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U NDER the title, “ Aerograms from All Parts o f the World,” Rev. L. A. Gould o f this city, has compiled for this maga zine the striking aggregation o f facts given below : A Japanese Northfield has been estab lished near the base o f Mt. Fuji. In Lovedale, Africa, thirteen hours man ual labor each week is required o f each student. Many German missionaries have been per mitted by the British Government to con tinue their work in India. The number o f unmarried women serv ing as missionaries on the foreign field is now about 7,000. Six agencies o f the American Bible Soci ety circulated 235,000 volumes o f the Scrip tures in Latin America, last year. A converted Buddhist priest is' touring Lake Biwa, Japan, in a gospel boat. There are over 1,000 missionaries con nected with the China Inland mission. They baptized over 4,000 converts last year. At a mission school in India there are workships instead o f scholarships. The student pays for his education by his work. The King o f Uganda has laid the cor ner stone o f a new cathedral which will seat 5,000 hearers and is to cost $150,000. A Y. M. C. A. student secretary from Brazil has been called to the University o f Coimbra, Portugal, to superintend student work there. The South India United Church, with adherents numbering 165,000, has under taken a three-years’ campaign for winning large numbers o f Hindus to Christianity. The revised translation o f the Chinese Bible, prepared jointly by representatives o f the American, British and_Scottish Bible Societies, will be completed this year. A missionary in Turkey mastered twenty languages, translated the Bible into five
languages and set to music 500 hymns for Christian service in the Turkish Empire. In Peking, 3,000 students marched in pro cession to protest against the moral evils o f the city; and 15,000 persons listened to addresses on moral regeneration. Dr. Wanless o f Miraj, India, was called upon to perform more operations last year than were performed at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, during the same length o f time. A Chinese hotel keeper in the great inland city of Hankow, “ the Chicago o f China,” has consented to place a Chinese Bible in each o f the rooms o f his hotel. In Bombay, last New Years’ Day, 125 Brahmins, 300 members o f other castes and 20 “untouchables,” all o f them “ reform ers,” sat down together to a feast as a protest against caste. Last winter a community Christmas tree was displayed by missionaries at Soochow, China. Three thousand tickets were dis tributed and Carols were sung in the native dialect. A Japanese banana planter in Hawaii disL covered that he had leprosy. He repaired to a leper colony o f 500 in Japan. He has reformed conditions in the colony and has brought forty-two lepers to Christ. At present there are in India 302,000 wives under six years o f age; and 22,500,- 000 between five and ten years o f age. There is a reform movement to make mar riage illegal before a girl is twelve. The China Y. M. C. A. has conducted campaigns in the interest o f public health and sanitation in four o f the large cities o f the Yangtsze Valley. The total attend ance was 30,000 persons. A tuberculosis sanatorium was established at Changsha, Central China. At present one death in four in China is due to tuberculosis. At Allahabad, India, Sam Higginbottom
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