CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY GIFT OF Alexander B, Griswold ""'""*">' BV 3415.T2T*" '"'™'-i' 3415' THE STORY CHINA INLAND MISSION. The original of tliis book is in tlie Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924011091992 THE STORY CHINA INLAND MISSION. M. GERALDINE GUINNESS, AUTHOR OF "in THE FAR EAST," EDITED BY HER SISTER. THitb an Jntro&iictioii bg J. HUDSON TAYLOR, M.R.C.S., F.R.G.S. Jn ITwo Volumes. VOL. II. LONDON: MORGAN AND SCOTT, 12 PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS. - 1894. • ^^eHSir?- ''> Si Printed by Hazell, "Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury, PREFATORY NOTE. nr^WELVE months ago, when the first volume of -*- this book made its appearance, it was intended that the second should quickly follow. Serious illness and slow convalescence, by which I was for a long time disabled, have prevented this. And sincere thanks are due to many who have patiently waited throughout the year until the work could be com- pleted. Now, upon the eve of my return to China, it is sent forth with the prayerful and earnest hope that God, Who from the lips of babes can perfect praise, will use it to His own glory. The story of such a Mission—as of every move- ment that is of Him—is a story without an end. So much has been omitted from this book, in order to bring it within necessary limitations, that to those who read between the lines it will seem sadly incomplete. In regretting many an omission, they have the author's fullest sympathy. When a large number of facts and dates are dealt with, it is difficult to attain perfect accurary. Cor- PREFATORY NOTE. rections and suggestions will be thankfully welcomed and much appreciated. One pleasant duty remains in connection with the loved task now laid down. No small part of the blessing that has come to me personally through this book has been due to the generous sympathy and invaluable aid of many a fellow-worker. Amongst these, none has been more helpful thari my own beloved sister —the Editor of Regions Beyond— who has given weeks of ungrudging toil to this volume, and whose able and practised pen has not a little brightened and enriched its pages. — Knowing all, the Master says " Inasmuch as y« have done it unto one of the least of these . ye have done it unto Me." CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. PART I. PROGRESS AND THE REGIONS BEYOND. CHAP. I-AGE I. Twenty Years Ago 3 II. Early Days in Cheh-kiang .... 15 III. The Chicago of China ; or, Founding the Western Branch of the C. I. M. 37 IV. Stories from Shao-hing 47 V. A Confucianist City : its Customs and Converts 60 " " VI. The Lame take the Prey . -75 VII. Pioneers in Gan-'hwuy and Kiang-si . .90 VIII. Facts about Funds 97 IX. The Lowest Ebb, and the Turn of the Tide . 109 PART II. INLAND CHINA AND THE CHEEOO CONTENTION. X. Inland" China closed, and yet the Eighteen given 125 XI. The Gates of the West, and the Workers who might not enter ... 136 XII. The Chefoo Convention, 1876 . 149 CONTENTS. PART III. >OH, ROCK, ROCK, HAST THOU OPENED?" CHAP. PAGE XIII. "SouthoftheRiver,"and"SouthoftheLake" 159 Mr. Henry Taylor's itinerations in Ho-nan, and Mr. Judd's first visit to Hu-nan, 1875 and 1876. XIV. A Two Months' Trip to Shen-si . .17+ Journey of Messrs. Bailer and King. September and October, 1876. XV. C. I. M. Pioneers in Shan-si . .180 First journey of Messrs. James and Turner, October, 1876, to January, 1877. XVI. To THE Far North-West and Back. .186 Messrs. King and Budd, Easton and Parker, in Shen-si and Kan-suh, October, 1876, to April, 1877. XVII. How Kwei-chau and Kwang-si were first reached .... ... 193 Pioneering journey of Messrs. Judd and Broumton to Kwei-chau. Reinforcements—Messrs. George Clarke, Edward Fishe, and Landale, January to September, 1877. XVIII. Mr. McCarthy's Walk across China . 206 January to August, 1877. XIX. Through the Famine in Shan-si . 225 Relief work 1877-1879. XX. Among Eternal Snows 240 Mr. James Cameron's journey through Eastern Thibet. August, 1877, to January, 1878. XXI. Thirty Thousand Miles in Safety . 265 Widespread evangelisation that followed the Chefoo Convention. i876-l878.' CONTENTS. ix PART IV. WOMAN'S WORK FOR WOMAN. CHAP. PAGE XXII. China's Homes and China's Women . 277 XXIII. Then and Now; A Retrospect and Survey 291 XXIV. The First Women who went West, 1878 . 299 IXXV. A Five Years' Story, 1878-1883 . .311 XXVI. Present-Day Pictures ; and Facts for the Thoughtful 354 PART V. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS. XXVII. The Story of the Seventy, 188 i -1884 395 XXVIII. Dr. Schofield and Medical Missions • 417 XXIX. The Cambridge Band and Shan-si. 438 XXX. The Coming of the Hundred, 1887 465 XXXI. Our Last Six Years . 484 " XXXII. " Much more than This . 502 . LIST OF IL]:.USTRATION.S. PAGE Scene' in a busy Street . 20 Rest Pavilion on a Hill . 34 Photograph of Mr. and Mrs, Judd . 44 ' Buddhist Devotees . , . 54 Gospel Tract, with. Large Character for Happiness . 70 A Chinese Junk, full Sail .... ... 84 French Settlement, Shang-hai . 100 Photograph of Miss Blatchley ' .113' Cover of Occasional Papevs . ," .124 His Excellency Li Hung-Ch'ang ,. .150 The City of Yoh-chau . 172 Scene- on the Upper Han . ' • '77 Bridge over a Chinese Streanr .' ' . I82 in . A River Scene China . 154 Scene on the Yang-tsi . 210 A Village in Si-ch'uen . 212 Mr. in travelling James Cameron, Dress . 244 Si-chu'en A Junk ... 320 One of the Yang-tsi Gorges . , 323 Temple at Ta-li Fu . 337 Mission at Ta-li . The House Fu . 343 Station, Ho-k'eo, Kiang-si . 377 Chinese Dinner, in the Mission House at Yuh-Shan . 383 Bluff, . The near Chefoo . 300 Village in Siian-si . A ... 425 The Cambridge Band ... 440 LIST OF MAPS AND DIAGRAMS. PAGE in China A Country Road . ... 459 Council of the The China C. 1. W . 473 Portraits of the Hundred . 482 LIST OF MAPS AND DIAGRAMS. Map of China, Showing the Nine Unevangelised Provinces in Black ..... 3 Sketch-map of Gan-hwuy and Kiakg-si . 91 Sketch-map of Burmah .... 127 Black Map Showing Itinerations of C. I. M. Missionaries . 266 Sketch-map Showing the Kwang-sin River . , 364 Diagram of the Eleven Inland Provinces . 404 Sketch-map of Shan-si .... 456 Black Map Showing principal Stations of all Protestent Missions in China ..... 5°7 Diagram of the Population of China . 508 Large Folding Map of China . At the end PJiOGRESS AND THE REGIONS BEYOND. VOL. n. — — " Take your Bible, and carefully count, not the chapters or verses, but the letters from the beginning of Genesis to the ' Amen ' of the it Revelation ; and when you have accomplished the task, go over again and again and again —ten times, tvsfenty times, forty times nay, you must read the very letters of your Bible eighty times over before you have reached the requisite sum. It would take something like the letters of eighty Bibles to represent the men, women, and children of that old and wondrous Empire of China. Fourteen hun- dred of them have sunk into Christless graves during the last hour; thirty-three thousand will pass to-day for ever beyond your reach. Dispatch your missionary to-morrow, and one million and a quarter of immortal souls, for whom Christ died, will have passed to their final account before he can reach their shores. Whether such facts touch us or not, I think they ought to move our hearts. It is enough to make an angel weep." Rev. Silvester Whitehead. CHAPTER I. TWENTY YEARS AGO. WE stand upon the threshold of 1873—a second stage of our journey lying before us. Seven years have elapsed since the good ship Lainmennuir launched the first party of the newly formed Inland Mission upon its untried way. Theirs was a venture of faith, but, as we have seen, faith that was justified and rewarded. And now that pioneer band has grown into a company of more than thirty men and women settled in no fewer than sixteen Chinese cities, of which twelve before their coming had been utterly unreached by the Gospel. They are richer in experience, these workers, than they were ; richer in knowledge of GOD, in patience, and in hope. Their tears have fallen over distant graves, and their hearts have, been disciplined by many a difficulty and sorrow. But it has been theirs, too, to rejoice over blessing given, and an entrance won for Christ into many darkened lives. After an absence from China of just a yeai-, Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Taylor are once again upon their outward way. The Council recently formed at home 3 THE CHINA INLAND MISSION. is thus left in full charge of its new responsibilities, Mr. Taylor evidently no sinecure ; for all the funds was able to hand over to them upon his departure amounted to the modest sum of ;£^2i 2s. 8d. And now, while the outgoing party are steadily traversing tropical seas to the land of their longing, let us imagine ourselves raised to some lofty eminence, far in the heart of China, from which we may take a bird's-eye view of the position of that great country and people in relation to the important questions with which we shall have to deal in following out the story of -the next twenty years.