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_THE 

Chronicle 


Of  the  London  Missionary  Society 


Editor:  BASIL  MATHEWS,  M.A. 


Photo  hy\  [Basil  Mathews 

Camel  Caravan  coming  dozen  the  Taurus  Mountains 
from  the  plateau  of  Asia  Minor  to  Tarsus 

BY  far  the  most  important  news 
of  the  whole  world  this  month 
— it  may  well  be  during  this 
year — is    summed    up    in  the 
little  ship  bearing  the  Japanese  name 
Komagata  Maru. 

There  she  has  been  lying  anchored  off 
Vancouver  with  her  Indian  passengers 
waiting  for  permission  to  land. 

She  is  the  East  knocking  at  the  doors  of 
the  West  :  the  Asiatic  on  the  doorstep  of 
the  Anglo-Saxon.  And  Canada  is  making 
her  a  test  case.  Is  Canada  to  exclude  the 
Indian,  the  Japanese,  the  Chinese  from 
entering  her  doors  in  large  numbers  ? 


The  East  Knock- 
ing at  the  Doors 
of  the  West 


The  problem  is  an  industrial  one  on 
the  surface — a  question  of  cutting  out 
white  labour  by  the  cheapness  of  Asiatic 
living.  But  it  is  also  a  commercial, 
racial,  social  and  religious  problem  in- 
volving those  tremendous  and  complex 
issues  of  race-fusion  or  segregation,  of 
moral  uplift,  industrial  development, 
educational  progress  and  religious  salva- 
tion in  East  and  West  which  form  the 
greatest  problem  crying  for  solution  in 
the  next  half-century. 

If  you  land  to-day  on  a  South  Sea  Is- 
land, Chinese  coolies  and  Indian  labourers 
run  down  to  compete  with  Samoan  or 


JULY  1914 


145 


146 


The  East  Knocking  at  the  Doors  of  the  West 


[July  1914 


Fijian  for  your  employ.  The 
Prime  Minister  of  New  Zealand 
has  declared  in  the  last  month 
that  the  New  Zealand  Defence 
Act  was  prompted  by  fear  of 
Asiatic  attack,  and  that  he  hopes 
to  pass  legislation  prohibiting  the 
entrance  of  Hindus  into  New 
Zealand.  In  South  Africa  the 
problem  created  by  the  importa- 
tion of  Indians  (as  labour)  by 
ourselves  as  white  people  issued 
in  a  frightful  imbroglio  between 
Anglo-Saxon,  Kaffir  and  Indian 
which  was  full  of  menace.  That 
situation  created  seething  dis- 
content in  India,  and  the  fact 
that  it  has  so  far  been  moved  on 
to  sounder  and  happier  lines  is 
due  to  the  fact  that  the  Indians 
themselves  (non-Christians  though 
they  are)  chose  two  young  North 
Indian  missionaries  to  go  out  to 
South  Africa.  One  of  these  mis- 
sionaries has  since  come  home  to 
England,  has  had  long  and  im- 
portant negotiations  with  Sir 
Edward  Grey,  and  has  now  just 
returned  to  India. 

Intense  feeling  is  developing 
both  in  our  dominions  on  the  one 
hand  and  in  Asia  on  the  other. 
This  is  not  a  problem  which  can 
be  settled  by  rule  of  thumb,  but 
needs  a  long,  continuous  search 
for  the  Christian  solution. 

The  Times,  commenting  on  the 
Komagata  Maru  case,  has  advo- 
cated a  principle  for  Canada, 
receiving  wide  assent,  that — 

.  .  .  free  peoples  have  a  right  to 
say  whom  they  will  admit  into  their 
country,  just  as  free  men  have  the 
right  to  say  whom  they  will  admit  into 
their  houses. 


Photo  t>y] 

The  "  Cilician  Gates 


[Basil  Mathews 
through  the  Taurus  Mountains 


The  Turkish  wagon  on  the  road  is  at  the  point  where  only  the  road  and 
the  stream  run  between  the  precipices.  Alexander  the  Great  came  through 
this  pass  to  invade  the  East.  St.  Paul  went  up  through  it  to  Lystra 
Iconium,  etc. 


We  cannot  help  feeling  that  that  state- 
ment involves  a  perfectly  colossal  menace. 
Japan,  fully-armed  and  buoyantly  con- 
fident ;  China,  now  mining  in  the  greatest 
coal-fields  and  the  greatest  iron-fields  in 
the  world,  and  beginning  to  face  possi- 
bilities of  producing  her  own  Dreadnoughts 
and  guns,  with  her  four  hundred  millions 
of  people,  hard}*,  and  careless  of  death  ; 
and  India  with  its  teeming  population, 
have,  in  that  case,  the  right  to  exclude  the 


West  from  Asia,  with  all  those  enormous 
commercial,  governmental,  social  and 
industrial  interests  which  we  share  in 
China  and  India. 

It  is  easy  to  use  the  word  Armageddon 
in  oratorical  exaggeration,  but  no  con- 
ception of  the  frightful  world-Armageddon 
of  warfare  has  ever  remotely  approached 
the  hideous  realities  which  would  then  be 
upon  us. 


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147 


We  hope,  in  the  autumn,  to  produce  an 
entire  number  of  The  Chronicle  devoted 
to  this  immense  inter-racial  problem  and 
the  relationship  of  the  L.M.S.  and  Christian 
missions  to  it. 

Meanwhile  it  may  not  be  without  help 
to  recall  that  when  Paul  tramped  his  way 
through  the  mighty  ravine  of  the  Cilician 
Gates  (illustrated  on  the  opposite  page) 
from  Tarsus  to  the  high  plateau  of  Lystra, 
Iconium  and  the  rest,  he  was  in  the  middle 
of  a  civilisation  where  Greek  and  Roman 
on  the  one  side  and  the  Asiatic  on  the 
other,  in  a  miniature  way,  illustrated 
similar  conditions.  The  great  and  central 
aim  of  his  ministry  was  in  a  word  "  recon- 
ciliation " — that  Gentile  and  Jew  should 


fuse  their  hates  in  a  common  worship  of 
love.  His  whole  effort  was  bent  to  the 
practical  work  of  bringing  in — within  the 
Roman  Empire  of  his  day — a  greater 
Kingdom 

Where  there  cannot  be  Greek  and  Jew, 
circumcision  and  uncircumcision,  barbarian, 
Scythian,  slave,  freeman  :  but  Christ  is  all,  and 
in  all. 

The  modern  missionary  enterprise  is 
called  to  bend  all  its  energies  to  this  same 
task  on  a  scale  utterly  without  precedent, 
and  amid  conditions  which  blend  cynical 
and  material  ambition,  ever  watchful  and 
eager  for  aggrandisement,  with  a  legitimate 
anxiety  to  preserve  the  best  in  Western 
civilisation. 


58 


The  Missionary 
Obligation 

DR.  GARVIE'S  new  book,  "  The 
Missionary  Obligation  in  the 
Light  of  Changes  in  Modern 
Thought,"  is  very  opportune. 
Its  logical,  closely  knit  argument  for 
Christian  missions  presents  the  old  appeal 

consistently  with 
the  widening 
horizon  of 
modern  philoso- 
phy and  Biblical 
criticism,  and  a 
fuller  acquaint- 
ance with  the 
great  systems  of 
religion  by  which 
Christianity  is 
confronted.  The 
serious  purpose 
of  the  book  is 
indicated  by  its 
careful  division 
into  sections  and 
subsections,  which,  when  carefully  noted, 
greatly  assist  the  reader  to  follow  the 
sequence  of  thought.  It  is  not  a  book 
for  cursory  perusal,  but  one  to  be  care- 
fully read  and  pondered. 

We  can  hardly  doubt,  judged  by  ana- 
logy, that  the  position  of  our  country  has 
been  conceded  in  the  order  of  divine 


The  Rev.  F.  B.  Meyei 


By  the 

Rev.  F.  B.  Meyer 

Providence  that  it  may  fulfil  for  the  wTorld 
of  to-day  a  similar  function  to  that  of  the 
Hebrew  people,  in  communicating  the 
divine  faith  and  religious  ideals,  which 
are  intended  to  lift  the  race  nearer  the 
divine  consummation  for  which  creation 
appears  to  be  waiting.  Ours  is  a  great 
opportunity  and  a  vast  obligation.  As 
certainly  as  the  chosen  people  dwelt  in 
the  midst  of  the  ancient  nations,  that 
they  might  communicate  the  treasure  hid 
in  its  earthen  vessel,  does  our  empire 
touch  every  shore,  that  to  all  nations, 
kindreds,  and  tongues  it  may  pass  the 
divine  word. 

In  these  days  of  declining  church  at- 
tendance and  the  absorption  of  money 
by  the  increased  rate  of  living,  it  is  no- 
thing short  of  wonderful  that  the  mis- 
sionary exchequer  is  still  so  marvellously 
supplied  ;  but  the  strain  is  becoming 
enormous,  and  it  is  evident  that  a  large 
proportion  of  income  is  still  provided, 
speaking  generally,  by  those  who  hold 
the  more  conservative  views  of  Chris- 
tianity. It  is  very  necessary  that  these 
should  be  encouraged  by  discovering  that 
the  newer  attitude  to  Scripture  is  not 
inconsistent  with  missionary  enthusiasm, 
and  that  the  obligation  for  the  support  of 
our  great  societies  is  as  urgent,  if  not 


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[July  1914 


more  so,  as  in  the  days  of  our  k 
fathers.  This  is  the  problem  to  m 
which  Dr.  Garvie  has  given  his  #/ 
strong,  logical,  and  philosophical  few 
mind,  bathing  his  arguments  in 
evangelical  fervour. 

One  of  the  outstanding  features 
of  the  book  is   its  repeated  and 
strong  affirmation  of  the  evangelical 
position.     "  There  is  no  necessary 
antagonism  between  this  modern 
scholarship   and  Christian    faith  " 
(10).    "  I  hold  with  all  my  heart 
and  soul  that  the  Gospel  we  should 
take  to  the   ends  of  the  earth  is 
the  Gospel  of  an  objective  atone- 
ment for  sin  in  His  sacrifice"  (46).  "It 
was  in  the  holy  heart  of  Jesus  Christ  on 
His  cross  that  God's  love  endured  the 
consequences  of  sin."    Dr.  Garvie  further 
expatiates  on  the  sacrificial  aspect  of  the 
death  of  Christ  as  a  point  of  contact  with 
non-Christian  religions  (52).    These  and 
similar  statements  are  eminently  reassur- 
ing, and  inspire  confidence  in  his  further 
elucidation  of  the  present  position. 

The  view  of  the  Bible  as  containing  a 
progressive  revelation  of  divine  truth  is 
accepted  as  being  consistent  with  an  un- 
faltering belief  in  its  inspiration  and  in 
the  supernatural  and  miraculous  incidents 
it  records  ;  and  it  is  rightly  argued  that 
only  in  a  frank  admission  of  its  progressive 
character  can  objections  be  met  which 
educated  non-Christians  in  China,  India, 
and  Japan  may  advance  against  the 
morality  and  religion  of  Old  Testament 
saints.  This  is  a  fair  illustration  of  the 
method  that  Dr.  Garvie  adopts.  He  is 
true  to  all  the  essentials  of  evangelical 
religion  ;  his  appreciation  of  the  Scrip- 
tures as  the  unique  and  authoritative 
revelation  of  the  divine  will  is  apparent 
on  every  page  ;  and  whilst  accepting  the 
constructive  results  of  modern  thought, 
he  shows  that  these  are  making  the  work 
of  the  Christian  missionary  easier,  and 
leave  untouched  the  great  principles  on 
which  the  Church  has  ever  relied  in  her 
presentation  of  Christ,  as  the  only  name 
given  under  heaven  whereby  men  can  be 
saved. 


WMjJ       The  immense  superiority  of  the 
A    vScriptures   to   all    other  religious 
lite  rat  11  re  ;  the  infinite  need  of  non- 
Christian  peoples,  even  as  regards 
this  earthly  human  life  ;  the  inevit- 
able loss  that  must  be  suffered  by 
non-Christians  as  they  pass  into  the 
other  life,  even  if  they  have  been 
true  to  their  light  in  this ;  their  need 
of  "  power  unto  salvation  "  to  realise 
MB     their  ideals,  which  mock  them  apart 
W      from  the  Christian  dynamic  ;  the 
W       contrast    between    the    ethics  of 
Buddha  and  Christ ;  the  adapta- 
bility of  Christianity  to  all  mankind, 
— these  are  subjects  with  which  Dr. 
Garvie  deals  with  a  masterly  hand,  and 
for  which  we  must  refer  readers  to  his 
pages. 

Whilst  the  underlying  theme  of  the 
book  may  be  said  to  be  that  Christianity 
is  the  absolute  religion,  and  the  religion 
of  the  future,  the  author  is  free  to  admit 
that  the  Spirit  of  Truth  has  spoken  in  the 
great  systems,  which  are  paling  their  light 
before  the  growing  dawn  of  Christianity. 
It  is  admittedly  necessary  to  endeavour 
to  discover  how  far  they  have  met  the 
need  of  the  groping  soul,  and  to  find  the 
point  where  they  have  failed.  It  is  there 
that  the  missionary,  as  Dr.  Garvie  shows, 
will  secure  his  vantage-point. 

That  Christianity  may  be  modified,  not 
in  its  essence,  but  in  its  form,  is  more 
than  likely.  There  are  aspects  of  the 
Gospel  which  will  be  specially  attractive 
to  the  Eastern  mind,  and  will  be  illumi- 
nated for  us  Westerns  as  they  are  pre- 
sented under  the  modifying  influence  of 
the  lands  in  which  our  religion  was 
nurtured  (127).  But  when  full  allowance 
is  made  for  all  such  changes  as  Western 
or  Eastern  methods  of  thought  may  im- 
pose, the  Gospel  will  persist  in  its  evan- 
gelical essence,  the  travail  of  Christ's 
soul  will  still  cry  for  satisfaction,  the 
Spirit  of  Christ  will  still  urge  the  Church 
to  greater  sacrifices  than  ever,  and  the 
Christian  mind  will  still  be  convinced  of 
the  increasing  imperative  of  the  mission- 
ary call.  Such  is  the  argument  and  appeal 
of  this  notable  book. 


THE  MISSIONARY  OBLIGATION  IN  THE  LIGHT  OF  CHANGES  IN 

MODERN  THOUGHT.     By  A.  E.  Garvie,  D.D. 
London  Missionary  Society  and  Hodder  &  Stoughton.        ::        ::        2s.  net  ;  2s.  4d.  post  free. 


A 

Doctor's 
Year 

By  Dr.  H.  E. 
Wareham 

of  Kawimbe, 
Central  Africa 


THE  MODEL  VILLAGE  OF  MBERESHI 


THE  past  year  has  been  the  busiest 
at  the  hospital  as  far  as  in- 
patients are  concerned.  Though 
we  cannot  touch  the  numbers 
which  they  have  in  the  hospitals 
of  India  or  China,  we  are  never  without 
patients  in  our  little  hospital.  We  have  nine 
beds,  and  sometimes  all  are  occupied.  As 
we  have  no  nurse,  this  means  a  good  deal  of 
work  for  Kawe,  my  hospital  attendant,  who 
has  been  with  me  for  over  eleven  years,  but 
not  all  the  time  at  work  in  the  hospital. 

As  a  nipper  of  seven  or  eight  he  washed 
dishes,  and  a  year  later  became  our  cook. 
He  was  an  excellent  cook,  but  he  had  one 
great  failing.  He  was  too  fond  of  reading. 
I  have  no  objection  to  a  love  for  literature, 
but  when  the  porridge  is  burned  and  the 
milk  boils  over  and  the  pudding  is  "  sad  " 
(i.e.  doughy),  my  love  for  literature  in  a 
cook  weakens.  As  talking  and  warning 
and  punishment  made  little  impression  on 
him,  we  told  him  he  had  better  seek  work 
of  another  kind,  work  which  would  not  be 
interfered  with  by  a  love  for  reading.  As  I 
was  in  need  of  a  hospital  boy  I  took  him  on, 
and  he  has  been  in  that  position  for  eight 
years  and  does  his  work  well.  He  is  a  good 
boy,  with  one  or  two  weaknesses — namely,  a 
love  for  fancy  names  and  brilliantly  coloured 
clothing  and  a  passionate  love  for  singing — 
out  of  tune. 

His  penchant  for  fancy  names  has  amus- 
ing results.  At  present  his  name  is  Thomas 
Rees  Kathleen  Kawe  Silungyili.  There  are 
others  which  I  cannot  remember.  His  love 
for  literature  and  fancy  names  are  closely 
connected,  for  he  obtains  his  names  from 
magazines  which  he  borrows  from  Mrs.  Ware- 
ham.  What  his  names  will  be  next  year 
will  depend  on  the  serial  stories  in  the 
British  Weekly  and  the  Sunday  at  Home. 


But  with  all  his  little  peculiarities  he  is  a 
good  boy,  a  great  help  to  me  in  translation 
work,  and  I  am  delighted  to  say  that  he 
has  applied  for  entrance  to  the  Catechumens' 
Class.  Were  I  to  lose  Kawe  I  should  miss 
him  more  than  any  one  on  this  station.  But 
I  was  talking  about  my  patients  ;  let  me  go 
back  to  them,  though  a  word  or  two  about 
the  man  who  looks  after  them  will  not  come 
amiss.  Some  of  last  year's  patients  were 
quite  interesting  cases. 

One  day  a  poor  wretch  was  carried  in 
from  a  village  about  seventy  miles  away. 
An  official  had  found  him  in  a  village  far 
from  his  home,  in  a  miserable  state,  and  he 
sent  him  on  to  me.  I  never  saw  a  man  in 
such  a  condition.  He  had  at  least  200  sores. 
He  was  suffering  from  a  skin  disease  which 
under  ordinary  treatment  would  have  healed 
quickly.  He  had  lain  in  a  dirty  hut  in  the 
village,  alone  and  neglected,  a  stranger. 
Dirt  had  got  into  the  blebs,  and  every  one 
had  become  a  sore.  As  is  so  often  the  case, 
he  arrived  when  I  was  alone  and  very  busy. 

Fortunately,  a  missionary  from  another 
station  arrived.  My  hospital  attendant 
was  in  bed  with  fever.  I  called  in  our 
head  teacher  to  help,  and  it  took  us  over 
four  hours  to  clean  and  dress  him  and  make 
him  comfortable.  I  wished  an  old  head 
teacher  at  Kambole  had  been  with  us  to 
help,  it  would  have  done  him  good.  Some 
years  ago  he  returned,  from  two  years'  in- 
struction at  Livingstonia,  with  a  badly 
swelled  head.  Soon  after  his  arrival  he 
was  asked  to  preach.  He  took  the  oppor- 
tunity to  say  that  we  missionaries  were 
not  like  our  Master,  as  we  did  not  wash 
our  disciples'  feet.  (A  little  le  irnin^  is  a 
dangerous  thing.)  I  wish  he  had  had  an 
opportunity  of  washing  that  man  in  the  open 
air  on  a  hot  day.    He  would  have  realised 


149 


A  Doctor's  Year 


[July  1Q14 


that  one  may  do  as  the  Master  did  without 
doing  the  same  work.  I  did  not  expect 
the  poor  man  would  live,  but  I  hoped  for 
the  best.  One  has  seen  such  marvellous 
recoveries  in  this  country  that  one  never 
despairs.  He  was  "  dressed  "  several  times, 
and  quite  a  number  of  his  sores  healed,  but 
one  day  he  became  very  ill  and  died  in  a 
few  hours.  We  certainly  eased  his  pain 
and  made  his  dying  more  comfortable. 

Though  we  did  not  save  his  life,  his  coming 
amongst  us  was  not  in  vain,  for  it  certainly 
helped  many  in  the  village  to  see  that  no 
work  was  too  mean  or  loathsome  for'  the 
follower  of  Christ  to  undertake  in  His  name. 
This  case  also  taught  our  head  teacher  a 
needed  lesson.  He  is  a  good  man,  and,  unlike 
most  of  our  teachers,  is  willing  to  do  any- 
thing that  he  is  asked  to  do,  however  humble 
the  work  may  be.    He  came  willingly  to 


I  thought  it  was  time  to  appear  on  the 
scene,  and  so  returned  with  the  headman 
to  the  village.  I  found  the  old  man  in 
his  hut  and  his  daughter  crying  bitterly, 
and  asking  him  not  to  take  his  life.  The 
man  is  a  widower.  I  talked  to  him,  telling 
him  that  he  would  be  well  looked  after  in 
the  hospital  and  he  would  soon  be  all  right 
again.  But  he  didn't  want  to  be  all  right 
again,  he  said ;  he  wanted  to  die.  I  told 
him  that  he  must  not  kill  himself.  He  had 
no  right  to  throw  away  the  life  that  God  had 
given  him.  This  and  much  else  I  told  him, 
but  it  made  little  impression.  He  refused 
to  leave  his  hut.  At  last  I  went  outside 
and  waited  till  he  came.  I  called  to  him 
that  it  was  most  disrespectful  to  keep  his 
chief  (as  they  call  us)  waiting.  The  head- 
man added  a  few  words  on  the  same  subject. 
That  fetched  him.    He  wasn't  going  to  be 


THE  HOSPITAL  AT  KAWIMBE 


help  me  "  dress  "  the  man  after  several  had 
refused  on  account  of  his  condition  and 
the  awful  smell.  One  day,  in  the  middle  of 
our  work  on  the  man,  he  said  to  me  :  "I 
must  stop  now  as  I  have  to  teach  a  Bible 
Class  in  a  distant  village."  I  replied : 
"  Stay  where  you  are,  you  will  never  preach 
a  better  sermon  than  you  are  preaching 
now ;  the  class  will  get  on  without  you 
to-day."  I  also  explained  to  him  our 
proverb,  "  Actions  speak  louder  than  words." 
He  saw  my  meaning  and  stayed  without  a 
murmur. 

One  of  the  last  patients  of  the  year  was 
Sakyi,  an  old  resident  in  the  village.  I  was 
called  one  morning  and  told  that  Sakyi  had 
fallen  on  the  fire  and  was  badly  burned. 
I  at  once  sent  up  men  to  bring  him  down  to 
the  hospital.  The  headman  came  back  say- 
ing that  he  refused  to  come,  and  that  he  was 
going  to  commit  suicide  as  he  did  not  want 
to  live.  He  was  subject  to  fits,  and  it  was 
in  one  of  these  fits  that  he  fell  on  the  fire. 
He  therefore  did  not  want  to  live  longer. 


disrespectful.  He  came  out  and  was  brought 
to  the  hospital.  He  was  badly  burned, 
but  after  a  time  he  was  all  right  and  digging 
his  garden  as  well  as  any  one. 

In  addition  to  these,  I  have  had  a  fair 
number  of  white  people.  In  connection  with 
the  last  we  received  a  bad  shock.  About  six 
hours  after  the  birth  of  a  little  baby,  the 
ceiling  of  the  room  in  which  she  and  her 
mother  were  lying  fell  on  the  top  of  them . 
I  heard  the  noise  and  rushed  downstairs. 
Instead  of  a  nice  clean  room  containing  my 
patient  and  her  baby,  I  saw  a  mass  of  mud 
and  wood.  I  called  for  help,  and  after 
twenty  minutes'  hard  work  we  reached  them, 
and  found  them  both  absolutely  unhurt. 
Fortunately  the  mother  had  the  baby  in 
her  arms,  otherwise  it  would  have  been 
killed ;  its  cot  was  smashed.  The  iron 
bedstead  was  broken,  but  neither  had 
a  scratch.  We  were  most  thankful  for 
the  providential  escape.  Earthquakes  had 
evidently  loosened  the  attachments  of  the 
ceiling. 


The  Wardlaw 
Thompson  Hospital 


The  Beginning 
of  a  New  Age 


THE  HOSPITAL  AT  CHIKKABALLAPURA 


G 


RACIOUS  Gift  of  Jesus  "  is  the 
legend  inscribed  in  the  vernacu- 
lar high  up  on  the  front  of  the 
Wardlaw  Thompson  Hospital, 
Chikkaballapura,  S.  India.  But 
for  the  love  of  Jesus  it  would  never  have 
come  into  being,  and  its  chief  purpose  is  to 
witness  to  the  Spirit  of  Jesus,  and  to  make 
men  more  sure  of  Him.  And  not  alone  the 
building,  but  he  whose  name  it  bears,  is  truly 
a  gift  of  God  to  the  London  Missionary 
Society  and  to  the  people  amongst  whom  its 
work  is  carried  on. 

The  hospital  was  opened  at  the  end  of 
February,  191 3,  and  before  the  middle  of 
July,  over  3,000  out-patients  and  nearly 
140  in-patients  had  been  treated  there. 
Those  who  know  the  district  well  had  pro- 
phesied that  by  the  end  of  the  first  year 
the  people's  confidence  might  be  sufficiently 
gained  to  provide  half  a  dozen  in-patients. 
Within  the  first  week  there  were  ten,  and 
the  number  has  seldom  fallen  below  twenty 
since  ! 

Among  the  in-patients  there  have  already 
been  many  cases  which  have  proved  a  great 
encouragement.  One  man  was  brought  in 
in  a  desperate  condition,  having  fallen  into 
a  pan  of  boiling  cane- juice  in  the  sugar-yard 
during  the  night.  He  remained  for  two 
months  and  made  a  splendid  recovery.  It 
was  a  great  pleasure  to  the  missionaries  to 
have  to  do  with  him  and  to  talk  to  him,  and 
they  now  have  a  very  earnest  advocate  in 
a  part  of  the  country  where  hitherto  it  was 
possible  to  do  very  little. 

Another  good  man  was  brought  in  on  the 
eve  of  the  feast  of  Shiva,  suffering  with  a 
great  carbuncle.  His  relatives  did  not  ex- 
pect him  to  live  more  than  a  day  or  two. 
He  was  operated  on  and  soon  began  to 
mend,  and  in  three  months  he  had  quite 
recovered.  But  he  was  very  loath  to  leave 
the  hospital  ;    for  a  week  he  came  every 


night  to  sleep  in  the  old  place,  and  almost 
had  to  be  taken  as  a  boarder  !  Later  he 
brought  a  gift  of  nearly  £2,  a  considerable 
sum  for  him,  and  he  continues  to  come  most 
mornings  to  encourage  other  patients. 
Another  case  met  with  was  most  gratifying. 
A  man  and  his  wife  were  encountered  leaving 
the  hospital  in  such  high  spirits  that  the 
missionary  felt  specially  moved  to  inquire 
what  the  trouble  had  been.  The  woman 
beamed  again  while  her  husband  related 
how  she  had  had  to  undergo  an  operation 
which  had  made  it  necessary  to  graft  skin. 
Then  he  bared  his  arm  and  showed  with 
considerable  pride  the  places  from  which  the 
doctors  had  taken  great  strips  of  skin  to 
graft  on  to  his  wife.  There  was  indeed  good 
cause  for  rejoicing  on  all  sides,  for  this  kind 
of  thing  marks  the  beginning  of  a  new  age 
in  Chikkaballapura. 

Of  the  hospital  buildings  some  idea  may 
be  gained  from  the  picture.  There  are 
men's  and  women's  wards  of  fourteen  beds 
each,  two  special  wards  of  six  beds  each, 
and  a  beautiful  maternity  ward  with  four 
private  rooms,  operation-room,  consulting- 
room,  and  bath-rooms.  In  the  main  section 
of  the  hospital  and  at  the  back  of  the  quad- 
rangle is  the  surgical  block  of  which,  it  is 
said,  there  is  every  reason  to  be  proud. 
There  are  also  the  medical  evangelist's 
house,  nurses'  quarters,  kitchens,  store- 
rooms, foundations  for  private  wards,  and 
the  best  well  in  Chikkaballapura.  There  is 
water  storage  of  3,000  gallons  and  a  service 
by  taps  over  the  whole  hospital,  a  consider- 
able novelty  in  an  Indian  country  town. 
The  whole  was  planned  by  Dr.  Campbell,  and 
is  an  improvement  on  his  old  hospital  at 
Jammalamadugu. 

Such  is  the  building  and  such  the  work 
that  has  been  chosen  to  commemorate,  in 
India,  the  services  of  Dr.  Wardlaw  Thomp- 
son. 


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The  Leading  of  the 
k       New  China 


By  Ch'eng-Ching-Yi 

(Pastor  of  the  Independent  Christian 
Church,  Peking) 


[A  speech  at  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
on  June  9] 


The  Rev.  CJCcnz-Chi 


SIX  years  have  passed  since  I  said 
I  my  farewell  word  in  this  House, 
and  much  has  happened  during 
these  years  in  the  country  whence 
I  come,  and  for  which  you  have  done  so 
much.  Politically,  socially,  and  relig- 
iously China  is  making  rapid  reforms  in 
every  direction.  One  is  almost  afraid 
to  make  statements  about  China,  for  one 
never  knows  what  change  will  again  take 
place  in  the  next  day  !  Her  progressive 
movements  are  as  rapid  and  radical  as  her 
former  conservatism  was  strong  and 
lasting. 

Take  the  city  of  Peking,  my  native 
place,  as  an  example  :  at  one  time,  not 
very  long  ago,  everything  foreign  was  to 
be  destroyed,  and  every  one  connected 
with  foreigners  was  to  be  put  to  death, 
and  even  the  word  for  Foreign — "  Yang  " 
— was  to  be  got  rid  of.  To-day  in  that 
same  city  everything  foreign  is  valued 
highly  and  copied  at  once.  Yesterday  I 
heard  from  Peking  that  President  Yuan 
Shih  Kai  is  sending  a  band  of  girls  abroad 
for  further  education.  It  is  almost  un- 
thinkable that  only  fourteen  years  ago 
railwa\-s,  telegraphs,  and  even  matches 
had  to  be  destroyed  for  the  only  reason 
that  they  were  introduced  to  China  from 
foreign  countries,  and  to-day  you  can 
sometimes  see  Chinese  young  women, 
dressed  in  the  latest  European  fashion, 
walking  in  the  street  of  Peking,  with  an 
air  of  satisfaction  ! 

Just  before  I  came  away  from  Peking 
an  invitation  to  dinner  was  received  from 
the  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs.    The  invi- 


tation was  given  in  the  name  of  both  the 
minister  and  his  wife,  a  custom  unknown 
in  China  before,  and  on  the  card  it  was 
stated  that  evening  dress  must  be  worn  ! 

The  word  "  hsueh  " — to  learn — can  be 
written  across  all  the  provinces  of  China, 
and  it  is  the  ambition  of  all  to  learn,  to 
copy,  and  to  imitate  the  Western  world. 
While  we  are  glad  to  see  the  dearly  loved 
land  of  ours  moving  forward,  and  making 
real  progress,  we  are  sorry,  at  the  same 
time,  to  find  that  in  throwing  off  the 
old  things,  she  has  thrown  away  some  of 
the  best  traditions  of  the  ancient  days,  and 
in  adopting  the  new  things  she  has  adopted 
some  of  the  things  which  are  not  alto- 
gether for  her  benefit  and  good.  This  is 
indeed  a  time  of  transition  which  is  at  once 
difficult  and  overwhelming. 

With  regard  to  Christian  enterprise  the 
situation  is  not  less  remarkable.  Our 
difficulty  lies  in  our  very  success.  The 
question  to-day  is  not:  "Who  will  listen 
to  the  Word  of  God,  and  when  will  the 
rock  open  ?  "  But,  as  so  many  are  willing 
to  know  and  to  learn,  the  question  is 
rather  :  "  What  are  we  going  to  do  with 
them  ?  " 

May  I  be  permitted  to  cite  a  few  inci- 
dents, from  personal  experience,  during 
the  last  two  years  in  the  city  of  Peking  ? 

There  is  the  man,  wealthy  and  educated, 
a  leader  in  his  native  town  in  the  country, 
who  travelled  far  to  Peking  for  the  sole 
reason  of  getting  more  light  in  the  newly 
found  Truth.  He  read  his  Bible,  he 
prayed,  he  attended  Christian  worship, 
and  yet  he  was  distressed  and  unhappy. 


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153 


He  felt  that  the  very  distress  shows  that 
there  is  something  in  the  Christian  Re- 
ligion. He  was  willing  to  lead  others  to 
Christ,  but  he  said  he  could  not  tell  others 
what  he  did  not  himself  know.  After  much 
conversation  with  his  Christian  friend  he 
went  home  rejoicing  in  the  Lord. 

There  is  the  Christian  woman  for  two 
whole  hours  sounding  forth  the  Glad 
Tidings  in  the  famous  Temple  of  Heaven 
to  men  and  women  who  are  standing 
around  her,  many  of  whom  are  military 
officers  who  listen  to  her  message  with 
earnest  faces  and  in  a  reverential  attitude. 

There  are  the  non-Christian  students 
— hundreds  of  them — attending  the 
Y.M.C.A.  Bible  classes,  many  of  whom 
have  decided  to  stand  for  Christ  by  join- 
ing the  Church  and  being  baptized.  They 
are  very  eager  to  learn,  and  they  have 
many  questions  to  ask.  They  are  seeking 
light  upon  their  intellectual  and  spiritual 
difficulties. 

There  is  the  United  Evangelistic  Band, 
organised  entirely  by  Church  members, 
to  render  voluntary  service  for  the  preach- 
ing of  the  Gospel  in  various  places,  and 
even  the  police  authorities  are  willing  to 
let  the  simple-minded  Christians  preach 
the  Gospel  to  the  prisoners  in  their  yamens. 
Everywhere  they  go  the  people  would 
follow  them,  and  the  non-Christian  children 
would  begin  to  sing  the  hymns  they  heard 
at  the  meetings. 

There  are  thousands  of  government 
students  who  attended  the  special  Evan- 


gelistic Meetings  conducted  by  Dr.  Mott 
and  Mr.  Eddy,  and  hundreds  of  whom 
became  interested  in  Christianity  and 
desire  to  learn  more.  The  local  pastors 
and  workers  are  altogether  too  few  to 
follow  up  so  many  young  and  earnest 
inquirers.  Mr.  Eddy  is  going  to  China 
again  this  year,  and  great  blessing  is  ex- 
pected by  many. 

These  few  incidents  answer  for  many 
others.  The  people — especially  the  edu- 
cated— are  eager  to  be  taught  and  willing 
to  study.  They  come  to  the  Church  in 
ones,  in  scores,  and  in  hundreds.  This 
is  indeed  rather  a  time  of  reaping  than 
sowing.  But  here  the  question  rises : 
"  What  are  we  going  to  do  with  them  ?  " 
Our  existing  staff  of  workers — pastors  and 
preachers — are  far  from  being  well  trained, 
and  our  well  trained  young  men  are  not 
forthcoming  in  large  numbers  for  the 
ministry. 

In  face  of  such  an  all-too-precious 
opportunity,  and  in  face  of  such  a  real 
difficulty,  what  are  we  going  to 
do  ?  This  is  a  problem  facing  both  the 
Missionary  Society  and  the  Chinese  Church, 
for  which  they  are  mutually  responsible. 
How  to  equip  our  existing  agency 
and  how  to  enlist  more  educated  young 
men  for  the  ministry  are  questions  to  be 
very  carefully  considered.  May  the  Lord 
send  forth  such  men  and  such  women  for 
the  ingathering  of  His  children  who  are 
beginning  to  emerge  from  darkness  into 
light. 


The  Chronicle  for  August  will  contain  a  short  paper  by  Mr.  Ch'eng  on  the  ideal 
relatiojiship  of  the  Chinese  Church  and  the  missionary. 

The  Missionary  By  the 

Obligation  *  Rev.  R.  J.  Campbell 

"  What  are  we  to  say  about  our  duty  in  respect  to  the  sending  of  missionaries  to 
non-Christian  peoples  ?  Ought  we  to  do  it  or  not  ?  Assuredly  we  ought.  The  call 
of  God  comes  to  us  to-day  as  insistently  as  it  ever  did  ;  the  command  of  Christ  has 
never  been  abrogated,  *  Go  ye  into  all  the  world  and  preach  the  Gospel  to  every  creature.' 

"  The  death  of  the  missionary  spirit  means  ultimately  the  death  of  religious  faith, 
and  the  death  of  religious  faith  inevitably  involves  the  destruction  of  civilisation  itself. 
I  say  this  deliberately  and  after  careful  thought.  Let  our  religious  idealism  cease  to 
propagate  itself  and  the  soul  will  die  out  of  it.  It  will  be  with  us  as  with  the  Israelites 
of  old,  it  will  be  to  our  own  spiritual  detriment  and  the  eventual  collapse  of  our  brightest 
hopes  for  the  social  future  if  we  cease  to  care  about  spreading  good  news  concerning 
man's  eternal  destiny." 

*  From  a  siermon  preached  in  the  City  Temple  May  3,  1914. 


Arthur  N. 
Johnson 


By  Principal 
Bennett 

and  Basil  Mathews 


Owing  to  varied  circumstances  we  were  able  to  give  just  a  single  tribute  from  the  hand 
of  the  late  Home  Secretary's  friend  and  colleague,  Dr.  Thompson,  last  month.  Even  now 
an  article  which  was  to  have  reached  us  from  one  of  his  oldest  friends  has  failed  to  come 
to  hand.  We  print,  however,  with  peculiar  pleasure  the  intimate  and  tender  tribute  from 
the  hand  of  Dr.  Bennett,  Principal  of  Lancashire  College.  We  are,  also,  glad  to  announce 
that  Air.  S.  Birch  Carnley,  of  Leicester,  has  presented  to  the  Society  a  portrait  of  Mr.  Johnson 
to  be  a  permanent  memorial  in  the  Mission  House. 


IT  was  my  great  privilege  (writes  Dr. 
Bennett)  to  enjoy  for  nearly  forty 
years  the  intimate  friendship  of  the 
late  Rev.  A.  N.  Johnson.  We  were 
fellow-students  at  Lancashire  College 
and  at  Cambridge,  and  near  neighbours  for 
many  years  in  London.  He  was  a  fine 
scholar,  both  in  Classics  and  Theology  ;  if 
he  had  had  the  opportunity  he  might  have 
rendered  our  churches  valuable  service  as  a 
teacher  in  one  of  our  colleges. 

Perhaps  my  most  intimate  association 
with  Johnson  was  during  a  Christmas  vaca- 
tion from  Cambridge.  We  two,  with 
another  undergraduate,  spent  six  weeks  at 
Cleves,  with  some  relatives  of  the  late  Dr. 
Simon.  Such  conditions  are  a  searching  test 
of  a  man's  gifts  of  comradeship.  I  have  the 
happiest  memories  of  Johnson  at  that  time  ; 
it  has  always  been  a  pleasure  to  me  to  recall 
his  unfailing  cheerfulness  and  good  humour, 
and  the  many  ways  in  which  he  helped  to 
make  our  holiday  delightful.  Long  experience 
showed  that  all  this  was  not  merely  the  easy 
good-nature  of  an  undergraduate  enjoying 
himself,  but  sprang  from  an  unselfish  kindli- 
ness, which  was  one  of  Johnson's  most 
marked  characteristics.  On  the  other  hand, 
he  had  firmness  and  force  of  character  ;  he 
was  loyal,  sincere,  and  straightforward,  a 
man  to  be  absolutely  trusted,  incapable  of 
anything  mean  or  shifty.  He  had  also  a 
certain  dignity  and  reserve,  such  as  are  not 
always  appreciated  at  their  full  value  in  these 
democratic  days,  and  he  was  perhaps  a 
little  lacking  in  the  small  change  of  conven- 
tional compliments  which  circulate  freely 
in  public  life.  If  there  was  any  defect  here 
it  was  far  more  than  compensated  for  by  the 
other  sides  of  his  character  and  work.  Only 
those  who  knew  the  full  circumstances  of 
his  life  realise  its  patient  and  unobtrusive 
heroism.  One  hesitates  to  use  the  phrase 
"  cultured  gentleman  "  because  it  has  often 
been  put  to  base  uses,  but  rightly  under- 
stood it  has  a  worthy  sense,  and  in  that  sense 
it  would  apply  to  a  A.  N.  Johnson. 

His  preaching  was  inspired  by  a  depth 


and  reality  of  spiritual  experience  which 
appealed  to  earnest  seekers  after  help  and 
guidance. 

But  those  who  knew  our  friend  best  will 
understand  that  his  was  a  character  whose 
value  and  power  are  specially  difficult  to 
set  forth  in  words.  He  did  not  wear  his 
heart  upon  his  sleeve.  Some  length  and  in- 
timacy of  association  were  needed  to  enable 
any  one  to  receive  a  just  and  adequate  im- 
pression of  his  personality. 


The  impression  made  by  Mr.  Johnson  on 
a  junior  colleague,  who  fell  under  the  spell 
of  his  personal  charm  and  enjoyed  the  great 
advantage  of  his  fatherly,  affectionate,  and 
frank  fellowship  in  the  daily  labour  of  the 
Mission  House  may,  in  some  ways,  supple- 
ment the  tributes  paid  by  his  senior  colleague 
Dr.  Thompson  and  by  his  contemporary 
Dr.  Bennett. 

It  may  be  well  at  the  outset  to  state  the 
simple  facts  of  Mr.  Johnson's  life. 

He  was  born  at  Darwen  in  1856,  a  son  of 
the  late  Rev.  G.  B.  Johnson,  and  educated  at 
King  Edward  VI.  Grammar  School,  Birming- 
ham. After  studying  at  Lancashire  College, 
Manchester,  and  Trinity  College,  Cambridge 
(where  he  took  a  First  Class  in  the  Theo- 
logical Tripos  with  four  other  men,  one  of 
whom  was  Bishop  Ryle),Mr.  Johnson  became 
assistant  minister  to  the  late  Dr.  Mac- 
Fadyen  at  Chorlton  Road  Congregational 
Church,  Manchester,  from  1881  to  1883.  He 
had  charge  of  the  church  in  Bond  Street, 
Leicester,  where  he  made  friendships  which 
deepened  with  the  passing  years,  from  1883 
to  1892,  when  he  was  appointed  to  be 
Home  Secretary  of  the  London  Missionary 
Society. 

During  his  term  of  service  he  visited  the 
United  States,  Australia,  and  New  Guinea 
on  behalf  of  the  Society,  and  found  time  to 
contribute  valuable  information  to  encyclo- 
paedias as  well  as  to  write  jointly  with 
Dr.  Wardlaw  Thompson,  "  British  Foreign 
Missions  " — a  work  summarising  the  position 


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155 


of  the  foreign  missions  of  Britain  at  the  end 
of  the  reign  of  Queen  Victoria. 

He  died  on  Sunday,  April  26,  at  Heme 
Hill. 

During  Mr.  Johnson's  term  of  office  the 
Society  has  undergone  remarkable  changes 
in  its  home  organisation,  and  has  seen  a 
very  high  degree  of  specialisation  in  the 
propagandist  work  necessaryto  meet  itsneed. 
The  annual  income  of  the  Society  is  now 
about  £50,000  greater  than  when  Mr.  John- 
son first  took  control  of  the  Home  Depart- 
ment. 

No  one  who  has  not  actually  taken  part 
in  the  strenuous,  continuous,  and  nerve- 
racking  drive  of  work  in  the  home  propa- 
ganda organisation  of  a  missionary  society 
in  the .  present  day  can  remotely  conceive 
the  endless  demand  it  makes  on  resource- 
fulness, nerve,  cheerfulness,  and  steadiness 
of  judgment.  During  Mr.  Johnson's  secre- 
taryship that  increasing  speed  of  life  and 
that  complexity  of  demand  arose  which 
make  it  continuously  more  difficult  to  raise 
the  resources  of  a  society  such  as  ours.  The 
fact,  then,  that  during  his  Home  Secretary- 
ship the  income  of  the  Society  from  subscrip- 
tions at  home  almost  doubled  is  a  monument 
to  the  flexibility  and  business  method  which 
he  introduced  into  his  department  and  ad- 
ministered with  unfailing  conscientiousness. 

In  thinking  of  him  the  words  that  always 
come  hist  to  my  mind  are  Stevenson's 
"  steel-true,  blade-straight."  As  a  colleague 
his  fraternal  integrity  of  judgment  was  in- 
valuable to  his  juniors.  Affectionately 
placed  at  their  disposal,  his  knowledge  helped 
to  prevent  them  from  plunging  into  blunders 
while  never  hampering  them  by  the  sheer 
weight  of  experience  and  seniority.  His 
immensely  difficult  task  of  attempting  to 

Let  Us  Pray 

1.  That  those  on  whom  now  falls  newly 
the  responsibility  for  administrative 
leadership  in  the  Mission  House  may 
have  all  needed  illumination  from 
Almighty  God  ;  and  strength,  nerve, 
steadiness  of  judgment,  sympathy, 
and  imagination  equal  to  their  tasks. 
(None  of  the  Secretaries  now  in  the 
Mission  House  held  office  there  five 
years  ago.) 

2.  That  we  may  all  be  led  to  a  deeper  and 
fuller  realisation  of  the  missionary  ob- 
ligation (see  pp.  147-8  and  153)  that 
lies  upon  all  disciples  of  Jesus  Christ. 


arrange  the  deputation  arrangements  of  the 
Society  to  the  satisfaction  at  once  of  the 
churches  and  the  missionaries,  called  out  his 
great  capacities  for  thoughtful  adjustment 
and  the  judicious  balance  of  claims. 

Any  record  of  Mr.  Johnson  during  the 
last  year  would  also  lamentably  fail  if  it 
did  not  record,  however  inadequately,  the 
great  strengthening  of  nerve  and  relief  of 
strain  which  were  his  through  the  watchful 
care  of  Mrs.  Johnson  ;  and  no  hand  can 
properly  convey  the  courage  and  tenderness 
of  her  ministering  thought  during  the  long, 
painful  illness  that  ended  in  her  and  our 
irreparable  loss. 

Mr.  Johnson  never  found  himself  in  a  more 
intimately  congenial  position  than  as  Chair- 
man of  the  United  Council  for  Missionary 
Education.  This  Council,  which  is  com- 
posed of  representatives  of  the  Mission 
Study  Departments  of  the  various  societies 
(Anglican  and  Free  Church) ,  has  as  its  main 
business  the  development  of  coherent  plans 
for  missionary  education  and  the  provision 
of  those  graded  study  text-books  which  have 
secured  such  a  widespread  use  by  the  best 
of  our  young  life. 

Mr.  Johnson's  cultivated  mind,  his  free- 
dom from  unhealthy  emotionalism,  his  rare 
powers  of  balanced  judgment,  his  intimate 
understanding  of  the  practical  problems  of 
entrance  into  the  churches,  his  sympathy 
with  younger  minds,  and  the  devotional 
bearing  which  discussions  took  in  the  Council 
under  his  leadership,  made  him  the  natural 
and  acclaimed  chairman  of  this  group  of 
eager  and  varied  minds.  During  the  last 
weeks  of  his  life  it  was  in  the  affectionate 
company  of  members  of  that  Council  that 
he  found  some  of  the  deepest  and  happiest 
consolations  of  human  and  divine  fellowship. 

B.  M. 


3.  That  God  will  raise  up  in  China 
leaders  who  will  show  the  people 
under  their  new  conditons  the  Way 
of  life.    (See  pp.  152-3.) 

4.  That  God  will  lead  us  all,  in  the 
Summer  Schools  (see  pp.  161  and  165) 
and  throughout  our  churches  in  the 
autumn  and  winter,  into  a  great 
deepening  of  spiritual  concern  for 
the  evangelisation  of  the  world,  and 
that  the  rising  tide  of  spiritual  de- 
votion to  the  Society  may  express 
itself  in  ever  fuller  support  (see  pp. 
156-7). 


The  Decision  on 
Retrenchment 

THE  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors on  Tuesday,  June  9,  was 
faced  by  the  most  important 
decision  of  the  past  decade,  and 
probably  of  ten  years  to  come. 
A  year  of  unparalleled  financial  uplift, 
which  has  left  the  L.M.S.  still  faced  by  a 
deficit  of  £17,500  on  the  year's 

Unparalleled  working,  placed  the  Board  at  the 
Financial  £     ,      £  !  r  , 

Uplift.  iork  of  two  possible  paths — one 

of  hoping  for  a  further  increase 
in  income  adequate  to  the  Society's  present 
expenditure,  the  other  of  reducing  the  ex- 
penditure to  a  closer  approximation  with  the 
present  income. 

Mr.  A.  J.  Shepheard,  chairman  of  the 
Consultative  and  Finance  Committee,  out- 
lined the  history  by  which  the  Society  has 
been  led  up  to  the  present  point.  A  series 
of  deficits  had  left  the  Society  a  year  ago 
with  an  accumulated  deficiency  of  £72,000, 
and  the  resolution  was  arrived  at  that  a 
reduction  of  £15,000  was  necessary  unless 
a  material  improvement  in  the  Society's 
finances  was  achieved  during  the  year  in 
order  to  reduce  expenditure. 

The  year  ending  March  191 4  realised  a 
financial  development  which  in  two  features 
is  without  parallel  in  the  history  of  the 
Society.  This  is  the  first  occasion,  looking 
back  over  one  hundred  and  fourteen  years 
of  life,  when  the  Society 

1 .  Has  increased  its  general  annual  income 
from  the  British  Isles  by  £10,000  con- 
currently with  the  raising  of  a  great  L.M.S. 
special  fund,  and — 

2.  Has  raised  in  gross  income  at  home  and 
abroad  (including  the  £72,000  paid  on  the 
£100,000  Special  Fund)  over  a  quarter  of  a 
million  pounds.    The  amount  is  £271,000. 

This  splendid  response  to  the  call  of 
the  Society  in  its  day  of  need  must  bring 
great  cheer  to  all  who  are  anxious  for  the 
life  of  the  churches  and  of  the  Society  which 
does  their  work  of  world-evangelisation. 
The  response  shows  a  quickened  spiritual 
vitality  and  a  living,  sacrificial  passion  in 
the  hearts  of  multitudes  of  our  people. 

Obviously  a  material  change  has  taken 
place  in  the  Society's  finances,  but  the 
increase  of  £10,000  in  annual 
short1  ofStiU  income  still  leaves  that  income 
Expenditure.     short    of    the    expenditure  of 

The  Board  last  year  resolved  on  a  policy 
supported  by  the  Congregational  Union  at 
Southend  of  carrying  on  an  educational 
propaganda  and  a  spiritual  campaign  with 


A  Call  for 
Advance 


a  view  to  raising  the  annual  income  by 
£30,000  in  three  years.  That  would  bring 
the  income  from  the  British  Isles  up  to  the 
highest  point  previously  realised.  The  first 
instalment  has  been  realised  by  the  £10,000 
increase  during  the  past  year. 

A  discussion  on  a  very  high  plane  of  mental 
concentration  and  spiritual  elevation  followed 

Th.n^„«ion  in  which  m-  T-  E-  B-  Wilson, 
The  Discussion.  j  p    Qf  Sheffield>  and  Dr  H(Jrton 

moved  successive  amendments  to  a  resolu- 
tion for  reduction  by  £6,500.  Mr.  Wilson's 
resolution  was  in  favour  of  no  reduction  ; 
Dr.  Horton's  in  favour  of  only  such  reduction 
as  was  consistent  with  handing  over  the  work 
thus  cut  off  to  other  societies. 

Dr.  Lavington  Hart  who  had  prepared  and 
circulated  through  the  Board  a  chart  ex- 
pounding the  financial  situation  for  the  last 
decade ;  Dr.  Garvie,  Mr.  Arthur  Porritt 
(who  was  chairman  of  the  Home  Base  Com- 
mittee which  planned  the  campaign  for 
advance  last  year)  ;  the  Rev.  A.  H.  Cullen, 
of  Heaton  Mersey,  and  others  contributed 
to  a  strong  representative  debate. 

F.nally,  the  following  resolution  was 
adopted  : 

(a)  That,  in  view  of  the  increased  income 
from   the   British   Isles   of   upwards  of 

£10,000  during  the  last  year 
Reduction  of  and  of  the  response  of  the 
£6,500.  constituency  to  the  Special 

Appeal  for  £100,000  which  up 
to  March  31  had  brought  in  upwards  of 
£72,000  and  promises  of  an  additional 
£6,500,  the  Board  rejoices  that  it  is  no 
longer  necessary  to  contemplate  a  reduc- 
tion of  £15,000  in  the  annual  expenditure, 
and  resolves  during  the  eighteen  months 
for  which  it  is  now  necessary  to  frame  the 
Society's  Budget,  to  make  a  reduction  at 
the  rate  of  £6,500  per  annum,  and  that 
the  Consultative  and  Finance  Committee 
be  instructed  to  settle  the  Budget  on  this 
basis  after  such  further  consultation  as 
may  be  necessary  with  the  two  Foreign 
Committees  ;  but  that,  while  the  Board 
sincerely  trusts  that  no  further  reduction 
will  be  necessary,  the  Society's  con- 
stituency be  informed  that,  unless  the 
advance  in  income  already  appealed  for  of 
at  least  £10,000  in  the  current  financial 
year  is  realised,  a  further  reduction  to 
bring  the  total  amount  to  £10,000  may  be 
rendered  necessary  at  the  end  of  the 
period  now  budgeted  for. 

(b)  In  view  of  the  changed  financial 


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157 


position,  the  Resolution  with  regard  to 
deferring  the  furloughs  of  missionaries 
adopted  by  the  Board  on  June  10,  191 3, 
be  regarded  as  no  longer  operative. 

The  reduction  resolved  upon  will  be 
divided  between  the  fields  of  the  Society, 

falling  upon  China  largely  in 
The  Bearing  of  n°t  filling  up  vacancies,  on 
he  Reduction.   India  by  actual  proposals  for 

withdrawal  in  South  India,  the 
reduction  of  grant  and  not  filling  up 
vacancies  in  Travancore,  and  withdrawal  of 
men  and  the  failure  to  supply  their  places 
in  North  India.  In  Madagascar  it  is  pro- 
posed to  offer  the  whole  of  the  work  in 
Betsileo  to  the  Paris  Missionary  Society, 
though  with  little  prospect  of  its  being  con- 
tinued unimpaired  ;  and  in  Papua  to 
surrender  the  Torres  Straits  district. 

Where  these  resolutions  are  new,  they  are 
bound  to  have  a  most  serious  effect  on  the 
work  ;  where  they  are  part  of  the  scheme  of 
concentration  and  reconstruction  in  India 
now  adopted  by  the  Board,  they  very 
materially  damage  the  effectiveness  of  the 
scheme.  They  were  regarded  by  the  Board 
as  necessary  in  the  circumstances  ;  but  the 

S8 

The  New  Chairman  of  the  Board 

The  Rev.  A.  J.  Viner,  whose  tenure  of 
office  as  chairman  of  the  Board  was  happily 
described  as  combining  celerity  with  dignity, 
retired  from  office,  and  the  Rev.  A.  R. 
Henderson,  of  Nottingham,  who  as  a  pastor, 
as  member  of  committee,  as  Chairman  of 
the  Examination  Committee,  and  as  Vice- 
Chairman  of  the  Board  has  rendered  splendid 
service  to  the  Society,  was  elected  to  succeed 
him. 

The  Home  Secretariat 

A  special  committee  was  appointed  of  the 
Chairman  and  Vice-Chairman  of  the  Board, 
the  Chairmen  of  the  Home  and  Foreign 


Directors  share  with  all  those  who  have  the 
great  work  of  the  Society  at  heart  the  lively 
hope  that  the  magnificent  revival  of  support 
which  has  been  witnessed  is  but  the  begin- 
ning of  a  steady  and  determined  period  of 
progress. 

We  rejoice  to  share  the  conviction,  as  Mr. 
Arthur  Porritt  put  it,  in  a  cogent  speech 
opposing  the  motion  for  retrenchment,  that 
the  cheer  of  the  past  year  is  only  *'  the  first 
ripple  of  a  new  wave  of  missionary  en- 
thusiasm," or  as  Dr.  Horton  subsequently 
said,  that  "  the  tide  of  spiritual  devotion  to 
the  Society  is  rising." 

The  present  call,  therefore,  is  to  concen- 
trate upon  the  completion  of  the  £100,000 
Fund  by  raising  the  last  £18,000 
The  Present  by  December  and  the  raising  of 
CaU-  the  regular  annual  income  by 

£20,000  (£10,000  this  year  at 
least)  in  order  not  only  to  cover  the  reduced 
Budget,  but  to  restore  the  £6,500  thus  cut 
off.  With  this  in  view  the  campaign  of  the 
past  year  will  be  intensified,  especially  with 
the  aim  of  personal  canvass  of  the  whole  of 
the  members  of  the  churches  supporting  the 
Society,  so  that  the  additional  demand  may 
come  on  new  as  well  as  existing  subscribers. 

Committees,  and  three  members  to  be 
co-opted  by  the  Consultative  and  Finance 
Committee,  to  deal  with  the  situation 
created  by  the  death  of  the  late  Home 
Secretary,  the  Rev.  A.  N.  Johnson. 

The  Indian  Report 

The  report  of  the  deputation  to  India, 
consisting  of  the  Rev.  Frank  Lenwood,  Mrs. 
Lenwood,  and  Mr.  W.  H.  Somervel],  in- 
volving a  considered  and  thorough  scheme  of 
reconstruction  and  concentration,  was  re- 
viewed by  the  Board  and  the  urgent  re- 
commendations adopted,  the  details  having 
been  thoroughly  threshed  out  by  the  Eastern 
Committee  of  the  Society  at  recent  meetings 
specially  convened  for  that  purpose. 


Co-operation  at  Home 

REPRESENTATIVES  of  the  British 
Missionary  Societies  met  from 
June  17  to  19,  at  Swan  wick,  to  consider 
methods  and  lines  of  co-operative  work. 
The  subjects  discussed  covered  the  relation 
of  missions  to  Governments,  Literature  (at 
home  and  abroad),  the  approach  to  the 
press,  plans  for  an  English  campaign  among 
laymen  under  Dr.  Mott's  leadership  in  the 


autumn,  the  working  of  the  Edinburgh 
Continuation  Committee,  the  training  of 
missionaries,  and  the  working  of  Sunday 
schools  in  the  field.  The  L.M.S.  was 
represented  by  Mrs.  May,  Dr.  Wardlaw 
Thompson,  Mr.  F.  H.  Hawkins  (Secretary 
to  the  Conference),  the  Revs.  Frank 
Lenwood  and  Nelson  Bitton,  and  Mr.  Basil 
Mathews. 


Photo  by  Bernard  Turner 
STARTING  A  SCHOOL  UNDER  A  TREE 

IN  the  April  number  of  The  Chronicle 
a  reference  was  made  to  the  indirect 
contribution  which  the  L.M.S.  has 
made  to  the  building  up  of  the  South 
African  Commonwealth  in  the  lives 
and  service  of  the  sons  and  daughters  of  its 
missionaries  who  have  taken  leading  posi- 
tions in  public  life  in  the  Colony.  In  Cen- 
tral Africa  at  the  present  day  the  Society  is 
making  a  more  direct,  and  in  some  respects 
an  even  more  important,  contribution  to  the 
foundation  and  development  of  the  infant 
State  which  one  day  is  going  to  play  a  great 
part  amongst  the  nations  of  Africa. 

The  traveller  of  to-day  who  journeys 
through  the  forest  and  the  long  grass  of  that 
portion  of  Northern  Rhodesia  which  is 
recognised  as  the  missionary  territory  of  the 
Society  will  find  in  nearly  every  large  village 
a  wattle-and-daub  building  which  is  the 
village  school.  In  the  smaller  villages  he 
will  come  across  an  unroofed,  stockaded  en- 
closure which  serves  as  a  school,  or  he  will 
notice  a  group  of  naked  children  gathered 
together  under  the  shadow  of  a  large  tree, 
receiving  instruction  from  a  youthful  teacher. 
Throughout  the  Society's  area  the  only 
education  given  is  that  provided  by  the 
L.M.S. ,  and  it  is  these  primitive  schools  which 
are  the  hope  of  the  future  both  for  the 
Church  and  the  State.  At  the  present  time 
some  225  teachers  and  over  11,000  scholars 
are  associated  with  our  Mission.  It  is  true 
that  the  attainments  of  the  teachers  are 
very  limited.  They  depend  very  largely 
upon  the  instruction  they  receive  from  atten- 
dance for  two  or  three  months  every  year 
at  a  Teachers'  School  at  a  mission  station. 


Civil 
Service ! 


By 

F.  H.  Hawkins 


Many  of  them  would  have  difficulty  in 
passing  the  lower  standards  in  British 
public  elementary  schools.  The  ap- 
paratus of  education  as  we  know  it 
at  home  is  almost  entirely  lacking, 
and  there  are  very  few  school  books. 
Yet  wherever  the  traveller  goes  he 
finds  a  widespread  desire  for  educa- 
tion. The  attendance  at  school  is,  as 
a  general  rule,  very  satisfactory,  and 
it  is  no  uncommon  experience  to  find 
a  crowded  schoolroom  (which  probably  did 
not  cost  more  than  5s.  to  build)  and  half  a 
dozen  classes  being  conducted  in  the  open  ak- 
in the  shade  afforded  by  the  school  building. 
Reading,  writing,  elementary  arithmetic, 
singing,  and  drill  are  the  usual  subjects  of 
the  curriculum.  The  boys  and  girls  who 
gather  together  are  keen  to  learn,  oiten  prob- 
ably because  they  and  their  parents  realise 
that  education  means  money  and  advance- 
ment in  life.  The  children  have  wonderful 
verbal  memories  and  find  no  difficulty  in 
learning  scores  of  hymns  by  heart.  They  are 
very  anxious  to  possess  copies  of  the  few 
books  which  are  printed  in  their  language, 
and  there  are  many  other  indications  of  the 
fact  that  amongst  those  thousands  of  chil- 
dren there  is  excellent  material  for  building 
up  a  new  generation  very  different  from  the 
old. 

The  wonderful  facility  of  the  boys  in  the 
use  of  tools  is  noticeable  wherever  industrial 
training  is  undertaken.  Throughout  North- 
ern Rhodesia  much  of  the  furniture  in  the 
Government  officials'  houses  and  offices  and 
in  the  missionaries'  homes  has  been  made  by 
boys  in  the  Society's  industrial  schools. 

There  being  no  other  provision  for  educa- 
tion, our  teachers  and  educated  boys  are 
eagerly  sought  after  by  the  officials  and 
traders  to  undertake  office  work,  to  recruit 
labourers,  to  superintend  stores,  and  to  act 
as  domestic  servants.  The  attraction  of 
higher  wages  not  unnaturally  draws  teachers 
from  the  service  of  the  Mission.  Their  wages 
in  the  schools  range  from  is.  6d.  to  6s.  per 
month,  with  a  small  allowance  for  food  when 
away  from  home.    In  the  Government  ser- 


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vice  the  police  get  85.  a  month  and  messen- 
gers 6s.  a  month,  but  by  no  means  all  of 
them  can  read  or  write.  An  office  boy  gets 
10s.  a  month,  and  a  clerk  £1  a  month,  and 
some  in  higher  positions  get  from  £1  10s. 
to  £5  a  month.  All,  or  very  nearly  all, 
these  men  have  been  trained  by  the  L.M.S., 
and  the  Government  of  Northern  Rhodesia 
does  not  make  a  grant  of  a  single  penny  to 
the  cost  of  education.  But  for  our  schools 
the  Government  would  be  compelled  to  start 


schools  of  their  own  or  to  seek  their  clerks 
and  servants  from  other  parts. 

It  is  a  matter  for  rejoicing  that  many  of 
the  boys  who  have  been  trained  and  who 
have  gone  out  into  the  service  of  the  Govern- 
ment and  its  officials  take  with  them  their 
Christianity  and  not  infrequently  conduct 
services  and  help  the  work  of  the  Mission  in 
other  ways.  Who  shall  measure  the  gift 
to  the  State  which  the  Society  is  making  in 
Northern  Rhodesia  ? 


Photo  by] 


[Bernara  Tnrnei 


REV.  H.  CECIL    NUTTER  AND  NATIVE  TEACHERS  AT  MBERESHI 


African  Episodes 


T 


Young  Girls  Gome  Forward 

HERE  was  a  considerable  in- 
crease in  the  number  of 
applicants  for  admission  to  the 
church  and  catechumens  class," 
writes  Mrs.  Govan  Robertson, 
of  Kawimbe,  Northern  Rhodesia,  December 
31,  1913,  "among  these  being  half  a 
dozen  young  girls.  The  coming  forward  of 
these  young  girls  cheered  us  exceedingly, 
for  oftentimes  the  women  and  girls  seem 
utterly  indifferent ;  but  these,  I  am  glad 
to  say,  not  only  came  forward,  but  remained 
faithful,  in  some  cases  under  great  tempta- 
tions. 

A  Thanksgiving  Lion  Skin 

"  Then  there  were  larger  contributions 
than  ever  before  at  Kawimbe,  out  of  which 
came  the  cost  of  repairs  to  the  church,  and 
the  putting  in  of  a  new  pulpit,  as  well  as 
other  expenses.  At  the  harvest  thanks- 
giving quite  a  large  number  of  fowls  and 
some  sheep  and  goats  were  brought  as  gifts, 
and  several  large  baths  were  filled  with 
grain  of  various  sorts  on  this  day.  About 
half  an  hour  before  church  time  a  great 
noise  Was  heard  in  the  distance.  This  noise 
gradually  came  nearer,  until  at  last,  from 
the  nature  of  the  songs  being  sung,  we 
knew  that  some  beast  was  being  brought 
in.    It  turned  out  to  be  a  huge  lion  which 


had  been  poisoned  the  night  before,  a  few 
miles  away,  and  the  whole  village  accom- 
panied the  bearers,  amid  the  greatest  noise 
of  rejoicing.  My  husband  suggested  that  as 
it  was  Thanksgiving  Sunday  the  lion's  skin 
should  be  a  contribution,  and  to  this  all 
concerned  agreed.  We  sold  the  skin  for 
£2.  10s." 

A  Ghieftainess  as  Catechumen 

Mr.  W.  Freshwater,  writing  on  his  last 
tour  among  the  Kambole  villages,  December 
191 3,  says  :  "  Although  as  yet  our  teachers 
have  not  reached  a  very  high  intellectual 
standard,  I  found  the  majority  of  them 
faithful  in  their  work,  and  apparently  con- 
sistently earnest.  My  impression  was  that 
they  were  taking  their  work  seriously,  that 
they  were  doing  their  best,  and  doing  good. 
There  are  others  in  the  outlying  districts 
desirous  of  admittance  into  the  catechu- 
menate,  among  whom  is  a  chief tainess. 

"  It  has  been  a  joy  to  me  to  find  that  one 
half  of  these  converts  are  adults,  and  some 
well  advanced  in  years.  Usually  our  reap- 
ings  are  from  among  the  young  people,  but 
the  fact  of  those  of  older  years  thus  coming 
forward  and  throwing  over  their  heathen 
customs  proves  that  steady  and  effectual 
work  has  been  done  by  the  teachers.  These 
things  give  a  bright  outlook  to  the  future. 
The  inquirers  now  number  303,  and  the 
church  roll  stands  at  27." 


One  by  One 
Village  Visits 


By 

Mrs.  Theobald 
of  Mangari 


MANGARI 


CONSIDERING  that  nine-tenths  of 
the  people  of  India  live  in 
villages,  the  importance  of  evan- 
gelistic effort  in  country  places 
cannot  be  over-estimated. 
Life,  as  lived  by  the  vast  agricultural 
population  to-day,  is  practically  what  it 
was  4,000  years  ago.  The  same  primitive 
implements,  methods  of  sowing,  reaping, 
watering,  and  thrashing  have  been  passed 
down  from  father  to  son  through  countless 
generations.  The  dynasties,  wars,  and 
changes  of  government  that  have  from  time 
to  time  swept  over  the  land,  often  de- 
populating large  cities,  have  left  little  mark 
on  village  life.  Truly  "  the  daily  round  and 
common  task  "  furnish  all  that  the  contented 
inhabitants  even  desire  to  ask. 

It  is  among  these  simple  but  caste- 
bound  people  that  Mangari  was  made  a 
mission  centre,  with  resident  missionaries, 
twenty  years  ago. 

\W  w 


Within  a  radius  of  five  miles  there  are  223  villages 

The  district  is  densely  populated,  223 
villages  being  within  a  radius  of  five  miles. 
The  power  of  priestcraft,  which  has  Benares 
for  its  stronghold,  penetrates  into  every 
hamlet,  ignorant  villagers  and  astute  pundits 
alike  owing  allegiance  to  its  sway. 

There  are  no  mass  movements  here — no 
villages  of  out-castes,  ready  to  welcome 
Christianity.  Each  convert  must  be  won 
separately,  and  to  each  so  won  it  frequently 
means  the  loss  of  home,  loved  ones,  and 
employment.  It  will  be  realised,  therefore, 
that  work  in  such  environment  is  of  neces- 
sity extremely  difficult,  and  that  even  such 
a  small  Christian  community  as  ninety-five 
should  be  a  cause  for  thankfulness — though 


A  VILLAGE  MEETING 

Rev.  H.  H.  Theobald  using  Scripture  pictures 
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161 


ingrained  superstition  and  life-long  training 
are  hard  to  eradicate.  What  means  have 
been  used  in  this  sterile  field  during  these 
past  twenty  years  to  bring  forth  such  seem- 
ingly small  results  ? 

(1)  Evangelists  and  their  wives  placed  at 
five  out-stations.  It  has  been  our  hope  that 
the  light  and  love  of  Christian  homes  might 
help  to  dispel  the  darkness  around. 

(2)  Daily  preaching  in  surrounding  vil- 
lages by  the  missionaries  and  their  helpers. 

(3)  Day  and  Sunday  schools  for  girls  and 
boys;  also  night  schools  for  lads  who  are  either 
too  old  or  too  busy  to  attend  during  the  day. 

(4)  Camping  tours  in  the  cold  season  to 
more  distant  centres — the  magic-lantern 
being  a  never-failing  source  of  interest  and 
attraction.  No  appetites  satiated  with 
cinematograph  shows  are  to  be  found  in 
these  village  audiences.  Picture  them — 
men,  women,  and  children,  as  they  sit  under 
the  starry  sky  after  their  long  day's  work  ! 
Most  of  them  are  very  poor  and  very 
ignorant  ;  the  dull  monotony  of  their  lives 
written  on  the  upturned  faces.  The  "  old, 
old  story"  must  be  told  very  "simply," 
for  how  different  is  the  idea  presented  in  it 
of  God  as  a  personal,  loving  Father  to  the 
cold  pantheism  in  which  they  have  been 
reared  !  How  pure  and  up-lifting  the  facts 
of  Christ's  life,  compared  with  the  mytho- 
logical stories  of  their  own  gods  ! 


(5)  A  Farm  Industry  to  provide  a  liveli- 
hood for  some  of  our  converts,  and  lads  who 
have  grown  up  in  the  mission.  Most  of  the 
latter  came  to  us  when  quite  young,  and  so 
have  had  the  advantage  of  years  of  Chris- 
tian training.  Several  now  have  homes  of 
their  own,  and  work  hard  to  support  their 
families.  Besides  the  farmers  (an  average 
of  2^  acres  being  allotted  to  each),  may  be 
mentioned  Daniel,  a  clever  young  tailor  ; 
Monohar,  our  useful  house  servant,  with  his 
sweet  disposition  and  willing  spirit  ;  Maipal, 
the  "  handy  man"  of  the  compound,  water 
carrier,  and  church  caretaker.  Several  of 
these  young  men  have  recently  joined  the 
church. 

The  women's  side  of  the  work  is  suffering 
through  the  enforced  absence  during  the 
past  two  years  of  our  two  lady  missionaries. 
Whether  the  financial  position  of  the  Society 
will  continue  to  hamper  this  branch  of  our 
work  remains  to  be  seen.  We  are  awaiting 
the  verdict  of  the  church  in  this  as  in  the 
wider  issues  at  stake.  In  the  meantime 
we  must  do  all  in  our  power  to  carry  it  on, 
and  tend  the  sick  folk,  who  have  no  medical 
aid  nearer  than  Benares.  May  the  dread 
word  "  Retreat  "  not  be  sounded  in  this 
corner  of  the  battlefield  !  We  want  to 
advance,  and  add  to  the  little  band  of 
Christian  soldiers  who  we  trust  are  the 
nucleus  of  a  great  army. 


Training  for  Leadership 

MR.  BASIL  MATHEWS  will  preside  at 
the  United  Missionary  Summer 
School  from  August  8  to  15  at  "  The  Hayes," 
Swan  wick,  Derbyshire.  The  school  is  in- 
tended for  Study  Circle  leaders,  Sunday- 
school  teachers,  and  workers  amongst 
girls  and  boys  and  young  people,  and  is 
organised  in  consultation  with  the  Free 
Church  Missionary  Societies,  by  the  Free 
Church  Sectional  Committee  of  the  United 
Council  for  Missionary  Education,  formerly 
known  as  the  Y.P.M.M. 

The  programme  will  include  Morning 
Devotional  Addresses  by  the  President,  and 
Evening  Addresses  by  missionaries  from 
China  and  others.  The  greater  part  of  each 
morning  will  be  devoted  to  work  in  groups. 
The  books  and  the  leaders  are  as  follows  : 


1.  Leaders  of  Senior  Study  Circles. 
Text-books:     "The    Regeneration    of  New 

China,"  by  Rev.  Nelson  Bitton,  and  "The 
New  Life  in  China,"  by  Rev.  E.  W.  Wallace, 
B.A.,  B.D. 

Leaders :    Miss  Helen   B.   Byles,   Mr.   H.  L. 
Hemmens,  Rev.  H.  W.  Shipley,  and  others. 

2.  Leaders  and  Teachers  of  Intermediate  (Girls) 
Circles  and  Classes  ;  Officers  of  Girl  Guides  and 
workers  among  girls  of  12  to  15  years  of  age. 


Text-book:    "White  Heroines  of  Africa,"  by 

Miss  Constance  Padwick. 
Probable  Leader  :  Miss  Constance  Padwick. 

3.  Leaders  and  Teachers  of  Intermediate  (Boys) 
Circles  and  Classes,  Scout  and  Brigade  Officers,  and 
workers  among  boys  of  12  to  15  years  of  age. 

Text-book:    "Yarns  of  Chinese  Heroes,"  by 

W.  P.  Nairne. 
Leader:    Mr.   Alfred   H.   Angus,  B.Sc,  Head 
Master  of  Tettenhall  College. 

4.  Leaders  and  Teachers  of  Junior  Circles  and 
Classes,  and  workers  among  girls  and  boys  of  8  to  12 
years  of  age. 

Text-book:    "Talks  on  Changing  China,"  by 

Mrs.  Whimster  (;:ee  Entwistle). 
Leader :  Miss  Margaret  S.  Impey,  B.A. 

5.  Superintendents  and  Teachers  of  Primary  De- 
partments, and  workers  among  children  under  8  years 
of  age. 

Text-book:   "  Taro.    A  Little  Boy  of  Japan," 

by  Miss  Mary  Entwistle. 
Leader:  Miss  Mary  Entwistle. 

The  cost  of  board  and  lodging  is  30s.,  and 
the  Registration  Fee  in  addition  is  2s.  6d. 
Further  particulars  may  be  obtained  from 
the  secretary,  the  Rev.  G.  A.  Hamson, 
Cathedral  House,  8,  Paternoster  Row,  E.C. 


Ten  Years  in 
Tsangchow 

A  Cinema  Film  of  China's  Change 

THE  changes  that  have  swept  over 
the  country,  the  astonishing  de- 
velopment of  modern  education 
in  all  the  provinces,  the  abandon- 
ment of  time-honoured  customs 
thought  to  be  firmly  embedded  in  the 
national  character,  the  evolution  of  new 
social  ideas,  and  the  revolutions  that  have 
first    driven  the 


By 

Arnold  Bryson 


Manchu  usurpers 
from  the  Dragon 
Throne,  and  then  em- 
phasised the  power 
of  an  autocratic  Pre- 
sident—  all  these 
rapidly  moving 
events,  together 
make  up  a  cinema 
film  of  enthralling 
interest  and  aston- 
ishing variety. 

To  us  as  a  mission 
in  Tsangchow,  the 
years  have  taken  a 
heavy  toll,  and  of 
the  foreign  staff  that 
greeted  me  on  my 
arrival  in  November 
1903,  not  one  re- 
mains. Arthur  Peill 
and  David  Murray, 
the  founders  of  the 
work  have  both  left 
us,  the  one  for 
"  higher  service, " 
the  other  retired, 
broken  in  health,  but 
undaunted  in  spirit, 
after  twenty  years  in 
North  China. 

It  is  impossible  to  do  justice  to  the  value  of 
Mr.  Murray's  work  in  laying  the  foundations 
of  the  Tsangchow  missions.  Possessed  of  an 
unerring  tact  in  dealing  with  the  Chinese, 
and  a  wide  knowledge  of  theii  language  and 
character,  he  was  enabled  to  overcome  great 
difficulties  in  the  initial  stages  of  the  work 
among  a  people  notorious  for  their  hostility 
to  Christianity.  The  present  happy  relations 
that  exist  between  the  mission  and  all  classes 
of  society  in  the  city  are  the  legacy  of  David 
Murray  and  Arthur  Peill's  wise  and  con- 
ciliatory pioneer  efforts. 

Surveying  the  Field 

The  autumn  of  191 3  was  made  memorable 
by  a  welcome  visit  from  Mr.  Sidney  J.  W. 


Clark — that  indefatigable  traveller  and  ex- 
pert on  missionary  problems.  Together  we 
made  a  careful  survey  of  the  whole  Tsang- 
chow field,  and  in  six  weeks'  hard  travelling, 
covered  close  upon  700  miles  in  the  mission 
"  buggy,"  visiting  124  market-towns  and 
villages  in  the  nine  counties  lying  within 
our  sphere  of  influence. 

During  the  trip  we  were  accompanied  by 
our  leading  preachers 
in  turn,  and  to  us 
each  and  all  there 
came,  as  the  result 
of  our  investigations, 
an  overwhelming  im- 
pression of  the extent 
ofthetaskcommitted 
to  us.  Upon  us  as 
a  mission  rests  the 
responsibility  of 
evangelising  this 
enormous  area.  The 
district  already  in- 
fluenced represents 
but  a  fraction  of 
the  whole  territory 
within  our  bound- 
aries. Truly  it  is 
an  undertaking  that 
demands  the  utmost 
resources  of  the 
Chinese  Church,  and 
the  consecrated  un- 
flagging energies  of 
many  lives.  The 
whole  mission  policy 
and  methods  of  evan- 
gelisation adopted  in 
recent  years  came 
up  for  review  as  we 
journeyed  through 
wide  tracts  of  untouched,  thickly  populated 
country  within  easy  reach  of  Tsangchow. 

Back  to  the  Fighting-line 

I  spent  all  November  in  one  of  our  oldest 
centres,  Chouchia  (Joe  Jar),  60  miles  to  the 
south,  in  Ch'ing  yun  county,  where  there 
is  a  church  of  some  fifty  members.  In 
company  with  the  local  pastor,  Mr.  Teng, 
and  another  preacher  with  the  help  of  a 
few  volunteers,  we  conducted  a  vigorous 
campaign  by  day  in  the  neighbouring  vil- 
lages, and  market  centres  within  reach,  while 
at  night  the  members  and  adherents  of  the 
church  were  organised  into  classes  to  study 
Mark's  Gospel.  I  hope  to  receive  twenty 
proposed  new  members  on  my  next  visit. 
62 


Photo  by\  [M.  Edwards 

Mr.  Chi,  Tutor  at  the  Theological  College,  on  the 
right  ox  the  group,  and  students  at  Tsangchow 


The  China  of  To-day  of°To 


Fot^the  People 
morrow 


Yarns  on  Heroes 
of  China 

A  New  Book  for  Leaders  and 
Teachers  of  Boys 

YARNS  of  South  Sea  Pioneers  "  last 
year  was  an  experiment  in  pro- 
viding material  for  Brigade  Captains,  Scout 
Leaders,  and  other  workers  among  boys. 
The  fact  that  the  first  edition  of  10,000 
was  quickly  sold  and  a  second  edition 
called  for  and  issued  indicates  that  a  real 
need  was  met.  Now  Mr.  W.  P.  Nairne  has 
written  "Yarns  on  Heroes  of  China"  (6d. 
net,  post  free  j%d.,  L.M.S.)  as  the  second 
volume  in  the  series.  Readers  of  his  "  Great- 
heart  of  Papua  "  and  of  "Tomalo  the  Torch- 
bearer  "  in  News  from  Afar  will  expect 
exciting  stories  written  with  a  power  to  grip 
boys.  All  the  yarns  are  historically  true. 
Mr.  Deaville  Walker  has  written  brilliantly 
helpful  and  historically  illuminating  Notes 
and  Suggestions  for  those  telling  the 
"  Yarns,"  with  a  view  to  carrying  on  a  con- 
versation with  the  boys  after  telling  each 
yarn.  Mr.  Stanley  Nairne  has  contributed 
outlines  of  addresses  for  Bible  classes,  etc., 
on  each  yarn. 


A  Bullet's  Adventures  * 

By  the  Rev.  W.  E.  Soothill,  M.A., 
Late  Principal  of  the  Shansi  University 

ONE  has  often  heard  of  guns  speaking, 
but  never  of  a  bullet  writing  a  book. 
This  particular  bullet  has  surely  a  most 
unusual  development ;  its  ears  must  be  very 
large  to  have  heard  all  the  remarkable  things 
it  did  hear,  its  eyes  preternaturally  bright  to 
have  seen  so  clearly  to  give  such  a  faithful 
and  fascinating  record  of  the  Revolution  in 
and  about  Hankow,  and  its  very  nose  sharper 
than  any  Western  bullet's  nose  to  "  smell  " 
the  "  antiseptics  "  in  the  hospital  which  it 
visited. 

Hide  himself  as  he  may,  the  real  author 
stands  revealed.  It  was  no  bullet  that  wrote 
this  book.  The  author  is  undoubtedly  my 
old  friend  Bernard  Upward,  and  he  has  put 
into  the  mouth  of  his  bullet — if  a  bullet  ever 
has  a  mouth — a  very  succinct  and  attractive 
account  of  his  own  experiences  during  the 
terrible  months  of  the  Revolution. 

He  and  his  companions  bore  themselves, 
as  Christian  missionaries  can  generally  be 
trusted  to  do,  bravely,  wisely,  generously.  A 
mere  handful  of  such  men  did  more  in  a  few 
brief  weeks  to  break  down  anti-foreign  feeling 
and  open  the  way  for  the  Gospel  than  a 
multitude  of  others  have  had  the  opportunity 
of  doing  in  long  years  of  devoted  service. 
"  These  foreigners  treat  us  better  than  our 
own  folk  do." 

His  testimony  to  the  pluck  and  devotion  of 
the  Chinese  is  all  that  could  be  desired,  as  is 
shown  in  pp.  73,  91,  104,  and  elsewhere.  And 
the  evidence  he  gives  of  the  gracious  work 
of  the  Red  Cross  Corps,  and  its  acceptance 
amongst  all  classes,  assures  us  once  again  of 
the  ultimate  triumph  of  all  that  is  meant  by 
the  Cross.  For  the  spirit  of  the  Cross  will 
not  only  assert  itself  in  time  of  war,  but  will 
dominate  over  and  subdue  war  itself.  In 
this  book  we  behold  it  as  the  herald  on  the 
field  of  blood  and  suffering  of  the  day  that 
is  surely  coming,  when  the  Prince  of  Peace 
shall  have  destroyed  war,  and  brought  the 
races  of  the  world  into  a  happier  rivalry,  in 
which  the  boast  shall  be  not  of  numbers 
slain,  or  territory  overrun,  but  of  achieve- 
ments that  add  to  the  sum  of  human 
welfare. 

I  heartily  commend  this  excellent  book. 
May  the  bullet  find  many  a  billet  in  the 
hearts  both  of  young  and  of  old. 

*  "  The  Adventures  of  a  Bullet."  By 
Bernard  Upward.  (L.M.S.  is.  net,  post  free 
is.  3d.) 


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From  North 
and  South 


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r ,   i  ,     i   o  i 


By  the  late 

Rev.  G.  T.  Coster 

Music  by  A.  Vennell  Coster 

■4,-H — rkzhd — h 


F 


ROM  north  and  south  and  east 
and  west, 
When  shall  the  peoples,  long 
unblest, 

All  find  their  everlasting  rest, 
O  Christ,  in  Thee  ? 


Oh 


Orient 


When  shall  the  climes  of  ageless 
snow 

Be  with  the  Gospel  light  aglow  ; 
And  all  men  their  Redeemer  know, 
O  Christ,  in  Thee  ? 

When   on   each   southern  balmy 
coast 

Shall  ransomed  men,  in  countless 
host, 

Rise,  heart  and  voice,  to  make 
sweet  boast, 
O  Christ,  in  Thee  ? 


when, 
lands, 

From    cities  white   and  naming 
sands, 

Shall  men  lift  dedicated  hands, 
O  Christ,  to  Thee  ? 

Oh  when  shall  heathen  darkness 
roll 

Away    in    light    from    pole  to 
pole, 

And  endless  day  by  every  soul 
Be  found  in  Thee  ? 

Bring,   IyOrd,    the  long-predicted 
hour, 

The  ages'  diadem  and  flower, 
When  all  shall  find  their  Refuge, 
Tower, 

And  Home  in  Thee  ! 


Polished  Treasures 

A WOMAN  of  slender  means  has  sent 
30s.  towards  the  deficiency,  in  florins 
and  half-crowns.  These  are  all  highly 
polished  and  of  considerable  age,  for  they 
have  long  been  treasured  "  in  memory  of 
two  dear  ones."  When  this  friend  heard  of 
the  great  shortage  in  our  income  from  the 
churches,  and  of  the  crippling  of  the  work 
in  the  mission  field  through  lack  of  funds, 
she  felt  the  time  had  come  to  give  her  sacred 
treasure  to  her  Lord,  and  surely  it  is  as 
ointment  poured  forth. 


Her  Birthday  Cake 

A MINISTER  in  Sussex,  having  preached 
a  missionary  sermon  this  autumn,  was 
met  after  the  evening  service  by  a  girl  who 
came  bringing  25.  She  was  to  have  had  a 
birthday  cake  for  her  birthday,  but  chose  to 
go  without  it  in  order  to  help  the  Society. 

FIFTY-FOUR  boxes  were  issued  a  couple 
of  months  ago  in  a  church,  and  now 
the  contents  of  half  of  them  have  been 
brought  in  and  added  to  the  L.M.S.  Sunday 
Collection.  Instead  of  getting  £12  as  last 
year,  the  result  was  ^34 .  The  Missionary  Box 
means  greater  subscriptions  without  strain. 


Summer  Schools 

APPLICATIONS  have  come  in  well, 
and  we  are  glad  to  welcome  a 
large  number  of  new  members. 
There  is  still  room  at  all  three 
Schools,  and  we  shall  especially 
be  glad  to  hear  from  men  wishing  to  camp. 
(•  The  following  is  a  list  of  the  Speakers  as 
at  present  arranged : 

SCARBOROUGH 

August  1-8  : 

President :  Rev.  G.  T.  Dickin,  M.A.,  B.Sc. 
Speakers  :  Rev.  A.  H.  Cullen  ;  Rev.  A. 

N.  Rowland,  M.A.  ;   Rev.  W.  Carson  ; 

Miss  Moore,  of  Samoa. 
Study  Sessions  in  charge  of  Rev.  E.  A. 

Preston. 
August  8-15  : 
President :  Mr.  F.  H.  Hawkins,  LL.B. 
Speakers  :  Rev.  S.  F.  Wicks  ;  Rev.  W.  N. 

Bitton  ;  Rev.  Walter  Huckett ;  Miss 

Foggitt,  of  Shanghai ;  Rev.  E.  H.  Lewis, 

of  Bellary. 
Study  Sessions  in  charge  of  Mr.  A.  Birkmire. 

HINDHEAD 

August  15-22  : 

President :  Rev.  G.  E.  Darlaston,  M.A. 
Speakers  :  Rev.  Phillips  Rogers,  M.A.  ; 
Rev.  B.  A.  Yeaxlee,  B.A.  ;  Rev.  F. 
Lenwood,  M.A.  ;  Dr.  T.  T.  Thomson,  of 
Jammalamadugu  ;  Miss  Organe,  of  Han- 
kow. 

Study  Sessions  in  charge  of  Rev.  E.  A. 
Preston  and  Miss  Collard. 

'▼All  applications  and  inquiries  for  these 
two  Schools  should  be  addressed  to  Miss 
C.  Benham,  L.M.S.,  16,  New  Bridge  Street, 
E.C. 

ST.  ANDREWS 

Friday,  July  24  to  August  7 
We  are  looking  forward  to  another  strong 
and  effective  School  at  St.  Andrews,  and 
are  confident  that  our  hopes  will  not  be 
disappointed.    The  mere  list  of  those  who 

Wants 

VERY  many  thanks  to  the  friends  who 
have  so  kindly  given  the  Inter- 
national Missionary  Review,  Matthew 
Henry's  "  Commentaries  "  (several  copies 
have  been  given  for  Indian  evangelists),  and 
two  violins. 

Other  articles  mentioned  in  the  June 
Chronicle  are  still  needed.  Also  the 
following  : 

Miss  Stevens,  of  Mirzapur,  would  greatly 
value  some  of  Hole's  pictures  of  the  Life 
of  Christ,  in  a  good  size,  for  teaching  pur- 


have  consented  to  take  part  abundantly 
justifies  our  expectation .  Our  Presidents  are : 

Rev.  W.  Morton  Barwell,  M.A. 
Rev.  H.  A.  Inglis,  M.A. 

Our  leaders  of  Bible  Study  : 

Rev.  C.  McEvoy,  Cricklewood. 
Rev.  George  Barrett,  Lincoln. 

Dr.  Lavington  Hart  will  be  with  us  from 
the  middle  of  the  first  week  to  the  middle  of 
the  second.  The  Revs.  J.  A.  Ross,  of  Central 
Africa,  J.  Sharman,  of  Madagascar,  and  Miss 
Hilda  Johnson,  of  Calcutta,  will  be  present. 
Under  the  competent  guidance  of  Mr.  Barker, 
we  shall  take  up  in  the  Study  Circles  the 
new  textbook  by  Mr.  Nelson  Bitton,  "  The 
Regeneration  of  the  Church  in  China . ' '  Other 
addresses  will  be  delivered  by  Dr.  Chas. 
Somerville,  of  Wuchang,  Rev.  T.  S.  Taylor, 
M.A.,  B.Litt.,  now  of  Eccles,  Rev.  J.  C. 
Ormerod,  M.A.,  Airdrie,  and  others. 

One  special  feature  of  the  School  this  year, 
constituting,  indeed,  a  new  departure,  will 
be  the  amount  of  attention  devoted  to  work 
amongst  young  people.  Miss  Ackland, 
M.A.,  of  Glasgow,  who  is  an  expert  in  this 
province,  will  guide  us  at  the  beginning  of 
the  first  week,  and  Miss  K.  M.  Robertson, 
M.A.,  during  the  second.  Provision  will  be 
made  for  those  who  have  led  Circles  now  for 
several  years,  and  due  consideration  taken  for 
others  who  have  had  no  experience  at  all. 

The  number  of  applications  is  already 
more  than  double  that  of  last  year.  Buc 
our  accommodation  is  ample.  While  all 
the  places  at  22s.  6d.  are  now  taken  up,  we 
have  abundance  of  room  for  others  who  are 
willing  to  pay  from  255.  to  35s.  University 
Hall  might  have  been  planned  and  built  for 
our  very  purpose.  It  is  ideal  as  a  residence 
for  Summer  School,  just  as  St.  Andrews  is 
for  a  holiday. 

For  all  further  information  apply  to 
Rev.  W.  G.  Allan,  B.D.,  75,  Colinton  Road, 
Edinburgh. 


poses ;  also  some  lantern  slides  of  the 
same. 

Mr.  Ross,  of  Central  Africa,  wonders  if  any 
friend,  or  any  group  of  friends,  would  enable 
him  to  procure  a  pair  of  wooden  legs  for  a 
native  man  who  has  had  both  his  legs  am- 
putated. Mr.  Ross  tells  the  very  interest- 
ing story  of  "  Kalolo  "  in  Universal  Bro- 
therhood for  June,  free  on  application,  and 
he  will  be  pleased  to  answer  any  inquiries, 
which  may  be  addressed  to  him  at  the 
Mission  House.  Clara  Benham. 


A 

New 

Home 

for 

Nurses 

By 

Mrs.  Gibson 


THE  newly  built  Nurses'  Home  in 
connection  with  the  medical- 
mission  work  here  was  opened  by- 
Lady  May  on  March  3,  in  the 
presence  of  many  friends,  among 
whom  were  Hon.  Sir  Kai  Ho  Kai,  Kt., 
C.M.G.,  and  Lady  Ho  Kai.  Lady  May  was 
presented  with  a  gold  key  by  Mr.  Chau 
Siu  Ki,  and  after  the  building  was  declared 
open  the  Rev.  T.  W.  Pearce  offered  up  a 
dedicatory  prayer.  Sir  Kai  Ho  Kai  and 
Mr.  R.  M.  Gibson  gave  a  short  history  of 
nursing  and  its  progress,  and  acknowledged 
the  generosity  of  the  Chinese  gentlemen 
who  had  come  forward  and  helped  to  provide 
adequate  accommodation  for  the  pupil- 
nurses  and  the  matron.  A  bouquet  of 
flowers,  arranged  by  Miss  Muriel  Whiting 
(daughter  of  one  of  our  Society's  Directors), 
was  handed  to  Lady  May  by  the  senior 
pupil-nurse. 

The  Home  has  been  built  and  furnished 
entirely  by  Chinese  friends,  and  thus  with- 
out expense  to  the  Society. 

Twenty  years  ago  it  was  matter  of  great 

Dr.  Fowler,  of  Siaokan 

PRESIDENT  YUAN  SHIH  KAI  has 
conferred  on  Dr.  Henry  Fowler,  of 
the  London  Missionary  Society's  Hos- 
pital, Siaokan,  Central  China,  the  Sixth 
Order  of  the  Felicitous  Grain  "  for  the  ex- 
cellent service  you  rendered  during  the 
Revolution." 


difficulty  to  obtain  women  willing  to  attend 
the  sick,  much  less  the  dying,  and  there 
was  a  day  when  the  matron  came  in  great 
triumph  and  announced  that  one  of  the 
nurses  had,  of  her  own  accord,  attended 
to  a  patient  in  extremis.  Hitherto  Mrs. 
Stevens  had  always  done  so  herself,  as  it 
was  repugnant  to  the  native  women  to  do 
so.  In  time  her  quiet  example  commended 
itself,  with  result  as  related.  There  were 
few  maternity  cases  in  those  days,  but  few 
as  they  were  the  accommodation  was  un- 
suitable, and  efforts  were  made  to  get 
funds  to  provide  a  special  ward  for  them, 
and  Mrs.  Stevens  was  eager  to  train  women 
as  midwives  to  work  among  the  people  in 
their  own  homes.  The  Chinese,  hearing  of 
the  project,  came  forward  and  built  our 
Maternity  Hospital.  This  gave  a  great 
impetus  to  the  number  of  applicants  for 
training.  Of  the  number  who  have  finished 
their  training,  one  has  gone  to  Trinidad  to 
work,  one  pursues  her  calling  in  Manchuria, 
four  have  gone  to  the  Straits  Settlements, 
the  services  of  one  are  paid  for  by  the 
village  elders  in  Cheung  Chau  (an  island  near 
Hong  Kong),  and  ten  of  the  number  are 
employed  as  District  Midwives  by  the 
Hong  Kong  Government.  By  the  opening 
of  the  new  Home  we  are  able  to  accommodate 
twenty-four  nurses  instead  of  twelve  as 
hitherto. 


The  Order  of  the  Felicitous  Grain 

The  decoration  has  reached  Dr.  Fowler 
with  the  certificate  regarding  the  work'done 
by  him  in  the  very  centre  of  the  military 
operations.  The  idea  conveyed  by  the 
"  Felicitous  Grain  "  is  that  of  our  cornu- 
copia— the  notion  being  of  one  who  has 
poured  himself  out  for  others. 


166 


The  New  Head  Master 
of  Eltham  College 


School  for  the 
Sons  of 
Missionaries 


Mr.  George  Robertson,  M.A. 


MISSIONARY  parents  in  aU  fields 
will  hear  with  interest  of  the 
appointment  of  a  new  head 
master  in  the  school  with  which 
so  many  of  their  boys  have 
been  associated. 

The  present  head  of  the  school,  Mr.  W,  B. 
Hay  ward,  having  decided  to  retire,  after 
twenty-one  years'  control  of  its  work,  the 
Governors  have  elected  to  succeed  him  Mr. 
George  Robertson,  M.A.  of  Edinburgh  and 
Oxford. 

Mr.  Robertson  is  thirty-one  years  of  age, 
a  member  of  the  United  Free  Church  of 
Scotland,  and  married  a  daughter  of  the 
late  John  Ross,  Esq.,  M.A.,  who  was  for 
forty  years  rector  of  the  High  School  of 
Arbroath.  Passing  from  the  famous  George 
Watson's  School  in  Edinburgh,  with  the 
highest  distinction  he  entered  Edinburgh 
University,  and  took  in  succession  the  Vans 
Dunlop  Scholarship  in  classical  learning, 
First-Class  Honours  in  Classics,  and  the 
Mackenzie    Scholarship    in    Classics  and 


English  Literature.  From  Edinburgh  he 
went  to  Balliol  College,  Oxford,  with  a  Major 
Exhibition,  and  devoting  himself  to  classics 
eventually  took  the  distinctions  most  coveted 
by  students,  viz.  the  First  Craven  and  Ireland 
Scholarships. 

At  the  close  of  his  University  career,  Mr. 
Robertson  was  appointed  Professor  of 
Classics  in  the  Grey  University  College, 
Bloemfontein,  and  acted  for  a  time  as  Chair- 
man of  the  Senate.  He  also  had  experience 
of  hostel  life  with  the  students,  and  in  these 
two  capacities  won  for  himself  a  sound 
reputation  as  an  administrator  and  a  friend. 

Returning  home  in  191 3,  Mr.  Robertson 
was  temporarily  appointed  to  the  charge  of 
the  classical  sixth  form  at  the  famous 
Dulwich  College,  and  he  comes  from  that 
work  to  the  headship  of  Eltham  School, 
having  made  for  himself  a  good  record  as  a 
teacher,  and  better  still,  in  the  words  of  the 
one  most  intimately  acquainted  with  Dulwich 
College,  as  "a  kind,  practical,  and  sympathetic 
man,  earnest  and  capable,  understanding 
what  boys  need,  able  to  win  their  respect. 
.  .  .  always  reasonable  and  helpful." 

In  the  things  which  matter  more  than 
scholarship,  Mr.  Robertson  has  had  a  sound 
and  adequate  preparation.  He  himself 
freely  confesses  the  debt  which  he  owes  to  his 
religious  heritage,  and  to  the  influence  of 
Dr.  John  Kelman.  He  made  himself  busy 
in  Bloemfontein  with  activities  as  Elder 
and  Session  Clerk  to  the  Presbyterian  Church 
of  that  city. 

Reference  has  been  made  to  Mrs.  Robert- 
son, who  is  herself  a  distinguished  graduate 
of  Edinburgh  University.  She,  with  her 
two  young  children,  comes  to  the  School 
House  to  add  what  is  always  desirable  there 
— the  knowledge  which  comes  of  mother- 
hood and  a  long  inherited  acquaintance  with 
the  inner  side  of  the  life  of  boys  at  school. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robertson  have  seen 
much  of  the  life  of  the  foreign  field  and  know 
its  problems  for  parents  ;  and  the  governing 
body  of  the  school  believe  that  they  have 
entrusted  the  control  of  its  many-sided 
life  to  one  who  will  safeguard  its  best 
interests,  and  lead  it  to  even  larger  useful- 
ness and  distinction  than  it  has  yet  gained. 

No  small  part  of  this  desirable  future  will 
depend  upon  the  earnest  co-operation  of  all 
who  value  the  work  which  Eltham  College 
is  designed  to  accomplish.  Parents,  old 
boys,  and  the  great  multitude  of  friends  which 
the  schooL  possesses  can  alike  help  to  fill  its 
atmosphere  with  hope  and  confidence. 


167 


A  nnouncements 


[July  igi4 


"  His  captain  believed " 

Now  Chinese  Republic  Vice-President 

"  OING  round  the  hospital  ward  one 
vJT  day  "  (wrote  Dr.  Davenport  in  the 
Wuchang  report  in  1903)  "a  soldier  asked 
me  if  we  would  give  him  some  books  to  read. 
Certainly,  we  said  ;  and  asked  him  if  he  had 
heard  the  Gospel.  'Yes/  he  said;  'his 
captain  believed  and  exhorted  his  men  to  give 
up  idoi  wcrsnip,  observe  the  Sabbath,  wor- 
ship God,  etc' 

"  We  have  heard  before  of  this  army 
captain,  and  know  he  had  the  reputation 
of  having  'eaten  the  foreign  religion,'  as 
accepting  Christ  was  called.  Numbers  of 
soldiers  come  to  us  for  treatment,  and  it  is 
marvellous  what  a  change  for  the  better  has 
come  over  them.  We  may,  I  think,  feel  sure 
that  such  work  as  Medical  Missions  has  been 
no  small  factor  in  bringing  about  these 
changes. 

"  We  feel  confident  that  there  are  forces 
at  work  and  a  leavening  influence  acting 
which,  aided  by  the  prayers  of  God's  people, 
will  before  long  yield  an  abundant  harvest." 

"  This  captain  "  (writes  Dr.  Davenport 
now  in  1914)  "  was  none  other  than  Li  Yuan 
Hung,  the  chief  actor  in  the  great  Revolution 
of  1911-12,  and  now  Vice-President  of  the 
Chinese  Republic.  This  circumstance  clearly 
denotes  the  wonderful  forces  at  work,  in  the 
past  and  at  present,  in  the  difficult  task  of 
leading  the  new  China  up  the  Hill  Difficulty 
which  faces  it  to-day. 

Homes  for  Missionaries 
on  Furlough 

WHAT  a  comfort  it  is  to  a  missionary  and 
his  family  to  know  that  when  they 
arrive  in  the  homeland  after  a  term  of  ser- 
vice there  is  a  furnished  home  awaiting 
them.  There  are  eight  or  nine  such  houses 
situated  in  London  and  the  country,  varying 
in  size  to  meet  all  requirements. 

A  rent  of  ^42  per  annum  is  charged,  which 
includes  all  rates  and  taxes. 

A  list  of  the  homes  is  given  below : 
Gilmour   House,    Clapham.      Occupant  : 
Rev.  E.  Pryce  Jones. 


Mills  House,  Catford.  Occupant  :  Rev.  H. 
Robertson. 

Livingstone  House,  Stamford  Hill.  Occu- 
pant :  Rev.  A.  Sleep. 

Lockhart  House,  Hither  Green.  Vacant. 

Madras  House,  Stroud  Green.  Vacant. 

Colborne  House,  Tulse  Hill.  Vacant. 

Moffat  House,  Hove.  Occupant  :  Mrs. 
Warren. 

Sleddon  House,  Southport.  To  be  occupied 
by  Rev.  E.  H.  Lewis. 

As  the  rents  received  are  not  sufficient  for 
the  upkeep  of  the  houses,  we  appeal  to  all 
friends  of  missionaries  to  help  us  by  becoming 
annual  subscribers,  on  by  sending  a  donation. 

All  communications  to  be  addressed  to 
166-7,  Bank  Chambers,  329,  High  Holborn, 
W.C. 

H.  C.  Martyn  Wilkins, 

Hon.  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 


ANNOUNCEMENTS 


Arrivals 


Mrs.  E.  S.  Oakley  and  daughter  from  Almora,  N.  India. 
May  8. 

Dr.  S.  Eavlngton  Hart  and  Dr.  E.  C.  and  Mrs.  Peake  and 

two  children  from  Tientsin,  China,  May  11. 
Rev.  J.  and  Mrs.  Whiteside  from  Tjimali,  S.  Africa, 

May  12. 

Dr.   W.  and  Mrs.  McFarlane  anl  two  children  from 

Mbereshi,  C.  Africa,  May  19. 
Rev.  E.  and  Mrs.  Hawker  from  Eeulumoega,  Samoa, 

May  23. 

Rev.  T.  H.  Caren  from  Canton,  China,  May  23. 
Rev.  A.  and  Mrs.  Parker  from  Trivandrum,  S.  India, 
June  6. 

Rev.  A.  S.  HucKETT  from  Fianarantsoa,  Madagascar, 
and  Rev.  R.  Griffith  from  Tananarive,  Madagascar, 
June  6. 


Departure 

Mdlle  Y.  Du  Commtjn  returning  to  Tananarive,  Mada- 
gascar, per  steamer  Yarra,  via  Marseilles,  May  28. 


'Births 

Butcher. — On  February  2,  at  Brisbane,  the  wife  of  the 

Rev.  B.  T.  Butcher,  of  a  daughter. 
Riley. — Oc  April  12,  at  Sydney,  N.S.  Wales,  to  Rev.  E. 

Baxter  and  Mrs.  Riley,  of  Daru,  Papua,  a  son. 


Marriage 

Eastman — Grimwade. — On  April  16,  at  the  Devonport 
Congregational  Church,  Auckland,  New  Zealand,  by 
the  Rev.  K.  M.  Forbes-Ewan,  assisted  by  the  Rev.  H. 
Steele  Craik  (Mt.  Eden),  Rev.  George  Herbert  Eastman, 
of  the  EMS.  Rarotonga,  Cook  Islands,  to  Winifred 
Hilda,  daughter  of  Alderman  J.  H.  Grimwade,  J. P.,  and 
Mrs.  Grimwade,  Bacton  House,  Ipswich. 


Golden  Wedding. 

Wareham — Carling. — On  April  6,  1864,  at  Bunyan  Meeting, 
Bedford,  by  the  Rev.  John  Brown,  B.A.,  the  Rev. 
E.  A'.pcrc  Wareham  to  Susannah  R.  Carling. 


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