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the wonderful advance in the education of women in India can say, in the words of the psalmist, “By my God I have leaped over a wall.” One of the greatest charitable gifts in the history of India has just been announced at Delhi. The Maharaja Kumar of Tikari, one of the wealthy native princes, has executed a deed of trust devot ing his entire personal estate to founding an institution for the education of Indian women. The property concerned is val ued at about $7,000,000. In view of the much greater purchasing power of money in India, it is believed that the gift will accomplish as much, proportionately as a gift of nearly ten times its equal in Eng land or America. Near Agra, India, a Braham found some leaves from John’s Gospel and read and reread them. He called the principal men of the place together and read to them. He did not know whence they came, but he and others were profoundly affected by them. A missionary came that way and preached, and many were won to the faith of Christ. T h e Book T h a t Irelan d Needs Many interesting facts and experiences were mentioned at the annual meeting of the Colportage Branch of the Irish Church Missions recently held in Dublin. When Colporteurs have gone over old ground, frequently well-worn Testaments bought on previous occasions have been brought out, in which passages have been marked and underlined showing that the books have been read. One man told how, since he read the Testament bought seven years ago, he had become a changed man. Once a hard drinker and card-player, he had given these things up, and now had no desire for them. On shaking hands, he said to the Colpor teur, “God bless you. You have got the book these people need, if only they knew it.” In one district where Colporteurs had sold some years before, the parish priest had gathered all the books and burned or
they were saved, leaving that house stand ing upon a "Hill.” Mr. Wang said that even the heathen marveled. News comes from Kiangsu that the long continued drought has been a great trial to the farmer, and the wheat crop is con siderably injured by it. In some places they will hardly reap anything, and the corn and beans have withered off. You would be amused could you hear some of the funny things people are saying about the mis sionaries there. In a certain village a fire broke out and the missionaries were accused of putting medicine on the roof which caught on fire in the sun. Rather longer ago, a quantity of seed, which no one seemed to recognize, was. scattered broadcast for miles around and it was said the missionaries had paid Chinese to scat ter it, that it was foreign opium seed and they would all be punished. ' How little they realize that the foreigner has come to help them and not to injure them. And yet in spite of all, the Gospel is being preached and souls are being saved;—'- ,China’s Millions. “Win China to Christ and the most pow erful stronghold of Satan upon the earth will have fallen.”—Mr. Wong. IND IA . . A certain layman gave $10,000 a year ago to reach fifty unevangelized villages in India. A survey of religious and social conditions has been made, the fifty villages selected and entered and the fifty teacher- evangelists are hard at work. Two vil lages already report 200 conversions. A mission hospital in Madura, India, reports 11,000 patients treated in the dis pensaries in six months. Patients have come to the hospital from the following distances : 24 miles, 40, 50, 62, 64, 73, and 90. So great is the radius of influence in one Christian hospital.|fMissions. Fifty years ago Duff said that to try to educate women in India would be like try ing1 to climb a wall five hundred feet high with nothing but bare hands and feet to help you—such were the obstacles in the way. The missionaries who have made
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