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“...PAGE
NORTH CHINA.
Candlin, The late Mrs., F. B. Turner - 24
Chart of Growth, 1859—1915 - - 56
China’s Call to Prayer, F. B. Turner - 9
Church that wouldn’t be Closed, The,
G. P. Littlewood - 162
District Meeting ----- 155
New Methods, G. P. Littlewood - - 33
Yung Ping Fu, Experiences at, A. F.
Jones ------- 112
SOUTH-EAST CHINA.
Chart of Growth, 1864—1914 - - 94
Chekiang Closed to Opium - - - 183
Coming Home for Third Time, J. W.
Heywood ------ 172
Ningpo College _ - - - 176, 191
The Things that Matter, G. W. Sbep-
pard ------- 145
Wenchow, A Peep into, Mrs. T. W.
Chapman - - - - - -110
Wenchow Address to Conference, 1915 117
Wenchow Light-bearers W. R. Stobie 65
Wenchow, Pastor Zing of, T. M. Gauge 40
Wenchow Trials and Triumphs, H. T.
Chapman. ----- 103
Wenchow, Women of, A. LI. Sharman - 31
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
Birthday Letter from a Missionary - 8
Chao Tong, Glimpses of, L. Savin - 16
Chao Tong to Plymouth, Mrs. Dymond 74
Chart of Growth, 1885—1914 - - 94
Girls in West China, Education...”
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“...Rev. T. G. - •» 57
OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.
NORTH CHINA.
Tong Shan Bible Class - - - - 20
Chu Chia Harvest Festival - - - 21
Motor-cycles and Missions - - - 33
Cycle Corps (group) ... - 34
Wu Ting Fu Bible Class - - - 54
Rev. G. P. Littlewood and Mandarin - 155
The Church that wouldn’t be Closed, 161-2
Christmas Post Card, A. - - - 48
Chu Chia Church ----- 167
Chu Chia School, Class 2 in - - 194
SOUTH-EAST CHINA.
Summer School at Pei-tai-hoe - - 4
Morning Prayers at Ningpo College - 9
Girls’ School Staff at Wenchow - - 31
A Lesson in Physics at Ningpo College 36
Group in Honour of A. H. Sharman - 40
Ancestral Temple, Wenchow ... 41
Pastor Pan and Group, Wenchow - 65
Students at Ningpo PAGE 68
Wenchow House-boat - 84
A Roadside Shrine, Wenchow 85
A Temple Court-yard, Ningpo - - 145
A Lotus Pond, Pootoo. - ' - 147
A Ningpo Woman, 1892, and 1915 151-2
Farewell Party for Mr. Hevwood 171
Mrs. Heywood and Mrs. Mao - - 175
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
Ko Kuei - - - - ■ 6, 7
A Nosu Family - -...”
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“...SPECIMEN HANDBILL FOR REVERSE PRINTING (four sets).
Supplied free on application to the Publishing House. Carriage free or included in the monthly parcels.
The United Methodist Church
FOREIGN MISSIONS
What is maintained ?
IN CHINA: 27 Missionaries, 414 Churches
5 Hospitals, 2 Colleges, 131 Day Schools
and Chinese Agents, including 6 ordained
Pastors, 94 Ministers, 69 Catechists, and
14 Biblewomen.
IN AFRICA : 5 Missionaries, 36 Churches,
11 ordained Native Pastors, 21 Catechists,
and 29 Day Schools.
“Flowers of God’s heart’’ in Miaoland.
Why a Larger Income
is Needed.
At Meru, Fast Africa.
THE MAGNET PRESS, PECKHAM, S. E.
BOCaUSO ^lere are 9 fewer Missionaries
than five years ago, as vacancies
in the staff have not been filled
for want of funds ; these vacancies
represent 2 Doctors, 3 Ministerial
Missionaries. 3 Nurses and 1 Lady
Educationist.
BeCaUSe grants f°r working expenses
are £1,559 less than the estimates.
BeCaUSe Native Preachers and Catechists
were discontinued last year: the...”
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“...day by day by
the stories of carnage and devastation
in Belgium and France. So far as we
can see any such special effort as that
completed in July would have been im-
possible during war time. Are we not
warranted in believing that a kindly
Providence has been over our beloved
Church, and this great hindrance to
our Missionary operations has been re-
moved by God’s guidance and blessing?
But debts have a tendency to recur,
and in the extensive work we carry on,
covering three great Districts in China,
that land of many millions, and two im-
portant spheres in East and West
Africa, and some eighty-six stations in
England, it is difficult to effect econo-
mies and almost impossible to check
January, 1915.
growing expense, except at the cost of
crippling the work.
13ut the Conference was quite in
earnest in its declaration that debt must
not again be contracted, and the per-
plexing task is assigned to our two Com-
mittees to carry out this injunction fully
and faithfully.
The President (Rey...”
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“...marked for conquest.
Methods are already projected for
China, which, when actually brought
into operation will have a great influ-
ence on the future of that wonderful
landi
If I might say a word or two to my
ministerial brethren, it would be to sug-
gest that in the ECHO and the “ Mission
Report,” they might find excellent il-
lustrations for many pulpit themes, which
would tell all the more because of per-
sonal interest therein. And further to
expound the latest efforts and achieve-
ments would be generaly helpful and il-
lumiriating, and especially as to China,
where things have changed with ka-
leidoscopic swiftness. No doubt in
some districts of the Flowery Land there
may still be ignorance of any revolu-
tion, just as in this country there may
be found people who do not yet under-
stand that the war in which we are now
engaged must profoundly affect the
most remote villages and hamlets of
Great Britain. Common conditions in
China have been so revolutionised that
descriptions, accurate...”
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“...instances an act of deliberate personal
sacrifice, it must not be withheld. Our
collectors will be able to show that the
demand is the same and even greater.
We cannot suspend missionary opera-
tions on account of the war, and unless
the income is considerably larger than
last year we shall be faced with a most
embarrassing deficit when the accounts
are closed. Some places have proposed
to give the proceeds of their annual sale
Dr. G. T. Candlia, [J. E. Shaw and Son,
North China, 1875— Huddersfield, 1914.
[Expects to leave for China on the 7th inst.]
3...”
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“...Bookland
road need not stay more than one night
in a Chinese inn; all the remaining
nights he can sleep on chapel premises
or in the homes of members or en-
quirers belonging to the United
Methodist Church, excepting that the
first two nights would be on China In-
land Mission premises.
In going from Yunnan Fu to Chen
Hsiong: 1904, 16 inns and 3 mission
homes; 1914, 1 inn and 18 mission
homes.
God grant that growth intensively
may be as rapid as growth extensively.
We are in danger—a very real danger
of being swamped with numbers. Luke
xi. 2.
Booblapd.
“With the Bible in Brazil? By
Frederick C. Glass. (Illustrated
with a map.) (Morgan and Scott;
2s. 6d. net).
This is a story of life in Brazil, where,
for 15 years, the author has been at
work as a colporteur and missionary.
His adventures and experiences make
thrilling reading, as Rev. J. Stuart
Holden remarks in his “Foreword” to
the volume. The story of a modern
miracle is told—of a leper healed with-
out medical aid, of how a revolution...”
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“...month. We should grow like
unto Him—the Altogether Lovely. True
loveliness should make our lives more
like the God of Love would have them
to be. If we will but have faith to
look up and press on, I am sure that
“The best is yet to be.” “No good
thing will He withhold from them that
walk uprightly.” “ Your Heavenly
Father knoweth that ye have need of all
these things.” If we will fully trust
God’s love and wisdom, I am sure that
He will order our lives infinitely better
From a Lady Missionary in China
to her Younger Sister in England.
than we ourselves could do. We can-
not see far enough, we cannot see truly
enough, to know what is our highest good.
Let us say from our hearts: “ I know
whom I have believed, and am per-
suaded that He is able to keep that
which I have committed unto Him against
that day.” “ I am persuaded that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principali-
ties, nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature, shall be...”
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“...President of the United States has
appealed to the churches for a day of
prayer, desiring that peace be restored
as soon as possible. This day should
also be observed by the people of China,
because if the war should drag- on for an
indefinite period, it is almost impossible
for China to avoid danger. The na-
tional existence of China has been a
very long one. In ancient times when
there were troubles the Sage Emperors
used to appeal to God for help. Con-
fucius once said, ‘ I have always prayed ’
and ' should a man offend God he has
nowhere to go . for prayer.’ These are
heathendom. It will show at least that
there are those in China who have come
to the firm belief in man’s need of God
and in the efficacy of man’s appeal1 to
Him in great crises like the present.
But how humbling it should be to us
that China should have to pray for the
cessation of fratricidal strife among
Christian people. Have we so learned
Christ that we can find no better way of
adjusting national differences, however...”
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“...to us peace in our time, O Lord.”
The following, from the “ Peking
Gazette,” shows the President’s assent
and action :
President Wilson has asked for special
prayer to be held in the United States
on October 4th for the speedy coming
of peace.
The matter was laid before the Presi-
dent and Vice-President of China with a
view of having the Chinese people join
in this Day of Prayer. Both have ex-
pressed their cordial' approval and have
sent their representatives to arrange
with the Y.M.C.A., the Reform Bureau,
and the Christian Churdhes to have
special prayer, on October 4th, for world
peace. In addition to this a nation-wide
prayer-day was observed on October
28th in all parts of China to pray for
peace in Europe and Asia.
«Sje»
More Jourpeyipgs
ip Nosulapd.
nOT many days after the end of our
previous wanderings* we again
pack up our luggage, which in-
eludes bedding, paraffin oil, cocoa,
books, magic lantern, bread, medicines,
etc., and start out on the warpath.
It is not a very inspiring...”
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“...munificent gift.
So now, Zammy, must put his best
leg forward as “ the shades of night are
falling fast,” and we are on a strange
road. We push on and by and by come
to yet a third gully which is narrower
still. We swing round to the left, and,
after a while, just as the darkness falls,
we reach Buffalo Place, with just enough
strength left to say “ How do ” to mine
host and no more. The pirate who told
us that we only had ten miles to go had
only made a trifling mistake of ten miles.
But in China, a mistake of ten miles is a
mere detail, providing that the other
man has to travel it. But ah! truly
A NO9U Family. [Rev. H. Parsons.
11...”
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“...By Mrs. KNIGHT.
Dear Friends,
WHILE wishing you a Happy
New Year I realize that some
of you may be mourning the
loss of loved ones, and you may feel
now that there are no more Happy New
Years for you. Many broken hearts
have found healing and comfort by ad-
dressing themselves to the task of com-
forting others, and once again we plead
the need of China and Africa’s heathen.
The motto “Your King and Country
Need You ” faces us everywhere, and
while responding tP that let us not dis-
regard the claims of the King of kings
who needs us to help Him carry out His
plan of saving the world. An incident
related by Mrs. Swallow, of Ningpo, in
a letter to our Foreign Correspondent,
will show how truly help is needed. She
writes: “ During the first eight days of
this month twenty new patients came
into our hospital, suffering from various
diseases. Amongst the number were
two little slave girls. One is the daugh-
ter of a man who trades in silk-worms.
His wife dying, he determined to sell his
ei...”
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“...triumphs among the
Miao folk. In a recent journey, of
which we hope a fuller account will be
forthcoming, Mr. Hudspeth baptized
over 200 people in one day, and when
the tour was finished he had added
about 400 to the number of baptized
Christian Miao.
Coining Rev. G. T. Candlin,
and Going. D.D., terminated his brief
furlough on January gth
and sailed for China per the P. and O.
S.S. “ Medina” An enthusiastic meet•
ing at Fentiman Road bade him farewell.
It hqs been a great joy to his old
friends, and likewise to a large number
of new ones, to see and hear Dr. Cand-
lin. His record extends to the early
days of the mission in North׳ China, a
record in whiefh loyalty, fidelity, and
ability have won the highest esteem of
all who know him. We pray that his
More Jourpeyipgs
in Ncsulapd. (Continued).
’HE old gentleman gravely as-
sures us that all the people in
the city are deeply sensible
of the honour we have paid them
by condescending to come to their
squalid, poverty-stricken little village...”
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“...budding Sherlock Holmes who would
discover the thieves for us.
P.S.—It didn’t!
[Rev. H. Parsons.
A Nosu woman and her son.
Tljc Iptcrpatiopal Review
of Missions.*
LWAYS a distinctive and wel-
come feature of the January
number is the Editor’s review of
the year in the Mission Field. This
time it occupies 54 pp. and is as deeply
interesting and useful as ever. From
Japan to China, to India and Ceylon,
through the Moslem World and Africa
generally, then away to other fields, as
e.g., Jewish Missions, and he returns to
the Home base.
Dr. Arthur Smith contributes an ar-
tide on “ The Christian Church in
Changing China,” which reveals a wide
experience, and finishes on an optimistic
note.
The series on “ The Home ministry
and Foreign Missions ” is continued by
contributions by a Yorkshire vicar, a
French pastor and an American Professor.
The review, thought slightly less than
its predecessor of a year ago, is full of
valuable and useful material.
* Price 2s. 6d. net. Annual subscription, post...”
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“...Tbc late
Mrs. Capdlip.
׳HE hearts of all the members of
our Mission in North China go
out in sympathy with our dear
old friend and colleague, Rev. G. T.
Candlin, in the bereavement which has
come to him during his furlough in Eng-
land, and while far away from the mem-
bers of his family who have settled
in the country of his adoption. And it
is well that at this time it should be
placed on record how much the mission
has owed to Mrs. Candlin’s devotion.
She so׳ little obtruded herself and the
work she did upon the public notice that
in our community in England her name
is far less associated than it ought to be
with our most successful work.
It is generally felt that in our Mission
operations in North China the most en-
couraging feature is our Girls’ School in
Lao׳ Ling. It is less known that we are
now very largely reaping what Mrs.
Candlin has sown.
Others have helped forward this
work and have found the means for its
continuance and extension and for the
provision of its excellent...”
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“...meeting of the Endeavour
Society, to give anything more than the
briefest sketch of the history and
spheres of our work. It must be suf-
ficient to name the fields and the time
of their entry.
The Foreign Missions were founded
in Jamaica (1838), North China and
West Africa (1859), East Africa (1861),
South-East China (1864), and South-
West China (1885). (The churches in
Jamaica are now self-supporting and
self-governing). Thus it appears that
for seventy-six years the U.M.C. has
been seeking to fulfil its Lord’s march-
ing orders. ’
In each field we have had “ saints,
apostles, and martyrs,” To name a
few would be to do injustice to many.
We have witnessed wonderful triumphs.
A marvellous awakening amongst the
Miao tribes in South-West China added
3,000 members to our mission in two
years. And we have sorrowed over
great disasters. We entered Mendiland,
West Africa, in 1892, and the work
amongst real heathen seemed ideal: but
the whole mission ■was swept away, na-
tive ministers and people...”
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“...pennies are of
no use to you themselves; but changed
into Gospel books, into healing medi-
cines, into sehool primers, or into those
kindly gifts which enable you to make
a fresh start after some great trouble,
they are of great use to you, they come
as great blessings into your lives; and
there is a new light in your minds, a new
strength, a new power, a new hope
within you because of the ministry of
grace they bring! Are not these dear
children good friends of yours ? ”
And both in Africa and in China
many men and women, boys and girls,
too, would delight to confess that they
were.
The speaker paused and then he said,
“ And are there not many boys and girls
here who would like to share that bless-
ing? Are there not many who will
give their pennies that they may be
changed into helpful gifts?—that they
may send truth, healing, wisdom, and
kindness to those who need them in
other lands ? ”
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Tlje Observatory.
MISSIONS AND THE WAR.
THE Committee’s anticipations con-
cerning our funds for...”
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“...Bless especially our National Missionary
endeavours, and give us grace■ to fulfil Thy purpose of Love, that Thy
salvation may be carried to the ends of the earth. Through Jesus Christ
our Lord.”—Amen.
Harvest Festivals apd
Baptisrps ip Mia© Lapd.
By the Rev.
W. H. HUDSPETH.
I WAS feeling pretty much out of
temper when I said Good-bye to
Stone Gateway, for I had just been
reading some of the attempts of our
Christian leaders to defend this modern
Armageddon. Those of us who are
living in far-off China can take a de-
tached view of this mad plunge into the
impossible, and we feel that the Faith
which we have brought to this people is
being shaken
to its very
founda t i ons.
When we are
asked by
young Chris-
tians what it
all means, and
why the
Mother Coun-
try should be
compelled to
go to war, we
are at a loss
t o find any
answer. W e
are as soldiers
whose com-
munic a t i o n s
are being cut
and whose
supplies are
being stopped.
But gloomy
April. 1915.
The Dragon’s Well Chapel, where 333 were...”
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“...Cur Missions ip Cbipa, 1859 to 1915.
IT is proposed to illustrate our position
and growth in the great empire of
China by a series of charts in the
following order:—
North China (1859).
South-East China (1864).
South-West China (1885).
I.—Tl>c North China Mission•
By Mr. T. C. WARRINGTON, M.A.
The accompanying diagram sum-
marizes the history of what we now call
our North China Mission which was be-
gun by the M.N.C. in 1862. In this
summary, inferences from the diagram
are printed in ordinary type, the related
events in the history of the mission are
printed in italics.
1859 (Oct. 21).—Rev. John Innocent and
Rev. T. N. Hall sailed for China.
r86o'(Mar. 23).—Arrival at Shanghai.
1861 (April).—Mr. Innocent arrived in
Tientsin and was shortly after-
wards joined, by Mr. Hall.
1862.—First chapel opened in Tientsin.
1862-65.•—Small beginnings.
1865-70. — Extremely rapid growth.
Awakening of Chit Chia, 1866.
1870- 71.—Check. Tientsin massacre,
1870.
1871- 72.—Rapid recovery.
1872- 75.—Steady...”
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“...early disciples with their “ silver
and gold have I none, but such as I
have give I thee.”
That this Church should be a Mis-
sionary Church goes without saying.
Such God-filled men and women could
not conceive of any limitation to the
range of operation of the Word of God.
The Missionary instinct was in their
very soul, the mystic glow was on the
altar of their heart. It is not surpris-
ing, then, that they should stretch out
helpful hands to regions beyond, east
and west, Canada, Australia, and China,
and establish missions which were
destined in the Providence of God to
become valuable assets in a larger
Methodism.
Many psychological problems present
themselves as we read in these pages the
stories of revivals, which we cannot
dwell upon here. But the fact remains,
these early Methodists possessed the
Divine art of persuading men and
women, of getting them converted from
sin, and sweeping them wholesale into
the Kingdom of God. They knew “ the
tides of the Spirit,” and how to take the
occasion...”
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