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day with offerings o f fruit, canned goods, chickens, eggs, etc. He has in this way already given 500 rup’ees to the poor and to good causes .—Record of Christian Work. “ Last Sunday,” says Mr. Moon o f Congo Bololo Mission, in Record o f Christian Work, “I had the joy o f baptizing eighteen persons, and seven more confessed Christ at the native prayer service. Recently a number o f Christian women went away to a distant village quite, o f their own accord and held a meeting. I was told that there were over 100 in attendance. Among the Ngombe, too, there is a distant movement —more than 100 in the church- and 96 inquirers. One o f these insisted on taking a new name, Icuka, a fool (i. e., for Chrises sake) ; this was because he had been so described by his fellow villagers for abandoning his many Wives and thereby his great wealth. In visiting a sick woman at Iteko, a lady missionary after prescribing remedies was accosted with: “Don’t sit there quietly; tell me the Words o f God. I want to hear.” The William Carey House in Leicester, England, has been bought and will be restored to its original condition (as far as possible, and set apart permanently as a missionary museum and memorial. ' In Leicester, Carey preached, taught school and cobbled .—Baptist Observer. Jews Persecuted Anew Dr. S. M. Melamed, a leading Zionist Jew, writes as follows to. the New York M ail: “After a truce between the Russian government and the Jews lasting nearly three months, the government o f the czar has again inaugurated a policy o f persecu tion against Jewish subjects, with the apparent aim o f continuing the work of annihilating a people, o f six million souls. Hundreds o f thousands o f Jews are again wandering from one Russian city to another, aimless, without goal and with out destination, because o f an order o f the minister -of the interior to cancel all con cessions made to the expelled Jews from
Poland and Lithuania who settled in the interior o f Russia. “The so-called pale o f settlement, embrac ing Poland and Lithuania, the Baltic prov inces and a part o f southern Russia, is mostly in the hands o f the Teutons, and the . Russian government has failed to replace this pale o f settlement by creating another in the interior o f Russia. Thus these unfortunate wanderers cannot return to their home because o f the Austro-Ger- man lines. They cannot go farther into the interior o f Russia because they would be expelled from there, since that has not been opened to them as a p a le 'o f settle ment. “ Driven aWay from the places where they settled after the first expulsion from their homes, they are to drag homeless from village to village, from hamlet to hamlet, until they perish. That not enough, they are subjected to the bestialities o f the black hundreds and to the greed o f Rus sian officials wherever they make their halting place. It frequently happens that when a group o f those unfortunate Jews arrive at a certain place, theylocal police extort from them not only the last penny they possess, but demand even their clothes. The order o f expulsion thus becomes an official license from the Rus sian government to all the corrupted police officials to plunder and rob the Jews. “ Not thousands, but tens o f thousands are hit. by these orders, and as the Jewish manhood o f military age is on the battle-' field, women* and children are the chief sufferers. But at the same time it is only just to add that while the Russia» police is persecuting these Jewish wanderers, the Russian peasantry has often shown them signs o f real sympathy by giving them bread and clothing.” , We need both light and love. The more light, the more love needed, to win others who lack the light we have.
Are you doing anything that you would condemn in others?
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