The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-10
THE CHINA INLAND MISSION.
The Thrilling Story of the Work of a
 Devoted Band.


 will feel as if he were reading a mod
 ern book of the Acts of the Apostles
 Starting with the belief that all the
 promises of the Bible are sure, all its
 commands possible to obey, the mission
 has had wonderful success, and its his
 tory reads like a romance. Deeply i'm
 pressed with the spiritual needs of l China which In 1865 had only ninety
 seven Protestant missionaries, princi-
 pally along the coast, J. Hudson Taylor,
 of London, was led to form this mis-
 sion. His purpose was to carry the
 Gospel into the intaerior provinces of
 China devasted by war and opium
 eleven of which, with nearly one hun-
 dred and fifty million people, were without a Protestant missionary. MT. Taylor said later: ''I was anxious not
 to conflict with the work of the older societies nor divert any help from
 them, but that our methods should
 draw fresh laborers and open new
 channels for pecuniary aid." Like the
 British and American Bible societies,
 the mission is mission is evangelical and interdenominational. It is also international in having it's work in Chi ma carried on by superintendents, as- sisted by experienced missionaries, and
 it's home departments, with quarters in London, Toronto, Canada; Melbourne,
 e.t, H., ,I 1ntn
 It's workers represent nearly every
 leading Protestant denomination in the
 world. They have come from Germa- ny, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, the Uni ted States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and far away Finland. They are both ordained and unordained mar ried and single. They live in Chinese quarters, wear the Chinese dress and seek to go where no one else does.
 It is purely faith mission. While few have gone out at their own expense, most have gone in sole dependence upon God for temporal support No personal solicitation of funds is author ized, voluntary offerings alone being re- ceived. The donors names are never published, but each has a dated and numbered receipt, whereby he can trace his own contributions in the published lists. No funds given for mission work have ever been used for travelling ex- penses, a separate fund being given for that purpose. The society has never been in debt, and yet has never lacked for funds and workers both coming in answer to prayer. There is a prayer union of two thousand members that now belts the globe. Different forms of church governments are organized by the various missionaries, as seems best, and as soon as possible the work is turned over to the native converts.
 In the first stage China was explored by evangellsts, and by 1878 twenty pio- neers had covered thirty thousand English miles. They explored every province of China, including Mancru- ria, Mongolia and as far west as East ern Thibet and Upper Burmah. DriV- en from one province, they crossed to another; driven from one city, they en- tered the next, scattering Bibles as they went. They preached in the market places, where the country and noun tain peoples gather, often finding a large sale for Bibles Christian books and tracts Following St Paul as a guide, they next opened stations in the twelve capitals and large cities of the provinces that were previously without Protestant missionaries.
 Al the beginning of the present Chi nese troubles there were in the twelve provinces of China SEQ workers, 147 of them associates. Of these 11S were from North America. Also 695 native helpers were at work. In 165 stations and 19S out stations there were either or native helpers in charge. Two hundred and fffty-two or ganized churcheh existed, with 1895 Also seven hospitals, sixteen and twenty-eight refugees for opium smokers, Tn 1896 two hun- fred thousand dollars came from all without solicitation, and from North America alone, that same year, S1 .S73.33. It is estimated that through l this mission alone from twenty thou- ,and to thirty thousand Chinese have | 1een led to a true knowledge of the | Gospel.
 The missionaries all state that, | hough the Chinese are hard to convert ! o Christianity, when once convinced of l ts truth they make very stanch con rerts. The writer can testify to the ruth of this as regards the Chinese on the Pacific slope.
 While it is true, as in the time of Christ, that the common people hear he Gospel gladly, it is also true that ome high class and educated Chinese nave been converted, It means for the alter class too, much hardship and persecution. I mention only few ex- mples from the records of thin mis- ion
 In North China, a man preparing to ake the examinations for q mandarin ras converted by reading a Chinese translation of "Pilgrims Progress" nd thereby lost all chance for politi- al office. Since then he has built a 'hristian chapel for his village and has cen a faithful worker. A Buddhist riest, several physicians and scholars re in the list of those converted On he borders of Thibet MT. c. Polhill- turner was preaching last spring, al- in the Chinese and Thibetan lnguages. He belongs to the famous 'ambridge (England) University band 1hich went out under this mission [