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"204 CHINA MISSION YP^AR BOOK.financial scheme?11. Briefly stated what is yourIs the onus of supporting the work placed upon theChinese Christians, the Mission Board simply givinggrants in aid? Or, does the Mission Board undertakethe financial responsibility, securing from the localchurch such contributions as they may be willing andable to give ?(a) The Mission Board takes responsibility and gets fromthe church what it can.(b) The Mission Board undertakes the financial responsibility and secures from the church such contributions as theymay be able and willing to give.(c) The last.(d) Generally at first the Mission Board does all, and thenthe church takes over part as it is able.(e) No uniform plan. Most emphatically the latter.(f) Practically the latter, -until a church is strong enough toon it.carry the burden,.when the burden is put(g) In order to open up new fields, the Board has had totake the initiative and furnish funds to establish the work.(h) Mission Board undertakes financial responsibility andsecures such contributions as the church is able to give.(i)We block our congregations (100 in Chekiang) intopastorates and the pastorates into three councils. Within eachcouncil area all subscribe to a common pastor s fund, to whicha grant from home is added and all the pastors paid from it.We expect the home grants to cease in 15 or 20 years.12. To what extent is the Chinese church of yourmission self-governing?(a) Foreigners and natives together constitute a Presbyteryon the Amoy Plan,"and this Presbytery nominally controls thechurch. But this Presbytery has no control of funds all ofwhich are controlled by the mission and administered by theforeigners.(b) Almost entirely self-governing.(c) Can t say.(d) Entirely.(e) Theoretically largely self-governing, practically largelygoverned by missionaries.(f) Practically each church is self-governing.(g) To the extent that our Methodist discipline grantsthem. They enjoy practically the same liberty the churches athome have.
INDEPENDENCE AND SELF-SUPPORT. 205(h) Entirely so. Our church is a Chinese church pure andsimple. It has its own governing bodies and has no connectionwhatever with any home or foreign church.(i) See (4). The synodis three-fourths native. Thecouncils are entirely native, except chairman.Progress in Self-Support and Independencein West China.In the matter of self-support statistics reportedannually to the Advisory Board show a steady riseduring the past three years in the amount of contributions from Chinese Christians.This increase is, however, in no place adequate foranything like independent action, or for a self-supporting church.The disposition on the part of ill-instructed orpartially instructed probationers to subscribe and renta meeting place in small towns remote from missioncentres is still a good deal in evidence. As a rule,not much encouragement is given by the various missions in the western provinces to this kind of contribution. Contributions of this kind are encouraged whenthe mission concerned is able to place an evangelistor a .school teacher in charge who is directly responsible to the mission, and an increasing number of suchplaces are being supported wholly or in part by thefreewill offerings of Chinese Christians.The strong encouragement given by the LondonMissionary Society s deputation of 1903-4 to Chinesecongregations to build their own places of worship instead of depending on foreign funds for such a purposehas met with some response. In Chungking a site andnew church, costing five thousand taels, was opened inDecember, 1907, towards which Chinese contributedabout sixteen hundred taels.I quite expect if there were only time to collectthe facts from all the other missions in these westernprovinces they would show more or less of the samekind of response.
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INDEPENDENCE AND SELF-SUPPORT. 205(h) Entirely so. Our church is a Chinese church pure andsimple. It has its own governing bodies and has no connectionwhatever with any home or foreign church.(i) See (4). The synodis three-fourths native. Thecouncils are entirely native, except chairman.Progress in Self-Support and Independencein West China.In the matter of self-support statistics reportedannually to the Advisory Board show a steady riseduring the past three years in the amount of contributions from Chinese Christians.This increase is, however, in no place adequate foranything like independent action, or for a self-supporting church.The disposition on the part of ill-instructed orpartially instructed probationers to subscribe and renta meeting place in small towns remote from missioncentres is still a good deal in evidence. As a rule,not much encouragement is given by the various missions in the western provinces to this kind of contribution. Contributions of this kind are encouraged whenthe mission concerned is able to place an evangelistor a .school teacher in charge who is directly responsible to the mission, and an increasing number of suchplaces are being supported wholly or in part by thefreewill offerings of Chinese Christians.The strong encouragement given by the LondonMissionary Society s deputation of 1903-4 to Chinesecongregations to build their own places of worship instead of depending on foreign funds for such a purposehas met with some response. In Chungking a site andnew church, costing five thousand taels, was opened inDecember, 1907, towards which Chinese contributedabout sixteen hundred taels.I quite expect if there were only time to collectthe facts from all the other missions in these westernprovinces they would show more or less of the samekind of response.
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