CoNeE 7A TMLee tos: a ae Be e26 Seopa ok gD EP te ae “New Life Through God”... se O. : “« Present-day Summons to the World EAST AFRICA. Mission ”’ sh ae 5 ... 54 Drawing Water, Meru... re E500 ** Under Seven Congo Kings ”’ ... ... 15 Falls near Nairobi .:. Hi Be ... 189 “* Wayfaring for Christ ”’ ... a ... 198 Grand Falls, Meru ee As ven 0) ““ What I Owe to Christ ”’ aa ... 116 Group of Mission Girls ... es ROL: “« Yarns on Heroes of the Day’s Work’?...”
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“...in this country. Ever invasion of their territory could not be Since the Conferences of 1908 the move- tamely accepted by the Chinese, but they ment toward this great event has been in. were incapable of effective resistance. progress. It will mark the opening of a The Japanese seemed quite content to let new era in the history of Methodism. The matters take their course ; China appealed recent Methodist Ecumenical Conference to the League of Nations. ‘The interfer- in Atlanta awoke a new consciousness of ence of other nations has more than once the world-wide mission of Methodism. checked the designs of Japan in China. It has ever been a theoretical ideal; it is Japan cannot disregard the League of becoming more and more a practical pro- Nations, but she has not consented yet to position. The union of all Methodist yield the territory she has gained by this forces in a comprehensive scheme for the little outbreak. Action is suspended evangelization of the race is one of the pending the...”
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“...4 Pi | From the Mission House Since the revolution in 1912 China has of her people have established themselves. been at the’ mercy of War-lords who Her present action must be viewed in the claimed full authority in the regions they light of her having annexed Korea and. controlled. Manchuria was fortunate in Formosa. Korea,is poor in agricultural b | having a fairly stable government under and mineral possibilities ; Manchuria is. I Chang-Tso-lin, who at times successfully — rich in both. contended against Chinese would-be China has placed her case in the hands: rulers. Under those circumstances Japan of the League; if her sense of justice is. gained agreements and privileges in Man- not satisfied, she may be induced to seelx churia which are now claimed as rights. help from Russia, which would make the: ‘These rights are repudiated by the Chinese remedy far worse than the evil. Government because they were not con- ferred by lawful Chinese authority. These he Trouble = When war breaks...”
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“...least missionary staff. The Committee accepted: three months. The doctor stated that the resignation: with very great regret,, there was no reason why Mr. Chapman and in doing so they placed on record! “should not fully recover,” and I am their “high estimate of her character and’ happy to state that during his convales- ability,” and their “ conviction that she . cence he has made good progress. We will yet render valuable service to the deeply sympathize with Mr. and Mrs. &ingdom of God in China.” Chapman in their anxious and_ painful ordeal. Throughout the years the health ** What to The new edition of this of Mr. Chapman has been so well main- Pray For.’ helpful booklet has been: tained that his illness came as _a great issued. Copies may be surprise. Providentially, Mrs. Chapman obtained from the Wesleyan Missionary arrived from England in the Spring and Society Home Organization Department, was able to bestow the care and comfort 7 Carlisle Avenue, Aldgate, London, which greatly helped...”
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“...heights. Dr. Griffith John. * * * % On December 14th, 1831, Griffith John The late Mr. Robert Turner, J.P. was born in Swansea, At the age of We learned at the Missionary Com- twenty-four he sailed for China as a mis- mittee at Rochdale early in December sionary for the London Missionary So- that Mr. Robert Turner was sinking fast. ciety. His work in China during the He passed peacefully away at his home, long years of his life was incalculable. “Denehurst,”’ Rochdale, after a long His name must always be coupled with illness. that of Hudson Taylor, whose consecrated For many years he entertained the Mis- labours for Christ in that great country sionary Committee to luncheon at the have left an imperishable memory, - <2 eo | Tikonko Dialogues. Philosophizings. | IME : Late afternoon in the mission serious. shock): “I-d-d-d-don’t quite qo compound. The philosopher (a understand!” Mende schoolboy, age fourteen Phil. : ““Well—I can understand about years — very — approximately) suddenly God making...”
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“...; ; » and pressing subject. | said, ‘‘ I challenge anyone in this audi- ae = a wi ence to tell me one solitary good thing they have ever accomplished !’’ A Chinese Under the title ‘‘ Hudson Taylor’s lady stood up, and breaking through her Legacy,’’ the China Inland Mission has shyness said, indignantly, ‘‘ Jama living issued at half-a-crown a most helpful book example of the good they have done! of brief devotional articles gathered from ee They have given me, at the very least, the writings of that great servant of liberty! They have given us Chinese God. We have one hundred and twenty | women a chance to rise into a free air we readings of real homiletic and practical did not know before !’? She proceeded to value. This is a very choice book. It chastise the judge with such effect and will enrich the mind and heart of every humour that the audience rocked with one who reads it. | 16...”
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“...[5] I} [5] “There is nothing which is quite so much needed throughout [5]. [5] the world-wide mission of the Christian religion as a fresh [6]. [5] summons to the impossible.’’—Dr. JoHN R. Morr. [5] j NAMA OTORR ORTON RROROROSYSEERE Wesl Missi WwW esieyan VLISSIONS 4 Talk with the Rev. W. A. Grist. e e % in China. The EDITOR. N calling at the Wesleyan Mission rest-rooms, there is a very beautiful House in Bishopsgate one after- chapel in the building, where services noon recently I was fortunate in and meetings for prayer are held every finding Rev. W. A. Grist in his office. week, Bishopsgate is only a few minutes’ walk While I was talking with Mr. Grist from the Mansion House, the Bank of the Rev. G. E. Hickman Johnson came- England, the Royal Exchange, and the into the room, looking very bronzed from head offices of the principal Banks and _ his recent visit to Hyderabad. Mr. -Hick- Insurance companies in the land. It is man Johnson was formerly a missionary the most important financial...”
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“...ordinary activi- : Probably as never before have the ties of the mission. It will be a long time Chinese themselves helped in the work before the ravages of the flood have been Of relief, financially and “ln other ways. made good. We have raised at home for famine relief “The damage done to the Hankow # 1,030. It has been a time of great Hospital is estimated at £10,000. That @nxiety, and the trouble is not yet over. will give you some idea of the havoc But we have faith to believe that the 5 / aw . . . 5 2 7 wrought in that one place alone. And Church in China will grow stronget and the sufferings of the poor refugees are ee ce : on a visitation as terrible really past telling. Our missionaries, @S tM!s Nas been. doctors, nurses, all of them, worked day When Methodist Union comes next and night, finding little time either to September, the work of. co-ordinating eat or to sleep during the worst period our operations in China will have to be : iB cs . . . . . of the flood. It was a case...”
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“...a Chinese graduate of the old school and Uin, and since my return to China this about 70 years of age, while one of the term I have visited it three or four times. women is a Taoist priestess (or rather This year I arranged a stay of five days was), who for long months has been for the purpose of a special series of enduring much persecution for her new Bible study lessons, the last of which faith. It is not easy in a place’ like \ was held this afternoon. There was a Weining to come out boldly for Christ, i regular attendance of 25, which, for a but these converts never miss a service, bi place like Weining, is quite good. To and they have quickened my own faith my great joy I discovered that during by their zeal. Please pray for Weining | andoRevs, Ane@hi sWine? <4... 0f And Ta a so my heart is full to-night, and I feel | Te ED e e e ik alae strangely moved. At last God is honour- eS eae See ae ae ing and blessing the labours of His ser- | D:D kee a So vants in this city, and An Chi Uin...”
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“...native boys under is expected of this “enthusiastic” young them. The past few years have seen a See Fine nee ican great advance in mission buildings, and pave ae MS eee ee ve seit this means much to the native population. ere ee fo aS moan Sue The words of Dr. Schweitzer, which we mGe ey: Ebel ae ae OEP quoted in a recent article, fully endorse ents vigorously our work in that interest- the wisdom of sending to Africa Techni- ing ,COUnUY, S cal Missionaries. ‘Had I any say in the aE matter,’ writes Dr. Schweitzer, ‘no : black man would be allowed to read and “Schoolgirls Together.” By Mrs. write without being apprenticed to some Ernest Weller. (China Inland Mission. trade. There should be no training: of 1s.) Mrs. Weller, who has been for the intellect without simultaneous train- ™ore than twenty years a missionary in ing of the hands. Only so can there be a China, has written a charming story of sound basis for further advance.” All six Chinese schoolgirls. They are real may not fully accept...”
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“...: s 9 The Editor’s Notes. iA Prayer. Rev. and Mrs. H. T. Cook’s Give us courage and gaiety and the Bereavement. quiet mind. Give us the strength to Very deep sympathy will be felt with encounter that which is to come, that Rev. and Mrs. H. T. Cook, of Wuting, we be brave in peril, constant in tribu- North China, in the death of their in- lation, temperate in wrath, and in all fant son. They have a host of friends, changes of fortune, and, down to the especially in London, where they are gates of death, loyal and loving to one well known through their active asso- another. As the clay to the potter, as ciation with Pembury Grove Church, the windmill to the wind, ds children of Clapton. Before her marriage Mrs. their sive, we beseech of Thee this help Cook, who is the daughter of the late and mercy for Christ’s sake. Rev. H. Walker Blott, was a lecturer R. L. Stevenson. in connection with our Young People’s * * a o Department. To Mr. Cook has come a ‘The Missionary Anniversaries. double ...”
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“...together with | es ae . an increasing sense of our common Above all, ‘‘ the great internationalism blood and destiny, that peace may come | - .4§ the world mission of Christianity. 2” earth at last, and Thy sun may shed The tens of thousands of missionaries, ‘#8 light rejoicing on a holy brotherhood as ambassadors, interpreters, and media- of peoples. Walter Rauschenbusch. | “fe China, India, medical work was in consequence taken Burma and Ceylon. Other countries over by native Christians. This assump- will be dealt with in subsequent...”
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“...Rochdale, early in December, that for a few weeks would fully restore Bi, they were greeting’ him for the last him. Mentally he was keen and alert as ever, and in spirit he was cheer- | ES ful and hopeful. Now that he has gone j 2 i ne wies we realize more truly what a prominent ae aes Be place he filled in our Yunnan Mission. i spe. Ghee We honour him as one of our devoted i ai i ei ee : and heroic pioneer missionaries in Yun- i os BB ae le ee na nan, as will be seen in the tributes borne | i | ee aes wey re 4 in this issue of the Ecno. | femie Wie tan tices Po ee eh eee | ee oP er tLe cae se. i eae Japan in * The civilized world has | 4 H a : So 8 eit % Te. “¥ =| China. been shocked by the ruth- ee ioe 2) less attack made by the a Come) 8 ey it. 2) == | Japanese upon! the Chinese at Shanghai. foes: iy 5 ee ‘ a = | While Japan had grievances which called | Z iS pee i=? ey a x loudly for redress, there was no justifica- | meas ee belts ee a af ah tion for an attack which was nothing less...”
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“...policy which provoked ! China. Their keen interest in public the wrath of the students, with the result @¥estions, their capacity for concerted that it had to announce “that the stu- ction, their disposition to strive for the dents had broken into the offices of the Well-being of ee po ae paper, and, after doing all the damage eee free soe from any ord es they could, set fire to the premises ; in er) Conus Ony ee _boldness an ‘consequence, for the next few days, the ee in De ess ee designs, are paper would be reduced to one sheet giv- @ pe ie ees under ena direction ing important information only. The oF (SORT SEB MONS aes) nee peniOst paper has now resumed its normal size, Me ue ES any community. The student but has not yet resumed its leading youth of China believe that they are the me 5 7 custodians of the future of their nation. articles. Tt eos ee as ss coe ae hey are fired with a noble ambition. Events of this kind became SO. frequent They have visions of a China taking, that the Chinese...”
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“...The late ; Rev. C. E. Hicks. Memorial Tributes. ANY in South-West China will paused a moment ; then, with a mixture M be grieving for the death of the of gravity and humour, he said, “I am Rey. Charles E. Hicks. He was an Essentialist.” a true knight of God, acquitting himself Would not his friends say that there bravely in the tasks his great Captain was a peculiar appropriateness in his assigned to him. We are poorer by the choice of this word? He gave mental loss of this sincere and valorous man. lodgment only to what he counted essen- ; We cannot write of him from the inti- tial; all else he cast to the void. His : macy of those whose tributes are here strong preference for educational work in given. But on the several occasions of missions was rooted in the same con- our meeting we were impressed by the sideration. His attitude - to policies serenity and directed by those strength of one thousands of miles | who yet seemed ., Pe removed from the humble in~ mind Pr ut Sa scene of his...”
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“...he was recovering, and inclination for educational work, and when, most unexpectedly, signs of heart in this form of service he was distinctly weakness caused grave concern, and on the missionary pioneer in West China. January 12th he passed through the gates. His labours in this sphere bore very of Life Eternal. : | valuable fruit in the early years of the Charles Edwin Hicks will ever hold an | Mission. The work he loved gradually honoured place among those intrepid developed into the means of training pioneers who through hardship, isolation,. | Chinese preachers. Some of the men peril, toil and difficulty laid the founda- ) who have served best as preachers in tion of the Church of Christ in the remote Yunnan received their training from Mr. province of Yunnan, in China. 46...”
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“...' i} a “The Present-Da | = y A Great Book which ie Summons. must be Read. ' HEN Dr. Mott was in England a turies have there been such extensive and W few years ago he called the aggyessive anti-religious movements. One } leaders of the Missionary Socie- of these broke out in China about a de- Si: ties to summon to their aid the best cade ago. It was directed more especi- 1 | minds and the richest resources of the ally at Christianity which, it maintained, country on behalf of the world mission of was imperialistic, capitalistic, and un- } Christ. He reminded them of the wave _ scientific. This has largely died down; | i of secular civilization which was sweep- but there are not wanting signs of a fresh | ing’ over mankind and of how this outbreak. This is in part due to the pro- menaced the Christian idealism for which paganda of the Russian communistic | Missions stood. He did not assume that movement, which with its announced those whom he addressed were ignorant world programme,...”
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“...there were others in when he discovered that I was an ex- ul that circuit, known as the “Bible Chris- pipnje Christian was a joy to behold. In tian Outpost.” Let us read what the this isolated and remote place the union pioneer-missionary has to say about this 4¢ 1907 was scarcely known to him. He visit himself. accepted my copy of our current Mission- “On Wednesday, Mr. Dening and I ary Report with as much reverence as if started for Eskdale, an outpost among’ it had been specially printed for him. the mountains. This opening has only Then he began to ask questions. Who oe recently been entered. An iron mine 1S Were our missionaries in China to-day ? being briskly worked ; and to provide in 47, pticked up his ears at the mention of some measure for the spiritual wants of fF J. Dymond. “In my Bible Class in the miners, the company has fitted up 4 spe West when he was a boy,” he re: small wooden chapel. At seven we re- marked proudly. Then he inquired of paired thither for our missionary...”
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“...i i | | From the : oe Rev. C. STEDEFORD. Mission House. - Sympathy. Some of our missionaries other. The richer the treasure the keener have been passing through _ the sense of loss. B experiences which elicit our most sincere Deepest sympathy flows also to Wu- ‘Bee sympathy. ting, where Rev. and Mrs. H. T. Cook ie Rev. F. J. Dymond, who has a very have lost their infant son, and where the warm place in the affection of our people, two children of Dr. and Mrs. Craddock and whose gracious words have been a_ have been laid low by scarlet fever. help and inspiration to many, is now May the God of all grace comfort and | : lying in a Birmingham hospital in a state sustain those who walk the clouded path. of extreme weakness. He is suffering from a form of anemia which the doctor China and the China standing at the bar says has probably been developing for League of of the League of Nations some years. On. two occasions trans- Nations. . Assembly appealing’ for fusion of blood has been administered...”