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“Does he smoke opium?” “No.” “Does he beat you?” “No; he never struck me.” - The heavy-eyed Chinese woman was si lent for several minutes, trying to speak but prevented by some choking in her throat. At last she said to the missionary: “You have been talking of heaven and hell in the future. Your life and mine are now, here, as heaven and hell.” The story of the widow’s mite finds its counterpart in many a Christian heart and gift in these latter days. The generous response to the work of the Sudan United Mission has so far enabled all who have volunteered and been accepted to go forth. From the Australian branch comes a story of real denial: “A lady came into the Sudan United Mission office and asked to see me. She said that she was anxious to help the mission in some way, but that she had not a great deal of money to give. For many years she had been a governess in different families, but now she was liv ing on a small income of 60 pounds per annum. So anxious is she to help in the work of sending out some of the men in Australia who are preparing to go to the Sudan, that she is going to devote the whole of her income to the mission. For her own support she is taking up another position'as governess. Truly, she has given her whole living !” In an address on “God — Prayer — Man — Missions," at the Bible Teachers’ Training School, New York, H. W. Frost, Home Director of the China Inland Mission, made these suggestive points: 1. God makes little of what we make much. 2. Clod -makes much of what we make little. 3. God does little for those who make much of what He considers little. 4. God does much for those who make much of what He makes much.
Certain of the leaders of the new China have organized a Social Reform Associa tion. On its program is a list of thirty- three desired reforms. Among them are the following: “Do not take concubines. Accord full equality .between men and women. Pro hibit early marriages. Advocate marriage by choice. Advocate small families. Abol ish foot-binding. Receive no gifts while holding official positions. Advocate the giv ing of private property for the benefit of the public. Prohibit idols and images. Pro hibit geomancy and other forms of divina tion. Prohibit appetites that are harmful to health, such as smoking, drinking, etc. Prohibit indecent advertisements.” “We have,” writes Mr. Bell ( 0 / the Mid night Mission of Chicago }, “preached in a snow-bank, preached in a Snowstorm, sung the Gospel in the streets at midnight with the thermometer below zero. Much of this preaching has been done by accred ited ministers, much by deaconesses and theological students. Physicians, both men and women, have stood with us in heat and cold, sometimes till three o’clock in the morning, informing the thousands ot young men who swarm in the vice districts of the ghastly wages of sin in body and brain, in the blight of innocent wives, the blindness of helpless babes. We have dis tributed hundreds of thousands of scientific circulars setting forth these terrible facts.— Record of Christian Work. We cannot fully know what we owe to the love which Jesus Christ introduced into our midst until we have seen the lives that are loveless. A missionary lady in China was talking to women of the sal vation of Jesus Christ and of the heaven of His presence.hereafter. Suddenly one of the Chinese women interrupted her : “Is your mother-in-law living?” she ask ed. “No,” replied the missionary. “Does your husband ever get drunk?” “Why no; of course not”
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