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The Fundamentals and again, in many a Gethsemane, he has fellowship with, and catches the Spirit of, the Master. The spirit of the true missionary is that of Neesima, of Japan, when he said: “We must advance on our knees.” The nine children of Rev. and Mrs. John Scudder, of India, have all given their lives to missionary service in that land— seven sons and two daughters. This one family has. given a total of five hundred and thirty years of continuous mission ary service for India. The only explanation is that given by Mr. Scudder: “The children were literally prayed into the kingdom by their mother.” She was accustomed to spend the birthday of each child in all-day prayer for him. There is Eliza Agnew, forty-three years a missionary in Oodooville, Ceylon. During all that time she never once re turned to England, never once took a vacation. “I have no time,” she said. She is called “the mother of a thousand daughters,” having taught the daughters and grand-daughters of her first pupils. When she died it was found of the thou sand girls who had gone entirely through the school, not one returned to her home a heathen. Like her Saviour, she could say: “Of all those whom thou hast given me, I have lost none. And out of that one school alone, while under Miss Agnew’s care, over six hundred girls went to carry the Gospel light to the zenana homes of India. The secret? She spent literally hours every day praying for the girls by name! “I know My sheep by name. They hear My voice and follow Me.” In Japan, from April, 1900, to May, 1902, there was con tinuous, united prayer by Christians throughout the king dom. In May, 1902, the revival broke out, and during the year to the Church of forty thousand native Christians there were added twenty-seven thousand converts in answer to that prayer. In answer to prayer by the China Inland Mission, Dr. Schofield, after winning seventy-five hundred dollars in
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