T H E F A R H O R I Z O N A Glance at the Field at Home and Abroad
More money is declared to be given for their Buddhist and Taoist religions by the Chinese of the province of which Canton is the capital than is given by all the Protestant Christians of all America for all the mission work of the non-Christian world. -—Missionary Herald. K O R E A . Since the first missionary entered Korea there has been one Korean won to Christ every hour, and a Church built on an average, every day of that time. Seven hundred men met before day break during the winter season at Pyeng-Yang, Korea, for a prayer meet ing. A woman missionary in Korea went to one of the outlying villages to hold a Bible class of women for a week. There' were about forty enrolled, and she plan ned to teach one of the six great events in the life of Christ each day. She devoted the first day to a very simple account of the nativity, but the ne'xt day, no one remembered anything, and so it went on through the week, so that all six lessons were given up to the sub ject of Christ’s birth. The missionary says of these women: “ Very few of the old women can read at all, and those who can read, do so very falteringly, rarely grasping the meaning. So teach ing here is ‘line upon line and precept upon precept.’ Truly they are babes in Christ and must be fed with the milk of the word, not yet being ready for ‘strong meat.’ It is a real privilege to tell the message of Jesus and yet, oh! so hard when they know so little and are so ignorant.” —Missionary Review. J A P A N . The largest university in the world is
CHINA. How she Is Being Evangelized. Robert Morrison went out alone in 1807— the first Protestant missionary to China. It was not until 1842 that fiaissions were permitted by the Chinese Government. Today the three hundred and thirty mil lions of Chinese are having Christian truth carried to them by 108 missionary societies. These societies have: 5,338 missionaries; 30,000 native agents; 526,000 native Christians. To he a lay missionary teacher in China is no easy job. These men must be not specialists in one particular line of work, but specialists in every line of work! Here are the requirements as sent in by one of the teachers in a missionary preparatory school when ask-' ing for an assistant to be sent out from America. It is highly desirable that he be able to teach everything, he a good football and athletic coach, play the organ and train a choir and have some knowledge of medicine. He should be able to teach mathematics, physics, chemistry, English, history, physiology, and any thing the Chinese teachers can’t. He must take all the responsibility of all departments in the school, and where Such responsibility is delegated to any of the Chinese staff, he must see to it himself that the work is done, Also he mdst be a good disciplinarian. In other words the best super-man is none too good for the job! There is not much resemblance .in this picture to the con ventional conception of the missionary —a pious, frail sort of a creature with a psalm book in his hand. Truly the most vigorous, all-around type of man is none too good for the missionary’s task today for only a strong man can hope to make a success of it. —-Men and Missions.
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