IgJ iiiiimiiiiiiiBinnniiHiinuiiiiiiimmiinimiiiiiiiiiiBmniiiinniiniiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiHiiiBiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiniiiiiiMtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiBiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniininiinifflianininiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiHiniiniiiniinniiRHii 5 Tb® Fair H®irik®E] n A Glance at the Field at Home and Abroad ■ □ ...................... ... .......................iilU|tiHliniillllllllllllllimi class. When the first referendum vote was taken on the liquor question, and Alaska went overwhelmingly dry, Congress enacted a “bone dry” bill for the territory, forbid ding importation, manufacture and sale of liquors. The establishment o f an agricultural col lege and school of mines was set afoot sev eral years ago, but only recently have the necessary funds been appropriated and tracts of land set aside for the institution. In time it will rank with the best of the state universities. Newcomers to Alaska usually reach the country with little money. The result is that when a town is started, it is practically impossible to ask these peo ple during the first few years to support a church. The mission board must establish the congregation in a .suitable home and supply a worker until the townspeople can “get on their feet.” KOREA In Ong Nang Hi in Chennampo, Korea, the old mud-walled, mud-floored, thatch- roofed church is miserably inadequate. Both money and work were needed to start a new building. Then a revival spread all over the district and Christians became enthusiastic over building a new church. The pastor said, “I do not think if all the congregation owns was sold, it would bring 300 yen.” Yet these revived Christians sub scribed a total o f 250 yen. One woman went to the mountains for a week, gathered wood and, carrying it into the village, sold it in the street. Three: other women cut off their long, black hair o f which they were vain and sold it. The revival produced another remarkable effect. Forty men went to the seacoast to bring in timbers for the church, but they could not Fudge the great logs. In discour- PHILIPPINES An increase in Sunday-school member ship from 1,800 to 8,000 in two years is the record o f Bulacan Province o f the Philippine Islands, about twenty-five miles north o f Manila. During the past year there have bgen some 2,500 conversions in the same district. This has been almost if not quite duplicated in two or three other parts of the islands. Some believe that the Islands are on the eve o f one o f the great est evangelistic movements that has ever been seen there. SIAM The entrance o f {he kingdom o f Siam into the war on the side o f the Allies gives new interest to the relations between our country and that little monarchy. Siam regards the United States as the home o f its special friends, for to the American mis sionaries she owes her introduction, not only to the true religion, but to Western education and science. The entire educa tional system, o f the empire, the introduc tion of vaccine, the practical elimination of small pox and the use o f quinine in the fight against malignant malaria are among the benefits which the missionaries have brought to Siam. In the North, also, on an island o f 160 acres presented to the Siam Mission for the purpose, is a Leper Asylum, where some 200 lepers are housed in neat brick houses amid cleanly surround ings. ALASKA Within the year Alaska has gained two great things—-the prohibition o f liquor and the establishment o f an agricultural college and school o f mines and is attracting an increasing number o f citizens o f a good
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