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destroyed them, and had told the people that when the men came again with such books, they should fill their aprons with stones and stone them out of the parish. Where money was scarce various sub stitutes for cash had been offered for books; some potatoes, a few eggs, a little pig, and on one occasion a mouse-trap, which the Colporteur produced, had bought a Testament. On a fair day, a man stopped a Colpor teur in the street, saying, “Are not you one of the men who were in -------- selling holy books?” He then told how he had bought a Testament and for several nights he and a few more men had gathered in a barn, and took turns in reading aloud. He was full of joy in possessing the writings of the holy Apostles. In crossing a bog one day a Colporteur came across a group of men cutting turf. He stopped to chat with them. They in vited him to go home and dine with them. On arriving at the house one showed him a New Testament bought from another Colporteur and said he had always tried to read it on Sundays. After a long talk, they said, “What a different land this would be if everyone tried to follow the Saviour.” —The Christian. In d ian W o rk It is interesting to note that the govern ment is now spending for the education of the Indian children of Arizona as much money as Arizona is spending for its public schools, which is no small sum in this pro gressive territory where the school laws are in advance of those of the majority of the States. The Indians are followers of fashion and bow down before custom and precedent and tribal public opinion, and when a sufficient number of the members of a tribe have been educated to make aducation fashionable, the work of the gov ernment will be well nigh accomplished. It is a religion to make a Navajo blanket. A blanket is all a prayer, a human docu ment, a biography bright with the joy tints of canary yellow, dark with the olive of
pain. One is strangely moved to laugh ter and tears by its exquisitely variant col ors, each expressing an amotion, by its warmth of blended fibers, each throbbing to a note of triumph or of woe. What sort of Christians do the Indians make? Outspoken, devout, steadfast and intelligent. In the matter of benevolence, they put us all to shame. A missionary writes of one woman who showed her twenty-five cents tied in the corner of her shawl. “The coffee and sugar are calling for it, she said, “but I have tied it up tight so it can’t get away, for I have promised it to Jesus.” T ra c t C am ouflage in New Y ork This method of Jewish work is very interesting and is carried on in very much the following manner: A little girl will come into the “office” of the Christian worker and say “My mama wants a maga zine to read. May she have one? And here is the name of the book she wants.” A little slip of paper is handed the worker on which is the following “Please send me a magazine ‘with something in it.’” That “something in it” means, that a tract should be put into the magazine, for in the pres- ence of other Jews, she does not particu larly care to have her request for a Chris tian tract known, and so she asks for a magazine which are always on hand for this purpose. In handing the magazines over to the little girl, boy, man, or woman, a tract is always inserted. Because of this many Jews are searching the scriptures-and taking a real interest in the Gospels of Jesus Christ. A commission of Jews from America together with one from England, by per mission of the British government will shortly leave for Palestine. Its mission will be to ascertain the situation and con ditions in Palestine. It is not known for a certainty as to the welfare of the Jewish colonies there, what havoc the war has wrought in that land, or what is to be done along the line of taking the first steps toward upbuilding a Jewish national home
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