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“...Bible Picture Words, Rev. A. Bromley
67, 258
Butler Scholarship Students, Mr. T. W.
Chapman, M.Sc. - - - - 77
Bo, The Church at Rev. A. E. Green-
smith 193
Chao Tong Mission, Rev. C. E. Hicks 179
Chapel, The Fall of the “Tired” Rev.
S. Pollard ----- 31
Children’s Service, Mrs. H. S. Redfern 8
China, An Increasing Purpose in Yang
Lien Fang........................132
China Emergency Appeal Committee - 213
Chinese Revolution, ,The Rev. F. B.
Turner ------ 270
Christ and the Eastern Soul, Rev. G. R.
Goodall ------ 43
C.E. Missionary Meeting - - - 24
C.E. Topic The Editor _ _ - - 118
Christian Marriage, A - - - - 86
Christ in the Andes - - - - 73
Collectors, Notable Junior 10, 36, 59,
83, 112, 132, 148, 186, 212, 226, 255, 279
Competitions 23, 48, 72, 9|j 120, 144,
168, 192, 216, 240, 264, 284
Committee, With the Foreign Mission.
ary Rev. W. L., Smith - -133, 165
Conference and Missions, The Man-
Chester ....... 187
East Africa, British - - - - 159
East Africa Jubilee:
An Old Love and a New Rev...”
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“...have to
leave undone, not from want of dis-
position but want of time. As the years
hasten along our vision becomes clearer
and broader, and new spheres of service
open to us and beckon us to enter them.
Alas! we cannot; our limitations hold
us back, limitations both of time and
energy. What is the great lesson
brought home to us by these facts? To
do with our might what we can do ; to
work with greater system so that both
in quantity and quality we may do all
that is possible to us.
In the mission field the year 1910
Mr. T. W. Chapman, M.Sc.
Wenchow College, 1902—.
(Taken since his return on furlough.)
will stand out in the history of the
Christian Church as one in which the
momentous question of missions was
placed in an absolutely new light, and
m which it became one of the most
powerful apologetics ever given to the
Christian faith. “ The World Missionary
Conference,” held in the month of June,
placed the Gospel, as a dynamic force
for the revolution of human nature,
along the line...”
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“...Echo. It is a necessity, never more
so than now! Our enlarged missionary
area, our completer missionary
methods, and an ever-growing mission-
ary literature makes our own missionary
Magazine an absolute necessity. All
other helps must be gratefully and
heartily welcomed, but the MISSIONARY
ECHO becomes more imperative as the
years pass!
OUR APPEAL.
If you do not take our missionary
Magazine, begin with the New Year.
For the sake of the children, when their
ideals are being formed, let a number
of the ECHO find a place in every
family. It will help both to broaden
ideas and enlarge sympathies! Not
only do we plead for the taking of the
ECHO, but also plead that both in the
church and in the home prayer be made
without ceasing for our missionaries
and our missions.
F©rei§p Secretary’s
Notes for the Mouth■
By
Rev. C. STEDEFORD.
Salutations. When I was in North
China I was taught to
salute the Christians with “ Pingnan,
Pingnan,” which means “ Peace,
Peace.” At the opening of the New
Year I offer...”
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“...re-
Intercession, peatedly called our
churches to observe the
second Sunday in January as a day for
special intercession on behalf of our
missions. If this were done throughout
our Denomination what a glorious re-
vival would be the result! How the
men upon the different foreign stations,
who often look out upon parched
ground, would see the coming of the
gracious rain with wonder and delight.
When we remember that it is in the
power of the churches to bring down
a blessing upon each of our mission-
aries, our native workers and communi-
cants, one cannot over-estimate the
value of properly observing this day of
special intercession. Let it be done
in all our chapels, and in all our Sun-
day Schools. Let there be mention of
the pressing needs and then special
prayer that they may be supplied. I
suggest the following subjects as re-
quiring our prayers not only on one
day, but always:—
For our missionaries, that they
may receive a renewal of the baptism
of power.
For all native preachers...”
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“...wish to go came the doubt
of its ever becoming a possibility. Then
some words, written in my album by a
Miss Ada Holt, designated for
Wenchow, China.
[Photo: Whitehead, Bury.
prominent Free Church minister, came
as a guide. “ Be sure,” he wrote, “ that
God has a plan for your life, and He
will reveal it to you as you wait upon
Him.” Did His plan for me mean mis-
sionary work? I believed so, but—
waited.
Following the gleam, I sought to pre-
pare myself for the work. Keeping in
touch with missionary work, and be-
coming more fully acquainted with the
great need of the heathen world, the
command of Jesus sounded with greater
persistence in my ears—“ Go ye ! ”
Then, during my second year in Col-
lege, the day came when doubt was no
longer possible. I knew that the wish
to go was from Him.
Thus I go, in His strength, to seek
to win the girls of China for my Saviour.
It is interesting to trace the spiritual
growth of one who has made such a
decision, and the following will be
deeply gratifying...”
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“...printed copy of
the one on page 12 so that they will
not need to mutilate the Magazine.
(Threepence to be sent with order.)
TIENTSIN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
Mr. Hedley has sent us the syllabus
of the above association of which he is
president. We are deeply interested in
two items, and we give them:—
Jan. 16. At Mr. Andersen’s house. ״The
Inter-relation of Evangelistic, Medi-
cal, and Educational Work.” Rev.
W. E. Soothill.
Feb. 20. At Mr. Griffiths’ house. ״The
Jubilee of the United Methodist
Mission.” Rev. G. T. Candlin.
Monthly prayer-meetings are also held
at the different missions. Let us pray
for this association, and will readers
specially remember our dear friends on
the dates above named?
<־§=»
In an article on “ Some Difficulties of
Bible Translation,” Alexander F. Chamber-
lain, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthro-
pology in Clark University, says :—
״ In a recent legend of one of the Indian
tribes of Canada, based in p'art upon the
story of the fall of man as given in our
Bible...”
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“...that we did not
consider God would like us to fast to
the injury of our health, and that He
would hear her earnest prayers for her
sons without the f asting.
The following Sunday the Bible-
woman, Mr. Sze Ping Yu and I again
entered a boat, and went to the village.
The distance was not too great for Mr.
Sze and myself to walk, but the Bible-
woman having rather small feet it would
be a great tax on her strength. Perhaps
you wonder what the Biblewoman was
to do! Well, she came as a chaperon.
In China it is not wise for a foreign
woman, single or married, to go in the
company of a Chinese man, even to do
work, unless a Chinese woman also ac-
companies her, and the Biblewoman
moreover was very useful in helping to
keep the children in order.
Our first Sunday was a great success.
We had the little chapel filled to over-
flowing with children as well as a great
number of adults who crowded round
the door to see what we were going to
do with the children. I took a note-
book with me as a register...”
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“...make men holy, let us die to
make men free,
While God is marching on.
* Written in 1861 for the air “John Brown’s body.” Mrs. Howe has just passed away in America at the age of 91.
Notable Jupior Collectors.—XII.
The Junior C.E. at Sutton.
The leader is Miss Olive P. Carpenter, herself famous in earlier Missionary Reports,
along with her sisters. The photograph shows the work they have done for the girls
of China, at the suggestion of Mrs. Heywood. For many •months they were busy
dressing dolls and knitting scarves and gloves, etc* The happy ■result Mrs. Heywood
took with her to China. (See p. 257, 1910.)
10...”
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“...off seeing the com-
plete and successful issue of the travail
of His soul!
In some parts of India there is one
missionary toiling amid a heathen
population varying from two hundred
thousand to nine hundred thousand; in
some parts of Japan the proportion of
one for a number varying from four
hundred thousand to seven hundred
thousand souls; and in many districts
in China a proportion startlingly less
adequate. The population of China is
confessedly difficult to compute; we
have sometimes been charged with
exaggeration in speaking of its four
hundred millions, but Professor T. Y.
Chang, representing the U.S.A. Pres-
byterian Mission, declared emphatically
that the true figure is eight hundred
millions. Dr. Julius Richter, of the
Berlin Missionary Society, is probably
below the actual reality in his calcula-
tion that there are a thousand millions
waiting to be evangelized, only the
outer fringe of this appalling mass of
destitution being at present touched. A
thousand millions! Who can grasp...”
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“...tree.
All missionaries testify of the successful
training of native workers, and of the
far-reaching effects of their zeal as they
go forth to evangelize their fellow
countrymen. The native evangelists of
Korea, of China, of India, of Uganda
are doing great things, and this agency
is receiving development on every mis-
sion field. It is recommended not be-
cause it is cheap, but because it is
effective. The native preacher finds
the quickest way to the hearts of his
own brethren, and his advocacy of the
Gospel leads to the recognition that it
is not an exotic, but is indigenous to
the soil.
The Conference concluded that
knowledge, full, exact, detailed know-
ledge of all the facts, must be insisted
on in home churches; that the duty
and the opportunity and the urgency of
mission work must be affirmed, and re-
affirmed and affirmed again; that this
must be attended with strategic plan-
ning to enter upon all unoccupied
fields; that the great ideal of carrying
the Gospel to all the world must...”
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“...introduces a series, to pass through the year, on
missions.”—Ed.)
complete the Church. The life of the
Church depends on its being mission-
ary. The missionary activities of the
Church are the circulation of its blood,
which would lose its vital power if it
never flowed to the extremities.”
the various “ com-
How Wc Spent
New Year’s Eve
at Top§ Cfi’uap Eu.
YOUNG
PEOPLE’S
PAGE.
By the Rev.
W. H. HUDSPETH
IT was New Year’s Eve, and the city,
looking very gay, was painted red.
During the day everybody was
busy settling accounts, pulling down
old picture-gods and putting up new,
and, at darkling, as an offering for sin,
sprinkling the blood of the fowl on the
doors of the houses. For the first time
since last New Year’s Eve the women
were sweeping their homes, polishing
the family gods, and preparing the
family altar for the burning of the in-
cense.
Even the mission station was affected,
by the bustle of the Chinaman. Pre-
sents were being sent to, and received
from, different people. On the...”
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“...rendered it as literally as
possible. He says :—
“ It is cheering to know that the Church is increasing and that the Hospital is also
•doing spiritual work. When we left Wenchow the opium dens were only nominally
closed, so that it is good news to hear that vigorous steps are being taken. Wenchow
is a little out of the way, and so one of the last to fall into line.”
There is also a reference to the modern army of enquirers about im-
perial affairs; both indicating the new spirit that has come over China.
24 Dec., 1909.
Wenchow.
Dear Dr. Plummer,—
Sang nyie toe ba. Choa Chang Vu
■shi nyi, Choa Chang Vu shi nyi.
Sie toe Ke nyie Oh teh djah Bing ue,
yi tah djah ih kai Sang nyie, zaih ze
itu-zi Zang-Ming fu zang, Ah choa
Chang Vu Shi Sz-mo ta t’ung-t’ung ge
nang, ts’ing nyi de ng Pa moa.
Nyi ge Sang, ng Sin tae ba. Koa toe
I yue de z-kue, nang t’ung-t’ung Oh
Bing ue, Bing-nang zie Kai nyuch neh.
Wha Chue ts’z ts’z, yao 1416 nang. Kai
nyuch neh yi Chang yoo 1096 nang ba
Ki nyie dza ti Chue ge Bing...”
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“...are placed at the
front of the yamen wearing wooden
collars as a warning to all passers-by.
This magistrate has also gone into the
country, and will not allow anyone to
grow or cultivate the poppy.
Three afternoons a week are now
being given to operations, and the other
three days Dr. Smerdon teaches us
medicine.
Recently a number of Wenchow men
have gone away to enlist in the modem
army; officers have also come here to
drill the men.
I hear there are a number of French
soldiers in the South of China. Have
you any news of this?
It is now very cold so I will not write
any further. Good-bye.
Written by Dzing Sui Ming.
Threshing Rice at Wenchow. [Dr. Plummer.
The rice as it grows is Doe ; when threshed Ruh.
The Prayer of a Christiap South Sea Islapder.
“ Grant, O Lord, that the good words to which we have listened be
not like unto the beautiful Sunday clothes, which we lay aside speedily
and put away until the Lord’s day comes again. But let these truths
be like the tattoo-marks upon our bodies...”
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“...remembered that
it was not their work only, but God’s,
and so they started, full of faith. God
has prospered and blessed the work,
so that now there are probably a
quarter of a million communicants in
India, and nearly a million adherents.
* * * *
Obeying the same command Robert
Morrison went to China at the be-
ginning of the 19th century. When
Mr. Morrison had taken his passage and
and was leaving the shipping office, the
agent wheeled in his chair and said,
“ So, then, Mr. Morrison, you really
expect to make an impression upon the
idolatry of the great Chinese Empire ?
Mr. Morrison quickly but quietly re-
plied, ‘‘No sir, but I expect God will,”
and Christ has been true to His prom-
ise, for to-day in China there are no less...”
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“...Christ. At the present
time we have 485 members in our
churches in East Africa. The Rev. J.
B. Griffiths is our superintendent
there, and he has as his col-
league, the Rev. W. Udy Bas-
sett, and several native helpers.
Mr. J. Smith, an industrial mis-
sionary, is also serving us there.
(Suitable Hymn.)
IV.
I wish to give you a few facts
about the wonderful land of
China.
One third of the human race
lives in China.
Every third person who lives,
and breathes upon the earth is
a Chinese; every third child
born into the world looks into
the face of a Chinese mother,
every third weeping orphan, and
every third widow is in China ;
evey third person who come to
die is Chinese. With what hopes
will these multitudes depart, for
thirty-three thousand of them
die every day?
Take your Bible and count
every letter in every word from
Genesis to Revelation, not once
but eighty times and you will
18...”
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“...Another Tour in Yunnan
have counted the living millions of the
Chinese Empire.
What are we doing to save them?
To aid in this great work the
United Methodist Church has missions
in three distinct parts of China. In
North China we have 3,200 members.
In South Eastern China 4,500 mem-
bers, and in South West China 3,800
members : a grand total of about 11,500
members. The work that is carried
on is very varied. There are hospitals
where the sick and injured bodies of
the people are cared for by competent
doctors and skilled nurses; schools
and colleges, where the children and
young people are taught under Chris-
tian influences; and there are many
churches and chapels where the gospel
of Jesus is preached regularly to the
listening people. In addition to these
agencies our missionaries and native
preachers go out into the highways
and villages to proclaim the good ti-
dings of the birth, life, death and resur-
rection of Jesus. To keep all this
good work going a lot of money is
needed, and...”
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“...Oar Wonpep’s Auxiliary. By Mrs. balkwill.
BOUT the time this is in the
hands of many of our readers,
־* Miss Holt (whose portrait ap-
pears on page 6), will be on her way
to China, as she expects to sail in com-
{)any with some China Inland Mission
adies on January 3rd. During the last
few weeks Miss Holt has addressed
several meetings in various counties. A
special effort has been made by our
W.M.A. Rochdale District to further
help the mission fund by raising her
passage-money. We earnestly com-
mend our sister to the care and guid-
ance of Him to whose service in a far-
off land she has consecrated herself.
Appeals for more workers come from
other stations. Miss Roebuck, North
China, writes:—
Smerdon attended me, and helped me in
every possible way, but when I did not im-
prove he advised me to consult a doctor at
Shanghai. The latter thought a change to
Chefoo would be beneficial, so I stayed at
Chefoo four months, and returned to Wen-
chow in July. I was not very strong when
I came...”
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“...Road-malppy
at Golbapti.
By tbe Rev J. H. DUERDEN.
BETWEEN the River Tana and
the mission-house is a tract of
ground about 400 yards in
breadth. Half of this, during the flood
season, which lasts for several months
each year, is under water, making it
impossible to pass from the river to the
house without using a canoe. When
the flood is receding this space be-
comes a morass of mud and shallow
water in which even a canoe is useless.
The late R. M. Ormerod, a man of God
whose memory is still green among the
Gallas of Golbanti, built a road and a
bridge across from the village to the
river. This, however, was washed
away. The photograph shows the re-
building of the road, in 1905, by which
communication from village to river on
dry ground was secured at all states of
the flood. This road and bridge (upon
which latter the workmen stand) re-
sisted three floods and were still intact
when I left Golbanti in June, 1906.
Prize Competition.
No. 13.
R
COPY of “Edinburgh, 1910,” by
the Rev. W. H...”
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“...that the dresses were replicas of illus-
trations taken from its pages. This may in-
cidentally lead to an increase in the local
circulation.
The speaker should be cognizant of all
these preparations, or, better still perhaps,
should be consulted, so that these exhibits
might serve as a kind of commentary upon
his address.
In most societies there are those who are
talented as paper writers, and two such
might be asked to contribute short and com-
prehensive papers on, say (1) Our Deputation
in China and (2) The World Missionary Con-
ference.
A valuable adjunct is song—an English
hymn might be translated phonetically into
a native tongue and learnt, e.g., “Jesus
wants me for a sunbeam,”* might be ren-
dered in a Chinese dialect, by Juniors attired
as “ Ting Feng and Chung” (ECHO, p. 227).
During the meeting five minutes should
be employed by members reciting from
memory texts bearing on missionary work,
carefully selected beforehand, also a short
period may be allocated to those who would...”
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“...taking some re-
freshment, we departed amidst earnest
entreaties to stay the night. By fast
riding we reached the mission premises
just after dusk, weary, but trusting that
some good had been done. But many
journeys of such a nature would be too
great a tax on one’s powers of physical
endurance, especially when the weather
is unfavourable.
I hope to pay one more visit to the
Shih-men-k’an Dispensary this year,
and then to devote myself entirely to
the Hospital work in Chao-t’ong City.
Chao-t’ong, September 15th, 1910.
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Foreign Secretary’s
Notes for the Month.
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By tbc
Rev. C. STEDEFORD.
Two New Two candidates have been
Missionaries accepted for agricultural
for East missionary work in East
Africa. Africa.
t One is Mr. R. N. Ash-
ton, who has had six years’ experience
of industrial missionary work in East
Africa. He went out in 1904 in con-
nection with the Industrial Mission־Aid
Society to work at Frere Town. When
the operations of that society were
taken over by the East African Indus-...”
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