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thropists for gifts to and service for the soldierySstrong, sick, wounded and dying. 6. The lapse of professed Christianity will prove a scandal difficult to be overcome by true Christianity. 7. Men who might have added greatly to our numbers -and some who might have become mighty leaders will fall and be lost to the cause forever, with all that might have been. Those who can should largely increase their gifts to the work on which waits the advent of the Prince of Peace. T he Honolulu “Advertiser,” under the heading “Famous Preacher from the Orient,” gives,an account of the preaching and work in that city by Henry S. Kimura, pastor of the Rakuyo Congregational Church, Kyoto, Japan. He is known as “The Moody of Japan,” and is acknowl edged to be an orator, humorist and evan gelist of rare ability and power, and is said to have stirred the local Japanese Christian community, as no other Japanese minister has ever stirred it. Mr. Kimura has long been the object of our prayers, and was for a time supported in part by the Fish ermen’s Club. His stirring words are re membered among us. F reinds of the Moody Instiute have re ceived copies -of the first report made by Dr. John H. Elliott, principal of the Aus tralasian Chapman-Alexander Bible Insti tute, Adelaide. The school opened July 27th and by the time this report was made, August 6th, fourteen women and twenty- four men had enrolled. One who was pres ent at the board meeting said, “I feel that Dr. and Mrs. Elliott are the right people in the right place, and I am more strongly than ever of the opinion that this work has a unique place of its own. It is not in competition with any other work of a simi lar character, nor will it interfere in any way with other institutions doing a kin dred work.” Dr. Elliott reports that he and Mrs. Elliott have been received most graciously.
Pentecost, a grand receptive hour, when heaven opens to send down a fuller measure of grace, and the heart of the Church is wonderfully enlarged to take it in. Behind William Carey and the modern missions there were the Wesleys and Whitfields and the great Evangelical revival. Behind the Moravian missions there was that wonderful opening of the heart to the Holy Ghost known— perhaps vulgarly— as German Pietism. Behind even the Jesuit missions there was a strange new revelation, an un sealing of vision given to a few men like Xavier and Loyola, of the entrancing beauty of Jesus. Behind every forward movement there is an inrush of Cross power and of the Holy Ghost, a church throbbing, thrill ing, excited, burning with the consciousness of its privileges and the sweets of Jesus’ love! and then from a hundred lips there comes a cry, “Here am I ; send me! ’ and from a thousand lips leaps the song: “ Oh, that the world might taste and see the riches of His grace; The arms of love which compassed me . would all mankind embrace.” V,;L-/. Gershom Greenough. T he war has thrown many hindrances in the path of the missionary enterprise. We may name seven of them: M en ' s minds are diverted from the evan gelization of “heathen” nations to the prog ress, and problems of the internecine strife between the Christians. 2. Financial stress, high prices and war taxes will lead to the depletion of mission ary treasuries and money is the “sinews, ’ humanly speaking, of missions as well as “of war.” 3. Men requisitioned to murder their fellows will not be available to obey the “marching orders” of the Saviour "of men. 4. Transportation and intercourse is al ready greatly hampered and in many in stances impossible. Missionaries have been forced from their fields and others, ab sentees, are not able to return. 5. Heavy demands are made and will be made on Christian workers and philan
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