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“...Ladies, Two Elect, Mrs. Soothill - - 81
London Meetings, The, J. E. S. - 126
Livingstone College, The - - - 180
Mailed Fist and Pierced Hand, The,
Lux ...... 246
Medical Mission Stories - - 34, 250
Medical Missions and Nurses - - 35
Medical Missionary •on Furlough, A,
F. H. Robinson .... 113
Meru, Nairobi to, R. T. Worthington 13
Miao Village After Eight Years, H.
Parsons ------ 224
Miao Progress, “Twenty-one,” S. Pol-
lard ...... 102
Miao Progress, “Two Hundred and
Thirty-one,” S. Pollard ... 125
Missionary Societies, Conference of - 184
Mouse and the Lion, The, S. Pollard 6
Moody Bible Institute, The - - - 38
Mullion Again, W.M.A. - - - 141
New Year Message, The President - 1
Ningpo, Glimpses of, G. W. Sheppard 111
Ningpo Reminiscences, F. Galpin - 251
Ningpo, 1864—1914, H. S. Redfern,
M.Sc........................265
North China District Meeting - - 185
Nosu-land Journeyings, C. N. Mylne - 62
Noteworthy Helpers :•—
70. Miss L. Couch - - - - * 19
71. Mrs. Ware .... 19
72. Miss Inch............”
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“...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 from, F. J. Dymond • 241 30
PORTRAITS...”
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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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“...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 rate...”
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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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“...The United Methodist Missions in China
The man gave me no very definite in-
{formation about the work, but I thought
־this fairly good eulogy of our mission-
•aries as men.
The time I spent at Ningpo only al-
lowed me to see the College, and there-
fore, I cannot give an opinion upon any
other of the mission’s activities. I hap-
pened to be there the day before col-
lege opening in September. I was as-
tonished to find that Mr. Redfern was
responsible for such a big work. I
know the mission colleges in some parts
of China where there are four foreign
masters and not so many boys as Mr.
Redfern has. In short, I was convinced,
in both Ningpo and Wenchow, that a
grand work is being done by the two
principals. Probably the best way of
building up an educated church is by as-
•sisting these colleges ; and I felt proud to
see such fine institutions, turning out
men of influence in this struggling land.
Now, when I come to speak of
medical work, I find it difficult to
say just what I want to without...”
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“...travelling in
East Africa, including a fine view of a
Kenia waterfall; portraits of Masai and
Kikuyu warriors, groups of natives, and
their dwellings; and, toward the end of
the volume, pictures of Christianized
people, which form a great and pleasing
contrast to the earlier illustrations.
After labouring for some years, chiefly
as medical missionaries, among the
Kikuyu, Dr. and Mrs. Crawford were
asked to take up medical mission work
at Embu, within sight of Mount Kenia,
and the painting from which the frontis-
piece is uroduced was taken from the
front of the mission-house there.
How greatly we need a medical mis-
sionary at Meru we may form some idea
* By Mrs. T. W. W. Crawford. A record of Medical
Missionary work and travel in British East Africa. C.M.S.
1913, 2s. 6d. net.
A Review.
By tbe Rev.
ROBERT BREWIN.
from Mrs. Crawford’s account of the
commencement of medical work among
the Embu people. She says:
We had not been many weeks in Embu-
land before a small temporary dispensary
was...”
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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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“...its fair share in
what must be done in the space of time
suggested. Our motto may well be,
“ What thou doest, do quickly.”
We believe somehow that we shall
not only raise the requisite sum, but we
shall maintain or even increase our
normal income. A word of exhortation
may be needful. It is not intended
that any of the ordinary giving shall be
diverted to this special channel. This
would mean landing us in another debt.
Consider what London has received,
and is receiving annually from the
Home Mission Fund, thus supplement-
ing what the London Church Extension
Fund has done for Metropolitan United
Methodism.
Page 168 of Minutes of Conference
shows that we raised last year for
Foreign Missions, £791 ; for Home
Missions, £517; total, £1,308. Then
we turn to p. 218, and find that we re-
ceived in grants £1,306. And this has
been going on for many happy years.
Surely our ideal for the “ most im-
portant District ” in the denomination
should be £2,000 per annum; so that
the raising of this special...”
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“...al-
ready aglow this was enough to kindle
the holy fire. Surely the set time to
favour Zion had come. Hearts were
touched and purses unloosed. Promises
flowed in a steady stream. We gathered
the first fruits of revival. The de-
nomination is being knit together in a
spirit of sacrifice. Hope is rising and
joy is spreading as the grace of liber-
ality abounds. God, who touched the
hearts of the first donors can touch all
hearts, and if they as readily respond it
will not take a year to pay the Mission-
ary debts; they will disappear in a
month. When the noble list is read
who will not be eager to have a share in
this thrice-blessed effort for Christ and
the world ?
C. Stedeford,
202 Gravelly Hill, Birmingham ;
John Moore,
30 Coppice Road, Nottingham.”
Then follows a glorious list of pro-
mises amounting to £8,753, £1,845
which had been paid in. A copy of this
list may be obtained from either of the
Secretaries signing the above letter.
See thermometer in December, p.
273, and in present number...”
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“...are moving,
and the lost ones are being gathered'
in.” The Late JAMES CHALMERS.
“We have given the Orient warships
and telephones, steam-cars and sewing-
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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“...to meet us, for we met
many people passing along. Our
porters were glad to see them, for they
got their burdens shared, and some, at
least, got a little refreshment, by the
way, for which they were right ready.
This part of the ride lasted about two
hours, when suddenly leaving the forest
we saw Meru, as fertile valleys set in
a circle of the mountains, the Govern-
ment station on its hundred-acre green,
and away just at the edge of the picture
the little white building of grass which
was the Mission House and our home
We came to it by devious ways
through tracts of waving com, ready for
the harvest. It was a lovely day, as
different from the cold bleak heights of
yesterday as another continent. And
everything tended to make our coming
auspicious, as I trust it may be, in the
great interests we are . here to serve.
Soon a fair concourse of people gathered
to have a look at the new arrivals, and
at the strange things the white man had
brought; offering to work for us, so
that, for men, we...”
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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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“...(Hodder and Stough-
ton.)
This book is in two parts: Rescue
Work in Home Lands, Missionary
Work in Foreign Lands. Both are full
of fact and illustration. 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...”
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“...valuable features
the new number contains a
“Missionary Survey of 1913)” by
Mr. J. H. Oldham, based on the Re-
ports of Missionary Societies and or-
ganizations in the mission field, on a
regular examination of 250 magazines,
newspapers and reviews, both general
and missionary, and on personal com-
munications from over 150 corres-
pondents in all parts of the world. The
international resources at the service of
the Continuation Committee of the
Edinburgh Conference have been fully
utilized to make this connected literary
record of a year so full of world-wide
political, social, and religious signific-
ance unique in value to students of mis-
sions. Ministers will find in this survey
a 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...”
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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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