At Home and Abroad
cotted religious songs in their school, and they will have to go—the children? oh, no the songs, “any songs objectionable to the children,” says the superintendent. The Roman Catholic Church is straining every nerve to recover lost ground in the Filipino Archipelago. Immense sums have been put into real estate in and around Manila, and generally throughout the isl ands. Yet its grip on the people seems loosening, according to them who are in a position to know. But—is the Gospel get ting a grip on them? Sherwood Eddy, Y. M. C. A. secretary for Asia, tells how he preached under a tree where forty-six missionaries suffered martyrdom in the late Boxer persecutions. No wonder that 149 asked for prayer. He reports temples deserted, churches erected, and exhibits a New Testament, which was the only consolation of a Corean Christian imprisoned seven years for his faith; and from which he preached to his fellow pris oners, like another Paul. The brief stay of a group of American delegates of the Zurich Sunday School Con vention, at Japan, aroused great interest among prominent nobles, officials and busi ness men, resulted in an invitation to the 1916 convention to meet in Tokyo. Renewed interest in Bible study is awakened, and there seems to be a wide-spread purpose to promote the Sunday school work in that country as a solution of the problem of the moral culture of Japanese youth. The Missionary Revient of the World prints the following from Mrs. I. M. W il liams, Wesson, Mass. : A is for Africa, dark as the night; B for Brazil, still groping for light; C is for China, a land far away; C also for Cuba—it waits for the day; J for Japan—some day Christ shall win; K for Korea, weary of sin; M is for Mexico—great is its need; O workers, go hasten to scatter the seed!
The American Bible Society has sold two million copies of the Bible to the Chinese in 1913. This means, it is estimated, that twenty millions will receive the Word from these volumes. The Mormons are displaying great activ ity in England. One apostle, 17 high priests, 67 “seventies,” 230 elders and 856 local missionaries represent their force of proselytizers. Liverpool is the chief center of operations. Certain Maronite priests in Palestine are gathering Bibles and burning them. They would burn the readers if they could. But Bibles and believers are the light of the world, and shine the brighter and further in the fire. Chapman and Alexander are at work in Edinborough. March 4 they renew their campaign in Glasgow. Most eminent Scotchmen are behind, or rather leading, the movement in the name of The United Free, and the Church of Scotland. The total issues of The. American Bible Society last year at home and abroad were 4,049,610 Scriptures and portions, in 84 lan guages. These are distributed by 428 work ers in the United States and 810 in foreign- lands—a total of 1238 persons, of whom 990 are regular colporteurs. “ It is much more difficult to pray for missions than to give to them. We can only really pray for missions if we habitual ly lead a life of prayer; and a life of prayer can only be led if we have entered into a life of communion with God.”— The late Prof. Gustave Warneck, of Halle (quoted in the Miss. Rev.) The children (o f the Ghetto) of Public School No. 72, of New York, say that there is no God and that they do not care where they go when they die. They have boy
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