At Home and Abroad
“T he Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, when received into the life of the Mexican, produces character that is as true and beau tiful as in the Anglo-Saxon.”—/! Mission ary. T wenty states and five foreign countries were represented in the class which grad uated from the summer term .of Moody Institute. Dr. William Evans of the faculty addressed the class. T he first of May the opium traffic in Foo chow, China, met its doom. $100,000 worth of opium in customs storage was given to the flames, and the doors closed to the storage of opium forever. N ot long ago the “Fiji Islander” was the type, in English literature, of the lowest pagan barbarism. Now 83,000 out of a pop ulation of 90,000 are reported as church members, and gave in 1913 over $50,000 to missions, besides contributing to maintain native teachers and churches. D r . M ott foundi on the island of Ceylon a group of 16 students so poor as to be able to occupy but one room between them. They cultivate a banana plantation to sup port a graduate in missionary work on an island far at sea; and cause their cook to set apart a tenth of their rice ration to further their Christian work. O ur P resident has issued a call to the people setting apart October 4th as a day of intercession with God for the restoration and permanent prevalence of peace among the nations. We read that the Pope and his councillors have similarly called for uni- sal intercession with “the Virgin” to secure the same end. M illions crowded into a section as large as Massachusetts, but in far away North China, a section “very rich” in mineral and oil lands, still lies in darkness after nearly 1900 years of “the light of the world.” One little candle has just now been lighted
among them through a Boston business man, who supports a man sent out by the Ameri can Board. D r . H erbert K night , writing from Efu- len, says it may interest the home people to know that ladies’ aid societies exist even in Africa. On a recent itinerating trip he had the assistance of a few women members when he was crossing the mountains. “They carried trunks, medicine chest, chop box, bed and other luggage over rock and dale, through creeks and over logs.” T he Woolworth building in New York is one of the wonders of America. It is 750 feet high. But there are two mission aries in Japan who have built double that height in the last five years, for they have sold enough low-priced New Testaments to the people in' Japan to reach, if placed on each other, fifty times higher than twice 750 feet. What they have built will far out last the skyscraper, too. N inety - five per cent of youth of school age are in the educational institutions of Japan state and missionary. In no other country is there so rapid an advance being made in secular knowledge, in technical, agricultural, commercial and industrial pro ficiency. As to religion, it is said that “Re spect for missionaries increases,” and that the people are coming to see that moral character and conduct are essential to na tional greatness, and that Christianity is, at least, foremost in fostering these. A proposition is before congress to have a constitutional amendment prohibiting for ever the sale, manufacture, importation or exportation of alcoholic beverages and foods, on the ground that “science has dem onstrated that alcohol is a narcotic poison, destructive and degenerating to the human organism, and that its distribution as a beverage, or contained in food, lays a stag gering economic burden upon the shoulders of the people and lowers to an appalling degree the average standard of character,
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