Our Share in China and What We are doing with it

First Edition. 12mo brown cloth, gilt spine titles, mounted illus.on upper fnt cover. cloth extremities rubbed, dampstain to bottom corner of prelim, else all Very Good. Inscribed and signed by author to fep dated April 28, 1875 ded to Manley Hudson, ow VG/ndj:  253pp, [1]p ads. 21 plates, appends, place names, bibl. George John Bond (July 1, 1850 – June 22, 1933) was a Newfoundland Methodist minister, and missionary to China and Japan. P122 Salt district Tzeliutsing; p 60 plates of bound feet girls/The Canadian Methodist Mission was founded by Virgil C. Hart In February 1892, eight members of the mission society led by Hart reached Szechwan. Work began in Chengtu and, two years later, in Kiatingfu, with the establishment of mission stations in both cities. A church and a hospital were subsequently built in Chengtu, which was the result of a team effort by O. L. Kilborn, V. C. Hart, G. E. Hartwell, D. W. Stevenson and others. After 1900, eight more mission stations were established in Jenshow (1905), Junghsien (1905), Penghsien (1907), Tzeliutsing (1907), Luchow (1908), Chungking (1910), Chungchow (1911) and Fowchow (1913). The CMM established its own printing house, Canadian Methodist Mission Press, in Kiatingfu in 1897. In 1903, it was moved to the capital city of Chengtu.[10] This press was responsible for the printing of The West China Missionary News (1899–1943) and Journal of the West China Border Research Society (1922–1945). The former was the first and the longest running English newspaper in the province of Szechwan. The earliest CMM medical missionaries, Drs. Omar L. Kilborn and David Stephenson, opened the first dispensary in 1892 but closed it after a few months because it had become so popular that it had kept them from their Chinese language studies (1, 2). Although the CMM had evangelical, medical and educational branches from their beginning in 1891, they did not have full support for their medical initiatives for another few decades (3). This lukewarm attitude prompted Dr. Kilborn to write an appeal for medical missions to foreign mission supporters in Canada in 1919 (4). Notwithstanding, work on the CMM hospital in Chengdu began to take shape in 1994 when the first small hospital building was erected in Chengdu by Dr. Stephenson. However, the building was completely destroyed in the anti-foreign riots of 1895 (2).The Boxer Rebellion again deterred the medical work in West China. In 1900, the missionaries were evacuated to the coast. When they returned, Dr. Robert Ewan was assigned the medical work, while Dr. Kilborn was given oversight of the evangelical work. A second hospital was completed in 1897 (2). However, in 1902 the Boxers again created disturbances in Sichuan, so that it was only after 1903 that Dr. Ewan was able to grow the medical work without interruption (1). A larger hospital with modern equipment got its start in 1904 when Dr. Kilborn purchased property on Chengdu’s Sichengci Street. Dr. Kilborn, who had been reassigned to medical work while Dr. Ewan was on furlough, also secured a substantive grant for the hospital from a prominent Chinese official (1). Simultaneously, Dr. Ewan launched a fundraising campaign in Canada through the Young People’s Forward Movement (YPFM). Led by Dr. Stephenson, who had retired from active mission service, the UPFM targeted Methodist youth in Sunday Schools and the Epworth League. Stephenson published a brochure asking children and youth to purchase “bricks” to support building the hospital (5). Rev. Newton Bowles recalled in 1920 that “To the faith and hard work of Dr. R.B. Ewan is due in large part the securing of such a splendid building”.…