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194 EVANGELISMandOur chapels are without exception inmarket towns. It has been impossible so farto rent or purchase property in any villagefor this purpose."We aim to have a primary schoolconnected with each chapel, but are still far from this ideal.We have at various times opened schools for boys or girlsin different villages, but the anti-foreign spirit andsuperstition of the villages have usually closed them aftera very brief history. We employ none but Christianteachers. A local teacher of ability and character is thebest means of securing permanency.Until w r e secure a visible and permanent place for theChurch in the corporate life of the villages our work mustbe largely pioneering. It has to be remembered that thelarger part of our field has only been even nominallyoccupied during the past five or six years, and that we areworking in what is not merely virgin soil but ground morethickly overgrown with superstition, lawlessness, and antiforeignbitterness than perhaps any other part of China.Several important divisions of the district have for anumber of decades been leagued to oppose the entrance ofChristianity. There is a great amount of uprooting to bedone before the good seed can find fruitful soil. Ourschools and especially our hospital are doing much to makeevangelistic work worth while._ Our evangelists are all, excepting onetowho.. .Evangelists j i ihas a roving commission, engaged in localpastoral work. They are responsible for chapel preachingon market days (every fifth day) and for a Sunday service.They prepare candidates for baptism, visit the churchmembersin their homes, and in some cases are also elders ofthe church. These workers are moved to other centresevery three or four years.. So far most of our work has been developedby the use of foreign funds. At severalcentres the members have contributed fairly liberallytowards the building of chapels and they are graduallyassuming responsibility for chapel expenses but all salariesare still paid by the Mission. In our primary schools we
EVANGELISM IN COUNTRY DIRTRICTS 195pay a subsidy of Mex. $50 per annum, and the teachersmust get the remainder of their salary from the pupils.Our Mission was established for the expresspurpose of evangelizing a country districtfrom which many emigrants had gone toNew Zealand. (See A Cevtur)/ of Missions in China, page249). At the annual conference of our Mission held inFebruary, 1916, a committee was appointed to report on theadvisability and practicability of securing a centre for workin the city. Our parish borders on the city; we hope tohave a part in union movements there; our languagestudents are resident there ;and the connections of the wholeiield with the city are so vital that some of us feel itimperative that we should open there. In the meantimeall our work is in the country and through school andhospital and chapel we are all seeking to evangelize thevillages.1. The difficulty of withdrawing foreignLessonssupport once the Chinese have learned toLearned ., TTexpect it. How happy our co-operationwould be if it were not for the money relationship betweenthe missionary and the evangelist. Wisely or unwisely ouryoung Mission followed the long-established custom of mostof the older missions working from Canton. Evangeliststrained in these missions, or influenced by their traditions,are loth to exchange the assured monthly salary from theMission for the uncertain support of the Chinese Church.As these evangelists are the pastors of the flock it followsthat teaching regarding self-support comes almost entirelyfrom the missionary on his or her occasional visits, and thisis rendered void of result through the permanent influenceof the preacher.2. The value of intensive work.Some years ago Dr T. Cochrane referred to our plansfor occupying our field as an interesting experiment. Itis still an experiment and whether we are going to makeany real contribution to the vexed question of missionpolicy the future has still to decide. For its area andpopulation our parish is probably more effectively occupiedthan most. The district is compact, although comprising
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EVANGELISM IN COUNTRY DIRTRICTS 195pay a subsidy of Mex. $50 per annum, and the teachersmust get the remainder of their salary from the pupils.Our Mission was established for the expresspurpose of evangelizing a country districtfrom which many emigrants had gone toNew Zealand. (See A Cevtur)/ of Missions in China, page249). At the annual conference of our Mission held inFebruary, 1916, a committee was appointed to report on theadvisability and practicability of securing a centre for workin the city. Our parish borders on the city; we hope tohave a part in union movements there; our languagestudents are resident there ;and the connections of the wholeiield with the city are so vital that some of us feel itimperative that we should open there. In the meantimeall our work is in the country and through school andhospital and chapel we are all seeking to evangelize thevillages.1. The difficulty of withdrawing foreignLessonssupport once the Chinese have learned toLearned ., TTexpect it. How happy our co-operationwould be if it were not for the money relationship betweenthe missionary and the evangelist. Wisely or unwisely ouryoung Mission followed the long-established custom of mostof the older missions working from Canton. Evangeliststrained in these missions, or influenced by their traditions,are loth to exchange the assured monthly salary from theMission for the uncertain support of the Chinese Church.As these evangelists are the pastors of the flock it followsthat teaching regarding self-support comes almost entirelyfrom the missionary on his or her occasional visits, and thisis rendered void of result through the permanent influenceof the preacher.2. The value of intensive work.Some years ago Dr T. Cochrane referred to our plansfor occupying our field as an interesting experiment. Itis still an experiment and whether we are going to makeany real contribution to the vexed question of missionpolicy the future has still to decide. For its area andpopulation our parish is probably more effectively occupiedthan most. The district is compact, although comprising
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