. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . ir country needs Christ above allelse. The missionaries are already interested in extending the use ofthe Government Phonetic System as a means of popularizing Biblereading in Mandarin-speaking regions and are seeking to encouragethe Chinese Christians to larger personal effort for the salvation oftheir friends and neighbors, and to more systematic giving. Insome sections the churches are making very encouraging advancein self-support, and Rev. D
. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . ir country needs Christ above allelse. The missionaries are already interested in extending the use ofthe Government Phonetic System as a means of popularizing Biblereading in Mandarin-speaking regions and are seeking to encouragethe Chinese Christians to larger personal effort for the salvation oftheir friends and neighbors, and to more systematic giving. Insome sections the churches are making very encouraging advancein self-support, and Rev. Dr. J. W. Creighton writes from Can-ton : The Church and the mission are working side by side and theexpenditures are in parallel lines. The Chinese are doing manynew things and paying for them, but this does not show in our for-mal offfcial reports. In schools like the Middle School forBoys these increases show. Our budget gets less than twenty percent of its money from the Board. There has been a big increasehere. There is no need to report to the churches in America that themissionaries are urged to stir up the Chinese Church to greater giv-. REV. HUNTKK CORBKTT, ). Alissionary of the Board in Shantung from 1863-1920 Photo taken in August, 1919 EIGHTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORl 25 ing. What is needed is to report that the Chinese Church is in-creasing its gifts by leaps and bounds. Dark as the year has been from a political and economic view-point, it will be remembered as the year when the first Chinese mis-sionary society was formed. This year will also go down in historyas the year in which the Chinese churches connected with the Pres-byterian, Congregational, United Brethren and London Missionsformed themselves into one organic church. All other evangelicalchurches are invited to join. Here we see Chinas need drivingChristians to unite for the moral salvation of their country. The same truth is brought home by the number of students en-tering the ministry. Mr. Woon, a
Size: 1231px × 2029px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisherphiladelphiapresby
