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■ 1 [nfiii ..min.. muni ... hiihii ........... ............................. iiiiiiiiiiii ... lium ........................ ..... iiiiiiiiii[iiiiiii(n L ETTERS from Persia still give all too vivid details of the terror and suffering T HE "Fig Tree” puts forth its leaves; “the summer is nigh.” Three hundred A L OOK OV E R T H E F I E L D
young Jews of Toronto participated in the last annual meeting of “The Society of Truth-Seekers,” a Hebrew Christian organ ization, The gathering represented nearly 1500 Hebrew believers that “Jesus is the Christ.” . -------- Mgr. Benson, a papal dignitary lately de ceased, is reported to have “died with his eyes fixed on the priest.” So the priest is interposed by Rome {even in death) between the perishing soul and “the only name given under heaven, among men, whereby we must be saved.” And yet there is a Priest, upon Whom to set the eye is salvation in life or death. “Fix your eyes upon Jesus.” A China Inland missionary in the province of Yunnan mentions the last annual collec tion for the British and Foreign Bible So ciety among the newly converted Miaos as amounting to $58 (Mex.), or about $27.50 gold. Wages are only four cents a day and the collection taken was at a time of the year when economic conditions are worst. An eminent Japanese has this word for God’s ambassadors: “We do not worship our emperor, we only love him utterly. The commander before Port Arthur called one day for volunteers to cut the barbed wire entanglements. ‘You will never come back,’ he said. ‘Nor can you carry a gun. You will take a pair of pliers and cut one or two wires and fall dead; another will take your place and cut one or two wires more. But you will know that upon your dead bodies the armies of your emperor will march to victory.’ Whole regiments volunteered for these ‘sure death’ parties. If your Christians loved your God as we love our emperor, they would have long since taken the world for him.” ' ’ •
being endured by the unhappy people of that country at the hands of the Turks. A na tive clergyman, writing from Tiflis under date of March 24, begins his appeal by say ing that his words would be much stronger if he were dipping his pen not into ink but “rather into the blood of my beloved mas sacred people.” He writes : “There is not left any Christian village in Urumia—all burned into ashes and spoiled, their people killed, their wives taken into slavery, and their daughters violated. . . . Every day we hear of from forty-five to fifty people who are dying from fever and cold and hunger. In some places hanging poles have been erected—a terrible sight to those poor, disturbed people. . . . We fear for those who are confined, for if help does not reach them quickly all of them will die. I am sure you are doing your best for His sake. Re member us at the Master’s feet.” A bill has lately been passed at Washing ton appropriating $25,000 for the erection of a government hospital, probably at Juneau. The Sheldon Jackson school is doing the most important work in Alaska today. Picked children brought in contact with Christian home life and leaders will in a great measure solve the problem as to the future of Alaskan Indians. For the first time in the history of the United States, more persons are leaving this country than arrive. A recent report from the commissioner of immigration for the six months ending January shows that 18,545 more persons left America than arrived. This includes both immigrant and non-im migrant aliens. They, many of them, have gone back to be slaughtered.
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