A t Home and Abroad
lishment of Confucianism as the state re ligion of the new China. It was said at a recent missionary con vention, “We can influence two generations, the present and the following; and it is our privilege to see that never again shall there be a generation of men who do not believe in foreign missions.” . - Think of this! In Bechuana land, dur ing peculiarly hard times, a seaesoh' of drouth, when wafer was brought from a distance by women, the natives have built their own church at a cost of $50,000. "R ice" Christians? “Africa! Africa! Africa! ' No such movement, Christian and upward, as in Central Africa.” Is this due to the fact that God delights in extraordinary grace— to lift the poor from the dunghill; to call not the mighty, but the lowly; not the wise, but the foolish; and to confound the wise? One hundred years ago in the South Seas the most barbarous barbarism was universal. The' languages of these savages had no words to express moral and humane senti ments. Now there is no community among them without church, school and native pastor. Do our atheistic socialists and I. W. W. agitators know that in Christless India a laborer’s daily wage is about two and one- third cents a day. Cash and Christianity go together, after all, for “godliness is profitable for the life that now is, and for that which is to .come.” There are 56,000 nuns of the Roman Church in the United States. They conduct 70 academies for girls, 285 orphan asylums, 100 homes for the aged, 300 hospitals, and Several hundred insane and foundling asy lums, protectories, reformatories and parochial schools. After many years’ confinement a notori-
The Bible is now printed in seven out of ten languages of the world. . “Japan is seeking a religion.” How slow the religion is to seek Japan! There are 107 societies laboring to evan gelize the Jews throughout the world all inadequately equipped. A. B. Simpson secured pledges for the Missionary Alliance at a recent conference equalling $43,142. It is estimated that in evangelical circles during the last ten or twelve years there have annually been baptized about 2000 Jews. An English statesman, Lord Lamington, says, “We could not hold our empire to gether without the help of Christian mis sionaries.” In fifty years the number of missionaries of the China Inland Mission increased from 0 to 1040, their native helpers from 0 to 21,190; its baptisms from 0 to 40,000. A great English statesman asserts that when a missionary has la’bored twenty years on the field he is worth $50,000 a year to British commerce. Protestantism gives $20,000,00 plus to for-; eign missions yearly; Romanism about $6,- 000,000 to home and foreign. This is not to the glory of Protestantism, but shows the evangelical indifference of Rome. In two years the exports of the United States of America to Asiatic countries in creased from $58,000,000 to $127,000,000. This increase, it is alleged, was due chiefly to missions. It is reported that it was a graduate of Columbia university that persuaded the Chinese government to consider the estab
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