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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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“...b x | | PAGE PaGE Priests at a Lama Temple ae ... 149 Hicks, the late Rev. GIsE; ny 45, 1385 Scene in Switzerland aN oe ... 41 Holbrook, Miss ae ui a me 197 Spreading the Word of God in China ... 282 Hudspeth, Reva W.sokl ose a .. 105 “These Stones to Praise Thee 2 ... 80 Johnson, Rev. Raymond ... wu STS Useful Exhibition its ats aise Sle es Keevill, Dr. and Mrs. sia sah paneer (4) Welcome to Missionary Secretary ... 152 Kewish, Violet oe ae as ally, 4 t Zion Church and School, Kingswood ... 161 Kirsop, Rev. Joseph Sa va . 221 fi Kornelio and Kithira... .... 219, 220 Spr oN Lambrick, Lydia ... we tee ae 100 | PORTRAITS. Lear, Wesley oe sie se LS Barrett, Rev. F._ ... nes oe . 102. Lineham, Dr. Rev. nds oe OU Brooks, Mrs. J. B., B. Litt. oe _.. 236 Marsden, Mr. Geo. H. ... se BD Butler, Mr. Thomas ae a "135 Moody, Rev. E. H. es nes .. 174 Button, Nurse Mildred G. aes "194 Ogden, Mr. F. -. or at ... 103 Conference Missionary Group ... “163. Osborne, Miss Mary oa ee Ls: ‘s Conference Group...”
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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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“...it wall painfully over the desk, I never shall forget the word ‘ shirt ”’ until, at the edge, and before I could save as taught by the Dzang method, which it, the miserable, fated creature fell over being a pictorial method necessitates the into the spittoon, and drowned. production of a shirt before the pupil’s In England genteel children are care- eyes. Mr. Dzang grabbed at the shirt fully trained not to ask questions, least nearest to hand—the one he was then of all personal questions. In China wearing—but failed after repeated strug- where many things are so different that gles up both arms to reach either sleeve. the foreign visitor has a feeling at first Finally he stopped, parted the long that he is living upside down, one would wadded-gown and drew forth a length expect to meet with children who will be of shirt-tail, exclaiming, ‘‘ Pu-sa-diu, pu- caned and cautioned if they do not ask sa-diu.’’? The effort succeeded in its edu- inquisitive and personal questions. This cational...”
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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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“...very little more. ey 4 ee He thinks because he has hid him behind a ag (hy ' all the others we shan’t be able to see his cr Bin / i guilty face.” i eh | So in that way Grace fixed the guilt ca . {ae PS? al on Mr. X. In her essay she says that ae E 1 : —.. go Ne | the was only trying to shield himself when res: * mt PS ae. = Bes he said all the black boys were thieves. owe lO See He had lived in the land a long time, : 4 Ee ee zt and probably knew every nook and aay eet Rage ae & corner of the Mission House. He knew BG | 4 Soe Seana . | he could get in and take what he wanted, . iy 5. agora | and with all those black boys about no es ee Be : We 4 one would ever dream of suspecting him. e oe Fy aed | J am sorry, Grace, but you’ve caught ——— a 5 rd tthe wrong man. ig ie , Ly Willy Millington, like Grace, seems to oe rs a | shave persuaded himself that in mystery B a f : Ee stories the solution which appears most be a: obvious is for that reason the wrong one. Ee 3 So he fixes on Willy. He thinks...”
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“...Some Recent Missionary Books resident, there has always been a contri- total grows. Last year it was £6 12s. 3d. bution sent to our mission funds. For This year it is £7 17s. 8d. It is sent some years Miss Wagg has undertaken through the missionary secretary of the the work of stimulating interest and col- church at Nether Green. We are sure lecting fortnightly subscriptions. Many our readers will be glad to know that we of the residents are connected with other have one who, while in the morning of churches and give to the denominational her life sowed seeds of service in church organisations to which they belong; and and school, in the evening of her life is yet they voluntarily subscribe to our not withholding her hand. We hope the missions through Miss Wage. Year by evening, containing such evidence of year, without any official pressure, Miss interest and usefulness, may be extended Wage has so developed interest that the for years. W.D. G. fe a a fe Some Recent Missionary Books....”
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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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“...long veran- lookers save one Chinaman and_ our- dah overlooking the hill-side, anda moun- _ selves. tain stream running along amongst the We were told that this would last for rocks. three hours, and was customary both We ascended to another building morning and evening. further back, where there was another So we left them to their worship. As. temple, the goddess being the Goddess of we went away I thought of the strength Mercy. There was another room higher of idolatry and superstition in China. than that, in which was the goddess who They had launched fifty new priests out governs one of the hells. at once into this district. We are proud Still further back and higher up the if in one year we can launch out four new hill, was another place which had been preachers and two Bible-women for a a school at one time. Here was another larger district. goddess. Truly, “the harvest is great and the The view from the open room here was___ labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the beautiful. Pine...”
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“...which was the gift of the Foreign | and white sit side by side in the street Missions Committee to your Secretary! cars, but across the river you are in the es eld southern State of Virginia, and no ae g re -rson may sit next to a white. sats BB 3 ss coud Cao. Deca: . i “The Everyland Story Book,” which Meantime the negroes are becoming more... Shannen 2 : : Fidvted > ANAM Ore Nishi develomedeceee edited by Oliver Brown (Carey Press ; China and | a aS Shion pees d = eee Africa which boys and girls will delight a. pe Pee Se a J are ith th » to read. This is the kind of book which SS ee s Se eat eaCi P eee ae “ldlike stimulates interest among young’ people slightest show of kinc a oe . ul ne in the missionary cause. that you feel they cannot be far from the “The Parliament Man” is a charming kingdom of Heaven. If it were not $0, story of how a wealthy M.P. was led to one trembles to think what might happen, jnterest himself in the...”
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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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“...Ge Pe Wesleyan Missions in China ch i 1 tit i We have three districts in China,’’ several others. In the three districts said Mr. Grist; ‘‘ South China, Wu- there are ninety-five Sunday Schools with } chang, and Hunan. . We do not touch four thousand scholars. North China nor the South-West of the With regard to the medical work, | Malet country. We have over nine thousand there are two hospitals in South China, \ full members and members on trial, one of which is under a Chinese doctor. | seventy-eight missionaries, and twenty- Wuchang has six general hospitals, one two non-British ministers. Then, of women’s hospital and a Union hospital. | course, we have our colleges and _ In these there are five European and five | schools.”’ Mr. Grist showed me quite a Chinese doctors. In Hunan there are | long list of them, including Haigh Col- three hospitals, though one of them is | lege and Canton Theological College in temporarily closed, with two European South China; Wesley College, Normal doctors...”
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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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“...: i Proposed Memorial to Dr. Krapf 1 PARE Stedeford, in co-operation with the staffs United Methodists are in his work at on the mission field, there should be no the Wesleyan Mission House. All the serious difficulty about this. Our re- same, I think he was glad to have this spective spheres will complement each assurance from one of his old colleagues, Pn other in a striking way. and to know that we all rejoiced in the AAD | It was not necessary for me to assure important position he held in this great Mr. Grist how deeply interested all Society. 1 mission in Kenya Mission connects its beginning with Dr. know it owes its origin to the in- Krapf as ours does, and we are anxious, spiration received by the United Method- not to seek big gifts, but to enlist a | ist Free Church from Dr. Krapf, and number of small ones; already there is, that our first two...”
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“...From the A Happy Missionary. The ssa ces Birth of a Church. Mission House. Rev, C. STEDEFORD. A Merry One of the most cheering and he is far the better teacher for it. Heart. things which came to me in Here, unless one has dark glasses on, Christmas week was a letter from our one cannot help finding laughable inci- junior missionary in Kenya, Rev. S. C. dents and situations all day and every Challener. It was overflowing with that day. Perhaps it is because some of us buoyant merriment which converts gloom are a bit childish. Well then, God bless into gaiety. Mr. Challener had com- the serious grown-up folk and give us a pleted his first year at the coast stations, chance, now and then, to tickle them into and had acquired the language suffi- laughter.’’ ciently to feel the thrill of missionary Truly, as the wise man_ said, ‘‘A toil. He exults in everything. He has merry heart does good like a medicine.’’ praise even for the climate; he com- It does good to the happy possessor, and miserates...”
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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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“...Gospel: | will be recalled that St. Paul allayed compelled to take a definite stand. “To the fears of his beloved Philippians what extent the crisis was prematurely by telling them that the things fomented, and by whom ; how far it was which had happened to him, his bonds due to a dawning political consciousness : and imprisonment, had “fallen out rather unto Te j ear aa aaa ————y the furtherance of the ey lee nes gospel.” Something of ‘ @ Dee oe the kind has taken place ; cae ae % ae in our mission in East ; be A, Pa MP Africa. oe ee Ss =. \ $ Barbarous Practices. poe on ee a ay It is well known that ys ee AE}; oes ‘ i" As Se ae acces et oo ' eo... he nature of which it is ey See. ty a es impossible here to de- | ah “a ey ‘2 I, 2 vee } fan. scribe, have long caused |7 9) (9, ae i Oe Tce, oo tee time ago the matter [o_ Wk Se a reached a stage of crisis ; and ‘the Church was Gramophone. wltiMretaad Master. Burt: ee 27...”