The real test of missionary success. is the appearance and growth of a Christian church conducted by natives, declared the Rev. Kenneth I. Maclver, M'Cheyne U. F. Church, Dundee, who recently returned from a visit to China. There was no bigger task than that which was set a missionary, in his opinion, and to those working in the mission field of China it was a gigantic one. He could say with confidence that the missionaries had been successful in China. They had set up Christian churches and were making progress. Phe secret to greater progress, however, lay in the natives themselves. It was the business of the Chinese to evangelize their own country. They had got men with fine judgement who would make ideal leaders, and the fruits of their labour would be infinitely more effective than years of work by our own missionaries. What they wanted were men who had a religi ious training to guide and lead and inspire. The traits of character in Scotsmen, he added, were recognized in the Chinese.
The Rev. John Stewart, Manchuria, who is in Scotland at pre sent, says that in this country they heard a lot of nonsense about the unchanging East. Twenty-five years ago China was in very much the same position as England was 400 years ago. Now they had complished amazing things. They were almost as enterprising as we 3 were. As an example he says that profits derived from a railway 400 miles long had been spent in laying down a second railway on an even more extensive scale.
Miss Nellie Murray, Glasgow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Murray, Woodlands Crescent, Falkirk, sails for China to take up the duties of Secretary to the Rev. G. Sparham, who is Convener of the Advisory Council of the London Missionary Society in China. At @ dedication meeting in Dundas Street Congregational Church, Glasgow, of which Miss Murray is a member, Mr. F. H. Hawkins, L.P.B., one of the foreign secretaries of the society, and others took part. Miss Murray will be stationed at Shanghai.
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