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As the picture grew, the artist suddenly threw down his brush, exclaiming, “ Instead o f merely painting the lost, I will go opt and save them.” Janies Gilmour o f Mongolia, decided the question o f his field o f labor by the logic o f common sense. “ Is the kingdom a har vest field? Then I thought it reasonable to seek work where the need was greatest and the workers fewest.”— Evangel. Needy Pilgrims in China One evening, as soon as service had begun in the street chapel, three'women and a little girl pushed their way through the crowd, and without the usual hesitancy vo f Strangers accepted the invitation to come inside and hear the gospel. After listening earnestly for an hour to the preaching they stayed on for another hour o f personal conversation. They were pil grims from seventy miles away, returning from the “sacred” mountain twenty miles, from Tsingyang. They had never before heard the gospel but were brought in by a little girl who wishes to attend our school. They were utterly disgusted with their trip to the temples. They told how they had prepared the best incense, walked all the way from the river, and although the sun was burning hot would not put up their umbrellas nor ride in chairs for fear of showing disrespect to the idols. The old father was too weary to come up to the chapel. They told how he had been offended by the discourtesy o f the priests and was vexed that he had gone at all. Again and again the old lady would exclaim, “ Every, word you say finds response in my heart. I know my husband will say the same.” The way o f salva tion was simply and carefully given them, and they left well supplied with gospel por tions and tracts. Praise God for bringing these hungry hearts to the mission station, and pray that the whole family, consisting o f father and four sons, all scholars, with their wives and children, may find salva tion through Jesus .—The Alliance Weekly.
TAJORK ING in a government workshop * * on the Nilgiris Hills, India, is a young Badaga, who became a Christian and was baptized last year, says an exchange. Dur ing a press o f work, nfost o f the employees stayed to earn overtime pay. The young convert declined, and the manager sent for him and asked: “Why don’t you stay in the evening and get extra pay like the others? Do you know you could nearly double your wages?” At last came the astonishing answer: “ Please, sir, I can’t; I am holding Bible class every evening.” The manager, himself a Christian, inquired further, and found that this fconvert o f only, a few months’ standing was going every evening to his, own Badaga village to read the daily Scripture Union portion to the young men with whom he had grown up, and explaining it as far as he was able to do, and speaking to them, one by one, o f his Saviour. Three o f these young men have since asked for and received, and a fourth is under instruction for, baptism. A Call from the Soudan The old chief at Bendugu still sends out his appeal for a teacher. W e cannot expect to open a station there until there is a much stronger force o f workers, but it is hoped this and many such towns may before long be reached in .some measure by itinerating. As the people cannot read nor write they can only be reached by some one preaching the Gospel to them..— Exchange. From Korea a friend writes : “ The short age o f the crops, the tightness o f the money market and the low prices for grain coupled with the fact that this people is wholly a farming people made their condition very painful. Many had to go bankrupt and have lost all. Others not only lost everything they had but are hope lessly in debt for years to come.” This is a call to us to pray.
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