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“...Dymond ------ 45
China, On the Road in North, Rev. W.
Eddon ------ 9
Chinese University, Rev. W. E. Soothill 49
Chapel, The Seventh Edition, Rev. S.
Pollard ------ 25
Christ did for Me, What, Ishiguro - 110
C.E. and Missions, Miss Berkeley - 211
Civilization, The Burden of - - - 116
Colleges, Missionary, Rev. H. T. Chap-
man ------ 160
Committee, With the - - 20, 130, 275
Conference, S.V.M.U., Mr. Craddock- 62
Conference and Missions, Rev. J. A.
Bedward ------ 202
Collectors, Notable :
Morecambe Group - - - - 22
Donald and Marie Rider - - 37
Miss Mabel Martyn - - - 72
May Allenson and Dorothy Crabtree 93
Miss Parker ----- 109
Harold Gooding - - 127
• Kathleen and Phyllis Howarth - 165
Mrs. Hamilton - 179
Penzance Group - - - - 198
Mr. Peckitt ----- 212
Miss May Gill - 212
George and Ronald Nodder - - 232
Miss Daisey Carpenter - - - 256
Ewart Awdas, Sheffield - - - 276
Darkness to Light, From, Dr. Grandin 144
Diary, The Missionary - - - - 101
District Bazaars for Mission Debt :
Sheffield...”
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“...spoken of African tribes who had some
premonition of pale-faced strangers
with good news appearing in their
midst. Judson, unable to enter the
doors of Calcutta, and of Madras,
rudely and violently shut in his face,
went to the Karens and found them
partially prepared to receive him owing
to a tradition that white men were some
day to bring them good tidings. Grif-
fith John met with a prepared people
when, after many endeavours, he ob-
tained access to the interior of China.
Our greatest and most important work
in North China began with the vision
of an old dreamer, and his visit of in-
quiry to Tientsin, and when the evan•
gelists went at his request to Chu Chia
Tsai, the people were eager for the
message they joyfully delivered.
It was from a prayer-meeting held in
the upper room that the first preachers
of the Cross issued, and gathered the
first-fruits of the Jews in the conversion
of three thousand souls. It was by
means of prayer that the Gospel bless-
ings were first received by the...”
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“...our readers, a Prosperous
New Year to the MISSIONARY Echo,
and a year of abundant blessing on all
our mission stations! This fervent wish
is mingled with faith and hope. The
New Year promises to be a memorable
one. Times are moving swiftly and
great changes are transpiring at home
and abroad. In our missionary enter-
prise we begin the year face to face
with great obstacles and great oppor-
tunities. Will this year witness the re-
moval of the financial obstruction which
bars our progress? It will, if the spirit
manifested in some places pervades the
whole Denomination. We hope to see
our income made equal to our expendi-
ture, and any friends who have not
done so cannot begin the year better
than by making a generous promise to
the increase campaign.
How the Happily the revolution
Revolution brought no great alarm
came to our to our missionaries and
Stations in hardly disturbed any of
China. their work. It is wonder-
ful with what promptness,
decision and unanimity the revolution
was effected...”
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“...pect may have changed. At the
moment Peking seems to be paralysed
with fear and dissension. In Central
China fighting still continues. In the
provinces, city after city is transferring
allegiance even as Ningpo has done.
Whatever the outcome, we pray and
hope and believe that the Kingdom is
advancing in the midst of, and indeed
through all, the tumult.
Tlje New Year apd
tbe Nations.
THE old things crumbling and the new fer-
menting
In tumult of unrest ;
The greed of each the good of all preventing ;
North, South and East and West
Fears rife, and nation rising against nation,
Under a sky grown drear
With storm and gloom, the thunder’s habi-
tation—
In such wise dawns the year.
And we, who where the field of harvest whitens
Watch with the labourers few,
Still watch, though night falls and the tempest
heightens,
We tremble, Lord ! we too.
Fails yet, for ever fails our hope, our mission,
And shall despair make dumb,
In this New Year, the lips that made petition
So long, “ Thy Kingdom come...”
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“...On the Road in North China
telligent interest in the services and
church work is unusual and very pleas-
ing. It is at this place where our Anti-
footbinding Society originated, which
now has a roll of ever seventy families
all pledged to do away with that curse
in their own families, and do all they
can to influence others.
About eight li from here is a little
village called Hua Chia where also we
have a church. The principal family
at this place is named “Keng,” and it
is at their place where the services are
held, and where the preacher resides.
Since I returned home trouble has
arisen at this place. Mr. Keng has been
quarrelling with a villager named Wang
about a bit of land. The dispute has
been dragging on for nearly two years,
and several times, at my instigation,
the preacher and others have tried to
make peace but without effect. Matters
have now come to a head. About three
weeks ago, after a severe storm which
destroyed scores of trees, etc., both
these men claimed a tree which...”
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“...The Call of the Dark Continent
and my father, too, is beginning to
believe.”
So the good news spreads among the
Chinese. We may explain Mrs. Ts’ui’s
cure how we will, renewed hope and
more fresh air no doubt played their
part, but we see much in China that
can be accounted for in no other way
than by direct answer to prayers of
simple faith.
•=׳§=’
A Review.
“Tbe Call of We
Barlf Coptipcpt.”*
׳ HIS well-written and beautifully-
illustrated volume on African
missions would be a valuable
addition to Sunday School and mission-
ary libraries, and should be in the
hands of all interested in the uplift of
Africa. It is very clearly printed, has
three excellent coloured maps, and the
price is only one and sixpence.
Among other subjects this interesting
work deals with the early history of
Africa, with its people, with the con-
ditions affecting missionary effort in the
Dark Continent, and has also informing
chapters on methods of work, the diffi-
culties presented by the spread of Mo-
hammedanism...”
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“...is no reference to our mis-
sions in the North and South-East. It
is specially gratifying that so much
space is given to appreciative remarks
about our West China Mission.
This first book reveals carelessness in
i
Two days from Tong-ch’uan-fu. [From ,,Across China on Foot."
Favoured by Publisher.
16...”
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“...anything but
“ Book I.” The rest is interesting, but
not equally to us. We are reminded
of how much travellers and explorers
are dependent on missionaries for hos-
pitality (and not only in China) when
the author’s record shows that he was
with Mr. and Mrs. Evans from May
2nd, 1909, to January 2nd, 1910. “A
broken arm, dysentery, and malaria.”
We are grateful to the author for his
deep and sincere acknowledgment. He
has learned, as we all have, that:
“ When the power of imparting־ good,
Is equal to the will, the human soul
~ Requires no other Heaven.”
We wish we could spare more space,
but it is impossible. We appeal for the
circulation of the book, and hope for
the future usefulness of the author.
* See Echo, p. 207, 1911.
Hwa Miao boys on.holiday in United Methodist {.From "Across China on Foot.”
Mission House in North-East Yun-nan. Favoured by Publisher.
17...”
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“...the
white missionaries began to lay tentative
fingers on the Gold Coast, they stayed in the
sea towns, and sent black converts to at-
tack the fetishes in the interior.
This is a libel, because so untrue.
The writer, Mr. W. H. Adams, might
have narrowed it by the convenient
phrase, “In my experience.”
THE GROWTH OF A SOUL.
Under the title of “ Hudson Taylor in
Early Years: The Growth of a Soul,”
the first part of the official biography
of this great missionary leader and
founder of the China Inland Mission is
now ready. The record is by Dr. and
Mrs. Howard Taylor.
We have received a copy for re-
view, and we hope to insert the notice
next month.
THE MISSIONARY IDEA IN THE GOSPELS.
In the “ Expository Times ” for No-
vember, Professor the Rev. George
Jackson, B.A., has a long article on
this subject. Professorially critical and
timid in its earlier paragraphs it be-
comes, exultant in its completion. He
seems at first to be feeling his way.
After this he “ gets up into the high
18....”
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“...claims of circuits
and business ; we are thankful to record
chiefly the latter.
The agenda was not apparently
lengthy, but every item seemed
momentous, and even at six o’clock on
the second day some things had to be
hurried.
CHINA.
The proposal to unite with American
Methodists in the training of Chinese
preachers was favourably received but
deferred for further enquiry, as was
also the question of the employment of
native evangelists, as per Conference
“ Minutes,” p. 227.
Dr. Swallow’s arrival in Ningpo was
reported. The question of a mission-
ary to be added to the staff at Wen-
chow, in consequence of the new work
undertaken by the Rev. W. E. Soothill,
M.A., was anxiously considered. The
resignation of Miss Roebuck was re-
gretfully received. She is remaining in
China as a “ foreign ” nurse.
Thanks were tendered to the Arth-
ington Trustees for grant for Mr. Pol-
lard’s translation work, and it was re-
newed for five years at £200 per year.
The Revs. C. E. Hicks and W. R.
Stobie are to...”
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“...discussion it was
decided to continue our usual ECHO
pages, also the Monthly Letter to the
fourteen Districts which ask for its re-
tention. The “ Messenger ” will be dis-
continued, and a fortnightly column,
kindly offered by the Editor of the
“ United Methodist,” will be utilized
for home and general missionary intelli-
gence, Mrs. Vivian having consented
to take charge of this part of the work.
With much regret we have received
the news of the resignation of Miss
Roebuck, of our North China Mission.
The meetings of the General Mis-
sionary Committee were crowded with
business, but full of interest.
Mrs. Robson writes from Wu Ting
A Gal la Woman. [Photo : Rev. J. H. Phillip son.
(See article p. 7.)
Fu, September 29th, of the very heavy
rains:—
The country has not been so flooded since
before the Boxer time. Travelling is diffi-
cult. For a time it was almost impossible.
Several deaths form drowning were reported.
In two cases “ the only son of his mother.”
We have been sorry for the ...”
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“...Prize Coippetitiop.
e
kUR first duty is to give the actual
titles of the societies whose ini-
tials gave us what has proved an
interesting competition.
(1) Baptist Missionary Society.
(2) British Society for the Propaga-
tion of the Gospel among the
Jews.
(3) Baptist Zenana Mission.
(4) China Inland Mission.
(5) Church of England Zenana Mis-
sionary Society.
(6) Church Missionary Society.
(7) Colonial Missionary Society.
(8) Edinburgh Medical Missionary
Society.
(9) Free Church of Scotland Foreign
Missions Committee.
(10) Friends’ Foreign Mission As-
sociation.
(11) London Missionary Society.
(12) .Presbyterian Church of Eng-
land Foreign Missions Com-
mittee.
(13) Regions Beyond Missionary
Union.
('14) Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
(15) Student Volunteer Missionary
Union.
(16) United Methodist Church Mis-
sions.
(17) United Presbyterian Church of
Scotland Foreign Missions.
(18) Wesleyan Missionary Society.
(19) Young People’s . Missionary
Movement.
(20) Zenana...”
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“...The Position in China
boo and plaster chapel-of-ease is
now used for day and Sunday Schools,
and with a fresh lot of desks, made
a day’s journey away and carried
in sections to the place, the day school
should become more than ever popular
with our people.
I think Rice Ear Valley is the! nicest
chapel in our West China Mission, and
probably the best in the whole of Yun-
nan.
On Monday a couple, who had separ-
ated, were remarried in the new chapel.
I am not quite sure, but I fancy one
of the preachers fell in love at that
service with one of the bridesmaids. I
think the go-between is about to initiate
negotiations. East and West at bot-
tom are the same.
There is nearly always something
startling wherever I go on missionary
rounds. A woman about fifty years of
age came to me on this Monday ask-
ing me to extract her tooth. I re-
quested her to, show me which one she
wished out. Looking into her mouth, I
asked her: “ Is it the one right at the
end?” “Yes, teacher,” she replied,
“ The one...”
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“...ing will be found on the
W.M.A. page of this Echo every
month. These suggestions might be
used with advantage in any missionary
prayer-meeting, and where a church
has a weekly prayer-meeting let me
suggest that it take the character of a
missionary prayer-meeting once a
month. In this way we might secure
a concert of prayer throughout our De-
nomination which would tell powerfully
upon our work abroad. Revival on the
mission field is often traceable to united
prayer in the home churches. Pray ye
therefore.
The While we write the
Situation struggle between the Im-
in China. perialists and the Repub-
licans seems to be enter-
ing upon its last phase. Fourteen
provinces have elected Dr. Sun Yat Sen
as the President of the Chinese Repub־
lie,* and Yuan Shih-Kai has staked
everything on a desperate effort to save
the throne. Unless the princes are
prepared to provide the sinews .of war
the struggle will not be maintained,
* Seep. 43,—Ed.
28...”
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“...severe
testing for the faith and courage of the
Christians left behind. The mission-
aries in North China were hoping to
return to the Shantung stations in a
short time. But in the present un-
settled condition of the country it is
probable that it will be some time be-
fore the Consuls will take the respon-
sibility of consenting to the occupation
of more remote stations. These are
events we cannot control, and we must
wait upon the will of Providence.
Illness of We are exceedingly sorry
Dr. Lilian to hear that Dr. Grandin
Grandin. has suffered a serious
illness. For some days
her condition caused great anxiety, but
the last letter from Mr. Dymond said
she was, improving. Fever with cardiac
complications was the cause of the
trouble, and it was considered necessary
that she should take a change to lower
altitudes to recuperate. Dr. Grandin
has enjoyed very uniform health during
her term of nearly eight years in China.
Since Dr. Savin left she has had sole
charge of the medical work in connec-...”
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“...teachers,
lowered in moral tone, and often filled
with the most advanced revolutionary
ideas, based largely upon ignorance.
For China to be saved from debasing
tendencies of materialism there must be
no divorce between knowledge and
Christianity. It will depend entirely
on the work done by Christian
Colleges whether the Chinese obtain
their Western science with materialism
or with ׳Christianity. China ivants
Western knowledge, ■ she needs Christ,
but she does not yet know her need,
and so of herself seeks nothing new in
religion. China demands the know-
ledge of the West, and it is for the
Christian Church to say in effect: “We
bring you Western knowledge, but we
recognize that knowledge, to be of any
real value to a nation, must not only be
physical and intellectual, but moral and
spiritual; that it is rightemisness that
exalteth a nation.”
ECONOMICAL MISSION WORK.
We believe that the Christian Col-
lege forms the point of contact between
the knowledge that the Chinese want׳
and the Christ...”
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“...China and Education
Let us, however, be a little more
specific as to our aims and objects.
(1) To undermine superstition, to
purify opinion and make the Christian
community intelligent and self-reliant.
Although this is not an aim peculiar to
educational work, yet the College avails
itself of its special privileges of instilling
in the minds of the young the principles
of public morality and true citizenship.
(־ב To attract within a sphere of
Christian influence those desirous of
securing an education, with the hope of
making them Christians. The Mission
College comes into contact with a class
of Chinese as yet scarcely touched by
any other agency of the Christian
Church, the class from which is drawn
the most influential men of the country.
This is one of the most important
aims, because of the peculiar part that
the student class takes in the national
life. This class at least moulds, if it
does not create, public opinion, and the
Principal Chapman, at Wehchow.
[Photo : Mr. W. H. Butler...”
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“...for, but whose
minds are filled with new ideas and
ideals, resulting in purer lives and
nobler characters. Why is China to-
day doing so much for herself in the
matter of education ? I say without fear
of contradiction, by anyone who knows
China, that it is largely because the
splendid work done by all missionary
societies was a constant reproof to her
own systems. Consequently national
education is becoming better each year.
But if the Government institutions be-
come more and more efficient it is quite
clear the mission colleges must not. be
satisfied with the standard they have
held in the past, but must do all they
can to keep well in advance of all other
educational institutions, that the Chris-
tian Church may retain its hold on the
youth of China. Nothing but the best
will do.
MENTAL CONVERSION AND CHRISTIAN
TRUTH.
Of all the great changes that have
taken place in China within the last
ten years perhaps the greatest change
is the complete revolution of China’s
system of Civil and Military...”
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“...made plain to the world,
although China might be possessed of a
lofty system of theoretical morality, the
prevalence of “ a dauntless mendacity,
a barbaric cruelty and a colossal pride
unexampled in modern history.” and
unless China is soon essentially changed
the past conditions may gradually recur.
Here, then, is the door of opportunity
flung wide open to the Christian school
and college to influence China for Christ
and to spread Christian civilization. Is
the new knowledge to enter China
saturated with materialism and agnos-
ticism or imbued with the living Spirit
of Christ? China from an internal
political point of view is just emerging
from a state of chaos. Leaders are
wanted, and the leaders are always
chosen from the student class. The
literati form the only intellectual and
social aristocracy of China. Under the
new regulations the future leaders will
be the students from the Government
and mission colleges. Just at present
the students of mission colleges are
placed under certain...”
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“...Edinburgh. Reproduced by permission.
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discusses many perplexing problems,
takes into full view the native outlook,
and aims to promote unity, co-operation
and economy.
The quality of the present issue may
be judged by a few of its articles. The
Right Hon. James Bryce, D.C.L., His
Majesty’s Ambassador at Washington,
writes upon “ The Impressions of a
Traveller among Non-Christian Races.”
Missionary experts deal with such sub-
jects as “ The Growth of the Church
m the Mission Field,” “ Christianity
and Islam,” “Education in China and
Japan,” “The Special Preparation of
Missionaries,” “The Place of Women
in the Modern National Movements of
the East.” Almost every missionary
question pressing for solution is pre-
sented in one article or another. It is
not light reading, but it is full of food
for thought.
Equally valuable is the section—■
“ The Review of Books ” dealing
with important publications mostly
issued in iqii. The missionary
student will find the last section—
“ Bibliography ” — i...”
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