At Home and Abroad
communing with the Lord. But now call fervently upon Him to give power and di rection to the old appointed means.” A most fruitful department of the Chi nese Association is its Student Volunteer Movement for the Home Ministry. Its sec retary is Pastor Ding, whose visitation of the colleges from Mukden to Canton has resulted in an entire transformation of Christian life and ideals of service. He has not only led hundreds to devote their lives to the ministry, but the movement furthers the agitation for a more thorough educa tion before entering the ministry. T he difficulties of the medical missionary are typified by a note from Dr. Johnson, of Kamerun. A new-born baby which was in his charge was left to the care of an old woman who was strictly enjoined not to allow either the mother or her child to eat anything until his return. Two or three hours later he found the mother sitting uo and eating caterpillars, while the old wo man was feeding banana to the newly ar rived infant. T he R escue H ome for Chinese girls in San Francisco has had during the year as many as seventy girls at a time in resi dence. The San Francisco Japanese Church has been in existence more than a quarter of a century and, as a memorial of this fact, Japanese of the city have founded a library for their countrymen, to bear the name of the superintendent of the Presbyterian mission. Twenty-one hun dred volumes in English and Japanese form the nucleus of this collection. They are to be circulated among the Japanese in camps and country places where good read ing is not easily procurable. G ood and manly deeds are entered in the Character Form sheet and in the Citizen ship Book (records of a missionary boy’s school in India), where one finds the follow ing entries: “M. P. took a dog out of a well. (This boy is a Brahman and should not
K oreans are awakening the sympathy and calling forth the missionary helpful ness of Japan’s Christians. The Congre- gationalists of the empire have just con tributed $15,000 for work in Korea. T he Korean Mission Field tells of six carpenters and builders of Seoul who went out into the country some miles to pursue their calling, and found themselves in a town without believers. As a result of the godly lives and simple teachings of these Christian artisans, when they return ed home a few weeks later, they left be hind them a group of Christians with reg ular meetings and wqrship. T he building of railways and the de velopment of steam launch service on the rivers is making a vast saving of time for missionaries in Siam, and so directly hasten ing the evangelization of the country. *Rev. R. W. Post writes that it formerly took him from four to seven days to row from Ratburi to Kanburi, but recently he made the round trip in eighteen hours, traveling part way by rail and part by launch. S herwood E ddy , Y. M. C. A. secretary for Asia, tells how he preached under a tree where forty-six missionaries suffered martyrdom in the' late Boxer persecutions. No wonder that 149 asked for prayer. He reports temples deserted, churches erected, and exhibits a New Testament, which was the only consolation of a Korean Christian imprisoned seven years for his faith; and from which he preached to his fellow pris oners, like another Paul. A report from India reads: “The fight is really on and there is no time for study even of tactics. Thousands of you will never be able even to come to India, but you can pray. And did you ever realize that there is a vast difference between praying and talking? Hitherto your information concerning the lost nations of the earth has been too ideal, theoretical and hazy, and over such you have been too long lazily
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