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“...mittee, A. E. J. Cosson - - - 253
Home Base and Missions, The, W.
Barnes..........................36
India, Christianity in - - - - 156
Intercession, The Ministry of, F.
Barrett - - - - 143
International Choir, Art - - . 144
PAGE
Jesus, The Missionary Faith of, W.
Redfern (the late) - - - . 121
Kikuyu, J. E. S. - - - - - 115
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...”
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“...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.
Abercrombie, Rev. R. E...”
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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 treatment which gives the patient
immediate relief, such as dressing ulcers,
which brings the greatest credit to the
physician. It is expected that medicine
will produce immediate and miraculous
effect and when this expectation is dis-
appointed the native often discontinues
his application for treatment. Mr.
Worthington regards the medical work
as of the first importance and pleads for
a hospital and a doctor as the most ef-
fective means of winning the people and
thus establishing the mission.
Rev. R. T. *Worthington, operator•
5...”
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“...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
has...”
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“... 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.
Down in Wenchow and Ningpo, of
course, you meet a different...”
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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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“...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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“...where shall we look
for labourers? The Master has said.
Pray! May they soon be sent! The
light is being sown, the darkness is
breaking, the thick clouds 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...”
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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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“... 6s. (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...”
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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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“...passed
Singapore we shall have it cooler......
The C.I.M. missionaries from England
and Germany are well represented on
this boat....... Many American 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-...”
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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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“...number of guests
were entertained a la Chinese. The
whole day was truly a happy one. East
and West .vied with each other in con-
gratulations and gifts to Kuh Sie-sae
and Kuh Siz-mo. The parents of the
happy couple, Mr. and Mrs. J. Holt, of
Bury, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Gauge, of
London, were not forgotten. To them,
although divided by the seas. “Whu-
Shi,” was expressed, and the prayer ut-
tered that their children may long
honour them and the Home Churches
by faithful and successful work in the
Mission Field.
poreigp Secretary’s
Notes.
The Kikuyu THE Conference of Mis-
Controversy, sionaries labouring in
East Africa, held at
Kikuyu last June,* stands out with unan-
ticipated prominence and is likely to de-
rive historical importance from the con-
troversy it has excited, The con-
troversy arises from the action of the
Bishops of Uganda and Mombasa in
holding true Christian communion with
missionaries of other churches in the ob-
servance of the Lord’s Supper, and in
approving the plan of ...”
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“...evident
that the Spirit of God moved powerfully
upon the assembly and that all alike
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...”
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“...Facts from Yunnan
Tent Mission In connection with the
in Chn Chia, local fair, Rev. G. P.
Littlewood held a remark-
able five days’ tent mission at Chu Chia.
The local authorities reared a mat shed
capable of accommodating 800 people
and invited the missionary to preach.
So for five days there was almost con-
tinuous preaching, and at night the lan-
tern was displayed. Mr. Littlewood
calculates that thus he had 10,000
hearers.
Another event of interest at Chu Chia
is that a son was born to Mrs. Littlewood
on December 16th. Both doing well.
Facts froip Yuppap.
By tl>e Rev. F- J. DYMOND.
THIS is Thursday evening. Since
Sunday I have received the fol-
lowing news:
1. From Mr. H. A. C. Allen, 21
years on the field, now stationed at Yun-
nan Fu.
“ Our people are greatly enheartened
by seeing God’s hand stretched out to
save. It is a day of marvellous oppor-
tunity; almost appalling to realize that
—I believe one is about correct in say-
ing—the majority of people worship no
idols now; great...”
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