China 
 
 
BELGIUM 
 
 7,000,000 
 
 £hlNA 
 
 400 . 000.000 
 
 PEOPLE 
 
 It takes all of them to equal China. 
 
 China s Renaissance 
 
 Today is China’s renaissance. Do 
 you realize what it means? 
 
 When 400,000,000 people, practically 
 as many as there are in the United States, 
 the Allied nations of Europe and Russia, 
 learn to develop the greatest natural 
 resources on earth, will they become a 
 menace or an asset to civilization? 
 
 The answer depends largely upon 
 Christianity. If ever we are to impress 
 China’s millions, the chance is during 
 this formative period. Now they are 
 turning to Christianity by the thousands. 
 The membership of our own church has 
 more than doubled since the beginning 
 of the century, and the future of China 
 depends upon whether we are willing to 
 help now. 
 
 ITALY 
 
 35.000.000 
 
 FRANCE 
 
 39.000.000 
 
 BRITISH ISLES 
 
 45.000.000 
 
 UNITED 
 
 STATES 
 
 103.000.000 
 
 RUSSIA 
 
 175.000.000 
 
You Can Help Put Christianity 
 into China s Democracy 
 
 $10 
 
 Will support a rural Chinese evangelist 
 for a month. 
 
 $25 
 
 Will finance an evangelistic tour by 
 students. 
 
 $100 
 
 Will maintain a native pastor for four 
 months. 
 
 $500 
 
 Will house a pastor’s family. 
 
 $1,000 
 
 Will build a brick church in a small city. 
 
 $5,000 
 
 Will build an institutional church in a 
 strategic walled city. 
 
In the United States one person in 166 is a teacher ; 
 in China one in 3,000. 
 
 A Nation Starting to School 
 
 Since China abandoned the old sys- 
 tem of education which it took 1500 
 years to build, the whole nation is so 
 eager for western learning that thou- 
 sands flock to lectures on the gyroscope 
 or to demonstrations of forestry, conser- 
 vation, or hygiene. 
 
 Missionaries have assisted in the 
 establishment of a new educational 
 system, but there are still 1,000,000 
 children in Methodist territory who 
 have no schools. 
 
 Today is the beginning of an impera- 
 tive opportunity for the Christian 
 Church. Teachers must be taught, and 
 their influence will decide whether China 
 shall be Christian or agnostic. If the 
 Church at home will only send the men 
 and the money, we can put the stamp of 
 Christianity upon China’s education. 
 
You Can Help Christianize 
 China s Schools 
 
 $5 
 
 Will supply a Chinese student with 
 books for a year. 
 
 $25 
 
 Will give a student Christian instruc- 
 tion for a year. 
 
 $50 
 
 Will make possible a Christian primary 
 school. 
 
 $100 
 
 Will maintain a student in theological 
 school for a year. 
 
 $ 1,000 
 
 Will provide a model primary school 
 building. 
 
 $25,000 
 
 Will erect a building in a university. 
 
“Shake Well Before Taking” 
 
 Science or Quackery? 
 
 “Beetle larvae, dried silkworms, scales 
 of the ant eater, elephants’ skin, ante- 
 lope horns, fossil bones” — this is an 
 official list of medicines carried through 
 a Yangtze port. Do you wonder that 
 the China Yearbook says Western medi- 
 cine as yet occupies a very minor place 
 in China? 
 
 China is anxious to learn our methods, 
 and every year she sends about five 
 hundred of her young people to our 
 medical schools. The Chinese come to 
 our hospitals, too, and now for every 
 dollar Westerners give toward medical 
 work the Chinese themselves, out of 
 wages of from eight to fifteen cents 
 a day, are giving seventy-five cents. 
 
 The medical missionary has done 
 what he could for China, but the reason 
 he has not done more is that there is 
 only one of him to 800,000 people. 
 
You Can Help Convert Cli ma 
 from Quackery 
 
 $50 
 
 Will support a student nurse for a year. 
 
 $75 
 
 Will equip a memorial ward in a hospital. 
 
 $450 
 
 Will support a trained native doctor 
 for a year. 
 
 $650 
 
 Will send an American graduate nurse 
 to help an overworked doctor. 
 
 $ 1,000 
 
 Will build or equip a modern dispensary. 
 
 $ 10,000 
 
 Will build or equip a hospital plant. 
 
 War conditions and the uncertain rate of exchange 
 make all of the figures used in this book only- 
 approximate. 
 
Published by 
 
 c TKe Centenary Commission 
 of the Board of Foreign Missions 
 Metkodist Episcopal Ckurck 
 
 150 Fifth Avenue 
 New York 
 1913