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"D EPORTS to the American Bible Society indicate that Mexican officials, troops and civilians are welcoming the Scriptures more eagerly and widely than they can be supplied. In the first two weeks of a campaign in Mexico City, 17,000 Gospels were distributed, and pas tors and churches were co-operating heart ily. The gospels were being sold for 10 cents each, or about two-fifths of a cent American money. In Puebla ^5,000 Bibles or portions have been distributed in six months, and still more are demanded. “The wonderful Book is really becoming popular in Mexico,” writes one. “In the city concerts which the city gives, the orators seldom fail to refer to Jesus or the Bible, though they often misinterpret its teachings. When the Lord thus raises up political orators to help spread His Word, we can but see the great interest He is taking in this part of His vineyard.” No one can estimate the good results that have come to America and China in the return of the “Indemnity Fund” after the Boxer uprising. Last October eighty more Chinese students sailed for American colleges and universities—sixty-five men and fifteen women. There are now in America more than 1,200 of these “Indem nity fund students,” who represent the best in intellect that the new China has to offer. The importance of reaching these men and women for Christ cannot be ovef-empha- sized. American Christians have a great responsibility in their manifestation of Christianity to these visitors. Seventeen years ago a group of six students from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Louisville, Ky., found a sec tion of the city thickly populated with
colored people, having no religious advan tages and in absolute ignorance of God. In the ensuing years the work has grown from a small mission school in a rented build ing to two large institutional plants with 1585 people in attendance at classes, clubs and services, carried on under the direction of ninety-four white teachers. Probably no other agency is being more used of God among the soldiers of Europe than the Pocket Testament. League. Through its instrumentality hundreds of thousands of men have accepted Christ. Small khaki-bound pocket testaments have been sent to the military training camps of Europe as fast as the printing presses could produce them. Because advanced Chinese women have unbound their feet, there seems to be a widespread impression that foot binding is a thing of the past. Listen to. the testi mony of a young missionary in Tsingtau: “What is significant to me now, as a student of social conditions in China, is to see everywhere no little heathen girls with unbound feet. That is, none who have come to the foot-binding age. I have itinerated through hundreds of villages and never yet have seen a heathen woman with unbound feet. Nor have I seen any Chris tian women as old as I am, with feet un bound ; though usually Chinese school girls have unbound feet, and many of the older Christian women have unbound feet as much as they dare.” The area occupied by the Niger Mission in Africa contains a population of 3,000,000 souls, and is as yet largely unevangelized. It is everywhere-open to us. We have the ear of the people and seldom has an out- station been occupied of recent years With-
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