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influence over Chinese students, is a man of incéssant prayer. He' has a prayer book in which are the names of those for whom hé prays daily. When Mr. Sherwood Eddy asked to be included in the list he was inscribed as number 1262. Pastor Ding suffered torture in the Boxer days, having on one occasion received 250 blows of thé bamboo on his bare body. T h e D oor of H ope M issio n , Shanghai; was started twelve years ago for .the thou sands bf Chinese women and girls brought to that, city for immoral purposes. These are sold in many cases by parents, brothers and even husbands. The mission has grown until there are now seven foreign and four teen native helpers in five homes, engaged in teaching and training about 300 girls. Many of the girls become, later, wives of respectable Christian men, and few disap point the workers. T h e story of Un Ho; Born blind; sold by her Chinese parents for vile uses; con tracting disease; abandoned by her owner; her foot amputated in the mission hospital intellect “benumbed and responsive to no appeal or kindness.” But quickened by the Gospel; her memory became a treasury of the Word; then leprosy seized her; “blind, lame,” leprous; she left the dear hospital home and society for the wretchedness of a leper village; and there testified for her Saviour; and has won Seventy converts! THE co-operation of the denominations in world-wide evangelization is the next great step, forward or backward, in the missionary movement. The “Conference on Co-operation and the Promotion of Unity in Foreign Missionary Work,” held in New York in January, indicates that fact. May i t ' result Jrt a mighty advance “all along the line," which is possible only if unity and co-operation be in t h e Gospel without compromise of the fundamental ■and re generating truths of the faith.
has recently issued an earnest appeal to his clergy to preach more frequently on the Second Coming of Christ, which event he thinks may be more imminent than is gen erally believed. He calls attention to the fact that the creeds dwell only on the judg ment aspect of the Second Advent. This he thinks should be supplemented with the gladness unspeakable and full of glory of the Resurrection when the Bridegroom' comes for the Church, His Bride. W h e n someone asked a missionary if he liked his.work in Africa, he replied: “Do I like this work? Np; my wife and I do' not like dirt. We have reasonably refined sensibilities. We do not like crawling into vile huts through goat refuse. We do not like association with ignorant, filthy, brut ish people. But is a man to do nothing for Christ he , does not like? God pity him, if not. Liking or disliking has noth ing to do with it. We have orders to ‘go’ and we go. Love constrains us.” Such a . love begets the strength to do the “all things.” T h e R om an C atholic clergy of the Congo are seeking to embarrass evangelical missionaries in various ways. The Fathers of the Scheldt have initiated two suits against the Presbyterian missionaries at Luebo, accusing them of propaganda by force. The specific charge was that the Rev. Motte Martin had torn Romanist medals from the neqks of black children. The case was dismissed.by the court. Mr. Crane, another member of the Presbyterian mission, was ¿harged with calling the Vir gin Mary a bad woman and was brought before the court for defamation., This case, too, was dismissed. says that though “God-so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,' that- whoso ever believeth in Him should not'perish but have everlasting life,” American Protestant ■ Christians so love the world that they gave last year on the average, elgnt cents each, T h e M issiona ry R eview
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