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instructions of the Missionaries—come to Church yourselves on Sunday and send your children to Sunday School.” King Tewanika became a total abstainer and pro hibitionist. He also tried to stop slavery and infanticide. The tent, shop and open-air campaign conducted last summer by the New York Evangelistic Committee, produced encour aging results. The Superintendent, Rev. Arthur P. Smith, reports that 2,477 meet ings were conducted in eight languages and in 118 ecnters. The aggregate attend ance between April 11 and August 23 was about 516,012. Among the results report ed are ( 1 ) a gang o f anarchists disbanded; 32 additions to one Church; 200 Gospels distributed to the Chinese; a Russian stu dent entered the Christian ministry'; an Italian department organized in an English church. The meetings will be conducted again this summer. There were 40,000 persons refused bap tism by the Methodist Episcopal Church workers in India last year, and many inquirers put off. Very few in America realize the urgency of such "a statement. Are these multitudes to be left untaught, unshepherded? I f not, then more work ers must be found. When will the home churches realize the needs o f India and send adequate help? Must the thousands perish for lack o f knowledge and the present opportunity be forever lost? God is working among the nations. May the churches read the signs o f the times and be ready to press on. According to reliable information from Finland a systematic persecution of- the Jews has begun there. The Finnish police are treating the Jews with refined cruelty. Women and children are expelled daily, even those whose bread-winners are in the war. There are rumors that the magis terial authorities have forbidden trade licenses and artisan certificates for the year 1916 to be handed to Jews. In case this prohibition is enforced, the Jews in Finland will have no means o f existence and will be faced by general expulsion.
General Missionary News Items From Missionary Review
Dr. Hanless, a medical missionary in India, has, within one year, performed twice as many operations as the total per formed in all the Government Hospitals within a radius o f 250 miles from Miraj, where Dr. Hanless has his hospital. At the dedication service o f the Cathe dral in Tai An Fu, China, the preacher was a missionary who in the Boxer year had been obliged to flee for his life from that same city. Fifty cuts on the body o f a five-months old baby found by a missionary in West Africa, had been made by a witch-doctor in order to let out evil spirits. This is but one evidence o f Paganism and the need for Christian teaching. At the request o f Chinese Christians, a native hotel keeper in Hankow, China, has agreed to place a copy o f the New Testament in each o f the bedrooms o f the hotel. The death of King Tewanika in North west Rhodesia, on February 15, recalls some interesting facts about this powerful native African ruler in British territory. Tewanika,. King o f the Barotses, ruled over 30 years (since 1885) on the Zambezi, where the French Protestants have one of their most successful missions. It was there that the famous Francois Coillard and his wife lived and labored. Tewanika was the twenty-second king in a line of Barotse rulers, and made a treaty o f peace with Great Britian in 1890. He attended the coronation o f King Edward V ll of England, and on his return from London, gathered his subjects together and made the following address: “ I have two words to say. The first is, ‘Praise God, Bless Him.’. Though I am not a professing Christian, it is God who has guided me and who brings me back to your midst. I say then, ‘Bless God.’ For the second word, I say, ‘The Gospel is all.’ Everywhere I have found the word of God. It is the Gospel which gives to the nations security and happiness. Barots, listen to the
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