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“...- - 276 Darkness to Light, From, Dr. Grandin 144 Diary, The Missionary - - - - 101 District Bazaars for Mission Debt : Sheffield, Rev. W. PI. Lockley - 133 Leeds, Rev. W. Stephen - - 175 East Africa Problems, Rev. J. Baxter - 105 Eddon,. The Rev. W., Mr. S. Arnold - 222 Education in China, Mr. T. W. Chap- ■ man, M.Sc. ----- 31 Experience, An Appeal to, Rev. W. Hall 184 Fairbrother, Miss Maggie, Rev. S. E. Davis - - - - - - 233 Flag, The Symbolic Peking - - - 127 Fifteen Years After, Mrs. R. Swallow 70, 94 Folk-lore, ,The Spider in Mendi, Rev. A. E. Greensmith - - - - 227 PAGE Foreign Secretary’s Notes, 3, 23, 53, 76, 89, 124, 149, 169, 198, 219, 249, 267 Freetown, Collegiate School at - - 60 “Friend in Need,” A Needy (Bible Society) - - - - - - 138 Galla Beliefs and Customs, Rev. J. II. Phillipson ----- 121 Galla Chiefs and Heroes, Mrs. Wake- field -------7 Gallas and German Mission, Miss Minnie Linthorn - - - - 102 Giving, Those Exempt from - - 215 Haystack Prayer Meeting, The, Rev. J...”
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“...January, 1912. Tl>e Rev. GEORGE PACKER, D.D. must give; we possess, therefore we must distribute; we enjoy, therefore we must share. “ If,” is the noble declara- tion of Job, “ If I have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof, then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.” A deep and permanent interest in the missionary work of the church can only be created and sustained by growing knowledge. To think about this work at the mission anniversary, and then forget it for the next twelve months is not merely worthless: it is heartless. Before St. Paul had visited Rome he knew the names of all the principal Re▼. George Packer• D.D. (President). [Favoured by Ed, ״ United Methodist."‘...”
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“...it was, doubtless, studiously acquired by painstaking efforts. “ The cause which I knew not,” says Job, “ I searched out.” Doors are wide open to-day by which we may enter upon full and correct knowledge of the deep needs of the heathen world, and every Christian should make him- self acquainted with all that concerns the growing Kingdom of Christ. Mis- sionary literature is an essential element in any Christian home. From accurate knowledge of mission- ary opportunity will spring systematic support. One of the saddest things to see in any mission report is the way in which subscriptions, appropriate enough when originally started have become frozen into an unchanging amount not- withstanding that financial ability has indefinitely expanded. The blessing of those who are ready to perish will not come upon us in its fullness until the once-a-year gift becomes once a week, and every contribution is baptized with intense spiritual longing. Prayer, systematic prayer in com- plete dependence...”
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“...Secretary’s Notes. Greeting. A Happy New Year to 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...”
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“...peacefully into the hands of the revolu- tionaries. To Meru The Committee has de- at Last. cided to send a mission- ary to Meru next Spring. Unless we enter Meru our work will be restricted to the malarious coast re- gion because the more healthy high- lands will be divided among the vari- ous missionary societies by Government arrangement. To be confined to the coast while all the great developments in East Africa were taking place fur- ther inland would leave us in the most unpromising locality. The deliberate judgment of Mr. Griffiths, whose ex- perience gives great weight to his words, is thus expressed: “ If we do not advance and occupy Meru I wish to say with all( my heart that as a mis- sion we have no future. We have no room for expansion where we are, and there is no field unoccupied excepting Meru. Your decision to advance, or not to advance, will decide the fate of this mission.” While the call to enter Meru is so urgent the state of our funds will not permit us to increase our staff...”
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“...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 ? ” For darkly, lo, the storm is rising round us, And the great wind thereof, Cloud, and the lightning of the cloud have found us ; Hate, wounding sore Thy love, Threatens ; war reigns, and wrath and deso- lation That on its path attend, And the world shakes, in world-wide agitation ; And what shall be the end ? But Thou, Lord! from the Valley of the Vision Yet speakest, would we hear. And Thy evangel dies not, nor our mission— Our hope bears down our fear. Though round Thy rock the floods beat, fast and faster, And year by year assail, “ I am the same,” Thy word is, Lord and Master, “And My years shall not fail.” S. GERTRUDE FORD. 6...”
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“...get at the facts of the case, and then try and persuade the two families to make peace outside the Yamen. I have told them that if they keep it in the Yamen I can do nothing, but am willing to help them to make peace privately. I am now waiting the return of Mr. Li with his report. I mention this case to you not that it has any great interest for anyone, but simply to illustrate the fact we are all conscious-of out here, that our country members are all imbued with the idea (and nothing the mission- ary can say to the opposite will re- move it from their minds) that all who become members of the church, when they have any little trouble, or quarrel with others, have a right to expect the Church to protect them and act for them, and that practically they are to be shielded from the laws of the land and all consequences of lawless acts. No argument will ever remove this idea, and only experience and strict discipline will avail. This feeling, I’m sorry to say, seems to be quite general in...”
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“...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 in that great country...”
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“...included—however, the photograph on p. 132 (by Mr. Parsons) appeared in the Echo for July, 1910. There are no less than 108 excellent photographs, and our kinship with the book is seen in the fact that the Revs. S. Pollard and H. Parsons are specially thanked for help in this direction. The author went " across China,” hence there 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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“...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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“...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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“...have envied us our deep sense of com- radeship with the past, our knowledge of what Christianity has proved itself to be over the broad fields of the world’s life? We have, as they had, the Will of Christ ex- plicit in one great charge, implicit in all He said and did; we have also, what they could not have, the confirmation of the cen- turies. It is no doubtful venture on which we are bidden to embark. Not Scripture only, but Scripture interpreted and made luminous by history, calls us to the mission- ary task. On our bowed heads an awful past has laid its consecrating hands. “To doubt would' be disloyalty, To falter would be sin.” ANOTHER DEGREE. We are always delighted when mis- sionaries are honoured by our Univer- sities. In our report of the Foreign Missionary Committee we have re- ferred to the Rev. W. E. Soothill, M.A. This degree has been conferred upon him by the University of Cambridge, and we congratulate our dear friend most cordially. A Voluntary Ipccrpe Tax. A Presbyterian Church...”
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“...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 return home for next Con- ference, the latter...”
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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 harvesters...”
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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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“...verdict .of our churches on the crucial question, whether we must abandon any of our mission stations. The proposals for future policy will necessarily be governed by the financial position. We earnestly pray that there may be no By the Rev. C. STEDEFORD. need to weaken our staff nor to call a retreat from any part of the field. Missionary Under the exceptional Prayer pressure we have been Meeting's. obliged to say much about our monetary resources, much more than we care to do. Its missionary work should be the natural and unforced expression of the life and energy of the church. It cannot be sus- tained by extraordinary appeals. Our ordinary expenditure must be kept within the limits of our normal income. Our first appeal is far beyond the finan- cial plane. Our sufficiency is of God. We all believe this, and ought to pro- vide opportunity for the expression of our faith. Let me plead that a mission- ary prayer-meeting should be held in connection with each of our churches once a month...”
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“...with bullets. The rest of us French, English, Japs, etc., left at eight, and reached Tongking safely. Here we remain for a while. Some C.I.M. ladies are with us, and our U.M. party con- sists of those who went up the line so joyfully a few weeks ago, Mrs. Pollard, Ernest, Mr. Evans, and myself.” " ork This withdrawal of our Interrupted, missionaries from their stations means a serious interruption to the work, and a 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...”
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“...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 that they need 31...”
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“...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, J.P. bringing of this class, therefore, under the influence...”