New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable AwakeningBrown, Arthur Judson
History
New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening
Brown, Arthur Judson
China -- Commerce; China -- Foreign relations; China -- Politics and government; Missions -- China
[67] The reader is referred to ``The Middle Kingdom,'' Williams;
``Christian Progress in China,'' Foster (1889); ``Story of the China Inland
Mission,'' Guinness; ``China and Formosa,'' Johnston (1897);
Record of the General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of
China held in Shanghai, 1890; Report of the Ecumenical Missionary
Conference held in New York, 1900; ``Mission Problems
and Mission Methods in South China,'' Gibson; ``Mission Methods in
Manchuria,'' Ross; ``Women of the Middle Kingdom,'' McNabb;
``Among the Mongols,'' Gilmour; ``East of the Barrier,'' Graham; ``In
the Far East,'' Guinness; ``The Cross and the Dragon,'' Henry; ``From
Far Formosa,'' Mackay; ``Dawn on the Hills of T'ang,'' Beach; ``China
and the Chinese,'' Nevius; ``Our Life in China,'' Mrs. Nevius; ``Life of
John Livingston Nevius,'' Nevius; ``Rex Christus,'' Smith; ``John
Kenneth Mackenzie,'' Bryson; ``Princely Men in the Heavenly Kingdom,''
Beach; ``James Gilmour of Mongolia,'' Lovett; ``Griffith John,''
Robson; ``Robert Morrison,'' Townsend; ``With the Tibetans in Tent
and Temple,'' Rijnhart.
Several schools, a handsome church, a hospital, the only
institution for deaf mutes in China and a wide-reaching itinerating
work, are features of the mission enterprise in Chefoo.
The visitor will be particularly interested in Dr. Hunter Corbett's
street chapel and museum. The building is situated
opposite the Chinese theatre and is well adapted to its purpose.
Dr. Corbett and a helper stand at the door and invite passers-by,
while a blind boy plays on a baby organ and sings.
The chapel, which holds about sixty or seventy, is soon filled.
Dr. Corbett preaches to the people for half an hour and then ad-
mits them to the museum which occupies several rooms in the
rear. It is a wonderful place to the Chinese who never weary
of watching the stuffed tiger, the model railway and the scores
of interesting objects and specimens that Dr. Corbett has collected
from various lands. Then the people leave by a door
opening on the back street, another service being held with
them in the last room. Several audiences a day are thus
handled. It is hard work, for the men as a rule are from many
outlying villages, unaccustomed to listening and knowing nothing
of Christianity. But Dr. Corbett speaks with such animation
and eloquence that not an eye is taken from him. Few
are converted in the chapel, but friendships are gained, doors
of opportunity opened, tracts distributed, men led to think,
and on country tours Dr. Corbett invariably meets people who
have been to the museum and who cordially welcome him to
their homes. He declares that after thirty years' experience,
he thoroughly believes in such work when followed up by
faithful itineration. Seventy-two thousand attended the chapel
and museum in the year 1900 in spite of the Boxer troubles.
The chapel is open every day, except that the museum
is closed on Sundays, and the attendance is now larger than
ever.
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