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shame, so many people seem eager to pick up and pass on any- thing which might tell against mission work, no matter how ill authenticated. A local news- paper recently said, in an insiden- tal paragraph, that as people come to know what is actually going on, Subscriptions to mis- sions were falling off. That is one of many such idle words for which account will bave to.. be given in the day of judgment. It also happens to be quite untrue. Subscriptions to missions are not falling off. The C. M. S. had a special day of thanksgiving last February, for, I believe, the larg- est anqual income in its history. Other societies have had a similar experience, notwithstanding all the heavy claims of the war, perhaps indeed because of them. Being that white people are taking one side of lifa seriously they are more disposed to do the same in others.
something for her villages. Carry on your big hospital in Shanghai, your Colleges in Hankow, or
As to knowing what is actually Peking, your crowed Y. M. C._A. | gong on, did you ever hear of in Hongkong, by all means. But any missionary board or body you must not forget the men in which is not anxious above all the village, nor the woman, nor else that people should take
their boys and girls and babies. means to do that very thing? And if you are to spread the light Why, it is the constant cry of
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on Sunday morning was in the interests of the Hongkong and foot of the colporteur and the tions to examine and report. Get the New Territories Evangelisa-, Biblewomen and the itinerant together representatives of all the tion Society, whose annual meet- worker of every kind, who go hard-headed, critically-disposed, ing was announced for next trudging through the Daddy-unsentimental elements in your Wednesday. The Rev. J. Kirk fields from one settlement constituency, and let them look Machonachie took as his text to another, and talk い the into every nook and corner and Mac. 9.33-—~ Jesus went through, people shout great things which list and ledger. They will not all the cities and the villages, would never otherwise come up find perfection; they may be able
"FRISCO STANDARD MARINE ENGINES, "COPPER teaching in their synagogues, on their horizon. And you must to suggest improvements. But QUEEN BELTING, SKOOKUM PACKING, ELECTRIC and healing all manner of disease care for the village Church and they will come back glorifying MOTORS, and all manner of sickness the country school where little God and saying that the half had It was 2 years, he remarked, companies of beginners in Chris-never been told them, and finding since he first preached from that tian knowledge and practice are reason for the future to specialise text the occasion being what was working out the ever-recurring less in hard-headedness and try called Rural Mission Sunday" problems of personal and Church whether God's work might not ́in the suburban Church where he life as if they were writing a dew thrive on a little warm-hearted- was assister, which looked to volume of the Acts of the Apost-ness for a change. The very ward industrial Lancashire on les, which indeed they are: Of Erst paragraph in our Society's the one side and over the green | this land of villages a certain new report invites your inspèc" "Cheshire plains on the other, and small square mileage is under tion and expresses the hope that generously maintained mission British administration. It is you will give it. St. John says: efforts in both. Four or five known as the New Territory, but "He that doeth true cometh to country chapels were associated is getting less new every year. the light, that his deeds may be with the mother church, and in like the rest of us, and, unlike made manifest that they are giving them what help he could some of us. as it grows older wrought in God." One may add he had enlarged his knowledge. į ir shows growing signs of that he who does not wish to begun during student days in improvement. It reminds one learn that truth takes care not to Devon, of village life in England. of the district we read of in examine what the light reveals, Outside the industrial districts, | Ezekiel's chapter about Gog and but prefers listening to club- he continued, where people are and Magug-the land of un-corner gossip, which is the most free to do as they like, it is no walled villages", contrasting in reliable source of misinformation easy matter to maintain inde this with the province beyond the evolved since the day of Ananias. pendence especially as regards British border. where walls are But we hope you will go and religion. A man bus to have built round nearly every cluster" look see what is actually |! grit in him.. to remain of houses for fear of robbers and going on. It would be a pity for Baptist. or Methodist, or a feature in the landscape is the you to go back to England or Congregationalist under these thick tower of the pawnshop or even Scotland with nothing more circumstances, and perhaps for other place where the people accurate than raders' tattle that very reason village life, and deposit their valuables. Security when you are asked about mission particularly village church, is beyond that border there is little, work. Many an excursion is fine school of character for such and what there is will go on made into the New Territory for as are hardy enough to stand the diminishing so long as Chinese pleasure: might not a few be training. The village church politicians are more keen about taken in the interest of the work may not count its members by claiming their asserted rights of God, if it does interest us? Our the hundred; and the few it has than deserving them by giving | Colony owes more to the district are likely to be of the humbler good government to the unhappy than simply to police to protect ranks in a country like England millions under their care.
it. though that is no small bless- whose social phenomena present Well. this strip which needs ing. We owe it the best we have an inextricable minglement of no walls around its villages is to give, which is the gospel of our religion and snobbery. But the scene of a work in which our Lord. Without that, China will those little congregations contain] church has the leading share, in never make a nation, not though some of the salt of the land. partnership with the To Tsai Europe should import all its intellectually and spiritually. Church as the New Territories science and America transplant If it were possible to remove all Evangelisation Society. It is. so all its discarded breweries or the men and women of light and far as I know, the only Protestant Japan organise the dragon into
leading in the big world who
owe their best to early training in quiet, out-of-the-way places the world would be left strangely poor.
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BABY'S OWN TABLETS.
MAGICAL IN TEETHING. Every parent knows the worries
Now our Lord Jesus came from a little place, a little place with a eight centres on the mainland The strangest objection I have bad reputation, so bad that when and two upon islands. In all of ever heard is that the work is on the great and good of His time these there are preaching places, much too small a scale. I never wanted to show how little they in most schools and in several heard a sillier reason for refusing thought of Him they called Himare well-built modern chapels. a subscription. "Nazarene." And in the short One of the latter, at Yun Long. means and we will soon double patronage to bestow, no charities The following is the approxi- time gives Him to do all His is to be opened in a few weeks.the work, or multiply it by any to disperse, nothing except the public work He found time to It will be the most commodious factor you render possible. Any-light of the knowledge of the mate statement of the Hongkong Tramway Company traffic attend to the little places. He of all being an enlargement way, the whole land is before us, glory of the God in the face of did not neglect the big centres of an older building. In this anwalled both literally and Jesus Christ, which indeed is receipts for the week ending like Capernaum and Jerusalem,case the work was rendered figuratively, for even the barriers reward enough for all that man but the villages in between were possible largely through the of ignorance and prejudice are or woman ever endures as the not just places to be hurried the generosity of a Chinese lady crumbling away. Gog" by price of it. I want you to think through on the way from one big willingly seconded by her which Ezekiel doubtless meant more, and to think more lovingly,This Year:...
The doctors centre to another. The Saviou: husband.
had Assyria, planned to destroy the
of your fellow. Christians Last Year: halted at them. He found time to told her that she could not junfortified country. Our object is
in those little congregations Incréase .........., she teach in them, and to heal the live.
to Decrease: gathered the opposite, and can displease across the water, learning sickness which is just as hard to friends and relatives to her nobody except the devil and the walk in the way everlasting and bear if your neighbours are only bedside, told them she was ready superior person, who knows what needing more than I fear they get 500 as if they numbered 500.000, to go and, expecting the end in is good for men better than the in the way of sympathy from us Do not overlook the villages if faith and without fear, charged Lord Who died for them.
whose privileges have been so you are concerned to do God's them to meet her in the better Barriers indeed are breaking much greater. Rejoice that your work. Satan does not overlook laad, and arranged with her down still it is not the easiest Church has been instrumental in them, as be goes to and fro in the husband to devote a considerable thing for a Chinese villager to any degree in leading them that come when the baby is teeth- earth and walks up and down in sum to building a church in some become a Christian, even under toward the light, for it is ing. Many parents have found it, seeking whom he may slander place where it was needed, so British administration. Oftener or seduce. If he can keep hold that others, like themselves, than not a man stands to lose by point in its record which will in. Baby's Own Tablets help al- stand in good rememberance most magical in its prompt of the little towns, the big ones might learn to rejoice in the hope being baptized, and seldom indeed when many other things have efficiency at this time. can be trusted to run enough of the glory of God.
to gain. At this very time the
been forgotten.
An Official Analyst's certificate wickedness, an their own. Let me tell you of another case. Christian shop-keepers in one of
goes with every vial of the Occupy your strategic centres" I saw a stone laid at another of our villages are threatened with
Tablets guaranteeing that they for gospel propaganda by all our chapels sometime ago, not in boycott because they cannot
contain no opiate or narcotic. means, but see that your centre pursuance of a memorial bequest, support idol worship end want
Perfectly harmless to even the has a circumference around it but by a man who in all probabi to devote their money to a public
youngest infant, they soothe and and radi running to it in alility had impoverished himself for dispensary instead. It is never
promote sleep simply because directions.
life by becoming a Christian, and easy anywhere to be a non-con- Now China, on whose borders had done it gladly. He had made formist to the current type of sends us a list he has compiled they help nature to set wrong
conditions right. we live, is a land of villages. Its a handsome income as a "fung religion. It is bad enough in an from various Home newspapers.
Baby's Own Tablets gantly great cities are few and contain shui" practitioner, with a bit of English village, but can be far and journals of the names and but a small proportion of its vast opium-dealing thrown in, and now worse out here, where, under clan titles bestowed upon Mr. Lloyd regulate the bowels, cure vomit- population, China consists of in middle life had given it all up organisation, things can be made George. The following appear: ing, indigestion, colic, diarrhoea, The are equally helpful to infants and the thousands of moderate-size and was starting afresh as beat extremely trying for a Christian Bellyou Lloyd George;
children of all ages, expel worma convert without anyone's tran- Welsh Wizard; Loud George: break up siurple fever and colds. towns and the scores of thousands he could a pretty, severe test.
King; of litile towns and villages I mention these
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