THE KING’S BUSINESS
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Mr. Bu (Chinese), a C, I. M. evangelist preaching on “China’s Search for Truth,” showed where it may be found in this tactful way: “Through many years many emper ors and rulers had searched and searched for the thing which would give heart-peace. During one dynasty they would decide that it was riches, but would find that that was not the thing. The next they would decide that it was great learning, only to find that a failure. Another would think it might be found in the beautiful,. only to fail once more. And the great Confucius himself said that if only once he could hear the Great Truth he would be ready to die happy. “.Now the truth is here, the Saviour of men brought it to the world. If your shoe is worn out, the man who made it fixes it for you. If your watch ceases to run, the man who made it can fix it better than anyone else. Then, when your heart goes wrong and is tired what oetter can you do than take it to Him Who made it, and ask tlim to make it right and give you peace ?” “I placed a Bible-selling evangelist, a con verted Japanese, in fcharge of an out-station last year,” says R. C. W., Japanese evan gelist. “He had been a ricksha puller, but consecrated his lift to the Lord and now when it comes to preaching he is a war horse. It was the worst town in the prov ince. He tried to give away the Gospels the first day, but only about thirty would have them. He cried for three weeks and felt like a .pelican of the desert, but he prayed through. In a year he visited almost every home of the 10,000 of the county, sold 6000 Gospels, preached in every township, held magic-lantern meetings in forty places this spring, built up a group of Christians, and laid the foundation of the Church of Christ.” The women of American Methodism last year raised the magnificent sum of $1,096,- 228 for foreign missions and $816,488 for home missions. And yet, good ladies, this is but a moiety of your pin-money, scarce 65 cents apiece. And that discounted by the fact that some of you give liberally.
In this year’s classes of the University of Nanking there are ten medical school grad uates, all Christians, and ten college gradu ates, all Christians. Fifty students were baptized at one time in the university chapel. Of these a large proportion were from the normal school which was supported this year as an aid to the new public school system of the Chinese republic. Students in attend ance this first year were practically all per sons who had already been engaged in public school work, and nearly all Confucianists. The significance of these circumstances was explained by a Confucian teacher who said: “I have not yet been baptized,. but expect soon to be. Nanking will soon be a Chris tian city. No other religion could make men risk their lives for others as the missionaries did here at the time of the last revolution. One Christian in any home is enough to make that home glad.” Even modern Christians, pagan converts to the Faith, can pray and sing praises, with Paul and Silas “in the inner prison.” When Baron Yun of Korea was pardoned out of the Japanese prison at Seoul and returned to his home, whence he was taken into cus tody three years before, his cheerful remark on his imprisonment was: “God has been good to me. Suffering does not quench faith.” There was not the least sign, his friends say, of any bitterness over the in justice he ihad suffered from the false charges of the police. There could be no better proof that the baron is a real Chris tian. ]____ ' “The boys are just raving over it,” writes a missionary from one West African sta tion. “It just swept the hill. Everybody is reading it,” writes another. “There were ninety evangelists at Hemnigar when it ar rived. Everybody got a copy and it’s all the talk. Six loads came in at one time at Elat.” Who were “the boys” ? Black Afri cans made “white in the blood of the Lamb.” And what were .they “raving” so sanely about? Bunyan’s blessed allegory of “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” which is now a pilgrim moving on in the Bulu dialect.
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