The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-24
nv Southern Missionary News Bureau
Ida Clyde Clarke, Editor.

I BY Southern Missionary news DuFcsu'
H Ida Clyde Clarke. Editor
II From Pingtu, Shangtung. China,
Rev. VIM. II. Sears, Southern Bap-
list missionary, sends an inspiring
story of growth and development. ne
says:
I Yesterday was joyful doy for the
Kutswang church. Their new chapel
was dedicated in the presence OF rep
lresentatives from thirteen churcnes
and a full house. The building cost
over $1,000 Mexican, and will seat
over $50. Notwithstanding that the
1919 floods destroyed the crops OF
over twenty of the twenty-nine VII
lagos where its members reside. the
kutswang Church. with the help OF
the other churches. has contributed
no less than $500 toward It's chapel.
THE first Christian in this section
was baptized in 1908. May 81. 1s12,
the church was organized with sixty
five members During the last three
years no fewer than 4e8 have con-
fessed their faith In Christ by baptism
I in this one church alone.
] Last year it gave off ninety-ninc
members to form the Taiteo Church
and the present membership Is S5s
! No small part of the success or TINS
church liz due to the untirfng iabors
II. Il
list. the first man baptized in the kut-
swand village. The church lot was
| given by him. and he also gave the
| largest contribution 10 the church
| building. He Ia a small farmer--not
man of r1eans-but gives all mis-
time and salary to the advancing OF
the fingdom of God in his village ana
n6ghborhood.
| His eldes. son Is in our Hwanghien
Seminary preparing for the ministry.
The second son Is attending the
Shangtung Medical University: two
| other sons ere in the Pingtu Chris
titan Institute, and his only daughter
/ in the Pingtu Girls Academy--all
paving all required expenses, The
| flourishing church school for girls Ia
on his com pound, for which he cheer
! fully gives up two large rooms. MT
| Yu Is exceedingly happy in his work
Three Missionaries for SIX Millions.
| Rev. Stephen J. Corey. missionary
| in China. echoes a million~vofced cry
of unevangeiized heather and states a
most remarkable fact full OF rebuke
ga we'll as announcement when ne
says:
/ We have been on. here a little
more than a week and I can't sleep
/ nights. / never had anything in my
life settle down on my soul like this
| Sleeping and waking II stays with me.
| Nantungchow and district Is potn an
inexpressible appeal and disheart-
enlne nightmare, an apparition that
thrills you like an oratorfo, becaus"
the door Is so wide open to its 600" e
coo people. and a nightmare because
we have only three lonely mission
aries for that whole field
/ nf
ghi Kai's cabinet, and one of the
great test men Of China. has his great
mills there and ts making Nantung-
| chow and district a model for China
4 He has opened schools In the city
village and country. in the temples
setting the idols In the alcoves at
the side AMI using the main part for
modern schools.
H ITO train teachers he has built with
his own money a normal school for
II <s0 men and one for 800 women, and
Ifs irving to train leaders for: this great
work as best he can. He has asked
the mission to help him and has pre-
scented us with the finest piece of land
II in the city for our own school. de
has built a hospital and has asked US
Ito provide direction for it through b
medical man.
He has built an orphanage which
now has five hundred boys ana girls
in il, and has asked that one OF our
missionaries take full charge while
he supports IT, and has said that he
would be glad to have US teach Chris
tianity in 1t. He hos built great
museum. an agricultural school and q
hotel to accommodate an occasional
/ foreigner who comes. His right hand
man, Mr.. Yong, Is a Christian and a
very close friend OF Mr. c. II. Plop-
per- our missionary. He 10 also super
intendent Of police for the whole dis
trict, and dropped his work to ac-
company us on our two houseboat
trips"