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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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“...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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“...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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“...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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“...(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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“...he
could not forget it, for he had never
been treated so by a stranger. He
talked about it to his feUow tribesmen
and together they came to the con-
elusion that the missionary must be pos-
sessed of some wonderful knowledge
and power, something of which they
knew not. They determined to find
out the truth, so one day 50 of these
men walked many miles to visit a C.I.M.
Mission station and asked to be taught
the Truth. The missionary in charge
was already overburdened with work,
and advised them to go to the Chao
Tong Mission. Acting on his advice
a number of their chief men paid a sur-
prise visit to our Chao Tong Mission,
and were heartily welcomed by Mr. Pol-
lard and party. And so began a mighty
work which is still growing.
Have we no blessing which we may
share with Africa and China’s sons and
daughters ?
A young lady, carrying a Dorothy
bag, taxed to its fullest capacity, sus-
pended from her wrist, and a bunch of
chrysanthemums in her hand which
seemed to light up the dull November...”
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“...mis-
sionaries left us last Saturday at
Colombo for India .... As a mission-
ary party, led by Rev. Barclay Buxton,
of the Japan Evangelistic Band, we have
daily Bible readings from “ The Acts of
the Apostles,” which have proved help-
ful and searching....... The children
of several missionaries keep us young
with daily games, and on Sundays we
gather for a children’s meeting........
The ports of call on this line have been
very interesting, especially Genoa,
Naples, and Colombo. The visit to
Pompeii from Naples will never be for-
gotten. In company with some German
Bucharis !Lilies, Bo, Sierra Leone.
Grown in the Mission garden with Practically
no attention. —Rev. A. E. Greensmith.
sisters I went ashore at Colombo, and a
native Christian known to them acted
as guide....... A fortnight more, and
we shall be in Shanghai. 1 feel lost with-
out the “ U.M.,” and my usual letters. I
expect a batch will await my arrival in
China . . . . . . Some missionaries in
the cabin next to mine are friends...”
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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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“...were conscious of being directed by Him
who abides in the Church as her per-
petual Guide 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 ...”
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“...appeal to the Wesleyan Church to■
raise in future, beginning with this cen-
tenary year two-thirds of a million
sterling, or twenty-six shillings per
member per year. The Society of
Friends contributes thirty shillings per
member. In this there is much to both
humble and inspire us as a Church.
Idols in Temple just behind Wenchow College. [IV. H. Butler, Esq., J.P.
“ Such is the gospel of Buddha, a gospel without Ood, and whose only hope
lies in the cessation of consciousness.”—(Soothill. "A Mission in China.”)
33...”
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“...opinion,
throughout the civilized world, as
to the need, the utility, and the
value of missions. The only criticism
there has been, or is, relates to the
methods of mission work. Lafcadio
Hearn, who lived in Japan for several
years, and was a tutor at the University,
said that the methods of missionaries in
China and Japan to destroy ancestor
worship would weaken the worshipping
instinct of the soul, and do much harm.
In this he was entirely wrong; and
certainly no such statement could be
made to-day. Missionaries are turning
all that is true and beautiful in Budd-
hism and Confucianism to good spiritual
account, and are leading the people
through the defects of these systems to
the Lamb of God, who taketh away the
sin in the world. The modern question,
as to whether the Pauline methods of
propaganda are better suited to mission
work than present methods, is interest-
ing, and worth considering, but it does
not arise from any sense of failure.
These are the most glorious days in the
history...”
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“...held at Katherine Road on February
1 Oth. A capita] attendance.
Rev. W. Bainbridge outlined our
scheme. Bazaars and exhibitions on
May 21st, 22nd, 23rd, the churches
divided into three groups responsible
for the three openings and the three
stalls. Three missionary courts, repre-
senting the work in China, in Africa,
and Medical Missions.
The President had a favourite theme
and gave a thoughtful and stirring ad-
dress. He reviewed our missionary
heritage and spoke of consequent
responsibilities. Methodism, he de-
dared, was a prime cause of the mis-
sionary revival. The message of
Methodism was and is, “ God loves every
man and lives in every man.” A church
with such a message must be a mission-
ary church. Eloquently, tenderly, con-
vincingly, Mr. Redfern pleaded for a
vision of Christ’s pity for man.
We shall get our ;£150—and more!...”
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“...the brothers have
been placed in our Walham Grove
Church.
4. The Rev. W. R. Fuller went out
from London 4th, now known as Ber-
mondsey. He went to Ningpo,
China, in 1864. He laboured there
seven years, and eventually retired from
the ministry.
5. The Rev. Frederick Galpin also
went from London 4th. He was born
in Bermondsey in 1843, and went to
China in 1868. He laboured there faith-
fully for thirty years, being instrumental
in helping to lay the foundation of our
successful mission work in China. He
was to China what Mr. Wakefield was to
East Africa, and the Rev. W. Griffith to
Jamaica. It was at this time that Mr.
Galpin lost his devoted wife. He re-
turned to England in 1877, where he was
warmly welcomed, but again arrived in
China in 1879, accompanied by a lady
whom he had married, and who pos-
sessed every qualification for a mission-
ary’s wife. Soon after his arrival a mis-'
sion was opened at Wenchow. Mr.
Galpin returned to England for good in
1897, was president of the U.M.F.C. in...”
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“...midst of preparations for Christmas.
“We are expecting nearly 3,000 people,
all of whom will sleep on our compound;
which is worth ^)1,000, and towards which
we have probably received yClOO from the
Home Committee. To-day we have come
in from the Kopu, and they tell us that the
people are coming, not in hundreds but in
thousands, yet you at home are so debt-
ridden that you cannot help us.”
The words in italics are ours. We cannot
imagine any one who is not moved by
such words as these from West China.
Mr. Griffiths reports himself safely at
Mazeras. He arrived about Christmas.
He had a fine passage, but started his
voyage with a bad cold, and did not get
rid" of it easily. Mr. Bassett and many
of the people met him. He was looking
for the appearance of Miss Mackee, the
future wife of Mr. Worthington. She
sailed January 22nd, and we had the
pleasure of seeing her off from Water-
loo, as representing the Secretary.
UGANDA.
A sermon by the Bishop of Uganda
appeared in the Christian World Pulpit...”
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“...bedroom by a board partition, are
Zammy, a pig, and Mr. Wang’s mule.
During the night, to judge by the bang-
ing, snorting, grunting, and thumping
which went on, something special was
going on there. After lying awake for
a few hours, listening to the hubbub,
we came to the conclusion that the mule
was giving Zammy and the pig a course
of lessons in jiu-jitsu.
On Sunday four receive baptism, and
afterwards at the Lord’s supper, there
were fourteen present, seven being mem-
bers of the China Inland Mission and
seven members of the United Methodist
Church.
Monday morning sees us on the move
again. Wonder of wonders, the sun
breaks through and immediately every-
thing begins to look more cheerful. At
our resting place for Monday evening
there is as yet no church, but there is
one home where we are always wel-
come. In the evening a party of about
twenty gathers together for a service.
As usual, a fire is lit in the centre of
the room which turns the room into one
big chimney. For fuel there...”
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