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sippi armed deputies were required to pro tect Protestant preachers at a baptismal service from priestly emissaries. A pictu re of Christ washing the disciples’ feet, led a Brahman to say to his host, a missionary, “You Christians pretend to be like Jesus Christ, but you are not, none of you ever wash people’s feet.” The mission ary wisely and wittily replied, “That is what we are doing all the time. You proud Brahmans claim to have sprung from the head of Brahm, that the next caste sprang from his shoulders and the .lowest caste from his feet. W e are washing India’s feet and when you haughty Brahmans see the low caste and outcast getting Christianized and educated you will say, ‘Not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!” M r . W ilson of Korea writes: “A very touching thing during the leper services on Sunday is to see how they help each other. When the number of the song or reference to Scripture is read many with out fingers have to have the page turned and place found by those who have fingers. “Last year when we organized Sunday school they elected one of the lepers, who is one of the most earnest Christians I have seen in Korea, as superintendent, and he is very busy, and this has made him general manager over everything about the place. He is so gentle and kind as to be generally known as ‘the grace man,’ for he rarely ever utters a sentence without saying: ‘Through the grace and love of our Father.’ ” M r . S amuel W inslow was, according to his own story, a “mission fakir.” •Sitting in Madison Square Park .one Sunday after noon in May, 1913, wondering where to make the next “touch,” a friend suggested the Williamsburg Rescue Mission. “ The superintendent is easy. If you work him right you can get lodgings and meals for two or three weeks.’’ But something touched him that night, and the man who had pan-
handled every mission from Forty-second street to the Battery gave his heart to Jesus. The tramp, park bum and fakir was born again. “ Old things have passed away; be hold, all things are become new.” Mr. Winslow is today assistant to the superin tendent and Tuesday night leader. S lavery in Africa. In “Signs of Dawn In Darkest Africa," by Rev. J. H. Harris, it is said that in Angola, Portuguese West Africa, half the population is under some form o'f slavery, and that under the very eyes of the governor and bishop there are “bridewells” for the breeding of slaves where they are bred as are animals on stock farms. “In San Thome” (an island off the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, and under Por tuguese rule) the contract laborer from An gola is a slave; calls himself such, and the Mozambique freeman holds- him in con tempt as a slave; either he was captured or purchased (or bred), just as men pur chase or capture (or breed) animals.” Liv ingston’s “ open sore” of Africa is not quite healed. T he I ndian W itness mentions a Chi nese gentleman’s estimate of some western ways. “You cannot civilize these foreign devils,” he says, “they are beyond redemp tion. They will live for weeks and months without touching a mouthful of rice, but they eat the flesh of bullocks and sheep in enormous quantities. That is why they smell so bad. Their meat is not cooked in .small quantities but carried into the room in large chunks, often half raw, and they cut and tear it in pieces. They eat with knives and prongs, so that one fancies him self in the presence of sword swallowers They even walk the streets and sit down at the same table with women. Yet the women are to be pitied for on festive oc casions they are dragged around the room, half dressed, to the accompaniment of the most fiendish music.”
T he C hinese say, again, “Before the big
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