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“...INDEX.
PAGE
Betrothal, A Chinese, Miss Aber-
crombie ...... 258
Brewin, The late Rev. R. - - - 80
Budget, The Missionary, C. T. Bate-
man ...... 104
Campbell on Missions, Rev. R. J. - 155
Candlin, The late Mrs. ... 272—4
Chapel Openings - - 5, 49, 145, 207
Chaotong Children, F. J. Dymond - 16
China, U.M. Missions in, E. J. Dingle 9
China and Christianity, Dzang Chao
Sing............................87
China : Its Light and Shade, C. - - 138
China, The Outlook in, A. H. Shar-
man ...... 181
China, Mv Journey to, F. B. Turner,
193, 217
Chinese Sayings - - - - 60, 88
Chinese Proverbs - 114, 243
Chinese Pastors, The Work of - - 117
C.E. Topics, J. EUis - - 133, 209, 280
Christmas Card, A, W. Udy Bassett - 37
Church Unity, S. j. Gee - - - 187
Conference and Missions - - 199, 214
Committee, With the - - - - 131
Confucianism, G. T. Candlin - - 104
“Dare You Hear It?” F. J. Dymond - 157
Debt Extinction Efforts ... 150
Debt, The Extinguished, F. H. Robin-
son...............................169
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“..., W. J. Redmore 262
Signs in the East ----- 284
Soothill, M.A., The Rev. W. E.,
J. Naylor.......................73
Soothill, M.A., The Rev. W. E., Miss
Ford ------ 101
Students’ Missionary Demonstration,
A. J. Viney ----- 89
Summer School ----- 160
Sunbeams, The, W. R. Clark - 134
Thanksgiving Day - 222
Thermometer, The Missionary 3, 31, 55,
77, 100, 122, 150, 177
Twenty Years Ago - 281
“Twenty-one,” S. Pollard - - - 102
“Two Hundred and Thirty-one,” S.
Pollard - - - - - 125
U.M. Missions in China, E. J. Dingle 9
Vow, The Broken, F. J. Dymond - 53
Wenchow Mission, Our, J. W. Hey-
wood - - - - - - 227
Wenchow : A Leave-taking and a Wei-
come, H. T. C. - - - - 232
West Africa, Letter from, Rev. A. E.
Greensmith - - - - - 275
Why? A Handful of Reasons, J. E.
S. ------ 55
Women, A Prayer for, The Late R.
Abercrombie 95
Women’s Auxiliary 22, 44, 71, 94, 118, 142,
166, 190, 213, 238, 263, 282
Worthington, Marriage of the Rev. R.
T....................85, 98
Yang Chir, H. Parsons Yunnan, Facts...”
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“...Missionary Leaflet for 1914.
®he ?United Alethodist ffihtirch
HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONS.
“ GIVE YE THEM TO EAT.”
Dear Friends,
Thousands of hungering souls surround our Mission stations
and look to us for the Bread of Life. Some stretch out their
hands in eager entreaty, but an inadequate income prevents our
supplying their need. Will you help to feed this multitude?
In China we maintain 574 Chapels and Preaching Places with
40,000 in regular attendance, five Hospitals where last year
43,000 sufferers received medical aid and at the same time heard
the Gospel News, two Colleges with 270 students, and H0
Elementary Schools where Christian education is given to 3,089
boys and girls.
In East Africa we support 14 Churches and 14 Sunday and
Weekday Schools with 577 scholars.
In West Africa we have 21 Churches and 15 Elementary
Day Schools with 878 boys and girls.
32 Missionaries, 19 Ordained Pastors, 106 Native Ministers, 98
Catechists, and 14 Bible Women are wholly engaged in this work.
The...”
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“...Foreign Secretary’s Notes
of our Missionary debts. At the same
time we must realize that the result can-
not be gained without each church rais-
ing its proper portion. We must act
upon the Cornish motto “ One and all.”
The outlook in our foreign work was
never brighter than it is to-day. If
peace and progress are maintained in
China, as we have good reason to ex-
pect they will be under the more settled
government, and the present spirit of
enquiry spreads, we may look for great
ingatherings.
The First
Six Months
in Mern.
I gather from a re-
cent letter from Mr.
Worthington some in-
teresting facts and inci-
dents relating to the work of the first six
months in Meru. He says:—
“ From the beginning of May we have
held a service every Sunday morning.
At the beginning it was well attended,
•our congregation averaging about 50 in
number. But latterly the attendance
has dwindled, though there are one or
two that we count as our regulars.
This is the experience of others beside
-ourselves when...”
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“...the growing hope
before us. And another word of ap-
peal! Our position is indicated by a
parable of the country. East Africa is
a wonderful land of immense untouched
resources, but short of fuel. Send us
the fuel, and I feel sure that from our
far-off land we shall be able to send
back the glad message to put life and
spirit into the tired workers at home.
The people that sat in darkness have
seen a great light.”
Personalia. brothers J. Hinds and F.
B. 1 urner report their safe
arrival in North China' after a fairly
comfortable journey. Both׳ express
their peculiar pleasure in finding them-
selves once more amid missionary scenes
and service. Mr. Turner asks me to
Mpdical Work Mr' Worthington has
. Mo*n proved the brief course of
a eiu' medical instruction he re-
ceived at Livingstone College most
valuable. Indeed his medical skill is
the chief attraction which brings the
people to him. From the beginning
there has been no lack of applicants for
medicine, and it is well within the num-
ber...”
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“...The Mouse and the Lion
The River Bed Chapel. [Pev. S. Pollard.
“ Fancy £25 providing such a splendid chapel. Ten such in
West China a far better investment than Carnegie organs.
Indian corn in the foreground."—S.P.
people, bound down tight with the cords
of superstition and fear and deep pre-
judice. How to cut these cords we did
not know: how to set free these people
whom Christ died to save was the great
problem.
God has many ways of working and
all of them admirable. Here in one
part of our field He chose a downtrod-
den, ignorant
race of people
to bite away the
nets of pre-
judice, the cords
of fear. These
Chinese about
h e re have
watched the
Miao closely
and at last some
have resolved to
follow their
example.
At Stone
Gateway in the
Miao school-
room Sunday
services have
been held for
vears for any
Chinese who
Two Miao Preachers. [Rev. S. Pollard.
"Peter and Phillip, two of the Miao Preachers who 'gnaw at the cords'
by telling the story of Jesus to Chinese as well as Miao."—S.P.
cared...”
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“...thieves or worse, and prob-
ably some of them are still what they
ought not to be. The chief man was a
terror. Over them all we rejoice with
trembling. To make these men into
fine Christians means hard work and
muoh patience for Jesus. We believe
He will not shirk it. There are no men
too bad for Him to save.
There are several more chapels being
built—some of them very fine. The
cost to the Society will be almost nil. I
think I am correct in saying that
seventy chapels have been built in
our West China Mission, and the
cost to the home funds has not aver-
aged five pounds a chapel. Every-
body will agree that we deserve the
fullest sympathy of the friends at home.
After Mr. Dymond had given his
opening address a tall strong Chinaman
whose record has been a black one got
up and said, “ I am a sinner and there-
fore have no right to speak, but I re-
member we are all sinners and as a
sinner I speak to you sinners.” The Son
of Man came not to call righteous, but
sinners to repentance. He at any...”
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“...housed
me and helped me ; and of the many
subsequent kindnesses of Dr. and Mrs.
Savin. I’ve never seen congrega-
tions in China such as you get in that
Chaotong Church—the work is worthy
of a' much better building.* * And I
know Tongchuan also, five days south.
Surely no more beautiful mission station
in all China than Tongchuan!—where,
as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Evans;
after they had nursed me back to life on
mountains three days away, I lived for
*They are to have it. See Conference list of
promises.—Ed.
many months recuperating, f I re-
member how Mr. and Mrs. Evans and
myself used to sing trios on Sunday,
and how the Chinese used to say,
“Why, listen to the Dingle Teacher!
He can’t sfeak Chinese, but he can sing
it! ” (I was reading typed romanized).
But of West China enough—with this
remark only: that of all the mission
work I have seen in many parts of
China, I have seen none more
truly prosperous than that carried on by
that small band of missionaries whom I
remember with gratitude...”
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“...quainted with hospitals in Shanghai,
Hanking, Hankow, Wuchang, Ichang,
Hanyang, Chunking, Suifu and other
places in China. Some of these are
perhaps better supplied with general
equipment and are in a better state of
repair—I mean, that the paint may be
newer and all that sort of thing; some
are bigger, too. But I have never been
into a hospital in China which gave one
so much of the feeling that he was in a
hospital. It’s a grand work. No praise
of mine would be too great. Dr.
Plummer has made a work here that
will go on and continue to be a blessing
to a vast number of people who will
turn round and call him blessed. And
perhaps it was a little bit more of a
romance because at the time my wife
was responsible for the mission medical
work in the absence of Dr. Plummer.
I did not see any of the evangelical
work, for which I was sorry. But what
I did see of the whole south-east China
field impelled me to write you these hur-
ried lines to encourage workers at home
to go on jointly in well-doing...”
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“...wonderful how
soon the ingathering has come in that,
till recently, degraded and heathen land.
All who read this book should have their
interest deepened in our own Meru Mis-
sion, and should be led to pray daily and
earnestly for our brethren there.
“Everlasting. Pearl, one of China's
Women." By Anna M. Johann-
sen, for sixteen years a missionary
in China. (C.I.M. and Morgan
and Scott; is. 6d. net.)
A story of missionary work in one of
rhe Central Provinces of China. The
conversion of “ Everlasting Pearl ” is
taken as a typical case. In a graceful
way the story touches such questions as
foot-binding, marriage, persecution—
and shows how the women of China
suffer. It follows Mrs. Lu through her
life’s journey for nearly fifty years, and
we rejoice that her earthly ministry is
not closed, but that she “ is still seek-
ing jewels for her Master.” A readable,
suggestive, and instructive book....”
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“...machines, silk hats and cigarettes, but
except the old man be changed within,
all these adventitious trappings will
make Orientals more potent forces for
evil.”
Prize Offer.
A splendid Home Mission work, “ Drijt-
ing Wreckage,״ by the Rev. W. L. Morton
(Hodder and Stoughton ; 6s.) will be given
for the best list of those who have gone to
the foreign field from the London District.
The fullest possible particulars must be given,
and, if passed away, date of death.
E.g.—The Rev. F. Galpin went to China•
from the old London Fourth in 1867, was
there thirty years, and now resides at 176■
Browning Road, Manor Park, E.
The lists must reach the Editor on or before■
February 1st.
Interesting campaign items received •
any time by the Editor or Secretaries :
“ Let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and good works.”—Heb. x. 24-...”
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“...T1?e Cry of tbc
Cbactcpg Cljildreij.
By the Rev.
F• J. DYMOND.
GVEN in China the tables turn and
riches do not continue long in the
same family. The grandson of a
Governor of this Great Province is the
subject of this sketch. Without cloth-
ing, a tiny beggar of seven summers!
who׳ would connect him with a Gover-
nor? Yet such is the case. A char-
woman in our employ spoke to Mrs.
Dymond of his sad condition, he used to
be lying in the street as she came to
her work in the morning. Brought to
our house my wife learned that his
mother was dead, his father had left the
neighbourhood entrusting the child to
an uncle who sent him to the streets to
steal and beg as best he could. Young
“ Ready ” (as my wife calls him) used on
occasion to take what he gathered to
some fortune-teller who would give him
a few cash with which he could buy
sweets. For doing so he was thrashed
by his guardian; who. finding such
punishment ineffective, determined to
resort to sterner measures, and this led
to his coming...”
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“...The Cry of the Chaotong Children
Giles’s book on China one is as-
founded at certain statements there-
in. Can it be that there are two
Chinese? Infanticide is fearfully com-
mon all around us; girls are thrown
away to our certain and frequent know-
ledge.
Have you ever heard of sewing the
limbs of a person together with coarse
string ? Such was the cruel punishment
inflicted upon a slave girl by four women
in this heathen city. For some misde-
meanour or other the lower parts were
sewn up: she was sent on the streets to
buy oil, when the oilman noticed blood-
marks and asked the poor thing what
was the matter. Learning the slave-
girl’s story he immediately reported the
matter to the police with the result that
the four women were arrested and a
severe punishment meted out. The
people of Chaot’ong wonder that any
notice was taken as she was only a
slave-girl.
But what of those things of which we
never hear ? Poverty, sinfulness, cruelty,
are very prevalent all around us. No
people are...”
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“...The former is
indeed a marvellous story. In a fore-
word Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman says, “ In
almost every city of Australia we find
the fruit of Mr. Morton’s labours.”
Every possible detail of Home Mission
work is dealt with most thoroughly, and
will be helpful to British readers.
We naturally turn to “the Missionary
work,” the story of which occupies about
53 PP• of the 317. Men and women
are deliberately trained for foreign
work, the plans are interdenomina-
tional, and they mission Africa and
China. So as the writer deftly quotes,
in his preface,
“Thoughts are expressed, not deftly spun
From loom of loyal heart or busy brain :
But gathered in the haunts of thoughtful
men
That I may test their worth and pass
them on :
Thoughts neither theirs nor mine, but gifts
of God;
Let all the glory be to Him alone.”
"Missionary Principles?' By the Rev.
Roland Allen, M.A. (Robert
Scott; 2s. 6d. net.)
In our issue for July, 1912, Dr.
Clemens reviewed Mr. Allen’s “ Mis-
sionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours...”
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“...background for the missionary propa-
ganda of their own denomination. The
material is grouped under different
countries, including all the mission fields
and the Home Base in America, Great
Britain and the continent of Europe;
side-notes facilitate reference to the
various topics, and the main published
sources of information are indicated in
foot-notes.
■°§=י
“Nevertheless Afterward” By the
Rev. Alexander R. Saunders. (Mor-
gan and Scott, and C.I.M. ; 3d. net.)
A TENDER remembrance of losses in
China during the Boxer year, and re-
cords of the rich growth since. Thir-
teen years’ 'history shows “there is no
such thing as waste in the pouring forth
of our lives for Christ and our fellow-
men.”
*January, 1914. No. 9. 2s. 6d. ; subscription price,
8s. per year. Oxford Press, London, and 1 Char-
lotte Square, "Edinburgh.
21...”
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“...Kingdom into the hearts
and lives of our Sisters in China and
Africa.
The enormous Missionary Debt has
seemed to cripple and crush our efforts
at every turn, and however hard we
have worked we have ,net apparently
made much progress, in our own par-
ticular work. We have been “cast
down ” in soul, and yet God’s wonderful
work has been going on all the time,
in His own way. Over thirteen years
ago, in China, thousands of her people
were cruelly prit to death for their faith-
fulness to the “Jesus” religion: to-day
she asks for the prayers of the “ Jesus ”
followers all over the world. This an-
cient and resourceful country realizes
that if she is to be the great and
powerful nation that she may be, her
daughters, as well as her sons must be
educated. So she has established her
board of education: schools and col-
leges are being built and (a most sig-
nificant fact this) Christian teachers are
to have the preference; for, above all
else, China realizes that it is Chris-
tianity that makes a...”
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“...The Work of Our Women’s Auxiliary
and His will is being done, in China,
in Africa, even as it is in Heaven.
“ Lord, teach us each to take some share
In answering our daily prayer
Thy Kingdom come.”
May this be our prayer for this year,
the year which is to see us free from
debt.
Mrs. KNIGHT.
A happy New Year to you dear
readers. I am so glad that there
are 2,500 more of you now than a
year ago, and hope you will help us
to the very limit of your powers. Jesus
said, “ Go ye into all the world and
preach” It is an imperative command
to go yourself or send an equal.
There are many ways of helping
Jesus to save the world. The story of
the beginning of what is termed the
Miao movement illustrates what may be
done in other places, if we have the
right spirit. A missionary, while on a
journey in that land of mists and moun-
tains rested by the wayside, in order
that he might partake of his lunch. (I
do not know if it was “bread and sun-
shine ”). He observed a Miao tribes-
man near by who was...”
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“...Squire, B.A., is that she is at home
with her father, but must report herself
at the Hospital at intervals.
THE MONTHLY PRAYER MEETING.
Hymns:
“Father, let me dedicate, this New
Year to Thee,”
“ I am Thine, O Lord, I have heard
Thy voice,”
“ Take my life, and let it be.”
Scripture: Romans x.
Praise: For safe arrival of Sister Lily
in China and for the growing interest
which the women of our churches are
taking in the work of our W.M.A
Prayer.—That Mrs. Savin, who ex-
pects to return to China early in the
year may receive all needful help in ar-
ranging for her departure, and that she
may have a very safe and happy voyage.
That our missionaries in West China
may be Divinely guided in the matter of
the leper settlement. That we may
witness unprecedented prosperity on all
our foreign stations, and that a spirit
of true consecration may possess all our
churches at home.
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“...Wenchow Marriage
been united in holy matrimony. This
has not always been a matter of choice,
but of necessity, though involving
11,000 miles of sea-journey. This mar-
riage had another distinctive mark so far
as our South-Eastern China Mission is
concerned. It was the first union of
two active and fully recognized mis-
sionaries of our churches.
The W.M.A. have every reason to
feel proud of their choice of Miss Holt
as an Educational Missionary. In lan-
guage-study she has excelled. As a
teacher and organizer she has had
great success, five of her pupils having
passed the Government examination
with credit, and obtained pupil teachers’
certificates during the present year.
The Rev. Tom M. Gauge has also
rung true in the tests which challenge
the missionary in his early years. The
difficulties of the Wenchow dialect have
had no terrors for him. He has sue-
ceeded beyond the average in obtain-
ing a working knowledge of both
Chinese character and colloquial. When
left in charge of our Wenc'how...”
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“...and Teacher. Mr. Bassett
says:
“ It must have been a sight that gave
pleasure to the Great Head of the Church
to see Anglican and Baptist, Presbyterian
and Seventh Day Adventist, Methodist,
■Quaker and Lutheran, all of one heart and
mind. Bishop Peel (of Mombasa) said,
This occasion is to me the most wonder-
ful in all my mission experience. One
can only thank God that one has lived
through missionary years to come to a
time like this. The presence of God has
:Rev. J. R. Robson, ISd.D.,
.North China, 1883—
[New photograph—Pendry, Nottingham.
never left us throughout the Conference
for a moment. We have had given to us
heart union and unity though we have not
got that outward union which it is not
possible ,to obtain at this moment; but
we have a heart unity that the Lord Jesus
has begotten in us by the Holy Spirit.’
“The devotional services will never be
forgotten. Special mention should be
made of a devotional address by Bishop
Willis (of Uganda) on ‘ Washing one
another’s feet.’ One can...”
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