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Lee diagrar..mae auKranta illuatrent la mAthoda. 1 2 3 4 5 6 'O^vvv M M t> 1 VICTOR (A U N ( VfcRSJTy j fifiis^ionary Tracts, l SKRIES B. •4- a 3 3 3 :3 "CHINA'S MILLIONS. t E >-.: !► V^ OU have heard of them. You must con- J tinue to hear of them. They are forcing themselves on the world^s attention. They came into the great plans of God. Un- til thf'y are converted, the world will not be converted. When they turn to the Lord, then it will no longer be any great goddess Diana, but it will be Jesus the Anointed, whom '*all Asia and the world worshippeth. *' • ^ But great numbers in one concrete statement are vague. Let us take them in detaiL The population of China has been set down at ^)0,000,000. A late statement, based on partial returns, puts it at 382,000,000. Some people are frightened at that ; so we will take the old official census of 1812, which made it 360,- 000,000. Let us make the different provinces of China l^ass in review before us, one at a time, each with its vast army of living men, women and E mrrm TT»rtTt»*tTTfTTtytfTTyT>TyTTTTTtTTTTfTTT?T?TTf lltl*???^ .ToftOKTO : Methodist Mission Rooms. 10 Cents per 12. 90 Cents per 50. 60 Cents per 100. / ohildr«iil. That will be bettor than giving a lump number. You will |^et a more detailed impression. As each province passes, the population roll can be given ; you can lump them afterwards. Get ready your tents ; make them good and strong, able to endure pelting storms and changes of season, for it is no holiday work yon now enter upon when you sit down to review the procession of Chinese as they go forth according to their armies and according to their provinces. Twelve hours a day is long marching, but we must keep them going at that rate. You will need your sleep, and time for rest, for even a review may become wearisome, so the other twelve hours will be for yourselves. We must keep them going Sundays as well, for this is only a hypothetical march, and if it is more than a Sabbath day's journey for business, it is only such a Sabbath day's jouniey as they are all taking to eternity, and you along with them. Besides, on the Sabbaths you can think dif- ferently from what you cau on other days. You can think of all these persons living and dying without Christ, without a Sabbath here, or a hope of a Sabbath hereafter. And you can think of the great commission and of Him who gave it, and how long since He gave it, and of hew many Chinese have lived and died 1 J JB-IV i>EC - 4 1961 H J since He gave it, and many other Sunday thoughts can come into yonr heads on that day. Soldiers marching in " close order *' will take about two and a half feet to each man, but so much time will be required that we must put them closer than that,and save every inch we can and every minute of time. So we will expect them to march in *' lock step," and allow only a foot and a half to each person. In one mile there are 5,280 feet. At lock step there will be 3,520 persons to each mile. Each million of them will stretch along for a distance, say^ of 284 miles. Twenty miles a day is good work for a column on the march. We will reckon at that, — it is fast enough for a column moving on to judgtiient, — and so each million will require fourteen days in passing. And now all is ready. When shall the column form and the review begin? Let us have a fine day to start with, even though wintry ones should be akjad. We will pitch on the first day of June,' with the whole of an all-glorious summer before us. Chihij, which means *' direct rule." It is the capital province of the Empire. Popula- tion, 27,990,871. They will reach 7,952 miles nearly. The line will stretch from Halifax across the continent, and far away into the B-JV /'I middU of the Pacific Ocean, and will r^uire 397 di^ya in paMing. , Yon fee you are in for it. Yon thought you would sit it out on that line if it took all aum- mer. But summer comes and summer goes, and there you are still. Lay in a stock of coal, for winter will be upon you before a quarter of them have gone by. Autumn parses, winter passes, spring passes, and you are well into the heat of a second summer before you have seeu tht^ last of that column, and that iA only one column. Shantung, *' East of the hills." Here comes the banner of the second province. Population, 28,958,764, near enough to twenty-nine millions to call it that. They will reach 8,230 miles, and will take 41 1 days to pass. The previous division left you in July of the second year ; this one will keep on moving till August of the third year. Your tents will be mildewed and roited by the rain ; better build yourself a house, "and lath and plaster it, for there are years before you yet. Your second winter will be upon you soon. Is it not solemn to look upon them as they move? And how many army chaplains ought to be furnished to meet the needs of such a host? If it were an army of a Christian nation there'would be a chaplain to every thousand men, a thousand chaplains to each million, and twenty-nine thousand for B-IV 'A 1 i / M them a;ll. Of ooune wtB could not and would not send any such number as that ; but then, we fl(oarcely send anybody. I do not know how itas just at this writing, but a little while ago there was not one preacher to a million. Shansi, ** West of the hills." This is an in- land province, much less thickly settled. It has 14,004,210 people. They will not occupy you so long. They vrill reach 3,980 miles, and will be only 199 days in passing. In all these ages, since Christ ascended, nobody has taken them the Gospel. Recently, those Cambridge men went there, C* T. Studd, Stanley Smith, Montague Beauchamp, and others. Away off in those mountain regions, the Lord has worked with them with signs and wonders following. In the month of April of the past year, there were 215 baptipms ; yet ten years ago, it was not known that a man of the whole fourteen millions had ever heard of Christ. HoNAK, ** South of the river,'* contains 23,037, 171 people. Their column will be 6,534 miles long, and will require 326 days to pass along. For forty -six Sundays, one after another, yon can think of them, and hear missionary chapters in the Bible read about them, with the missionary application left out. The promises made to the whole earth are Idealized to one's own chnrch or association. There they go, — without hope and without B-iv ' " y G God in the world, and without anyone to teach them, — and yet, in Canada, we have thousandu of ministeri of evangelical denominationB, some of whom are doing nothing Imt just listeniog to other people preach. K1AN68U. Population, 37,843,501— enough to stock an empire of itself. Japan is an em- pire, yet it has only about as many people as that one province. Great Britain is an empire ; France has called itself an empire; Germany is an empire, but the population of none of them is much larger. The Kiangsu p^rt of the procession will reach 10,750 miles, and will require in passing 5117 days. Such numbers are appalling ! While they are filing along by the million, seventy- seven Sabbaths will pass over yovz heads. You will need a chaplain of your own to preach to you who review the procession. During all these days he can preach to you a whole body of theology upon all manner of subjects except your duty to save the perishing. Twice during that time will "Merrie Christmas " come and go ; twice will you sing Christmas carols, and hear about the birth of Him who was given to save all mankind. Twice, will you eat your Christmas -dinner, and send around among your friends your costly presents of superfluous afbums, and yet forget to send a little f rankin- cense and myrrh to those breadless, starving BIV 23, hosts whom Christ in vision committed to yonr trust. NoAHHWUi. Here is another one nearly as large. Oher great oountries are grou ps of States aad districts ; China is a group of em- pires. It is a great Empire, made up of smaller empires. The population of this province is 34,168,054. This line will extend 9,706 miles, and will take up 485 days of your time. Ah, but those empires do not make so much stir in the world as do our small States! Yes, just now; but before a half-century has rolled away, these minor empires will be heard from. They have been in the torpor of a winter, rcillenDiums long, but the ice age is passing by ; they have been in the Nigban of Buddhism, but the mists of Buddhism are slowly lifting. The darkness, of Egypt has been upon this people for ages, while for ages you have been basking in the sunshine of Christianity, which has been shin- ing steadily upon you ever since those early centuries, when foreign missionaries from Rropitiation for the sins of the world? When John said those words through the Holy Ghost, bad he in mind the whole world, or did he refer chiefly to our own country ? Why are the preachers of the OrosI massed in such solid phalanx in Christian lands, and so few over here? Why is it that these multitudes of Kiangsi arc left to themselves? '* No man dareth for my soul," may be the refrain of them all ; nobody except a dozen men and women of the China Inland Mission. Chehkiang. Once more, enough to set up one of - the "great powers" of Europe ; 26,- 256,784 people in a line, reaching baclc 7,454 miles, and taking up in passing 372 days of your preeious business hours. '* Am I my brother *s keeper ? " Is it my duty to give these hosts the Gospel, even in small measure ? In the legaey of Christ, He gave us the riches of glory, and at the same time He laid on us a responsibility which is a part of the wilL He gave us a goodly land ; one as fair as the sun ever shone upon. He was ages and ages in getting it ready, in covering its surface irith a rich soil, in cleaving it with rivers of water, in B-IV N. <* \ - / ^ ■nderUying it with miuci ^ tht liahMt «Mrti, and tkea, handed it over to otif fatbtn. 'What for? That wo might lottlo down in idlonota and luzurioof llv^ing, or in order thfit We might do good at well at enjoy it earteWeaf We are enjoying it. Oar splendid mantloni are ballt;. our costly and eushioned ehorohes are lifted heavenward, even when we are not'; but the other feature of the will, which refers to ** all the world," we set aside, laying, *^e have enough to do at home.'' ^ ' FuHKisy, ** Happily established.*' Thii is a hilly region, and the population ' ia not so large ; yet there are 14,777,410 people, formiag a line 4,108 miles long, and taking up 200 days in passing. What the people laek in quantity, they make up in quality. This, and some of the provinces that follow, contains the most vigorous population of China. They have the raw materiid for the highest forms of national greatness. Warriors, statesmen, scholars and prosperous mercHiants are continually rising up among them. Young brethren in the ministry, your friers have told yon that meii of yowt taleiiits ate needed at home, and that somebody "of leis ability will do to go abroad. Now and thenTil man has succumbed to thu delicate flattery and has been church." sent to fill some "important cfty Once there he hae found liimself \ - B-IV y' ro elbowed right and left, and with fio greater field of Qs^alnesB than some of these discarded pliuses present. Men of your talents are needed at home, bat so too are they needed here, where^ if you come, you will fiud yourself laying foundations for a whole denomination to build upon. Tell me if it is not a worthy field for your abilities, where you help mould the coming faith of coming millions. HuPEH comes n<)xt, — another great nation in iiself-r27,370,09^ strong, stretchiog far away, the head and foot of the line 7,775 miles apart, and consuming more than a solid year in the march. *' Ah, yes, but one good American like Dr. Blank ie worth a hundred Mongolians ; better to catch one large trout than a dozen minnows. " My brother, who taught you to sajr that? "CSpmeth this persuasion of Him that calleih you?" Who are the trout and who are the ttunnoWs before Crod ? But for the tSospel, where would all your learned doctors be to- day]? . I grant that there is such a thing as stra- tegy in evangelizing, and shall hope soitie day to speak of it. Even the New Testament' exhibits it, but you never hear the apostle saying that one Jew is worth a hundred Syro- phenicians. But this is wearisome and heart- sickening. The heathen are long and the time drags heavily. Would that the display were B-IV ' C k^ J / /. H »> < i J b over ! It is a terrible sight ; ^ill it never end ? Yes, we can hasten. ., Yonder comes the yellow imperial banner of HCTNAX, "South of the lake." Following it is a file of 18,652,507 human beings who hjive never heard of Christ. They reach back 5,296 miles more. O Lord, deliver us from indolence and selfish.iess ! . KwANGTUNO next,— Kwangtung, «h^t knows so much about the opium traffic and the coolie trade,^ with its 19,174,030, and extending the line 5,444 miles farther. Lord, open the eyes of the ministers in our pulpits, and of all teachers in our colleges and seminaries, to tho claims of Christ upon them to preach and teach a missionary Gospel ! KwANGSi, Yunnan and Kweichcw, three of them, the smallest of them all. We will put them together, for you are tired, and so am I, of this interminable march. All told, they have only about 18,000,000 between them, tak- ing up over 5,000 miles more. O Lord, forgive US for our indifference ! SucHUEN, one of the great provinces, with 50,435^078 people, making a line over 12,000 miles long. O Lord, move on the hearts of young men to give themselves at once lo this work ! Make them willing to go forth and preach Christ among the heathen. Make them willing to go without waiting to be driven. B-IV /■ / 12 \ .^ SttjRtiii, irith 10,207,256, aiid » line reaching over 2,^00 milee. O Lord, looeeii the money- hiigs ol the people j Make them to send forth their meted coia to help sav^ the nations. *' How shall they hear without a preacher, and heiw shall they preach except they be sent?*' Kanruu. It is nearly over. Here is the last colamn, 15,193,125 strong, and reselling over 4,000 miles farther. What a pageant ! hut it has been the pageantry of death. Lord, have compassion upon the multitudes, for they have nothing to €;«t J O Lord, in our own land there is bread and to spare, but it comes not hither ! Bless the barley loaves of thy servants, and make them feed at least a few of these provinces. This procession has been over one hundred thousand miles long, and it has occupied more than thirteen years in passing. While they have been on this move, one- third as many more have been bom into the woild to follow after. Itord of the harvest, awake a slumbering Ghuroh and a lethargic ^ministry out of ^is torpor of death \ X