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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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“...faith is to increase, and our missionary enthusiasm to become more intense our missionary knowledge “must grow from more to more.” We cannot have fullness either of life or zeal without fullness of knowledge. Mis- sionary information, well ordered, exact and concentrated, is an absolute neces- sity. Hence the necessity for, and the wisdom in, having the MISSIONARY 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...”
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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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“...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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“...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 the significance of such figures? Who can measure the variety, men of all colours and races and languages and beliefs? It was related...”
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“...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 be consistently and steadily upheld. No- thing less than the frank and full and general acceptance of the worldwide scope of our Lord’s commission can be satisfactory, and with this it will be dis- covered that tremendous as the task undoubtedly is, the Church has suffi- cient resources...”
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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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“...A Juvenile Missionary Meeting than 11,500 Christians belonging to the United Methodist Church alone, beside many more thousands in other missions, many of whom endured g’eat sufferings for Christ’s sake during the Boxer riots in igoo. (Suitable Hymn.) III. I wish to speak for a few moments upon the subject of our East African mission. This mission was started in 1862, when the Rev. Thomas Wakefield and James Woolner ar- rived at Ribe (pronounced Reeb-eh), a few miles inland from Mombasa. They had great difficulties to contend with; a new and difficult country; a strange language ; and a depraved and savage people. They were accompanied by a distinguished German missionary, Dr. Krapf, who acted as their counsellor and guide. It was not long before Mr. Woolner became very ill, and had to return to Europe, and shortly after- A Galla woman. In front of orange tree. [Photo : Rev. J. H. Duerden. wards Dr. Krapf also broke down, so that Mr. Wakefield was left entirely alone. After six months’...”
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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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“...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. <־>§=> Foreign Secretary’s Notes for the Month. ®§=י 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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“...Nevertheless there is. no real cause for discouragement in regard to this part of our work. That our mission plantation is an excellent one and full of promise is confirmed by the testi- mony of an independent witness, Mr. H. Powell, the Chief of the Economic Plants Division, who, in a report of his tour of inspection, in which he visited the various plantations along the coast, says:— An inspection was completed also at Ribe where the United Methodist Mission has a plantation of upwards of sixty acres o׳f Ceara rubber, of less than three-year-old trees, second to none in the Protectorate, and yielding splendidly. This report appeared in the “East African Standard.” We have over 300 acres of which only about 100 are planted, and Mr. Griffiths believes, though Mr. Smith is not so sanguine, that the present plantation will, when fully developed, be sufficient to meet the present expenditure on our mission in East Africa. But it is essential that the estate shall be thoroughly well worked, and our...”
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“...iv. 7. tF all the difficulties in the way of the worldwide spread of Chris- tianity Mohammedanism has long been recognized as the most for- midable. It has been customary for some time past to "plead for the more rapid evangelization of Africa on the ground that Mohammedanism is spread- ing so rapidly there, and that when once people have become Mohammedans their conversion to the Christian faith is almost past praying for. And this is one of the strongest arguments in favour of expedition in mission work in Africa at the present time. Not many years ago we were startled and shocked to find a Canon of the English Church teaching that Moham- medanism was better for the African than Christianity. Mohammedanism meant Mohammedanism plus total ab- stinence from alcoholic liquors; Chris- tianity־ meant Christianity plus bad gin and ruinous rum. For many centuries the relations between Mohammedans and Christians have been those of bitter hostility. To the Mohammedan, the Christian has been a dog;...”
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“...from his father, Colonel Smerdon, we have an account of the way in which Dr. Smerdon is returning home. Miss Smerdon went out to Wenchow with the Plummers, that she might accompany her brother on a tour. The Colonel writes from Rathgar, co. Dublin:— I heard from my son from Hong-Kong. He and his sister, after leaving Wenchow by junk visited Fuhning to see friends of the C.M.S. station there. From there to Foo- chow, and caught a steamer to Hong-Kong calling at Swatow and Amoy. They visited a mission station at Canton, and also Macao, and then returned to Hong-Kong, where they embarked for Colombo. They are now spending a month in the hills with my youngest son. We expect them home the end of February or early in March. THE REV. FREDERICK BROWN, F.R.G.S. As is well known, Mr. Brown is spending his furlough at Harrogate, or rather in frequently visiting some of our churches. He has many engagements in the North for this month and March and April. His early associations with our Bishop Auckland...”
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“...‘Edipburglj, 1910.” II — Tl>e Cl>urcl> ip tlje Mission Field. By the Rev. GEORGE PACKER. President-Designate. O’ HE primary purpose of all mission- I ary work is evangelistic. It seeks * to lift men out 'of hopeless gloom into bright and enduring light, and to make them glad with the heavenly evangel. It deals directly with indivi- duals, and leads them through the gates of repentance and faith into a home of peace and joy. And so successful has been the work of the past hundred years that church-membership in heathen lands now approaches two millions of men and women. This membership means much more than it often signi- fies in Christian lands. A Christian profession maintained in a Christian atmosphere is not always a very hardy thing: its roots spread lightly along the surface of the soil, and immunity from destructive tempests encourages a soft- ness in stem and branches. But trees that grow on the hills where they are tossed by every wind that blows strike their roots deeply, and develop...”
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“... of Ep:s- copalianisin, Presbyterianism, Congre- gationalism. with their wellnigh in- numerable varieties, should be repro- duced among peoples who know nothing of their origin or significance or history. Missionary societies generally have not been insistent on any particular church polity. If Methodist or Congregational forms have been adopted it has been for temporary convenience merely, and not by any means under the idea that they were supported by Divine authority. The attitude of the mission churches was indicated by a Chinese delegate who frankly said that the differences existing in Christian lands had for the Chinese no interest or significance whatever ; and by a Japanese, who held that neither our system nor theirs was necessarily the final type of Christianity. One cause, perhaps, precipitating the desire for self-government, is a serious failure or mistake on the part of mis- sionaries for which allowance is to be made on the ground of unconsciousness. The Englishman or American...”
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“...man, however unconscious or unintentional, has been deeply injuri- ous : instances of which were cited in the remarkable address of the Rev. V. S. Azariah, who ended with this passionate plea:— The Indian Church will rise up in all ages to attest the heroism and self-denying labours of the missionary body. You have given your goods to feed.the poor. You have given your bodies to be burned. We also ask for love : give us friends. Doubtless, too, both dress and food have contributed to keep the mission- ary separate. We can hardly expect in either complete assimilation to Chinese or Hindu habits. But all things go to show that the missionary is only a second best, and that not less on the ground of efficiency than that of economy, the peoples of these great countries must be evangelized by their own brethren who have a common race origin, and similar, if not identical, habits and feelings. And if the asser- tion of independence, and the accept- ance of self-government, will develop the native...”
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“...to mourn the loss of a faithful ambassador. Suspended from a cord is a medallion in alto-relief, draped in mourning, of Rev. John Innocent. The centre of the tablet bears the following inscription :— Tin memory of iRcv. 3obn Innocent, born in Sheffield, ©ct. lotb, 1820. Was a scholar and teacber in 2lllen Street School, a member of tbis Cburcb, a local preacher, 211 tbe age of 22 ^ears was received into the ministry of tbe /ibetbodist IHew Connejion. Un 1859 be was sent as one of our pioneer mission־־ artes to China, where be labour־־ ed with success until IS97. . . . !Elected iPresi־־ dent of our Centenary Con־־ ference, and subsequently a Guardian IRep־־ resentative. /!bodes ty and humbleness of mind, combined with tenacity and earnestness of purpose were bis prominent 41...”
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“...breathing on those people, and darkness fleeing before the Sun of Righteousness. But there was much need for labourers in that vast field. She pleaded for bright-souled men and women to offer themselves for that great work. So many of their loved missionaries had gone to their re- ward—first, Mrs. Hall, then Mr. Hall, William B. Hodge, Benjamin Turnock, her own beloved son, George,* and her dear husband, followed so soon by John Robinson. It was fifty-one years since Sheffield sent out her first two mission- aries. Were no others hearing the call ? Was there no young man present who would give himself to that high and holy work ? The appeal, so earnest, so pathetic, so full of subdued passion, touched all our hearts. Other speakers were: the Rev. F. B. Turner, who has been associated with Mr. Innocent in China; the Rev. Thomas Scowby, an old personal friend; Mr. Bernard Firth, one of the superintendents of the school. Then the Rev. John Young, on behalf of the young men, expressed appreciation of...”