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The War and the Kingdom of God.

B y W a l t e r B. S loan;. HE circumstances in which we are placed at the face the fact that at present we are not situated exactly opening of another year are of such a character as we have been in the times just referred to. The that they force themselves on our attention ; world is nearer to a -condition of universal war than it T and it is most fitting that we should endeavour has ever been. The number of men under arms is to understand their significance in relation to the coming prodigious, the losses by death and wounds are unpre­ of the Kingdom of G od. cedented ; and the issue is bound to leave the nations, It is impossible to think at present of the progress the victors as well as the vanquished, exhausted in their of the Gospel in the hearts of men apart from the con­ resources of men and money to an extent hitherto ditions by which we are surrounded in the world. unknown. If faith is to be maintained strong and This is the twentieth century of the Christian era, and firm at such a time, and if the Church is to come forth the larger part of Christendom is not merely like an conquering and victorious, she must have a clearer armed camp, but is actually engaged in the most deadly view of all that lies behind this world situation and strife of which there is any record. Mohammedan she nmst know in what direction to look for deliver­ peoples and others outside the Christian pale are mar­ ance. shalled on one side or the other in the awful combat ; For many 3rears past the sense of sin seems to have and the influence of the war is literally making itself been gradually fading from the thought and life of the felt throughout the whole world. Church. Here and there in theological writings as well During recent years the members of the Church of as in sermons this has been pointed out and deplored ; Christ in different lands have been drawing closer to but such warnings have, for the most part, been un­ one another through their co-working in various mission heeded. Suddenly came the outbreak of war and now fields, and the desire for a yet fuller union found ex­ before our very eyes in the centre of modern Europe pression in the Edinburgh Conference ; now there is a we see sin unmasked in all its darkness of pride, jealousy, very real danger lest the strife of nations should actually hatred, cruelty and awful slaughter ; and we are com­ separate the members of the body of C h r is t from fellow­ pelled to recognize that sin is nothing less than rebellion ship with one another. Again, amongst the peoples against G od, and that it involves the casting off of all of Japan, China, and India thoughtful men are asking, divine control from the life of man. Again, there has in the light of this war, if Christianity does contain any been a strong tendency amongst as to ignore the exis­ real message from the G o d of righteousness and peace : tence of Satan and his hosts, and to leave out of account and even the Christian men amidst these awakening his ceaseless antagonism to the cause of Christ. Now peoples are finding a new trial for their faith, and it is men are saying of the present situation: “ It looks like difficult for them to meet the questions with which an outburst of Satanic evil ” ; but even yet the}' seem they are confronted in view of the present condition of scarcely to realize the literal truthfulness of the language Christendom. Not only so, but the faith of all who are they employ. The Church must, however, regard engaged in the evangelization of the World is being what she sees around her in the light oi the New Testa­ put to the proof, and the work has to be carried on in ment. In whatever way we may interpret the details circumstances of great difficulty : instead of the ex­ of our L ord’s temptation, as recorded in the Gospels, pansion which was looked for, on account of the present one fact stands clear which cannot be ignored without opportunity in every Mission field, we are face to face taking the heart out of the record. A personal adver­ with the necessity for delay, and the possibility of con­ sary of awful power and subtlety stood up against the traction in the immediate future, whatever may lie Son of God to turn Him from His allegiance to His before us in the years to come. Father. It is Christ Himself who three times over Surely in the light of these circumstances we are calls the adversary “ the Prince of this World,” and He called to a careful review of the past, and also to a fresh also tells us that His death will be the means of casting survey of our future outlook. It has recently been Satan out, and so of drawing all men to Himself. In pointed out that the modern missionary movement the Epistle to the Ephesians we are warned that our had its commencement in the time of the Napoleonic warfare is not “ against flesh and blood, but against wars, and that since then the periods in which we have principalities, against the powers, against the world- been at war have seen an increase rather than a decrease rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of in missionary interest and support, and the conclusion wickedness in the heavenly places.” is generally drawn that history will repeat itself and The war that is now being waged has come in spite of we may look to the future with the hope that the con­ the utmost efforts of diplomacy to avert it, and we see ditions will again become more favourable than they nations ranged against one another as by an unseen have been. This may be true, but it is well for us to power from behind, which has driven them on. January, 1915. 4 China’s Millions. J a n u a r y , 1915-

The whole conditions by which we are surrounded only to the Father, when the iSngdom which He had to-day bear unmistakable witness to the fact that already founded in the world should enter upon a new, after all the centuries of Gospel light and civilizing in­ which was to be the final, stage of its development.” fluences, sin remains entrenched at the very centre It is this great event that is referred to in the eleventh of the world’s life, and that Satan, the great adversary chapter of the Revelation, where we read, verse 15 R.V.: of G o d and man, continues to exercise a fearful power “ The Kingdom of the world is become the Kingdom over human society. of our L o r d and of His C h r i s t , ” or, as in Weymouth’s If these things are so, and who can look deeply into translation : “ The sovereignty of the world now belongs the present world situation and deny them, we may to our L o r d and His C h r i s t . ” It is most significant well ask how is the faith of the Church to be main­ that in the following context, chapter xii. 10., a great tained, and how shall she arise victorious over the voice is heard in heaven saying: “ Now is come the adversary ? The answer surely lies in a return to the salvation, and the power and the Kingdom of our G o d hope and outlook set forth in the New Testament ; and and the authority of His C h r i s t , for the accuser of our also to such a revival of zeal and devotion in our present brethren is cast down which accuseth them before G o d ministries as that hope helped to inspire. In the intro­ day and night.” duction to Dr. Salmond’s “ Christian Doctrine of Im­ What is the final stage of the coming of the Kingdom mortality,” the following intensely interesting historical of G o d ? Surely the passing of the dominion of the statement as to the Church’s attitude towards the world from the hand of the adversary into the hands subject of the Second Advent occurs :— of the L o r d who takes unto Himself His great power “ The belief in C h r i s t ’s Second Advent has been to reign. Then only will His angels “ cast out of His called the oldest of all Christian dogmas. The hope Kingdom all things that offend,” and then will He of His return, which fills so large a space in the New “ destroy them that destroy the Earth.” Concerning Testament, took a like commanding position in the the coming of the Kingdom in this final sense, Dr. Denny, earliest Christian thought. The whole conception of in “ The Church and the Kingdom,” pp. 87-89, writes the Last Things revolved round the Person of Christ as follows :— who was to come. The whole theology of the future “ Careful study of the Gospels has brought into high was in this sense Christological. The literature of the relief the fact that the Kingdom, as J e s u s conceived it, first two centuries is so charged with Millenarian ideas is not to be established by our energies at all. It is as to prompt the conclusion that they formed part of not a kingdom of this w orld; it is the Kingdom of heaven, the common faith of the sub-Apostolic Church. the Kingdom of G o d . It is a transcendent Kingdom, “ But as the years grew, and the idea arose that the which comes suddenly like a thief in the night, or like Kingdom of G o d might realize itself in a Christianized the lightning flash which illumines the sky in an instant State, the Millenarian doctrine . . . fell away from east to west. We have not to work for it, or to to the rank of individual Christian opinion, and the set it up by our efforts ; we have to wait for it, to be interest passed elsewhere.” ready for it, to make any sacrifice to secure our entrance Here we see the Church in the freshness of its early into it . . . . life eagerly looking for the return of the L o r d , then the “ Speaking generally, the Kingdom for which J e s u s idea arising, long after the Apostolic age, “ that the looked has this transcendent, supernatural character. Kingdom of God might realize itself in a Christianized It is not to be built up by the devotion of men, it is to State,” and the interest in her L o r d ’s return passes come in an instant by the decisive interposition of away. For long centuries, and never more eagerly G o d .” than in recent years, the Church has sought the realiza­ We must guard ourselves from all unwarranted con­ tion of the “ Kingdom of G o d ” in a “ Christianized clusions as to when the Kingdom of G o d will come, and State,” and the present condition of European Christen­ yet the pressure of surrounding evil must create in the dom is a terrible witness to the utter failure of her heart of the Church a new sense of the need of deliver­ efforts. Surely the voice of G o d is speaking in the ance, and along with it a new assurance of hope that He tempest calling us to recognize again the fundamental that shall come will come and will not tarry, and so and eternal distinction between the Church and the the Church will learn to use with a living faith, and in world ; and that the end of the one is glory and blessing ; expectation of a speedy answer, the oft-uttered prayer: while the end of the other is judgment. “ Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth even What, then, is the hope and outlook of the New Testa­ as it is done in heaven.” ment ? That the Christ, who came into the world With this outlook we can patiently continue our task in humiliation and weakness, will come again in power of world-wide evangelization in the face of such an and great glory. “ I will come again and receive you outbreak of evil as that which is encompassing us. The unto Myself.” “ This J e s u s , which was received up work of the past has not been in vain, the work of the from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as present must be carried on, the ministry that slowly ye beheld Him going into heaven.” “ Behold, I come and surely brings hearts to the S a v i o u r , and which quickly.” The coming of the Kingdom of G o d in its builds up the Church and witnesses to the world shall final sense is inseparably connected in the New Testa­ yet reach its consummation in the coming of the King­ ment witli the return of C h r i s t . It is necessary to dom of glory. The Christian heart, seeing all war with keep clearly in view that the coming of the Kingdom its hatred and bloodshed, as. being finally contrary to of G o d is spoken of in two aspects. First there is the the mind of G o d , looks forward to the coming of that entrance of the Kingdom into the individual heart and Kingdom from which all strife shall be excluded; and the continued recognition of C h r i s t ’s right to reign for the present rests in the assurance that G o d is over­ over the life here and now. Second, in the words of a ruling even the awful scourge of war for the accomplish­ modern writer: “ J es u s looked forward to a time, known ment of His own gracious consummation. J a n u a r y i ; 15 China's Millions. 5

Itinerating in Honan. B y M iss M a b e l E . S o l t a u , H ia n g c h e n g .

X my way back from the hills, bours who used to come in to learn, one being the wife where I had been for four weeks of the son of the Wangs. He is a school boy here, but during the late summer, I spent his mother is a busy woman and wanted a daughter-in- a few days at the Hsuchow law to help her with her own little children, so had him out-station, and there met married last year. The girl is very nice and would much such a sad woman who is now have liked to come to school instead of being married. coming regularly to the ser­ She was quick at books, and I hope some day we may get vices. She and her sons had her here for a time. come to that town to live to It happened that the moon feast coincided with our escape “ White Wolf ” as their visit, and this made the people all very busy in their shoe business had been ruined homes with feasting and visitors, and also, alas, for nine in their former home, and days they had theatricals going. For three years there very soon after arriving all had been none, so they had an extra long go this time, three young men were ar­ and all the population pretty well spent their time at rested and finally killed, this. It was moonlight, and the theatre used to go 011 being accused of being spies till midnight as well as all day. The idols are always of the “ W7olf ” ! They were invited to watch ; as a rule I think the theatricals are innocent, and after their death given for the sake of the idol ! this was proved, but the One day, as I went out visiting, a man passed us with mother is left with one little the big wooden tablet in which the idol spirit, after the boy and a broken heart. It firing of crackers and the burning of crackers, was re­ was a joy to try and help quested by the witch doctress to come and reside and comfort her. You would per­ watch the performance. It is placed in a conspicuous haps not guess what book in position where a view of the stage could be obtained. This the Bible had been the means is done before the actors start to perform, and then at of comforting her before I got the end the spirit goes back to its idol shrine, so the there ! Mr. Meng had given people think. her Ecclesiastes, and this was The moon feast is always in the autumn, the fifteenth the first thing that seemed to of the eight month, what would correspond to our Photo by] [Owen Warren. give her any help ! harvest thanksgiving at the end of the getting in of the I had expected to get away crops. Tables of food and incense, etc., are spread in HONAN COUNTRY CHRISTIAN. quite soon to another country every courtyard on that full moon evening, and the place, but was hindered by moon worshipped. various things, so it was not As a rule I stayed in in the mornings and visited in till this month that a start was made for River Bank, a market town some seventeen miles away. I have long wanted to get there, but the place having been a centre for robbers these last two years I could not go, and even the Biblewoman had not been for a very long time. It is a little town on the river side, one long street about a mile in length, on which are the shop fronts, and then a few quieter roads behind, with ponds and trees and market gardens. Our premises consist of a square court, the street frontage being a shop front. The shutters now are not taken down, and the room is used for services and a small boys’ school during the week. Behind at right angles is another low building which gives a room for the women to come to, and one end of it divided off for a worker to stay in. Various of the men Christians soon came in to pay their respects., and we quickly got unpacked and ready for Photo by] [ C. N. Lack. guests. There were a handful of girl neigh­ ON THE WAY TO AN OUT-STATION IN HONAN. 6 C h in a ’s M illio n s. J a n u a r y , 19 15.

the afternoons. We went one day to a tiny house change my heart.” The next day nothing of it will where lives an old Mrs. Wang, who has been adopted remain, and over and over again one repeats and repeats. as grandmother by the Wang family. Her little There was one blind girl I felt very sorry for. Before room was swept very clean, and she herself in her I went on furlough she had come to me for help, but I patched garments, most trim— alas, in one corner I had quite forgotten her. Since then her eyes have been saw the paper kitchen god— and we soon began to talk. worse and a native doctor had quite destroyed one, and It was two years since anyone had been to see her from the other can only just distinguish light and dark. here, and though before she had believed what she had She is nineteen, and what is to happen ? Her mother- been told about the falseness of idols, still as time went in-law does not want a blind girl, and her widowed by and she heard no more she did not feel very peaceful mother is very poor. I went twice to see her to teach and thought she had better once again start worshipping, her a verse or two of a hymn. and so the god had been put up and she burning incense From there we went on to the Gao village, the home to it ! Can you feel the pathos of it, the old solitary of our doctor here and one or two other Christians. woman dreading to fall between two stools, so to speak, It was a lovely autumn morning. We had one barrow and going back therefore to that which she had done which took the^bedding and books and medicines, and all her life. Mrs. Peng or myself, generally the former as she walks I sat and repeated over and over again a prayer of so slowly, and we reached our village at midday, going two sentences, and into the courtyard she said she would of the family of believe and not one of our house trust her idol. She women here. came the next Sun­ We were given day, and I do want tiny, low stools to to get back again sit on and tea to there before very drink. Tea, as you long to see if she know, seldom con­ has remembered. sists of the bever­ Then Mrs. Peng age we know by one day, in a that name. Gener­ near-by court be­ ally it is a straw- longing to the c o lo u r e d fluid Wang clan, met made by putting with an old lady one or two of the of eighty - seven bean-like fruit of years, bed-ridden, the huai tree— a and afterwards I species of acacia, went in several I think— into the times. She was boiling water. so pleased to hear, Then, after a bit, but her memory the food came in, had gone, and bowls of millet even till the last with small beans she found it so in it as flavouring, difficult to say and a dish speci­ a sentence of ally procured for prayer, try as she us of bean-curd would. and capsicum. She and her most devoted son and daughter-in-law These country rooms remind one of a “ potting shed ” had come in from a village because of the robbers, and more than aught else, I think, the farm implements so were living near by. She was so thankful to be told standing round, the piles of grain or seed and produce, of a way of obtaining forgiveness of sins even as she lay and just a bed and'a table somewhere or other. And this on her bed. Another woman I was asked to go to, as is home to the people. she was ill, also aged, heard too with such joy, and the We spent the days in the house of a rather better off next night her daughter-in-law, who had been out when family, and had a room clean and nice, for a Chinese we were there, could not think what the old dame was village, where at night I put up my bed, and let Mrs. doing when she heard her saying over and over the lines Peng and the married daughter share the other one. of prayer I had taught her. This daughter was Tsong, one of my old school girls, This was the work day by day, seeking to get the one who at the time did not give us much joy, and was many lips to repeat for the first time the name of J e s u s . only in school for eight months. She came to school Some evenings, when the theatre had stopped, we had against the wishes of her parents really, and her mother from twenty to thirty visitors who listened so well, but opposed her unbinding her feet most bitterly. The girl as ever were so slow to learn. Mrs. Peng says it is stood most firmly, and became a very true Christian. because they all their lives have worshipped idols, that She was married about two years ago, and now is they can't frame their lips to the true G o d . It is curious having such a hard time from her husband, over the that they find it so very hard to learn to say even as same old matter of her unbound feet. He curses her much as “ Please, Lord Jesus, take away my sins and all the time; she says if there is no one by she does J a n u a r y , 19 15 China’s Millions. 7 not mind so much, but when all the neighbours and if it were possible that her heart could be changed, it people hear him she finds it so hard to bear. We went was so very bad, and her sins so great. out to her village the next day, and on the way heard After three days I said we must move on homewards, a voice call out “ Stop and rest, and I will soon come,” though they did their best to detain us longer. Once and looking round saw in the distance a woman work­ more a barrow was got and our goods packed, and we ing very rapidly in the field cutting off the bean crop. started off, being escorted out of the village by a group By her easy rapid gait I thought it must be Tsong, of the people. About midday we reached a big market and so it proved, and soon she joined us, and we sat town, where live one old Clirist an couple. The place down by the roadside for a talk before going into her was full of soldiers, and two of the gates were kept village. Once there privacy would be at an end. locked as the town quite recently has been dis­ The mother-in-law welcomed me warmly. She has turbed by robbers. Poor Mrs. Chang was glad to see been in here twice, but is a great idolater, burning us, but she is very ill, and was only just up then. I incense to her gods three times every day ! sat beside her in her wee room and let her They had to miss their midday incense that day, talk and listen, and tried to soothe her, for her however, as we were there, and she would not do it distress was great at not being able to make us before us ! One hopes that before long her daughter food. We bought some bread and had some tea and in-law’s influence and talk will lead her to the right way. made a meal off that, and I happily had still a The tiny room was sponge cake or crowded with two in my tin, people, and one which she ate with grew hotter and much relish. The hotter as the air old husband farms got worse and their little bit of worse. There was land, and when no window, and able, the only the ‘ doorway was child, a married blocked up with daughter, comes people looking in. and stays with her We had to stay for but it is very dinner, and then isolated for her, later in the day dear woman. She Tsong came back said she felt so with us to her much better before mother's house. we left. I think Almost next the sight of a door is another old friend did her real school girl named good after months Quickly, who also, of no intercourse poor child, is with any from the having a very hard Mission station. If time from her she gets a little mother over the stronger later on foot-binding ques­ she will come in tion and because to us and stay for she is a Christian. a bit and be doc­ One can do tored ! But I do nothing but seek not think that to encourage these lonely ones and ask for prayer on medicines can do very much for her now. their behalf. What it means to be the only Christian That place is about seven miles from Hiangcheng- in a village, cut off from anyone who has any share in hsien. As Mrs Peng rode, Li the evangelist and I walked one’s belief or hope, and enduring hard words, and, it and talked. He is such a nice little man, and often is may be, blows, it is difficult to realize. And when the so glad to ask about the meaning of some passage of Christians are women their chances of coming away or Scripture he has been reading. About two and a half getting to a service are limited, probably, to a visit miles from here, we looked in at a village where live once or twice in a year two old women who in the last year have seemed to There also each evening, when the day’s work wras over, grasp a little of the Truth. we got women to come in and I taught and talked, and Truly nowhere I think could one have picked out two we sang over and over the simple chorus that one was more stupid and apparently hopeless cases. One was trying to teach them. carried here on a bed as she was so ill, and has been full It was pathetic, after much teaching the daughter-in- of gratitude for her cure. She has come often, for she law of the house, to be told next day that when she still thinks she must drink medicine ! She has learnt knelt up on her bed the previous evening, she to pray, and put away her idols, and in that village as she could not think of a single word to say ! However, one talked to the group of women which gathered, these the last night after I had prayed she of her own accord two seemed so in advance, and so different to all the said two sentences. It would be a joy if that woman rest. Please pray that grace and strength may be daily were saved. She has been such* a trial. She asked me given, and many sad dark hearts turned to the Light. 8 C h in a ’s M illio n s. J a n u a r y , 19 15 .

Letter from the Rev. J. Stuart Holden, M.A. To the Members and F ellow-helpers of the China Inland Mission in Great Britain.

Y Dear Friends,— such a way as to enable us to still witness to the super­ I am most grateful for all the messages of national character of the membership of C h r is t ’s body. congratulation and the assurances of prayerful In this aim I know that I may confidently ask the prayers fellowship which have reached me from so of you all ; as well as in the fellowship of our increasing many of you in connection with my assumption of necessity of drawing near to G od in respect of ordinary the Home Directorship. In taking up this work of needs. The history of the past fifty years is one of such great privilege and responsibility I am very unbroken faithfulness upon His part. Little less than conscious of my need of just that intercessory two million pounds has since its foundation been en­ remembrance which you have so kindly promised ; trusted to the Mission for its appointed work— and and am relying upon the covenanted certainty of G od still lives ! But He will yet be enquired of by His grace sufficient, “ through your prayers and the servants to do for them according to His promise ; and supply of the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ.” hence I would earnestly seek to lay the burden of prayer G od has done great things for and through our Mission, afresh upon you all. Funds are needed as well for the and it is my deepest desire so to serve its highest in­ passage and furlough of many who have toiled nobly terests that He shall be able to get yet larger glory to in China, as for the regular maintenance of the work His Name through our united useableness and our and workers. I know that many will be grateful for readiness to fulfil His behests. this definite knowledge, in the light of which they can the In May of this year we shall celebrate, if the L o r d more intelligently bring their requests into the sanctuary. tarry, the jubilee of the Mission. In connection with While from all parts of the field come tidings of en­ this glad occasion a volume is being prepared which quiry and blessing among the Chinese, there can be no will put at our disposal such a summarized account doubt but that the whole situation in China is far from of G o d ’s gracious dealings during these fifty years as being settled. The new Government has internal cannot fail to inspire each of us to fresh praise and new troubles to deal with as well as external influences to surrender. For He has indeed dealt bountifully with resist ; and it does not require much knowledge of the us. It has for instance been on the hearts of not a few history of republican government to convince us of the to ask for the completion of 50,000 baptisms by the propriety of praying that peace may be preserved, and end of this period ; and to His praise alone I am able that the present authorities may be Divinely over­ to say that judging by present indications we may ruled in all their endeavours to establish the nation confidently expect that this total will be reached. What on the best and surest foundations. The well-being a glorious harvest of the seed sown in weakness by our of the Church of C h r is t, and in particular of our own beloved forerunners of fifty years ago ! And what an Mission, depends considerably upon this. Shall we incentive to us to ‘‘ labour on, spend and be spent ” in not therefore bring it within the scope of our intercession? the glad task of making known His glorious Gospel In closing I would earnestly commend to you our throughout the whole of China. Despite the anxious dear friend Mr. Hoste, whose continued health and turmoil into which the war has plunged' almost the vigour mean so much to the work on the field. In all whole world, this is otir supreme purpose. “ First the the strain of this time he naturally sustains the greatest Kingdom of G od and His righteousness ” is the re­ degree, and I know how much he relies upon the fellow­ sponsibility which must take precedence of every other ship of the friends in the home-lands. With him also in lives yielded to do His service ; and I am confident I beg you will remember Mr. Sloan, in the first pain of that as we are in no way diverted from its fulfilment the sorrow caused by the Home-going of his third we shall come to see that in this overcast hour the daughter Kathleen, seeking that the L o r d may minister L o r d has been at work through His servants and by very richly to him and his of the grace which transforms His own providences in the most marked manner. the hour of mourning into one of triumphant rejoicing. Apart from the light of His unchanged purpose and I hope that during the jubilee celebrations it may be presence the outlook is dark, and the strain to which my pleasure and privilege to visit some of the pro­ faith is being subjected is great. To mention only vincial centres, and so come to know many of you one thing in this connection : We have in the fellow­ personally. Meanwhile please accept warm Christian ship of the Mission over a hundred German missionaries, regards, with fullest appreciation of all that your partner­ whose position is made peculiarly and painfully difficult ship brings to this work, and, believe me, your fellow- by the war. This may involve the support of some servant in the blessed hope of C h r is t ’s return, from the general Mission funds, and thus necessitate J. Stuart Holden, our looking to the L o r d to supply this fresh need in Home Director C.I.M.

Editorial Notes. HRISTMAS and the War.— As we enter once “ Good Tidings of Great Joy,” and Earth’s dark and more upon that period of the year which, from dreadful realities of war, stand out in strange and C our childhood, has been associated with the startling relief at such a time as this. We look one birth of C h r is t, how harshly the clash of arms moment upon that little town of Bethlehem, with all contrasts with the thoughts of “ Peace on earth,” which its holy and peaceful associations, and then we gaze was part of the original Christmas message. Heaven’s upon the earth and behold “ distress and darkness, J a n u a r y , 19 15 . China’s Millions. y

the gloom of anguish,” and thick darkness. We think hundred years ago came into the world has overcome “ How silentl5r, how silently the world, and bidden us therefore to be of good cheer. The year which will have closed when these words G o d ’s wondrous gift was given,” are read, has been to the Mission a year rich in spiritual and all the time the rude alarms of war break upon our blessing, and yet a time of trial in temporal things. It ears and distress our hearts. Yet in experiencing this is too early yet to give the exact figures in regard to strange contradiction we are not alone. Down through baptisms and income, but the reports already to hand the ages God’s messages of peace have come in the midst in regard to baptism? are about a thousand in advance of stress and storm. of those received last year at an equal date, and last Was it not in the dark days of*war that G od gave to year was the most fruitful one in the Mission’s history. His people, through His servant Isaiah, that encouraging In regard to finances, howevei, the income in Great Vision which centres around the name Immanuel ? In Britain is, at the time of writing, about £1^,000 less the days of Ahaz, Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, king than at the same date last year. Fuller details will, of Israel, went up to war against Jerusalem, and the as usual, be published in the February issue. Mean­ king’s “ heart was moved, and the heart of his people, while, we praise G od for the spiritual results granted as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind.” to the Mission, and roll the burden of temporal needs Yet in the midst of all this national distress, with its upon Him who has promised to sustain, and never to attendant storms of feeling, the quiet, homely message suffer the righteous to be moved. came : “ Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” Humanly speaking, Love Triumphant.— Though war is so terribly separ­ how inappropriate and inadequate to the situation ating the British and German nations, there are in­ such a message seemed. What had the cradle to do creasing evidences that the bond of love in C h r ist, which with an armed camp ? How was a helpless babe to exists between British and German missionaries, is in bring comfort and victory when strong men quailed no small measure triumphing over national differences. with fear ? Yet such was G o d ’s message and G o d ’s One proof of this we print below, by kind permission method to show that “ the weakness of G od is stronger of the London Missionary Society. The letter printed, than men.” “ For all the armour of the armed man is, as it reveals, a reply from the German Missions- in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood shall Ausschuss— a Joint Missionary Committee in Germany be for burning, for fuel of fire. For unto us a Child is corresponding to the Missions Secretaries’ Association born, unto us a Son is given ; and the government shall in London— to communications made to them by the be upon His shoulder : and His name shall be called L-M.S. The letter reads as follows :— Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty G od, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Missions-Sekretariat, Basel, G od grant that the message of peace, which thus came 18th November, 1914. to Isaiah in time of war, may come home to all our To the Secretaries of the London Missionary Societyv hearts with all its life-giving power at this time of D e a r F r ie n d s , - personal and national trial. We have received, through the Rev. F. Wurz, two “ O holy Child of Bethlehem, precious documents from your Society. Descend to us, we pray ; The one was the resolution passed by the directors of Cast out our sin, and enter in, your society, on September 29th, regarding the War Be born in us to-day. and Continental Missions, and expressing to Continental We hear the Christmas angels missionary societies, both French and German, their The great glad tidings tell ; deep Christian sympathy in the serious difficulties en­ O come to us, abide with us. tailed upon them by the present disastrous war. Our L ord Immanuel.” The other was an extract from the minutes of your South India District Committee, dealing with the trying condition of German missionaries in that part of India, Another Year.— Although the exact season of the with copy of a most kind letter of sympathy addressed year when C h r is t was born is hidden in obscurity, to them. custom has always associated His Advent with the Both documents have been brought to the knowledge closing days of the Old Year and the coming of the New. of the German Missions-Ausschuss while the resolution This is a comforting association, for without the message of your directors which you kindly sent us in several of Christmas no one could review the year gone by copies for distribution, was handed over to the leaders without a sense of failure, if not of despair ; and no one of German societies. could scan the future without anxious fear and appre­ On behalf of the German Missions-Ausschuss I would hension. Especially would that be so this year. Who ask you to convey our sincerest thanks, both to the can foretell what the months ahead have in store foi directors of your Mission, and to the South India Dis­ Europe and the world ? Who knows what they may trict Committee, for these expressions of their fraternal bring to any one of us in the way of personal loss or love and sympathy, and for their readiness to render sorrow ? Assuredly they will have trial for all. But any possible assistance to German missions, which may the message of Christmas is still the message of great joy be in distress. for all people, and with it we can joyfully face the un­ It is a great thing for us and for our isolated mission­ known, for the message is nothing less than “ Immanuel, aries in the field that our common faith in our L o r d G od with us.” To the man who believes in G od, and Jesus Christ, and the commission entrusted to us by in, G od with him, all is assured. He can afford to be Him is a bond of unity which links together those who of good courage come what may, for He who nineteen are widely differing in political conviction and national 10 China’s Millions. J a n u a r y , 19 15 . feeling, and makes them ready to help and serve each Pearce, the present Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal other. Council. The additional information which this corres­ As the war is going on and pressing more and more pondence brings to our notice is, that though the British severely upon all conditions of life nearly all over the Minister at Peking has approached the Shanghai Muni­ world, many opportunities will arise for the mutual cipal Council with a desire to encourage the closing of exercise of such Christian fellowship, and in many cases the opium shops, the reply which the Shanghai Muni­ German missionaries will be among those who need this cipal Council gives practically bids defiance to British comfort most, owing to the difficulty of communication authority. For the sake of our readers we quote a few between their home-country and nearly all their fields lines from this correspondence. of labour. We wish to assure you that every act of On July 17th, 1914,' Consul-General Fraser wrote to kindness and every encouragement, shown to our the Chairman of the Municipal Council, saying :— brothers and sisters in the field by their British fellow- “ I am instructed by His Majesty’s Minister to do what workers, will be gratefully appreciated, both by them I can to encourage the reduction of opium-selling licenses and by us, and if, in the course of events, British mis­ in the Settlement, which His Majesty’s Secretary of sionaries should be in distress for whatever reason, we State regrets to learn, from a question in the House of trust that they would find in their German brothers the Commons, have greatly increased in number at a time same fraternal spirit which now characterizes their own when the consumption of opium in China generally is actions. being extinguished.” May it please G od in His mercy soon to restore peace The reply sent by the Chairman of the Municipal between the two Protestant sister-nations, which Council practically evaded the issue in question, but have such an immense common task in the non-Christian concluded by saying : “ The blame for the failure of world, and may they be drawn together even more the abolition movement rests with the utterly un­ closely than before in the service of our L o r d Jesu s trustworthy local Chinese officials, and with the Chinese C h r is t. Central Government for its failure to enforce its own With warm regards, I remain, dear friends, conventions and decrees.” To support this prepos­ Yours sincerely, terous statement, he quoted two sentences from a (Signed) D. H. O h le r , Government paper. Chairman of the Missions-Ausschuss. Sir John Jordan, in his reply, which points out that the two quotations were taken from a report ‘ ‘ com­ That such a spirit of brotherhood in C h r is t still lives, in spite of all the painful and serious national mis­ piled by the representatives of a Shanghai opium firm!” understandings and divisions, is no small cause for states: “ I regret to observe that the Chairman of the praise. It is a proof that war has not drowned the International Municipal Council does not at present see message of the angels : “ Peace on earth among men his way to assist in the suggestion of a reduction of opium-selling licenses within the Settlement. I cannot of good will." The love of G od shed abroad in our hearts is stronger than hate, or jealousy, or death. May fail to note that the increased facilities of public access the true spirit of Christmas more and more prevail. to retail opium granted by the increase of the number of licenses issued by the Municipal Council, appear to be in direct contradiction to the express desires and in­ Mr. and Mrs. 51oan.— Friends of the mission will tentions of the Council itself." In concluding his letter, learn with deep sorrow that Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Sir John Jordan expresses his desire to impress the Sloan have been called upon to suffer the loss of their Chairman with “ the expediency of giving effect to the third daughter, Kathleen, who passed away at Bid- Council’s undertakings and the wishes of His Majesty’s brough, Kent, on Saturday, December 12th, after a Government in this matter.” somewhat protracted illness, which has been a painful The reply which the Chairman sent to this letter is trial to all to whom she was dear. Kathleen Sloan was hardly credible. Two extracts read as follows :— “ I seventeen years of age, and up to the very end was per­ must state at the outset that the Council is unable to fectly restful in the Lord, eagerly anticipating in the admit any failure.” And yet, as we showed last month, midst of her increasing weakness the time when she in face of professed sympathy, the Council had increased would be “ absent from the body and present with the its licensed opium shops from eighty-seven to six hundred L o r d ." It is touching to know that, by her wish, the and fifty-four. In concluding his letter, the Chairman little money which she had in the bank is to be given to has the effrontery to say : ‘ ‘ The Council is not prepared the Mission, for the hospital at Lanchowfu, in which city to enter into a discussion until next March, when the her mother formerly laboured. We affectionately com­ Ratepayers’ Meeting will be held. . . . To convene mend the bereaved parents and sisters to the prayers a special meeting at present would be impracticable, of G o d 's people. for the subject is not of sufficient importance to justify the anticipation that the necessary quorum of one-third of the The Shanghai Opium Scandal.— In our last issue, electors would assemble.” Surely, as we said last month, we gave some details from the Rev. Arnold Foster’s the time has ariived for the British Government to deal pamphlet, entitled “ Municipal Ethics,” based on some with the assumption that British subjects in the Shang­ facts and figures from the Shanghai Municipal Gazette, hai Settlement, who as private individuals are subject 1907 to 1914. Since our December issue went to the to the Crown, and claim its protection, should, in their press, the Shanghai Municipal Gazette for October corporate capacity as members of an International 22nd has come to hand, in which is printed some corres­ Municipal Council, be able to flout the British Minister pondence which has passed between Sir John Jordan, — who was acting under instructions from Sir Edward the British Minister at Peking, Sir Everard Fraser, the Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs— in this British Consul-General at Shanghai, and Mr. E. C. fashion. January, 1915. China's Millions. 11

A Wide Open Door in Chekiang. B y C h a r l e s F a ir c l o u g h , Y e n c h o w , Ch e k ia n g . INCE last I wrote it has been our privilege to preach what was his greatest hope concerning death and after. the Gospel in the crowded tea-shops on the busy He solemnly told me that he had made every prepara­ S market streets and in the villages of the moun­ tion in that he had spared no pains to see that his house tains far removed from the beaten track. Large had been built in a lucky position and that his coffin had Scripture wall texts have been posted up in prominent been made ready long ago and a choice site selected for places, leaflets have been widely scattered, and copies his grave. “ Moreover,” he said, “ I trust to my sons’ of the Scriptures have been judiciously distributed, so filial piety who will worship and care for my spirit when that in one section of our district, at least, there is scarcely I am gone.” He knew of nothing beyond the grave. a home but wrhat some portion of G o d ’s Word may be I read to him part of John xiv., and as he listened an found therein. At the close of one day’s itineration we expression of surprise crept over his countenance as came to a village nestled amongst the hills, and, as the though he doubted whether this new doctrine could be shades of evening were gathering fast, we wondered so. The only religion he had been acquainted with where we should be sheltered for the night. Quite never once cheered his heart with the certainty of the unexpectedly an old man welcomed us to his home. As joys in the city which is to come. He was without Gon we sat down with the family to evening rice I learned and therefore without hope beyond the grave. The that the old gentleman was sixty-four years of age. Four next time you sing:— generations lived under the same roof, and, including “ Blessed assurance, Je s u s is mine ! his great-grand-children, over thirty mouths were fed Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine ! ” at every meal. We spent a very happy evening together will you think of this old man and his family and the and they listened with rapt attention to the message village ? Resting in the porchway of a wayside temple preached from the Scripture text poster. This was the the keeper came out and said : “ O, foreign teacher, first entrance of the Gospel to the village and many I have read some of the parables of Jesus, and they amusing questions were asked. An interested enquirer are very good.” I found he had got several of our wanted to know what was G o d ’s surname. How very picture tracts and now he wanted more. The next pathetic it is to come into the presence of souls who day he came to see me and gratefully accepted a copy have never heard and have no conception of the true of a New Testament. This man is well on in years and G od. In the course of conversation I asked the old man his earthly course will soon be run, but it is not too

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THE CITY TEMPLE AT TAICHOWFU, CHEKIANG. The city wall winds round to the right of the picture, and the mountains in the distance add beauty to the scene. 12 China’s Millions. J a n u a r y 19 15. much to hope that the Word of G od may lighten his path across the threshold of eternal salvation. A short time ago I was warmly welcomed into a I village by a gentleman of means. Over seventy years of age, he was rich in this world’s goods, but he was curious to know what were the merits of this “ Happy sound doctrine,” for his own religion had filled him with remorse, not, indeed, that it had given him a vision of his sinful life, but that it had condemned him for having no son to call his own. Following the dictates of heathen custom, countenanced by the religions of the land, he had already taken to himself four wives, but still no son was born to him. As a last resource he had purchased a boy from another family and adopted him so that he might be sure of his spirit being worshipped, and a feast spread at his grave at the regular seasons, when he had gone. If he only had a son of his own he would face death with confidence, he said. What a shallow hope for any religion to offer. I would that this old gentleman, and thousands more like him in this heathen land, could step out in faith and hand over to the living G o d all his anxious cares and rejoice in the blessed Christian truth— “ I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.” What a blight on the home life of China is this religious demand for a son. Failing this issue the husband becomes depraved, while the wife is penalized with disgrace and abandoned, in many instances, as a mere piece of goods and chattels to be bought or sold. It is also the root cause of the large percentage of in­ fanticide throughout the land. Only two months ago, MIS SION-SCHOOL GIRLS IN CHEKIANG. the wife of the head master of the Government school, educated abroad, gave birth to a baby girl— it was not welcomed and therefore immediately discarded, and there was nothing in life worth living for, so one Sunday after a few days died of neglect. morning she was actually on her way to the river to end A few weeks ago I was stopped on the street by a man it. In passing the chapel door she was attracted by from the country who said : “ Will you pray with me the singing, and through the preaching of the Word her now ? ” Immediately he lifted up his heart to G od in soul was saved. She then told us the sad story of her thanks for grace bestowed, and pleaded for help and unhappy life and how that she had had eighteen children, strength to bear the trial which had just befallen him. nine of which being girls, she had followed the heathen His house had been burned to the ground and not even custom of drowning them at birth. Her two youngest a stitch of clothing had been saved. This man was a sons now rejoice with her in the L o r d , but her husband Christian, baptized last year, and it was indeed a stimulus and other members of her family still remain outside to my own faith to see his submissive spirit and his per­ the fold. We are indeed glad of the privilege of preach­ fect confidence that this great loss would eventually ing the Gospel in this wide-open door, yet our hearts turn to his good. This brother in C h r is t would like are burdened with the thought of the multiplied millions to be remembered in prayer before the L o rd . still entirely unreached. This is a call for prayer that One stormy Sunday morning, a short time ago, a little something may be done " on an enormous scale ” as company of believers might have been seen washing one has said,“ to Christianize the East, or it will paganize their feet and changing their garments in preparation the West.” You will be glad to know that our new for the morning service. It would have touched your chapel is now under construction, and we hope it will be heart to have seen these brethren. They too are in ready for use early in the coming year. For the prayers the triumphal procession, and what a victory for C h r is t and gifts of many friends in aid of this effort of our little — brought out of heathen darkness, and now willing to church, we send our united and heartfelt thanks. brave the stormy elements and wade through mud and mire a distance of fifteen English miles in order to join in praising the name of our common L o r d . Superintendents in China.— Our readers will learn At our summer conference we had the joy of adding with interest that Mr. G. W. Gibb, M.A., has been six more to our church by baptism. Two bright young appointed as Acting-Superintendent of the C.I.M. work girls, former pupils in our school, were among the in the province of A n h w e i ; and that the Rev. W. H. number ; also a young man, • son of a Christian Aldis has been appointed Assistant-Superintendent of woman who has been a great blessing in the work. The the Eastern S ze c h w a n district. We would bespeak mother was brought to G od in a remarkable way. For for these brethren earnest prayer that they may be many years her life had been made unbearable by an guided and helped of G o d in taking up their responsible opium-smoking husband. Her home was wasted and duties January, 1915. China’s Millions. is

The Church at Tengyueh, Yunnan. B y W. J. E m b ery. N my last letter I gave a brief history of the work Mr. Yeh, our own cook, has been under the sound of at this station, Tengyueh, and referred to the the Gospel ever since he came to us, now about four I first baptisms which took place last year. So }Tears since. After we left here, he began to show in­ now I will briefly describe our little Church :— creased interest, and decided to take his stand. Mr. Mr. Yang, a man of about fifty years of age, was Fraser had the privilege of baptizing him with the two one who had sunk very low in the social scale, and had above named in April of last year. In some respects he in his time been a fortune­ is not very satisfactory, and teller, etc., but later eked out his Christian experience seems a bare existence as a water-car­ to ebb and flow. His education, rier. It was as such that he intelligence, and memory are not first came into touch with my so good as the others, but we colleague, Mr. Fraser, during ' trust he may yet make progress. my absence. The Gospel was His wife comes along fairly preached to him, and he became regularly to our Sunday morn­ in course of time deeply inter­ ing service, even though she ested in the truth, with the lives some distance from the result that he was truly con­ chapel, and evinces a real in­ verted, becoming a really terest in the Gospel. We have changed man, and to-day he is good hopes of her, and trust she one of our brightest Christians. may also become one of us. Although half-blind, he is a Mrs. Lee is the elderly woman voracious reader and possesses whom 1 previously mentioned, remarkable ability in under­ and whose baptism had been de­ standing and a good memory layed because of there being no for retaining what he reads. lady worker in the station. It He has already read through was my joyful privilege about a the Bible once. The people month ago to baptize her, she on the street marvel at the being the first woman in this change in him— even his coun­ district to thus publicly confess tenance being altered from a C h r is t. Her case is a very en­ poor, wretched, miserable look couraging one. She has for a to one of joy and satisfaction. long time been influenced by Mr. Tang, a school teacher, the Gospel, and took her stand first heard the Gospel, and was for C h r is t even amidst much convinced of the truth of it, opposition, and a good deal of through the instrumentality trial in her own home. Both and changed life of a man who her husband and son were heavy had been a soldier, but had opium smokers— the former is been converted in Talifu, my now dead, but the latter is still old station, several years ago. pursuing his evil way. Some This soldier convert returned time since, Mr. Fraser and I to his home (eight days’ jour­ went to her home and witnessed ney from Talifu) and there, the removal of the last remains whilst engaged in his daily of idolatry, the household gods, work, voluntarily preached and and the putting up of a Scrip­ lived the Gospel in that city, ture text in their place, and we where there was no other wit­ have been quite satisfied as to ness for C h r is t. This had a the sincerity of her profession. marked influence on Mr. Tang, She eagerly looks forward to though for some years he had a going out on Sunday afternoons rather chequered life as a with Mrs. Embery to visit in revolutionary, and spent some the homes of the women and to time in Burma. Returning preach the Gospel to them, and again to this province he once we trust the time will come more became interested in the when she will feel led to give Photo by\ Gospel, and eventually took his [Ret. H. Partons, of the United Methodist Mission. her life to this work, for which stand openly for C h r is t. He she seems so fitted. At present has a fairly good position in one ____A MAN OF YUNNAN—AN______ABORIGINE she is in good employ and hesi­ of the principal schools here, and tates somewhat to give it up. does his best to influence other teachers and scholars. We sorely need a Biblewoman, and trust that our H e is most regular in his attendance at the meetings and prayers to this end may be graciously answered. Will occasionally takes the Sunday evening service for me. my readers please join us in this request ? 14 China’s Millions. J a n u a r y , 1915.

Some time ago, I felt led to suggest to our little Church here that Mr. Yang (men­ tioned already) should be specially set apart to go out into the surrounding villages and districts preaching and distributing tracts and other books, and thus become our own Home Missionary, that is be supported by the Church and ourselves and not chargeable to the Mission funds. The matter was taken up most heartil}7, and Mr. Yang is now giving his time and strength to this work and is very happy in it. He has a very quiet and tactful way with him, and will we trust do good work. At the station here, we have the following services arranged for :— Sundays, Preaching, both morning and evening. Tuesday and Thursday evenings, a Bible Class. Saturday evenings, a Prayer Meeting. These are all for both men and women. On Thursday mornings, Mrs. Embery has a special meet­ ing for women only. You will be glad to know that the attendances at some of these meetings have been most cheering, specially on Sunday evenings when our seating accom­ modation both for men and women is at times taxed to the utmost, and some have to stand. But whilst there is a ready hearing for the truth, one is often inclined, as we see so very little real turning to the Lord, to ex­ claim :— “ Who hath believed our report ? ” The evil one with all his host is seeking to hinder the good work in every wa5r, and whilst there is indeed a great door and effectual opened to us, there are many ad­ versaries. Some individual souls seem to be feeling their way after the truth, but the opposition is strong and they are often hindered. Mrs. Embery has been often cheered by the eager way in which many of Photo by] [Rev. H. Partons, of the United Methodist Mission. the women listen to the Gospel. The seed is being sown, however, and though there may be wayside and stony ground hearers, TWO YUNNAN WOMEN, AND CHILD—ABORIGINES. we trust some seed will fall into good ground. Recently I visited all the principal schools in this A Christian man and his mother from Talifu have also city for the purpose of presenting a little parcel of gone there to live, and my colleague, Mr. Fraser, was able Christian books and tracts to each of the head masters recently to spend a month there, during which time and teachers, and with but few exceptions, I was more he succeeded in renting a small shop which he has had than pleased with the reception afforded me. The fitted up as a preaching hall, before returning here. books were well received, and I trust some of them Thus we have obtained a footing in that city, and are will be read. Whilst on the part of the teacher and hoping to be able later to put a Chinese evangelist there student class there is. perhaps a more open mind in and to work the place as an out-station from here until many directions, I find there is no greater love than such time as a missionary can be sent to reside there before for either the Gospel or those who come to pro­ permanently. I hope to be able to visit the place my­ claim it. They have as yet no place for the Gospel. 'Agnos­ self some time during the next dry season. We shall be ticism is rampant amongst them, with, however (though glad of your prayers on behalf of the beginning of the unadmitted by them), a lurking fear of spirits and work in this new and needy field, and that labourers devils. Though professing to have no belief in the may ere long be thrust forth. The Christian man idols, their practice belies their profession. from Talifu who is residing there is now being used Four days’ journey from here there is a very extensive as a colporteur for the British and Foreign Bible Society plain, with numerous towns and villages and one and is doing good work. walled city known as Yungchangfu. This city and plain, with its estimated population of 100,000 souls, The Rest of Obedience.— “ How much of restraint as is without any Gospel light, though it has been visited well as Qf constraint we might be spared, did.the Word.of on several occasions by myself and some other fellcw- G o d dwell in us more richly, and were the leadings of the workers for the purpose of preaching and bookselling. Spirit more implicitly obeyed! ”— J. Hudson Tayi

A Special Evangelistic Mission in Kiangsu. B y A. R. S a u n d e r s . T was midsummer, and we were busily engaged at to reach with the Gospel the men of the Chinese Police Chinkiang in extensive preparations for the Force in this province. A special evangelist, and we I autumn and winter’s work, when telegraphic may have two later on, is now visiting the men in news of the declaration of war reached us, and several cities, endeavouring to get into close touch since then we have had to modify our plans consider­ with them and to leave at each police station three ably. We will not now be able to do all that was in copies of three approved Christian books for the use our hearts to do, and only a few days ago we feared that, of the men ; and we hope, as the way opens, to have in because of lowness of funds, we would not be able to several cities reading rooms where also Gospel meetings carry out our full programme of special meetings for can be held for the men. Will you please keep this the deepening of the spiritual life and evangelism. We work in mind when you intercede for us and our work. had hoped to have had our house in Yangchow rebuilt Since the opening of the autumn season we have held by this time, but funds will not allow of that mean­ a two-weeks’ mission for the deepening of the spiritual while, so in order to be more centrally situated for the life in Kaoyu, and have also had the joy of baptizing work we have moved our temporary headquarters from one man and one woman. Mr. Orr has also baptized Chinkiang to the city of Kaoyu. Kaoyu is situated five women in Yangchow. It is most interesting to on the bank of the Grand Canal, forty miles north of notice now the work of conversion is gradually going Yangchow and eighty miles south of Tsingkiangpu. on through the personal testimony of the Chinese Chris­ The station was formerly occupied by single lady tians themselves, and is not that as it ought to be ? missionaries, but being a very malarious city it was vacated and no missionary has resided here for the past eleven years. During that time Mrs. Saunders and I have cared for the work here, and in the neighbouring city of Taichow, in addition to my work as Superintendent of the province. It will be suitable for our headquarters in the winter, but not in the summer, and we are looking to the L o r d to supply our need of funds to rebuild our Yangchow house before the next hot season. While our itinerations will be more restricted this winter than usual our hands will be quite full of work, and that you may have definite subjects for prayer let me give you our proposed programme for the next few months. We leave on Monday next for the stations of Tsingkiangpu and Antung, to hold in each place a nine-days’ mission for the deepening of the spiritual life. On 18th and 19th November I expect to be in Soochoo attending the annual conference of the K ia n g s u Federation Council of Missions, and during that time Mrs. Saunders will be alone in Kaoyu. From 22nd November to 1st December, we have planned a special evangelistic campaign, for which the city will be well placarded and 5,000 invitation handbills distributed. A donation from the readers of the Christian is being used to defray the expense of these, and also for Gospel hymn sheets to be used at the meetings. Meetings for women each after­ noon will be conducted by Mrs. Saunders, and while these are in progress, assisted by our Chinese helpers, I. will hold open-air meetings for men. Indoor meetings for men will be held each evening. We expect to hold a similar mission in Taichow during the latter half of January. As seed sowing and watering, etc., goes on all the year round we expect, even as farmers do, to reap a yearly harvest, and these campaigns are planned with that hope in view. Pray that our hope may be abundantly realized. PARTY OF NEW WORKERS WHO SAILED FOR CHINA ON A new departure in connection with our work, NOV. 26th, pep P. & O. SS. *' ARCADIA.” made possible by the contributions of the Christian Front R o w : Miss A. M. Taylor, Miss S. Schaefer. Back B ow • Miss A. Beckett, Miss A. C. Skafjeld, and men of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Miss A. Christensen. Dublin Metropolitan Police Force, is a special effort 16 China s Millions. J a n u a r y , 1915.

Mrs. Chao, wife of a well-to-do grain merchant, turned The effects of the war are felt on all hands, all families to G o d from an idolatrous and worldly life at one of being affected in one way or another by it. The mails our special evangelistic meetings the first time she heard are bringing tidings of sons of our missionaries having the Gospel. Mrs. Li, another member of the little volunteered for active service, and Shanghai has recently church here, was first led to our meetings through the witnessed a wonderful expression of loyalty in the testimony of Mrs. Chao ; and now Mr. Li, the man departure of more than one hundred volunteers for the just baptized, was first interested through his wife’s front. testimony, and has since entirely given up the use both of opium and the so-called anti-opium pills. Please The Chefoo Schools — Once again we are able to pray for the little church of nine men and five women report the results of the Oxford local examinations held here, and the equally small fellowship at Taichow. at Chefoo. Of the fifty-three pupils of the school (thirty- When in Chinkiang last summer a young man called four boys and nineteen girls), who sat for these to see me, and the conversation we had about our L o r d examinations recently, all have passed— eight in the Christ Jesus became so intensely interesting to him senior division, twenty-three in the junior, and twenty- that I felt he was on the very threshold of the Kingdom, two in the preliminary. Eighteen of these obtained but after prayer he went away still undecided. He was honours, one, a girl, obtaining first-class senior honours: on a business trip to Chinkiang, and left next morning It is gratifying to find that of the 295 scholars (185 for a large town more than one hundred miles from boys and 110 girls) who have entered for these examina­ K aoyu, where he is in charge of the Chinese post office. tions since they were first held in Chefoo in 1908, all We would like to visit him, but it cannot be till next have passed with the exception of five (one boy andvfour spring at the very earliest, and there is no one else who girls). Such results must be highly satisfactory to the can do so. These incidents remind us how very useful teachers and to the parents, and for such success we the motor houseboat which we hope to get next year thank G o d . will be, but this most deplorable war may also delay that project. Departures ( d . v .) for China. All who were interested in the work among the soldiers in Yangchow at the time of the Revolution, will be glad D e c e m b e r 24TH. P e r P. & O. s.s. “ E g y p t.” = • to hear that quite a number are attending the service *Rev. C. H. Parsons. F. S. Barling. of our South Gate Church in Yangchow, as many as forty having been present, and that four have been J a n u a r y gTH, 19 15 . P er P. & O. s.s. “N a m u r .', accepted as candidates for baptism. That special work *M iss H. M. Duncan. ended mth the death of General Hsu Pao-san, but the *Miss C. M. Hacking. influence of the meetings has not ceased, and we may *Miss B. Lajus. expect still greater results in days to come. One soldier, Miss H. Withers. Miss G. Taylor. who was wounded during the siege of Nanking and had Miss N. M. Burchell. his leg amputated, is now a baptized Christian, and is Miss F. Eynon. gatekeeper of those premises in Yangchow. 0 Returning.

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING NOVEMBER, 1914— Continued. For General Fund.— Continued. Rect. No. £ s cl. Rect. No., £ s. d. Rect. No. £ S. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. & s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. 23. 6055 0 5 0 24 6074 1 6 11 26. 6090 0 5 0 28. 6113 0 5 0 30. 6125 2 0 0 30. 6137 0 5 0 6056 30 0 0 6075 1 0 0 6094 60 0 0 Readers ) 6126 18 12 6 6138 10 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 of the I- 73 0 6 6127 4 0 0 6139 2 0 0 6057 6076 1 Anon., 1 Oa UA n u 6058 0 5 0 6077 0 10 0 Norway, j Christian. J 6 128 1 5 0 6141 0 1 0 6 24. 6059 1 0 0 25. 6078 1 15 0 27. 6098 10 0 0 6 115 0 17 6 6129 0 5 0 6143 0 14 9 6060 1 0 0 6080 0 6 9 6099 2 2 0 6 116 3 13 1 6 130 0 10 0 6144 2 2 0 6061 0 6 0 6081 0 5 0 6100 0 10 0 6117 0 17 8 6131 10 0 0 6145 1 10 0 6062 5 0 0 Legacy. 50 0 0 6101 2 0 0 6118 0 5 0 6132 0 7 0 6146 5 5 0 6063 0 6 0 6083 0 18 6 6102 5 0 0 6 119 1 2 9 6133 5 0 0 Legacy. 84 0 0 6064 1 0 0 6084 10 0 0 6107 1 0 0 6120 7 14 0 6 134 2 0 0 6065 1 10 6 6085 20 0 0 6108 50 0 0 30. 6 121 0 2 7 6135 1 0 0 £2,045 3 6 6066 0 5 6 6086 0 5 0 6109 15 0 0 6122 0 10 0 Readers 1 6068 5 0 0 26. 6088 1 0 0 28. 6111 0 13 6 6123 0 10 0 of the J 5 5 0 6071 0 5 0 6089 1 1 0 6112 0 6 0 6124 0 2 6 Record. ) For Special Purposes. Rect No. £ S. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No,, £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. 3. 5779 0 16 6 7. 5858 7 7 0 13. 5939 1 0 0 19. 6020 15 1 1 28. 6095 20 0 0 27. 6110 25 0 0 5787 4 0 0 5880 2 0 0 14. 5945 2 19 5 20. 6027 0 10 0 6096 5 0 0 30. 6140 0 5 0 5788 2 0 0 5862 1 4 0 16.5954 2 6 11 6032 0 10 0 27. 6103 1 1 0 6142 10 0 0 5790 100 0 0 9. 5868 2 10 0 5958 5 1 0 21. 6040 1 16 0 6 104 3 0 0 4. 5801 12 0 0 10. 5893 2 10 0 17. 5964 3 0 0 23. 6048 0 10 0 6105 5 0 0 £737 14 7 5803 3 0 0 5895 5 0 0 5965 10 0 0 24. 6067 6 0 0 6106 1 0 0 5811 10 0 0 5897 5 0 0 18. 5982 30 16 0 6069 8 0 0 SUMMARY. 5814 1 0 0 5900 0 9 6 5983 61 12 0 6070 2 0 0 £ s. d. 5816 10 11 0 5902 20 0 0 5984 20 0 0 6072 6 0 0 General . . 2,045 3 6 5. 5818 2 0 0 11. 5904 1 1 0 5986 4 0 0 6073 125 0 0 Special 737 14 7 5823 3 0 0 12. 5916 8 10 0 5989 6 0 0 25. 6079 3 0 0 6. 5837 8 0 0 5922 8 0 0 5990 1 15 0 6087 2 0 0 Total for November .. 2,782 18 1 5843 50 0 0 13. 5935 24 12 6 5996 10 0 0 26. 6091 30 16 0 Brought forward .. 30,938 -4 8 7. 5853 0 10 0 5937 1 0 0 19. 6017 0 17 2 6092 4 0 0 701 Q TVkfalîo t a i . . 3 £09ïoo9i&i- o y 5857 1 10 0 5938 1 10 0 6019 1 0 0 6093 2 16 6 Vol. XLI. No. 2. ONE PEN N Y. F e b r u a r y , 191"). China’s Millions.

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A SCENE IN NANKING CITY EN ROUTE TO THE MING TOMBS.

“ THERE DID WE REJOICE IN HIM.” By Mrs. HOWARD TAYLOR.

Morgan & Scott, Ltd., 12, Paternoster Buildings, London, E.C., or from any Bookseller ; or post free Is. 6d. per annum from the China Inland Mission, Newington Green, London, N. CHINA INLAND MISSION.

OFFICES: CHINA INLAND MISSION, NEWINGTON GREEN, LONDON, N. Telegraphic Address— Lammbrmuik. Hibuky-L onuon. Telephone— 1807, Dalston.

Founder T h e L a t e J. Hudson Taylor, m.r.c.s. General Director D . E. H o s t e .

LONDON COUNCIL. Home Director R e v . J . S t u a r t H o l d e n , M .A . Assistant Home Director W a l t e r B. S l o a n . W il l ia m S h a r p , 60, Watling Street. E.C. Ce c i l H . P o l h il l , Howbury Hall, Bedford. C. T. F i s h e , 25, Homefield Road, Wimbledon. L i e u T.-C o l . J. W i n n , R.E., Wliyteleafe, The Grange, Wimbledon. P. S. B a d ENOCH, M ildm ay, Belm ont R oad, R eigate. COLONEL S. D. C l e e v e , R.E., Priory Court, Belvedere Avenue, REV. J. J. L u c e , M.A., St. Nicholas Vicarage, Gloucester. W im bledon. H. M il l n e r M o r r is , Sannox, Salisbury Road, Carshalton, Surrey. Treasurer: A l b e r t A. H e a d . Secretary: F . M a r c u s W o o d . Editorial Secretary : M arshall BroombalL, M.A.

Secretary Women's Department : Miss H. E. Soltau. Cashier : W. S. HAYES. Bankers : London County and Westminster Bank, Limited, 21, Lombard Street, Lone on, E.C. All donations to be addressed to the Secretary. Money Orders (payable at G.P.O.) and Cheques to be made payable to the C h in a I n l a n d M is s io n , and crossed " London County and Westminster Bank.” It is specially requested that on every occasion when money is sent for the support of, or for the work of, any particular Mission­ ary, or for any Mission object such as the support of a Chinese Helper, a Biblewoman or a Scholar, the object in view be clearly stated. If, on the other hand, money be sent for a Missionary, as a personal gift, or for any private pur­ pose, this also should be clearly stated in order that it may be correctly acknowledged and forwarded.

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING DECEMBER. 1914. For General Fund. Rect. No. £ S. d. Rect. N<>. £ s d. I Rect. No,. £ s. d. Rect. No £ s. d. Rect. No, £ s. d. Rect X.>. £ s. d_ 1. (3148 0 15 0 3. 6194 1 0’ 0 ! 7. 6239 1 1 0 8. 6283 6 0 0 10. 6325 1 0 0 12. 6369 0 10 0 6150 1 1 0 6195 1 0 0 ; 6240 1 0 0 6284 50 0 0 6326 0 5 0 6370 0 5 0 6 151 1 0 0 6196 1 0 0 6242 0 8 0 6285 0 16 0 6327 0 3 6 6371 1 1 a 6152 0 2 6 6197 0 10 0 6243 2 2 0 6286 5 0 0 6328 5 17 0 6372 5 0 o- 6153 0 10 0 6198 0 5 0 6244 10 0 0 6287 0 10 0 6329 0 1 0 6373 0 5 0- 6154 0 5 0 6199 0 2 6 6246 1 5 0 6288 0 10 0 6330 0 2 6 6374 0 10 2 6155 0 12 8 6200 0 3 0 6247 2 0 0 6289 0 6 6 6331 0 2 (j 6376 1 0 o- 6156 0 10 0 6201 50 0 0 6249 Ö 10 0 6280 10 0 0 6333 2 Ö 0 14. 6378 0 3 0 6157 5 0 0 6202 48 0 0 6250 0 2 6 9. 6291 0 3 0 l i ­ Anon. 0 2 6 6379 1 8 10- 6380 1 0 0 6158 0 14 0 6203 0 13 6 ! 6251 0 1 0 ¡ 6292 0 5 0 6335 1 1 0 6159 2 0 0 4. M.R.A 1 0 i 6293 1 0 0 6336 0 10 0 6382 1 0 0 0 i A Friend.) 5 0 0 6160 0 13 6 6206 2 2 0 1 Belfast j 6294 3 0 0 6337 1 0 0 6384 0 10 0- 6161 0 5 0 6207 0 1 0 6256 0 2 6 6295 0 5 0 6339 0 5 0 6385 0 10 0 6163 0 10 9 6208 5 0 0 1 6257 0 3 6 6296 0 2 0 6340 0 5 0 6386 1 10 0 6164 0 5 0 6209 1 0 7 6258 0 16 0 6297 3 (j 0 6341 0 5 0 Anon.. L 1 Edinboro , 0 0- 6165 5 0 0 6210 1 15 0 Anon. 1 0 0 6299 1 0 0 6342 0 2 6 r 1 0 6166 3 0 0 6211 3 0 0 1 6260 3 0 0 6300 0 15 o 6343 2 0 0 6388 1 0 2. 6168 1 3 6 6212 3 3 0 6261 2 2 0 6301 0 10 o ! 6344 1 0 0 63S0 4 0 0- 6169 1 0 0 (>213 9 0 0 Readers "j 6302 0 10 0 6345 10 0 0 6391 10 0 0 0 of the | 6170 0 10 0 6214 1 10 0 * 1 0 0 i 6303 0 10 6346 1 16 3 6392 10 0 (> 0 Morning |1 i 0 ; 6171 2 2 0 (»215 0 5 0 Star. ) 6304 0 5 0 6347 0 5 0 6393 5 0 0 6 173 2 6 0 3 0 _ 6305 0 15 0 6348 0 2 6 6394 1 1 (> 5 (»217 Anon., j t) 0 6174 0 8 0 6219 100 0 0 Worthing 1f » Y. & O. 0 7 6 6349 10 0 0 6395 0 10 0- 6175 0 2 6 6220 2 0 0 ! 6264 2 0 0 6307 1 0 0 6350 3 10 0 6396 1 0 0 6176 1 1 0 6221 0 6 0 6265 0 10 0 6308 2 2 0 6351 15 0 0 6397 0 5 0 6177 1 0 0 5. 6224 0 5 0 6266 1 0 0 6309 10 0 0 6352 70 0 0 6398 0 10 0 6178 1 0 0 6225 10 10 0 : 6267 2 0 0 6310 0 10 0 6f Si- 2 0 0 6399 0 10 0 6179 2 0 0 6227 0 10 0 ! 6268 0 10 6 I 6312 5 0 0 6355 1 0 0 6400 1 0 0 6180 1 1 0 6228 0 5 0 ! 6269 0 7 6 Í 6313 0 10 0 l i . 6356 4 0 0 6401 1 0 6 6402 0 10 0- 6181 1 0 0 6229 0 5 6 6270 10 0 0 10. 6314 1 4 6 In 1 50 0 0 6182 0 10 0 6230 0 2 6 ! 6271 1 0 0 6315 2 0 0 Mcmoriam 6403 0 10 0- 6183 0 16 6 6231 2 2 0 ; 6272 0 10 0 6316 0 12 0 Anon. 1 1 0 6404 25 0 0 6184 4 10 0 6232 4 0 0 6274 1 2 0 6317 1 8 0 6360 0 8 6 6405 1 0 0 6186 1 1 0 6233 20 0 0 6275 0 2 6 6318 0 3 6 6361 1 0 0 6407 0 10 0 6187 15 12 6 6234 10 0 0 6276 3 8 0 6319 1 12 1 6362 0 10 0 640S 0 10 0 6188 cO 0 0 6235 6 0 0 6277 0 10 0 6320 2 10 0 6363 0 12 6 6409 0 2 0 3. 6190 0 10 0 6236 0 1 0 6278 2 2 0 6321 1 0 0 6364 0 10 0 6410 0 5 0 2 0 0 6279 2 10 0 6322 0 10 0 6S65 0 10 0 6411 0 3 6 6191 „ A Friend, 0 0 6192 1 0 0 '• Brechin I 1 6280 19 0 6 6323 3 6 0 6367 1 1 0 6412 1 0 o 6193 0 10 0 6238 0 5 0 6281 1 18 0 6324 1 0 0 6S63 0 3 8 15. 6414 1 0 0 (Continued on page 32.) C hina’s M illio n s

“There Did We Rejoice in Him.’

C o m piled b y Mr s. H o w a r d T a y l o r .

ELOVED, think it not strange concerning the nearly. Houses are needing repairs, leases are running fiery trial which is to try you, as though out, larger premises are required in various places ; and B some strange thing happened unto you ; but if we are well supplied with funds we may make a long rejoice.” It has been so before. In times of stride, d .v., this year. If not, we must hold on, in special prayer and longing for advance, for more fruit­ faith. . . . fulness, trials have been permitted with regard to funds Pray hard, trust undoubtingly, expect great things that came very near imperiling the work. Subsequent of G od. If our native helpers improve as they are doing to the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 was one such period. we shall soon need very few foreign helpers for our Mr. Taylor had returned to China full of longing to older work. If we have a few men of the right stamp, found a Western Branch of the mission, and do some­ we shall soon see more than one unoccupied province thing effective toward the evangelization of the inland invaded.” provinces. The Council had recently been formed in London, and Hon. Secretaries appointed, who kindly To Miss E. Turner. undertook the transmission of funds to China and other Nan-king. responsibility with regard to the home-work. But March 13, 1873. though they received money and forwarded it, there “ Will you pray for funds ? My work, never easy, is seems to have been some strange delay in its greatly increased when they are low, and now that I reaching him; and out in China an extremely have not one cash left for all the varied expenses of the serious situation was the result. It may not be unhelpful mission I need your prayers— and you will share my at this time to have before us the simple record, from joy when G od sends us the needed help. ‘ G od is Mr. Taylor’s own letters, of the way in which supplies faithful.’ Let us really look to Him, and He will not were well-nigh cut off, while the blessing of G od rested fail us.” in a special manner upon the work. To Miss Blatchley To Miss Blatchley. Nan-king. Chin-kiang. March 15, 1873. January 15, 1873. “ I am much crippled just now for want of mission “ I feel physically weak, as well as needing spiritual funds. . . . I have been in China nearly four power and help. But there is all in J e s u s .” months and not a penny has been sent.J There was fortunately some money in hand when I came out, and To Mr. R. Hill. I brought £300 with me. But the work has been mainly S.S. “ Plymouth Rock,” en route for Chin-kiang. sustained for months past by my own remittances from February 5, 1873. England. . . . I can keep the work going for a “ The exchange keeps against us, and I fear there is short time on £150 a month, but it needs £200 a month every likelihood of its continuing so for the present. now, . . . besides Mr. Muller’s remittances. These We can only accept things as they are. ‘ The Lord will as you know are uncertain, both as to time and amount, provide,’ whether the exchange be high or low. . . . which makes the difficulty the greater. . . . You I do so hope soon to see some of the destitute provinces must not think I am unhappy because I write so. I am evangelized. I long for it by day, and pray for it by not. I do feel sure that G od is ordering and will order night. Can He care less ? ” all for the best. But I feel it necessary to give informa To Miss Blatchley. tion for your guidance and that of the Council.” S.S. “ Fuseyama,” en route for Shanghai. By degrees the difficulty was adjusted, and though January 24, 1873. funds continued low, they were received with more or “ I hope the Secretar3r will send me some of the less regularity in China. Meanwhile, had the severe trial balance soon,-]- for every part of the work is drained, through which they had been brought, lessened Mr. Taylor’s ardour for advance toward the unreached * “ He turned the sea into dry land : they went through the provinces, and development of the work in those already flood on foot: there did we rejoice in Him.’’— Ps. lxvi. 6. occupied ? It would not seem so, to judge by the f Needless to say, Mr. Taylor would not draw upon any balance he might have heard of as in hand at home. To do following :— so, without definite authorization, might have run the mission into debt, which was contrary to its first principles, and a JMoney had been sent in December, January, and February, contingency most carefully avoided. but it had not reached him.— E d . F e b r u a r y , 1915. 20 China’s Millions. F e b r u a r y , 1915.

To Miss Blatchley. To Miss Blatchley. • Chin-kiang. December 29, 1873. May 1, 1874. “ There is so much promise of blessing, if we are well “ I may mention to you in confidence that I cannot sustained at home, by prayer for health, strength and leave China in the present state of our funds. I have blessing. I quite hope that, within a reasonable time, written to , begging them not to appeal for funds. we may see the whole of this province [ C h e k ia n g ] If G o d try our faith it is to show His faithfulness, and under culture, A n h w e i in fair promise, and some new we shall lose the blessing by appeals, etc. The work is province entered for C h r i s t . [There were still nine very cheering. Mr. Stevenson has just baptized eight unreached.] Oh, how sad the state of these poor persons, and writes of new enquirers and candidates. people, who have no hope for time or eternity— ‘ no Lae-djun has recently baptized first-fruits in three out- hope and without G o d in the world.’ What should we stations. New doors are opening before us—and do in the hour of sorrow, had we no sympathizing High ‘ Jehovah-Jireh.’ ” Priest ; and what in the hour of conflict and need ? . . . M ay G o d strengthen us to labour and suffer To his Mother. Chin-kiang. for them, that some at least may find rest and salvation.” May 1, 1874. “ Mr. Stevenson has had blessing at all his stations. To Mr. R. Hill. . . . Lae-djun is also prospered. . . . Mr. Crombie January 26, 1874. writes of blessing at Feng-hwa and Ning-hai; and we “ I have mentioned this case somewhat fully [that of are meeting with encouragement in the northern stations. a deeply interesting enquirer] to show the crying need of How good of G o d to help and comfort us in our sorrows ! this one province alone [Chekiang]. Oh, do pray for Pray for funds. We have over one hundred agents, us ! plead earnestly, mightily, and with faith, and soon native and foreign, one hundred and seventy mouths we shall see great things. I feel I must, I do lay hold on to feed daily, and that number to clothe, not counting G o d ’s strength. I am aiming at no less than claiming the wives and children of the native helpers. I feel every city for C h r i s t . I am asking for fifty or a hun­ no anxiety, though for a month past I have not had a dred evangelists for this province alone, and as many dollar in hand for the general purposes of the Mission. foreign helpers as He sees best to superintend them. The L o r d will provide. But in the meantime it is . . . I have no more doubt that He Who inspires the impossible for me to return home, or even to go to any prayer and gives the faith will answer it, than that He distant station here as I must be on the spot to dis­ has answered prayer in the past. I think, too, that we tribute at once any funds G o d may supply.” should soon claim the remaining nine provinces for the To Mr. R. Hill. Chin-kiang. L o r d . A s soon as I have got the work a little more May 29,1874. forward here, I will try to aim at this. Just now I can only pray ; for my powers are limited. His, however, “ The L o r d graciously sustains us in the midst of a are not so. Let us honour Him with a full trust.” large and growing work, though no funds are coming in. I am in urgent need of £500, but the L o r d keeps But trial as to financial supplies continued, perhaps me in peace. And we have the joy of cheering reports to keep Mr. Taylor and his fellow-workers from going as to spiritual progress from all the stations nearly. ahead too quickly. “ The work generally is very cheer­ "Mr. Stott writes that the work there has not been so ing/' he wrote to Mr. Muller in April, 1874, “ and we feel encouraging for a year and a-half, or two years. Mr. happier than ever in the L o r d and in His service. Our Rudland tells of another, the seventeenth candidate for faith never was so much tried ; His faithfulness never so baptism at Dien-tsi. Mr. Crombie speaks of five or six much experienced.” The letters of that spring and enquirers and three candidates for baptism at Ninghai; summer are well worth pondering, from this point of of two baptized at 'O-z ; of two hopeful enquirers at view. Feng-hwa ; of one at Si-tin, a newly opened out-station ; of several persons interested at Ky'i-k’eo, and several To Mrs. Hudson Taylor. Shanghai. at T'ien-t’ai. There is continued blessing at Shao-hing. April 10, 1874. At Hang-chow and its out-stations, too, there is evidence “ Balance in hand yesterday was sixty-seven cents ! of life ; and at last G o d has opened Hu-chow Fu to The L o r d reigns ; here is our joy and confidence.” one of our evangelists. Four persons were baptized here yesterday. . . . Is it not good of G o d so to To Mr. R. Hill. Chin-kiang. encourage us, when we are so tried for want of funds ? ” April 23, 1874. To Miss Blatchley. Kiu-kiang. ‘ ‘ I never was happier in the work, nor freer from care, June 1, 1874. though I have no funds. ‘ The L o r d will provide ’ by “ We go, that is Mr. Judd and myself, to see if we can sending more, or enabling us to subsist on less. Still procure head-quarters at Wu-chang, from which to we must use wisely, in view of the whole work, what open up Western China as the L o r d may enable us. He does send.” M ay G o d ’s blessing rest on the effort. We are urged on to make this effort now, though so weak-handed, To Miss Blatchley. Chin-kiang. both by the need of the unopened provinces, and by April 24, 1874. our having funds for commencing work in them, while “ To know Him settles every question, at every time, we have none for the general work. . . . I cannot about every matter. This, I apprehend, was the peace conceive how we shall be helped through the next month, of J e s u s — ‘ My peace.' This He gives us as our present though I fully expect we shall be. The L o r d cannot portion. Let us fully enjoy it, and rest in Him.” and will not fail us.” F e b r u a r y , 1 9 15 . C h in a ’s M illio n s. 21

To Miss Blatchley. thought (anxiety) for your life, what ye shall eat, or Chin-kiang. what ye shall drink ; nor yet for your body, what ye June 11,1874. shall put on. . . . But seek ye first (to promote) “ I am so thankful for the remittances. The last few the kingdom of G o d , and (to fulfil) His righteousness ; months have been the greatest trial of faith since the and all these things shall be added unto you.’ Obedience •mission was formed. My soul has mercifully been kept is ‘ better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of in much peace ; sometimes indeed in great joy, and rams.' It is doubting, beloved brother, not trusting, G o d has helped us wonderfully.” that is tempting the L o r d . . . . Hitherto we have not been put to shame ; nor have I any anxiety or To Mr. R. Hill. fear lest we should be so in the future. Never has our Chin-kiang. work entailed such real trial or so much exercise of June 18, 1874. faith. The sickness of our beloved sister Miss Blatchley “ Mr. Judd has succeeded in renting and moving into . . . the needs of our dear children . . . the a house in Wu-chang, the capital of the adjoining pro­ state of funds . . and many other things not vinces of H u p e h and Hunan. . . . I mentioned in easily expressed in writing would be crushing anxieties, my last the baptism of a native of H u n a n at Chin-kiang. were we to bear them. But the L o r d bears us and . . . His soul seems on fire for the conversion of his them too, and makes our hearts so very glad in Himself own people. I cannot but think that he may prove to alone— not Himself plus a bank balance— that I have be one of G o d 's chosen instruments. M y soul yearns, never known greater freedom from anxiety and care. oh how intensely ! for the evangelization of these one “ The other week, when I reached Shanghai, I was in hundred and eighty millions of the nine unoccupied great and immediate need. The mails were both in, but provinces. Would I had a hundred lives to give or had brought no remittances, and the folios showed no spend for their good. . . . balances at home. I cast the burden on the L o r d . Better far to have pecuniary and other outward Next morning, on awaking, I felt a little inclined to trials and perplexities, with blessing in the work itself— trouble ; but the L o r d gave me a word : ‘ I know their souls being saved, and the name of the L o r d J e s u s sorrows, and am come down to deliver.’ . magnified— than any measure of external prosperity ‘ Certainly I will be with thee.’ And before 6 a.m. I without it. We need much prayer that we may all be was as sure that help was at hand as when, near noon, a kept humble, holy, earnest, gentle and loving, and that letter from Mr. Muller reached me— which had been G o d may pour out His blessing on our native converts to Ning-po— and which contained more than £300. and helpers, and fill them with spiritual power. Then “ My need now is great and urgent. G o d is greater and the work will more and more be to His praise ; more and more near. And because He is, and is what He is—-all more successful in winning souls.” is, all will be, all must be well. Oh, my dear brother, the joy of knowing the Living God, of seeing the Living To his Mother. God, of resting on the Living God, in our very special Shanghai. and peculiar circumstances ! I am but His agent. He July 11,1874. will look after His own honour, provide for His own “ In the Christian Sheet Almanack for this year, the servants, and supply all our need according to His text, ‘ Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for own riches; you helping by your prayers and work of 3rou,' is printed in large type. On receiving it, I felt that faith and labour of love. As to whether He will make it was a message from G o d to my own soul ; and I have the widow’s oil and meal go a long way, or send her carried the Almanack about with me in all my journey - more— it is merely a question of detail. The result is ings, putting it up here and there, where I have sojourned sure. The righteous shall not be forsaken, nor his seed for longer or shorter periods, to keep the text before beg their bread. In C h r i s t all the promises are Yea my eyes. Often has it proved a word in season to my and Am en.” soul. May it be such to you, dear Mother, and to Father ; We are builded, as a mission, on this foundation ; and for there are few of us, I suspect, who have not some how great the responsibility upon us to be of the same cares ; and we are too prone to fail to cast them all on spirit, and prove our G o d in the same way, in the Him who cares for us.” difficult days into which we have come. For fifty years At the risk of some repetition, we cannot but add a He has gone before us in this work. What is His thought, letter to one of the members of the Council, which His purpose now ? We have reached our Jubilee. Is gathers up the precious lessons learned from these and it to be an end, or a beginning ? many other such experiences. “ Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse . . . “ April 24, 1874 : I am truly sorry that you should be and prove Me now herewith, saith the L o r d , if I will not distressed at not having funds to send me. May I not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a say, ‘ Be careful for nothing/ etc. ? We should use all blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive care to economize what G o d does send ; but when that it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes.” is done, bear no care about real or apparent lack. After It is the last promise in the Old Testament, and a living on God’s faithfulness for many years, I can testify promise for the last days— the days in which we live.* that times of want have ever been times of special September 15, 1914. blessing, or have led to them. I do beg that never any appeals for funds be put forward, save to G o d in prayer. ♦Brief prophecies followed of what the end should bring; but as unfolding possibilities of present blessing, Mai. iii. 10, u , When our work becomes a begging work, it dies. G o d was the last word— the special message for the closing days of is faithful ; must be so. ‘ The Lord is my Shepherd, I that dispensation, so clearly foreshadowing the still more shall not want.’ He has said ‘ Take no solemn, closing days of our own. 22 China's Millions. F e b r u a r y , 19 15 .

Baptisms at Nanpu, in Szechwan. B y M is s F. H. CULVERWELI.. Y last journal was written and reports that six more families have destroyed their just after Pastor Ting, idols, and are attending the services. the missioner from From the 23rd to the 27th we were occupied with M Shangtung, had had a special classes for candidates for baptism. Sixteen men day of meetings there. After came in from three of the out-stations, and five local holding an eight days’ mission catechumens brought up the number to twenty-one. in Paoning, he came to us again Five classes were held daily, taken by Mr. Yii, Miss for one evening. About two Lloyd and myself. There was an earnest spirit of atten­ hundred people gathered together tion throughout, and the presence of the L o r d was at short notice, as there was realized in these gatherings. Mr. Aldis, of Paoning, uncertainty whether Pastor Ting was with us for Sunday, June 28th, when the baptisms could arrive in time. He kindly took place. Only four of the number baptized were gave two addresses, and the women, but we rejoice over these few brought in. messages were blessed to many One of them was Mrs. Chin, age seventy-seven, present; the immediate result Mrs. Yu’s mother. For a long time she was a was the forming of another class rigid vegetarian, and resisted the Gospel, but prayer for men, whose interest had been was heard, and a wonderful change came over aroused. This is held on Thurs­ her last year. It is good to see her happy, bright day afternoons, and is attended face now, in contrast to what it was in former by about twelve business men. days, though she is very infirm. She makes every During a few weeks of the great effort to come to the services regularly. Other two heat, this class was suspended, were the wife and eldest daughter of Mr. Cheo, who but will be resumed the first first began attending services a year ago, after having week in September. Mr. Yii will been visited for a long time in their home. Mr. Cheo value prayer for this class. pleads for prayer for his adopted mother, who brought This blessing was not limited to the city. One country him up. She is a strict vegetarian, but is relaxing in Christian, who was present at the meetings, was much her belief in idols, and attends their family prayers stirred up, and has been seeking since to bring others to now, which she would not at one time. a knowledge of the Gospel, and has succeeded in per­ The other woman, Mrs. Li, was formerly nurse to Mr. suading other men to attend the services on Sundays, and Mrs. Yu’s children, and while in their service be­ though it does mean a walk of six miles into the city came a believer. Among the men received were two from Siekiako, when they live. Bishop Cassels was former scholars, and two who were still in the school. here on June 12th, when he held a confirmation service, They are Yiichingkao, who has greatly helped the which we trust was a time of fresh consecration for the work forward at Sinchenpa, and has been the means of seventeen persons confirmed. his whole family renouncing idolatry: Tong, who On the 17th June we had an all day of meetings for belongs to the Cheokiawan Church, and is the son of twelve women hearers, who have been attending ser­ Christian parents, and two of his brothers. An uncle also vices this year. Our object was to give such teaching was baptized at the same time. Teng and Chu (the two as would help to lead them to definite decision to follow brothers) belong to the Kienhsingchang district. The the L o r d . There are those who will come to classes first is the son of a Christian, and is a quiet, earnest and services, yet who do not exercise their minds to lad. The home of the second is heathen, and very dark, pay heed to the lessons, even repeating mechanically, far away o£E the beaten track. He has suffered persecu­ and after making so many attendances in this way, they tion from his parents, but stands firm. During the wonder why they are not received into the church. holidays he goes to the market near his home and sells Among those mentioned above, we believe are several Gospels and distributes tracts. He is a student eighteen who are truly sincere, but we would make special request years of age. for prayer for the conversion of every one of them. One more, whom I might mention, is an elderly man From June 5th to 10th, I was away visiting Fu- named Ho, who goes about the street selling calico. He tsunih, holding daily classes. We would like to see has been attending for some years. Although there is an awakening there. The work seems rather at a stand­ always a great temptation to do business when market still. This may be partl3r owing to the famine conditions day falls on Sunday, he has steadily kept the Sabbath, which have prevailed for over a year there; so many of which means real self-denial to a poor man. The other the people have been ill fed and depressed. The serious men baptized were from the out-stations Cheokiawan, drought in June and July filled us with fresh anxiety, Sinchenpa, and Kienhsingchang. We earnestly com­ but rain came just in time to save the rice that had been mend them all to your prayers. planted out early in May, and a moderate harvest has The first week in July I visited Cheokiawan. It may now been gathered in. be remembered that the chapel there is built on the On June 19th I went down to Sinchenpa, to examine side of a valley, on ground given by an elderly couple, and teach candidates for baptism, and several who Mr. and Mrs. Cheo. The position is three miles distant wished to be received as enquirers. Three of the latter from the nearest market. were accepted, and received on the Sunday, the 20th. A little company of thirty-six persons were present Mr. Ho, the hdper there, has had good sales of Gospels, at the Sunday service, among whom were eight men F e b r u a r y , 19 15. China’s Millions. 28 recently baptized here. There is a gradual increase improving. Another Christian, who has suffered for some in attendance of people from the Hongshan district, six time from the same trouble, passed away recently. Please miles distant. We are hoping to develop more work in remember Mr. Chang in prayer, that he may be restored. that direction this autumn. A week ago we had our annual summer gathering of The bo3rs’ and girls’ school broke up early in July for old school girls. There was a party of ten, who were the holidays, after the usual half-yearly examinations. with us for three days. It was a joy to those who come A gramophone entertainment was given for the benefit from heathen homes to be present once again at the •of the girls’ mothers. Between sixty and seventy were Sunday service'. Before the end of the year three of the present, and they enjoyed tea and cakes on the green, number will be married. Let 11s pray that the light under trees near the chapel. The singing of hymns by they have received may be kept bright within each one. the girls gave an opening for a Gospel message. After In commending the different subjects mentioned for this they roved around the garden, and only departed prayer, let me call attention to the three men who when it was getting dusk. Such occasions help to bring were received into the church belonging to Sinchenpa. us in closer touch with the women, ensuring us of a They are the first fruits ingathered. Besides Yiiehingkao, warm welcome when we visit their homes with the there was a farmer and an elderly carpenter. May this message of salvation. number soon be multiplied an hundredfold. The schools re-open on September 1st. It is hoped There are several enquirers there and in the city that a third worker will be located here to give more here whom we hope to see baptized later in the year. time to the girls’ school, as this is urgently needed. Please pray for them that a work of grace, dee]) and real, The dispensary has been open all the summer, and may be done in the heart of everyone. was in the care of Dr. Lily Watney until August 9th. The number of patients seen from May 1st to August The New Prayer List.— Leaders of Prayer Circles* 22nd was 610. Dr. Watney has now left us to take members of the Prayer Union, and other friends, will up work elsewhere. be interested to hear that the new Prayer List, which Mr. Chang, who gives honorary help when Mr. Yii is is published half-yearly, will be ready about the time absent, has been seriously ill again with his old com­ that this issue of the Magazine is in the hands of our plaint, duodenal ulcers. Under Dr. Elliott’s directions, readers. The booklet may be had, post free, from the Miss Lloyd has been able to treat him, and he is slowly offices of the Mission, for fourpence.

Davidson.

THE GREAT HIGHWAY BETWEEN EAST AND WEST CHINA. Owing to the mountainous country lying between East and West China the main route is through the Yangtze Gorges. The scenery Is magnificent, but owing to the rapids the proportion of wrecks is high, so that the journey is hardly a pleasure trip. The picture shows a company of trackers hauling a boat—which Is outside the picture—up a small rapid. The length ol rope sometimes necessary is almost incredible. 24 C h in a ’s M illio n s. F e b r u a r y , 19 15 .

Editorial Notes.

HE Finances of 1914.— After the close of another funds ; whereas there is a fall of ¿26,222 12s. id. in the year, five months of which have been months of Special funds during the latter half of the decade as T war, it is again possible to report on the finances compared with the former half. Without forgetting of the Mission as received in Great Britain. that the work of the Mission depends upon the total Readers will, of course, remember that for the present it income, whether received under General or Special is only possible to speak of this country, since several accounts, it is more gratifying to know that the decrease months must elapse ere a full statement from all the experienced is the result of the exhaustion of one large other countries will be in our hands. legacy than if it had been from a falling off of the more The past year has been a year of much spiritual regular gifts of friends and supporters of the work. blessing, and judging from what is already known, there Let us therefore continue to praise G o d for the main­ is every reason to believe that the year 1914 will prove tenance of the General funds, while prayer is offered to be the most fruitful in ascertainable results in the that the decrease experienced in the Special funds may histoty of the work. This is a matter— or rather we be supplied either through other special sources or should say, this is the chief matter— for thanksgiving, through an increase in the General income, as G o d may since that is the end for which the Mission exists. As see best. we are about to speak of a year of some financial trial we desire to keep the spiritual blessing vouchsafed in The 1914 Income Analysed.—The preceding re­ mind, for if G o d is glorified and souls are saved, tem­ marks have, in the main, referred to the past decade, poral trials and difficulties can be the more easily borne. Let us now examine the financial experiences of the Had the year been one of temporal prosperity and year 1914, more in detail, limiting our remarks of course spiritual barrenness there to Great Britain. Not would indeed have been unnaturally many will cause for heart searching attribute the fall in in­ and sorrow. As matters INCOME RECEIVED IN GREAT BRITAIN. come to the war, whereas, stand there is much cause strange to relate, that is YEAR. GENERAL. SPECIAL.TOTALS. for praise, for in the not wholly the case. The £ B. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. eternal things which 1905 . . 27,612 19 4 17,421 5 9 45,034 5 1 lowest month of the year really matter G o d has 1906 . . 29,787 8 4 15,583 10 5 45,370 18 9 was June, and if the blessed His work, and 1907 . . 34,194 15 3 17,206 13 1 51,401 8 4 General funds alone be we shall also see that 1908 . . 31,763 13 3 19,396 1 10 51,159 15 1 referred to, April is found though the year has been 1909 . . 29,668 6 0 9,515 0 4 39,183 6 4 second from the bottom, one of financial strait- 1910 . . 28,762 4 1 10,302 3 6 39,064 7 7 while August and Sep­ ness, there is, especially 1911 . . 31,734 15 9 15,905 14 10 47,640 10 7 tember follow as the in view of the war, much 1912 . . 27,295 5 5 9,253 15 5 36,549 0 10 third and fourth financi­ cause for praise. 1913 . . 41,915 7 1 9,174 0 4 51,089 7 5 ally low months, after 1914 . . 28,608 12 3 8,264 5 3 36,872 17 6 which date there has been The Last Ten Years. a most encouraging re­ — The actual receipts in covery. It is rather re­ Great Britain for the last markable to find that the ten years are set forth in the inset on this page. total income for the six months July to December From the figures there given it will be seen that inclusive is actually ¿175 4s. 8d. better than for the the total income in Great Britain during 1914 was six months January to June. ¿36,872 17s. 6d., which represents a decrease on the Had it not been that two or three months of low preceding year of ¿14,216 9s. nd. ; or ¿13,306 14s. iod. income preceded the outbreak of war the Mission would decrease in the General fund and ¿909 15s. id. decrease not have felt the effect of the hostilities so much as it in the Special or designated funds. It will also be noted has. The way G o d ’s people have, often at great per­ that the total income for the last five years, 1910-1914 sonal sacrifice, stood by His work during these months inclusive, amounts to ¿211,216 3s. nd. ; and the total of war is a cause for much thanksgiving, and we desire for the first five years of the decade, 1905-1909 in­ to return thanks to G o d for all the self-denying fellow­ clusive, amounts to ¿232,149 13s. 7d. ; which shows a ship shown towards the Mission during these trying total fall in income during the last five years of ¿20,933 months. We continue to pray that we may all be so 9s. 8d. If a still wider survey be made we note that the blessed that those who labour in the field and those income for last year was, if the one year 1912 be ex­ who support the work by their gifts may gladly face cepted, the lowest for eighteen years, which in view of all the self-denial which may be necessary to carry on the growth and extension of the work means a year of G o d ’s work throughout the days which lie ahead. trial. In gaining a correct estimate of what these figures An Improved Exchange.—There is one other factor import, it must be remembered that the decrease is in which must not be overlooked, for it has considerably large measure due to the cessation of the Morton legacy, helped to relieve the situation. The currency in China which was always entered under Special funds. If the is silver, and as gold has much appreciated since the General and Special funds be regarded separately, it outbreak of the war, the exchange has gone much in the will be observed that the last five years show an increase Mission’s favour. One illustration explains what we on the previous five years of ¿5,289 2s. 5d. in the General mean. During last November a sum of ¿1,500 exchanged F e b r u a r y , 19 15 . China’s Millions. 25

in Shanghai for 320 taels (ounces of silver) more in connection with meetings among the women students, than a sum of ¿1,800 realized during the same month of at which Miss Gregg assisted, the same facilities were the previous year. It is true that certain commodities not allowed. Sufficient has been said, however, to needed on the Mission field have gone up in price as at show that G o d is still giving a great and effectual door home, but having regard to the total expenses of the in China for the proclamation of the Gospel. work in China this advantage in exchange has made If the facts recorded above are compared with the the limited income of 1914 go farther than would have two following sentences taken from Dr. J. R. Mott’s been the case had the rate of exchange which existed new book, “ The Present World Situation,” the great before the war continued throughout the whole year. changes of the last few years stand out in strong relief. These few remarks on the income of the Mission “ When I first visited China,” writes Dr. Mott, “ in during one of the most momentous years of its history the year 1896 . . . the question was raised as to will, we trust, help our readers to realize something of the whether I might not gain access to the literati; and inwardness of G o d ’s dealings with His servants and the missionaries told me that we should never live to see work entrusted to them. The outbreak of war, coming the day when they would be accessible to Christian as it did at a time when funds were low, made the Mission effort. In reporting on the student field of China at feel, perhaps more than normally, how utterly and en­ that time, therefore, I characterized the Chinese literati tirely we are dependent upon G o d . And though the as the Gibraltar of the student world, by which was year has had its financial trials, what has been said will, meant an impregnable position.” w e trust, suffice to show that G o d has given us abundant When speaking of evangelistic work, we should like to cause to praise Him for all that is past, and to trust Him record that some few months ago a special Evangelistic for all that’s to come. Secretary for China, the Rev. W. Iv. Warnshuis, was appointed with a view of giving greater prominence to Among- China’s Students.—The news which has evangelism in that great country. been received in this country concerning the special Evangelistic Missions Mr. Sherwood Eddy has been Miss Emily Black.— It will be learned with sincere holding among Chinese students, is of a most encouraging regret that Miss Emily Black died from dysentery at and highly interesting nature. It comes as a fresh Iyaohowkow on October 27th, after a week’s illness. revelation of the wonderful openings G o d is giving for Miss Emily Black was one of five sisters who have evangelistic work among a class of men practically given their lives to China, four in connection with the inaccessible only a few years ago. In Peking, for China Inland Mission. She reached China in the year instance, the speaker was personally welcomed by the 1884, and has thus been spared to give a little more President and Vice-President of China ; the Ministry of than thirty years of service in that land. She has been the Interior granted a site for a pavilion within the a devoted and faithful missionary, giving her time and Forbidden City, and the Ministry of War granted two strength as a self-supporting worker to earnest effort hundred tents from the Army to make the pavilion among the women at the centres at which she was waterproof. Further, the Ministry of Education granted located in the two provinces of A n h w e i and H u p e h . a half-holiday to all the Government students in Peking, She displayed special diligence in visiting the villages to enable them to attend the opening meeting. Many and hamlets around, not infrequently extending her thousands of the students attended the meetings, and itinerations to the more remote towns and cities, dis­ twelve local Chinese newspapers published reports of tributing Christian literature, and seeking to reach the: the addesses. Altogether over one hundred news­ people with the message of the Gospel. In her removal papers in China co-operated in a larger or smaller degree the work has sustained a heavy loss. We earnestly in this evangelistic campaign. commend to the sympathy and prayers of our readers- In Changsha, the capital of China’s formerly most her two surviving elder sisters as well as her other anti-foreign province, a great pavilion was erected near relatives in the sorrow of their bereavement. a Confucian temple, on ground given by the Governor himself. The interpreter at the meetings was the son How to Wage God’s War. — Among the many things of one who had been Governor in four of China’s which have been written in connection with the present, provinces ; he was also nephew of Marquis Tseng, war, we do not think we have read anything which formerly Chinese Minister to England, France, Germany more forcibly calls attention to one of the lessons this and Russia, and the grandson of the still more famous war has for Christian workers than the following from statesman, Tseng Kwo-fan. He had been but recently the pen of the Rev. W. H. Findlay :— baptized, and in this large gathering of students person­ The lesson I want to expand a little is that this war is teaching ally testified to his faith in C h r is t. us how to wage G o d ’s war. The turmoil in Europe is a petty, In the city of Hangchow, the largest modern theatre passing broil compared with G o d ’s great war (in which we was lent for three afternoons, important engagements Christians are professed soldiers) for the rescue of our world from, being cancelled that this might be done, and the usual the grip of evil. But contrast our conduct of the earthly cam­ charge of several hundred dollars a day being remitted. paign and the heavenly. We are eager every morningto know how yesterday’s battles on the Continent went; have we felt Day after day the building was crowded, there being any such zest for news of G o d ’s war ? Retreat on the Continent some 2,500 at the first meeting, and a second, or over­ brought a rush of recruits at home ; has our Methodist decline flow meeting, being held immediately afterwards when in membership reacted so upon our religious forces ? When it some 2,000 more entered the building. Here again rains we expect empty benches at the prayer meeting ; the the Civil Governor granted a half holiday to the students trenches are full, rain or no rain. In the campaign of G o d ’s Kingdom men claim to pick and choose their job (try that for three successive days. with Kitchener!), and will leave the firing line if their corns These few facts are characteristic of what took place are trodden on, or the conflict gets a bit hot ; tens o f at other centres, though it should be mentioned that thousands, indeed, are not quite sure whether they are. 26 China’s Millions. F e b r u a r y , 19 15 . unlisted or not, and have never dreamed of fighting, but only up the little gap which may have been made by my absence. ■of- parade! In the earthly campaign all is so direct, so I do hope that this half-year’s offering will be in excess of the definite, so sweeping, so absorbing; the stern glare of it last one, and that GOP may continue to bless abundantly makes the heavenly campaign look dilettante and slipshod, the work of the China Inland Mission. We are having a little more than playing at war. Our political camps terrible time of it just now owing to the bad weather con­ coalesced the instant war was threatened; the Churches have ditions, but brighter days may soon dawn to prosper us in -cherished their rivalries from generation to generation this great struggle. Pray for us. I would fain add, ‘Pray m face of the common foe. There are parents who held without ceasing,’ for the dangers around us are terrible, not back their sons from responding to the missionary call ; they only bodily but morally and sp ritually as well ” have had to yield them — at greater peril of life — to their We trust this brief extract will remind us of our duty •country’s call W e surrender to Kitchener a hundred things— domestic, social, personal, political— that we could not be in­ to remember our brave men at the front, especially duced to surrender to CHRIST. This war, be it good or evil, is those who are of the household of faith. .at least teaching us how war should be made. Mark how the war has pushed its way to the front of all life. It has forced itself in front of our business, of our amusements, The Annual Meetings — In view of the special ■our politics, our reading, our families— everything. It has nature of the Annual Meetings this year, when the com­ ■claimed — and not one of us has been able to resist its claim — pletion of the Mission’s Jubilee will be celebrated, we to take front place, to be cardinal factor, in the whole round of take this early opportunity of announcing that they li fe. That is the p/ace that the w arfare o f Christ's Kingdom will (d .v .) be held on Tuesday, May nth. If friends .ought a ll the time to have had. can note this date so as to keep it free we shall be grateful. Fuller particulars will be published later. From the Front — We have received an interesting letter written by a soldier on active service, who has in the past had one of the missionary collecting boxes Additional Prayer Centre. connected with the Pagoda Branch. As this letter Stevenage: The Chestnuts. shows how the needs of the foreign field are being First Friday in each month from 3 to 4 p.m. borne upon the hearts of some of the men serving their [women only). •country, the following extract from the letter, which -was addressed to Miss Freeman, will be read with in terest:— Departures for China. “ The little box at home will be affected through my J a n u a r y 30TH. P e r P. & O. s.s. N orf.. absence for the last few months. But I feel that it would *G. and *Mrs. Porteous and | *Miss A. K. Robotham. never do to forget your great work for the Master, and I am two children. | *Miss J. B. Pearse. sending a contribution from the Front, hoping it may reach J. Tomkinson. you safely. I am sending two five-franc notes to help fill * Returning.

Book Notices.

•On the Trail of the Opium Poppy. B y Sir the name, and that sometimes these are omitted. Also Alexander Hosie. Published by Philip & Son, L,td. that sometimes an abbreviated form of the Province 2 Vols. 25s. net. follows the name, and sometimes is omitted. More than These books are not a history of the opium question, two full pages are given to explain this in detail. In the but interesting observations made by the author when Preface of our Atlas we stated that the romanization -engaged in his investigations for the British Govern­ adopted would probably not satisfy all sinologues, but ment, which investigations were published in Parlia­ that academic considerations had yielded to utility, and mentary Papers. Though Sir Alexander Hosie is a keen that we had adopted the spelling of the Chinese Postal and capable observer, we fear that the majority of Guide. We cannot here enter into an explanation of readers will find the minute details of each day’s journey the reasons which have guided the Postal Authorities, somewhat wearisome, though valuable information is but in justification to ourselves, it is only right to say to be found by the careful reader. The book, however, that Sir Alexander Hosie’s criticisms should have been 'Cannot be considered as a serious contribution to our directed against the Chinese Postal Authorities, and knowledge.of China. not against the Atlas. There are two points which call for special note. In Plain Talks on the Pastoral Epistles. B y Dr. Appendix I., the author states that the Chinese are to Eugene Stock. Published by Robert Scott. 5s. net. blame for the origin and continuance of the opium -evil. On this point we have written at greater length The author’s object is to emphasize the impressive in the current issue of National Righteousness, and can teaching of these three letters for plain men and women only state here our entire disagreement with the author. who are glad to be helped in their Bible studies. The The other point has special reference to the China treatment is topical: doctrinal, ecclesiastical and ethical Inland Mission Atlas, and needs a more detailed answer. topics being taken in order after some introductory In Volume I., the author devotes pp. 190-193 to some talks. As those who know Dr. Stock’s style will ex­ criticisms of the Atlas, which he states was his constant pect, the book is a model of lucid and direct treatment companion. Had he read the Preface to the Atlas, with the maximum of simplicity and thoroughness. these criticisms would have been unnecessary, for the There are in all fifty chapters in 330 pages. The book author finds fault with the spelling adopted. He states will prove most helpful to those who desire to prepare -that sometimes the titles, Fu and Hsien, &c., follow addresses or lectures on these three epistles. F e b r u a r y , 1915. China’s Millions.

Our Shanghai Letter, Containing the Latest News from the Field.

B y J a m e s S t a r k .

Nov. 2 !s t.—We are being greatly cheered by the re­ that the Central Government and the Provincial ports which are reaching us from the provinces. Ear­ authorities may be able to restrain lawlessness and nest effort for the evangelization of the people is giving maintain order. encouraging results. From many centres we hear of un­ You may be interested to learn that, at the instance precedented readiness to listen to the Divine message, of the President, telegrams were sent out to the princi­ and a growing desire to become identified with the Chris­ pal cities in the different provinces, requesting the tian Church. In some cases, as is to be expected, the Christian Church to observe Sunday, the iStli October, motive is a mixed one ; but opportunity is furnished as a day of prayer for peace in Europe, and commanding for enlightening their m:nds as to the spiritual charac­ all the officials to attend the service. From many ter of the Kingdom of G od, and our fellow-workers, in centres I have heard of a hearty response to the Presi­ taking advantage of it to proclaim the Gospel, are dent’s request on the part of the officials, gentry and seeing indications of the working of the Spirit of G od people. Referring to the service held at Yiianchow, in many hearts. Since the date of my last letter (Oct. in K ia n g s i, Mr. Windsor writes :— “ Besides the Magis­ 16th) five hundred and eighty-one baptisms have been trate, and other officials, representatives of one or two recorded, and we expect a considerable further in­ of the Guilds, principal tradesmen, and scholars were gathering before the year closes. present. The number of men who attended would The present political situation in China, speaking be fully four hundred, all of whom conducted themselves generally, is peaceful. Whilst local unrest is here and with the utmost reverence. Two suitable portions of there manifest, the country as a whole, if I may judge Scripture from the Old and New Testaments were read by the correspondence which reaches us, is enjoying a by two Christians, whilst four others engaged in prayer. measure of tranquility exceeding that experienced for At the back of the platform, written in large, good some time, and from widely separated districts the Chinese characters on a blackboard was the text: autumn crops are reported as excellent, which always ‘ Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach has a pacific influence on the minds of the people. The to any people.’ Whatever the individual thoughts war conditions in Europe do not appear to have seriously and feelings of the speakers were, they certainly de­ affected things out here, and we are much in prayer livered a clear and frank testimony to the necessity of depending upon G o d at this critical time in the world’s history. ‘ Governments, or armies, without the help of G od were unable to bring about peace at this juncture or to maintain it in the countries that still remain neutral.’ The Magistrate’s address especi­ ally was able and clear. It resolved itself into a strong, earnest appeal to those present to live good, clean lives, to repent and turn away from their sins, as only by so doing could they be useful citizens.” Another writer, in describing the service in his city, says:— “ Alto­ gether it was a remarkable day, and a grand oppor­ tunity to present at least some aspects of the Gospel to a class of influential men, who, for several reasons, are so terribly cut off from hearing it. But, glorious as it was to minister to them, one’s feelings could not but be saddened by the thought of this heathen nation praying for so-called Christian countries.” On the 28th October we had the pleasure of welcom­ ing Mr. and Mrs. H. A. H. Lea, .Mr. and Mrs. A. Preedy, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Mann, Mr. J. L. Rowe, and Dr. R. C. Parry. On November 14th, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Mun- geam, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. H. Briscoe, Mrs. Dansey Smith, Miss R. C. Oakeshott, and Miss F. L. Collins arrived. On November 17th, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Muir reached us from North America. Dr. Parry, with the two other young doctors whose arrival from England I announced in my last letter, is now in the Training Home at Anking, busy with the study of the language under the guidance of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Knight, who are in charge this session. Mr. and Mrs. Lea have returned Photo by] [C. H Judd, Jr. to the school at Chef00. Mr. and Mrs. Preedy and Mr. and Mrs. Mann are now on their way back to Liang- chowfu and Fukiang in K a n s u respectively, whilst Mr. A COUNTRY SCENE IN KIANGSI. Rowe is resuming wrork at Kanchow, Ki, K ia n g si. Mr. 28 China’s Millions. F e b r u a r y , 1915.

Photot by} [M.B.

HUKOW, OR THE ENTRANCE TO THE POYANG LAKE, KIANCSI. Most travellers Into Klangsi pass this picturesque spot. The wall of the city Hukow (literally Lake-mouth), a Customs centre, can be seen in each picture. The C.I.M. has been privileged in Kiangsi to receive Into the Church by baptism 4540 persons. Of these 363 were admitted in 1913.

Mungeam will for the present undertake the local Bible station of Liangshan, gave valuable assistance. Miss Classes hitherto conducted by Mr. Percy Knight at the Scorer writes :— “ Although the numbers attending the stations in S h a n si, and with Mrs. Mungeam will reside meetings have not been as large as we expected, yet we at Pingyangfu. Mr. and Mrs. Briscoe have been ap­ feel encouraged, and believe that the Holy Spirit has- pointed to Yoyang, S h an si. Miss Oakeshott has resumed worked in some hearts.” her duties as housekeeper in the Mission Home here, In previous letters I have several times made refer­ whilst Miss Collins is returning to Kinki, in K ia n g s i. ence to a Mr. Wang, a teacher in the district of Kwangan- Mr. and Mrs. Muir are still with us here. I would chow, Eastern S ze c h w a n , who, through reading the bespeak your prayers on behalf of these workers in Word of G od , was converted apart from human agency. entering upon their fresh terms of service in this land. Mr. R. B. Porter recently paid a visit to his home, on the Mr. F. Dickie reports a conference held from the 15th occasion of the marriage of his eldest son, having been, to 19th October inclusive at Kinhwa, when twent3T- invited to perform the Christian ceremony. Mr. Porter nine persons were received into the fellowship of the writes :— “ Our hearts are full of praise to G o d for th e Church. He had a large tent erected, capable of ac­ evidences of His working in and through this family. commodating over two hundred people. Daily, two About four hundred guests were invited to the wedding,, services were held for the Christians, and in the evenings and it was a unique opportunity for Christian witness. an evangelistic campaign was conducted. These meet­ In the evening we had a magic lantern service in the- ings were well attended, on one occasion over four courtyard, when nearly two hundred people heard the hundred and fifty being present, making it necessary Gospel, and saw it illustrated by pictures. Mr. Wang to tie up the sides of the tent, so that all might hear. and two other Christians helped greatly with the speak­ Miss Scorer writes of a special series of meetings held ing. I would like to ask prayer for this district. Just for women in Wanhsien, the object being threefold : now about twenty or thirty families have been influ­ “ (1) To lead on those in the city who come regularly enced by the Gospel, but badly need teaching in the for teaching, (2) to reach the outsiders who had never Christian doctrine." Our brother mentions that some- heard the Gospel, and (3) to get in some of the country men who have-been received into the Church there are women belonging to the out-stations. ’ ’ Over one thou­ rather a trial, as their lives are unsatisfactory. In sand invitations were distributed in the city. Morning Kwanganchow itself idolatry is reported to have taken, and afternoon meetings were conducted daily, and Mrs. a new lease. The worship of Confucius is the order in the Darlington, as also Miss Allen, from the neighbouring Government schools. Mr. Porter adds :— “ We need. F e b r u a r y , 1915. China’s Millions. 29 to be much in prayer and not in any way relax our efforts converts at Kiaoshutsuen, an out-station of Kiitsingtu, to preach C h r i s t , the only hope of salvation.” in Y u n n a n , mentions that these converts were mostly Mr. J. Falls, writing from Kihsien Sha, Sh an si, wives or relatives of some of the members. Whole says :— “ With two fellow-helpers I have again been families thus being brought into the Church is an en­ itinerating in our district, having of late felt strongly couraging feature. Theie are others who have put impelled to carry the Gospel message to each of the away their idols and regularly attend the services. The two hundred odd villages and towns in this hsien. We success in the work at this centre our brother attributes have already visited sixty of our most distant villages, to the fact that nearly all the Christians “ maintain the preaching the Gospel and disposing, of as many books family altar in their homes both morning and evening.” and tracts as possible in each place. You may be sur­ Dr. Fish, writing of his medical work at Anshunfu, prised to hear it, but the fact is that in only some in the adjoining province of K w e ich o w , refers to an half-dozen of these villages and hamlets has anything interesting incident. He writes :— of the Gospel ever before been heard. ’ ’ “ A few days ago a man came into the clinic with a Mrs. O. Burgess writes that her husband “ gets good dislocated shoulder. He was suffering a great deal of crowds in the hall, and has noticed numbers of pain and we could not attend to him at once. This did Moslems lately listening very well.” She mentions that not add to his comfort. However, in a very short time in Hinganfu there is a new Moslem sect, who advocate the we came to his relief. Fortunately, there was no diffi­ reading of the Bible. One gentleman told Mr. Burgess culty in reducing the dislocation, to the great joy of the that the priest had exhorted the followers of this faith man, who literally leaped and shouted for joy. As he to read Christian books, as J e s u s had and still has was going out of the gate, he told a large number of wonderful power, and is coming again for His people. bystanders that I was G od. For this he was repriman­ Mrs. Burgess adds :— “ This is quite a new develop­ ded by our gatekeeper, who sought to teach him a little ment, and we pray that many who read may learn to of the doctrine. However, he was not in a teachable love and serve our L o r d .” Our sister mentions that mood, and declared that if I was not G od I was certainly the work at this centre is very hard, and that there Jesu s, because that very day he had heard how He cured seems to be more idolatry than ever. Mediums have people’s diseases by touching them, and had I not made been threatening the people with great calamity if they his shoulder better by pulling his arm ? This was the neglect the idols. first time he had ever heard the Gospel, and he had Mr. D. J. Harding, in reporting the baptism of twelve things a little mixed up ! ”

P1NGYANG HSIEN (CHEKIANG) CITY GATE. This photograph was taken from the outer wall guarding the city gate. The old Mission premises are outside the city. New buildings are in course of erection inside. 80 China’s Millions. F e b r u a r y , 19 15 -

“ I Will Arise and Go to My Father.”

B y M r s . H u d so n B r o o m h a l l , C h u n g k in g , S z e c h w a n .

N a house just near to us is a young girl in the present a difficulty. One day she said to her mother, very last stage of consumption. Passing the door before me, that she knew the Lord JEsus had forgiven I one day, I saw this poor thing sitting, listlessly all her sins, and that when her soul went to be with Him, watching the passers-by. Her face was a pic­ she wanted a Christian funeral, and no false and idola­ ture of despair ! Even her eyes seem to give no light trous practices. She added that she would like to be to her face. I gently said, “ Little Sister, may I come baptized, but she felt she was too ill. in and talk with you ? ” She rose at once, and offered Last week she was perceptibly weaker, and unable me a seat, and her mother came forward from an inner to rise from her bed. My first visit to her bedside was room, and before long a good deal of the girl’s history so encouraging. She was lying on a straw mat under was told to me. the stairs, with neither light nor air. On my arrival Some of the story was like this. She was engaged a feeble little lamp was brought forward, and her much­ to be married, but this illness had come on, and the loved picture was hung up where she could see it by family in question did not want her, and now she was the dim light of the lamp. Again I read the familiar back in her mother’s house, a hopeless invalid, and passage, and she carefully repeated each sentence, but likely to die. I told her I knew of a Home which to m}T surprise and joy, when we came to the heart of the would welcome her with all love, and that that Home story, “ I will arise and go to my Father, and say unto was fair and beautiful beyond description— that all the Him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before sick and weary ones Thee, and am no who entered there, more worthy to be left their sorrows called Thy son: and pains behind. make me as one This interested her of Thy hired ser­ at once, and then vants,” she remem­ followed a talk on bered it all, and the way of salva­ with much eager­ tion. She brought ness led the way. down from a shelf Later on, she turned a little booklet — to Mrs. Yang, a “ First steps to the helper who was with Gospel,” which she me, and said, “ Mrs. said I had given her Broomhall has- a long while ago. saved my soul ! ” I had quite forgot­ H e r eyes were ten about it, neither closed, and she did I recognize the looked dreadfully girl. weary, as if she We went over the were dying. This re­ first few pages, and mark disappointed I told her. that I me, and I gently would come again touched her and teach her if she shoulder and said, liked to learn. The “ Little Sister, Mrs. next day I went Broomhall cannot again, and then save anyone— it is again, until a daily only the L o r d visit was looked for. Jesus Wh o can One day my husband went to the Tract Society Depot save! ” Instantly the eye opened, and with a flash and bought me some pictures. I took the coloured and almost a strong voice, she replied, “ If you had not picture of the Prodigal Son, and with my New Testa­ come to me I should never have known that J e s u s ment set off to see the invalid. She was very taken with saves ! ” the picture ! I wish you could have seen us ! She * * * always gave me the one chair in the room, and sat on a Since this was written my “ little Sister ” has passed low bench beside me, and thus we went over and over away. The last .few days her weakness and weariness the verses of the parable, as far as ‘ ‘ for this My son was were very great. It made me feel what a comfort it dead, and is alive again ; he was lost and is found.” would be to have a home for the dying, where sick I read a sentence, and my young companion repeated it cnes could be tenderly treated, and where they would after me. With a heart uplifted to the L o r d , the words not be made to feel that the sooner they died the better 1 of life were personalty applied. The message needed no But now she has gone in, beyond all suffering and trial,, pressing home. From that day we have read nothing to see the Glory of G o d . What a marvellous change ! else together, the end is so near, and the mind is en­ Will those who read this short story pray for the feebled with suffering, that any new subject might mother, who is still untouched by the truth ? F e b r u a r y , 19 15. China's Millions. 81

Praying for Peace. An account of a meeting at Lanchoiz'fu, on October 18th, 1914, to pray for universal peacc.

B y A r t h u r M o o r e . T had been decided by the Christian churches in - At noon we received a letter from the Governor, Peking to call for a meeting for prayer for the stating his regret at being prevented from attending, I peace of the world, to which both the President by an unforseen circumstance, and sending every good and Vice-President of the Republic promised to wish for the success of the meeting. He also said he send delegates, and telegrams were evidently sent out was sending a representative to take his place. Of the to the various centres, asking that arrangements be fifteen other officials invited, all attended with the made to hold public prayer meetings, and to invite the exception of three or four, who were away on business officials to attend. or indisposed. They were from all ranks, both civil and We, in Iyanchowfu, received a telegram asking us to militarj', and included the city magistrate, supreme arrange for a prayer meeting here, and in accordance court officials, two arm}* generals, post office officials, with this request, Mr. Andrew, sen., visited His Ex­ police and telegraph officials, besides a large number of cellency Chang-Kuang-Chien, the Governor of K a n su , important residents. The visitors all came early and and discussed the matter with him. He accordingly we were able to begin promptly at two p.m. There agreed to the convening of a meeting here and sent a were about three hundred present. telegram to the churches in Peking informing them of the The programme was as follows :— After ringing the decision arrived at. As a result of this visit it was bell to call the audience to attention, the military band decided to hold a meeting in the Tso-tsong-tang An­ played a little music, after which Mr. Koh, one of our cestral Hall, as our chapel was not large enough to Christians, who acted at chairman, mounted the plat­ accommodate the officials and their retinues, gentry, form and explained the reason for calling the meeting, scholars, and merchants. It was with fear and tremb­ also read the telegram from Peking, and spoke a few ling that we made arrangements for the meeting, appropriate words on the importance of prayer. We wondering how it would be taken by the officials then sang a hymn entitled : ‘ ‘ Now we pray for our and visitors. native land." Prayer was then offered by Mr. G. It entailed a great deal of labour to make all necessary Andrew, sen., who besought G od to graciously bless arrangements, and we asked ourselves if it would be the gathering, give wisdom to kings, queens, and all worth while, but as we look back, now it is all over, we in authority, and that this present war may be brought feel our labour was well repaid, for the reverence shown to a speedy close. Mr. Shen, another Christian, then in the meeting of officials of all ranks, both military and read the following passages of Scripture: Acts xvii. civil, was most striking. They one and all sought to 24-28, and I Tim. ii. 1-11, and another hymn, “ Met follow our example as we worshipped the true and the again in J e s u s ’ name ; ’’ was sung. Then followed living God. This shows that a remarkable change an address by Mr. Chang, a Christian business man has taken place in China during the past few years, who spoke on the cause of the war and its attendant, for though the Chinese, as a nation, have not accepted dangers, sorrows, and sufferings, and stating that the Christianity, they are less prejudiced against it, and are only true solution of the problem could be found in more open to listen to the truths of G od than before. Divine intervention and by the L ord Himself infusing’ The hall where we held the meeting is a beautiful His love into the hearts of all men, thus binding man place and roomy. It was built by the Hunan-HupEh to man and nation to nation in the bonds of love. Guild as a banqueting hall, and is often let to officials Mr. Kuai, the Governor’s representative, was then for feasts and private theatricals. It will hold about called upon to speak, and he gave a very appropriate five hundred people, arranged as they have it. There address for the occasion. The following notes of his is a large platform at one end, while the centre of the address may interest readers. He mentioned that hall is carpeted, and a row of chairs (with small tea all evil proceeded from the heart of man, and that tables between them) is on either side. Behind these men were prone to commit sin and acts of violence. chairs forms are arranged for the general audience, In the world there was much more evil than good, which and at the opposite end to the platform there is a large was caused by two things, namely, covetousness and alcove where the higher officials sat. It is beautifully ambition. From these two roots of evil there were decorated and has many fine tablets hanging on the two results most evident in the world: firstly, large walls and pillars. The windows are of glass. armaments, causing enormous expenditure; and secondly, The Meeting took place from two to three p.m. on an unequal division of wealth. Special emphasis was Sunday, October 18th, but by one p.m. the people began laid on the fact that both in China and abroad there were to arrive and made it necessary for us to be present to large numbers of poor who were suffering in consequence. meet the guests. We provided tea for the more important He concluded by expressing the hope that the day guests, which was given to them on arrival. would soon come when, through a conference of scholars The officials had made all necessary arrangements and enlightened men, the cost of armaments would be in the shape of a guard of honour at the main entrance, reduced, and that the surplus of money saved would consisting of two rows of armed police on either side of be used for the alleviation of poverty. the entrance, while each door through which we passed Prayer was then offered by Mr. George King, M.B.,who into the hall had also a guard of two armed police. pleaded that, if it was G o d ’s will, the war may soon These men presented arms as the officials entered, and cease and peace be restored. The hymn, “ We pray the military band, consisting of bugles and kettledrums, Thee bless all lands/’ was then sung, and the meeting sounded an appropriate call. closed with the Benediction. 32 China’s Millions F ebru ary, 1915.

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING DECEMBER, 1914— Continued. For General Fund.— Continued. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. 15 . 6415 5 0 0 17. 6484 2 0 0 21. 6551 1 11 8 24. 6615 0 7 6 29. 6682 0 15 0 31. 6745 1 17 0 6416 0 6 0 6485 1 0 0 6552 10 0 0 6616 0 7 0 6683 2 17 0 6746 6 6 9 6417 0 10 6 6488 1 5 0 6553 2 12 2 6617 0 2 0 6684 1 0 0 6747 0 10 0 6418 0 5 0 6489 2 0 0 6554 1 0 0 6618 1 0 0 6685 5 10 4 6748 2 0 0 6419 0 10 6 6490 10 0 0 22. 6555 1 1 0 6619 0 7 6 6686 8 0 0 6749 1 1 0 6420 1 0 0 6492 0 10 0 6556 1 0 0 6620 0 10 0 6687 1 0 0 6750 1 1 0 6421 0 5 0 6493 1 1 0 6558 0 5 0 6621 1 0 0 6688 0 5 0 6751 0 9 0 6422 0 17 0 18. 6494 0 5 0 6560 4 0 0 6622 0 16 0 6689 0 10 0 6752 5 0 0 6423 2 1 6 6495 0 5 0 6562 0 5 0 6623 1 0 0 6690 5 0 0 6753 39 0 0 6426 2 4 6 6496 1 0 0 6563 0 2 0 6624 0 10 0 6693 6 0 0 6754 1 0 0 6427 100 0 0 6497 0 5 0 6564 0 5 0 6625 0 2 6 6694 10 0 0 6755 1 0 0 6428 2 0 o. 6499 0 7 1 6565 0 9 0 6629 0 5 0 6695 1 3 7 6757 5 5 0 6429 1 1 0 6500 0 5 0 6568 0 4 0 6630 0 2 6 6696 6 18 9 6759 1 10 0 6430 5 0 0 6501 0 12 0 Readers' 6631 0 10 0 30. 6697 0 15 0 6760 4 10 0 0 11 6 of the 1 0 6761 0 8 6 6431 6502 0 10 0 U fe of i 28 16 6 6632 0 10 0 6698 2 2 16 . 6432 5 0 0 6504 0 5 0 Faith , 6633 16 5 0 Anon. 2 0 0 6762 1 0 0 6433 0 10 0 6505 1 0 0 6571 5 0 0 6634 5 0 0 6700 1 0 0 6763 0 8 0 6434 0 2 6 6506 25 0 0 6572 1 0 0 Legacy. 200 0 0 6701 1 0 6 6764 1 1 0 6435 0 10 0 6507 1 0 0 6573 0 10 0 6637 1 10 0 6702 0 5 0 6765 1 1 0 6436 1 0 0 6508 1 1 0 6574 20 0 0 29. 6638 1 16 8 6703 3 0 0 6766 50 0 0 ■6437 1 0 0 19. 6509 1 0 0 6575 84 7 11 6640 1 0 0 6704 0 5 0 6768 0 15 9 ; 6.438 0 7 6 6510 2 0 0 6576 5 0 0 6641 1 0 0 6705 0 10 0 6769 3 0 0 * 6439 1 0 0 6512 1 0 0 23. 6577 5 0 0 6642 0 10 6 His Own 0 5 0 6771 0 5 0 * 64 40 0 5 0 6513 0 8 6 6578 0 10 0 6644 1 0 0 6707 2 0 0 6772 0 10 0 6442 1 1 0 6514 2 2 0 6579 5 0 0 6645 1 0 0 6708 0 1 0 6773 1 0 0 6444 5 5 0 6515 1 7 c 6580 0 10 0 6646 0 5 0 6709 0 14 6 6774 1 10 0 6445 0 18 0 6516 0 8 6 6581 0 11 0 6647 0 10 0 6710 3 1 3 6775 2 0 0 6449 0 10 0 6517 1 0 0 6582 1 0 0 6648 1 0 0 6711 2 2 0 6776 9 0 0 F.B. 0 5 0 6518 0 3 6 6583 1 0 0 6649 0 3 0 6712 0 1 0 6777 3 10 0 6451 0 1 6 6519 20 0 0 H.40233 5 0 0 6651 0 10 0 6713 1 10 0 6778 3 0 0 6453 0 10 0 6520 0 19 2 6585 2 5 0 6652 0 5 0 6714 2 2 0 6780 1 14 10 6454 1 0 0 6521 1 10 0 6586 1 0 0 6653 0 10 0 6716 0 10 0 6782 1 1 0 6455 5 0 0 6522 1 0 0 6587 1 0 0 Readers 1 6717 0 10 0 6783 65 0 0 6456 0 7 0 6523 1 1 0 6588 10 0 0 of the 26 5 0 6718 1 0 0 6785 0 12 0 6458 5 0 0 6524 2 0 0 6589 0 2 6 Christian. J 6719 0 10 0 6786 0 5 0 6459 0 15 4 6525 2 2 0 6590 2 0 0 6655 0 10 6 6720 0 10 6 6787 0 10 6 17 . 6460 0 5 0 6526 143 8 0 6591 1 0 0 6657 0 5 0 6721 5 5 0 6788 0 3 6 6461 1 0 0 3 3 6 6592 1 1 0 J.W.. 6722 0 5 0 6789 0 7 6 6527 0 Oer 0 6462 5 0 0 6528 5 0 0 6593 1 0 0 Glasgow, 6723 1 0 0 6790 5 0 0 6463 1 0 0 6529 1 0 0 6595 1 0 0 6659 0 l 6 6724 10 0 0 6 7 9 i 0 5 0 6464 1 0 0 21. Anon. 1 0 0 Readers’ 6660 1 l 0 6725 1 5 0 6792 0 10 0 6465 0 1 0 of the 1 0 0 6662 1 0 0 6726 0 15 6 6793 0 10 0 Anon., » i 0 0 Morning 6466 0 5 0 Eastb'rne J 1 Star , 6663 0 5 0 6727 2 2 0 A Well 2 g 6467 0 6 0 6533 1 1 0 Legacy 153 14 10 6664 1 7 6 Legacy 150 0 0 Wisher 0 6468 1 0 0 6534 0 3 6 6598 1 1 0 6665 0 2 6 31. 6730 0 7 0 6795 0 5 0 6469 1 1 0 6535 0 5 6 6599 50 0 0 6666 1 0 0 6731 0 10 0 6796 0 10 0 6470 0 2 fi 6536 0 5 0 6600 15 0 0 6668 0 7 6 6732 0 5 0 6797 1 0 0 6471 2 0 0 6537 2 0 6 6601 0 10 0 6669 0 10 0 6733 0 4 0 6798 0 4 4 6472 3 3 0 6538 0 3 6 24. 6603 0 13 0 6670 3 0 0 6734 0 5 0 6799 4 13 0 6473 0 7 6 6539 0 7 0 6604 0 10 0 6671 1 1 0 6735 0 10 0 6800 1 0 0 6474 0 5 0 6540 1 1 0 6605 1 0 0 6673 1 3 9 6736 0 10 0 6801 0 5 0 .6475 0 12 6 6541 0 8 6 6606 0 10 0 6674 20 0 0 6737 0 10 0 6802 0 8 6 6476 0 10 6 6543 3 0 0 6607 0 5 0 S. 0 2 6 6738 0 15 0 6803 2 10 0 6477 1 0 0 6544 1 2 6 6608 0 5 0 6676 5 0 0 6739 2 0 0 6804 10 0 0 6478 1 0 0 6545 4 18 0 6609 0 12 6 6677 1 0 0 6740 1 0 0 6805 1 6 3 6479 2 2 0 6546 2 2 0 6610 0 10 0 6678 0 10 0 6741 0 5 0 6806 7 3 9 6480 1 0 0 6547 0 10 0 6611 0 12 6 6679 0 2 6 6742 2 2 0 6807 0 10 0 6481 0 10 0 6549 1 0 0 6612 0 4 0 6680 5 0 0 6743 0 5 0 6808 1 1 0 6482 5 0 0 6550 1 0 0 6613 0 4 6 6681 0 17 6 6744 1 5 0 £2,562 6 2

For Special Purposes. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d 1. 6 149 3 10 0 8. 6273 16. 6441 2 14 0 22. 6559 1 1 0 29. 6672 14 0 31. 6770 2 2 6 6162 3 9 11 6282 0 0 6443 1 10 0 6561 1 10 0 6691 6 5 0 6779 2 0 0 2. 6167 2 2 0 9. 6298 0 0 6446 7 0 0 6566 2 10 0 6692 0 18 9 6781 0 10 0 6172 15 7 0 6311 3 0 6447 2 13 4 6567 10 0 0 30. 6715 3 0 0 6784 3 0 0 Anon. 1 0 0 10. 6332 6 10 0 6448 0 15 0 6570 5 0 0 6728 3 0 0 6808a 0 8 6 6 189 30 0 0 11. 6338 5 16 3 6452 3 0 0 23. 6594 1 10 0 31. 6756 1 0 0 3. 6204 2 0 0 6353 1 0 0 6457 10 0 0 24. 6602 6 5 0 6758 0 10 0 £589 8 7 4. 6 216 1 1 0 12. 6359 1 10 0 17. 6483 25 0 0 6614 0 10 0 6767 3 0 0 6218 3 10 0 6366 1 1 0 6486 2 0 0 6626 7 10 0 6222 0 2 9 6375 0 12 6 6487 5 16 0 6627 1 0 0 SUMMARY. 5. 6223 4 14 1 6377 1 1 0 6491 30 0 0 6628 1 0 0 £ s. d. 6226 2 10 0 14. 6381 1 12 0 18. 6498 1 1 0 6636 0 10 0 General 2,562 6 2 7. 6241 0 10 0 6383 0 4 4 - 6503 120 0 0 29. 6639 8 0 0 Special 589 8 7 6245 10 0 0 Anon. 1 0 0 19. 6511 2 0 0 6643 4 4 0 6248 0 6 6 6406 1 0 0 6530 113 4 0 6650 12 13 2 Total for December . 3 ,151 14 9 6253 0 4 6 6413 2 10 0 21. 6542 10 0 0 6656 0 10 0 Brought forward 33,721 2 9 6254 1 0 0 15. 6424 0 10 0 6548 0 10 0 6661 37 10 0 Total for 1914 . £36,872 17 6 6 2 5 5 1 0 0 6425 0 10 0 22. 6557 4 0 0 6667 2 10 0 V ol. X I iI. No 8. ONE P E N N Y . MABCH, 1915. China’s Millions. I J f * « « W | l

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CHINESE JUNK IN FULL SAIL.

FIRST THINGS FIRST. By D. E. HOSTE.

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DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING JANUARY, 1915. For General Fund. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ 1. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. j Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. 1. 6809 2 2 0 2. 6853 0 6 0 4. 6897 0 17 6 ! 5. 6942 10 0 0 6. 6988 1 0 0 7. 7041 17 0 0 6810 0 10 0 6854 0 5 0 6898 0 10 0 1 6944 5 0 0 6989 0 5 0 7042 1 3 3 6811 5 0 0 6855 0 :10 0 6899 0 10 0 ! Legacy. 50 0 0 H.l.S. 1 1 0 7043 0 10 0 6812 0 2 6 6856 0 10 0 6900 0 9 0 6949 0 10 0 6991 0 15 0 7044 1 0 0 6813 4 0 0 6857 1 0 0 6901 1 10 0 6950 1 1 0 6992 10 0 0 7046 1 0 0 0 5 0 Also to ) 6858 1 0 0 6903 0 10 0 6952 0 6 0 A Friend. 0 4 4 7047 the V 2 2 0 6862 1 0 0 6904 5 0 0 6953 2 10 0 6994 0 16 3 7048 0 10 0 Gentile. ) 6863 1 1 0 6905 5 0 0 6954 0 5 0 6995 0 10 0 7049 0 2 6 6815 23 10 4 6864 1 0 0 6906 32 10 0 ; 6955 1 1 0 6998 2 0 0 7050 4 0 0 6818 1 0 0 6865 0 4 8 6907 0 15 0 6956 20 0 0 7000 4 10 0 7051 5 0 0 6 819 1 0 0 6866 0 5 0 6909 4 0 0 6957 2 0 0 7001 0 11 6 7053 1 10 0 6820 0 10 0 6867 2 2 0 6910 0 15 6 6958 0 3 8 7002 2 7 9 7054 0 2 7 6821 0 10 0 6868 0 10 0 6911 10 0 0 ! 6. 6959 1 10 0 7004 6 0 0 7055 25 0 0 6822 0 9 0 6869 1 0 0 6913 1 1 0 6960 0 5 0 7005 1 1 0 7056 6 5 0 6824 0 2 6 6870 1 0 0 6 914 1 0 0 6961 0 3 6 7006 0 5 0 7058 0 10 0 6825 0 3 0 6871 0 10 0 6915 12 10 0 6962 0 10 0 7007 1 0 0 7059 20 0 0 6826 0 13 0 6872 1 0 0 6916 25 0 0 6963 0 10 0 T.I.M. 60 0 0 8. 7060 0 5 0 6827 0 5 0 6873 0 5 0 6917 0 5 0 6964 0 6 0 7009 10 0 0 7061 1 0 0 6828 0 13 0 6874 0 10 0 6918 1 0 0 6965 0 2 0 7011 3 0 0 7062 0 10 6 6830 0 10 0 6875 1 0 0 Legacy. 90 0 0 6966 1 0 0 7012 5 0 0 7063 0 3 6 6832 1 2 6 6876 10 0 0 5. 6921 0 10 0 6967 0 10 0 7013 1 0 0 7064 1 1 0 6833 1 18 2 6877 0 10 0 6922 0 10 0 6968 0 5 0 7014 1 0 0 7065 0 10 0 6834 0 15 6 6878 50 0 0 6923 0 2 6 6969 0 12 0 7015 1 1 0 7066 0 10 6 6835 20 0 0 4. 6879 0 6 0 6924 1 0 0 1 6970 5 0 0 7017 0 12 0 7067 0 12 0 6836 2 0 0 6880 2 0 0 «925 2 2 0 i 6971 0 - 10 0 M.H.G. 1 0 0 7068 0 16 6 6837 1 11 5 6881 0 10 6 6926 0 2 6 : 6972 2 0 0 7022 9 4 6 7069 2 0 0 6838 1 0 0 6883 0 15 0 6927 0 5 0 ! 6973 1 0 '0 7023 2 10 0 7070 1 0 0 6839 0 10 0 6884 0 10 0 6928 0 5 0 6974 1 0 0 7024 0 10 0 7071 2 15 0 6840 1 0 0 6885 0 10 0 6929 0 r> 0 6975 1 0 0 7. 7025 0 5 0 7072 1 1 0 2. 6842 1 0 0 6886 2 2 0 6930 0 3 0 6976 5 0 0 7027 0 5 0 7073 0 18 0 6843 0 5 O' 6887- 1 0 Ano'ri- .0 - 2 6977 1- 15 0 - 7028 f l 1

First Things First.

B y D. E. H o s te .

“ .Make me thereof a little cake first.”— i Kings xvii. 13.

N the chapter from which the foregoing words are Baal. G od has His own in unlooked-for quarters. This' selected we find that the famine, primarily in­ woman reminds us of that other woman of Tyre and I tended as a judgment upon apostate Israel, is Sidon, who was commended by the Lord Jesus for her also the means of furthering the spiritual train­ great faith. It was indeed a bold and unusual request, ing of G o d 's true servant Elijah. He, too, is called which the prophet, suddenly appearing as a complete to share in the general straitness, and thereby experi­ stranger, made of her ; and right nobly did she respond ences as never before the faithfulness and power of G od to it. How easy and natural would it have been for in supplying his needs. Nor is the L o r d confined to her to have resented the seeming presumption of this one method in caring for His servant. As soon as the stranger and angrily repudiated his claim upon her care. brook Cherith has dried up, the miraculous feeding by We are reminded of the words of the Apostle concerning ravens comes to an end, and the prophet is sent to the the Macedonian Christians, of whom it is said that very country whence the worship of Baal had come, “ their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their there to be dependent on the bounty of a poor widow, liberality. ’ ’ herself on the point of starvation. And so, throughout It will be helpful to us to let our minds dwell on the the whole period of the famine, we find that Elijah is words, “ for me first.” It is in circumstances such as kept in daily and hourly dependence on G od. T o him, those in which the widow was placed, that the L o r d as a man of like passions with ourselves, it would, proves His servants to see whether their profession of speaking after the manner of men, have been easier loving Him first and best of all is genuine or not. It is if the L o r d had in some way provided an abundant well to bear in mind that the laying up of treasure in store for the prophet’s use, sufficient to last him till the heaven does not depend upon our having large means at rain fell. It is, however in the school of constant de­ our disposal ; it depends upon the proportion of our pendence and prolonged testing of faith and patience means which we give to the L o r d and His work. The that the type of character is formed which is fitted to L o r d J esu s, in speaking of the widow with her two mites be G o d ’s instrument in the widespread manifestation of having given “ more than they all,” was not simply His power and grace. Let us not be surprised, there­ speaking of its moral value in the sight of G od, but of its fore, if we, too, find that some Divinely provided source actual amount in the bank of heaven. The words, of comfort and supply gradually dries up, in the same “ Many that are first shall be last, and the last first, ’ way as the brook Cherith did. As Elijah saw the stream may ultimately be found to have an application to this growing smaller and smaller, he must have been tempted matter of giving. sometimes to question and doubt about the future ; Again, is it not true that the proportion in which the nor did the L ord tell him how he was to be fed, untiL L o r d ’s steward gives to the various objects claiming the brook had actually disappeared. May all of .us his help should be regulated by the principle contained have grace, under similar experiences, to maintain that in these words, “ for me first ” ? All will agree, for quiet confidence and patient trust in our Heavenly example, that it is the duty, as well as privilege, of a Father, which are pleasing and glorifying to Him ! It Christian man to contribute to the relief of the poor and may be that our own health, or that of someone, who needy in the community in times of special scarcity ; for long has been a strength and comfort to us, is and in so doing, he, in a real way, may be said to give gradually failing, and we do not see from whence other to the L o r d . And yet there may be a danger lest the help is to come. Or it may be that in other ways our money given in this way be taken from gifts which in resources are getting less. In whatever form the trial ordinary times go in other directions, rather than from may come, let us not forget that he, who cared for the amount usually devoted to personal expenditure ; Elijah, is in very truth our G od to-day, and He is in other words, that the ordinary objects of an indi­ watching to see whether we can wholly trust Him vidual’s gifts, rather than the individual himself, are and learn " in whatsoever state we are, therewith to taxed in order to meet special claims. May every child be content.” of G o d ever remember Him who on the Cross put us It was probably a startling surprise to Elijah to find first, and now pleads that we should do the same for that the one chosen for his support dwelt in the dark Him, whether in respect of our means, our time, our regions of Tyre and Sidon, given up to the worship of strength, or the whole disposal of our lives ! M a r c h , 1915- 86 China's Millions. March . 1 9 1 5 .

Lady Yang’s Conversion.

B y J a m e s O r r , Yangchow, Kiangsu.

rE have to praise G o d who lives near by. On the way to Mrs. Wang’s house for some measure she passed a Kong-kuan (mansion), at the door of which of blessing and for a number of ladies were standing, who showed great W the encouragement interest in the children and pressed them to go inside. of good audiences, in con­ They were a family of the official class, natives of Foo­ nection with the work of our chow (South China). My wife allowed the children two churches in Yangchow to go in while she called on the church member. Mrs. during the months of August Wang, hearing where the children were, offered to and September. During the accompany my wife back to the Kong-kuan, saying month of August the attend­ she knew the family well, she too being a native of ance at the regular meetings Foochow. This visit led to a close intimacy, the chil­ at South Gate totalled 753, dren being ever the great attraction to them. They being an average of forty-six called on us often, and never empty-handed, there at each meeting. The num­ was always a gift for the bairns and particularly for bers during September were baby Rosie. The one who was most interested was about the same. At Pi-shi- a grand-daughter, a young lady very attractive in kiai the numbers attending, appearance and most capable. Alas, she was afflicted exclusive of the school child­ by that fell disease consumption. They could never ren, have been rather smaller, be persuaded to wait for a meeting, but always left the summer attendances were as soon as we were ready to begin. When Miss Henry unusually large. One enquirer, returned to South Gate and we came over to Pi-shi-kiai, a young man, was received they passed into her care. As this young woman’s into the church during August. ON THE YANGTSI consumption became worse Miss Henry invited her to Others have given us encour­ come and live with her, so that she might have the agement, particularly the wife care she needed. That visit proved a blessing both of our gate-man, who has shown signs of a change to body and spirit. She became a true believer in of heart. She has asked to be received into church C h r i s t . The rest of the family were much averse to fellowship. At South Gate two men and one woman this, but still they continued to visit us, and always were enrolled as enquirers in August, and during Sep­ with their hearts full of the children. A younger tember eight men were received. On the last day of brother of this girl having contracted diphtheria, she September five women were baptized at South Gate. insisted on nursing him herself. The boy recovered, During the but she took two months the disease I v i s i t e d from lii m Hsin - chih - and died. tsi, eight She left a miles to the bright testi­ south, and mony to her had good op­ faith in portunities C h r i s t and of reaching her certain th e people hope of then. I was heaven, ex­ introduced horting the to several others to fol­ good fam i­ low her there. lies. Tw o Almost her visits were last words paid to the were about home of an h e r little old member Photo by] [A. R. Sauniert. Rosie. Her in Tai - kai - death was a chuang, four PART OF THE WALL OF YANGCHOW; ALSO THE EAST GATE AND THE FERRY BOAT. This Gate is that through which Mr. Taylor entered the City in 1868. great blow to miles to the the family, east. The but it re­ market at Hauh-kia-chiao was also visited on each of sulted in the conversion of her younger brother, who these occasions. later was baptized into South Gate church. This I feel sure you will be interested to hear the story lad had to undergo much persecution for refusing to of Yang tai-tai [Lady Yang], one of the five women take part in ancestral and idol worship, but he stood recently baptized. Some years ago when we were firm. The grandmother was most antagonistic of residing in South Gate during Miss Henry's furlough, all, but G o d did not forget the prayer of her grand­ my wife paid a visit to the home of one of our members daughter. After the death of our little Rosie two Mar c h , 1 9 15 . C h in a ’s M illio n s. 87 years ago my wife paid Mrs. Yang a visit. Showing by the change that had come over it. She asked my her the family photo Mrs. Yang said: “ Your baby is wife to tell me that she was now ready to be baptized now with my child in heaven, and if I want to see them as soon as it suited my convenience, but that she would again I must believe too.” But, then, she was still like it to be without delay. The next mail brought unwilling. Yet G o d did not leave her. One night news of the recovery of her sick one. G od has since while asleep she was awakened by hearing a voice speak­ given her several definite answers to prayer. At the ing to her. It said : “ Quickly repent and believe in church meeting at which she was accepted for member­ J e s u s .” ' So real was the voice that she rose, lit the ship, four others were also passed. They were baptized lamp, and was surprised to find herself alone. Lying on September 30th. It proved to be a very happy down again, wondering if she had not made a mistake, service and I have seldom felt so much joy at such a she was startled to hear the same words addressed to service. The oldest woman, Chang-ta tai-tai, is seventy- her again. This led to her deciding to be a Christian. four years of age ; Mrs. Chu is sixty-four ; Yang tai-tai The following Sunday she came to church, and standing sixty-three ; and Mrs. Chow, wife of farmer Chow, is up asked to be received as an enquirer. She said: fifty-four. The other was a girl who is now a scholar “ I am now clean from everything and my heart is in Miss Clough’s school. fixed to follow the L o r d . ’ ’ She however was not willing The children’s meeting held on Wednesdays in the for baptism, she felt she could never go through that home of a Christian outside the West Gate has gone on ; ordeal. We refrained from pressing this matter and the attendance has varied from twenty to forty. Two asked the members not to speak about it to her, but to men who live near by and who were attracted by this pray that G od would Himself show her His Will. He meeting have become enquirers at South Gate. did so in His wonderful way. Some time after, another A recent feature of the work at South Gate has been member calling on her found her in much distress, word the number of soldiers attending the services there. having just arrived of the very serious illness of her We have had as many as forty in one meeting. They daughter-in-law. She prayed with her, and advised are unusually attentive and listen well. Four of these her to lay hold on God, that he would heal the sick one. men come regularly, and have been received as en­ After this woman took her departure, Lady Yang quirers. All of them had heard the Gospel in the meet­ continued in prayer, and while on her knees the L o r d ings for soldiers held before the death of General Hsu said to her: “ How can I answer your prayers when you Pao-Shan, and in the chapels of this city I hope we are not willing to follow me.” She realized that this will see others of their comrades come out for the L o r d . meant baptism, and replied “ I am willing, L o r d , please My English Bible class held at 8 p.m. on Sundays heal my daughter-in-law.” Next Sunday she came continues, but the number attending is smaller. Some into the chapel with a face which attracted attention have gone to school and cannot come.

The Work of the Chinese Bible Revision Committee. A S k e t c h b y F. W. Baller, one of the Members.

HE Revision Committee resumed their work in as a first instalment of the historical books. The September, taking up the great evangelical revision of this book has involved a great deal of the T prophet Isaiah. In doing this they continued most careful work, as it necessitated going over all their work of revising the poetical books, as the ground with Joshua in the most minute fashion. they had already finished Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Some of our members felt that they had measured it Song of Solomon. So far they have revised as far as with their feet as he did. The impression left in the chapter lx. and hope ere long to finish this book of mind was that the writer had a perfect and intimate promise and hope. When it is done there will cer­ acquaintance with the whole “ Promised Land.” The tainly be two Isaiahs in China, the one old and the knowledge of local conditions evidenced, and of the other new, one revised, the other authorized. It is ups and downs of the country, as well as the general believed that the new one will speak in the “ language lie of the land, all give a touch of genuineness that is understood of the people,” and that his glowing utter­ absolutely convincing. No forger could have written it. ances will appeal to thousands and tens of thousands There is still a good deal of heavy and strenuous of readers, who will listen to him speaking in simpler work to be got over before the whole Bible is completed, language than he has hitherto done. and prayer for all needed strength and grace will be Every effort has been made to maintain a style at greatly valued. The Revised Pentateuch so far has once chaste and strong, and as intelligible as it is pos­ met with an encouraging reception in its tentative sible to make it. The Chinese teachers have entered form. It is now in circulation among Chinese pastors most thoroughly into the spirit of the book, and have as well as foreign missionaries, with a view of receiving contributed a large number of most helpful renderings suggestions and criticisms that the Committee may Questions of rhythm, balance, grouping, felicity of make use of before sending forth the book in its final diction, use of particles, and kindred matters have had form. So far such notices as have come to hand are their careful and unremitting attention, with the result favourable, and it is believed that the whole church that a true Chinese ring and cadence permeates the in China will be helped and blessed by having the whole work. For this we are most grateful. Word of G od presented in a simpler and more accurate In addition the committee have revised Joshua, form. 88 China's Millions. M arch , 19 1 5 .

The Work in Paotowchen and District.

B y E m u , J o h n s o n . “ So she gleaned in the field until even.”

HROUGH the unfathomable grace of G o d we larger church at the station, and we greatly desire to have again had a year’s opportunities to glean build next year, if G o d will. T “ Gospel-ears ” on the distant Paotowchen field. Some repairs have been made at the street-chapel Although the work here consists more of breaking since we purchased the premises, when the preaching sod, tilling and sowing, than of real harvesting, we never­ hall there was made twice as large. It holds now quite theless have had the joy of gathering a few ears. There a crowd ; and the people listen with interest. Besides have also been signs that the seed sown will grow, so the evangelists, Heh-ih and Shang-fu, and the mis­ that if the L o r d tarries and we are privileged to con­ sionaries, many Christians have also zealously testified tinue the work we may in future be rewarded with a to the Truth. A colonel in the Chinese Army, who has full “ ephah.” been converted, has occasionally on Sunday afternoons, Our heavenly Boaz has been noticed upon our field, given a fervent testimony to J e s u s as the only Saviour, and we have been able under His protection to work and exhorted the people to turn to Him. We rejoice undisturbed at the op- the “ whole portunities day.” Dis­ afforded us turbances of bringing there have the Truth to been, both the people. in the city The school and its vi­ h a s made cinity, but more e n through His couraging command, progress Let her this year. glean,” and In th e " Reproach spring we her not,” we succeeded have been in engaging allowed to a good work unin- teacher. Al­ t e rruptedly though at for the sal- the time a v a t i o n of heathen, he souls. Bless­ nevertheless ed be His was gentle, Name Who faithful and uses His gifted, and humble ser­ has diligent­ vants and ly taught strengthens the chil- them in the dren. When fierce com­ w e have bat against given the heathendom children the and sin ! Bible les­ We have had the joy, during the year, of welcoming sons, he has always been present, and his place has Mr. Edenblom to the work at Paotowchen. The writer seldom been vacant at the services. About twenty removed from Saratsi in April, after a residence thereof boys have attended the school throughout the year. two years, and resumed his work in this much-neglected They have been, on the whole, good and diligent; city. the older boys have a good knowledge of Christian A more aggressive work has been carried on this year. doctrine, and we hope that, by the grace of G o d , they The Word has been perserveringly proclaimed in the will become His instruments in bringing the Gospel to street chapel. In April we managed to buy the street the people in these districts. chapel premises quite favourably. We saw in this The Biblewoman has visited the homes of the people, transaction the helping hand of G o d , and we praise Him and preached the Gospel to the women and children. for the permanent foothold we thereby secured at this As yet she cannot point to any direct result of her exceptionally suitable place for street chapel work. The work, but we have all reason to believe that future years premises cost us Tls. 247.00. The purchase of these will show the fruit of her efforts. We long for the day premises has, however, made the building of the new when the benighted Paotowchen women shall awaken church an impossibility this year. One of the most and recognize the Lord Jesus Christ as their own urgent needs in the Paotowchen work at present is a Saviour from sin and suffering. March, 19 15 . China’s Millions. 89

Two colporteurs have sold books and distributed in order that her sufferings may soon be at an end. This Scriptures and tracts near and far during the year. seemed quite reasonable to him, but our conscience and One of them is specially appointed to work west of the feelings would not allow us to do it, so we set to work to Yellow River— a district where very few have heard do what we could to save the life. We thawed her little anything of Jesu s. ice-frozen limbs with cold water, and succeeded in During September the writer journeyed with him in softening them, but in doing so the benumbed feelings that out-of-the-way were revived, and she district, and was suffered the most in­ much encouraged by tense pa in until death the zeal and tact he finally laid its sooth­ showed in conversa­ ing hand upon the tion and in dealing suffering little body. with the people. We We wondered when met mostly with we heard the wailing people whohad never of the little one and seen a “ Gospel ” or saw her pain, if it heard a sound of the had not, after all. ' ‘ glad tidings. ’’ We been better to have felt it to be such left her to die. a privilege to sell Well, dear friends, books, distribute it is to such people tracts and preach to and to parents who these “ first-time ” can treat their little hearers. The people ones in the way bought our books described, that Goi* readily and listened has induced you to with interest to the send your represen­ message. We re­ tatives. It is to such turned home without a people that the a single copy left. L o r d commands you Three Bible study to send the Light and classes have been Truth. Oh, do pray conducted — two at for your messengers Paotowchen and one that they always at Tankanmoto. The L ord was present at these classes may be channels through whom Divine love and grace devoted to Bible study and heart-searching. Sins were may flow. < confessed and decisions made to live more wholly for At our out-stations Pen-pa-tai and Sha-pa-tsi our the L o r d . friends have been unmolested, although depredations Christian Endeavour meetings have been held duiing and plundering have occurred round about. We have the latter half of the year. These meetings also have not had time to visit them this year, which I regret., been much blessed. because the friends there have need of encouragement. Almost a score of our Christians have joined the The out-station Tankanmoto we have visited three International Bible Reading Association and daily read times. We have held one Bible study class and have the Bible text appointed. They have consequently been much encouraged by the work of the Holy Spirit come under the influence of this Association s worldwide- manifested there. Twelve converts were baptized there intercession, and will without doubt derive much benefit this summer. We have a school going on too, and about from it as well as from the daily reading of the precious fifteen sturdy boys attend it. Word. During the year eighteen converts have been baptized ; The ministry of the Word has been maintained every the church consists now of 46 members. Fifteen babies day, in the forenoon meeting with the boys in the school ; have been rescued, and brought to Saratsi. We have in the afternoon preaching in the street chapel, and at two schools with thirty-five boys in attendance ; two the evening meeting at the station. On Sundays the school teachers ; two evangelists ; two colportuers ; one Christian Endeavour meeting has first been held ; then Biblewoman ; and we are two missionaries. The contribu­ the service, and in the afternoon Sunday school and tions for the year amount to Mex. $53.51. preaching in the street chapel. May the “ holy oil ” from the sanctuary constantly Destitute children have been found and rescued. be upon His humble servants in this dark region, and Most of these we have managed to bring alive to Saratsi. may the unction more and more be manifested in life Fifteen little ones have been received into the Saratsi and work ; thus the oasis, which has been planted, Orphanage to be cared for. We have, however, not shall without doubt extend in area and increase in always succeeded in saving the lives of the little ones we beauty ; the name of the Lord will be known, glorified have picked up. Such was the case with a sweet little and adored ; the people will be drawn to Him and baby-girl, whom we found thrown out one cold winter united with Him, and we shall all, in our turn, be called morning. Her little limbs were already frozen stiff home to enjoy the peace and the rest He has prepared. when we picked her up, but the life still lingered in the frozen little body. What should we do ? Leave her Rest.— When all is in His hand all will be safe, all there to let the frost finish its work, suggested someone, will be wisely dealt with, all will be done, and well done. — J. H u d so n T a y l o r . 40 China’s Millions. March , 19 15 .

Editorial Notes. HE Opium Shops in Shanghai.— During the monials of bygone days were drastically curtailed. month of March the question of the opium shops The President drove from his residence to the temple in Shanghai will come up for discussion at the gates in an armoured motor-car through serried ranks T Shanghai Ratepayers’ Meeting. We would of armed men, while all civilians were banished from therefore suggest that this might be a subject for the streets. Though the President only left his palace special prayer during the ^next few weeks. Having at seven a.m., he was back again by half-past eight. already in previous issues entered into the details It is true that the old survives, but in so changed a form of the special problems connected with the opium as to be hardly recognizable. As the Times remarks : stocks in Shanghai, we need not say more here. The “ Across all its stately ceremonial lay the shadow of Shanghai Missionary Association, we are glad to say, Young China’s plottings and the fears of sudden death.” has issued a manifesto in regard to this subject. While regretting the necessity of taking up a position anta­ Bible Revision in China.— On p. 37 will be found gonistic to the Council, the Missionary Association a few words from the pen of Mr. F. W Bailer in regard states that “ We feel it our duty to take all rightful to the work of the Old Testament Revision Committee, steps to help forward the present agitation against the which is at work in Peking. We regret to state that continuance of the licenses, unless the Council can see since these words were penned, Mr. Bailer has had to its way to greatly modify its present policy.” undergo two serious operations. In the providence In reference to China’s action in regard to opium of G o d , an ear specialist was in Peking, and able to generally, it is gratifying to note that the reports issued undertake the operation, which has been used of G o d by the Commissioners of Customs in China continue to save Mr. Bailer’s life. In a personal letter, Mrs. to bear witness to China’s successful efforts. The Bailer writes : “ We want to tell everyone of G o d ’s London and China Telegraph in its issue for February gracious dealings with us in bringing my dear husband 8th, when commenting on these Customs reports, says : out of the jaws of death, and in providing such skill, “ The latest reports to hand are those concerning the loving care, and sympathy all through this trial.” We Yangtze ports, and in each case it appears that the earnestly commend Mr. Bailer and his important work opium traffic has ceased altogether, or is fast reaching to the praj^ers of G o d ’s people. We would ask prayer vanishing point. . . . These reports bear striking that Mr. Bailer’s health and strength may be so far witness to the sincerity of the Chinese Government restored that he may be able to continue his invaluable and officials in stamping out the opium evil, which is services as a member of the Revision Committee. Mr. all the more meritorious since it has involved the loss Bailer’s own words on p. 37, already referred to, will of an immense amount of revenue.” inform friends as to the present situation of this revision work. The Old and the New.— On the morning of Decem­ ber 23rd. for the first time since the abdication of the In Time of War.— We have been asked to state that Manchus, the Winter Solstice Worship of Heaven was a special form of Prayer for Christian Missions in time performed at Peking. The rites of this worship have of war has been prepared by request of a committee from time immemorial been the prerogative of the representing the Missionary Societies of Great Britain Emperor as high priest for the nation, but upon this and Ireland. Copies of this little paper can be had memorable occasion the act of worship was performed from the United Council of Missionary Education, 8, by one of the people— by H. E. Yuan, as President of Paternoster Row, London, E.C., at id. each, 8d. per the Republic. The protracted and elaborate cere­ dozen, or 4s. per hundred.

Photo by] [Dr. B. Broomhall.

TWO SCENES IN NORTH CHINA. (1) CAMEL TRANSPORT. (2) A WAYSIDE INN. M arch , 19 15 China's Millions. 41

An Account of an Evangelistic Tour in Yunnan.

B y H. A. C. Allen, Yuxnanfu.

SENT two preachers on ahead impossible to get along some of the thoroughfares. to secure a place at Peh-chen This market is held every other day all the year round. 1and to work round the district. At night we opened our new shop. Over one hundred A house was promised us there, people crowded into this small place. Never have I had \ and the landlord was only waiting better times of preachmg than we had here. The for the tenant to move out. But people sat and listened, and would apparently have “ there’s many a slip ’twixt the cup done so indefinitely had we not dismissed them. Two. and the lip,” and we did not get it. men came upstairs afterwards for prayer and conversa­ The L o r d , however, found us a tion, one a doctor. There are four inquirers in this more suitable place at a much less city, but so far no baptized members. Of course some rent and in a better position. I left are coming about and showing interest, but we hardly with my teacher, Mr. E., on Sept. consider them enquirers yet. 25th. We crossed the lake, a dis­ On Monday four of us set out for the head city of the tance of forty miles, on the steamer. district, seven miles away. It has been newly named by As usual all the passengers took the the postal authorities Siu-na-hsien ; the old name was tracts we offered them and some Sin-lising-cheo but this latter name being common in came to us afterwards for a talk. other parts makes it difficult for the postal authorities There were three or four officials on to distinguish, so it has been altered to Siu-na-hsien. board who also accepted our book­ This is the magisterial city, it has better shops and finer lets and showed themselves very streets than Peh-chen, but it has not quite such a good friendly. The sun shone brightly trade. This plain is, for its size, one of the most popu­ till just as we were nearing the lous in the province, and is full of large villages. It is southern end of the lake, when down also the centre of a large aboriginal population. The poured the rain in torrents. There Chinese women of the district have a name throughout is nearly an hour’s ride up a canal the province for capability and are great weavers of in a small boat to the city. The native calico. This busy city also has a market every rain continued to pour down till we other day, interchanging with Peh-chen. reached the city, when it abated. On arrival at Siu-na-hsien we went first to the inn Photo by Rev. H. Parsons, After drying ourselves a little in the where we always stay ; this is owned by a Mrs. Li, who of United Methodist Mission. inn, we went on the streets to preach, has known us and our workers for over a quarter of a I I Aborigine Woman, but the rain beginning to fall again century. On entering the inn I noticed that one side o f Y u n n a n . we were driven back to the inn. of the entrance was a large, empty shop of two rooms. This city, Kwenyang, is just one I was immediately impressed with the fact that this would, street nearly a mile long, with no make a fine place for a preaching shop, especially for side streets. We found that one man, a tailor, who evening services. It was larger than the one at Peh- burnt his idols a few months ago, had died of drops}'-. chen, so after seeking guidance from the L o r d , I felt led I am anxious to see a good work begun in this city. to entei into negotiations wnth the landlady. She was Please pray for Kwenyang. quite willing, and we quickly arranged to rent the Next morning we set out for Peh-chen, my teacher on premises. Here we can keep our books, preach in the horseback, and I in a mountain chair carried by two men. evening, and have a place of our own where we can deal The rain fell heavily as we journeyed. We rode one day with enquirers, also the visiting evangelist, missionary, only, all the rest of the way we travelled on foot. On or other worker can sleep here. We had a good time arrival at Peh-chen we found that the L o r d had given here preaching all day to crowds, and in the evening we us a house and that the two preachers had moved into walked back to Peh-chen. it that morning. Of course it needed cleaning up. It On Thursday we left for our next stopping place, a had been occupied by a man who not only sold opium, large village called Cheo-kuan-ba. There are five families but allowed the drug to be smoked on the premises. in this village who, in less than a year, have put away In this- comparatively small town there are no less than idolatry and are earnestly serving the L o r d . There are 130 such places now. Our next door neighbour still seventeen enquirers in the village, but some of them do keeps such a place, and until I had another board not show quite as much spirit of enquiry as we could wish; partition put in, with the interstices filled in with mud, on the other hand, some are very much in earnest. we could hear all he said about as distinctly as if he During one of the three days we were here we visited were in the same room with us. He kept me awake with a very busy market town, Yen-ho-kai. Everyone was his midnight colloquies and nearly cockcrow peregrina­ busy buying in cakes for the worship of the full moon tions. There is very little, if any, privacy in China. in the eighth month. The streets were a crowded mass There were four of us to preach, and for three days of people, and we had to go to the very end of the town we had a fifth preacher, so on Sunday morning we sallied before we could get a place to preach. Whilst we were forth early, first to have a service in the house of a Mr. preaching a man came up to us and said he was a Chris­ Shen, less than a mile from the city, and then to preach tian. It seems that on a previous visit of Colporteur all day on the streets. It happened to be market-day Fan this man had heard and believed the Gospel and and the streets were densely packed. It was almost was still true. He insisted upon our accepting some of 42 C h in a ’s M illio n s. March , 19 1 5 . the artichokes which he was selling. We took him to Spirit was at work in his heart, but not until ten o'clock a tea shop and had a long .talk with him. did he fully decide to come over on the L o r d ’s side. After preaching on the street we went to the shop of Next morning we divided into two parties. I sent a doctor who had heard the Gospel before. He was Mr. E. and Mr. Tsen on to Sih-oh-hsien to wait for us, very pleased to see us and I had a very interesting and took Mr. Ho with me to the hills. At the first time with him. At the close of the interview I mountain village we visited, namely, Sinchai, we stayed sought to bring him to a decision for C h r i s t , so I in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ko. The aboriginal women said to him: “ What is your attitude towards G o d who inhabit the highlands have of course big feet, and and the Lord Jesus Christ ? ” He replied : “ I walk with all the stately gait of a princess. Mrs. Ko’s believe." To which I answered: “ Do you truly dignified walk contrasted immensely with the hobble of believe ? ” and received the reply : “ Yes, I truly her Chinese sisters. We spent the evening in singing, believe.” “ Well then,” I said, “ what idols have you teaching and prayer. There are now three families in the house ? ” “ Only the god of medicine,” he here who believe. Quite a number gathered in the home. replied. Now it happens that doctors set great store Mr. Ko is very much in earnest, and so is his son. by this divinity. I therefore said to him: “ Are Next day we went on to Siao-tsuen and stayed two you prepared to put away this idol ? ” After days with the Pu family, where are nine who believe. a moment’s thought he said: “ Yes, I will put The leading man of this family, with his nephew, brought it away,” and turning to his younger brother, he said : all their idols and spirit tablets to Yunnanfu some “ Go upstairs and fetch down the ‘ Yoh-wang Pu-sa,’ ” months ago; they are quite well-to-do. I took down some i.e., the god of medicine. So the idol was brought words, and have since seen Mr. Nicholls who says they down, and in its place we put up a large sheet containing are practically the same as those spoken by the large the Ten Commandments. How we praised G o d for tribe of Kang-i amongst whom he works. These people this another trophy for the Lord Jesus. As we were are also called Kang-i by the Chinese. Several of them leaving the doctor said : “ I want to be a photograph are going up to a large annual festival Mr. Nicholls has in this place ”— by which he meant he wanted to bear at a place four or five days from here. From Siao-tsuen witness of C h r i s t and be a worthy copy of Him in the we followed the windings of a large river the whole of neighbourhood. the seventeen miles into Sih-oh-hsien. This is the city FromYen-ho-kai we walked back seven miles to Chao- where there was a great earthquake. As it was the first kuan-ba, “ faint, yet pursuing.” The next day, Sunday, time I had visited it I went with more than ordinary we had a service in the house of each of the Christians interest. All along the riverside we traversed were at Chao-kuan-ba, and in the evening after preaching in aboriginal villages, the inhabitants of which seem very the open air a man named Li, one of the elders of the approachable and simple minded and ready to believe village, followed us home. It was evident that the the Gospel. In the city of Sih-oh-hsien most of the

Photo by] {Mr. Jensen.

A VIEW OF THE N.W. CORNER OF YUNNANFU CITY. SMALL WEST GATE VISIBLE. M a r c h , 19 15 . China’s Millions. 48 main street has been rebuilt, but the collapsed ruins travelling Christian dcctor. I found out the family living farther back show how terrible the catastrophe was. in a village a mile from the city. He was away from home The city now has a mud wall round it in the place of the a week’s journey off, teaching a school, when I called. brick one which was levelled by the earthquake. Out His wife, however, was at home, and her two sons, one of about 3,000 people who were in the city at the time, married, living in the same house, as is the Chinese 800 were killed. In a temple outside the city they were custom. She is a very capable woman, and manages still burning incense to the remains of an idol. In that affairs with considerable ability. The husband had same temple there were at the time of the earthquake, taught his family the fear of the L o r d , but during his which happened about eleven o’clock at night, twenty- absence his wife had put up a papeT idol and a tablet to six scholars and their teacher ; they were all killed but Heaven and Earth. My visit was the occasion of a one boy who a minute before had gone outside. sharp contest with the powers of darkness. The One day a shower came on as we were preach­ woman knew she was wrong, but feared her relatives. ing and drove us back to the inn with several of Howbeit, she promised to put away her idols. The our congregation. In conversation with last day of my visit came and she t-i man who had listened with i;iil ibhJ fulfilled lu'i ].u vu.:,:i-t\

photo fo/1 llev. 11. Parsons, of the United Methodist Alission.

SOME ABORIGINES OF YUNNAN.

considerable interest, I discovered that he lived in I felt I could not leave the place with simply a promise a village of thirty-five houses, seven miles away, and in that she would abandon idolatry, so I and my teacher that village thirty-eight people were killed. The earth­ stayed another day. quake shook whole villages down and left them a heap The story of this family is too long to tell. Their place, of ruins. I felt from the first time of hearing of the like others, collapsed. Not only so, but they lost a earthquake that, as they had been partakers of the daughter of twelve years of age. They are £30 in debt suffering, so they ought to be partakers of the comfort (a chronic condition this amongst all classes in China). of the Gospel, and so I have sought to get the Gospel to Then their very souls have been racked for years about them ever since. We preached daily on the streets, the betrothal of their other daughter to a man from and the room at the inn was packed each evening. another place who for years has not put in an appearance. The High School boys came to the meetings, twenty If they married this girl to another man and her fiancé to twenty-five at a time, and sang hymns and listened turned up, it would be in his power to ruin them. But to the Gospel. the years were passing rapidly, so rather than keep her To mention one cf several interesting cases. Many at home any longer they determined to take the risk years ago I heard of a teacher who lived at Sih-oh-hsien, and married her. A matter of this sort can be in China who had been interested in the Gospel through a a very cancer of care and worry in the family life in a 44 China’s Millions. M a r c h , 19 1 5 . country where it is “ Right for ever on the scaffold ; a struggle going on in her mind. At length she rose, wrong for ever on the throne.” However, it happened walked up to where they were and took hold of them that I knew the whereabouts of the man— that he was a saying : “ They are no good,” and forthwith crushed long way off and married to someone else, and so I was them up in her hands and went next door and brought able to give no small relief to their hearts on this point. a live coal which she blew into a flame and set fire to Next morning my teacher and I sallied forth once the idols which quickly disappeared in smoke. Once more to the home of this woman, calling mightily on again the Ten Words were put in their place. Then G od to give us the victory. As we sat talking with her we pasted up a hymn-sheet and sang, “ Leave it all with she presently said : “ I know you want to see those J e s u s day b y day.” I then opened the Word and read idols down ; I mean to take them down, but I will do it and expounded some Scriptures, after which we knelt in when the wall has been replastered." There was still prayer and committed the family to the L o r d .

In Memoriam—James Lawson. HE sad news of the death of Mr. James Lawson home in Linkiang. This did not mean that he settled on January 21st came by telegram from our down to a quiet life, for all over the countryside he was T Mission in Toronto. He passed away at well known, mixing constantly with the people; and the Sanatorium, Battle-Creek, Michigan, after with his good knowledge of the local dialect was untiring undergoing serious opera­ in his endeavours to bring tions. His wife and little the good news to rich and daughter were with him, their poor. He was to know the joy only son having been left in of reaping in his last station, the school at Chefoo. Yiianchow Ki, where they In the summer of 1888, Mr. were able to begin work in Hudson Tajdor paid his first 1903. The women of this visit to the United States and prefectural city are noted for Canada. As a result of his their evil lives, and in the work and witness in October early days many trials were of the same year, a party encountered. G o d ’s blessing of fourteen workers accom­ upon the diligent preaching panied him back to China. of the Gospel resulted in many The youngest in this band souls being ingathered from was Mr. Jas. Lawson, whose the city and the districts gov­ home was in Toronto. A erned by it, so that in a com­ year later, along with five paratively short time several other brethren, he left the out-stations were opened. In Training Home in Anking for 1908, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Por- the K ia n g s i province, in teous were sent as reinforce­ which he laboured till 1913. ments, but still with the added Much encouragement was at­ responsibility of schools and tending the work of ladies in necessary buildings Mr. Law ­ East K ia n g s i, where the eight son wrorked far too hard and sisters of this part}7 were his health suffered seriously. already located. The south Notwithstanding the doctor’s centre and west of the pro­ advice to rest, the needs of vince were now to be evan­ the flock lay so heavily upon gelized b37 these young men, his heart that he could not do under the guidance cf the so. He would frequently walk Rev. F. A. Steven. Linkiang thirty miles in rain on those prefecture was the principal terrible roads ; he truly laid district assigned to Mr. down his life for the brethren. Lawson and his colleague ; it Many will mourn their loss, proved a very hard field, for he was the first to carry people were generally anti-foreign and the officials not at the Gospel to not a few who are now rejoicing in C h r is t. all friendly, often making it difficult for them to get a A. Okr-E w ing. night’s lodging. A house was rented in Changshu Ki during the autumn of 1891, but the transaction brought “ WThere is that transformation— that renewing cf trouble upon the landlord and so the house had to be, our minds—which makes our bodies really living given up; Mr. Lawson was not able to rent again till sacrifices, our very dress to speak of C h r is t as our 1895. • We cannot estimate the great strain, physical adornment, our houses and homes and tables to bear and spiritual, which the hardship of these years entailed witness to an untransformed world of the change which upon our brother. Later he secured premises in Feng- has come over us, and of the fact that we are just living cheng, only to be rioted out of them, at a risk of his with one object of life, to do the will of our G od, to life, shortly after. obey His command, to spread His Gospel to every In 1898, having married Miss Cowley, they made their unblessed sinner.”— J. Hudson Taylor. M a r c h , 19 15. China’s Millions. 45

Our Shanghai Letter, Containing the Latest News from the Field.

B y James S tark. January 15th .— On December 31st, which was as I learn that Mr. Hsieh, the Anking evangelist, lias u.ual observed as a day of prayer and fasting through­ been conducting a special mission at Kwangchow, in out the Mission in China, we had very blessed seasons H onan. The meetings have been very largely attended, of united waiting upon G od at this centre, and we trust from 1,200 to 1,500 people being present. Mr. Hsieh that the New Year upon which we have entered will, was expecting to visit Chowrkiakowr early in January for as the result, be marked by increased fruitfulness and a similar purpose. I would bespeak your earnest blessing in every department of the work. prayers for this servant of G od that his ministry may At the end of 1914, the number of missionaries in be the means of leading to decision for C h r is t many of connection with the Mission was 1,063. During the those who have already, to a greater or less extent, been year fifteen new workers were welcomed from the home­ influenced by the Gospel. lands, whilst two were received into the fellowship of The Mission School at Kanchow Ki, in the province of the Mission in China. We lost five valued workers by K ia n g si, several weeks ago received a visit from the death, which is less than half of one per cent, of our Provincial Inspector of Schools, which was followed by rrenibership. This is, I think, the lowest death-rate one from the Inspector of the Southern Provinces a week on record, which is cause for thanksgiving to God. later. These officials, Mr. Carver informs us, “ seemed Since the date of my last letter, 783 baptisms have highly delighted with all they saw, and begged copies of been reported, bringing the total for last year up to the boys’ maps and other drawings, together with 4,675, being an increase of 129 on the previous year, samples of the girls’ fancy work, and a copy of the school whilst there are several stations from which we still curriculum, all of which they took away in their hands.” expect to receive returns. We rejoice to think of the During a conversation on educational matters, Mr. and influence of the volume of testimony daily going forth Mrs. Carver emphasized the importance given to the from the lips and lives of those who have thus made teaching of the Holy Scriptures in our schools. These public confession of their faith in C h r ist. gentlemen have openly said outside that the work of Early in December a destructive fire took place at the young boys of eight years of age in the Mission Tatsienlu, in Western S zech w an , when damage to the School is superior to that of boys of fourteen years of extent of about Tls. 7,000 was done to Mission and age in the Government schools, and that there are two church property. The missionaries’ dwelling-house, schools in Kanchow Ki under good management, the happily, escaped injury, though for a time it was in Mission School being one of them. Our friends are great danger. Five buildings used for Mission pur­ naturally encouraged b}1, this testimony. poses, including a Tibetan chapel, however, were com­ Mrs. Sidney Carr has, during the last few months, pletely destroyed. The fire broke out at 4 a.m. on the been conducting a Bible school for women at Kaifeng. morning of the 7th December, and continued its work Of this effort Miss Standen writes :— of destruction until late in the evening. In all about “ Mrs. Carr kindly asked me to conduct the examina­ three hundred "houses in the best part of the city were tion, and I only wish you could have been present burnt down, and the total loss is estimated at yesterday to have seen and heard how thorough a grasp Tls. 7,000,000 or 8,000,000. the women have obtained of the work they have gone Dr. Fish has been ill with typhoid fever at Anshunfu ; over during the past two and a-half months. While I but we have been glad to learn by telegram that the examined informally, I sought to do it thoroughly, and crisis was safely passed on December 24th, and that to me the results seemed most satisfactory. I was the patient was doing well. delighted with the correct and thorough analysis given A mutiny among the soldiers is reported from Sinan- to me of each chapter of St. Mark’s Gospel, as also with hsien, one of the stations of the Swedish Mission in the knowledge they had acquired of the miracles and China, in H on an . On the 28th December they began parables of that Gospel and the circumstances in connec­ to fire off their guns at eight o’clock at night and tion with them. The women have also a very clear continued until daybreak. All the shops, large and idea of the lives of the twelve apostles, and the out­ small, as also several private houses, were looted, some standing characteristics of each. When I came to Old lives being lost. The soldiers tried in vain to break Testament history, the pupils answered almost every into the Yamen ; but no attempt whatever was made question without hesitation. Mrs. Carr has sought to to attack the Mission premises. Mr. Berg writes that impress upon them the importance of being able to quote the lady workers at that centre have a good reputation passages of Scripture correctly. I was very pleased, too, in the city, even amongst robbers ! to note a deepening in their spiritual life. One could Mr. Goforth, of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission, gather from their conversation and from their prayers at the invitation of our workers in Luanfu, Yiiwu and that the growth has not been all in Biblical knowledge, Ivucheng, several weeks ago conducted a series of meet­ but that there has also been an advance in spiritual ings at these centres, which were attended with blessing. things, and for this one does praise G o d .” Confessions were made by not a few Christians, and Mr. Learner, with Mr. Han, his young Chinese teacher wrongs were righted. We trust that the impetus which who was recently baptized, and Mr. Chiu, the Bible the spiritual life of those who were present at the Society colporteur, lately paid a visit to Ping-chuen-i, gatherings received will find expression in greater con­ some twenty-three miles distant from Siningfu, and had sistency of life and more whole-hearted effort to reach excellent opportunities for preaching the Gospel. At a the unsaved with the Gospel. place named Nien-peh-hsien they made a special effort 46 China’s Millions. m a r c h , 1915. to visit all the shops, and were well received, the shop­ still unreached with the Gospel, it seems very small. keepers being most willing both to talk and purchase The new West Gate chapel was dedicated on Sunday, copies of the Scriptures. Mr. Learner and Mr. Han, December 13th, free of debt, and was well filled at the while there, paid a visit to the Government school, and morning service, when Mr. Hunt preached. In the presented each of the teachers with a copy of the New afternoon the service was for non-believers, and the Testament, as also with a copy of “ The Traveller’s chapel was crowded. Many outsiders were present and Guide,” both of which were much appreciated. “ The listened attentively to a four-fold p esentation of the teacher class in this part of K a n s u ,” Mr. Learner says, Gospel by Pastor Tsiang and three younger men. The “ seem to be very open to the Gospel. Gradually the lot and building cost $834.72, the larger part of which barriers are being broken down, and the day is was given by the Chinese Christians of the city and not far distant when there will be a great turning to out-stations. The West Gate Christians have worked the L o r d .” hard, and it was a joy to rejoice with them over the From Lanchowfu, the capital of the province, Mr. G. F. completed task. Our prayer is that it may be a true Andrew writes encouragingly of his evangelistic efforts. house of worship, and the birthplace of many souls.” On a journey which he made with Mr. Chang, one of I will close with an extract from a letter received a the Christians, in November, he spent a Sunday at a few days ago from Mr. W. T. Herbert, of Luchow, place named Ching-si. Leaving their inn early in the Western S z e c h w a n . He writes :— morning, they crossed the river with the intention of “ In reviewing the work of the last year, we have visiting some villages which lay considerably off the great cause for thankfulness. The division in the beaten track. On arriving at the outskirts of the first church is now a thing of the past. Over seventy con­ village they were met by an old man, who after a few verts have been received into fellowship, and there is minutes’ conversation kindly invited them into his mill prospect of more later on. None of the churches in the near by. Whilst there one of his relatives went round country give us trouble, and there is a marked advance and soon collected an audience of some twenty men and in preaching the Gospel and in individual effort to bring boys, to whom they preached for several hours. The others to the L o r d . Our outlook for the new year is most interested member of the congregation was an old brighter, though we have many things to keep us low man, seventy years of age, who asked many very intelli­ at the Master’s feet, and there is still a great need for gent questions. The village schoolmaster was also patience and prudence on our part. In spite of all the present, and seemed much interested in a cop}7 of the sorrow experienced since we came here, joy in the New Testament. As they left many warm invitations L o r d has always been uppermost, and the peace of were given them to come again. At another place G od has ruled in our hearts.” on the journey they met a little hunchback, some thirty years of age, who remembered some foreign missionary visiting the town about fourteen years before, when he Books Received. obtained a copy of one of the Gospels. Having been W ith the Bible in Brazil. By Frederick C. Glass, with living in the country ever since, he had not been able to a Foreword by Rev. J. Stuart Holden, M.A. buy further copies, and was delighted, on meeting Mr. Choice Savings. Being Notes of Exposition of the Scrip­ Andrew and the Chinese Christian who accompanied tures. Revised by Robert C. Chapman. Price is. net. him, to purchase several books. Whilst they were con­ The Continuation o f a S t o r y . By Amy Wilson- versing together on the main street, there passed a Carmichael. literary graduate. The hunchback at once hailed him The above are published by Morgan & Scott, Ltd., 12, and was not satisfied till his friend had bought a copy of Paternoster Buildings, London, E.C. each of the four Gospels. AMONG THE Lushais. By Herbert Anderson, Secretary Mr. J. A. Andrew, brother to the above worker, writing B.M.S., Calcutta. Illustrated with photographs taken by of a visit which he, with Mr. and Mrs. Foucar and Mr. the Author. Price is. net. Shindler, lately paid to Chinghsien, in the Ningkwofu London : The Carey Press, 19, Furnival Street, E.C. district in the province of A n h w e i, mentions that on The Student Christian Movement at W ork. 6d. net. three or four afternoons they were able to go on to the Students and the Regeneration of Society. By street with some of the Chinese leaders, and there preach Malcolm Spencer, M .A. 6d. net. to fairly large and attentive audiences. “ At one of AMOR V i n c it O m n i a . Thoughts on the War, together with these open-air meetings,” Mr. Andrew says, “ a man Notes on what to read, and Helps to Intercession. By who spoke was, only a few months ago, bitterly hostile Lilian Stevenson, Price 3d. to the Gospel. A Confucian, he despised the Mandarin London : Student Christian Movement, 93, Chancery Lane, W .C . New Testament which his Christian wife had given him to read. Each time he opened it he did so with curses on his lips. In answer to the prayers of his wife, at Departures for China. length he, with another scholarly friend, commenced a J a n u a r y 30TH. P e r P. & O. s.s. N o r e . study of this book, and during last summer with his *G. and *Mrs. Porteous and | *Miss A. K. Robotham. friend was led, by the power of the Word alone, to take two children. I *Miss J. B. Pearse. a stand as a Christian. It was grand to hear him fear­ ♦Mrs. A. Gracie. | J. Tomkinson. lessly bear witness to the truth.” F e b r u a r y 27TH. P e r s.s . K it a n o M a r u . Mr. G. H. Seville, in sending his final report of baptisms *A. K. and *Mrs. Macpherson and child.

for last year, writes : “ I am glad to sound a note of March 6th. P er P. & O. s.s. Malajo, changing at praise that it brings the total up to 151 for the year, the Colombo into s.s. M alta. largest number I have had the pleasure of reporting from *J. J. and *Mrs. Coulthard and three children. Wenchow. Yet when we look on the many who are * * Returning. M a r c h , 19 15 . China’s Millions. 4 7

Prayer for China. [.A Meeting for Prayer for China is held every Saturday from, 4 to 6 p.m., in the Hall of the Mission, at Newington Green, Mildmay. N. Praying friends are cordially invited to attend.] HE Prayer Meeting on Saturday, February 13th, themselves, but for the infantry. They had to be was one of more than ordinary interest. We on the alert to protect and help others. So, too, the T were privileged to have as visitors the Rev. missionary. He has not simply to be alert for his own Dr. Robson, from Wutingfu, S h a n t u n g , and safety, but he must watch for the souls of his converts Lt.-Col. G. B. Mackenzie, R.G.A., from the firing line in as one “ that shall give account.” North France. The third speaker was Mrs. Arthur Polhill, who with Dr. Robson, who is a missionary of long standing her husband, the Rev. A. T. Polhill, M.A., recently in connection with the United Methodist Church, has returned from China on furlough. She spoke about seen much service in China. He knew Mr. Taylor many the women’s work at Suitingfu, their station in S ze­ years ago, and, on Saturday, paid a graceful tribute c h w a n . Very interesting were her references to the to the beloved founder of the Mission, whose valuable Biblewomen employed by her. One of these was help to himself personally and, specially, to the pioneer brought to the L o r d through a line of Miss Havergal's workers of the Bible Christian Mission (since affiliated consecration hymn. The words that arrested her and with the United Methodist Mission) was much appre­ led her to C h r is t were ‘ ‘ Take my feet and let them be ciated. It was evident, as one listened to the interest­ consecrated L o r d to Thee.” She went home from the ing account which Dr. Robson gave of his many-sided meeting, and at once unbound her feet and began to work— medical, educational, pastoral, and evange­ walk with the L o rd . listic— that the blessing of the L o r d had rested upon Another, after years of useful service, as she lay his labours in a marked degree. He hopes to sail for a-dying, told Mrs. Polhill that although she was eager China, to return to his work in Wutingfu, early in March. to meet the L o r d , she felt reluctant to go until she had He will, we are sure, value an interest in the prayers visited with the message of the Gospel this, that, and of our readers. the other village, to which she had been unable to go. Lt.-Col. Mackenzie also addressed the meeting. His Her heathen neighbours visited her, and to them she all too brief references to his experiences at the front, preached C h r is t, urging them to believe the Gospel. when he was face to face with “ a few unpleasant things,” “ But they will not believe ; they will not believe,” were extremely interesting ; and his quiet acknow­ she lamented. This was her trouble. ledgment that he felt he owed much to the prayers of Another Biblewoman,. a true lover of the L o r d , had G o d ’s people for his deliverance in hours of danger had to be suspended from her work, because of her impressed all who heard him. violent temper. Mrs. Polhill besought her hearers to Two lessons which he had learnt on the battlefield pray for this woman, and for the women’s work generally he thought he might pass on to his missionary brethren, in Suitingfu and district. who as “ good soldiers of Jesus Christ,” were as much Special prayer was offered for Mrs. Talbot and Miss in the firing line on the mission field of China, as were Leggat, who upon their recent return to China had the soldiers of the King on the battlefields of France. been appointed to the station of Taiho An, in the The lessons were (1) The need for alertness in recog­ province of A n h w e i; also for Miss Marchbank, who nizing the presence of the enemy, and (2) the need for has returned to her work in Kweiki; and for Mr. and alertness in seizing opportunities to attack the foe. Mrs. Fiddler in the far-off lonely station of Ningsiafu, He belonged to the artillery. The business of the in K a n s u ; also for Messrs. Hunter and Mather in artillery was not only, nor yet chiefly, to be alert for remote Sinkiang.

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING JANUARY, 1915— Continued from page 48. For Special Purposes. Rect. No. £ s. d. 1 Rect. No. £ s. d. ! Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. 1. 6816 16 19 0 6. 6996 0 15 0 9. 7134 10 0 0 15. 7275 2 15 0 21. 7405 0 10 0 23. 7475 2 0 0 6817 14 15 2 6997 2 0 0 ; U. Legacy. 1200 0 0 7286 100 0 0 7406 9 10 0 26. 7480 0 5 0 6823 0 17 0 6999 6 0 0 ! 7147 5 0 0 7288 15 11 3 7408 0 5 0 27. 7507 10 0 0 6829 2 0 0 7003 5 0 0 7161 2 0 0 16. 7304 1 1 0 7409 0 12 6 7524 3 14 0 6831 4 6 6 7010 2 10 0 7165 3 0 0 7312 14 4 0 7410 0 16 6 28. 7537 5 0 0 2. 6841 1 0 0 7016 0 15 0 7167 8 0 0 7313 3 0 0 7418 2 0 0 7543 9 0 4 6859 3 0 0 7019 5 0 0 12. 7172 5 0 0 7315 3 0 0 7422 226 6 9 7544 0 11 6 6860 4 16 10 7020 1 0 0 7184 2 4 10 7317 7 0 0 7426 10 0 0 7545 0 10 0 6861 1 6 10 7021 5 0 0 7189 0 5 0 18. 7338 0 5 0 7427 25 0 0 29. 7553 5 12 0 4. 6882 16 0 0 7. 7026 16 12 6 7194 10 0 0 19. 7341 5 0 0 22. 7434 2 10 0 7558 0 10 0 6902 7 0 0 7038 3 7 0 7195 1 8 0 7343 9 0 0 7444 0 10 0 30. 7577 0 5 0 6908 5 0 0 7039 2 100 7200 1100 7344 0 2 fi 23. 7462 5 0 0 7580 31 12 11 6912 5 0 0 7040 2 0 0 7203 0 10 0 7345 20 0 0 25. 7468 1 0 0 7584 1 0 0 6920 1 00 7045 0100 7206 1 0 0 7347 1 10 0 7469 20 0 0 7587 40 0 0 5. 6939 4 0 0 7052 3 0 0 7207 0 10 0 7352 3 0 0 7470 7 7 0 6943 2 8 0 7057 1 10 0 13. 7217 1 0 0 7356 1 0 0 7471 144 15 8 £2,274 19 10 6946 5 0 0 8. 7074 20 17 3 7232 4 0 0 7374 3 0 0 6947 5 0 0 7093 2 0 0 7235 15 0 0 20. 7379 0 5 0 SUMMARY 6948 8 0 0 7098 3 0 0 7241 5 0 0 7381 0 5 0 £ s. d. 3,188 2 1 6951 1 1 0 7101 20 0 0 7246 1 17 6 7384 3 11 fi General 2,274 19 10 6. 6980 2 10 0 7102 1 0 0 7249 5 0 0 7389 3 2 (i Special 6981 1 0 0 9. 7 115 5 0 0 14. 7256 4 0 0 7393 3 3 0 T o ta l . £5.463 1 11 6982 0 17 0 7124 0 10 6 7266 2 0 0 21. 7401 3 0 0 48 China’s Millions. M arch, 1915.

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING JANUARY, 1915— C ontinued.

^ For General Fund.— Continued from, page 34.

Rect. No. £ s. d . Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No £ S. d. i Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. 8. 7085 1 1 0 12. 7171 3 0 0 14. 7260 0 13 6 : 19. 7348 1 12 4 22. 7438 4 0 0 27. 7516 0 5 708« 0 10 « 7173 8 (5 7261 0 5 0 7349 15 0 0 7439 1 10 0 7517 1 4 7087 0 4 « 7174 5 0 Legacy. 50 0 0 7350 0 10 0 7440 0 10 0 7518 0 5 7088 0 10 0 7175 r> 0 7263 5 0 0 7351 5 0 0 7441 4 0 0 7519 0 5 7089 0 1 3 717« 2 « 7264 10 0 0 7353 1 0 0 7442 1 5 0 7520 1 1 7090 0 10 0 7177 10 0 7265 1 0 0 7354 0 3 0 _ 7521 3 0 Thank- j 0 0 0 7091 5 0 0 717« 0 0 7267 10 0 0 7355 3 10 0 offering. J Giving 7092 0 5 0 7179 0 0 7268 10 0 0 7357 2 1 6 7445 0 2 6 Him 0 7094 1 0 0 7180 15 0 7269 5 0 0 7358 1 1 0 7446 5 0 0 Thanks. i 7095 0 r> 0 7181 0 0 7270 0 10 0 7359 1 0 0 7447 1 5 0 7523 1 0 7096 1 0 0 7182 5 0 7271 1 1 0 Anon. 1 0 0 7448 40 0 0 7525 6 17 7097 r> 0 0 7183 11 11 7272 2 7 0 7361 0 5 0 7449 0 10 0 7526 50 0 7099 ] 0 0 7185 1 0 15. 7273 0 10 0 E.S. 0 5 0 7450 5 0 0 7527 5 0 7100 2 2 2 7186 1 0 7274 1 9 6 7363 0 10 0 23. 7451 2 2 0 28. 7528 1 0 7103 0 1 o 7187 1 4 7276 0 10 0 7364 2 2 0 7452 1 1 0 7529 0 5 9. 7104 0 io 0 7188 0 0 7277 1 0 0 7365 2 2 0 7453 1 0 0 7530 0 5 7105 0 l 0 7190 8 6 7278 11 5 6 7366 10 5 0 7454 5 0 0 7531 0 5 710(5 0 io 0 7191 5 0 7279 0 10 6 7357 3 0 0 7455 0 10 0 7532 1 1 7107 0 6 0 7192 17 11 7280 2 10 0 7368 20 0 0 7456 0 10 0 7533 0• 3 7108 0 3 0 7193 0 0 7281 .0 5 6 7369 1 0 0 7457 3 0 0 7534 0 10 7109 1 0 0 719« 5 0 0 7282 0 5 0 7370 1 0 0 7458 0 5 0 7535 1 0 7 110 2 0 0 7197 5 0 0 7283 0 5 0 7371 0 13 6 7459 2 0 0 7536 0 7 7 11 1 1 0 0 7198 5 0 0 7284 1 0 0 7372 2 0 0 7460 0 5 0 7538 0 9 7 112 0 2 9 7199 1 0 0 7285 0 6 0 7373 0 4 0 7461 0 12 0 7539 0 7 7113 0 10 0 7201 2 10 0 7287 0 12 0 20. 7375 1 0 0 7463 5 0 0 7540 1 0 7114 0 5 0 7202 2 0 0 7289 5 0 8 7376 0 10 0 25. 7464 2 0 0 7541 0 5 711« 0 10 0 7204 5 0 0 7290 0 3 0 7377 0 2 6 7465 100 7542 11 7117 0 10 0 7205 0 5 0 7291 30 0 0 7378 1 0- 0 7466 1 0 0 7546 2 0 7118 0 3 0 7208 0 2 6 7292 0 10 0 7380 0 5 6 7467 1 0 0 7547 10 0 7 119 0 10 0 7209 100 0 0 7293 0 12 7 7382 0 6 6 7472 0 10 0 7548 2 2 7120 1 0 « 7210 400 0 0 16. 7294 0 5 0 7383 0 9 9 7473 0 10 0 7549 0 16 7121 0 5 0 7211 0 7 0 7295 0 5 0 Readers ') 7474 10 0 0 29. 7550 018 of the 1 7122 0 5 0 7212 5 0 7296 1 0 0 Sunday at 1 5 0 7476 1 18 7 7551 1 0 7123 1 1 0 7213 4 0 7297 1 0 0 Home. 1 ° 7477 5 0 0 7552 0 5 7125 0 1 0 13. 7214 8 3 7298 0 5 7386 2 2 0 7554 1 0 0 Anon., \ 0 10 0 7126 1 0 0 7215 0 0 7299 0 3 0 7387 1 0 0 Bromley. J 7555 1 0 7127 0 5 0 7216 0 0 7300 0 10 0 7388 0 10 0 26. 7479 1 0 0 7556 0 10 7128 1 0 0 7218 0 0 7301 0 2 0 7390 G 2 6 7481 1 1 0 7557 0 10 7129 1 0 0 7219 10 0 7302 0 5 0 7391 0 15 0 7482 0 5 0 7559 1 17 7130 0 7 0 7220 5 0 7303 0 5 0 7392 1 1 0 7483 2 0 0 7560 9 17 713 1 5 0 0 7221 11 2 7305 0 5 0 7394 3 5 0 7484 0 10 0 7561 0 8 7132 25 0 0 7222 0 0 7306 10 0 0 7395 3 0 0 7485 0 2 6 7562 1 12 7133 1 0 0 7223 0 0 7307 0 10 0 7396 1 10 0 7486 0 18 0 7563 110 0 7135 3 0 « 7224 3 « 7308 5 0 0 7397 5 0 0 A deferred ) 7564 1 16 7136 5 5 0 7225 0 0 7309 0 10 0 7398 2 2 0 Thank- [ 5 0 0 7565 0 16 7137 12 10 0 722« 1 0 7310 0 10 0 7399 0 10 0 offering. ) 7566 3 3 7138 2 10 0 7227 0 0 7311 0 9 0 7400 1 0 0 7488 1 10 0 7567 7 2 7140 5 0 0 7228 10 « 7314 25 0 0 21. 7402 1 6 0 7489 1 10 0 30. 7568 1 0 11. 7141 0 3 0 7229 0 0 7316 32 10 0 7403 1 10 0 7490 0 5 0 7569 1 1 7142 7 10 0 7230 10 6 7318 1 0 0 7404 1 0 0 7491 0 5 6 7570 1 0 7143 5 0 0 7231 5 0 18. 7319 0 10 0 7407 2 10 0 7492 2 0 0 7571 1 0 7144 0 3 7 7233 10 0 7320 0 5 0 • 7411 1 0 0 7493 1 0 0 7572 1 0 7146 2 0 0 7234 10 6 7321 0 8 6 7412 0 14 7 7494 0 8 6 7573 1 1 7148 2 0 0 7236 9 7 7322 0 5 0 7413 2 2 0 7495 0 2 0 7574 0 10 7149 10 0 0 7237 5 0 7323 0 10 0 7414 0 5 0- 7496 0 18 0 7575 1 0 7150 0 10 6 7238 200 0 0 7324 0 5 0 7 415 1 2 3 7497 2 2 0 Readers 7151 0 2 0 0 7498 1 0 0 of the 1 2 2 0 7239 50 0 0 7325 0 0 7416 Morning ■ 12 7152 3 10 0 7240 1 0 7326 0 10 0 7417 0 5 0 7499 0 3 0 Star. 7153 0 4 0 7242 18 0 7327 0 5 0 7 419 0 5 0 7500 0 5 0 7578 0 15 7154 1 0 0 7243 3 6 7328 0 18 0 7420 6 3 11 7501 0 10 0 7579 0 5 Anon. 0 2 0 7244 1 0 7329 0 6 0 7421 0 5 0 7502 0 13 0 7581 1 10 7156 0 10 6 7245 2 6 7330 1 10 0 7423 0 5 0 7503 1 0 0 7582 5 0 7157 0 2 6 7247 0 0 7331 3 3 0 7424 0 9 4 7504 2 0 0 7583 0 7 7158 0 1 0 7248 0 0 7332 0 1 0 7425 2 0 0 7505 5 0 0 7585 2 0 7159 2 0 0 7250 0 0 7333 5 0 0 7428 0 10 0 7506 0 2 6 7586 500 0 7 160 1 1 0 7251 7334 25 0 0 7429 100 0 0 27. 7508 3 3 0 7162 1 0 0 14. 7252 1 0 7335 10 0 0 22. 7430 0 10 0 7509 0 10 0 £3,188 2 7163 1 1 0 7253 0 0 7336 1 0 0 7431 1 0 0 7510 0 7 0 7164 0 13 4 7254 4 0 7337 2 14 2 7432 2 0 0 7511 0 10 0 7166 1 14 0 7255 2 6 19. 7339 0 10 0 7433 1 19 8 7512 0 5 0 7168 2 0 0 7257 1 0 7340 0 5 0 7435 12 10 0 7513 •0 5 0 12. 7169 0 4 6 7258 0 0 7342 0 10 0 7436 0 3 0 7514 0 5 0 7170 0 13 0 7259 5 0 7346 1 1 0 7437 3 3 0 7515 5 0 0

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“TRUE IMPERIALISM.” By the Late Rev. PERCY C. AINSW ORTH.

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DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING FEBRUARY, 1915. For General Fund. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. 1. Anon. 0 10 0 2. 7630 0 5 0 4. 7678 0 10 C 8. 7725 1 0 0 10. 7770 10 0 0 12. 7817 0 10 0 7589 0 7 0 7631 0 1 0 7679 0 10 0 7726 0 10 6 7771 70 0 0 7818 0 10 0 7590 5 0 0 7632 0 4 0 7680 0 2 6 7727 1 0 0 7773 1 0 0 7819 0 7 0 7591 1 0 0 7633 0 8 6 4 4 0 Anon. 0 5 Q 7681 5 001 7728 200 7775 7592 5 0 0 7634 1 Ü 6 7682 0 1 0 7729 0 18 11 7777 9 0 0 7822 5 0 0 7593 2 0 0 7635 0 5 6 7683 0 7 6 7 :3 0 0 12 1 7778 0 6 6 7823 1 0 0 i 7594 0 10 0 7637 6 0 0 5. 7684 2 0 0 7*731 2 0 0 7779 2 17 4 13. 7827 0 2 6 7595 1 0 0 7638 1 0 0 7685 0 7 6 Ì 7732 20 0 0 7780 0 15 0 Anon. 10 0 0 7596 0 10 6 7639 23 0 0 7686 0 10 0 j 7733 1 5 0 7782 1 15 0 Legacy. 40 0 0 7597 0 6 0 7640 5 0 0 7689 0 10 0 9. 7734 7 0 0 7783 5 14 6 7830 1 0 0 7598 0 5 0 7641 1 0 0 7690 1 0 0 7738 0 10 0 7784 0 5 0 7832 0 10 0 7599 0 10 6 7642 0 2 6 7691 0 2 0 7737 1 1 0 7785 3 0 0 7833 0 10 0 7600 1 0 0 3. 7644 1 0 0 7692 0 10 0 7738 10 0 0 11 . 7786 I 0 0 7835 50 0 c i 7601 0 5 0 7645 0 10 0 7694 14 0 0 j 7739 0 5 0 7787 0 15 6 7É33 10 0 0 7602 0 10 0 7646 0 5 0 7695 10 0 0 7740 5 0 0 7788 0 5 0 15 7837 0 2 6 7603 0 4 6 7647 0 10 0 7696 2 15 6 ! 7741 0 2 0 7789 1 0 0 7838 2 4 0 7604 0 10 0 7648 0 6 0 7697 10 0 0 7742 0 2 6 7790 1 0 0 7839 3 0 0 7605 0 4 6 7649 0 2 6 7698 10 10 0 j 7743 0 1 0 Anon. 1 1 0 7840 0 3 6 7606 1 1 0 7650 0 10 0 7699 5 0 0 7744 2 0 0 7793 2 0 0 7843 0 5 0 7607 1 0 0 7651 20 0 0 7700 10 0 0 7746 10 0 0 7794 2 0 0 7844 0 2 10 ! 7608 1 1 0 7652 0 10 0 7701 0 3 6 7747 0 10 0 7795 1 0 0 7845 0 5 0 7609 0 10 6 7653 1 1 0 7702 0 10 0 7748 7846 0 10 0 1 10 0 Thank- ) 0 Q 6 7610 1 0 0 7655 0 3 0 offering. J 20 6. 7703 1 1 01 7749 1 0 0 7847 0 0 7612 9 5 6 7656 0 10 0 7704 1 1 0 j 7750 2 0 0 7797 0 10 0 7848 4 1 6 2. 7613 8 0 0 7657 0 1 0 7705 0 10 0 7751 1 0 0 7798 0 5 0 7849 15 0 0 7614 2 0 0 7658 1 0 0 7706 1 3 0 7752 2500 0 0 Anon., 1 7850 1 0 0 1 0 0 7615 3 0 0 7659 0 7 6 7707 5 0 0 7753 50 0 0 Kilburn. f 7851 70 0 0 7616 5 0 0 7660 1 0 0 7709 500 7754 1 0 0 7801 1 0 0 7852 2 0 0 7617 2 2 0 7661 0 3 6 7710 0 6 0 7755 1 1 0 7802 1 0 0 7853 75 0 0 7618 0 7 6 7663 10 0 0 7711 0 6 0 7756 3 0 0 7803 2 0 0 7854 25 0 0 7 619 0 10 0 7665 1 10 0 7712 0 12 6 7758 1 1 0 7804 0 10 0 16. 7855 0 2 0 7621 5 0 0 7666 2 0 0 7713 25 0 0 7759 50 0 0 7805 10 10 0 7856 3 5 6 7622 1 0 0 4. 7670 0 7 0 7714 5 0 0 7760 2 0 0 7806 3 0 0 7857 0 5 0 7623 0 10 0 7671 0 4 1 7715 1 0 0 7761 3 0 0 7807 3 0 5 7858 0 10 0 7624 1 0 0 7672 0 5 0 8. 7717 0 5 0 7762 2 15 0 7808 1 2 0 7859 3 0 0 7625 0 10 0 7673 2 2 0 7719 2 12 6 10. 7763 2 0 0 72 . 7810 2 0 0 7860 0 10 0 7626 2 0 0 7674 1 0 0 7720 0 10 6 7765 1 0 0 7812 1 0 0 7862 7 10 0 7627 0 5 0 7675 5 0 0 7722 0 5 0 7766 10 0 0 7813 1 10 0 7863 1 1 0 7628 0 5 0 7676 0 5 0 7723 0 5 0 7768 2 2 0 7814 1 18 1 7864 1 1 0 7629 3 3 0 7677 0 4 6 7724 0 5 0 7769 0 1 10 7816 0 10 0 7865 0 5 0 (Continued on page 64.) C h in a’s M illio n s.

True Imperialism.’ The shadow of Egypt.— Isa. xxx. 2.

ANY of the changes that time brings are on the steadily westward. Places that once pulsated with surface of life. There is a certain stability at industrial activity and political influence have now little M the heart of things. The great laws of life more than an archaeological significance. But the change not. The selfsame sunlight that put heart of the West to-day is as the heart of the East in an end to Jacob’s conflict with the angel gilds our joys many a dim yesterday, and the thing against which and guides our toils to-day. So is it with these human the Jewish prophet protested is the thing against hearts of ours. So is it with the great common senti­ which some one must protest still—even trust ments and necessities. Motives that swayed men's in the shadow of Egypt. Recall for a moment the lives when the world was young can be traced in modern stately and spiritual interest of a song that Israel sang life. Life changes its costume more easily than it in the days of a purer and more reverent national life. changes its character. When we say that history repeats '' He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High itself, we do not mean that the~e are occasional coin­ shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will cidences ; we mean rather that the best and the worst say of the L o r d , He is my refuge and my fortress, my in human life have a tendency to perpetuate themselves, G o d in whom I trust. Surely He shall deliver thee.” and that through all the ages the human heart beats to Then the shadow of Egypt fell on the people. They the same tune, cherishes some of the same nobilities transferred their allegiance, not deliberately, but none and the same follies, and shows itself capable of much the less really, from the unseen to the seen. The great that is fine and much that is contemptible. changes of life, and especially those for the worse, are So we may go back through very many centuries often undeliberate. and find in a bit of ancient history that which is repeating Now I want you to think for a moment about our itself in the life of to-day. The national question among own dear country—this England of ours we love so the Jews of Hezekiah’s day was, How can we shake well. Of recent years a great word has been upon our off the Assyrian yoke ? And the popular solution of lips, and that word is Imperialism. And it is a noble the problem was, Enter into an alliance with Egypt. and worthy word. It stands for something that finds True, Egypt was a land of many idols, but it was also room for the expansive and unselfish powers of a great a land of many horses and chariots, and full coffers. people. But there are things associated with this thing And there have always been those in the world who, as men name it and think of it and seek it to-day, that when they have wanted chariots, have not been over lack nobility and pure worth. As I hear it there is too particular where they borrowed them. There have much thunder in it. It is too suggestive of chariots always been those who would fraternize with an idolater and horsemen and the strength of iron and the worth — provided he wras a rich idolater. Egypt was powerful of gold. The shadow of Egypt is upon it. If we are to with that kind of power that the world and the devil save this great word Empire from belittlement and can fully appreciate. There is a might that calls to abuse, if we are to keep the dignity of it intact and the the world in the clang of iron and the thunder of horse­ glory of it unstained, if we are to save it from becoming men and the clink of gold, and many there be that trust the catchword of politicians or a high-sounding name in it. There is a might that lifts not up its voice in the for greedy commercialism, we must take it out of the clamour of the world, but that pleads its rights and its shadow of Egypt, where great things lose their great­ power in the silences of thought, in the quiet inner ness and noble things their nobility, and we must let place where conscience dwells, in the depths of all true the shadow of the Almighty fall upon it. The true feeling, and on the lonely heights of the ideal— and Imperialism is to be realized and safeguarded not by would to G o d that you and I had more faith in it. those who are looking for a wider frontier— but by The choice between these two is ever before us. Since those who are seeking a higher faith. Whenever an the days of Hezekiah, kingdoms have risen to greatness Empire has been threatened, the first whisper of that and sunk into oblivion. The great centres of power threat has always been heard in the streets of its own and industry, of learning and dominion, have shifted cities. The peril of a nation, as the peril of a soul, is

* Reprinted, by special permission, from "The Pilgrim Church," by the late Rev. ever within and not without. Read your Gibbon, and P. C Ainsworth. This book, from which we have quoted previously, is one we have you shall catch the first warning of Rome's ruin not in read with unfeigned delight, and to which it is a pleasure to give a warm and un­ reserved commendation. The writer, a minister of great promise, died at the early the growls of the Goths whose heroes came up against age of 38 from typhoid fever. It is published by Charles H. Kelly. 25-35, City Road, E.C., or it may be obtained through any bookseller at 3s. 6d. net — E d . her, but in the feasting and the boasting and rioting of A p r i l , 1915. 52 China's Millions. A p r i l , 1 9 1 5 . that vicious capital and of all the cities of that Empire. come to pass— the story of England’s admirals and The things that threaten national prestige and power, soldiers and statesmen, her thinkers and teachers and even as the things that make them, are found in the her sons of toil— is a splendid story. But what is to heart of the people. I for one believe that the day is be the next chapter in that story ? Other great powers not far distant when he alone will be hailed as an Im­ have climbed side by side with us, sharers in the same perialist who thinks more of his country’s obligations civilization, and, in some cases, in the same faith. than of its rights, more of its debts than its dues, more Materialism sometimes suggests to us the possibility of the grave and holy responsibility of power possessed of an Armageddon, an awful physical struggle of the than of the acquisition of more. We shall come to see European powers. But the thing that is coming, yea, that a man cannot think imperially unless he thinks has already come, is a different kind of fight. It is a unselfishly. The safety and the sovereignty of Eng­ spiritual Armageddon. The shadow of Egypt will be land have never been in the sole keeping of the diplomat, no protection in this fight. We must carry our ideas, the general, and the admiral. It has ever been, and our policy, our patriotism, our earthly service, out of will ever be in all who stand for the Empire of the C h r i s t , the shadow of Egypt into that other shadow where who know that the foundations of true dominion are men find G o d — His will and His grace. For the last not dug with the sword, that a nation is great not by the arbitrament of life is always divine, and the higher sweep of its territory but . by the justice and meicy of stages of all world-struggles are determined by the its rule, that national wealth is not a thing of square cleanness or uncleanness of the souls of them that strive. miles and golden millions but of godliness, truth, and It is the work of the Christian Church to fashion within love— of power to see and fitness to serve the high its borders and to send forth into the world the ideal abiding spiritual interests of our common humanity. patriot, the man who can enter with warm and pas­ G o d has given to our Island Race the spirit of enter­ sionate enthusiasm into the service of his country, prise and adventure. England’s sons fare forth into bringing into the service the pure ideal and unselfish all the world— her ships are in all ports, by colonial and ministry of the kingdom of the selfless King. commercial activity she has lines of influence going And now let us try to bring all this home to our own out into all tbe earth. The story of how all this has hearts. The difference between the nation and the individual is mainly a quantitative one. If the national confidence is in the shadow of Egypt, it is because the individual confidence is there. The shadow of an earthly ideal, an unspiritual interpretation of life, a material estimate of success, has fallen on our separate souls. No wonder that men miss the divinity of history, and leave G o d out of their widest reckon­ ings and their corporate counsels, when they fail to find them in their toil for bread, and reversing the word of Scripture, say, “ We walk by sight and not by faith.” My friends, the first debt that you and I owe to our country must be paid to our G o d . The highest service that any man can render to the Fatherland is the ser­ vice of faith. To dwell in the secret place of the Most High and abide under the shadow of the Almighty ; to lay up treasure in heaven ; to be reverent and prayer­ ful and unselfish ; to lean on G o d amid the simple toils and necessities and pains of one’s daily life ; to manifest the heroism that passes unrecognized among men be­ cause it is heroism, and, therefore, clothed in humility ; to be less worldly than you are often tempted to be ; to believe in the deathless divinity of conscience, duty, and love,— this is the higher patriotism, into whose hands at last the honour and the peace of any people must be placed for safe keeping. There is a vision that some can see already, and that maybe all shall see some day. It comes to the hearts of men from the-village of Nazareth, from one who was the King of men because He could love more and suffer more and help more than anyone else. It is a vision of Empire not territorial, for He said, “ A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things that he possesseth " ; not martial, for He said, “ Put up thy sword.” It is moral. It is the vision of the human brotherhood ever being more largely understood and Photo &//] [Dr. Danse'/ Smith. more folly realized among men. Oh for the unworldly dream of that other kingdom—the Empire of the YOUNG CHINA. C h r i s t ! A p r i l , 1 9 1 5 . China’s Millions. 68

Here and There.

Miss H. E. Levermore, writing from Tsinchow, helpers, whose home is at Ch’u-ho. I wish we had a K a n s u , on November 10th, says :— few more like him. Before his conversion he was a “ The Biblewoman and I came down here to Hsiho- very wicked man, and far and wide was as much feared hsien, our most distant out-station, over a fortnight and hated as he is now trusted and loved. He is. how­ ago, and, if the L o r d permit, I trust it may be possible ever, in danger, and needs much prayer. Flattery is to stay until the lah iieh [the 12th month], and thus give an enemy more subtle and dangerous than some he has the women a good opportunity of getting to hear and to fought and conquered.” know something of the Gospel. Doors are open on ¿«»'Miss E. M. Mandeville, in a letter dated November every hand, and many love to listen ; but the enemy 26th, from Taning, S h a n s i, w rites: - “ Miss Fugl and is very busy trying to hinder in various ways. I have I have been to thirty-two villages this autumn. In been arranging for a conference with the women, begin­ one of my tours I went with Deacon Hsu’s wife to the ning next Sunday and continuing for four days ; then eastern part of Yung-lio and visited the scattered Chris­ a break of a few days, and afterwards another four tians there. In most cases it is only the men who be­ days. About five, or perhaps six, women who live at lieve, while the women folk are suspicious and inclined a distance will sta}r on the premises, providing their to be opposed. It was a great help having Mrs. Hsii own food. It is my purpose to have two meetings daily with me, as she knew just how to appeal to the women, for Bible teaching, taking a course of lessons from the and two or three said they would come over to our birth of C h r i s t to His second coming. In between, enquirers’ class. One longs to see the work extending the women will be taught and set to learn the texts of in that place and the women being reached. There is Scripture bearing on the subject for the day, and also to be a good deal of Gospel preaching both in the Taning a portion of the catechism. ” and Yung-ho districts this winter. The Evangelistic Miss A. Harrison writes from Sisiang, S h e n s i :— Society received a new impetus at the Autumn Confer­ “ Since sending off my last letter to you, I have spent ence, and Mr. Ho, the leader, was quite surprised at a month at Ch’u-ho, one of our more distant country the response to his call for volunteers. He feared, out-stations. There are many men enquirers in that too, that the funds would be insufficient, but on visiting district, but my impression of most of them is that the treasurer found that two sums, each of 10,000 cash, they have only intellectually become convinced of the had just been given, and this cleared away all difficulties truth of Christianity and have not yet been brought of that kind. The men go out two and two, and we into living contact with the Saviour. We long to see shall be glad of prayer for them during the next three real conversions. The morals of the people of the lower months. part of the valley are certainly much improved ; law­ “ Our present official’s wife comes twice a week for an suits have almost ceased, theatricals fall through for hour’s lesson, and Miss Trench is reading the New lack of support, and the heathen part of the community Testament with her in English. She is an extremely practice their idolatries in secret for fear the Christians well educated lady, and wants to perfect herself in Eng­ should see and rebuke them- A gang of secret society lish ; but we are glad and surprised to find that she is men, the terror of the neighbourhood, has been broken really more interested in the doctrines of Christianity up, because the leader and some of his followers have than she is in the language. She asks question after professed Christianity. This change has been brought question suggested by the portion read, going into about through the influence of Mr. Leng, one of our things very thorough^.”

Photos by) I Dr. K. BnomhaU.

TWO SCENES IN NORTH CHINA. Grinding Grain. Drawing Water. 54 China’s Millions. A p r i l , 19 15 -

Trial and Triumph at Shucheng, Anhwei.

B y M i s s I . S m i t h .

HE past year was struck a very severe blow on the head a few days ago. has been one Between drought and locust during the summer the T of strange and first crop was completely spoiled, and what was gathered varied experi­ of the second was washed away by flood, so that alto­ ences. At the begin­ gether the year has been one of specially hard trial for ning of it, although we the poor folk. Most of our people have now roofs ovei fortunately did not their heads, but of course few of them have been able get the expected visit to build homes such as they had before. from “ White Wolf,” Besides receiving help from friends of our own Mission, and his band, the and some of the native churches connected with the people in the city and China Inland Mission, we, through Mr. Bobby, of Wuhu, district were kept in received help from the Famine Relief Fund for general a state of terror for relief work— so that we were able to set men to work, and weeks. Ladies had had for several weeks from twelve to twenty-two men chairs placed at the working daily, levelling out the ground here— carrying city gates at the close mud, riddling stones, etc. They were glad indeed to get of each day. so as to something to do. Then through the kindness of the enable them to make workers and Christians of the Wuhu Foreign Christian a speedy departure if Mission we were able to keep some women sewing for a necessary during the time making and re-making garments for poor children— night. The friends of these friends provided the material, also old clothes the Foreign Christian to re-make, and a very generous gift in money to help Mission at Suchowfu the poor and needy ones around. We just kept— and — forty English miles still keep— our eyes open as we go about, to find out the distant— were anxious truly needy, and deserving cases. G o d has indeed about us, so sent two been mindful of us— and we do praise Him— and feel men to bring us out grateful to all the friends foreign and native, who we of the city, and escort us to their home in Suchow know in many cases have made big sacrifices to help. to live with them for a time till the district was Since the flood there has been much sickness and death clear of brigands. However, after prayer and thought — and no wonder, for the water, as will be easily ima­ we decided to remain. The day the robbers left gined, is in a dreadful condition. Were it not that we Liuanchow where they wrought so much havoc, have a well of our own it would be impossible for us to Mr. Entwistle sent a message to say they had gone live here at this time. in another direction, and apparently would not pay You will all praise G o d , I know, when I tell you that Shucheng the anticipated visit. Still as wounded the old man for whom I asked prayer in my last letter, soldiers were being carried into the city daily for some written at the end of September, was saved ere he passed time, the people were in great fear— and not until 1,500 away four weeks ago. His one fear was that he had soldiers came from Wuhu, and camped seventeen miles believed too late. But he rested his soul for salvation from the city, did the people feel at all at ease or able on C h r i s t , and passed peacefully away. Surely you to sleep. Until then some members of each family will all feel encouraged to pray on for the old woman had to be on the alert all night. After these soldiers in the same house, also mentioned in my last letter, came, all felt that, even if the brigands did return that she too may very soon trust C h r i s t . as was rumoured they intended to, we should hear On Wednesday of this week a man of forty years of age something of them before they reached the city. passed away, whom I had visited daily for three weeks, After the district was rid of “ White Wolf ” the local and latterly twice a day. This man had really over­ robbers were worse than ever, but just at this time a worked himself, and been chilled at the time of the flood. change of magistrate was made, and the new official Before his sickness he had not been a decided Christian being a much younger man he was better able to deal although he was what the world would call “ a good with the brigands. He very soon had them in hand man.” During his sickness he definitely trusted C h r i s t , and had the three leaders of this band of two hundred and I had many talks with him. Just before he died robbers, who had been such a menace to the district — his mind was perfectly clear till the last— he pointed for the last four years, beheaded. So that so far as heavenward three or four times. I asked him Who he robbers are concerned the people live more peaceful saw. He intimated that he saw the heavens open, and lives now. This disturbed condition of the - district he saw the Saviour. He passed away so quietly and interfered a good deal with our country work for a time. peacefully. His wife is in consumption, and has three The majority of the present band of soldiers in the children, the oldest girl fifteen years, another younger, city are rough and ill -mannered. They compel the shop­ and one little boy of but two years— a dear wee fellow. keepers to sell at their (the soldiers') puces. If the shop­ Mr. Ho was a kind husband and father, and they miss keeper asks, say, one hundred cash for the article the sol­ him sadly. Please pray for Mrs. Ho and her family. dier wishes to buy—the soldierwill only givetencash. One As we look back over the last four years we recall six poor man because he refused to sell at the soldiers’ price adults who have thus passed away. Although not A p r i l , 19 1 5 . China's Millions. 55

■members of the visible church they have really accepted it would be on the main street, and could be open C h r i s t , and become members of the Church Invisible, each night for preaching to outside men. It is so sad and entered into the Presence of the L o r d when they that we cannot have these nightly preaching sendees passed from this life. We have no doubt about them for lack of accommodation, so that these men may be whatever. Oh the joy— the unspeakable joy of leading drawn in under the sound of the gospel, and won for souls to C h r i s t ! If any one who should read this letter C h r is t . has not yet tasted this joy, begin just where you are, I ever remember in prayer those of you who have sons and just now, and you will want to go on. and relatives at the front, and pray for the men who are We have not yet been able to resume all the usual suffering so much. May this awful war be brought to a week-day services, but we hope to do so soon. It has speedy end. been so difficult for the women, especially, to leave what We thank G o d as we look back over the year, for all remained to them, uncared for, and to come to all the His preserving care over our people, also for the six •services before their new places were built. names that have been added to the church roll. We Miss Wiesner’s Sabbath Class for the children is in­ had hoped others would have been baptized in the creasing, and during the year some of the children have autumn, but they have had to be deferred. done exceptionally well in memorising Scripture. It We enter on another year praying that it may be one is also a rule in the day-school that the children memorise of greater things, a year when many more than any at least one verse of Scripture each day. We had Mr. previous year has ever witnessed will be gathered in, C. H. Judd with us for four days a month ago. He saw and thus His name he more than ever glorified. and measured the ground for our house, drew rough plans, but it is not at all certain when it will be possible Service.— “ Everyone has an individual duty to to commence building operations, there is so little perform to God ; the acticns of others cannot make money for building purposes in hand. We should be that a duty which is not so ; nor can the claims of content to live so far as we ourselves are concerned, in duty be remitted one because of the course —right or our little thatch house, but the front of it, which is being wrong— of others. We may, and should, thank God used for a church, is far too small for the work, and so we for all the aid He gives us through others in the per­ pray much, and ask you to join us in prayer that very formance of duty ; but let us endeavour to see our way soon a church and class-rooms at least may be pro­ clear, independent of others ; and then, in any circum­ vided. As you know most of our members are drawn stances of trial or perplexity, we shall find the comfort from the farming class in the country, and we covet the of it, and not be leaning on an arm of flesh.” people of the city also for C h r i s t . Had we a new church — J. H u d s o n T a y l o r .

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FAMINE REFUGEES. 56 China’s Millions. A p r i l , 1915.

“ A Shelter in the Tim e of Storm.” B y M is s A. M. Johannsen, Yushax, Kiangsi. LL my correspondents have been neglected earnest prayers were offered for China and for Europe. / \ during the last few months, but the fact is that Some of our people gathered here, others of us in an / V this terrible war has taken all the spirit out of out-station, and we felt the presence of G o d in our me. At first it seemed of no use to write, as midst. there was little hope of letters arriving at their des­ That the work of G o d is being greatly hindered in tination, and later on there was little desire for writing, China and elsewhere goes without saying, but we go as hardly any home letters have reached us for months, on step by step, satisfied to walk with the L o r d in the and I can quite well understand that you did not feel dark. Only last night in our prayer meeting He gave like writing. Oh ! how one longs for the coming of us again the assurance: " Every beast of the forest the King of Peace, and for His glorious reign to make is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.” “ The an end to all the strife of the nations ! Surely, He must world is Mine, and the fulness thereof.” So we have be at hand ! What will it be when He shall appear no right to doubt or fear. In many ways the L o r d for our salvation ? Often when I think of all the sin has shown us during the past year that He can protect and suffering and sorrow crowding around us daily, and care for His own. We have had several severe my heart is simply over­ storms, when a great deal whelmed, and I cannot of damage has been done. but cry, “ Oh, L o r d We had the worst one in J e s u s , how long ? ” May the late spring, when He teach us to buy up numerous houses were the opportunities “ broken down, large trees He come.” were torn up by their Meanwhile we are car­ roots, boats were cap­ rying on another warfare, sized, and many persons in which you also have a killed and drowned. In share. I feel I must write all homes the people w'ere and tell you a little from in fear and trembling, as this place. It is so easy the tiles were blown about during days like these to like pieces of paper, and get taken up with one walls and houses were thing only, and to lose falling everywhere. Some sight of, and interest in, were hiding under tables, anything else, and we others under the beds, need your prayers and others drew the bedding your loving sympathy in over their heads to shut all our work for our out the dreadful noise. King and Leader. Our We were gathered to­ thoughts are constantly gether for our weekly with you all, and many Bible Reading, but could earnest prayers are going do nothing for some time. up to G o d daily from the Then when it was a little Chinese Christians. At quieter we sang a few our daily morning prayers hymns, “ How firm a all the nations at war 1 foundation,” etc., and are remembered ; at our then we had united prayer meetings on Satur­ prayer. Now comes the day night and Sunday morning the L o r d ’s people are most wonderful part of it all. No Christian suffered. most lovingly prayed for, especially all the sorrowing One woman was alone with her little girl. The latter homes ; at our Christian Endeavour meetings all the cried, “ Oh, mother, let us go and hide,” but the Endeavourers among the sailors and soldiers are brought mother said, “ No, we will not hide; we will pray.” before the Throne ; and at our workers’ prayer meet­ They did so, and although their neighbours’ houses fell ings the L o r d is earnestly entreated to overrule all the down, their own remained safe. One Christian woman unrest for His own glory and for the coming of His prayed for her husband, whom she knew to be on his Kingdom, and to work out His plan and purpose through way home. She asked the L o r d to incline him to take the judgment upon the nations, and above all to save refuge quickly in some shop, as he was old and could multitudes of souls. It is rather humbling to us as not brave the storm, and the L o r d answered her prayer. missionaries to hear those who have just come out of A tree from a neighbouring garden fell across our wall heathendom pray thus for the nations who ought to and garden, but did no damage whatever. be far ahead of them ; but we praise G o d that He has When the Christians gathered on the following Sun­ taught them to pray. day, they all told of the L o r d ’s goodness to them, and The whole of China set apart the 18th October for they said it was as if the L o r d had sent His angels to prayer for peace. At 2 p.m. all the L o r d ’s people in protect His own. On the other hand a great number this district met around His Footstool, and many of temples, even some of the strongest, of which the A p r i l , 19 15 - China’s Millions. people had been specially proud, were broken to pieces so as not to let it escape, and soon it was killed. We and their idols.smashed. A great many of their resting- praised G o d for His deliverance, but we dreamed about places along the roads, built for the sake of laying up serpents for a good many nights, and the chair was. merit, were also destroyed. All these things gave the rather shunned for a while. Christians subjects for preaching from for a long time All the other sisters, and most of the Chinese helpers,. afterwards, and are out in the especially did out-stations and they emphasize will not return that there would till Christmas. I be no hiding- am holding the? place to turn to fort here, and1, in the day of plodding 011 with ju d g m e n t , so the daily routine, therefore they When Mr. Taylor urged a speedy was here a fort­ repentance. All night ago, three the storms have women were bap­ been more or tized. Two of less local. In one them were the place, a short first from c.ne of distance from our out-stations, here, they had opened seven hailstones, or years ago. They lumps of ice as have received big as an egg. most of the When I first teaching from heard about it, I one of the Chris­ did not believe tian women, and it, but when the their bright same thing oc­ answers at the curred a few time of examin­ weeks later in ation spoke well a neighbouring for her earnest­ station, there ness in teaching was no doubting t h e m. T h e r e the fact. The are some old m issionaries enquirers there wrote that the lumps of ice were quite as big as an who have grown cold. Will you pray that the LORn egg, and broke straight through the tiles of their roof, may quicken them by His Spirit, and save them fully ? also broke eighteen window panes. In October I made a long, interesting journey in some This year has been a strange one altogether, full of of the distant mountain districts, and two of the mis­ rumours and unrest. About two months ago there sionaries, and a good number of the Christians, came was a big scare about the chickens. Some were sup­ with me. We visited over 13,000 homes, and left a posed to grow claws on their wings, in which case they tract or a Gospel in each home. Much wisdom was were poisonous. Others, when killed, were found to needed for disarming the fears of many, and often a have a snake inside them. At first I did not believe it, great deal of tact and persuasion had to be used before but they brought me a snake to see, and it certainly the Gospels were received, but in the end most of the was some sort of a snake or tape-worm. The geese people got interested and received them joyfully. too had them. Many of the people killed all the fowls they had, others sold them for next to nothing, so we Prayer for China.— We cordially invite our friends, have found it difficult to buy eggs lately. Some of the to the meeting for prayer for the work in China held Christians were sure it was from the devil, others de­ every Saturday afternoon, from four o’clock, at the clared it was a visitation from G o d , and often used Headquarters of the Mission, Newington Green, it as an illustration in their preaching. The scare has Mildmay, N. passed over now, but there was certainly something strange about it. The New Prayer List.— We have still in hand a Talking about snakes makes me think of how wonder­ few copies of this list, revised to January of this yeai. fully the L o r d protected me from a very poisonous It is in booklet form as usual, and will be found of very one some time ago. From its hiding-place in a tree great value as an aid to intelligent prayer for the mis­ it had found its way into my bedroom, and was on a sionaries of the C.I.M. It is so arranged, that by chair where I always sit. I had come over from the following the plan of the book all the missionaries of meeting, and went straight upstairs. After having the Mission (in number 1,063) can be prayed for specially had my quiet time I was getting ready for bed, when once a week. The names of all C.I.M. mission stations I noticed it, and it was just getting ready to reach me, are given, with the missionaries labouring in each. when I moved. I called the sisters, who went down­ The booklet may be had, post free, from the offices of stairs for the cook, while I kept my eye on the serpent, the Mission, for fourpence. ¿8 China’s Millions. April, 1915.

Famishing and Feasting.

B y M r s . H e r b e r t J. M a s o n , K w a n g c h o w , H o n a n . EARLY a year has passed since “ White Wolf ” August did rain fall, and hope revived in the hearts of wrought much devastation in our midst, and I the people—they sowed buckwheat and beans, but N would like to write a little of more recent events. alas, ere this was garnered, we had weeks of rain which When the spring wheat was at its best, an beat down the beans and turned them mouldy. east wind sprang up and blasted the corn in the ear. Poor Kwangchow ! Such a year as this has never In the early summer no rain fell, the ground was as been known. Thousands of robbers and then thou­ rock under a blazing sun ; the rice could not be trans­ sands of soldiers to eat up the old grain and then no planted but withered in its nursing beds. Not till harvest. Many of our Christian farmer families have emigrated, till their land shall again give them food. Brave people ! How we admire them for their courage. The women, old and young, trot along with a stick, carrying some light burden, while the men take what goods they can in baskets, their babies asleep or sitting up on top of the bedding. To each Christian family going forth in this way we have given two shillings, or four shillings, to help as travelling expenses, also a letter of introduction should they settle where there is a mission station, but some have travelled two and three hundred miles. When famine was inevitable we had no money and expected none for relief work, but, without our seeking, Christian friends sent us gifts to help the Christians, and we are using these very carefully. One very old woman is getting a pension for the present of 3s. per month; it just keeps her from starving. Food is more than three times its or dinar}'price, and tens of thousands of people in this district are already living on nothing else save one or two thin gruel meals a day, of beans and buckwheat. A general famine relief fund was started in Hankow for this district, but the European war and conse­ quent unrest make this practically a closed door. Mr. Lillegaard wrote to the American Lutheran papers ; he is somewhat of a hero since he fell into the hands of “ White Wolf,” and soon he received one thousand gold dollars. He gave work to four hundred men, repairing the roads of the North City. For every man he engaged, ten hoped to be employed. The country people who protected and fed us when “ White Wolf ” came, have given us much anxiety, for when their scanty supply of grain is eaten, nothing but starvation lies Photo by] lr. h. Mathews. ahead. G o d has wonderfully pro­ vided for His own. Mr. Lill egaard A HONAN CHRISTIAN FAMILY. has received more money ; four hun­ This photo of Mr. Chang and his family, at one of the Sihwa out-stations, was taken as a'memorial dred men is all he can manage, so he instead of getting a tablet to worship. has given my husband money to set A p r i l , 19 15 . China's Millions. 59 people to work in the South City. Thus these men Christians and enquirers, apart from heathen who will have employment. come in. I am starting relief for old women and widows. They Seventy-seven men and women were baptized in are going to spin cotton, make shoes, and anything that four successive days. Tears of joy filled the eyes of is easy and saleable. many of us as each convert confessed jKsrs as L o r d . Now I will speak of the bright side of our work. We had the Communion service on Christmas morning. On Christmas The joy to the Day, we came to older Christians the end of our can hardly be ex­ seven days’ pressed when special meetings. they recall the It has been a early years, the wonderful time persecution and in every way. trials, ami con­ Mr. Hsieh, an trast that un­ elder from the happy condition C.I.M. Church in of things with Anking, was the this great in missioner. He gathering of be­ has been much lievers. appreciated, and The singing we feel sure a was wonderful great help to for tune and time many. The Chris­ and volume. 1 tians here love was appointed meetings, and organist and had these yearly six assistants, an gatherings of the evidence this of whole church are the extent of our looked forward musical talent. to with great an­ Three out-sta ticipation. tions have baby- The Decoration organs purchased Committee con­ by the members 1 r . sisted of young Photo by X . l uck. themselves. men ; the Church When I took the HONAN MISSIONARIES HAVING A CHINESE MEAL. was transformed countrywomen under their to have a look skilful hands and with the adjoining yard tented in, round our sitting and bedroom they said, “ This is just accommodation was found for 1,200 people, though like heaven.” often we had an audience of 1,500 people. My husband asked Mr. Goforth months ago if he Empty houses were loaned for the use of country would come here some time. His letter announcing his Christians. The floor-space was covered with straw, inten ion of coming arrived during our seven days’ and rich and poor slept on this straw in their wadded special meetings. Mrs. Goforth will accompany him here quilts ; not very comfortable, but they put up with on Feb. 21st for a two weeks’ mission. We feared the anything for the pleasure of the meetings. people could not afford the expenses of more meetings Each house was provided with cooking pans and so soon, but when the proposal was put to the con­ other necessary things for making food ; those who did gregation, their faces revealed their hearts. . . not care to cook bought basins of hot food at the More meetings! . . . Truly this was the L o r d ’s vendors’ stalls outside the church. goodness to them ! They will be held at the New Year Five hundred men and women came from our daughter holiday season. The sufferings of Kwrangchow have churches, most of them having walked fifteen to thirty been intense— may her blessings abound. Pray for us. miles. A few came on barrows. These country churches are a great source of joy to us. They number thirteen and are all self-supporting, “ The man or woman who gives five minutes or save two ; this is not a little when one considers how fifteen or thirty minutes a day to pleading definitely poor the people generally are. This famine is taxing w ith G od in prayer for the various Missions throughout them sorely. Their leaders are fine men, either in the world is surely doing as definite a bit of work as business or as farmers, or school teachers. Every night the missionary himself who has gone forth to the worship is conducted in these chapels, and the two city foreign field. O that we might believe it! ” ones, and we all take the same C.E. topic. —B i s h o p o f S i e r r a L e o x e . To be pastor of so many churches means grave responsibilities, but a finer set of local leaders it would Departures for China. be hard to find. A p r il 17TH. Per P. & O. s.s. K a r m a l a . Think of us all gathered together for seven * John and * Mrs. Graham and child. days, three big meetings a day, average 800 to 1,000 • Returning. 60 China’s Millions. A p r i l , 19 1 5 .

Our Shanghai Letter, Containing the Latest News from the Field.

B y J a m e s S t a r k . February 27th .—Since the date of my last letter, are about to visit the Kwangsin River stations in three hundred and eighty-three baptisms have been K i a n g s i , in order to hold local Bible Schools, such as reported. Three hundred and twenty-seven of these, those they have for several years conducted in S h a n s i including two hundred and seven Miao converts, took with much spiritual profit to the church. May I ask place last year, bringing the total for 1914 up to 5,002, your prayers on their behalf ? which is the highest on record. Thus the number bap­ The Harvest Festivals amongst the tribespeople in tized from the commencement of the work is now 50,812. the district of Sapushan, Y u n n a n , were recently held, We give G o d thanks for this ingathering, and we and the attendances at some of the centres were very continue to pray for yet greater spiritual increase. large, as many as 1,000 Miao being present, when con­ You will be glad to learn that Mr. Bailer has been tributions of money and grain were given for the sup­ so far restored in health as to be port of the work. Mr. A. G. able to resume his work on the Nicholls, writing of a testimony Committee for the revision of the < meeting held at one of the places Old Testament Scriptures. &.j visited, says :— “ A number of the The following marriages have Miao spoke of the L o r d ’ s dealings been reported :— Mr. R. T. W. with them, how He had heard Gornitzka to Miss J. J. Overseth and answered prayer, healed the at Kiehsiu on January 7th, Mr. sick and comforted the sorrowing. P. A. Bruce to Miss Jessie I. It was cheering to hear such testi­ Cassels at Paoning on January monies. Some of these people 15th, Mr. H. Swenson to Miss K. came long distances, two, three, Moll at Sianfu on January 21st, four and even five days’ journey. and Dr. G. E. King to Miss C. It was delightful to see the crowds Shaw at Kaifeng on February 6th. of young people in their coloured The Biennial Conference of the garments.” Our brother adds, China Medical Missionary Associ­ however :— “ We have our trou­ ation was held in Shanghai at the bles, sin grips tight, and there are beginning of this month, the many discouraging features. The Mission being represented by Dr s. Adversary does his very best to Cox, Hewett, Guinness and Mrs. hinder the work.” J. A. Anderson. Dr. Anderson Mr. J. H. Edgar, during the was also to have been present, but eight months which have elapsed was prevented by an attack of since he was appointed to Weikiu, dysentery, which confined him to has travelled 2,025 English miles, bed in our hospital here. I am and sold more than 13,000 Scrip­ glad to report improvement in his ture portions and other Christian condition, and it is hoped that booklets, about one-fourth being he will soon be about again. in Tibetan script. Of a recent Mrs. H. E. Foucar, who has been journey he writes :— spending a few weeks with us, is “ My destination was up a deep suffering with a rather bad attack ravine to Taaopo, in the Wash'f of erysipelas, and I regret to say territory, a journey by no means that Mr. Edenblom, of the Swedish easy at any time, but now made Alliance Mission, is ill with ty­ almost impossible by broken rope- phoid fever at Peking. bridges, torrent-rent roads, rolling Miss Jessie Gregg hopes shortly rocks and blazing sun. I reached to begin a series of evangelistic Liang-ho-k’eo with a tired body meetings in S h a n s i . In all she will visit thirteen and throbbing brain, and enjoyed an hour’s rest in the different centres in that province, and I would bespeak home of one of my enquirers of the year 1907, who, your prayers that her ministry may be the means of although lost sight of all these years, is giving a sure leading to decision for C h r i s t many of those who have testimony in the wilds of Washi. In the most sequestered already been to a greater or less extent influenced by hamlets I have found portions of the Bible in an old the Gospel. print, but they were Exodus or Jonah. In my work I At the present time special classes are being held at am careful only to leave annotated Gospels and simple a considerable number of our stations for the study of tracts, and I am confident much of the literature is the Scriptures, and many of the converts are taking understood. The tracts, books, almanacks, given or advantage of this opportunity for receiving systematic sold to Chinese, Tibetan or Kiarung-speaking peoples instruction in the Word of G o d , which it is to be hoped amount to 1,600 portions. This will mean that the will give stability and permanence to their Christian greater part of the Washi population, and the Chinese of character, at the same time increasing their efficiency the border towns and markets, have heard the Gospel.” as witnesses for C h r i s t . Mr. and Mrs. Percy Knight In writing to you on September 2nd last year, I A p r i l , 1915* China’s Millions. G1 referred to a young scholar who travelled a distance of forty Eng­ lish miles to attend special meetings conducted by Pastor Ting Li-mei at Luchow, and was converted, though he had not before heard the Gospel. Mr. Herbert, the mis­ sionary in charge at that station, who subsequently sent three Chris­ tians to the place where this man lives, now writes that the report which they brought was most favourable, a splendid opportunity presenting itself for work. Mr. Ho, the scholar alluded to, has since called upon Mr. Herbert and spent hours with him in his study searching the Scriptures. On the occasion of this visit he brought to the services on the following Sunday his sisters, who are attending a school in the city. At Kwangan, Eastern S z e c h ­ w a n , three days’ special meetings for the Christians were held in December, over one Miss V. M. Ward reports that at Kienping, A n h w e i , hundred people being present. Mr. R. B. Porter she registered eight hundred and fifty new patients at writes :— her dispensary during last year. Many of these she “ On Christmas Day, Mr. Yang, our Magistrate, has visited in their homes in the city and in the villages, accompanied by his chief secretary and two other and not a few attend the services regularl}'', and may officials, visited us, and gave a short address to our be said to be enquirers. people. We had also with us some of the Middle School Miss H. E. Levermore, describing a three months’ teachers, two of whom have been attending the ser­ stay at Hsiho, an out-station of Tsinehow, in K a n s u , vices for nearly a year. One of these I am sure is a real writes :— Christian. He gave a fine address on the triumphs of “ Whilst visiting in one of the homes, I came across Christianity, to which the Magistrate listened. We an old lady of eighty-five years of age, who had heard are now doing regular preaching four days a week at something of the Gospel. She is now very deaf, and the prisons, with the Magistrate’s consent and at his unable to go about much ; neither is it possible to go to invitation. He has promised 6,000 cash a month for her home under existing circumstances, so the dear old the support of a man, if we can supply one regularly soul has had no help. Yet she just simply trusts in the for this work.” L o r d , and is full of love and joy. She knows very little From Sintientsi, Miss F. M. Williams writes of six of the Gospel story, but I believe the L o r d has revealed families having put away their idols last year, and something of Himself to her, and she appears to trust no from Pachow, Mr. W. B. Williston reports the burning other. The neighbours told me she prayed morning, of idols by a man in the city, the first for a number of noon and night, and only talked of trusting the L o r d . years, whilst Miss Dibley mentions the destruction of She seemed to be a gem found in the darkness and mire, idols by an old man in Kaihsien, after attending the who is being fashioned for His Kingdom.” Sunday services and week-night meetings for a month Mr. E. J. Bannan, reporting the baptism of six or so. These are but examples of what is taking place men and three women on the 27th of December, in scores of our centres. says :— Miss G. C. Davey, writing of a visit to Longho, one “ Included amongst this number are a Mohammedan of the out-stations of Shekichen, in H o n a n , tells of school teacher and his wife. Mr. Huang’s testimony splendid opportunities for preaching the Gospel. At was the clearest of the nine and impressed me mightily. one place she found an old lady of eighty-four years of He stated quite frankly that in former years, in his age “ only able to sit on a mat and keep herself attitude to the Gospel, he had been a veritable Sard— warm, who had just learned something of the Gospel ‘ a persecutor and injurious ’— punishing severely a from her recently - converted son, and showed her member of his own family who was interested in the earnestness by ‘ saying grace ’ three times on getting Gospel ; now he knew himself as a sinner, but one for up in the morning, lest she should forget at meal whom C h r i s t had died, and was resting in Him as his tim es.” only hope of salvation. At the evening service in the Miss M. A. Edwards, who was lately appointed to street chapel, Mr. Huang, in the presence of more than Chenchowfu, in the same province, writes that she with one hundred people, openly professed his faith in C h r i s t . her Biblewoman has visited fifty-five homes in and May I crave an interest in your prayers for this man ? near the city, and in this way four hundred women have It is possible that, like Saul, he may be called upon to been reached with the Gospel, besides not a few men suffer great things for His Name, and if so, will need and many children. our sympathy and prayers.” 62 C h in a’s Millions. A p r i l , 1 9 15 -

Editorial Notes.

HE Mission's Jubilee.—The Annual Meet­ The Political Situation.—Though we have in­ ings of the China Inland Mission this year will, tentionally abstained from reference to the political T d .v ., be of a special nature, for it is hoped then situation in China as well as in Europe, we would venture to celebrate the completion of the Mission’s to remind our friends of the need there is for constant Jubilee. Fifty years ago this year the Mission was and believing prayer. From the statements made by organized under its present name, though the work had Sir Edward Grey in the House of Commons it is evident commenced at an earlier date. The Jubilee Meetings that the public are not yet in full possession of all the will be held in the Kingsway Hall on Tuesday, May nth, facts concerning China and Japan. We none the less, at 3 and 7 p.m. In the afternoon the chair will be taken however, need to pray that G o d will so over-rule all by the Right Honourable Lord Radstock, and in the the events of history as to make them fall out for the evening by the Rev. J. Stuart Holden, M.A., the Home furtherance of His Kingdom. The comforting fact Director, who will also give the closing address. Fuller about history is that when we are able to look back details will be published later. Meantime, we ask our upon it we are generally able to see how G o d has made friends to unite with us in praying that these meetings many events which were evil in themselves serve the ma}r be a time of much blessing. Reports from China purpose of His will. The wars between China and show that more than fifty thousand persons have been Foreign Powers, for instance, deplorable as they were, baptized in connection with the Mission since the have been used for the opening up of that land to the commencement of the work, and these and many other Gospel. This being so, we can believe that all the facts call for joyous thanksgiving. appalling events which are happening around us are subject to G o d ’s over-ruling Providence. In the midst of our sorrows we can rejoice that G o d is King and A Jubilee Volume.— For some years an up-to-date Master of the present situation. And even nature story of the work of the Mission has been a real need, and has her comforting lessons in these days of sorrow. this need has been emphasized by the coming of the The trees with their bursting buds and early blossoms Mission’s Jubilee. A special volume therefore has been remind us that nothing that man can do can stay those prepared and will, d .v ., be published on the same day as mighty forces which G o d has set in operation. Though the annual meetings mentioned above. The title of the death is on every hand, and the forces of destruction book will be “ The Jubilee Story of the China Inland are so busy, yet life is quietly and irresistibly as­ Mission,” and it will be sold at two prices, 3/6 net for serting itself everywhere. And He who does not sta3r the better edition and 2/- net for the cheap and more the shining of the sun or the blessings of His showers popular edition. For further particulars see the ad­ is not less mighty in the spiritual realm than in the vertisement on page 64. natural. He still lives and governs in all departments of life. The words of C h r i s t are still true— “ My Father The Late Mr. R. K. J. Hill.— We deeply regret to worketh even until now and I work.” state that news has been received of the death of Mr. R. K. J. Hill at Fengchen, S h a n s i, on January 15th. Mr. Hill reached China in 1893, in connection with the Nurses’ Missionary League.—We are asked to Christian Missionary Alliance, as one of a large band of announce that the All-Day Annual Meetings of this Scandinavians who had been drawn to China through League will be held at the University Hall, Gordon the labours of the late Mr. Franson. He proceeded at Square, W.C., on Wednesday, April 28th. The mis­ once to that portion of S h a n s i which lies north of the sionary, speakers will include Dr. Lilias Blackett, of Great Wall, where he laboured until his death, save India, and Mrs. Weir, of Korea. Further particulars when on furlough and absence in consequence of the can be obtained from Miss H. Y. Richardson, 52, Lower Boxer crisis. Sloane Street, S.W. So severely did the Christian Missionary Alliance suffer during the Boxer outbreak that that Mission Prayer for the Moslem World.— It is proposed was unable to reoccupy this field. Mr. Hill, however, to have three days of prayer for the Mohammedan was loth to leave the little company of persecuted and World and England on June 8th, 9th, and 10th, at scattered Christians, so that he and others joined the Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, London. The hours Swedish Alliance Mission, in connection with which he of meeting are 10.30 a.m., 3 p.m., and 5 p.m. Tickets returned to the busy frontier town of Fengchen. Here of admission can be obtained from Mr. J. L. Oliver, of suitable property was secured and largely rebuilt, and the Nile Mission Press, 16, Southfield Road, Tunbridge in spite of considerable opposition a small Church was Wells, and from Mr. J. M. Cleaver, of the Egypt General gathered together and several out-stations opened. Mission, 10, Drayton Park, Highbury, London, N. Mr. Hill was most whole-hearted in his service for Christ and China, and was much beloved by the Chris­ tians as well as respected by the heathen. His removal Parcels to China.— For the information of those will be a great grief to the little Church, and we who have friends in China it may be stated that the commend this Church and especially his widow Mission still continues to dispatch parcels to China by and ten sorrowing children— most of whom are still its fortnightly shipments. The cost is very little in ad­ quite young— to the sympathetic prayers of G o d ’s vance of what was charged before the war, and all risk people. is covered by insurance. A p r i l . 19 15 - China's Millions. 68

Photo» by] ! Dr. It. Uroomhall

TWO SCENES IN NORTH CHINA. Qrindlng Grain. Winnowing Grain.

Baptisms. Kansu— Honan— Kiangsi —coutiim cd. Siningfu 6 Yencheng and out-stations 5 3 Kaucliow out-station Ningsiafu ? Hiangcheng and out-stations 21» Yungfcnghsicn Tsinchowkan and out-stations 16 Shckichen out-stations .. s Yiianchow out-stations Cheniien 11 Kaifeng 5 I.inkiang out-station Lanchowfu 7 Taikang (■> Nanchang and out-stati jn Liangchowfu 9 Chenchowfu and out-stations l 2 Kwangsinfu and out-stations Pingliang <> Chowkiakow and out-stations . . 3(> Lungchiian out-stations u • Honanfu 8 Yungsin and out-stations 10 Shensi— Sinanhsien •? Sian iu 2 2 Mienchlh 6 Anhwei — Lantien and out-stations 27 Yungning 5 Linanchow out-station . . Wukung 4 Chetigyangkwan . Hanchungfu 7 Kiangsu Kienchow out-station 8 Shanghai -1 Chekiang— Tungchowfu and ont-stations 9 Yangchow i<> Hwangyen and out-stations 40 Pucheng and out-stations 6 Kaoyuchow - Pingyanghsien and out-stations “7 Hinganfu 7 Pingyanghsien (Juian out-stations) 4» Hovang and out-stations 12 Szechwan— Lungchiian and out-stations 42 Ing-kia-uei 9 Kwangyiian and out-station ; Sungyang out-station 14 Sintientsi 8 H angchow and out-stations 76 Shansi— Nanpu 2 I Ningpo 1 2 Lingkiu and out-stations 17 Wanhsien 2 Tientaiout-statiofs r> Hotsin and out-stations i 6 Pachow out-stations 5 Wenchow and out-stations 68 Kiiwo 10 Chungking 15 Yungkang out stations .. 13 Kweihwating 1 Luchow out-stations 26 Ninghaihsien and out-stations I 2 Soping out-station 11 Kwanganchow 12 Taipirg out-stations 17 Tsoyiin 1 Kaihsien 3 Chuchow and out-stations ¡9 20 Pingyaohsien 13 Yiinhwo and out-stations Y ungningchow 2 Kweichow— Kinhwafu and out-stations 2 0 Pingyangfu IX Tuhshan 11 Lanchi and out-stations.. IO Chiehchow 1 Anshunfu 4 Shaohingfu out-stations Fengchen 3 Tsunyi 15 Fenghwa and out-stations Linhsien 2 Kweiyang and out-station 0 Tsinyan Luanfu out-stations 7 Anping and out-station 30 Ishih and out-stations 11 Chenyiian out-station ? Hunan — Yiincheng 9 Changsha 2 SaratsI 9 Yunnan— Yiianchow iR Paotowchen and out-stations 18 Talifu <) Taohwaping Tatungfu 3 Kiitsingfu and out-station 22 Paoking out-stations Hunyiian and out-stations 50 Tengyueh I Kihsien out-station 5 Yunnanfu 14 1.621 Yiiwuchen 17 Previously reported 2,766 Luchenghsien 6 Kiangsi— Kianfu and out-stations 31 Chihli— Anjen out-stations I I Reported to December “4.387 Siianhwafu 3 Nankangfu and out-stations 7 Hwailu and out-stations. . 43 J aochow out-station 8 Tungsiang and out-stations 10 [*■ From letters to hand we learn that the total Shantung— Hokow .. .. ' • - 23 number of Baptisms for the year has reached over Ninghaichow out-station 0 Yangkow and out-stations 7 5,000, but details have not yet come to hand. These will Chefoo 18 Sinfenghsien 1 be published later.—Ed] 64 China’s Millions. A p r i l , 19 15 -

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING FEBRUARY, 1915— Continued. For General Fund.— Continued. Rect. N o £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. R ect. No. £ s. d. Kect. No. £ i. d. Rect. N o. £ s. d. R ect. N o £ s. d. 16. F.S. 20 0 0 18 7898 1 0 0 20. 7924 2 0 0 23. 7950 1 0 0 25. 7980 1 0 0 26. 8008 0 6 9 7870 10 0 0 7899 0 5 0 7925 1 1 0 7951 0 10 0 E.G. 5 0 0 8007 0 7 6 17. 7874 1 0 0. 7900 10 0 0 7926 0 3 6 7952 0 1 0 7982 0 3 0 8008 5 0 0 7876 0 5 0 7901 5 0 0 7927 0 10 0 7953 1 0 0 A W id o w . 0 5 0 8009 1 1 0 7954 10 0 0 7984 0 10 0 A T h an k - ] 7877 0 10 0 i 7902 0 5 0 7928 0 4 6 0 7u A 7878 1 5 0 T904 1 1 0 7930 10 0 0 7955 0 2 6 7985 1 0 0 offering. ] 7879 0 2 6 7905 0 2 6 7931 10 0 0 ■ 7956 0 2 6 7986 1 0 0 8011 1 1 0 7880 0 10 0 19. 7907 5 0 0 7932 5 0 0 7959 0 10 0 7987 5 0 0 8012 5 0 0 7881 0 2 0 7908 010 0 22 7934 1 0 0 24. 7960 0 8 0 7988 1 0 0 8013 6 0 0 A n o n . 0 50 7909 2100 7935 0 5 0 7962 1 10 0 7989 1 0 0 8014 1 0 0 7883 20 0 0 7910 0 5 0 7936 2 2 0 7964 0 9 0 7991 0 18 6 27. 8015 1 1 0 7884 11 17 0 7912 10 0 0 7937 1 0 0 7965 10 o . 0 7992 0 2 6 8016 1 0 0 7885 0 3 0 7913 0 2 0 7938 0 8 6 7966 0 5 ”0 7993 1 1 0 8017 1 0 0 7886 0 1 6 7914 1 4 6 7939 1 0 0 7967 0 10 ~0 7994 0 6 0 8018 1 0 0 7887 0 7 Q 7915 4 0 0 7940 0 4 0 7969 1 b 0 7995 0 6 6 8 019 2 0 0 7888 0 5 0 7917 100 0 0 7941 7 13 0 7970 5 0 0 7996 1 5 0 8020 2 2 0 78S9 21 18 7 20. 7918 1 10 0 7942 1 4 5 7971 117 2 6 7997 0 1 0 8021 0 10 0 7890 25 0 0 7919 1 0 0 7943 2 2 0 7972 0 5 0 7998 0 15 3 8023 2 0 0 7891 5 0 o' 7920 5 0 0 23. 7944 0 5 0 S. 0 2 6 7999 0 10 0 8024 5 0 0 7892 1 0 0 7921 0 5 0 7945 2 0 0 7974 1 0 0 8000 50 0 0 8025 20 0 0 7893 0 10 0 7922 1 1 0 7946 1 0 0 7976 25 0 0 8001 3 18 0 ------18. 7895 0 10 0 Anon., 7947 0 16 6 7977 0 17 0 26. 8002 0 10 6 £4,130 10 7 L o n d o n ­ 0 0 Anon,, 0 10 0 7896 1 0 0 5 0 7948 0 15 25. o 0 8003 7897 3 0 0 derry. 7949 1 1 0 S.W. } 0 1 8005 2 2 6

For Special Purposes. Rect. No. £ s. d. '' R ect. N o. R ect. N o. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. R ect. N o . £ s. d. 1. 7611 3 0 0 8. 7718 1 10 0 12. 7809 1 0 0 16. 7871 1 10 0 24. 7968 1 0 0 26. 8004 10 0 0 2. 7620 2 0 0 ; 7721 S 30 0 0 7811 0 10 0 7872 1 0 0 7975 3 0 0 8022 15 17 3 7636 0 10 0 i 9. 7735 6 0 0 7815 3 0 0 7873 45 12 0 .25. 7978 10 15 6 3. 7643 2 0 0 7745 2 0 0 7820 3 10 0 17. 7875 1 0 0 7990 0 12 2 £658 8 0 7654 1 0 0 7757 2 0 0 7824 3 0 0 7894 1 12 0 18. 7903 15 0 0 7662 10 10 0 1 10. 7764 8 19 8 7825 30 0 0 SUMMARY. Anon. 7664 100 0 0 2 4 0 7826 2 10 0 7906 5 0 0 £ s. d. 4. 7667 1 0 0 7772 10 0 0 13. 7831 16 0 0 19. 7 911 6 0 0 General 4,130 10 7 7668 6 0 0 ; 7774 2 10. 0 7834 1 10 0 7916 5 0 0 Special 658 8 0 7669 0 4 6 ! A n ) 15. 7841 2 0 0 20. 7929 4 0 0 Ò. 7687 6 7 5 i Invalid's > 0 2 0 7842 3 0 0 7933 46 10 0 Total for February . . 4,788 18 7 0 knitting. ) 16. 7861 0 0 7688 0 10 0 5 0 23. 7957 17 Brought forward 5,463 1 11 7693 3 10 0 7781 5 0 7866 6 0 0 7958 3 • 2 6 6 . 7708 0 2 6 11. 7792 5 0 7868 10 0 0 24. 7961 1 0 0 Total .. £10,252 0 6 7716 1 1 6 7800 0 0 7869 4 0 0 7963 1 0 0

To be published on May 11th. Demy 8vo.

The Jubilee Story of the With more than 60 Portraits, Illustrations, and China Inland Mission. %% Map.

&y MARSHALL BROOMHALL, M.A.

SUPERIOR EDITION, 3 /6 NET. CHEAPER EDITION, 2 /- NET.

The story is divided into five decades, with a total of fifty short chapters. Portraits of the early leaders and pioneers are given. For instance, portraits of all the ladies who were the first to enter the nine unoccupied inland provinces are included. In addition to some 350 pages of letterpress, particulars of all the Associate Missions, wjth Chronological Tables, are given in the Appendix. V o l. X L !. No. 5. ONE PENNY. MAY, 1915. (China’s Millions.

Photo by} CHINESE RIVER SCENE. [Dr. B. Bronmhall.

CHINA INLAND MISSION JUBILEE MEETINGS, THE KINGSWAY HALL, KINGSWAY, W.C., - - TUESDAY, nth MAY, 1915. —

F o p the ‘‘Jubilee Story” see page 80.

Morgan & Scott, Ltd., 12, Paternoster Buildings, London, E.C., or from any Bookseller; or post free Is. 6d. per annum from the China Inland Mission, Newington Green, London, * . CHINA INLAND MISSION.

OFFICES: CHINA INLAND MISSION, NEWINGTON GREEN, LONDON, N. Telegraphic Address - L\MMHKMi:ir, HlBt'KY-LONWON. T elep h on e— 1807, DALSTON

Founder The Late J. Hudsok Taylor, m.r.c.s. General Director D. E. H o s t e .

LONDON COUNCIL. Home Director R e v . J. S tuart H olden, M.A. Assistant Home Director W alter B. S loan . W illiam S h ar p, 60, Watling Street, E.C. Cecil H. P o lh ill, Howbury Hall, Bedford. C. T. F ish e , 25, Homefield Road, Wimbledcn. Lieut.-Col. J . W i n n , R.E., Whyteleafe, The Grange, Wimbledon. P S. B ad en o cii, Mildmay, Belmont Road, Reigate. Colonel S. D. Cleeve, R.E., Priory Court, Belvedere Avenue, R e v . J. J. LUCE, M.A., St. Nicholas Vicarage, Gloucester. Wimbledon. H. M illner M o r r is, Sannox, Salisbury Road, Carshalton, Surre}'. Treasurer : ALBERT A. HEAD. Secretary : F. MARCUS WOOD. Editorial Secretary : M a r sh a ll B roomhalL, M.A.

Secretary Women's Deparlmtnt : M iss H. E. S o lt a u . A ccountant : W. S. HayES. Bankers : L o n e ox County and W estminster Bank, Limited, 2 1 , Lombard Street, London, E.C. All donations to be addressed to the Secretary. Money Orders (payable at G.P.O.) and Cheques to be made payable to 1he China I nland M issio n , and crossed “ London County and Westminster Bank.” It is specially requested that on every occasion when money is sent for the support of, or for the work of, any particular Mission­ ary, or for any Mission object such as the support of a Chinese Helper, a Biblewoman or a Scholar, the object in view be clearly stated. If, on the other hand, money be sent for a Missionary, as a personal gift, or for any private pur­ pose, this also should be clearly stated in order that it m ay be correctly acknowledged and forwarded.

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING MARCH, 1915. For General Fund. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ F. d- ! Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No £ s. d I Feet. No. £ S. d. 1. 8026 5 0 0 3. 8070 0 5 0 5. 8 114 4 5 6 ! 8. 8158 5 0 0 11. 8211 7 10 0 ¡ 15. 8259 0 2 6 8027 5 0 0 8071 1 0 0 8115 0 11 6 i 8160 1 0 0 8212 0 5 0 8260 0 5 0 8028 1 0 0 8072 0 5 0 8116 1010 0 8161 3 3 10 8213 0 5 0 8261 0 10 0 8029 0 10 0 8073 1 0 0 8118 0 5 0 9. 8162 1 0 0 8214 0 10 0 8262 1 1 0 8030 0 10 0 8074 • 1 1 0 8 119 0 6 0 8163 0 2 0 8215 0 10 0 8264 0 5 0 8031 0 5 0 8075 0 10 0 8121 0 5 0 8164 0 10 0 8216 1 0 0 8265 1 10 0 8032 2 2 0 8077 1 0 0 8122 2 2 0 8165 0 5 0 8218 2 0 0 8266 0 7 10 8033 2 2 0 8078 1 0 0 8123 0 10 0 8166 10 0 0 8220 0 13 4 8268 0 5 0 8034 1 11 0 j 8079 1 0 0 8124 0 10 0 8168 0 5 0 8221 3 0 0 8269 1 10 0 8035 0 r. 0 ! 8080 1 0 0 8125 0 12 6 8169 5 0 0 8222 0 2 6 8270 0 5 0 8036 1 l 0 8082 1 2 0 8126 0 3 0 8170 0 / 6 12. 8223 1 5 C ! 8271 5 0 0 8037 1 1 0 1 8083 9 Or . 0 8127 0 10 6 ! 8 171 3 3 0 8224 5 0 0 8272 9 3 9 8038 2 2 0 8084 25 13 3 8128 2 0 0 8172 1 1 0 8225 1 0 0 16. 8273 0 4 0 Anon. 1 0 0 8085 1 0 0 8129 026 8173 2100 8226 2 0 0 8274 0 7 2 8041 9 1 1 8086 5 0 0 8130 25 0 0 8174 5 3 6 8227 0 5 0 8275 3 0 0 8042 250 0 0 4. 8087 0 15 0 6. 8131 0 10 0 8175 30 0 0 8228 5 0 0 8276 2 0 0 8043 5 0 0 8088 0 2 6 8132 2 2 0 8176 1 0 0 8229 0 7 0 8279 2 10 0 8044 3 13 8 8089 0 4 6 8133 Î 1 0 8179 £0 O 0 8230 0 2 6 8280 0 6 0 8045 20 0 0 8090 0 10 0 8134 0 10 0 1 8180 0 10 0 8231 0 5 0 8281 5 0 0> 8046 0 9 6 8091 5 0 0 8135 1 1 0 8184 0 10 0 8232 500 0 0 8282 10 0 0 2. 8047 0 5 0 8092 1 0 0 8136 1000 8185 O 5 0 8235 1 0 0 8’283 5 0 0 8048 3 0 0 E.H. 0 7 0 8137 1 5 0 ¡ 8186 5 0 0 13. 8237 0 10 0 17. 8284 0 2 0- 8049 5 0 0 8095 2 0 0 8138 0 4 0 8188 0 4 0 Legacv. 19 19 0 8285 10 0 0 8050 1 1 0 8096 0 2 0 8139 1 0 0 ; 8189 0 11 2 8240 1 6 6 8286 1 0 0 8051 0 10 0 8097 5 0 0 8140 1 1 0 ! 10. 8190 0 10 0 8242 0 5 0 8287 0 11 O 8052 0 10 0 8098 0 9 0 8143 25 0 0 , 8191 1 0 0 8243 0 10 6 8289 3 3 0 8053 3 0 0 8099 2 0 0 8144 61 2 10 1 8194 2 10 0 8244 0 10 0 8290 2 0 0- 8054 0 10 0 8101 10 0 0 8146 1 0 0 81-95 1 5 0 8245 0 6 0 8292 5 0 (> 8057 2 10 0 8102 2 6 0 8 He 11 i 8196 0 6 0 8246 1 1 0 8295 0 5 0 8058 2 2 0 8103 25 0 0careth j ; 0 10 0 ! 8198 65 0 0 Anon. 10 0 0 8297 2 0 0 8060 3 3 0 8104 1 1 0 for yon. ]1 í 8199 25 0 0 8248 0 7 6 8298 0 12 6 8061 5 0 0 8105 0 1 0 8148 0 5 0 i 8200 2 0 0 8249 10 0 0 18. 8300 0 10 O 8062 0 10 0 8106 0 10 0 8149 2 0 0 8201 10 0 0 8250 3 0 0 8302 2 10 0 Readers 5. Anón. 0 5 0 8150 0 10 0 8202 7 0 0 8251 6 c 0 8303 0 10 O of the Morning 1 0 0 8108 0 10 0 8151 0 14 0 i 11. 8203 2 0 0 15. Anon. 0 10 0 8305 0 2 6 Star. 8109 n 10 0 8152 1 1 0 8204 0 8 6 8254 2 5 5 8306 0 10 6 8065 0 10 0 8 110 0 9 0 8154 0 5 0 8205 1 0 0 L eg a cy . 19 10 0 8308 10 0 O 3. Anon. 1 1 0 8 111 0 10 0 8155 10 0 0 8206 1 0 0 W.J.M. 2 0 . 0 8309 2 0 O 8068 0 5 0 8 112 0 10 0 8156 0 10 0 8207 2 2 0 8257 1 0 0 8310 2 5 0 8069 0 10 0 8 113 3 0 0 8157 0 10 0 8208 1 11 4 8258 0 2 6 19. 8311 1 0 0 (Continued on page 80.) C hina’s M illio n s.

Whose Faith Follow.

“ Remember them that had the rule over you, which spake unto \ou~thc word of God ; and considering the issue of their life imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day, yea and for ever.” — Heb. xiii. 7, 8, R.V. T a time of special danger and difficulty in China, On the following day (November 18th), she wrote Mrs. Hudson Taylor was parted from her hus- at greater length to Miss Desgraz :—■ A ^ band for seven weeks, not knowing whither his duties might have taken him, or what de­ “ My beloved Sister,—Thank you for sending me layed his return. She had remained herself, by his word of Mr. Taylor’s call at Chinkiang. I am so glad wish, in a station where there had been mrch sickness, you had a peep at him ! We had little idea when we to give help in the work ; and her diligence in visiting parted that he would lie away so long, or go so far. . . in the homes of the people soon made a difference in “ I have not much of general news to give you, but I the attendance at the services, while her loving spirit must tell you how happy I am, because I want you to conquered much that had hindered blessing. But be happy too, fully happy. G od has given me a time she herself was conscious of the need of soul-renewal, of quiet communion with Himself these last few weeks, and of deeper rest of heart in the L o r d . She had, and has at last brought me into full rest and joy in Him­ some years previously, entered into a very real experi­ self. He has taken all my cares away and left me ence of His indwelling fulness ; • but at times, the pres­ nothing to do but to praise Him ; to lean upon Him, sure of overwhelming anxiety and care obscured the and go forward ; to ask Him for what I want, and light of even His face. W.iting with perfect freedom to know that He will do it— if it is a good thing— in His Mr. Taylor at this time (November ioth, 1873), she said:— own time. . . . I have been for two or three years “ I feel, Darling, that we must lean fully and con­ on the borders of this rest, sometimes catching such stantly on J esu s if we are to get on at all, and I have sweet glimpses of it that my cares seemed all but gone ; been seeking to do it, and in believing prayer to bring often, nearly always, enjoying a large measure of rest ; our many needs to Him. I have written dowrn the names but sometimes seeming to be driven back again— rest, of our foreign and native helpers, that I may be able peace and joy all clouded and disturbed. Now He has to plead for them all daily. If we would have power made me realize that there is no time and no circum­ for what JESUS calls us to do, we must not expend it in stance in which His grace will not be able to meet my bearing burdens that He would have us cast on Him, need ; that I have a living, loving Saviour always with must we ? And there is abundant supply, with Him, me, to keep me, and to do for me every good thing my for all this work, for all we need, isn’t there ? It is heart can crave. He has brought me into His own unbelief that saps our strength and makes everything light, He has given me liberty and victory, and said to look dark ; and yet He reigns, and wre are one with Him, me about everything ‘ Fear not ' ; and my heart does and He is making everything happen for the very best ; praise Him. I have been burdened about the state of and so we ought always to rejoice in Him, and rest, our mission, etc. ; but I lost power in that way. Now, though it is not always easy. We must triumph with I look at it from day to day, and putting over against G od, and then we shall succeed with men, and be made it, Jesus, able to meet it, I cast it on Him, knowing that blessings to them. You know these things, and can put He will manage all right ; that He can do exceeding them much better than I can, my Precious One; but still abundantly above wliat I ask or think ; and that He it does us good to remind one another, does it not ? says, ‘ Ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full.’ We may not see the answer to all our prayers And a week later (November 17th) :— here ; but if we only yield to Him all along, and count “ When I think of your responsibilities and burdens, on Him for everything, we must have perfect peace and . . . my Precious One, which I am not with you to constant victory. He waits to enable us to do this, if share, my heart would sink if I did not feel that J e su s we seek it as we did salvation at the first. . . . Will was with you, loving you so tenderly and ready to meet you pray for me, that I may not be driven back this each need of every moment, and abundantly to bless time, and that G o d may make me, day by day, more like you. I am asking Him continually to uphold, streng­ J e s u s ? I feel I have so much to learn.’ ’ then and guide you, to refresh you with His unspeakable love, and to give you richly every-blessing. I am very, Yes, there was much still to learn, but that rest in J esu s very happy in J e s u s . My joy and rest were never so never passed away. It did but deepen with full before. He has taken all my cares away. We succeeding years. That confidence in His all-sufficiency have Jesus, and He is ready always to do for us every was never put to shame. The L,o r d grant that the good thing. I must tell you more of the burdens I have present time of trouble may drive us all to the same been bearing, and the way G od has been leading me Refuge—for “ Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday and when you come." to-day and for ever. ’ ’ q m. T. M a y , 1915. 68 China’s Millions. Ma y , 1 9 1 5 .

Our Shanghai Letter, Containing the Latest News from the Field.

B y J a m e s S t a r k . M arch 17.—A few days ago we received a telegram not yet expired, is visiting her sister at Antung before from Chungking, intimating that Tatsienlu was in the returning to her duties in the Preparatory School at hands of rebels, who have for some time been creating Chefoo, whilst the latter has begun the study of the unrest on the Tibetan frontier, and that Mr. and Mrs. language at Yangchow. On the 4th instant we had Sorensen had had a narrow escape. We anxiously the further pleasure of welcoming back Miss C. M. await details by letter. Hacking and Miss H. M. Duncan, and with them Misses Mr. and Mrs. W. Percy Knight are at present on a N. M. Burchell, F Eynon, G. I. F. Taylor and Miss visit to K ia n g s i, with a view to conducting local Bible H. K. F. Withers, new workers from England, who Schools at some of the Kwangsin River stations. Thence have since gone forward to the Training Home. Miss they will proceed to Hangchow, where they will take Hacking has been appointed to Yencheng in H o n a n , charge of the Bible Training Institute, thus setting Mr. and Miss Duncan to Tungsiang in K ia n g s i. and Mrs. Warren free for a much-needed furlough. I Since the date of my last letter one hundred and would bespeak your prayers for them. twenty four baptisms have been recorded, and the On the 24th February we had the pleasure of wel­ reports which have reached us from the provinces coming back Miss Dora Triidinger from furlough in give many other indications of progress and blessing. Australia, and with her Miss N. MacDuff, a new worker Miss Jessie Gregg at the beginning of this month from New Zealand. The former, whose furlough has conducted a special mission for women at Hwailu, when, in addition to one hundred and seventy two women who were present from the out-stations and villages, crowds of those who reside in the city itself attended in response to the 2,000 invitations which had been sent out. Miss Mower writes :— “ On the first day the new chapel was packed to its utmost capacity It was a glorious sight to see those four hundred interested listeners. After an hour’s meeting we had to disperse the first congrega­ tion to make room for the overflow of nearly three hundred women, to whom Miss Gregg spoke for another forty-five minutes. After our mid-day meal, the chapel was full again for the afternoon meeting. The second day we had a tremendous dust storm, but many city women ventured out. The three succeeding days were bright and warm, and we had an average attendance of three hundred and fifty women at each meeting, which grew in quietness and power. I wish you could have heard the simple testimonies so clearly given on Sunda}r in the early morning meeting. About thirty women rose to testify to blessing received and to signify their decision to put away idolatry and serve Ch r is t .” Miss Gregg will value continued prayer for the missions which she is about to conduct at the various centres in S h a n s i. Miss Margaret King sends a cheering report of special evangelistic meetings for women recently concluded at Yangchow. This mission was preceded by much prayer, the Christian women as well as the foreign workers remembering it specially in their intercessions for several months. The meetings were advertised by large posters and small handbills, as also by the issue of tickets. The chapel was decorated for the occasion. Miss King writes :— “ I may say here that every bit of the expense of the advertising and decorating— and we were lavish with both—was met by the Chinese sisters .; we were not allowed to give at all, nor was there any need. I had ordered in great abundance, not know­ ing they would pay all, yet every bill in connection with these special meetings was paid by them. “ One or two outstanding characteristics of these meetings were : First, the quiet and attention. No Ma y , 19 15 . C hin a’s Millions. 69

one went out, and as the doors were shut when the that the power of the love of J Ksrs through the teachers meetings began, no one came in. We thought it best may win these young lives for Him Who died for them. to exclude small children. This was difficult, but it When the nows of the death of Mr. James Lawson in paid. Secondly, the after meeting. When the main America reached the church at Yiianchow, which owes address was over, an invitation was given to all those much to his earnest and self-denying labours, universal who would remain and sorrow was felt, and talk over the subject to nothing would satisfy the do so, and each day man}’ members but that mem­ stayed. This was where orial services should be we were able to do our held for three days. The best work. All through chapel was, therefore, the audience at regular appropriately draped for intervals were seated the occasion, and Mr. Christian women, who, as Windsor writes : - soon as the invitation “ 1 Hiring this time more was given, began to talk than twenty persons testi­ to those about them, and fied from the pulpit to the soon had little group good- spiritual and tem­ meetings all over the poral—which the L o r d chapel. Thirdly, the work had given to them through of Miss Clough’s school­ His servant. The Magis­ girls. They were most en­ trate, Heads of Police, thusiastic workers. Those Commercial Bureau, and who praj7 for and give to Post Office each expressed our Girls’ School I think, their regard for him by would have been rewarded scrolls, wreaths, etc., had they seen these girls, whilst the two first-named some of them quite young, showed their sympathy holding their little groups by calling in person. with an earnest presenta­ On the fourth day the tion of the Gospel. They whole church in mourning also led the singing, and marched in procession with their young teachers took all the burden of the through the principal streets of the city. Mr. Lawson musical part of the meetings. To hear one girl give was well known and much respected by the business a few moments’ talk on, and then sing, such hymns men, many of whom spoke in praise of the useful and as, ‘ Come to the Saviour,’ ‘ What a Friend we have in upright life he had lived when amongst them.” Jesus,' was a real inspiration. I have just received a letter from Mr. Yatsaas report­ “ I wish I could tell you more of the meetings. One, ing the baptism of nine converts at Lungchiichai. At perhaps the best of all, was when four of our Christian a Conference held there last month, the converts con­ women gave a testimony as to how they came to believe tributed 80,000 cash for church purposes, and volun­ the Gospel message. We chose four representative teered for the preaching of the Gospel 840 days’ service women, all with a definite Christian experience. One, without wages. Voluntary effort of this kind is an our Biblewoman ; another, a well-to-do country woman : encouraging feature of the work at many of our centres, the third, a lady from an official family; and fourth, and we praise G o d for it ; for, the more it receives an ex-schoolgirl. It helped the faith of all to hear and emphasis the sooner will China be evangelized. More­ see what our Saviour had done for these women.” over, it cannot fail to have a beneficial influence on the Mr. J. R. Hayman has written an interesting account life of the Church, or at least on that of the individual of a recent journey. He left Suiting, in Eastern Sze­ members who make sacrifices in order to engage in it. c h w a n , on January 22nd, for Sanhuei, travelling via the “ Iron Mountain,” preaching and selling books at the M r. J. N. Edenblom .— We regret to report that various markets en route. He found his megaphone Mr. J. X. Edenblom died at Peking on February 19th invaluable in attracting crowds to listen to the Gospel, after a short illness with fever, which was diagnosed as and the L o r d graciously gave him acceptance with typhoid and typhus combined. Mr. Edenblom. arrived the people. He sold over 2,000 Gospels and nearly in China on December 2nd, 1910, as a member of the 300 Scripture text calendars. Swedish Alliance Mission, and proceeded at once to Mr. Tjader writes that last term there were forty-six Süanhwafu, in C h ih li, where he was initiated in the pupils in the combined Primary and Middle School at study of the language. Subsequently he was trans­ Chiehchow, which has completed its eighth year. Two ferred to Paotowchen, in North S h an si. In his removal boys from non-Christian families were baptized last we have, as a Mission, lost an earnest and devoted summer, and four more followed in the autumn. The associate worker. One who met him at Peking writes : aim is to win every pupil for Je s u s C h r is t , and at “ He was ripe for heaven.” Deep sympathy will be the same time impart as much knowledge as do the felt for Miss Almkvist, his fiancée, as also for the Government Schools of corresponding grade. “ About relatives in the homeland in their bereavement, and twenty boys have voluntarily helped by singing and prayer will be offered to G o d that He may make the testifying at open-air meetings in the streets on the consolations of His word and grace to abound toward Lord's Day afternoons.” Mr. Tjader asks for prayer them in their sorrow. 70 China's Millions. Ma y , 19 1 5 .

“Whence Hath this Man this Power?”

B y J. W . O w e n , N a n c h o w , H u n a n . HIS parish is a very large one with an area of and near, had called in as many exorcists from among 2,800 square miles and a population of over the priests that he could, but his wife was nothing T a million souls, and to minister to all these better ; in fact, was daily getting worse. “ If this won­ people we have only five Native Evangelists, derful J e s u s can do what you have read to me about,” one Biblewoman, my wife, my colleague Mr. Draffin, said Hsii, “ then I earnestly beg of you to come and cast and I. In spite of the fewness and weakness of the out this demon in His Name.” The young man explained workers we have had the privilege of seeing in a most that Hsii must cast out all idols, tablets, etc., and he and marked manner, the wonderful working of G o d his wife must have faith in J e s u s C h r is t before this through the dynamic of the Gospel. It has been a great work could be done. This was agreed to, and great joy to me to have baptized and received into a few of the elders and members of the Church went Church fellowship during this year thirty-four persons, along to this man’s house. Upon investigation it to have baptized or dedicated four infants, and to have proved only too true that this was a case of demoniacal examined as catechumens sixty persons. You may possession. This poor young woman was at times be interested to hear of some of these cases of conversion. irresistibly under the control of the evil spirit or spirits ; Six months ago, a young man, one of our Church her ph}rsical and her psychical organism were alike in members, was the power of speaking in our her diabolical street chapel or tyrant, in some mission hall on very real way the love and her individual­ power of G o d . ity was swal­ During the lowed up, and course of his her will, so to address he was speak, doubled led to exclaim — now the poor with much earn- wretch was estness that longing for de­ nothing was im- liverance and possible with then immed­ God There, as iately she was far as we could but the mouth­ tell, the matter piece of the ended; but not demon, raving so, “ my word in a most ter­ . . that goeth rible manner, forth out of my and calling on mouth: it shall the followers of not return unto J e s u s to go Me void.” Th^t away and not message was trouble it. A destined to be hymn was sung, the bringer of a portion of Photo by] life and health [Dr. p . EeUer. Scripture read, to two persons prayer offered, A SCENE ON THE SIANG RIVER, NEAR CHANGSHA, HUNAN. at least. There ______and in the prcc- had come into ious and all- the street chapel that night a man named Hsii, who powerful name of J e s u s the evil spirit was cast out. was in great distress ; he had never heard the Gospel Oh ! the joy of the husband and the deep gratitude in his life, but was immediately arrested by hearing, of the poor wife. She was, however, so weak and so just as he entered, the above remarks. Next morning overwrought by all she had gone through that she begged Mr. Hsii called on the speaker of the previous night, the Christians not to leave her. Now happened a thing at his place of business, and asked him very pointedly : which shows “ the difference Ch r is t is making ” in the “ Do you really believe what you preached last night ? ” lives of this people. It is a thing unheard of for a sufferer “ I certainly do,” was the reply.” “ Then,” said Mr. of this kind to be allowed to enter any other house, this Hsii, “ if your G o d can do all things, has He power over would most certainly be inviting calamity, and no one demons ? ” The precious New Testament was next knows how many of the inmates might become demon produced, and passage after passage read, showing the possessed. In spite of this the young man who had power of Ch r is t over demons. Hsii then explained that spoken at the meeting and his wife took this poor woman his wife, for whom he showed the most tender affection to their own home and kept her there for over three and regard, was demon possessed. He had spent all weeks, tending and nursing her night and d ayth en, all his money, had travelled long distances from one fear gone and much stronger physically, she returned temple to another invoking the aid of all idols far to her own home rejoicing in a full salvation. How M a y , 1Q 15. China’s Millions. 71 wonderful is the change in this woman ; her haunted, about a bit, and a few of them picked me up and threw terrified looks, accompaniments of demoniacal possession, me across the street. They seemed content with having are gone, and the light and love of the Gospel are seen scored this goal, and left us to get along as best we could. instead. Husband and wife have been regular atten­ In a few days wre were over the shock, and though a bit dants at worship ever since, and I have recently had the sore and stiff were not very much the worse. I have great joy of receiving this woman as a catechumen. felt almost as sore and stiff after some of the good old The Rev. Thos. Cook in one of his books says : “ Hohr 11 Adran ” matches of 1900-1903. living is the rhetoric that tells best in this age of facts.” I felt strongly tempted to give some of them a good We are proving the truth of this in our Church. We trouncing, and not let the game be so one-sided, but G o d have as a member of our Church, and a great helper graciously restrained us or nothing could have saved to my dear wife, a Mrs. Li— a woman physically weak, our lives. Had we reported the affair to the proper materially poor, but strong in faith and rich in her L o r d . quarter it would have been a very serious matter for It was her quiet and consistent Christian life which the Chinese officials and soldiers, but we were able by His was the means under G o d of 'winning back ex-Evange- grace to put our preaching into practice and forgive list Kan, of whom I wrote in my last letter. To this our enemies. The General of the troops, with all the same compound where lived Mrs. L i and Mr. Kan there leading officials and the division of soldiers, came along came a year ago a certain Mr. Huang, who rented part to publichT apologize, and we were able to preach to of the premises and carried on business as a shoemaker them of the Prince of Peace. and leather merchant. When he came to live at this We have been greatly helped in our wrork here this place., neither he nor his fam ily were at all interested wintei by a band of colporteurs belonging to the “ Bible in the Gospel, and they had never attended Church. House of Los Angeles.” These fourteen bright, efficient, But such was the effect of the consistent lives and con­ earnest Chinese young men were sent here through the stant preaching of Mrs. Li and the ex-Evangelist, that kindness of Dr. Keller. They have visited every home we have just had the joy of baptizing Mr. and Mrs. in the Nanchow district, preached in each home, and left Huang and their sixteen-year-old son, and also their Scripture portions and tracts wherever they went. In five shop assistants. It is a treat to go into this shop addition they have posted up large posters of selected and see the happy faces of the master, mistress, and Gospel texts all over the town and country, and daily workmen, and to note the harmony and love that pre­ hundreds of persons can be seen standing in the street vail. If we should happen to pass the shop morning or along the roads reading these messages of life and or night before or after business hours we can hear power. them all singing the sweet songs of Zion, and engaging The stress and strain resultant on the war are felt out in family worship. here as well as at home, and we would ask you the more “ The angel of the L o r d encampeth round about them earnestly to remember us in prayer. Pray that, not­ that fear Him and delivereth them.” How precious withstanding the straitnesr in temporal supplies, to know experimentally the truth of such passages as there may be no straitness in respect to spiritual this ! During the hot season I went as far as Yochow, power and efficiency in our work. “ He is faithful ” with my wife and our little girlie, who, through the kind­ and “ He is able.” We have been helpfully reminded ness of two friends at home, were on their way to the by our director, Mr. D. E.Hoste, “ that it was during the hills for the hot season. Fortunately my wife and tremendous conflict of the Napoleonic wars, rather more girlie had left by the down river steamer. Just as a than a century ago, that the Christian Churches in the fellow-missionary and I were returning along the river home countries launched out upon a new and vast enter­ front we were accosted by two Chinese gentlemen, who prise for the evangelization of mankind.” May history proved to be secret service men. They thought, or repeat itself in this present crisis ! How stimulating to pretended to think, that some luggage passing was ours, hear of the great numbers of young men who are so and demanded the keys so that they might search it. nobly and willingly responding to the call of their coun­ We explained that the baggage was not ours, and that try. G o d grant that likewise the young men and they were free to do as they pleased with i t ; we then women of the homeland may respond to the call of the proceeded to walk on our way, but these two men set Kingdom, and respond to the L o r d ’s supreme command. on us, and in great rage tore our clothes and kept calling A need, a need known, a power to meet that need out: “ W ell have your heads off, we will.” They there­ constitutes a call. There is a great wrar to be waged upon called to some Northern soldiers, who were in camp over here, a great victory to be won. “ Who will come close by, to come and kill us. These men seemed to the help of the L o r d ? ” spoiling for something to do, and came rushing at us The following few statistics will show you the condition with fixed bayonets. As we saw these soldiers rushing of the work in this district; these are quite apart from at us, and the cold steel glistening in the sun, we knew enquirers and congregations who assemble to listen. that, humanly speaking, there was no help for us. Sur­ iiaptized from Name of Station & Out-Stations. Date of 1st Baptism. CimitnenceTient rounded as we were by an angry mob, and attacked by NANCHOW ...... 1904 the soldiers, we were kept in perfect peace, and our Chü-Tsï-K éo ...... I9 0 6 27 Father graciously intervened on our behalf. The San-Hsien-Hu ...... 1 9 11 IO soldiers as they reached us turned their guns round and M ei-Tien-H u ...... 1 9 0 1 48 charged us with the butt ends of their guns. I did not Shih-Sheo ...... 18 9 5 8 o suffer nearly as much as my companion in this rush, for, H uen-Ti ...... 1937 20 as you will know, I have a fait amount of padding on Kuan-Tang ...... 19 37 9 Tsao-Kia-Chang ...... 19 0 1 IOI m y bones. The soldiers thought this game too slow, and next Total number of persons baptized in this district commenced to play football with us, and kicked us since commencement of work 4 2 6 72 China's Millions, M a y , 1915-

Editorial Notes. HE Mission’s Jubilee.-— It is with much grati­ the second son of the Rev. C. W. Andrews and the tude to G od that we announce that, D.V., the eldest son of the Rev W. Goudie, both Secretaries of T joint annual and jubilee celebration meetings the Wesleyan Missionary Society, have fallen at the will be held at the Kingsway Hall, on Tuesday. front, one while seeking to rescue a wounded comrade, May nth, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and 7 o’clock and the other in the trenches. Both sons were earnest in the evening. The chair will be taken in the after­ Christian men with promising careers before them, noon by the Right Honourable Lord Radstock, and and they have been taken from their loved ones while in the evening by the Rev. J. Stuart Holden, M.A., their fathers are abroad visiting the stations of the the Home Director, who will also give the closing ad­ Wesleyan Missionan7 Society. As we write, Mr. Goudie, dress. Missionaries at home from China will speak who is on his way home from West Africa, is still in at both gatherings, and it is hoped that Mr. Erik Folke, ignorance of his great loss. We desire to express our of Sweden, the first Continental Associate to join the deepest sympathy with these Secretaries of a sister Mission, will be present and speak in the afternoon, Missionary Society, and with their sorrowing families. and that Mr. K. L. Chow, B.A., Secretary of the Chinese In this connection we would mention that some Students’ Christian Union in this country, will speak forty of the “ old bo}7s ” who were educated at the in the evening. Mission’s Schools at Chef00 have joined the colours, the Though the war has made many of the contemplated majority of whom are sons of missionaries connected arrangements for these meetings impossible, we still with the China Inland Mission, two of these being can count upon the presence and blessing of G o d , and grandsons of Mr. Hudson Taylor. We would commend it is this, after all, which is the important thing. Never these young men to the prayers of our readers, as well has the testimony of Missionary Societies been more as their parents in their lonely stations in far-off needed than to-da}’, for the cause for which they stand China. is greater than that which rends Christianity asunder. We would also ask prayer, during these days of “ The wounds of the Church of C h r ist can be bound submarine menace, for all missionaries travelling to- up before statesmen have signed treaties ; it may be and from the Foreign Field. Hitherto G o d has that we are waiting for the succession of great anni­ graciously protected all our workers when passing versaries to do this for us through their selected speakers through the danger zone, and we are most thankful to who may be to the world, not only the voice of the know that the lady worker connected with the Church Churches, but of the Master. The spirit of the meetings Missionary Society, who was on board the s.s. "Falaba ’” will be as important as the speakers’ words.” We trust when the vessel was torpedoed, was among those who that these thoughts, suggested in the current issue of were saved. the Churchman, will be realized, and we would ask Of the Continental workers who are labouring in con­ the earnest prayer of friends that the China Inland nection with the Mission in China, only one, Mr. C. W. Mission, in its special testimony on this jubilee occasion, Spohr, who went out from St. Chrischona in 1912, has may have a message which will be both for the praise been actually called by his Government to leave his. of G od and for the blessing of men. station and join the colours. With the fall of Tsingtao Jubilee Meetings will also be held in Scotland— at he was taken prisoner, and is now a prisoner of war in Glasgow on May 13th, and at Edinburgh and Aberdeen Japan. The following extract from a letter received probably on the 26th and 27th respectively. Fuller by Mr. Hoste from him will be read with much particulars of these meetings can be obtained from the in terest:— offices of the Mission— 121, Bath Street, Glasgow. “ My heart has often been with you in this time of battle, and I have sent many heartfelt prayers to the Women's Work in China.-—In this issue we print a L o r d for you. How gladly at any hour would I remarkable article entitled The K w eiki“ Welcome Home.” have returned to my beloved work, but it was not the It is an account of the welcome accorded to Miss March- L o r d ’s will. In long anxious hours I was to prove bank on her return to her station after furlough. It afresh in a glorious way the power of the L o r d . When is now 25 years since Miss Marchbank moved to the I left Changshu I could say boldly to the dear Christians, station of Kweiki, and there she has for a long time ‘ I know I shall return to you, even if the L o r d leads been the much-loved and devoted leader of a most en­ me into the greatest hail of bullets, for I know that couraging work. When we recall the difficulties and my life belongs to China and no longer to my Father­ the opposition which women had to encounter in the land.’ The L or d has not brought my faith to shame, early days in China, there is no story more full of en­ therefore I trust Him. couragement than that connected with women’s work, “ During the fight at Tsingtao our detachment had and perhaps we may say especially on the Kwangsin the task to stop the advance of our opponents in the River, which has been a special sphere for the labours outposts. We fulfilled this duty from the 19th August of our sisters. The welcome recorded in the article to the end of September, when we were pressed back referred to is both a tribute to the women workers and into Tsingtao. There was beside me in our company to the Chinese as well. one other missonary. For this gracious leading of the L o r d I was very thankful. There were also two active Missionaries and the War.— In common with the soldiers in our company who loved the L o r d J e s u s . fathers and mothers of the nation, many missionaries Not one of us Christians was wounded ; nor were other now have the added anxiety of loved ones at the war. brothers and missionaries in other detachments of the Within the last two weeks news has been received that troops at Tsingtao to my knowledge. In Tsingtao M a y , 19 15 . China's Millions. 7» itself I made the acquaintance of some dear children crowded state of the schools at Clieloo, the loss of this of G o d . The intercourse with these was a helpful accommodation at Kuling will be much felt. Until refreshment to me in this stormy time. letters are received we cannot know whether the whole “ Dear Mr. Hoste, may I just beg you to write to all of the property has been destroyed or only part. the dear brethren and sisters that we who love the L o r d J e s u s and wait His coming must not mix our­ selves in the war of the world. G o d ’s people must Announcements.- We have been asked to mention just at this time show that they are not like those who that some special booklets, suitable for distribution tear one another to pieces in hatred. We plant the among officers and men, have been prepared by Mr. banner of Ch r ist on high ; His Kingdom and His Arthur Mercer, of Rozel, Wimbledon, S.W., from whom people must for us remain the first. It is plain that they can be obtained. They have been most attractively we should feel a sympathy with our own people : that got up in prices varying from one penny to one shilling, is natural and right. But so soon as it is a question of according to binding. Each booklet contains the G o d ’s people and the things of G o d , the interests of my Gospel in a definite and straight form, and the Rev. J. Fatherland must be put in the background. I pray, Stuart Holden writes : “ 1 cannot imagine any refusing that G o d ’s people may be watchful that the devil may to accept or read the booklets of this series. Most not succeed in causing destruction among us through heartily do I commend their use to all who have re­ bitterness.” latives and others at the Front.” We pray that the spirit which breathes in this letter In last month’s issue, we announced three days of may continue to be amongst us as a Mission in these prayer for the Mohammedan world in England as taking days of international strain and difficulty. place in May. These meetings have been postponed until the 14th, 15th, and 16th of June, and will he The Killing School.— We much regret to report held at Devonshire House, Bishopsgate. that a brief cable has been received, stating that the The Vacation Course of Missionary »Study will this Mission’s School at Kuling has been destroyed by fire. year be held during the month of August at Cambridge. Xo details are given, but we gather that the loss has been Lectures will be given on a variety of subjects, the attended by no personal injuries. The premises were object being to supplement the general missionary erected in 1900, through the kind gift of a member of preparation which students obtain at various Colleges. the Mission, the building operations being continued Further particulars can be obtained from the Secretary all through the Boxer crisis, under the superintendence of the Board of Missionary Study, 2, Church Crescent. of Mr. Hudson Broomhall. In consequence of the Muswell Hill, London, X.

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CENSER AT TEMPLE OF PILGRIMAGE, NANYOHSHAN, HUNAN. 74 China's Millions. M ay, 19 15 .

The Kweiki “Welcome Home.”

B y M iss A. S h a r p , K w e ik i, K ia n g s i.

W EIKI has had many “ red-letter ” days, and the needed for decoration purposes, etc. It simply poured “ last though not least ” to be added to the roll in : from city, from country, from old and young, from K of such is Tuesday, 2nd February, 1915. That Christians and enquirers alike— all wanted to have a day witnessed the home-coming of the Kweiki share. Very touching were some of those gifts, as for Church’s beloved missionary leader, Miss Marchbank instance anamount of about gd. from an old beggar- (known to the people far and wide as “ Ma Kiao-si”), woman, the “ »Scotch beggar ” we sometimes call her, after almost two years’ absence on furlough in the for she is so independent, never asks the missionaries homeland. The “ welcome home ” seems to me to have for help, rather prefers to help them by gifts of little threestages— Anticipation, Preparation, and Realization. parcels of sugar, etc. When the secretary (Mr. Wang), A nticipation .— It is somewhat difficult to say when who was receiving the money, gently hinted that this this stage really began, as from the day our beloved was a big sum from her, would-she not give a little less, “ head ” left (Thursday, 13th the old body vehemently replied : March, 1913) we seemed to almost “ Indeed, no ; it’s for Ma Kiao-si. begin to count the days until her I would like to give far more ! ” return, thus there was a con­ And there were many such stant anticipation. But the feel­ “ cheerful givers ” those days ; ing grew keener, naturally, as the school children, both girls word came of the date of de­ and boj^s, giving a share, and parture having been fixed. Then also the dear old folks in the Old •disappointment, when news came Folks’ Home. “ Ma Kiao-si ” of the vessel’s departure being was like a magic key that not •delayed ; but this only led to only reached the people’s hearts more earnest prayer as well as but their pockets as well. It has longing. Then, as hope became been said that it takes a good •clearer and stronger, the desire deal to reach a Chinaman’s to “ express their feelings ” in pocket, but the Committee cer­ some tangible way came into tainly did not find that so those the hearts of some of the Chinese days. workers in the city, and the next The preparation must have stage was reached. gone on for some four or five P r e p a r a t io n .— “ Behold, how weeks. Besides money, there •great a matter a little fire kind- were many who gave willingly leth ” is true as regards the of their time to help make formation of the Kweiki “ Huan- banners, flags, etc. Here the ing Huei,” or “ Pleased to wel­ women-folk got their innings, come Committee.” Love must and day after day several might find expression. Talked over have been seen sitting in the first by two or three of the ‘ ‘ committee room ” patientlv younger Chinese helpers, the cutting out and preparing the «consent and approval of the many, many Chinese letters that missionaries being given, the Photo by] |C. H. Judd, jr. were wanted to put on the ban­ ■“ Pleased to welcome Com­ ners. A true “ labour of love,” mittee ” started to prepare a SCENE IN KIANGSI. all so gladly done. Masons, car­ -welcome, the very best they A Resting Plact on the way from Nankangfti to Ruling. penters, painters, there seemed •could, for their beloved mission­ something for everybody to do. ary. Old and young formed the The dear old Pastor, he, too, •committee, the older men helping by their experience, the had his share, and was here, there, and everywhere, younger in giving freely of their strength, both mental examining the work done, criticizing it favourably or and physical. Mr. Ioh (of the Boys’ School) was otherwise. There were no. drones in the hive those -unanimously elected convener, Mr. Cheo (of Ingtuen out- days. Tired bodies there were, yet all smiles, nobody station)' vice-convener, together with one of the mis­ murmured— truly the preparation stage gave great cause sionaries, while many other Chinese helpers, from city for praise and thanksgiving to some of us who looked/m, and country, were given “ every man his work ” helping most perhaps by our prayers and unity. We according to each one’s ability. From first to last the did prove “ union is strength.” * •Committee worked right well, so harmoniously and The last few days were perhaps the hardest,.when happily, with not a hitch nor trouble of any kind— a everything that could be done beforehand was done, great matter for praise. Then the people had to be and we simply had to sit and wait. Waiting is never told, a few words said at the close of the forenoon ser­ easy, it was certainly not so then. The country visitors vice the following Sunday, and from that time onward began to come in, some from Ningfeng out-station, the Committee was as busy as it could be. There was' 24 or 25 miles away, getting in a week or so too soon. Ihe receiving of subscriptions— money, of course, was But they were rare visitors to the city, and the committee M a y , 19 1 5 . C hina’s Millions. 76 entertained them royally. There ■was great excitement when word came first from Shanghai, letting us know Miss Marchbank had reached China’s shores in safety. Then followed the letters en route from Shanghai — from Yangchow, Kiukiang, and Anjen Ki. The Com­ mittee had chosen as escorts to go to Jaochow and meet Miss March­ bank there, Elder Fu, a dear old saint, so sincere and true, and one of the C.E. lads, Siang-li; the latter was to act as cook and look after Ma Kiao- sii’s temporal needs, while the elder would give her no time to weary, being a rare hand at talking. Re­ ceiving all instructions from the com­ mittee, as likewise the money for the boat journey from Jaochow (travelling expenses all to come out of the fund), these two escorts set off, and in due time met Miss Marchbank at Jaochow. Then the last stage of her journey began, and the excitement was great when on Saturday afternoon, 30th January, back came a messenger from Anjen Ki (he had been sent down the day before to see if there was any trace of Miss Marchbank), with the news, “ Ma Kiao-sl reached Anjen Ki yester­ boat had got, and came back with the news that it was day, expects to be in Ingtuen for Sunday, and here almost at the place appointed for the meeting. So at about 10 o’clock Tuesday morning.” On Monday once the procession got into order, and off to the river­ the finishing touches were put to the whole place, front side to welcome Ma Kiao-si home. Can you picture it ? entrance, guest-hall, and chapel all being beautifully Leading the way the Union Jack and Chinese flag, next decorated. Messages were sent all round the out-stations, to them the city band, playing its very best music, telling Christians to come in on the Monday— so many followed by a large, red satin banner, whose Chinese visitors from each place, as of course otherwise there characters meant something like, “ The goodness of would not have been room enough for all who wanted G o d is past finding out.” Then the banner of the to come ; and by Monday night all was in readiness. Boys’ School,- and right behind it all the schoolboys. Some 100 guests or so staying on the compound, to get Following them the Church banner, with all the men beds ready for these was of itself no small labour, but Christians following it, more Chinese scrolls or banners, fortunately the Chinese are not fastidious as to “ sleep­ followed by the Chinese gentry, teachers, etc. Next ing alone,” and “ shake-downs ” in the lofts, with the Girls’ School banner, followed by the schoolgirls, plenty of clean, fresh straw, made quite comfortable the young women and older women (some of the old beds for the country folks ! Yes, all was in readiness bodies from the Home being amongst the number). but— the weather ! For a day or two it had rained and And in the rear the beautiful Chinese tablet which was by Monday night was still raining. But at the C.E. to be presented to Miss Marchbank, about two feet meeting (it was a packed chapel that night) “ prayer broad by four feet long, with the four large Chinese was made unto G o d , ” and everyone was full of praise characters in gold, “K ’eh chi, ai ren,” i.e., “ Denying self, when on Tuesday morning there was no rain, and we Loving others,” and the one English word above, “ Un­ began the third stage of the “ welcome home.” selfish.” This was carried by two of the C.E. lads. R e a l iz a t io n .—The whole compound was early Right in the very rear came the “ state chair ” which was astir that morning, no one seemed to want to lie long to carry Ma Kiao-si in triumph through the city, with in bed, and some indeed had been up the whole this long procession of people as her escort; and six ordi­ night, “ preparing for the feasts ” so they told me. nary chairs were provided for the othei missionanes. Prayers, breakfast (as much as full hearts could get This, then, was the sight that met Miss Marchbank’s down), and then the city folk began to come in, until gaze as she stood on the side of her boat, drawn up r.t by nine o’clock there was a gathering of several hun­ the river-edge. The long cavalcade passed slowly dreds in the chapel, ready to listen to the “ marching before her, in order as just described, all bowing and orders ” for the procession that was going down to the smiling— a long, long procession of some 500 or 600. riverside to welcome Miss Marchbank. All was so While the front part slowly proceeded on its way orderly, it was a treat to w.atch. Each one had a badge, through the city, Miss Marchbank got out of her boat, some yellow cloth, others green, all bearing the Chinese into her chair, and thus escorted, passed right through characters “ Huan-ing Huei.” A messenger had been the city, all the shopkeepers and people en route turning sent off early in the morning to find out how far the out in great numbers to witness the sight—such a 76 C hina’s Millions. M ay, 1 9 1 5 . procession has never before been seen in Kweiki it is and one member from each Christian household in the said. “ That is she, that is Ma Kiao-si, the one with city, to welcome Miss Marchbank as it were. I think the white hair,”— these were some of the remarks passed all enjo3red the feast, unless perhaps the ones who cooked as the procession slowly wended its way through the it ! Theirs, too, was a “ labour of love,” they had city and back to the Mission compound. Arriving offered their help for this, and wanted no wages ! there, the people formed up into two lines, and through Towards dusk the committee gave the order “ Light these Miss Marchbank’s chair was carried in triumph. up,” and soon inside and outside presented a brilliant Notice, just as we enter the big gate, the little banner sight. Chinese lanterns were outside, while inside the that is flying on the flag-pole at the entrance ; it bears chapel were lamps many and varied, oil-lamps, glass- the one word “ Love,” and that is the keynote to the lamps with candles in them, but the masterpiece was a whole “ welcome home ” proceedings. large circular light in the centre of the chapel, made of While Miss Marchbank enjoy­ three tiers of wood, all hung ed a few minutes’ respite in the round with small oil-lamps, and house, being welcomed by her decorated with evergreens and fellcw-missionaries, the people many-coloured paper flowers ; assembled in the large chapel, it was truly wonderfully made, filling every corner of it. In a so much for Chinese brains ; few moments the entire audi­ there is little these brains can­ ence arose as Miss Marchbank not do ! A bell was rung, and entered at the main entrance, all assembled in this bright and was led down the centre, chapel for a praise service. right up to the platform beauti­ Again the place was full, and fully draped in red cloth, and it was a bonny sight. Miss with flowers, etc., where she Marchbank occupied the “ seat was welcomed by our dear old of honour ” on the platform,, Pastor. To me the crowning and on either side of her an moment was when, just as she organ with an organist. Pastor entered the chapel, the whole Chang opened the service with, audience sang as the3r rose, a few words, explaining the “ Praise G o d from whom all meaning and purpose of the blessings flow,”— such singing “ Pleased to welcome Com­ as made the whole place ring. mittee,” and then the praise The Pastor led a short part of the meeting was led by thanksgiving service, then Miss one of the old workers, Mr. Marchbank spoke a few words, Kuei, presently a teacher in the thanking the people for their Boys’ School. That was a grand welcome, and for the beautiful service, enough to stir anyone’s presents of many kinds of cloth, heart. Each out-station repre­ suitable for winter and summer sented was asked to choose wear, that were lying on the some hymn of praise, then the table in front of her. It was a schoolboys sang a hymn, then scene not soon to be forgotten the schoolgirls, a short message The chapel looked so nice with from Miss Marchbank, and the all its decorations of red cloth, meeting closed after prayer. banners, scrolls, flowers, etc. Was it worth it all ? It had. The wording on the scrolls meant much strength, time, was all chosen for the occa­ thought and labour, as well as. sion, such as, “ Unselfish and true,” “ Willing to money. To Miss Marchbank we hope it brought not spend herself,” “ Passionately loves the people because only much joy and gladness at this expression of her she wants to save them,” and much more like this. people’s love for her and their thankfulness at her Some scrolls were presented by some of the gentry of return, but also strength as she takes up the big burden the city, these also were hung up ; they were praising of the work again, knowing that she has many willing the Christian doctrine. and ready to help her in any way they can. We believe, In the few hours that elapsed before the Chinese too, that it has been truly “ worth while ” to the Com­ feast came on, you would have seen many of the Chris­ mittee themselves, teaching them how to ■ undertake tian teachers and other helpers going around giving out and carry through a real big bit of work. For those tracts and preaching the Gospel to the many outsiders outside we believe it has been “ worth while,” that the who came in to see what was going on. The procession procession of so many Christians through the city is had naturally attracted many to come to the compound. bound to tell in days to come, and that the some 2,000 Everything was so orderly, that struck one much. All tracts given away will bear fruit sooner or later, also the “ stewards ” bore badges signifying what their the three Bibles sent as presents to the Mandarin various office was ; some had “ Preacher of the Gospel,” expressing our thanks for the help of the city band, to others “ Helper,” and others again “ Waiter,” and the Chinese gentry who sent presents, and one of whom so on ; in this way there was no confusion at all. kindly lent his “ state chair.” For all the city and About four o’clock some 250 guests sat down to a country Christians we believe it has been “ worth while,” most appetizing Chinese feast; all the country visitors, bringing them into closer fellowship one with another. M a y , 19 15 . China's Millions. 77

A Year’s Work at Anshunfu. B y J. R. A d a m .

“ Hastlihou not known? hast thou not heard? the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching; of His understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might He increaseth strength . . . but they that wait upon die Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with | wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.— isa. xt. 28.31.

N looking back over the year (1914) just closed we tainous regions. Most places have been kept free from can say : “ The Lord hath done great things for us, persecution ; but the newly baptized believers among I whereof we are glad ” (Psa. cxxvi. 2, 3). Very many the Wooden Comb Miao were sorely tried in this way. are the answers to prayer, and untold mercies Their T'11-muh (chieftain) and his'powerful headmen have been vouchsafed to us. bitterly opposed the Gospel, and refused to allow the One of the grandest things we have to report is, that building of a meeting-place. On our recent tour we this Anshunfu district is entirely free from poppy cul­ were able to go over the high mountain and visit the tivation, thé first time for seventy years. Proclama­ T ’u-muh in his home. Our calling upon him had good tions are out against opium smoking ; by a date now results: permission was granted for the erection of the fixed all opium smoking outfits must be handed into hall, and a friendly understanding come to for the future. the Yamen. For the first offence a fine of 100 dollars So now we hope things will be easier for these dear is to be the punishment. So the smoking of opium is children of G o d among the Wooden Comb Miao. When slowly being put down, but no doubt it will take a long we were at Ngai-k’eo, the home of the persecuted be­ time before it is finally stamped out. Stocks of old lievers, their chapel frame was almost ready for the opium abound everywhere. None can now be openly erection. The snow caiised* some delay. sold in the shops, streets or markets. Whenever, and A rebellion broke out in the autumn at a place quite wherever found it is supposed to be destroyed by burn­ near our Hsiao-hai-tsi Gospel Hall. Several thousands ing. The present price of old opium is considerably of would-be rebels gathered on a high plateau called more than its own weight in silver. Certainly the Ch’iuts’ai-p’ing-tsi. They cut down miles of telegraph Chinese Yamens mean to stamp out the opium trade, poles, and threatened to destroy our hall. They were and they are doing it. preparing to march on to the district city of Weil in ; During the year the Gospel campaign has been carried but the military came and scattered them before they on with great vigour among the out-staitons and nioun- got “ under way." The work at Ban-di, Ie-dji-miao- dsai, as well as at Hsiao-hai-tsi was hind­ ered for the time being by the trouble from those rebels. At H s i n g -1 o n g - ch’ang and parts of Ta-song - shu (T a k a i - tsi), districts in Weilin, the land has been sold to the tenants by the Chinese Yamen. Many who were practically serfs before are now free. The feudal style of things has for ever passed away. The offer of the lands for sale was the opportu­ nity of freedom from serfdom. No more paying of exorbitant rents. No more going off in daily gangs to work the T ’ ti-muh’s (chieftain’s) lands with­ out receiving either pay for work done, or food w'hile labouring for a cruel, hard land­ lord. No more paying THE NEW CHAPEL AT ANSHUNFU. out of silver, or having 78 China's Millions. M a y , 1 9 1 5 .

animals taken whenever the landlord fancied he required the use of both. No more imprisonments in dark dun­ geons, with heavy chains weighing the sufferers down, because the wicked landlord could find neither the needed silver nor the coveted animals in the poor tenant’s home. vSo the poor Miao believers, by scraping and borrowing, managed to purchase their small holdings. Alas, most of them had to mortgage their crops in order to be able to pay over the purchase money to the Chinese Yamen. Thus it came to pass, that, although they were now free and had become their own landlords, starvation for themselves, wives, and child­ ren was waiting them during the winter and spring, and right on till the early summer when the buckwheat, etc., might be reaped. A most timely, big helpful gift came direct from our Heavenly Father, through two of His dear devoted servants in England. This money brought immense relief, com­ workers could ill be spared both from their families and fort, and exceeding great joy to scores of most needy God’s work. But the Master knows best. believing families. By quickly distributing this special During the year a few of our very oldest members mone3r mortgages were paid back and all the crops saved have gone to be with Christ. Old Ngao Kong was for the use of the believers and their little ones. This brought to the L ord in this city nearly twenty-five wonderful grace of God was as marvellous to the Miao years ago. All those years he gave a faithful testimony believers as the falling of the manna of old was to the for His Saviour, 'whom he loved well. Old Abel, the children of Israel. Oh, the tearful, hearty thanks father of Loh Peter and Daniel, two evangelists, also that have been offered to God, and also to the two kind passed in to be “ at home with the L ord.” When the partners over on your side. The seeing of such grati­ first news of the Gospel reached Abel’s village, he was tude and the hearing of such thankfulness filled our own holding a big sacrifice to the demons, with nearly a hearts with joy and gladness. thousand guests. Howr the demons must have trembled During the year we have by God’s grace been enabled when those first beams of the Light of the world fell to keep plodding on in both evangelistic and school work. upon that great company of heathen Miao sacrificing to There are now 43 evangelists helping to make the Gospel them. That was at Hsing-long-ch’ang more than ten flourish, engaged in the work of teaching believers and years ago. Our dearly beloved Old Abel was one of helping to spread abroad more and more the knowledge the best and brightest Christians, showing to everyone of His Name among the heathen. Twenty-nine school what the saving and sanctifying power of the L ord teachers have been more or less assisted by funds speci­ J esus Christ can do for a sinful Miao tribesman. He ally supplied. These teachers have been fed and lodged, served the L ord well for more than ten years, full of with the extras of fires and lamp-light, by the willing joy and sunshine to the end. Abel fell asleep in his but poor believers. Death took away three very good son Peter’s arms. evangelists : Li Asa, Mr. T s’en, and Lo Nathanael. During the year both long and short tours were made, Nathanael was a fine young man, a Christian indeed, and the out-stations visited. On the long tours, over in whom there was no guile. He died from black small­ dangerous roads infested by robbers, military escorts pox at Lao-wa-ba, deeply regretted by the children, had to be endured. Both in our going out and coming women, and men of that out-station. Li Asa and Mr. in Psa. cxxi. 8 was fulfilled. Ts’en both died from that hill malignant fever that is During the year 917 men and women believers were endemic up on those mountains. For years Ts’en was added to the fellowship through baptism. Fifty-two the school teacher at Hsing-lcng-ch’ang, and this was his entered into glory,four were transferred to other churches, first year in the work of an evangelist. All the three twent}-two were either excluded or suspended for beloved brethren left widows and children. Nathanel various causes, making a total deduction of seventy- was a student with us here in Anshunfu for several years, eight for the year. The total number of communi­ and so was well trained for his work. These three cants on December 31st, 1914, was 5,590. Men M a y , 19 1 5 . China’s Millions. believers in full church fellowship 3,018. Women free. An, the chief enemy of the Gospel, has given us no 2,572. The Christians contributed : in silver, weighed end of trouble for years. These chapel builders are well- on the balances, taels (ounces) 1,330.39; in grain, to-do Water Miao, and the land is their own. and the hall fifty " tan ” or piculs, for support of preachers. The site not anywhere near the houses or properties of the price of this grain is not included in the total of headmen. The officials have taken the matter up, so silver. There are twenty-seven schools with 639 we pray to G o d that things will be put right this time. scholars in attendance. Fees taken for schooling It is always and everywhere the same ; whenever and amount to taels 100 in local exchange. The believers wherever the believers unitedly endeavour to make out of their gratitude for the blessed gift of God’s the Gospel flourish, the E vil One gives them much Word, sent seventy dollars as a thankoffering to the trouble and trial. Ba-dsai, though near Anshunfu, Xational Bible Society of Scotland. There are 323 belongs to the district city of C h ’ien-hsi, four days’ jour­ local leaders helping all they can to build themselves ney from Ba-dsai. So the headmen do lots of wicked and their fellow believers up in our most holy faith. things unknown to the too-far-away magistrate. The three Biblewomen and the two Scripture-Reader- Colporteurs have done good work during the year. Through the great liberality of the native Christians we were able to continue the building of the new large Anshunfu chapel and finish it. This new Gospel Hall is built of burnt brick, more than one thousand dollars of native money being spent on the building. Three new meeting-places have been built by native believers at the following centres :— Hsiao-hwei-tong (where the K w e ic h o w monkey abounds), Ie-dji-miao- dsai, and Ngai-k’eo. This last-named place is the new centre for work among the Wooden Comb Miao. We have just closed a month’s Bible School. Twenty men attended. Four of the students were Wooden Comb Miao, two of them Nosu (Lolo), etc. The loving gifts of a very kind partner enabled us to invite all these men down from the mountains, pay their road expenses, and board them during the month’s residence in school. This money is well invested. During the year we had sixty schoolboy boarders right here on our own compound. Two of them took ill and died, one from typhoid fever, the other from tuber­ culosis. One, T ’an Isaac, was the only son of Evangelist T ’an and Biblewoman Mrs. T ’an. Both of Isaac’s parents died some years ago and he was left in our charge. The tuberculosis boy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hwang, now serving the Lord in the work at A-dji-mih. The year ended with dear Dr. Fish being laid aside through typhoid fever, and with Mrs. Fish also not well. Thank God, through His mercy and the labours of the two kind German sisters, who undertook all the night and day nursing, our brother and sister Fish duly recovered, and both are now well. Sister Paul is now resting after her long spell of hard work. Sister Wackwitz is still with the doctor giving much valued help. Once again we have to lament over the absence of Mrs. Adam still detained in Scotland. Persecution has broken out over the Muh-lang river at Ba-dsai, twenty-seven miles from Anshunfu, in the Ten-ten district. A young believer named Ho, who was two years in our Anshunfu school, returned to his home after our Bible school was scattered. As soon as he reached his home, Ho joined the other believers in the work of levelling the site for their new meeting- place. Some headmen arrested this bright Christian, and kept him a prisoner for four days bound in chains. On the third day.of Ho’s imprisonment Wang Matthew TWO BIG-FLOWERY MIAO MEN—SCRIPTURE-READERS was apprehended by six men. Matthew was out on the AND COLPORTEURS. The one in Miao dress with load on his back is named Job. The one hillside herding the goats and cattle, and at the same with his arms full of Miao Luke's Gospel is John. All their time i.s given time cutting down trees for firewood. He was led away to visiting markets, villages, hamlets and homes of the hill people, selling Scriptures wherever they can. and giving much time to teach­ to the headman’s house, tortured and injured and died ing others to read them, and reading the Word of God to the villagers at nights in the places where they reft. Funds for their support are next day from his injuries. As soon as Matthew died most kindly supplied through the Xational Bible Society of Scotland. his persecutors allowed the Christian prisoner Ho to go 80 China’s Millions. M a y , 19 15.

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING MARCH, 1915— Continued. For General Fund.— Continued. Rect No. £ s. d Rect. No. £ s. rf. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s ri Rect No £ s d Rect. No £; s d. 19 8312 0 5 0 22. 8342 1 1 0 24 8370 0 1 0 26 8401 0 6 6 29. 8428 0 7 0 30. 8457 0 10 0 8313 4 18 6 8343 26 (i 0 8371 0 18 6 8402 0 10 0 Anon. 10 0 I) 8458 3 0 0 8314 1 0 0 8344 1 0 0 8372 0 10 6 8403 5 0 0 8430 3 0 0 31. 8459 0 3 0 8315 15 0 0 8345 0 3 0 8373 2 10 0 8404 0 5 0 8431 8 2 2 8460 5 6 0 8316 1 1 0 8346 8 15 0 8374 2 1 4 8406 25 0 0 8432 7 13 2 8461 0 10 0 8317 1 0 0 8348 1 1 0 8375 10 0 0 8407 2 2 0 30. 8433 0 10 0 8462 0 15 6 8318 0 5 0 23. 8349 0 6 0 8376 1 0 0 8408 10 0 0 8434 10 0 0 8463 2 0 0 8319 10 0 0 8350 0 10 0 8377 1 0 0 8409 1 0 0 8436 0 10 0 8465 0 5 0 8320 34 7 11 8351 0 6 4 8378 120 0 0 8410 16 5 0 8438 0 5 0 8466 0 10 0 8321 2 2 0 8352 2 2 0 8379 0 2 0 8411 0 3 0 8439 1 0 0 8467 0 10 6 8322 2 0 0 8353 0 5 0 25. 8380 25 0 0 8412 * 5 0 0 8440 1 0 0 8469 5 5 0 2 0 8324 2 10 0 8355 1 1 0 8382 0 10 0 27. 8413 1 0 0 8441 0 5 0 8471 1 5 0 8326 0 10 () 8356 0 5 0 8385 1 0 0 8415 0 1 0 8442 0 15 0 8472 1 1 0 8328 2 0 0 8357 1 0 0 8386 1 0 0 8416 2 0 0 8443 1 0 0 8473 0 10 0 8329 0 9 0 8358 0 5 0 8387 0 5 0 8417 0 10 0 8444 8 3 6 8474 0 10 0 8330 0 5 0 8359 100 0 0 8388 10 0 0 8418 12 10 0 A Reader\ 8475 0 5 0 8331 2 2 0 8360 20 0 0 8389 0 10 6 29. 8419 1 1 0 of the [ 2 10 0 8476 4 0 0 8332 1 5 0 8362 10 0 0 8391 0 15 0 8420 2 0 0 Christian. J Legacy. 2 ) 0 0 8363 2 3 <> 8392 0 7 6 Readers ; 8447 14 7 0 £2,333 5 8 8334 0 10 6 8364 0 10 0 8393 2 0 0 of the 2 0 0 8449 2 2 0 8335 0 9 6 8365 2 2 0 26. 8394 5 5 0 Record. ; 8451 1 1 0 8336 1 1 0 24. 8367 0 13 6 8395 0 13 0 8422 0 10 6 8452 1 10 2 8338 1 0 0 8368 0 16 0 8396 3 7 6 8423 0 10 0 8453 0 17 0 8339 0 5 0 Headers i 8397 0 10 0 8424 5 2 0 8454 77 7 6 22. 8340 0 10 of the 36 2 0 J74,1jV/C p oivj 7 4 8398 1 0 0 8425 0 6 8455 2 0 0 8341 0 6 0 Faith. I 8400 0 10 0 8426 2 0 0 8456 0 9 1 For Special Purposes. Rect. No £ s. d. Rect. No £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ 1 . d. Rect. No. £ s. d Rect. No. £ s. d. 1. 8040 7 13 1 8. 8159 5 0 o 12. 8234 3 10 0 18. 8304 2 0 0 27. 8414 11 16 3 30. 8450 1 12 0 2. 8055 5 0 0 9. 8167 0 5 0 8236 0 13 0 8307 8 0 0 29. 8427 6 0 0 31. 8464 1 0 0 8056 6 5 0 8177 0 10 0 13. 8239 6 0 0 19. 8323 2 0 0 30. 8435 0 10 0 8468 36 3 1 8059 1 0 0 8178 0 2 6 8241 0 7 0 20. 8325 2 7 6 8437 0 17 0 8470 0 10 0 8064 0 2 6 8181 50 0 0 8252 2 0 0 8327 2 0 0 8446 0 10 o 3. 8067 4 0 0 8182 0 10 0 15. 8263 100 0 0 1 8337 8 0 0 8448 52 10 0 £555 4 10 8076 15 0 0 8183 0 10 0 8267 0 10 6 22. 8347 10 0 0 8081 13 11 5 8187 0 5 0 16. 8277 2 12 6 23. 8354 1 10 0 SUMMARY. s. d. 4. 8093 0 15 0 10. 8192 1 1 8278 3 8361 3 15 0 £ 0 0 0 General • • 2,333 5 8 8100 50 0 0 8193 0 10 0 17. 8288 5 0 0 24. 8366 2 0 0 Special 5. 8117 2 0 0 8197 12 12 ti 8291 1 0 0 25. 8381 2 0 0 555 4 10 8120 3 0 0 0 11. 8209 0 10 8293 6 0 0 8383 0 18 0 Total for March 2,888 10 6 4>. F 8141 3 8 0 8210 0 12 0 8294 (5 0 0 8384 0 10 0 Brought forward 8142 2 0 0 8217 ] 0 0 9296 5 0 0 8390 0 10 0 . . 10,252 0 6 8145 6 0 0 8219 30 0 0 18. 8299 5 0 0 26. 8399 2 10 0 Total .. . . £13,140 11 ~0 8. 8153 1 0 0 12. 8233 20 0 0 8301 3 0 0 8405 2 0 0

To be published on May 11th. Demy 8vo.

The Jubilee Story of the With more than 60 Portraits, Illustrations, and China Inland Mission. %% Map.

B y MARSHALL BROOMHALL, M.A.

SUPERIOR EDITION, 3 /6 NET. CHEAPER EDITION, 2 /- NET.

The story is divided into five decades with a total of fifty short chapters. Portraits of the early leaders and pioneers are given. For instance, portraits of all the ladies who were the first to enter the nine unoccupied inland provinces are included. In addition to some 350 pages of letterpress, particulars of all the Associate Missions, with Chronological Tables, are given in the Appendix. V o l. X L I. No. 6. ONE PEN N Y. J u n e, 1915. China’s Millions.

PUBLIC GARDENS IN THE FOREIGN SETTLEMENT, SHANGHAI.

CHINA INLAND MISSION JUBILEE MEETINGS, V REPORT OF AFTERNOON ADDRESSES.

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LONDON COUNCIL. Home Director R e v . J. St u a r t H o l d e n , M .A. Assistant Home Director ...... W a l t e r B. S l o a n . W il l ia m Sh a r p , 60, W atlin g Street, E.C. Ce c i l H. P o l h il l , Howbury Hall, Bedford. C. T. F ish e, 25, Homefield Road, Wimbledon. L i e u i .-C o l . J. W in n , R.E.. Whyteleafe, The Grange, Wimbledon. P. S. B a d e n o c h , Mildmay, Belmont Road, Reigate. C o l o n e l S. D. CLEEVE, R.E., Priory Court, Belvedere Avenue, REV. J. J. L u c e , M.A., St. Nicholas Vicarage, Gloucester. Wimbledon. H. M il l n e r M o r r is , Sannox, Salisbury Road, Carshalton, Surrey. Treasurer Albert A. head. Secretary: F. Marcus Wood. Editorial Secretary : Marshall Broomhall, M.A.

Secretary Women's Department : MlSS H. E . S o l t a u . A ccountant: W. S. H a y e s . Bankers : London County and Westminster Bank, Limited, 21, Lombard Street, London, E.C. All donations to be addressed to the Secretary. Money Orders (payable at G.P.O.) and Cheques to be made payable to the C h in a I n l a n d M is s io n , and crossed “ London County and Westminster Bank.” I t is specially requested that on every occasion when money is sent for the support of, or for the work of, any particular Missionary, or for any Mission object such as the support of a Chinese Helper, a Blblewoman or a Scholar, the object in view be clearly stated. If, on the other hand, money be sent for a Missionary, as a personal gift, or for any private purpose, this also should be clearly stated in order that it may be correctly acknowledged and forwarded.

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING APRIL, 1915. For General Fund. Rect. No. £ S- d. Rect. No. £ s d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d Rect. No. £ s. d Rect. No. £ s. d. 1. 8480 2 2 0 6. 5834 0 10 0 7. 8579 1 0 0 9. 8624 0 5 0 14. 8683 0 2 6 20. 8730 0 10 6 8481 3 3 0 8536 2 0 0 8580 11 10 0 8626 1 0 0 8684 2 2 0 8731 3 10 0 8482 0 5 0 8537 0 16 6 8581 25 0 0 10. 8629 12 10 0 8685 0 5 0 21. 8732 1 1 0 8483 0 7 6 8538 10 0 0 8582 40 0 0 8631 15 0 0 15. 8688 0 5 0 8733 0 10 0 8484 1 0 0 8539 0 10 0 8583 3 1 3 8633 6 0 0 8689 8 15 4 8735 0 10 0 8485 0 2 6 8540 0 6 6 A Widow. 0 4 0 8634 0 10 0 8690 2 2 0 8736 1 4 0 8486 3 10 0 8541 0 2 6 8585 12 10 0 8635 1 1 0 8691 1 5 0 8737 0 2 0 8487 0 4 0 Readers \ 8. 8586 0 10 0 8637 1 0 0 8692 3 5 0 8738 0 5 0 of the 1 8739 5 8 8488 0 6 6 M orning • 0 5 0 8587 0 5 0 8638 0 5 0 6893 0 19 6 1 8489 0 8 6 Star. ) 8588 0 10 0 8639 1 0 0 8694 0 15 0 8740 0 3 0 8490 0 15 7 8543 1 7 5 8589 17 0 0 8641 0 5 0 8695 0 5 0 8741 6 0 0 8491 0 3 7 8545 1 0 0 8590 2 2 0 8644 0 10 0 8696 50 0 0 8742 5 0 0 8492 1 0 0 8546 1 10 0 8591 0 10 0 12. 8645 1 5 0 8698 2 2 0 22. 8744 1 0 0 8493 0 4 0 8547 0 5 0 8592 0 10 0 8646 2 2 0 16. 8699 1 0 0 8745 0 10 0 8494 0 10 0 8549 0 5 0 8594 0 9 0 8649 5 0 0 8701 0 10 0 8746 3 0 0 8496 0 2 0 8550 0 4 0 8595 1 2 6 8650 1 1 0 Legacy. 4 11 8 8747 0 8 0 8497 0 10 0 8551 5 0 0 8596 0 5 0 8651 0 5 0 Readers \ 8748 1 0 0 8498 1 11 11 8552 0 4 6 8597 1 0 0 8652 0 5 0 of the I 54 12 6 S749 0 10 0 8499 2 10 11 8553 1 0 0 8598 2 0 0 8653 0 10 0 Christian. 1 8750 0 2 0 8501 5 0 0 8554 0 2 0 8599 0 10 0 i 8654 1 0 0 8704 1 1 0 8751 0 5 O' 8502 65 0 0 8555 0 17 0 8600 0 8 6 ; 13. Anon 0 1 0 8706 0 1 6 8752 4 0 0 6. 8503 3 0 0 8556 0 1 6 8601 1 4 0 j 8656 2 12 -0 17. 8707 10 0 0 8754 0 10 0 8504 1 1 0 8557 1 0 0 8602 2 0 0 ! 8657 0 2 0 8708 3 3 0 8755 6 0 0- 8505 20 0 0 8558 0 5 0 8603 1 1 0 i 8658 1 0 0 8709 0 10 0 8756 1 0 0 8507 4 3 0 8560 40 0 0 8604 0 10 0 1 8659 10 0 0 8710 1 1 0 Legacy. 30 0 0 8512 10 0 0 8561 7 0 0 8605 1 1 0 8660 0 12 6 8711 0 16 6 8758 0 10 0- 8513 1 0 0 8562 100 0 0 8606 18 0 0 8661 1 1 0 19. 8713 30 0 0 8759 0 12 0 1 8515 15 0 0 7. 8564 0 5 0 8607 1 0 0 8662 2 0 0 8714 50 0 0 8761 0 4 0- 8516 0 10 0 8565 0 10 6 8609 1 0 0 8663 1 0 0 8715 0 17 10 8763 25 0 0 8517 1 0 0 8567 0 3 0 8610 15 0 0 j 8665 0 10 0 A Friend | 8764- 5 0 0 h 1 . 0 0 - 8519 0 10 0 8568 2 0 0 8611 17 13 6 1 8666 0 11 6 of China. J 23.. 8766 0 16 0 8520 5 0 0 8569 1 0 0 8612 10 4 7 ! 8667 20 0 0 8717 0 5 0 8767 2 0 0 8521 3 3 6 8570 1 0 0 8613 1 0 0 j 8668 2 0 0 8718 12 12 0 8768 0 10 0- 8522 2 15 10 8571 2 0 0 8614 1 6 0 8669 1 0 0 8719 1 0 0 8769 5 0 0 8523 5 0 0 8572 0 10 0 9. Anon. 0 5 0 8670 •0 5 0 20. 8721 1 0 0 8770 1 0 0= 8526 0 10 0 8573 2 0 0 8617 2 0 0 8672 3 0 0 8722 0 3 0 ^ 8771 2 0 0 8527 0 5 3 8574 0 10 0 8619 0 10 0 8674 0 5 0 8723 12 10 0 8772 1 4 7 8528 0 5 10 8575 1 2 6 8621 5 0 0 8676 0 5 0 8725 0 10 0 8773 0 10 a 8530 0 2 6 8576 0 10 0 8622 0 15 0 8679 0 3 0 8726 0 10 -0 W . B. 10 0 a 8531 0 1 0 8578 8 0 0 8623 0 5 0 14., 8682 0 3 0 8727 0 15 0 8775 32 10 0« (Continued on page 100.) C hina’s M illio n s.

The Jubilee Meetings. 1865— 1915.

N the goodness of G o d , the China Inland Mission son, of the London Missionary Society, Rev. \Y Y. was permitted, on Tuesday, May nth, to cele­ Fullerton, of the Baptist Missionary Society, and Dr. I brate the completion of fifty years of service in Hodgkin, of the Friends’ Foreign Missionary Society. China. The Jubilee meetings were held in the During the course of the meeting, a cablegram arrived Kingsway Hall, and were presided over in the afternoon from Christiana, reading as follows :— “ Glory to G o d : by the Right Honourable Lord Radstock, and in the with best wishes for the Jubilee meetings and the future. evening by the Rev. J. Stuart Holden, M.A., the Home From grateful friends of the Norwegian Mission as­ Director of the Mission. sociated with you.” The Swedish Mission in China was personally represented by Dr. Karl Fries, and but for The Day. the war a larger representation of the Associate Mis­ The day, so far as weather was concerned, was all sions wottld doubtless have been present. that could be desired. From early morn till evening The following kind resolution of the Church Mis­ it was a time of brilliant sunshine, the only cloud being sionary Society, and letter from Dr. F. B. Meyer, were that of the terrible war which overshadows the greater among those read at the meeting: — part of the world. Heavenward all was bright, but on earth and on the sea— for the appalling tragedy of the C h u r c h M i s s i o n a r y S o c i e t y . Lusitania had but recently happened— there was “ the Extract from Minutes of Committee of 29th April, 1915. gloom of anguish.” On behalf of the Church Missionary Society the Com­ The Note of Praise. mittee would offer their cordial congratulations to their The Scriptures—Psalm cxv., “ Not unto us,” and brethren of the China Inland Mission on the occasion of Isaiah lv., “ Ho, everyone that thirsteth ”— were read their Jubilee. They join with them in thanksgiving to by Mr. William Sharp and Mr. A. Orr Ewing at the after­ A l m i g h t y G o d for the faith and courage which have noon and evening meetings respectively, and prayer was always marked their work, and for the signal proofs led by the Rev. B. Baring-Gould, of the Church Mission­ which He has given of His approval of the devotion and ary Society, and the Rev. Dr. Steele, of the English Pres­ self-sacrifice of their workers. They pray that the period byterian Mission. The note of praise which pervades these of service on which they are about to enter may witness Scriptures and dominated the prayers which followed, such an increase of His gifts and graces and such an was also maintained in the Jubilee Report— “ A Song extension of their influence and powers as shall enable of Praise in Time of Battle ” — presented b}^ Mr. Marcus them to labour yet more abundantly for the evange­ Wood, the secretary. With Mr. Harkness at the piano, lization of China’s millions. it need hardly be said that the singing alone was an in­ (Signed) Cyril C. B. Bardsley, Hon. Sec. spiration. Though the afternoon meeting was some­ what small, the evening gathering was large and most The Rev. F. B. Meyer wrote :—“ I join with a uplifting. great host in congratulating the China Inland Mission Friends Present. on the completion of its Jubilee. No computa­ A m o n g the many friends present were Dr. Eugene tion possible to man will ever be able to estimate the Stock, the Rev. B. Baring Gould, and the Rev. Cyril mighty blessing that has come to Inland China, and Bardsley, representing the Church Missionary Society ; to the Church of G o d , through the noble labours of the the Rev. J. Thomas, representing the British and Foreign missionaries of this Society. Hudson Taylor was a Bible Society ; Sir Archibald Campbell, representing beloved friend of mine for many years, and of him the the National Bible Society of Scotland ; Rev. Dr. J. words of Scripture are true— ‘ He that doeth the will Steele, representing the English Presbyterian Mission ; of G o d abideth for ever. ’ May the next decades witness Mr. Martin Cleaver, representing the Egypt General a still further increase in blessing to China as the result Mission ; and Pastor D. J. Findlay, of Glasgow. of faith and prayer.” Congratulatory Messages. We trust that the prayer with which Mr. Meyer closes Letters of congratulation and of apology for absence his kind note may be fulfilled, and that the years to come were received from the Rev. J. H. Ritson, of the British may see greater things done in the Name of J e s u s and Foreign Bible Society, Rev. Dr. R. Wardlaw Thomp- C h r is t . JunE, 1915. 84 China & Millions. J u n e , 1 9 15 -

A Song of Praise in Time of Battle,

B E I N G T H E Jubilee Report of the China Inland Mission,

Presented at the Jubilee Meetings held at the Kingsway Hall, London, on May nth, 1915.

Praise ye the Lord ; for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant and praise is comely ”— For “ ye know irr all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning, you ; all are come to pass unto you, not one thing hath failed thereof.— There hath not failed one word of all His good promise.” — Psalm cxlvii. i ; Joshua xxiii. 14 ; 1 Kings viii. 56.

N one of “ Eye-Witness’s ” recent letters from the strife and carnage below, the sweet minstrel was pouring. I Front, we were told that above the thunder of out its very soul in rich and jubilant melody. Has not the big guns at Neuve Chapelle was heard the that little skylark a message for us to-day ? Shall we song of a lark. The little songster, whose nest was not seek “ on the wings of faith to rise " and sing our among the shell-torn and blasted battlefields of earth, song of praise in this sad day of battle ? Let us mount had found a place for song high up in the ampler up above the storms of time into the region of worship air of heaven. High overhead, all undeterred by the and adoration where we may abundantly utter the memory of God's great goodness. The aged warrior Joshua, at the close of a life full of peril and strife— a life which had seen the fall of many a Jericho, and sometimes the judg­ ment of an Ai— testified to the people he had led : “ Ye know that in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the L ord your God spake.” In days of peace and prosperity, the favoured king Solomon, at the dedication of the Temple, reiterated these words of Joshua, and said : “ There hath not failed one word of all His good promise.” And to-day, as we seek to sum up what fifty year& of resting in the promises of God has taught the Mission, we cannot find any words more fitting than these: “ Not one thing hath failed ” ; “All are come to pass ” ; “ Praise ye the L ord, for it is a good thing to sing praises to our God.” A s we think upon the blood-soaked fields of Europe, our hearts are chastened and sore, but as we seek to obey the L ord’s command, and “ look up,” we “ lift up ” our heads for our “ redemption draweth nigh.” In a peculiarly painful way the present war affects the Mission, for many of the European nations are represented in our ranks. Yet, in the midst of pain we are proving that we are bound together in Christ in a fellowship which transcends all divisions of nationality and race. To dwell in Christ is to dwell “ where there cannot be Greek and Jew, cir­ cumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman ; but Christ is all, and in all.” And though the war has so directly affected the Home, countries and even the Field of China itself, yet J u n e . 1915. China’s Millions.

" G od’ s word, for all their craft and force, that comfort may be found in Him who is the “ Living One moment will not linger, But spite of hell, will have its course ; One ” and has “ the keys of Death and of Hades.” 'Tis written by His finger. ’ ’ In keeping with this truth, we rejoice to say that the The Forces in the Field. spiritual results of last year have been by far the highest During the year, the Mission has been reinforced by in the Mission’s history. the addition of seventeen new workers. Of these five were from Great Britain, five from Australasia, three Our Roll of Honour. from North America, while two joined the work in We have all become sadly familiar, during recent China, and two were Associates from the Continent. months, with the long national Rolls of Honour, upon (See Table I.) After deducting the loss of five by death, which are recorded the names of our gallant dead. We the retirement of twenty-six— double the average of too would remember those who have fallen— fallen but previous years — on account of faihire of health, to rise again— in the great Fight of Faith. Thankfully marriage, home claims and other causes, the total we record that the losses last year by death have not number of workers connected with the Mission— mem­ exceeded five, though the number of those who have bers, probationers, and associates— at the close of 191.4 been invalided home, or have had to retire from various was 1,063. (See Table 2.) causes, is unusually high. The names of our Honoured For the first time, owing to the small reinforcements Dead are :—■ of last year and the losses by death and retirement, the Mr . J. J. M e a d o w s , the senior member of the Mission, after number of missionaries shows a reduction of thirteen. more than fifty-two years in China. On the other hand, there has been an increase of 123 MISS E . B l a c k , after more than thirty years in China. in the staff of paid Chinese workers during the year, D r . S. H. Ca r r , after nearly thirteen years of medical service in the field. the total number of these being 1,694, or more than

M r . G. B o w m a n , after less than three years, his life being given double what it was ten years ago. The total force of in an effort to save a Chinese lad— an evangelist’s son— missionary and paid Chinese helpers now amounts to from drowning. 2,757 persons. What would not the early pioneers of Miss R. E. SamtjELSSON, an Associate of the Swedish Holiness Union, after three short years of work, Miss Samuelsson fifty years ago have said, could they have foreseen this being the second member of her family to die in China. day ! At a time when thousands consider it an honour to The Funds. die for King and country, can we do other than give The income of the Mission for 1914, though consider­ thanks for these who as soldiers of the King of kings ably less than in the preceding year, gives cause for have laid down their lives that spiritual captives might praise when we remember that the year included five become citizens of “ a Better Country, that is, a months of war. In accordance with the custom followed Heavenly. ’ ’ For the bereaved relatives, as well as for at the British annual meetings, we record the income all those who at this time, when so many homes are as received in Great Britain, together with donations desolate, mourn the loss of their loved ones, we pray received in China, and remittances to China from North America and Australasia.* T a b l e i . Country. New Workers. Total. £ s. d. Received in Great Britain during 1914 .. .. 36,872 17 6 Great Britain .. 3 men a women .. 5 Donations in China,and remittances to China from North America .. 3 >» 3 North America and Australasia during x 914 19,609 15 11 Australasia 5 „ 5 ¿$6,482 13 s Accepted in China 2 ,, 2

Total New Members .. 3 men .. 12 women . iS Comparing these figures with the moneys received from the same sources during 1913, there is :— Swedish Holiness Union i man i £ s. d. German China Alliance i woman .. I A decrease in the income received in Great Britain of ...... 14,216 9 11 Total New Associates i man I woman .. 2 And an increase in the donations given in China and remittances to China from North America Summary : and Australasia of ...... 1.304 10 1 Members .. 3 men .. 12 women . iS Associates i man i woman 2 Giving a total decrease of ...... ¡£12,911 19 10 4 men .. 13 women .. 17 In correctly estimating the value of these figures, it must be borne in mind that the income of 1913 was the T a b l e 2. Men. Single Women. Wives. Widows. Total. Stations- highest in the Mission's history, so that the fall shown Members 291 .. 237 23 .. 786 . . 160 • • 235 •• * The total income, as it will be given in the larger Report, Associates 107 .. 94 70 .. 6 •• 277 .. 67 which includes the Home incomes in North America and Australasia, and the income of the Associate Missions, is : 398 331 .. 305 . . 29 .. 1,063 . . 22 7 £82,326 ijs . sd. 86 China’s Millions. J u n e , 19^5. in 1914 is somewhat unduly emphasized. Furthermore, opened as G o d ’s servants have been ready to enter, and the exchange, in transmitting money to China since the to-day the Mission has 1,327 stations and out-stations, commencement of the war, has been in the Mission’s 1,294 chapels, and 372 schools in areas which fifty years favour. With these qualifications in mind, it must, ago were nearly all closed to the Gospel and the Gospel however, be stated that the year was one of financial messenger. trial ; yet, in view of what the war has meant to the Fifty Years’ Finance. country generally, and in the light of the noble and self- Again the promises of G o d as to temporal supplies denying ways in which many friends have continued their have been fulfilled throughout these fifty years. Month support, we most gratefully recognize that G o d has given by month without reserve funds or working capital, the Mission much cause for praise and thanksgiving. with no human guarantees, the freewill offerings of G o d ’ s people have met the needs of the Mission, and Baptisms. its more than 2,700 supported Foreign and Chinese Though the past year has been one of financial trial, workers, its 372 boarding and day schools, its hospitals, it has been one of special spiritual fruitfulness. No dispensaries and opium refuges. Year by year, as fewer than 5,017 persons during the year publicly con­ needed, funds have been supplied for the purchase or fessed by baptism that J Esus Christ had brought them erection of special premises at home and in the field ; up out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay ; had for the heavy travelling expenses to and from as well as set their feet upon the Rock ; had established their in China ; and for every other expenditure inseparable goings j and put a new song in their mouths, even praise from so large a work. unto our G o d . It is with peculiar gratitude to G o d Apart from the funds of the Associate workers, who that we recognize that the celebration of the Mission's are supported by their own Missions on the Continent, Jubilee is signalized by the highest number of baptisms the Mission has received just over one and three-quarter in the Mission’s history. million pounds sterling since the foundation of the The Fifty Years. work. With such cumulative proofs of G o d ’s faithful­ Passing from this brief survey of last year, let us glance ness and love as these figures afford through fifty years at a few of the facts which stand out as marked features with their many real and pressing needs, can we do in the half century now closed. other than magnify the grace of G o d . Truly “ Happy It is more than fifty-five years since Mr. Taylor sent is the people whose G o d is the L o r d . ” home his first appeal for helpers. The first two sailed “ How blest are they who still abide Close sheltered in Thy bleeding side, in 1862, six more in 1865, and the Lammermuir Party in Who life and strength from thence derive, 1866. The work thus begun in much weakness, but in And by Thee move and in Thee live.” reliance upon an Almighty G o d , has grown until it now Triumphs of the Gospel. extends throughout the greater part of China, with But when we come to consider the end for which the Home centres established in three Continents. Scot­ Mission exists, namely, the proclamation of the unsearch­ land, Ireland, and Switzerland, as well as England, gave able riches of C h r i s t and the salvation of immortal the first party. Since then, G o d has added workers souls, what report have we to give of our stewardship ? from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Canada, Though as servants of the Most High we humbly con­ Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United States fess that we have come far short of the glory of our of America, Finland, Russia, Belgium, Holland, high office, yet with glad hearts we record that our Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzer­ labours have not been in vain in the L o r d . It is true land, Italy, Sicily, and India. What but the call of that we look in some measure to statistics to show what G o d could have drawn workers from so many lands has been accomplished, yet no figures can ever reveal and banded them together in one Mission for the evan­ the measure of the triumphs of grace over the spiritual gelization of China ? What but the love of G o d could hosts of wickedness. During the first half of the have kept them together for these fifty years ? And Mission’s history, for instance, less than five thousand what but the same Almighty love can keep us united persons made public confession of their faith in Christ. in these days of war ? Statistics fail to record the real gains of those five-and- Captain of Israel’s host, and Guide Of all who seek the land above, twenty years—the victories of faith in presence of Beneath Thy shadow we abide, untold discouragements and innumerable hardships, or The cloud of Thy protecting love Our strength, T h y grace ; our rule, T hy word the triumphs of grace in despising the shame, in endur­ Our end, the glory of the L ord. ing the cross,, and in “ withstanding in the evil day, and A.nd G o d who has given th e workers has given the having done all to stand.” open doors. When the Mission was founded, the interior Less than five thousand baptisms in the first twenty- of China was practically a closed land. In ways too five years ! Yes, but crooked places made straight and many and marvellous to summarize, the doors have been rough places plain, and the way of the L o r d prepared, J u n e , 19 15 . China's Millions. 87 so that during the second twenty-five years more than said, What doest thou here, Elijah ? ” What do we forty-five thousand souls were “ delivered out of the here ? Are we “ very jealous for the L o r d , the Gon power of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of Hosts ” ? Then listen :— of the Son of His love.” To-day we can thank G o d He that lovetli father or mother more than Me, is not for 50,771 persons who have by public baptism pro­ worthy of Me ; and he that lovetli son or daughter more than Me, is not worthy of Me. And lie that doth not take up his fessed their allegiance to Jesus Christ, while we know cross and follow after Me, is not worthy of Me.” that thousands more, whose names have never been Can we better celebrate this Jubilee than by afresh entered upon any Church Roll, have “ turned unto surrendering ourselves to Him who is more than worthy G o d from idols to serve the living and true G o d , a n d to of all we have and aTe, and by rendering, in these days wait for His Son from Heaven.” And more than this of battle, all praise to Him to Whom all praise belongs. there would be harvests of blessing to follow the wide * “ All glory to the Lamb that died. seed sowing of past years if the Mission ceased to exist Exalted now at G o d ’ s right hand. In blessing, and wisdom, and honour, and praise for ever.” as an organization to-morrow. “ And every creature that is in heaven and 011 the earth and Sacrifices of Thanksgiving. under the earth and in the sea, cried aloud and said: — “ Blessing, honour, glory and pow'r What then shall we render unto the L o r d for all His Be unto Him that sitteth upon the Throne benefits towards us and China ? Shall we not take And to the Lamb for ever.” “ the cup of salvation,” that cup which is the new cove­ "* Words according to the rendering in Spohr's Last Judgment.] nant in C h r i s t ’s blood, and calling upon the Name of the L o r d , pay our vows and offer our sacrifices of thanks­ Financial Statements for 1914.— It has been giving? And there is need for sacrifice still, for we customary to include in this issue of China’s Millions cannot contemplate what G o d has done without solemn the General Statement of Income and Expenditure of thoughts concerning what needs to be done. During the preceding year together with an abstract of the China Accounts, etc. As these are all printed in the the fifty years of the Mission’s history some five hundred larger Report, which can be obtained by any donor million Chinese have passed away from time into eternity. upon application, should he or she not receive a copy, Is there nothing more that we can do than we have it has been decided for the sake of economy of space done for the hundreds of millions now living and acces­ and money to discontinue the publication of these sible to the Gospel ? financial statements in China’s Millions for the future. The larger Report, it may be mentioned, will not be At a time when unprecedented sacrifices of blood read}’ for anothei two months. and treasure are. being poured out for national honour, shall we fail Him who is Captain of the host of the L o r d in an immeasurably greater and more serious campaign ? When the claims of King and country are readily acknow­ ledged by all, shall we not more fully recognize the claims of C h r i s t upon us ? If it be true that he who would spare himself to-day is counted unworthy of his country, how much more unworthy of that better country shall he be who does not take up his cross and follow in his Master’s footsteps. Can it be that the war has been allowed to teach us, among other things, that we have been placing an altogether wrong value upon life ? The call to-day is for sacrifice, more sacrifice, and still more sacrifice. And it is written large upon the page of history that that nation which will not sacrifice its best must inevitably perish. Shall we not in face of the world’s need, and in the light of the great Sacrifice of Calvary, pay our vows and offer our sacrifices of thanks­ giving, that our Heavenly Father’s Kingdom may come, and His will be done on earth as in heaven. Again we strain our ears to catch above the noise of battle the sweet song of the lark, and as we listen we seem to hear another voice, “ the still small voice ” above the sound of whirlwind, earthquake, and of fire. It is the voice of the L o r d . A s Elijah did, let us wrap Photo by] ! K. L. McIntyre. our faces in our mantles, and stand until that voice shall WOMAN MAKING THREAD. speak to us. “ And there came a voice unto him, and 88 C hina’s Millions. J u n e , 19 15 . The Afternoon Meeting Addresses.

A Conquering Faith.

A d d r e s s b y t h e C h a i r m a n , t h e R i g h t H o n . L o r d R a d s t o c k . R. STUART HOLDEN, my dear Christian he was a man frail in body and in health, with no human friends,— I feel it a very peculiar privilege to resources to back him, he was strong in faith. He dared M have been invited to take the chair on this to step forth upon the unknown. By faith he broke truly memorable occasion. I am quite sure free from the trammels of conventional religion and that the reason why the Council invited me to do so tradition, and stepped forth at the command of his L o r d ; was because from the earliest years of this Mission my and— the L o r d did not fail him. We read in the Prayer family has been intimately associated with it. I can Book Version of the 91st Psalm in the 10th verse : truly say that the name of Hudson Taylor was for “ They that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee, years a household word in our family, and, if for Thou hast never failed them that trust in Thee.” I am not greatly mistaken, one meeting, if not more, in Like Jeremiah of old, Hudson Taylor felt his own weak­ connection with the sailing of the first Lammermuir ness, and he said, “ L o r d , I am but a child ” ; but the party was held in my father’s house. You will under­ L o r d said, “ Say not, I am a child, for I have made stand, dear friends, therefore, how deep is our interest thee this day an iron pillar.” He turned the child into in connection with this work and how we thank G o d an iron pillar, and if ever an iron pillar was needed it for the privilege of coming and rejoicing with you this was needed for this work. What that dear man of afternoon and joining in praise and thanksgiving to G o d had to bear in the way of burden, responsibility, G o d . A s we were so well reminded in that wonderful and care, faith tested almost to the breaking point, 115th Psalm, it is not to God’s servants but to Him that probably no one on earth knows but himself and his G o d . we would give the praise and the glory. It is a very But G o d turned him, as he did Jeremiah, into an iron precious thought that dear Mr. Hudson Taylor and my pillar, and the iron pillar stood the test. There are father, who were thus associated in the early days, days many who have been turned into pillars of salt, alas, of small things, have now passed to the land be}rond, alas ; but he was turned into an iron pillar ; and to­ where faith has given way to sight, where they day what is he ? Not an iron pillar merely, but a pillar no longer see as “ through a glass darkly but face in the temple of our G o d , one who is rejoicing the heart to face,” and where they know that which they of his L o r d and glorifying His name. Yes, friends, could never know while they were upon earth. Surely that is his reward for daring to step out upon the if they are thinking upon us now—and who can unknown at the call of his Master. Surely when he say that they are not ?—they would urge us to go landed in that vast empire over fifty years ago it must forward in God' s name and to expect Him to do have seemed to him “ a valley of dry bones.” But greater things still. There is a passage which has Hudson Taylor did not question his Master's power to been very much upon my mind in connection with make those “ dry bones ” live. He had not the least this Jubilee. It is in the 4th chapter of Zechariah idea how it was going to be done ; but, like Ezekiel, and the 10th verse, these words : “ Who hath he said, “ I prophesied as I was commanded.” despised the day of small things ? ” We are probably He did not think out some elaborate subtle device, that all familiar with that scripture, but possibly we had never been thought of before, for arousing the may not all have noticed the remarkable marginal Chinese ; he simply “ prophesied as he was commanded.” note with reference to the passage, which follows. With what result ? By degrees— not at once—there It is “ since the seven eyes of the L ord shall was a gathering together, bone to his bone, by degrees rejoice.” How remarkable that at the very time the flesh began to come upon them, and the sinews, as when the world is despising what it calls the feeble, was actually the case in the early years of the history of futile efforts of God's people, at the very time when the China Inland Mission. There were no great evident perhaps even God’s people themselves, who have not results at first; but all the while there was a preparation very much faith, are discouraged and consider the day going on. As in Ezekiel's experience, so in the experi­ “ a day of small things,” even so, “ the seven eyes of the ence of the C.I.M., the time came when the L o r d the L ord,” the full-orbed vision of our blessed L ord, are Holy Spirit breathed upon those slain, those men and rejoicing. And why ? Because He can see right on women who were dead in trespasses and sins, and they from time into eternity. He sees that little acorn sown lived. Over fifty thousand of those spiritual skeletons in faith, and He knows that it will yet become a forest of have been raised up into an exceeding great army of mighty oak trees ; therefore He rejoices. He sees the the living G o d , and that army is increasing by enormous corn of wheat falling into the ground to die, and His eyes extensions, year by year. Yes; friends, Hudson Taylor rejoice because He knows that that corn of wheat will believed in G o d , and G o d did not fail him. yet produce a mighty harvest. The object of our gathering to-day is a twofold one. Dear friends, it seems to me that that passage is It is, first and foremost, to render praise and thanksgiv­ peculiarly applicable to the occasion which we are now ing to G o d , and then to see wliat lesson we may learn. celebrating— the Jubilee of the C.I.M. We thank G o d The outstanding lesson, surely, is this— that those who for that. We ask why was it tljat G o d chose as His dare to trust their G o d , who are not afraid of over­ instrument for this work Mr. Hudson Taylor, and we stepping convention, but who will take G o d at His think the answer is to be found in the fact that, while word, will be helped by G o d . He may test their faith, J u n e , 19 15 . China’s Millions. 89

B e may even allow His precious servants to pass away, days of wonderful opportunity G o d grant us grace to -to have their blood shed, or to y i e l d up their lives ; but be faithful, not to be as sons that sleep in harvest and -we know that “ the blood of the martyrs is the seed of therefore sons that cause shame, but rather to hear the Church,” and that that perhaps more than the voice of our blessed Master, “ Son ” or “ daughter,” anything else, that, with reference to which the ” go work to-day in my vineyard,” to-day, not at some 'world would say, “ To what purpose is this waste ? ” future indefinite time, but begin at once just in the way has proved to be a source of unbounded fruitfulness. that He may show. It may not be to work in China Hudson Taylor refused to doubt his G o d ; he refused to itself ; it may be to help the work in China at home ; -doubt His love ; he refused to doubt His power ; he but be that as it may, let us be perfectly certain that our refused to doubt His faithfulness ; and to-day he is blessed L o r d has just as definite a purpose and plan “blessing and praising G o d that he did have grace to for our lives as He had for His beloved servant. G o d -refuse to doubt in the time of faith-testing and trial. grant that we may show a like whole-hearted faithfulness •G o d give us a like faith, dear friends, and in these and obedience to the Divine call.

A Missionary Call and its Sequel. Address by the Rev. A. T. P o l h i l l , M.A., S z e c h w a n . WORD from Holy Scripture has been much upon did for the Continent of Africa in the nineteenth my mind to-day ; it is from Xehemiah xii. 42 : century, and I am persuaded that in future days the A “ And the singers sang aloud. Also that day name of Hudson Taylor will stand out as the Mis­ they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced, for sionary Pioneer of China. O o d had made them rejoice with great joy.” To-day, There are some here, probably, who may be con­ ■dear friends, we commemorate the Jubilee of the China templating the call to the mission field, and who per­ Inland Mission, and we thank G o d , as we look back, haps would ask, “ What was it that called you to for all that is past, and we look forward to all that is China ? ” I would put it very simply. My call to to come with a fresh faith and trust in G o d . A s I look China was no miraculous vision. It was the influence back on the days at Cambridge, I remind myself that of friends. It was the visit of Studd and Stanley Smith there are here on the platform those who were with me at their ante-farewell meeting. Their message was in those olden days, when we had that wonderful revival “ We are going to China.” It came as a shock to us 'which G o d sent through His servant, from America, students at Cambridge to see the successful cricketer Mr. D. L. Moody. I thank G o d that I was brought into who could make those centuries against the Australian contact with that man of G o d , and, through his instru­ bowling, to see the stroke of our Cambridge boat joining mentality, received such blessing to m37 soul. him, and to hear them saying that they were going to There are three names that will always be sacred to China. About that time we asked them down to our me, the names of Moody, Handley Moule, and Hudson Taylor. When I think of Moody I think of the word ■“ Come,” “ Come to Jesus ” ; and when I think of Handley Moule I think of the word “ Pray ” ; and when I think of Hudson Taylor I think of the word “ Go.” Or, to put it in another form, I should say that Moody took one from Romans iii. to Romans viii. He brought one to “ Xo condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus”; Handley Moule took us on to Romans xii. “ Present your bodies a living sacrifice ” ; and Hudson Taylor took us further still, right on to Hebrews xi., to the Heroes of faith. There we see pictured before the mind, Abraham, who “ went out not knowing whither he went. ’ ’ There we have the thought of Hudson Photo by] M T. Polhill. Taylor brought before us. I think of what Livingstone MR. POLHILL’S HOME IN SUITINGFU, SZECHWAN. 90 C hina’s Millions. J u n e , 19 15 .

country house near souls have been received into the Church, and our Bedford, and we had stations and out-stations number together 146. a farewell meeting on I remember well how on that first journey we had to that occasion. The put up at the rough Chinese inns. One night, result of that meeting we reached a village inn after a toilsome day, fairly was that my dear tired with the walk. We looked round on the little brother, who is on the company. There were several children in that com­ platform with me pany, all of whom were suffering with small-pox. We here, and I, wrote to could not isolate ourselves. There was no other room to Hudson Taylor to ask go into, so we spent the night there ; but we had to com­ for an interview, and mend ourselves to G o d in a special way and ask Him to a day or two later keep His children, and He kept us from all harm. Next found us at Pyrland day we passed on. The year 1888 was a wonderful year Road. That would for the work in S z e c h w a n . The station at Paoning be the first week of had been opened the year before. At the opening of January,i885. Thirty that station, I remember there was definite prayer made days elapsed, and that G o d would give us ten stations within the twelve we found ourselves months. Well, our G o d was faithful, and gave us seated in a railway those ten stations. carriage at Victoria Bishop Cassels is still working in Eastern S z e c h w a n . Station— seven stud­ I have not time to go into the details of all the work ents starting for which he has initiated. I will make mention of the Bible China. Training Institute at Paoning, where our helpers are Upon our arrival sent for two years' training. G o d has blessed that in China it was ar­ Training Home. There is also the hospital, recently ranged for us, in the finished, with two able men, qualified doctors, in charge. line of the Will of G o d is blessing that work. Then again there is the

■ . G o d , to have a divi­ Chengtu hostel, which was begun very largely by Eton­ Photo t>y \ [A.T.Polhill. sion in the province ians. The buildings are complete, and the work is of S z e c h w a n to be going forward, and G o d 's blessing rests upon it.

A CHINESE RAFT, worked under Epis­ But I pass on. The city of Pachow Sze was my home copal management, a for ten years. At the end of ten years a voice, as it Church of England were, spoke to me to go forward : “ Are you ready to section of the China Inland Mission. We went out give up your home here ? Are you ready to make a and began our work there. I think that the four words fresh start in a new place ? ” and the L o r d made me which came to Hudson Taylor, “ First far, then near.” willing to do His will, and I volunteered for extension from his epoch-making speech at the Conference in work. I feel, dear friends, that it is just as easy to get Shanghai in 1877 are words to be remembered. That settled down in the mission field as it is in your parish speech provoked a good deal of criticism. Hitherto mis­ sionary policy had been to begin at Shanghai, or near the coast, and then gradually go inland. Here, however, was a total reversion of that policy, namely, to go right to the extremity of China and to open a station at the capital of each Province. On these lines the C.I.M. went forward to occupy the provinces of China. A Contrast. When I first entered the Province of S z e c h w a n it was in company with my dear brother andMr. Albert Phelps. Our first journey overland was one of eighteen stages. We passed no stations on the way and no Christians along the road. To-day, after a period Photo 6y] [ A . T. PoUiiU. of thirty years, what has G o d done for us ? Three thousand A TEMPLE MEAR SUITINGFU, SZECHWAN. five hundred and fifty-four J u n e , 1915. C hina’s Millions. 91 at home, and we need sometimes “ the stirring of the that the L o r d was leading me the long journey, over nest.” The L o r d first of all made me willing, and then the mountains and narrow paths, to Chengtu. One. I prayed about this great region which was unevange­ did feel the L o r d ’s presence in a very wonderful way lized, and the L o r d sent me to a new city, Suitingfu, during that journey. About the second or third day where there had been no missionary and no work. For out I came to a village at the foot of a mountain, and as I sixteen years G o d has been with us there. Our friends stayed for rest and took out my Scriptures and tracts Dr. and Mrs. Wilson joined us in the hospital work and to distribute, and began to preach to the people, with the student work, and we had other fellow workers the aid of two helpers, I noticed the people come round there. The work is still going on. in somewhat large numbers. Very soon some of them I would ask your prayers that if, in the line of G o d ’s said, “ Two gentlemen want to come and call upon will, His voice once more calls us to “ Go forward,” you.” So I waited and they came. They were ex­ we may be willing and obedient and not hesitate to tremely friendly, and said that they wanted to hear give up work into the hands of others to carry on, in more of the gospel. Then a little later on they said, order to go where there has been no work before. “ We want you to stay and teach us,” and they told me the story of one of our church members, who had not A Fruitful Itinerary. been baptized very long. They told me how he had Shortly before I left China for my present furlough, come a week or two before, and had stayed to sell his I set out with my wrife and a little child, to itinerate merchandise, and at the same time to preach the gospel. in the country. After three weeks 1113^ dear wife re­ They said, “ We want to have a church here. We want turned home with the child, while I took a more exten­ to believe the Christian religion.” G o d seemed to incline sive journey further north. It was very wet at that the hearts of the people that night to come in a big time, the rain constantly falling, and the slippery paths crowd to hear. They brought presents 011 trays—I made travelling very difficult. At the close of that day, never had such a number of things brought to me. We on reaching the inn at night, my prayer was, “ Lord, felt that G o d was working. I have in my hand here make my way plain. Am I to continue this journey a little book which they presented to me. They said, round Chengtu, or to return by the shorter route ? ” I “ We want to have a church here, and we will begin remember saying, “ If it is thjT will that I should go the with a list of church members.” This little book con­ Chengtu road, make it fine to-morrow, with the shining tains the names of those church members, twelve of the sun. If not, I will take the shorter road. ” Next families and forty individuals. It is a very precious morning when I got up I saw the bright sun shining document to me. Will you pray for the people in overhead, so with quickened step I went forward, feeling that village ?

The Work at Nanpu, Szechwan. Address by Miss C. M . H a r l o w . N the autumn of 1907 I had the pleasure of going have classes for the Christians and for the enquirers. to Nanpu, in S z e c h w a n , to help in the work there. Besides all the church work, we have a large dispensary I Nanpu was opened as a Mission Station of the which is open three mornings in the week. Our aim in C.I.M. in the year 1902. The station is what the dispensary work is not so much the healing of the we call “ a ladies' station.” Miss F. H. Culverwell and body as the saving of the soul. G o d has richly used Miss F. Lloyd have been in charge there since the the dispensary as a means of drawing to us women and commencement of the work. We are working under the children whom/perhaps, we should never have been able direction of Bishop Cassels in the Church of England to get at in any other way. Sometimes we get very district. We have a small city church, capable of urgent cases, and the L o r d has very often used simple seating, I suppose, three hundred to four hundred people, means to the restoration of health. and the L o r d has given us some ver}' happy times in Then also, in connection with the work, we have a the work there. He has prepared for us a very' good boys’ boarding school. Two years ago we had just evangelist, for which we praise His name. We carr}T over twenty boys in the school. G o d has been very on our services on Sunday, and wre have classes for the good to us in giving us two Christian men as men and the women during the week. Besides the city teachers. Then we have a girls' school. For the last work we have four out-stations, and G o d has given few years we have had between sixty and seventy names blessing in all of these. In three of them we have on the book, with a very good average attendance. This resident helpers who from time to time come into the is the part of the work to which I have been chiefly mother church, and we are able to give them teaching. giving my time. The work amongst the children is As to the other one, which is onh some ten miles from most interesting. We have a lady teacher for the Nanpu, we usually either send someone to take the Chinese books, and we ourselves give the other instruc­ services or we ourselves go. It has been my privilege tion. We, of course, make the Bible our chief book, to go to each one of them ; and I do thank G o d for the and it is very wonderful to see how the L o r d is opening men and the women who, in these villages, are witnessing* up the minds of these little ones who conic into the for Him. school and who do not know the name of Jesus. Two Besides our out-station work, we have all the work years ago, just before leaving the station, I had the joy that a city church means. During the week, we hold of seeing five of the school girls being received into the classes for men and for women, and I am glad to say Church. Of course, previously to that others had been that in many cases these are very well attended. We received ; but I just mention that to show you that. 92 China’s Millions. June, 19 15 .

make the slightest impres­ sion upon her. We were having a Bible school for country women. We invited the city women also to come up every day for the classes This dear old woman was invited to come. She came. The last day. after the class had been taken, as was our usual custom, we were ques­ tioning on the address, and on those addresses which had been given during those few days. It was simply wonderful to see the way in which that dear old lady opened out. Instead of her face looking so wooden and so dull, it just shone. We questioned her, and found that she could answer quite intelligently about most of the lessons that she had been taught for those two years. I tell you this just as an encouragement and as showing how the L o r d is working in our midst. Of course there is discourage­ ment, perhaps one and an­ other falls away ; but G o d is working, and I feel that the L o r d is working in our midst. It has been my plan if G o d had done nothing else in the city of Nanpu it to visit in the homes of the school girls. We feel that in would have been worth while to open the station for doing this work we are able to get into touch with the the sake of that one old soul. Since I have left the parents. Practically in all cases the children come from station she has passed into eternity. heathen homes, and we find that through the school we I would like to say to you young men and women have many open doors. When we go out with the Bible how we need workers. Every station in our own part in women, we, of course, have a plan as to where we shall Eastern S z e c h w a n is undermanned. There are open •go ; but it is often very difficult to get to the place we doors on every side. The people are willing ; they are set out to visit. On all sides there are invitations, anxious to hear. What can we three do in that large “ Oh, do come in and stay awhile and tell us the gospel. portion which is allotted to us ? Besides our city and Tell 11s the good news that our little children tell us the four out-stations there are one hundred and seventy- about.” six markets needing the Gospel. Are you coming to I would like to ask you this afternoon to pray very help us ? much for the women and the girls of China. God has spoken to many in our city. I would like to tell you of M r . K . Vatsaas, writing from Lungchiichai, S h e n s i , one old woman. on March 2nd, says :— “ From February 15th to 22nd In the early days, before there was a station at we held a conference here, which was attended by Nanpu, this woman’s husband kept an inn. He was an Christians from the out-stations, as well as those living ardent idol worshipper. Before the station was opened, near by. Mr. and Mrs. Englund came over from Lantien missionaries travelling through that city always stayed to help us ; also Miss Edlund, from Wukung. The at that inn. Later on the old innkepeer died and hit, son messages from G o d ’ s Word were given in the power carried on the business. He came into touch with the of the H oly Spirit, and resulted in conviction, con­ Gospel, and his old mother persecuted him very much. fession, and restoration. Nine persons were received When he said that he wished to follow the L ord, she was by baptism into church fellowship during the con­ very angry indeed. But the son persisted in his purpose ference. Other results of the gathering were, that to follow the true God. He determined to burn his more than 80,000 cash was contributed, whilst the idols. The day came when the idols were to be burned ; Christians offered themselves without wages to go out but when he sent for them, the idols were nowhere to to testify for the L o r d during the year, in all twenty- be found. They had been hidden. Eventually some eight months, or 840 days. Please join us in thanking of them were found and burned. The son continued to G o d for these mercies, and pray that those baptized •come to us ; but the old woman was very hard indeed. may walk worth}7 of the L o r d , and that the money con­ Two years passed, and she was still the same old hard tributed, as well as the time offered for direct testimony, ’woman. Nothing that was said or done seemed to may be acceptably spent for G o d .” J u n e , 1915. China’s Millions. 93

The Swedish Mission in China.

A d d r e s s b y D r . K a r l F r i e s , o f S t o c k h o l m .

Y Lord, Christian friends,— On a Saturday after­ What he saw then of men and women who had noon in the autumn of 1882 a young Swede seen active service on the mission field encouraged M was walking along one of the streets near him and gripped him in such a way that he said, Mildmay Park when he met a countryman “ My life for China.” But the way did not seem from Gothenburg whom he knew. They were mutually to open just then. While lie was attending a meeting surprised at finding each other walking about in this in the home of Mrs. Boardman, in 1 irayton Park, a letter great capital of the world. On comparing their plans was read from an elderly lady saying that she was willing they found that the one from Gothenburg intended to to supply the means for the outfit and the travelling go to the weekly prayer meeting of the China Inland expenses of a young man willing to go to China. There Mission which was then held at the Mission Home in was present Mrs. Baxter, who knew about .Mr. Folke’s Pyrland Road. The other one, whose name was Josef wishes and his difficulties. She turned to him and said, Holmgren, had no special aim, so joined his friend and ‘‘ Now, my friend, your way to China is open.” It was, in this way made his first acquaintance with the principles but only jtist the way to China, not much more. He and practice of the China Inland Mission. The sim­ returned home before starting for China and got into plicity and the earnestness of that meeting as conducted touch with the people who had been impressed by what by the late venerable Mr. B. Broomhall impressed the Mr. Holmgren had written. He arrived in China in young Swede immensely. He had never been present March, 1887. Two months later a committee was at anything like it before. As he some time later met formed in Stockholm with the intention of providing Mr. Hudson Taylor, this impression was deepened by means for his support and for sending out fellow-workers what he heard from him and what he saw in him. After to be with him. This was the beginning of the Mission his return to Sweden this young man did all that he could which I have the honour of representing among you to spread the knowledge of this Mission in Sweden. In to-day. this w ay G o d quietly prepared the way for the work With that truly Christian generosity and hospitality that was to follow and grow increasingly during subse­ which is one of the outstanding characteristics of the quent years. Just about the same time there was a China Inland Mission, Mr. Folke, on arrival at Shanghai, young student in Upsala, the oldest University town in was hospitably received at the Mission Home there, and Sweden. His name probably is known to some of you. also at the language school in Anking. He was invited It is Erik Folke. While listening one evening to the to join the China Inland Mission as one of its regular burning words of a Norwegian missionary from India, workers ; but he said, “ I have pledged myself to my he felt the call in his heart to give his life to the service Swedish friends, who are willing to support me, and of God among the heathen. This was a time when G o d who are willing also to send out other workers from was working wonderfully among students in many lands. Sweden. I think that this work ought to be, and con­ In Upsala in those years there was started a Student Mission­ ary Association. I had the privi­ lege of being its secretary, and as such I had the privilege of re­ ceiving Mr. Folke’s applica­ tion for mem­ bership in it. Through the guidance of G o d he was led to see China as the land that claimed, above all 'others, his life as a sac­ rifice towards its salvation. He went to London in order to learn more about mis­ sions in general and very speci­ ally about China. 94 China's Millions. J u n e , 1915. tinue to be, supported and conducted from Sweden.” Yangchau ; fourthly, The transfer of money and goods In this way, step by step, the agreement was arrived at on the field and to the field ; fifthly— and this is very which afterwards became a pattern of the agreements important, I think— The authentication of the Mission between the China Inland Mission and the various before the general public, the more important as, just associated Missions which belong to it. The Swedish as I have mentioned, there is no Church or strong Mission in China, as founded and conducted by Mr. constituency backing the Mission ; sixthly, Impulses Folke, was the pioneer. and inspiration through visits and journeys in Sweden They had a sphere allotted to them in the provinces by representatives of the C.I.M. First and foremost of Shensi, Shansi, and H o n a n , just at the point where among these I must mention dear Mr. Hudson Taylor, these three provinces adjoin each other, wrhere the who, accompanied by his eldest son, visited Sweden in Yellow River, flowing southwards for a time, turns the autumn of 1889. I had the privilege cf being his sharply to the eastward. On this field, which comprises interpreter when he spoke to the students in Upsala. I thirty-eight hsien districts, there are now about six shall never forget the impression I received from him, million in­ b o t h as a ha b itants, speaker and just about as a Christ­ the same as ian man. I in the whole t r a v e 11 e d of Sweden. w i t h hi m The Swedish from Stock­ Mission has holm to Up­ twelve sta­ sala. I knew tions there that he was and forty- w e ig h te d — three out-sta- overwhel 111- t i o n s a n d ed I might twenty - one s a y — with other places the burden of for regular work and re­ p r e a c h i n g. sponsibility ; The work is and yet there carried on was a calm­ by forty-six ness and a Swedish mis­ c o m p o s u r e sionaries of over his whole both sexes, personality and a cor­ which im ­ responding pressed me num ber of enormously. Chinese help­ I saw, as it ers. There were, a living are a little illustration of o v e r o n e that w e ll- thousand known saying communicants at present. They have fourteen day of the prophet: “ He that believeth shall not make haste,” schools, two seminaries, five opium refuges, and and, I may add, shall yet get through a good deal of three dispensaries. During last year they circu­ work. Mr. Hudson Taylor repeated his visit in 1896 lated about 45,000 copies of the Bible, or parts of and in 1897. Each time the result was a closer connec­ it, and about 35,000 other Christian Scriptures, tion between the Swedish Mission in China and the books or booklets. From the beginning of this Mission C.I.M. and a deepened interest in missions, especially, of the means given towards its support have amounted course, China missions, in various parts of the country. to the sum of ¿100,000. There is no Church organiza­ Naturally, it took time to visit many places. In later tion or any very strongly organized constituency backing years his successor, Mr. Hoste, as the Director of the the Mission. The contributions come from individuals Mission, has twice, I think it is, visited Sweden, although belonging to various towns, and small working parties. he has not had time to stay long or to visit many places. We follow the example of the China Inland Mission in We also gratefully recognize the repeated visits of Mr. never asking for donations or collections, or using any Sloan, who not only carried on negotiations writh the elaborate schemes for getting together certain sums. We Committee and created deepened interest in missions, just trust God and go forward. This is one of the but also helped us greatly, by most valuable addresses, points in which we have learned from the C.I.M. Other towards the deepening of the spiritual life in general. points in which we are indebted to the China Inland We have also had visits from Mr. Beauchamp, Miss Mission— and we gladly recognize this indebtedness— Williamson, Miss Soltau, Miss Gregg, and other workers are the following : firstly, Methods of work in general ; of the China Inland Mission. We have always been secondly, Training and testing of candidates in England ; greatly benefited and helped by these visits. For these thirdly, The reception of missionaries in Shanghai and and for many other instances of Christian courtesy and their training in the language schools in Anking and readiness to help during these twenty-seven years, we J u n e , 19 15 . China's Millions. 95 feel deeply grateful, and I am here just to convey to you in school and my fellow-student in the University of representatives of the C.I.M. the expression of this Upsala. I mention him chiefly because, as Mr. Broom- gratitude, with our heartfelt congratulations on the fifty liall says in his book, “ The Jubilee Story of the China years of }rour history which are now completed, and, Inland Mission ” — lie was marked with an almost apos­ together with that, to express our warmest wishes for tolic devotion and fervour. His name was Emmanuel G o d ’s abundant blessing upon you in years to come. Olsson. I noticed when in 1007 1 visited China that the The outlook just now, with war raging round us in people who knew him had tears in their eyes when they Europe and with war threatening that country the love spoke about him, although so many years after. He of which has gathered us here to-day, is certainly not must have given himself to the service of G o d among the bright; and yet we claim the truth of that word once heathen in a wonderful way. He practically died of spoken by Mr. Hudson Taylor in a critical situation : overstrain, together with pneumonia I think, in 18Q4. 41 The future is as bright as the promises of G o d .” It was only three years that he spent in China ; and yet Although I am here as an official representative only those three years left such a mark. The Holiness Union, of the Swedish Mission in China, the one called so, 1 so called, has its field in China between the two arms of take the liberty of speaking a word also on behalf of the the big wall up in the northern part of Siiansi. It has other Associate Missions, particularly those belonging to thirty-two missionaries on that field, and between four Sweden, as I am also the Chairman of what might be hundred and five hundred communicants at present. called the Continuation Committee in Sweden where The other one, the Swedish Alliance Mission, originally these missions are represented. They are the Swedish one of the branches of the »Scandinavian China Alliance, Holiness Union and the Swedish Alliance Mission. Both founded by Mr. Franson, having its centre in Chicago, owe their origin to the influence of a man with a burning has now sixteen Swedish missionaries in China. The zeal and a tremendous will power. His name was parent organization has fifty-six American-Swedes in F. Franson. In the beginning of the nineties he visited connection with the China Inland Mission. There are Sweden. He was himself a Swedish-American. He also Associate Missions in Finland and Norway, all of stirred people up in a wonderful way. About forty them more or less created under the influence of this missionaries sailed from Sweden in the course of the Mr. Franson. Altogether the eleven Associate missions year 1892-93 in consequence of his preaching. Some number two hundred and seventy-seven missionaries in of them, I am afraid we must say, were not very well connection with the China Inland Mission. fitted for missionary service ; but among them were I do not think that I am mistaken if I say on their such as, by tremendous energy and perseverance, and behalf to the representatives and leaders of the China by truly consecrated zeal, acquired an ability which is Inland M issio n , Thank you for all that you have done really very remarkable. Many of them laid down their for us, and G o d bless and guide you in the future. lives with the true martyr spirit in the Boxer riots. One, You have given unstintedly of the gifts which G o d has at least, I must mention, I cannot speak of many. He given to you, inspiration, guidance, from your experi­ was the pioneer of the Holiness Union. I mention him ence, help in many ways, and I am sure that you will because I love him so much. He was my class mate experience in the future, as you have experienced in the past, that the liberal soul shall be made fat, and that he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

Mr. H. A. C. Allen, writing on February 19th, from Yunnanfu, says :— “ Just now M rs. Allen and I are giving special atten­ tion to the work in Peh-ch'en. Each evening theTe is an audience of over cne hundred people, and we have now sixty- eight enqui ers, who have put away their idols, in spite of not a little persecution in the dist ict. After a few months of special effort there, we intend moving on to Sih- oh-hsien, the city of the earthquake in 1913, when about a thousand people were killed. Already the L o r d has given us fruit there. Two days beyond lies Sin- p’ing-hsien. These two cities are centres of tens of thousands of aboriginals, who are very accessible. Two have already been baptized, whilst we have nearly a hundred enquirers amongst them."

Prayer for China.— We cordially invite our friends to the meeting for prayer for the work in China held every Saturday afternoon, from four o’clock, at the Head­ AN AUDIENCE IN THE CHAPEL OF THE SWEDISH ALLIANCE quarters of the Mission, Newington Green, MISSION AT SARATSI. Mildmay, N. 9G C h in a’s Millions. J u n e , 19 15.

A Retrospect.

A d d r e s s b y W a l t e r B . S l o a n , A s s i s t a n t H o m e D i r e c t o r . ORD RADSTOCK, Christian friends,— It is im­ time of gaining a footing in China, and preparing the possible, in celebrating the Jubilee of the work way for the future. The great city of Hangchow, L of the China Inland Mission, to avoid referring where we, and others along with us, are still working,, again and again to the ministrj^ of Mr. Hudson was the cradle of the Mission, and from that, as a centre, Taylor. At the time when he passed away into the the missionaries, having studied the language, and got L o r d ’s presence his successor used these words with some small knowledge of how to begin the work, grad­ reference to him : “ The work of Mr. Taylor, as founder ually spread out. It was still, of course, a time when of the China Inland Mission, has indeed been something the attitude of the Chinese was sternly opposed to the unique in the history of missionary enterprise ; and it presence of foreigners. At Yangchow, in the first in­ may be added that his place in the love and confidence stance, the little Mission— Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Taylor of his brethren has seldom, if ever, been surpassed by being there with a small band— passed through a ter­ any Christian leader.” I do not think that any student ribly serious riot. It was only through the mercy of of Mr. Hudson Taylor’s history will doubt the first part God that none of their lives were lost. At Anking of that statement, and I do not think that any of his there was another serious riot, the brethren there having co-workers will for a moment dispute the last. I am to leave the city. It was during this period that Mrs. inclined to think that perhaps the very greatest aspect Hudson Taylor passed away. Her death was a great of Mr. Hudson Taylor’s ministry was the way in which loss to her husband, and a great loss to the China Inland he was used of G o d to call out others to share with him Mission. As this first decade drew to its close Mr. in the work, to lead these others on, and to organize Hudson Taylor returned to the Homeland. In addition the work so that when he left it the work went on, and to the work which had been going on in the province felt to such a slight extent, as far as its progress was of Ch ekian g, the new Mission had entered the pro­ concerned, his being called away. We have had read vinces of K iangsu, A n h w ei, K ian gsi, and Hu peh . from G o d 's Word this afternoon these words : “ Not The Second Decade. unto us, O L o r d , not unto us, but unto Thy name be the glory for Thy mercy and for Thy truth’s sake.” It Now we come to the second decade. It was a period is in that attitude that we wish to speak of the work of wide-spread itineration, long journeys being made of the Mission at this time of jubilee ; and I am certain which eventually resulted in the opening up of the far that, if Mr. Hudson Taylor himself could have shared interior. In January, 1 8 7 5 , Mr. Hudson Taylor issued our meeting here to-day, it would have been that note an appeal here at home largely for prayer to the end that he would have emphasized. that eighteen men might be found to enter the nine interior provinces that were still unopened. Some of The New Premises at Shanghai. these offered from amongst the men already in the In the year 1890 he returned to China after a visit Mission in China, and others offered in the Homeland. home and found the new premises there which were In September, 18 7 6 , Mr. Taylor again sailed for China, such a welcome gift to the Mission, and which have been a small party with him. On this occasion the L o r d - so useful since. They were erected while he was away. answered prayer in a way that must be for ever memor­ Some time afterwards, writing a letter to the friends in able to those who are acquainted with it. Owing to the Homeland, he referred to the fact that as he entered the murder of Mr. Margary away on the frontier between the new premises he read an inscription to this effect: China and Burmah, the British Government and the “ These premises have been erected to the glory of G o d , Chinese Government were almost at war. When Mr. and for the furtherance of His Kingdom in China, with Hudson Taylor left England the British Ambassador funds specially contributed for the purpose.” Then he had left Pekin. Six days after Mr. Taylor left, Li Hung- added : “ May G o d ’s glory and the furtherance of His Chang, having come down after the Ambassador to Kingdom be ever our aim, and no less object. I felt glad Chef00, signed there what is known as the Chef00 Con­ to see that the C.I.M. was not even mentioned in the vention ; but as Mr. Taylor left England people were inscription.” We all know that Mr. Hudson Taylor often saying to him, “ What is the use of going to China, and referred to the history of the work and of G o d ’s dealings especially with more missionaries ? Your missionaries- with him ; but it was ever from the standpoint that this will all need to leave the interior before long.” Mr. work was G o d ’ s work, and that the full glory and honour Taylor’s comment with reference to that was this : of it must be rendered to Him only. We have, as Dr. “ The negotiations may have failed ; but prayer has Fries has already mentioned, published, in connection not failed.” What happened ? Within six days of with this event, “ The Jubilee Story of the Mission,” * the time of his sailing, while he was still at sea, this written by our Editorial Secretary, Mr. Marshall Broom- Convention was signed. What did it mean ? It hall. That book, if you will kindly read it, will give meant the opening up, as far as Chinese permission was you an adequate, although a necessarily brief, history concerned, of the interior of China for foreigners to of the Mission up to this time ; and I am sure that it travel through ; and, by the time that Mr. Taylor contains many facts that are unknown even to those reached China, already some of his co-workers had who are greatly interested in the Mission. started away into those far-off provinces, and we have I will now ask you to follow me as we look, very to-day with us on the platform— and he will be speaking briefly, at the five decades that are past. to-night— our brother, Mr. C. H. Judd, who was one of As far as the first decade was concerned, it was the those who took part in those long itineraries. During * See advertisement page 100. the following two years the whole of the nine untouched Ju x e . 1915. China’s Millions. 97

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THE BUND AT SHANGHAI. provinces were visited. I do not think that it was heart of his servant Hudson Taylor, and G o d blessed looked upon at that time by the missionaries in China and prospered the diligent and sacrificial ministry of or by the Christian Church as a very great event. We those men who thus laboured and spent their time and had the pleasure of having Dr. Eugene Stock on the strength to open up the interior. platform this afternoon. I am afraid that he has already I shall take the following period as twenty years. I had to go. In telling of these events, in the history take two decades together, because they are largely of the C.M.S., and in describing how these things were characterized by the same features. These were the looked at, he has used these words : “ What good could years when the China Inland Mission received such large such aimless wanderings effect ? How could incessant reinforcements. We began in 1886 with 177 mission­ journeyings over vast areas be called evangelization ? aries. We finished in 1905 with 825 missionaries. It Where was the ‘ precept upon precept,' the ' line upon was during this period that seventy missionaries went line ’ ? The answer was that it was good thing to out in three years, then the Cambridge Band, of which familiarize the people with the fact that there were we have heard in 1885, and two years after that, 100 persons who affirmed that they had gocd tidings to missionaries went out in one year. Of those 100 mis­ proclaim. To settle down in a strange city was difficult, sionaries thirty-eight still remain in connection with indeed it was often impossible ; but a passing visitor the China Inland Mission and its work. This period also might be welcome— as he often was— and more welcome witnessed remarkable extensions in connection with when he came a second time, as also proved frequently the Home basis of the Mission. Mr. Taylor, by in­ to be the case. The work, in fact, only professed to be vitation, visited the United States and Canada, Aus­ preparatory ; and in that sense after years showed tralia and Tasmania, and then, as we have heard, Sweden that its success was unmistakable. Gradually, but and also Germany, and gradually from those countries after a considerable time, not only the C.I.M., but many workers joined us. Dr. Fries mentioned the fact— let other societies, the C.M.S. for one, established regular me repeat it—that to-day we have eleven associated stations in the remoter provinces, and of all these new Missions with 277 missionaries, all of them the result missions the C.I.M.men were the courageous forerunners.” of the extensions of that time. It was also, of course, God justified the purpose which He had put into the the period of the opening of many new stations. We 98 C h in a’s Millions. June, 1915. began the period with 48 stations, and we finished it much against persecution as against monotony. The with 200 stations. From the close of 1905 we have people in this city take a tremendous deal of rousing up. only increased the stations by about 37. As a result Praise G o d , He leads us to individuals, and we believe of the early and widespread itineration the work came there is a work going on in some hearts.” What are the to be carried on in a more localized way. Stations were results to-day ? Some of our Swedish Associate friends opened, in which a work of instruction had to go on, eventually came to take up that work. There are 14 and then itineration was made round these local centres. stations, 35 chapels, and 1,003 church members through­ That itineration was frequently of a very striking char­ out the district. acter. It is only possible, as you will understand, to In the same year our brethren Messrs. Vale and Ririe, give you the very slightest illustrations of this. both of whom are still in the Mission and at work in China, In the year 1888, two brethren, Messrs. Botham and went to Western China and to the city of Kiatingfu. Redfern, started work on the great Sian Plain in the pro­ They have put it on record that for some two years they vince of Shensi. Before the year closed they were joined were never two nights in the house together. One went by Mr. Bland, who is present with us in the meeting to-day, out itinerating and the other waited at the centre. The but both Mr. Botham and Mr. Redfern have passed to first one came back and the second one went out. For their reward. In the next year, 1889, Mr. Botham was two years they itinerated like that constantly round married, and his wife shared those early days of labour 1 the whole neighbourhood until a know­ and toil. She is still in the Mission, and we hope that, ledge of the Gospel in an initial way had •God willing, their son is going out to China very shortly spread among the people, the fruitful in connection with us. What transpired ? On the /I results of which have been reaped since last day of 1888, after months of living in inns, they at then. In a yearly report, Mr. Vale wrote : last secured three rooms in an inn in Fengsiangfu. 1 “ I find that I have visited 19 walled cities These three rooms were the sole and only possession of .and 81 towns and villages and have these workers of the China Inland Mission in that dis­ travelled about 1,400 miles. Of course trict for the four following years. No one will ever be that does not show how many have been able to tell what that work visited twice or thrice. Then I am in the cost, and no one will ever be I city half the time, so Mr. Ririe has prob­ able to tell the joy and glad­ ably visited as many places as myself. ness that filled the hearts of Not a few in our district now know some- these servants of Christ as : thing about the Gospel, and it is encourag­ they went steadily forward. ing to find that both we and our object are I was struck, in reading well known.” the other night about them, But I must hurry on to speak very how, when they went first briefly of the last decade and its close. to the plain, they made an One of the striking effort here and there to get a features of the last house, but without success. ten years in China Then they said to them­ has been the spiritual selves, “ The L ord has not quickening that has commanded us to go and come in the Church. rent houses ; but he has We have all read of commanded us to go and the ministry of Mr. preach the Gospel, and we Goforth. We have will do it.” The}7 did it. I with us here to-day will tell you in a moment one of our own with what results. In order missionaries, Mr. to try to get right back into Lutley. To a large the midst of it, listen to extent he shared the this statement made by Mr. ministry in S h a n s i Botham in 1891 : “ The when Mr. Goforth was work in Fengsiangfu is still there. He has also against wind and tide. visited other parts of Though there is little open Chinaand seen G o d 's opposition now, there is blessing and power much to remind us that we working amongst the are only as sheep among people. One of his wolves. We have made some Chinese associates, friends and there are many Wangchitai, has been interested in the G ospel; remarkably and but the opposition of the powerfully used of officials is almost vicious, G o d . Another Chi­ though, as they suppose, nese worker from the concealed from us. Will province of A n h w e i , you pray for the Sian Plain Mr. Hsieh, went to

workers that G o d will give HOUSE BOAT IN CREEK NEAR SHANGHAI. H o n a n as, as some­ us patience to stand, not so one described him at J u n e , 1 9 1 5 . China’s Millions. 99 the time, a very ordinary Christian. He passed through where, into the little chapel schools in the morning, one of Mr. Goforth’s missions, and came home a man before anybody was about, boys were seen to go alone anointed with the Spirit of G o d . Since then his to pray to G o d to bless them in their examination. ministry has largely consisted in going from place to Mr. E. J. Cooper writes from his school at Hungtung. place, and conducting meetings for the Church mem­ He tells of how three of his boys have left to take posi­ bers, and G o d has greatly blessed him. tions as village school teachers, and three to be medical Great Development. students with Dr. Carr at Pingyangfu. “ Another left There has been great development in the Church life at the beginning of last year to teach in an outside in these ten years. An immense amount has been done school, but is now going to take one of our village schools. in the way of instruction, preaching, and upbuilding. One other has become a teacher in a station school. We have now five Bible schools in China with regular Three former students who have been with Dr. Carr in courses for two years, and important work is being done the hospital have just passed the Entrance Examination in training and preparing leaders. At the beginning of to Hankow Medical College.” this last decade, in our schools— I speak now of the Now I must close. I wish that I had been able more educational work for a moment— we had 2,997 scholars. adequately to describe these decades to you. The We now have 9,707. That will show you what the base of this work has been faith. Let me emphasize this increase has been. in a closing moment. That is what it must be for the I want to take you just for a moment into the midst future. What does it involve ? A work of faith always of these schools. One letter received from Kanchow, starts from this standpoint : This is G o d ’s work. It in the province of K ia n g s i, says this : “ Our school sees G o d right in the midst of it. That is the great reports came in a week ago. You may know that our essential. Then the next thing is the confidence that, children have been working according to the Central because it is His work, He will grant guidance in it, and China Christian Educational Union for the past four power. Then the next thing is the confidence that, years.”—That is a Union in which the Missions are because it is His work, He will supply its needs. The united.— “ This is the same curriculum as adopted in final thing is that, because it is G o d 's work, and He Jaochow, so our schools are practically the same, ours calls us to it, we are bound to obey. All that we have being a central school for some districts in the south. had to say to-day of the past is, in some measure, with One sixth-year boy headed the Union. Another passed all its failures, an illustration of its relationship with third. First place in sixth year Scripture and mathe­ G o d , and we look to Him that, through His grace, the matics came to our boys, each with 100 per cent. Others future may be more truly a work of faith and labour passed most creditably.” of love and a means of yet far deeper and fuller blessing There is another record of one of these examinations to the multitudes in China.

In Memoriam— Mr. Thom as James.

T is with much Those were the days when hardship and danger were sorrow that we the common experience of the pioneer, and Mr. James I report that Mr. suffered both riot and violence in the prosecution of Thomas James, his labours, upon one occasion at least nearly sacrificing after thirty years’ his life. Humanly speaking, only a tropical downpour work for G o d in of rain saved him from being cast into a pit, whither China, died at the mob were dragging him. B o u rn em o u th on April 15th. Mr. Writing from the Yamen, where he was being protected James sailed for after this riot, he said : “ This morning I am far from China in January, feeling like running away, %but apart from headache 1885, as a strong and a few bumps on the head, I am all right. As man with a peculiar­ regards my possessions, T am free to leave at any time, ly bright and sunny but shall be guided by circumstances until your, letter disposition. He was arrives.” immediately appoint­ In 1890 Mr. James, shortly after his marriage, left ed as one of a little for S z e c h w a n , settling in at the station of Luchow, band of workers, where he laboured until obliged, through ill-health, to who, under the lead­ return to this country. The work of this centre has been ership of Mr. Adam difficult and often discouraging. The whole neighbour­ Dorward, were seek­ hood has been more or less permeated with secret ing to enter closed societies, and during recent years the country has been THE LATE MR. THOS. JAMES. H u n a n . Shasi, their infested with brigands. Yet, in face of these trials, base, was reached on Mr. James has travelled extensively throughout the April nth, where surrounding districts until compelled in 1913, after a Mr. James settled to the study of the language.slight From stroke, to relinquish his work in China. We most this time until the year 1890, when Mr. James was earnestly commend his bereaved wife and family to the married, he continued to devote his energies towards prayers of G o d ’s people in these days of their deep and the opening of H u n a n . personal sorrow. 100 China’s Millions. J u n e , 1 9 15 ^

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING APRIL, 1915 — Continued. For General Fund.— Continued. R ect. No. £ *. d R ect. N o. £ s. d. R ect. N o. £ s. d. R ect. N o. £ a. d . Rect. N o £ a. d Rect. No. £ s. d. 23. 8776 2 0 0 26. 8790 3 0 0 27. 8803 5 13 1 28. 8820 1 0 0 29. 8834 0 0 6 30. 8848 1 0 0 24. 8777 1 0 0 8791 1 0 0 8804 0 5 Ó 8821 20 0-0 8835 0 10 0 8849 0 3 6 8778 0 5 0 8792 0 7 0 8805 1 0 0 29. 8822 7 5 6 8836 1 0 0 8850 0 10 0 8779 2 2 0 8793 7 10 0 8806 0 14 0 8823 0 5 0 Anon. 0 10 0 8853 10 0 0 8780 1 0 0 8794 0 10 6 8807 0 5 6 8824 0 5 0 8839 50 0 0 8854 5 0 0 8782 4 14 2 Anon., ) o 8808 1 0 0 . 8825 2 0 0 L eg a cy . 359 1 0 8855 2 2 0 U 1U1 n U 8783 0 3 0 Illackrock. I 8809 0 10 0 8826 0 5 0 8841 2 0 0 L eg a cy. 89 14 6 8784 1 1 0 27. 8796 0 5 0 28. 8811 11 11 0 8827 14 0 0 30. 8842 0 18 0 L e g a cy 10 0 0 8797 0 10 6 8815 0 9 0 8828 2 0 0 8843 0 2 6 £1,747 4 7 26. 8786 1 10 0 8798 4 0 0 8816 1 1 0 8829 1100 8844 150 8787 0 15 0 8799 0 10 6 8817 1 0 0 8830 100 8845 17 5 0 8788 5 0 0 8800 2 19 7 8818 1 0 0 8831 0 7 0 8846 1 0 0 8789 2 0 0 8801 0 15 0 8819 2 4 0 8833 0 10 0 8847 5 0 0 For Special Purposes. Rect. N o £ s. d. R ect. N o £ s. d. Rect. N o £ s. d R ect. N o. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. 1. 8477 8 16 5 6. 8533 0 5 0 10. 8630 3 0 0 14. 8686 10 0 0 24. 8781 12 10 0 29. 8837 2 0 0 8478 3 10- 0 8535 0 10 0 8632 140 0 0 8687 2 0 0 27. 8802 2 0 0 30. 8851 50 0 0 8479 0 10 0 8544 10 0 0 8636 1 5 0 15. 8697 5 8 0 28. 8810 10 10 0 8852 3 0 0 8495 3 0 0 8548 1 0 0 8640 2 10 0 16. 8700 5 0 0 8812 1 0 0 8856 1 0 0 8500 7 0 0 8559 3 1 1 8642 2 4 9 8705 0 15 0 8813 1 0 0 6. 8506 25 0 0 7. 8563 25 0 0 8643 19 1 7 17. 8712 0 12 6 8814 2 10 0 £617 8 2 8508 1 0 0 8566 1 0 0 12. 8647 52 0 0 19. 8720 1 0 0 29. 8832 3 0 0 8509 3 18 6 8577 12 0 0 8648 0 10 0 20. 8724 3 0 0 SUMMARY. 8510 10 0 0 8. 8593 3 0 0 13. 8664 6 0 0 8728 17 8 4 £ s. d . 8511 4 0 0 8608 8 13 0 8671 1 10 0 8729 18 2 6 General 1,747 4 7 8514 5 0 0 9. 8616 24 0 0 8673 3 0 0 21. 8734 210 0 Special 617 8 2 8518 5 0 0 8618 9 0 0 8675 5 0 0 8743 2 0 0 8524 30 0 0 8620 1 5 0 8677 1 0 0 22. 8753 1 5 0 Total for April 2,364 12 9 8525 0 1 0 8625 5 7 10 8678 0 10 0 8760 0 4 0 Brought forward 13,140 11 0 8529 5 0 0 8627 0 12 6 14. 8680 0 15 0 8762 0 10 0 Total £15,505 3 9 8532 2 0 0 10. 8628 0 5 0 8681 1 2 5 8765 0 18 9

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LONDON COUNCIL. Home Director R e v . J. S t u a r t H o l d e n , M .A. Assistant Home Director W a l t e r B. S l o a n . W illiam Sharp, 60, Watling Street, B.C. I Ce c il H. P o l n il l , Howbury Hall, Bedford. C. T. FlSHE, 25, Homefield Road, Wimbledon. I LiEut.-Col. J. Winn, R.E.. Whyteleafe, The Grange, W imbledon. P. S. B ad E n o ch , Mildmay, Belmont Road, Reigate. Colonel S. D. ClEEVE, R.E., Priory Court, Belvedere Avenue, R e v . J. J. L u c e , M.A., St. Nicholas Vicarage, Gloucester. Wimbledon. H. MillnER Morris, Sannox, Salisbury Road, Carshalton, Surrey. Treasurer : Albert A. Head. Secretary : F. Marcus Wood. Editorial Secretary : M arshall BroomhalL, M.A.

Secretary Women’s Department : M iss H. E. S o lta u . Accountant : W. S. H a y e s . Bankers : London County and Westminster Bank, Limited, 21, Lombard Street, London, E.C. All donations to be addressed to the Secretary. Money Orders (payable at G.P.O.) and Cheques to be made payable to the China Inland Mission, and crossed “ London County and Westminster Bank.” It is specially requested that on every occasion when money is sent for the support of, or for the work of, any particular Missionary, or for any Mission object such as the support of a Chinese Helper, a Blblewoman or a Scholar, the object in view be clearly stated. If, on the other hand, money be sent for a Missionary, as a personal gift, or for any private purpose, this also should be clearly stated in order that it may be correctly acknowledged and forwarded.

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING MAY, 1915. For General Fund. Rect. No. £ s. d. Kect. No £ c d Rect. Vo. £ S. d I Kect. No. £ S. d Ffct. No £ s. d. Rect. No £ s. d. 1. 8858 5 5 0 4. 8899 0 10 0 7. 8953 3 o’ 0 1 1 1 . 8997 0 5 0 14. 9045 50 0 0 18. A Jubilee ] 8859 1 0 0 8900 3 0 0 8954 2 10 0 i 8998 1 0 0 15. 9046 0 10 0 Thank- 1 5 0 Inasmuch. 0 2 0 8901 1 1 0 8955 0 6 6 8999 0 17 2 9047 3 0 0 offering. j 8861 0 5 0 8903 5 5 0 8956 0 10 0 9000 0 10 0 9049 2 0 0 9091 0 10 0 8862 2 10 0 8904 5 0 0 8957 0 12 0 9001 0 10 0 9050 0 2 4 9092 0 2 6 Readers \ 1 0 0 8905 0 18 f> 8959 3 0 0 9002 0 10 0 9051 A Jubilee j 2 10 0 of the 1 2 1 12 8 1 Offering. \ Christian f 0 15 0 8906 1 11 6 8960 0 0 9003 1 0 9052 Herald. ) 8909 0 10 0 8961 0 10 0 9004 1 1 0 9054 0 5 0 9094 1 0 0 8864 2 2 0 8910 4 15 0 8962 0 10 0 9006 2 0 0 9055 30 0 0 9095 2 0 0 8866 0 7 6 8911 5 0 0 8963 3 0 0 9007 2 10 0 9056 5 0 0 9096 12 0 0 8867 2 0 0 8912 10 10 0 8964 1 10 0 9009 50 0 0 17. 9059 5 0 0 9097 1 0 0 8868 5 0 0 8915 75 0 0 12. 9 010 4 0 0 9060 0 10 0 9098 0 5 0 Anon, I 40 0 0 3. 8869 0 5 0 5. 8916 5 0 0 Chester, j 9011 5 0 0 9061 0 3 0 9099 0 10 0 8870 0 10 0 8918 0 5 0 8966 0 10 0 9012 3 0 0 9100 5 0 0 Thank- 1 o 10 0 8871 7 0 0 8919 0 1 6 8967 0 10 0 9013 0 12 4 offering. 1 19. 9102 0 14 3 8872 1 0 0 8922 0 10 0 8968 0 2 6 9014 0 5 0 9063 0 10 0 9103 0 1 7 8873 5 0 0 8923 2 0 0 8969 1 0 0 9015 1 0 0 Legacy. 89 14 6 9104 0 5 0 8874 5 0 0 8924 3 0 0 8970 10 0 0 9016 0 2 6 9105 0 10 6 9065 0 oK 6 8925 1 1 0 8. 8971 5 0 0 1 9017 0 10 0 9107 2 h 0 “ Of Thine ) 0 10 0 18. 9067 1 6 0 Own ” j 8926 0 5 0 8972 0 o 6 9108 4 0 0 Anon. 1 0 0 9068 1 o o 8876 4 0 0 50 0 0 8974 1 Ö 0 9109 5 5 0 8927 Anon. 0 2 0 9069 o 10 o 1 0 0 2 0 0 8976 0 0 9111 1 15 9 8877 8928 5 Anon 0 6 1 9070 1 o o 8879 2 10 0 8930 0 18 3 8977 2 10 0 9112 12 16 3 9021 1 0 0 9071 ào o 0 8880 1 0 0 8931 0 4 0 8978 50 0 0 ; 9 113 0 10 0 9022 3 0 0 9072 0 3 0 8881 2 0 0 8932 1 0 0 8979 1 0 0 9114 0 10 0 9023 1 1 0 8883 0 5 6 8933 0 4 6 8980 1 0 0 : H. R. 2 10 0 9115 5 0 O 9025 12 10 0 2 10 0 6 8935 5 0 0 0 0 9074 50 0 0 9 116 10 0 0 8884 8981 5 9026 0 16 0 8936 20 0 0 10. 8983 20 0 0 9076 3 3 0 9117 10 0 0 Readers 1 9027 0 5 0 of the 38 17 6 8938 2 10 0 8984 0 10 0 9077 5 0 0 9119 12 10 0 Legacy, l / a 9 0 Christian. I 8939 10 0 0 8985 0 5 0 13 9078 1 1 0 9121 0 2 6 8887 60 0 0 8940 0 10 0 8987 1 0 0 9030 0 7 0 9079 0 5 0 20. 9122 5 0 0 8888 3 0 0 8941 0 10 0 8988 0 2 6 9033 8 12 6 9080 1 0 0 9123 1 0 0 8889 0 10 0 8942 1 0 0 8989 3 0 0 9034 0 4 0 9081 0 11 6 9126 0 5 O 8892 1 14 9 8943 0 5 0 8990 2 0 0 9035 1 11 6 9082 0 10 0 9127 0 6 o 4. 8893 9 15 0 8944 0 10 0 8991 0 5 0 Thank- 9083 0 5 0 9128 1 12 a offering. [1 5 15 0 8894 0 5 0 8946 0 2 6 8992 0 5 0 9084 10 0 0 9130 20 0 0 8895 1 1 0 8949 0 6 6 8993 1 1 0 9040 10 10 0 9085 2 0 0 9131 0 1 a 8896 2 0 0 7 8950 0 6 6 11. 8994 1 1 0 14. 9041 1 0 0 9086 10 0 0 9132 0 5 O' 8897 2 0 0 8951 1 10 0 8995 1 0 0 9042 0 5 0 9088 4 0 0 9133 0 2 6 8898 1 1 0 1 8952 1 0 0 8996 0 10 0 9043 0 10 0 9089 0 14 4 2 1. 9134 2 0 0 (Continued on page 116 ) C hina’s M illio n s.

C.I.M. JUBILEE MEETINGS, HELD ON MAY 11th. Addresses at Evening Meeting.*

The Faithfulness of Qod.

Address by the Chairman, the Rev. J. Stuart Holden, M.A.

HIS meeting is, as it were, held upon a mountain childlike confidence in Him from day to day, over one peak, from the height of which we look back million and three quarter pounds sterling has been T over a stretch of fifty years in which the good committed to this Mission as a stewardship from G o d . hand of G o d has been upon the work from its G o d still lives ! The needs of the Mission are as great inception until to-night. During those fifty years in to-day as they ever were, and our need of dependence signal ways faith has been vindicated, fears have been upon Him is in no way ended because we have had falsified, criticism, if it has not been entirely silenced such marvellous tokens of His faithfulness. Rather does has been irrefutably answered, and the Divine inspir­ the past encourage us, while it emphasizes our need, to ation of that thought which created the China Inland trust Him and to say on this our Jubilee night with all Mission has been more than abundantly proved. During our hearts ‘ ‘ This G o d is our G o d for ever and ever. the whole period, G o d 's favour has rested in a very con­ He shall be our guide even unto death—” and spicuous measure upon the labour of His servants, and beyond i t ! upon all the plannings which have gone to the up­ These things are more clearly and at greater length building of this great work. He has raised up a courage­ set forth in the Jubilee Story of the Mission which has ous army of men and women whom He has sustained been specially prepared in view of these celebrations, with a constant sense of their Divine call. He has and which is on sale in the vestibule of this hall.j- I equipped them with knowledge of His truth, and, by commend its purchase and perusal to everyone. I the anointing of His Spirit, has maintained them in will let you into a secret about it, and I will give you a the work which has grown under their hand by an piece of advice concerning it. It is the kind of book unceasing provision of all-sufficiency. What a wonder­ that, once you take up, you cannot put down until you ful G o d these fifty years proclaim Him to be ! More­ have finished it. That is the secret. The advice is, over, in fifty years He has marvellously blessed the Do not begin to read it when you ought to go to bed ! service of those whom He has called out. As we have My friend, Mr. Broomhall, very kindly committed to been reminded already to-day, more than fifty thousand me the first proofs of this book, and I began to read them men and women who have been brought out of darkness when I should have gone to bed, with the result that into light, have made public profession of their faith I did not go to bed until some hours after the proper in Jesus Christ and have joined the Church, being time. It is a thrilling story. It reads like a continu­ baptized in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and ation of the Acts of the Apostles. The glory of G o d is of the Holy Ghost. In addition there is a great host, seen right through it, and no honour is given to man which it passes man’s power to number, who have been save to “ the Man Christ Jesus,” Who lived and died, influenced and brought to a saving knowledge of C h r is t , and rose again ; and Who Himself is the Evangel we go but whose names are on no Church roll save that which out to preach to China. is kept in Heaven. He has wonderfully blessed the These things, my friends, set the kgy to this meet­ work too in the quality of those who have been con­ ing. “ Bless the I*o r d , O my soul : and all that is verted, and who now form the native Church. It is within me, bless His Holy Name.” All that we shall impossible for any who have read the story of those hear to-night from those who are to be His mes­ terrible years of the Boxer Riots, when the Church was sengers, will but make it more natural for us to ascribe literally baptized in fire and blood, not to realize the all the glory to Him ; and to attempt by His grace, and magnificent quality of those in the land of China who as He gives us opportunity, yet greater things in the have come to know Jesus Christ as their L o r d and time that elapses betwixt this and the glorious coming S a v io u r . These are the things which we see as we take again of our King. a retrospect of fifty years. These are some of the things I shall first ask our friend, Mr. Willett, who has been which inspire us to-night to call upon our souls to bless serving at the headquarters of the Mission in Shanghai, and praise His Holy Name. and who has just returned home, to address us. What wonderful faithfulness G o d has shown n the f See advt. on page 116. supply of all temporal needs. Without any appeal to * The closing address, b y the Rev. J. Stuart Holden, M.A., will man, but in answer to the prayer of faith, and of humble (D.v.) be published in the August issue of C h in a ’s M i u i o s S. J u l y , 1 9 1 5 . 104 China’s Millions. J u l y , 1915.

The Spiritual Wealth of the Chinese Church. Address by T. G. W illett, Shanghai.

HE deep spiritual enrichment that has come into this work in China.” I thank G o d , and I shall praise my life through twenty-five years of fellowship Him to all eternity, that I heard and hearkened to that T with the China Inland Mission commenced call. It has meant a quarter of a century of supreme through the annual meetings of 1889. I was privilege in the service of my brothers and sisters in then waiting upon G o d to know in what field I could China. In the early 'nineties it was my lot to labour for Him. In the evening meeting M r. Taylor be in Chungking, in western China, a city which is emphasized the need for men in the business centres called the Metropolis, or the Liverpool, of the shipping of the Mission. When I read the report in C h i n a ’s for West China. In those years, in the midst of busy M i l l i o n s in the following month, I heard the voice of days, I had opportunity for much preaching and teach­ G o d speaking to my soul and saying : “ I want you for ing and occasionally visiting the out-stations. Deep and lasting bonds were formed with our Chinese brothers and sisters. It has been to my gain that my successive terms of service have been in centres where the family life of the Mission has been keenly realized, and the memory of much happy fellowship with brothers and sisters in the L o r d ’s service has enriched me with gold that is gold indeed, gold of which one can never be robbed. We thank G o d for all that fellowship which work in the mission field brings to us. A short time ago I was talking with a friend of mine who has visited China frequently and has travelled some thousands of miles within its borders. He is a man who is blessed with the faculty of getting v e r y quickly to the bottom of things. During our conversation he said to me, “ Do you know, each time that I leave China and the Chinese I leave them more pro­ foundly impressed than ever with their fundamental stock of common sense. Of all the mission fields that I have visited, I consider China to be the greatest and the most fascinating.” It is this national wealth, this rich vein of common sense in the people, which leads me to the thought that I want to leave with you to-night; that is, the development of wealth in the Chi­ nese Church. In the Report that has been published to-day we are told that we have 1,694 Chinese helpers. Twenty-five years ago, in the winter that I went to China, on January 1st, 1890, we had 172 Chinese helpers. There has been an increase of nearly tenfold, for which we praise G o d on this Jubilee day. In 1890 the voluntary helpers totalled sixty. Now they stand at 1,071, a nearly twenty-fold increase. It is among these figures that you

EVANGELIST M. K. HSIAO. will find the real wealth of the This man superintends a band of 12 Colporteurs, who engage in house-to-house visitation in Hunan. Church in China. Wealth is not to be found in the ingots of silver that J u l y , 19 15 . C h in a ’s M illio n s. 105

pass the scale and which are so bulky to transport in the interior, not in the Mexican or dragon dollar now so ubiquitous, not in the heavy copper cash of the native currency, but in spiritual gifts. Among these men and women we have those who have enriched the Church in China. We are so apt, with our human limitations and with our acute sense of the need, to place the emphasis in the wrong place. We place the emphasis of wealth on material wealth. But does it not rather lie in the men and women of spiritual gift, the men and women of spiritual power who live and think for their nation and their people ? Had I the opportunity of engrav­ ing in each heart here to­ night one determination, I would engrave these words: “ I am determined by the grace of G o d to pray con­ stantly for the outpouring of rich spiritual gifts upon the Church in China.” Please remember that the Church has been the parent church of nearly all the church in China demands your prayers and your help. Chinese workers in other missions.” I could tell you Whenever you have five minutes unoccupied, use that of one of the men there— it is a delight to know him— time for pra}rer. Let your heart get right out there in a man with breadth of vision, a true comrade in arms, China where our brothers and sisters are needing your a man who feels deeply and works hard for the spread help, and where the wealth of the church is being of the Gospel, and of the strong band of workers who get developed. Praying in this way you are touching together each year, visiting the sacred mountain, up power points. Praying in this way you are asking for early and late, studying the Word of G o d , and then blessing that will multiply itself, and you are sowing going forth to reach the pilgrims with that Word. I the seed of a harvest that will yield fruit and seed for tell you that they are a band to be proud of. further harvests. W e are sure that G o d has given gifts. Take the adjoining province of K w e ic h o w . Right He has told us so. We have every right to expect them, away down there at Anshunfu and in the district beyond and as we pray for spiritual gifts for the Chinese people it among the tribes-people, what a great help it is to let us pray with the consciousness that we are praying the one in charge of that work to know that he has right along the line of G o d ’s will. He gave some a band of fifteen voluntary helpers who are willing to apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, go and live among another tribe in order that they may some teachers. Will not you help in the development teach them the Word of Life ? Think, too, of the of these gifts by doing your duty in prayer ? Chinese helpers in that province who are developing and May I for a few minutes direct your attention to the becoming useful in the work. Their very usefulness provinces, that we may see how in some way this gift, makes us feel the intensity of the need for more of this wealth, is being developed. Take first of all the these men. province of H u n a n , that province which withstood the Now pass on rapidly to the next province of Y u n n a n . Gospel for so many years, that province which was I can tell you, friends, of men who have prayed and closed for such a long while, that province which was a laboured long for Y u n n a n . It seemed to be a barren, stronghold of the fiercest attack upon Christianity. It unfruitful field for many years ; but to-day, we see, was in the capital of that province that our beloved souls have been stkred and won, and there are Chinese founder passed away to his rest. On that afternoon at who are gladly sharing in the work of evangelization in the gathering of missionaries to welcome him there the new and unopened districts. We thank G o d for were many missions represented. We had felt with them. But as I think, and as I read, of the journeys Xavier year after year as we cried for the opening of of our foreign brethren among the tribespeople in that that place, “ O rock, when wilt thou open ? ” God province, my heart is thrilled again and again. What opened it. I only quote the words of an esteemed do you think of one worker writing in December and worker of another mission who, in speaking of the C.I.M. speaking of a colleague right away among the hills and Church in that city a few years ago, said: “ The C.I.M. the valleys of that aboriginal country and saying : “ We 106 China’s Millions. J u l y , 19 1 5 . do not expect to see him until April next." We may the work of the church and devoted himself to stirring know something about isolation ; but think of the up other people. He was so successful that one wealthy pressure of the work all that time and the ceaseless call Chinese wrote a cheque for 20,000 taels for the extension of uncccupied territory pressing upon that man’s heart of the work, probably the largest cheque that any and ear. I have read one letter which said : “ Fifty Chinese has ever written for the work of the Gospel. villages where G o d is being worshipped ; but they know Does that answer the question whether these men would little and yet I cannot go to them.” Does not that stand or not ? appeal to us ? This afternoon, in connection with the work of evan­ In the next province, the province of S z e c h w a n , gelization in S h a n s i , Mr. IyUtley’s faithful helper was there are men who have not been disobedient to the referred to. I need not touch upon that again, save to heavenly call and the heavenly vision. From among say that that man gets conversions where he goes, and the rank and file of the educated classes won in that his themes are such as would stir many an English province, and among the humbler ranks of the agricul­ a u d ie n c e . H o n a n a n d A n h w e i have given men. In tural people, there are those who have given time and one case a man is so willing to give and to help needy strength and home for the preaching of the Gospel. We cases that the missionary often has to pull him up, for thank G o d for them. But, whilst speaking of the prov­ fear that he will spend more than his salary. Mr. Hsieh, ince of S z e c h w a n , I must not forget the visit of Pastor to whom Mr. Sloan referred this afternoon, speaks as Ting Li-mei. This man of G o d from the province of with the fire of G o d burning in his soul. If I only had S h a n t u n g came to visit those stations. He was used by the tim e to tell you of some of the personal things of that G o d , and as he told us of his work in Shanghai on his man’s life, you would feel that there is a standard in his return we heard the good news that three thousand had life and service that we know little of here in this land. decided for C h r i s t during his visit That man has been I n K i a n g s i , K i a n g s u , a n d C h e k i a n g , around the cradle given by the American Presbyterian Mission to the of the Mission, there are those who are developing, and Student Volunteer Movement, and he is now the secre­ there are those with reference to whom our brothers just tary. He has been signally blessed in the conversion of th a n k G o d that they are linked in service with them. souls and in leading G o d ’ s people out into a fuller appre­ This rapid survey shows us some of the wealth that is ciation of what life in C h r i s t means. That man, too, is an developing. I am sorry that my time has gone. I have intercession priest. On his list he has over a thousand not said quite all that I wished to say, but others must names that he takes daily before G o d . E very man who, speak. When Paul came back he rehearsed the things, through his ministry, has been led to offer for the work one by one, that G o d had wrought. These are things of the Gospel he bears before G o d , and also the names which G o d h doing. I do not want you to get all the of all others who promise to pray for him. One of our pictures in your mind as a kind of kaleidoscopic jumble ; workers, writing of him, said : “ It has been a delight but rather I want you to have the feeling that there are to have him in the home. We have rarely held fellowship men out there who, like yourselves, feel the power of that we have enjo}7ed more. He is so simple, so unas­ spiritual truth and who live it. suming, and his great message is prayer and the study There is a great deal of arrested development. There of the Word of G o d .” Pray for that man. Pray that is a great deal of wealth yet undeveloped. How is that G o d will give him yet greater gifts and greater oppor­ to be developed ? How is it to be mined, to be brought tunity. out, to be disintegrated from the material ore that is Then in K a n s u and in S h e n s i there are men who have surrounding it all the time ? It can only be by your help, given of time and strength, given of home, given of their only as you obey the message of the angel, and in some means, given of their ability in any way to serve the way help as the angel said to the apostles : “ Go, Gospel. In one place when the missionary was away stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words on furlough they organized revival meetings and con­ of this life.” ducted them themselves, and souls were added to the Church. Time fails to tell you of the heroism of some of these The C h a i r m a n : I am quite sure that we shall all bear workers. A little band of men came one day to a lady in mind and seek that the spirit of G o d shall put indelibly in one of our out-stations and said : “ Come over the upon our hearts that most impressive request that Mr. mountains to our place.” It was a difficult journey Willett has made to us to pray for the spiritual enrich­ and the weather was inclement, and she could not go. ment of the native Church in China. They went back. She thought that they had taken Now we are going to have a message from one who in a her answer as final. Two or three days later those men very real way is a link with the far past. Our dear came to the other out-station where she was, bringing friend, Mr. Judd, who went to China forty-seven years long-handled knives with which they cut a path through ago and so almost spans in his service and interests the the bamboo. They had brought strong mountaineer whole period of the Mission’s history, will now speak to chair bearers, and they said : “ We must take you over.” us. Those helpers are worth having. Once a clerical friend asked me : “ Suppose that you left the country ; do Fruit-Bearing.— The Word of G o d shows clearly you think that these men would stand ? ” I looked at that abiding is the condition of fruitfulness, of bearing him. I had just been remarking upon, the sterling much fruit, and fruit which shall remain (unlike that qualities of a man whom I knew. He said : “ I only blown from the tree ere it ripen and come to perfection). echo what others think too.” I think that the best Further, that when so abiding in C h r i s t , and having answer to that can be found in a man, a member of the His Word abiding in us, our prayers are all answered, Edinburgh Continuation Committee, who had a lucrative and our walk is in the light, and in accordance with Government post open to him but who refused it for G o d ’ s holy will.— J. H u d s o n T a y l o r . J u l y , 1915. China’s Millions. 107

Early Days.

A d d r e s s b y C h a r l e s H . J u d d . AY I read you one verse only, verse 12 of Psalm stage of the three. As a Mission we are in more danger lxvi.: “ Thou hast caused men to ride over our to-night than when we had to meet the Boxer trouble. M heads; we went through fire and through The Boxers killed the body. They could not take away water, but thou broughtest us out into a the spirit. They could not even crush the spirit out of wealth}7 place. ’ ’ Those words are marvellously applicable the Chinese Church, because twenty thousand Chinese to the history of the China Inland Mission. laid down their lives rather than deny C iik is t ,— surely The first thing that-awoke me about China especially an adequate answer to all questions about “ rice Chris­ was when I was in the Church Missionary Society College tians.” Bishop Moule believed that there were 20,000 in 1866. I am very thankful to the officials of that Chinese martyrs. And the bulk of them had the choice College for the time I was there. A paper by dear Mr. of rejecting C h r is t or laying their lives down. Hudson Taylor had been copied into the Illustrated At the beginning of the work, the China Inland Mission Missionary News. It contained a list of the provinces, had to face keen opposition. Before the Lammei- the population of each province, and the number of muir party left London a serious trouble occurred in missionaries. I had been a bankers’ clerk for ten years. the party directly. G o d only could stop it, and He Figures meant reality to me. A million was a thousand did. They had not got far out to sea when trouble thousands to me. occurred again As I read down on board the those columns, vessel. They had o n e province n o t reached after another China before the had “ No mis­ terrible typhoon sionary,” “ No attacked the ves­ missionary,” sel, and for seven “ No mission­ days they were ary,” I came to pumping the the A n h w e i pro­ water off the vince, at that deck, women as time supposed to well as men have a popula­ working with the tion of about 40 pumps day and millions. I said, night, helping “ Is it possible the sailors 1 >y that Christians turns to pump in this land know the water out of that there is a the vessel, or place on G o d ’ s they would have earth with 40 gone down. Mis­ millions in one sionary life does province who not mean simply have never heard standing up with of J e s u s ? ” I a pretty palm could not believe tree over you, it. I looked at . preaching to a it again. I never crowd around knew it before. I you. honestly thought I was asked by that if Christians dear Mr. Sloan at home knew it they would all want to go. Forty-six to speak a little about the foundation of the work. years have undeceived me. They do not all want to He led you well on that way this afternoon. Founda­ go. I went to my bedroom and prayed the shortest tion stones may be rough (that does not matter prayer in my life. I could say no more. I dropped on much), but they must be strong. The early mission­ my knees, and I said, ‘ ‘ L o r d , send me. ’ ’ Thank G o d , aries may not have been as polished as the seven He did send me. Whatever good G o d may have used Cambridge men ; but they needed to be very hard me for in China, he used China for a great deal of good and very strong. G o d sent them. I never shall to me. forget the name of dear George Duncan, who first One fact specially impressed me about G o d ’s way took possession of Nanking in Central China. Nanking of working, and the world’s way of doing G o d ’ s work. is the ancient capital of China. When he went into The late Mrs. Josephine Butler, I believe, said that all that city of course no Chinese would let a “ foreign G o d ’s work in human hands has to go through three devil ” have a house—not they. What did he do ? He stages. Firstly, Dead opposition (I do not mean from walked with his baggage right up to the drum tower in the world, but from the Church) ; secondly, Toleration ; the centre of the city. It was used as a heathen temple. thirdly, Applause. The last is the most dangerous He went upstairs, put his bed down on the floor, and 108 China’s Millions. J u l y , 1915. dared them to turn him out, and there he stopped. “ we went through fire and through water.” There They did not turn him out. That was the kind of was a great bonfire at the bottom of the stairs. Mrs. material that some of the first men were made of. Dun­ Taylor’s nurse had two babies upstairs. She could can was not going to turn out of Nanking ; and if he not go down through the window. She was too heavy had never done another thing in all his life beyond to be let down. So she took the two babies in her arms setting his foot and ran right down in that through the way in Nanking blazing fire, and it was worth her clothes were going to China not singed even. for. Some of us It is a marvel know what it how she lived at meant. all. What be­ I shall never came of those forget what dear t w o babies? Mrs . Hu dso n They were hid­ Taylor told me den amongst of the entrance some rockery in into Hangchow, t h e garden. when Mr. Hud­ Then they were son Taylor took hidden under her some of the bed by a Maho­ Lammermuir metan lady who party there. She lived near by. said that, when She knew no­ they first got to that city and wondered how they thing about J e s u s then ; but she took these two would get in, the verse of the Psalmist came to her: babies and put them under her bed. In that way, “ Who will bring me into the strong city ? Who will their lives were saved. The Mahometan lady was lead me into Edom ? Wilt not thou, O G o d ? ” She shortly after converted through my dear wife. What said that the L o r d led them in. It was no easy task ; is one of the babies doing now ? In Switzerland but they got in marvellously. The L o r d wonderfully he is at work on the life of his dear father, Mr. Hudson opened the wajr. Taylor. Praise the L o r d , He has kept him all Among the foundation stones of the China Inland these years. When we came down to Chinkiang Mission, I need not, of course, mention Mr. Hudson all the missionaries were kindly received there by the Taylor. You know how we love his memory. But Europeans. While they were there a semi-Chinese two others with him as much laid the foundations of the house was obtained. One room at the bottom was China Inland Mission as ever he did. I refer to Mrs. damp. The upper storeys were better. Mr. Hudson Hudson Taylor and Mrs. Broomhall, senior. Their Taylor was sick, and his wife was delicate ; but they modesty kept them in the background. There was took the worst part of the house, and gave the best dear Mrs. Hudson Taylor. I never met her like in all rooms to the other missionaries. They always did my life. She was a woman with the two characteristics that, we all know. Do you wonder that we loved of strong courage and marvellous humility and gentle­ them ? Do j^ou wonder that we never wanted him to ness. My dear wife owes her life to her. When my tell us twice if he wished anything done ? I do not first-born babe was nearly dying, what did Mrs. Hudson know of any missionary who would have hesitated for Tajdor do ? She took her own baby from her breast a moment to do anything that he wanted done. He and fed mine, because my baby could not get never had to command. He sacrificed himself in every food. Talk about sacrifice and heroism on the battle­ possible way. field ! Is there anything more heroic than that ? Let me tell you how he made me a present. He Her baby afterwards died : mine is alive to-day in knew that I had been ordered horse exercise. I thought Canada. that it was too extravagant for a missionary to have a My heart is almost too full to tell you some of the horse, so I did not buy one. One day he engaged a stories of the early work. When the missionaries were friend to go and buy a horse. While he was out of the turned out of Yangchow in the great riot that you know way the horse was brought down to Hangchau. I got of, I was on my way there with Mr. Jackson. They a saddle for it. When he came back he said to me : “ I came to Chinkiang. Mr. Rudland and his wife had wish that you would exercise that horse for me ; other­ been turned out just before. The front of their house wise it will get sick. When I return again charge me had been demolished, and they had to flee for their for the corn.” He never used that horse. That was lives. They fled to Yangchow. They were turned out his way of making a present. Do you wonder that we from there. The people tried to set part of the place cared for him ? on fire. It would not burn. A dear Mahometan In 1874 we went to Wuchang. There, 1 think, we Chinese told me afterwards: “ I never believed in your hired nearly twelve houses one after the other. The G o d till then.” They made a bonfire round the posts. Chinese would not allow a “ foreign demon " to have They were blackened to the top ; but they would not a house. Dear Mr. Cox, of the Wesleyan Mission, most burn. They made a bonfire inside the house with kindly took us into his house. There we began work. boxes and chairs and other things, at the bottom of the Then Mr. Easton and Mr. King came to us. They went stairs. What happened there ? The Scripture says up to S h e n s i. Mr. Easton went first and Mr. King. J u l y , 19 15 . China’s Millions. 10i> afterwards. Mr. Easton is still there. They came back once in about three months from their long journeys to our home. Our house was their headquarters. Sometimes they were away three, four, five, or six months at a time. Then Mr. Macarthy began his memorable journej7 in January, 1877, across China into Burma. The same month my wife’s brother and I left for the province of K w e i c h o w , travelling through H u n a n , only a few months after the murder of Mr. A. R. Margary, who was emplo}7ed by the British Consul. On the way back I came down to Chungking. No missionary was in S z e c h w a n at that time at all. From Chungking I travelled down the river. On the way down I was caught by a band of robbers They carried me off at about eight o’clock in the morning, and put my boatmen on their boat, six or eight of them with their guns and swords. One sat over me with a drawn sword. All that I could learn was that they w'ere going to keep me until night, and cut my head off then. On one occasion, when I was telling the whole story to a class of young women, one of them looked at me very eagerly and said: ‘ ‘ And did they kill you ? ” The thing was so real to her. I can assure you that it was very real to me. We waited for six hours in the boat. I could do nothing but pray. At about two o’clock in the afternoon they went ashore and ran as hard as they could run. What they saw I do not know. I saw nothing. I believe t h a t G o d put His fear into them somehow or other, and they went. Two of our brethren, Mr. H e n r y Taylor, and Mr. George Clark went into H o n a n wandering about. I will give you one instance of their experience. Mr. Henry Taylor was alone. He had sent his Chinese assistant down to Hankow hoping to find some money, for he had none left. There, in the centre of that province of H o n a n , without money, without a companion, without any help but G o d , he was shut up. A proclamation was issued in the city forbidding the people, under penalty of severe punishment, from selling any food to a foreigner. still to influence and to bless all those with whom she He had no money to buy food. What happened ? The comes into contact in connection with this work. May first night, when all his money was gone and he had G o d bless her and grant her to bring forth fruit even nothing left, he heard a rattling at his shutters. He in the evening time of life. thought that probably a robber was there. After We are now to be privileged in hearing a message waiting a while he went and opened the shutters, and a from our friend Mr. Chau, himself a native of China, man pushed in several— I think six— little Chinese bread and the Secretary of the Chinese Student Association loaves. Thereafter the man came every night with six in this country. It is with very great joy that we wel­ loaves, until Mr. Taylor received money from Hankow come him to the platform of the China Inland Mission with which to buy food. at this our Jubilee Meeting.

Thè C h a i r m a n : I think that we shall all agree, having heard our beloved friend, that there were giants in the Fellowship.— There is no such thing in nature as land in those days. May the L o r d give us a new race of an intermitting communication of life— as from the vine such. There were giantesses too. We have one in the to the branch, from the body to the members. Should meeting to-night. I have not asked her permission to there be in grace ? Does not C h r i s t give us His peace, say so ; but I think that everybody who knows the His joy— Himself— to be our constant life and peace and China Inland Mission knows the part which Mr. and Mrs. joy and power ? “ In Thy name shall they rejoice all Benjamin Broomhall took in the conduct and up-building the day.” “ They shall walk, O L o r d , in the light of of the work. Dear Mrs. Broomhall is happily with us Thy countenance.”— J. H u d s o n T a y l o r . n o China’s Millions. J u l y , 1915.

The Outlook of Christianity in China To-Day. A d d r e s s b y K . L . C h a t -, B .A ., S e c r e t a r y o f t h e C h i n e s e S t u d e n t s ' C h r i s t i a n U n i o n . T is the peculiar privilege of the young to look of the results of our revolution is that nationalism is forward, and to-night I want to direct your taking the place of G o d . I attention to the future. What is the outlook It is not easy to conquer this fourfold enemy; but of Christianity in China to-day ? In answer to allow me to throw on the screen of your mind the other this question, I would say that we must be on our guard side of the picture. It is full of hope ; and I stand here against entertaining too optimistic a view. As I review to-night to testify to you that even to-day, if every the field of China to-day, I find that there are four great missionary were withdrawn from China, Christianity barriers against the advance of Christianity. The first would spread of itself. It has taken root, and it will great foe, undoubtedly, is the revival of Confucianism. grow. This is a very bold statement, and I give you This is due to the new-born sense of veneration for the reasons for making it. I also say that there are four past. Societies for the diffusion and discussion of Con- great potent forces which make Christianity advance fucian ethics are to be found. There are also Confucian in China. preachers and Confucian apologists. It is The first bright hope is this. Our leaders very good to know that idolatry is virtually see the need of Christianity. They see that ■dead. We must, however, reckon with the Christianity not only makes for the salvation fact that Confucius is being put upon a of the individual, but for righteousness and pedestal higher than ever. In a word, he is equity in the nation ; and the men who are being honoured as G o d . most keen in social reforms, such as The second great enemy is a very the movements against opium smoking, natural one. During this upheaval, and foot-binding, and gambling, are and after it, politics and mechanical men who are saturated with Christian science will absorb the attention of ideals, and many of them are keen young China to the exclusion of Christians. Their life and their energy everything else. In England to-day, cannot but recommend their faith to -where there are about 300 Chinese their followers. students, over 75 per cent, are study­ The second friend, the second help, ing political economy and science. is that with the birth of the Republic That tells you which way the wind y there has dawned the era of religious blows. Religion will have no place. freedom. Already the Twentieth Cen­ After all, the students who are here, tury Edict of Nantes has been issued. and those who read about the great By that every man has the right to European crisis, will think that your believe according to the dictates of his greatness is due to your political conscience. Christians are no longer constitution and scientific discoveries looked upon as foreign spies. Mis­ rather than to moral principles. It sionaries are not looked upon as spies is an easy mistake to make, because sent by their respective Governments to it is the mistake which the West is spy out the land of China ; Christians making for herself. Therein is your are no longer debarred from holding reproach. important positions in the The third great foe against Government. Undoubtedly, the advance of Christianity that is a great help to the is a very peculiar one to the advance of Christianity in Chinaman. You know very China. well how we adore literature Then the third great friend and intellect. It is the un­ is the breaking of the bond due elevation of education. of superstition. Railways “ Education is everything. and other means of rapid It is the one thing needful transit are being developed. for China. What is the They will help to unify the good of religion ? What is different dialects of the Chin­ -it ? It is rank superstition. ese spoken language. What For the ignorant it is all a gain that is every one of right, for the womenfolk us knows. Moreover, as the too, but not for the en­ Roman roads in the early lightened. The enlightened days were the guiding lines have no need of religion for the apostles in their whatsoever. ” preaching of the Gospel, so The fourth great barrier is very insidious. It is a sort in our days the railroads ought to be the direct lines of palliative to men’s yearning after G o d . I refer to for the Christian evangelist to advance into every nook our enshrining nationalism or patriotism as our national and corner of that colossal land. G o d . After the French Revolution the French people Fourthly, to an audience like this it is well known— ^worshipped Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. One and I apologize for saying it— that China is governed by J u l y , 19 1 5 . China’s Millions. i n students. Educational Missions are'of the greatest strategic importance. If you once get hold of the students, you will get hold of China. There are men who have been nurtured in the mission schools. Some of them have become nominal Christians, and some of them very keen Christians indeed. Their sole desire is to win China for Christ. You have read, no doubt, of the wonderful meetings of the Students’ Campaign conducted by Dr. Mott, and recently, again, by Mr. Eddy, and of how thousands and thousands of stu­ dents were so interested in the Gospel« that they would devote their time and energy to a close study of the life of C h r i s t . That is their attitude to­ wards Christianity. They are the future leaders of our country. Their attitude is one of an open-minded en­ quiry into the truth of Christianity. You may wonder why. Certainly the main reason is that after the Revolu­ tion a great many young men were disappointed. They had great hopes of the Revolution; but since then some of their dreams have not been realized, and they looked round for the reason, and they thought to them­ selves, ‘ ‘ What we need in China is another revolution, this time not a political one, but a moral one.” What China needs, they think, is a moral revolution, a change of the heart. A new spirit is required. That is why they enquire into Christianity, because they have heard, time and again, of the tremendous claim of C h r i s t to 1 change men’s lives. They want to ______BV TRAIN TO WOOSUNG, SHANGHAI. see whether Christianity can make good its tremendous claims. I have heard of many Bearing these considerations in mind— the four great students since those meetings who have been baptized friends and the four great foes— who can deny that the into the Christian Church. outlook of Christianity in China is distinctly encouraging. In this connection I would like to put before you the What are these foes ? Just think a little more deeply. work with which I am connected, the Chinese Students' These enemies, or so-called enemies, can be turned into Christian Union in Great Britain and Ireland. I want friends by prajrer and by tact and by sympathy. I to sum up in two brief phrases the activities of our Union. have no time to tell you how these different foes could You will pardon me if I seem to blow my own trumpet. be turned into friends ; but I leave that to you to think I am a sort of Thomas Cook. When students arrive in out. this land, I have the privilege of going and meeting them. Therein is the crisis in China to-day. W hat do we I introduce them to Christian homes, find them decent mean by the word “ crisis ” ? Have you ever watched lodgings, and introduce them to colleges where they beside a sick bed when you see a beloved one lying, will study. Our great strategy is this—that from the when grim death and when life are vieing with each first day a young student arrives in this land to the other for the precious life ? When life conquers you very last minute of his stay here we want ±0 surround say that the crisis is over. These opposing forces are him with good Christian influence. I have intimated fighting for the soul of China. The crisis is not over that there are about 300 students in this island, yet. They are vieing with each other for the soul of scattered in every university. I am a sort of com­ China. China is in the course of reconstruction. Is mercial traveller for Christianity. Once every term I this newly-born Republic to be fed with the empty go round to every university and look up our own men, husks of materialism or with the Bread of Life ? What and also have chats, quiet fireside talks, with British shall the answer be ? students, bringing before them the need of looking after our men, of initiating them into a Christian atmosphere, The C h a ir m a n : We are one and all grateful to into the Christian life, and of their seeing what the our friend, Mr. Chau, for his words, and for the Christian home life of England is. vision concerning China, which his words have brought 112 China’s Millions. J u l y , 19 15 .

THE CHAPEL AND SOME OF THE LEADING CHRISTIANS AT CHAOHSIEN. I n the H ungliuig and Chaohsien district there are 1,332 Church m em bers with 70 unpaid officers and preachers. Som e of these are seen in the picture. Mr. Ernest Taylor is standing on the (reader's) left side of group. to us. I could tell you what he was far too modest to Conference in Kiangsi.— The Biennial Conference tell you, had I the opportunity, and that is something of C.I.M. Chinese workers in north-east Kiangsi was held of the magnificent work which I know personally is in Hokow from March ioth to 16th. Over sixty regular being done by the Chinese Student Christian Association. delegates were present, representing thirteen different He told you only a little. I could tell you about the stations. There were some thirty or forty others who Annual Conference. I could tell you about the magni­ were regular attendants at the session, though not ficent evangelistic efforts which the Christian Chinese delegates. The daily programme w a s 6.30 to 7.30 students put forth in this city of ours and throughout a.m., prayer meeting ; 10 to 12 a.m., 3 to 4.30 and this country to win their fellows to J ESUS C hrist. They 7.15 to 8.45 p.m., regular sessions of the Conference. are doing it. I could tell you of the sacrifices which they The following subjects were discussed :— (1) The unity make in temporal things in order to support their own of believers ; (2) Victory over the flesh ; (3) The salva­ work. They do not ask outsiders for a penny for the tion of our families ; (4) Backsliding ; (5) Schools ; support of it. I tell you this, and Mr. Chau will forgive (6) Improved methods in church work ; (7) The prophet me. I want you to pray for him, and I want you to Jeremiah, and (8) The way to preach. Three months pray for the Chinese students in all our colleges and before the Conference, different Chinese leaders were universities. I want you to pray for them particularly asked to prepare ten-minute mandarin papers on the in those newer universities where the mechanical sciences various subjects. These were read, and then open are mainly taught, not exclusively, and which have discussion was invited, speakers being limited to three always, from the very beginning, been difficult from minutes. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Knight were present the Christian point of view— difficult to enter, difficult and rendered much help, Mr. Knight giving ten Bible to lay hold of. There are many Chinese there. Pray readings and one address on his work and methods in for our friend and for those whom he represents. We S hansi. The presence of the L o r d was felt in our midst are allies in this great work of seeking to bring China to and members testified to blessing received. Some the feet of the L o r d Je s u s . Let us be true to our allies, dozen promised to begin family worship in their homes. as they are true to us. A committee composed entirely of Chinese drew up I have just had put into my hands a cablegram from a programme for the next Conference. All the Christiania : ‘ ‘ Glory to God. With best wishes for the expenses connected with the entertainment of the Jubilee meeting and for the future, from grateful friends regular delegates were met by the Hokow church. of Norwegian Mission associated with you.” G o d Thanksgiving to G o d is asked for all the help and bless our friends in Norway. blessing given. JTXY, I9I5. China’s Millions. 118

Our Shanghai Letter, Containing the Latest News from the Field.

B y J a m e s S t a r k . M ay 2 1st.— You will be pleased to learn that prayer tivity of the Adversary. I learn that in a village near has been answered on behalf of all the invalids men­ Lucheng in S h a n s i a Buddhist sect has arisen, and its tioned in my last letter. Dr. Anderson is steadily re­ members are copying our methods. They visit fairs gaining strength, and is now able to walk round the and markets, preaching, giving away tracts and selling Compound, though he will not be fit for work before books. But we have nothing to fear from this rival : the autumn. Arrangements have been made for his for in Christianity there is what Buddhism lacks, namely, spending the summer at Chefoo, in the hope that the a power to enable those who embrace it to carry out its sea air will completely re-establish his health. Mr. teaching. Saunders’ right eye has made marked progress toward The Word of God is being more and more widely read. recovery, and the doctor is of opinion that the sight One of our workers writes that while on a journey a few will eventually be completely restored. He is now on weeks ago, he met a man who had in his hand, and was a visit to some reading as he of the Grand walked, a copy Canal stations of one of the under his over­ Gospels, which sight. lie had only just Mrs. Lachlan, received from a as you may have friend. The man heard, met with stopped the mis­ rather a bad ac­ sionary, and cidentsometime asked if he had ago. She slipped any others, re­ and fell, fractur­ marking, “ This ing her left leg teaching is ex­ near the hip cellent, excel- joint. She is now Special able to sit out classes for Bible on the veran­ study have been dah, and her established at condition seems selected centres, to be improv­ for old and ing. I would ask young alike. your prayers Whilst many of that she may not the Christians suffer from any are not as dili­ permanent dis­ gent as they ability. might be in tak­ Since the date THE CHINA COUNCIL, IN THE JUBILEE YEAR OF THE MISSION. ing advantage of my last letter, AT ITS lOOth SESSION. of them, yet three hundred Back Row, from left to right— G. W . Gibb, J. Vale. A. R. Saunders. J. Stark. G. H owell. W . H. Aldis. there are large Front Row, from left to right— Bishop W . W . Cassels. J. W . Stevenson, I). K. Hnstc. J N. Hayward, numbers who and eighty-four W ra. Taylor. baptisms have value the privi­ been reported. lege, and gladly The record for this year, so far, shows a considerable de­ welcome the opportunity afforded for systematic in­ crease on that for the same period of the previous one ; struction in Divine truth. I constantly hear of in­ but at the present time many of our fellow-workersare ex­ dividual Christians who truly love G o d ’s Word. Only amining candidates for church fellowship, and we cherish a few days ago I learned of one woman who has read the hope that the deficiency will soon be more than the Bible through ten times. Should she be wakeful made up. There are almost numberless men and in the night, she lights her candle and studies the women who have heard the Gospel and been, in some Scriptures, and it is said, “ her face is a bene­ measure, influenced by it. That these may be brought diction.” to decision for C h r i s t is the constant burden of our At Tsinchow, K a n s u , a prayer circle has been formed intercessions. among the Christian women, many of whom are taking Allow me to give you some gleanings from the corres­ it up heartily, and thus there is daily intercession going pondence which has recently reached me, giving evidence up from their hearts. It is to be hoped that the example as they do of progress in every department of our work. will be followed elsewhere, and that there will be an ever- In my judgment the general outlook was never more increasing recognition of the value and power of this im­ promising than it is now. On every hand there are in­ portant ministry. In the district referred to there is dications that the Spirit of God is influencing the minds ample scope for the exercise of i t ; for Miss Levermore of the people ; but there are also evidences of the ac­ in a recent letter mentioned that there are several 114 China’s Millions. J u l y , 1 9 1 5 . thousand villages surrounding the city, and these are, examinations held by the Central China Christian comparatively speaking, unreached. Educational Union. Though handicapped in two In connection with our educational work I have re­ subjects (composition and history) by using books ceived a most interesting letter from Miss Dring of Anjen, differing from those on which the examinations were who writes :— set, all the six boys passed. One lad came out top in “ The principal cause for praise in the Shih-chen-kiai classics and second in the average on all subjects among church is that this year we have been able to start a self- all the boys (from 50 to 100) in his year. The Ex­ supporting day school. I think you will like to hear aminer’s report on the Scripture class was most encour­ how it came about. Last year a young teacher named aging. It ran : ‘ The boys in this school have evidently U had a school in a village where Mr. Ts’ii, a Christian, been taught to think clearly. The standard of their lives. Mr. Ts’ii, in taking his little boy to Mr. U ’s work is distinctly better than in most schools.’ ” school for the first time said to the latter, ‘ My bo}T Miss Gregg, for whose special missions in S h a n s i, T cannot worship Confucius like the other boys. But I some time ago asked for prayer,writes of blessing attend­ shall pray to God for him, and I am sure that in answer ing her ministry at Kiiwo. She says : “ Twenty women to my prayers God will help him to be one of your best and twenty children from the Mission School, beside scholars.’ This little speech arrested the teacher’s five girls from the Government School, all decided for attention, and in the evening he came to Mr. Ts'ii’s C h r i s t at the meetings. The youngest child in the house and questioned him about the doctrine. Mr. Ts’ii, School, about eight years of age, and an old lady of who is a very earnest Christian, and only a little older eighty both found C h r i s t . ” than the young teacher, became very friendly with him At Changsha, the capital of H u n a n , Pastor Ting and has, praise God, led him to Ch rist. Toward the Li-mei,to whom I have in previous letters made reference, end of last year Mr. t) came to the services with Mr. recently conducted a special Gospel campaign in the Ts’ii. He had not been able to attend regularly, as his chapel of the United Evangelical Mission, which accom­ school had been convened by heathen, who, of course, modates nine hundred people. Each afternoon the expected him to be in his place every day. But this place was filled to its utmost capacity, all the Missions particular Sunday he managed to get off. Mr. Ts’ii and in Changsha uniting in the effort. Over 12,000 names Mr. tJ suggested to the Evangelist that, after the New were given in by those who promised to study the Word Year, Mr. tJ should come to vShih-chen-kiai and start a of G o d . Of these over two hundred were in connection school for the children of Christians and for any other with the work of our Liebenzell brethren. children, whose parents would be willing for them to Another encouraging feature of our work is the in­ keep the L ord’s Day. All tT asked was that the school­ creasing number of Christians who are volunteering room be lent him for the purposes of a school, so that he service as local preachers. As an example of this I may might have the privilege of attending the services. He mention that Mr. Middleton writes that during the now has seventeen scholars, and the fees they are pay­ month of February nearly all the male members of the' ing will exceed what he received last year in his heathen church at Fuh-f eng had been giving their time to preach­ school. The L ord has honoured his faith. Ten ing in the villages, thus taking advantage of the holiday scholars are from heathen homes, and I trust in time season for spreading the knowledge of the Gospel. their parents will be influenced. I was visiting in their Mr. A. Berg, Superintendent of the work of the Swedish homes recently, and I had good receptions everywhere. Mission in China, writes : — All seem very pleased with the teacher and the school “ We have had a very busy and happy time here in generally. One mother said, ‘ Last year my son was Yiincheng. On the 26th March our Leaders’ Confer­ always playing truant, but now he seems to want to go ence began. Over fifty delegates from Shansi, Shensi to school.’ Each morning the boys attend pra}rers, and H o n a n , and all the foreign male missionaries, with which I take myself when I am there. I am going the exception of one, attended the meetings. We through a Gospel, so that the boys from heathen homes separated on the 31st, and the whole Conference gave may learn the outline of the life of our L ord. On Sun­ evidence of how the churches continue to grow in the day afternoons I question them, and then teach them to knowledge of C h r i s t and in their sense of responsibility sing the hymns they are made to learn in the morning for bringing the Gospel to their own countrymen.” before the service begins. I should like to ask prayer for The following extract from a letter received yesterday the teacher, Mr. U, who has already borne a little fruit from Mr. W. J. Hanna, of Talifu, Y u n n a n , will, I think, in his own home. His aunt, whose adopted son he is, be read with special interest:— has put away her Goddess of Mercy as the result of his “ Our Conference has just been held, and the meetings testimony, and the other relative living in the same have proved a blessing to all who attended. On the house has also decided no longer to worship idols, praise first Sunday we had the joy of receiving six women into God ! ” fellowship, and on the next Sunday six men were bap­ In the city of Lanchowfu, the capital of K a n s u , where tized. At the L o r d ’s Supper there were fifty-two in years gone by the work has been very hard, Mrs. present, and a blessed season it was. How we praise Arthur Moore has established a Girls’ School, which is G o d for what He is doing in Talifu and in all Y u n n a n . attended by seventeen scholars, most of whom, she says, A m ong those baptized were two former Salt Officials. are from “ quite well-to-do families.” In our schools The conversion of these men— one a Manchu— and prominence is given to the teaching of Scripture in the their families is most remarkable. Their homes are in curriculum, and this cannot fail to produce spiritual Peking, and all were witnesses of the death of martyrs results. in 1900. G o d has indeed opened their hearts and filled Mr. A. L. Cannon, who conducts a Secondary School them with His joy in the knowledge of sins forgiven and at J aochow, writes :— acceptance in Christ Jesus.” “ I have recently received the results of last year’s Lest what I have written may have given the J u l y , 1915. China’s Millions. 115

impression that hearts everywhere are responsive to the the iron power of the evil one), which we notice here in Gospel, let me give you an extract from a letter from contrast to districts, e.g., in H o n a n . The cure for these Dr. George King, dated Lanchowfu, April 20th, which things appears to lie (1) in getting a good evangelist emphasises the call to prayer. Our brother writes :— himself ‘ keen,’ who will take time to preach and teach “ The people are coming to trust us more, medicallv in the wards, building up ‘ line upon line ’ what may speaking ; but we are concerned to see how little spiri­ be taken home by the patients ; (2) a definite turning tual progress is observable at present in the wards. to G o d in prayer for the working of His Spirit that He This is doubtless partly due to the lack of an evangelist, may come to us and cause the worldly to ‘ themselves but it also seems due to a certain nmmpressionability blame themselves,’ as the Chinese New Testament (partly explained by the seclusion of K a n s u and its puts it, in respect to sin. Please help us along these ignorance of the outer world, but more surely due to lines.”

Editorial Notes. HE Mission’s Jubilee.— Friends of the Mission from her post as Lady Superintendent of the C.I.M. at home will be interested to learn that Home in London. Miss Holliday’s connection with T special efforts have been made at many of the Home has lasted for more than 14 years, nine years the stations throughout China to fittingly in association with Miss Williamson, and for the last five celebrate the Jubilee. At Shanghai, members of years as Lady Superintendent. During these years she other Missions were to be invited to the C.I.M. has ungrudgingly spent her strength and thought in compound for tea on the afternoon of May 27th, the service of others, and has at the same time mani­ after which a meeting for thanksgiving and praise was fested marked ability in the management of what is by to be held, the meeting to be addressed by the members no means an easy office. Miss Holliday takes with of other Missions as well as our own. The China Council her into her less public life the heartfelt sympathy also proposed that similar gatherings, subject to local and esteem of those whom she has laboured to serve conditions, should be held throughout China, so that in days gone by, and we earnestly pray that she may the Chinese Christians could have an opportunity of find true comfort and reward in the full meaning of unitedly praising God for His many mercies. C h r i s t ’s “ Inasmuch,” concerning these years of toil A short summary of the Mission’s history has been on behalf of others. translated into Chinese by Mr. Vale, and this has been For Miss E. M. Hibble, who has now been appointed sent to all the stations of the Mission for circulation as her successor, after nearly four years as assistant, among the Chinese workers and selected Chinese Chris­ we would ask constant prayer. tians, with the hope that this Jubilee occasion may stimulate the faith of the Chinese believers and streng­ New Appointments.— It is with much pleasure wc then the ties of fellowship which exist between the announce that Mr. Hoste has, at Mr. Southey’s request, Chinese and foreign workers. appointed Dr. J. J. Kitchen, of Melbourne, to act as “ As we raise our Ebenezer in humble and fervent Assistant Director for the work in Australasia, and praise to the L o r d , ” writes Mr. Hoste, in a letter sent that the Rev. Robert Wallace, formerly of Belleville, to all the C.I.M. workers, “ let us also place ourselves Ontario, and long in charge of the Marchmont Home and afresh on the altar of Mount Moriah, where the sacred work there, has been appointed to the office and re­ words ‘ Jehovah Jireh ’ alone have their fulfilment.” sponsibilities of Mission Treasurer in Toronto. We trust that our friends in this country will remember China and Japan.— In these days of trial it is more these our brethren across the seas, including in their than usually important that we should not forget or petitions Mr. John Southey, Home Director for Aus­ be unmindful of the many mercies which do abound. tralasia, whose health has been much impaired of late. To the child of G o d “ the Blue is always greater than the cloud,” and we do well to remember this fact in Dr. Harry Qrattan Quinness.— The death of Dr. these days of shadow. Among the many causes for Harry Guinness in the fulness of his prime comes as a praise we should especially mention the passing of the heavy loss to the Church of God and as a personal cloud of war which recently threatened China and sorrow to an unusually large company of friends. Japan. The treaty between these two countries was Physically, mentally, and spiritually, he was a noble signed on May 23rd. It consists actually of five treaties specimen of manhood, and his charming and affection­ relating to Shantung, Southern Manchuria and Eastern ate personality made him a great inspirational force Mongolia, the Hanyehping Company, Fukien, and the wherever he moved. He excelled in so many depart­ Retrocession of Kiaochow. It is stated that the publi­ ments of Christian service that it is not easy to single cation of the treaty has produced a remarkable im­ out one above another, yet to us his advocacy of the pression in diplomatic circles, and the general consensus missionary cause naturally takes the first place. To of opinion is that China has come out of the ordeal all the members of his family, to Mrs. Howard Taylor extremely well. Let us give G o d thanks for this, and his sister, and to Dr. G. Whitfield Guinness, his brother, pray that the maintenance of peace in the Far East both members of the C.I.M., we tender our deepest and may be accompanied by great spiritual advance. heartfelt sympathy. In these days, when so many brave and noble men are passing from us, we the more The Mission Home in London.— It is with very earnestly pray that He who of old gave gifts to His much regret that we report that in consequence of ill- Church in the person of apostles and prophets may still health, Miss Holliday has found it necessary to retire continue to bestow His gracious gifts among us now. 116 China’s Millions. J u l y , 19 15 .

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING HAY, frIS — Continued. For General Fund.— Continued. Rect. No. £ S. d. Rect. 'In. £ r d Rect. No. £ s d Rect No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. i s. d. 9135 1 0 0 22. 9165 1 0 0 25. 9191 2 0 0 27. 9221 7 7 0 28. 9246 1 0 0 31. 9271 0 10 0 9136 0 5 0 9166 10 10 0 Legacy. 50 0 0 9223 0 10 0 9248 0 16 6 9272 1 16 6 9138 0 5 0 9167 9 0 6 9193 50 0 0 9224 1 0 0 29. 9249 2 0 0 9273 0 5 0 9139 2 0 0 9168 1 1 0 9194 1 1 0 9225 1 10 9250 1 1 0 9274 1 0 0 9140 0 8 0 25. 9169 0 2 6 9195 0 10 0 9226 1 0 0 9251 0 10 0 9275 0 15 3 9143 2 10 0 9170 0 2 6 9200 10 0 0 9227 0 4 0 9277 1 0 0 0 “Till He) 0 10 0 Anon. 1 0 0 9171 0 5 0 9201 10 15 0 9228 0 1 6 Come.' j Readers of the 9145 0 10 0 9172 0 5 0 9202 3 0 0 9229 20 0 0 9254 0 5 0 Morning 6 10 0 9146 0 10 0 9173 0 10 0 9203 3 0 0 9230 2 2 0 9255 1 1 0 Star. 9147 2 10 0 9174 6 16 0 9204 10 0 0 9231 1 0 0 9256 0 2 0 9279 1 10 0 9148 0 100 9175 011 1 9205 1 0 0 9232 5 5 0 9257 0 10 0 9280 3 0 0 9149 2500 9176 100 A Friend. 0 5 0 9233 5 0 0 9258 0 10 0 9281 0 12 6 9150 2 0 0 9177 1 10 0 Anon, 0 5 0 9234 2 10 0 9259 0 5 0 9282 1 1 0 9151 0 10 0 9178 1 0 0 26. 9208 2 10 0 9235 0 2 6 9260 1 0 0 9283 5 0 0 9152 13 17 1 9179 5 0 0 9209 1 1 0 9236 0 10 0 9261 1 0 0 9284 1 0 0 L e s l e y . 50 0 0 9180 1 0 0 9211 4 2 6 9237 0 2 6 9262' 25 0 0 9285 0 10 0 9154 2 0 0 9181 5 0 0 9212 0 5 0 9238 1 1 0 9263 2 10 0 9286 1 0 0 9155 0 3 10 9182 0 5 0 9213 0 10 0 E . G . B . 0 5 0 9264 1 0 0 9287 0 2 6 9156 2 3 0 9183 5 0 0 9214 1 1 0 28. 9240 5 0 0 9265 1 18 0 9288 5 0 0 9157 2 0 0 9185 2 0 0 9215 15 0 0 9241 0 1 0 9266 10 0 0 9289 1 0 0 9161 1 0 0 9186 0 0 0 27. w. 0. 1 0 0 9242 0 2 0 31. 9267 1 0 0 9290 0 10 0 9162 1 1 0 9188 1 0 0 9217 0 10 0 Legacy. 125 0 0 9268 1 0 0 9291 3 0 0 9163 1 4 0 A . E. T. 0 5 0 9219 5 0 0 9244 0 1 2 Thank- ' <> ß 0 ¿t D 9164 0 12 6 9190 0 10 0 9220 0 5 0 9245 1 6 0 offering , £2003 2 1

For Special Purposes. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ 5. d Rect. No. £ s. d Rect. No £ s. d. Rect. No. £ R. d. Rect No. £ S. d 1. 8865 3 10 0 6. 8937 6 0 0 13. 9037 12 12 0 20. 9125 14 5 1 27. 9222 5 0 0 31. 9276 0 10 0 3. 8878 2 0 0 8945 40 0 0 9038 7 3 4 9129 2 0 0 28. 9247 1 10 0 8882 0 10 0 8947 3 0 0 14. 9044 2 0 0 21. 9137 20 0 0 29. 9252 2 0 0 £503 18 8 8885 5 0 0 8948 410 0 15. 9048 3 0 0 91410 0 0 31. 9270 0 15 4 8890 2 0 0 7. 8958 0 6 0 9053 6 14 6 9142 5 0 0 8891 4 0 0 8. 8973 3 0 0 9057 12 0 0 22. 9158 1 1 0 4. 8902 0 7 6 8975 12 0 0 17. 9058 100 0 0 9159 1 5 0 SUMMARY. s. d. 8907 1 11 6 10. 8982 0 10 0 9066 2 5 0 9160 0 10 0 General 2,003 2 1 8908 c 0 0 8986 0 9075 0 5 0 25. 9184 3 0 0 3 0 18. Special 503 18 8 8913 1 10 0 11. 9005 0 2 6 9087 1 0 0 9187 0 10 0 8914 50 0 0 9008 5000 9101 10 00 9196 0 10 0 Total for May 2,507 0 9 5. 8917 12 10 0 12. 9024 0 10 0 ! 19. 9106 0 10 6 9197 3 3 0 Brought forward 15,505 3 9 8920 5 0 0 13. 9029 20 7 11 9110 1 0 0 9198 0 5 0 8921 10 10 0 9031 5 0 0 9118 0 8 6 9199 1 0 0 Total . . £18,012 4 6 8929 3 0 0 9082 3 0 0 9120 2 10 0 26. 9210 10 0 0 8934 010 0 9036 2 0 0 1 20. 9124 3 0 0 27. 9218 1 0 0

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C.I.M. JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS IN SHANGHAI. THE CHINESE RECEPTION. (See p. 126.)

“ ABLE TO SAVE TO THE UTTERMOST.”

Address by Rev. J. STUART HOLDEN, M.A.

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Secretary Women's Department : M iss H. E. S oltau. Accountant : W. S. Hayes. Bankers : London County and Westminster Bank, Limited, 21, Lombard Street, London, E.C. All donations to be addressed to the Secretary. Money Orders (payable at G.P.O.) and Cheques to be made payable to the China I nlan d Missio n , and crossed “ London County and Westminster Bank.” I t is specially requested that on every occasion when money is sent for the support of, or for the work of, any particular Missionary, or for any Mission object such as the support of a Chinese Helper, a Biblewoman or a Scholar, the object in view be clearly stated. If, on the other hand, money be sent for a Missionary, as' a personal gift, or for any private purpose, this- also should be clearly stated in order that it may be correctly acknowledged and forwarded.

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING JU NE, 1915. For General Fund. Feet. N o . . £ s. d. Rect. N o . £ 8. d. Rect. No. £ s d. 1 Rect. No. £ s. d Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. Ko. £ s. d 1. 9292 0 5 0 4. 9339 0 5 0 9. 9391 0 10 0 n . S. 0 5 0 16. 9488 0 10 0 19. 9534 2 0 0 9293 5 0 0 9340 0 2 6 9392 0 5 0 Anon. 1 0 0 9489 1 5 0 21. 9535 0 1 a 9296 1 0 0 9341 0 5 0 9393 3 0 0 12. 9442 0 10 0 Readers 9536 0 10 0 5 0 2 of the 9297 0 9342 10 0 0 9394 0 6 9443 1 0 0 Sunday - 1 1 0 9537 0 5 0 9298 1 0 0 9344 0 5 0 9445 7 0 0 9538 1 2 A Tithe ) 0 1 6 at Home. lo­ 9299 5 0 0 9345 1 1 0 Offering. J 9446 1 0 0 9491 2 0 0 9539 0 5 ft 9300 2 2 0 9347 0 10 0 Anon. 0 10 0 9447 2 2 0 9493 5 0 0 9540 3 0 0 9301 0 12 0 9348 2 0 0 9448 500 0 0 9494 1 0 0 9541 1 0 0- in | 1 0 ¿iO 2. 9303 1 0 0 9349 1 5 0 Memoriam. 1 9449 6 12 10 9495 3 10 0 9542 0 7 6 9304 5 0 0 9350 10 10 0 9399 5 0 0 9451 5 0 0 9496 6 0 0 9543 2 0 0- 9305 26 19 0 5. 9351 0 10 0 9400 1 0 0 14. 9452 5 0 0 9497 1 6 8 9544 100 0 0’ 9306 5 0 0 9352 4 4 0 9402 0 10 0 9453 2 10 8 9498 0 10 0 22. 9545 1 1 0> 9307 1 0 0 9353 15 0 0 9403 1 0 0 9454 1 5 0 9499 2 2 0 9546 1 7 8 9308 0 10 0 9354 0 17 5 9404 5 1 2 9455 2 0 0 9500 1 0 0 9547 0 5 0- 9309 1 0 0 9355 0 5 0 9405 10 0 0 9456 0 5 0 9501 3 8 11 9548 0 1 0- 9310 1 0 0 9356 14 5 6 10. 9406 1 0 0 9457 0 10 0 9503 0 4 6 Readers 9311 0 5 0 9358 1 0 0 9407 1 0 0 j 9458 2 0 0 17. 9506 0 10 0 of the 65 12 0- 9312 0 10 0 9359 0 10 0 9408 0 15 0 9459 0 10 0 9507 0 5 0 Chrittian. 9313 0 15 3 7. 9360 0 5 0 9409 5 5 0 9460 0 10 0 9508 0 10 0 9550 0 10 0 A Friend. 0 10 0 9361 0 8 0 9410 I 0 0 9462 0 7 0 9509 1 12 0 9551 1 0 0- 9315 1 0 0 9364 6 3 0 9412 1 3 0 9463 5 5 0 9510 2 0 0 9552 0 10 0 0 0 2 9317 10 0 9367 0 11 0 9415 1 0 0 ! 9465 0 5 0 9511 0 10 9553 0 O' 9318 3 0 0 9369 3 15 8 9417 0 3 6 9466 0 5 0 9512 0 10 0' A n o n . , 9319 5 0 0 9370 0 4 11 9418 0 5 0 9467 1 0 0 9514 10 0 0 New Ì 0 15 0- 9320 1 0 0 9371 1 1 0 9419 2 0 0 15.9468 015 0 9515 2 10 0 Zealand. f 3. 9322 10 0 0 9372 2 2 0 9421 6 10 0 9469 0 10 0 9516 100 0 0 9555 2 0 0- 9323 2 0 0 9373 1 0 0 9423 2 0 0 A n o n . 0 10 0 9517 14 5 0 9556 2 0 0- 9324 1 0 0 9374 0 10 0 9424 1 0 0 9471 100 0 0 18. 9518 0 2 6 9557 0 15 0 9325 0 5 0 9375 0 10 0 9426 4 15 6 9472 65 0 0 9519 0 19 9 9558 1 0 0- 9326 0 5 0 8. 9378 0 19 0 9427 0 4 6 9473 1 0 0 9520 0 5 0 9559 1 0 0 9327 0 10 6 9379 1 1 0 11. 9428 0 14 0 9474 50 0 0 9521 1 0 0 9562 0 8 0- 9328 0 5 0 9380 0 10 0 9429 2 2 0 9475 5 5 0 9522 1 1 0 23. 9563 0 5 a 9329 0 2 6 9382 0 7 6 9430 0 12 6 9476 1 1 0 9523 0 5 0 9565 0 3 0- 9330 5 0 0 9383 1 0 0 9431 1 0 0 A n o n . 10 0 0 9524 1 10 0 9566 0 1 0- 9331 4 0 0 9384 1 0 0 9432 0 5 0 9479 1 0 0 9525 1 0 0 9567 0 1 9 9332 1 0 0 1 6 10 0 1 0 9526 0 6 6 9385 18 9433 0 9480 1 In 0 o- 9333 0 2 6 9386 1 0 0 9434 50 0 0 Legacy. 540 15 6 19. 9529 0 4 6 Memoriam. I11 9334 1 1 0 ' 9388 0 6 0 9435 15 0 0 Legacy. 630 0 0 9530 1 10 0 24. 9569 1 0 0 A n o n . 1 0 0 9389 1 0 0 9437 0 5 2 9483 3 10 0 9531 3 0 0 9570 0 2 6- 9336 0 8 0 9390 2 0 0 9438 40 0 0 16. 9487 0 10 0 9533 1 0 0 9571 1 0 O (Continued on page 152.) C h ina’s M illio n s.

“ Able to Save to the" Uttermost.”

A d d r e s s a t t h e A n n u a l M e e t in g s b y t h e R e v . J. S t u a r t H o l d e n , M .A .

WANT in a few words that I have to speak to you of necessity becomes a reflector. When a man has as the closing message of the day’s meetings, that caught a vision in the light and fire of which his whole I our eyes shall be lifted up to those hills of G o d in being takes blaze, that man cannot rest content until which the streams whose course we have been he has done everything within the scope of his oppor­ tracing together to-day take their rise. I desire that we tunity to bring about the reign of the Lord Christ in shall, forgetting for the moment China and its peculiar other lives. Therefore, that we may be able to say claims upon us, forgetting for the moment all that has with the Psalmist, “ I will run the way of Thy com­ been enlivening and interesting in what we have heard, mandments, for Thou hast enlarged my heart,” I want get right to the heart of all missionarj7’ work, right to to bring you a word which is familiar to every one of the heart of all effective Christian service, in a new us, and which is at once the chart and the charter of all vision of our L o r d and M a s t e r Himself. We need a missionary enterprise. It is the declaration of Hebrews new vision of Him for two reasons. Firstly, for our own vii. 25 : “ Wherefore, He is able to save to the utter­ enlargement and enrichment of life, and for our equip­ most them that come unto G o d b}r Him, seeing that He ment for doing the will of G o d and so realizing our chief ever liveth to make intercession for them "— a vision end. There is a great danger, even to those of vis whose of the C h r i s t able to save unto the uttermost because main interests lie in the direction in which yours and He lives. mine lie, of becoming self-concerned, and of becoming The world asks us to-night, “ What do you mean by contentedly accustomed to live in the world’s moral this missionary effort and enterprise, by this sacrifice half-lights. There is a great peril lest we be so con­ of human life, by this pouring out of treasure needed cerned about ourselves that our own cares, the things in other directions ? What is the reason for it ? " of this life, the things that press upon us, secure all our The reason for it is here— firstly, because we believe this attention and energies, and we miss the main end of word—let us never get away from that— that C h r i s t life ; until our souls dwarf and shrivel, and become, as lives to save men to the uttermost and to bring them far as the kingdom of G o d and its work is concerned, to G o d ; secondly, because, believing this, we believe almost negligible. If you look at the ground, you will that everyone concerned has a right to know about i t ; find that a very small circle will enclose all that you can and, thirdly, because our conviction regarding the truth see. But when you lift your eyes from the ground you of this word has become a living constraint daily rein­ find that as your vision elevates it widens. Until when forced by personal experience. The argument is this— you are looking at the sun the bound of your vision is that He saves me, and, after all, I am a miniature of impossible of measurement. Life is like that. If I am the whole world. Kvery sin-created problem which self-concerned and self-content, my life is small and ever G o d Almighty has to deal with is found here. Every restricting. But, as I am occupied with the vision of sin-created complex difficult)^ is found in my tangled Jesus Christ, my sympathies are enlarged and my life. And it is because the truth of this word has become mind opened. I find myself when I find Him. There­ a living and ever-growing experience to us that we fore, lest after a day like this you and I should fall back have to go out with a constraint upon us, which nothing into a self-centred and self-absorbed life, I want to help can satisfy save the utmost devotion and service, to you, and I want to be helped myself, to see our L o r d declare and proclaim the living C h r i s t to men. That afresh, and to realize all the implicates of that divine is why we need to-night a new vision of Him ;— that a vision. new passion of service shall be generated, which shall The second reason for our seeking in these closing take no reckoning as to its bounds or as to its cost. moments a vision of the L o r d is to ensure the further It seems to me that in these words we are led to a expansion of His Kingdom, the further extension of His threefold vision which is yet one. There is the vision rule not only in China, but in the whole world. For of the undying Christ— “ He ever liveth "— the C h r i s t when a man is illumined with the divine radiance, he Who there at the throne pleads His completed sacrifice A u g u s t , 1915. 120 China’s Millions. A u g u s t , 19 15. and exerts His unexhausted energies of redemption, the God give us a vision of the undone world that shall C h r i s t Who died and Who lives to save, the C h r i s t make you and me abhor our selfishness, that shall make Who cannot be holden of death, Who is its eternal you and me forego our luxuries, that shall give you victor and conqueror. All missionary work has its root and me one passion and one passion only— to follow the in this firm and living conviction as to C h r i s t ’s eternal Lamb of God out into that darkness. and triumphant life. For all missionary effort is based Further, beyond the vision of the undying Ch rist, upon three great statements concerning Him. The first and of the undone world, is that of the ultimate glory of is that He has come. We have no C h r i s t whatever to His kingdom. From every kindred and nation and tribe proclaim to China, with her reverent insistence upon and tongue, along that blood-marked trackway, men are historic values, if we have not a perfect historic C h r i s t . coming unto G od. Nor will the Body be complete until If we have a C h r i s t Whose record is at all uncertain, there is grafted as a living member the representation as some theories and so-called conclusions of modern of every nation. The harmony of eternal praise will Biblical criticism would have us believe, we have no be lacking until in its outpouring every tongue unites. C h r i s t for China. C h r i s t has come ! The next state­ The temple will be unfinished until from every race ment is that C h r i s t does come. He comes to every there are living stones built into it and it stands eternally believing heart. He comes to every penitent soul. He for G od’s habitation. Here is that vision of the ultimate comes to every broken life. He comes to those who glory which spurs us on, which re-kindles every failing seek Him and who open the doors of their being to Him. impulse, puts new courage into our souls, and sends us The third statement is that He Who has come according out to sacrificial effort. to definite and unimpeachable historic record ; He who I do not speak to-night of the great events which does come, and of Whose coming we have indubitable must happen ere this vision bursts on us in its glory. I personal and present experience, will come again, the do .not speak of all the great events which must first L o r d of life and glory ! take place before the L ord finally sets up His kingdom ; This vision of the undying C h r i s t is our confidence but I do say this— that every sacrificial effort of yours regarding the maintenance of the Church in China, and mine is hasting His coming. And this is our hope : even though that proposition which has been advanced not the overspread of China by a Christianized civiliza­ to-night became an actual fact, that every missionary of tion, not the upbuilding of a kingdom which comes by our own and kindred nationalities were taken away. observation, not the universal conversion of the whole Our ultimate confidence is that Jesus Christ our L o r d race of man, but the building up of the body of the L ord lives for evermore. Because He lives the Church in Ch rist, the calling out of the Bride of the Lamb, the China is immortal. building up of the living Temple whose topstone shall As we stand in the light of this word, we get a second only be laid when Ch rist Himself shall come. Oh, the vision. In the brightness of the vision of the undying glory of that day ! Live in the radiant light of that C h r i s t we get a vision of the undone world. Just out­ hope, and you shall never lose heart. However fierce side the zone of light there falls thick, black darkness, the tempest is round about you, however loud are the and in that darkness, which is the shadow of death, threatenings of opposition, and however malignant the are the millions whom “ Satan hath bound, lo, these enmity of the Evil One, Jesus Christ our L ord is many years." We have heard to-night from our friends coming, bringing in His train the spoils of His passion. that with regard to China even their brightest things Oh, that we might catch that vision to-night, for this is, are dark, their scientific progress, the quality of their as our friend has reminded us, a day of crisis. I was philosophy, their incessant and unquenchable thirst reading to-day, in connection with another matter al­ for Western education, their adoption of commercial together, the words of Napoleon regarding military ideals. These are the bright things, as politicians believe. strategy. He said that the art of successful warfare is These are the bright things, as sociologists believe about that of bringing up reserves without delay in the hour that great empire. How dark they are in China ! How of crisis. And that same great soldier also left it on record dark indeed they are anywhere. How dark they are in as his experience that one of the outstanding facts of Germany, and how dark in England ! Someone said warfare is that opportunities are born and die in the the other day, “ This awful war is the breakdown same hour ! Now, if that is so with regard to this holy of Christianity.” My only response to him— he was a warfare, this is the hour of crisis for China and for the man of some position and of clear power of thought, a Christian Church. Do we not do well, ere we separate public man— was “ My friend, this is not the breakdown in a moment, to pause and face again this vision which of Christianity at all. This is the bankruptcy of a is always unclouded for those who will look ? Do we civilization that never was Christian, that was frankly not do well to pause and remind ourselves in this light unchristian.” The brightest things of those who are that our religion is not an opinion but a loyalty, not in the dark are dark indeed. Ay, how great is the dark­ merely the holding of a creed, but the laying down of a ness when the light that is in any man is darkness ! I life, and the transfer of life’s allegiance to Him Whom never know how dark the world is, nor how deep and we recognize as our rightful L ord ? Do we not do well impenetrable is the gloom of ignorance and sin as when to remind ourselves of the danger of believing too much I myself stand at the foot of C h r i s t ’s cross. There and of doing too little in this day of unparalleled where the rays of that bright vision are focussed upon my opportunity ? Young men and women, will you soul, I see that it was into that darkness that my blessed not, with life before you, look up to Him, look out L o r d went. upon the world, and look forward to the eternal glory ? And will you not solemnly here in this “ And none of the ransomed ever knew Kingsway Hall to-night make this determination: How deep were the waters crossed, “ This C h r i s t for this world, and this world for this Nor how dark was that night that the L o r d passed through Ere He found His sheep that was lost.” C h r i s t ” ? A u g u s t . 1915. China's Millions. 12 1

A Woman’s Mission at Pingyang, Shansi.

B y M r s . J o h n C a r r . UT in the villages we heard questions. It was interesting to hear the women they were saying, “ What speak out, and to see latent powers of organization O are these people doing, finding expression. Discussion never flagged, and we getting the women to­ carried our decisions unanimously ! We agreed to gether ? What do they want the approach the Church leaders for leave to draw a certain women to come to the city for ? sum from Church funds for purposes of entertainment, A Women’s Conference, indeed! ” to take up two collections from the guests during the Yes, a Women’s Mission, or Con­ Mission, and to do what we could ourselves then and ference, call it what you will. We there to start the new fund. All the women, with one emphasized it over and over again, possible exception, were poor, but they gave as they in the polite language of the city, could, promising eggs and millet and cash, with joyful or the rough country patois: “ A faces which seemed an earnest of blessing to come. woman will preach and only women The men leaders, when we approached them, proved will hear her— rich and poor, high most tractable and kind ! offering double what we and low, whoever you are— please asked, and promising practical help in various directions. come to the city from April 28th A fortnight or so later saw the invitations ready printed to May 1st— come and hear some — 1,000 of them— red cards, Chinese in style, with a soul-saving doctrine, real good few words explaining the object of the meetings, the soul-saving doctrine, so long as time, and so on. These were sent out to the women you are a woman, just come.” leaders, and each set to work in her own district. Some And they came, and the doctrine were responsible for the northern villages, some for the proved itself in deed and truth the western, two more undertook to visit in the suburb and Power of G o d unto Salvation, even eastern villages, and others of us gave our time to the to some veriest outsider, who had city itself, visiting from house to house, till very few barely heard the name of J e s u s courtyards were left unreached. Once a week, those Photo b'/Mist C. F. Tippet. C h r i s t , before, with fear and who could do so met for special prayer, but daily the trembling maybe, and only per­ Christians prayed fervently for Miss Gregg’s Mission, OLD LI-PU-CHEO, suaded by eager friends, she left following her from place to place with such interest, O F S H A N S I, her village home and came in to and of course the tide of expectation rose higher as we The man who was “fed bv ravens." the Women’s Mission. heard news of blessing at other stations. For months before, these meet­ In China, such a gathering as this invok es all sorts ings had been the objective of our of strange preparations ! Here we had to arrange prayers and hope and work. Since early autumn we sleeping accommodation for a quite uncertain number, knew that Miss Gregg would be coming to S h a n s i , and one, two, three hundred, we could not tell ! (As it on the 9th of March, when the dates were finally fixed, turned out, some 240 women and children slept on the we held our first Women’s Committee, quite an experiment, this, for Pingyang ! Mrs. Han, the veteran who has held on through many years of storm and stress, and Mrs. Li, both workers in the Women’s Hos­ pital, Mrs. Liu, the out­ side evangelist, keen and eager and hopeful, representative women from the various coun­ try districts, the city, and the suburbs, the three girl-nurses, and ourselves — some six­ teen altogether — and for one long morning we talked and thought and prayed over the best way of reaching Photo by] [Dr. E. E. Edwards. the people with in­

vitations, the com­ TREE-PLANTING IN THE PINGYANG HOSPITAL COMPOUND. missariat and kindred 122 China's Millions. A u g u s t , 19 15 . premises.) But we solved the problem by laying low we were kept going with a steady stream of arrivals. brick platforms covered with straw and matting, in Fortunately there were several of us foreign workers to most of the class rooms on the church compound, and help with the entertaining— some would be in guest here when the women came they lay, packed close rooms and some outside, and everywhere were crowds of like sardines, each rolled women, women, women. up in her bedding! Here you would see a Such a comical sight matful of villagers learn­ when one went round ing away at a hymn- at night! Others, again, sheet :— slept over at the Bible “ There is but one True School. Then the food G o d . arrangements had to The venerable Heavenly be considered. A big Father . . . There is but One stove was built in the S a v io u r . . . adjoining courtyard,and Who can put away ray there the cooks worked sins . . .” hard all day, boiling Here again were some huge caldrons of “ millet rather shy strangers soup,” and preparing from the city ; and last vegetables, while the of all, just as the first little loaves of steamed service began, came a bread came in by the group of officers’ wives, hundred from the food followed by the wife of shop. The food trays the District Magistrate were carried to the class with her little son. room windows and At this first service handed round by the our large church, which women helpers. At last as at present seated all was ready. The last holds about 450, was calls of invitation had quite filled with women. been paid, the dining-room was set out with forms and We had prayed for this, but when we saw it we could tables, the helpers arrived, and everything, wash-basins, only look and wonder. Such rows of women, and hymn-books, combs, soapbeans, lamps, teapots, chop­ such quiet attention ; and outside an overflow of 60 sticks, all were in hand. Then on mothers with babies, for whom one Tuesday, April 27th, the guests began of our number valiantly led a special to arrive, welcomed with open arms meeting ! Dr. Millar Wilson’s organ by us all. led our singing. We looked round at What a sight it was! In they came the Church without which such a from the four corners of the compass, gathering would have been impossible, dear old grey-haired grannies, mothers and thought of the gifts and prayer with babies (of whom more shortly), that lay behind . . . and then gaily-dressed young women, in ox again, thoughts travelled still further carts, in big and small carts, on back to those who in past days had donkey back, on horseback, or walk­ ‘ ‘ gone forth weeping, bearing precious ing— former hospital-patients and seed.” Surely in spirit they “ came patients-to-be, and so many who were again rejoicing” on that day. . . . introduced to us as “ my relation, The form of service was very simple. from such and such a place,” or, “ a We sang several hymns and choruses friend I invited,” or, in an aside, “ one which were written on large calico who belongs to an incense-burning sheets and hung above the platform. society.” It was beautiful to see There was prayer, and a short Scrip­ what a very large majority were ture reading by a Chinese woman. heathen, and next morning when the The collections were taken up by the city people and those from nearer Chinese nurses and other young women places came flocking in, the propor­ who also acted as stewards. And tion was still maintained. On Tues­ then came Miss Gregg's address— each day evening we had a short welcome time, to G o d ’s glory, be it said, full meeting, and went early to rest, for Photo by] [Hitt C. F. Tippet. of conviction and power. In all the many were weary after long, slow audience there were at most but forty journeys ; and the campaign began BUILDING OPERATIONS AT to fifty Christian women, but in spite next day with a prayer meeting at PINGYANG. of this the interruptions were very 7.15 a.m. For this, only Christians few, and there was no lack of reverence and genuine enquirers met in the church ; whilst in and quiet. They learnt to sing and to repeat the head­ the class rooms there were two smaller meetings led by ings of the subjects with the greatest willingness, and Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Li. Before breakfast was started, we know it was in answer to many prayers that any other visitors began to arrive, and between 8 and 11 a.m. spirit of restlessness was taken away. The programme A u g u s t , 19 15. C h in a ’s M illio n s. 128 was the same each day. After the morning service, pray a real prayer to G o d ? ” Many did not know how dinner, then a short rest, followed by hymn-learning, for to pray- .one dear old soul came up near the platform which anyone who could and began to kotow as she would to the read at all was pressed idols: some looked to others to tell them into the service as teach­ what to saw Yet they evidently knew er ; then the afternoon what they wanted to do— slowly the words meeting at 3.30 ; supper came— often just," L o r d J e s u s , forgive at about 6pm.; then my sins.'' Then we felt, for greater de­ the business of getting finiteness, we should ask their name to bed, and of finding were they willing to be enrolled as everyone’s right corner. regular enquirers ? ” Again the same Some still wanted to response, and we went from one to an­ learn (it was wonderful other, writing those precious lists. Tailing, to see how keen the}7 Chao-cheng, Ilungtung, all had a share in were about this in every the blessing ; and a number of new villages interval) ; and we were in our district were re]»resented, as well as amused one evening to city and suburb. That night, going round hear an old dowager, some of the sleeping rooms, we seemed “ reputed a pillar of the to seethe joy of heaven reflected here on church,” remarking in earth, as the Christian women sang and disgusted tones, “ Is prayed with their own little groups. there no other place for “ l’eter went fishing to-day,” said one, me? I can’t stand this and caught a lot of fish.” — “ this” being the ener­ More than a fortnight lias passed getic study of some since the mission closed, and our groups of young women ! guests went home. We have seen and Daily the meetings grew heard of a number who went back into in power. Some of us the isolation of heathen surroundings with will never forget the hearts set on following C h r i s t , and 1 ips solemnity of the second ready to confess Him, and now we are day when G o d ’ s servant trying to reach them all with help and seemed to tear away the encouragement. Last Sunday in one “ refuges of lies,” as she village a little group was to meet and went steadily through her exposition of the Ten Com­ learn together, under the leadership of an old woman mandments— thelaws of G o d ’s household. Her intimate whose first glimmer of light came through the words of knowledge of Chinese life helped her to lay David Hill, more bare many of its hidden sores. We trem­ than 30 years bled sometimes at her directness, and yet ago. She knows we knew there must be wounding before the very little, it is healing could come. On the third and last true, but with so morning the subject was the Prodigal Son, many to be and an opportunity was given for decision, taught we can but evidently not quite understood by most only use the ma­ of those present. We just felt cast on G o d terial ready to for the one remaining meeting. It seemed hand, knowing that there must be a time of gathering up that above and resolves and purposes into definite decision beyond the — and yet how difficult with an audience human teachers almost entirely heathen. This time the is always the un­ Christian women took care of the babies failing Presence outside, letting nearly all the mothers of the One Who attend. One said to the others “ You take will surely per­ the babies and pray ! ” And how G o d fect the work blessed their willing self-denial. At the He has begun close of address on the “ Rich Fool ” an in these many opportunity was given for anyone who hearts. wished to follow C h r i s t to rise. One by one, some with tears streaming down their “ If there faces, they rose, 10, 20, 30, 70. Did they was more true really understand ? Or were some stand­ abiding in ing because others did? “ Let all who C h r i s t there have decided before or who do not wish to would be less do so now, leave the church.” Slowly they selfish abid­ filed out, but over sixty still stayed. Very Photo by] [Mrs. Linder. ing at home.” plainly it was told them what this step in­ — J. H u d so n volved. “ Now would they, one by one, AN INN-YARD IN SHANSI. T avxoti. 124 China's Millions. A u g u s t , 19 15 .

Editorial Notes.

YEAR OF WAR.— When this issue of C h i n a ’s are 613.000 catechumens. These numbers, it will be M i l l i o n s reaches the hands of our readers, the recognized, are far in excess of the converts and adherents A nation will have completed twelve months of of the Protestant Church. It is not however possible the most exhausting war the world has known. to make figures any real basis of comparison owing to the If we recall the tumultuous feelings and foreboding fears widely different standards adopted. which broke upon us a year ago, and if we consider what might have happened but for G o d ’ s great mercy, Chinese Students and the Gospel.— An interesting we shall realize a little of how much we have for which account of Gospel work among the students of China, to be thankful. Spiritually the work has never been written by Mr. G. Sherwood Eddy, also appears in the more prosperous, and financially the Mission has been same missionary review. To this work among the wonderfully helped. The income in Great Britain students we have previously called attention, but the for the first half of this year is £3,512 in advance of the concluding sentences of Mr. Eddy’s article are specially corresponding period of last year, though £6,223 below worthy of quotation, at a time wrhen the war is so apt the same period of the year 1913. As 1913 was an to make us forget the claims of the foreign field. “ The exceptionally good year, especially the first half, and as present situation,” he wTrites, “ is one filled with serious 1914 was a distinctly poor year, it will be seen from the problems. As a Chinese Christian leader who had taken figures given above that the first six months of 1915 have part in the meetings in various cities of China said, ‘ We been practically normal. For this we cannot be too are about to witness a great revival either of Confucian­ grateful both to G o d and to all those who have been ism or of Christianity. Give us a decade and we can win His stewards. How much the continued prayers of the leaders of China for C h r i s t . ’ This is indeed a G o d ’s people will be valued we cannot say. The present decisive decade for China. To-day the door is open. is a time when we simply must keep our eyes fixed upon It may close upon us as it did to some extent in Japan our Almighty Master, and not upon the stormy elements wrhen the church failed to enter that open door. The upon which we seem to tread. call for retrenchment or retreat in such an hour of We are pleased to state that the new report, China and supreme opportunity would be disastrous beyond all the Gospel, is already printed and will be ready for cir­ computation. Now is the day of salvation for China. culation by the beginning of August. It has been Now is the accepted time for us to enter.” made somewrhat shorter this year because of the war and the recent publication of The Jubilee Story. The The International Review of Missions. — While help of friends in making this report known will be much calling attention to these articles in The International appreciated. Its price is is. to those who do not Review of Missions, we cannot refrain from expressing receive it as donors. This price does not allow of its our warm appreciation of the sympathetic article on being sold through the trade, but copies can be had the work of the China Inland Mission, called forth by the direct from the Offices of the Mission. recent publication of the Jubilee Story. The Editor, Mr. J. H. Oldham, has paid the most generous and unstinted Roman Catholic Missions in China. — An tribute to the Mission’s contribution to the cause of informing article on Roman Catholic Missions China's evangelization, while at the same time he has appears in the current number of The International emphasized with an equal frankness some of the limita­ Review of Missions, largely based upon the Atlas tions and problems which beset the work. These Hierarchicus published in 1913. Whatever views limitations we do not deny ; they are the lot of every may be held as to the work of the Roman Catholic man or organization which attempts to specialize in any Church, it is impossible not to be grateful for such full department, and the Mission has accepted evangeli­ and accurate information as to what is actually being zation as its special work. Of every difficulty and pro­ done. Few things more stimulated Mr. Hudson Taylor blem which still beset our path we believe the solution to attempt the entry of inland China than the fact that will be found in the future as it has in the past by humbly Roman Catholics had found it possible to reside there, following our Divine Leader. Whether the solution and he frequently referred to their activities and self- be within or without the Mission it is not for us to say. denials to provoke Protestants to like devotion. Solvitur ambulando cum Deo. The total number of foreign Roman Catholic priests in China is given in the article to which we refer as 1465, The Day of Opportunity.—The importance of in addition to 721 Chinese priests. According to figures seizing the opportunities which now present themselves, published by Mr. Taylor there were in 1866, 30 bishops, as indicated in the quotation from Mr. Sherwood Edd3r’s 233 foreign priests, and 237 Chinese priests half of this article mentioned above, is emphazised by news which number being in the provinces totally unoccupied by seems to indicate that certain doors are even now being Protestant Missions. In 1873 the number of foreign closed to the Gospel. It is announced that the J apanese priests had risen to 294, and from these figures it will be Government has decided that within five years the seen that the increase in the last 40 years has been more Christian schools in Korea must stop using the Bible as than fourfold. In addition to the above there are 743 a text-book, and that no kind of religious exercises will foreign and 1,429 Chinese sisters of mercy, beside 247 then be allowed in the school buildings. The Turkish foreign and 86 Chinese lay brothers, who are mostly Government has also issued an official communiqué engaged in educational work. The total number of stating that “ religious knowledge and history and the Roman Catholic converts is given as 1,406,659, as against teaching of the creed of the denomination to which the 576,000 in 1890, and 762,000 in 1900. In addition there school belongs shall not be given to the pupils who do A u g u s t , 19 15 . China’s Millions. 125.

not profess this religion.” While time alone can prove at the hospital with his son. In Sianfu, the capital o f what power the Turkish Government will have to carry S h e n s i, an old Mohammedan said to one of the workers out this pronouncement, it is worthy of note that, as that he had treasured up the words of J e s u s in his heart the attendance at the schools referred to is absolutely for fourteen years. “ I rest upon them,” he continued, voluntary, the intention of such a regulation is that “ though I do not speak of this to my co-religionists, these schools cannot be used for evangelising purposes or for you know how they would treat me.” A Moham­ even for exerting a christianising influence. For the medan woman at the same station said, ‘ ‘ My life is bitter, open doors which exist in China we cannot be too thank­ my son blind, my daughter paralysed, but I go into the ful, or too eager to enter them. back yard every morning and confess my sins to J e s u s and ask Him to take me to Heaven.” These are but The Moslem World.— In The Moslem World, edited one or two illustrations of similar testimonies which by Dr. S. M. Zwemer— a quarterly magazine of especial could be quoted. There are, we are glad to say, evidences interest at the present juncture— of increasing use by missionaries of appears an instructive article by the Arabic and special Chinese literature Editor on translations of the Koran. among the Moslems throughout China. It appears that there are altogether translations into twelve European Literary Work. — From a letter languages and some ten versions in just to hand from the Rev. F. W oriental languages. “ When we re­ Bailer, we are glad to learn that it is member,” the writer states, “ that hoped that the new edition of his this work of translation has, with few Mandarin Primer will be ready in the exceptions, been the work of western autumn, and that he is hoping ere scholars, orientalists and missionaries, long to prepare another book to assist the contrast between the Arabic Koran students of the Chinese language. and the Bible, the book of all nations, Writing of the work of the revision is strikingly evident.” of the Old Testament he says, “ Our Among the facsimile reproductions session finished yesterday, we have of foreign versions is a specimen page revised from Proverbs to Ezekiel from a Chinese Koran commentary. xxxix., and have pulled up on the In this book the original Arabic ap­ threshold of the new Temple, to halt pears together with a transliteration for breath and new strength before in Chinese character, followed by a we enter in.” Mr. Bailer was hoping brief explanatory comment in Chinese when he wrote to leave ere long with on each passage. Mrs. Bailer for a much needed change In the reports recently received I in Korea. We most earnestly rejoice from all our mission stations in China THE LATE WILLIAM EMSLIE. I in his spared life after his recent there have been an unusual number serious operations and trust that this of references to work among Mohammedans. To change may bring much refreshment for hisbrief awaken and sustain interest in this class of people in important duties China the following instances may be given. In Lan- chowfu, the capital of K a n s u , Dr. King, reports that he The Keswick Convention.—At this time when so was instrumental in saving the life of a lad who was the many friends will have had their thoughts directed to son of a Mohammedan official of some standing. This Keswick, we are glad to announce that Mr. W B. act has created a good impression among the Moslems Sloan’s article on “ The Influence of the Keswick far and near. The father of the boy, who comes from Convention on Missionary Work,” which was published one of the chief strongholds of Mohammedanism in in The International Review of Missions, has been re­ China, read through the greater part of the Bible while printed in booklet form (2d.) by Messrs. Marshall Bros. In Memoriam—William Emslie. T is with a very deep sense of regret that we have members of the church in 1904, and during Mr. Emslie’s to report the death of Mr. William Emslie, which period of service these had increased to 224. It was I took place last month in Aberdeen. He became the writer’s privilege to visit Chiichowfu twice while seriously ill at the end of April, and entered the Mr. and Mrs. Emslie were stationed there, and in addition hospital, where several operations were performed; to the memory of their kind hospitality he will always but after bearing much pain, with great fortitude and recollect the services in the well filled church, and how cheerfulness, he passed away on June 16th. the people listened to the messages as interpreted by Mr. Emslie went to China in connection with the Mr. Emslie. Mission in the year 1892, and he had fulfilled about He was a man of a truly gracious disposition, gentle twenty-three years of missionary service, during which and kind, and his self-denying life for C h r i s t amongst time he had only had one previous furlough. the people of China will not soon be forgotten by the For the first nine years he worked with Mr. Gibb at church in Chiichowfu. Hweichow, in the province of A n h w e i, and since 1903 Mrs. Emslie is left with the responsibility of the care he had been in charge of the work at Chiichowfu, in of six children, four of whom are in the Mission Schools. C h e k ia n g . The missionaries at that station had all at Chefoo, and the twro little ones are with their mother been killed in the upheaval of 1900, but there were 47 in this country. W. B. S. 126 China’s Millions. A u g u s t , 19 15 .

The C.I.M. Jubilee Celebrations in Shanghai. HE Jubilee of the Mission was celebrated in Shang­ Inland Mission, thus strengthening the ties that bind hai on May 26th and 27th, and there was much them to us in associations which have been so long and cause for thanksgiving to God for His goodness helpfully maintained. It was a special pleasure to have T to us on that important occasion. The 26th, the presence of Miss Murray from Yangchow, as also as usual, was observed as a day of prayer and fasting, that of Mrs. Lachlan, who was able to be downstairs when those who had the privilege of meeting together for the first time since she met with her accident. at this centre had hallowed seasons of intercession, On the afternoon of the 27th, a reception was held in which, we trust, will result in blessing throughout the the compound grounds, which looked their best, clad field. Helpful words were spoken by Mr. Hoste, Mr. in the fresh green of spring. G o d graciously favoured Stevenson, Mr. Hardman and Mr. Whittlesey, as also us with perfect weather. The day was warm and bright, by Mr. Heinrich Witt, the superintendent of the work of and small tables were so arranged on the lawn that the Liebenzell Mission, who kindly came from Changsha, groups of guests could enjoy the refreshments provided Hunan, to be present, thus emphasizing our oneness in in the shade afforded by the trees which protected them Chrtst. Miss Rutz, of the German Women’s Missionary from the western sun. Nearly two hundred mission­ Union, Shunking, Szechwan, was also with us, and we aries of various societies and other Christian friends in had hoped that our Scandinavian Associates would have Shanghai honoured us with their presence, and assembled been represented by Mr. August Berg, thè Superintendent to rejoice with us in our joy, as also to unite in thanks­ of the Swedish Mission in China, but other engagements giving to G o d at the meeting that followed in the hall, •in his district prevented this. Though unable to be which was tastefully decorated with flowers for the with us personally, however, he on behalf of his fellow- occasion. Mr. Hoste led in the opening prayer, and Mr. workers in China telegraphed their greetings, whilst Witt in the closing one, the Venerable Archdeacon telegrams of congratulation were also received from our Thomson dismissing the audience with the benediction. brethren of the Scandinavian and the Swedish Alliance There was an atmosphere about the whole proceedings Missions, each expressing their gratitude and thanks which made us sensible of the presence of the L o r d in for their years of fellowship in service with the China our midst.

An Appreciation. B y t h e R e v . A. P. P a r k e r , D.D., of the M ethodist Episcopal Mission (South), Shanghai. R. HOSTE, and fellow-workers of the China over this land. Mr. Stevenson spoke of the journey Inland Mission. across from Bhamo. I was in Soochow at that time, It gives me the greatest pleasure this after­ and meeting him and Mr. Soltau I looked on them with noon in the name of the visiting missionaries here wonder, being a young man just out from home. This -to congratulate you on this most auspicious occasion. is just a sample of wThat they have been doing all these The China Inland Mission is certainly a lesson to all of years, and how G o d is leading them in carrying out this us to-day in faith, trust and wrork. I have often studied organization that has been so wonderfully established. -its progress, its work, and its results with the greatest (2.) Another thing that has struck me with great admiration, not to say, wonder. There is a sense of force is the interdenominational character of the work. strength, of success, flowing out from the China Inland They have received missionaries from all the deno­ Mission into other missionary bodies that has greatly minations. I suppose there is not a Protestant Church helped in the general work. There are three things anywhere that is not represented in this Mission, and about the China Inland Mission, amongst others that the wonderful thing is, it is working in such harmony might be mentioned, that have struck me with great and unity of purpose, showing that deep down in the force during these past years, and three of their funda­ hearts of all these men there has been a great unifying mental principles, the foundation of their great work. purpose of love to the Master and love to the people for (1.) Their purpose to spread out into the interior, His sake, and they have shown great wisdom along this to preach the Gospel to every creature in China, to line in organization, appointing missionaries of one reach every city and village and town throughout this denomination in one place and other denominations in great land. It was organized for this purpose and has other places, so as to carry out, possibly more efficiently, steadily pursued that aim during these fifty years, and the work in which they are engaged— a great unifying it has accomplished it to a very great extent. Mission agency, a great lesson in church unity and in harmony stations are scattered all over this land, far away into of work and service, a standing lesson to the whole church the interior. I heard the other day of one station away world of the possibility of uniting men and women of out in the new territory of Sinkiang, I know not how such varying views and ecclesiastical policy and doctrinal many days beyond Lanchowfu in K a n s u , and that seems views in one great organization, pushing them forward aljjiost out of creation, if we take Shanghai as the point with the mighty momentum of the Spirit of G o d for the of departure. They have been a great pioneering force, accomplishment of this great work. There are twenty- opening up the country, establishing Missions, and lead­ two nations represented in this Mission. Why, it is a ing the way that in many cases others have followed. great world power, a world spiritual power moving in We magnify the grace of G o d in them that He has led China, with the results that we see to-day. And these them so wonderfully these many years to spread out all are but the beginnings of things, but the drops before A u g u s t , 19 15 . China’s Millions. 127

remember that mar­ vellous event in 1887 ? 1 shall never forget it.- The Mis­ sion prayed for one hundred workers to come out in that year and for the funds to support them. Every one of these workers can it- and the funds to support them. That is the history of the Mission, and that the foundation of the Mission, and that the lesson that God speaks to us through the work of this Mission. We learn from each other, they learn from us 110 doubt, and we learn from them, and God speaks through them to us, through every one of us the one to the great showers that are coming, and in this we magnify the other. We only need to have our ears open, our eyes the grace of G od in them, as showing in concrete form to see His movements and our hearts ready to respond. the wonderful possibilities of unity and harmony of He will speak if we are ready to hear. Is he not speak­ organization in carrying on their great work. ing to us along this point ? (3.) The most important thing of all, it strikes me, I sometimes wonder if our Presbyterian and Methodist is that the Mission was founded in and carried on by and Anglican Missions ought not to change their plans. prayer. Those of us (perhaps all of us here to-day), who Perhaps I am a littleradical. I have thought very seriously study the China Inland Mission must be greatly struck whether in some points we have not been making with this great fact. The China Inland Mission have mistakes in appealing so much to men rather than never taken a public collection, have never appealed upon our knees to God for more practical results to any individual man or woman for money. They have and spiritual force and power. I do not know. I do asked the L o r d for their funds and their workers, and not want to dogmatize. Surely there is a lesson here the L o r d has answered. This seems to me one of the for us all to learn, every one of us. We magnify the most wonderful things in the whole experience of church grace of God in them in this respect—the lesson of history and life in Mission work. It is truly beyond the prayer and faith and trust. And my hope is, brethren thought and possibility of one not acquainted with of the Inland Mission, that that simplicity of faith and spiritual forces, and it indeed staggers the faith of a good prayer will continue and that you will never lose it. I many who know something about spiritual forces. I do not believe 3'ou will. While Dr. Taylor lived that am not here to praise the Inland Mission this afternoon, was the moving spirit that permeated the whole body but I am here to express the deep conviction that of the Inland Mission, and I believe that his mantle has we have, every one of us here, a lesson in faith and fallen upon others, that those who follow him have the prayer. same humble, simple spirit, in dependence on G od which I was in London in 1910 at the Edinburgh Conference will carry the Mission on and give it still greater and stayed at the China Inland Mission Home there. momentum. I had a delightful stay there for some weeks, and at­ May God’s blessing rest upon you and upon your tended their prayer meeting, a daily afternoon prayer work, and may we be able to follow you as you follow meeting, and one day I heard rather incidentally (it Ch rist, and all together work for this great purpose seemed to me) that the Mission was in some straits and of lifting these people out of their sin and degradation, needing special funds. They had a special prayer meet­ that the glory of the L ord may fill this land “ as the ing about it. I was in the prayer meeting part of the waters cover the sea.” time. They had several meetings, praying over this apparent crisis and the pressing need of funds. If the funds did not come, very serious results would follow. Departure for China. The funds came. I believe it was about two days after this special prayer meeting Mr. Marcus Wood said that A u g u s t 2 is t . P er P & O. s.s. “ N e l l o r e .’ that morning he had got a cheque for £3,000 (I am not ♦Miss C. M. Harlow. sure as to the amount, but it was a large sum). Do you 0 Returning. 128 China's Millions. A u g u s t , 19 15.

Our Shanghai Letter, Containing the Latest News from the Field.

B y J a m e s S t a r k . June 18th .— You will, I am sure, rejoice to learn that, sixteen centres. He mentions that twenty-two years since the date of ray last letter, 978 baptisms have been ago, when he first travelled in that part of the province, recorded, including 306 Miao converts in the district there was only one station opened, namely, Tungchowfu, of Anshunfu, K w e i c h o w , and 86 tribespecple at Taku, and there was not a single Christian to be found. Nowr, one of the centres of Sapushan, in the province of Y u n ­ several main stations have been established, with a n a n . Of these latter, five are Laka and ei hty-one Lisu. number of out-stations, whilst there are hundreds of There are now one hundred and sixteen Lisu church Christians and enquirers. Our brother adds :— “ We members, and the area from which they have been rejoice in the L o r d ’ s goodness, and thank Him and take gathered, Mr. Metcalf informs us, must be larger than courage. It was a joy to have the privilege of Wales. ministering the Word of Life to all those brethren You may remember references in previous letters to and sisters in C h r i s t , as also of speaking to crowds of the conversion of Mr. Wang, a scholar in the district of unconverted. At Tungkwan, more than one hundred Kwangan, S z e c h w a n , and the other members of his and fifty heathen women came to our meetings, necessi­ family who were brought to decision for C h r i s t through tating the turning out of all the men from the chapel. his testimony and influence. To-day I was very pleased These latter had to stand outside. The women came to receive a letter from Mr. R. B. Porter, telling of the for three successive meetings and were most attentive recent baptism of Mr. Wang’s youngest sister and his and orderly. ’ ’ A similar comparison might be instituted sister-in-law. in regard to many other districts with equally encour­ Mr. Williston reports that eight families at one of aging results. the out-stations of Pachow, in the same province, have From many of our stations I receive reports of splendid put away their idols, whilst Mr. Parker writes from harvest prospects. In some districts the crops appear Yunnanfu that eleven families from a tribal region about to be unusually good this year, and for this we are most two days’ journey to the south of the provincial capital, thankful, not only because of the boon which it will be who have now turned to the L o r d , had brought in to to the people in their poverty, but also because of the the city the false gods which they formerly worshipped. pacific effect it will have upon their minds. Often un­ Prayer is asked for these converts. The general aspect rest is the outcome of a poor harvest. of the work around Yunnanfu is reported as specially Mr. C. H. Stevens has been conducting some special hopeful at the present time. meetings for Bible study, with a view to the instruction I receive news of continued blessing in connection of enquirers at Fengsiang. A military officer recently with Miss Gregg's ministry in S h a n s i. In addition to arrived from Peking, and accompanied by a few of his the converts at Kiiwo, referred to in my last letter, I soldiers, attended one of the meetings. He was after­ gather that at other stations in the province, a further wards invited into the house for a cup of tea and a chat, one hundred women and girls have signified their decision and he told Mr. Stevens that, though he had not been for C h r i s t . baptized, he had been interested in Christianity for a Mr. C. N. Lack, in conjunction with Mr. Hu, a Chinese year. Some of his soldiers had previously reported that evangelist connected with the Canadian Presbyterian he was a Christian, and gathered his men together of an Mission in H o n a n , recently conducted an eight-days’ evening to preach to them. mission at Kaifeng. Mr. Lack writes :■— As a sample of the work that is being done in order to “ We had three meetings a day : one in the morning reach the women of China with the Gospel, let me men­ at 10 o’clock for women, one in the afternoon at 2.30, tion a visit which one of the Biblewomen and Mrs. Hsii, and another at 7.30 p.m., the two latter for men. At an earnest, independent worker at Lanchowfu, in K a n s u , the Sunday services over 1,000 people were present, and recently paid to an out-station. Mrs. G. F. Andrew each day the meetings were well attended, especially writes that they spent three weeks evangelizing Tah- those held at night. The use of a separate courtyard hsining and the surrounding district. At some of the and guest rooms was a great advantage in dealing with villages the inhabitants were chary of receiving them, enquirers. Those who confessed their desire to trust thinking they must be fortune-tellers, or at least that C h r i s t were invited to go into these rooms, where they they wanted money in return for their teaching. WThen were spoken to individually, and their names and ad­ they became interested, however, they begged the Bible- dresses noted. I felt there was an earnest spirit of en­ woman and her companion to come again soon, as they quiry in all the meetings. The people listened well, and said they had never heard such a Gospel before. The over 300 names of enquirers were registered, not count­ Biblewoman and Mrs. Hsii visited ten villages, and only ing the women. These names will be handed over to in one place were they not received and had the doors the various Missions according to their place of residence, shut in their faces. Two hundred and forty-eight and we trust many will prove to have truly decided to families heard the Gospel, many of them for the first serve C h r i s t . Mr. Hu and I felt that much prayer was time. Mrs. Andrew writes :— “ The messengers returned ascending to G od on our behalf, and the earnestness and full of joy at the reception with which they had met, as unity of the local workers helped us much.” also of thankfulness for the opportunity of sowing the Mr. A. Berg, the superintendent of the work of the seed in such prepared ground. May there be a blessed Swedish Mission in China, has been making a tour of all h a rv est! ” the stations of his Mission, and most of the out-stations During the last three months Mrs. Edward Hunt and in S h e n s i. He was absent about six weeks and visited Mrs. F. Worley have been conducting Bible Schools for A u g u s t , 1 9 1 5 . China's Millions. 129 the women in the district of Ping- yanghsien, C h e k ia n g . These have been well attended and greatly appre­ ciated. This systematic instruction of the converts cannot fail to have a helpful influence, alike on the indi­ vidual character and conduct of the women themselves, and on the Church life. Similar instruction is being given at many centres throughout the pro­ vinces, with the result that testimony is becoming more intelligent, and I hope, therefore, more effectual. A good deal of brigandage and law­ lessness is reported from the Kwangan district in S z e c h w a n . The Rev. T. E. Robinson, who has been visiting the out-stations, writing on April 28th, says :— “ Yesterday I returned from Kwaninkoh. It is like hell’s gate, for it is packed with robbers. They dress in showy clothes by day, but at night change and go forth to rob and plunder. Not only this, but they now seize men, women and girls and detain them for ransom. One of our schoolboys wras kidnapped and held till his ransom was paid. A son of a prominent church member was also seized, and held until ransomed. The school manager of the middle school was seized, and not until Tls. 500 had been paid over was he released. The same set rallied their number to one hundred and looted the Yamen at Tachu, two days’ journey away, killing five soldiers and carrying off the official and his son, whom, it is reported, they afterwards shot. They had ninety guns among them. The prefect was escaping in a chair, dis­ guised as a woman, so it is said. These brigands are a terror to the whole countryside, and are quite un­ manageable by the Kwangan Prefect. They came to our services at Kwanin­ Photo by] [A . O. Nichollt. koh, or listened to us on the street, but I fear only as spies. Two called A GROUP OF THC KOPU TRIBE OF ABORIGINES. to enquire about the doctrine, pro­ fessedly as sincere enquirers, and we treated them as such, though knowing full well their true dom is endangered. Trial will come in one form or character: However, they bought a New Testament.” another, but in the midst of it we trust that the Chris­ Mr. Porter writes that Kwangan itself is in a constant tians will be kept steadfast, and that as the result of state of nervousness. During the last few days some suffering for C h r i s t ’s sake their lives will be purified. hundreds of people have flocked into the city. He adds :— “ It is a unique opportunity for preaching the “ He that hath My commandments and keepeth Gospel, as many of them have been coming round us. them, he it is that loveth Me ” (St. John xiv. 21). We have preaching on the streets, and we get a good and Such is our I^ord’s own authoritative definition of His respectful hearing anywhere we stand.” true lover. But not seldom it would seem as if His Another call to prayer is the recrudescence of perse­ definition fails to satisfy His disciples. Thus one, a cution at Elian, in K ia n g s i, and Shekichen, in H o n a n , in self-deceiver, substitutes an emotion for obedience; connection with the non-payment of temple taxes, from while another, a self-tormentor, depreciates the which, of course, the Christians are exempted by treaty. obedience he can and (allowing for human frailty) does It can hardly be expected that the Church can escape render, in comparison with emotions he longs after and opposition on the part of the Adversary when his king­ cannot experience.— Christina Rossetti. 180 China's Millions. A u g u s t , 19 15.

Brief Report of Annual Conference at Hweichow.

B y R. H. M a t h e w s . HE Annual Conference of the Hweichow Church home cares to attend such meetings at their own was held during the three days from March charges is another proof of the power of the Gospel in T 5th to 7th inclusive. The evangelist in this those who believe. centre, Mr. Chang, and a few local helpers had The keynote of the conference was “ Holiness to the been busy for several days prior to this, getting desirable L o r d . ” From the opening service on Thursday night sleeping accommodation ready, and making arrange­ right through each day till the closing business meeting ments for the cooking of food, purchasing of rice, vege­ on the Monday morning, this high spiritual ideal was tables, and other necessary things, which though kept before the members and there has been ample prosaic are yet conducive to peace and good order, and proof that in many lives the message has already borne this department, well managed, means more or less fruit. success to the regular programme of a purely spiritual Each day was well occupied, and a glance at the gathering. time-table would convince any sceptic that Christian The country Christians began to arrive on Wednes­ Chinese do not regard these conferences as entertain­ day, 3rd inst. One or two from the North with scanty ments or as picnics. From 7.30 to 8.30 those who bedding over the shoulder, footsore and weary with attended the devotional meeting gave evidence of the the long trudge over the ranges. Three or four from power of the presence of G o d by the tone of their inter­ the Southern- districts, others from the West and East, cessions and their readiness to take part. It was quite all with smiling faces and expectant hearts. Gradually plain that the life of intercession was no new experience. the numbers increased until at the opening meeting on During the mornings, service was held from 10 o’clock Thursday evening there were over one hundred present. till 11.30. At these services addresses were given Two phases of the work at Hweichow impress a alternately by either Mr. Gibb or Mr. Mathews, and stranger. One is the many and varied sounds which immediately following from 11.30 to 12.30 these addresses “ Mandarin ” (?) Chinese can assume in one district. were reviewed by Mr. Chang for the benefit of the men. Being accustomed to the more or less uniform speech of He emphasized the salient points and elucidated any H o n a n , it seems scarcely an exaggeration to assert portions th at that there were as many variations of dialect as there were not clearly were members. Those from the North speaking their grasped. own everyday speech to each other would be In another unintelligible to those from the South. room a similar The other striking feattire is review was con­ the long distances which the ducted by Mrs. Christian Chinese have to Gibb in order to travel in order to meet to­ give the women gether in conference. Several a better grip of journeyed fully 80 miles over t h e subject. the mountains from the South- These classes East, many travelled over 53 were invaluable, miles in other directions, while as by reiteration some from Changhwa in the truths were the Hangchow prefecture driven home. trudged over the hills for Mr. Chang has 60 miles. Surely a peculiar gift of the spirit of grasping all the e a rnestness main features of which prompts the argument men and women a n d without to face these notes giving journeys and practically all travel on foot the substance such distances, of one’s address. indicates a After an interval hearty love for for dinner, Mrs. the L ord and Gibb, assisted by a zeal for the Mr. McGhee, held study of His a singing class Word, which for an hour. One must be a strong new hymn tune testimony to and a chorus was their relatives. learned, and the That they are service of praise willing to leave should be greatly business and improved by the A u g u s t , 1915. China’s Millions. 1.8i

classes. It will be more harmonious and less of a Monday morning was given to discussion of Church joyful noise than heretofore. Immediately after the finance and schools. After considerable debate it was singing, from 3 o'clock till 4, another address was decided to open a school in the autumn. The members given, and as in the morning was followed by a review. present promising about £70 towards the financing of This fully occupied the time till supper. Again under the project, this will be augumented by further con­ the lamps another meeting was held for praise, prayer, tributions from those who were not present. and exhortation, and as mentioned above the great The folk have come and gone, the seed has been theme was “ Holiness and Righteousness.” sown and already our hearts are lifted up and our lips On Sunday, after the morning service, one elderly filled with praise. Before the day had closed on Monday, man and two lads were baptized upon profession of a 37oung man, formerly a pupil of the Mission School here, faith, and at the same time Mr. Gibb's eldest daughter volunteered to teach the school for one year at least. testified her love for the L ord in the same way. When Another man asked if it would be possible for his son these were received into fellowship at the close of the to get some training in order to be fitted to preach the day, the solemnity of the presence of the Holy Spirit Gospel, offering to pay a sum of $50 towards the fees. was upon us all, as in the quiet hall we met to par­ He stated that if after training we could not use the take of that memorial feast which is ever new and more 3’oung man here, he would be glad to have him better precious each time. fitted for work in his own home centre.

Book Notices. “ A n O u t l i n e H i s t o r y o f C h i n a .” B y H e r b e r t H . tion, for the books would then have been of real service, Gowen, D.D., Lecturer on Oriental History at the whereas now it is impossible to recommend them as University of Washington. T. Werner Laurie. 10s. trustworthy guides. net. 2 vols. “ V i l l a g e a n d T o w n L i f e in C h i n a .” By J. K. These volumes would have been a valuable intro­ Leong, LL-B., B.Sc., and L. K. Tao, B.Sc. George duction to the study of Chinese histor}7 if the}7 had been Allen & Unwin. 5s. net. carefully edited or revised by a Chinese scholar. The This book is one of a series issued by the London author has evidently read widely and compiled his work School of Economics and Political Science connected with considerable care. But unfortunately there are with the University of London. The authors are two many blemishes which betoken ignorance of the Chinese Chinese gentlemen who have lived for many years in a language. Chinese village and a Chinese town respectively, and One or two illustrations must suffice to indicate what have since graduated in Economics at the London we refer to. In vol. I., p. 15, the author says : “ The University. They are therefore well qualified by birth dialects, of which there are said to be as many as 360, and education to write on the topic chosen, in sv.ch a are in some cases so unlike as to constitute practically way as to command the interest and respect of Western separate languages. Of these Cantonese, in all prob­ readers. Man}r books on China have been written by ability, comes nearest to the primitive Chinese, while Europeans, and it is a noteworthy advance to have books Pekingese (frequently miscalled Mandarin) has suffered prepared by the Chinese themselves on their own land. the most from phonetic decay.” Mandarin is spoken Although the writers are not free from patriotic bias by two-thirds of the Chinese, with as little variety as — and who is ?— the book is a useful presentation of the can be found in England between Yorkshire and Devon­ principles and ideals which govern Chinese social life, shire, and Pekingese is Mandarin as spoken in that even if the reality falls far short of the ideal. The book city. is a fairly measured statement of the case, though the Again, in vol. I., p. 65, the following reference to Eastern love of euphemisms governs the language Confucius occurs : “ The birth took place in a cave of emplo}Ted. The following sentence is perhaps an Mount Ni, whither the woman had gone on pilgrimage. extreme instance of this :— Hence the child's name Chung-ni, which later became “ Unfortunately, moral progress or retrogression in Kung*-fu-tze (Confucius).” the character of human beings, or in social relations, As a matter of fact the two names have nothing to do does not invariably correspond to the lofty teachings with one another. Chung-ni is the literary appellation, of great moral philosophers, so it is a blame undeserved or common name of Confucius, Chung meaning “ the if all the evils among the Chinese, if evils there are, are younger of the two,” he being the second son, and attributed to Buddhism.” Ni being the name of the mountain where he was born. The book is somewhat expensive, 5s. for 155 pages, Kung is his family, or surname, while fu-tze is a title but we welcome it as a harbinger of other serious studies of respect equivalent to sage or master. Confucius is of China by the Chinese in the English language. merely the Latinized form of Kung-fu-tze. One more illustration must suffice. In vol. I., p. 27, ‘‘ T h e C hristianizing o f C h i n a . ’’ By Edwin A. Pratt. the great Chinese historian is spelt Sze Ma Tsien, on S.P.C.K. is. 6d. net. p. 83 it appears as Sze ma tshien, and on p. 147 as This is a small book of 100 pages setting forth in Sze Ma Kiang. These variations occur on many other nine chapters the position of Missions in China to-day. pages, and instances ot a similar nature could be multi­ The book is admirably suited for placing in the hands plied indefinitely. of those who desire to know the present situation. There is so much good and useful historical work in Though there is nothing new to those closely acquainted these volumes, that it is a great pity they have not been with the Far East, this restatement of important facts submitted to some sinologue for criticism before publica­ should be of real service to the general reader. 182 China’s Millions. A u g u s t , 19 15 .

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING JU N E, 1915—Continued. , For General Fund.— Continued. Rect. No. £ s. d. R ect. N o. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ fa. d. R ect. N o. £ s. i . Rect. No. £ s. i . 24. 9572 5 0 0 25. 9582 3, 0 0 28. 9598 5 0 0 28. 9611 5 0 0 29. 9623 0 2 6 30. 9641 0 1 0 0 9573 0 5 0 9585 0 1 0 0 9599 0 3 6 9612 0 7 6 9624 0 1 0 0 9642 0 1 0 0 9574 1 0 0 9586 0 2 6 9600 0 5 0 9613 1 1 0 0 9625 1 0 0 9645 ’ 5 0 0 O n e w h o m \ 9587 3 0 0 9602 0 16 6 9614 20 0 0 9626 1 1 0 0 9649 50 0 0 the Lord 1 0 0 9588 0 13 6 9603 0 1 0 0 29. 9617 1 0 0 9627 0 19 6 9651 0 15 6 loveth. I 9589 2 2 0 9604 0 1 0 0 9618 5 0 0 9628 1 0 0 0 9652 1 9 7 9576 2 0 0 9591 1 0 0 0 9605 1 1 0 9619 0 5 0 9629 2 0 0 9577 1 0 0 9592 3 0 0 9607 0 15 0 9620 2 2 0 9631 1 0 0 £3,257 13 10 L e g a cy . 378 5 8 9593 0 1 1 0 9608 0 10 0 In I A Q A 9633 1 2 3 U O U 9579 15 0 0 9594 0 10 0 9609 0 15 3 Memoriam. J 9634 1 0 0 25. 9581 2 2 0 9595 5 0 0 9610 0 10 6 9622 2 0 0 30. 9638 0 1 0

For Special Purposes. Rect. No. £ s. d. R ect. N o. £ s. d. R ect. N o £ s. d. R ect. N o £ s. i . R ect. N o . £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d- 1. 9294 3 5 3 8. 9377 2 0 0 14. 9461 1 0 0 23. 9564 6 0 0 30. 9639 2 0 0 30. 9647 37 10 0 9295 1 0 0 9381 5 0 0 9464 1 0 0 24. 9580 1 0 0 9640 0 10 0 9648 1 8 6 9302 5 0 0 9387 0 5 0 15. 9478 3 0 0 25. 9583 2 0 0 9643 30 0 0 9650 131 0 0 2. 9316 4 1 8 9. 9398 0 11 6 9484 15 0 0 9584 1 0 0 9644 8 10 0 3. 9321 10 0 0 9401 1 0 0 9485 1 0 0 9590 1 1 0 9646 0 10 0 £591 1 1 9337 2 0 0 10. 9412 1 8 0 9486 1 0 0 9596 43 12 4 9338 4 0 0 9413 210 0 16. 9492 010 0 26. 9597 1 10 0 4. •9343 1 0 0 9414 3 0 0 9502 0 11 8 28. 9601 0 10 0 SUMMARY. 9346 10 0 0 9416 5 0 0 Anon. 10 0 0 9606 1 0 0 £ s. d. -5: 9357 0 5 0 9420 1 0 0 17. 9505 5 0 0 29. 9615 5 0 0 General , . 3,257 13 10 7. 9362 0 10 0 9422 1100 9513 100 9616 2 19 5 Special 591 1 1 A Friend. 0 10 0 9425 1 10 0 18. 9527 20 0 0. 9630 0 5 0 9365 2 5 0 11. 9436 115 0 19. 9528 11 16 3 9632 0 10 0 Total for June 3,848 14 11 e 9366 100 0 0 9441 0 12 6 9532 12 0 0 9635 33 0 0 B rought forward .. 18,U1,¿ 4 6 2 0 12. e 22. 9368 9444 0 5 9560 3 15 0 9636 5 0 0 Total .. £21.860 19 5 9376 1 2 0 9450 0 4 0 9561 5 0 Q 9637 5 0 0

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DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING JU LY, 1915. For General Fund. Rect. No £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No £ s . d. Rect. No £ s . d. Rect, No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ E. d. 1. 9653 2 3 0 2. 9700 0 3 0 9752 1 1 0 10. 9802 2 0 0 9849 0 10 0 19. 9895 1 0 0* 9654 22 19 5 9701 0 4 0 9753 1 1 0 9803 1 17 3 9850 1 8 2 9896 0 10 0 9656 1 1 0 3. 9702 5 16 9 9754 050 9804 1 1 0 9851 10 0 Ö 9897 1 10 0 9658 0 15 6 9703 2 9 0 9755 2 0 0 9805 2 0 0 9852 0 10 6 9900 0 11 4 9659 1 1 0 9705 5 2 6 9756 2 13 5 A Tenth. 0 10 0 9853 0 5 0 9901 7 10 a 9660 16 5 0 9706 2 10 0 Anon. 0 5 0 9808 2 2 0 9854 0 3 0 20. Anon. 0 5 0 9662 0 7 6 9708 1 3 0 9758 5 0 0 12. 9811 0 5 0 9855 12 10 0 9903 1 0 a A.S.D. 5 5 0 9712 6 0 0 9759 1 4 6 9812 0 5 0 9856 1 1 0 9904 0 10 6 9664 0 15 0 9713 5 15 0 9760 010 0 9813 0 2 6 9857 2 2 0 9905 1 1 0- 9665 0 5 0 9714 2 0 0 9761 0 1 0 9814 0 19 0 9858 2 2 0 Anon. 0 10 & 9666 5 0 0 9715 10 0 0 9762 0 9 8 9815 1 2 3 9859 1 5 0 9908 0 1 0- 9667 0 10 0 5. Anon. 0 2 6 9763 0 10 0 9816 0 3 6 9860 0 1 0 9909 0 2 & 9668 1 6 5 9717 0 2 6 9765 0 10 0 9817 0 5 0 9861 0 5 0 9911 1 0 O' 9669 2 4 10 9718 1 0 0 9766 0 10 0 9818 0 10 0 9862 0 6 0 9913 2 0 0 9670 1 1 0 9719 5 0 0 9767 1 10 0 9819 1 0 0 9863 10 0 0 9914 12 10 0- 9671 1 10 0 9768 2 0 0 Anon. 0 5 0 9865 0 10 0 9915 1 0 0 Thank- \ 2 0 0 9672 0 10 0 offering. j 9769 6 0 0 9821 1 1 0 9868 0 6 0 9916 10 0 0 9673 0 14 2 9721 3 3 0 9771 2 10 0 9822 1 0 0 9869 1 0 0 9917 2 0 0- 9722 1 1 0 9772 2 0 0 Anon. 1 5 0 9870 1 0 0 21. 9918 0 6 a Widow's) 0 2 0 mile, j 9725 50 0 0 9773 0 5 0 9825 0 6 0 9871 5 0 0 9919 1 1 a 2. 9676 0 4 6 9726 10 0 0 9775 0 6 0 Anon. 100 0 0 9872 0 10 0 9920 1 6 9 9678 0 14 0 9727 25 0 0 9776 0 10 0 9827 12 10 0 9873 0 5 0 9921 0 5 a 9679 0 5 0 9728 1 0 0 9777 2 0 0 9828 6 0 0 9874 180 0 0 9922 10 10 0 9680 20 0 9729 2 16 6 9779 5 0 0 9829 54 0 10 9875 1 1 0 9923 0 2 0 9681 7 11 0 9730 100 0 0 9780 10 0 0 13. 9831 3 0 0 9876 10 0 0 9924 0 17 6 9682 0 10 0 Anon. 1 0 0 9781 50 0 0 9832 0 10 0 9877 5 0 0 9925 1 0 0 9683 018 6 6. 9733 0 10 0 9782 5 0 0 9833 2 12 0 9878 3 3 0 9928 1 0 0 9684 100 9734 050 9784 0 1 0 9834 1 0 0 9879 30 0 0 9929 5 0 0 9685 111 6 9735 010 0 9785 6 18 0 9835 1 13 0 9880 1 0 0 9930 0 5 0 9686 32 10 0 9736 100 0 0 Anon. 0 3 0 9836 0 1 6 9881 20 0 0 22. 9931 0 5 0 9687 2 5 6 9737 10 0 0 9787 3 3 0 9837 0 16 6 9882 0 10 0 9932 0 18 7 9690 295 9739 535 9788 3 0 0 9839 1 1 0 9883 0 10 0 9933 25 '0 0 9691 1 0 0 9740 0 7 0 9789 1 0 0 9840 0 5 6 9884 0 5 0 9934 25 0 0 9693 0 3 6 9741 0 6 3 9790 1 10 0 9841 0 10 0 9886 0 4 8 9935 1 0 0 9694 2 2 0 9742 0 6 0 9792 2 0 0 9843 2 10 0 9887 33 13 11 9936 0 5 0 9695 25 0 0 9743 17 0 0 9794 1 0 0 9844 70 0 0 9890 0 5 0 9937 0 15 0 9696 10 0 0 9744 0 10 0 9796 5 0 0 9845 5 0 0 9891 1 10 0 9938 0 5 0 9697 2 10 0 9747 0 10 0 9798 2 10 0 14. 9846 0 5 0 9892 1 0 0 9943 0 15 9 9698 0 80 9749 2 0 0 9799 2 1 4 9847 0 10 0 9893 0 6 6 9944 2 2 0 9699 1 0 0 9750 0 10 0 9801 5 0 0 9848 0 5 0 9894 0 5 0 23. 9945 0 10 0 (Continued on page 14S.J C h ina’s M illio n s.

A Statistical and Financial Survey.

A d d r e s s b y J. N . H a y w a r d , T r e a s u r e r o f t h e M is s io n in C h i n a , a t t h e J u b i l e e C elebrations ,

h e l d in S h a n g h a i .

h e duty entrusted to me this afternoon is to and daughters of C.I.M. missionaries, and wo know of attempt to give a brief statistical survey of the six or eight more in training. Mission and its work during these 50 years, and 2. Work.— The Mission was formed at the time when T to say a little about the business side of our only about 15 centres, chiefly at coast ports, had been organization. opened to the work of Protestant Missions. It was 1. Personnel.— As is well known, the China Inland formed with the express object of taking the Gospel to Mission is interdenominational and international. There Inland China, and we have had the honour and privilege is no need for me to give a list of the ecclesiastical dis­ of being the pioneers in most of the 16 provinces in tinctions that may be found amongst us. In a word which our work is now established. A glance at the we have representatives from many of the Evangelical map on the wall will give a better idea than any words denominations, and we have to thank G o d that, for of mine how we have spread over the land. With the these many years, on the basis of allegiance to the L o r d exception of a very few names, chiefly those of southern through His spirit and loyalty to His word, we have been provincial capitals, all the names on that map are of able to work together in the fullest harmony. It should C.I.M. stations, and it is by no means complete. not be forgotten, however, that the Mission has been We occupy in 16 provinces 227 stations and 1,058 out- the means of strengthening the work of many of the stations, in all 1,285 centres. There have been, thank denominations by uniting in separate districts workers G o d , baptized during these years 50,721 converts, of connected with a particular Church, and so establishing whom 34,754 are still on the communicants’ roll. The work on the ecclesiastical lines of that Church. A first 25 years of our work was largely pioneer effort, and striking instance of this is the part taken in the formation while we have never ceased in the endeavour, and it is to and work of the diocese of Western China, where there be hoped that we never shall, to take the Gospel to those are, in the Eastern part of that diocese, supported almost who are outside the reach of existing agencies, yet the entirely by C.I.M. funds : last 25 years have been, in the nature of things, marked 99 Stations and Out-stations, by an increase in settled Church work, and it is encour­ 84 Foreign Workers, aging to note that while at the end of our first 25 years 133 Paid Chinese Helpers, the baptisms numbered 4,669, during the second 25 45 Schools, years 46,052 were added. Further evidence of the con­ 2 Hospitals with 4 doctors. solidation of the work is seen in the number of our As an evidence of the International character of the schools. At the end of our first 25 years we had only Mission, it is an interesting fact that it has united in a 24 schools, at the end of last year they had increased to fellowship of true love and service, men and women 373- from the following 22 countries: England, Scotland, The medical work now consists of 12 hospitals, 62 Ireland Wales, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South dispensaries, and 55 opium refuges, and we have five Africa, U.S. of America, Finland, Russia, Belgium, Bible training schools for the training of Chinese workers, Holland, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, where a two-years’ course of instruction is given. Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, and India, and despite the 3. Finance.— During these 50 years there have been terrible conflict raging in Europe, in which some of these, entrusted to the Mission from the freewill offerings of nations are engaged, ‘ ‘we are proving that we are bound the L o r d ’ s people in all parts of the world, without any together in C h r i s t in a fellowship which transcends all direct appeal, except by prayer to the L o r d , about divisions of nationality and race.” ¿1,750,000, or say G. $8,500,000. This is apart from During these 50 years there have laboured in the funds for the support of our Associate members, for Mission about 1,880 workers from these many churches whom we are not financially responsible. and many lands, and our present members are 1,063 It is to be hoped that no ardent critic and lover of foreign missionaries and in addition 1,711 paid Chinese calculation will waste his time in dividing the expen­ workers. The foreign missionaries include 32 sons diture by the number of converts and think that he has September, 1 9 1 5 . 186 China’s Millions. S e p t e m b e r , 1915. arrived at the cost per convert. May I remind such that Kiukiang, Hankow, Chungking, Tientsin and Chefoo, our expenditure includes both working expenses and absorbing a capital of $60,000, not a cent of which has capital outlay, and has been charged with the prepar­ been taken from funds given for the work of the Mission. ation and equipment of a large number of workers, These departments have been established at convenient Chinese and foreign, who have many years of service distributing centres already needed and opened for the yet before them ; it includes the acquiring of premises remitting of funds. There seems to be an impression in many of these 1,285 centres in which we work, and abroad-—-twice lately the matter has been mentioned administrative centres in the Homelands as well as in to me—that our stocks are largely replenished China, which also will last for many years. It further by considerable gifts from manufacturers at home. includes equipment and maintenance of educational There is no foundation, in fact, for this impression. work, and a considerable expenditure to relieve suffering We, of course, buj’’ in wholesale markets and pay for all and distress in medical and famine relief. If after due we get. allowance for these things he can give us the cost per 5. Schools for our Missionaries’ Children.— While convert, we shall be interested to have it. calling attention to these business departments, opened 4. Business Work of the Mission.— The business side to promote the efficiency of our foreign workers, men­ of our work as it deals with the administration of Mission tion must be made of the schools for our missionaries’ funds has been greatly simplified by the fact that, unlike children at Chefoo and Kuling, which give a sound the great denominational missions whose efforts are education, under most helpful spiritual influences and world-wide, our field of service is in China alone. We in healthy surroundings, to some 320 children, 200 of are, therefore, able to have the work on the field entirely our own Mission and 120 others, the majority of the directed in the country, and all financial and business latter being the children of other missionaries. Our operations controlled by men with missionary experi­ successes in the Oxford LTniversity Local Examinations ence quite close to our field of operations, resulting no have been most encouraging, 295 pupils have entered doubt in efficiency and economy. since 1908, when these tests were first held in Chefoo, and In the early days of the Mission, when the sphere of of these 290 have passed successfully, not a few with its work was small, Mr. Hudson Taylor combined in honours. himself all the business offices, distributing funds and, I The outstanding feature of this work, auxiliary suppose, purchasing the transporting necessaries as he to the direct work of preaching and teaching the visited the centres occupied. As our work became more Gospel, is that it has been built up gradually on widespread, other arrangements were necessary. For the simplest lines to meet pressing need, and as we example, in reading the other day the stories of some of review the L o r d ’ s leading in connection with it, we the early pioneer journeys of Bailer and King, King and may well rejoice with thanksgiving that it has been Budd, Easton and Parker in 1876, I saw it mentioned uniformly successful. that in one case a two-months’ journey into S h e n s i was 6. Home Organization.— The brief time at my disposal cut short by the workers having to return to Hankow makes it impossible to do more than mention the home for further supplies of money. What cause there is for organization of the Mission. Centres have been estab­ thankfulness that it has been possible to establish a lished in England, Scotland, Switzerland, Canada, United machinery, and find means of communication, whereby States of America, New Zealand, Tasmania, and our the many hundreds of the L o r d ’ s servants labouring Associate Missions have centres in Sweden, Norway, in the interior can obtain supplies of money and other Germany, Finland and the United States of America. necessaries in any station of this great land without At these places, under the direction of Councils and undue delay or loss. The actual silver that has been Mission officers, funds are received and remitted to the lost in transit through these past years is infinitesimal field, applications for membership of the Mission dealt in amount. with, training of candidates supervised, literature pre­ It is worthy of note that business facilities are pared and published, deputation work organized, and constantly on the increase. A few years ago native many other matters pertaining.to the home organization bank drafts had to be sent from Shanghai, Hankow, controlled. Tientsin and other centres to the interior ; now it The past fifty years of our work are most helpfully is only for a very few places that we have to avail dealt with in a book just published in England, “ The ourselves of this means of remitting. In distributing Jubilee Story of the China Inland Mission.”* I com­ centres, such as Chungking and Chentu in the west, mend that book to your notice. Pingyao in the north, and in many places near the And now, in conclusion, as we remember these fifty coast, cheques drawn on the Hongkong and Shanghai years past with their great opportunities, the supplies Bank, or on one of our Mission offices, are readily of workers and means, the souls saved, the Church negotiable. organization established and the business facilities avail­ As our workers settled further from the coast, it able, may we not most thankfully regard the past as became necessary to provide facilities for purchasing “ years of the right hand of the Most High,” and as we and forwarding necessary supplies to them. The first praise Him with full hearts at the memory of His great step taken to meet this need was to have a worker set goodness, may we not in true humility, conscious of apart to make purchases in Shanghai and transport them many failures, yet giving ourselves with renewed zeal to the interior. Later on, in the interest of economy, and devotion to the work, look year by year for an ever both in labour and prices, it was found desirable to keep expanding increase ? That these desires may be realized our own stocks of such necessaries as were being con­ we crave the earnest prayers of the many sympathizing stantly called for, and thus growing out of real needs our friends gathered with us to-day. supply department has been built up. Stocks of stores, stationery, etc., etc., are kept at Shanghai, Ningpo, •See advt. on page 148. S e p t e m b e r , 19 15 . China’s Millions. 187

Cheerful Tidings from Honan. Copy of letter from Mrs. H. J. M a s o n , dated Kwangchow, April 20th, 1915. HEN I wrote in January, it was to give you cause of anxiety to us. Service to others has been a the date of Mr. Goforth’s special meetings, blessing to them. A party went off soon after on a W that you might join us in prayer for blessing. preaching tour at their own expense. There were great preparations, lodging had We looked forward to perfect freedom to mingle with to be provided for 600 delegates from the country our flock, as all responsibility of preaching and the stations. This time we (my husband and I) were the organ would devolve on Mr. and Mrs. Goforth. purveyors, as each family cooking for themselves had The night before we expected them, a letter came to been found unsatisfactory, and many never got proper say Mr4 Goforth was ill, and next day another saying meals. We built huge coppers in three separate kitchens the doctor forbade his coming. My husband’s spirits and engaged the services of a young man to buy grain went down to zero, though I tried my hardest to cheer and supervise cooking. Country Christians were taken him— the delegates were pouring in and no other mis­ off the famine relief work on the roads, and installed sionary able to help within call. as cooks. The delegates received badges which gave That night at prayers one man said, “ L o r d , Thou them the right to buy their food at our kitchens, those hast given us a good Pastor, we had no need to invite with money wishing for dainties, etc., elsewhere. Owing anyone else.” G o d was teaching us all not to look to to gifts from friends to help poor Christians, we were man, but to Him for blessing A list was made of our prepared to lose, and it helped the country people to own leaders able to take part, and a week’s meetings get cheap food during the meetings. Cooking went arranged for. We had three services a day, and usually on from morning to night. There was thick rice gruel two speakers at each. During this week, when all for breakfast, and dinner, and tea, with grated carrots looked to the Pastor, he was ill one day in bed with fever, mixed with salt and onions for savour}’. Two basins but the meetings went on without him. We had a most of rice gruel were sold for ¿d. and man}' people did live inspiring time. on fd. per day. You may think these figures an ex­ On the first day quite a throng of 1,500 people gathered aggeration, but four hundred lbs. of rice were cooked and were so orderly and attentive. We never had less per day, and fifty lbs. of carrots grated, so the cooks than 1,000 people, and the singing was grand. Heavy were not idle. These received their food, but refused rains fell between services one day and it made us quite wages. anxious to see the people forced to sit under the dripping At our last meetings the young men were on the plat­ tenting, on soaking forms and sodden ground. Good form, singing Christmas and other hymns before the seats were always occupied an hour before each service services. This time they were not to the fore, but when began. You would all want to help us a little if you we took a walk round the kitchens, there they were could see how inadequate our present buildings are. with aprons over their silk gowns ladling out the gruel, Elder Wen preached five times, and his text on each basin after basin, and collecting the coppers. A new occasion was, “ Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” spirit is creeping into these youths who once were a Once the thought was “ I thirst,” and at another time, “ It is finished.” We often think of Mr. ^ ,1c it íl + Argento. He has suffered and is suffering for this ’ S * f ¿ æ . m £ ^ =&' * church, and G o d is answer­ ing his prayers. To-day there has been a f f i. Q dinner here to conclude the purchase of land next door -3 ;* for the church—-an answer to the first part of our prayer, and now we are all praying O and each thinking how much we can give towards the íf A. flP "Si building. Mr. Wen is strong in his opinion that it must i t seat 3,000 people. The forms are to have no backs, as this takes up less room. fÈ& & jfc£■* f t * Now we have twenty-one places of worship in con­ ‘ & ¥ ) A # 4|S 4 M. m ïï 4 . ÌT nection with this church. ¥ ) i i , # Two new chapels were opened last month quite near, only £I $ àÜ à # - fourteen miles away south and east. The pastor was present on both occasions, SIMPLE FORM OF PRAYER, REFERRED TO BY MRS. MASON. going on Saturday and 188 China’s Millions. S e p t e m b e r , 1915. returning on Monday. In each place, hall and yards it is to have a really satisfying meal these days. Our contained a packed and orderly audience— from 200 to giving has to be done very secretly. We saved one 300 people. Each out-station provides lodging for us woman on the point of selling her little boy because on the chapel premises, and each station asks, “ When he could not eat weeds. When I gave him a loaf, he are you coming to our place ? ” Mrs. T’an, with her ate a few mouthfuls and then said “ Keep it for me, baby Peter, is touring now and helping the women in Mother.” I said, "No, eat it up, there will be more.” each place. Once I heard this little fellow say, “ J e s u s loves me and They purchase or rent their own buildings and bear I love the L o r d . ” His mother when asked, replied all the expense of lighting, etc. with beaming face, “ I pray Leaders are raised up of G o d to G o d all the more now.” in each district who are able Translation of Prayer on 2>receding -page. Join with us in prayer that to conduct the nightly wor­ G o d will be gracious and ship and Sunday services. To “SIMPLE FORM OF PRAYER.’’ give them a good wheat har­ possess a baby organ is the I earnestly beseech the Heavenly Father because of vest in May and another rice Jesus’ merit to hear my prayer. I am a sinner without desire of each community. strength or ability and my heart is truly extremely crop in September. We have helped six places unclean. If I had to depend on myself for salvation I wish I had time and to get this necessary asset. I could not be saved. space to tell you Mr. W en’s Our own organ here is dying Thanks be to the Heavenly Father, for sending Jesus life story. He is Mayor of to redeem me from sin, and to suffer on my behalf from overwork, there are so and be crucified for me and become my Saviour. the two cities, elected three many aspirant organists. It I also earnestly beseech Thee, Heavenly Father, years in succession, and now is Chinese make, gives a big because of Jesus’ merit to forgive all my sins, and when he wishes to retire it is bestow the Holy Spirit to open my heart and cause me impossible for him to do so. sound and cost 30s. to understand the doctrine, that I may believe in Our last and nearest out- Jesus, and love Him and trust in Him as my Saviour. He is overworked, and never station was opened on Sun­ I further earnestly beseech the Heavenly Father not retires before 1 or 2 a.m. He to allow me to be deluded, or to go on the wrong is a Daniel in our midst, and day. Owing to heavy rains road, but help me always to accord with the com­ my husband could not go. mands of Jesus, and do no evil thing, and be able to his advice is as mucja needed Long before the service began do all kinds of good actions and at the day of my in the Councils of the city as death keep me from going to hell to endure suffering, the place was packed, two- but enable me to ascend to heaven and enjoy un­ in the affairs of the church. thirds of the audience being limited and inexhaustible felicity. With all these daughter women, many of whom used And all I ask is altogether in reliance on the merits churches and the manifold to walk in here (7 miles) on of my Saviour Jesus. Such is truly my heart’s desire- difficulties which constantly A m e n . Sundays. When the gentry present themselves, my hus­ of the place came in their band says he could never best clothes, they found no room. manage without Mr. Wen’s aid. He is practically These special meetings revive the Christians and co-pastor of the church and the humblest man in create a deep interest to hear the Gospel throughout the it. G o d ’ s glory always comes first with him. The country side. Voluntary colporteurs have been out City Council Secretary is Church Secretary also. ever since visiting market towns and villages, while our If they have a hard problem to face, Mr. Wen says, elderly Christian women are constantly out in the city “ We must leave this until I have prayed about it.” selling books and teaching in the homes. One Sunday when six aldermen attended service Mr. The Bible has been bought and is read by the old Wen gave them the sermon all over again on the Monday official classes. Their wives visit me freely and I call morning to be sure they understood. His charming on them, many of them pray to G o d and some read daughter— made a widow by “ White Wolf ”— has their Bibles. The British and Foreign and American inherited his ability. She helps me in the women’s Bible Societies supply us. We often ask ourselves if school and other services and leads a meeting very the demand is like this in famine, what will it be in a acceptably. The old elder has one son who is walking year of plenty. worthily in his father’s footsteps. He has three little The enclosed prayer has been carved and then printed grandsons, the youngest called Paul. At the recent by a man nearly blind. Since he has done this work meetings a photo was taken of the leaders of this church for us he has come regularly to worship. We have sold and out-stations. Of the eight men representing the 3,000 copies in three months, and many whom we have city, six are, or have been, connected with the official's never seen are repeating that prayer every night— old yamen. They of Caesar’s household are many in gentlemen and little tots of three years old. this city. One has just given up a position which cost The famine is very sore in the land— in some places him a lot of money and is now preaching. Another— there are no weeds left to eat, and the second bark on a tax collector— travels over a large district, and many the trees is being pared off, and eaten by the Christians. of our out-stations owe their existence to his life and Scarcely anyone has come begging help of us, they have testimony. His wife is a fine woman, and they take hungered and told the L o r d . care of the chapel in the North City. The North City An old gentleman in America, who has a pension, gave Christians meet there for prayers every night, and the all he had in the bank, one hundred gold dollars, to South City people come here. Two to three hundred hungry Christians in China. It came to Kwangchow. people gather here every night, and eight hundred is 41 Before they call I will answer.” We pray daily for quite the average on Sunday morning. wisdom in this distribution, and the leaders in each Last year the collections (a box at the door) and sub­ district give us information as to who ought to be helped. scriptions of the Kwanchow Church for its own use in It is terribly sad to see the pinched, wan faces. About town and country came to 596 Mexican dollars. half the Christians and enquirers do not know what Mr. Goforth has promised to be with us in December. S e p t e m b e r , 19 1 5 . China’s Millions. 189

Our Shanghai Letter, Containing the Latest News from the Field.

B y J a m e s S t a r k .

J u ly 16th .— Since the date of my last letter, two obtained the victory through C h r i s t , and is now a hundred and forty baptisms have been recorded, in­ hearty, happy Christian. Another man amongst those cluding a further ingathering of twenty-three tribes- baptized is Mr. Chao, the proprietor of a money-shop, people in the Sapushan district, the remainder being a man who luis held office in past years, and has a great Chinese converts in no less than eleven different pro­ reputation throughout the district as a man of ability. vinces. The total reported thus far for this year is not His conversion and baptism are known in almost every equal to that for the same period of the previous one, village round about here, and we trust many will be led and this, we feel, is a call to prayer that G o d will, through to think of the claims of the Gospel.” the operation of His Spirit, bring to decision for C h r i s t Mr. W. Englund writes that the sense of responsibility many of those who have heard the Gospel and have, in on the part of the Christians at Lantien, She., and some measure, been influenced by it. their interest in all matters pertaining to the church, are We have had a very hot spell here this week, the steadily growing. thermometer one day registering 100.6° in the shade. Air. G. T. Denham reports that during the month of All our sanatoria are now open, and we are glad to May one of the Chinese teachers in the Boys’ School at know that a number of weary workers are enjoying Suiting, Sze., and five of the scholars have given the refreshment of a sojourn by the sea at Chefoo, or in their names as wishing to be received as catechumens. at one or other of our three mountain resorts, whilst Four boys are sons of Christians. Mr. Denham will others are able to escape the heat at local hill retreats, value prayer that there may be a deep work of the Spirit coming down to the plain for the week ends to conduct in the heart of each of the pupils. the Sunday services at their stations. Air. Fawcett Olsen, writing from Kiungchow, Sze., So far as my information goes, the health of the Mission says :— generally is at present good. “ On April 27th my wife and I, together with an You will, I am sure, rejoice to hear of further blessing evangelist, two Biblewomen, and a number of Christians, attending the ministry of Miss Gregg in S h a n s i. Our set out for the village station of Sheo-an-chen, to attend sister travelled altogether 1,200 English miles, and at the sixth half-yearly evangelistic meetings, which have each centre visited held two meetings a day. Her now been held in each station by turn. Notwith­ largest audience was five hundred and her smallest standing the hard times in which we live (with rice at fifty ; in all two hundred and eighty women and girls 1,800 cash a bushel), twenty-four Christians from four professed conversion. Miss Gregg says :— stations attended ; about twenty Christians locally “ Our greatest difficulty was the children. When made up the number of delegates to forty-four. We we told the mothers that they could not bring them to chose as our theme the ‘ I Ain’s ' of ’C h r i s t , and spent the meetings, their faces changed, and when we said an hour each morning in explaining the subject. We we would provide someone to look after them during then separated into three bands— two of men and one the time ot the meetings, some feared and would not of women— each band selecting a different part of the leave them ; but generally as they found the children village, and spent two hours in preaching. At 3 p.m. were happy in playing and being entertained with we met again for prayer, and then gathered in one large sweetmeats and nuts, the mothers then attended. I band in a prominent part of the village, taking the always admired the doorkeeper, who had to prevent organ with us. Two speakers were previously chosen, the children entering. A mother who dearly wanted and again the same theme was sounded forth. At 7 p.m. to get in, said ‘ My baby never cries, ’ or, ‘ My baby is a another two or three bands spoke in different places. Christian baby ’ ; but the doorkeeper had to be firm This was continued for six days, and large numbers must and say ‘ No. ’ At one meeting there was an overflow have heard of C h r i s t as the Way, the Bread of Life, the of sixty women and their babies. Imagine conducting Light of the World, the Good Shepherd, J e s u s holding a quiet meeting with so many infants ! We made a the keys of hell and death, and JESU S the First and the strong point of having plenty of singing and taught Last, whilst the Bible study of these subjects was a Scripture choruses, the two favourite being, ‘ There is blessing and inspiration to the Christians and evange­ none other Name,' and ‘ This is a faithful saying. ’ ” lists. It is difficult to tabulate the results of such meet­ Our sister hopes to conduct a series of special meetings ings ; but many were dealt with personally, and about in the province of H o n a n in the autumn, and will value one thousand copies each of John’s First Epistle and prayer that the hearts of the women may be prepared Blackstone’s tract on ‘ G o d ' were sold for one cash to receive the Divine message. each. Several women showed some promise of coming In reporting five baptisms at Hotsin, Sha., Mr. A. forward, among them a young woman who heard B. Lewis writes :— the Gospel years ago in a village which is seldom “ One was the ex-Buddhist and vegetarian who, with visited.” another, came out of a temple whilst we were at the hills The following extract from a letter received from Miss last summer. Both have now been baptized, and it is a Dring, dated Wannien, May 18th, will be read with real pleasure to see them advancing in spiritual things. interest:—■ The one just received had a bad time for the first month “ The last time I was in Chenyong, Mr. and Mrs. Hsia or two, as the devil seemed to make him a special object and I paid a visit to the home of a new enquirer, five of attack, and he was often much depressed, but he miles distant, and I was greatly encouraged by all I saw 140 China’s Millions. Septem ber, 1915 and heard. I think you will be interested in the story. a member at Chenyong, but had been cut off for taking The name of the enquirer is Mr. Nieh. His eldest son, part in an idol procession. He said to Mr. Nieh, ‘ That aged 21, was for four years paralysed. He could not use must mean that you are to go to the J e s u s H all.' So his arms or legs. His father consulted many doctors Mr. Nieh commenced to attend the services. After he and worshipped many idols on his account, but all was of had been coming a few times, the son became a little no avail. Last autumn a celebrated idol was brought better, and the father decided to wheel him to the chapel. to Chenyong for the time of the annual festival, and Mr. He had to be tied on to a barrow, he was so helpless. Nieh went to worship it on behalf of his son. He paid But from the time he started to come, he commenced his money and drew a number ; corresponding to this to improve, and now he is able to walk, even on wet, number was a piece of paper, on which were written slippery days, the five miles there and the five miles some characters. These were, ‘ Ask heaven to heal.' back. Is it not wonderful ? Mrs. Nieh and a younger Later on, he told a distant relative this, and asked him son also attend now, and I do trust the whole family will what he thought was meant. This relative was formerly be saved. Please pray for them.”

Niagara=on=the=Lake C.I.M. Jubilee Conference.

B y a V i s i t o r f r o m C h i n a .

t OV must visit Canada.” “ You will enjoy a Our journey from Shanghai was uneventful, and the Y trip through Canada.” “ Canada is worth part from Yokohama to Vancouver was, to say the X seeing.” Such were some of the expressions least, slow and tedious. of friends in China, when they heard of our Having landed in Canada we at once began to ex­ intended visit to Canada on our way to the Old Country. perience the warm hospitality of the Canadians, and Having “ done ” Canada, as our American friends say, once more were made to feel the bond of union that we can now say we did enjoy our visit to that country ; exists between all parts of the Mission which made us especially the happy days spent in the Toronto Home thankful for the privilege of being “ workers together " and at Niagara-on-the-Lake. in the C.I.M. During our short stay in Vancouver we

C.I.M. JUBILEE CONFERENCE GROUP, JUNE, 1915. NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, CANADA. S e p t e m b e r , 1915. China’s Millions. 141 were entertained by Mrs. McDonald and other friends missionaries at the front in the great war, was a solemn of the Mission. These friends, at considerable incon­ time not to be soon forgotten. The privilege of meeting venience and trouble, cared for our party of eight during so many warm supporters of the Mission from all parts our stay and then loaded us with provisions for use en of the United States and Canada was one of the things route to Winnipeg. At Winnipeg again we had a fur­ deeply impressed on one’s mind. The United Council ther demonstration of Canada’s world-famed hospitality. meeting held on the Friday afternoon was one of the One of our party informed us on board ship that she meetings which will live in the memory of those pri- had an uncle who used to live in Winnipeg. She also vileged to attend it. As one looked around and saw added that she had not heard from him for many years such busy men as Dr. R. A. Torry, Dr. Farr, Principal and was not sure of his address ; however, before leaving O’Mera and others present, one could not but feel grateful Shanghai she had written saying that she and her hus­ to G o d that He had given such men, and many others band were passing through Winnipeg en route to Toronto equally busy in His work, who gladly and freely gave and would like to spend the Sunday with him at Win­ of their time and strength to forward His Kingdom in nipeg. On arrival there the said uncle not only China in connection with the China Inland Mission. entertained his relative from China, but also undertook The lovely scenery of Niagara-on-the-Lake, coupled to care for the relative’s six friends ! We had a most with the wonderful spirit of love and harmony manifest enjoyable rest there during part of Saturday and Sunday, in all the meetings, seemed to impress the minds of all and were again sent on our way rejoicing. who attended this, the first, we trust, of a series of such The remainder of our journey to Toronto was short gatherings to be held year by year in the future, ^fter and interesting. The scenery, after the somewhat tame the close of the meetings wre finished our visit to Canada, and uninteresting prairies, was restful and pleasant. It by a trip to the Falls. Most famous places do not come would be ungrateful on our part to mention the “ un­ up to the expectations of the traveller, but Niagara Falls, interesting prairies,’’and not say a word about the world- at least in this case, was more than equal to anything famed Rockies, so without attempting to describe the we had anticipated. Having seen some of the greatest beauties of these magnificent mountains we will simply whirlpools and rapids the traveller is permitted to see, say :— The Rockies are like the Canadian people— really I was inclined to think that nothing at Niagara could fine ! be so very startling after all. I must confess that while Vancouver makes a good impression on the traveller the whirlpool was not tip to expectation, yet the rapids from the first. The fine shops, orderly traffic, imposing rising high above the face of the river in mighty volumes buildings, and well-planned streets all betoken purpose, of water w'ere beyond every expectation. The sight w'as foresight, and a certain measure of prosperity. simply overwhelming ! Winnipeg, the great centre of the middle west, reminds Owing to the war we experienced some difficulty in one of Birmingham or one of the great industrial centres getting across the Atlantic. After several attempts of the Midlands. to secure a passage via Montreal, we wrere obliged to Toronto, with its fine University buildings, number­ book our passages via New York. less churches and public structures, gives one the im­ Our voyage across was uneventful, and wre reached pression of beauty coupled with a fair amount of wealth Liverpool in safety. and prosperity. The Mission Home is admirably situ­ Our friends in Canada were somewhat alarmed as to ated near to the centre of the city, yet far enough away our safety as the newspapers reported that the vessel to be quiet and restful. we sailed on was a markedbooX, i.e., she was to be treated The whole atmosphere of the Home was helpful and as the Lusitania ! We, however, were quite unconscious natural. The Frida}" evening prayer meeting seemed of this till we were safely landed in the Old Country, well attended, and the spirit of prayer and interest in where, notwithstanding the strain of the war, we are the work keen and living. glad to be once again, and look back with great pleasure Much prayer was offered for the Conference at Niagara- upon our short but happy visit to Canada. on-the-Lake and those who were privileged to attend In conclusion may I assure our friends and supporters the meetings were not disappointed. From first to last in this country of the loyal fellowship and brotherly a real spirit of fellowship was manifest, and the presence love of our Canadian fellow-workers in connection with of the L o r d was real and refreshing. the Mission. We, as a people, are delighted with the Each speaker seemed to realize his or her privilege spirit of the Canadians towards the mother country, and responsibility in addressing such a company of manifest to all in this great world struggle. The same earnest workers, gathered together for one purpose, viz., spirit is manifest in connection with the spread of the to magnify the L o r d for all His gracious goodness to Kingdom of O u r L o r d and S a v i o u r J e s u s C h r i s t . May the Mission during the past fifty years. The L o r d 's we individually seek to cultivate this oneness of spirit goodness was the dominant thought in speech and prayer. with all those who are engaged in this great warfare for No lauding of individuals or methods was manifest the putting down of the strongholds of Satan in that in the slightest degree. All seemed to be of one mind country of China for which we all are working and in giving praise and glory to His Holy Name, and in the praying. ______desire to once again take up the work committed to us as a Mission. Whilst recognizing the progress of the " ‘Abide in, Me/ The little word ‘in’ requires Mission during the past fifty years, all seemed impressed more than, a passing notice. It is not used in the with the vast needs of the present and responsibilities of sense of within, as when the less is contained within the future. the greater. As used in our text, it implies union with, Prayer for the whole of the missionaries sent out from vital connection with, identification of life with its. North America individually, and for the sons of our object.” — J. Hudson Taylor. 142 China’s Millions. S e p t e m b e r , 1 9 1 5 . Editorial Notes. HE China Continuation Committee.— The Administrative Efficiency. — One of the most June issue of the Chinese Recorder is of virile of the reports is that on business and administra­ more than ordinary interest and importance. tive efficiency. The mere reading of a statement pre­ T It is almost wholly devoted to condensed reports sented with such precision is a pleasure and calls forth of some of the special committees of the China Con­ thanksgiving, for it can never be right that the work tinuation Committee, which somewhat recently held its of the IyORD should be done negligently. Missionary third annual meetings in Shanghai. The whole number work to-day has become highly complex, and this is not is worthy of careful study, but space will only allow us a cause for regret but for thanksgiving. Instead of a to make the briefest reference to some of the subjects few workers, as in the years gone by, there are now be­ treated. tween five and six thousand foreign workers in China, apart from a still larger body of Chinese labourers. Quite Forward Evangelistic Movements. — The first independent of the increase in numbers, the variety of report deals with the subject of Forward Evange­ work demands more careful and thorough organization, listic Movements. It is interesting to note that this for no mission can hope for immunity from the conse­ report states that such efforts as Mr. Sherwood Eddy’s quences of bad business methods merely because its aim work among the students, the F u k i e n province-wide is spiritual. The small school of the past has grown campaign, and the special mission to the women students in one case into a medical college, in another into a “ would have been impossible but for the years of patient theological or Bible training institution, while the pre­ evangelistic effort carried on by the missions and churches; paration, publishing and distribution of literature, which work which is still going forward and will doubtless is now circulated by the million, has become a serious continue to go forward on unconspicuous lines.” We undertaking. Again, the work of the treasury has rejoice at this recognition of the “ unconspicuous ” toil assumed such proportions that a missionary trained of many unknown workers, for there is always the danger for evangelistic work is unequal to the financial ad­ that in the joyful demonstrations which naturally and ministration of to-day. These facts are being fully rightly accompany the harvest, the toil of the humble recognized and grappled with. Yet the committee is sower may be forgotten. G o d ’s way is “ that he that careful to state that “ administrative efficiency in itself soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together,” and cannot bring the highest success in missionary work ; we do well to remember that the farmer pays even more the transformation of lives is the work of G o d , and the attention to the need of careful sowing than to the power of G o d is the one great resource upon which gathering in of the harvest. If the former is well done mission work must depend.” the latter is more or less assured. So important is the special resolution adopted by the China Continuation Committee in regard to evangelistic Other Subjects.— Space will only allow of brief work in the light of all the facts before them that we reference to some of the other reports, such as that quote it in full. It reads as follows :— “ This Committee presented by Mr. C. T. Wang on the social application voices its devout thankfulness to G o d for the marvellous of Christianity, the object being to emphasize the im­ opportunities which He has opened before the Church portance of the Christian life of every Christian finding in China, opportunities which are growing more and more expression in some form of disinterested service. widespread. Wherever united evangelistic effort has In regard to the training of missionaries on the field been made during the past year, the same readiness to the subj ect mainly dealt with is the study of the language, hear the Gospel message has been apparent. Thus far and it is interesting to note that it is stated that ‘ ‘ the we have touched only the edges of the opportunity. schools visited (with the exception of Canton) and the A task of such great proportions and so full of promise West China school are using Mr. Bailer’s Primer as the calls with increasing urgency to the Christian forces of basis of the first year’s work. In Canton also the primei China to move forward unitedly with renewed faith and is being put into Cantonese.” consecration.” In the problem of Christian literature real progress has been made in co-operation, and eight organizations Theological Education.— The next report deals concerned with the production and circulation of Chris­ with the need of theological education. The great thing tian literature have approved of joining the proposed brought out by the Forward Evangelistic Campaign in Christian Publishers’ Association of China, and also of F u k i e n proved to be the absence of Christian leadership. the organization of the Mission Book Company and the It has therefore been felt necessary to emphasize the Canton Christian Book Store. problem of the mental, moral and spiritual equipment In regard to educational work, recommendations were of leaders. Moreover, the prospect of a large number made for the securing of uniform examinations and the of Chinese students entering the church, as a consequence use of a common nomenclature, and steps were suggested of the special work among students recently undertaken, for encouraging Chinese Christians to undertake the and the removal of prejudice on the part of the literati financing and directing of Christian schools. Ques­ indicates the importance of having a Chinese ministry tions connected with Bible study, Sunday school work, which shall be able to hold these men true to their new the promotion of intercession, were also carefully con­ faith and to secure their allegiance to the church as well sidered, and suggestions made to further these objects. as their loyal co-operation in the extension of Christianity. In regard to a more complete occupation of the field, Without reflecting in any way upon the past work of the the committee on survey and statistics called attention Chinese Christian ministry it is rightly felt that the time to the fact that the provinces of Kweichow, Yunnan, lias come for facing the new conditions. K w a n g s i and K a n s u are much less adequately occupied September, 19 1 5 . C h in a ’s M illion s. 148

than the other provinces. At the same time it was China. It seems that a Chinese Itinerant Lecturers’ pointed out that these provinces had special linguistic Association has been formed with a view to sending out and racial problems connected with the presence of parties of lecturers to educate the people of China. In aborigines, Mohammedans, Mongolians and Tibetans. a preface to the regulations of this association occur The presentation of reports such as these, as the the following sentences by General Li Yuan-heng:— matured conviction of representatives of practically “ The credulous people have foolishly gone in for all the Protestant missionary societies working in China, Western civilization, adopting customs that have been sitting in conference with a number of Chinese Christian in existence among foreigners for hundreds of years, but delegates, is a powerful answer to the charge that Pro­ mistaking the husk for the kernel, verily ‘ paring the testantism, with its many sects, does not present a united foot to suit the shoe,’ with the result that there has been front to the non-Christian world. evolved a lawless equality and an unbridled liberty the virtues of fraternal love, honesty, pro­ priety and modesty are regarded as of little consequence. The Opium Curse in China.— From a recent issue of the North China Herald just to hand, we are grieved to The tendency to-day is for the people to regard degenera­ learn of a deplorable and unexpected development in tion with complaisance. This poison was rampant in regard to the sale of opium in China. There appear the closing days of the Manchu dynasty, but since the to be some six thousand chests of opium still in store at establishment of the Republic it has been decidedly on Shanghai, and an agreement has just been signed between the increase.” Mr. Tsai, an ex-Taotai, representing the Chinese Govern­ We may make a good deal of allowancefor the Eastern ment, and the Opium Combine, which is composed of habit of self-depreciation in certain forms of speech, but foreign and Chinese importers of the drug. By the behind these words of China's vice-president lies a real agreement signed, the Opium Combine undertake to pay recognition of the nation’s need of regeneration. The a surtax of $3,500 per chest on foreign opium, which complaints to which he calls attention are recognized will amount to 21 million dollars in all, on the under­ by many of China’s best friends. Unquestionably many standing that this opium shall for the next two years be of China’s most worthy officials have made earnest efforts to secure the reformation of China, and when we allowed unrestricted entry into the provinces of K ia n g s u , recognize our own inability as a nation to deal success­ K i a n g s i , and Kwangtung. It is a remarkable fact that just at the time this agreement was signed representa­ fully with the curse of drink we cannot afford to criticize tives of the British Government were at Chinkiang, China. We can only turn from the consideration of ready to start on a journey of investigation with a view these and other evils to a fuller recognition that there is only one Name given under heaven whereby men may to closing K i a n g s u against opium traffic should it be found free of poppy cultivation. be saved. We do not pretend to know what sinister influence has been behind this grievous development. We remem­ The Missionary Element at Keswick.— In referring ber that H. E. T'ang Shao-yi six years ago urged the to the missionary aspect of the Convention at Keswick, we cannot do better than quote the following extract great importance of bringing the opium evil to an end from an interesting resumé contributed to the Life of while feeling in China was keen, and pointed out the danger of extending the period of repression to ten years. Faith by the Rev. W. Y. Fullerton “ This is the first time that I have been privileged to Other Chinese spoke in the same strain. We are now be present on the Sunday before the Convention, and to seeing some of the evil consequences of dallying with an share in the formal meetings that preceded it, which evil instead of dealing with it root and branch. Further, from a Shanghai Municipal notification, we in themselves almost form another Convention, and from some aspects are even more interesting than the ordered learn that a public meeting was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday, June 30th, for the purpose of deciding meetings that followed. Indeed, one of the most in­ tensely powerful gatherings was that on Monday morning, by lot what opium shops should be closed on September when the address by Mr. W. B. Sloan on the L o r d ’s In­ 30th, in accordance with the decision of the ratepayers' meeting of March 22nd that 25 per cent, of the licenses tercessory Prayer in John xvii. strangely moved all our were to be withdrawn in September. Though we rejoice hearts. This naturally leads me to speak of the mis­ to think that a quarter of the shops will soon be closed, sionary aspect of the Convention, and here the outstand­ ing feature is without doubt the masterly and over­ it is a great grief to see such a tardy way of dealing with whelming address by Dr. Zwemer on the present position an acknowledged evil. It is good that the means to do of Islam. The interest of the assembly was enchained ill deeds should be removed, but it is necessary to remem­ from the beginning, but perhaps the greatest thrill was ber that the real removal of any evil can only come by when, in referring to the advance in the Dardanelles, he change of heart. The Rev. Arnold Foster, in a private letter, when writing on the present situation, says : “ The suddenly exclaimed :— stubborn and persistent resistance of man everywhere Uplifted are the gates of brass, The bars of iron yield to the Kingdom of G o d and righteousness is simply To let the King of Glory pass. appalling. We can but continue our testimony and The Cross is in the field. our fight, but it seems as if no outward power is capable The missionary meeting on Saturday morning, which is of coping with a great evil that appeals to men’s passions always a memorable time, reached high-water mark this or their love of gain.” year. I do not ever remember hearing a more interest­ ing series of testimonies from the field, and the mis­ Man’s Need of the G o sp e l.— In keeping with these sionary prayer meetings each morning at seven had a words of Mr. Foster’s are some recently published concentrated power that is sure to be effective in many remarks of General Li Yuan-heng, the Vice-President of directions in the future.” 144 China's Millions. Septem ber, 1915*

The Story of the Stations.

A special Historical Report, giving in brief the story of each station, is in course of preparation. As it is only possible in that Report to give a summary of the information available, we hope from time to time, as space allows, to print in “ China's Millions” fuller details of a few selected stations.—Ed.

I.—The City of Sisiang in Shensi.

ISIANG is a small city of (inclu­ be haunted. Being in pressing need of the deposit money „ ding the surrounding district) he wrote up the agreement right away, and Chang at S once took up his residence there, while Mr. Huntly went 208,000 on inhabitants. to Hinganfu. It At is the same time Mr. Huntly asked situated on a small tributary Miss Harrison to pay a visit here that the women might of the Han River, and is eighty be reached. This she did, bringing with her from miles to the S.E. of Hanchungfu. Chengku an old serving woman, and taking up her It stands on a small plain, sur­ quarters for the time being at an inn, as the house was rounded on all sides by hills and not vet- vacated. As she was the first foreign woman mountains. The country round ever seen here, hundreds and hundreds of women crowded about is sparsely populated and in daily to see her. The old serving woman would the market towns and villages very preach to these visitors about nothing but Moses among scattered, necessitating long jour- the bulrushes ! That was the only subject she seemed nej's to get to them. The roads familiar with. Miss Harrison had but recently come are, for the most part, not verjr easy up to this district from Yangchow, and what language to travel, lying over mountains and she had was Yangchow dialect, so that the women found along the rocky beds of mountain it difficult to understand her. She made the old woman torrents. Sisiang was opened as an tell the people, sentence by sentence, what she first told out-station of Chengku in the year her, but left to herself she went back to Moses ! It 1893. Before this several itinerant was June, the weather was very hot, and the premises brethren had preached the Gospel very small and crowded from morning till night with and sold books here on their jour- women almost treading on each other’s toes. Miss neyings, but there was no work, Harrison could not talk much, but the women were and, so far as is known, no interest. In 1893, Mr. Huntly, much impressed with the, to them, surprising fact that of Chengku, thinking this would make a good centre for she was not' at all settled work, put irritated by their the matter before crowding in upon the Chengku church her so when the- and suggested that weather was in itself they should choose so trying. a man from among Keenly conscious themselves to come of her own weak­ and open a preach­ ness, and longing so ing place here, and greatly after the- that those who souls of these wom­ could should give en, Miss Harrison one cash or 6V went to her room to of id.) a day to­ pray and could not wards his support. but weep, not know­ This they did, choos­ ing what to do, as ing Chang-ch’en-fah, she could not get and giving as sug­ Mrs. U to tell the- gested., either more Gospel, and when or less, as they were she tried to tell it individually able. the women failed to Mr. Huntly accord­ understand much. ingly came here While there the- with Mr. Chang to Lord Himself drew look for suitable [Mrt. l . h . Linder. very near, and the premises and sue- Photo words “ Not by ceded in getting a A TAOIST TEMPLE ON MT. HUA&HAN, SHENSI. might nor by power,, house almost at but by My Spirit, It is a large cave cut out of the side of the mountain, which is solid rock. The temple once, because the j inside is round, about 30-ft. high and 20-fl. in diameter, and full of idols. There must be saith the L o r d ” | about 100 images inside. The old priest Chang, the Keeper of this Temple, became owner was in prison I very interested in the Gospel, and learned a prayer which he prayed every day. That came to her with for debt and could was during the visit, one summer, of some C.I.M. Associate Missionaries to the great power, and, in m o u n t a i n . not let the house as spite of all, quite a. it was supposed to September, 19 15 . China’s Millions. 145

few women believed and knelt with her in prayer during at Sisiang a foreigner teaching a strange doctrine, she that first short visit, one of whom afterwards became felt she must come here straight away. That very day the matron of the girls’ school. She told Miss Harrison she tried to hire a donkey to carry her, but, failing, and later on that she had been very conscious of sin, and was being unwilling to wait even a day longer, she walked on the point of becoming a vegetarian, but she came in. When she arrived a meeting was just about to begin. and listened to the Gospel, and, though she understood She walked straight up to Miss Harrison and prostrated but little of what was said, she was much struck by herself before her. When invited to sit down she refused the sentence “ There is a true G o d ,” and felt that she to do so, saying that she knew Miss Harrison to be a must come again fairy, and that she and learn more. At dared not sit in her t h e same time presence, and it was Chang -ch ’en - fah quite a little while had got a few in­ before she could be terested men round prevailed upon to him, some cf whom be seated. She ac­ were afterwards cepted the Gospel baptized. as soon as she heard Just at this time, it and broke her too, work began in vegetarian vow. Sangiienp’u, a mar­ Several weeks after ket town seventeen this there were bap­ miles from here, tisms here, and she and now one of our begged that she out - stations. A might be baptized school teacher too. At first Miss there had been to Harrison would not Chengku and heard hear of it, thinking and believed the it better to keep Gospel, and, return­ her 011 trial for a ing, began to wit­ time as was cus­ ness to friends and tomary, but she neighbours, so M is s pleaded so hard, Coleman went there Photo by] [Mrs. L. H . Linder. saying she was old for a short v i s i t and might not live and some few pro­ EN ROUTE TO MT. HUASHAN, SHENSI. until the next bap­ fessed faith. Com­ tisms were held, so, ing on to Sisiang in a fortnight’s time, she and Miss wrhen examining the other candidates, it was decided Harrison returned together to Chengku. The old to catechise her though there was no expectation that teacher afterwards became a very useful member of she would be able to give satisfactory answers. But the church, a preacher, and the teacher of the girls’ she was evidently being taught of the Spirit and school from its commencement, until he lost his eyesight answered splendidly, so it was decided that, as the shortly before his death, a few years ago. At the case was somewhat exceptional, she might be received present date his only son is one of our helpers. without the longer period of waiting usually required. About two months after her return to Chengku, Miss Returning to her home near Kuantsishan, she took Harrison came again with M r . and M r s . Huntly. When Miss Harrison with her. She was very zealous and they returned home she still stayed on ; a good many never tired of telling out the glad tidings, men, women, women gathered round her, and so she w a s led to make and even scholars listening to her with much attention. this place her home from that time, never again return­ She had services in her own house for some time. ing to Chengku except for an occasional short visit. In About the same time a certain old man at Ch’uho, the following year, 1894, 27 converts were baptized, six a country place high up among the mountains, two of whom were from Sangiienp’u, they having been days’ journey off, another vegetarian, also heard that a previously received here for further instruction. foreigner had come to Sisiang. He had been fairly Miss Harrison remained on alone for two years or so, wealth}7, but, in his eagerness to find forgiveness of sins, after which Miss Thompson (now Mrs. Burgess) joined had spent nearly all he had in worshipping idols,visiting her, but she was only here a short time before her mar­ distant temples in all sorts of weather for the accumu­ riage, and was away a good deal nursing fellow mission­ lation of merit, but had found no peace. As soon as he aries. About this time, in 1895, Kuantsishan, a market heard of Miss Harrison being here, he felt a strong desire town twenty-three miles from here, was opened. Its to come and hear the new doctrine that was opening was on this wise. An old vegetarian woman, being preached. This desire he mentioned to his re­ who came of a long line of vegetarians, had a dream, latives, who told him that foreigners took out eyes and and out of this dream sprang the work there. She was hearts and strongly urged him not to go. This made at this time an old white-haired lady of nearly seventy, him afraid, but the desire remained, and grew as the the head of a clan of 700 people, and was a good reader days went by, so, reminding himself that there was a — a very unusual accomplishment for women. In her magistrate in Sisiang, he decided to venture, saying to dream she saw a white person pointing out to her the himself, “ I’ll be very wary and, if there is any sign of way to Heaven ; when, therefore, she heard there was interference with me in any way, I’ll appeal to the 146 C h in a ’s M illio n s. September, 1915. magistrate.” He reached here one night, got up very early next morn­ ing, and made his way to the preach­ ing hall, only to find that the doors were still shut. He walked up and down, backwards and forwards, for some time, and at last Chang, the evangelist, took down the shutters ; still he did not venture in, but stood at a safe distance and watched others coming and going. Seeing that they came and went freely and that no harm happened to them, he gained courage to draw nearer. The evan­ gelist noticed him and called him in. He listened to the Gospel, bought a new Testament, and, after that, came in on four or five consec­ utive Sundays, leaving his home before daylight on Saturday morn­ ings and reaching here just in time for the Sunday morning service. Seeing this, he was invited to stay here for a few days’ teaching, and, at a prayer meeting, he broke down and wept, saying that he had not understood the way of salvation before but that now he saw clearly. When he returned home, he took Mr Chang with him, and his wife, two sons, and daughter-in-law, all became believers right away. An old lady there, a Mrs. U, also a vegetarian, who knew this Mr. Ch’en, had asked him why he was going into Sisiang so often. He had quietly told her and she had also believed. When Chang went there he met her eldest son and preached to him J e s u s . He too believed right away, but knew not of his mother’s faith nor she of his. He longed to take down his idols, but feared she would reproach him with being an undutiful son ; she longed to take down the idols, but feared her son’s displeasure, and how re­ joiced they both were when the truth came out! He afterwards Photo by] [ C . J . A nderton. became the leader there and con­ tinued so until his death last year, THE OLD MOSQUE AT SIANFU, SHENSI. A tower in the old mosque at Sianfu used for observing the moon, or a minaret d la Chinoise. N o t* which was preceded only a few the stone with Arabic inscription. This mosque is said to have been originally built in the eighth century. months by that of his old mother. The church was built on their ground. Ch’en, though then dried it leaf by leaf at the fire, after which he ven­ a scholar, had no capacity for leadership. Now the tured to read it ! younger son of the family has become a valuable When the work reached this stage, it received an evangelist, and our fourth Chinese helper, Mr. Long, unexpected set-back through the ill-advised words and a man of considerable ability, is his convert. All the actions o f ------, then in charge at Chengku, resulting adult members of this (U) family have become Christians. in the loss of .the particularly suitable premises then At the same time, too, a man named T’ang, after­ occupied, and the temporary estrangement of most of wards one of our evangelists and now evangelist at the members of the church, who, for some months, met Hinganfu, believed and bought a New Testament. He for worship at the home of one of the country Christians. was strongly advised not to read it, being told that to He also, through a mistake, summarily dismissed the do so would cause blindness, but, after a good deal of evangelist. This all happened while Miss Harrison was thought, he hit upon a plan to make the reading of it away at Kuantsishan, and she returned to find a very safe. He soaked the book well in a bucket of water and different state of things from that which she had left. September, 1915. China's Millions. 147

Things remained more or less in this condition for her long to get back. As soon as she returned the several months, until Mr. Botham’s visit, which was a people all gathered round her again, many of the coun­ great help. He was acting superintendent during Mr. try Christians came in to see her, and they had a time Easton’s absence on furlough, and while here he suc­ of special meetings and blessing. After a few months ceeded in renting a small house to which Miss Harrison alone, Miss Phillips joined her, but unfortunately before moved at once, as the landlord was pressing for the long her health gave way and she had to leave again. evacuation of the house on East Street, which he had Larger premises now became necessary, and, after sold, and the new owners were waiting to take possession. two or three years’ negotiations, the present premises Although Mr. Botham’s visit greatly helped, it was not were secured. Meanwhile Miss Edwards had arrived until some special meetings held a little later, at which in Miss Phillips' place. there was much blessing, that the work entirely re­ Now came a wearisome year while the new premises covered and the evangelist was restored. were being built, out-station work having to be neg­ After Miss Thompson’s marriage, Miss Harrison was lected, as the building necessitated Miss Harrison's alone again for more than two years, for, though Miss presence, but, as many of the labourers were Christians Bell (now Mrs. Triidinger) and Miss Harding had been or enquirers, opportunity was taken of their being here designated here, the}' had to wait on at Y anghsien until to hold classes with them nightly. larger premises could be secured, there being no accom­ In answer to prayer, the L o r d gave nice large school modation for them in the small house Miss Harrison premises, all ready to hand, the previous quarters having occupied. been very confined. It was while still here alone that Miss Harrison paid After this a great trial came to the work in the sudden her first visit to Ting-yiien, a small walled city three fall into sin of one of the Chinese leaders, so long an days’ journey from here, and near the S z e c h w a n border. earnest, faithful worker. Immediately afterwards the A few women believed and three of these were baptized Holy Spirit deeply convicted him, and, much broken up, the following year. The two ladies were able to join and in great anguish of spirit, he came and confessed Miss Harrison towards the close of 1898, and after their his sin to Miss Harrison. At the same time the old coming the boarding school was opened. They had teacher became almost blind, and very feeble and not been here two years when all had to go down river childish, and, within three or four months, Mr. Hu and to Shanghai on account of the Boxer rising, and there Mr. Kao died, leaving the work without a single Chinese was all the heartbreak of being compelled to leave, under helper. It seemed that the places of such men as all such circumstances, those whom the L o r d had given these four had been could not be filled for many a long during happy, happy years, albeit there had been some year, and, meanwhile, the enemy was attacking the sad ones too. Up to this time there had been 103 bap­ work on all sides. Some dark days followed during tisms, and some twenty-five persons were awaiting bap­ which much importunate prayer for blessing was drawn tism when the order to leave came, and these were forth. After some months, G o d ’ s answer came in a received by Chang after the ladies left. The place was blessed revival, which gave us two of our present workers. left in Chinese hands until the beginning of 1902, when These two, together with a third who was not so directly Miss Harrison returned from furlough. In the mean­ a product of the revival, were G o d ’ s good gifts to the time quarrels and jealousies had arisen among the church at a time when it seemed that the work could Christians. Those left in charge were capable, good not go on, for there were eight out-stations needing workers, and Mss Harrison thought the work would constant help, beside the central station, and, as stated go on all right, but the trouble was that there were two above, all the helpers had been removed at once. But of them, one being a scholar and one unlettered, and G o d knew the needs of the work better than we did, and, jealousies arose between them. Letters telling of these in our present workers, has given to us men even better dissensions reached Miss Harrison at home, and made in some ways than those we lost. The Revolution in 1911 and 1912 didnot interfere with our work at all, though there was some fighting here, but, on the contrary, gave us some unusual opportunities for service. Several of our workers were considerably in demand, and seemed to have much power of comfort­ ing the terror-stricken people because of their own fearlessness and glad trust in the L o r d . Just before the Revolution, the L o r d , in answer to prayer, sent, through an anoymous donor, £50 for the purchase of some property next door on which we expect to build a new chapel. At the present time there are about 200 church mem­ bers, ten out-stations and five paid Chinese helpers, one of whom is Biblewoman. Most of the teaching in the boarding school is given by our own old school girls. There have been many heart aches, as well as much joy in the work. Some who did run well have been caught in the toils of the enemy, and others have grown cold, but there is much indeed for which to thank G o d and take courage for the future.

TRAVELLING BY MULE LITTER. “ We’ll praise Him for all that is past, And trust Him for all that’s to come.” 148 China's Millions. S e p t e m b e r , 19 15 -

Dr. Wm. Warren.— We deeply regret to record the has fallen upon his wife and family. Though the sudden and unexpected death of Dr. William Warren, evening of the doctor’s life has been heavily oyer- who for many years was a much-esteemed member of shadowed we rejoice to think of him, with his naturally the Mission’s Council in Australia. bright and buoyant disposition, as beyond the sighing He was brought to C h r i s t during his medical studies and t^ie weeping. To the sorrowing widow and family in Dublin over, forty years ago, and from the first gave we tender our deepest sympathy. fearless testimony for the Lord Jesus Christ. After completing. his course he devoted himself to Medical Mission work in London, and later on in Liverpool. Subsequently he laboured as a missionary in Spain for Departures for China. two years, in which work he greatly delighted. He S e p t e m b e r 4TH. P e r P. & O. “ N a g o y a .” was especially used in personal work, and was the *A. and *Mrs. Bland. Mark Botham. means of leading hundreds of souls to C h r is t . He *Mrs. Botham. E. W. Trickey. delighted in welcoming, and showing hospitality, to the *J. and *Mrs. Brock and two N. Engebretsen. children. H. Ingwardo L o r d ’s servants from every land. He was on many *Miss C. M. Harlow. a Missionary Committee, and for some time was President of the Victorian Branch of the British and S e p t e m b e r i i t h . P e r N .Y.K . “K a t o r i M a r u .” Foreign Bible Society in that city. He had for some *Miss L, F. M. Jackson. Miss Lilian Smith. time been in poor health and had recently visited *Miss J. MacLaren. Miss R. Thompson. *Miss E. M. Yard. Miss M. Thurston. this country for a much-needed change. Not many Miss G. E. Mitchell. Miss M. Kerànen. weeks ago he received the sad news of the death Miss J. Nelson. of another son—who fell in the landing at the About October 6th. Via Canada. Dardanelles— and of the invaliding of another son from *A. T. and *Mrs. Polhill and two children. the same field of action. And now another heavy blow * Returning.

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN LONDON DURING JULY, 1915— Continued. For General Fund.— Continued. R ect. N o. £ S. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. R ect. N o. £ s. d. R ect. N o. £ s d R e c t N o. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. 23. 9946 0 2 0 26. 9965 1 2 9 27. 9981 0 5 0 28. 1 3 0 0 29. 17 5 0 0 31. 36 0 10 0 9949 0 5 0 9966 0 5 0 9982 20 0 0 2 10 0 0 Anon. 50 0 0 38 5 0 0 9951 2 0 0 9967 0 10 0 9983 0 5 0 c.s. 1 0 0 30. 20 0 5 0 N oe. 7 0 0 T h an k - \ 9952 1 10 0 D u p lex 9984 40 0 0 5 0 6 6 21 5 5 0 ) offering I k 24. 9953 5 0 0E n velo p e - 1 0 0 9985 0 10 0 29. 6 0 10 0 22 5 0 0 from f" 0 0 9955 2 2 0 Schem e. \ .9986 3 3 0 7 0 5 0 Photos. 0 3 6 H . R . D j 9958 0 6 0 9969 0 10 0 9987 1 0 0 8 0 10 0 26 0 10 0 41 5 0 0 9959 1 0 0 9970 1 0 0 9988 0 2 6 9 0 10 0 27 1 17 0 42 1 0 0 9960 0 10 0 9971 65 0 0 9989 0 5 0 ; io 0 5 0 29 1 0 0 43 5 0 0 9947 1 0 0 9972 2 0 0 9990 0 5 0 i l 1 0 0 30 1 19 0 44 1 10 0 9948 0 10 6 27. A no n . 0 5 0 28. 9995 1 19 10 12 0 10 0 31. 31 12 10 0 45 65 0 0 9973 0 10 0 9976 1 0 0 9996 1 1 6 i 13 0 10 0 32 1 0 0 48 1 15 0 9974 0 5 0 9977 0 12 6 9997 15 0 0 14 2 0 0 33 0 10 0 9961 1 1 0 9978 0 6 0 9998 5 0 0 15 5 0 0 34 5 0 0 £1,808 12 6 9962 0 14 10 9979 010 0 10000 016 6 i 16 1 0 0 35 3 5 0

For Special Purposes. Rect. No. £ s. d. Rect. No, £ s. d. Rect. No. £ 8. d. Rect. No. £ s. d. R ect. N o £ s . d. R ect N o £ s. d . 1. 9655 14 7 0 6. 9738 5 0 0 10. 9809 5 0 0 20. 9912 1 10 0 28. 9993 1 0 0 30. 28 1 10 0 9657 5 0 0 9745 0 5 0 9810 2 3 9 21. 9926 1 0 0 9994 3 13 5 31. 37 5 0 0 L e g a cy . 141 9 9 9746 1 10 0 12. 9823 5 0 0 9927 5 0 0 9999 0 6 0 46 30 0 0 2. 9675 1 10 0 9748 8 0 0 13. 9830 5 0 0 22. 9939 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 47 100 0 0 9677 1 0 0 9751 5 0 0 9838 5 0 0 9940 6 0 0 29. 19 6 0 0 9688 1 1 0 7. 9764 2 10 0 9842 3 0 0 9941 1 0 0 30. 23 3 0 0 £685 9 3 9689 10 0 0 9770 4 0 0 15. 9864 5 0 0 9942 0 15 0 24 1 0 0 9692 300 8.9774 400 9866 6 5 0 23. 9950 8 0 0 SUMMARY. -, 3. 9704 0 2 6 9778 0 15 0 16. 9867 3 10 0 24. 9954 1 0 0 £ s. d 9707 3 10 0 9783 3 0 0 9885 16 12 6 9956 5 0 0 General 1,808 12 6 9709 5 5 1 9. 9791 5 0 0 17. 9888 2 0 0 9957 3 0 0 Special 685 9 3 9710 1 18 2 9793 5 0 0 9889 100 0 0 9963 0 10 0 9 9711 0 10 0 9795 13 0 0 19. 9898 1 0 0 9964 6 0 0 Total for July 2,494 1 5 5. 9723 4 0 0 9797 2 10 10 9899 1 0 0 27. 9980 10 10 0 Brought forward 21,860 19 9724 4 0 0 10. 9800 010 0 20. 9906 1 0 0 9991 1 6 0 £24,355 1 2 6. 9732 2 10 0 9807 6 0 0 9910 50 13 3 9992 3 0 0

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Anxious Care.* “ Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life.” - St Matthew vi. 24, 25, B y t h e l a t e D r . A l e x a n d e r M a c l a r e n .

ORESIGHT and foreboding are two very different And then follows a third section, marked by the third things. It is not that the one is the exag­ repetition of the command, “ Take no thought for the F geration of the other, but the one is opposed morrow.” The reason given for the command in this to the other. The more a man looks forward, third section is— “ for the morrow shall take thought for in the exercise of foresight, the less he does so in the the things of itself.” exercise of foreboding. And the more he is tortured Now if we try to generalize the lessons that lie in these by anxious thoughts about a possible future, the less three great divisions of the Sermon on the Mount, we clear vision has he of a likely future, and the less power get, I think, these,— anxious thought is contrary to to influence it. When C h r i s t here, therefore, enjoins all the lessons of nature ; which show it to be unneces­ the abstinence from thought for our life and for the sary. That is the first, the longest section. Then, future, it is not for the sake of getting away from the secondly, anxious thought is contrary to all the lessons pressure of a very unpleasant command that we say, of revelation or religion ; which show it to be heathenish. He does not mean to prevent the exercise of wise and And lastly, anxious thought is contrary to the whole provident foresight and preparation for what is to scheme of Providence ; which shows it to be futile. come. When this English version of ours was made, You do not need to be anxious. It is wicked to be the phrase “ taking thought” meant solicitous anxiety, anxious. It is of 110 use to be anxious. These are the and that is the true rendering and proper meaning of three things,— contrary to the lessons of Nature ; con­ the original. The idea is, therefore, that here there is trary to the great principles of the Gospel ; and contral­ forbidden, for a Christian, not the careful preparation to the scheme of Providence. Let us try now simply to for what is likely to come, not the foresight of the storm, follow the course of thought in our L o r d ’ s illustration and taking in sail while yet there is time, but the con­ of these three principles. stant occupation and distraction of the heart with gazing The first is the consideration of THE t e a c h i n g o f forward, and fearing, and being weakened thereby ; or, n a t u r e . “ Take no thought for your life, what ye shall to come back to words already used, foresight is com­ eat, or what ye shall drink ; nor yet for your body, what manded, and, therefore, foreboding is forbidden. My ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, only object now is to endeavour to gather together, and the body than raiment ? ” And then comes the by their link of connection, the whole of those precepts illustration of the fowls of the air and the lilies of which follow my text to the close of the chapter ; and the field. to try to set before you, in the order in which they The whole of these four or five verses fall into these stand, and in their organic connection with each other, general thoughts : You are obliged to trust G o d for the reasons which C h r i s t gives for the absence of your body, foi its structure, for its form, for its habitudes, anxious care from our minds. and for the length of your being ; you are obliged to I mass them all into three. If you notice, the whole trust Him for the foundation— trust Him for the super­ section, to the end of the chapter, is divided into three structure. You are obliged to trust Him, whether you parts, by the threefold repetition of the injunction, will or not, for the greater— trust Him gladly for the “ Take no thought.” “ Take no thought for your life, less. You cannot help being dependent. After all yom what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink ; nor yet for your anxiety, it is only directed to the providing of the body, what ye shall put on.” The reason for the com­ things that are needful for the life ; the life itself, though mand as given in this first section follows :— Is not the it be a natural thing, comes direct from G o d ' s hand ; life more than meat, and the body than raiment ? The and all that you can do, with all your carking cares, and expansion of that runs on to the close of the thirtieth laborious days, and sleepless nights, is but to adorn a verse. little more beautifully or a little less beautifully, the Then there follows another division or section of the allotted span— but to feed a little more delicately or a whole, marked by the repetition of the command, “ Take little less delicately, the body which G o d has given you. no thought,” -— saying, “ What shall we eat ? or, What What is the use of being careful for food and raiment, shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?” when down below these necessities there lies the awful The reason given for the command in this second section question,— for the answer to which you have to hang is —“ (for after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for helpless, in implicit, powerless dependence upon G o d ,— your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these Shall I live, or shall I die ? shall I have a body instinct things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God.” with vitality, or a body crumbling amidst the clods of the valley ? After all your work, your anxiety gets * Reprinted by kind permission of the publishers, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., from the first series of “ Sermons preached in but such a little way down ; like some passing shower Manchester,” by the late Dr. Maclaren. of rain, that only softens an inch of the hard-baked O c t o b e r , 1 9 1 5 152 China's Millions. O c t o b e r , 19 15 . surface of the soil, and has nothing to do with fructifying that it is a fair Spirit, and a loving Spirit, and a the seed that lies feet below the reach of its useless bountiful Spirit, and a royal heart, that presides moisture. Anxious care is foolish ; for far beyond the over the bestowments of creation, and allots gifts region within which your anxieties move, there is the to men. greater region in which there must be entire dependence But notice further, how much of the force of what upon G o d . “ Is not the life more than meat ? Is not C h r i s t says here, depends on the consideration of the the body more than raiment ? ” You must trust Him inferiority of these creatures who are thus blessed ; and for that ; you may as well trust Him for all the rest. also notice what are the particulars of that inferiority. Then, again, there comes up this other thought : We read that verse, “ They sow not, neither do they reap, Not only are you compelled to exercise un-anxious nor gather into barns,” as if it marked out a particular in dependence in regard to a matter which you cannot which their free and untoilsome lives were superior to influence— the life of the body— and that is the greater ; ours. It is the very opposite. It is part of the thing but, still further, God gives you that. Very well: G o d that marks them as lower than we, that they have not gives you the greater ; and G o d ’ s great gifts are always to work for the future. They reap not, they sow not, inclusive of G o d ’ s little gifts. When He bestows the they gather not ; are ye not much better than they ? thing, He bestows all the consequences of the thing as Better in this, amongst other things, that G o d has given well. When He gives a life, He swears by the gift that us the privilege of influencing the future by our faithful He will give what is needful to sustain it. G o d does toil, by the sweat of our brow and the labour of our not stop half way in any of His bestowments. He gives hands. These creatures labour not, and yet they are royally and liberalhr, honestly and sincerely, logically fed. And the lesson for us is, Much more may we, and completely. When He bestows a life, therefore, whom G o d has blessed with the power of work, and you may be quite sure that He is not going to stultify gifted with force to mould the future, be sure that He His own gift by retaining unbestowed anything that is will bless the exercise of the prerogative by which He wanted for its blessing and its power. You have had exalts us above inferior creatures, and makes us cap­ to trust Him for the greater ; trust Him for the less. able of toil. You can influence to-morrow. What He has given you the greater ; no doubt He will give you can influence by work, fret not about, for you can you the less. “ The life is more than meat, and the body work. What you cannot influence by work, fret not than raiment.” “ Which of you, by taking thought, can about, for it is vain. “ They toil not, neither do they add one cubit unto his stature ? And why take ye thought spin.” You are lifted above them because G o d has for raiment ? ” given you hands, that can grasp the tool or the pen. Then there is another thought. Look at G o d ’s ways Man’s crown of glory, as well as man’s curse and punish­ of doing with all His creatures. The animate and the ment, is, “ In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat inanimate creation are appealed to, the fowls of the air bread.” So learn what you have to do with that great and the lilies of the field, the one in reference to food power of anticipation. It is meant to be the guide of and the other in reference to clothing, which are the two wise work. It is meant to be the support for far-reaching, great wants already spoken of by C h r i s t in the previous strenuous action. It is meant to elevate us above verses. I am not going to linger at all on the exquisite mere living from hand to mouth ; to ennoble the whole beauty of these illustrations. Every sensitive heart being by leading to and directing toil that is blessed and pure eye dwells upon them with delight. The because there is no anxiety in it, labour that will be “ fowls of the air,” “ the lilies of the field,” “ the3^ toil successful since it is according to the will of that G o d not, neither do they spin ” ; and then, with what an who has endowed us with the power of putting it forth. eye for the beauty of G o d ’ s universe,— “ Solomon, in Then there comes another inferiority. “ Your all bis glory, was not arrayed like one of these ! ” Now, heavenly Father feedeth them.” They cannot say what is the force of this consideration ? It is this— “ Father ! ” and yet they are fed. You are above them There is a specimen, in an inferior creation, of the same by the prerogative of toil. You are above them by the principles which you can trust, you men who are “ better nearer relation which you sustain to your Father in than they.” And not only th at:— There is an instance, heaven. He is their Maker, and lavishes His goodness not only of G o d ’ s giving things that are necessary, but upon them : He is your Father, and He will not forget of G o d ’ s giving more,-lavishing beauty upon the flowers His child. They cannot trust: you can. They might of the field. I do not think that we sufficiently dwell be anxious, if they could look forward, for they know upon the moral and spiritual uses of beauty in G o d ’ s not the hand that feeds them : but you can turn round, universe. That everywhere His loving, wooing hand and recognize the source of all blessings. So doubly should touch the flower into grace, and deck all barren ought you to be guarded from care by the lesson of that places with glory and with fairness— what does that free joyful Nature that lies round about you, and say, reveal to us about Him ? It says to us, He does not No fear of famine, nor of poverty, nor of want ; for He give scantily : it is not the mere measure of what is feedeth the ravens when they cry. No reason for wanted, absolutely needed, to support a bare existence, distrust! Shame on me if I am anxious ! for every that G o d bestows. He taketh pleasure in the prosperity lily of the field blows its beauty, and every bird of the of His servants. Joy, and love, and beauty, belong to air carols its song without sorrowful foreboding, and Him ; and the smile upon His face that comes from the yet there is no Father in the heaven to them ! contemplation of His own fairness flung out into His And the last inferiority is this : “ To-day it is, and glorious creation, is a prophecy of the gladness that to-morrow it is cast into the oven.” Their little life is comes into His heart from His own holiness and more thus blessed and brightened. Oh, how much greater ethereal beauty adorning the spiritual creatures whom will be the mercies that belong to them who have a He has made to flash back His likeness. The flowers longer life upon earth, and who never die ! The lesson of the field are so clothed that we may learn the lesson is not— These are the plebeians in G o d ’ s universe, and O c t o b e r , 19 15 . China's Millions. 158 you are the aristocracy, and you may trust Him ; but it You have nobler necessities and higher longings, wants is— They, by their inferior place, have lesser and lower that belong to a soul that never dies, to a nature which wants, wants but for a bounded being, wants that may glow with the consciousness that G o d is your stretch not beyond earthly existence and that for a Father, wants which “ look before and after,” therefore, brief span. They are blessed in the present, for the 37ou are “ better than they,” and “ shall He not much oven to-morrow saddens not the blossoming to-day. more clothe you, O ye of little faith ? ” (To be concluded.)

Some Observations on Mission Work in China. B y J. O. F r a s e r , B.Sc., TengyuEh, Yunnan. N the following observations of some aspects of vision, not in reality) ; usually it was very much the missionary work in China, I am thinking more reverse, and so it is with us in China. I have scarcely I of the human than of the Divine side of things, heard of a single case in which the Chinese have not and am regarding it largely from the standpoint opposed missionaries coming and settling among them. of my own experience among the people. I am speaking We come whether we are wanted or not : we are un­ also of the masses of the people— the unenlightened, invited, and often unwelcome, guests in the mission uneducated masses— rather than of the small educated field. We come to China because G o d sends us, not minority, and rather of the country-folk and people because the Chinese ask for us ; it is not “ come ” from in the smaller districts than of those in the larger cities the lips of the heathen, but “ go ” from the lips of the and the ports. And it is well to remember— in these L o r d . days when we are hearing so much about -the so-called Evangelistic work here in China is so different to “ New China ”— that the vast majority of the Chinese that at home, that it takes most of us years to get ac­ people are but little affected by the progress of recent customed to the change. We preach, at home, to years : these modern reforms and changes are but people with centuries of Christian training behind ripples upon the surface of their lives. them, and can be almost sure of being understood. In estimating the impression made upon China by In China, however, the people have nothing behind one century and more of Protestant mission work it is them but millenniums of heathenism, and this makes a sad fact, but a fact nevertheless, that the vast majority a very, very great difference. This difference must be of the Chinese people have not even once, as yet, heard experienced to be appreciated. Here we have to be the gospel message. Most of them have never even prepared for the people not understanding a word we set eyes on a missionary or native Christian. Of those say. This is literally true, in the experience of who see us, most either ignore us or think of us merely many of us, of our first attempts at preaching to the by what they see externally. A missionary is not a heathen— our Christians understand us better ; but “ missionary ” to them but a “ foreigner ” ; they however experienced a missionary may be, however may remember his dress and appearance, while they fluent in the language, however skilful in adapting his neither know nor care anything about his message. thoughts to Chinese modes of expression, he can be sure A countryman may tell }?ou that he remembers seeing that few, if any, of his raw heathen hearers have really a foreigner at his country market some years ago who grasped the meaning of the Gospel. The same might spoke rather peculiar Chinese-— and that is all he will be said of the preaching of a native evangelist. The remember ; or else he may say he recalls seeing a man heathen have wandered too far into the dark labyrinths (Bible Society colporteur) on the market selling very of error to see their way out so quickly ; a first hearing cheap books with strange titles, which some people will, as a rule, but let a fitful gleam of light into their bought, but nobody could make head or tail of (sic). darkened minds. The trouble is not with the quality Indeed a man who could tell you as much as that would of the light but with their pure inability to see, for their be rather above than below the average. After all the minds have been “ blinded by the god of this world.” efforts of missionaries to evangelize the Chinese it would And so it comes about that the majority of our heathen be safe to say that not one Chinaman in a hundred has, hearers in China are represented by the “ wayside ” as yet, an intelligent knowledge of the Gospel, and that of our S a v i o u r ’s parable, they hear the word of the scarcely one in ten even knows of its existence. kingdom and understand it not. Nor do they, as a whole, desire this knowledge. One In visiting new districts one usually attracts good sometimes gets the impression, at home, that the heathen crowds. But the difficulty in such cases is to secure want the gospel— that they are longing for it, dying to ■ their attention, let alone make them understand the get it. Nothing could be more untrue. However message. They will crowd round you looking expectant much they may need the gospel, they do not want it. and curious. Some will see the crowd from a distance They are not stretching out their hands to us, pleading and run up expecting to see a street brawl. “ What’s for us to come to them. Except in some cases, such on ? ”— “ What’s the matter ? ”—they ask as they as among some of the tribespeople in West China, some come up. They soon settle down to listen (or rather, places in India and Africa, etc. (and these only where perhaps, to stare) and you watch their faces as you interest has been already aroused), they are not be­ preach. Some look intelligent and earnest. Occasion­ seeching us to come and give them the bread of life. ally you will notice that peculiar wistful look (sometimes The Apostle Paul was never— as far as we know— seen at home) which means nothing— except that the invited by the heathen to go and preach to them (except man’s mind is wool-gathering somewhere. But any­ in the case of the man of Macedonia, and that was in one fresh from home might look at the crowd and 154 China’s Millions. O c t o b e r , 1915. remark : “ Look how eager they are for the Gospel!— satisfy their curiosity before commencing to preach see how they are just drinking it in ! ” Would that to them. But this is not always practicable. Where it were so. But experience proves that it is not the the missionary has often preached before, and is well case. They are not— most of them— thinking about known to the people, less hindrance is caused in this way. the Gospel you are preaching at all ; their thoughts The misconceptions formed in the minds of the are occupied with far more mundane matters. They heathen Chinese concerning us and our work would are wondering who this foreigner is, after all, how fill a book. In the first place they find it hard to believe much “ silver ” he gets per month, how far it is to his that we have not come to China from some selfish honourable country, and how much his spectacles cost. motive. They see so little genuine altruism among Under these circumstances I have sometimes wished their own people that it is difficult for them to credit it were possible to let them first of all stare as long as us with such a spirit. When we explain our object in they like, ask all the questions they wish, and thoroughly coming to live among them they may agree with us to our faces, but not always be­ hind our backs. Perhaps we have some political object, they may think. Or we have come to get money out of them. Or else we have more sinister motives. We have come to kidnap little children or to dig out their eyes ; or else we have come to poison the wells, destroy the “ luck ” of the district and injure them in a hundred other ways. Such stories are believed by the more ignorant among the people years after you would think they ought to have been lived down. Most of the people, whatever they believe about us, regard us with a certain amount of the suspicion which is such a characteristic of the Chinese race : we are sure to be deceiving them in some way or other, they think. Missionaries in China are— like the first great missionary to the Gentiles— “ as deceivers and yet true.” Among the misconceptions con­ cerning the Gospel message one of the chief is that we are merely exhorting people to good deeds and nothing more. As such they approve of us— every Chinaman approves of goodness, in theory at any rate. It is not our exhorting them to moral repentance that rouses their opposition so much as our urging them to turn from their idolatrous practices to serve the Living G o d . But it is very difficult to make a Chinaman understand the idea of free grace (and indeed who can understand it apart from the Holy Spirit’s enlightenment ?) All he thinks of is merit and reward. A China­ man will listen to your preaching, believe it to be the orthodox “ exhorting to goodness,” nod his approval and pass on. Photo by] IM.S. Another very serious miscon­ ception arises from the use of INTERIOR OF TEMPLE OF TEN THOUSAND BUDDHAS, YANGCHOW. what some of us think to be a O nly one of the m any thousands of tem ples in China. It is said of India that there are more gods than rather unfortunate term for G o d . pec^e. The same is probably true of China. One would think at first that O c t o b e r , 19 15 . China’s Millions. 155 there should be no difficulty in finding and using the idolatrous practices— of course we don’t, because we are term the ordinary Chinese themselves use for “ G o d ,” foreigners ! They would never dream of persecuting us but the fact is that they do not use any term at all. for not going in for these things. But it is a different They do not even know of Him. It is a remarkable matter when one of their own people turns from idolatry. fact that this intelligent race, after about four thousand Whilst the Chinese as a whole have very little patriotism years of its history, has gone so far astray from the in the modern sense of the word, they have a great deal truth as practically to forget the very existence of the of racial solidarity. They may accord to us an easy One True G o d . And so any other religion coming in “ religious tolerance,” but let a Chinaman turn Christian from outside has to invent, more or less, a term by and they are up in arms against the renegade who has which to designate Him. The Romanists have one “ joined the foreigners.” The idea that Christianity term, the Mohammedans one or two more, and we one is foreign is so deeply rooted in the minds of the people or two more still. The unfortunate thing is that the that our repeated assertions to the contrary will not title we most commonly apply to G o d is applied by the dislodge it. Many of them will listen to our preaching heathen Chinese to one of their own deities. And so as to an interesting “ lecture on the foreigner’s religion,” not a few of them think that the G o d we worship just as we at home might go to hear a lecture on Budd­ is identical with this heathen deity, and that J e s u s hism without the least intention of turning Buddhist. C h r i s t is the son of a false god. The word “ Ie-Su ” In preaching recently on the street of a small town near (J e s u s ) is much misunderstood also. The word has the Burma frontier, I was asked many interested ques­ come to be used by missionaries much more than tions by one young man in the crowd. I finally asked “ C h i-T u h” (C h r i s t ) and so has borne the brunt of the him what he thought about it all. “ Oh, it’s very good,” misconception. The outside Chinese have very vague he said, “ but every country its own religion, you know!” notions about it. Some think “ Ie-Su ” is the name The answer was typical. Christianity is to them of some “ English ” sage worshipped by all “ English ” essentially foreign, superlatively foreign, and it is difficult people. Others think it is simply the name of a to make them realize that we preach a universal message. country from which all missionaries— or “ foreigners ” They remind one of an incident of the great Evangelical — come, just as all Mohammedans are supposed to Revival in England related by John Wesley. It was come from “ the Mohammedan country.” Others apply an open-air meeting. The speaker was preaching with it to us ourselves— it is not uncommon to hear the great power and solemnity. All in the crowd were children shout out as one walks along the street “ Ie-Su deeply impressed, with the exception of one man whose lai loh ! ” (“ J e s u s has come ”). I remember a boy once flippant and careless behaviour contrasted unseemingly seriously asking me if I would bring “ Ie -S u ” out— with the solemn hush over the rest of the people. One he wanted to see it ! He was referring to my accordion. of them ventured to reprove him, saying: “ Don’t you Other misconceptions arise from confusion with their hear what the preacher is saying ? ” “ Yes,” he own religious notions. The heathen Chinese, if friendly replied, “ but I am not of this parish ! ” inclined, like to discover what they call points of re­ semblance between their own religions and ours. “ You The Ideal Evangelist. are almost the same as we ! ”— they will say, and expect us to be pleased with the comparison. Some think we The ideal evangelist is, no doubt, a good native. But it by no means follows that every Chinese convert, worship G o d by bowing before an “ altar ” in the centre room of the house, as they do when worshipping heaven because he is a Christian, is either fit for such work and earth. Once I gave a tract to an old woman, or willing to do it. Just as at home it is only the few explained a little of the meaning to her, and told her to who have the gift, grace, and earnest spirit so necessary paste it up on the wall in her house so that others might for open-air^preaching, so it is here in China. We see read it. “ Oh, I see,” she said, “ I am to paste it at home that many may volunteer for the secretaryship up on the wall and burn incense to it ? ” of church clubs, guilds, etc., and other forms of church “ work,” but only few for open-air preaching. It is A Foreign Religion. naturally more pleasant to engage in some form of work The greatest misconception, however, or at any rate within the fold of the church than to plead with the the most widespread, is that Christianity is a foreign unsaved outside. It is not easy to forsake the cosy religion. The missionary, as being a foreigner, labours interior of a church building and hold forth from the under a great disability among the people at large, preaching “ stump ”— to exchange the congenial at­ for his presence is the not unnatural ground for this mosphere of Christian fellowship for the chill blast of well-nigh universal obsession. Perhaps the greatest hind­ the street corner. And it is much the same in China. rance to the spread of the Gospel in China, humanly speak­ Street preaching in China is not pleasing to flesh and ing, arises from this mistaken notion. The Chinese idea is blood any more than it is at home, and we are more than — every country its own religion. Race and religion pleased when we find any of our Christians volunteering go together ; to change one almost amounts to changing to do it. The training of such is one of the most profit­ the other ! Indeed their word for “ religion,” as com­ able forms of work a missionary can engage in. But in monly used, seems sometimes to include the idea of spite of his limitations the missionary can himself do a “ race ” in it. Most Chinese regard Christianity (if very useful work in direct Gospel preaching to the they have heard of it at all) as an English religion, heathen Chinese. The late Dr. Griffith John once because most Protestant missionaries are English- gave it as his considered opinion that of all methods speaking. Romanism is supposed to be French for a of missionary work in China, the method par excellence similar reason. And so most of them seem to have a was the daily heralding of the Gospel in the street- confused idea that to turn Christian is to turn “ foreign.” chapels, tea-shops, and market-places. They quite acquiesce in our not joining them in their {To be continued.) 156 China's Millions. O c t o b e r , 1915.

Editorial Notes. HE Autumn and Winter's Work.— Once again The Lord on High.— If ever it were essential for we are face to face with the autumn and win­ our hearts to be established with grace it is now. Every T ter’s work. In the field, after the great heat of day at almost every turn we are brought into closest summer, the season when itinerant and class touch with this sad and terrible war. The long lists work is renewed with full vigour has come. At home, of casualties with their unspoken story of suffering, the after such change or holidays as the conditions of life many anxious and heavy hearts met with so constantly, have allowed, we are faced with the more strenuous and —worst of all— the all too prevalent evidences of months of service. In what spirit shall these duties the malignant powers of darkness working behind this be undertaken ? Shall it not be with a good courage present conflict, compel us, if we are to keep a steadfast and an unshaken faith ? mind, to stay ourselves continually on G o d Himself. The floods in very truth “ have lifted up their voice,” but “ the L o r d on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea than the mighty waves of the sea.” And we have been brought, many of us, into circumstances in which our past conceptions of G o d are inade­ quate. As the storm increases in violence we must prove G o d to be more mighty still, or we become poor storm-tossed souls. And if the tem­ pests of the present time do lead us to find more in our G o d and heavenly Father than we have learned before in days of calm, then present ill will turn to good. There is unquestion­ ably a real danger of many of us becoming spiritually paralysed by the war. The forces of darkness are so imminent, the magnitude of the crisis is so great, that our reason almost staggers, and we are tempted at times to cry out with the disciples “ L o r d . carest Thou not that we perish ? Yet He Who may appear to be “ asleep upon the pillow ” is riding upon the storm in all His divine majesty. The great need is for more faith in the unseen power of G o d than in all the obtrusive might of man. If the present war may be said to be more a question of munitions than of men, the same is true of our spiritual warfare, and never did we more need to take to ourselves the whole armour of G o d that we may be able to withstand in the evil dav.

The Hope of the W orld.— If the war has emphasized one thing more than another it is the world’s need of C h r is t., and yet there is a real danger lest the war may so engross the minds of men that the paramount duty of preaching C h r i s t may be relegated to a second place. The war has made manifest the exceeding sin­ "THE HOPE OF THE WORLD.” By Harold Copping. fulness of sin. We know now more of T his b eau tifu l p ictu re, rep rinted h ere b y kind p erm ission ot the L ondon M issionary Society h as been the possibilities of the human heart, rep rodu ced in colou rs on extra stout art paper fo r fram ing on th e w all of the Su nd ay School or C hurch P a rlo u r o r Institu te, is. n et u nfram ed . p ostag e 3d . Size 2oin. bv 27.^1,. T en p ostcards o f th e p ictu re fin even among so-called civilized nations. colours) in an en ™ io p e3d .n et. 3*d. post free. C opies m ay he obtained from the L ondon M issionary Society, 16, N ew B rid ge Street, L ondon, E .C . The hope of Europe, the hope of Asia, and the hope of the world is C h r i s t O c t o b e r , 1915. China’s Millions. 157

Himself. It is with much pleasure that we reproduce, by kind permis­ sion, the picture, just published by the London Missionary Society, which may help at this terrible time to centre our thoughts upon Him Who is the Prince of Peace. ‘ ‘ All men shall be blessed in Him.” Difficult as the days are, nothing should allow us to slacken in our efforts to preach C h r i s t both at home and abroad.

Self-Sacrifice.— As the pressure of life increases a fuller measure of sacrifice will inevitably become neces­ sary if the work of Christian missions is to continue. It is a terrible thought that the bleeding of the nations is depriving the Christian church of men and money which might and should be given to the extension of C h r i s t ’s kingdom. This prospect certainly implies that Christians will need a deeper spirit of consecration and sacrifice if the work already in ex­ istence is to be carried forward ; and surely, when such sacrifices are being made for King and country, they will not be lacking for the highest of all causes. One of the most impressive stories of surrender for the cause of country is told by the Rev. Owen Watkins in “ The Fight for Hill 60.” His words are as follows: — “ A subaltern of the King’s Own York­ shire Light Infantry (he was himself wounded later in the fight) was sent up with reinforcements. There was only one communication trench avail­ able, and that very narrow. Half way up he was met by wounded, who were just capable of crawling out of the awful craters alone, and the way was blocked. But he must go on or the position would be lost. So he ordered the wounded to lie down in the bottom of the trench, and he and his men marched over them. Telling me of it later, he said, ‘ I hated to do Photo by] [Ebe Murray. it, Padre; it made me positively sick. But there was nothing else to do, and A CONFUCIAN SHRINE AT PIKING. O n Feb. 7th, 1914. P residen t Y uan Shih-kui. b y a P residential M andate, re-established th e w orship of the wounded were fine; they let us H eaven and C onfucius. pass over them without a murmur.’ ” What a lesson to us all " wounded ”— but “ they let us pass over them without a murmur.” people that blessing may rest upon this department of Have we so learned the worth of C h r i s t ’s kingdom that service. All who are concerned in the extension of we are willing so to humble and surrender ourselves that C h r i s t ’s kingdom on earth will recognize the para­ others may pass over us if necessary that victory may mount importance of keeping the missionary obligation be secured ? prominent before the minds of Christian people at a time when the war naturally engrosses so much thought Deputation Work.—Mr. T. G. Willett, who has had and attention. Any assistance friends can render in some twenty-five years’ experience in China, has securing openings for meetings throughout the country recently been released from his duties in Shanghai that will be greatly appreciated. Communications in he might take over the post of Deputation Secretary. regard to this may be addressed to Mr. T. G. Willett Mr. and Mrs. W illett have now made their home in at the Offices of the Mission, Newington Green,. North London, and will value the prayers of God’s London, N. 358 China’s Millions. O c t o b e r , 1915.

The Story of the Stations.— II.

A special Historical Report, giving in brief the story of each station, is in course of preparation. As it is only possible in that Report to give a summary of the information available, we hope from time to time, as space allows, to print in “ China’s I Millions” fuller details of a few selected stations. The stations referred to in the following article are worked by members of the Swedish Mission in China, associated with the China Inland Mission.— Ed.

The Cities of Hanchenghsien and Hoyang.

HE city of Hanchenghsien is situated about patients who were cured, he was enabled to rent a house three miles from the western bank of “ China's from the teacher's brother in a village situated some Sorrow ” (the Yellow River) in the province seven miles from the city which was his objective. This T of S h e n s i. It was opened as a mission station house was only secured just as the manager of the inn in 1898, when Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bergling moved into was ejected by his landlords because he had dared to that centre from the station of Hotsin, located on the give accommodation to a foreigner without their con­ opposite side of the river in the province of S h a n s i. sent. Two years of hard itinerant work followed ere The inhabitants of Hanchenghsien are in a special premises were rented within the city, but these premises sense a literary people, proud of their distinguished were not occupied until a year later in 1898. The past. According to a common saying current in the story of some of the difficulties encountered must be locality, there is not another city of equal grade in the given in Mr. Bergling’s own w ords: whole of China in which there is an equal proportion “ Our joy on getting out of the restricted quarters in ■of literati, their records showing some thirty-five the dirty inn into a new, clean and roomy house in the Bachelors of Art and several Masters of Art at every village was exceedingly great. Our rejoicings however examination, besides a number of successful candidates were not to last long because, the day before we were for the doctor’s degree. The aristocratic traditions to enter into possession, the landlord came and knelt of the people are deeply rooted, and they look back before us for hours, begging us to return the deed, as with much pride to the fact that about 140 years ago he declared he would be killed by his fellow-villagers one of their sons took the highest literary degree (that that same night unless we yielded. We did our best to of Senior Wrangler) in the Empire. This brilliant comfort the poor man, though we declined to receive our student afterwards became tutor to the Crown Prince money back or to return him the deed, lest all our labour in the “ Forbidden City,” and subsequently Grand should be in vain. At the same time we promised to Secretary and intimate friend of the Emperor himself. do all within our power to prevent any hurt coming to For thirty years' without interruption this scholar held him. In the dusk of the evening the poor fellow re­ the post of Grand Secretary, during which time he turned to his home, much cast down. At the village placed Hanchenghsien men at the head of three of gate the elders of the village and a number of young the then existing five governmental departments. Thus fellows sat awaiting him. As he approached them was born the proverbial saying “ Hanchenghsien rules they cried out ‘ Have you your house deeds with you all under heaven.” There has in fact scarcely been a or not ? ’ and when he returned the answer ‘ No ’ the time in recent history when natives of this city have elders ordered the young men present to fetch ropes not held office in the state departments in Peking, and with the purpose of tying him up. The poor man fled there have always been from twenty to forty Hancheng­ for his life towards the mountains, where he secreted hsien men located in different provinces as either military himself, and meanwhile the village elder had the roofs or civil officials. The people have thus come to boast of the houses pulled down within an hour. The wife •of themselves as being citizens of “ Small Peking.” of the landlord and her children were for a time in great In the light of this city’s traditions. Mr. Robert Berg­ straits, and for more than a fortnight no word was ling looks back with some astonishment upon the fact received of the landlord himself. Meanwhile the village that he should have been chosen to open such a city. elders had reported the case' to the city magistrate, The choice, however, was not his own. His desire had who, instead of taking their part as they had expected, been to be sent to “ the most needy and out-of-the-way took the part of the foreign worker and bade them undo place,” thinking himself physically fit to endure hard­ immediately what they had, done. This judgment ness and roughing Recognizing the difficulties which brought courage to the landlords in the city, which led -confronted him, difficulties which were emphasized by to premises being eventually secured. Nevertheless the comments of other missionaries that he had a hard some desperafe attempts, which cannot be detailed, task before him, he threw himself entirely upon the were made to take the house within the city from us, L o r d and, to quote his own words, “ continued to pray but these all failed.” -without ceasing until we had secured a sure footing. In the early days the work was very hard. Con­ In this respect,” he adds, “ I had a true companion fidence was gained little by little, and gradually the in my dear wife.” minds and hearts of the people were opened to receive It was about the year 1894 that Mr. Bergling rented the life-giving message. Thus, during the seventeen three small rooms of an inn in a market town, some years which have elapsed since the opening of this miles distant from the city, which rooms were used for station, the workers have had the joy of establishing opium refuge work and a working base. With the ten local chapels and receiving by baptism 229 mem­ „assistance of his Chinese teacher and some of the opium bers. Among these members are reckoned nine who have October, 1915. China's Millions. 159 literary degrees, all of whom, with one exception, have whether to take this house or not. To me it seemed become helpers in the church. One of them, an able that the house must be taken, and thus I had the deed teacher and faithful preacher, was ordained elder eight of rent written while I fixed the date when the five vears ago ; another, the son of a former Censor, a years’ rent was to be paid. On returning home to learned, noble and amiable Christian, has been a “ right- Hanchenghsien I did not feel inclined to report to any­ hand man ” for more than ten years. Three others one what I had done nor to ask anyone to help me, but have been set apart as deacons and have served well in / did pray about it When the facts were known, how­ that capacity for seven years. ever, our fellow-workers at the station gave freely and As interest gladly of their has spread, out- means, while stations to the 111 o 11 e y came number of from unknown eleven have friends in been opened, America. In one of which, this way the Hoyang, has whole rent was now become a paid when due central station. and the house In a ll these w as repaired centres street a n cl put in chapel work has order. Praise been carried on, the L o r d ! ” while school and This took place opium refuge in the autumn work especially of 1 90j , and have been fruit­ from that time ful in results. until the sum- Du r in g these 111 e r o f 1905 years, Mr. and these premises Mrs. Bergling were used as a have been as­ base for itiner­ sisted at differ­ ant work in the ent times by district. Then several Scandi­ it was decided navian workers, that the Misses both men and S Bengston and women. Quite M. Ramston recently, believ- BRIDGE OF BOATS OVER YELLOW RIVER AT LANCHOWFU. should settle The picture shows a new Iron bridge (since com pleted) in process of erection. in g that the there and work time had come among the when the local church should enjoy a fuller opportunity women while the men’s work should be cared for from for self-support and self - government, Mr. and Mrs. Hanchenghsien. When Miss Bengston was married and Bergling moved to the out - station of Hoyang, while Miss Ramston moved to another station. Mr. and Mrs. Miss A. Eriksson has remained for work among the Bölling went into residence and took charge of the work, women. Whether the church officers will be able to taking with them their girls’ school from Tungchowfu. do without the foreign pastor still remains to be seen. Just when the work seemed most promising Mr. Bölling We now pass to the story of Hoyang. After their was called to higher service. The school work was, return from furlough in 1902, Mr. and Mrs. Bergling however, carried on by Mrs. Bölling and Miss E. Ander­ felt it their duty to try to open this city as an out- son, who came to her assistance, whilst the men’s work station. The Swedish Mission in China, however, was was superintended from Hanchenghsien. In 1908, not prepared at that time to financially support the when Mrs. Bölling left for home and Miss Anderson scheme, but the workers at Hanchenghsien had it so left for her beloved work in Honan, Miss T. Anderson much laid upon their hearts that they determined to took over the girls’ school and Miss A. Rosenius the bear the responsibility personally. Several times a women’s work, and these two sisters laboured on faith­ small house was nearly secured, but on each occasion fully until the outburst of the recent Revolution. hindrances arose which entirely upset the business From October, 1911, to May, 1913, the station was arrangements. Then they were offered the premises vacant, but at the latter date Mr. and Mrs. Bergling, now occupied, which, however, proved to be the finest with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Olsson and Miss Ohrlander, house in the city. To take this was a large venture of took up residence in this city. The work, which in the faith, especially as the rent had to be paid five years beginning seemed very promising, has in reality proved in advance. to be difficult. When the work was recommenced in Writing of this test of faith, Mr. Bergling says : May, 1913,there were only twenty-four church members, 41 Having always belonged to those who are ‘ of little but a fairly good ingathering has been received of late faith,' and never having regarded myself as reckless— through the out-station and opium refuge work, so that even though some on this occasion judged me such— I the total of those baptised from the commencement got into a difficult corner and had to decide personally numbers eighty-seven. There are seven out-stations. 160 China's Millions. O c t o b e r , 19 15.

In Memoriam. J. R. Adam and Thomas Windsor.

"iHE removal by deatli of service to China. With the 308 baptized this year, of Mr. T. James and there have been baptized from the commencement Mr. W. Emslie during in Anshunfu and district 6,449, an^ a* the end of last recent months came as year there were 5,590 communicants. When we think a shock to many, for the of the 42 evangelists, 29 school teachers, with 639 need of every experienced scholars— mostly boarders, two colporteurs and three man is keenly felt in China Biblewomen, together with 323 unpaid helpers, one to-day. Now again two can realize a little the magnitude of the work. No more efficient workers have C.I.M. missionary has ever had the privilege of re­ been taken from us. The ceiving so many converts into the visible church, following are the cables and I question whether any single missionary of which conveyed this sad any society has either. The superintending and intelligence :— keeping of the accounts of such a large work must “ Adam died yesterday have meant an enormous amount of labour, not to (August nth) cause light­ speak of the translation work which he did.” Now, ning.” just when he was about to take a much-needed furlough, “ Thomas Windsor died he has been suddenly taken from us. Deepest sym­ to-day (August 16th) dysen­ pathy is felt for his widow and two children in tery.” Scotland who had been looking for his return. Only the briefest reference can be made to the out­ Mr. Thomas Windsor, before leaving for China, was standing features of their service, both of whom found connected with the Wesleyan Methodists at Winchmore their sphere in the province of K w e ic h o w . Hill. He was twenty-two years of age when accepted Mr. J. R. Adam was born in Dundee. As a member by the Mission, and left England on February 27th, of the Bonnethill United Free Church he devoted him­ 1884, arriving in China on April 15th of the same year. self to mission work with characteristic energy. In At this time the Mission had no language school, and Mr. 1887 he was accepted by the China Inland Mission as Windsor went direct to the province of K w e ic h o w , one of the hundred missionaries sent to China during where, except for furloughs and a short period of service that year. He sailed on August 25th, 1887, being then in K i a n g s i , he spent the whole of his time in China. only twenty-three years of age. After a short period In those early days work was most difficult and of language study at Anking he was discouraging. The officials were hostile appointed to the province of K w e i c h o w , and the people either indifferent or where his earl}* years were given to openly opposed, and Mr. Windsor, with pioneer work, with Anshunfu for his other brethren, spent many years in centre. While thus engaged, he and faithful plodding service. He was in Mr. B. C. Waters were brought in con­ “ journeyings oft,” exposed to “ perils tact with the aborigines of that province. of robbers,” preaching the Gospel “ in During his first furlough he laid the season and out of ” season, thus laying need of these people before Mr. Hudson the foundation on which later workers Taylor, who encouraged him to do all he have built. Recently, in view of Mr. could for them. Right nobly did he Adam ’s prospective furlough, Mr. Windsor respond, and literally wore himself out in was appointed to take his place. Scarcely long journeys over the high mountains had he settled down in Anshunfu with this and deep valleys where these tribes purpose in view ere he was taken sick live. and died. We lovingly commend his To summarize his labours we cannot widow and children to the sympathy and do better than quote a few lines from a prayers of G o d ’s people. letter recently received from the Rev. By the removal of these workers

J. W. Stevenson :— “ A more indefatigable THOMAS WINDSOR, thousands of young converts scattered

and hard-working missionary than Mr. As he appeared when he sailed throughout the lonely mountains of Adam we have never had, a man who for China W e have not been K w e i c h o w have been left as sheep never spared himself and who was greatly able to obtain a reccnt photo. without a shepherd. For many years beloved by those whom he was used to they have been accustomed to look bring to the L o r d . He arrived in China on October up to Mr. Adam as their father in C h r i s t . The 8th, 1887, then twenty-three years of age, and it was problems raised by the removal of these two workers my pleasure to welcome him here, and after much prayer are neither few nor easily settled, so that we bespeak for guidance, to suggest his going on to K w e ic h o w . We the prayers of our readers for Mr. Hoste in dealing had only one station there then, Kweiyang, the capital. with the difficult situation which has now arisen. After five months at Anking, he started for K w e ic h o w t, We would also ask a place in the prayers of our and before the close of that year he had gone to An­ readers for Dr. Fishe, on whom, at least for the time shunfu and opened that station, where he remained until being, the burden of carrying on this work will he finished his course, having given twenty-eight years largely fall. O c t o b e r , 1915. China's Millions. 161

A Scholar’s Conversion and Testimony.

Extract from a letter from H. W upperfeld, of Kaihsien, Szechwan.

MR. TAN, who had been studying in Japan and religious subject, and especially when he for a number of years, returned to his home in gave his testimony what C h r i s t had done for him, A the Kaihsien district. A few years ago he paid and that the same He was able to do for them. At t a visit to his parents, and at that time he was the close everyone of them received a little parcel much opposed to the Gospel and tried, in more than one with a New Testament and a suitable tract. I believe way, to hinder us in our work. As his family belongs these kinds of gatherings are distinctly helpful in to the leading gentry in this district and lie, and his keeping us in touch with the men of education and father, are both scholars with a degree, they naturally influence. We intend to have another of a similar had a wide influence amongst the upper classes. Of kind before long. course, there was tremendous surprise when it was On January 14th my wife and I left for a visit to five known that he who persecuted us in times past now of our out-stations. Though the time was not a very preached the faith which once he destroyed. The suitable one for the country people as almost everyone great change in his life took was, or tried to be, busy for place while he was in Japan, the Chinese New Year, in and it was his younger bro­ spite of that we had a good ther who was the means of time in preaching, teaching, leading him to Christ. A and house visiting. Amongst letter of introduction from the churches is the station his Pastor gave him a bright llong-hu’a-ucn (Red Flower testimony. I must confess Garden), which gives us the that when first I heard greatest joy, and each time about his conversion I we get there it is such a doubted a little about his pleasure to teach the Chris­ reality, and I was looking tians and catechumens. This forward with great expec­ time we spent a week with tation to meeting him. Now, the people, but we each regret since we have had much that we cannot stay longer, fellowship in the Gospel dur­ as they are so eager to learn. ing the last few months and The fanners are very hard weeks, one cannot help prais­ up this year as the harvest ing the Lord for the power has been such a poor one, of God’s Word manifested in and it affects several of the his life. I must sa}r, that Christian families. in my intercourse with him, In Nan-men-chang we had he has been a blessing and a full church on Sunday ; has inspired comfort and hope not a few scholars were pre­ in me as well as in my Chinese sent; one of them, a B.A., helpers. The Lord laid it was received as an enquirer. very much on my heart to May I ask specially your redeem the opportunities, praj^ers for this man; his while he was with me in the name is Teng. Mr. Tan had city, to arrange the above- come from his country mentioned gathering in order home and preached the to give him a chance to sermon in the morning ; his witness for the Lord. It subject was: “ And ye has always been my policy shall know the truth, and to have friendly intercourse the truth shall make you with the scholars and gentry free.” It is just wonderful of this city, and the Lord has given me not a few in­ how he keeps the attention of the people. Will you timate friends amongst them, whose houses are always help us by prayer, that the L o r d may give to open for visits and who very often call on us, but I was His Church in China many self-supporting, qualified greatly surprised that so many of them accepted the and equipped workers ? invitation. I had sent out eighty invitations, and not In the out-station of Ioh-chi-chang I enjoyed Mr. less than sixty of the gentlemen turned up. Amongst Tan’s splendid help for two full days. Classes were the number were some belonging to the Municipal and held three times a day and much precious seed was sown. County Councils, as well as the Chamber of Commerce, The churchwarden before each meeting beat the gong the Educational Bureau and the Farmers’ Associations. on the street, and many came to the meetings who had After a reception in the different guest halls, where all never been before inside the church. the guests were served with tea and some light refresh­ During the last three months ten families have de­ ments, they all went over to the church. It was a joy stroyed their idols. I shall value prayers for these in­ to listen to Mr. Tan’s most eloquent speech on a moral terested hearers. 162 China's Millions. O c t o b e r , 1915.

Prayer for China. [A Meeting for Prayer for China is held every Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m., in the Hall of the Mission, at Newington Green, Mildmay, N. Praying friends are cordially invited to attend.\ URING the autumn months the Saturday after­ the meeting. Miss Harlow, who hopes to go back to noon Prayer Meetings frequently partake of the Nanpu, in S z e c h w a n , to continue her work there in D nature of Valedictory Services, there being association with Miss F. H. Culverwell and Miss F. usually a number of outgoing missionaries Lloyd, referred to the great need for workers in that present to take farewell and to be especially commended district, where the people were so willing to hear, but to G o d in prayer. This autumn, besides those return­ had so few to teach them. Miss Jackson, returning ing to the field, ten new workers are leaving to begin to Kwangsinfu, in K ia n g s i , after referring to the great their life’s work in China. Saturday, August 28th, was spiritual and physical refreshment her furlough had the occasion of the leave-taking of four new male been to her, spoke of her fellow-workers in Kwangsinfu workers— two of these being Continental Associates— as being very tired and anticipating eagerly her return and on the Saturday following, September 4th, six to help them in the work. Her heart was glad at the fresh lady workers said farewell. Both gatherings prospect of soon being able to relieve them. These were of special interest, that of Saturday, Septem­ two workers, with those returning with them, were ber 4th, particularly so. The hall was full of sym­ then commended to G o d in prayer by Mrs. W illiam pathizing and praying friends. Mr. Walter B. Sloan Wilson. presided. Before leading the meeting in an opening Thereafter Mr. Sloan, in a few well-chosen and sym­ prayer, he made sympathetic reference to a letter he pathetic words, introduced the workers who were going had received from the Rev. Montagu Beauchamp, out for the first time. Miss G. E. Mitchell was the mentioning the fact that his son, and his own brother, first to speak ; she said that it was with a feeling of Colonel Sir Horace George Beauchamp, Bart., were great thankfulness that she set her face Chinaward. reported missing from the Dardanelles, and asking Her outgoing as a missionary was the consummation prayer for him ; he also besought prayer for the three of many thoughts and prayers ; after the Word of God sons of Rev. and Mrs. E. Carus Wilson, who had gone itself, the words that had helped her most to a decision to the Front; also for those who had recently been to offer her life to Him for service in the Mission field bereaved— Mrs. Emslie, Mrs. Adam, Mrs. W indsor; were two verses from Alice J. Janvrin’s hymn— “ He and Mrs. Martin Cleaver of the Egypt General Mission. expecteth.” These were the two verses :— Following upon prayer and the reading of the Word, “ He expecteth— doth. H e see us two of the returning missionaries, Miss Harlow and Busy here and there, Miss Jackson, spoke— the remaining returning mis­ Heedless of those pleading accents sionaries of this party were not able to be present at Of despair ? “ Shall we— dare we disappoint Him ? Brethren let us rise. He who died for us is watching Prom the skies.” The motto she had taken, first for her home Mission work, and now for her work in China, was, “ For H is sake and for their sakes.” Miss J. Nelson then spoke. She told us that it was during happy school days under a mistress who was herself keenly interested in missionary work, and is now a missionary in India, that her first impressions towards a life of service for G o d in heathen lands were received. It was some time, however, before her way opened up, tu t after two years of wait­ ing the difficulties were re­ moved and she was free to go forward. In doing so her heart was glad. Hark Botham. N. Engebretsen (Associate). H. Ingwardo (Associate). E. W . Trickey. Miss Lilian Smith, who followed her, said that she PARTY OF MEN—NEW WORKEttS—WHO SAILED FOR CHINA ON SEPT. 4th PER P. & O. s.s. “ NAYOYA.” had been brought up in a Christian home, and between O c t o b e r , 1915 . China’s Millions. 163

the ages of fourteen and sixteen was in deep anxiety of soul seeking for peace. A friend directed her to the words of the L o r d in Luke xi. 13.— “ If ye then being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him.” She waited long and earnestly upon the L o r d for the fulfilment of this promise, and received a most gracious answer to her prayer. Her special leaning was towards Africa or India, not China. But various influences, especially the reading of “ Hudson Taylor in Early Years,” turned her thoughts thitherward, and decided her to yield her life for China, and now on the eve of sailing she felt that she could not better give expression to. the feeling of her heart than in the words of Dr. Watts’ great hymn :

“ Were the whole realm of Nature mine, That were an offering far too small, Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all.” After prayer, and the singing of the hymn to which Miss Mitchell referred, “ He expecteth, ’ Mr. Sloan called upon Miss R. Thompson, whose father and mother and two brothers were martyred in 1900, to speak. Very direct and simple was her testimony. Her conversion was brought about by the remark of one of her brothers, to whom his mother was talking about the importance-of giving himself to the Lord. The mother left the room for a few moments and during her absence the boy turned to his sister and said, “ Why do you not give your life to the L o r d too ? ” To which she replied, “ Yes, I would like to,” and yielded herself. The martyrdom of her parents and two brothers so affected her that she “ simply hated China,” and when in later years the call came, Miss Lilian Smith. Miss M. Thurston. Mis* R. Thompson Mi is G. E. M itchell. Miss J. Nelson. Miss M. Kcranen. with repeated emphasis, to follow the L o r d thither, she persistently resisted, saying, “ I can't go, 1 ' I PARTY OF LADIES—NEW WORKERS—WHO SAILED FOR CHINA L o r d . ” In time, however, grace was given her ON SEPT. 11th PER N.Y.K. s.s- “ KATORI MARU." to yield to Him for this ministry, and now, after a period of training as a hospital nurse, she was gladly going forth. She besought our prayers not only faith or much love, but His great power working through for herself, but for her brother who was leaving for the her, that was the essential thing in all missionary ser­ Front in Flanders the same day that she was setting vice. So in dependence upon Him she was going forth. sail for China. A most interesting and stimulating meeting was, Miss M. Thurston, who was the next speaker, told after prayer, then brought to a conclusion. us that it was the dearest wish of her mother's heart that her daughter might go as a missionary— to India. She Departure for China. was brought to the L o r d while preparing for Confir­ O c t o b e r 5TH. V i a S i b e r i a . mation ; her call to China first came to her while she A. Lutley. was training as a nurse, through the death of Miss Hilda Vickers, another nurse, who, after only seven months' Nurses’ Missionary League. service in China, was taken to be with the L o r d The Farewell Meetings of the Nurses’ Missionary two years ago. That early call was confirmed and League will be held in the University Hall, Gordon strengthened by the reading of “ Hudson Taylor in Square, W.C., on Friday, October 1st, the sessions Early Years.” being from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30,2.30— 5, and 7— 9.30. In The final speaker was an Associate Worker, Miss the morning the chief speaker will be the Rev. D. C. Keranen, from Finland. As a student the thought Woodhouse, B.D.; in the afternoon, Major A. Neve, that there were millions of men and women in the world F.R.C.S. (Missionary from Kashmir, now in the dying without any knowledge of C h r i s t made a great R.A.M.C.) will speak; and in the evening, Major impression upon her, but she concluded that she was Carless, F.R.C.S., Dr. Howard Cook (Uganda) and the quite unfitted for foreign missionary service, inasmuch Rev. Richard Roberts, M.A. Full particulars can be as she felt she had neither strong faith nor much love. obtained from MissH. Y. Richardson, 52,Lower Sloane But she came at last to realize that it was not her strong Street, S.W. 164 China’s Millions. O c t o b e r , 19 15 .

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Anxious Care.* “ Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life." — St. Mattheic' vi. 24, 25. B y t h e l a t e D r . A l e x a n d e r M a c l a r e n . (Concluded from page 153.) ND now, in the second place, there is here rests upon a basis of heathen worldly-mindedness. another general line of considerations tending Anxious care rests upon a basis, too, of heathen mis­ A to dispel all anxious care— the thought that understanding of the character of G o d . “ Your heavenly it is contrary to alt the lessons of Father knoweth thdt you have need of all these things.” Religion, or Revelation, which show i t t o b e The heathen thought of G o d is that He is far removed heathenish. There are three clauses devoted to the from our perplexities, either ignorant of our struggles, or illustration of this thought : “ After all these things do unsympathizing with them. The Christian has the the Gentiles seek ; ” — “ your heavenly Father knoweth double armour against anxiety— the name of the Father, that ye have need of all these things ; seek ye first and the conviction that the Father’s knowledge is the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these co-extensive with the Father’s love. He who calls things shall be added unto you.” us His children thoroughly understands what His The first contains the principle, that solicitude for children want. And so, anxiety is contrary to the the future is at bottom heathen worldty-mindedness. very name by which we have learned to call God, and The heathen tendency in us all leads to an over-estimate to the pledge of pitying care and perfect knowledge of of material good, and it is a question of circumstances our frame which lies in the words “ our Father.” Our whether that shall show itself in heaping up earthly Father is the name of G o d , and our Father intensely treasures, or in anxious care. They are the same plant, cares for us, and lovingly does all things for us. only the one is growing in the tropics of sunny pros­ And then, still further, C h r i s t points out here, not perity, and the other in the arctic zone of chill penury. only what is the real root of this solicitous care— some­ The one is the sin of the worldly-minded rich man, thing very like worldly-mindedness, heathen worldly- the other is the sin of the worldly-minded poor man. mindedness ; but He points out what is the one counter­ The character is the same turned inside out ! And poise of it— seek first the kingdom of God. It is of no use therefore, the words “ ye cannot serve . G o d and mam­ only to tell men that they ought to trust, that the birds mon/’ stand in this chapter in the centre between our of the air might teach them to trust, that the flowers of L o r d ’ s warning against laying up treasures on earth, the field might preach resignation and confidence to and His warnings against being full of cares for earth. them. It is of no use to attempt to scold them into He would show us thereby that these two apparently trust, by telling them that distrust is heathenish ! You opposite states of mind in realit}^ spring from that one must fill the heart with a supreme and transcendent root, and are equally, though differently, “ serving desire after the one supreme object ; and then there m a m m o n .” We do not sufficiently reflect upon that. will be no room and leisure left for the anxious care We say, perhaps, this intense solicitude of ours is a matter after the lesser. Have inwrought into your being, of temperament, or of circumstances. So it may be : Christian man, the opposite of that heathen over-regard but the Gospel was sent to help us to cure worldly for earthly things. “ Seek first the kingdom of G o d .” temperaments, and to master circumstances. But the Let all your spirit be stretching itself out towards that reason why we are troubled and careful about the things Divine and blessed reality, longing to be a subject of of this life, lies here, that our hearts have got an earthly that kingdom, and a possessor of that righteousness ; direction, that we are at bottom heathenish in our lives, and “ the cares that infest the day ” shall steal away and in our desires. It is the very characteristic of the from out of the sacred pavilion of your believing spirit. Gentile (that is to say, of the heathen) that earth should Fill your heart with desires after what is worthy of bound his horizon. It is the very characteristic of the desire ; and the greater having entered in, all lesser worldly man that all his anxieties on the one hand, and objects will rank themselves in the right place, and the all his joys on the other, should be “ cribbed, cabined, “ glory that excelleth ” will outshine the seducing and confined ” within the narrow sphere of the Visible. brightness of the paltry present. Oh ! it is want of When a Christian is living in the foreboding of some love, it is want of earnest desire, it is want of firm con­ earthly sorrow to come down upon him, and is feeling viction that G o d , G o d onl}, G o d by Himself, is enough as if there would be nothing left if some earthly treasure for me, that make me careful and troubled. And there­ were swept away, is it not, in the very root of it, idolatry fore, if I could only attain unto that sublime and calm —worldly-mindedness ? Is it not clean contrary to height of perfect conviction, that He is sufficient for all our profession that for us “ there is none upon me, that He is with me for ever— the satisfying object earth that we desire besides Thee ” ? Anxious care of my desires and the glorious reward of my searchings —let life and death come as they may ; let riches,

* Reprinted by kind perm ission of the Publishers, M acm illan & Co , poverty, health, sickness, all the antitheses of human Ltd., from the first series of ‘‘ Serm ons preached in M anchester," by the circumstances storm down upon me in quick alter­ late Dr. M aclaren. nation, yet in them all I shall be content and peaceful.

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law by any forecasting prudence, is utterly hopeless, and madness. And what does your anxiety do ? It does not empty to-morrow, brother, of its sorrows ; but, ah ! it empties to-day of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil, it makes you unfit to cope with it when it comes. It does not bless to-morrow, and it robs to-day. For every day has its own burden. Sufficient for each day is the evil which properly belongs to it. Do not add to-morrow’s to to-day’s. Do not drag the future into the present. The present has enough to do with its own proper concerns. We have always strength to bear the evil when it comes. We have not strength to bear the foreboding of it. As thy day, thy strength shall be, In strict proportion to the existing exigencies will be the GoD-given power ; but if you cram and condense to­ day’s sorrows by expeiience, and to-morrow’s sorrows by anticipation, into the narrow round of the one four- and-twenty hours, there is no promise that as that day thy strength shall be ! G o d gives us (His name be praised !)— G o d gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making ; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is. Then : contrary to the lessons of Nature, contrary to the teachings of Religion, contrary to the scheme of Providence ; weakening your strength, distracting your Photo fcy] [H. F. Ridley. mind, sucking the sunshine out of every landscape, aind casting a shadow over all the beauty— the curse of our A SCENE IN KANSU. lives is that heathenish, blind, useless, faithless, needless, anxiety in which we do indulge. Look forward, my G o d is beside me! And His presence brings in its brother, for G o d has given you that royal and wonderful train whatsoever things I need. You cannot cast out gift of dwelling in the fature, and bringing all its glories the sin of foreboding thoughts by any power short of around your present. Look forward ! not for life, but the entrance of C h r i s t and His love. The blessings foi heaven ; not for food and raiment, but for the right­ of faith and felt communion leave no room nor leisure eousness after which it is blessed to hunger and thirst, for anxiety. and wherewith it is blessed to be clothed. Not for Finally, C h r i s t here tells us that thought for the earth, but for heaven, let your forecasting gift of pro­ morrow is contrary to a ll the scheme of Provi­ phecy come into play. Fill the present with quiet faith, dence, which shows it to be vain. “ The morrow with patient waiting, with honest work, with wise read­ shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto ing of G o d ’ s lessons of nature, of providence, and of the day is the evil thereof.” grace, all of which say to us, Live in G o d ’s future, that I interpret these two clauses as meaning this : To­ the present may be bright : work in the present, that the morrow has anxieties enough of its own, after and in future may be certain ! They may well look around in spite of all the anxieties about it to-day by which you expectation, sunny and unclouded, of a blessed time to try to free it from care when it comes. Every day— come, whose hearts are already “ fixed, trusting in the every day will have its evil, have it to the end. And L o r d . ” He to whom there is a present C h r i s t , and a every day will have evil enough for all the strength that present Spirit, and a present Father, and a present a man has to cope with it. So that it just comes to this : forgiveness, and a present redemption, may well live Anxiety,— it is all vain. After all your careful watching expiating in all the glorious distance of the unknown for the corner of the heaven where the cloud is to come to come, sending out (if I may use such a figure)— from, there will be a cloud, and it will rise somewhere, sending out from his placid heart over all the weltering f but you never know in what quarter. The morrow waters of this lower world, the peaceful seeking dove, shall have its own anxieties. After all your fortifying his meek Hope, that shall come back again from its of the castle of your life, there will be some little postern flight with some palm-branch broken from the trees of left unguarded, some little weak place in the wall.left Paradise between its bill. And he that has no such uncommanded by a battery ; and there, where you present, has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its never looked for him, the inevitable invader will come destructive ocean ; and over it there goes for ever— in]! After all the plunging of the hero in the fabled black-pinioned, winging its solitary and hopeless flight, waters that made him invulnerable, there was the little the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to spot on the heel, and the arrow found its way there ! rest, and comes backagain to the desolate ark withits fore­ There is nothing certain to happen, says the proverb, boding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future. but the unforeseen. To-morrow will have its cares, Live in C h r i s t , “ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for spite of anything that anxiety and foreboding can do. ever,” and His presence shall make all your past, present, It is G o d ’ s law of Providence that a man shall be dis­ and future— memory, enjoyment, and hope— to be bright ciplined by sorrow ; and to try to escape from that and beautiful, because all are centered in Him ! N o v e m b e r , 1915. China’s Millions. 169

Some Observations on Mission W ork in China.

B y J. O. Fraser, B.Sc., Tengyueh, Yunnan. (Continued from page 155.)

T is not often that those who manifest interest in Some profess interest or even conversion from un­ the preaching of the Gospel do so (at first, at any worthy motives. Mr. By-Ends is not dead yet, or if I rate) from pure spiritual motives. Cases there are he is dead his posterity survives, and we meet with not of heartfelt desire to obtain forgiveness of sins, a few in China who can claim his clanship and ancestry. but they are not common. Having lived all their They will come round to our services for months— some lives after the flesh, both their thoughts and their times even for years— with something “ up their sleeves. desires are carnal. The Chinese are, as a race, chained It may be a desire for employment, or help in litigation. down to the things of time and sense—worldly to a Or perhaps under the guise of Christian profession there degree. One could hardlj’ expect it to be otherwise. lurks a craving to be taught English. They will read And so they view the Gospel largely from the carnal their Bibles and pray in our meetings. They are not standpoint. Advantages to be gained fill their vision, in a hurry : their patience, indeed, is worthy of a better more or less obscuring other aspects of the message. cause. It is not always easy for the foreign missionary Temporal benefits outweigh all other considerations, to tell whether a man’s professions of conversion are just as with their own religions. To the average genuine or not : our native Christians can usually Chinaman a religion is- worth just about what you “ size up ” such people better than we. Brought up can get out of it and not much more. He looks at as they are in the very atmosphere of insincerity and your Gospel in the light of a business proposition. lies, deception comes almost natural to them. One The business man wonders how it would affect his could say of many of them that they are past-masters trade, and listens with one eye on the balance sheet. in the art. But they find sooner or later that they The farmer thinks salvation from sin is of trifling im­ are doomed to disappointment— that godliness is not portance compared with salvation from rinderpest, a way of gain ; and with hearts untouched by grace and wants to know if becoming a Christian will ward they go out from us that it may be made manifest that off such calamities. Many express their approbation, they are not of us. or even delight, as the}’ think of the money that they In mission work in China, perhaps especially in the would save by not having country districts, one comes up against to buy incense, etc. You the communistic spirit which exists all can almost see them making over the world, I suppose, in greater or a mental profit and loss less degree. What the village does, or account while they are the district does, everybody must do. listening to you. Many will In Oriental countries where the “ liberty ask you if becoming Chris­ of the individual ” is not a doctrine tian will relieve them from either preached or practised very much, sore eyes, liver trouble, this “ do-as-everybody-else- general weakness, etc. — if does” spirit makes slaves so they will be Christian, of the people in a number they tell you. We empha­ of ways ; e.g., in the matter size salvation from sin ; they of foot-binding not many, think it a disappointing re­ probably, of the people really ligion which does not offer approve of the practice at them anything more sub­ heart,but the tyrant“Every- stantial than that. One does body-Else ” does it, and his not exactly blame them. dictates are not to be lightly Nay, one can go so far as to contravened. Reform in this say that G o d does grant matter is certainly making temporal blessings to those progress, but only slowly who sincerely believe. It for this reason. Of course would be wrong and un- we see the same spirit at scriptural to teach otherwise ; our native Christians, home (how many women dare go againt the “ fashion ” ?) too, will often give a clear testimony to the L o r d ’ s To be “ peculiar ” or “ different from everybody else ” gracious dealings with them in temporal matters. is a reproach not unknown in enlightened England. There is probably more of this simple faith in G o d for In China many a man’s desire (perhaps sincere) to the “ things which shall be added unto you ” among become a Christian stops short here. “ If everyone our native Christians than there is among Christians at does, I w ill,” is as far as he will go. If he does become home. But in China we have to emphasize “ first a Christian his neighbours are indignant and tell him things first,” both to Christian and heathen. “ Seek that it might be all right for him to be Christian if all ye first . . . ” is a splendid text to preach to the village turned Christian, but it is a species of the heathen whose thoughts are all low and sordid, “ obstinacy ” for him alone to do so. The reproach of of the earth, earthy ; a very wholesome doctrine for peculiarity is not an easy one for a Chinaman to stand, those who put the temporal cart before the spiritual and it is levelled at our Christians, especially where they horse. are few. It needs the grace of the Holy Spirit to 170 China's Millions. t N o v e m b e r , 1915.

enable a Chinaman to brave the obloquy to which he is to have mentally decided that however good the Gospel sure to be treated, and— alone in his village or district, may be it is not for him. perhaps— take a stand for C h r i s t . The free and open way in which the Chinese will con­ Much of our work in China, as at home, consists in verse with you on religious subjects is most notice­ dealing with individuals. In guest-halls or inns, by able. The reserve in such matters which we see at the roadside or in other odd places, we seek to impart home (and which may be quite right and proper to a the elements of Christian teaching to the ones and twos. certain extent) is almost unknown among the heathen One might call it personal work ; but it is very different in China ; the Chinaman is quite matter-of-fact about to what goes by that name in our home countries. From these things. The reason is, undoubtedly, that at the standpoint of a missionary in a heathen country, home such things are matters of the heart whilst here the home-lands present a very ripe harvest-field for in China religion is mainly a matter of externals. Chinese such work. In seeking to lead men to Christ at home heathen worship is characterized by the absence of one can “ come to grips ” with a man in a very short reverence, and their lack of religious reserve, indivi­ time, but among raw heathen it is quite another matter. dually. is of a piece with this. The fact is they have no Owing to the multitudes at home who have an intelligent deep religious feeling whatever, and there is nothing to knowledge of the Gospel, it is possible, with God’s bless­ be reserved about. Whereas at home one does not feel ing, to lead a man to the- S aviour in less than ten free to speak to a man about his salvation in the presence minutes. Given onty the opportunity for a private talk, of others, in China one can speak to a man about the one can exhort even a perfect stranger to decide for most solemn things concerning his soul’s salvation in Christ at once. But indiscriminate “ button-holing ” the presence of others— be they friends or strangers— of that kind does not go down in China. It is out of the without disturbing him in the slightest. question to urge a man to immediate decision for Christ Privacy Unknown in China. when he is ignorant of the very rudiments of God’s In individual conversations with the Chinese on truth. It is “ line upon line and precept upon pre­ spiritual matters there is not, therefore, the same need cept,” and we can only instruct him in as much of the for privacy that there is at home. And indeed even if A B C of the Gospel as he is able or willing to take in at it was needed it would seldom be had. Privacy, even one sitting. If he can read we may give him a tract in ordinary matters, is a thing almost unknown in or sell him a book. The questions he will ask are many China ; the word scarcely occurs in their vocabulary. and various. “ Who is God ? The same as our ‘ Gem There is little or no privacy in Chinese homes. The Emperor ’ ? (a Chinese deity). The same as heaven ordinary Chinaman does not see the need for it. A and earth ? How do' you worship him ? How do “ private interview ” with a Chinaman is seldom to you pray ? How often do you have to pray ? What be had by a foreigner outside of his own mission station. do you say when you pray ? How many sentences ? Your desire for private conversation is suspicious to Do you have to pay money ? What do you do if you them. If they know you want it they will come along cannot read ? Are you allowed to marry if you become purposely to hear what you are talking about. They a Christian ? Do you use coffins in burial ? ” etc., etc. will listen behind the door or peep through holes in the We may invite him to come to services and give him paper windows. Let a foreigner stop to speak to a friendly encouragement, but it does not do to be hasty. Chinaman on a busy street and in two minutes or less He must not be pushed. there will be a listening crowd around him well-nigh Interest not Conversion. large enough ¿to impede the traffic. Our Christians understand us better. When we wish to speak to them Of those who manifest interest, however— even en­ privately we can best do so, not even in our guest-halls, thusiastic interest— it is only the few who come along but in the seclusion of our own rooms. It is difficult and get converted. Many express a deep interest— and exacting work trying to preach to those who have will promise to pray, come to services, etc., and that no interest at all. But we meet many such ; they is the last ever seen of them. Yet to listen to what come round to see us for other purposes, perhaps, and they say one might think they were already treading have no ear for the Gospel. It is difficult to get into the heavenly road in very deed and truth. Alas !— conversation with them at all. They will agree with words and actions do not correspond; they are only all you say— it is indeed part of the Chinaman’s make-up too well typified by the man of the parable who said : to agree with whatever you say for politeness’ sake— “ I go, sir— and went not. ” Some I have noticed, but and change the subj ect or rise to go when the opportunity only after preaching on the street or in the chapel, occurs. He gives you no foothold for argument, but. seem to be “ impressed ” rather than “ interested.” parries you with polite expressions of approval. To They will listen to you intently, but in a peculiarly attempt to reason with such a man reminds one of the “ dazed ” manner. Their impressions are not in the saying of a former ambassador at Peking, who described solid ground of the intellect: they are strangely super­ his diplomatic labour’s there as “ boxing a feather bed.” ficial and only last for a short time, after which they (To be concluded.') pass away like the morning cloud. In some cases, maybe, they are dissuaded from further intercourse “ If anything like compulsion enters into our system with us by outside friends. But there is often a deeper of diffusing Christianity, the rules of that religion itself reason : “ Then cometh the devil and taketh away the are disobeyed and we shall never be permitted to profit word from their heart, that they may not believe and by our disobedience. . . . It is when unchristian be saved.” The birds of the air ! Yes, verily !; one things are done in the name of Christianity, or when sometimes feels as if one can just see them at their work. Christian things are done in an unchristian way, that Sometimes within five or ten minutes serious enquiries the mischief and danger are occasioned.” will give place to mere platitudes, and the man seems —S i r J o h n L a w r a n c e . N o v e m b e r , 19 15 . China's Millions. 17 1

“Our Missionary Society.”

E x t r a c t p r o m L e t t e r f r o m K . L . M a c l e o d , o f N inghaihsien , C h e k i a n g . ET me give you in brief a report of our Missionary families in the city, a good scholar and most earnest Society. It originated in a Bible School man. Has been employed these two years by the society, L Revival in March, 1912 — was the direct and has done splendid work. result of Bible School work. We had been Collections.— From the first we kept before the Chris­ studying in Acts the growth and development of the tians their privilege in giving. See Phil. i. 5. We used church, and the impression made on our people, of whom the envelope system, issuing them quarterly—envelopes there were about 100 present, as on ourselves, was such specially prepared— one for each church member— none that they were led to put forth this effort 011 behalf of left out. Some enquirers and the children of Christians the Regions Beyond in our own two counties. A good get theirs too. Our idea is to train for future giving, collection was taken on the closing L o r d ’s Day of our as well as to get for the present, e.g., if a family can give school,and plans made forthwith for setting men to work. 50 cents, for a quarter they are encouraged to share it Our conference (practically a presbytery), which meets with each one interested in the Gospel. This is for at the close of our annual Bible Schools, took up the training in the fellowship. Envelopes are given out two matter of organization. A committee of nine men were Sundays ahead of the collection day. Each church appointed— one man representing each section of our has its own local treasurer, and the local treasurers for­ district. This committee appointed its own chairman, ward their total receipts quarterly to thecentral treasurer. treasurer, one secre­ Absent members are tary, and one other, corresponded with, four men to form an and they help very executive. The same well. No foreign chairman, Rev. Ting money is included. Liang-teh, has been In this way we have unanimously re­ received for this elected every year special purpose $500 since. I may say since March, 1912. here that I was the A full and detailed secretary appointed. report is given at Owing to change of each conference, and workers, I was ap­ copies taken to each pointed treasurer last church for reporting year, also again this to them too. The year. The committee money is used as it receive offers of ser­ comes in, e.g., we vice, and consider closed 1913 with suggestions as to who three cents, in the should be employed, treasury, and 1914 made by any of the with $12. leaders. Earnest Results.— (1) Three Christian men and places opened, with women willing to a nucleus of Chris­ give one, two, or tians in each. (2) Chi­ more months, in nese brethren greatly season, to this work, helped and learning only receiving board or travelling expenses, were largely to bear responsibility and direct the work. The president employed. We have a goodly number of well-equipped has nobly risen to help in the work, and to direct the men and women, as the result of our (22 years of) annual labours of the men. (3) The churches are beginning to Bible Schools, lasting three to four weeks each year. regard the work as their own, and to yearn for those with­ Quality of men employed, :— out the Gospel. (4) This society shows ourselves what (1) Elder U, for many years a wOod-carver in Shanghai. our people will gladly do when a scheme appeals to He is a good reader, and has a set of commentaries on the them. (5) Although only $500 have been used in this Bible and such books. He has been helped, under $20 a way so far, the work done with that sum would, I think, year. Result, a good nucleus of Christians, regular Sun­ be more than put in for say $1,000 foreign money. day services, a house mortgaged by himself for meetings The future is full of encouragement. The church is with his all. He does some carving as he has time. learning to evangelize, to give, and to take an interest (2) A tailor, a good reader also, slow-going and affable. in their workers. Our fellow-workers ^Chinese) are He too has done good work. He receives $7 a month developing, learning by bearing responsibility, and so when at work. He is a man in poor circumstances. will be ready to shoulder the work sooner than if there (3) A fisherman, also a good reader. Fishing in were no Missionary Society. The}7 appreciate the diffi­ season and afterwards works for the society. culties of the work and of controlling it, and are much (4) A deacon in comfortable circumstances. Did •more sympathetic towards us,if indeed, that were needed. some work for his board, etc. We are one in this work. They want us to share largely (5) A young man from one of the best literary in the control though the money is all their own giving. 172 China’s Millions. N o v e m b e r , 1915.

Editorial Notes. ORPHIA in China.— In the North China Herald figure five give way to six. Further, under the table for September 4th and 18th are two articles of languages we find that the Word of G o d is now printed calling attention to one of the most serious in no fewer than 487 different tongues, nine new lan­ M evils that threatens China’s existence. This is guages having for the first time become eloquent with the increasing habit cf morphia injection. This vicious the Word of G o d during the past year. What a com­ practice is even worse than opium smoking, and the forting thought it is during these days of sorrow to poorest coolie can acquire the habit at the cost of only know that “ the Word of G o d is not bound.” Even three cents for an injection. the aeroplane has been used in Flanders to distribute In the first article the writer gives a summary of his Christian literature to the men in the trenches. observations at three representative centres, Harbin— Turning to China we note that the circulation of the a Russian settlement, Changchun— a Japanese settle­ Scriptures has exceeded all previous records, the British ment, and Kirin—-a purely Chinese city. The Russian and Foreign Bible Society’s figures being 4 7 7,15 7 higher authorities he found actively assisting the Chinese in than at any time before, with a total of 2,659,839 their efforts to prevent the practice ; in Kirin he re­ copies. If the circulation of the other Bible Societies ports that the Chinese police were very energetic in be included, the figures— in round numbers—would their efforts to suppress the evil, but in Changchun he be as follows :— states that “ the Japanese are masters of the situation, British and Foreign Bible Society ...... 2,660,000 and both opium and morphia trafficking go on quite The National Bible Society of Scotland 1,578,000 openly.” After referring to the three centres men­ The American Bible Society ...... 1,973,000 tioned above, he adds, “ Notwithstanding the dis­ similarity of conditions existing in these towns, the Total 6,211,000 importation and sale of morphia is entirely in the hands of the Japanese, and it is the subjects of Japan who are guilty of teaching the Chinese the habit of morphia When we recall that it is just one hundred years since injection.” This is a serious indictment if it be true. Dr. Morrison completed the printing of the New Testa­ The second article is written from a more general ment in Chinese, these figures are certainly heartening. standpoint. After referring to the well-known fact We thank G o d and take courage. that since January 1st, 1909, the trade in China of ■ Among the man}7 details given in the Bible Society’s- morphia has been prohibited, he proceeds :— Report we specially note that an edition of the Gospel “ Despite this prohibition, the importation of mor­ according to Luke in the Lisu language, translated by phia and of morphia appliances is one of the most pro­ Mr. G. E . Metcalf, and an edition of the Acts in the Hwa fitable trades in the country. It is exclusively in the Miao, translated by the Rev. S. Pollard, are both in hands of the Japanese and is carried on with the full the press. We rejoice to think of these tribespeople approval of the Japanese Government.” Details are having these fresh portions of G o d ’s Word in their then given which show that the chief wholesale firm own tongue. We also note that the Bible in the Tai- in Japan dealing with morphia is a foreign firm domi­ chow colloquial, begun many years ago by Mr. Rudland, ciled in Osaka who are agents of British manufacturing has now been completed by Mr. Charles Thomson. chemists in London. “ During the year 1913, six and It is not possible to leave this subject of the Bible a quarter tons of morphia were imported into Japan Society’s work without a word in regard to the popular and re-exported from Japan to Korea and China. From report which this year is entitled “ The Book and the the Battersea chemist alone two and a half tons were Sword,” and comes from the eloquent pen of the Rev. imported. Another two tons were handled by other T. H. Darlow— we say eloquent because Mr. Darlow British firms. The import by German firms was ad­ certainly can make his pen speak. While the large mitted to be one and three-quarter tons, a total of six report reviews the field in close detail, this shorter and a quarter tons.” It is estimated that the retail volume gives, in the words of the author “ a periscopic sale to China of this quantity represents a profit to view.” The charm both of style and treatment makes, the Japanese dealers of £840,000 per annum. these popular reports of the Bible Society a piece of It is grievous to think now that China is freeing her­ literature to be looked forward to from year to year. self from the curse of opium that she is being enslaved by what is an even worse evil. Hudson Taylor in Early Years.— Many friends will be interested to know that a French translation The Bible in China.— The Annual Reports of the of this book has just been published, under the title— British and Foreign Bible Society are once again before “ Hudson Taylor Enfance et Jeunesse.” The translation us. From every standpoint it is a pleasure to see these has been admirably done by Pastor Jean Rouffiac, of volumes. The large official report is a treasury of Paris, and revised by our friend Pastor S. Delattre, well-ordered information concerning the multitudinous 21 bis, rue de l’Orangerie, Lyons, from whom the book operations of the Bible Society, in all parts of the world. can be obtained. The Swiss publisher is Mr. E. Mack„ What can be more heartening in these days when heart libraire, rue de Bourg, Lausanne. Orders received and flesh are tempted to decay than to know that last during October will be executed at the reduced price year more than ten million Scriptures and Scripture of 2 fr. 50 in paper covers and 3 fr. 75 for bound copies., portions were issued by this one Society alone. This The regular prices are one franc more, in each case. As is the first time that the figures have reached to a double our friends have courageously printed a large edition number in the millions. It was in 1900 that the total expecting that the L o r d will make it a blessing to first rose to five millions, and only five years ago did the many, they will value help in making the book known. N o v e m b e r , 1915. China’s Millions. 178

In Loving Memory of — William Walkinshaw Lindsay, B.L.; Ethel Ardagh Fishe; Lucy Richardson. EVER have we had more abundant reason to work, and entered upon this service in Chefoo at the rejoice in Jesus Christ than we have now. same time as Miss Fishe, whom he escorted there. N The very darkness of the hour accentuates the After some years in the Chefoo schools he was grace of Him Who moved to Kuling to take the brought life and immortality to headship of the Mission’s Pre­ light. The sorrows which surge paratory School there. In this around and the apparent sway work he became much loved by of death and destruction make the scholars and his fellow- the undying messages of J e s u s workers, and was widely esteem­ the only real stay and consola­ ed by all who knew him for his tion of our souls. His coming gracious spirit and unfailing has cast light upon the darkest courtesy. His Homecall came path, for more than ever in this on September 17th, after an hour of nature’s gloom do we operation made necessary by a recognize Him only as “ the somewhat prolonged internal Light of the World.” “ The malady, borne with much pa­ darkness,” says the Psalmist tience and fortitude. Dr. Barrie, (Prayer Book version), “ is no who attended him, and who had darkness with Thee, but, the but recently served on the night is as clear as the day.” battlefields of Serbia, said he Therefore in this hour of the thought he had seen brave sol­ powers of darkness we rejoice in diers before, but Mr. Lindsay Him,— for in Him is no darkness excelled them all. We are at all,— and in the blessed fact thankful to be able to append that our beloved dead are where a graceful appreciation from the there shall be no more night, pen of an old friend. “ for the L o r d G o d shall give Miss Fishe, the eldest daugh­ them light and they shall reign ter of Mr. C. T. Fishe, one of for ever and ever.” the senior members of the Mis­ Last month it was our sad sion, was born in Shanghai in duty to record the death of two valued and experienced January, 1876. Just twenty-four years later, after the workers, and this month we report with sorrow the completion of her education in England, she returned Homecall of three more loved friends, Mr. W. W. to China and was appointed to the Mission’s Girls’ Lindsay, Miss Ethel Fishe and School in Chefoo, where she Miss Lucy Richardson. In a laboured till her death from strange way these three work­ typhoid fever on October 8th. ers are linked together, for The keynote of her service may they all reached Shanghai in be summed up in one word— the same month, Miss Fishe “ faithful,” and the beautiful and Miss Richardson having statement of the Apostle John both been members of the may be appropriately quoted same party of workers who of her: “ Beloved, thou doest sailed from England on Janu­ a faithful work in whatsoever ary 1st, 1900, Mr. Lindsay thou doest.” Everything she subsequently marrying Miss made to serve her mission, and Fishe’s younger sister Mabel, even part of her short furlough, who had‘arrived in China four taken in 1908, was spent in years earlier. France, that she might perfect Mr. Lindsay, prior to his her pronunciation for the sake joining the work in China, of the teaching in Chefoo, and had for some two years — De­ all her addresses to the girls cember, 1893, to January, 1896 were the result of painstaking — rendered good service on the and unsparing preparation. If home staff in England in con­ her gifts were not of the popu­ nection with the editorial de­ Photo by] [Pym, F.R.P.S. lar kind, but rather of those partment. Failure of health connected with quiet,-retiring THE LATE MISS E. A. FISHE. made it necessary for him to service, she was none the less relinquish "this post and tem­ chosen to hold the post of head porarily take up farm life in Australia and New Zealand. mistress during the absence of Miss Craig from the In January, 1900, with restored health, he sailed for school. One who had worked side by side with her in China. From the first he was appointed to educational Chefoo for these more than fifteen }rears writes: “ Her 174 China’s Millions. N o v e m b e r , 1915. life was poured out for her work in the school, her in­ He took a constant interest in the “ School Boys’ Meet­ terests were bound up in it, and even her furlough was ing ” which was held in the later seventies in the Queen’s spent where she could make herself more efficient for Rooms, Glasgow ; and, without saying that it was there her service in Chef00. She will be greatly missed.” that the Master drew him into close relationship, yet In the all-wise providence of G o d , just when her second it may be said that spiritual impulses of those days were furlough was due, she has been called to the rest of derived from that centre. But his temperament was higher service above. such that it might almost be stated Miss Lucy Richardson, the third that he slid into the spiritual life, worker whose removal we mourn without any prominent point of this month, sailed for China, as al­ decision, though that was by no ready mentioned, on January 1st, means absent. At least the decisive­ 1900. Schooled in the environment ness for Christ was amply evident of trial and in somewhat hard con­ to his many friends. With the writer, ditions of business life, she had and some other boys of those days, developed a gentle and refined Lindsay sometimes went to one or disposition which made her an ac­ other coasting place on the Clyde for ceptable colleague for any station. a week’s holiday, and such gives a Some time after her arrival in the rare chance of gauging character and field she was appointed to the temperament, and it was a perpetual Church of England district in joy to witness the tone of life of our friend. I cannot better describe it S z e c h w a n , whither she travelled under the escort of Bishop and Mrs. than a mixture of greatness and Cassels. Though stationed at first gentleness, the former traceable to the at Shunking, the greater part of her latter, and both Christ derived. For service was rendered at Sintientze, beneath a very courteous and bright a hill station not far from Paoning. exterior there dwelt a robustness of More recently, however, owing to character which almost surprised one the absence on furlough of the when occasion rose for it to manifest Misses E. Culverwell and Kolken- itself. A fine firmness where principle beck, she was appointed to Yingshan, was at stake, yet not to the detriment which is located in a malarial district. of his mellowness, a power of decision Here apparently she was taken ill on any point that called for clear with malarial fever, and, though election, which could not offend even removed to the hill bungalow at Suiting towards the those from whom he may have differed, because of his end of July or the beginning of August, where she “ sunny insistence,”— these have impressed themselves on received all possible attention from Dr. Lilian Watney recollection. And while Lindsay had the quiet exterior of and others, she passed away on September 8th. In the Christian gentleman he had along with it an innate her removal the Mission has sustained a sad loss, for manliness that could act, and did act, almost to the Miss Richardson had proved herself a devoted and amazement of those who knew him. How could so capable worker, possessed of a winning personality. gentle a soul hesitate not for a second to plunge “ all In recording these deaths our hearts go out in deep standing ” from a pier to rescue a child fallen into the sympathy to those who have been plunged in sorrow, water ? But I think he never himself alluded to this and especially to those who have been doubly bereaved incident, it had to be learnt from others. As one who — to Mrs. Lindsay, who has lost both husband and sister, had perhaps as close association with our friend as any and to all the other relatives and friends. Thank G o d other one of those early happy days, I deem it a privilege they and we do not receive our comfort from some to pen this tribute to his memory, and, may it be added, •cunningly devised fable, for C h r i s t “ did not talk of almost to rejoice that he has passed into the atmosphere resurrection, as His followers often have, speculatively of that Home which I venture to describe as waiting the and rhetorically. He talked of it looking into the face advent of so choice a spirit. The gentleness of Chiist of a woman who had recently buried her heart in her has called his servant to the greatness of Eternity. Let "brother’s grave, and that is a most searching test of as follow on. reality.” A New Booklet.— The Mission has just published a Mr. Arthur A. Qovan’s “ Appreciation ” of Mr. booklet entitled " Some a Hundredfold,” telling the re­ Lindsay. markable story of Mr. Adam’s life and work among the Miao and other tribes of south-west China. In these “ Thy gentleness hath made me great.” If a practical days of war it is refreshing and stimulating to turn from proof of this somewhat mystical text were wanted, I the records of battle and death to the triumphs of know of no better interpretation than the character Divine grace among the needy sons of men. The and life of our friend who has gone from us in compara­ booklet is attractively got up and is published at 3d. tively early life. net. It can be had from any bookseller or direct from He had the unspeakable benefit of being brought the Offices of the Mission or Messrs. Morgan & Scott. into intimate spiritual relationship with his Saviour in the bright days of boyhood. More than one association conspired to this end, and it may not be easy “ When the heart submits, then JESUS reigns; and to specify, one more than another as the primary agency. when J e s u s reigns, there is rest.”— J. Hudson Tayi,or. N o v e m b e r , 1915. China's Millions. 176

The Psalms, for the Blind.

From a Private Letter from Miss Susie J. Garland, Tsinchow, Kan.

EFORE leaving the coast last year I agreed to the land of Sinim,” who have learned to praise Him prepare for the Bible Society a copy of the Psalms from “ the deeps deeps ” of sin and misery— B in Braille. I was unable to start this work “ deeps ” oi suffering and despair. until the harvest began and our country work Such a one is “ Peace,” a child who, while sleeping ceased for a time. I hoped to have got through the out in the streets of Hankow— a homeless blind beggar— wiiting by the end of July but failed, interruptions of got her feet so badly frost-bitten that someone carried various kinds delayed the work, but, thank G o d , it is her to the Mission hospital. There both feet were am­ finished at last. Yesterday I finished the writing and putated, after which she was sent to the school in Chang­ to-day the revision ; it now remains to pack up the sha. Blind and lame, she praises even now, with her bulky sheets and send them to Miss Yasel at Changsha, lips and still more by her gentle, quiet, life. H ow will for a second reading before they are sent to the Bible she praise when she sees Hint face to face, Who has loved House in London to be printed. Please pray that G o d ’s her soul “ from the pit of corruption.” Spirit may help the blind to understand as they read, if praise but rises from blind Last week 1 heard from hearts to Him Who is Mr. Clayton, of Hankow, “ worthy to be praised” who is in correspondence then this work will not be with Mr. Burns, of London, in vain. Often when hot, about the printing of a brief and weary of thumping “ Old Testament History,” holes into the tough paper, which will be a great boon the wonderful beauty of to the blind, for we cannot some long-familiar passage hope to give them more would break over one afresh than portions of the Old and the prayer go up: Testament for some years “ L o r d , give them under­ to come. standing of the Truth.” * * * * What a privilege it is to be allowed to take a share Copy of Letter from Blind Girl in Taku- in the work of making known Hiswondrous loving­ tang (Kiangsi), to Miss G a r l a n d . kindness ! As I have during these past days again and To Teacher “Chia,’’peace! again had to copy out the Many thanks to the words “ Praise ye the Teacher for preparing for L o r d , ” the emphasis came us these books. Truly I ever stronger on the “ ye.” thank (you) Teacher for “ Sun, moon, and stars of taking this trouble for us. light,” “ dragons, and all May G o d keep your honour deeps,” “ all creatures in and daily give you much all places of His dominion ” strength to work for Him. each and all have their part Thank G o d I have now in the chorus of praise, but Photo by] [Dr. I F . E. Qeil. read “ The Heart’s Eye again and again He says to Enlightener ” (Primer), also each of us “ Praise y e ” He A SCENE IN KANSU. the “ Travellers’ Guide from can't do without my little Death to Life,” all but bit, oh, the wonder of it ! three chapters. Since And if we can only set some of the blind of China prais­ then I have read John's.• Gospel, chapters 1 to 4. ing Him, just give them a start at it as it were, so that Wu H o -h u a , 6th moon, 20th day. they may join in the eternal chorus later on, who knows but we may be introducing some of the loudest singers Book Notice. into that chorus, for they will praise Him as perhaps none “ C a l l e d . ” — By Mrs. F. W. Crawford. Church Mission­ of us will who know not the depths of misery, loneliness ary House, Salisbury Square, E.C., 2s. 6d. post free. and degradation that some of them have passed through. The centre of interest in this book certainly lies The time is coming when “ The ransomed of the L o r d in the later chapters In them the personal call of shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting a number of missionaries is related, and the testimonies joy upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and glad­ should be of especial value to those who are seeking ness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” When to obtain recruits for the work abroad. all the “ sorrow and sighing ” of this terrible war time have passed away like a dream, then the “ cataract of praise,” which ends “ the broad river of the Psalms ” Departure for China. will still be swelling ever louder and fuller as the ages D e c . 4TH. Per Japanese Mail s.s. “ Y a s a k a M a r u .” H. J. and Mrs. A lty and child. roll on, and amongst the singers will be some “ from Rcurning. 176 China*s Millions. N o v e m b e r , 1 9 1 5 -

Our Shanghai Letter, Containing the Latest News from the Field.

B y J a m e s S t a r k .

Septem ber 3 rd .— There have recently been serious On one occasion a Turki merchant called me into his floods in South China, causing great devastation. Many large, open-fronted shop. It was raining at the time, so thousands of people have lost their lives, whilst an even I was glad to go in for a little shelter. He talked for a greater number have been rendered homeless. At few minutes, bought a Turki tract, and then with a Wanan, in the province of K ia n g s i, the Mission house scornful laugh passed it on to a Turki Mullah who was was completely destroyed, whilst Mr. and Mrs. Sinks, standing by. The Mullah took it outside, and pulling who were absent at the time, lost practically all their out a box of matches, set fire to it, burning it publicly. personal effects. By this time a crowd had gathered in the shop, so T began Miss Jessie Gregg expects to hold an evangelistic preaching to them. The shopkeeper touched my arm,, mission at a number of stations in H o n a n , commencing and laughing in a scornful way pointed to the Mullah on September 19th and ending on November 24th. She burning the tract. I, however, simply went on with will value prayer that G o d ’s blessing may attend her my preaching, and took no notice of either of them. ministry. The people listened very well, and when the merchant On the 6th July, Mr. W. W. Williston and Miss L. M. saw that his shop was being used for the preaching of Shilton were united in marriage at Paoning. They the Gospel, he began to grow impatient and pushing; spent their honeymoon in rather an unusual way. me said, ‘ You had better clear off now, as I want to Leaving immediately after their wedding they visited close up the shop.’ I replied, ‘ Friend, it was at your three out-stations, staying a few days at each, preaching invitation that I came across here. You asked me to- the Gospel on their way to tell you something about the. Pachow, where on the Sun­ Gospel, and now you want day the church was filled me to go away before I have to overflowing, and Mr. finished speaking. There is Williston writes : — “ We no such custom as that. I have seldom had a greater will finish what I have to opportunity.” Two days say, and then go.’ As it was later he and his wife left for still raining, the people were: Yin-ting mountain, to con­ glad to shelter and listen to duct a Bible School. Twenty- the Gospel at the same time. five men attended, and our As soon as I had finished- brother says it was a pleasure _ preaching, I invited the to teach such attentive and people to come round to the receptive listeners. Mission premises to hear Mr. P. C. Mather sends a more of the Gospel, and cheering letter fromTihwafu, thanking the merchant for in the New Dominion, where the use of his shop came he has completed his first away.” year of service. He writes:— Mr. Mather has started a “ Perhaps it may interest Thursday evening Bible class,, you to hear something of our which is regularly attended work amongst the Moham­ by eight people. A remark, medans. As I told you in of one of these may interest one of my former letters, the you. Sitting together chat­ Chinese and Turki Moham­ ting one evening after the medans are very strong in class was over, they were this city. There are several comparing Christianity with thousands of them in the other religions. “ Yes,” said south suburb, practically one, “ these other religions eight out of every ten being are like a two-legged chair Mohammedans. The Chinese upon which one may sit and Mohammedans are called balance oneself, but as soon Tongans. The religious as one leans back on it, it leaders both of the Tongans will topple over with him.” and the Turki are strongly Mr. Mather adds, “ Christi­ opposed to the Gospel, and anity on the other hand is despise us and our message. Amongst the ordinary like a solid wall: you can lean against it and it will people perhaps the Tongans are the more approach­ support you.” able. Sometimes when going along the street one Mr. G. F. Andrew mentions as a subject for prayer comes to a group of Tongans sitting chatting, and and praise the large amount of Christian literature which one of them will call out, ‘ Come and sit down and has been circulated at Lanchowfu during the last three, preach to us.’ With a prayer to G o d for guidance months. The hospital students have been very earnest, we take a seat amongst them, and seek a point of contact. in this work. Mr. Andrew writes :— N o v e m b e r , 1915. China's Millions. 177

“ Perhaps the most earnest worker has been a young without a liberal supply of incense and money. This xnan from another province, who has come here with year, a party of four Christians went to the highest the intention of helping in the hospital work. Although point, preaching the Gospel to the poor deluded pilgrims found to be suffering from consumption, he has been by the way. On entering the road, at the first temple instrumental in selling a larger number of books than the priest asked for the usual offering, and when told any other helper or agency in the district. On the that they did not trust to the idols for protection, the hottest or wettest days he is to be met in the city or, priest said, ‘ You will slip and be dashed to death.' shouldering his bundle of But nothing daunted, they books, trudging off to some p ressed forward, and fair in the neighbourhood.” preached to the priests at Mrs. G. F. Andrew, re­ the top of the mountain, ferring to the difficulties and rejoiced that they were which have< to be faced able once again to prove the in the work amongst the falsity of the idols. This is women, mentions the case of the first time any of the a Taoist nun, seventy years Christians have testified in of age, who has been a vege­ this stronghold of Satan.” tarian for some twenty years. Miss F. H. Culverwell in­ She became interested in the forms us that, at a recent Gospel, and was keen to exhibition of needlework throw off her old associa­ organized by the city author­ tions. She said she would ities in Nanpu, S z e c h w a n , come to the service on the the Mission School was following Sunday and give awarded two gilt medals and in her name as an enquirer. seven silver medals, whilst She, however, did not turn the Government School was up, and on one of the women only awarded five. going to see her she was told Mr. J. H. Edgar reports that before taking that step that during the last six the nun had gone to a priest, months he has covered nearly who had made her fear to do 2,000 English miles on his so, as he had said that if. journeys from Weikiu on the J e s u s could not save her, Tibetan frontier. He has then all her twenty years of disposed of over 14,000 por­ vegetarianism and self-denial tions of Scripture and other would count for nothing. Christian literature. This Mr. E. J. Mann, writing total represents work on the from Fukiang, in the same highways with individuals province, refers to a large Photo by] [Dr. i r E. GeU. mostly. market for which prayer has In my last letter, I been offered. He says:— ON TEMPLE HILL, TSINAN, KANSU. mentioned that Mr. G. E. “ On the first visit of my Denham expected to receive evangelist this spring, he one of the school teachers at met the chief gentleman of the market, who before the Suiting as a catechumen. Unhappily, at the last, it was Revolution was an official. He heard the Gospel years discovered that this man had shown complicity with ago at Tsinchow Kan, and subsequently at several places idolatry, which necessitated the postponement of his where his official duties took him. He has abandoned' acceptance. I refer to this in order to secure for him idolatry, and really seems to be seeking the truth. We a place in your intercessions. pray that God will lead this gentleman into the light, so that he may be a means of blessing in the district, where there are others interested in the Gospel. looking How long, O Lord, how long, before the flood at the Work as a whole, we feel that it has never before Of crimson-welling carnage shall abate ? been so encouraging as it is now.” From sodden plains in West and East the blood From Meihsien, in the adjoining province of S h e n s i, I Of kindly men steams up in mists of hate have received a letter from Mr. R. W. Middleton. The fol­ Polluting Thy clean air ; and nations great lowing extract from it will, I think, be of interest to you :— In reputation of the arts that bind “ Last week, a band of nine Christians went to the The world with hopes of Heaven, sink to the state foot of the famous T’ai-peh-shan, and had a good Of brute barbarians, whose ferocious mind time preaching and bookselling to the hundreds of pil­ Gloats o’er the bloody havoc of their kind, grims gathered from all parts of the district to worship Not knowing love or mercy. Lord, how long at the different temples. This is the first year we have Shall Satan in high places lead the blind taken advantage of this opportunity ; but I trust it will To battle for the passions of the strong ? not be the last. The mountain is at least 12,000 feet Oh, touch Thy children’s hearts, that they may know high, and the road in some places very difficult. The Hate their most hateful, pride their deadliest foe. priests have so deceived the people aS to make them R. S. A. P. believe that no one dare enter these mountain heights “ The Times,” October 15th, 1915. 178 China’s Millions. N o v e m b e r , 19 15 .

Sorrow at Hochow, Shansi.

The following circular letter from Miss Cable to her more intimate friends, will, we feel sure, be read with sympathetic and prayerful interest by the wider circle of readers of “ China’s Millions."—Ed.

China Inland Mission, Liang, known to many of you as the head of our Women’s Hochow, S h a n s i. Bible School, was with her all the time. Her husband Y Dear Friends,— was in a city three days’ journey distant, attending I write to you to-da}T under the shadow of a a Bible School for a few weeks, and we were obliged great sorrow, so great is it that we cannot to have the funeral before he returned, owing to the realize to any extent what has befallen us. great heat. This morning early, the Pastor conducted The head mistress of our Girls' School, who has been the service in our court under our beautiful vine. The with us ever since we came here after 1900, entered into teachers, who have all assembled for the school, have the joy of her L o r d yesterday in the early hours of changed from a happy band of young women to a band the morning. We have only returned to Hochow from of mourners, and needed the words of comfort and our summer holiday for one week, and she met us looking exhortation which the Pastor spoke. He read us the so well and bright and during the past days she has wonderful words from Thessalonians, and begged us entered with me into all the preparations for the Teach­ not to sorrow as those that had no hope. We sang ers’ Summer School. On Wednesday of last week “ Like a river glorious ” jind “ He leadeth me,” and she complained of a headache and sickness but insisted then got into our carts to follow the coffin to the city that she was well enough to talk over any matters of gate. There we left the men of the famiW, and the importance. On Thursday she was about the same, six carts full of girls and young women returned home. but on Friday and Saturday she did not get up. No The two dear little children, Pearl and Precious-bundle, alarming symptoms, however, presented themselves, were terribly upset. Pearl is ten years old and her little her temperature remained normal until Sunday after­ brother seven. It is pitiful to hear her weeping, and noon, when a change suddenly came. Her breathing what can make up to her for such a mother ! For became difficult, and pneumonic symptoms were much ourselves, we do not know what to say. Already, in evidence. At 9 o’clock Miss French took her a cup especially since Pastor Wang’s illness, the work has been of hot milk and had prayer with her; she then prayed far beyond what we have felt able for, and now Ling-ai, earnestly for me, asking that the L o r d would under­ who has taken entire charge of all the detail work of take for me. For an hour or two she fought for life, the school administration, and who has been our faithful and then, quietly commending her two little .children fellow-labourer in the Gospel, has left us. What to do to our care, she fell asleep. we do not know! Aged 36 years, capable, faithful, We hear of cases similar to this occurring in the experienced, and one in heart with us, she shared every district, sometimes taking the form of anthrax, but in joy and sorrow in the life of that community. Those her case many of those symptoms were absent. Mrs. under her give promise of great usefulness in the future,

THE GIRLS’ SCHOOL AT HOCHOW. ' N o v e m b e r , 1 9 15 . China’s Millions 179

but the post of head mistress of a boarding school of time, and that we may know the will of G o d in the 150 girls, which includes a training college for young arrangements which have to be made for continuing women, needs special gifts. In the more than ten the work. years that have passed, she has exhibited a tact and At present we stand in the dark, not knowing what patience in dealing with her fellow-teachers that has way to take or what to do. I can only rest in the know­ made it possible for them to work together in harmony ledge of the fact that G o d is and that He is Love. The and happy fellowship. The loss of such a faithful work is His. “ The trees of the L o r d are full of sap ” missionary to any station is a loss indeed, and in her is the verse in my mind in these days, and a new branch one of our most valued friends has gone. will be developed, but how and when— honestly we do Will you, as you read this, pray that comfort may not see. be given to the sorrowing mother— so brave as she We all join in warm greetings to you all, and in many says through her tears that the peace of G o d is in her thanks for letters and papers. We read all with keenest heart, and for the dear little children that as they speak, interest. as they now do, of their mother with J e s u s , death 111a}' With all good wishes, be for them, as the days go by, swallowed up in victory, Yours very sincerely, and lose its sting. Pray also for the school girls that A. M ildred Cable. many of them may be led to decision for C h r i s t at this September 5th, 1915.

A W om en’s Bible School in Honan. B y M r s. E. W eller, Shekichen, Honan. UR Women’s Bible School has recently closed, has really saved her, and we are thankful to have her and our hearts are very full of thankfulness in the school rather than wishing to get rid of her. O for what the L o r d has done among us. The Another girl, the first Christian in her home, is also three weeks began with a spell of cold, wet very brightly saved. Some long while ago she in­ weather, which delayed some of our out-station and fluenced her father to take their false gods down, and country women, but in spite of weather a fair number has been praying very earnestly for his conversion since. turned up at the beginning. Once fairly started the More than once she has been found weeping as she L o r d gave us bright, warm weather nearly all the time pra};red for him. Her mother has come on steadily, and no really bad days. We heard that during the and she too was baptized on Saturday with her daughter. last week heavy rain had fallen but a short distance The father during these last holidays asked his daughter away, but though cloudy we had none here. Our several questions about “ the Doctrine ” and she used compound was very full all the time, quite a big number her New Testament to good account. He has asked of women staying in. Our Girls’ School too was crowded for one to read himself now, and his child here is still to its utmost limits, several “ old girls ” having come praying. We expect to see him saved ere long. for the Bible School. We didn’t attempt to begin One senior girl is engaged to a heathen soldier, and ordinary lessons in the school, but with the exception has promised to stand firm at her marriage with regard of one pupil teacher left in charge of the little daily to the idolatrous rites invariably practised on these girls, all our scholars came to help teach the women. occasions. This may mean persecution. May the One of the prettiest sights in the Bible School, I think, L o r d keep her true to Himself ! Then the women— was to see the little groups of women seated round a but I must not tell of them all or this will get too much schoolgirl as she helped them with their reading. beyond the limits of ordinary letters. Just one, a Mrs. It is a pretty severe test of patience at times, but our Chen. Exactly one year earlier than the day on which hearts have often been gladdened at the loving way she confsssed the L o r d , she was brought here by her our Christian girls help the poor, slow, old women. sister to one of Mr. Hsieh’s meetings. Previous to We kept registers throughout the three weeks, and that she had just been going from bad to worse. The an attendance of from sixty to over one hundred was daughter of an old Biblewoman now with the L o r d , made each day, excluding girls, of whom there were and the child of many prayers, she yet seemed a most about half as many. hopeless case. She just went lower and lower in sin Appended I give a little programme of our three and degradation until none of her people would own weeks' work, which will give some idea of how the her. Her sister got stirred up at Mr. Hsieh’s meetings women spent their time. and went in search of the poor prodigal, dressed her For some time past we have hoped to baptize several decently in some clothes of her own, and brought her women this spring, and so used this opportunity, and along. Her heart was touched, and though the work on Saturday morning had the joy of seeing fifteen of grace has been gradual it has been unmistakable. confess their L o r d . There were several others we Instead of begging at the roadside dressed in rags, she thought of, but feel that for several reasons it will be is clothed and in her right mind, a “ new creature in better for them to wait till the autumn. Out of the Christ Jesus.” Her husband too is coming to the fifteen, seven were schoolgirls. Their testimony was services and her little girl is in the school here, so soon, very bright and clear when examined, and for a long please G o d , they will all be the L o r d ’s. time past their lives have given evidence of the fact We are very full in the Girls’ School this year— that they are born again. One dear girl was such a nineteen boarders and a good number of day girls. trial in the school that just over a year ago Mr. Conway We are hoping that several other girls may be ready seriously considered expelling her, but now the L o r d for baptism before long. 180 China’s Millions. N o v e m b e r , 19 1 5 .

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Secretary Women’s Department: M iss H . E. S o lt a u . Accountant: W. S. H a y e s . B ankers: London County and Westminster Bank, Limitei», 21, Lombard Street, London, E.C. All donations to be addressed to the Secretary. Money Orders (payable at G.P.O.) and Cheques to be made payable to the China Inland Mission, and crossed “ London County and Westminster Bank.” It is specially requested on that every occasion -when money is sent for the support of, or for the work of, any particular Missionary, or for any Mission object such as the support of a Chinese Helper, a Biblewoman o r a Scholar, the object in view be clearly stated. If, on the other hand, money be sent for a Missionary, as a personal gift, or for any private purpose, this also should be clearly stated in order that it may be correctly acknowledged and forwarded.

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The Joy of the Lord.

“ In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer ; 1 have overcome the world."- John xvi. 33.

HERE are few things more offensive than a sad countenance.” If He speaks in parables of a man shallow and easy optimism. On the other who sells all that he hath that he may buy a hidden hand there is nothing more welcome than con­ treasure, he is pictured as doing so “ for joy thereof ” T fidence grounded on experience and knowledge. and not as a sacrifice. Does He tell the sad story of Only in proportion as a man has measured and mas­ the lost sheep and prodigal son, each narrative ends tered the difficulties and sorrows of life is he acceptable with rejoicing. Do men weep and mourn, He reminds as a leader, for only such a one can uphold the tempted them that they are “ blessed ” ; are they persecuted and tried. This is why the words and assurances of for righteousness’ sake, He bids them “ rejoice in that J e s u s come with such sustaining power. He is able day and leap for joy.” to succour for He Himself has compassed the whole Especiall}" remarkable is it that the note of joy should of life’s experiences and has sounded the depths of sin ring through C h r is t ’s farewell discourses spoken on and gloom. And it is He Who bids us rejoice. the threshold of Gethsemane. Repeatedly does the Exhortations to rejoice to-day from the lips of any word " joy ” appear : “ That My joy may be in }rou and other would be almost resented as out of place. How that your joy may be fulfilled.” “ Your heart shall can we rejoice when the world is so sore stricken and rejoice and your joy no man taketh away from you.” when the very foundations of society are threatened “ In the world ye have tribulation ; but be of good with destruction ? Yet when the words “ Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” cheer ” come from Him Who has passed triumphantly Bishop Moule, in his comforting little book, “ Christus through the darkest night of this world’s history, they Consolator,” calls special attention to the wording of come with mighty comfort to the troubled soul. Let one of Ch r is t ’s phrases : “ Your sorrow shall be turned us not fail then in these days, as we journey through into joy ”— spoken on this occasion. “ Take note,” the Valley of the Shadow, to remind ourselves of the he says, “ that C h r ist does not merely say that one day messages of joy and gladness which fell from the lips your sorrow shall be made to cease and then, after it, of Him Who bore our giiefs and carried our sorrows. as the next change in a shifting scene, shall come a joy. It is a fact we are apt to overlook that He who was No, the two things are in a connection, vital, necessary. the Man of Sorrows was also anointed “ with the oil They are, in a wonderful wa}7, two aspects of one thing. of gladness ” above His fellows. He both plumbed The joy shall be the sorrow transfigured. It shall be the depths of human woe and reached the heights of such that without the antecedent pain it would not man’s -blessedness. Nothing within the compass of have been. You shall taste the joy and find it so pure life’s possibilities, apart from sin, was unknown to and true, so beautiful, so lofty, so fruitful of every grow Him. The shadow of the cross was ever present, but ing and beneficent good, that you could not bear to so was the glory of Heaven, and to no one are the words have missed the anguish which came before it.” of the Apostle Paul more applicable— “ sorrowful yet Many an illustration of this connection between alway rejoicing ”— than to the Apostle’s own L ord and joy and sorrow can be found in nature, but none more Master. perfect and universal than that employed by C h r ist How gracious and significant it was that the L o r d ’s Himself when He refers to the sacred sorrows of mother­ first miracle should have been performed at a marriage hood and the joys which follow. It is in keeping with feast. In this festive occasion did He find the fitting this that Ruskin in his “Ethics of the Dust” has a chapter sphere for the beginning of His signs and the manifesta­ entitled “ Crystal Sorrows, ” from which the following few tion of ;His glory. And is it not even more arresting to lines are taken. “ Whenever the earth is torn it heals find that when the disciples of John came disposed to and binds, nay the torture and grieving of the earth criticize the more jubilant condition of the followers of seem necessary to bring out its full energy ; for you Ch r is t , the Man of Sorrows justified them by likening only find crystalline living power fully in action where Himself to a bridegroom. “ Can the sons of the bride- the faults and rents are deep and many. These stones chamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? ” which men have been cutting into slabs for thousands These and other instances which could be mentioned of years, to ornament their principal buildings with, reveal Ch r is t ’s attitude towards the joyful spirit. and which, under the general name of marble, have Though He journeyed through the wilderness of life, with been the delight of the eyes and the wealth of archi­ the shadow of the cross ever darkening His path, His tecture among all civilized nations, are precisely those face was towards the sun-rising. on which the signs and brands of these earth agonies And the same note of joyful triumph resounds through­ have been chiefly struck ; and there is not a purple out the whole of Ch r is t ’s teaching. If He instructs vein nor blazing zone in them, which is not the record His disciples as to fasting, He bids them not be “ of a of their ancient torture.” D e c e m b e r , 1915. 184 C h in a ’ s M illio n s. D e c e m b e r , 19 1 5 .

And C h r i s t did not teach in vain. It is instructive C h r i s t in this manner. That is quite true, but,” he to study the writings of His disciples and learn how added, “ have we any more right to judge G o d in the this note of triumphant joy was caught up by them and midst of His incomplete dealings with us ? ” The sounded out in their darkest hour. Only one or two lesson is not unneeded to-day. illustrations can be given here. The Apostle Peter, We are to-day confronted by the mystery of iniquity though living in full knowledge of his tragic end, as and by the problems of pain and suffering on a gigantic revealed by C h r i s t , yet wrote in his epistle of “ re­ scale. Forces of evil, unseen by man, are unquestion­ joicing greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory.” ably abroad behind the human agencies at war. We The Apostle John, though a prisoner, condemned to can but dimly see the working out of G o d ’s great pur­ hard labour on a rocky island in the iEvgean Sea, makes poses through all this strife. We see not yet all things the note of triumph and victory to peal through the put under C h r i s t ’s feet, but we do see the fierce struggle pages of the Apocalypse, so that the book so full of dark to avoid that subjection. Yet C h r i s t has triumphed, prophecy is yet one of the most radiant in the Bible. He has led captivity captive, and the call to-day is for Evil is freely depicted but always as under strict limi­ faith in our omnipotent Leader Who has overcome the tations. “ They received authority as kings, with the world. Beast, for one hour.” “ I know of nothing more striking, On at least three separate occasions, as recorded in more completely triumphant, than this expression,” the Gospels, did C h r i s t exhort His disciples “ to be writes Sir William Ramsay in commenting on this pas­ of good cheer,” and it is more than interesting to find sage. “ All this long and stately succession of sove­ the Evangelist Luke, who does not use this phrase in reigns over the mighty Empire of Rome hold authority his Gospel, attributing the same words to C h r i s t , in for one hour. An hour was the smallest division of time the Acts of the Apostles, as He stood by the Apostle known to the ancients. They speak of the movement Paul upon a memorable night which followed and pre­ of an hour when we should use the expression ‘ in a ceded a terrible ordeal. And so truly did the Apostle minute ' or more hyperbolically ‘ in one second.' ” learn the lesson from his Master in that dark hour that And now to apply what has been said to the sorrows in the midst of a subsequent storm and shipwreck he is of the present hour. The anguish of the moment is able to comfort others with the very words wherewith so great and overwhelming that it seems to stand apart he himself had been comforted : “ Sirs, be of good and to defy all attempts to explain it. And this is but cheer, for I believe G o d .” natural. We are too close to all that is happening and The same source and the only source of comfort is too personally concerned to be able to see things in ours to-day. No crisis and no situation is beyond their true perspective. But the outlook is not darker C h r i s t ’s knowledge and power. The L o r d still reigns. than it was to the Apostle John or to any of the other With a startling boldness the Prophet Isaiah sees G o d disciples. We must remember the patience of Job, in everything— “ I am the L o r d and there is none else : and wait to see the end of the L o r d . Years ago we I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and once heard a much-loved minister give out as his text create evil (not sin but calamity) ; I am the L o r d that the words of C h r i s t : “ Lazarus is dead and I am glad.” doeth all these things. . . . I have created the waster to For a few moments, which seemed like hours to some destroy,” yet “ no weapon that is formed against thee of his congregation, he dwelt upon the apparent harsh­ shall prosper.” It is a similar faith in the sovereignty ness of such words from the lips of Him who spake as of G o d that we need to-day. “ The L o r d on high is never man spake. Then suddenly breaking off his mightier than the sound of many waters ” and His remarks he ejaculated “ But you will all be feeling that word to us still is “ In the world ye have tribulation, I have no right to treat an incomplete utterance of but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” M. B.

A Three Days’ Conference. B y H . W u p p e r f e l d , K a i h s i e n , S z e c h w a n . EFORE leaving this beautiful mountain village— day about forty to fifty Christians attended the meetings. Hong-hua-iien, I feel I ought to write a brief We had indeed a blessed time ; the L o r d spoke to us B account of the work and of our doings since through His Word, by His Holy Spirit. We started our arrival here on July 14th. We visit this each day’s work with a prayer meeting. The L o r d out-station every year during the greater part of the poured out His richest blessing upon our gathering. most unbearable heat in the city. The weeks spent It was a great joy to listen to our Chinese brethren, here with our dear people have been very profitable and to note how efficiently they handled the Word and blessed to us and to the church. The services of Life. Their addresses indeed stimulated, encouraged, and classes have been well attended. and inspired hope and confidence in the hearts of us I have followed the usual custom of former years to foreigners. We praise the L o r d "for the gifts He has hold a three days’ conference with the five catechists already given to the Chinese church. Please help us from the different out-stations. This year a Mr. Tan, by prayer that the L o r d may give His Holy Spirit in the faithful and efficient co-worker with the Rev. W. T. more abundance to us, and to our Chinese fellow-workers. Elwin, of the C.M.S., amongst the Chinese students in The first address was given by one of our voluntary Japan, was also with us, as well as Mr. Kao, the helper workers on “ The secret of prayer ” ; the second by the in the Wanhsien church. Besides our own five workers, catechist Lih ; and Mr. Funnell spoke in the afternoon and Mr. Tan and Mr. Kao, we had also the pleasure of on “ The L o r d ’s return.” having Mr. Bromby and Mr. Funnell with us. Every The addresses on the second day were delivered by D e c e m b e r , 19 15 . China's Millions. 185 three catechists. The first was on “ The method of preach­ ing," the second on “ The preacher’s responsibility to­ wards G o d , towards the home, towards the church, and to­ wards society.” The address in the afternoon, by another voluntary helper, was on “ Paul as the preacher’s example in regard to his prayer life, his diligence, his preaching and in his endurance for the Gospel’s sake.” This address was the best of all. The third day I spoke on “ C h r i s t in His threefold office as Prophet, Priest, and King.” Mr. Tan gave us a most helpful, practical, and well-thought-out address on “ The Christian and Mr. Bromby spoke on “ C h r i s t ’s church.” Though we belonged to different na­ tions, we felt more than ever that we were all “ one in Christ Jesus.” We realized that we were sitting with C h r i s t in the heavenly places far above all the strife of men. May the L ord give us grace to truly show forth in our lives that we belong to a king­ broke out. He spent ten years without interruption dom which cannot be shaken. I could not help noticing in Japan, there, like so many other Christian students, how the Chinese were watching us during the days of he found C h r i s t , the Way ot Life. He is very bright our conference in regard to our unity in C h r i s t . and earnest in his Christian life, and, moreover, whole­ I am glad to say that our newly started Christian hearted in C h r i s t ’s service. He is not ashamed to Endeavour Society had its birthplace in this out-station, confess C h r i s t before learned and unlearned, before and the first forward movement after the conference rich and poor; he is a true witness for his L o r d and has been the buying of fields for 520,000 cash, with the M a s t e r . He was married to a Miss Hsii, of Shanghai, object in view to make the work more self-supporting. the daughter of Dr. Hsii, an old medical student of Dr. A prayer circle was also started whose members have Main in Hangchow, and Dr. Hsii is one of the many promised to pray regularly for each other and for the sons of the wholly consecrated Pastor Hsii in Ningpo. revival of G o d ’s Kingdom in this land. The wedding took place in the church of “ Our For the first time this year we held a Harvest Thanks­ S a v i o u r ” in Shanghai. Mr. C. T. Wang, the Vice- giving Service in the church here. The building was Speaker of the late Parliament, acted as best man. very prettily decorated with creepers and bamboo After the wedding Mr. Tan spent only a short time in branches and flowers. The Christians took up this Japan, and from there he returned to his native home kind of gathering very heartily. It was such a blessed in the Kaihsien district about three months ago. Two and joyful day. Though the heavy rain prevented full months Mr. and Mrs. Tan have been staying with many of the women from coming, the men turned up us in our home, one month in the city and one month well. Rice, beans, corn, chickens, eggs, goats, vege­ here at Hong-hua-iien. Only a fortnight ago they left tables, money and many other things were the offerings for his parents’ home, thirteen miles from here, in order given to the L o r d . We know that some of the gifts to prepare for their overland journey to Paoning to have been in a special way an odour of a sweet smell, a see Bishop Cassels, and later on he goes to Chengtu to sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to G o d , because they work amongst the many thousands of students in that were given by a poor widow with five little children, city. While with me in Kaihsien we had some splendid who was baptized on the same day. special meetings for men and women. At one meeting Again it is my privilege to report the baptism of five more than three hundred women were present, most men and one woman. Two of them were lads of bright, of them of the better class. Next Sunday he hopes to earnest, Christian parents. Rejoice with us and praise meet me in the out-station Nan-men-chang, where we the L o r d for these new converts. Pray that they may intend to make a special effort to bring the more than be kept by the power of G o d . More than twenty cate­ one hundred students of the college under the sound chumens were received here and at Ioh-chi-chang. of the Gospel. I am glad to say that seven out of ten Now, as to Mr. Tan. He is a brilliant young man of of the teachers of the college are coming to the services of high culture and scholarship. He took his “ Kii-ren ” in Nan-men-chang. Two of them are Christians with •degree (M.A.) in Peking just before the Revolution a B.A. degree. Remember these teachers in prayer. 186 China's Millions. D e c e m b e r , 19 15 .

Some Observations on Mission W ork in China.

B y J. O. F ra ser, B.Sc., T en g yu eh , Y unn an. (Concluded from page 170.)

HE Chinaman is not a religious tensions to enlightenment, more or less holden with fanatic. Fanaticism may exist in the fear of evil spirits— a fear which seems to lurk, other countries (and indeed Chinese in greater or less degree, within the bosom of every Mohammedans, who only form a heathen man and woman in this benighted land. very small fraction of China’s popu­ The Subject of Sin. lation, fortunately, will sometimes argue with you warmly), but I have If one speaks to a Chinaman on the subject of sin, never yet he^rd an ordinary China­ he will agree with all that is said much as in the other man seriously defend his idolatrous case, or even more. He will admit that all men are practices. If you point out to him sinners at once. But he will remark in the same breath the folly of it all, he will as often as that he doesn’t think he has any sin. It is remarkable not laugh with you. Not that this means he will forth­ that some of the women seem to be conscious of their with give it up—far from it. He may even be loud in sins and anxious to get rid of them : I have never met his denunciations of the whole thing as “ made-up ” and a man yet who showed any anxiety on that score. They “ absurd ” ; but to go at once and remove all idolatry, will usuall}T say (truthfully or otherwise) that they never etc., from his home is far enough from his thoughts. injured other people, they never wronged anyone— like so many a man at home who, when tackled on the Not a Deep Thinker. subject of sin, will mildly protest that he “ never did He is no deep thinker, no reasoner. He has not the anybody any ’arm.” philosophic acumen of the Brahman and the “ religious Dr. Griffith John once made the remarkable state­ men ” of India. After thousands of years he lias, as a ment that some of his brightest and most consistent race, failed to evolve one consistent religious system Christians were won to Christ during the course of a and abide by it. His religions (for he extends his single conversation. It is an encouraging reflection hospitality to more than one) are a perfect network that such cases of instant decision may and do occur of inconsistencies— a tangled mass of superstitions in China , but with the exception of those with a good and follies. And the average man is in woful ignorance knowledge of Gospel truth to begin with, instances of this of it all. But he culls a few scraps here and there from kind are rare in practice. Usually it is months, some­ the vast pile as sufficient “ for all practical purposes,” times years, between their first interest and their out- and holds to them as being more or less “ indispensable.” and-out decision to follow Christ. The light breaks Such are the worship of ancestors, the worship of heaven on them slowly. Many make slow progress and seem and earth, the idolatrous performances at weddings, very stupid. Even after months of instruction they funerals, etc. But he does not do these things because may be still mentally rubbing their eyes and blinking : he believes they are true and right, but because every- they see men as trees walking. Their first interest may bod}r else does them and because his father and grand­ be through some Christian friend or relative. Or it father did so before him. And it would not be safe, may be through contact with missionaries and native he feels, to give them up when they have gone on for Christians in other ways ; it may be through reading so long. “ As it was in the beginning, is now, and books or tracts, or it may be through receiving medical ever shall be ” fairly expresses the Chinaman’s attitude help. They will begin, perhaps, by attending services. towards these things. You may reason with him about Then they will learn to pray for themselves. Interest the falsity of it all and beat him in argument very easily. and enlightenment will increase until they finally remove It does not take a master logician to prove to a China­ idolatry from the home. But this final step does not man the inconsistency of his religious beliefs, but your come all at once. When one is new to the work one is most convincing arguments leave him untouched as apt to “ hurry ” things too much, but it does not do to far as actual practice is concerned. “ You have your force them on : it rather tends to make them afraid way of doing things, and we have ours,” he thinks; of you and thereby hinders them. Idolatrous practices “ why argue about it ? ” The idea of one absolute, have a firmer hold on them than we can easily under­ universal standard of truth does not enter into his stand. Many a man is earnest to a certain point, mind. He thinks (as many at home also ?) that you prays, reads his Bible, but has not come to the point may believe what you like—what suits you. The of making a clean tut with idolatry. He may make Chinaman is a remarkably practical man in most things, progress in other ways, but will stop dead here. He but in the things which matter most he is a superb may wish to go ahead, but he dare not. It is painful illustration of the truth of the saying (first applied to to see him shivering on the brink. The “ almost-per­ Christians at home) that a man will use his common- suaded multitude ” in China is largely made up of such sense in everything but his religion. The modern cases ; “ over the line/’ with them, means simply the tendency, especially among the rising generation, is giving up of ancestor-worship, etc. It is safe to say to disavow all belief in idolatry, etc., as mere “ super­ that there is scarcely a mission station in China but stition ” believed in only by women and unenlightened has such cases— where would-be Christians are held people generally. But there is a great deal of hypocrisy back by a powerful unseen force, unable to get free, about this, and I have heard them admit it sometimes. bound down by these invisible chains forged in the As a matter of fact they are, like others with less pre­ workshop of Satan. D e c e m b e r . 19 15 . China’s Millions. 187

It is well to remember that soul-saving in China is Christians at home, but rather with their own selves in slow work. Compared with work at home the results their former heathen state. Mr. Roosevelt showed that — generally speaking— are incommensurate with the he appreciated this when, in speaking of converts in effort if convert-getting be the sole object. Indeed Central Africa, he said that their progress should be if the object of Gospel-preaching be simply to get the measured rather by their distance from the starting- largest possible number of converts in the shortest point than by their distance from the goal. possible time, What one is impressed with at China is not home is the progress of mission work the best place in China. Y es, indeed, and we thank to go to ; per­ G o d for it. But out here one is haps few places impressed in rather another direction in the mission — with the pain­ field would ful fewness of compare with our Christians. our ripe harvest When one con­ fields at home. siders the vast Take a tpyical •untouched mul ti- case in which a tude one feels as missionary in if we have but China settles dug a small hole down in an en­ in a large un­ tirely new dis­ moved mountain trict. After ten —as if we have years’ work, he merely scratched may, humanly the surface of speaking, have things. The a church of presence of our­ from ten to selves and our twenty Chris­ Christians in tians. The same China makes no m issionarv difference to might, if at hundreds of mil- home, be re­ lions of the warded (with people; they pur­ G o d ’s blessing) sue the even with an equal tenour of their number of con­ Photo h'j] [1/. lleuuc/utmp. w a y unaware verts after o n ly' (most of them) of a week or so of ICHANG GORGE. our very exist­ e v a n g e l istic ence. Whole vil­ services. The lages, in districts comparison is an unfair one from many points of view, we have worked for years, are just as heathen as when but the fact remains that evangelistic work at home Robert Morrison landed in Canton, and know precisely usually gives greater numerical returns. The reason as much about the Gospel. I believe almost any mis­ for this is obvious. At home we are, to a certain extent, sionary— even in places where there are large and pros­ born and brought up in a Christian atmosphere. In perous churches— will go with me in saying this. We spite of all that *is not Christian in the life of European go about among the people and see whole streets and nations it would be difficult, at home, to find an audience villages, prosperous plains and busy markets, about as in which many had not come under Christian influences dark and Satan-ridden as ever they were. Where are of some kind. But out here in the dense darkness of the Christians ?— one asks. And one feels that in spite heathenism, and in an atmosphere laden with the very of our increased membership and our “ encouraging poison of evil spirit influence, it is another matter. Your number of baptisms,” our Chinese Christians are still heathen Chinaman has no Sunday School behind him— like little specks in a vast pagan crowd— like so many no mother’s prayers. You have nothing to build upon ; needles in an immense haystack of heathenism. you have, on the contrary, a vast deal to pull down. A Chinese Christian is often, then, a product of the A Favourite Quotation of the late Miss Ethel Fishe. missionary's unaided upbuilding. Soul-winning at home “ The workers may be retired— not because the cause is, in a sense, like putting the roof on to a building is won. but because it is not won ; because He has other .already prepared to receive i t : in China it is like starting servants, some at lesser tasks, some half-employed, or from the foundation. The missionary’s work is not only unemployed, whom He must needs call into the field. to convert but to instruct (and do many other things For one man to do too much for the world, is in one too). A church of stable, well-instructed Christians sense the whole world’s loss. So, it may be, God with­ in the mission field represents more labour on the mis­ draws His workers even when their hands are fullest, sionary’s part and more blessing on G o d ’s part than an and their souls most ripe: to fill vacancies with still outsider would think at first. To understand this one growing men, and enrich with many for the loss of the must not compare converts in the mission-field with one.”— Life of Henry Drummond, by Cuthbert-Lennox. 188 China’s Millions. D e c e m b e r , 1 9 1 5 .

Editorial Notes. HE Opium Evil.— According to a statement since 1903, has felt it necessary, on account of his official in the North China Herald for October 2nd, connection with the work in China of the Pentecostal an arrangement appears to have been made Missionary Union, to retire from the C.I.M. That T between a Chinese company in Canton and this severance of relationship should be necessary is a the Bombay opium merchants whereby the Chinese grief both to Mr. Polhill and to his confrères in the company purchases the whole of the opium stocky Mission. For thirty years Mr. Polhill, with an un­ in Hongkong. The total stocks in that British reserved devotion, has consecrated himself to the ad­ Crown Colony are stated to be 1,062^ chests, and the vancement of C h r i s t ’ s Kingdom in China, with especial price agreed upon is $8,950 for Benares, 9,300 for Patna reference to the Tibetan border. In this work he has and Maiwa, so that the total transaction constitutes a gladly endured hardship and no little suffering, and, turnover of more than nine and a half million dollars, though he now retires from the Council of the Mission, This almost fabulous price reveals the enormous profits the ties of friendship remain unsevered, nor will his made by the opium merchants, for in the year 1907 the years of arduous personal service be forgotten. Mr. price of opium was, according to the Chinese Customs Polhill carries with him the love and affection of those returns, Tls. 924 per chest. Now that the price has who have been privileged to be associated with him. risen to $9,300, or Tis. 6,696, it shows an advance of more than 700 per cent. Trial Among the Tribes.—The heavy blow which It has been reported from a trustworthy source, and fell upon the Mission work among the tribes of South­ some of the China papers have published the state­ west China from the deaths of Messrs. Adam and Wind­ ment, that the Chinese Government has purposed a sor has been recently referred to. It is with very sad monopoly of opium in the provinces of H u p e h , H u n a n , hearts that we record another heavy blow to this work and S z e c h w a n . We are glad to learn through the in ‘the death of the Rev. Samuel Pollard, of the United Chinese Legation, which has had a cable from Peking, Methodist Mission, Mr. Pollard sailed for China in that there is no truth in this report. There is no the first party of the Hundred in January, 1887, as a doubt, however, that China stands in need of all the member of the Bible Christian Mission, which for a help and encouragement which can be given her at this number of years worked in association with the C.I.M. time, for, as we know from our own experience, long- When the great work of grace among the Miao spread established evils are not easily vanquished. from Mr. Adam ’s district towards that area worked by the From some figures recently received from the Rev. Bible Christians (now known as the United Methodists), G. S. Muir, of Edinburgh, we learn that the increase in Mr. Pollard threw himself heart and soul into this move­ the export of morphia to Japan, the greater part of ment, and became the spiritual father of multitudes. which we fear is sold to China, has advanced from 1 ton Quite recently, when nursing a colleague, Mr. Hudspeth, 12 cwt. in 1911 to 9 tons 6 cwt. in 1914. We omitted who had contracted typhoid fever from a Miao patient. to mention in our last issue that the North China Herald Mr. Pollard caught the contagion and succumbed to of September 18th stated that “ the manufacture of this disease on September 16th last. morphia has been undertaken under Government super­ Mr. Pollard was an earnest and gifted missionary, vision in Formosa.” whose removal will be a great loss to his Mission, and to the work among the tribes. With the large-hearted­ The Moslems in China.— Increasing attention is ness characteristic of him, he, a few years ago, sent slowly being given to the millions of Moslems residing several trained helpers to assist Mr. Nicholls, of the in different parts of China. There are at present four C.I.M., in his work among the tribespeople in the Sapu- workers in connection with the C.I.M. who are giving shan district. Many years ago Mr. Pollard was appointed the greater part of their time to work among these language examiner of the C.I.M. workers in the pro­ people, and we learn from Mr. Rhodes, of Chefoo, that vince of Y u n n a n , and since the time when his Mission about a hundred missionaries of various societies have withdrew from its association with us he has continued enrolled themselves as desirous of using special liter­ to act in this capacity. He was a fine Chinese scholar ature prepared for Moslems. For the present winter’s and of a most genial temperament, possessing a charm work three new tracts have been prepared, two of these about his personality which was most refreshing. being from Miss L- Trotter’s series, which are now issued The almost simultaneous removal by death of Messrs. in a Chinese Moslem dress, and one being the testimony Adam, Windsor and Pollard from the promising work of a convert in Tunis. With the purpose of drawing of grace among the Miao comes as a well-nigh over­ together all those who are devoting themselves to the- whelming trial, and we most earnestly ask the prayers progress of Christianity among the Moslems, a union of our readers for the tried and tested Christians among of workers entitled “ The Fellowship of Faith for the the hills of south-west China. To Mrs. Pollard and Moslems, in Prayer, Service and Sacrifice ” has recently to our Methodist friends we tender our deepest sym­ been formed in England. The leaders of this are Dr. pathy. Zwemer, of Cairo, and Bishop Stileman, late of Persia. When writing on this subject we would call attention Applications for membership (members cards 2^d., to the little booklet, Some a Hundredfold, just published, news-sheets 2s. per annum), should be made to the and advertised on the back page of this issue. This Secretary, Miss A. Van Sommer, Cuffnels, Weybridge. booklet tells in part of what G o d has done among the Miao, and we trust that its circulation will call forth Mr. Cecil Polhill.:—It is with much regret that we both praise and prayer at this special time of need. The announce that Mr. Cecil Polhill, who joined the Mission help of our friends in getting this booklet into circulation- in 1885, and has been a member of the London Council wili be much appreciated. D e c e m b e r , 1 9 15 . China’s Millions. 189

More Work Among the Tribes.— Two years ago in plains in innumerable villages. They are identical China s Millions an article was published by Mr. J. O. with the Lisu of Northern Y u n n a n , and their original Fraser concerning the aborigines in the Tengyueh dis­ home appears to have been the Salween Valley, north trict. The three principal races in this area are the of latitude 26. These are called by the Chinese the Shan, the Kachin and the Lisu. The Shan form the Black Lisu. Those in the Tengyueh district call them­ chief constituent and are found in all the low-lying selves the Flowery Lisu. Unfortunately there is a wide malarial plains. They are identical with the Shans of difference in the dialect of these Lisu and those of the Burma and are allied to the Chungkia. At Tengyueh Sapushan districts where the Mission already has work, work was commenced eight years ago with a view to so that co-operation in the matter of literature appears reaching these people, but hitherto circumstances to be out of the question. have not permitted much aggressive effort in this Last year permission was given to Mr. Fraser to work direction. exclusively among these tribes, his colleagues, Mr. Next to the Shan come the Kachin and allied tribes and Mrs. Embery, undertaking the work among the who are only found near the Burma border. There Chinese in the city. Mr. Fraser hopes to makes his are several thousands of these in the Tengyueh district, centre at a place situated some three days north-west but the majority of them are in Burma, where the of Tengyueh city. The district is a large one, its radius American Baptists have work among them. in certain directions being about nine days’ journey. The only other tribe in the Tengyueh area with suffi­ The villages are small, very few of them having as many cient numbers to justify special work are the Lisu. as thirty families. Mr. Fraser will much value prayer These people live in the mountains or in the colder on behalf of this comparatively new effort.

Our Shanghai Letter, Containing the Latest News from the Field.

B y J a m e s S t a r k . October 5 th .— Notwithstanding the present agitation Our sister writes :— “ One woman recently said, “Oh, by certain classes in connection with the monarchical the teachers have thought of a fine plan now. We are movement in China, the provinces generally are tran­ all so busy and so anxious to get on with our learning quil. The people, for the most part, are indifferent as that there is no time for gossip ; all we can think of by to what form of Government is finally adopted, so long day is John 14, and in the night when we wake up it is as they can peacefully pursue their callings, and have still John 14.” opportunity for making money. There is, however, From Lichiianhsien, in the adjoining province of need of prayer that the forces of disorder may be re­ S h e n s i, Mr. Gustaf Palmberg writes of a Conference strained ; for the situation is not without possibilities lately held at a newly opened out-station, which was of widespread unrest and trouble. attended by a large number of people, including a few At Kianfu, in K ia n g s i, there has been serious diffi­ of the leading business men of the place, who listened culty between some of the members of the Church and attentively to the message preached. The evangelist, the Roman Catholics, resulting in loss of life, and at who is commended for his devotion and zeal, is truly Lungchiian, in the same province, a Church member a man of prayer. Mr. Palmberg says that he makes was recently killed by his clan. It is very difficult to everything the subject of prayer, and when this obtain really reliable information as to the actual causes seems to him insufficient he gives himself to fasting. of the disputes which led to such grave issues. I The land upon which the chapel is built was given mention these two cases, as the position of the mis- by him. sionary-in-charge at each of the centres is not an easy Mr. A. B. Lewis, in reporting twelve baptisms at one, and I know they will -value a place in your inter­ Hotsin, in S h a n s i, writes :— cessions. “ Alas, a very sad thing happened a few days after­ Since I last reported baptisms to you, I am glad to wards. One old man, sixty-nine years of age, the most say that four hundred and forty-nine have been recorded, earnest of those accepted for baptism, was kept without and as many of our fellow-workers at this season of the food when he returned home, and was then beaten by year are engaged in the visitation of their out-stations his son and wife. He was so upset by it all that he went for the purpose of examining and instructing enquirers out and leapt over a low cliff into a river bed and was with a view to their reception into the fellowship of the killed. Some men saw him kneel down and pray for a , Church, I would ask your prayers that wisdom and time, and then jump over. We feel very upset about it. spiritual discernment may be vouchsafed to them for The old man was spoken of very highly. He knew he this important ministry. was going to have a bad time at home, but he said to Cheering tidings reach us from many parts of the us ‘ I am going back to endure patiently.’ But to be field. Miss Levermore writes that at Tsinchow, in beaten by his wife and son was too overwhelming, and K a n s u , a Scripture competition has been instituted not being yet fully aware of the wrong of taking his own amongst the women and girls. There are three grades, life, he evidently felt it was the only course open to the first being those under twenty years of age, the him.” second those between twenty and fifty, and the third This incident furnishes an example of the cost at those over fifty years of age. The women are committing which not infrequently converts confess C h r i s t , and will to memory John’s Gospel from the 14th chapter on­ suggest prayer for all who turn from heathenism and wards, whilst the girls are learning 1st Peter by heart. become identified with the Christian Church in China. 190 China’s Millions. D e c e m b e r , 1915.

At Hiangcheng, in H o n a n , a large new chapel has dear old people, sitting in chapel side by side with thei: just been built. Mr. Gracie, who went there by in­ seven grandsons, and repeating their Golden Text every vitation for the opening ceremony, was greatly impressed Sunday, year in and year out, never being absent.” by the progress which had been made in the work since Mr. D. W. Crofts sends an interesting account of he was there as missionary-in-charge fifteen years ago. special meetings at Panghai, in the province of K w e i ­ Miss M. Soltau writes that at Hsuchow, one of the out- c h o w . About fo^ty men and women came distances of stations, which she had been visiting, she was glad to find fifteen, twenty, and thirty miles to spend three several bright enquirers among the women, two of days at this centre. Most of them carried rice for whom she hopes will soon be baptized. One of them, food during their stay, and showed much patience who is sixty-seven years of age, walks about seven in waiting for then meals, which were often late. Mr. English miles every Sunday in order to be present at Crofts writes:— the service. There are difficulties in the work at this “ A number of these men have been interested in the centre. A new reason has been given by some men for Gospel almost since the beginning of the work here staying away from worship, namely, that the Revised Some homes have been clear of heathen customs ever Version is used, and they are sure this is wrong, as both since the massacres of 1900. Doubtless we shall accept the New and the Old versions cannot be the Word of some of them for baptism soon. One afternoon, a G o d ! dozen bands of two or three men each made a canvass In Chengtu, the provincial capital of S z e c h w a n , Mr. of the eight villages within sight, with Scriptures and and Mrs. Hampson expect that several enquirers will gifts of picture tracts. We were surprised to find that be baptized this autumn. They receive man}7 visits nowhere did they meet with any hostility or opposition. from students with their families and friends, and a A very fefa refused the offered tracts, but many ex­ large number of return visits are paid to these people pressed interest in the men’s message, and thanked them in their homes. Mrs. Hampson says that some of them for the pictures. There has always seemed to be such seem to be very near the Kingdom, but alas, they lack apathy toward our work among the people of our neigh­ the courage to make the great decision. Others are bourhood that we rather expected these men would counting the cost of becoming Christians, and earnest meet with many rebuffs. We feel that this effort took prayer is asked on their behalf. the Gospel message into nearly all the homes immediately From Luchow, in the same province, Mr. Herbert around us. We hope ere long to be able to go into writes :— those homes ourselves and speak freely to the people.” “ Our aged members, Mr. and Mrs. Li, are about to Mr. D. J. Harding, in reporting the baptism of eight celebrate their sixtieth birthday, and as they are one of converts at Kiitsingfu, in the province of Y u n n a n , the richest families in our city, they are going to do it writes :— in a fashion befitting their position as true children of “ The work in the cit37 is progressing, and our G o d . They intend to support a man to go ‘ everywhere chapel will soon be too small for the number of wor­ preaching J e s u s ’ for as long a time as they are able. shippers who attend. The services on market days Mr. and Mrs. Li have already given the first instalment are held in two places, each of which is filled for several of money towards the support of the one who is to act hours with motley crowds who always listen well.” on their behalf, and this man has already been selected. The following extract from a letter recently received Such things give us joy. I wish you could see these from Miss G. N. Spink, of Iyang, in the province of K i a n g s i , may be of interest to you :— “ Before closing, I will tell you a little about the last visit but one that I paid to the country. This was to Kiang-k’eo. While there, I went with the Biblewoman to several villages that had not previously been visited. Almost everywhere the people were exceedingly friendly. Especially was this so in one village. In this village an old man proudly exhibited a copy of ‘ The Traveller’s Guide.’ It has been given to him by a friend in Fukien. I am afraid, however, he had not paid much attention to it. This old gentleman's grandson knew a little English. He had been to school in Nanchang. Will you remember Kiang-k’eo and these villages in prayer, please. Although friendly, and unusually hospitable, as many of the people are, one feels there is a great lack. They are very kind to us, and say the doctrine is good, but they are so busy, etc., when they ‘ have time ’ they will ‘ certainly come to the services.’ ”

Devotion.— True devotion will rather ask to be allowed to give, and will count as loss all which Photo by] [Ift»s hojut. may not be given up for the L o r d ’s sake— “ I count all things but loss, for the excellency of A RECENT CONVERT, AND HER SON, IN YUSHAN, KlANGSI. the knowledge of Christ Jesus m y L o r d . ” — J. H u d s o n T a y l o r . D e c e m b e r , 1915. China's Millions. 191

Seven Weeks’ Tour Among the Hill Tribes of Kweichow.

B y t h e L a t e J a m e s R . A d a m [This is the last journal we ha:>e received from him. Kd.1 They rehearsed all things that God had done with them, and how that he had opened a door of faith unto the Gentiles (Acts xiv. 27). Worthy is the Lamb that hath been slain to receivc the power, and riches, and wisdom, and might, and honour, and glory, and blessing (Rev. v. 12). E (Tai Yo-dsong and myself) left home for the this year : we helping him with the sum of thirty shil­ mountains on March 23rd. On the first day lings of his salary. W out, there were thunderstorms and heavy March 2Qth.— Reached Hsiao-hai-tsi early in the after­ rains nearly all the way, so of course we all noon. Gad, the preacher, was away visiting a village : got soaked through, our native rain cloaks being of little but Matthew, a leading brother, very quickly showed use. On the night of the second day, we rested in our us our resting places and made us all comfortable. He usual inn. It was most amusing to hear the remarks was exceedingly kind. As the weather was bitterly of the landlady after we had discovered that the winds cold, we thought it unwise to hold the meeting in the had blown great holes in the thatched roof. She de­ exposed chapel. So we divided up into three meetings clared that it would not rain nor leak that night as both held in three different homes, Yang Peter, who joined her luck and mine were good ! “ Ah ! well ! if it does us on the way up taking one meeting, and Tai and myself leak, I have a huge taking those held umbrella I can lend in our respective yo u ! ” she remarked. lodgings. The night at the March 30th.— Bap­ Heo-er-kuan chapel tized twenty men was a happy one. We and women believers had a good meeting in Christ. The and at its close talked L o rd gave us a most over with the L o r d ’s blessed time at the children the matter Breaking of Bread. of supporting Gideon. At night we again He is giving most of met in different his time this year to houses, for the the care of the church weather was more in this district. biting than ever. It Please pray for him is encouraging to be­ that his ministry hold how these chil­ may be blest and be dren of God are fruitful. We reached becoming established the homes of the in the Truth. Glory Christians at Fang- be to God ! ma-ba early on the March 31st.— Es­ fourth day. Here we corted by eighteen found Mr. Y ao , the brethren, all of them evangelist, just get­ Red-Turbanned ting over an attack Miao. They carried o f measles. He our baskets all the caught them on the way up to Shui-ch’en. At Fang- way to Ban-di. The church members at Ban-di ma-ba, as I was feeling unwell, I was obliged to go to bed were waiting for us, knowing we were coming. This before the meeting began. Please pray for the Church is one of the highest and coldest places we visit. It is in this place. Yang Peter is going over to A-djia-keh a marvel how the Miao can keep alive in their miserable to teach and look after that out-station this year, so huts, for the fierce biting winds simply blow through the oversight devolves on Elijah and Noah. Here we them. Here no straw could be found for our beds, nor found six believers waiting to lead us over the moun­ boards of any kind. The stalks of buckwheat laid over tains by a new road to Hsiao-ho-pien. This is where the small tree branches made still a rather uneven we spent our first L o r d ’s Day. It is 27 English miles bed! The trouble was the buckwheat stacks were from the last place. On the road my fever had in­ too few. Weary folk have no time to be too critical creased, so as soon as my bedding was opened and over a shake-down for a few hours’ rest, so after the spread out, I was right glad to lie down. At the end meeting and a lot of hymn singing we fell asleep. Awoke of seventeen hours I was able to get about, feeling free with the great cold. Next day found a cold had settled from fever and better. What a joy it was to be able down in my back. This gave me trouble for days after­ to take a part in the Breaking of Bread meeting in the wards. afternoon. I also preached at the Gospel meeting in A pril 1 st.— Had the joy of baptizing fifteen dear the evening. I made arrangements with a local school men and women believers in C h r i s t . Held the Breaking teacher for him to remove his school down to our place of Bread out in the lovely sunshine. In the evening .and unite with the Christian boys who want to learn held two separate meetings. Both Big Flowery Miao 192 China’s Millions. D e c e m b e r , 1915.

at Kopu. Mrs. Chang was going to report her husband to this meeting of leaders. Anyway, next morning at daylight he was found dead hanging on a tree. The leaders were at a loss to know what kind of a burial to give him, so at last Zerubbabel said, “ Let us offer one prayer and bury him by the tree, without any of the usual Scripture readings or hymn singing.” The letter informing me of this sorrowful event said “ Paul has gone the way of Judas : but all the village elders and Christians are standing stead­ fast.” We find it so. This Miao brother, who did run so well, and seemed faithful as long as- Mr. and Mrs. Ts’en were stationed in Kopu, seemed gradually to drift and lose his influence- among the leaders and church members. The eight assemblies is this district are no longer dependent on Kopu, and are now flourishing and growing with their own preachers and leaders. Right here at Kopu there are a good number of very hopeful candidates for baptism. Truly from first till now this has been the great work; but it has made many loving hearts sad. As the feudal style of things passes away there is much danger that these believers appointed by the Chinese Yamen to act as headmen may become worldly and grow cold by much time being given to the side affairs. Please pray for the brethren that all may be kept true to the L ord Jesu s who bought them. They say, “ Men may go wrong : but Jesu s is always good and true.” Yesterday, with a very tired and aching back, I spent hours examining candidates for baptism, and meeting members. No doubt these talks do more good than one realizes. April 4th.— Lord's Day.— Had the great joy of baptizing 23 men and 21 women believers into the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Praise the L ord ! One of the school teachers here, an enquirer from our out-station Chenlin, was one of those baptized. We had splendid gatherings to-day, the big chapel quite Photo by] [Robt. Powell. full. Best of all we had the presence and power

A BLACK MIAO MAIDEN. of our Risen L ord among us. A pril $th.— Got an early start this morning, reaching Hsing-long-ch’ang about mid-day. The and Red Turbans meet together in this chapel. We L ord’s children knew we were coming, so had every­ are placing Jude in charge here. The Christians col­ thing in readiness for us. After a short rest we all lected two piculs of grain towards his support. Please gathered in the new unfinished chapel. The old one is pray for Jude and the church of God at Ban-di. now the schoolroom. The Master helped in the A pril 2nd.— Reached Kopo after a long ride of 30 messages given chiefly to the elders, on being holy Knglish miles. Alas ! death has taken away quite a unto the L ord, living clean lives, and being true to number of the members since my last visit: among their L ord and Redeemer. In the evening again the them Chang Paul. We had word of his having hung Christians gathered from the surrounding villages, when himself to death before we left Anshunfu on this tour : both Tai and I spoke. After the preaching I examined but it is very sad to hear the details of his end. This those seeking baptism. We got to bed very late indeed. happened on the night of February 23rd. During the April 6th.— A little after noon we left the chapel for the past two years he set his heart on worldly things, and riverside, only about a mile from the hall. Baptized eight wanted to be rich. The Weilin Yamen had appointed men and nine women in the river. There, these happy him the Djia-dsong (headman) of that district. Last children of G od made the hillsides ring with the praises year Paul opened a shop for dyeing cloth. For some of our God. Our visit has been brief, but much was time he and his wife had not been happy with one another. crowded into the hours spent with the brethren there. A woman brought into their home to help in the work The many expressions of their love were very touching.; was the cause of jealousy and strife. On his last night everyone wanted to serve us, and all brought presents on earth they quarrelled over this woman. Next day of eggs, sugar, etc. How they begrudged our leaving was the monthly meeting of the elder brethren them so soon ! Here, too, a few of the members have- D e c e m b e r , 1 9 1 5 . China’s Millions. 198 been appointed to act as headmen for the Chinese Yamen. one of the brightest trophies won to the S a v i o u r from Reached Ta-song-shu in nice time. Here ten men and among the tribes. He was one of the first Miao to find three women believers were baptized on the 7th April. the L o r d . At I-ch’u-wan all the preachers met for April 8th.— Visited Mr. Mylne, of the United Metho­ special conference over the work in these regions. dist Misssion at Si-fang-djin, 26 or so English miles out A pril 11 th.— To-day baptized 21 men and nine women of our regular route. One day's travel from our last believers. Among them eight Nosu (Lolo). In a very chapel. It was good to find Mr. Mylne well, and to special manner the L ord was in our midst and all our see his school so prosperous. Our brother has a wide hearts were filled with joy. open door among the Nosu, and many are learning the April 12th.— Again in conference with the preachers, Gospel. etc., over certain changes that are needed. April 10th.— Had not the tim e to stay over the L o r d 's April 13th.— In the morning we held our final confer­ Day with Mr. Mylne, so took my leave of him early in ence with the preachers, and after a season of prayer the morning. Had lovely weather as we again crossed we all scattered. We reached Hsin-lu-fang in good time. the moorland. About halfway on the road to our At night had a good meeting. I-ch’u-wan Hall a few dear brethren met us and took April 14th.— Baptized seven men and eight women. us off to their homes, where a lunch was ready for both Quite a number of heathen witnessed the ceremony in us and the Christians carrying our loads. Later on we the river. rested for a short time in another village where some April 15,th.— We changed our plans and took a new of the saints live. When still about five miles from the road to Djie-keo, missing out Ma-seh-keo meeting place. chapel two preachers and some of the leading brethren At Ta-song-shu some Nosu came and invited us to go were waiting for us by the roadside. One dear old man round by their place as quite a number were wanting led as away up the hill to his home, where we all enjoyed to learn the Truth. Wang Philip, the Nosu evangelist, a good evening meal. This brother is better off as far as had visited their homes, and his preaching of the Gospel worldly stuff is concerned than most of his fellow-be- had influenced them. The road we travelled to-day was lievers. The meal over, there followed a season of first-class for horse riding, mostly over moorland kind prayer. Great black thick clouds were gathering, so of road. The way ended in a long and most difficult we had hardly got on our way when a heavy thunder­ descent, continued down a gorge, and there the village storm broke over us and we had to run our horses to lay at the foot of high mountains and where two streams avoid getting drenched in the pelting rain. At one of meet. The hillsides are so steep in many places that the villages where we rested to-day there are a number men get into the ploughs instead of oxen, they told us. of heathen Miao showing an interest in the Gospel. A few scores seem interested in the Gospel. We spent The chief pillar of the I-ch’u-wan church has passed in “ to be for ever with the L o r d , ” Yang Sahkai by name. On all my visits I was his guest and special care. Zacchaeus was a dearly beloved brother, and one of the L o r d ’s “ honourable ones,” like a stone pillar in the assembly here. This most lovable Christian has left a clean record behind, and although knowing that he now rests from his labours and trials, we all wept together over our big loss. G o d comfort his aged mother, wife and little children. The poorest of the Miao wept because, as they said, Zacchaeus had gone home to be with the L o r d , and no one was left to give them grain when they were hungry. He was the head of the village, and had always plenty of grain to spare for the GROUP OF MIAO TAKEN NEAR KWEIYANGFU. poor. Zacchaeus was 194 China’s Millions D e c e m b e r , 1 9 1 5 . all afternoon teaching them Gospel songs. In the were at the top of the pass waiting our arrival and es­ evening meeting Tai, Wang and myself all preached. corted us down to the Hall at Ti-pu. At dark I bap­ April 16th.— After crossing the very high mountain, tized eight men and 10 women believers in C h r i s t . the roads were good. It was a great hard long climb We had a long, blessed evening with G o d ’s dear children, from the moment we started. The last two days were and celebrated the L o r d ’s Supper after a teaching through Nosu country rather than Miao or Chinese, meeting led by Mr. Tai. The school is flourishing. nearly all of them sitting in darkness and the shadow April 28th. Ch'a-ho (Ngan-teh-lieh.)— As this hall is of death. Pray that the Gospel light may reach them far away from all the meeting places in the A-dji-mih soon. We were all glad to reach the Djie-keo Hall, the group, we had no means of letting them know of our last bit of the road was stiff and the sun was warm. coming. Yang Timothy and another man looked in April 18th.— To-day had the joy of baptizing nine upon us last night at Mipu, and they after supper decided men and 1 1 women believers in C h r i s t . Quite a to walk on throughout the night and take the news to distance to go for the ceremony as the usual water was the believers of this place. So it was nice to get in and all dried up. A running stream through a clear pool find all things ready for us. We have had good and made an ideal baptistery. Truly the Lord hath made blessed times here. On the 29th had the joy of bap­ His Goodness to pass before us to-day. Glory to His tizing 18 men and 36 women believers. Name ! After our evening meal a Mr. An led us away April 30th.— Escorted by a big band of strong men to his house for an evening meeting. His home is we made excellent time on the road to-day. The two distant t^wo or three miles among the mountains. Chinese evangelists met us some seven miles from Ma­ April igth,— Owing to robber-infested roads we had ting city. They led us away to our own hired house. to change our plans and return via Kopu, etc. The It is in a good situation and is a self-contained house Weilin magistrate informed us by letter that the roads with not a too dear rent. Praise G o d for answering were not safe. It was good to have another night with prayer. So Tatingfu is at last occupied for C h r i s t . Oh the dear brethren at Kopu. It is nice to see the large that many thousands may be early turned from dark­ number of boys in school. The four school teachers ness to light, and from the power of Satan unto G o d . have their hands full indeed. On the L o r d ’s Day we (the Miao brethren who are es­ A pril 20th.—Reached Ban-di again and from there passed corting me and the evangelists) held the Breaking of on to Hsiao-hai-tsi. The brethren from the latter place Bread, and for the first time in this heathen city showed took us a new road down to Mi-kai. Never before have forth the L o r d ’s death. “ Till He come ” is always a we travelled over such roads. It took us hours to get refreshing word. The magistrate invited us to dinner down “The Black Gorge.” In many places we ex­ in the Yamen. He came and saw the property we have pected to see the last of our willing horses. How they rented. Pray for Tatingfu. got over so many boulders without going right over the May 3rd.— Heh-dji-kwa, distance 27 English miles.— precipices was a marvel indeed. To-day was a rough We came a short cut, the Miao said : only the river we way truly. It ended with a great steep mountain side, had to cross took more than an hour for all our party then down, down to the hall. Here we are still high to get over. The ferry-boat was so very tiny. The up on the mountain side. The preacher John and all horses swam over in good style. believers are well and rejoicing in the L o r d . The rains May 4th.— The Christians pressed us hard so we are to-day made the way less easy for us all. We had good stopping over. Eight men and eight women believers meetings and I think the members were refreshed through baptized. The believers came over from the Lao-wa-ba the teaching given. A number of new people flocked hall, to share in the blessing attending our visit. This around. May many of them soon find the L o r d . hall is not finished. It is all open and I was delighted April 24th.— Just as we were entering A-dji-mih, met to make my bed in one of the corners with Miao sleeping the two evangelists and a number of the members re­ all around. Here the members want their own preacher. turning from burying a schoolboy who had died from They could not give him “ fine food ” they said, but measles. An epidemic of measles is raging now, and if he could eat “ coarse food ” the}7 would be able to in the house where I am lodging one or two are ill with keep him. it. A good many children have died from it, and the May 6th.— Duly reached Tenten, much to the delight faith of numbers is being severely tested. One man of the Christians. They pressed us to stop over and had thoughts of calling in a sorcerer to drive away the baptize about ten believers. WTe had to hurry home. demons : but the believers exhorted him to put his trust The Miao brethren thought that if they did not carry in the living G o d . Please pray for the Christians and our loads we would need to stop over. workers at A-dji-mih. We found Mr. and Mrs. T s’en May yth — -Started early in the morning and reached well and getting into the work. Pray for them, in their home in the forenoon, and found all the friends well. new sphere. On the L o r d ’s Day we had much blessing Took up my station duties next day, and have had no .and joy. Monday, we had a busy time examining time for resting. Since my return have visited Tsen-lin, candidates for baptism and baptizing 21 men and 23 An-shun-chow, and a Miao meeting place not far away. women believers. The baptisms over we held the L o r d ’ s Please give glory to G o d for all His protection and Supper and a Gospel meeting in evening. The school in blessing while we have been out on tour. And do not A-dji-mih has few boys this year still I am glad that Mr. slacken prayer on behalf of the native workers and Ko has come up again, for he is a help in the meetings local leaders. Total number of baptisms on tour 306. over and above his school duties. There has been a bit of misunderstanding between the elders and two Fruit-bearing.— Not only |loes the great Husband­ of the preachers over the division of the grain. We man remove the fruitless branches, but He purges need your prayers for the church in A-dji-mih. (cleanses) the fruitful ones, that they may bring forth April 27th.— Li Matthew and some of the brethren more fruit.— J. Hudson Taylor. D e c e m b e r , 1915. China’s Millions. 195

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R e i t N o . *£ s . d . Reot. No. £ s. d. Rect. No. £ 8. d. R e c t . N o . £ s. d . R e c t . N o . £ s. d. R e c t . N o . £ t . d . 21. 913 1 11 0 23. 934 0 5 0 26. 957 3 0 0 John iii. j(>. 2 0 0 28. 999 0 6 6 30. 102 (5 0 5 0 914 0 10 0 935 0 5 0 958 5 0 0 Readers \ 1001 1 13 0 1027 2 12 7 2 2 . 916 5 0 0 937 1 0 0 Anon. 0 15 0 of the I M om tttg f 3 0 0 1003 1 0 0 1028 0 10 0 917 2 10 0 938 1 0 0 960 3 3 0 Sta--. I 1004 1 7 0 1029 0 C 6 918 0 5 0 25. 939 3 0 0 961 0 10 0 985 2 0 1005 0 5 0 1030 0 5 0 919 5 0 0 940 1 1 0 964 0 4 0 986 10 0 1006 0 10 0 1031 0 10 0 920 0 10 0 942 3 0 0 966 0 10 0 987 2 (» 0 1007 0 5 0 1032 5 5 0 Prov. xi. 24. 1 0 0 943 1 0 0 968 0 6 0 !8. 988 0 9 4 1009 0 10 0 1033 1 0 0 L.P. 1 0 0 944 1 10 0 970 0 5 0 Readers \ 1010 0 (5 0 1034 1 13 4 924 0 1 6 945 0 10 0 971 4 0 0 of the Life f- 27 17 0 1012 60 0 0 1035 2 8 2 23. 925 3 3 0 947 1 0 0 972 1 1 0 °! Faith.) 10 14 1 0 0 1036 0 10 0 926 0 10 0 948 5 0 0 973 1 8 9 Anon. 0 5 0 10 16 1 0 0 1037 0 5 0 927 2 2 0 949 25 0 0 974 1 1 0 991 0 5 (I 10 18 0 3 0 1038 5 0 0 928 2 0 0 950 10 0 0 975 0 6 2 992 0 2 6 10 19 0 10 0 929 0 10 0 951 0 2 6 977 2 0 0 994 2 0 It 1020 5 0 0 £1,292 0 6 930 1 1 0 952 0 10 0 978 1 13 8 995 3 0 0 1021 1 0 0 931 1 15 0 26. 953 0 10 0 979 5 0 0 996 0 10 6 1022 1 0 0 932 3 0 0 955 0 10 6 27. 981 1 1 0 997 0 10 0 1024 0 2 0 • 933 2 0 0 956 1 0 0 982 0 5 0 998 0 5 0 1025 1 0 0 For Special Purposes. 1 Rect. No £ s. d. Rect. No £ s. d. Rect. No £ 6. d. Reel. No £ s. d. R e c t . N o . £ s. d . Rect. No. '£ s. d. 1. 612 46 5 0 722 1 12 3 13. 812 3 10 0 20. 889 5 10 1 965 4 0 0 ' 29. 1011 5 0 0 618 3 10 0 723 1 11 9 14. 815 1 0 0 891 3 0 0 967 3 3 0 1013 20 0 0 622 5 0 0 726 0 18 0 818 4 0 0 893 85 0 0 969 16 12 6 10 15 5 0 0 2. 627 12 0 0 8. 729 1 0 (1 821 2 5 0 894 14 5 0 976 3 0 0 30. 1017 0 10 0 632 20 0 0 9. 751 20 0 0 828 0 0 0 895 25 0 0 980 0 3 9 1023 1 0 0 633 1 0 0 11. 757 12 0 0 15. 831 2 0 0 21. 896 10 0 0 28. 993 2 0 0 636 30 0 0 763 0 5 0 833 0 15 0 901 5 0 0 1000 2 0 0 £581 13 6 4. 655 2 10 0 767 3 0 0 16. 845 4 0 0 904 1 0 0 1002 2 0 0 659 4 0 0 769 2 5 0 846 0 4 0 909 0 10 0 1008 2 10 6 2 660 4 0 0 12. 771 5 0 0 848 2 6 912 1 0 0 SUMMARY. 5. 673 2 1 0 772 2 10 0 18. 850 0 11 0 915 5 0 0 £ s . d . 6. 689 10 0 0 773 5 0 0 862 3 0 0 22. 923 0 15 0 General 1,292 0 6 691 8 0 0 775 1 5 0 19. 870 21 16 3 23. 936 1 10 0 Special 581 13 6 695 1 0 0 778 2 2 0 875 40 0 0 25. 941 0 10 0 7. 696 1 00 797 2156 876 1 7 3 946 10 0 0 Total for October .. 1,873 14 0 709 1 15 0 799 1 10 0 877 0 3 0 26. 954 1 1 0 Brought forward .. 28,248 7 10 716 18 13 2 803 7 0 0 878 0 2 10 0 962 0 0 Total . . £30,122 1 10 719 3 0 0 804 3 0 0 20. 887 6 0 0 963 2 0 0

The following articles sent for sale are also acknowledged witli (935) 17/2/1915, Anon., 2 gold brooches; 1 gold ring, opal warm thanks :— setting. (936) 14/7/1915, Mrs.B. J. M.. 1 gold ring with setting. (933) 1/8/1914. Mrs. E. Y., 1 diamond ring. (937) 26/7/1915, Miss G. L., 1 ring ; 1 brooch. (934) 20/8/1914, Rev. P. R., 1 plated toast and egg rack ; 2 The following have been sent for use in China :— plated hot water jugs ; 1 plated sugar bowl and tongs ; 2 plated 29/10/1915, J. C., Redcar, 5 tins of pills and tablets ; 1 parcel candlesticks ; 1 plated butter bowl and frame. medicines.

Baptisms. Kansu— Shansi— Shansi—continued. S in in g f u ...... 4 Tienchen ICiehsiu Ningsiafu...... 5 Hunyiian and out-stations 20 Luchenghsien I,iangchowr ...... 9 Saratsi and out-station . . 13 Tsoyiin Tatungfu 12 Yiinclieng Shensi— Hotsin and out-stations. . 17 J uichenghsien Meihsien and out-stations . . 17 Tsinglo 6 Lungchiichai and out-station . .. 19 Chaocheng and out-stations 75 Lichiianhsien ...... 9 Chihli— Luanfu and out-station .. 9 Hwailu 28 Kienchow ...... 13 Shohchow 22 Shuntehfu 6 Pucheng and out-stations . . 26 Fengchen.. 11 Hanchungfu and out-stations .. 18 Soping 3 Changwuhsien .. .. . 8 Kihsien and out-station 18 Shantung— Hanchenghsien and out-station 6 Kweihwating 6 Chef 00 Hoyang and out-station.. . . 4 Hwochow and out-stations 17 Lungchow ...... 7 Hungtung and out-stations 20 Honan— Ing-kia-uei ...... 5 KLiangchow 18 Kwangchow and out-station 16 Lichiianhsien . . . . . 4 Ishih and out-stations .. 18 Shekichen and out-station 35 Fengsiangfu .. . . . 10 Chiehchow Chowkiakow out-station 34 Sianfu ...... 20 Puchowfu Kaifeng 14 Lantien and out-stations .. 19 Yicheng . . Honanfu 10 Hingping and out-station . . 50 Lingkiu and out-station 11 Mienchih 18 Tungchowfu ...... 7 Pingyaohsien 16 Y ungning.. 19 6 China's Millions. D e c e m b e r , 19 15 .

Kiangsu— Y u n n an — continued. Chekiang— Kaoyuchow and out-station 7 Sa-p’u-shan and out-statiou .„ 109 Wenchow and out-stations . 45 Antung 95 Talifu .. .. ., _ 12 Hangchow out-stations .. .. 44 Shanghai 6 Tengyueh and out-station . £' 5 Ninghaihsien and out-station .. 21 Yangchow 9 Fenghwa out-station .. .. 5 K ian gsi— Taichowfu ...... 5 Szechwan— Hokow Ki and out-stations .. 20 Lungchiian .. 7 Kwanhsien 9 Nankangfu .. .. 3 Yiinhwo and out-statioa mt 18 Kaihsien and out-station 14 Yiianchow and out-stations 'r _ 43 Tientai ...... 3 Kiating and out-station.. 25 J aochow and out-stations ,, 21 Pingyanghsien and out-stations 22 Yiagshan 28 Kweiki and out-stations.. ,, 38 Pingyanghsien, J uian out-stations 37 Suiting I Kanchow...... „. 14 Shaohingfu ...... 2 Lu chow and out-stations 34 Kian ...... ^ 17 Chuchow and out-stations .. 16 Kwanganchow 7 Iyang and out-stations .. , . 29 Tsinyiin ...... 4 Wanhsien and out-station 29 Yangkow and out-stations 5 Kwangyuan 3 Kienchangfu .. .. 1. 2 Hunan— Tachu 9 Tsungjen .. ^ , , 8 Nanchowting out-station ,, 8 Kweichow— Yiianchow ...... 6 Kweiyang and out-station 22 A n h w ei— Siangsiang .. , , ,. 1 Hingi I Chengyangkwan .. .. ,. 8 Tsingchow .. .. ., 21 Anshunfu out-stations 308 Hweichow .. .. ., 3 Paoking and out-stations ., 18 Tsunyi and out-stations.. 20 Anking and out-stations.. ,. 6 Changsha . „ .. 4 Chenyuan and out-station 11 Ningkwofu and out-stations . , 22 Hungkiang .. ,, .. 6 Taiho ...... , , 1 Yunnan— Laian and out-station .. ,, 7 Yunnanfu 3 9 Kwangtehchow .. .. , , 5 Total reported to September .. 2,168 I Kiitsingfu 7 Yingchowfu and out-station .. 20

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