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soon after was baptized. Unable to write and scarcely able to read, he immediately^ started in preaching; When he began his work there was not a single Christian in his county. ■Now, after twenty-eight years, there are ten churches itt this same county, the direct result of his evangelistic work. But Lo Chao Lung has another and unique ministry besides this of aggressive evangelism. He has become a sort of walking dispensary of the simpler remedies, doing incalculable good by assisting those sick who are outside the reach of other medical agencies. The hill people among whom he travels are choleric in tempera ment and often seek to injure one another by opium suicide, on the theory that their spirit presence after death will annoy the hated neighbor. All this leads to feuds and disastrous lawsuits. Mr. Lo' has come into this atmosphere of mutual suspicion and hostility with his Christian persuasiveness and in the course of his life as an evange list has saved from suicide over a thousand .despairing or hate-inspired Chinese. Now he is the honored friend of .the whole countryside .—Record of Christian Work. Socialist Sunday Schools have been in existence for some, time, both in England and in America, but at least, four Sunday Schools have been established in New York City, with the avowed object, says the Missionary Review of the World, of spreading infidelity among the children. Recently a prosperous man boasted of the ability of his two boys, ten and twelve years of age, to argue Christianity out of their schoolmates.' ---------- O--------- The largest gift which the Foreign Mis sion Board of the Methodist Church has yet received is one of $220,864 from thè late Mrs. Francesca Nast Gamble, the daughter of the late Dr. William Nast. In the distribution of this gift something over $50,000 is to be used in the erection o.f a Methodist headquarters in Budapest, and an equal amount for headquarters in Petro- grad.
Bible Conference A T a Bible Conference, held the latter part o f May, in the Presbyterian Church, Glendale, Cal., Rev. W. E. Edmonds, pastor, addresses were delivered by Dr. R. A. Torrey, dean of the Bible Institute, of Los Angeles; Dr. William Evans, associate dean, and Rev. J. H. Hunter, secretary of the faculty. Other speakers were W. E., Blackstone, Rev. M. C. Martin, Dr. J. R. Pratt, Rev. F. W. Farr, H. W. Kellogg, Rev. George W. Davis, Rev. Campbell Coyle and Dr. A. J. Frost. --- ¡&jO----- • Extension Work Dr. Evans has recently conducted a ten days’ Bible Conference in Dr. Mark Mat thews’ church, Seattle, and in Winnipeg; Canada. He also lectured on “The Bible” at the First Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, Washington, and two addresses on the “Epistle to the Ephesians” were delivered at the Ministers’ Retreat, held by Los Angeles Presbytery at Alamitos Bay. Van V. Eddings has left Caracas, Vene zuela, to take up work on Margarita Island. On recent colportage trips the Lord has greatly blessed him, in the privi lege of winning souls. He desires the prayers of his friends in the homeland. Margarita is a small island, about eighteen miles across, independent of the outside world. Parlamor is the town of the island, the other cities having little or no business. --------O-------- A Chinese Missionary Mr. Wilson Geller of Siaokan tells the story of Lo Chao Lung, a Chinese Chris tian of his city. In his heathen days this man was famous for the prayers against drought and other catastrophes, which he put up in /the temples. He would spend days on his face in this work of interces sion and was in much- demand among the people for this ministry. In 1887 he strayed into a chapel of the English Congregational Mission, was convinced of the truth, and —----- O ------— Margarita Island
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