A Parish in East Shantung with Five Million Souls 
 
 CHARLES ERNEST SCOTT 
 
 AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN 
 MISSION 
 
 TSINGTAU 
 
 SHANTUNG PROVINCE 
 
 NORTH CHINA 
 
 Dear Friend : 
 
 If you were standing outside a walled city and 
 had something that you knew the people inside that 
 city needed, and needed more than anything else in 
 the world, you would want to go inside and offer to 
 them what you have. 
 
 That is just the position of many of us in China, 
 who are facing eagerly and hopefully the problem of 
 reaching the leading men on the inside of seventeen 
 hundred walled cities of that country — actual and 
 future rulers of China. 
 
 The way has been marvelously opened for this, so 
 far as the Chinese are concerned, as you will see by a 
 glance through the accompanying booklet. 
 
 Please do not lay the booklet aside without that 
 glance, for the story contained in these few pages 
 represents one of the most stirring and significant 
 movements in modern missions, in the opinion of 
 leaders in the field and at home. It is a plan con- 
 cerning which the thoughtful Christian will want to 
 be thoroughly posted. 
 
It has been worked out by experienced missionary 
 statesmanship under the guidance of veteran mission- 
 aries on the field in conference with Chinese leaders, 
 and it is believed to be the best plan yet devised for 
 winning vast and practically untouched parts of the 
 ruling classes of China in the cities — literati, gentry, 
 students, and officials. 
 
 I have been commissioned by the Shantung Mis- 
 sion, the China Council, and the Presbyterian Board 
 of Foreign Missions to bring this whole matter before 
 the attention of the American public, and I have been 
 occupied in this high privilege since my arrival in 
 May, 1914, often making from three to five addresses 
 daily on the subject. 
 
 There is no lack of opportunities to speak. I have 
 more invitations than I can possibly accept ; but I am 
 not expected to make appeals for money in a con- 
 gregation following my public addresses, nor to seek 
 lists of church members from among whom to solicit 
 funds for my work ; and funds to proceed are now 
 urgently needed. Able Chinese leaders are waiting 
 your gift in order that they may enter upon the con- 
 quest of these cities for our Lord. 
 
 In a few months I expect to return to China ; but 
 I cannot feel that It is the Lord’s will that I should 
 return without following a very real leading in the 
 effort to secure what funds I may be instrumental in 
 securing while here for this practical and strategic 
 
purpose in the World-spiritual Campaign of Christ. 
 And I make to you this final appeal for this big thing 
 of the Kingdom that cannot wait. 
 
 Remember that $5000.00 establishes a large and 
 well-equipped “Jesus-Doctrine Hall” in a strategic 
 walled center. We hope and pray for several such 
 gifts; any sum, no matter how small, will be grate- 
 fully accepted. 
 
 China is the vastest prize on this planet for con- 
 tinued mastery over which Satan contends; and the 
 most stupendous single task that confronts the Church 
 before Christ comes again is the giving of the know- 
 ledge of the true God to China ; and to reach the 
 great and ancient walled Cities, is to reach China. 
 
 Send all inquiries to 
 
 THE REV. CHARLES ERNEST SCOTT 
 
 1031 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 
 
 And all gifts to Treasurer of Board of Foreign 
 Missions of Presbyterian Church 
 
 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City 
 
 1 give for the China Cities Evangelization Project $ 
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