The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-21 00:00:00

THE HANOCHnW MISSION.

re the. Itd {tor.

Pir.—Hlll you do me the favour to insert 1n your
sect issue, tie 'Account of the spend fund for Hang.
eh ie." rem] on Monday evening, the 13th in.t
Yo.dingtou Schoolroom, at the monthly rbnrch MI.-
ary meeting? Omitting the list of collectors ant
con rihntors, which was read at the meeting, the
account i. as follows:

•• The account 01 the special fond for Hantrehow promised
at the meeting In December. shows that the total amount
collected in Isan: wrca £27 tat. 7pi. The eollectbsn at the
annual meeting In December last an 00000 nted to Li I:6.
aol I. CfrettNl to the urrent se:aortal. The total for the past
year is thus nearly C. 9 Irs, than that of ICAS, which
anumnted In £36 un. 11.1. The alit/emote Is eminted for
chiefly by the fact that lane three li'cral conttibuton or
success it oallect an base felt lharchester intim the el.oe of last
yesr that one M. {no stsbascripti• an. have been reduced, anal
one or two perhaps deferred ; that • hand contribution from a
• nil •sinnary bushel,' whieh ant trittnt in 186.11. £2 I>.. has
not been repeated ; ant that the eollect ion at the arct meeting
at the fund In Jan., DCA, realised about t 3 more than either
of the succeeding ennisersaries. It Is &great cause for thank•
luau,,, that, on the other hold. most of the kind collectors
htse persesered, anal our •I the natuslarr base f unit himself
ahla• to collect or r lull iii de 110 to,. thall 1:11 2. being
atsacit £1 7s. in tams. of his flot candributtoo. The margins
of the two years' collections ill Cat/ 7.. 11 id., out of which an yak
CMS. lance been raid to the missionary for the purposes at
th a Illangcbos mission. T1ai••11M non-sees the outetort if
a lattale s "man anti her niece • ritristiett pupil, for is months
&an to thaa 114 Iteeember last. Rance the depart ore of the
Bee. 0. 3/ ule from Chloa, the hi le nlititall has been •upentt.
ten let and paid be Mrs. Vale, tine, the site if Rev. J. D.
Ralootine who succeeded Mr. Mottle in charge of the Hang.
Claw ntimladt. lii. to be regretted the.. In consequence
apparently of Me Valentioe's {Mame, which ha. compelled
him to go to Hong Kong for change, Mrs. Valentine ha+ not
been able to send Mrs. Motile any report of Rimiest's conduct
and work. Her own journak written but Imperfectly
Ito the Roman character. reach to last October,
and show that she haa not ewes/ to epee
for souls and to labour for their salvation. They give
•s lion, however, o the need of watchful auperintendence ta
I.ll.lvort anal n.arrnet the seal of this intelligent, but nut perfect,
art,,t,tian si,ver. The i.ea)ers of melt oillector anti coon ibutor
to the fund are earnest' y rettlested on behalf of all the el.:
Se,t• at the statt"ll*, hut e•pecially of the catechists, malt. and
female, that. lay the presence anal guidance ..1 the mu *notaries,
anal hy the dine( njd the 11•. ls Spir t. God would be pleased
• to ha eta them from falling, mad to present thcat faultless he.
fore Ills prerecce sith cacemling pn at •ne I at do). If it
please Oil t • penult the return to ilangehow of the miation•
an, an io England. It moo be de-irable to employ, as •
geconal female as•lomat, an intermtang Ilanrehow soma., sho
_ .

ha. learnt ninth front F.unve, nhiit h.• ooft n rendered her
in teaching eroluorer.anol eateehumetta to read, or
ho m 00.% holy sentoure tel the (...Ytechisaa. alien Eunice a. 1.1
preeeatal from doing o. toy Mole..-
. . . . . .

On amount of my father'. indisposition, the meeting,
at which the above report can read, was presided aver
by my broth. r, the Rev. F. J Motile. After the reed-
ingot the report, I gave as illustrations of our work at
Hissigehow some trion•lationa from Ennier's (the bible•
woman's) j iurnals in the v.-Ili-miller of the distriet. and
some extracta from my oisn iti•iy. The latter related,
Stst, to the mode of tr•yelling between Sinop and
Hangcboar : and, secondly, t my intercourse at Flang-
e' ow with an interesting Hmhang or Buddhist monk,
who ask. dan asylum in my hones whilst the hair on
him tonsured beat was gr iwinr hing enough to .name '
hiss to append the the hoidee of the Chine.,
laity, as distinguished from the Buddhist recluses, lie
professed at first much interest in our religion ; and,
although I saw little in his couvereation to lead :ne to
bops that thit was genuine I so far respected his wi.h
to secure td the ranks of the laity from the vicious idle•
nese of his monastery, that I allowed him to live un ter
my root for three months, in fact, until his hair had
grown to the desired length. In the meantime he
attended respeetfully our daily morning and evening
prayers, and took part as • student in my biblical
lectures to my eateehiste end enquirers. With regard
to Christianity, however, whilst apparently sceptical as
to the reality of any obji et of religions faith, he was too
proud to overoome his dislike to the conversion of his
eountryinen to • foreign creed. We parted at last, not
without vexation on him part (as he would gladly have
stared longer with toe) and aotrovr, thourb hardly ilit.
appointment on my own. My con ..... tions with him
bad been instructive to myself, and his presence,
sad °overt oppoaition in my household, had acted as
• test of the earnestness of one or two interesting
catechumens, who convened with him deaf, and who,
after some mental em.ffict, jectod his peraussions and
were ultimately baptised. suite of the unfavourable
weather, upwards of a hundred of the parishioners and
of the friends of the mission, paid very kind attention
to all that I had to say on the subject of our work. May
liiittig. the hope that some of my neighbours and
fan...townsmen will one day join me in China, or no
forth to some other part of the wide heathen wilderness,
to labour for our adorable Lord?
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
G. E. MOCTLE.

P.S.—The parochial meetings in aid of the Church
Miuionary Snoiety are held in Fordington echoolroom,
at half-put veven n'alock on the evening f the •econd
Monday in emit month. The speoiel subject for the
February meeting will be "the language and literature
of China." A collection in aid of the general fond of
the Church Mistionary society will be made after the
meeting. 1 oi-11 to iacknowledge, as belonging to last
year's amount, the receipt of El from a subscriber, who
had inadvertently dd. rred the payment until reminded
of it by the meeting. —0.2.11.