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BURMA From the Kentung station in northern Burma the gospel is being carried gradually into untouched portions of China although not without official opposition. During an evangelistic tour last year, the missionaries were compelled to leave a group of villages because the officials felt that the baptism of some 700 villages was altogether too much. After the first baptism among the Pwo Karens in 1840, it was forty years before the first thousand converts were gained. The second thousand came in twenty-five years and the third in ten. In the last two years the number has advanced well toward the fourth thousand. BENGAL-ORISSA By touring 300 miles on a bicycle over fields and through jungles, sleeping in the open or on convenient verandas, and cook ing by the wayside, Rev. H. R. Murphy, M. D., of' Bengal-Orissa, is able to visit the many Christian schools he has organ ized in out-of-the-way places. During the last year ten new schools were opened. JAPAN Buddhists in Japan have recently devoted $500,000 to establish Buddhist Sunday Schools. In six months they have started over 800 such schools and enrolled 120,000 Korea aggregates about 609 miles from north to south and 135 miles from east to west and has an area of about 80,500 square miles; about half the size of Japan and about equal in extent' to the state of Kansas. The first convert was baptized in 1886. In 1890 there were only about 100 and in 1900, 8,288. Today it is said there are well on to 300,000 church adherents in Korea. The Korean Christian is zealous for souls and much of the best missionary children. KOREA
A ngw responsibility has been placed on the missionary staff at Banza Manteke by the addition of ukunga and Palabala to their field. New men and women are urgently needed. In the meantime the present staff at that station are bearing heavy burdens without discouragement or complaint. Numerous expressions of delight and enthusiasm are coming from the Congo field because the long-desired and greatly- needed hospital is soon to be built at Banza Manteke. One missionary home on fur lough is impatiently awaiting the time when he can return for work on the new build ings. The missionaries in the Congo must pay 90 cents a pound for butter if they have it at all, and 30 cents for sugar. The cost of living in Africa is even higher than in During our blustering month of Decem ber, Rev. O. L. Swanson, the Billy Sunday of Assam, was visiting Jorhat with his “family of tents.” He and his workers were busy from morning to night and had larger audiences than could be confined under the flap-wings of the old mother tent so that overflow meetings had to be conducted. Imagine the children’s meet-, ings where 200 little Hindus and Moham medans learned to sing “Jesus Loves Me!” The common necessities are continually growing more expensive throughout Assam because of the war. The Jorhat Christian School is especially hindered just now because the government found it necessary to discontinue aid until the end of the war and at the same time the home board was obliged to make a cut of 20 per cent, in the appropriation. America. ASSAM
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