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ent of men who dared to take an enlightened stand against superstitious orthodoxy! De structive criticism is a boomerang that will kill the fellow that throws it .—Christian Standard. H ere are the “1914 Missionary Aims” pre sented in the report of the Sunday School International Missionary Superintendent : 1. A Missionary Superintendent and Committee. 2. Officers and teachers developed in mis sionary leadership. 3. A missionary impression every Sun day. 4. Graded missionary material used in every department. 5. Missionary literature regularly circu lated. 6 . The school trained in intercession. 7. The school instructed in Christian stewardship and contributing systematically to missions. 8 . Thé school engaged in some form of evangelism and social service. 9. The school a recruiting agency for Christian leaders in social service and mis sions. 10. The school actively participating in the missionary campaigns for Christianizing North America and evangelizing the world. T h e 'March issue of th e W est China Mis sionary News js a Ting Li-mei number, in which the life and work of the most widely useful Christian of thé Republic are set forth in connection with a- series of meet ings which he has recently held in the pro vince of Szechwan. Converted at thirtean, he began his life- work as a winner of souls, ’bringing upon himself the jeers of his fellows, who called him “Old Shepherd.” Graduating from what is now the Shantung University, both from its arts and its theological departménts, he became a'professor there. But all the time he felt thè call to preach and-hence for ten years he itinerated'and gradually became indispensable in the work' of special'evan gelistic campaigns and in stirring up in pas
tors and people a sense of personal need of closer fellowship with God and greater consecration to the work of His kingdom. His meetings were not emotional, yet they resulted in imparting to young men a vision of another China striving after God and being influenced thereto by Christian laymen and preachers. This brought him into contact with the recently established Student Volunteer Movement among educated Chinese whose objective was the devoting of life to Chris tian service. As traveling secretary of that movement he has organized over thirty bands of volunteers in an equal number of institutions, besides starting numerous prayer circles and groups of girl workers. He is particularly interested in the latter for the reason that he attributes the great est influences exerted upon his own life to two missionary women. Pastor Ting’s own life is nurtured by the Word of God. Twice each year he reads the Old Testament through very thought fully, the New Testament four times an- nally, and the Psalms every twenty days. He is thus saturated with Scripture and speaks with authority. His message to be lievers and non-Christians alike is the pres ence of sin, the surpassing love of God and His power to forgive and through His Son to save abundantly. Individual work for others is winsomely set forth. In enlisting students for lives of Christian service, he does not make the task appear an easy one; instead he issues a challenge to faith through an appeal to conscience. Dr. Mott asserts that in j ourneying with him he has been most strongly impressed by his prayer life. Hours together he spends in remembering individually some 1400 who are on his lists for whom he is praying and who in turn re member him and his important work. His illustration of life as being the warp of the Lord’s - weaving which would be useless without the woof of oUr' prayers, suggests his1personal attitude; and his statement, ‘T trust the Lord to save me, He trusts me to save others,” is the basis of his increasing- fruitful careers —Harlan P. Beach.
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