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The Africa T. M. Band The Africa Inland Mission Volunteer Band was formed September 19, 1912, in the Bible Institute rooms. (This was, by the way, the first meeting of any kind held in the temporary quarters of the Bible Insti tute in the Auditorium building.) There were twenty-eight persons present, includ ing the volunteers and visitors. The band itself is without organization with the ex ception that Hugh H. Wallace was asked to act as Executive Secretary—calling the members together and sending notices, etc. Regular meetings have been held each month for praise, prayer and consultation. God has greatly blessed us and has grac iously and wondrously answered our pray ers. Quite a number have since joined our Band—until at present we have forty members—who are actively interested, pray ing and desiring the working out of God’s will, most of them volunteering to go if it is God’s will. Two of our number are already on the field, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. T. Youngken, who sailed for Africa January 11, 1913. One of our members, Mr. Hans Von Klitzing, heard God’s call to China and in November, 1912, sailed for that field, where report is that he is being used of God. On Janu ary 8, 1913, Nels Berg, one of our faith ful members, a volunteer, a young man >t great strength spiritually and one who had been much used of God in his home, church, Sunday school and Young People’s Society, was called home. He died by asphyxia tion in his own home. God also wonder fully provided a substitute in the person of Nels Anderson, a young man whose life had been greatly influenced by Berg and whom Berg had talked with about Africa. We are desiring that several may go out this spring and a larger number during the sum mer. Several are offering themselves to go at these times. Pray mightily that they may go and that Satan may not hinder them. We should be glad to keep in touch with all who are interested with us in this branch •of God’s work. We solicit correspondence,
We will be glad to furnish all the infor mation possible or will endeavor to fur nish speakers where desired for Young Peo ple’s societies, Missionary societies, etc. All correspondence should be addressed to the Executive Secretary, Hugh H. Wallace, 1407 De Long street, Los Angeles, Cal. Work Among Lepers The Secretary of the U. S. A. Commit tee of the Mission to Lepers in India and the East, Mr. William Danner, sends us a “Leper News Letter,” from which we quote: “This Mission is now responsible for the maintenance of 52 asylums for lepers in China, Ceylon, India, Burma, Japan, Siam and Korea, and of 20 homes for untainted children of leprous parents. Thirty other stations are aided by grants of funds, by Christian teaching, or by support of lepers. Twenty-seven of these asylums for lepers are managed by missionaries under U. S. A. Foreign Mission Boards. Work in these stations alone costs the Mission to Lepers $37,000.00 annually. Of this amount, less than half has been secured in any single year from donors in our own country, the balance coming from contributors living in Canada and Great Britain. The economy of management is shown by the fact that a gift of twenty-five dollars will support a leper a year in one of the asylums, and even a single dollar will support a leper two weeks. Dr. John R. Mott, a few days after his visit to Allahabad, India, wrote: “I was deeply impressed by my visit to your Naini leper asylum, both by the remarkably effi cient management of the asylum and by the spirit of the inmates. To my mind the work which you are doing in this direction is one of the finest illustrations of splendid Christianity and of Christ-like service which I have witnessed in my travels. I pledge you my sympathetic and hearty backing.” The completion of the Kwang-ju, Korea, asylum, made possible chiefly by gifts from U. S. A. donors, is just reported. Al ready the building is taxed to its utmost with a group of lepers that Dr, Wilson, the
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