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vogue for grosser crimes, and beheading is a very common practice. In spite of the ruthlessness of the authorities, the Tibet ans are kindly disposed and respond very quickly to the tenderness and unselfish ser vice of the Christian missionary—Mission ary Review. ALASKA . Eskimo Christians refused any payment for their services in helping to get a foun dered vessel off the rocks, pn the ground that believers in Christ ought to be ready to help people without pay.—Lutheran Woman’s Work. CH INA . In a mission station in China a man recently appeared, bending under the bur den of a large sack. A wrinkled hand stretched from the mouth of the sack held out to the missionary a small string of cash. The man’s aged mother had so cov eted this joy of bringing her collection to the mission with her own hands that he had brought her in a sack, the only vehicle he could afford.—Helping Hand. During the flood around Kiating, West China, a Mr. and Mrs. Wang with their six children and nine pupils took refuge upon their school roof. While on the top of the house and all had given up for lost, Mr. Wang’s youngest daughter, about ten years of age, prayed, “Lord, make us a hill in the middle of the flood.” They were led to construct a raft out of school furniture and so get to the roof of another house, arriving at this one just in time to see their own home, school, and church washed away. After the water had receded, it was recognized and acknowledged that the little girl’s prayer had been literally answered, for the flood had washed a gulley on either side of the house on which
ARMEN IA . A thrilling story is told of one of the women missionaries in Turkey. The gov ernor had ordered the deportation of the Armenian girls and women in her care. She defied the soldiers and other authorities, finally going into the very presence of the governor to plead her cause. He was enraged and said, “Woman, I should think you would be afraid to come here and talk to me as you have.” She calmly replied, “Your excellency, I am afraid of nothing but sin.” The governor gazed upon her, for a moment uncertain whether to pun ish or yield. He yielded. The girls and women were saved. This is the kind of missionary workers we need today. TIBET. In Tibet, that country of the wild iron-, tier, where the one who is strongest pre vails, and where crime is punished with a ruthlessness parallel with savagery, the suffering endured by many of the patients who come to the medical missionary is beyond description. One man, for example, had his right hand and his left foot cut off because he was caught stealing. The raw stumps of these wounded members were plunged in boiling butter in order to stop the bleeding. After many weeks of intense suffering, this man was brought to the mission for medical attention. Many people, because of the cold of the mountains and insufficient protection, have their feet or hands frozen off. They come to the missionary after they have suffered for several months and ask for medical help. Of course, in cases like these, he can only give them temporary relief and show them the kindly spirit of Christianity in their great suffering. The custom of crucifixion is still ip
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