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Bishop Warne relates an incident which illustrates ^ the vital, distinction between Christianity and its Founder and all false religions and their false prophets. A mis sionary in India had just finished his ad dress when a Mohammedan gentleman ap proached him and said, “You must admit that we have one thing you have not, and it is better than anything you have.” The missionary replied, “I shall'be glad to hear what it is.” The Mohammedan answered, “When we go to our Mecca, we find at least a coffin. But when you Christians go to Jerusalem, your Mecca, you find nothing but an empty grave.” “That,”-said the missionary, “is just the difference, Mohammed is dead. Mohammed is in his coffin. The founders of all these false systems of religion and philosophy are in their graves. But Jesus Christ, whose kingdom is to include all nations and kin dred and. tribes, is not entombed; He is risen, and all power in heaven and earth has been given unto Him.” The China Inland Mission celebrated its Jubilee in London in May. Mr: K. L. Chan, B.A., secretary , of the Chinese Students . Christian Union in England,' named four hindrances to Christian progress in China: “ (1) The revival of Confucianism; (2) the study of political economy and science; (3) an undue elevation of education; (4) na tionalism.” But he also, named four favor able influences which are full of hope: “ (1) Chinese leaders see the need of Christian ity; (2) with the birth of the Republic there came the dawn of religious freedom; (3) the bond of superstition is breaking; (4) China is being governed by students.” Mr. Chan then showed the character of work being done by the Chinese Christian Students’ Union in England. The Czarina visited the front in March, bringing with her 200,000 Gospels. Moravian and Lutheran pastors knowing Lettish and Esthonian, provide soldiers from the Baltic provinces with religious literature in theif idioms.
M ANY Chinese Christians have been led to belief, in God through answered to answer prayer,” a missionary wrote, when telling this incident: “Once in traveling to a country chapel, I was, through miscalculation of the tide, overtaken by darkness on the seashore. There we were on the sands, a bitter wind blowing, no light to be seen, no sound but the steady roll of the waves, and unable to find the path leading from the shore. My servant and the burden bearer went off to see if they could find help. I was left sitting in my chair with the bearers huddled to gether under the lee of it, sheltered from the wind, and discussing the possibility of spending the night there, cold and supper less. I heard one say to the other, ‘Ko-niu (the lady missionary) will pray to God, and it will be all right.’ Then he called out to me: ‘Kno-niu, are you praying to God? We can’t stay all night here.' I assured them I was praying, and the answer came. Just as our men got to the top of a little rise they saw a light for one minute 'before a door was shut, and making for that light, they found the house of a Christian, and the old woman gladly came with her lantern, led us along the shore, and put us in the right path.” _____ Poland, between the upper and' lower millstones, is being “ground to powder.” Millions of Austro-Germans have been wrestling on its territory for many months. Hundreds of towns and thousands of vil lages have been wrecked. Five thousand villages are annihilated, 7,000,000 of the rural population are beggars. All indus tries are at a standstill; crops, horses and cattle have been seized and destroyed by the contending forces. The Polish population has been forced to fight on this side or on that and nearly a third of the million and a half of men engaged have perished. Prisoners of the Lord. Between forty and fifty British missionaries are held as prisoners of war in Palestine, Arabia, Egypt and elsewhere.
prayer. “Even the heathen expect our God
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