Vic in China

A missionary's view of the social Gospel.

One day as I was itinerating with Pastor Chang we were walking from one town to another and we had plenty of time to tlk [talk]. He told me of an incident which he experienced at Chung-chow; or rather at an out station near there. That part of the country was badly infested with robbers. One day while he was speaking in the chapel to his congregation, several of these bandits appeared at the door, armed with guns. They soon made their purpose known. They had heard that the school teacher of  the church had plenty of money, so they wanted to take the small son of this teacher away and demand a ransom. When Pastor Chang saw that they were about to take the boy away, he came down from the pulpit and remonstrated with them. Where upon the bandits said "This is none of your affair. You go back to your preaching." And thats [sic] what some say to the church in Canada when they preach the social Gospel.
"Notes and Comments," Our Work in China, V

 Bell Ringing

... The Congregation at Lu Gu Tang owned an old Buddhist temple there. There was a bell which had hung in front of the idols but when they became Christians, and gave up worshipping idols, they used the old bell to call the people to church. This was more necessary than your could think for there were very few if any clocks or watches in the town. Once when I [Rev. C.J.P. Jolliffe] was visiting several towns and wanted to get thru [sic] before dark, I came to one town, visited with the church folk for a while when I found my watch had stopped, I asked if  anyone cold tell me the time. They said no one in town had a clock or a watch.
"Notes and Comments," Our Work in China, VII (a) - (b)

Church Services

...  This was the Gao Shih Ti church. Every Sunday morning there was a Sunday School and Church Service for the Chinese of the surrounding hills. They would come 8 or 10 miles.
   Then in the afternoon we had a service for the English speaking residents. All this was of course only during July and August.
    Gertrude Jolliffe, Album, [page 29], undated.

 

Sources
Rev. & Mrs. C.J.P. Jolliffe. "Our Work in China." Mimeographed typescript.

Gertrude Jolliffe. Album, Scrapbook.