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ever heard from a missionary, was made by a missionary from India, in which he said that one of the hardest experiences in a missionary’s life is to return home after a hard day’s work, having put every ounce of nerve and brain and will that he knew how into the work, and then to feel that somehow, in spite of the very best that one could do, the day’s work had seemed to be a failure, and as he sat down to think it over and try to discover the reason why it had been so, he had finally wondered if it might be because the church at home had failed to pray. CHINA From the district of Ho-kow, iff ,the province of Kiang-si comes the report through the missionary, Miss Fishe, that there is seemingly quite a revival of idola try in that region. This is manifested by the persecution of Christians, two attempts having been made within a short time to compel Christians to contribute to idola trous activities. The same report comes from the south. In Chen-yuan, Kwei-chow, a young girl who had been accepted for baptism and had the consent of her par ents, was kept from it by heathen relatives. At Shanghai Baptist College a class has been formed to help young- m,en in setting up Christian homes. This is an extra curriculum exercise, and Dr. Sailer, of the Presbyterian Board, long time edu cational secretary, rightly questions .why it should be an extra, asking what subject on the schedule is at ' present of ' more importance.- He suggests as the aim of the missionary school, an increasingly efficient Christian participation in family, com munity vocation, church and state. To establish a church capable of Christianizing the social order, the school is indispensable. Charles Fairclough is the head of the Bible Institute at Hang-chow, assisted by native teachers. The enrollment is twenty- two, the full capacity of the school. The order of thé day is very sirhilar to our own school. At a few minutes before 6 a. m. the rising bell sounds, giving ample time for dressing and the quiet hour before
needy class, the Chamars, says the 'Chron icle. The whole method of the Christian worker is preparatory, for their aim is to baptize the village rather than the indi vidual. Through this method the natives, on open confession of Christ, will be a strong body and able to meet the resistance which they must face, A commanding influence has been won by labor for the social welfare of these people, and through this channel great results have been accom plished. Although the work is slow, it is believed that when the movement does break out its results will be permanent. A missionary in India was sitting at the breakfast table when the mail arrived with a letter bearing this official inscription on it: “In His Majesty’s Service.” It was from one of' “Our Methodist Boys,” who had chosen to go to the front in France when the war broke out, to fight the battles of his King. The letter contained a check for $10, which was for mission work. In the strain and stress at the front this poor Indian Tsoy has saved out of his scanty pay enough money to keep some other boy in school for a whole year. The inscription op his envelope he was carrying out in a twofold way—loyalty, to an earthly king and loyalty to the business of the King of Kings. Truly, he' is twice enrolled “In His Majesty’s Service.” Rev. F. E. Jeffrey of Aruppukottai, India, states that a marvelous revolution is in progress, says the Missionary Review of the World. Twenty-five years ago he was stoned for innocently taking a low-caste Christian servant through the Brahmin street. The other day he sat down to a banquet with college students of all castes,- including three divisions of Brahmins. All were served by servants of low-caste extraction. It will be remembered that in Bombay, last December, an All-India inter caste dinner, organized with the avowed object of doing away with caste differences, was held. Of the 4S0 guests from various castes, 22S were Brahmins, SO were Indian women and 20 were the “untouchable's.”. One of the most pathetic statements
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