GILMOUR, James

[s. 284] : Born near Glasgow, June Died in Mongolia, May 21, 1891. 12, 1843. With his master’s degree won at Glasgow he entered Cheshunt College, near London, where On he took a two years’ theological course. February 22, 1870, he sailed from Liverpool as a mi ionary of the LMS, and on May 18 he reached the Chinese capital, which was to be the headquarters of his future work, so far away over the Great Wall on the Mongolian highlands. He arrived in China at the critical time when an anti-foreign storm was on the eve of breaking out at Tien-tsin; but the young mi ionary, within three months after his arrival, started up through the famous South Pa , toward the The Mongolian field between Siberia and China proper, with an area more than one-third frontier city of Kalgan. stands as a buffer state as large as the United States. Much of Gilmour’s mi ionary life was spent among the agricultural Mongols; and single handed he addre ed himself to the work of introducing the Gospel among 2,000,000 of the most superstitious and Between the exclusive persons in all the East. years 1818 and 1841, the mi ionaries Stallybra and Swan had labored at Selinginsk and Onagen Dome, with several a istants; and they left, besides the graves of some of their number, a Buriat-Mongol translation of the Bible and several earnest converts. Save for a few copies of the Scriptures found here and there, preserved native Christians, Gilmour carefully by a few found little to build upon; but this itinerant evangelist for years was untiring in his journeys, living usually with the nomadic tribes in their tents, and witne ing for Jesus as they gathered about him in the fields or along the mountain sides. As a lay physician, Gilmour was greatly aided in securing the confidence of the Mongols; and at his street-tent dispensary in towns, nearly 300 miles northeast of Peking, he ble ed the bodies and souls of hundreds of this rude people. After 1886 he made Chao-yang his headquarters. Mrs. Gilmour was a genuine helpmeet to her husband, and her educational work among the women and children was far-reaching in its in flu Besides his work far from the cities, Gilence. mour labored also at Peking, Tien-tsin and Shantung; but on the Mongolian plains he loved most to witne for his Master. Gilmour (J.), Among the Mongols, 1884; Lovett (R.), Gil’ mouT of Mongolia, London, 1892. GISBORNE A town and port of entry in New Zealand, situated on Poverty Bay, on the E. coast of the North Island, 85 miles N. E. of Population, about 3,000. Station of Napier. the CMS, with (1903) 2 mi ionaries, one mi ionary’s wife, 85 native workers, men and women; 11 outstations, 2 village schools, 1 theological training institute and 4,000 baptized: Christians. GIZ LANGUAGE Giz is another name for the ancient Ethiopic language of Aby in i a, now found in books only and replaced by the Amharic It is written with the same in ordinary use. letters as Amharic except that it lacks one or two letters added to the latter language under influence of the Arabic. 284