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THE KING’S BUSINESS
Once more Korea is passing through a revival In Seoul it started in the powerful intercessions of a Korean pastor, who rose at five in the morning and went to a moun tain to pray, later making the church his oratory and inviting believers to join him at that early hour. For three weeks re vival services were held in that church, after which they were begun in another and another, in each of which the meetings be fore daylight ushered in the blessing desired. In Pyeng-yang more than three thousand men and women confessed Christ. After the church’s recent trial through Japan’s treatment of Christians, this time of re freshing is doubly helpful. Dr. D. S. Gregory, formerly secretary of The Bible League, and editor of what is now The Bible Champion, died at East Or ange, N. J., on April 14th, at 83 years of age. Dr. Gregory was one of the first scholars and educators of his generation, a _devout Christian, an able and zealous defender of “the faith once for all delivered to the saints.” One of the most remarkable home mis sionaries is Mrs. Suzanne La Flesche Picotte, M. D., of the Omaha tribe of In dians. She was a daughter af the old chief Joseph La Flesche, received her medical education in Philadelphia, and is now in charge of the Presbyterian hospital at Wait- hill, Neb. A German missionary, summoned to the colors in Tsingtao from South -China, tak ing both hands of a British missionary, said: “When you hear the reports of fighting in Tsingtao, think of me. I am not trained for a soldier’s life, yet I am, forced to go. Brother, were our nations bound together in love as you and I are, this terrible slaughter could not occur. I go to die for my Kaiser, perhaps at the hands of one of the soldiers of your king. Pray for me, brother.”— P. P. B.
The Foreign Board of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America has stated that the last year’s receipts in the office of the Board of Foreign Missions at New York were the largest in its his tory. A statement' just issued by the board shows that the total receipts from April 1, 1914, to March 31, 1915, were $2,051,747.75, as against $1,885,624.49 in the previous year —an increase of $166,123.26. This big in crease was achieved in spite of a falling off of $46,000 in legacies. The church has made an increase of $164,000; the women’s boards of $31,000, while miscellaneous donations were enlarged by $17,000. What a different history oj, the Church and her conquests there would have been if she had believed in and responded to the call to “gird,” “watch,” “s t a n d , “with stand,” in the whole armor and arsenal of God against “Devil,” "hosts,” and “wiles”; battling and praying “with all prayer” as Bunyan describes in his duel with Apollyon. Disbelief as to Satan has had much to do with disbelief as to God. The treasurer of one of the funds that English people are raising to meet the needs caused by the whr recently received a pack age addressed in a girl’s handwriting. With in was a gold ring, and a brief note. “He would have wished it so,” it ran. “The boy will not come back .’’—From the Youth’s Companion. Pray that the ministry of intercession may become a marked characteristic in the daily life of all Christians in India. That the Church’s best and ablest young men and women may be led to devote their lives to the interests of the Kingdom of Christ. That 1915 may see definite progress in the spiritual union of the whole Church of Christ in India.— H, P. B,
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