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A missionary at Tokio gives the follow ing inspiring incident: “ One night a young man came into the chapel. When the service was over he had decided for the Christian life. He took home some literature and later a Bible. He never missed another service. When he had a little leisure, he would take out his Bible and read in the presence o f the other clerks, who laughed at him and called him a priest. Finally he announced his intention to be baptized. The proprietor told him he would have to leave his service. He had been with him eleven years and was to have been set up in busi ness by the proprietor. On the last day o f the year all the clerks and servants were called together and informed o f their fel low clerk’s obstinacy. They rushed .upon him to throw him out bodily but he quickly withdrew after thanking the proprietor for the kindness shown him in the eleven years o f his connection with the store. At ten- thirty he reached the chapel just as watch- night service was beginning. ‘I never was so happy in my life,’ was his public testi mony. ‘I ought to- have received a stock o f goods and have been started in business. This he has taken from me because I am a Christian. Now I shall establish a business with a reputation for honest work and shall be i,ree from influences which would injure my Christian life.’ He has decided to call his business house, ‘Jujija, The House of the Cross.’ ”A-In Hoc Vinces! Every nation has its own particular uni fying elements o f strength. Korea has hers. Last May she passed through another revival. It began with the prayers o f a Korean pastor who for months rose at five in, the morning and went to the moun tain to pray. In one province more than three thousand men and women have con fessed Christ. To K orea,. then, let us hasten, O Christian, for an ideal example o f “ working up” and carrying on a revival! The place to accomplish it is a mountain side; the time, before daylight for three months; the people, one lone man—and God. Are you sufficient unto these things ?
. The Spirit o f Missions tells what a single day’s income o f persons o f varying means could do for different sorts o f work o f the Episcopal Church; it could do practically the same for the work o f any society. “$1 will support‘ a hospital bed in China for a week. $2 will support a bed in Alaska for a week. $3 will support two boys or girls for a week in one o f our Indian boarding schools in South Dakota. $25 will pay a month’s salary o f one o f our workers among the southern mountaineers. $50 will pay the expenses for five weeks o f the launch Pelican, which carries Bishop Rowe and Archdeacon Stuck up and down the rivers o f Alaska. $75 will pay the running expenses o f a day-school in China for a year.” The Laymen’s Missionary Movement has undertaken another National Campaign in the interest o f missions and evangelism. Seventy-five o f the largest cities in this country are to be visited by teams o f care fully selected speakers, who are in close touch with world conditions at home and abroad. Denominational Boards and local committees are co-operating in an energetic and effective way, to secure the largest reg istration o f delegates from the men of their churches. Chicago has doubled its attendance o f six years ago, with a registra tion o f 4,500, while Buffalo has done the same with 2,000 delegates. A great wave o f missionary enthusiasm among men is sweeping thé country ! The coronation o f Jesus may be nearer than we think. And what a day that will b e ! What a day for toilers, and for givers, and for men o f prayer! What a day for the martyrs who have died for Christ! What a day for the missionaries who have given their lives to witnessing for Christ! What a day for those who have been look ing for its appearing in the only true way o f looking—by earnest and faithful dis charge o f present duty for Christ’s sake!
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