The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-25
MISSIONARIES IN CHINA TELL
OF A THRILLING EXPERIENCE
Boat in Which Party Was Going to Services Capsizes in
Swift and Dangerous Stream-HowH Hospital Work
Pays

encoura ging patients she has ever had
IN the WOman'S ward. This woman
mas learned a tract Of Bible verses
anu Is 0 reading the gospel of
JOhn. Does 1t pay?" |
Chinese Help Themselves.
Chas. A. Leonard, Southern Baptist
missionary at Laichoroju. Shantunc
Province. China, gives glowing ac7
counts of h progress Of the work |
there. He writes:
The Chinese association Of orr
Nortn CHINA mission meets at LATCH |
oW1u TINS week. We are told that a
glorious report will be made. Addi-
tional workers will be appointed some
likely to go into Shensi. The asso-
cation now has sixteen evangelists,
an increase Of eight over last wear
and five colporters in eight stations
and four O~ut-stations in Shantun
and Manchuria. There are six chur-
ches at these eight stations. four of
the new churches having been orga-
nlzed this spring. Over two hundred
and fifty baPtisms have already been
reported from the mission fields
worked by the association. There
are six day schools for boys and one
for girls, with 127 pupils.
This work is conducted by the
Chinese brethren themselves. The
support does not come from
America, but is contributed by the
churches here. OF course, the mis-
sionaries give their aid wherever need
ed, Dut there are many gratifying
EVIDENCES OF progress on the part Of
our Chinese Christians in their as
Stunning additional responsibilities and
increasing their financial
They deserve your warmest sympathy
and continued prayers in their eff
forts to do their best in bringing their
own people to Christ
Native Pastors in China.
Pan Fuk Yin belongs to one of the
oldest Christian families we have in
the Hakka fields. He is a Christian
of the second generation, and this al
ways counts in China. His home is
a real Christian one. The love that
exists between him and his wife, his
love for his children girls and boys
alike; all those things mark him as a
man of God whose life is far above
his fellows.
He is modest, humble, retiring and
never seeks the praise Of men. He
cannot speak in the wisdom Of men
but his life is An epistle that can be
read by all who nov him. Never
have I heard his felIowmen doubt his
stncefit9nd genuine devotion to the
things of the kingdom.
We now have three native pastors
in the Hakka field. These Chinese
pastors can look into the condition
of the churches far better than We
can. They know the motives of those
who ask to be received, their rea
love for the churches, and abidins
interest in the salvation Of their owr
people enable them to be guides il
Z the development Of the churches
: We need many Of these to lead tn,
Christians to greater efficiency il
pushing out into h vast untouched
fields all around us.
Pan Fuk Yin is pastor Of a churcl
that has been largely self-supportinl
for years. They built the church an,
$ erected a splendid school buildin:
$ close by the church without n he'll
+ from our foreign board. Fom thi
church members have gone out an
e organized a thriving, fruitful body a
e the district city. There are also fou
outstations belonging to this mothe
n church. AS Don as the number Q
e believers multiply at the different out
y stations so that we can organize, Othe
y churches will be formed. This keep
e the mother church rather weak, bu
n it gives her joy to see her effort
Pan is spending some Of his tim
II visiting the O~utstations and Openin
up new ones. This pioneer work
q the hope of our field as we lay plan
for large things.
!. r. SANDERS
20 Items of Interest.
Il The Chinese flag contains fly
stripes. The fifth stripe represer
nj Mohammedanism. Magazines dealln
with Mohammedanism are pubishe
20 in Japan, France, Germany n Ru'
STA. DR.. Zenemer is editor OF OF
~ own Moslem World, and these 1i>
,S countries have recognized the AZ
N hammedan problem of sufficient in
n p~ortance to warrant publication
co about it. These are all OF recel
ve origin and seem to show a revival
interest in Mohammedanism.
Va 1t is said hat Constantinople
~ rapidly becoming modern, and tn;
o. the government medical school the.
ne is rapidly eQualing, If not urpassln
70 some of the medical schools OF u
no United States.
&c In ten years the amount of oplu
consumed in India has lncreaS'