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year there have been six hundred con versions. The converts have scattered to all parts of the land, carrying the mes sage of salvation. Missionary work in French Indo-China is in imminent danger of being hindered and imperiled by Communistic uprisings. Judaizing religious sects are also carrying away many converts. Earnest prayer is requested by the missionaries that God will overrule and have His way in this great mission field. A Crisis in Nigeria For a number of years missionaries have been forbidden by the British Gov ernment to work among certain tribes in Africa. One section thus closed to the Gospel is Kano Province, the most dense ly populated part of Africa outside of Egypt. Here, in a small area, there is packed a population of 3,250,000 people. Referring to this effort on the part of British officialdom to exclude the Gospel from certain sections, Rev. Rowland V. Bingham, who is making an extended tour in the interests of the Sudan Interior Mission, writes in The Evangelical Chris tian'. . “The policy (of the Government) has been due to the anti-missionary attitude of s e v e r a l successive lieutenant-gover nors, who have built their opposition upon a false interpretation of the proclama tions and treaties made with a group of slave-raiding Moslem Emirs whose mis rule was the British pretext for entering. They were no sooner conquered than they were reinstated in power and, these of ficials state, with assurances that their re ligion would not be interfered with, which they say involved the exclusion of the missionary. Nothing of the kind was involved. They dare not have the case tried in any other court but where their own nominees sit as judges. They have adroitly formed their own legal code so that there can be no appeal from their courts to the Supreme Court in Britain. “Two years and a half ago a united missionary protest was presented in Lon don, and they were promised a more en-1 lightened policy. They have waited again patiently, but patience has reached its limit. At the recent conference at Miango the missionaries were unanimous in their declaration that unless the present appeal met with Government response there was only one alternative. When we have a commission, backed by the Omnipotent One, to give the Gospei to every creature, and an official of the British Government undertakes to say it shall not be done, the result is inevitable. Our missionaries are determined to enter these great Hausa States with or without Government sanc tion. We and the other missionaries in Nigeria have worked among Moslems for a quarter of a century and the Govern ment cannot point to a single case where they have found it necessary to intervene because of a disturbance of the peace.”
The Preacher—The Big Stick O NE of the distinctive .qualities of. Afri can Christian leaders seems to be their aptness for figurative language. A recent illustration of this comes from the Chris tian and Missionary Alliance mission in the Congo. The teachers of the district had met for prayer and counsel. They were discussing the lack of interest and zeal in the schools. The native pastor used this wise illustration: “We use large sticks of wood to keep the fire burning at night or when we are away from home. Some wood holds the fire well, some burns out quickly. If the fire in the large piece of wood goes out, we cannot use it to kindle the smaller sticks. If our people are not on fire, it would be well for us to examine the large sticks first and see why the fire is not burning there. If you are on fire so will your people be also.” —Missionary Review of the World. . — o — Missionary Rally 'T'HE Church of the Open Door, which worships in the auditorium of the Bi ble Institute of Los Angeles, under the pastorate of P. W. Philpott, has just held its first Missionary Rally. The meetings extended over four days, April 16 to 20, concluding with two mass meetings on Easter Sunday. The stereopticon lectures on China by Rev. Ford L. Canfield, District Secretary of the China Inland Mission, on the Egyptian Sudan by Dean E. L. | Mc- Creery, of the Bible Institute, and on Ni geria by Rev. George Sanderson, of the Sudan Interior Mission, were not only educational but descriptive of the great need of the Gospel in these lands. Stirring missionary addresses were given by Rev. H. D. Campbell, General Secretary of the Africa Inland Mission, Miss M. B. Loud, of the Ramabai Mukti Mission, and Rev. and Mrs. R. Neilson Muir, of the South Africa General Mission, and others. At the Easter morning service Dr. Frank A. Keller, Superintendent of the H u n a n (China) Bible Institute, spoke on “The Call of China” and was followed by Pas tor Philpott who gave a brief message on “The Easter Joy and the Easter Message for the Whole World.” Something of the enthusiasm which these meetings created is indicated by the amount of the offering which was taken on the last day of the Rally for the mis sionary budget of the Church. This was almost entirely apart from the regular Sunday gifts for missionary work. Of the $6,300.00 that was received, it was esti mated that $5,000.00 was new investment. The climax of the Rally was reached at the Sunday afternoon session when seventeen young people dedicated them selves to the work of foreign missions. They gathered on the platform of the Church and were surrounded by veteran missionaries who had served long and
well on foreign fields, while a prayer of consecration was offered. In that hour it was .felt that God had set His seal in a new way upon the work of this great and growing Church. At present, the Church of the Open Door has twenty-one repre sentatives on the mission fields of the world. French Indo-China IN a personal letter, Rev. I. R. Stebbins, a missionary in French Indo-China, writes as follows concerning a new meth od of evangelizing in Saigon: “For years we have been endeavoring in French Indo-China to evangelize the cities with back street methods, and our results, you can imagine, were very small. A year ago God gave Mr. Irwin a vision of greater things. A large hall was rented in the central market, on an important corner where there is a constant stream of people passing at all hours of the day. The chapel is upstairs so that those who enter cannot be seen from the street. The entrance, is through a spacious hall in which we have established a bookstand where all our literature is exhibited. Here, from seven o’clock in the morning until nine at night, a zealous colporteur is selling the Scriptures and distributing hundreds of fine tracts. Every night he stands in the street and invites the people to turn in and listen to the Old, Old Story of the Cross.” Large auto busses and railway trains bring daily to this region multitudes of people from neighboring villages and other provinces who cannot fail to be attracted by the huge sign, “Gospel Hall or Good News Society.” During the past
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