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nation is Christian. And these men are outstanding members who count out o f all proportion to their number^, one o f them having been speaker o f the last parliament. It is to be observed that prejudice is still strong and the profession o f Christianity is not a passport to popular favor. Char acter has won, that is all. But that char acter was produced by the touch o f Christ. —Missionary Review. In Hokkaido, Japan, the missionaries are planning a much larger use o f Christian literature than ever attempted before. For some time the Gospel ship was used. By this means o f transportation, the mission aries were able to go to many places where they otherwise could not go. When anchored, they used their wheels to go inland to the little villages and towns hear the Shore. The new plan now is to use the mail for the distribution o f small tracts broadcast as advertising matter. The mis sionaries will place a notice on these tracts stating that they are willing to give help o f any kind and that they are glad to loan books. In this way requests may be sent in and the workers can then go to definite points to seek out particular people.— Mis sionary Herald , ' INDIA. India is now trying the experiment o f reforming criminals by settling them in villages o f their own under the supervision o f missionaries. The Government said that if 25 per cent, o f the criminals would be honest it would pay to have them in the settlements instead o f sentencing them to jail. So far 100 f>er cent, have proved themselves to be honest. Although the colony has no written laws there is, how ever, a code o f unwritten laws. In the control o f the colony there is self-govern-
SOUTH AMERICA. The Province o f Buenos Aires contains over two millions o f inhabitants and in extent it covers an area larger than that of England and Wales combined. Although o f such vast dimensions its plains are but sparsely populated, and that, as well as the bad roads and insufficient railway communi cation, has constituted the chief difficulty in the evangelization o f that section. This difficulty will now in a large measure be obviated by means o f the Bible Coach which the missionaries are using. The coach will visit systematically the various departments into which the Province is divided. Its work will consist in the selling o f Bibles and other evangelical literature, free distribution o f tracts, explaining the Gospel in each o f these isolated homes as doors may be opened, and also in the hold ing o f open-air or indoor services as occa sion may offer .^N eglected Continent. The moral condition o f Brazil is prob ably no worse than in other countries. The curse o f gambling and immorality seriously affects the Brazilians, but the question is whether they have not been “more sinned against than sinning!” In thinking of Brazil we must take into consideration the fact that many demoralizing influences have been imported to that country by Europeans. And then too, we must remem ber the Brazilians have had 400 years of the teaching o f the Church o f Rome, which means a travesty o f the character of God, no true conception o f sin, and no Saviour to deliver from its power. JAPAN. Fourteen o f the 381 members' o f the newly elected Japanese parliament are Christians, more than three and a half per cent., though less than one per cent, o f the
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