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“We had quite a treat here in Siang Yang, in December, namely, a visit from Rev. Ting Li Mei, a native evangelist. He is a man whose all is consecrated to the Lord, and China needs many such men. lie stayed here a week, holding meetings twice a day, at which all the students of our mission schools at this and a neighboring city were present, as well as church mem bers and outsiders. He certainly does preach the clear, true gospel and we believe that many, especially among the students, were led into a deeper Christian life through his having been here. He travels all over China, working especially among students. Pray for him too, that he may be kept humble and in the Lord’s will.” J apan . —In the course of a three weeks’ evangelistic tour, accompanied by a native pastor, and taking with him stereopticon slides illustrating the life of Christ, Rev. E. R. Bull, a Methodist missionary in Japan, tells of his interesting experience on the island of Yonabaru. “One night we went to Awase, on the south coast, \yhere 2,000 listened to us with close attention as we told the story of Christ’s life and death. Following this meeting, the mayor of the village, public officials and others, gathered in their'club building and asked for a second meeting. To these forty seri ous-minded men we explained the necessity of religion (which is entirely lacking in that place) and then told what Christianity stands for. When the meeting adjourned the officials invited'us to open up Christian work there, offering the use of their club house, free. This place presents a new and most helpful field.” K orea .— Th,e Y. M. C. A. in Seoul. is* reaching boys of many different kinds. An educational department, consisting of day and night schools, is doing fine worji. One special feature is a school taught by vol unteers. An example of the type attend ing school; is a water-carrier who lives three miles in the country and has not missed a single night. The Bible classes have embraced the school boy, working
boy, office boy and messenger boy, and untold good is resulting. A frica .— Archdeacon Dennis of Ebu, Owerri, describes the arrival of a consign ment of Bibles: “News is brought to the mission station that cases have arrived at the nearest point to the river. Imagine a line of 124 African carriers, each with the regulation load of sixty pounds on his head, walking in single file along the nar row track through the bush. Twenty-five Bibles in a tin-lined case made a load, so that the porters carry 3,100 copies. One hundred and twenty cases take some stow ing away when storage room is limited and precautions have to be taken against the depredations of white ants. If the demand for the Bibles keeps up at the pres ent level, the 3,100 copies will be sold within a year.” The largest C. E. Society in the world is over in the heart of the dark continent. On the equator and the Congo River, in Bolenge, nearly 2,000 young people hold the record. Think of it, 1966 active mem bers ! Imagine hundreds of loyal young people singing, “I will follow Jesus.” Think of the young men of purpose eager to give their testimonies and timid women hesitat ing to speak, yet ready to die for their Lord. Miss Christine Suderman, of the Pres byterian Mission, Metet, Cameroun, West Africa, writes in a recent letter: “We are only four at this station, so you may be sure we have our hands full. This is school vacation, so I go out to the towns a good deal, and I love that work. In a week or so Mrs. Schwab and I go for a four week’s trip about ninety miles interior, where during the ,last two and a-half years a mis sionary has been only once. It will be a very interesting trip and one on which we expect to find people very hungry for the “Things of God.”
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