The Archive · 1936

Endeavours Among the Miaos The Rev, John Yorkston, another

'Scoitish missionary who went out to China originally from "Edinburgh, gave a most thrilling account of what had been done among the Plowery Mino tribe which' lives 6,000 feet above the level of the sea, Dr. E, Warren Knight, a medical onery from Shansi, gave a very Iueld and graphic description st medical work in North China and of the various kinds of diseases he has come in contact with in connection with his activities, while Mr. and Mrs, Howard Kitchen detatied some' account of the Mission's great forward movement as well as something' of what is taking place in the Mission's large Bible Training Institute at Hungtung.

The Rev. Dr. Arthur Tayl briefly reviewed the present situation in China, stated that larger areas than were realized were experiencing a great measure of peace and tranquillity, 'There was a tendency, he stated, to indulge in carping criticism of the Central Government of Nanking, without appreciating the Her-clean dificultles confronting the nation's Executive through China' great size and its enormous popula-

China to-day had a group of magni cent men, truly altruistic and hi hearted, who were out for the welfare of the people—men of honesty and integrity-—whose efforts to bring about a belter condition of things in the country were assuredly being crowned with success, 'These men, the speaker declared, merited the warm support of all' Christian people throughout the.whole worl China was moving rapidly in material things, communications being extended so that to-day travel was 2 vastly different affair from what it was ten or twenty years ago, while Christianity was steadily making its powerful Influence felt throughout the whole length and breadth of the

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