662 at Waseda, Japan, and has 12,00 stu dents. INDIA. Tenty-four thousand persons go out into an eternity of darkness in India every day. At a communion table in India re cently members of fifty castes, separated for three centuries met. The only Christian woman in an Indian village had a novel way of tell ing when it was Sunday. Her work was separating flax fibres, and what she separated in a day was wound in a skein; so when she had six skeins' she knew next day would be Sunday and she would not work on that day. In this way she kept count'of the Sundays for several years. These are the words of a old Indian woman dying of cancer: “ My pain is much better here, and I would like to stay, but the women of my house have never heard about Jesus. I would like to go back to tell them.’’ The number of baptized Christians in India has increased at the rate of more than 10,000 a month during the last five years. AFRICA. A native African soldier captured sev eral women and cocking his gun said: “ If there is a woman here who dares to say she is a Christian I will shoot her on the spot. Now who is a Christian?” One woman held up her hand and said, ”T am.” “ Stand out here,” said the soldier, and when the woman stepped out he said, “ You may go free, for you must be the real thing.” — The Missionary Voice. The largest Christian Endeavor Society in the world is to be found in the heart of Africa, where nearly two thousand young people of the Bantu race are united in an enthusiastic organ ization. , The Dinka belles not only powder their noses when they want to dress up
THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS but smother their entire black bodies in ashes of a stratling whiteness. The feminine custom of this tribe living along the White Nile of Africa is prac ticed by the men also. These people constitute one of the most primitive tribes in the region, living by raising cattle and on what the land provides them. Their language is the Bor dia lect and curiously enough, though prac tically none of the Dinkas are Christians, a translation of Luke’s Gospel was writ ten in Bor more than half a century ago by some Catholic priests. However, according to recent accounts the medical missionaries are doing good work in the region and so gaining a foothold for Christianity. A strong leadership is needed to enable Christianity success fully to withstand the attacks of Moham medanism through traders who come from Khartoun or Omdurman. Today the Christians are being outnumbered and outpaced. -—Men and Missions. MISCELLANEOUS. In Buenos Aires there are sixteen Protestant churches in a city larger than Philadelphia. That city has seven hund red Protestant churches. The Roman Catholic Church in Brazil has kept the Bible from the people. South America is the only continent in all the world tjiat has no sacred book. No country is more in need of real Christianity. The Bible Society was founded on the 7th of March, 1804. At that time the Bible was only published in some 35 liv ing languages. Since then the Society has issued about 261,958,000 copies of the Scriptures, complete or in part, in over 456 distinct forms of speech. The money blown up in firing a single shot of Europe’s largest gun, would pay the salary of four missionaries for a year, and leave enough over to support ten students for a whole year. No American business house has such extensive and wide spread organizations as those maintained by the mission
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