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gone on strike to emphasize it. The move ment is not pro-Christian, but anti-Catholic, and it behooves the Protestants of the world to seize the opportunity,to prosecute evan gelical missions in the Neglected Continent. Pray for Africa, that Christians in the Pentecostal regions of Uganda, Nyasaland, Kamerun, and the Congo may not lose their zeal for saving others. That in South Africa there may be as great unanimity of heart and objective as has just been realized in Eastern Equatorial Africa. For workers in the gold and diamond centers of Johannesburg and Kimberly, that they may so wisely and zealously plan and conduct their evangelistic and educa tional work that multitudes will' take the message from the mines to the kraals of the Sub-Continent. The aggregate issues of all the Bible so cieties in the world which print the Scrip tures, so far as is known, amounted in 1912 to 15,902,396 volumes. It is some what surprising to note of this aggregate 14,309,157 volumes were printed by the three great Anglo-Saxon'Societies. The is sues of the British and Foreign Bible So ciety were 7,899,562 volumes; those of the National Bible Society o f Scotland, 2,359,- 985 volumes, and - those of the American Bible Society, as mentioned above, 4,049,- 610 volumes—1,444,000 of which were in English.”— Sec. of Amer. Bible Society. T h e B ib l e is s t il l i n c ir c u l a t io n !; About three hundred miles, as the crow flies, to the southeast of Ikot-Ekpene, is the marvelous work of American Presbyterians. Its importance may be judged from the facts reported last May to their General Assembly. Its sixty-three men and women missionaries lead a native force of 257, who work through and in fifteen organized churches— fourteen of which are self-sup porting—with a total membership of 4,144. The catechumen classes are training for membership 15,257 persons. An attendance
In welcoming the Edinburgh Conference Continuation Committee to the Hague last November Queen Wilhelmina spoke words that may be read as her missionary prayer : “May our zeal be roused and hallowed, and may all the laborers in God’s vineyard be fitted fo r the task to which they are per sonally called. May the truth which is in Christ enlighten the darkness o f human Misery; and may the unsearchable riches of his divine love awaken joy and gladness in the hearts of all God’s'creatures.” Mr. Parker of Chungking tells the story of a Chinese trooper, who during the Boxer rebellion, found a Gospel of John in the mud of a street where there had been much looting, and carried it with him back to the junk on which he was traveling. He read it through, was deeply interested, but knew nothing of the Christian Church, or of its teaching. 'However, by good fortune, he was transferred to a city where there was a mission, in which he received thor ough Biblical instruction from a native evangelist. “When I went to China, twenty years ago,” says Rev. Isaac Headland, “there was just one school, established by the govern ment, teaching foreign learning. Now (1911) there are 40,000 schools, colleges'and universities under government supervision.” Information played a large part in bringing about that “epoch making document,” China’s appeal to the world for prayer, re cently sent to our government in Washing ton. This is ample testimony that our mis sionaries have not preached and taught in vain. The Pope is no longer popular in South America. There is an emphatic demand, especially among the students of several states, io r religious liberty. The Peruvian congress has opened the door to the propa gation of various faiths, and protests against state alliance with the Papacy have been made to the Chilian government by thou sands of citizens. • University men have
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