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above the platform (o f the Chicago S. S. Convention) there shone down into the eyes and hearts of the delegates, session after session, the triumphant words: J esus sh all reign . When listening to a speaker one morning I had been unconsciously fac ing those radiant, burning words. As I dropped my eyes to the shadowed portion of the’ front of the platform, just before me, I saw, faintly outlined in the shadow, a part of the words again, shall reign." Yes; every shadowed part of this old world Is Some day going to know His reign,—and not in faintly reflected character, but in the glory of His personal presence. To win to Christ as Saviour the last man, woman and child in the world who is to be so won in this dispensation, thus completing the body of Christ and opening the way for His per sonal return to this earth, is the real mis sion, of the work that was so blessedly rep resented at the Sunday-school convention last month in Chicago .—Editor of The S. S. Times. T he report of the British Bible Society tells of a new Japanese colporteur recently joined to its staff who certainly retains much of the spirit of the Japanese samurai. He had formerly been a miner. During that time he had acquired the habit of gam bling at cards. He became an adept and after a while saved sufficient money to open a small patent-medicine business. His wife kept the shop while he traveled, gambling and selling medicines. He heard of Chris tianity from time to time, and acquiring a New Testament, became greatly interested in it. When he came to the passage where our Lord says, “ If thy right hand. offend thee cut it off,” it occurred to him that the last joint of the third finger of his right hand had been his offending member as a gambler. He at once cut it off. Whenever he sees people gambling, he protests and re lates his experience. He is wholly devoted to telling his countrymen of the Book which delivered him out of bondage. ■
experienced, and supposing that they had an adequate force, Mr. Badley shows tna< during the year 1919 they might very prop erly baptize 100,000 people. These ^nd a score of other arguments add immediacy to Jesus’ command, “ Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth la borers into his' harvest.” T he n am es of God’s servants are not only written in heaven, but they come to their own even on earth and are memorial ized where they were martyred and murder ed. In the square of Chateau Vilvorde on which, in French, Flamand and English, this epigraph appears: “ Near here, the Englishman, William Tyn- dale, suffered martyrdom, October 6, 1566. He was first strangled and then burned. His only crime consisted in having given to his fellow countrymen the first English version of the New Testament. His last words were: ‘Lord, open the eyes of the King of Eng land.’ Less than a year afterward his prayer was answered. The entire Bible was pub lished by order of the king. “This monument has been raised by the friends of the Belgian Bible Society and of the Bible Society of London. October 6, 1913. “ The word of the Lord endureth forever. Isaiah 40:8.” E thiopia is also stretching out her hands unto God, as the remarkable record of twenty-three years of Dutch Reformed mis sions proves. In this brief period of pio neer work, the South African Dutch Re formed Church has established seventeen central stations, in which sixty-four Euro pean missionaries reside, and from which they radiate into 700 out-stations. At their side are 1500 native evangelists, who are caring for the intellectual and spiritual nur ture of 70,000 pupils, adults and children. Fully 200,000 have been reached by the gos pel message. Sad to say, 380,000 of their Nyasaland and Rhodesian parish are still untouched, while some 4,000,000 in Portu guese Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa have not yet been reached by Chris tian influences.
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