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exception, all the dry cities remained in the dry column, some with increased majori ties. Portland, with its 277,000 population, went dry, and in doing so it becomes the largest city in the country to declare against the liquor traffic. R aym O nd L ull , says the American Mes senger, was a brilliant student in the Uni versity of Montpelier. Later he became a professor there. He turned his back on his splendid prospects and flung his life on the Mohammedan world in the period when to preach Christ was to court death. A year and a half he was imprisoned.in a dungeon. Twice he was banished from the shores of northern Africa. At last, taken beyond the wall, he was stoned to death. As the stones were falling upon him, be fore he became unconscious, he said, “He that loves not lives not, and he that lives by the Life never dies.” T he story is told of a brilliant Oxford student who had just offered himself to the missionary society for African service. Some one remonstrated with him, telling him that he would die in a year or two, and that he was throwing his life away. The student answered: “I think it is with African missions as with the building of a great bridge. You know many stones have to ¡be placed in the earth unseen to be a foundation for the bridge. If Jesus wants me to be one of the unseen stones lying in an African grave, I am satisfied to be such, certain as I am that the final result will be a Christian Africa.” It was a fact that that young man died after a few years there. I n an address by the new Premier of Japan, Count Okuma, at the dedication of a Christian building in Tokyo, he said:
' A letter direct from a family that has just adopted two Belgian boys (refugees) states that each has lost one hand, cut off to disqualify forever for military service. T he Salvation Army has a permanent arrangement with the Tokyo municipality, by which the latter agree to furnish work to all men sent from the Army’s Home for the Unemployed, upon its extension and repair of telephone, telegraph, electric power, water work and street railway serv ice. During the year 27,662 men .were found work at this home. A native chief said to a French naval officer, who was sneering at the work of missionaries in the South Sea Islands, "Do you see that oven over there?’’ “Yes,” replied the skeptic. “Well,” said the chief, “we have eaten many men that we have cooked in that oven. You may thank God that the missionaries came over to this is land and told us of the love of God and the salvation of Jesus Christ. If they had not, you would never have left this island alive.” S ince the sudden participation of Turkey in the great European struggle, no com munication of any sort has come from the American missionaries in Syria. The For eign Board is unable to get word either to or from them, and can only wait until some way is opened by which mail or cables can be sent. Missionaries who have just recent ly reached America on furlough say that they have not been in communication with their friends since leaving. O regon went dry November 3rd by a ma jority of 32,000, one of the most remarkable and spectacular defeats liquor has yet suf fered being administered. Every county in the state was carried for the ,drys; without
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